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lompocjoe
California
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 Posted - 06/07/2011 : 6:23:02 PM
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Loved the post, Ken. I've been in NYC exactly once and can honestly say that it takes courage to tackle the streets of any of the boroughs -- except --perhaps -- Staten Island. Welcome to the Notary club...the land of snippy title companies, slow payments, unbelievable fax backs, fond memories of overnight courier deliveries, and some pretty nice customers.
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jbelmont
California
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Posted - 05/07/2011 : 2:06:53 PM
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The Signing from Hell
Whoever coined the term “beginner’s luck” must have been working for the “other side” – a Title Company. I was a Newbie – green? – so green a 50$ Edoc, two counties away, with fax backs sounded like a goldmine. The job was that, and as you will soon learn; a lot more – and as you probably expect, all bad.
I accepted the signing from hell eagerly. The location sounded “distant” but back ten years ago gas was cheap and I was eager to make the big bucks! Ms. Title had done her homework; she, not me, had checked the weather forecast. The “big day” was scheduled to snow, and not just a few flakes; about 6 inches – enough to make New York City roads more like a turtle race.
The assignment came with what was called “an indirect acquisition”; in my newbie virginity I only glanced at the term when the work order arrived and did not question it. Buried as a footnote was the location where the documents were to be picked up! El Cheepo Title was not going to even ship the docs, I had to go get them! Their location was 50 miles out on Long Island, the day of the snow storm and took over 2 hours just to get there. Thru the whirling snow I drove.
I finally got to El Cheepo Title – in one piece with the car intact! “It will be a while before the docs are printed” they told me. Why, I asked. “It’s kinda big – we had to send out for more paper – but they should be ready soon”. Now I am familiar with the term “piggyback”, but back then it seemed normal for two couples signing to need separate sets of docs. I put the newly printed
docs on the back seat and as the suspension lowered wondered about my little car’s clearance vs. the accumulating snow.
Now I was truly “on the hook”. Back thru Manhattan I drove – toward the northern most part of “da Bronx”. It was slow going. If I had known what awaited me I would have stopped at my home in Manhattan and used those humongous document sets in the fireplace – the worst was yet to come!
On location at last! The signing consisted of two couples who only spoke Haitian and were constantly screaming across the table! The 50$ went for Aspirin.
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