What do preferred notaries do?
Settlement Agents who close deals on real estate transactions including, title companies, attorneys and escrow companies often require mobile notaries to witness the signatures on loan agreements. Others who regularly need the services of notaries are: lenders, builders and estate agents.
This small, but critical component of the real estate deal called the “loan document signing” is an art form commonly dismissed as a clerical formality.
When an accurate signature is required over distance and need the next day, time is crucial as the deal could be dependent on its success. Customers of specialist notaries depend on them to uphold their reputations as closing professionals by representing them at this stage of the process.
Therefore it is important to dispatch only those notaries that will protect the reputation of the both the representative company and that of the client.
So, beyond the basic capability of notarisation, what do you look for to effectively satisfy any customers’ signing needs?
The Preferred Notary knows her task and is comfortable with it. They must be able to convey to the borrower that they are a neutral party, hired by an 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 role has developed away from other services within the process like estate agent, lender, closer or attorney within the transaction process. 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. More often than not, the other professional is available to satisfy the borrower’s needs.
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