If you choose to ask a notary to back-date or otherwise "color outside the lines" you may be engaging in a no-no yourself. While many RE professionals spend weeks, even months getting a deal together and servicing their clients so-as to cross every "t" and dot every "i", it never fails to amaze me how they rush to try and close the deal at month end. Any Notary Signing Agent who has been in the profession for long has been approached and asked to bend the rules.
Recently(2008), California narrowed the wording for notary acknowledgments and disallowed "personally known" as a form of identification. Further, they ask that notaries review valid ID's under "Penalty of Perjury". Notaries are now required to ask EVERYONE for a valid form of ID, including someone they may have been notarizing for thirty years.
While the Secretary of State may not yet be building a prison for notaries, it is clear that they intend to continually improve the standards to which notaries must adhere.
As a Notary Signing Agent, I choose to make every effort to "get it right" the first time and I take my duties, my oath and my profession as a Certified Loan Signing Agent seriously. When you are looking for a professional, I hope you choose an NSA who insists on only the highest of ethical standards.
"A Quick Note"
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