Once the officers are in place it will be too late to determine the course of action of the association. At least to the extent of who the members will be. The members will be all those inexperienced, untrained members you have already let in.

Neither do I think the quality of their work will increase by virtue of their membership. You will have simply given them the same stamp of approval as those who have earned it through experience and professional performance.

Why do you insist on legitimizing inexperienced, uninsured and unqualified abstractors while claiming to promote experienced, insured and qualified. Why would an experienced abstractor want to support an organization whose goal is to train and upgrade the skills of his inexperienced competition? What benfit will NALTEA offer the seasoned abstractor? What will be gained by those of us who have already paid our dues to the industry with years of providing professional service?

How will this benefit the industry? If left on their own these inexperienced and unqualified self declared abstractors will fall under the weight of their own lack of experience. You legitimize the inexperienced independent abstractor who undercuts the professionalism of the industry when you accept as abstractors those with so little experience that the E&O carriers do not consider them qualified as abstractors.

I had hoped this organization would be a professional organization of peer abstractors working together to solve the problems facing the industry. But I don't recall any post here or anywhere else stating that what this industry needed was _more_ inexperienced, unqualified abstractors. Did you?

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