No, what I just read is his word that he never stated that. He hasn't said that he will not be running classes or seminars or whatever he wants to call them. Only that he never made that statement.

Your right I didn't say anything at the time. It was my first time to participate in the teleconferences and I decided to just wait and listen. As his plans for his future are his business. I only recently put together this first statement with his strong desire to make certain his potential clients would be allowed in with full membership.

As to whether or not you were in on the teleconference. Maybe you were, I don't know. I can only recall you attending two of these teleconferences and this conversation took place before everyone was online. So you may have been present and you may not have been. You may have heard what you think you heard and you may be mistaken. I do remember the conversation you reference about the association providing seminars but this is not the conversation I referenced earlier. But I know what I heard and it had nothing to do with the association doing seminars.

But his insistance that what could only be his potential clients be made members without verification or qualification was very convincing that there was indeed a connection and one that could in no way benefit the industry and certainly not the experienced independent abstractors.

I didn't come to this conclusion easily or quickly. I had hoped that the association would be exactly a professional peer organization to serve the needs of independent abstractors. Isn't this the way it was origninally presented? Maybe not. Maybe I only hoped it would be. After two months of involvement with the teleconferences and the emails I am under no such false hope. Their are others in the tele-conference group who recognized this falacy as well and did their best to convince others but to no avail. In fact we all saw the enterim board go from five members to three, effectively cutting out the possibility of any dissentors. No, I didn't particularly want to be on the board. I was content to serve on the membership committee until the enterim board suggested they would have veto rights over the decisions of all comittees. So much for working from the inside.

The conference will be well organized and professional. All will go as planned I am sure. I won't be there but I may be able to send someone. There were several people at the court house the other day. They were all strugling new "abstractors" milling about trying to understand the computer indexes. Pestering the clerks for more information on how to find this document or that. Asking questions of busy professional abstractors with assurances of "I don't want to take any business from you" and hopefully asking, "there's plenty of business for everyone, right? besides healthy competition is always good isn't it? I'm a professional abstractor too, I just need a little mentoring."

Maybe next time I'll just respond, "Sure kid, but I don't have the time right now. Give NALTEA a call. They'll be glad to help you out and they agree that you are already an abstractor and only need a little mentoring. I don't think they will mind whose business you take, mine or any of these other folks here who have spent years building their business.


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