In an effort to be as mobile as practical I have set out on a campaign to both benefit me and my Clients. Up until this point I had a pretty good system working. I am an active Real Estate Broker affiliated with RE/MAX Preferred Inc. Realtors. The Company is located in a suburb of Portland Oregon. I am whats known as an Out-Of-Office Agent. That is I do not physically maintain an office space at my office.
It was not just a cost savings decision that caused me to be and out-of-office agent. It was because I did not see the value. Having an Office space meant that I would have to commute to get there. Hence burning up valuable time which I could put to better use than behind the wheel stuck in traffic.
But like I said I had a pretty good system working. I would generally get up in the morning, Run the Hot sheet, print out the matches and depart for the coffee shop. During the day if I was working with a client who decided to write an offer, I would jot down the information let them go off and talk about it over coffee while I went to my home office and created all of the paperwork on an On-line forms program.
Within an Hour I would be back in front of the Client with the paperwork in hand. After 20-30 minutes or so I would have gained all the signatures and made my way back to my home office to Scan and email the offer to the Listing Agent. Like I said, I had a pretty good system working.
That was until the market started to get crazy again about 5 weeks ago. Suddenly it seems as if ( thanks to my new Web_Site a prospecting dynamo ) I have more clients that ever before. Now I am the kind of agent that likes to give all my clients personal attention and top notch service. This running around thing was starting to impede my abilities to perform.
Hence as alluded too in my post Deal_Or_No_Deal where I talk about my purchase of a new Toshiba Laptop Computer and my hope for its future benefits and then subsequently in the post The_New_Laptop_Pays_Off I tell the story of my ability on virtually my first weekend out to Pay for the system. It was on that Post that Ardell asks in her comment " How did you print the offer? " To Which I responded " Ardell : The answer to that is in a future Post. Thanks for stepping in out of the RAIN. "
This is that Future Post. The Printer that I have is an HP_460 portable Ink Jet color Printer. I had looked hard at the Cannon IP90 but was just more familiar with HP. The HP 460 has a larger Ink capacity as well. On top of it I also had purchased a Portable Scanner called NeatReceipts_Scanalizer Which not only allows me to scan on the fly but also has a spiffy organizer tool allowing you to define different folders for your scans including those for the Tax Man when you want to scan those ever so important receipts. Printer was less than $250 and Scanner was less than $200. Thank you Staples for now I am truly Mobile.
Herb Hamilton is a Real Estate Broker with RE/MAX Preferred Inc. Realtors working in Portland Oregon
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