Colorado Springs Mobile Notary - Leon Austin

It happens occasionally that a notary signing agent will fail to do what the lender wanted. Before people start bad-mouthing notary signing agents, they should understand the situations in which we're working.Many times the instructions are poorly written. Or they are not well organized.For examp...

When a notary signing agent receives the loan documents for a closing, the documents are not necessarily in the order in which they should be presented to the borrower. One might think that it doesn't matter. Just start from the top of the stack of documents and work your way down. Just get them ...

Let me first come right to the point and say that, a notary should not refuse or decline notary services to someone using the excuse that they "only do mortgage work."I'm referring to people who obtained their notary commission so that they could work as Notary Signing Agents. Perhaps they feel t...

What makes a job difficult?  For every profession the answer is different. And it's really hard to say who has the hardest job. Is it the President of the United States? Doctors? Policemen? Firefighters? I can only speak for myself, as a notary signing agent. It's not a physically demanding job. ...

Something else you might not want to bring up is your favorite sports team.When people relocate to a new city, they leave behind a lot of things -- family, friends, favorite places to go, etc. But one thing they probably don't leave behind is their loyalty to their favorite sports team. Once a fa...

Now, make a wish and blow out all the candles. ... What did you wish for? I wish that companies would stop requesting that notaries notarize their own signatures. I hope your wish comes true. It's a reality. Notaries are often put in a position of having to notarize their own signature. It's agai...

It's a common reaction that I get in a closing, and a common misunderstanding with borrowers, when they see this document, that their loan is being sold. What stands out, in big bold letters, is the word 'TRANSFER'. They immediately associate that with: 'SELL'. No.  I want the borrowers to be at ...

Monday, January 21st, is a holiday. It's Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday.  If you're a notary signing agent, that day has significance in that it affects the rescission date.There are notary signing agents who claim they don't carry a rescission calendar. Personally I think it's a good idea to ...

The more knowledgeable the borrower, the easier it makes our job, and the more smoothly the closing goes.  And it's hard to find a borrower more knowledgeable than a REALTOR®.  It was one of the first things he told me about himself. It was my first of 3 closings on Friday.When I first started as...

Using locator tools, such as Mapquest and Yahoo maps, are useful for finding a location -- as long as that location is on the map. But there is a lot of new construction going on in Colorado Springs. Many new homes and communities have been built. It's too much for the locator tools to keep up wi...