Services
Everything a notary in British Columbia is authorized to do.
Thirty one services across five areas. If what you need is on this page, book it. If you are not sure which one it is, call and describe the situation in ordinary words.
Property and real estate
The bulk of the practice. Purchases, sales, borrowing against a property, and everything registered against title.
- Residential purchases and sales
- Residential and commercial title transfers
- Mortgage refinancing and lender instructions
- Mortgage discharges and renewals
- Manufactured home transfers
- Easements and rights of way
- Restrictive covenants and builder’s liens
- Real estate disclosure statements
- Subdivisions and statutory building schemes
- Zoning applications
Personal planning
The documents that decide what happens if you cannot speak for yourself, and what happens after you are gone.
- Wills
- Will searches
- Enduring powers of attorney
- Representation agreements
- Advance health care directives
- Estate planning documents
Notarizations and declarations
Usually the fastest visits. Many of these are done while you wait, without an appointment if the office is quiet.
- Notarization and attestation of signatures
- Affidavits for any public registry in British Columbia
- Statutory declarations
- Certified true copies of documents
- Insurance loss declarations
- Proof of identity for travel purposes
Travel and international
Documents that have to be accepted by a border officer, an airline, a consulate or a foreign registry.
- Travel consent letters for children
- Letters of invitation for foreign travel
- Execution and authentication of international documents
- Marine bills of sale and marine mortgages
- Marine protestations
Business and commercial
Small business work in the non contentious range. Anything disputed or heading to court belongs with a lawyer.
- Business purchase and sale
- Commercial leases and assignments of lease
- Contracts and agreements
- Personal property security agreements
- Independent legal advice for guarantors
Before you come in
What to bring, by the kind of appointment.
Almost every wasted trip to a notary happens for the same reason: one missing piece of identification. Two pieces are required for everything below, at least one of them a government issued photo card.
Two pieces of identification, your lender’s name, your mortgage broker’s contact, and the void cheque your lender asked for.
Two pieces of identification, your mortgage account number, and your strata management contact if the property is a strata.
A list of what you own, the full names of the people you want to receive it, and the name of the person you want as executor.
The full legal name and address of the person you are appointing, and their relationship to you.
The child’s birth certificate, both parents’ identification, and the travel dates and destination.
The unsigned document and two pieces of identification. Do not sign it before you arrive, the signature has to happen in front of the notary.
Fees
Quoted in writing, before the file opens.
There is no set fee schedule for notaries in British Columbia, so the only thing that protects you is a number in writing. Ours arrives before you commit, with disbursements listed separately from the fee, and revised in writing the same day if anything changes.
Not sure which of these you need?
Describe the situation in ordinary words and we will tell you what it is called, what it costs, and how long it takes.