In my opinion Snapdocs will get squeeze out. I'm not an insider, but it appears Snapdocs and similar companies, as well as the signing services they help, will get squeezed out by esigning/enotarization companies like Pavaso and Notarize. They will vertically integrate the process of finding notaries, providing a "secure" platform for the principals and notaries to log into, software to present the documents to the principals and notaries and collect the signatures, and integration with the software of the lenders and title companies. That's a lot more than what Snapdocs and that ilk provide.
Some of these new companies will choose to use full time employee notaries. These employees might work in a brick and mortar office, or might work from home. Only notaries from RON-friendly states need apply.
All that will be left for enotarizations are cases where a private individual needs to send a notarized document electronically; typically these will have nothing to do with real estate. Snapdocs and signing services generally aren't interested in one-off requests from private individuals. In the past, these folks would have gone to their bank, library, etc, or located a nearby mobile notary here on Notary Rotary or a similar site. They would have gotten the paper document notarized, scanned it, and sent it wherever it needed to go. The recipients, not being too bright, would have accepted the scan in lieu of the original document. Now these situations will tend to get an enotarization, which is arguably better than a scan of what purports to be an original notarized document.
I don't see any place in the new world for Snapdocs.
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