$unDay FunDay Notary Q&A

Live YouTube Q&A hosted by LaTonya Johnson ("$unDay FunDay Notary Q&A") focused on practical small-business advice for notaries and signing agents. Topics covered include launching and operating short-term rental units (host reports 9 units total, 6 active), going direct to title companies and builders, recommended notary fees for direct title work (recommended $200; observed range up to $275), apostille training and pricing (mentioned around $247–$249), mystery-shopping opportunities, invoice/billing tools, PPP loan basics (loan amount formula discussed), and remote-online notary (RON) platforms and strategies. The tone is informal, community-driven, and advisory.
Questions this video answers
Total 9 units; 6 units up and functional (fully furnished).
Said she was opening on the 26th (accepting openings tomorrow; was already booked out).
Recommend $200; observed payments from $200 up to $250 and occasionally up to $275.
Mentioned price around $247 (also referenced as $249).
PPP loan = (annual gross income ÷ 12) × 2.5.
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She can't. It's covet. Hola.
This is TJ with solutions by tj. Thank you dearly for coming. Hope y' all had an awesome and amazing week this week. Madison is here talking about her birthday that's coming up. She starts talking about her birthday normally around right after Christmas. We start having the conversations, oh, oh, mom. My birthday. So I cannot catch a break.
No. You've been off and on discussing your birthday. Yeah. Yes, you have.
So thank y' all for joining me.
I have a lot going on right now.
My short term rentals are up.
Hey, Sarah. My little cousin took the pictures for them. They are amazing. I have a total of 9 units. 6 units are up and functional, fully furnished. Hey, Maribel, Demetria, Shanola. How are you? So they are fully furnished and they are gorgeous. So I don't know if y' all have ever heard of, like, Hotel Zaza. Look it up if you haven't. We have a Zaza in Houston. I know there's a Zaza in Dallas, and they give you this Zaza vibe, right? They are in the middle of the city around a whole bunch of culture in Houston, Texas. And I'm excited.
I'm really excited about it. It's a good thing. So I'm booked out. I said I was opening on the 26th.
I. I am accepting openings tomorrow. I'm already booked out. I have some bookings in May, but. Oh, man, Sarah, you could have came by the spot. You should have contacted me.
Yeah. Oh, Demetria, welcome. Well, awesome. I'm glad you catching us this time.
So I can't wait to show y' all the pictures. They are nice. Nice, nice, nice, nice. I'm excited about it. The area is in an urban area, but it's around, like, Turkey Leg Hut. And a lot of our great restaurants, great nightlife. 50:15 is over there. It's two miles from the medical center museum district. Downtown is about 4 miles. It's close to everything, so. Yay.
Yay, yay, yay. So I'm tired. So you see me looking crazy. I have been working non, stop, non stop, like, for real. Poor Ms. Madison. We carry boxes. I mean, boy, we've been doing a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff. So I am dropout tired. So. So, because I'm tired. I want to know about y' all and how you guys are doing. I want to get any question that you have. Feel free to answer it. Nico is sitting over here. She has a job from Prestige. Yes. Where she has to print the docs and it is an. It has edocs and woo scan backs. Scan back.
And it says mobile.
And it says mobile. So I don't know what the mobile part means. Edox, scanbacks and mobile. I know what those mean. But what is the mobile? I've never seen that before.
I know it's big.
Now she's starting to work on the mystery shopping. So some people are saying, well, I'm seeing the five and ten dollar jobs and we like, I don't know where.
You looking because we are killing it.
Well, she's in Texas though.
I'm talking about using other zip codes.
Yeah, you got to use other zip codes if you're not seeing stuff. How do I go direct with my notary business? I really want to get the full fee now. So.
That's a great question, Shanola. Thank you for coming and asking a question. Hey, some Laura Semalora. Ms. Taylor. So how do you go direct?
There's a simple answer, but it may not be easy. You go direct by contacting title companies. You introduce yourself. So look at the title companies that are closest to you in your vicinity. Those are the ones you want to start out with because you as a notary have a direct advantage over everybody else. Why? Because you can drop docs the same day and that is valuable. So when you go in, you say, hi, my name is Shanola and I'm a notary signing agent. I live in the area and I just wanted to stop by because I live over here. And when you hire me, I can get the documents back to you the same day. There's no need for me to drop it off at FedEx. If you have a Dropbox and you guys are gone, they'll be here for you first thing the next morning. So yeah, that is indeed. Thank you, Anita. That is indeed.
A highlight.
Indeed a highlight.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Anita. So, yeah, I want to know how you all are doing. I want your questions because I've got nothing. I am worn out.
So that's one way, Shanola, I mean that's the main way is to contact title companies.
Contact builders also.
Hey, Katrina, how are you?
Absolutely. There's a builders association. Shanola, I don't know where you're located, but in Houston we have the Houston Builders Association.
And when you see new notary, new neighborhoods coming up, if I were you, I would stop by when I see that trailer and just let them know, hey, I'm a notary public loan signing agent and I can offer a service where your clients don't have to go out of their way to close documents. Right. We can work with the title company and I can go to their homes or go to their jobs, wherever they want to close and I can work with them to close at their convenience. So you're in Washington state.
Awesome.
That'll work.
That'll work. Anybody else have any other questions?
So Ms. Katrina said, don't try to go to. Oh yeah, that's true. Is this the end of the month? No, this is the middle of the month. I had to look. Katrina said don't try to go direct at the end of the month. They are so super slammed and won't have time to talk. Go to title now before the last week of April. That is so right. So, so true. Slammed at the end of the month. That last week is always crazy. And there's a little bit carryover in the first week as well. So.
That is true. You are welcome. You have any other questions? Shanola.
Hey, Kelly girl, how are you?
Howdy. Howdy. What's a reasonable fee to charge when a title company contacts you directly?
Normally.
So reasonable is 200. I've seen them pay 250 up to 250. I've actually seen them pay. Seen them pay up to 275. But if it were me and I were just getting. And I was just getting started and didn't have a relationship, I'd probably go for the 200 and then over time possibly move that price up. Anybody else have any feedback about that, please feel free to chime in. Ms. Kay Taylor said, what's the. Where did it go? Ms. Kay Taylor said, what's a reasonable fee to charge when a title company contacts you directly?
And do we give them our billing information when we submit everything else? Do we submit a small proposal or.
What do you mean submit everything else?
I mean, like how we get paid? Do you get what I'm saying? So if they say yes, we want to do that and they have the information. Okay, so who you pay via PayPal, Zell, whatever it is, how do we get paid from them? What do we submit? What's the most appropriate way to do that?
Submit an invoice.
Submit an invoice. That's it?
Yep. What was the feedback from the loan doc training?
You know what? I have gotten awesome feedback, man. Everybody said that they enjoyed it. They said that me and. Me and Mariama are super comical. The information was good, all of that. Were you there, Anita? If so, let me know what you think. Anybody else here on with us tonight? Were you there? Let me Know what you thought about the training.
On the loan docks.
Hey, Chantel. Ms. Solo.
Ah, Ms. Shanita said I attended and was blown away. What blew you away about it?
Me and that silly. My silly cousin. She is a mess.
Hey, Eric. So is the apostille training available? Yes, it is. I'll put a banner at the bottom of the screen.
The actual video of the training lasts. To be honest with you, man, we were on there about four hours. But the questions, I mean, you want to look at it to the end because it gets better and better. And in my personal opinion, your understanding gets crystal clear. And at the end, because I asked like five questions and get all answers wrong. So it was a big moment of clarity for everybody. Like, oh, so it was awesome.
And then we have Q&As and all of that stuff. We actually have a training coming up.
A Q and A coming up this Tuesday. So if you could, Eric, I would suggest that you go on and purchase it and. And then hop on to this live Q and A with me and.
Everybody, the whole gang. This coming on the 13th.
You are welcome. Kay Taylor, what do you recommend for new notaries as far as getting work? Okay, Sema, Laura. So what companies have you signed up with? They're in the group Solutions by TJ Notary, Networking and Knowledge on Facebook. There's a list that I recommend that you sign up with all of those companies.
Also, guys. So I heard. I talked to someone. I don't know if she's here today.
I talked to someone earlier this week that told me about notary 1, 2, 3. And you have to pay to get on notary 123. But she said she has gotten so much direct business from notary123. This is not an endorsement because I personally don't know. I have not signed up. I'm just passing it along. But she says she gets a lot of direct business from notary123. So check it out. Hey, Patrice just joining, will reach out this week. Super excited. Awesome. So let me tell you.
Let me tell you, Patrice. I am slammed getting these units up. They are up, but I still have some, you know, I want to offer the trial size, shampoo, conditioner, makeup, wipes and all of that stuff. And we still have to. Still. We're still having.
Stuff coming in. So I'm slammed. Super slam. So this week you can reach out. I will try my best to get back with you. What's the best program to create an invoice?
You know what if you have Word or Excel, you can create invoices for free, right? From Microsoft Word or Excel and add your logo to it. If I'm not mistaken, when you get Notary Earth or Notary Gadget, whoever uses those, please chime in.
Notary Earth, Notary Gadget. You can create invoices straight from those programs. So anybody who uses those, please chime in about that. Katrina, do you. Do you use Notary Earth or Notary Gadget?
Yeah, Kelly. So for the training that we did, we are.
We're getting it edited. And, man, it's a lot going on in India. I put that in the group. They have a second wave going on where 150 people a day are contracting the virus. So.
We will see.
Kelly said she uses notary Assist to create invoices.
Hey, Miranda, Santia. Hey.
Hey, Leslie. Good evening.
Ah, Ms. Pamela Branch says I attended the training and was also blown away. Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
Thank you. Shanola girl, I'm so tired over here. You see, I'm looking real crazy today because I have been. And, boy, this just stop. Oh, my hair sticking out. I'm tired, y'. All. I just jumped on my little lips chapped and everything.
I am tired.
Hold on.
Thank you. Ms. Kelly said that's a great training, the apostille training. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a recommended list of supplies on the Facebook group?
Hey, Nicole. Nicu. There's a video I did. If you look back at some of my old videos. I did a video on supplies and I showed you. I think it's called what's inside My Bag. And there's links and links there, too, so you can get to it pretty easily.
Hey, Ms. G.
So Sonic said, what's my view on George Floyd? Peaceful death.
There was nothing peaceful about it, man. And it was a very tragic situation. Very, very tragic.
Very tragic. Crazy. Crazy.
It caused a lot, you know, it's just. I don't know, you know what to say. It broke my heart.
Katrina said she uses square for invoices. Kelly said notary assist.
Sandra said she can't find any information on the apostille in Michigan.
If I couldn't find anything, I would call my secretary of state. I would call them. Hey, Cecilia. Miranda says that she uses notary gadget. Moving over to notary Earth, but you can create invoices on either one.
Okay. Katrina said I use notary gadget, but I typically don't have to send invoices. And I send my.
General notary work invoices with square.
Girl. I don't feel like I Look great, Kelly.
Oh, okay. So Katrina says that Square allows her to itemize her fees. That's pretty cool. You look so cute on your profile picture too. Look at your hair and that beautiful smile with the glasses girl. Katrina looking cute.
Can you itemize a receipt on notary Gadget and notary Earth? Miranda.
Let me know that I'm interested the the fee right now at what it has been and what it still is for the apostille training is 247. But we are working with my guys in India. We have a whole system coming out. So of course that price is going to change. I know I've been saying that for a while, but they've been creating. It's. It's a big old system so we haven't started the advertising and stuff. But as soon as we do, the price is going up.
Did I say 147 or 247? It's like 247 or 249. It's one of those. Thank you. Kay. Taylor. Good evening. See Hunter, how are you?
So Miranda says you can put in your fees and what it's for. Okay, perfect.
What?
Katrina? I have a link for a thousand dollar free process. Oh.
You can share it if you'd like.
You can put it in the comments.
Always good to see you too.
Anybody else have any good notary questions?
I'm over here hot and cold. So Ms. Nico is over here looking at what? Mystery shopping stuff.
Girl, this is gonna do this weekend. We're gonna do ATVs and we're eat at Arby's and we're gonna make 75.
She said we're gonna do ATVs and eat at Arby's. I like ATVs though.
I know. Well this so we don't have to drive. Just go look at it.
Oh, I kind of want to drive it. They are so nice. I mean. Oh. Why are you looking like that?
Oh yeah, they are nice. They are really like. They deck those things out in some amazing ways. Those are they called. What are they called? Trailers. What do they call atv? What does ATV stand for?
They're nice though. Anyway, mb, Peace, prosperity and wisdom to you as well.
Are you going to post a recap of the loan docs training? I am. Anita. Like I said in the group I'm getting that edited because if you remember there were some spots that I saw that you could see through. Maybe nobody else did. And for the, for the purposes of everybody involved, I want to make sure, you know, safety first. So my guys in India are Editing it. And you know, that thing was long. It was three hours and 20 minutes. So he's going through it meticulously. So it may take a while. And then me and my cousin were talking about doing it again as well. So if the good Lord says the same, we may do it again this Friday or Saturday. We haven't decided yet. We got to see what this week. This week.
Brings. Oh, atv. All terrain vehicle.
All terrain vehicle. Y' all so smart.
Are you going to post recap? Hello. Do you think it's necessary for a newbie to have a website? Hey, Stacy. You know what, Stacy? The only.
Website that I think a newbie needs is a Google my business page. Google my business page. And don't name it after your business. Don't say Stacy's notary and Apostille or whatever your business name is. Name your Google business page after your city or area that you live in as well as what you do. So Greater Houston signing agent and Apostille.
Greater Houston Wedding officiant and mobile notary service.
That's my opinion. Because one, you're at the top of Google. If you create a website, a website just doesn't get to the top of Google. Everything that you need can be on your Google business page at the very top where people normally pay to get.
Does anyone have a take on the proposed increase of notary fees in the state of Texas?
I don't at the moment. I need to look at it, girl. I've been doing these units, so you weren't here. See, Hunter, I was telling everybody at the very beginning that my short term rental units are up. I have six out of nine units up and being rented out now. And so I've been working on that. So I have not looked at anything else. I've just been trying to work on that. Boy, my arms look big. Jesus Christ. My arms that big. For real.
Your arms look good. Beast mode.
Shut up, Nico.
Please clarify what is to be crossed out when doing a split signing.
What do you mean? What is to.
What is that? Store exit.
Nico just showed me a mystery shop for 900. A exit interview. A store exit interview.
Now 416 and 417 is left.
4 16. 417 are the dates that are left. 900. Mystery shop. Is that in Houston?
That is several states.
Several different states.
Is that an email that you're looking at?
Uh huh. And I'm about to email the scheduler now.
And she's emailing the scheduler.
Okay, so what it explain to me. Please clarify what is to be crossed out. When doing a split signing, because normally nothing is crossed out.
You don't touch anything. You sign with the person that is before you.
You only notarize the portion of the document with the person that is before you, and you leave all of that other stuff alone. You don't cross anything out. The only time you would cross something out is if they have both names in your notarization.
On the notarization certificate where you're going to notarized, then you cross that portion out. Mariama talked about that in our training.
And there was a specific word that she said use not that gumm. And I can't even remember, but it was like not a not available, not something anybody else remember.
See, that's why we need that. We need the doggone replay.
Okay? Miranda said, only thing you have to do is get the business card for the AT salesman and rate and write back your experience. Oh.
That'S pretty cool.
Hey, June.
So who is that.
Man? This screen just went all the way up. So Tina said, can you please advise me on how to find a title company or an attorney office that I can do? Texas Cash Outs in Houston. Does anybody have a recommendation for her? Tina, Normally you just have to call around and ask title companies and attorneys, will they allow you to do it? They normally charge anywhere from 50 to $75 to allow you to do it, but I just had to call around. But if anybody has a referral for her, please do not hesitate to offer that information.
For an attorney's office.
Okay, so Katina said for that square up, for you to be able to use it for $1,000, use that second link because it's shorter. Hey, Latasha. Hey, Stacy. Eric, as a new notary signing agent.
Is it recommended to get some signings under your belt before doing the apostille or does it matter?
It really doesn't matter. They are two different processes, to be honest with you. The difference is as a new notary.
Business can be given to you by signing up with different companies and they'll text you when jobs are available. With the apostille opportunity, you actually have to go out and get your own jobs. So you have to create a Google business page. You have to go to the embassies and, you know, let people know that you're out there in your community. So if you are in an area where there are a lot of people from other countries, it may be beneficial for you. If you have a lot of friends or, you know, places in your area, you know where to go to get people who May need an apostille. Absolutely.
Thank you, Chantelle.
Katrina. I believe Katrina is talking about the raising fees. She said yes, call the number and vote for the support of it.
And she said the secretary of state is thinking of taking it from $6 to $10 per stamp. Shoes. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
See hun on here talking about I'm showing body arty on it's been your.
Song all day too.
Body audio. I can't do the dance work. Nothing. Girls, just let's stop.
I am T y D y'. All.
Oh, I have a question. It's kind of a little off subject, but has anyone applied for the PPP loan and what has they been experiencing?
Have they been charged.
$5,000? Who's been approved? Who hasn't? Do y' all hear Ms. Nico over here? She's saying has anybody applied for the PPP loan? What has been your experience and has anybody done the paperwork for you and charged you for it? She knows people that are being charged like $5,000 for somebody filling out that.
Paperwork and they're getting the loan. That's when there's anyone approved on their own as well.
She wants to know is anybody being approved on their own as well? Any advice on doing only Ron's? I'm in the middle Tennessee area and I'm already Ron commissioned. Mobile notary is not an option as I'm a caregiver for my disabled child. Hey, Miss Betty, how are you? Thank you for joining us this evening. I like the Ron opportunity.
I would find out what platforms I can use in Tennessee that would give me business. You know, Notarize is available here. I'm not sure if it's available in Tennessee, but man, they give a lot of business and it's super duper good. So. Hey, it's an awesome opportunity. My personal opinion, especially when you get business and you can sit in your house.
Miranda wanted to know about that mystery shop.
She wants me to send an information.
You have her information.
Oh, Miranda said, is that mystery shop in Florida? Do they have some in Florida?
I have the contact number where you can cheat. You can text me the person that's scheduling for it and ask her what states are available, what states are left.
Okay.
We will put it in our mystery shopping group.
We will put that information in our mystery shopping group.
Tell them because they out here. Tell us you feel like eating. It's a lot of it's. I don't know what people are looking at, but they're here. Even the virtual shops are here.
If you have not signed up for Mystery Shopping. There's the link. After you pay, please email me and I will email you the information back tomorrow. You know what? I need to go there. I just have not had time. My guys in India did a brand new site where I don't even have to do all of that emailing back and forth.
But yeah.
So, Chantel, that's the link at the very bottom that's scrolling down the page.
Katina said cross out the person that is not in front of you. But Katina. Katrina, that's only if that's if it's in the notorial part of your document. You are not supposed to do that all over that document.
Because sometimes they take that same package and they will FedEx that package to the other state where that other person is and have them sign and date.
Hey, Monica, Nice to see you. Glad you're here. Can you do a video regarding real estate on the quickest way to make money? Yes.
Today was the day.
Girl, I'm so tired.
I just created a commercial.
Oh, my God. Die, Chantrell. I can. Let me get a little going with this short term rental stuff. We are we, we. When I say we, of course it's me and my family. We're creating.
Processes and, you know, getting that business up and going. But to be honest with you, it seems like this can be a really easy intro to real estate for a lot of people. Myself, this is great for me because you get. You lease a unit, you furnish the unit for some of that furniture. You can rent the furniture from various places.
And then you have to buy, you know, all of the coffee and toiletries and just, you know, pots, pans, everything that the units need. So you outfit it like a house. But yeah, give me a little time and I'll be able to teach y' all how to do that. That's. That's one of the great things that I'm excited about because, you know, I can't keep nothing to myself.
I learned so much. This past hasn't been a month. It hasn't even been long. It's been like. I feel like we went to sleep, we woke up and it happened.
It's a whirlwind.
It is. It's been like. It's been crazy. It's been crazy. So it's. But it's so surreal. And you get there and you just feel like you flow because it's really happening. Like we went from the building stage when it wasn't finished and just looking at it and then all of a sudden, it came out of your head, out your mouth, and onto the pavement. You've spoken into existence. You faked it into existence. You kept going even when it was hard. You just kept boxing, you know, finding a way in to knock it out, you know? So I've learned this mentorship is so worth. If no one has got the mentorship they need to get for what?
Real estate. Real estate. Do y' all hear Nico big mouth stuff over there sitting on the couch? She had a whole conversation. I hope y' all can hear it. She needs to come over here and get her a chair if she wants to be on the YouTube.
She's sitting over here with a heated blanket, and I'm having hot flashes. We are just going through two different things.
I'm off menopause today.
You on? I'm off. Oh, my God. But, yeah, Chantrell, that's. That's. That's what I'm wanting to do.
Okay, so Ms. Nicole said, I'm having a hard time getting traction in Michigan. I have. I've had only four signings in the month of April. Can you recommend to me what I should do to get more signings? So, Nicole, what companies are you signed up with?
On my YouTube, on my Facebook group, I have a list of companies. They're all good. If you're not a member of that group, please go to that group. Just to give you two of my favorites, Service link and signing order.
Is that it?
Yeah. Service link is spelled svc. Lnk. And signing order.
Those are two of my favorites. You have to pay for signing order, but they give you some, man, when you are not getting business from anywhere else, they send. It's 299. 2.99. Yeah.
Okay.
Dog. My comments. I hate it when it does this.
Oh, they telling me about this. Ppp, honey. Wait. All of my doggone comments just jumped. I hate the way this does this. Okay. Okay. Thanks for clarity. Not applicable. Yeah, not applicable. I've been working about three weeks. I've done only two jobs, and I did both with no problems. This is Mr. Jeff.
He says I signed up with about 25 to 30 services. I just don't know what to do to get business. So, Jeff, are you receiving any notifications? That's number one. So like I just told Ms. Nicole, go to my group. Sign up with all of those companies. My favorites are signing order and service link. And I'm saying that, but amrock is cold. You know, all of them are good, right? If I was not getting anything from any of those, like, I'm not getting notifications or anything. I like snapdocs, too. I ain't counting out snapdocs because depending on where you are, certain people are brand new and just snapdocs is just sending them a gang of stuff. So it works for some people and it doesn't for other people. But if you are not getting notifications, reach out to those companies. Do not hesitate to get off of line and get on the phone and talk to people. Now, she going through a hot flash, y'. All. Yeah. But she still got the heat on. Crazy.
So get off the phone. I mean, get off of, you know, emailing and looking for it and be proactive and call. You got to be aggressive in this business. It might. It doesn't always come to you.
Can you give them an example of your assertive, aggressive voice when they know. When they just, you know, seal the deal, how you close it just by introducing.
Yeah, I will call them some of the companies on that list and say, hi, my name is Latonya Johnson. I am a notary in this area and I signed up with you guys about three weeks ago. Yet I haven't. Yet I haven't started receiving any notifications. How can I go about getting on your list so that I can be notified when new jobs come available? Simple as that.
And yes, Miranda is so true. The nature of this game is building relationships and going out and getting it. So when I was telling Miranda a long time ago, when I was telling June, when I was telling people, you gotta be proactive. You gotta go get it. You can't just think it's gonna come to you. They were all like, for real.
You call again, call again, get on their nerves, fight for it, and you will get it. Now they like, boy, so much money out here. It's amazing, you know.
Hey, Ms. English, in terms of real estate investing, is there a plot of land available at a good price? Would you recommend going that route? If there is a plot of land available?
Absolutely. I mean, if it's at a good price, but, you know, land by itself, I believe in going into stuff with an exit strategy. Right. So if you go into a plot of land, are you going into it just to have the land or are you going into it with a plan to build on the land? How will you increase the value of that land? How will you reduce your tax taxes on that land? Will you put agriculture on it? Will you put horses, cows, cattle? You know, what's. I have to know the plan before I could.
Give you any good Advice on that. June.
Do not put your phone number on here, girl.
Hello, June, what are you wearing?
How do I hide that? I'm trying to hide it.
She gonna get all kind of calls. What do you have on?
Okay.
I don't even know how to erase it. June, if you can erase your number, girl, get your number off of these people. People. YouTube. It will not let you hide a comment because I don't. I don't want that all over the Internet. I don't know why it used to let you delete a comment. Okay, can you notarize a doc that someone brought with them from out of state?
Can we do it as a rom?
I would have to see the document. Like, it's. That's. That's a. That's really broad. As long as you can put.
State of Texas, county, county of Harris, however it goes, it just kind of depends on the wording.
Not necessarily. She says somebody brought it to you.
Oh, Ms. Solo says, Jessica Renee Patterson, attorney's office in Houston. That's big, y'. All.
So people ask me that all the time. Give me a recommendation for an attorney that I can do a cash out refi in Houston.
Really, really big. Jessica Renee Patterson. You know what? I probably need to write that down. You need to write it down because you're gonna be asking. Nah, I'm not, baby. I'm not your secretary. Secretary. Look, because she gonna be calling me tj. Ah. Do not call me saying.
I'm gonna say, I don't know. Go back and watch the Sunday Funny.
Let me see your pencil.
She don't even have a pencil. What kind of secretary is this?
Okay. Good evening, Yolanda. Her name is Jessica Renee Patterson, attorney's office in Houston. She not gonna be able to find this little crummy sheet of paper she writing on. Good evening, Yolanda.
Oh, somebody said hi. I'm 10 years old. My mom loves notoriety.
I love it. So.
Sade says she got approved on her own. They're talking about the PPP loan. So with the PPP loan, how many years do you need to be in business with the. From my understanding, you only needed to be in business prior to the pandemic. Yes.
February of 2020, I think it was.
Yeah. So Ms. Lois said, apply today for PPP through Wampley. Very easy. Free application.
I'm not seeing the sign up for the apostille. I can only see the Corona proof budgeting forms with what's going on across the screen. Huh?
Oh, okay.
Still, you don't want everybody calling that business Lumber girl.
Okay, there's the link for the Apostille training moptop.
Somebody did. What is this? Somebody tried to charge me a thousand dollars to do my ppp, but I took a chance on my own almost a year ago and got approved for a $10,000. Very good.
Hey, Tammy. So Tammy says, hey, T.J. i didn't apply for the PPP loan because I wasn't in business by their cutoff date, which was February 15, 2021. Haven't heard of people being charged. Oh, man.
People are being charged.
People are being charged.
So.
Maribel says, what agencies assign Ron work in Texas? Go to notarize. Not a r I z e.com notarized, one notary, live notary. It's a few of them, Maribel, but I think where I've heard of people making the most money is notarized for Texas.
Hey, so nosha.
For the PPP. Okay, so.
Lois said, for PPP, business has to have 2019 or 2020 tax return available to upload.
Gotcha.
Tina, there's an attorney in Humble that's allowing notaries to rent their conference room. Sarah, do you have that notary's number.
Name at least?
English says I'm in Tennessee. Two notarized isn't here yet, but one notary is a good platform to look into.
All right. Miranda got approved to do Amrock. Ron. Oh, remote online notary work.
I just got approved with them last week.
To do Ron. Everything.
I went through a recruiter. I found a recruiter, a person I could physically talk to. And I got myself, David and Cedric and Asia, all of us approved at one time. I just sent everything all at once. Every E and O insurance. You can't say no. Your application was done.
Everything. I sent him a whole package. So what?
You can say yes. That's it.
So everybody was approved?
Everybody was everybody the same thing. I set my fees. I actually hit you up in June and Lashana about fees and negotiated with them. They accepted it all.
Awesome. It was like. So what did Lashawn say? Were her answers close to mine?
Yeah, they were close. So they cut all you guys by $5.
And I just accepted. Accepted $5. That's no brainer. Cool.
So it was really simple.
So they said 195.
Yeah. Instead, you know, instead of 270. Just different things. But to get your foot in the door. And what she said? She said do the first three times. And what she said? Then renegotiate. She said every time. You do so many, Then renegotiate. Because they go on your performance, you know, so that was good. It was a cool thing. But all of them are newbies as well.
You have the six little modules.
You are so welcome, Ms. Betty. I always enjoy your y' all being here as well. June said. Sarah, what's the attorney's name?
Miranda said, you can also get a grant versus the PPP loan.
The Foster.
What's the name of the grant? Miranda. The signing I had on Friday. Their instructions were to add N slash A on the signature line of the second person. That was a no show. I had to call the company to be sure.
The person that was present.
The other person that was present at the signing. Oh, the other person that was present signed. So was that in your notorious certificate or on all of the docs? Sarah.
Kimmy Vet. So ready for that real estate video? Okay. A lot of people talking about real estate today.
Real estate. We need that.
I put some real estate videos up and they ain't getting no traction. So I left it alone. I said, okay, I'm gonna just do me.
We want to do the short term lease. We want to do start easy so that we can go big.
I mean, you know.
I guess the thing with the short term leasing is really getting that unit together. That's it. It takes some money to do.
So that's what I was thinking when we were together today. I was like, well, what if I started with one unit or two units?
A lot of people do.
I do side by side. It's easier. It's feasible, you know, it's more feasible to do. And, well, I don't want you to give all the secrets away on this video, you know?
I mean, you know, it really ain't no secrets. It's like, man, we just. It's gonna be secrets as we go through these processes and put processes in place. You know.
Law firm in Humble is the Strano law firm in Humble. S Stano S T A N O law firm.
Okay. Ms. Solo says I'm getting notifications, but not a lot will. Changing my zip code and snapdocs. Absolutely. Adding more zip codes. So when in snapdocs I have. I may not want to travel to.
Sugar Land because it's over 30 miles away. I mean, 30 minutes. I may not want to go deep in Cyprus because from my house, you can go deeper in Cyprus and be 45 minutes out. But I want to know when jobs are there. Just because if I ever do want to have a free day and say, oh, they paying 125, I'm going to Then I want the opportunity to be able to go. So that's why. Yeah. Add. Add additional zip codes and areas to your listing.
You're so welcome, Jeff.
So, Sharon.
Nico is looking at her emails and have you joined our Facebook group? God, Leah look crazy on here.
Did she get the mystery shopping packages?
She did. She said when it first came out. And Sharon, I sent out an email to everybody just telling them to join the Facebook group. We have a new Facebook group. Sent out the link. So make sure that you join that.
The ones that have.
The ones that have paid, only because it's only open to people who have paid.
Oh, wow. So June said I catered lunch for a company friend and they made me a preferred signer. Oh, wow. June is out there. Look, Baby June follows instructions. Now, I took her three times of huh? What you think so for real. Before she did it. But once she did it, she has gone all out with it. For real. She buying lunch. She doing everything I told her to do. I'm proud of you. Absolutely.
I told you. Hey, word. The devil out of go crazy. Be annoying. Who cares? Call them back. You call three times. Call them again.
Tell the people sign up with Coca Cola. They gonna send me five signs just sitting here since you started air. Please sign up.
There's money out there.
Nico says sign up with coast to coast. There's neat. There's money out there.
What's your radius for accepting signings? 50 miles.
I'm not lying. From Houston to Galveston. I have Galveston county on my. Galveston is 50 miles away. That's just me.
Have car, will travel. And like I said, I may not ever go to Galveston. But what if I'm going to Galveston anyway with my family and I can hit me a quick signing on the way.
Oh, Devin said I'm a new notary. Where should I start?
Oh, wow, Devin, that's a lot. I would say start at my videos all the way down the page.
Start with those. And that's that. That. Because what I. What I've done with this channel is I've started from the beginning, and I'm going up. So I've started with that how to become a notary. And I think it's a recent video as well that teaches you that also. So look through the videos.
I'm a new notary. Where do I start? That's a long conversation.
I don't have a win for it right now.
All right. Ms. Nicole says I want to be in the next mentoring class because I want to make 10k a month. Found the list. And I'm applying now. Yes, honey.
That'S. That's. That's number one. So, Devin, are you general. Do you. Are you a notary or are you a notary public loan signing agent? If you're only a notary, then my recommendation would be for you to contact the National Notary Association. Call them, don't go online and let them know that you want to become a notary public loan signing agent. And they'll tell you what to do from there.
Miss Nicole said. I'm serious, tj. I want to be like you when I grow up. Girl, I'm half crazy. I don't know if you want to be like me.
Stop laughing at me, Nico. You see I'm over here looking with my eyes crossed. Girl, just watch what you say. Cause your tongue gonna be hanging out.
Girl.
I am Tyd and I'd have been a party good. It's 54 minutes. I've all. I've been on here almost an hour. And I told. I was like, nico, I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I don't know if I could do it tonight.
Is the PPP worth doing?
If it's free and forgiveable, yes, it is.
Yeah. Free money. Free. Unforgivable.
Get your business together. Do what do you get your. But it's a paycheck protection. Like, I know it's two versions, right?
If you get $10,000 from the PPP.
I mean, hey, go for it. That's one unit.
Pretty much that's all I'm thinking about. I just want to do a unit. That's it.
You can. You can furnish it and everything probably.
Oh, question number two for the group. Since you only got like five minutes left. Has anyone ever rented their apartment in their business name? We just went through that with an apartment place. But you can rent with. Under your llc, last year's taxes and some other stuff. But has anyone ever done it? Can you write it off? I should be asking you that, right?
Yeah, you can. You can write it off as a business lease, business expense.
Yeah, you can. All under the business name. Does it have to have. Can you be the person there or do you need someone that is coming from the corporation to stay there? How does that go?
They probably don't care. My head didn't start to hurt.
You need to eat. Eat food.
I'm not hungry. You hungry again?
No, but I know you need to eat again. You brought cause you burned your calories, girl.
Maybe it's my sinuses. I'm like Madison My head hurts right in the middle.
The bugs.
I not look, I'm.
Look.
Okay, the plan that I have for the plot of land as an investment. To buy a plot of land in an area where you think it's going to appreciate within the next five years and then resell it when it does.
That's speculative investing, in my personal opinion. Plot of land where you think it's going to appreciate. What facts do you have that it's going to appreciate? Facts that you can have are going to the city planner's office and seeing what the plans are for that area and you know what's coming up, then you'll know. And it won't be speculative. Right.
Can you give me info on New York Notary Services? What do you mean, Marsha?
So PPP loan. PPP gives loan of annual gross income divided by 12 times 2.5. Usually worth it if you do the math.
Annual income divided by 12 times 2.5.
Almost 100%. Forgiveness baked in almost 100%.
That's what I want to know. Because that's forgivable. It's forgivable.
Well, under a certain value, I think. If it's under 25,000.
Something like that. You are welcome. Mary Belle, how long do you have to be Iran to get approved by Amra?
They might tell you something. Call back and talk to somebody else. You can be brand new. A lot of people say, oh well.
I just tell them a year because remember they denied me the first time when I was open.
Anonymous.
Trial it the right way. I tried, I did okay. And I started saying a year and then I transferred it over from Wisconsin to here and it was like ding dong nothing. Nothing. Can you see Asia?
Them all new.
But I tried it the new way and they did, not me. So I waited. We tried it now, got the recruiter's information and it was like.
Well I just called back and worried the heck out of people.
So they're gonna block your mom?
No, they don't. They fall in love with me.
See, Hunter Short term Rental is all about process and automation. Rinse and repeat. Absolutely. Do you have any, any, any sea Hunter? Do you have any short term rentals?
Died Cherise said no to coast to coast.
They've been good to me.
They have.
I mean like right now, eight of them. My week since 9 o', clock, just bing bing, bing.
But see, I think they're saying no because they think it's 30 jobs when negotiate. But you've done the $30 before.
If it's close. If $30 is 15, 20 minutes.
I don't care.
Yeah, go to the mall in 30. 20 to 30 minutes.
How do you add zips and in Snap Docs? Just go to your profile and edit it.
Anita says the same thing. Why? No To Coast. To Coast. To sign up with Amrock. Do I download an app? I can't even remember that far. I think so, but.
Okay. Cherise says she had a bad experience with Amro.
Okay. So, tj, I noticed you mentioned having a headshot. What do you recommend for what to wear? Like, what can be too sexy? Business attire.
Wear some business attire.
And when I say business attire, you can have on a dress that you would wear with not showing too much cleavage.
Or you can wear a top with not too much cleavage, not too much arms out, and all of that stuff. People look at that.
But business attire, stuff that you'd wear to the office.
Oh, man. So, yes, Ms. Katrina has notary Bingo. Where can they sign up for the notary bingo?
It's fun. It was fun. I just. Y' all, listen. If y' all try to contact me on calendly or anything for appointments until I get these units, like, I'm. I. I'm automated like Sea Hunter says. I just. I. I have no more to give.
I'm good to be here right now because I am wiped out. So, Katrina, give us a link for the bingo. It was fun. I attended it one time and I enjoyed it a lot.
Sean has a calendly link and I don't have it with me. Paula.
Who is that? Anita. My video is fuzzy now.
Oh, Kim, Event said, what's the recruiter's name for Amrock and her contact information?
She's about to find it.
Can she inbox me?
Kim, Yvette, can you inbox Nico on Facebook?
Elizabeth Nico on Facebook. Inbox her.
If you do not have an ein, do you need to have a company name?
I don't know. I'm getting delirious, y'. All.
Cheryl said, would I recommend having an LLC for someone starting out? You know my personal opinion, Cheryl, I did not. I can only tell you what I did. I did not. I started out with my Social Security number. Would I do it differently? I didn't see a problem with doing it that way at the time. However.
I would. I'm a member of Legal Shield.
So I would contact somebody from Legal Shield. Where's my phone?
I'll give you his.
I mean, it's. It doesn't have to be very expensive to do.
But, I mean, there's a whole planning Process. It's not just about where you are now. It's also about where you want to go. Right. And so you can have that discussion with an actual attorney. And I love Legal Shield so far.
So if anybody. You know.
Legal Shield is awesome when you have various legal questions just like this that you need answered regarding the formation of your company. Regarding the EIN number.
Yeah, the EIN is free. You can get it. But they were asking if you don't have a business name or if you don't have an llc, do you need an EIN number?
And I just.
Put in phil shannon's information. Tell him tj sent you. He's with legal shield.
And, yeah, I think it's worth having. And I'm not just saying that. I mean, I have it, and I'm using them because I talked to an attorney this last week about everything that I'm doing with the short term rentals and how to separate out Solutions by tj, the short term rentals, and then all of the other stuff that I have going on. And he told me something super interesting, y', all, about not having an LLC for each business, but having what's called series LLCs. I never heard of that. Series LLCs, where you mention it in the articles. Each. Each organization has its own articles of organization, but the parent company has article and articles of organization that mention each company. Right. Then, say, for instance, Solutions by TJ has its own articles. Own bank account. It's a separate company. Own EIN number, and you operate the series of other companies under that main company as its own entity, but as an llc, It's. Boy, it was cold. Legal shield, y'. All. I'm not playing. I'm using my services.
Sarah. Sarah needs that information, too. Sarah, regarding Amro. So inbox, Nico.
Facebook or Instagram? They can do either one.
Facebook or Instagram.
Okay. Katrina said I've had to use Legal Shield for a demand letter for a signing service that wanted me to work for free.
Oh, well.
They can kiss while I twist and adult me.
My wrist. Hello, Mariama. My cousin had me laughing, talking about. She. She went after an invoice that was unpaid from 2017. She talked about. Yes, and I want my money.
I'm gonna need all of it. The invoices she found.
It's not a holding company, Chandra. Because I asked that. I don't know about an umbrella company, but it's not a holding company.
So, Elizabeth, Nico.
E L I Z A V E.
T H N I K O on IG or Facebook.
Okay, so that's. I just Put in information for Nico.
All right, folks, I'm going to bed. I'm tired. Night. Night, y'.
All.
I love y' all. To life. Y' all are amazing. I'm so thankful for each and every one of you, man. You could be doing anything, but you come and see your girl. So I'm excited about that all the time, and I love y'. All.
Kimmy Vet said she just sent an inbox through Facebook for you.
Hey, Janice.
Yeah, Janice, we about to go. I'm tired. I'm junkyard dog tired.
Y' all don't remember junkyard dog from wrestling?
Yeah, everybody ain't that old.
Oh.
I'm so tired. I'm delirious, y'. All.
But the good. Can they hear me?
I don't know if they can hear you or not. You've been talking all night from the couch. I know. The background.
Yes. I just want to say. You know what I love? When you're ready to go from being regular, not being average, to something different. Solutions by TJ offer so many things. We're not your average notary public loan signing agents. We do it all, but we have it on lock. It's literally executed.
So you go into the other groups.
Or sites and you hear people, they.
Tell you this, this, and this.
It's like, I need to go over here because I'm getting facts and like, it. It's up and going within a week from the time you learn. So if you're really listening closely to what you're saying, you, Mariama, your guests, it's not going to take you 14 days to get to get a bag.
For real.
I got that in 14 days? Probably.
It seemed like sooner than that, but if you are tired of being average.
Then get on this train because it's.
Like, it's good advice.
It's. It's beyond just the money. We focus on the people. You teach us that. You know, people. You and Mario almost say, like, focus on those relationships. Relationships builds wealth. And it does. And I have really, really, really focused on that. Really, really focused on it. So I just hope everybody's getting them.
I'm proud of y'. All. Well, I've seen y' all go a long way.
It is so dope. This is some dope.
I've seen y' all start from nothing to killing it.
Crazy.
All right. I love y'. All. Good night. Good night, people. I'm about to kick Nico out. Get your bag. Saying.
I'm going to take my bath and go to bed. Okay. Bye, y'. All. Love you. Bye.
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