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It now looks like we might all drive there from our respective cities and sign (with PoA from spouses who don't want to go). We're trying to get the date pushed back, since we haven't yet seen/approved the survey that the buyer had.
The reason they were pushing for us all to do the paperwork in advance was explained by an assistant of the Single Source Real Estate Service. She said the documents have to be to signed prior to closing, so that they can be recorded at the Register of Deeds at the courthouse.
"Once we have recorded then we can cut and distribute checks. Delaying signing until closing will delay the recording. Which will in turn delay cutting of checks."
That makes sense to me, but really it's a semantics argument. Unless I'm mistaken in North Carolina, both parties have to sign to record at the courthouse.
The guy that sold me my house visited the attorney's first thing in the morning. He signed. Then we walked through morning of "closing", and we signed the next day around noon.
We have bought two properties from 2000 miles away. They have these things called ”FAX machines”. They sign, FAX to you; you sign, FAX to them. Easy.
You don't go handing out POAs.
I don't know of any place where FAXED documents can be recorded.
Nonetheless, I don't see any reason to grant POA to a real estate agent. In my many years in the business, I have only been granted Power-of-Attorney once--but that was for a close personal friend. He was moving out-of-state and wanted to make sure that someone could sign on his behalf in case there were any last minute documents that needed to be signed. I probably wouldn't have done that for a normal client.
After the closing I wanted to send him a post card from the Bahamas...but I sent him his money instead.
Scamming people is not funny, unless you are a commissioned salesperson, just more personal attacks.
Experience with them has taught people need to exercise extreme care.
And on this thread, you eagerly give incompetent and/or dishonest attorneys a pass.
Scamming people is not funny, unless you are a commissioned salesperson, just more personal attacks.
Experience with them has taught people need to exercise extreme care.
You literrally have every "saleperson" here helping, and you spew drivel while ignoring that. I'd expect nothing less from you at this point though. Ignore the facts that counter your narrative.
For the others, in my experience, it's a limited POA set up by the attorney exclusive to signing the closing docs for the sale. The attorney calls and verifies the info and numbers prior to allowing the POA to sign. However, if you don't trust the agent either go to the closing or get someone you do trust as the limited POA.
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