Posted by ko/FL on 2/23/10 5:41am
Msg #323879

Seminar fees

I received an email asking for a price for two days from 9:00-6:30 for notary work.
It didn't go into too much detail other than it will be at a hotel. What would be a decent price.

Thanks for your input.

Reply by Ilene C. Seidel on 2/23/10 6:03am
Msg #323882

Any chance to ask an estimate how many acknowledgements u will complete?

Reply by ko/FL on 2/23/10 6:17am
Msg #323884

I was thinking of the hours not the actual notary work. What if there were only 10 notarial acts and I am sitting there for 9 hrs.

Reply by jfs/IL on 2/23/10 6:37am
Msg #323886

Charge $20.00 per hour if you think that is fair!

Reply by CopperheadVA on 2/23/10 7:10am
Msg #323887

Just be sure not to under-price yourself. See message 302754 for some tips. You could be sitting there doing 1 notarization per hour or 100 per hour. I would hate to be doing 100 notarizations for $20 per hour.

Reply by ko/FL on 2/23/10 7:14am
Msg #323888

I was thinking more like $350/day.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 2/23/10 7:56am
Msg #323891

How about determining an hourly rate you're paid

which would be guaranteed....PLUS the cost of notarizations at $10 per - that way if you only do 2 all day you still have that base hourly fee coming to you.

Reply by MW/VA on 2/23/10 8:45am
Msg #323898

Why not, if they're willing to pay it.

Reply by jfs/IL on 2/23/10 10:02am
Msg #323910

Re: Seminar fees...an old saying...

There is an old saying in life about contracts...pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered!

Reply by Sandra Clark on 2/23/10 9:20am
Msg #323903

Had the same request from a time share re-seller. Wanted to pay $100. per day for 8 hours for 2 days. I then gave them my rate which was $300. per day plus notarization fee. They declined. Here they are making thousands on the sales and they want to penny-pinch. Go figure.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 2/23/10 9:22am
Msg #323905

Re: Seminar fees....and you'd best believe

they're passing off the fee they're paying you to the buyers who show up...they're not out of pocket on any of this..

Reply by JulieD/KS on 2/23/10 11:40am
Msg #323923

I'd ask for an estimate of how many notarizations you will be doing. Why? Because, I was called in August 2008 (prior to the presidential election) to do notary work for the Nader campaign. Two hours in the evening, 7 evenings. They would pay cash...$100 I think. I asked every conceivable question...and was told approximately 35 notarizations each evening.

Well....it wasn't 35 notarizations. It was more like 300 notarizations EACH EVENING. These were people collecting signatures of voters to get Nader on the ballot...and each page they filled up with signatures had to be signed by the signature collector and notarized.

After 2 nights of this, I renegotiated and got more money. It was BRUTAL notarizing all those forms. So, just ask the right questions so you'll know what you are getting into.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 2/23/10 3:07pm
Msg #323943

I've read the posts up to this point and I think a compromise might be your best bet. First, a base minimum (I would probably be thinking about $300) which would include xx number of notarizations. You could figure roughly how many you could comfortably do in an hour (perhaps even on an hour-by-hour basis - although that would be a pain to track), then charge the $10 (or whatever your state allows) for anything in excess of that. So you are covered for your time if you end up just sitting there, and if you get totally slammed, your fee could go up.

Reply by Jim Coffey on 2/23/10 3:34pm
Msg #323946

250-275 is appropriate

Reply by LKT/CA on 2/23/10 6:06pm
Msg #323972

Take into consideration the two days in which you'll be working. For example: Saturday/Sunday or Tuesday/Wednesday? For me, the weekdays are primo days for general notary work and loan signings so my hourly base fee for time reserved on weekdays would be higher than time reserved on weekends.

Email your terms/fee and have the hiring party reply to that email that they agree to your terms/fee for each day, that way you have the agreement in writing.