Silver Signings

My hands are still cold from this morning's garage signing, but it's all good. I have a few more closings on these last (and coldest) days of the year, then need to get used to signing 2023! 🎉

Things are picking up lately.. 3 today, 3 more closings tomorrow, and even more on the books for next week... Happy Thanksgiving!

We moved tomorrow's signing to today, so we could do it before the hurricane hit. The title really needed it closed by tomorrow. I had the seller's side, so it was fine to do it earlier. They rushed the docs and we decided to meet somewhere in the middle. Starbucks was already closed early in the afternoon, so I did the signing in the mall! We even got a witness, who happened to be a banker and was amazed by our "Costco closing". I was able to rush and scan the docs, and make it to UPS before 5pm. However, UPS was closed much earlier without any notice or change on Google times. At least the other stores that closed early did show the earlier time on Google maps. UPS was still showing 6pm. You can't ever trust UPS with their pick up times! This is not the first time.
We'll see when I can make it there again...

Back to back closings.. accommodated the signers at Starbucks for one of them. It was chilly, but convenient as usual. Happy Friday!

Another closing at a beach house with lovely views... I feel like tourists take better advantage of our beaches here. 😄 It was nice to enjoy the views a few extra minutes when the drawbridge opened up on my way back from the signing.

Another long but accomplished day of teaching and signings and then more teaching in the evening... They were post closing and HELOC signings, this time at DD and Panera locations, unlike yesterday's more challenging signing which was at a nursing home. It would have been even a more productive day if one of the signers didn't totally forget about our appointment! I was still able to accommodate them shortly after. More HELOCs and teaching on schedule for tomorrow...

My favorite kind of signings: post closing docs. Someone made a mistake somewhere at some point... It could be the title company, the first notary, or a missing doc... and I go to fix it. 😊This one, they caught the error over a year later! One signature/stamp and most still offer the full fee, short and sweet.

This must be the slowest month so far, but today wasn't so bad! First I got a call for a refi which turned out to be a seller's package of 25 pages.

Then another call for a seller's package, which turned out to be a single page deed correction! ✨

There were other offers too, but they didn't quite match my schedule... and then teaching in the evening. You never know which days will get busy all of a sudden.

My last day of signings before vacation. I already had to turn down 7 or more good offers for next week! It looks like July is picking up as the first week of June was much slower. Let's hope August will be even busier.

The good thing is that I realized I'm a preferred notary with Bancserv as I was taking my time to look at their offers for next week which I had to decline. I noticed it was waiting for me to respond with a timer and even had an option to add 3 more minutes if I needed to. It wasn't just a blast offer to everyone which you need to grab fast. No wonder I've been getting more jobs from them recently. 🙂

OMG I had to chase down the UPS guy at his next stop! He left the store earlier than usual.. all 3 files today were for UPS. Whew all that we do for our files! 😄

Just dropped off 3 files at FedEx, and have 3 more signings tomorrow. My last week before summer vacation!

3 seller's packages today. Refinances every other day or so lately, definitely on the decline as the interest rates keep climbing up...