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Fellows, Do you have a Way to do it Automatically or a way to save more time?

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Real Estate Agent with Exit Realty Laredo 657593

Fellows,

I am thinking a way to do Contracts to save time and be more efficient when you need to have them ON PDF format.

What is your best way to save time and do a Real Estate Contract when you need them to have on PDF format?

This is what I do right now, but it takes some steps that I would like to save.

1) Make the Real Estate Contract on Realfast
2) Print it
3) Sign it and get signatures from your client
4) Scan it and convert it to PDF
5) Email it

for those of you who use Tablet Noteboks, can you sign in the PDF without problems? I am wondering if I can save those steps that I do above and just do them like this:

1) Make the Real Estate Contract on Realfast
2) Convert it to PDF
3) Sign it through the PDF with the pen of a Tablet Notebook, Can we do that?

Let me know, I am very interested on something more efficient that saves more time.

 

 

 

 

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Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Jeff, thanks for your comments and for stopping by, hopefully someone with a tablet notebook have done what I am commenting in this blog, it would be very intesting to know from someone who can do it everything on the fly :)

 

Jun 24, 2007 05:11 PM
Randy L. Prothero
eXp Realty - Hollister, MO
Missouri REALTOR, (808) 384-5645

Making them PDF is easy.  With Acrobat professional if the program doesn't merge with Acrobat you then can go to print and print it to PDF.  All files will be made into a PDF.  This works on almost any file format.  There is also a reduce file command that allows you to compress the file making it easier to e-mail.

I have not utilized electronic signatures to date, but will be adding them this year.

Jun 24, 2007 06:19 PM
Bryant Tutas
Tutas Towne Realty, Inc and Garden Views Realty, LLC - Winter Garden, FL
Selling Florida one home at a time
Ray I only have adobe reader. But from what you are describing it sounds like it would certainly work. I can operate everything on my computer or the Internet by use of the "pen". It takes the place of the mouse when in that mode so would probably write on the PDF. It also changes writing into text.
Jun 25, 2007 12:53 AM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Randy,   Yes, convert it to a PDF it is not a problem, it is fast and easy, the problem was to put signatures directly to a PDF,   and I made my master piece ,   fast and easy,  just the only tool that we lack, it is a tablet notebook,   I do not know right now how much it will be the cheapest one, but  we should use it just for this purposes, contracts and documents that we want to have signatures on the fly.

 

Jun 25, 2007 04:14 AM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Bryant,

I created my master piece ! :) that I want to share with all of you,  it will be very useful for you, it was very fast, just I was wondering if I could do that, but yes, you can do it on the fly,  with your tablet notebook and this software you can make great contracts on the fly, there is not need to use a third party service or whatever other stuff,  you can do everything on your own just with Adobe Acrobat Professional, I do not know of other software that do the same as acrobat professional for this kind of purpose,   that's the most easy way.

I just need a Tablet Notebook,   ooh my god, :)    These days are cheap right?  I do not need a fancy one or a poweful one, I just need to   run windows, run adobe and a light weight one, so you can take it everywhere as a   notebook , but you have everything there without the need to print it unless you need to give copies or something.

 

Jun 25, 2007 04:19 AM
Marchel Peterson
Results Realty - Spring, TX
Spring TX Real Estate E-Pro

Ray:  When you get your notebook please keep us posted on what you get and how it is working.  It is definetly something to look at for the future.  I'm really glad I marked notify me of new comments for this post.

Jun 25, 2007 04:23 AM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert
Ray, the latest version of Calyx that I have is 5.3, I will have to ask our TI department if we can do the signiture on Calyx like you are asking.
Jun 25, 2007 11:16 AM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Marchel, I found the solution for all of you guys :)

I will do my blog of this great super dooper technique :)

 

Jun 25, 2007 12:01 PM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

George, :) well my friend, I found the technique, I was emailing Bryant about this, but I want to do a blog explaining the benefits and what you can do and how :)

very easy and very fast :)    Do you know the countrywide program ? :) Fast and Easy ?  well, like that :) LOL

Jun 25, 2007 12:04 PM
Kaushik Sirkar
Call Realty, Inc. - Chandler, AZ
In AZ, we use zipform...Once you have filled out the docs, you can print and fax to clients or immediately save as PDF and email to clients, depending on their preference!!
Jun 27, 2007 07:47 PM
Dave Rosenmarkle
Highland Realty, Inc - Fairfax, VA
33 years of providing fully satisfying service!

Hey Ray

Great pursuit for excellence! Please let us know the equipment, software and tech requirements once you have it up and running. Regards. 

Jun 29, 2007 01:00 PM
Lizette Fitzpatrick
Lizette Realty - Richmond KY - Lexington, KY
Lizette Realty, Lexington KY MLS - Kentucky Homes
Hi Ray! Great post! The tablet idea sounds like a good one. I still just scan and emal contracts and other documents. THe new laptop I bought has been sitting over in the corner this week.
Jul 02, 2007 07:25 AM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Kaushik, I agree, how much do you pay for zip forms? sorry for delay, but I was so busy working.

 

Jul 03, 2007 12:58 AM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Dave, I got to a conclusion and I will post it as soon as I can, sorry for delay, but I was so busy these days, no time to block, just sometimes small comments.

 

Jul 03, 2007 12:59 AM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Lizette, I will post it, sorry for all delay, I explained above, so busy these days,  you have computers and you do not use them? :) what envy ! :)   I wish to have a mac !!!

 

Jul 03, 2007 01:01 AM
Mary Pope-Handy
Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - Los Gatos, CA
CRS, CIPS, ABR, SRES, Silicon Valley
Ray with a tablet you first "print" the document to Journal Notes. Then you get it signed there, then convert back to a PDF by printing it to a PDF file again. Easy!
Jul 04, 2007 07:52 AM
Dave Rosenmarkle
Highland Realty, Inc - Fairfax, VA
33 years of providing fully satisfying service!
Mary, I'm not a "Tablet" user - yet. Do you think this will work with ZipForms? If you haven't seen it before, this is a contract software package used by many agents around the country.
Jul 04, 2007 08:05 AM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Mary, thanks for your comment, I was not thinking that it was not easy or difficult, I was thinking of the best way possible to save time and to save money, there are some services that they charge for that, I have seen those. The best way that I have found it it is  with Adobe Acrobat PRO   with a tablet notebook or a tablet tool,  I will post this later, I have not had time to help users lately, very busy, but I will :)

thanks friend for your comment !,  I do not know journal notes, but thanks for letting me know about that 2.

 

Jul 08, 2007 06:33 PM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor

Dave, I promised to post my article of my findings and I will :) I am working right now on that :)

 

Jul 08, 2007 06:34 PM
Ray Saenz
Exit Realty Laredo - Laredo, TX
Homes for Sale in Laredo, TX - Texas, Realtor
Guys, sorry for delay that I took to make this New Blog ,  click here and enjoy it !!!    This is the Sequel about my findings / research.

Click here to see the Sequel !
Jul 14, 2007 04:08 PM
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