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mobile office: Mobile Offices: Are they necessary? - 01/08/09 02:18 PM
It usually goes like this: I'll have a closing at 4 p.m. I'll have another closing at 6 p.m. Normally there would be no problem handling those two assignments. Colorado Springs isn't that big. I can finish the 4pm closing, then go straight to the 6pm closing.
There's just one problem: I haven't received the loan documents for the 6 p.m. closing. The title company is waiting for final HUD approval.
Now it's not a simple matter of going from one closing to the other. I have documents that I need to print. And if I drive back to my office … (8 comments)
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mobile office: Long distance closing assignments, and the problems involved - 12/22/08 09:21 AM
Recently I wrote about a closing I did more than 90 miles away in Rocky Ford. Although the closing went smoothly, getting there wasn't without its problems. So I decided to write another post on some of the problems of doing a long distance closing assignment, or a closing in a remote area.
Cell phone coverage
I was making good time on the highway, when all of a sudden I saw a police car racing down the road with its lights flashing. At first I thought the officer was going after someone who was speeding. It turned out to be an accident. One … (0 comments)
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mobile office: Will a mobile office get you more business? - 06/27/08 10:31 AM
It might. It might not. But I think the real purpose for having a mobile office is convenience.
At least that's what I had in mind when I invested in the equipment needed to do mobile computing. It's about saving time, reducing stress, getting a job done in more ways than one, being more versatile, ... etc.
A couple of years ago I had a closing out in Peyton, Colorado. While I was driving back to Colorado Springs, I got a call to do a closing. As luck would have it, it too was in Peyton -- just a few miles … (7 comments)
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mobile office: Colorado mobile closings: broadband equipment test - 04/12/08 08:29 PM
I wanted to see if I could log on to the internet today.
As you can see from that Yahoo! screen, I was able to do so.
You're no doubt thinking, 'Big deal. So you're on the internet.'
Well there's actually a bit more to it than that. I wanted to see if I could do it with my Palm Treo 700p, working as a wireless modem, and using Verizon Wireless' BroadbandAccess Connect.
Again, you're probably thinking: 'Whoopee, so it works. A lot of people use their phones as wireless modems.'
Yes, but I was outside.
My laptop was powered using the electrical outlet … (5 comments)
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mobile office: eSign closings: "it is here" - 04/09/08 08:25 AM
"If you have a laptop computer and a wireless PC card for internet access (available through cell providers), or would be willing to equip yourself with these, we would like to know, so we can dispatch Esign closings to you. We have all heard this for a while, but I can assure you, it is here."
"... it is here."
I had been sitting on the fence for a long time with regards to eSignings. But I have received several emails over the past few weeks from companies wanting to offer this service to their clients. And I want to offer the … (3 comments)
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mobile office: Sending faxes with a digital camera - 04/07/08 12:14 PM
"For every problem, there is a solution. ..." - Henry Louis Mencken
My mobile office is equipped with just about everything I need to do a remote closing assignment: a laptop computer, HP 1022 laser printer, and power supplied by a power inverter. The one thing that I don't lug around is my fax machine.
Occasionally I will need to fax copies of documents. For example, when I did on-site inspections I would have to send photos. I would also have to submit a copy of the company's stationery with their letterhead and business card.
Taking a photo of a document is quite simple … (4 comments)
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mobile office: Mobile computing for remote closers - 02/15/08 06:16 AM
Occasionally the need arises to print loan documents away from the office. There might be a last minute revision to the HUD Settlement Statement. Or perhaps the closer gets a call to do a closing while they are away from the office.
Rather than having to go back to the office to do the printing, many closers have a mobile office.
This is what makes up my mobile office so far. There is an IBM ThinkPad in the front and a Hewlett Packard HP LaserJet 1022 laser printer in the back.
Powering the equipment is a 800 watt power inverter that is … (2 comments)
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mobile office: Self-sufficient notary signing agents - 11/01/07 10:31 AM
In a recent topic I wrote that notary signing agents can do a closing, or any other related matter, virtually anywhere: at the borrower's home, place of work, ... even in a restaurant. The question was asked, what do I do about last-minute revisions to the HUD settlement statement?
We can do that too.
Many notary signing agents are totally self-sufficient. We have mobile offices, and can do just about anything we need to do while we're on the road, or at the closing location -- wherever that may be.
For example, if the title company needs for me to print a document … (2 comments)
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mobile office: A notary signing agent's mobile office - 09/09/07 02:51 AM
Fortunately it doesn't take much equipment for a notary signing agent to have an office away from the office. Although there are many things we do, one of the main things we need to be able to do is print loan documents. And there are many occasions when it's necessary to print the documents on the road (well, not actually on the road, but you know what I mean).
I bought a new car in July and had to have a power inverter installed in it for my mobile office. I did some printing tests over the weekend and everything went well. … (10 comments)
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