Agree with all here. We spend twice the time onsite, which means overall revenue for the day is reduced. We maintain expensive equipment and data plans to service these ones so they are generally a lower revenue stream than paper documents.
As a previous poster said, it is all about our net profit and nothing else. We business professionals do take all of our costs into consideration when pricing our services. If we cannot make our minimum required profit, we must do something else to meet our goals.
I hope all serious minded business individuals are diversifying so that you will be able to meet not only your profit goals, but pay for your medical, disability, business, notary and vehicle insurance policies, vehicle maintenance and replacement, and fund your retirement accounts.
When the market slows, title companies cut as much as possible to increase pay to executives, managers etc. and to fund their own employee benefit programs. That is how corporations work and there is nothing that can be done to change their business models. It is not personal. Business opportunities come and go and this one has been in decline for some years, in no small part thanks to the NNA. If the NNA didn't bring decline to the business, someone else would have done.
It will get worse.
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