can't "live it down"...however it must be said that, IMO, your recent posts have been basically critical of Signing Agents (or notaries or whatever anyone wants to call us) - critiquing their bookkeeping and now certifications. You're not speaking from a notary/signing agent perspective...IMO you're speaking from another ... if you want to "live down" your SS affilitation I suggest you stop posting like one.
What you're missing here is that notaries, accountants, tax preparers, realtors, brokers etc., etc...are all state-regulated. However, there is no state regulation or oversight of signing agents for the most part (somewhere I recall seeing them mentioned in a particular state's laws - can't remember which one though...MI comes to mind....along with those TPL states being specific that notaries can't sign loans without a TPL)...IMO, and seriously just my OPINION, the term "signing agent" is probably nothing more than the brainchild, an invention, of the NNA which caught and others ran with it.
Certification is not necessary, IMO, for someone to perform this job. What IS strongly *required* is a working knowledge of the documents involved in a given transaction - and I mean WORKING knowledge - not the rinky dink "certification" tests I see on some sites. They don't mean a thing as far as I'm concerned. Again, the person's background, experience and credentials should carry more weight than some of these "certifications" floating around. And for that, companies get what they pay for.
I guess, after reading this, we agree, don't we?...
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