Scott's Sweet Home

Hometown:

Seattle, WA

Zip Code

98199

Notary Since:

June 30, 2001

About Me:

I live here in beautiful Seattle. Becoming a notary changed my life, as cheesy as that sounds. I started working part-time as a mobile notary while in college in 2001.

This industry has been very good to me and I'm way excited about helping other notary businesses improve their bottom line with job requests direct from lenders via the NotaryBay platform.

I love to run, it keeps me sane! I'm a huge Seahawks fan, and at least once a week you can find me running receiver routes with my younger brother. NotaryBay is my current big project, but I also do some freelance writing as well as SEM (search engine marketing) consulting. I'm a huge geek, but I feel like I can relate well with wide ranges of people (partly thanks to hundreds of signing jobs meeting random couples!). I do some volunteer work once a week at a Homeless outreach program here in downtown Seattle. It's usually the highlight of my week!

Website:

http://notarybay.com

Favorite TV Shows:

Friday Night Lights, The Office, Battlestar Gallactica, LOST, 24, Arrested Development

Best/Craziest Notary Story

I was out in the WAY back woods of western WA. I was leaving a signing (borrowers didn't want to sign...son lived in trailer in front of yard. I kept hearing gunshots the whole time I was there). As I was getting back on a main road (from dirt), I see this guy coming towards me flailing his hands to flag me down...

"Fire! Fire!" the guy yells. "What?" I ask.

"My trailer is on fire! (points down the road to a giant fireball where his trailer is engulfed in flames)". "Oh my gosh, what can I do?" I ask. "can you take me down the road to Jimmie's, my cousin, I think he has a fire exteguisher!" "OK, hop in...."

So, this guy with no teeth in overalls hops in the back seat of my scion Xb and we FLY down the dirt road to get a fire extinguisher. We get to his cousins house, he runs out, grabs his cousin, they both get in the car, and I fly back up towards the flaming RV.

They try to put out the fire (the whole front end of the RV was in flames), with little success. A fire truck shows up, but by the time they get their gear on, the RV was half gone. They put the rest out, and the guy is just in tears. I felt really bad for him, he was literally driving it home from the dealership where he had just bought it.

It was intense. So, not directly notary related, but I was only out in that part of the woods because of a job, and I was in a suit when all this happened. Crazy.