Posted by imat/CA on 2/21/07 11:39am
Msg #176589

NNA

Is every notary a member of NNA?

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/21/07 11:49am
Msg #176590

No, absolutley not.
I wouldn't be a member if it was free.

Reply by BobRogers_FL on 2/21/07 1:17pm
Msg #176601

Me either!!!They couldn't even pay me to join, again!

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/21/07 11:49am
Msg #176591

No, absolutley not.
I wouldn't be a member if it was free.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/21/07 11:50am
Msg #176592

Sorry - double posted, don't know why n/m

Reply by Lee/AR on 2/21/07 1:17pm
Msg #176602

That makes 2... or is it 3.. of us. n/m

Reply by BrendaTx on 2/21/07 3:59pm
Msg #176618

That makes FOUR (4) IV - four of us ! n/m

Reply by Signing_Doc on 2/21/07 4:02pm
Msg #176619

FIVE (5) V - five of us...do I hear six?...Six?....I have n/m

Reply by christiSocal on 2/21/07 4:04pm
Msg #176620

Heres six, do I hear seven (or 7 hundred?) n/m

Reply by LisaWI on 2/21/07 4:49pm
Msg #176622

Re: Couldnt resist, here's seven n/m

Reply by Jersey_Boy on 2/21/07 4:52pm
Msg #176625

Eight.... do I hear nine? n/m

Reply by Calnotary on 2/21/07 4:55pm
Msg #176626

I am not a member, but why is it so bad? or is it because...

they have produced too many notaries?

Reply by Stuart Posner on 2/21/07 5:59pm
Msg #176637

Re: I am not a member, but why is it so bad? or is it because...

not so much as they have produced TOO many notaries...but all the notaries they HAVE produced have been fed the "party line" that YOU TOO can make a fortune notarizing loan papers. Earn up to 50 dollars an hours...that's 50,000 and up per year Part time..."

which leads to a saturation of NSA's...a saturation of NSA's who don't know WHAT in the Heck they are doing...and advising these 'newbies' that a $50 signing is GREAT money.

THAT is why it is Sooooooo bad.....(shall I mentioned their STUPID requirement/need/money scheme for background checks for NSA's?

Knead I go on?

Reply by JanetK_CA on 2/21/07 6:49pm
Msg #176641

Count me too. (Lots track...)

To put a slightly finer point on it, I think it's that they (IN MY OPINION) have used business practices that to many of us appear to be of questionable ethics. Some of us also feel they've shown a pattern of misrepresenting information in order to generate additional revenues. The most recent examples (as Doc Stu referred to above) are the seemingly manufactured "requirement" for notaries to have an (additional) background check and certification (and that they are the best and only supplier of choice) along with their exaggerated claims of what a new person can earn from this business. We won't even get into the incorrect notary information that has been given out by them in the past. (Again, jmho.) This, of course, has all been discussed here ad nauseum, so I'll leave it at that.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 2/21/07 6:51pm
Msg #176643

Re: Count me too. ("Lost" track...)

Obviously (I hope) the subject s/b "Lost", not "Lots". I can usually spell, but typing is another story... If I don't edit, it ends up a disaster!! ;>

Reply by CaliNotary on 2/21/07 9:57pm
Msg #176665

Re: I am not a member, but why is it so bad? or is it becaus

You've been on this board for as long as you have, yet you really don't know the reason why so many of us hate the NNA? Seriously?

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 2/21/07 5:01pm
Msg #176628

Nine! n/m

Reply by PAW on 2/21/07 5:14pm
Msg #176630

Make it TEN. n/m

Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 2/21/07 5:16pm
Msg #176631

Eleven! n/m

Reply by ZeeCA on 2/21/07 5:20pm
Msg #176632

Re: zillion as I am zee... ! n/m

Reply by Charles_Ca on 2/21/07 5:33pm
Msg #176633

Ok ZEE you win! But I'm with Sylvia~not even FREE! n/m

Reply by TitleGalCA on 2/21/07 8:27pm
Msg #176651

I'll clock in as Twelve. Not even for free - no way. n/m

Reply by Gary_CA on 2/22/07 1:54am
Msg #176693

I haven't read any of this but y'all can't all be wrong 13 n/m

Reply by MelissaM_FL on 2/22/07 7:53am
Msg #176707

14 here. I'm letting my memberships expire over the GLB crap n/m

Reply by thnotary_NY on 2/23/07 12:43pm
Msg #176897

Re: 14 here. I'm letting my memberships expire over the GLB crap

I let mine expire last year.

Reply by NCLisa on 2/21/07 8:32pm
Msg #176653

My membership expired last month. I'll never go back to the NNA. The only calls I ever got off my listing there were for $50 closings.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 2/22/07 7:34am
Msg #176703

They are supposed to be our collective advocates

but even before the GLB malarkey, some of us had trouble getting what we bought from them, including advice.
And you would expect your advocate to assist in getting you the fees that are usual and customary, however, this company IMO has NOT helped the industry because of suggesting low fees, I guess based on their knowledge that they would be churning out more and more inexperienced NSA's. <sigh>

Reply by Glenn Strickler on 2/21/07 6:50pm
Msg #176642

No. I am cured. n/m

Reply by Shelley Weinman on 2/22/07 1:57pm
Msg #176792

Mine expired last year and no way would I go back.... n/m