A borrower has an unqualified right to read what they are signing, and no signing agent may pressure them out of it. But an appointment has a real time budget, and a hundred-page package read cover to cover can take hours the agent has not been engaged for and may not have available. The professional handling holds both truths: explain the time constraint honestly, offer to direct attention to the documents that matter most — the note, the security instrument, the closing disclosure — and make clear that rescheduling is available if the borrower wants the full review. What the agent must not do is any of the three shortcuts. Waiting silently for hours without raising the constraint sets up a failed appointment. Telling the borrower they must sign as directed is coercive and false. And obtaining signatures first with reading to follow inverts the entire transaction and, for the notarized documents, would mean certifying signatures on a document the borrower had not seen.
