Settlement agents often need mobile notaries to witness customer signatures in the process of real estate transactions including escrow companies, title companies and attornies. There is a high demand for notaries from other sources like builders, lenders and estate agents.
Although only seen sometimes as a 'clerical formality', this small and critical component of the deal known as the 'loan document signing' is in truth an art form.
When it is necessary to have documents signed from a distance and delivered the following day, time is critical and the whole deal could be in jeopardy. Specialist notaries as closing professionals are depended upon by customers needing to protect their reputations at this point in the deal.
It is therefore vital to use those notaries that will look after the reputation of the company that employs them, and that of the client being served.
Beyond the basic notarisation ability, what do you look for in a notary to satisfy the signing needs of the customers?
The Preferred Notary is very happy with their role and understands it inside out. The customer borrowing has to feel that the notaries are neutral in the whole process, and are drafted in as specialists by the controlling agency. The signing agent, or notary, has the task of identifying the borrowers correctly and making sure that the execution of the loan documents proceeds without a problem.
The Preferred Notary has learned not to play the role of the Estate Agent, Lender, Closer (Settlement Agent), Attorney, Title Insurer, Seller, or any other party to the transaction. They recognise the expertise of fellow professionals when customers ask details about terms, and the effect of the financial and legal aspects of any document they have been asked to sign. Normally the other professional are available to help to satisfy any of the client's demands.
If you are looking for a reliable practitioner within the business, I would recommend looking in the phone book under notaries, or ‘solicitors Crawley’ and choosing Bennett Griffin.
