The Benefits of Going Green and Taking Your Market Paperless

The main purpose of this post is to give you access to our whitepaper on The Benefits of Going Green and Taking Your Market Paperless.  The paper is primarily targeted at real estate association and MLS executives, but there are sections on the benefits of going green that any real estate professional who is interested in going green and going paperless will likely find interesting.
 
As a leader in your organization and your community, you are in a unique position to move the real estate industry forward, in regards to the environment, the use of technology, and making the industry more efficient. Agents and brokerage staff standing at fax machines watching 25 page faxes feed through a fax machine is still the industry norm and is neither time nor resource efficient.
 
Implementing an online document management system for your membership is a significant way for you to help your real estate market ‘go green’ and ‘go paperless’.  Consumers expect virtually all industries to make changes that will benefit the environment and reduce their use of both renewable and non‐renewable resources. Going paperless helps the environment in many ways:
 

• Saves paper, which saves trees.
• Reduces use of toner cartridges, which decreases landfill waste.
• Reduces use of gasoline, which has many benefits.

Just as important, going paperless can save brokerages and individual producers money and improve their profit in many ways, as will be described later in this paper. Consumers also expect efficient industries that deliver a high level of service around the clock. Today’s consumers expect access to information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Consumers have been able to get the status of their overnight package, or their bank balance, online for years.

The ability to do these things, and so many others, online, has been the norm for nearly a decade now ‐ yet we as an industry are just getting started taking the core of real estate transaction documentation (e.g. ‐ contracts, disclosures, inspection reports, title and mortgage documents, etc) online.

Agents and brokerages that use document management systems, which include customer service portals, can provide a new service their clients have come to expect in many other facets of their lives – access to information online. We’ve been delivering listing information online for years. However, in most cases, once a sales or lease agreement is written, everything moves right back offline.

Learn more about using DocBox and going paperless by visiting our website or by watching one of our free webinars.

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 with your contact information.

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