Posted by RJE/MI on 4/22/10 10:27am
Msg #332863

AZ Notaries

I am wondering how business has been for NSAs and General Notary work in your state.

Reply by KRH/AZ on 4/22/10 12:03pm
Msg #332865

Are you thinking of moving here? n/m

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 4/22/10 12:34pm
Msg #332867

The same as everywhere else. General Notary Work is not at all lucrative because we only get $2 per sig and very MINIMAL travel fees. Go to CA or FL where you can get $10 per sig.
Besides, I don't think you would like it here in the summer when it's 115 outside!

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 4/22/10 12:37pm
Msg #332868

Can only get $10 per notarization in Florida, no matter how many people are signing the document, it is one notarization. (unless there is more than one certificate on the document)

Reply by Notarysigner on 4/22/10 12:41pm
Msg #332870

we get $10.00 per signature...here.

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 4/22/10 12:46pm
Msg #332871

Sorry Sylvia! n/m

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 4/22/10 1:25pm
Msg #332875

Re: Sorry Sylvia!

I'm sorry too, that we can't get $10 per signature

(Of course half the people around here that come for notarizations gripe about the $10 per notarization we can charge)

Reply by Notarysigner on 4/22/10 12:39pm
Msg #332869

Yes come here...we need the revenue...a bottle of pop is $1.49 tax on it is $0.23 and you pay $0.10 recycling fee. Rent, two bdrm $1,300 per month, 1st and last plus $1,200.00 security deposit.

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 4/22/10 12:49pm
Msg #332872

Ah, yes, James, I remember it well. Alameda County sales tax was 8.75% when I left 4+ years ago. My daughter is driving down from Livermore this weekend. She's bringing a bottle of Chocolate Port (with Scharffenberge chocolate) from Cedar Mountain Winery.

Reply by Notarysigner on 4/22/10 12:57pm
Msg #332873

Oh my! Sorry, sales tax is now 9.1/2%

Reply by Grammyzoom on 4/22/10 1:46pm
Msg #332876

Prior to the end of 2007 we did 50 to 70 a month. From then to March 2010 we averaged about 30 signings a month. March was terrible but beginning April 1st it picked up and we have already done our average but God knows what it will be next month! I just take it month by month.

Our sales tax here is only 6.3%. We live in a 55+ city where there are no schools and no school tax. Yippee!

We don't worry about the heat too much because it is too hot to go outside. So we go from a/c home to a/c car to a/c shopping, movies, restaurants etc. etc.

Reply by RJE/MI on 4/22/10 1:55pm
Msg #332877

No I'm stuck in MI until my husband is so old he doesn't know where he is at. I was only asking because a very close friend of mine that has been an Escrow Officer forever in MI has moved there about a year ago and is wondering if she wants to stay in the business or move on to something else. She has had the luxury of being able to tour her new hometown but is ready to get on with life now.

Thanks for the opinions.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 4/22/10 1:56pm
Msg #332878

Too funny!!

" I'm stuck in MI until my husband is so old he doesn't know where he is at."

That was a good one!!...

Reply by Susan Fischer on 4/22/10 11:30pm
Msg #332972

Another reason I was glad to leave AZ for TN in the late

70s. Had to wear a parka to grocery shop, then walk into the car-oven, then into our pretty-warm home - electricity was not cheap.

I taught school in the greater Phoenix area, in poor school districts. No A/C. Heck, no textbooks.

The coolest part of the day is hours before dawn, standing outside in line, waiting to use the DittoMachine at a tiny school's trailer office, and, oh, the fumes, wafting by on an anemic breeze...

My husband was a highway engineer, and worked outside with the road crews, with their enormous earth-movers and with state and local workers, building the Superstition Highway. (I've flagged and worked traffic control on such roadwork in 115 degree temps in later years in Idaho, and much prefer mobile notary work in the Pacific North West at my age.)

I'm so happy to be out of that heat, and can only send huge kudos to GZ, and other Arizonans who 'don't worry about the heat too much.' You're a better man than I, Gunga Din, so's to speak.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 4/22/10 10:40pm
Msg #332968

What a good daughter, Shoshana. n/m

Reply by JAM/CA on 4/22/10 2:10pm
Msg #332879

This month has been busy for me with Arizona Signing Services calling for purchase closings. Seems people in California are back to buying properties in AZ. Had one for a Sedona property (my favorite spot) yesterday. Price was amazingly low.