As a seller who took over a week one time, it had to do with coordinating work schedules with hubby to get to a notary. Some places, given these times, it’s even harder.
^ THIS.
The notary hours are so hit and miss where we live and most of them are only available during the normal work day. As a buyer, I wish we could have turned in the documents same day, but it took 3 days for us to be able to make it to a notary.
In addition, my last contract that i bought, the closing docs went to my junk folder. No one contacted me wondering what was going on and why after 3 weeks of not hearing from me that I did not return them. I would have returned them right away had I saw them. I was about to reach out to the company asking for an update but did a "DVC" search in my email and the documents were there.