Live YouTube session (host TJ) focused on how new notary loan signing agents can get jobs (especially via SnapDocs). Sean describes his end-to-end onboarding: becoming a state notary (mailed application during COVID), obtaining RON (digital certificate and seal), taking the NSA signing-agent course and open-book 45-question test (used the study guide and a "Guiding/Guided principle" section in the back to locate answers), updating his nationalnotary.org profile, and using a loan-documents reference to understand signature lines. Sean reports the whole process took about one month (he feels it could be done in ~2 weeks). TJ also mentions coaching/consultation offerings and barter arrangements.
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About one month (he estimates it could be done in ~2 weeks).
$27 for 15 minutes, $47 for 30 minutes, and $97 for one hour.
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I'm going to talk about how the only way to get jobs through snapdocs and for new notary public loan signing agents. It has worked for all of us. I'm sure that it'll work for you as well if you follow the system. And I'm going to stop telling you because y' all ain't listening to me. I have Mariama coming on at about 9:15 to talk to you a little bit and tell you how to get jobs through signing, through SnapDocs and through other platforms. I also have my good friend Sean who is on, and he just recently passed the signing agent test. So he will be talking about the process that he went through. And, yeah, to go on and pass the test, take the training and all of that. So I think that'll be a really, really good, good walkthrough for you all.
Hello, everybody. Ms. David Wadnar, Jacqueline. Hey, everybody. Hey, Demi. I appreciate it. See Hunter. So, yeah, we got a good. We have some. Excuse me, I have something in my teeth. But we have some good stuff going on this evening. Like I said, Mariama is gonna talk about how to get jobs because there are so many people who are saying, man, I just can't. I cannot. I'm not able to get jobs. Snapdocs isn't sending me any notifications, blah, blah, blah, blah. But we hustled for those jobs. And I, I've told y' all exactly what to do, so I want you to do that. But she's going to come on and reiterate what I've already told you also regarding the either way, though. So she was saying that to let Sean go on first and then she'll go on second. It really doesn't matter. So I've gotten a lot of contact this week through Facebook, talking about, you know, people just reaching out, asking questions, which I do appreciate it. Hey, Cynthia. I do appreciate it. Thank you all for reaching out to me. Some people were asking, well, is there any way that I can talk to you for free? So my, my charges now have started for $27 for 15 minutes, 47 for 30, and 97 for a whole hour. And that is simply because I gotta get to work making some money. So I had to do something with my schedule that made sense so that I can get some money. Sean and I. Sean was one of the people who reached out to me and got on one of my calendly calls, and we are actually doing a barter and trade agreement, which I don't mind at all. So if you want to Talk and want a free call and you have something to barter and trade. Like, he's teaching me how to do foreign exchange and investing and I'm teaching him the notary and real estate stuff. Great exchange for me. I have another lady who is helping me with email marketing and my funnels for other businesses. Good exchange for me. Good business exchange. So if you have something like that, please don't hesitate to reach out to me via Facebook and then we can just go on from there. But I gotta get my time under control, so that's why I'm doing that. Sean, I am going to start out with you and let Mariama go last. And like I said, Sean has. I'm gonna add you to this. Sean has gone over all of the testing material. He passed the test and he flew it through it like a bird. So I wanted him to be able to tell you exactly what you want, what he did. How you doing tonight, Sean?
Doing okay? How you doing?
I'm good. So tell us your process in going through just the online training material as well as preparing for the test. And then what did you do to actually take the test?
So what I'll say is with the process, overall start to finish, it took me a month. Now, what's significant about that month is that's during corona, that's during procrastination, that's during everyday hurdles. Looking back now, I probably could have got this all done in two weeks.
Step one was obviously to become a notary, right? So pre Covid, you could take the application, go straight down to the building and hand it in. They're not accepting any applications physically, obviously because of COVID So I had to mail it in. That took like a week. Once I got that information back, the next step was to become a remote notor. And I got that. I got the information a week. I even made a mistake there because you have to get your digital certificate and your digital seal. So I turned it wrong, seal this the first time. So I lost like, I don't know, like three or five days with that. So I had to double back and turn it in again. Once I got that information and approved, they did the background check, obviously from the first two. The next step was to sign up as a notary public loan signing agent. So you have to take the exam, you have to study, then take the exam. So even with that, that was a gap. I went out of town. I procrastinated and looked at it for like three or four days. And then I finally sat down and buckled down and Took class again, you know, messing around with it. I took it in a day and a half. I probably could have finished it all in one day.
The class itself, the NSA class. Okay, now what's key now after that, once you pass, you know, immediately whether you pass or fail. One note I did do is I went on my notary nationalnotary.org profile that they have with the what is called signingagent.com and I was just looking up what does the public see of me? And I noticed certain things weren't checked off. So I gave him a call and said, hey, you know, I just passed my test. I'm curious to find out why certain things say yes and no on here. Guy was real nice. He went through it and talked to me about it. He even updated a few things and he said, well, certain things you can update right now. It'll be pretty quick. Others will take, you know, a couple of days or whatever. And this was even without having the being a member of national noted because for me I didn't want to start paying the errors and omissions insurance, the membership fees until I actually passed and became nsa, even Iran. So from that point he went and updated all the information and he said, okay, by Monday, which is coming tomorrow, you know, everything will be, you know, posted correctly and I'll show as a qualified notary public loan signing agent on my profile in the nationalnotary.com so that, that start to finish key thing. I will say if you go back to square one, right. For my journey in particular, I don't have any experience and I don't have any desire to become what they call a traditional notary. I'm doing strictly remote everything. Even if, even as a regular ron, I wanted to do remote. So what I will tell you, if you have no clue about.
What remote notaries do at all, even before you sign up, before you pay your first membership fee or anything, pick up this book on the national notary website, like 15 bucks. It'll just tell you walk through everything as far as what to expect. And that's strictly on the RON level right now. Once you get past that, what helped me expedite the learning curve, I would say as far as the signing agent portion of it, when I'm taking the test would be the study guide that you mentioned in one of your other camera right here. Yeah, that you mentioned. But there's a specific section in the back.
Let me get the name of it. Guiding principle in the back in like the 70s, page 70 something. But there are these all these little shorthand entries about all the principles of what it takes to become a nsa.
What is that called again?
It's called the Guiding, the Guided principle. It's in the back of the study guide. I think it starts like page 70 or something.
Okay.
And what that did was all the 45 test questions that you use that you have to pass on the signing agent website. I basically went through those section by section. And even though it's an open book test, some of the questions you might even know the answer to, I forced myself to say, even though I know the answer, I'm not going to answer the question until I find it in that book first. I went to. It took me twice as long to take the test on purpose because I wanted to know where the answer was so I can also learn how this book works. So once I did that, I knocked it out and then I passed the test. So the next step was, okay, as everybody have analysis paralysis, you're nervous, you don't figure out, okay, what am I going to. How do I feel? You know, confident, going into a remote signing task or job, signing up for any site or doing on your own. So there's another book loan documents, which you also mentioned.
If you look at the book and you use this in conjunction with the study guide, the the biggest hurdle is, okay, I need to know a quick summary of what these documents are that I'm having people sign and notarize. So in the study guide they have abbreviated versions of what each document, what it means. So you can, you can actually use that and say, okay, this document, you know, particular one, like the note document, you say, this is what this is the promissory note shows what you're going to sign as far as what you're obligated to pay for the mortgage, loan, taxes and etc. But there's a brief summary right at the top of it that says that. And then in conjunction, what I'll use is the loan document and actually look at the long format of that document and I can see the actual signature line.
What the borrower is going to sign as well as the signing agent.
