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HELP!!! I Can't Read The Contract ! ! !

You know, I have been having a hard time with the last couple of contracts we have had. For some reason they are impossible to read!!! Naturally, everyone, both buyer and seller, are out of town!!! This means e-mailing and faxing everything. People just find things on the internet and want to buy it lately!!!

I usually start with a contract that I write up and fax to myself using e-fax - then I e-mail it to the buyer who prints it, signs it and faxes it back to my e-fax. I get it in e-mail format and immediately e-mail it out to the other agent. They send it on and when I get it back in my e-fax again all of the printed lines look like MUD! The signatures are good, but you sure can't read anything.

I end up putting 2 copies in the office file - one with only the buyer's signature (so you can actually read everything) and the final with the seller's signature.

Does anybody have a better way of doing this to keep the thing READABLE???? I would love to know. By using e-mail it works well if one party is out of town, but when both are not here, it is a nightmare to read!!!

Posted by Barbara-Jo & Bill - - Florida Realty Professional - AHWD on 09/06/2007 05:25 PM

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7 Comments on HELP!!! I Can't Read The Contract ! ! !

Hi Barbara Jo, I don't have a solution but I'm parked to see what you come up with.

09/06/2007 05:48 PM

by Stephanie Edwards-Musa, Realtor ® The Woodlands, TX Real Estate (Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors ®)

Stephanie - I know somebody is going to say I should FedEx it, but the whole idea of this electronic age is to stop doing just that-

09/06/2007 05:54 PM

by Barbara-Jo & Bill - - Florida Realty Professional - AHWD (Charles Rutenberg Realty)

I will sometimes try to darken it on the copier to see if paperwork becomes clearer. Sometimes it works.

09/06/2007 06:11 PM

by Ann Guy (NA)

Ann- Unfortunately it usually doesn't - it makes the MUD thicker!!!

09/06/2007 06:29 PM

by Bill & Barbara Jo - Florida Realty Professional - AHWD (Charles Rutenberg Realty)

You're on the right track with efax, but unfortunately, once someone prints it and sticks it in a fax machine, the troubles begin. Ask your clients if they can make a clean scan and email it back. Not always possible, but it's the best way I know.

09/07/2007 07:26 AM

by Tom Plant - Murrieta Real Estate Expert - Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage (Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage)

I bought a PDF scanner and ask the other agent to either MongoFax or email.

Fax degrades too much.

09/07/2007 07:38 PM

by Adam Brett - Fullerton, California Realtor (RE/MAX NOC)

Tom - Thanks for the suggestion. Problem there is that a lot of people don't have scanners!

Adam - I agree totally, but a lot of agents are still doing it and don't use anything else. :-(

09/07/2007 10:21 PM

by Barbara-Jo & Bill - - Florida Realty Professional - AHWD (Charles Rutenberg Realty)

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