I've been hanging in there for the past year, just hoping that the business will come back, and now it seems interest rates are coming down again and my good clients will start to filter me some work again. Then I got this memo yesterday from a corporation I've been doing business with for over ten years, without ever having a problem with...

Due to a large increase in volume, it has become necessary to assign our title orders to a national providers so our title associates can assist in the closing processes. As a result, we expect to assign few, if any, orders to our abstract network for approximately 45-60 days.

I just don't know how, between foreign competition and other market forces, any of us are going to make it if this is the attitude of large corportations. There is absolutely NO sense of loyalty or any desire to keep good competent examimers around anymore. No one cares about doing good business anymore. It's absolutely astounding to me.

I am at the end of my rope.

Garret