Posted by Sylvia_FL on 6/29/10 10:24pm
Msg #343087

Just to make something clear

Although I am closing my signing service. I am NOT, repeat NOT, going to give my clients to any other signing service. I can not guarantee they would pay the same fee or as quickly.
I am keeping my database of notaries, and will put the title company in contact with a signing agent as required, so the signing agent can work directly with the title company.


So please, signing services that are reading this forum, there is no need to contact me with offers to assist my clients.

Have to post this as I have had offers from signing services willing to help out my clients.
I do appreciate the offers, and they may be good signing services. But I can't guarantee them!

Reply by Susan Fischer on 6/29/10 10:43pm
Msg #343097

Re: Just to make something clear - congratulations on your

retirement. Your Florida Notaries are lucky indeed to have such an advocate for their direct title work.

It's curious, though, that such a successful and renoun signing serice has no trust of other outstanding signing services around the country.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/29/10 11:11pm
Msg #343099

Re: Just to make something clear - congratulations on your

Susie
Reading the boards this last year, signing services that were paying well at one time and getting good reviews are not getting the same reviews lately.

I cannot guarantee that another signing service would pay $135 for edocs and $100 for overnight and would send the check out the day after the signing.

I would hate to give my client list to a signing service and then in a few months read that the particular signing service was having problems paying their notaries. I would feel terrible.

The only way I can feel comfortable that the notaries who did signings for me got the same treatment is to be a sort of liaison between them. The only difference is that they will have to wait until the 3 day RTC is over before the title company cuts the check.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 6/30/10 1:50am
Msg #343107

Kudos to you Sylvia, and enjoy your retirement!

And many, many thanks for all you have contributed to us all over the many years you have been posting!

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/30/10 9:50am
Msg #343132

Re: Kudos to you Sylvia, and enjoy your retirement!

Thanks Janet et al.

I am still around, so it isn't a big deal

And even though I posted this thread to make it clear I am not passing on my contact list to SS's, I have had others contact me, even Tony PM'd me to see if my list was for sale.

The answer is No, for the reasons I have already given.

Reply by Ilene C. Seidel on 6/30/10 5:36am
Msg #343110

Owning a business can be very stressful especially when we were so busy and now that it's so slow it's probably a good time to step down and relax a little. This has to be a load off your shoulders. I wish you the very best and look forward to your continued postings.
Take care Sylvia

Reply by Stamper_WI on 6/30/10 7:25am
Msg #343116

Your business ethics are much appreciated and rare. I would hope that anyone thinking of starting a SS would take heed of how you did business and treated your notaries.
I wish you and Bruce the best in your retirement and look forward to your continued posts here. Here's to your health and happiness!

Reply by Sandra Clark on 6/30/10 8:36am
Msg #343121

Kudos for wanting to give the notaries direct contact with you clients - especially since you don't know one day to the next if a signing service will even still be in business. The really good signing services are few and far between. Wishing you the very best in your retirement!

Reply by MonicaFL on 6/30/10 3:31pm
Msg #343201

Thanks Sylvia for all you that have done for me. I truly value your expertise, kindness and willing to help others. Wish there were more like you but I think God definitely threw away the mold when he made you. Best wishes to you and yours. Monica

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/30/10 3:47pm
Msg #343210

Re: Just to make something clear Monica

Monica
You were definitely at the top of the list of my notaries in your area.
You always did an extremely professional signing. I was just so sorry that there hadn't been anything in your area for a while.

Reply by Leigh1978 on 6/30/10 6:31pm
Msg #343280

Why do you not want to give out the names of the companies that you did notary work for? I think that is kind of fishy if you ask me. Do they know that you are retiring?

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/30/10 6:35pm
Msg #343282

Leigh
I am not giving the names of the companies to other signing services for the reasons I mentioned. Yes, the title companies know that I will find them notaries and let them work directly with the notaries.
There is nothing fishy about it. I am not making any money from this, and the notary will be getting the full fee from the title companies. Do you have a problem with that???

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/30/10 6:37pm
Msg #343283

And to add to this

I was strictly a Florida signing service, so my decision affects only Florida notaries that have worked for me. It doesn't affect you at all.

Reply by Leigh1978 on 6/30/10 6:39pm
Msg #343284

So you are giving the title companies names of notaries that you already use or notaries that you find?

Good Luck to you in the future.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 6/30/10 6:47pm
Msg #343287

Both
If they need a notary in a specific area and I don't have one in that area I will find one for them. The reason these title companies used my signing service was that they didn't have the time or manpower to go looking for signing agents themselves - which is why signing services are in existence. I have been a signing service for these title companies since 2003, and they trust me to find someone competent and experienced.

Something I have always done for these title companies if they have asked me for a notary outside of Florida. I have located a notary for them and let them work directly with the notary.
Now I will be doing the same for them for Florida notaries.

I will no longer have the hassle of keeping records for the signings for tax purposes etc, as all I will be doing is putting the title company in touch with the right signing agent.