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Posted by cheryl/md on 11/10/11 12:13pm
Msg #403420

blank date - how would you handle?

did a signing and in the package was miscellaneous pages, non-notarial. first or last page borrower or borrower/broker signature(s). 1 page was a welcome ltr, top of page date, was blank, borrower & broker signed at bottom. 2 page was a memo form, top date-blank, to: name, from: name, yes this is address, blahblah, borr/broker signed bottom. i get a call to take pages back and have borrower fill in date at top. or better yet, i fill in the date of document. my comment was, you left it blank, i record in required journal, where it asks, date of docs, "blank". why didn't the broker date it when it signed it. even sent me a scan to show it already signed. i also told them as notary i cannot fill in blanks in a doc. i have rec'd docs that are dated, different date, for various reasons (new signature required, etc), and my job is to correctly date a notarization of signing, not the docs themselves or the body. just curious how others would handle.

Reply by Les_CO on 11/10/11 12:26pm
Msg #403421

I’d tell them (Title) to send the docs back to the borrower with instructions to date them, and send them back. Not your job to fill in or date anything except your notarial signature block.

Reply by BossLadyMD on 11/10/11 1:18pm
Msg #403427

If no notarization, they can send directly to borrower

I would not go back out for that.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 11/10/11 4:28pm
Msg #403472

I would have had the borrowers put the date in before I notarized it, as we're not permitted to notarize incomplete documents in California. I'm surprised that's not the case everywhere.

Reply by Les_CO on 11/10/11 5:08pm
Msg #403482

I would agree…but I think she said these docs were not notarized, but were signed by the borrower? She may have made a mistake by not having the borrower completely fill out (date) the documents, but it’s now after-the-fact, and an easy fix for title.JMO

Reply by JanetK_CA on 11/11/11 11:41pm
Msg #403675

Oops, you're right. Thanks for setting me straight. And I agree with your other comments. I would definitely not want to be going back to have the borrower fill in a date. The tc may have a correction agreement or LPOA, which would be the ideal fix, seems to me.


 
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