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Brokers may pay a high price for breaking the notary public rules.
When I was a small boy and I went out with my mother to see her signature notarized, I admired the people who signed their names next to hers and then embossed that really neat seal on the document It seemed like a great job. Alas, I settled on a career as a lowly lawyer.
Still, I learned something valuable watching the notaries do their special work: Follow the rules. seems to me that a lot of brokers would be welladvised to heed that warning concerning notary seals, no matter how much they want that signature and seal on a piece of paper.
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