So you are basically charging $50.00 an hour for the first 8 hours and $75.00 an hour thereafter - see what you are doing to yourself.  If you feel you need to make $75.00 an hour than you should charge after 5 1/2 hours.  Anyway, I was told by a company that people were doing them here for 175.00 - I start at $350.00 - and if it was a property that was a high rise billion dollar property a company - who approved my fee before I did the work - at I think $550.00 tried to ask me to reduce it - with costs it was over $1,000.00 - which in essence would tell you the difficulty of the search.  I think all these companies are telling us someone will do this or that for this amount to get everyone to go down and everyone of my researcher friends that have gone down are so mad they have because it's not panning out in the volume of work and the costs of doing business.  The problem I see with this other than qualified vs. unqualified is that no matter what it seems like no one wants us to make a profit when most of us had to take loans, etc, take risks to start this business, work alot of unpaid hours to build the business,  just like everyone else up the line - and you should receive something for back for all of that.  And while I am on a roll - someone soomewhere said something about title insurance and us taking on the liability and not getting a split of the premium - I agree - why aren't we - lol - that is what it is all about - the insurance premium - that is what it is for - someone does the best they can do to ensure everything is reported but in the end the insurance premium paid should cover everything.  Why didn't we think about that before.