Posted by Becca_FL on 12/31/07 1:00pm
Msg #228318

NotRot Year in Review 2007

I thought it might be fun to discuss some of the HOT topics on NotRot this year. I’d like to start with a few of my favorites. What were your favorite or least favorite topics this year?

1) NNA announces required background checks.

An Official Message from the Title Industry
The federal government will soon require that all persons involved in the lending process undergo background screening and compliance training.

Supported by: FAT, NREIS, Stewart, LandAm & Fiserv – ALL Lowballers

How many times were YOU asked to produce a BGC? Check out the following link…I get a chuckle every time I read it.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/231/RipOff0231555.htm


2) Notaries unite for legislation.

Give me a break. If you want the government to collect your fees, you should not be a business owner. Get a JOB.


3) Tough Love - Newbies being told the cold, hard truth only to turn around and call those trying to help them jealous bullies.

Has anyone here ever watched any of Gordon Ramsay’s television shows? Gordon Ramsay is highly decorated Chef that trains new chefs/cooks and mentors failing restaurateurs on television here in the US and abroad in the UK. Ramsay’s favorite words include, the F-bomb, Bullocks (we calls them something else here, use your imagination), cry baby and wanker, to name a few. Gordon Ramsay has been called rude, nasty and many other names I should not repeat here, but he does not let the name calling get in the way of the constructive criticism he is freely giving to help the person he is mentoring to better succeed.

For 2008, I suggest all newbies to this profession watch at least two episodes of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, BBC America and FoxReality) BEFORE asking questions to get a feel for what true constructive criticism is and why harsh or blunt is not always meant to be rude. If you can’t stomach either of the two above shows, hang up your stamp and please, please, please don’t ask a question here and whine about the responses received.

Life is tough, business is tougher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am5Y5Pvrb4M

Here’s a fine example of why you should not start a business in which you have no background or don’t have a clue how to run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKk5G0FUSY

Reply by Negrete on 12/31/07 1:18pm
Msg #228322

I love every min of this board Becca.

Have a Very Happy New Year


From :

Negrete's Notary Service Inc.

Anthony J Negrete

Reply by John_NorCal on 12/31/07 1:59pm
Msg #228328

Leave it to Becca, she tells it like it is! Something here for everyone to learn, if you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen. Thanks!

Happy New Year to all. Let's make this one a better one in every respect!

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 12/31/07 2:14pm
Msg #228331

"Bullocks (we calls them something else here, use your imagination)"

The word has an "o" not a "u"

Must be his Scottish accent.

Reply by Ernest__CT on 12/31/07 3:02pm
Msg #228340

(sigh) The wordsmith just can't resist.

Even here is the States United we have been know to use the phrase "All bolluxed up". I'd suspect it has the same root as the bollocks of which Sylvia speaks so knowledgably (wink, wink).

Bullocks, on t'other hand, are usually mild-mannered creatures. I wouldn't steer you wrong.

'Tween bollocks and bullocks we're all balled up.

OK; enough punishment.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 12/31/07 3:28pm
Msg #228348

Ok, Ernest, off to the Punitentiary you go...that's one pun

over the line, Bud...

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 12/31/07 4:51pm
Msg #228360

Re: (sigh) The wordsmith just can't resist.

"Sylvia speaks so knowledgably (wink, wink)."

LOL

My fathers favourite word was codswallop!

He would sit through a whole TV program or movie and then say "What a load of old codswallop"

Reply by Philip Johnson on 12/31/07 3:14pm
Msg #228341

Dang Scots, they sure can screw up an empire. :) n/m

Reply by Linda Spanski on 12/31/07 3:33pm
Msg #228350

seriously?

Becca, you've come up with a good list. But it's a stretch to compare NotRot contributors to the would-be cooks working under the direction of Chef Uglymouth. He reminds me of the arrogant borrower who once threw the docs at me when she wasn't happy with her numbers. It's easy and fun to be critical. A sub-prime teacher instructs using shame and intimidation. Have we become so coarse that this is acceptable?

Being self-employed, I don't have to take grief and abuse from anybody unless I choose to. Are there others like me who decline to contribute to this forum because somehow, someone will use it as an opportunity for ridicule? Does that make me too thin-skinned to be in business? And yet I want to continue learning and changing with the times so I can be a survivor in this field; this forum helps me do that.

Peace and prosperity to you all in 2008.

Reply by Becca_FL on 12/31/07 6:13pm
Msg #228372

Re: seriously?

"But it's a stretch to compare NotRot contributors to the would-be cooks working under the direction of Chef Uglymouth."

I wasn't talking about the NotRot contributors, I was talking about the new would-be NSAs that believed the NNAs codswallop about making $100k a year working part time with little training. What you call shame and intimidation, I call keeping it real.

Reply by ZeeCA on 12/31/07 4:41pm
Msg #228358

my favs: typos... esp mine have led to funny responses....

as my fingers sometimes type things I have not told them to

Have a safe NYE ev1