It's no secret that not getting paid is one of the risks that notary signing agents take when they accept a closing assignment. Signing agents have message boards they can go to in order to research a company and read what other signing agents have to say about a company. But the risk is still
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10/12/2007
I was called yesterday evening to notarize an Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). It's part of the services I provide as a mobile notary. The purpose of it is to verify the employment eligibility and identity of all employees hired to work in the United States. The employer maintains
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10/12/2007
My DSL modem died last Monday. Not good news for a notary signing agent, since we depend on high speed internet to do business. I called the phone company and was told where I could buy a replacement. The replacement wasn't compatible with my system. I could have ordered one from the phone compan
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10/11/2007
I just received a call from a borrower for whom I'm doing a closing tomorrow. She called to let me know that I don't have to come all the way out there to Black Forest. Her son convinced her to take the documents to a bank and have them notarized there. He thought that she would have to pay me ou
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10/09/2007
I think so.I did a closing yesterday at 5 p.m. Because it started at that time, there was probably no expectation from anyone that the documents would go out that evening and be delivered the next day. FedEx makes its last pick up at 6 p.m. I would have to complete the closing and rush to delive
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10/09/2007
I got a call on Saturday from the borrower for whom I was scheduled to do the closing. She called to let me know that she received the loan documents. She had a chance to look at them and didn't agree with the loan terms. She let me know she wasn't going to sign them. She wanted to cancel the cl
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10/09/2007
I received a call this afternoon from a woman who was turned down for notary service by several mobile notaries she contacted. She lives almost 30 miles away in Monument, almost at the border of Douglas County. I told her that I would help her.Mobile notaries don't want to drive a great distance,
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10/03/2007
I believe that most notary signing agents really like what they do. But all of us will agree that, if you do this full time, there is one thing you'll have to sacrifice: a social life. That's not to say that we don't have free time for going out and socializing. We do. It's just that it's hard t
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09/30/2007
There are many excellent resources out there for notary signing agents who want to continue to learn and add to their skills. One in particular is your state's Real Estate manual.The Colorado Real Estate Manual, for example, has a chapter on Closing Statements:What I found interesting in the intr
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09/30/2007