Since it fit before the first appointment of the day I took an 8am at the crack of dawn since I’m usually awake at that time.
The title company requested a replacement notary because the first notary attempted to negotiate a raised fee after accepting the order.
Just letting you know that some contractors are not being very tolerant of that. If you are grabbing an available order thinking you can get a raised fee after you accept it, you might want to consider a counter offer first.
Everyone wants assignments. But grabbing without consideration of costs perhaps needs to stop.
I believe it happens too often. Quick to accept a signing that’s low fee then requesting more instead of counter-offering initially. Or not taking the time to read what type of signing it is then needs to be reassigned. I’m sure the title companies are fed up.
Perhaps if we had more than a nanosecond to decide whether we want to accept a job, there would be less of the problem of trying to renegotiate after the fact. I’m not making excuses for it, but there are reasons why it happens. The biggest one, in my opinion, is that we don’t take the time to read the offer thoroughly enough to know what it actually entails. When I see an offer, I basically look for date, time, location, and fee. I often gloss over the “fine print” and don’t see the totality of what’s involved until after I’ve accepted. By then, it’s too late. If I realize afterward that I made a mistake in accepting it, I’ll either give it back or try to make it work. I don’t try to renegotiate the fee after I’ve accepted.
Yesterday I had an 8:30am pretty close by and then a 6:30pm that was a haul into another county. Mid afternoon I got a request to go to that county for something else and I asked for a large fee because it was late in the day and was going to be a crunch to get both of those done on time. And I got that large fee and it worked out really well. But the rule of asking for more on a last minute request holds true.
I lose orders because I look at a map before countering to be sure I know where it is. And the ten seconds it takes to do that - usually leads to the order is already assigned. August has been brutal. Not very many days left to make up a bit of a deficit.
Absolutely an issue. The way the system is designed, we have to make split-second decisions, with little information to go on. I, too have lost orders because I wanted to double-check the location first.
I totally agree that last-minute jobs should require higher pay for the added stress and rushing involved.
I tend to know where every town in but once in a while I get one that I can’t recall. Plus you have to know if you’re doing more than one appointment a day.
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