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The Mobile Real Estate Office Depends on Being Paperless
You can’t go mobile until you go paperless – it’s that simple. While busy real estate professionals have worked to un-tether themselves from their brick and mortar offices by accessing their email and their MLS data from their mobile devices, they’ve discovered a serious limitation. Those that have not taken their listing, sale and lease files digital cannot be truly mobile. It’s simply impossible to access a paper file from a Smartphone!
However, new online services, such as DocBox2Go, are coming to market that allow real estate agents and brokers to access their files from their Smartphones and PDAs – provided they have digitized all their listing, sales and lease files.
Being able to access listing, sale and lease files, as well as other business documents creates a truly mobile real estate office. Agents and brokers can now access their files from virtually anywhere in the world and don’t even need a computer to do it.
Here is how it works. We’ll use DocBox and DocBox2Go, for our example. DocBox is an online document management solution for real estate. It allows agents and brokers to take their real estate offices paperless and store all their real estate files online. They can access those files from virtually any internet connected computer. They can also provide secure, selective access to their assistants, partners, managers, clients, service providers (e.g. – title, mortgage officers), etc. Their broker can also access the transaction files.
Once they’ve moved from paper to online files (click here for a few tips on how to do that), using DocBox, they can then use the mobile version, DocBox2Go, to access those files from virtually any phone with a mobile browser. So, for example, an agent is out of the office and a client calls and tells the agent he needs a copy of the sale contract and the property survey, the agent can securely accesses that sale file at www.docbox2go.com from her phone. Once the agent is in the online file, she can select the documents in question and email or fax the documents to the client from the phone. It’s that simple.
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