Hi all,
This is a follow-up to my prior message and the subsequent thread. By way of background and this is something that I unfortunately neglected to put in my prior post, this is what was communicated to me by the ss in an email relative to a mortgage that was signed in blue ink as part of a HELOC signing:
"Need deed resigned due to new BLACK INK requirement in MI."
The emphasis is not mine, by the way. The word "deed" was used, but actually she meant mortgage.
OK, so I called the local register of deeds office. Was the ss totally correct? No. Were they by in large correct? Yes, they were !! Now could the signatures have been in blue ink? Yes, that would have been permissable. But everything else, like what I put in the notarization block, the dates, etc. that all had to be in black ink. And It wasn't, and that is why the mortgage got rejected.
I suppose this does comport with what Julie - MI set forth in a prior email, as to the specifications of a certain MCLA section (Michigan Compiled laws Annotated).
And yes, this is not just peculiar to the Oakland County Register of Deeds office, but it is a state-wide requirement as I had suspected. Did I ask when this requirement was implemented? No; I forgot to.
And the interesting aspect (to me) of all this is that I have a signing tonight, and I have been instructed to use blue ink. I wonder whether they will listen. We shall see. |
