Sometimes it is difficult . . . to live with technology.
My wife gets people to notice her for her looks. When she came home from school yesterday, she informed me that 5 people noticed things she had changed. After living with her for almost two decades I know that is my que to respond with "Wow you look terrific".
I'm not blessed in the "looks" department so I have to use my knowledge. Over the years and with my engineering background I have embraced technology and adapted many of its uses for my real estate business.
In the old days when I wrote up an offer, I would drive it across town to deliver it to the listing agent. As time evolved, I adapted to the use of sending an offer by courier. I figured the $6-10 it would take to deliver the offer was well worth it. After loosing an offer because of a missed delivery I had to discover a new avenue of delivery or resort back to hand delivery.
About this time, the speed of fax machines increased so I started faxing offers. Although, sometimes it decreased my speed for delivery, sometimes I would find myself redelivering a page or two because of missing pages or blurry pages.
In the 90's, the ability to email pdf attachments came around and I decided that scanning and e-mailing an offer as a pdf would be best. Sometimes I would have to break up offers into smaller attachments because some email servers would not allow large files. I then adapted to scanning the offers and compressing them. This worked sometimes, but every once in a while the recipient would not know how to open.
The past couple years I have been keeping offers on a server and giving permission to the listing agent to open. I have been cruising along and having no problems until yesterday
I have started using Google Docs the past 6 months. It is easy and if the listing agent looses their file a copy is still left on Google Docs.
I think I had the delivery issue mastered and I really like Google Docs for storing docs. My business partner and I use it quite frequently to exchange docs.
Now the problem. Three of the last four offers I have written the listing agents can not accept anything other then hand delivery or fax. One agent's office was even 45 minutes away.
Now what do I do?
Chris Dowell of the Dowell Taggart Team
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