A call to the XYZ Hotline weeks ago, just after we got email from a friendly, professional CT NSA, found that XYZ hadn't known about the new law! Yikes! They should have been all over it, getting CT NSAs to lobby against the bill and raising everyone's awareness. Yet another example of why we cannot trust the XYZ.
CT has had our notarization fees set at $5 per notarization for as long as I've been a Notary Public (since 2006), while the fees for a marriage license have gone from $30 to $50. Lots of other "fees" have gone up, too. According to the State of Connecticut, they're not "taxes", they're "fees".
No non-attorney NSA in their right mind would conduct loan closings and risk getting the Unauthorized Practice of Law fines and losing their Commission.
For those of us who took real training, passed real tests (not take-it-until-you-pass tests), and keep up our training and research, being is hardly a side hustle. Because of the careless in-it-to-make-beer-money hobbyists, people such as Bobbi, John, Anja, and I are going to lose a substantial part of our income.
Now do you see why newbies worry us?r |