If you see a pattern here you will note that in most of the cases, you must call before you go or is not guaranteed that the notary will be available, this is due to the fact that nobody wants to work or get more work for free or little money.
The only problem with the so called free notary public is that they are virtually almost impossible to get, and at the long run is time consuming and at the end you ended up wasting more valuable time than the amount that you will spend, just if you just decide to pay extra, so he/she can compromise and do the required job for you.
EXAMPLE 1: You need to notarize a document next day and is past 5:00PM weekdays, your possibilities to get a notary public available is only 20% if you are lucky enough, but is pass 7:00pm then your possibilities are almost 1%. and what will happen to the document if is not submitted on time, of course every case is different, but a lock rate for a loan could mean thousands of dollars, a financial aid application for your kids college, could mean that your child do not get financial aid for college. is a lot of different consequences, depending on the rules or the type of document and what for is needed. Imagine this happens on weekends. Now you do the math and get serious.
EXAMPLE 2: Imagine that you are traveling with your children on vacation and the plane leave next day early in the morning, but one of the parents is not going, you will need a minor travel parent consent, so your child can board that plane. If is past 5:00PM and you did not get a notary public for that consent, your children will not board the plane unless you hire a mobile notary public to help you after hours.
EXAMPLE 3: all notarized documents, must be sign in presence of the notary public (in person) after the notary verify the ID, what happen if the signer can not go to the notary, because is in the hospital or nursing home or home and unable to travel, then your only choice will be to hire a mobile notary public to go to you. Now the question is this, what are the possibilities of you getting a mobile notary public that goes to you for free or for $2.00 only. Well sorry but they are (ZERO %), now another question is what will be the consequences if that person do not sign an important document like a will, testament or power of attorney, and that person past away or is incapacitated to act on her own behalf? Just think about this for a minute.
EXAMPLE 4: is raining or snowing, and day looks what some people call weather horrible, just a heavy rain will suffice for this term, Do you really want to go around the neighborhood looking for a notary public, with papers on your hand during a rainy or snowy day, just to get it done for free? what are the possibilities that those documents get wet and damage before or after the signature?
EXAMPLE 5: You skip work, will arrive later during the day or will miss school to get this papers done, if the company pays you per hour, then you lost the time invested, if you work in New York City then the minimum wage is $15.00 an hour, so if you invested 3 hours on this, you just loss, $45.00, but that is not all, what happen if you then do not find a notary and have to take another day off, this will increase the amount of money you just loss, almost to double.
Let's get real, in most cases the value is related to the type of service you receive, the more you pay the more guarantee and better service you will receive. If you don't pay, you can not complaint. If you paid too little then you can complaint just too little. and your guarantees are correlated to the same amount.
Now an alternative and solution to this problem, is to hire a Mobile Notary Public, this person usually works around the clock on appointments only and visits clients at they residence or location. This mobile notary public, may charge you a higher fee do to the traveling and odds time of the appointment, but in most cases is not even that much in relation to the time invested by you skipping work, remember loss time can not be recuperated and the good thing is you will have your document done at your convenience, you will not interrupt you normal life to take care of the document. Some of them accept all type of forms of payments, from cash, to direct deposit, to Credit Cards. Make sure to ask for credentials before start any negotiation.
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