This week, Washington State’s Governor Inslee signed an emergency proclamation allowing e-notarizations. Our Washington REALTORS® and other organizations worked to accelerate this order, which was already planned to be in place by October 1st of this year, but was moved up to now due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the current Stay Home, Stay Safe mandate issued earlier this week.
E-Notarizations have been available for cash buyers, but now all parties to a transaction will be able to e-sign and have the notary stamp the documents electronically.
The signers will need to appear before the notary through a Skype-like technology and will still (4 comments)