Joan Bergstrom Notary/Loan Signer Blog

Are you charged every time you activate the wireless Internet card or does the $50-60 per month give you unlimited access? I know Leon has done e-signings and I am wondering is the pay per signing in the $125- $200 range? How many borrowers accept their copies in a CD form? Finally are many compa...

The new CA 2009 Handbook came out a few days ago with the number of CA Notaries declining by approximately 32,000 from the beginning of 2008. There will probably be a steeper decline in 2009 unless the housing market turns around.One of the CA law changes is the use of a CA state, city, county I....

It is interesting how these loan modifications affect us as a Notary/Loan-Signers?I haven't done all that many but this is what I have experienced.1. Actual slashing of a borrowers loan amount; I have  done 3 of these modifications where the borrowers had the loan amount reduced on their loans fr...

This city is south of Riverside CA and has approx. 15,000 population.I am not putting it down but it is in the middle of nowhere and darker than you can believe (no street lights.)It's been raining in So Calif and I got on a road that wasn't paved and got stuck for over 3 hours.  I didn't see the...

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It's free!! Look on the left side of the homepage, it's about 1/2 way down the page.   Http://www.joanbergstromnotarypublic.com

Click: www.notaryclasses.com Notary/loan-signers need this calendar  for refinance documents for a borrower(s) personal residence because there is a federal mandated 3 day right to cancel for this loan. Check back next week and it will be posted . Joan Bergstrom 951-522-4919

I had a call today from a signing company to do an e-signing for loan documents.E-signing (2008) involve a lap top and a wireless Internet card.Some of the loan docs are printed (by the notary-loan signer)  to be signed by borrower(s) and some are signed on the website provided by the lender to b...

I signed a contract for 1 year at $85.00 per month for the Internet Yellow Pages and I think it was a mistake. I've had the ad for approx. 6 weeks with not much response.  But, I think, I didn't target the people to hire my Notary service that I should have? I am trying to market myself for Notar...

Not much: 1.State, City, County workers I.D. is acceptable as long they contain the picture, serial number/etc as the other I.D's we can accept. Subscribing witness:1. Personal Knowledge between the notary and the Subscribing Witness is no longer allowed. 2. The subscribing witness must bring a c...