When i sign fla docs in ny. I tell them have signer get a witness. Neighbor is always fine
In ny we dont use witnesses. Tell your client to find somebody ..i do not provide them
Ridiculous ..i call title direct by FINDING numbers in the CD..and report this signing company
I give the SIGNING COMPANIES a time for docs in my hands ..OR I AM UNAVAILABLE for signing.They must reassign.
Here is the perfect opportunity to deal with a title company directly..this signing company is jumping the gun promising title the world and not delivering..
Guess whose fault it is that it was rescheduled?? The notary..we cancelled last minute..we did this. We did that..blah blah blah. In order to keep the job they will make 60% plus of the fee.
They want to be unscrupulous..you take the initiative..its how I started getting direct business..
No apologies..
How do you advise ths to the SS? Yesterday I had a signing 35 min away but we had an ice advisory and borrower was not answering all weekends to confirm appt. Appt was at 11am no docs were ready until 1045 with a distance 35 min away no prep time but right before borrower called and we moved the appt to later due to safety concerns but… I would’ve liked to counter that fee due to not having proper time to review the documents and maybe had direct with them.. sweetest company I have been in contact with to be honest.
Times have changed…we usually do not get a chance to speak with the signers unless we first agree to provide a witness IF that is stipulated. If it’s in the order as one of the requirements, your choice is “accept or decline”. You cannot accept it and have the signer have his or her own witness or ask them, it was a condition of accepting.
In FL all deeds of any kind require two witnesses, one can be the notary.
Now, most documents that require witnesses have a space for the witness’s personal details like address and phone number which also make it harder to get a stranger from Starbucks to kindly witness for you. I as the notary have to fill in my personal information as well.
The good ole days are gone…
Ok no sugar coating, so you are saying you want the total what the
CD says the signing service has no right to make money, although they pay wages to people that work for them plus building expenses.
Sorry to hear that Johnson hope things pick up for you. But didn’t you know according to many on here no one has a right to make money but them, not SS or title.
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If I only knew the title company info. Nothing was provided on the confirmation about the title company. If I don’t have docs, I don’t have the CD…
I’m sort of recovering from a so so month. But I bought a cheap imaging unit and it effed up print jobs and I took nothing yesterday waiting for delivery today. The order today can wait until I am able to print clean docs.
Cheap and recycled - I’ve sort of changed my mind on that. Threatened with a re-draw requirement on a 300 page reverse yesterday because of a slight smudge on the very edge of the paper. Never should have taken that order after I realized my imaging unit was crappola.
Man, this job is so fun.
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Yes printing problem been their done that lost a good customer because my printer thru a fit and I could not do a scanback
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I have 3 orders lined up for today, and they all know the situation and I’m waiting on a delivery and trying not to cuss a lot. I try to really baby my printer because having to rush buy another printer happened about a year ago and I just do NOT want to go through that again. I find you have to take enormous care clearing paper jams. If you pull out a paper without disengaging everything you have to disengage you can ruin a feeder and suddenly you’re unable to scan or even print.
I read notaries say they’ve used a printer for 20 years and I am in awe. If I can get at least 3 or 4 years from one, I’ll be happy.
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I don’t provide witnesses and have turned jobs back after I accepted them and then found out that they required me to bring a witness. I can only imagine that some signers don’t want their neighbors to be witnesses because they feel that their financial transactions are nobody’s business but their own. I can respect that, but it doesn’t mean that I have to be burdened to find a witness and drag them there to the signing.
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@erinhayden The companies aren’t concerned about our situations; they just want a signing agent. Today, FASS called about a 99-mile loan modification. They asked my price, and I quoted $400. I knew they wouldn’t accept it, but I gave them my fee anyway. I’m glad FASS didn’t approve it, as it would’ve been a 4-hour round trip. Probably, should have kept my mouth shut…….
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Some must be. Or they wouldn’t be offering these fees repeatedly. Sometimes I click a link to give a counter and it says the job is already gone, so someone has taken it.
That backfired on me one time. It was the day before Thanksgiving for a buyer package an hour and a half away in the middle of nowhere. I quoted them $400. And they gave it to me!! Oops
Turned out to be 37 page package, it took me longer to drive there and back then it did to sign the documents. But I made $400.
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I don’t know that I would consider that a backfire. I accepted a job this past Thanksgiving Eve. They were so delayed in getting me the packet, we didn’t sign until 8pm. It was an hour away and when the docs finally did arrive, I learned that it was 189 pages. And they were only paying something like $160. I was so frazzled by the time I got there that I overlooked some silly things and had to drive back. Fortunately, the errors were caught by the review team mid-drive (since I sent scanbacks from the table) so I only had to drive an extra 30 minutes back, but still. I consider that a “backfire”—not $400 for a small package.
I would have done it for $400.