Posted by kcNot_KS on 1/2/05 1:14pm
Msg #15223

Portable Scanners

I'm new and have done only a handful of signings but I've already had situations where borrowers tell me they have copies of their D/Ls but when I show up they didn't and someone had to run to have copies made. Another situation I had where there was a slight descrepancy in their name and I wanted to make a copy of a second ID (per SOS advice). Any NSAs out there use any kind of gadgets out there? Like some kind of portable scanners?

Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 1/2/05 2:19pm
Msg #15226

An Inexpensive Digital Camera...

...does the trick for me.

Reply by kcNot_KS on 1/2/05 2:52pm
Msg #15228

Re: An Inexpensive Digital Camera...

And this is acceptable by lenders?

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/2/05 2:58pm
Msg #15231

Re: An Inexpensive Digital Camera...

KcNot

Hi...I have used my digital camera with and without the HQ closeup lens on it. Works well enough.

Even my cell phone in a pinch will do the job. Problem is that I have to get my son to download my pictures for me. I just don't get that part.

Never had a complaint.

Reply by Susie/OH on 1/2/05 2:32pm
Msg #15227

Amazon has a Antec Attache. A lady on another fourm bought one and liked hers. Plugs into her laptop and no other power needed. You will have to check it out.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/3/05 11:58am
Msg #15302

More about my camera and close up lens...

When the title company forgot to include their docs last week they wanted (1) the docs faxed back asap (2) the docs FEDEXed asap. I could not do both by regular methods, ie, go to a town 40 miles away, return to my office, fax, then get to FEDEX.

What I COULD do, however, was
- take picture of the docs to fax back
- go to FEDEX and drop the package
- get back and use the *.jpgs from the camera to fax back.

This was a great client so I did a little jumping for them.

Reply by VA757Notary on 1/4/05 12:00am
Msg #15368

Brenda,

After you took the picture with your camera phone, did you just print out the images and faxed that to the company? Or did you send it electronically?

I am just curious because I never thought of that when companies need the docs back ASAP and they want me to fax back all the docs with notarial acts. That was a very clever idea and thanks for sharing it.

Reply by bj on 1/4/05 1:31am
Msg #15370

For those few companies that require you to fax back notarized doc's and still get them to Fed EX. You can dash into a copy place and make copies of them. Put the originals in Fed Ex and fax the copies when you get home. I would not worry about the time they are faxec. They know you are a mobile and have other signings. As long as you fax it in a timely manner.

Reply by PAW Notary Services on 1/4/05 7:30am
Msg #15377

Faxback and FedEx'ing

I look at it this way. If the company wants fax backs, then they'll have to wait for courier drops on busy days. They can't have it both ways. With a full schedule, I can't be running back to my office and faxing documents, then run to the shipping center to drop the package and still make it to my next appointments.

Since most refi's have a 3-day RTC anyway, the one day delay isn't that big of a deal. Further, since most of my signings are in rural areas and Kinko's etc. are not readily available, it's just not practical to be able to do both. (Our FedEx pick-up is 4 in the afternoon, so even afternoon appointments are hard pressed to get on the truck the same day, if there's fax backs to be done.) So far, no one has complained about the schedule.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/4/05 8:45am
Msg #15386

Good point. Sometimes you have to think "out of the box," so to speak.

I don't endorse stressing oneself if it can be avoided, or unless you have a good motivation for doing so.

In the case I referenced, I wanted to see things go smoothly for the elderly borrowers, so I put forth my best effort.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/4/05 8:48am
Msg #15387

BTW - this was in a place where

FEDEX picked up at 2:30 pm each day--Only one drop.

In an outlying area from me...40 miles over. My solution was the only one that I could think of to make it work for the borrowers best interest.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/4/05 8:38am
Msg #15385

Let me go back here and clarify...I used my good Sony camera and close up lens to make the copies getting the whole document into the picture.

The next bus day was the second day, if I remember correctly. But, it was a rev mort and funding happens at the first of the next month after the end of the RTC. While all probably WOULD have gone okay whether I "jumped" or not, the bwrs were elderly and NEEDED the funding. I really wanted to see they got this loan at the first of January, and nothing would hold them up if I COULD help make the funding go smoother.

I did this for the company I was working for (ss arm of a title company) because the title company had left off the Texas title co. required docs when they shipped them to the borrower.

They called me on day one of the count on the RTC. It was day two before I could meet with the bwrs. And, holidays played into it. They did not pressure me to go right back and jump through hoops and they admitted their error...did not try to pin it on me or the bwrs. So, it was just something I COULD do. So I did.

How I did it:
Using my Arcsoft Photostudio software I printed to efax's faxing utility and faxed it.

If you have Adobe Distiller, or

Free software from Cute PDF at http://www.acrosoftware.com/

you can do the same thing for sending via email. I could have printed them out and faxed them as well.

The title company had the docs immediately that evening, and the same were also in the hands of another point of contact the next day.

I don't recommend the cell phone camera for this. Cannot speak to the quality of it.

Brenda