The problem with this type of arrangement is the potential for loss of some of your other clients. If you and the company for whom you are subing share several clients, it may be desireable for your other clients to follow the trend, and assign their search orders to the company for whom you sub assuming that the company will simply pass the work along to you. Depending upon how many abstractors they have subing, their prices and availability to work the search orders may be assigned out to another abstractor.

I have heard several of the abstractors in this area complain about this type of working arrangement. They don't like it. They lose the control of negotiating power of their prices for one reason. The company for whom they sub becomes the client in lieu of the former client. The company needs to make a profit...the price of the search is not going to increase because it will make them non-competitive...ultimately the abstractor who is subing has to take the hit in the form of reduced prices for his work.