Posted by BarbaraL_CA on 6/1/12 5:29pm
Msg #422409

What a coincidence!!!!

Had request to perform a loan signing June 7th at 9:00am. I had my annual eye exam scheduled for the morning of June7th at 10:30 and the zip code was the same zip as my eye doctor. I figured I could handle that, so I accepted. When I got the confirmation, it turns out the borrower requested the signing to be done early in the morning at her place of employment.... which just happens to be my eye-doctor!!!!! Too funny!

Reply by HisHughness on 6/1/12 5:44pm
Msg #422411

Look up in the East. Squint real hard. Somewhere up there you should see a giant "thumbs up." Somebody up there likes you.

Reply by Gina/VA on 6/1/12 5:57pm
Msg #422412

O wow! I love it! Talking bout killing two birds with one stone, lol.

Reply by VT_Syrup on 6/1/12 6:37pm
Msg #422415

Sounds like the eye doctor won't need an ID card.

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/2/12 9:16am
Msg #422448

Yes, eye doctor will need ID. Barbara is in CA :) n/m

Reply by BrendaTx on 6/2/12 10:19am
Msg #422452

Correction -

The eye doctor's employee will need ID because it is in CA! Doesn't matter how well said person is known by the notary, there is no "personal knowledge" choice in CA, right?

Reply by LKT/CA on 6/2/12 12:01pm
Msg #422459

Re: Correction -

That's correct Brenda.....CA notary law no longer allows personal knowledge, as of Jan. 2008. Probably got abused - as do most things before a new rule is written disallowing it.

Reply by Les_CO on 6/1/12 6:38pm
Msg #422416

I had a similar experience; very nice guy and his wife have a small, unobtrusive, local office, nothing fancy or garish, just nice, sparkling clean and serviceable. I did a refi for them. When I glanced at the 1003 I was astounded!…..talk about 6 figures! I suggest if you have kids or grandkids they take up ophthalmology, or become an optician. JMO

Reply by LKT/CA on 6/1/12 7:28pm
Msg #422418

This can be a positive or negative. If I were in your shoes, I'd call the optician and explain that *I'll* be the notary signing agent for their loan signing appointment and since we know each other via patient/doctor relationship would they still like ME handling the signing, or would they prefer someone they totally didn't know.

Either they'll be glad that I'm the SA, someone they feel they can trust and YES, it's a go. OR they'll want someone with whom they are completely unfamiliar with to handle the signing. People can be funny that way about someone they are only acquainted with knowing such intimate details of their personal affairs. Some could care less but I wouldn't want to be at a signing where the borrowers DID care. I'd make sure it's okay with the signer - in this situation. JMHO

Reply by LKT/CA on 6/1/12 7:38pm
Msg #422419

To add...

Even though the loan signing is totally business and it was coincidence that you were contracted for the signing.....and the optician may know of YOUR personal information as her patient, she still may not want you knowing her private info.

Reply by kathy/ca on 6/1/12 7:51pm
Msg #422423

Barbara did not say the BRW was the Optician just that the

BRW's place of employment was the Opticians office. There is a big difference between the 2 from my perspective.

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 6/1/12 9:43pm
Msg #422433

It is NOT the Opthomolovist...just an employee

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Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 6/1/12 10:51pm
Msg #422434

typo - ophthamologist ... clarification below...

the signing is for an employee that works at my eye doctor's office which has several ophthalmologists and opticians and supporting office staff.

Reply by LKT/CA on 6/2/12 12:21am
Msg #422438

Re: typo - ophthamologist ... clarification below...

I read: ".....the zip code was the same zip as my eye doctor....it turns out the borrower requested the signing to be done early in the morning at her place of employment.... which just happens to be my eye-doctor!!!!! "

Thought they were one in the same. Thanks for the clarification.

Reply by Les_CO on 6/1/12 8:30pm
Msg #422428

Re: To add...

Too late. Already know that stuff. I was just (plesently) surprised.
I consider myself a professional…perhaps not as highly compensated for my efforts as he/they are. But I guess my work was my choice, and his was his.

Reply by LKT/CA on 6/2/12 12:23am
Msg #422439

Re: To add...

To clarify, my posts addressed Barbara, not you Les. It's just coincidence that your experience was also with an optician.

Reply by jba/fl on 6/2/12 1:12am
Msg #422442

hoo boy, LKT,

don't let the opthomologist hear you compare him to an optician. Huge difference.

Reply by LKT/CA on 6/2/12 11:56am
Msg #422458

Re: hoo boy, LKT,

Not new news to me - I've always known the difference between the two.

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 6/1/12 8:35pm
Msg #422429

I once had a loan signing with my gynecologist! Before I accepted the job, I asked the scheduler to call her to let her know that I was one of her patients, would she feel comfortable with that?

Reply by Claudine Osborne on 6/1/12 9:40pm
Msg #422432

Just 2 weeks ago I was asked to assist with a closing for my chiropractor..Who also happens to be my daughters boss. I wasnt sure if I should do it or not..when the next morning it was cancelled and I was not able to do it after it was rescheduled..Maybe it was for the best.

Reply by janCA on 6/2/12 8:34am
Msg #422443

Holy Moly. I could not do a loan signing for my gyno, no way, no how. I've been going to him for over 20 years, and I only know him from the exam table. Although we do banter back and forth during the whole process, usually updating each other about our children and I always remind him he is older than me by exactly 2 months, I've never seen, nor want to see him in any other type of situation. Especially sitting across from the dinner table doing a loan signing. I think my concentration would be out the door.

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 6/2/12 7:52pm
Msg #422492

My OBGYN is a she.

I had no problem sitting across the table from her and her then husband. She's divorced now.

Reply by Buddy Young on 6/1/12 11:23pm
Msg #422435

Good things come to good people.

It's because of good clean living.

Reply by Jessica Ward on 6/3/12 1:15pm
Msg #422524

Last month, I was assigned to close a loan for my pastor.

When the SA called me, and asked me if I knew the street and if I could get there in 15 minutes, I guessed the last name on the file (cool parlor trick, but really, there's just 3 houses on the street, so my odds were good.) ;-)

I explained that it was my pastor, I'd have to call ahead before I accepted the file to be sure she and her husband would be comfortable with a parishioner being part of the process.

I called ahead and introduced myself as Jessica Ward the signing agent, they said ok, we'll see you soon--I asked if they would be comfortable with me signing them and they said "Oh, you're OUR Jessica Ward!!"

They were pleasantly surprised and it was one of my favorite loan signings ever.

In the end, we'd just spent a month camping in Africa together, so our boundaries weren't exactly where they might have been say a year ago! They had no problem with it.