What We Do #4: Full Service Notary Public

Rio Records Service, Inc., offers full Notary Services to not only our clients but to the General Public, as well.

What is a NOTARY PUBLIC?
According to Wikipedia, "A notary public (or notary or public notary) in the common law world is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business. A notary's main functions are to administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents, take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyances, protest notes and bills of exchange, provide notice of foreign drafts, prepare marine or ship's protests in cases of damage, provide exemplifications and notarial copies, and perform certain other official acts depending on the jurisdiction. Any such act is known as a notarization. The term notary public only refers to common-law notaries and should not be confused with civil-law notaries.

A notary public may also certify documents to be true copies of the original. In some jurisdictions, a notary public can also draft contracts, promissory notes, wills, mortgages and other legal documents. Almost always, the powers of a notary public in each province or state are derived from provincial or state legislation."

That may be a lot to remember but for the most part the majority of what Notaries Public do is what's mentioned in the second sentence of the definition. We mostly, administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and declarations. The other stuff is few and far in-between but it does happen.

At Rio Records Service, Inc., we have Notary Agents under contract to provide all the mentioned Notary Services across the Rio Grande Valley area of Deep South Texas.

Each Rio Records Service, Inc., Notary Agent is PROFESSIONAL, INSURED, and BONDED. This is to ensure that you get the highest quality service. Of course, all Notaries Public in the state of Texas must be insured and bonded for your protection Rio Records Service adds service and value to each signing.

How do we do this?
We add service and value to each signing by bringing our vast knowledge of notary signing to you at no cost and we do not know an answer, we will not stop until we find someone who knows the answer or can put us in contact with someone with knows the right answer. We would rather not have you sign any document until you were completely satisfied with the notary process and why it is important to have any document notarized.


Here are a few of the documents we can Notarize:
• Affidavits  ---//---  • Acknowledgements
• Affirmations  ---//---  • Oaths
• Jurats  ---//---  • Notarial Record
• Automobile Title  ---//---  • Automobile Bill of Sale
• Affidavit of Ownership  ---//---  • Identification Affidavits
• Small Estate Affidavits  ---//---  • Signature Affidavits
• Vault Inspections  ---//---  • Property Inspections
• Annuities  ---//---  • Structured Settlements
• Debt Consolidation Agreements  ---//---  • Amendment to Birth Certificates
• General Bill of Sale  ---//---  • Business Partnership Agreements
• Business Contracts  ---//---  • Promissory Notes
• Attorney / Client Agreements  ---//---  • Power of Attorney (General Durable Healthcare Financial)
• Name Change   ---//---  • Divorce Agreements
• Paternity Affidavits  ---//---  • Separation Agreements
• Child Custody Agreements   ---//---  • Wills / Trusts
• Translator Certification  ---//---  • Translation Affidavits
• Document Custodian Affidavits  ---//---  • Health Affidavits
• Physician Statements  ---//---  • International Adoption Papers
• Local/State Government Documents such as:
          Bid Forms • Grantor / Grantee Affidavit • Lien Releases
 ....................and so much more


If you do not see your document listed above, please call us or email because in most cases, we can notarize it!!!

50 Ways To Better Business: #44: Comparing yourself to others (STOP IT!)

For as long as man (and woman) has been roaming the Earth he (and she) have had this undeniable urge to compare themselves to the other Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal. To have the biggest cave, hunt the biggest Wooly Mammoth, or to have the latest "footmobile" to roll out of Rocktroit. You name it, whatever it was it had to be bigger and better than the Homo-Sapiens next door.

Fast forward to "modern" man. We, now, know we have the capacity and intellect to not worry about what others are doing and especially NOT to compare ourselves with the neighbors.

In business, we know that we will never get ahead if we are constantly worried about the competition is doing.  In 2013, we know (at least I hope we know) that if we keep following the competition there is absolutely no way we will ever get ahead of the competition. That’s why we MUST stop comparing ourselves to others. By “others” I mean other individuals, other organizations, other groups, you know the OTHERS in our lives (both personal and professional) that we compete with for Attention from others (i.e., customers, friends, family, and so on).

What do you do or can do?

First, you STOP worrying about the competition!

Next, you START to worry about yourself and your organization or group!

That is all you should worry about and nothing else.

Worry about the little things. Worry about the big things that were once little things. Worry about whether your staff or employees are TRAINED ON THE BASICS and nothing else. Do they have the BASICS down that they can do it in their sleep? If you cannot answer that question then you better start to worry about that because if they are not trained on your organization’s Basics then your competition will definitely be the least of your worries.

If you absolutely, positively have to compare yourself to someone or some organization then COMPARE YOURSELF TO YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION OF THIS TIME LAST YEAR.

Are you better now or worse off? If you are better, then let me say CONGRATULATIONS! If you are worse off then let me say: STOP READING THIS BLOG POST AND GET BACK TO WORK!

Better or Worse, it doesn’t matter what does matter is that RIGHT NOW you have to start thinking about what you MUST DO NOW so that when you compare yourself next year will you be in a much better place!!!

So don’t worry about the other fellow. Worry about yourself, correct your mistakes, learn from them and who knows maybe by this time next year your competition will be worrying about you (and that is a very good thing)

Until Next Time,
Dave Guerra
Rio Records Service, Inc.