Exhibit A
Notaries work in Columbia SC
Columbia is a government and university city, and notary demand here follows the paperwork that comes with it. State offices downtown, the university, the hospitals and the law firms around them all generate documents that need witnessing and signing. Add the mortgage and real estate work across Richland and Lexington counties and you have steady, repeat demand rather than one off spikes. Much of the trade is owner operators working alone or in small storefronts, with some mobile notaries covering the whole metro. The searches are local and specific: people look for a notary near their office, near the courthouse or willing to travel to a hospital or a home. That is the demand available, and it is spread across many small searches rather than one big one.
