Notaries Public · Linden Bay, British Columbia
Your documents, filed correctly, on the day they are due.
Two notaries, one office, and a practice built entirely around the paperwork that has a deadline attached to it. Conveyancing, mortgages, wills and powers of attorney.
The register
Six things people come to a notary for.
Notaries in British Columbia handle non contentious work. That covers most of what an ordinary life requires and none of what a courtroom does. If your matter turns out to be contested, we will tell you at the start and point you at the right lawyer.
Buying or selling
The five stages between your offer and your keys.
Most people do this two or three times in a lifetime, so nobody expects you to already know the sequence. Here is all of it, including the parts we need from you and roughly when.
Offer goes firm
Your realtor sends the contract. The file is opened the same business day and you get one short list of what we need.
Searches and instructions
Title searched, strata or municipal documents ordered, and your lender’s instructions taken so funds are ready in time.
Statement of adjustments
Every figure in writing before you sign. Transfer tax, payouts, our fee, and each disbursement on its own line.
Signing appointment
About an hour. Two pieces of current identification. We read the documents through with you rather than pointing at lines.
Completion
Funds move, title registers, and we confirm the minute it lands so your realtor can release the keys.
On fees
British Columbia sets no fee schedule for notaries. Every notary sets their own.
Which means the only thing standing between you and a surprise is a number in writing. You get ours before the file is opened, itemized, and revised in writing the same day if anything about your file changes.
Quoted from your actual documents before the file opens, not guessed at over the phone and corrected later.
Registration charges, search fees and couriers each appear on their own line. Nothing folded into a round number.
If a search turns up something that moves the number, you get a revised estimate before any further work happens.
Our notaries
Two notaries, and you will know which one has your file.
The practice stayed at two on purpose. The person who opens your file is the person who sits across the table from you at the signing, and the person who answers when you call about it.
Commissioned in 2014. Reyna carries most of the residential conveyancing and refinancing work and is the person your mortgage broker will usually end up speaking to. Fluent in English, Spanish and Tagalog.
Commissioned in 2006 and the founder of the practice. Marcus handles personal planning: wills, enduring powers of attorney, representation agreements and the conversations that go with them.
Both notaries are members in good standing and insured and bonded under the Notaries Act.
English, Spanish, Tagalog and Punjabi, so most clients can go through their documents in the language they think in.
Across the Lower Mainland by arrangement, including hospital and care home visits when the signer cannot travel.
For realtors, brokers and lenders
A completion that slips is your problem before it is ours.
Which is why the file is opened the day it arrives, why you get a person rather than a shared inbox, and why the status update reaches you before you have to ask for it.
- Files opened the same business day they arrive
- A named notary on every file, with a direct line
- Status updates sent without being chased for them
- Evening and Saturday signings when the date is tight
What clients say
Placeholder reviews, shown to demonstrate the layout.
On a live site these would come from the practice’s real Google reviews, which for most notaries is the strongest asset they already own and the one their current website tends to hide.
Eleven days between subject removal and completion. I was sure it would fall apart. Every question came back the same day, usually within the hour, and it closed on the date it was supposed to.Placeholder nameFirst time buyer
I came in to update a will and left having finally dealt with the power of attorney I had been putting off for years. Nothing was rushed at me and nothing was sold to me.Placeholder nameEstate planning client
I send all of my clients here. Six years, and not one completion date has moved because of something on the notary’s side. I cannot say that about anywhere else I have used.Placeholder nameMortgage broker
Questions
Asked before almost every first appointment.
If yours is not here, call and ask. Nobody in this office charges for a question answered on the phone.
Notaries handle non contentious matters: property transfers, mortgages, wills, powers of attorney, affidavits and notarizations. Anything disputed, and anything heading toward a courtroom, belongs with a lawyer. If your file turns out to need one, you will hear that from us at the beginning and not halfway through.
Two pieces of current identification, at least one a government issued photo card such as a driver licence or a passport. For a purchase, also bring your bank draft details and the void cheque your lender asked for. Ask when you book and we will send a list for your specific file.
For a completion, tell us as soon as your offer goes firm even if that is six weeks away. For a will or a power of attorney, a week is normally plenty. For a single notarization, call in the morning and we will usually fit you in the same day.
Yes. Mobile signings are available across the Lower Mainland by arrangement, including hospital and care home visits where the signer cannot travel. Travel is quoted in advance like everything else.
No. Wills, enduring powers of attorney and representation agreements are a large part of the practice entirely on their own. Plenty of clients come in for those and nothing else.
We can give you a range immediately. The written estimate comes once we have seen the actual contract or documents, because the disbursements attached to a strata purchase and a bare land purchase are not the same, and a number that ignores that is not really a quote.
Visit us
302 Wharf Street
Linden Bay, British Columbia
Street level entrance, no step. Free parking in the rear lot off Bridge Lane.
Send the contract. We will open the file today.
A written estimate before anything starts, a named notary on your file, and a phone that gets answered by this office.