Posted by Calnotary on 2/9/06 10:37am
Msg #95789

Survey:

Which SS was your very first signing with: Prolink
I was paid: 85.00 dollars; World Savings
First mistake: Missed seal in a Signature/Name affidavit
Earliest signing ever done: 7AM, one hour from my house.

Sorry guys I m bored and nothing else to do.

Reply by Shane_OH on 2/9/06 10:43am
Msg #95790

First signing with: Sunset Closing
I was paid: $225 (Got spoiled from the very beginning)
First Mistake: Forgot to write the county on the notary page
Earliest signing ever done: 2am, 4am, 5am, and 6am (choose your poison)

Reply by cyndi_ca on 2/9/06 10:52am
Msg #95792

My first was Trust Notary, $225. Huge mess, didn't forget anything just had to go back alot. Docs were a nightmare. Found myself wondering I if chose to do the right thing. No early ones but had a late one at 10:30 BO didn't show til 11:00 got home at 1:00, hubby wasn't too happy.

Reply by Bonnie_CO on 2/9/06 10:58am
Msg #95793

First SS- Nations Signature Closers for 95.00
Earliest closing-4am
1st mistake-Forgot to fill in the venue

Reply by srnotary_CA on 2/9/06 10:59am
Msg #95794

My first was Accusigning (arghhhh)
Fee was $100.00 (had to go back so went up to $200 for both)
First Mistake Let borrower cross out and change dates on DOT (I kow bad bad me)
Earliest signing 9:00 in the morning

Reply by PAW_Fl on 2/9/06 11:03am
Msg #95797

IIRC, my first signing as a full-time notary signing agent was with Nations Direct, lender was Millennium Mortgage, extremely large package, 3 signers. I don't remember the fee, but I'm sure it's not what I would charge today.

Reply by Lorraine Maguire on 2/9/06 11:07am
Msg #95799

First Signing: Frontier Title
Paid: $125.00
First Mistake: Trusting a Loan Agent to pay my fee instead of billing escrow (at her request) - she never paid me
Earliest Signing: Ummm, virtually all mine are afternoon/evening
LATEST Signing: 10PM
Shortest Signing: 15 min - the borrower had to leave on a flight
Longest Signing: 2.5 hours - the borrower was ESL & wanted everything she signed to be translated into Spanish for her.
Most number of signers on a package: 5

That was fun.

Reply by Charm_AL on 2/9/06 11:11am
Msg #95800

First was with IREP at HFC office for $75.00
first mistake, missing a spouse sig on RTC, one of six I might add
earliest 8:00am
latest 10pm
most in one day, 6

I'm expounding ...Finally done with last years tallies and happy that's over with!

Reply by TnNotary on 2/9/06 11:15am
Msg #95801

first signing with SNS $50.00 (2003)
first mistake : had borrowers sign both copies of docs and mailed both back
earliest 7:30am
latest 10pm
most in 1 day 5

Reply by Anne/IL on 2/9/06 11:33am
Msg #95808

First Signing: Priority Signings
Fee: $75
First mistake: Let the borrower cross out the name of his father on 5 docs since he was in Florida at that time
Earliest Signing: 7:30am
Latest Signing: 11pm
Signings in 1 day: 4

Reply by Blueink_CA on 2/9/06 11:35am
Msg #95809

First signing with: Nations Direct
I was paid; $125.00 for overnights, can you believe it?!
First mistake: Accepted signing from SOX
Earliest signing: 9:00 am - 10 minute drive

Reply by trnsa_IL on 2/9/06 11:39am
Msg #95811

First signing: Pinnacle Real Estate Services
Fee: $145.00, 1st & 2nd @ 9:30 PM (Boy, was I nervous!)
First Mistake: Missed stamp on Aff.
Earliest 8 AM; Latest 11 PM

Worst signing I ever had the Husband & Wife fought over whether to continue with the loan for over 30 minutes. They were upset over closing costs.

Best signing: Husband wife were so sweet and told me they would pray my business would increase (It had been pretty slow.) The next day I got 4 signings and the day after that I had 7 and turned away aleast 8 more. WOW! I was shocked. It has been better ever since!

Reply by Lorraine Maguire on 2/9/06 12:03pm
Msg #95818

Re: Survey: Best & Worst?

Best Signing: United Title referred me to a Loan agent who needed a signing about 30 miles from me. Could I take a gift basket to the borrower, too? Sure, I said. He paid me $225 for the extra-kid-gloves treatment, and the borrowers were more than wonderful. I would be thrilled to work with this agent again.

Worst Signing: The loan agent (different agent than above) got the docs, started going thru them with the borrowers with their three small children in her cramped office. Loan agent ended up scattering the docs willy-nilly and the kids started walking off with some of the papers. I walked in for a different signing that was supposed to start in 15 min, and she commandeered me to finish up the one she had scattered all over. I had to attempt to put the package back together, retrieve some from the children, and go thru each page to make sure all the pages had been signed by both borrowers (they were not, despite the loan agent's insistence that they were). The borrowers were furious that it was taking so long. I managed to finish them up and moved on to the next appointment which started late because of this surprise first one. The the loan agent asked me to hand-deliver the docs to T/C, an extra 15 miles. She promised to pay me the courier fee.

I never got paid for the second signing, despite repeatedly billing escrow (the borrower rescinded his loan so T/C said I must collect from the loan agent...yeah, right). It took 5 months to get paid for the nightmare signing. Never got the courier fee, either. Both signings were thru Fidelity Title - I will not work with that T/C or that agent again.

Another difficult signing required me to drive more than 150 miles altogether. I had to pick up docs at one location, sign at the borrower's home, drop docs off at a second location, and then drive home. I was well paid for the signing, but would not do that again. Too much time expended - more than 6 hours. In retrospect, I was not well-compenstated for the time and travel and aggravation involved.

Reply by LilyMD on 2/9/06 12:04pm
Msg #95819

First signing: Lenders First Choice
Fee: $125.00
First Mistake:missed stamp on aff. after 6mths in business! Should've known better
Earliest 8 AM; Latest 11:30 PM

Worst signing I ever had was probably the most nasty place I've ever had to go. It was the messiest, stinkiest place I've ever been. No place to put the docs. Had to move food and wipe the table first! Boy did it smell horrible.

Best signing I ever had was a known political figure's refi. It was really cool meeting this person.

Reply by AmandaCA on 2/9/06 11:49am
Msg #95813

Which SS was your very first signing with: Docs on the Run (times have changed!)
I was paid: 70.00
First mistake: First edocs I printed all docs on legal size paper. Had to reprint and resign at my expense of course! (Funny that some lenders don't mind that, but first time I was clueless)
Earliest signing ever done: Midnight (early or late, however you look at it) was also my biggest money maker to date.

Reply by MelissaM_FL on 2/9/06 12:02pm
Msg #95817

First signing for: Transcontinental
I was paid: $235
First Mistake: Didn't write in the county on a notarization
Earliest signing ever done: 6am, at the borrower's work. She was a nurse just getting off work.

Reply by Brenda/CA on 2/9/06 12:39pm
Msg #95827

First signing for: Placer Title Company (in office)
I was paid: $150.00
First Mistake: wrote in my county instead of county notarization was performed in.
Earliest signing ever done: 1:30am, at the borrower's house. She worked day shift in one county he worked swing shift in another, he just arrived home and woke her up to sign.

Reply by Becca_FL on 2/9/06 1:15pm
Msg #95843

First Signing: Florida's Best Closers
Paid: $100 - edocs
First Mistake: Working for Jaime Jessup - MortgageDocs.com
Earliest Signing: 7am
Latest Signing: 11pm

Reply by MB_AZ on 2/9/06 1:32pm
Msg #95848

First Signing: Accusigning
Paid: $100 - edocs
First Mistake: Put wrong RTC date on first signing to Accusigning - went back same night for correction
Earliest Signing: 9am
Latest Signing: 11pm

Reply by Art_MD on 2/9/06 1:36pm
Msg #95849

Transcontinental Title (My son worked for them - was a nice in)
$175
Notaried wrong section on DOT
Only time haven't done a signing is between 2:30 AM to 5:30 AM

Art

Reply by Sandy_MD on 2/9/06 1:44pm
Msg #95851

First signing: 24/7NNN
Fee $50 - for e-docs - too stupid to know any better.
Mistake - Putting MR & MRS Borrower on the ack. instead of MR borrower and MRS Borrower
Earliest 8am
Latest 10:30pm

Reply by Beth/MD on 2/9/06 1:50pm
Msg #95853

First signing: Angels on the Run
Fee $120 - edocs.
Mistake - Forgot to notarize the POA. Still got paid $120. Boy, was I nervous.
Earliest 7am
Latest 10:00pm

Reply by marko727 on 2/9/06 2:56pm
Msg #95873

first signing for SOX (good people but slow payers...)
fee: $150, but e-docs and I had to drive to Americus, Ga (3 hours away!)
first mistake: embossing with my seal where some docs say "seal" next to sig line.
best signing: $775 for a last minute five hour drive...(to the coast though!)

Reply by Anonymous on 2/9/06 4:21pm
Msg #95903

First Signing: Cress Inc. MD - paid within 10 days.
$200, Refi a first, 180 miles round trip
First Mistake: Only charging $200 to drive 180 miles.
Earliest signing: 8am

Reply by MichiganAl on 2/10/06 2:04am
Msg #95991

Which SS was your very first signing with: JMT, first and last (but first signing was with a title company, Title Source)
I was paid: $35
First mistake: me, a mistake? ok, I missed a signature line that wasn't at the bottom of the page
Earliest signing ever done: 4am, twice. Once borrowers both had to be at work by 6am, once was a 3am call for an emergency notarization at the airport.

Reply by Allison_Mich on 2/22/06 8:34am
Msg #98848

My very first closing was with General American Corp. I was so excited and a bit scared but it was over night docs and they paid me $100

My first Mistake was I forgot to put the borrowers names in the notarial section of the "mortgage" ugh!

My earliest signing was 8:am my lastest was 8:00 pm

allie

Reply by Joanne_NY on 2/13/06 8:03am
Msg #96600

First Signing: Colleen Hatton
Earliest: 6:30 am 1hour and 15 minutes from home - woman still in PJs
Most signings in one day - 6 - four closings were edocs - drove 296 miles
First Mistake: Missed signature in middle of escrow agreement letter