Hi Patti!! Yes, absolutely.  I'm a good commercial examiner and had to go back to a law firm setting due to the slowdown.  Six good years of owning my own business, one terrible year - last year. 

North Carolina, thanks to COVID is now virtually online except for the old antiquated VCAP/AOC system.  This is being remedied as North Carolina switches over to the Odyssey Portal which will allow us to at least search and obtain liens online.  (although I don't think all). 

 Many Good North Carolina abstractors have been put out of work by old indices being uploaded to the system and old deed book and pages being scanned in. So they are relegated to being sent to the courthouses for divorces, wills and estate files as if they are common doc retrieval people and not capable of performing complex title searches.  It has been demoralizing to the industry and it's not sustainable.  I have watched abstractors quit in bunches last year.  Many of the firms who are watching their bottom line have brought their work in house.  Doc retrievals don't really pay or now if people do them they are charging double the price.  I can cover the following for Doc retrievals: 

 Gaston County, NC 

Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Buncombe County 

Those are the counties I either have solid help in or can go to.  I can also cover Anderson, Oconee, and York Counties, Greenville County, SC, but that is about it. we have had to scale way down. It's just the luck of the draw and no one can blame those good abstractors who lost all of their business due to all the old grantee/grantor being uploaded online - for quitting.