I have a price sheet sitting here on my desk for another abstractor and their fee for a current owner is $35 and a full search is $75. Copies are mentioned no where in the fees. This person took a large chunk of my VM business that I had worked hard at maintaining for nearly seven years due to their low-balling. I have said things to them at different times over the last two years, and their reply is that they had no other way to break into the abstracting industry. They STILL feel their fees are similar to what others charge (which they are NOT). Anyway I will just say this person and her co-worker are constantly in the counties I'm at, complaining they don't make crap (which would explain why both have another job to go to right after the courthouse closes). I am even beginning to think they do commercial work for similar fees by what she has told me over the last couple months. Then I really wonder about the copy costs they rack up every month. Seems everyday they are pulling numerous $2 per page copies . . . eeek!!!
So yes, people out there do this everyday for rock bottom prices. They think they are right and just and are hurting no one. I think they are wrong and hurting people out there - like me. But hey, what do I know right??? It's a free world and people are free to take advantage of lowball prices.
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