Shannon, David is right. You can you can limit membership in an LLC or shareholders in a closely held(private)corporation to those searchers with X amount of years experience and those that carry e& o insurance, etc. The apparatus is already pretty much in place with SOT. Most of the people listed with SOT are requested to disclose whether or not they carry e & o insurance. In most cases title companies require it as a condition of searching. Therefore, it would have to be required as a condition of becoming a participating shareholder. It would be a simple matter to ask them to disclose the length of time they searched in their experience. Once that information is disclosed, it would be the work of the LLC or corporation to sift through those names for the desired experience, insurance and willingness to make a contribution to capital to fund the corporation and then to include them among the participating searchers, appraisers, signing agents, etc. It is not a day to day task that would fall directly upon us as shareholders. The marketers sell the services to the title companies, and the adminstrators assign out the work to the searchers as the orders come in from the title companies.If they fail to maintain the standards of quality required, their employment is terminated. As an alternative the corportion or LLC could hire an outside marketing firm. However, it is usually less expensive to bring the work in house.The marketers are not the corporate officers or directors of the corporation. Those jobs are left to a vote of the shareholders, and most likely would be selected from the shareholders in a corporation or the membership in an LLC.This may even be a way to compete with companies to which the jobs are being out sourced. I am not to sure how the out sourcing is being done, but I have to believe that the companies which are out sourcing are doing it on a national rather than local level. I am sure that the foreign companies that are contacting searchers are doing so in all 50 states rather than limiting themselves to searchers in any one particular state. If we can market our skills on a national level to title companies and in a manner that is more competitve (Possibly offering better, more timely work at our prices rather than reduced prices) we may all benefit from it. I do think that we need marketers to come up with a more creative way to sell our service. This is an expertease that none of us as searchers have

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