You can really feel it . . lately it has been tough. Even with regular notary jobs! I have gotten several calls for my own city asking how much I charge to notarize 1 document (go to them) and I thought aw well, in the same city what the heck! 25.00. They say okay thank you and never call back! That means more than likely someone is doing them for less! Until I am starving I find that my time is more precious than less than 25.00! I think 25.00 is reasonable as it would only be 15.00 for my time and 10.00 per CA statute. People are desperate out there! What they don't realize is it's NOT going to get any better by trying to get business through undercutting the other guy. . . it just doesn't work. With a saturation of notaries their rates are never going to go up! They will be working for peanuts and then their cars will break down and they won't be able to afford to fix them!  |
