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In germany for certain contracts (such as buying a house or creating a LLC) it's required that a notary reads them aloud for you. That's quite a bit of fun if t
by Xylakant 15y ago
In germany for certain contracts (such as buying a house or creating a LLC) it's required that a notary reads them aloud for you. That's quite a bit of fun if the contract contains annotations that make it fill a binder. There are some loopholes though: The contract may refer to another document that the notary may read to his assistant, so not everybody has to go through the whole ordeal.
- speleding 15y agoYeah we have that too in the Netherlands, at least for the important portions of the documents. The last time I closed on a house it took over two hours. All relevant documents had been e-mailed to us beforehand but you still cannot ask them to skip the reading. Being too careful can be annoying too.
- lobo_tuerto 15y agoI'd take annoying over being effed up anytime. You can't ever be too cautious in legal matters.
- dalke 15y agoIdle curiosity makes me wonder if this applies when the purchaser is deaf. I'm going to predict the answer is "yes."
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoSeems like that could leave a nice side effect of shortening contracts.
- slowpoke 15y agoIn Germany, the stronghold of bureaucracy? You wish.
- Spoom 15y agoI recently closed on a house in Ohio. At closing, the notary verbally summarized every contract we signed. I'm not sure if it was legally required (I believe he stated it was) but I also took the time to read them. Most of them were copies of contracts I had already signed with the realtor / mortgage company at offer / mortgage application, so nothing was particularly surprising. Further, at offer time, the realtor read aloud every contract and answered questions we had about them. I don't feel that they tried to pull the wool over my eyes at any point. Perhaps it's different with other realtors?