Brenda Balogh

I’m a local vancouver mortgage broker. I send her every mortgage deal that I can. She is excellent to work with. So, if you are a mortgage broker or Realtor, I highly suggest you use her.
Most lawyer firms will use para legals. With Brenda, you are getting Brenda!

I’ve used many notaries in the past and I must say Brenda is one of the best. She is very knowlegeable, professional, friendly and is situated in a good location. Her fees are industry standard and lower then using a lawyer! I would always recommend anyone to use Brenda!

I tried using this business since it offers walk-​in service and it just a few blocks from where we live.
From the website, you’ll see that she suggests checking her Twitter feed regarding closures due to vacations etc. Since she’s open most weekdays from 10−6PM with an office closure from 1:30 — 2:30PM each day, I wanted to confirm her availability.
I checked and noticed she recently tweeted that the office is ‘closed for rest of day,’ which was posted at 3PM. A few older tweets also mentioned closing at 3PM (and were posted at 1:42PM, which isn’t much notice).
Since I had a deadline on the documents to be notarized, I called her office during afternoon business hours and received her voicemail, so I assumed she was busy with another client and left a message.
I left my number and asked that she call back to confirm her availability for the following day and/​or to set an appointment, if that would be better for her.
No response. No mention on Twitter of being closed.
It’s now been over 1.5 business days, and my call has not been returned.
I went elsewhere for my notary needs.

Brenda is a great notary and very helpful to me and my clients. Her office is a handy yaletown location and metered parking is available on the street. Whether it’s just a simple document to notarize or you are setting up a new mortgage, Brenda is a good person to call.

Great service, when ever I used Brenda B. she has keen knowledge, straight up, professional, pleasant, friendly & fast. Her rates are industry standard… and still much much cheaper than any and all lawyers.

It may just be that notaries are more expensive in Canada, but $ 30 for one page … yikes!
That said, she did take me as a walk-​in and was totally pleasant and patient with me when I didn’t have my one page properly set up and had to run home and re-​do it. So, in my case, she probably earned her $ 30 given my shenanigans.