This scenario drives me NUTS!
A few times a month I will get a call from someone in the downtown Cleveland area to do a general notarization. I tell them, I would be happy to help them out, but since I am an hour away, I would have to charge them $2 plus a travel fee and it is quite a distance. I always try to find them someone local or advise they go to their bank, Kinko's or UPS store - that it will save them the travel fee.
In Ohio, we cannot refuse a legal notarization although we can refuse if we are uncomfortable with the situation or document. I am sick and tired of these "signing" agents deciding they are only going to notarize loan docs, apparently because general notarizations are not worth their time - money wise.
I just got off the phone with a gentleman at the end of his rope who needed a single notarization. I directed him to a tax preparer's office listed on one of the directories a few miles from him and he told me this office said they don't do general notarizations. Even his bank refused him because "the stamp wasn't available" (???). I am an hour out, so imagine how many times he was refused before he got to me.
If you are one of these notaries who, by your own state's laws, cannot refuse a legal notarization and you do when a signer is willing to appear before you - SHAME ON YOU! - What part of PUBLIC don't you understand!
Ok - Got that off my chest!
Joan-OH |
