Company nitpick after being called out for their mistakes

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Recently I notified a company that there was 11 errors involving their notarial certificates. So I got this email notification today, “Thank you for the scans. Upon review I noticed the following that needs corrections:1.Missed to mark “Who has/have produced” under Mortgage”. Here’s the thing, I had underscored the term “has” in the notarial block. The company in making corrections in their certificates had put a box, where normally the notary certificates usually do not have any boxes by that particular phrase “Who has/have produced”. So I wrote back to the company pointing out, if they review the document, it shows “has” had been underscored. Please show me where is the correction that is needed? I haven’t heard anything back as of yet. My goodness, did I step on somebody’s toe? So I sent the document back with a checkmark in the box, where there should not have been any box. “When customer pays, they get to say”…LOL

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If I remember correctly, Florida doesn’t have mandatory certificate wording. Does it even have a “short form” wording, which is definitely ok, even though other versions MIGHT be OK?

In my state, VT, there is a short form but other forms may be used. But the “printing” of the law in the statute is horrible. (See § 5368.) So even adapting the wording in the law to a form you can actually use requires some interpretation. I wonder just how much I can vary from the short form before it doesn’t count as the short form anymore, and I’m at risk of the certificate being ruled invalid.

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As of 01/01/2020, the state of Florida does have certain notarial verbiage requirements to be met in it’s notary certificates. But it doesn’t have a box to be marked by the phrase “Who has/have produced” under Mortgage”. Since Florida has approved remote online notarization, it changed the notary certificates. Hopefully the states will move to a national standardization of the notary statutes and certificates. It will really make things simple.

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