Remember my boundary line adjustment project involving the expensive land survey you all wished me luck with? The luck part has to do with it not costing any more than it needs to.

It's almost complete ($8000) and the latest challenge is getting the survey map signed and notarized. It is printed on mylar (that translucent plastic stuff) as required by the county clerk and recorder's office. We signed it with a Sharpie pen but I don't know if the ink from the notary stamp is going to stick to it. Because I was doubtful about this question the woman at the bank was able to talk me into not getting it stamped at all, not even the paper copies. She claimed that there was no room for her stamp.

I asked her if she had ever notarized something without stamping it, and she said yes, but when I later asked the surveyor and my usual notary in Colorado they said it has to have a notary stamp, and the stamp can overlap some of the text if it has to. The consensus seems to be that unless it has a notary stamp it is not considered to be notarized, it is only witnessed.

So back to the bank today to have another go at it. I am going to take the deed she stamped and put it under the mylar to show her a place her stamp would fit (I didn't think of this the other day) and after she stamps the mylar we'll put a sticky note over it so the ink won't run onto the map or rub off.

That's all we can do, give it a try, and if I'm lucky she'll stamp it cleanly.