Mobile notary public
Hospital rooms, kitchen tables, closing tables, parking lots at 7am. Wherever the document has to be signed, I bring the seal, the journal and the patience to get it done properly the first time.
If it needs a notary and it is legal for a notary to do, it is probably on this list. If it is not, I will tell you that instead of guessing.
The everyday work: one signature or twenty, at whatever address suits you. Common documents include —
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Refinances, purchases, HELOCs and seller packages. I print, present every page in order, catch the blanks before they become a scan-back, and drop to the courier the same day.
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Documents headed abroad need authentication by the Secretary of State, and the process rejects paperwork for small reasons. I notarize it correctly, file it, and track it back to you.
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Florida is one of only three states where a notary public may solemnize a marriage. No church, no courthouse queue, no waiting on an officiant’s calendar — bring the licence and two people who mean it.
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I am a notary public, not an attorney. I am not licensed to practise law, so I cannot draft your document, choose which form you need, explain what a clause means, or advise you on whether to sign. Doing any of that would be the unauthorised practice of law. What I do is verify identity, confirm you are signing willingly and knowingly, and complete the notarial certificate correctly.
Two separate numbers, always. The notarial fee is capped by statute and is the same for everyone. The travel fee is mine, and you hear it before I get in the car — never after the signing.
| Notarial act Per signature notarized — set by state statute | — |
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| Marriage ceremony Solemnizing a marriage — maximum set by statute | — |
| Travel Covers the first — miles; beyond that, — per mile | — |
| Evenings & weekends Added to the travel fee, not to the notarial fee | — |
| Urgent — hospital, care facility, same hour When I drop what I am doing and drive | — |
| Loan signing package | — |
| Second printed set Borrower copy printed on request | — |
| Apostille | — |
| Travel-only fee If I arrive and the signing cannot legally proceed — no ID, signer not present, signer not able to understand the document | — |
The notarial fee above is the maximum permitted per notarial act . Travel, printing and after-hours charges are separate service fees and are disclosed to you before the appointment is confirmed. Cash, card and the usual transfer apps. Title and escrow companies are invoiced.
Document type, how many signatures, how many signers, where and when. The form below, a text, or a phone call — whichever is faster for you.
Notarial fee plus travel, quoted as one number before anyone commits. If the appointment is outside my area or outside what a notary may lawfully do, you find out now rather than at the door.
I check photo ID, confirm every signer is willing and aware, watch the signatures, then seal and complete the certificate. Most appointments take fifteen minutes.
Florida does not require a notary to keep a journal for paper notarizations. I keep one anyway, with the date, the act, how each signer was identified and their signature. If a signature is ever questioned, that record is what answers it.
Nearly every appointment that fails, fails for one of the reasons below — and every one of them is avoidable in the five minutes before I knock.
I cover a radius around my base, with travel included close in and a per-mile charge past that. Outside the radius, ask anyway — for a loan signing or a full apostille package it is usually still worth the drive.
A current, government-issued photo ID bearing a signature: driver licence, state ID card, passport, military ID, or a permanent resident card. It must be unexpired.
If a signer has no acceptable ID, most states allow identification by a credible witness who knows the signer personally and can themselves produce ID. Tell me in advance if that is the situation and I will confirm what your state permits.
Yes, and it is a large part of what I do. Bring the ID, and be aware of the one rule that matters: the signer must be able to understand what they are signing and must be signing of their own free will.
If a signer is heavily sedated, disoriented, or being pushed by someone in the room, I have to decline. That is not me being difficult — a notarization taken under those conditions is exactly the one that gets challenged later, and refusing protects the signer far more than it inconveniences anyone.
Please arrange your own. A witness must not be someone who benefits from the document, so a neutral adult — a neighbour, a colleague — is what you want. Tell me when you book and I will remind you how many the document needs.
As a matter of practice I do not sign as a witness on a document I am also notarizing. Florida does not flatly prohibit it, but it collapses two independent roles into one person, and that is precisely the weakness anyone contesting the document later would aim at.
Yes. Florida is one of only three states where a notary public may solemnize a marriage, so the same commission that notarizes your mortgage can marry you.
You need a valid Florida marriage licence before the ceremony — I cannot issue one, only the Clerk of Court can. Bring it, bring two people who mean it, and I will complete and return the licence correctly afterwards, which is the part people forget.
No, and anyone who is not an attorney and offers to is doing something they should not. Choosing a form, drafting language and explaining legal effect are all the practice of law. I verify who is signing and complete the notarial certificate. Your attorney, or the agency that requested the document, handles the rest.
Not currently. Remote online notarization requires a separate commission from the state and an approved platform, and I will not advertise it before both are in place. If your document must be notarized remotely, say so when you enquire and I will point you to someone who is properly commissioned for it.
My handling fee is listed in the fee schedule above. On top of it sits the state fee — $10 per document, or $20 for a record certified by a Clerk of Court, such as a birth or marriage certificate — plus shipping. Both are passed through at cost with the receipt. Florida takes payment by cheque or money order only, so I front it.
Turnaround is the state’s, not mine, and the Department of State does not publish one. Mail-in filings commonly run several weeks. If your deadline is tight, say so before you book: there are services that hand-file in Tallahassee and turn it round in days, and if that is what your situation needs I will tell you to use one rather than take your money and hope.
A travel-only fee applies, shown in the schedule above. It covers the drive, not the notarization, and it exists for the cases that genuinely happen: an expired ID, a signer who could not attend, or a document that turned out to need something we did not have.
If I have made the error, there is no charge. If the appointment simply needs to move, I will do my best to make the second trip the cheap one.
Ask when you book and I will send the current certificate.
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