Posted by jonnyscudera on 12/19/13 5:42pm
Msg #496672

signing company and lender request my attestation

on the deed of trust i made a mistake in writing borrowers name so i crossed it out and initialed. this is on the acknowledgement. The lender requested from escrow who requested from signing agency for me to write a letter saying that i made the mistake, corrected and initialed then to sign and date the letter. I'm fine with doing this because they said they cannot fund without this letter of attestation. I am just a little worried that if they do not like me they can manipulate the letter to make me look bad. Am i just paranoid?

Reply by MW/VA on 12/19/13 6:31pm
Msg #496683

It sounds like they need your backup confirmation that it

was you who made the changes & not someone else after the fact. I'd provide it.

Reply by BobbiCT on 12/20/13 10:21am
Msg #496733

Attestation makes sense because...

I was "removed" from a Signing Service list because I refused to after-the-fact allow the Quality Control Supervisor to "correct" my notarization block. It was CT compliant (borrowers, property and I all in CT). The Signing Service required California compliant - which in this case WAS NOT CT law compliant.

Month later I check the recorded mortage. My notarization block had been crossed out and changed by someone else before they recorded the deed. Whoever did it didn't even try to disguise their handwriting or add my initials to the changes.

Could be this is one lender that got burned by "fraud" over a change - which is what the Signing Service commited - and wants documentation YOU made the change, not some overzealous Quality Control person.

Reply by Darlin_AL on 12/20/13 1:34pm
Msg #496748

Re: Attestation makes sense because...

this is your documentation to back-up the change. Much more enlightened way of handling your correction, as opposed to the ridiculous demands that we hear about, made by other clients. It serves as your 'scrivener's affidavit" that you made the change, when & why. In this biz, it does not hurt to question, question and & question---after the wonderful orange search button reveals no info.

Reply by ReneeK_MI on 12/20/13 4:21pm
Msg #496775

I used to request these all the time

when I worked for a Lender. Anything that had a hint of not being 100% 'clean', that could be documented as clean with an attestation, so be it. That's all it is - the Lender just wants to cover all the bases, even all the things that just look like they might possibly look like a base to someone else.