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Notarization essentially puts a $30-$100 price tag on the operation, which meets with a lot of resistance.
by papln 7y ago
Notarization essentially puts a $30-$100 price tag on the operation, which meets with a lot of resistance.
- astura 7y agoMost banks and credit unions provide their customers notary services for free or low cost. Even Bank of F̶e̶e̶s̶ America provides free notary services.
- bonyt 7y agoThat sounds high. In New York, at least, a notary can’t charge more than $2.00 in most circumstances.
- gorgoiler 7y agoIt shouldn’t be that expensive. Which state do you live in? I’ve had documents notarized for only nominal charges, through a notary I shared an office with in California.
- dheera 7y agoConsidering how many people are notaries and how easy it is to become a notary, I don't think it's any form of security. It's just an artificially created market for people to make quick bucks signing documents.
- skyyler 7y agoNotaries typically cannot notarize their own documents.
- dheera 7y agoSo get your friend to be the notary? It seems like an incredibly insecure system to me for the 21st century world when we have much better ways, e.g. signing keys.
- murph-almighty 7y agoThe point of a notary is that there's a witness to you signing papers. You can't serve as an unbiased witness if you're the person signing the papers.