Posted by Anonymous on 1/26/05 2:14pm
Msg #18236

Nortary - Just starting

I am a Nortary in NJ, I would like to become a signing agent. Can someone tell me details on how to do that? I would like to do this part-time, is this something that can be done around my schedule?

Reply by Anonymous on 1/26/05 2:20pm
Msg #18239

or a mobile signing agent.

Reply by slynn1030 on 1/26/05 3:01pm
Msg #18259

just quitting may be "hard working" but certainly does NOT sound like a professional. What a down right RUDE response. Guess Just Quitting was never a "newbie" ! Hang in there.

Reply by Just Quitting on 1/26/05 3:56pm
Msg #18267

Guilty as charged -- a momentary pit-bull moment in an otherwise mellow day...

So what descriptive word applies to someone posting a question that's not only answered many times over in this forum but answered just three messages down from top? What describes the attitude "Why should I have to waste my time reading through all of these posts when I can just get people to waste their time giving me a personal response to my questions?" What does it say about someone's chances of succeeding at ANY business if they don't have even enough interest to have researched the basics?

Do the work first and come to this forum saying, "Here's what I've done but I still can't figure out the answer ..." and this forum will respond with all the help you need. Come in here saying "I haven't bothered to find this out on my own -- I just want somebody to give me all the answers" and the experienced business person already knows that you aren't going to cut it in the real world. Maybe you think you're "just starting," but you've already quit doing the necessary work.

Reply by scnotary on 1/26/05 3:58pm
Msg #18268

Just starting maybe you need to just quit!!!

Reply by scnotary on 1/26/05 4:00pm
Msg #18269

I meant to address the last to just quiting

Reply by Just Quitting on 1/26/05 2:26pm
Msg #18242

This is a full service forum. We usually assign a dedicated, hard-working, very experienced signing agent with nothing better to do at the moment to personally train you.

However, there's been a slight increase in new people as of late. The soonest we can get back to you is February 11th.

Oh..., that's 2/11/2013.

Is that convenient for you?

Reply by Anonymous on 1/26/05 2:32pm
Msg #18246

I assume that means you with "nothing better to do".

Reply by notaryplusmore on 1/27/05 12:43am
Msg #18332

Just Quitting - are you assigning yourself to be that dedicated, hard-working very experienced agent to help those who are new, because if you are I would like your assistance.

Reply by Just Quitting on 1/26/05 2:45pm
Msg #18251

In the meantime, you might actually read the responses to 500 other people who've asked the exact same question here. Better yet, take a look at the "On the Phone with a New Texas NSA"Êmessage fromÊÊBrendaTX on 1/26/05 12:59pm (just a few messages down from yours).

Reply by FellowPartTimer on 1/26/05 3:31pm
Msg #18264

I have been doing signings for about a year in MA. I am a full time teacher, and make myself available at night and weekends. Business has been great up until December-January. So you can definetly do it part time. The services will work with your schedule. Just be honest with them.
I started with Service Link and Express Financial. My best suggestion is to read every fax completely to make sure you are sending everything where it needs to go and that way you do not mess up right off. These people have very stressful jobs.

Reply by scnotary on 1/26/05 3:55pm
Msg #18266

I know where you are coming from. Don't pay any attention to the rude
response's you have gotten. Those people live to be like that. You just need to step out with you first one and go. This is one of the best sites to sign up with and also 123notary.

Just concentrate on your documents and don't get in a hurry.

Reply by Simone E. Lewis on 1/26/05 4:06pm
Msg #18271

We are not Nortary. You are obviously on the wrong forum. Is is possible you want to be a NOTARY ???

Reply by Boy oh Boy on 1/26/05 7:37pm
Msg #18301

I have never seen such rude responses from so many people on one message board. Why is there such hostility from so many people? Why if someone asks a question, are there so many who jump down the person's throat if the question has already been asked? It makes me, who is visiting for the first time, not ever want to come back. I can only imagine how those people must treat the clients at the time of the signing! I will not recommend this board to anyone, and I think those who are being treated in such a rude manner should complain to the webmaster.

Reply by CaliNotary on 1/27/05 3:29am
Msg #18342

Why do you assume that the way we interact on this board (when we're not working) is representative of the way we act at a signing (when we are working)? Apples and oranges.

And why exactly is the hostility you're showing in your post somehow more acceptable than the hostility you say so many people on here have? I've never quite been able to figure that one out. When somebody calls somebody else "rude" in here, it's inevitably followed up by a insult to the character of the orignal poster(s) and is usually significantly ruder than the original "rude" comment (which is usually just direct, but not rude).

That lack of self awareness just continually blows my mind.

Reply by smarty on 1/27/05 9:26am
Msg #18376

You just did what your reply was talking about. If "you've never quite been able to figure that one out" then maybe you should try to figure it out before you go mouthing off.

Reply by CaliNotary on 1/27/05 12:59pm
Msg #18428

Good lord, can you really not tell the difference between my observation of the behavior and the actual behavior itself?

The difference between my "rude" comments and the ones that I was talking about in the previous post is that I don't preface mine with a comment that shows how aghast I am at the rude people in this group before insulting the group and/or individuals.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/27/05 8:21am
Msg #18362

"Gentle" Forum

Boy oh Boy said: "I have never seen such rude responses from so many people on one message board. "

Here is my response and some of my questions for Boy oh Boy.

This is one of the most "gentle" public forums I have ever been on. That's the reason you will find me here and not on others 90% of the time.

However, one of the best ways to use a public NSA forum is to learn to ignore insults. The so-called rudeness newcomers find here as nothing compared to the real world.

I have been posting here about a year. I was new then. I did not expect a forum for group therapy to raise my self-esteeem or to provide me the answers to questions I was unprepared to create a body of citable sources for myself. I only ask/asked what I cannot/could not find elsewhere.

B.O.B. - Why would I have had the right to expect answers? What entitled me to others self-produced research or what right did I have to enhance my own work product at the expense of others' experience?

I realized that I would not earn good answers from vet posters, and would come off as a lazy person who had no business in self-employment, if I did not first do my own due diligence before asking questions that had been repeatedly answered in archives of this forum, or which could not be answered by doing a Google.com search.

I am a Texan...a Southerner and good manners are necessary where I come from --that is, if you don't want to spend a lot of time picking yourself up off the figurative floor from being rude to others. We put a lot of stock into saying"Yes Ma'am" and "No Sir" to our elders no matter what our own age. Our children are taught the "Ma'am and Sir" stuff before they learn to count. We subconsiously believe "You must use "Please' and 'Thank you' " to be 11th commandment which was somehow left out of the book of Exodus.

So, to the commentary on rude response, I'd ask:

What is your interpretation of rude? Is it not getting what you want when you want it for free?

To you, does "rude" mean not handing over our own body of research when you are not willing to do the research yourself?

Define "rude" for us and perhaps we can refrain.

Or perhaps you will realize what you interpret to be rude is for forum posters not to produce on demand, for free. And perhaps you will see you believe it is rude when you cannot capitalize on hard-earned experience of others--the same who you have no intention of benefitting in the future?

And, if you are wise, you'll change your handle, re-frame your attitude and learn a lot here by reading and digging out the answers for yourself. Then, you'll get all the help you could imagine.

It takes time to build a relationship and develop a quid pro quo exchange with others in a virtual environment.

Reply by Brenda Stone on 1/27/05 8:29am
Msg #18364

Definition: Quid Pro Quo

In the above post I used the term below. For those who have not been in a legal environment, here's quick reference to the meaning of the term.

Quid pro quo (Latin for "what for what" or "something for something") is used to mean a favour for a favour. Quid pro quo is a legal term for the transaction of valued items or favours, in return for giving something of value.

Reply by HisHughness on 1/27/05 11:13pm
Msg #18495

Re: Definition: Quid Pro Quo

Quid pro quo:

Quid = To cease; desist
Pro = An expert; one who earns money engaging in a sport
Quo = Ubiquitous black bird; raven

Quid Pro Quo = Retired Baltimore NFL player

Reply by Debbie/NJ on 1/26/05 8:08pm
Msg #18304

Where in NJ are you? I'm in Gloucester County.

Reply by Anonymous on 1/27/05 8:53pm
Msg #18478

Union County.

Reply by Perfect match on 1/27/05 9:10am
Msg #18371

Re: Nortary - Just starting

Reply by Perfect match on 1/27/05 9:11am
Msg #18372

Please see thread #17763