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2010 Green Resolutions for the Real Estate Industry

Here is an interesting link to a blog post by the WAV group. It describes what we can do as an industry to help the EPA, and hence our nation, meet its green goals – http://waves.wavgroup.com/2010-green-resolutions-for-the-real-estate-industry-how-can-we-help-the-epa-succeed.

A few highlights from the post about how we, as an industry, can help:

 “Protecting America’s Waters – there is one simple, but unexpected way we can help clean up America’s waters. STOP using paper. By using electronic forms, faxing, and document management, we can help eliminate millions of gallons of wastewater generated by paper production. The production of just one piece of paper produces 13 ounces of wastewater. To produce the paper needed to process real estate transactions created more than 1.8 billion gallons of wastewater. We can eliminate this impact to the environment while saving money in our business by eliminating the cost of paper, printing, faxes, storage and retrieval costs. If you’re interested in just how much money you can save by eliminating paper go the Instanet website and check out their Paperless Savings Calculator.

“There are simple, every day steps each of us can take to save money and go green. We need to think about how to bake it into our every day operations. There are simple things you can do every day to green your business. If you want to learn more about a brokerage can go green, you can download our free paper Make More Green by Going Green. ”

Go Green, Go Paperless!

Find out how much you can save by going paperless using our paperless savings calculator. You can also call us at (800) 668-8768 or email us for more information about DocBox2Go and DocBox.

 

Paperless Savings Calculator Shows Brokers the Savings of Going Green

Instanet Solutions has developed a Paperless Savings Calculator that real estate companies (and others) can use to calculate the potential savings of implementing paperless technologies in their businesses. The calculator uses conservative paper-related cost metrics combined with a brokers own input and estimates determine how much potential savings can be had by implementing document management, internet faxing, digital signatures, online forms and other paperless technologies for real estate.

Most brokers that have used the paperless savings calculator have found , based on the calculator’s estimates, that the cost of paperless systems will easily be paid for with the savings on paper, toner, labor and other costs they incur today.

The paperless savings calculator is also a tool MLS and REALTOR® Association executives can use to demonstrate to their member offices the value of tools they provide as a member benefit. The Boards of Directors of these organizations can also use the tool when evaluating whether or not to deploy paperless technologies for real estate as a member benefit for their members.

Plug in your own numbers into the paperless savings calculator and see the saving for yourself.

Instanet Wins Best Booth at CMLS 2009

CMLS 2009 was a great success. Not only was attendence at record breaking levels but the content was fresh and kept the audience focused and involved from begining to end. Many thanks to Shelly and Mary Jo for putting on and hosting a great show.

We would like to thank Greg Roberston from vendoralley.com for selecting Instanet Solutions as the best booth at the 2009 show (“Best Booth at CMLS is ‘Green’) as we were giving away live blue spruce tree seedlings to promote the use of our Green paperless technologies while reducing our overall carbon footprint at the show.

Joe Kazzoun, Instanet Solutions’ VP of Product and Business Development demonstrated a Paperless MLS calculator created for the Green discussion at CMLS. The calculator was used to show that through the use of paperless document technologies an MLS of 3000 could save approximately $27,000/year by adopting paperless technologies to replace internal existing practices.

You can check out the MLS paperless calculator here, we also have a paperless calculator to help Brokers see how much they can save here.

We look forward to CMLS 2010 and thanks again to all involved.