For the first time in many years CA Notaries will not have to learn any new Notary Public laws for 2010!

Yeah!  We have had so many changes since 2005 that it is nice to have a year where there aren't any new CA Notary laws.

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Free 2010 Rescission Calendar is now available on http://www.notaryclasses.com

It's located on the homepage and find the section that says " Notary Forms and Services We Give Away".  It's in the middle.

Check out all the other good "stuff" we give away.

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This book is the   5th Edition by Laura Vestanen.

 Effective and practical techniques to get notary work outside the loan industry. The marketing advise includes marketing to different companies, networking, where to obtain legal forms (free) and much much more......

  Laura is the absolute authority on acquiring non loan signing work by Notaries. The new edition has the most current information on low cost/low technical Internet marketing advise available.  Even if you are not a notary, this information on Internet marketing would be invaluable!

You can contact Laura for purchase or for more information:  www.professionalnotary.com or email professionalnotary@yahoo.com

This book is fabulous in my opinion!

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http://www.notaryclasses.com  (1-800-873-9865) has begun offering a 3 hour classroom or home study course for renewing CA Notaries whose commission expire after July 1, 2009.

The cost for the 3 hour class/Home Study will be only $49.95 and the student will attend a regular 6 hour scheduled class, but will only be required to attend from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm with the CA State Exam Test immediately following.

This is a wonderful opportunity to take a 3 hour course and receive your "Completion Certificate" and not have to spend 6 hours doing so!!

Remember we also have Great Business cards available; click on Supplies.
They are easy to order and 1st class qualilty!

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Thursday, May 21st I had 2 loan signing assignment from the same  company: one at 3:00 PM and one at 6:30 pm.

The 3:00 pm assignment was at the last moment and the company wanted to know if I could get to the signing immediately, and I said yes, I thought I could get there by 3:30 pm.

Not a problem.

I print the docs and get to my appointment by 3:45 pm and discover the documents were for my 6:30 pm appointment. I never looked at the name and printed the docs and  assumed the docs were for the 3:00 pm appt.

This happened to me a couple of years ago and I remember it happened to my son James, where he wound up going to Palm Springs and having to drive 120 miles round trip.

Oh well, all the signings were completed: I will be making sure this doesn't happen again! The documents for the 3:00 PM were sent at 7pm and I got them signed at 8 pm.

My fault entirely!! Should have checked the name on the docs.

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We have a major holiday weekend coming up in a few days (Memorial Holiday Weekend) and this is a great time to touch bases with the Title, Escrow, Lender & Signing Companies and tell them you are available for notary/loan-signer assignments over the holiday weekend.

Actually it's an excuse to"just say hello" and keep on their radar screen!

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I got hired to do a 1 page Grant Deed notarization with 1 signature.  Sounds easy and it should have been but, it turned into a 45 minute signing.

No problem with the company that hired me but the signing went "south" the minute I got in the door.

The woman said her husband was suppose to be on the Deed but, only her name was listed.  I told her to call the loan officer and find out if she was the only one listed.

She called and we waited until the loan officer returned the call and he said she was the only one to sign.

She is unhappy but signs.

I leave and I am about 2 miles away and the borrower calls me and says the loan officer called again and the husband does have to sign.

I go back and the husband is in the shower and doesn't come out for 20 minutes to sign the Deed!

I did a signing for a Reverse Mortgage the next day and got it signed in less time.

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Computer Problem

My computer is running slow and a friend told me the computer  tower is  probably very dirty inside and needs to have the dust blown out.  My computer is Microsoft XP and I haven't done anything with the computer for 4-5 years.  Is there any truth to this cleaning or is my friend "pulling my leg?"

I have done defrag/scan disk/etc.

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This is one of these posts that might be on a subject that everyone knows about and I am just clueless.

I did a google direction's search and when I clicked on the "B" location on the google map it provided a picture of the house I was doing the loan signing for.

I printed the directions and the picture was included.  It was great to see the actual house I needed to find!

The picture was a little hazy but just looking at on the Internet helped me to find the house.

It's so much easier to find homes when it's light outside (duh) but this information from google/directions really helped me.

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