Posted by Help in SC on 12/2/04 11:02am
Msg #12560

Is it legal in SC

I just want to know if it's legal to become a signing agent in SC. Is it a felony? I have seen so many different companies saying they can get me started but no one can tell me if it's legal. I don't want to join an assoc. and it's illegal to do that in South Carolina. What other things can I do if I can't become a signing agent.

Reply by Ted_MI on 12/2/04 12:13pm
Msg #12567

Hi,

I would go to your Secretary of State's website and input the word "notary". That way you will be getting your information directly from the source. The main reason I can think of why you might not be able to function in South Carolina as a signing agent would be if South Carolina were an attorney (only) state. But off the top of my head I don't think it is. But that is something you can check out at the SOS site, as well as the legal requirements to become a notary public.

Reply by joe/nc on 12/2/04 2:19pm
Msg #12578

SC is an attorney state and as far as I know attorneys have to do the closings in SC. I am on the border of SC in NC and I have done closings for properties in SC but always have the borrower meet me in NC where it is legal for me to do the signing.

Joe/nc

Reply by Notary on 12/2/04 3:17pm
Msg #12591

You can still become a Notary. It's a legal profession.
Or you could be a Notary / Escort .... that would be an interesting twist.

Reply by What? on 12/2/04 5:42pm
Msg #12603

What do you mean?? Notary/escort , I sure hope it's not what I'm thinking. That's not even funny.

Reply by HisHughness on 12/2/04 6:20pm
Msg #12606

What? grumbles:

***What do you mean?? Notary/escort , I sure hope it's not what I'm thinking. That's not even funny.

Don't get your panties in a wad, What? I think it's an amusing concept. Brings a whole new dimension to the part-time job market.

Anybody know of any nubile 28-year-old chrous girls who would be interested in being "escorted" by an overweight, balding, dyspeptic, phlegmatic, surly old fart of 68?

Reply by Match Maker on 12/2/04 7:03pm
Msg #12611

I Think Brenda's Available

I'm sure Brenda wouldn't mind being "escorted". However, I don't think she's 28.
But, I'm sure that you could help her proof read her "Book". I'm sure she wouldn't
mind being wined, dined and housed in a 4 star or higher Hotel in the Bahama's --
expenses all paid by His Hughness.

Reply by Just me on 12/2/04 7:09pm
Msg #12613

You took the words right out of my mouth!

I've been wondering how long it would take before those 2 met up. Talk about not getting a word in edgewise....I wonder who would get the last word.

:-)

Reply by Match Maker on 12/2/04 7:38pm
Msg #12615

Re: You took the words right out of my mouth!

LOL
If I were a betting person (which I'm not) -- I wouldn't bet.
It would be fun just to sit and listen to the haranguing.

Reply by BrendaTX on 12/3/04 5:29am
Msg #12648

Hugh and I met many years ago at

Hugh and I met many years ago at a POOF-FADs Recovery Group. (Perpetrators Of Online Foolish Forum Antics & Divergences). This was before anyone here had heard about the internet, but a pair of cons like us are always looking for the road to a mark. I won’t go into the foolish behavior that brought either of us into the POOF-FAD meeting but will slip it into a post one of these days when you least expect it. Anyhow, here is our true story.


The two of us only made it to one meeting of POOF-FADs.

Our eyes locked gazes during a group coffee break. We did not engage in polite discussion to get to know each other. No need…minds like ours recognize another. Immediately we exchanged phone numbers and set about to plot the demise of your innocence and that of many others. Like many infamous partnerships…the combination of us was your undoing.

Apart we were a menace to ourselves. Together, we became a menace to Notary Rotary.

We sought the ultimate high for a couple of bantering cons--We came at you with the seldom attempted (and never achieved until now) "Two Texas Notaries Pretend to Meet Online and Banter Scam."


We schemed and plotted this whole ruse. You were our mark. We gained your confidence, and then we used you to read what we wrote back and forth to each other - we are perverse, disgusting and forum bantering addicts.

It cost us a good bit to get our black market notary commission to set up this con. In Texas, you can get one legally for about $250. However, Hugh and I are divergents, and we decided to pursue a path of deception to get commissions illegally at Senior Tattoos in a very bad part of Matamoros Mex.

First we made a plan. Immediately, we realized we had to learn Spanish. So, we took steps to allow Hugh to wed an intelligent woman of Latino descent to pull this off. He found BTW (another mark in this scandalous aberration) in Austin and Hugh scammed her into believing he was really a teacher at the University of Texas. Bear in mind, that to prepare for this step of the plan, he actually had to become a teacher at UT. It took some additional education before he got that gig. I worked nights as a lawyer on tv to fund his educational pursuits for tenure. He married the mark and learned Spanish.

Fortunately for us, BTW had no stomach for mine and Hugh’s twisted need to publically display our banter, and though she loved him dearly, the antics he and I fiendishly craved made her mad as a wet hen. But, we did not care. We already had the Spanish Hugh married her for.

So, when she said “Adios,” Hugh knew it was “good bye.”

Afterwards, Hugh and I cruised Austin’s East Side looking for someone to tell us where we could find Senor Tattoo--our false document man in Matamoros. We were told to look in the Matamoros phone book once we got in town. We were assured he was in the yellow pages, or could be found on Google.

Jeering at such an easy way to get the address, we looked for another week to locate a deviant to point us in the right direction. We found a satisfactory half-way house dweller and shook him down for the information we needed.

Once we got the phone number and address we called to make our anticipated appointment.

Aha, we found out that Fake Texas notary Commissions go for $3300 each. It was more costly than a real commission, but our need for thrill is unquenchable. We are driven to deceive. We each took jobs 3 summers in a row stooped over picking strawberries to get the money to pull this off. Senor Tattoo is not cheap, but he’s the best in the fraudulent document business.

I suppose, in retrospect, that once we left the chiropractors office that last summer clutching our backs, and ample wads of cash to buy our fake commissions, we could have headed to the border in either of our cars during daylight hours and good weather, but our sick need for banter before an unwilling audience took control.

We indulged in our passion the best way we could at that point. We bought a a bus ticket and purchased a half gallon of espresso in greedy anticipation of a lengthy banter fest while others were unable to do anything, but to put up with us. Rubbing our hands together in anticipation, eyes blazing with ideas for annoying a bus full of people, we grabbed our note pads and planned cute remarks, sarcasms, and other banter so obnoxious that none of the passengers would be able to sleep.

We waited for the right time. For best performance and high factor of annoying others, we needed a cloak of darkness to be sure we would be true PITAs. Therefore, while sipping our bucket of espresso, one shot glass at a time, we buzzed around in the bus terminal for a day and a half, as we waited until the Weather Channel promised us a dark and stormy night of travel.

Thus began our long planned for trip to Matamoros Mex. As luck would have it, we both got dysentery and this added more banter material to our trip. We had banter like never before!

In Mexico, after getting into a few perilous but thrilling verbal scrapes, we were able to get perfectly copied notary commission documents from Senor Tattoo’s Minolta color copier. Before we left his place of business, we both had decorative tattoos placed upon our ankles while we giggled hysterically and sipped warm Cokes from paper cups.

A Mexican doctor prescribed a bottle of paregoric for our stomach ailments--and, we had no idea that we were, but apparently we shared the better part of it with our document man. He slumped over in a stupor during mid tattoo placement, and so I still have a flawed image of a notary seal on my leg. Hugh's, however, is perfect.

But, that's another story for another forum for which we are already planning the perpetration of foolishness thereof.

This all took several years, a pile of money, and careful plans to achieve, but now you know the truth about me and Hugh, and how we fell into a deceitful partnership of defrauding honest, hard working notary signing agents by annoying them as if we were sincere as we illicitly bantered foolishly on their forum.

You read our posts because we acted as if we wanted to be one of you.

We stole your innocence. We pulled a practical joke on the most practical.

At least I told you the truth. Hugh will probably deny it.

The sickest part of this sordid tale is that I have no remorse.

Reply by HisHughness on 12/3/04 8:48am
Msg #12650

Re: Hugh and I met many years ago at

Somebody please find Brenda a real job or a real boyfriend or both, please -- and quick.

Reply by Match Maker on 12/3/04 7:56pm
Msg #12687

Re: Hugh and I met many years ago at

We all nominated you (His Hughness) to be her boyfriend and escort.
Don't back out now!


LOL

Reply by HisHughness on 12/2/04 8:05pm
Msg #12616

Re: I Think Brenda's Available

Match Maker proposes:

***I'm sure Brenda wouldn't mind being "escorted"...I'm sure she wouldn't
mind being wined, dined and housed in a 4 star or higher Hotel in the Bahama's --
expenses all paid by His Hughness. ***

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my first glass of wine as Brenda begins speaking softly of IPs.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my second glass of wine as Brenda continues speaking softly of IPs.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my third glass of wine as Brenda continues speaking softly of IPs.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my fourth glass of wine as Brenda continues speaking softly of IPs.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my fifth glass of wine as Brenda continues speaking softly of IPs.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my sixth glass of wine as Brenda begins speaking , quite animatedly, of blanks in affidavits.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my seventh glass of wine as Brenda continues speaking , quite animatedly, of blanks in affidavits.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my eighth glass of wine as Brenda continues speaking , quite animatedly, of blanks in affidavits.

I am picturing myself, elbows on white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the polished silverware, swirling my ninth glass of wine as Brenda continues speaking , quite animatedly, of blanks in affidavits.

I am picturing myself, looking up at the white tablecloth, candlelight glinting off the top of my head, dribbling my tenth glass of wine onto the vinyl and my shirtfront as Brenda continues speaking , quite animatedly, of blanks in affidavits.

Ahhh, bliss.

Reply by Julie-MI on 12/2/04 8:59pm
Msg #12621

You blew it!

A gentleman would not have his elbows on the tablecloth--first impressions do count!

Reply by HisHughness on 12/2/04 9:04pm
Msg #12622

Re: You blew it!

Julie-MI gloats:

***A gentleman would not have his elbows on the tablecloth--first impressions do count!***

I find it easier, in my palsied old age, to prop up my elbows as I pick my teeth -- after I take them out.

Reply by CharlotteTX on 12/2/04 9:48pm
Msg #12623

Re: BRENDA....

BRENDA!!! Where oh where are you?? It's getting deep out here for you. Come on in and save yourself. Hurry, I can hear the wedding bells from the matchmaker!!

Reply by BrendaTX on 12/2/04 10:12pm
Msg #12624

Re: BRENDA....

Gosh, As luck would have it...

The honest to God truth is that I am with a 29 year old cutey at the moment, and he's hanging on to any word I can teach him about the internet...

He's laughing even as I type...and it's NOT one of my kiddos.


Is it cocktail time yet?????

Reply by CarolynCO on 12/2/04 10:48pm
Msg #12629

Re: BRENDA....

**I am with a 29 year old cutey at the moment, and he's hanging on to any word I can teach him about the internet...**

I bet this 29 year cutey appreciates IP addresses, huh?

Reply by HisHughness on 12/2/04 10:53pm
Msg #12630

Re: BRENDA....

Brenda brags:

***The honest to God truth is that I am with a 29 year old cutey at the moment***

Brenda, I have hickies that are older than 29. Wake up and smell the Metamucil.

Reply by BrendaTX on 12/3/04 12:13am
Msg #12639

Re: BRENDA....

He's really cute, too! Hunky.

Here is his link and picture: http://www.realtor-texas.com .

We ordered his website together -- my dream date of a lifetime.

(He paid for our website adventure, of course, but listened intently while I talked on IPs and notary work--not notarizing blank affidavits, no less.)

Tonight, we were defining what his needs were (IN the website area, {me blushing} tee hee...) and I uploaded a placeholder page for him. He's always ready to come to my "aid" when I need help from a hunk. It's a mutual and platonic relationship, actually.

But, honestly, I never had a man so crazy about me that was not related!

He DOES listen, Carolyn, while I talk about the finer points of notary minutia, loan signings, mortgages, blanks in affidavits and what I do as an NSA. We have a language all of our own.

All was going really well...Then, his wife came home. I slipped out to come home while he was showing her about his website and telling her that during our internet activities-- he actually received his first offer from a buyer today on five investment properties - I could not have been prouder if I'd have given birth to him myself.

Yep...his wife came in from her college tutoring session - she's pre-med and I am very proud to be a surrogate mama to both of them. They are in this area as transplants from Tennessee.

Sorry to lead you on, but ya'll don't play fair when I am not at my "Notary Control Center!"

I see I missed a pretty good party!

But, I'd say a "good time was had by all" tonight in my world.


(BTW - Folks, those Tennessee drawls are a cover up! The words may be syrupy sweet and slow, but I have observed in my two "adopted" children that the Tennessee brain is faster than anything I have seen in Texas - bar none. Texans talk slow and think slower...but not my Tennessee friends. Two of the smartest kids I have ever met.)

Reply by CaliNotary on 12/3/04 12:51am
Msg #12644

Re: BRENDA....

Boy, one minute you're planning a week at Disneyland in mouse ears with me, the next minute you've got a 29 year old hanging off of you. What a hussy!! It's your loss baby, I saw your boytoy's picture. I'm cuter. So there <snap!>

Reply by BrendaTX on 12/3/04 2:28am
Msg #12647

Re: BRENDA....

CaliNotary to Brenda: "Boy, one minute you're planning a week at Disneyland in mouse ears with me, the next minute you've got a 29 year old hanging off of you. What a hussy!! It's your loss baby, I saw your boytoy's picture. I'm cuter. So there <snap!>"

Please rethink this! He'll be 30 on Saturday!

Reply by CaliNotary on 12/3/04 2:44pm
Msg #12664

Re: BRENDA....

Ahhh, now it all makes sense. You had to vamp him before he got too old for you. Coo coo ca-choo Mrs. Robinson.

Reply by Scared to put my name on 12/2/04 11:15pm
Msg #12632

Re: You blew it!

In Europe, where I come from, we don't have any problem with elbows on the table, BUT WE DO THINK THAT ALL AMERICAN PEOPLE EAT LIKE ANIMALS

Reply by HisHughness on 12/2/04 11:33pm
Msg #12635

Re: You blew it!

Scared to put my name on harrumps:

***In Europe, where I come from, we don't have any problem with elbows on the table, BUT WE DO THINK THAT ALL AMERICAN PEOPLE EAT LIKE ANIMALS***

This from a part of the world where snails are a delicacy? And just next door to a place where oatmeal cooked up in a sheep's stomach is a yum-yum? I guess you're right, Scared. Animals wouldn't touch slop like that.

Reply by Scared to put my name on 12/2/04 11:42pm
Msg #12637

Re: You blew it!

Toucher

Reply by CaliNotary on 12/3/04 12:41am
Msg #12643

Re: You blew it!

Well, at least we can deduce that you're not from France.

Reply by CarolynCO on 12/2/04 10:45pm
Msg #12628

Re: I Think Brenda's Available

Is Brenda helping you drink the wine?--that may explain why she continues speaking.

Reply by BrendaTX on 12/4/04 1:54am
Msg #12705

Re: I Think Brenda's Available

Before we trash this thread for good, I would love to know...

Why DON'T you think I am 28?

Reply by Match Maker on 12/4/04 8:10am
Msg #12709

Re: I Think Brenda's Available

Maybe.... because you've told us!

LOL

Reply by HisHughness on 12/4/04 9:57am
Msg #12717

Re: I Think Brenda's Available

Brenda ponders:

***Why DON'T you think I am 28?***

I'll take that one, Brenda. No one could cram that much wisdom into 28 years, that's why.

Whoever made the comment owes me a back rub. I pulled your fat out of the fire bigtime.

Reply by Holly/NC on 12/2/04 10:14pm
Msg #12625

Okay, so I'm not 28, but I am available...and a democrat to boot!

Reply by HisHughness on 12/2/04 11:38pm
Msg #12636

Holly/NC advertises:

***Okay, so I'm not 28, but I am available...and a democrat to boot!***

Holly, if you own a liquor store and have a stock portfolio, you can be a Zorastrian for all I care.

You will buy you own bus ticket to Austin, won't you?

Reply by Holly/NC on 12/3/04 11:08pm
Msg #12695

Actually, I'm still saving up for the liquor store. Might take a while if notary fees stay low!

Reply by CarolynCO on 12/3/04 10:39pm
Msg #12694

Holly,
Don't worry about it, Hugh's not 28 either!

Reply by Holly/NC on 12/3/04 11:09pm
Msg #12696

Hmmm, I guess you could say I am 28, but with 7 years experience!