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I`ve been trying to locate mentors who work in the Title Company industry.  Especially with Title Abstracting.  These are people who hang out in Auditor`s Offices to assist Title Companies. With my genalogical history background I sometimes spend a lot of time looking at records I am sure a Title Abstractor would review.   It seems my skills could be turned around to work with Title research, question is how.  Is there a place or maybe a website where people list what industrieis they are willing to be mentor and/or other industries without thinking I was going to take their business!  That is not my character!  Very frustrated!

Yes, I am aware of SCORE.   I communicated (in writing) to SCORE but to be honest - I didn`t get the warm & fuzzies from the answers.  I wish the closest office was not in downtown Cleveland.  I wish there was a local office in the Toledo area.  I live half way between Cleveland & Toledo.   I am not fond of driving in downtown Cleveland in any season of the year.  I was hoping that a SCORE representative would meet me 1/2 way.  

I took time off to visit my local SCORE office and am afraid I was dissapointed. It seemed like more of an "Old Boys Club" the men I spoke to were more than happy to share their war stories but had little to suggest for business in today`s world. I was assigned to a pair in charge of business plans, they gave answers to my questions but didn`t guide me to other things to think about. They spent a good deal of time letting me know that they couldn`t write my business plan... didn`t want, or expect this of them. Questions that went beyond their area of "expertise" should be asked in another visit.

While there were several people drinking their morning coffee, I only got to speak to 2 of the volunteers, since they all had different specialties I would have liked to spend some time asking questions with the other "experts".  The office was not busy, so I was non-plussed at their attitude.

They did give their kudos to my work stating that I had most of what I needed, it ended in an invitation for another visit at the same low-no charge.