Posted by pat/WA on 6/12/10 7:29pm
Msg #340723
JMT
I used to have JMT signings often. Then they called and advised me that if I didn't have a smart phone and the ability to accept signings via the phone they would not be using me anymore. Since then I have not heard from them.
Their fees are so low I could not justify getting a smart phone.
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Reply by Frances Kany on 6/12/10 7:55pm
Msg #340726
I got a.smart phone last Dec and cannot imagine life without one again. I did not get one for a particular company but I have found it makes life so much easier.
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Reply by BossLadyMD on 6/12/10 8:36pm
Msg #340729
JMT meets my fee - just slow right now :( n/m
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Reply by LynnNC on 6/13/10 12:00pm
Msg #340744
JMT
I have a smart phone - a Blackberry Bold - and am given preference for closings by JMT. I was solicited by them for the program and receive notice of closings by text message and handle about 20 a month. These 20- minute closings are easy and routine...business is slow in general and I appreciate the $1,000 a month I get from JMT.
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Reply by Glenn Strickler on 6/13/10 12:12pm
Msg #340745
JMT still calls me the conventional way (just last Wednesday) but just wanted to pay the 50 bucks for a signing of 140 miles round trip. Now if someone out there can make money doing that, I would like to know how. I guess it just depends on your zip code if you can make money or not. I don't know who they got, but they were pretty firm on 50 bucks. Someone had to drive as there are no notaries within 70 miles of the address they gave.
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Reply by BobbiCT on 6/13/10 2:30pm
Msg #340755
I miss JMT :(
I don't have a smart phone, so imagine someone who is full-time reading e-mail 24/7 is getting all the CT work.
The borrowers were always pleasant, read their package and JMT was nice to work with. Local and no-hassle appointments makes up for a lower fee.
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Reply by pat/WA on 6/13/10 3:19pm
Msg #340761
Re: I miss JMT :(
I miss JMT too.
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Reply by Julie/MI on 6/14/10 6:45am
Msg #340797
Those closing for JMT: always Quicken Loans/Title Source?
Just wondering if they are strictly Quicken or other lenders and title companies.
Thanks.
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Reply by LynnNC on 6/14/10 8:21am
Msg #340800
Always Quicken Loans/Title Source? n/m
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Reply by Lee/AR on 6/14/10 7:38am
Msg #340798
Re: JMT--I still get calls the old-fashioned way
Not many, but that's typical of this area. This thread got me to thinking about the number of ways notaries are being herded along for everyone's benefit--except the notary. When I began doing this, I needed 3 things: a telephone, car & a notary Commission. Worked fine, paid better than today when we must have an expensive does-everything-but the dishes cell phone, printer, internet....and they'd just love for us to have portable everything--laptops, printers, tethering, aircards, fax, copiers--
Where will it end while we are continually assaulted with needing more, more, more stuff while they want to pay less, less, less?
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Reply by oldhippie_IL on 6/14/10 10:47am
Msg #340812
Re: JMT--I still get calls the old-fashioned way
And we wonder why the old timer's are leaving this business..
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Reply by janCA on 6/14/10 12:33pm
Msg #340829
So, if you accept $50 for 80 pages....
what do you charge for, say, one page, as in a Grant Deed? JMT is in my territory (Visalia) and I believe $50 was their rate 8 years ago. I've never worked for them and I wouldn't with those kinds of fees but is that what people were accepting during the "heyday" too? I'll bet they made a killing!! This just kind of boggles my mind.
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Reply by Lee/AR on 6/14/10 12:42pm
Msg #340832
Re: So, if you accept $50 for 80 pages....
1 doc & close - $50... if further, travel fees apply, of course. One month ago, docs to Borrower = $90 & was a Quicken.
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Reply by janCA on 6/14/10 7:26pm
Msg #340892
Re: So, if you accept $50 for 80 pages....
Glad to hear, Lee. I am flexible with my fees, it's very subjective on the circumstances but I just don't get that $50 for 80 pages when that's what most charge for a one-page document. To each his own I guess and it must work for some.
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