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Paperless real estate is no longer a dream.
While most real estate brokerages continue to be paper factories, RealtyV2 has embraced an almost paperless real estate transaction. According to a survey done earlier this year about 85 percent of adults want to bag paper and go green. What is your real estate agent and company doing?
The poll was conducted by Harris Interactive® for DocuSign, Inc.
With the advent of web-based applications, e-readers, and mobile computing devices that make it possible for consumers to do more on-line and stay connected, it is not surprise that the paperless is the way to go.
The survey found that 72 percent of adults were frustrated with completing paper-based forms, documents or business agreements for the following reasons:
- 72% said the form files were often too small to write in.
- 38% said it’s too inconvenient to return signed paper documents by fax or mail.
- 34% said their handwriting was too messy for others to read.
- 23% made too many mistakes.
By generating real estate contracts and disclosures on-line with ZipForms Professional we have eliminated the waste of the old NCR forms which needed to be thrown away at each form revision. Contracts and disclosures can be drafted and reviewed on-line with Clients. Once the final documents are prepared they can be send digitally to DocuSign for electronic signature.
The client is able to review, initial, and sign the document on their computer, iPad, or mobile device. Once completed the documents are returned for Broker review and file archival. All of these steps without once having to print out the documents. However, for those that are more comfortable reading paper they have the option of printing them.
Finally at the end of the transaction I provide a full backup on a USB thumb drive which the client can keep in a safe place.
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