[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Kelevision

I read it! I didn’t read parts that didn’t pertain to me but it was quite easy to read tbh. My question is why would you NOT read the documents you just signed your name to?

Technically, once you have signed your name you have all the time in the world to read the documents. Perhaps you meant to ask why you would not read the documents BEFORE you signed your name.

I certainly did not read every word of every paragraph of every page of every document at closing. I trusted the closing agent to explain the reason for the document. I trusted that the documents I was signing were standard for the area and that 100,000+ before me had signed the same or very similar documents. I reviewed numbers, addresses, and names to be sure the items that were unique to my situation were correct. And there were a few documents that I read carefully before signing. All of that, but I cannot say I read every document. Perhaps that was a mistake but I'm in the house and in the neighborhood that I wanted so it seems to have worked for me so far.