On occasion I will read or participate on a blog that is part of the "Notary Cafe". I came across a story I thought some of us may identify with when it comes to a Real Estate nightmare. My thanks to Gary F of takenotenotaryservices for his story. This is Gary's story Not mine.
My last signing for 2025 was a sellers in my city. Simple 24 page packet, sign scan, drop, no problem. Or it should have been. I arrived at the house and the people were loading up their car to move out. The lady said I am embarrassed to take you in the house. I played it off and said it will be ok. After about 10 minutes and a few pages into the signing I realized it wouldn’t be ok. They had no table to sign at so we used a sofa table and made it work. The not ok part came when I noticed bugs on the table we were signing at and I would shew them away. Then they started dropping from the walls or ceiling and a few even exploded on the papers we were signing. I powered through the signing and got out of there as soon as I could. I got home scanned and uploaded thinking this nightmare was over, but it wasn’t. I pushed back from my desk and noticed one of those bugs crawling out of the cuff on my pants, then another one, and another one. I killed them, and immediately took all my clothes and threw them into the wash on hot water and washed them. Then I took one of the dead soldiers and did a google scan, and it turned out they were likely BED BUGS! So I then had to empty my briefcase into two air tight containers that I had near my washer to quarantine everything for at least three days in case there were any bugs or eggs on my stuff. I have had to treat the entire house and can’t work until I can get my stuff out of quarantine and clean it. I will end up throwing away most of it with the exception of my stamp just to be on the safe side. Needless to say, this signing cost me money. The worst part is after the fact, I realized through some of the conversation that I heard between her and her husband that they probably knew about it. I heard her telling him that when we were done they would go get him new clothes, and throw his away, before going to there hotel. Not only is it disgusting, but frustrating when people willfully put us in a position to compromise our health and safety or worse, bring things like this home to our families. Thankfully I haven’t seen any of them in our home, so my prayer is that they were contained to my clothes and my bag. I hope 2026 starts out better than 2025 ended.
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