Posted by hp/MD on 5/24/08 9:04pm
Msg #248680

Where are the NSAs of 2003?

I was checking the threads of 2003 and I only saw Brenda TX and PAW of FL. remaining from those days. I thing everybody has dropped out. It was amazing how people were complaining about SOX then.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 5/24/08 9:14pm
Msg #248681

I was there but I was a quiet newbie. I just read, learned, and searched.
I shoulda demanded everyone tell me what to do and who their clientele was, lol.

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 5/24/08 9:36pm
Msg #248694

Ditto for me.

Reply by Joan_OH on 5/24/08 9:40pm
Msg #248695

I was there too.

Joan-OH

Reply by Julie/MI on 5/24/08 9:44pm
Msg #248696

I'm one of the oldies and we were too busy to post, there were other notary boards out there......most notaries are still in the business, just not at the volumes we used to have. There isn't much to post for those that have BTDT and are still doing that.

I never could find this board as I always thought it was rotary notary. There was the florida board, the signing registry, gmn, susan's board until she took it down. Jacqueline's board after susan's went down. Some were "invite" only boards.

So take my word, when I tell you not everyone has dropped out.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 5/24/08 10:08pm
Msg #248698

Re: Where are the NSAs of 2003? - Julie

There was a rotarynotary message board at one time. Florida board is still there, but very quiet as not too many people know about it.

Reply by Tess/ME on 5/25/08 10:02am
Msg #248728

You're right Julie, there are a lot of us still around. Guess we have just learned to sit back and take it all in and shake our head and say to ourselves "gosh, will they ever learn??" (which they eventually do, as we did). I didn't post much back then and I really don't now. I prefer to read the answers given by the "super pros" like Sylvia & PAW & Brenda since they have probably heard it all and nothing shocks them any more.

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/25/08 10:37am
Msg #248733

That's sweet Tess, I'm no super pro SA...just have a lot of title/legal/mortgage years/time to learn. The signing is the easy part...finding enough business in Texas was always the challenge for someone needing full time income.

When the downturn started to pinch me in '06 I got a J O B. I like being able to ask for $150-$200 to go do a job and it being blessing if I get it or no big deal if I don't. I know enough about being an SA that I would never, ever just do this to pick up 50 bucks here and there for pocket money.

My business was never booming like it was in CA or FL because Texas isn't SA friendly. I have always had time to post ad nauseum. However, while I post frequently I don't pretend I have ever been one of the elite who were so busy they had no time to post on NR.

I love those guys too but always think it's amusing that the times they do have to post they swoop in to remark how people who post must not be busy like they are.

Makes me wonder why they even take the time to read a bunch of crap us non-super-busies have time to post. And, then take time to mention how silly the posters who post a lot are. Their time must be a lot more valuable than that...but I enjoy seeing it.

Reply by PAW on 5/25/08 7:49pm
Msg #248752

>>> I love those guys too but always think it's amusing that the times they do have to post they swoop in to remark how people who post must not be busy like they are. <<<

I certainly hope that that comment is not directed at Sylvia nor myself. I don't ever remember making such comments and I don't remember Sylvia making it either.

I agree that there are some SA's who do feed their own ego with remarks about them being super busy while others aren't.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 5/25/08 9:40pm
Msg #248763

Popsie
Brenda was not referring to us

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/26/08 8:22am
Msg #248775

Nope...

Not at all.

Can't even think of a name at the moment...haven't seen one of those posts for awhile...but then again, I slept late today and just woke up.

Still, I don't get why they even read this board if they think so little of the posters.

Reply by Teri_PA on 5/27/08 8:38pm
Msg #248943

I, too, am still around...and posted more in 2001 and 2002 than I do today...I post very, very little....and was more active back then on the NASA board and the SR....Mostly lurking...but, still around----

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 5/24/08 10:08pm
Msg #248699

I am still here

Reply by lindetteh_PA on 5/24/08 10:16pm
Msg #248702

I'm still hear been around since 2001 I was and still am very quiet on the boards however I read them often I hope to see all of us til 2013 and beyond God willing

Reply by Maureen_nh on 5/24/08 10:22pm
Msg #248703

Present and accounted for, but very shy back then.
I was mainly with the NASA board. The old and golden NASA board. Had lots of support and made some real friends there.

Then I went to the SR, which was a continuation of many of the samewonderful people.

Reply by Roger_OH on 5/24/08 10:42pm
Msg #248704

Still here too, along w/Michigan Al, Chicago Bob, et al.. n/m

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/24/08 10:45pm
Msg #248705

JanetK, sue_pa, Dogmonger, and Anonymous

Anonymous was very popular back then.

Reply by Joan Bergstrom on 5/24/08 11:10pm
Msg #248706

Re: JanetK, sue_pa, Dogmonger, and Anonymous

I was posting in 2003

Reply by MichiganAl on 5/25/08 12:39am
Msg #248714

Present and accounted for sir!

I believed that I should read, listen, and learn first. I was pretty quiet in 03. I didn't ask anything that could be answered by my own research and didn't feel I could offer advice until I had a proven record in the industry to back it up. My how things have changed (Dang, I sound like my dad).

Reply by 101livescan on 5/24/08 11:36pm
Msg #248710

I jumped in in 2002..been a good soldier every since....I can't believe it's been this long that notaryrotary.com has been on the radar screen. I started loan signing way before this, downtown LA Security Pacific National Bank before they were purchased from BofA. Small world, big fish.

Reply by MichiganAl on 5/25/08 12:46am
Msg #248715

SOX

Isn't that something? The very first day here I think there was a thread about SOX not paying. Five years later and they're still at it with every excuse in the book. They've even tried to send employees here pretending they were NSAs to sing their praises. Needless to say, our forum snoops sniffed them out.

Reply by sue_pa on 5/25/08 7:02am
Msg #248716

In 2003 and 2004 we were busy working - anyone who wanted to work and was able to work, and lived in an area with people (and wanted to use their brains) was doing 10+ loans a day, every day. I personally worked 7 days a week - 100ish hours a week. The $$$? You know, those numbers everyone snickers about that the NNA says you can make? It was and still is possible - beyond the wildest imaginations of so many posters today. I worked like I was a crazy fool because I realized it was a unique opportunity and that the work wouldn't remain at those levels.

I personally go back to 1998 as a 'signing agent' - although I've never used that term regarding myself because I detest the term - and because it's not what I do.

Reply by Lee/AR on 5/25/08 7:28am
Msg #248717

I was there, too.

And when I started in 1993, there were no forums. I even made #10 on the one & only Top Ten Posters (amount of posts) list. That was due to longevity.

Reply by Sharon Taylor on 5/25/08 8:52am
Msg #248721

I was mostly a lurker

I had been doing signing off and on since 1995 while working a full-time job, but somewhere around 2003 I quit that job and started concentrating on building the notary work into full-time. This board and another were awesome fountains of helpful information and advice.

Reply by 101livescan on 5/25/08 8:59am
Msg #248722

This was a nice little reunion...in 2003 a bunch of us attended a 3-day cruise to Baja Mexico, like 20 I believe, as part of the Signing Registry. I still have a photo somewhere of all of us postured on a stately stairwell on the ship. It was a great opportunity to get to know notaries from all over the US, Marlene in NH, Barbara in FL, Kathy in MO, mostly people from CA like Joji, me, Joan B. and her son, Peaches, Shoshana, Nicole, etal, due to distance to travel...some have found other kinds of work to do, but most of us are still in the game. I still do a fair amount of signing, but nothing like the 10-20 a day I did sitting in the conference rooms of Ticor, Stewart, Chicago and Fidelity, booked solid. Ahhh, those were the days. This pace all started like this on Valentine's day in 2002 when I dropped boxes of chocolates and my cards off to the title offices in Montecito & Santa Barbara, and I was asked to stay for a signing in five minutes! which I did. Now I work for a couple of loan officers who have me meet them at the signings to sign up their borrowers. I like these guys who care enough about their business and their clients to travel themselves to the borrowers' homes and walk them through the maze. I've experienced a lot of bad LOs~I prefer working for the professional LOs who aren't gouging their clients. There are fewer title companies in town now, some have completely disappeared from Santa Barbara county. I'm happy for this board, for the most part very upbeat and positive, and the exchange of like mindsets. It's great to share information and experiences. This business is not going away but it will always change and ebb and flow like the tide. I am beginning to see things improving on the Central Coast, not robust, but steadier. 2007 was dismal but forced me to think about doing other work, like live scan fingerprinting and passport processing, to augment my income. I continue to meet the most culturally creative people on the planet surviving this economic downturn. I feel so blessed that I (and all of you who are in this space) have survived and continue to survive this storm .

Reply by Carmen/123 on 5/25/08 10:25am
Msg #248731

I'm still here. You will be surprised to learn that about 95% of the folks are still in this business from many years past but they don't post here or anywhere else for that matter. Allot of folks are busy and they just prefer to drop in occasionally and read.

Carmen

Reply by Margaret_FL on 5/25/08 7:18pm
Msg #248749

I am still here, have been since March 2001.

Reply by sandi_CA on 5/26/08 12:09am
Msg #248768

I'm still here as well! Mostly just reading and learning. Yes, even after all these years.

Reply by Dorothy_MI on 5/25/08 8:43pm
Msg #248757

What a wonderful reunion!

Yet all of those that posted you will probaly find a post from if you go back only 3 - 4 pages

Reply by Everette/VA on 5/25/08 9:55pm
Msg #248764

Re: What a wonderful reunion!

I joined NotRot in early 2003 as a full time NSA Have been full time since 2001 and am still going
strong. I have made a lot of friends here with whom I correspond with regularly by e-mail. It
has been a great ride.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 5/26/08 12:25am
Msg #248769

Re: What a wonderful reunion!

I'll second that! But it does seem to me that there were a few who went away over the years. Some have retired, some didn't like the tone that prevails on occasion, and I'd guess, a few just got a bit tired of the continous bombardment by newbies with the same old questions over and over, every time the NNA did another tour of NSA classes... (Interesting, though, how few of the ones who came here for a handout ended up sticking around...!)

Reply by Lawyer_GA on 5/26/08 5:59am
Msg #248771

I started doing mobile closings back in the summer of 2003 and found this website later in the year. I can't remember whether I posted at all back then, but I still pop in occasionally now. I was solo for about 5 years, but I -- like Brenda -- now have a J-O-B working for someone else. I'm hoping that my closing days aren't over for good, but my new job in another specialty takes up so much of my time that it's hard to imagine performing closings in anymore... I will say that much of the remnant of 2003 is awesome -- the very best! (You know who you are .)

Reply by Bob_Chicago on 5/26/08 12:00pm
Msg #248781

Still standing since 1998 , and proud to be a NSA. Hi to

the "old timers" and have a great Memorial Day

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/26/08 12:02pm
Msg #248783

No true old timer by NSA standards...

but a wordy one--me. You have a wonderful Memorial Day too, Bob...you Brad Pitt-ish handsome looking devil.