Posted by Elizabeth Vasquez on 2/7/07 1:05pm
Msg #174536

Question, new notary& interested in becoming a signing agent

Hi,

I'm a new notary and intersted in becoming a signing agent. I live in Texas and have been researching the certification to become a signing agent. It seems like that's where the money's at? I went to the National Notary website and they offer the certification. Can anyone tell me how often or if this certification is required by most companies when doing signings? Also if you are a notary/signing agent and this is your full time job, how often do you get slow? I would really like to do this full time since I go to school but I'm scared to get in a financial bind when business slows down. I currently work full time and am trying to get this whole thing going. Also are there any good companies out there that I should sign up with to work for since I'm just starting out? I've heard that once you have the experience it's better to work as a self contractor since you will get paid better. Any advice from anyone would be very much appreciated!!! Thanks!

Reply by BrendaTx on 2/7/07 1:17pm
Msg #174541

Elizabeth, If you want to know how much business you can get, read chapter five of the free book I offer online. Check my profile.

FWIW, I started in Jan 2004. I went back to work full time in 9/06. Texas is NOT going to get you enough signings to support yourself IMHO. In Texas we are offered about 1/4 of what other states are. We are hamstrung by two things: We cannot do HELOCs in a borrower's home--they must be done in a title company or a law office or a branch of the lender. The other thing is that Texans are more conservative about how they finance against their home.

We are so slow here that even the national organization which promotes and teaches there's big bucks in this business doesn't do much promoting around here.

I doubt that you'll believe this. Most people go ahead and get into it even though the facts are that interest rates are up and there's no need for lots of refi work any more. They say, "oh, I just want extra money." Like I said, if you read my free book you'll see a way in Chapter five to gauge how much work is available to you.

Reply by Elizabeth Vasquez on 2/7/07 2:56pm
Msg #174570

Thanks you so much for your advise. This really helps and I will definetly read your book.