There are plenty of notary signing services around, but not many good ones. Most of them expect you - the mobile notary - to work for unreasonably low fees. $50 to $85 for a loan signing, including e-docs? Sounds like a bad joke, but if you're a mobile notary you may be familiar with offers like this.
I'm insulted by any offer lower than $125 for an e-doc loan signing. My use of the word "insulted" may seem a bit strong, but here are the facts: signing services are paid very well, and if they don't offer to compensate you appropriately, they're simply being greedy and trying to take advantage of you. Don't let them!
Decide for yourself how much you need to make for a given job. If the fee being offered is well below your requirement, stand your ground (you can do this politely, without offending or alienating anyone). If that means you don't get the job, don't fret, and don't second-guess yourself. It costs you a lot of money to print documents, photocopy documents, and drive to & from the client's location. It requires skill, knowledge, talent - and often a lot of patience - for you to do your job as a loan signing agent.
Don't sell yourself short. You provide a valuable service, and you deserve to be compensated fairly for your efforts. If every mobile notary would just say "no thanks" to unreasonably low fees, the low-paying signing services would have to offer more and pay you what you're worth.
Good luck!
Joel
http://www.drivenotary.com
http://www.sundancenotary.com
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Joel,
I could not agree with you more. I used to take the lesser fee jobs, until I realized I was in effect working for less than minimum hourly wage, and paying for the privilege to do that! I started keeping track of my costs and TIME (something often overlooked for low paying projects), and decided on my base to leave the office. If I get the job, fine; if not, I haven't really lost anything.
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