Posted by Anonymous on 6/23/05 10:15pm
Msg #47300

I'll have an EDOC for the road

I cover about a 40 mile radius of my home. Has anyone found a way to work with trying to hold down a schedule and get Edoc's printed and get to a closing. The title company never gets the docs to you until about 2 hours (sometimes less) and it seems like I am waiting around for the title company to get the docs to me when I don't have an appointment and I have my husband working my edocs when I'm out at an appointment.

Is there a better way and I just don't know what it is? Any suggestion would be GREATLY appreciated.

Reply by Anonymous on 6/23/05 10:36pm
Msg #47307

HELLO! Is this thing on? :)

Reply by Becca_FL on 6/23/05 10:47pm
Msg #47311

Have laptop, printer & stamp, will travel. I've printed docs at the borrowers home. I do charge more for the edocs if they can't get them to me by my "in-house" deadline.

Reply by Anonymous on 6/23/05 11:00pm
Msg #47319

You have printed at the borrowers house?

You keep your printer in your car and print at their house? Amazing. I would never have thought to do that. Is it your routine to print at their house? What is your deadline and what if they don't make it? I get calls a lot and I am 45 minutes from home to do a signing in 3 hours down the street from where I am. I hate to drive home to print.

Reply by Becca_FL on 6/23/05 11:13pm
Msg #47330

Re: You have printed at the borrowers house?

Are you not a MOBILE NOTARY????

Reply by Anonymous on 6/23/05 11:18pm
Msg #47332

WONDERFUL IDEA!!!

It just never occurred to me. Did not want to intrude or put the borrower out. Anyone else with any idea like this? Becca FL anything else you can share?

Reply by Becca_FL on 6/23/05 11:27pm
Msg #47336

Re: WONDERFUL IDEA!!!

Yes - Have two printers. Always have a plan B. I also have friends in surrounding counties that I can drop in on to use their electic, phone & bathroom. We don't have Kinkos here in my neck of the woods. Be flexible, but don't be a push over.

Reply by Anonymous on 6/23/05 11:35pm
Msg #47339

Re: WONDERFUL IDEA!!!

I love it. I have Kinkos but everything with them is such a hassle.

Reply by Jenni on 6/24/05 2:04am
Msg #47364

Re: WONDERFUL IDEA!!!

Could be bad news, depending if the borrowers have dial-up or DSL. In my area dial-up sometimes takes nearly and hour to down load a set of docs.

Reply by Bobbi in CT on 6/24/05 7:05am
Msg #47389

Agree with Jenni's Warning ...

Many of the homes I go to

1. Do NOT have a home PC or internet connection.
2. If they have a connection, it is dial up.
3. The "home" PC is in their bedroom ... I REALLY do not want to go into strangers' bedrooms and I don't think they want me there either.
4. Do not have a LASER printer ... a color ink jet. I do not plan to carry a laser printer in my car TO CONVENIENCE the document preparer. Personally, I think this ability ENCOURAGES them to continue producing Edocs late or at the last minute. This is obviously an excellent option for those mobile NSAs that are receiving $150-250 per assignment. That fee makes it worthwhile to have a second set of portable hardward and dupllicate software and supplies in your car (plus any additional licensing fees and business property insurance coverage if the hardware and software [including other people's confidential data] is stolen).
5. Do not have legal size paper. Carry that, too, and an extra toner cartridge.

Good for some, but I do not plan to spend the extra money for equipment so that Edocument preparers can continue to send Edocs 5 minutes prior to a 30-minute drive or "...just drive to the borrower's home and the documents will be in your Emailbox when you arrive." Yeh, right ... and if they are not in my mailbox when I arrive ... or the borrower's dial-up is dead slow, I sit at Borrower A's home waiting for Edocs while calling Borrower B (through a different lender and scheduler) to tell them I am rescheduling their appointment because Borrower A's documents are late.

Reply by Anonymous on 6/24/05 7:54am
Msg #47396

Interesting Point

That's a good point. So you were able to see the loop hole in her solution. What do you do in this situation?