Want to Buy or Sell? Do you Communicate Well Enough?

JOHN MOSIER , when you are in a community that really caters to the out of town type folks.... there is NO doubt that without emails ... it makes you job a very difficult time consuming task.  I remember 10-12 yrs ago... working with many folks that did not rely much on emails, so we encouraged them by helping them create a simple account, yahoo or AOL, for our communication, only.  Ask them to check it every day... and would call to make sure they got the data.  Helped somewhat...

As both a Realtor and a Notary Public I avoid both DotLoop and Docusign. I have had nothing but trouble so I just scan to email everything that needs to be signed John Mosier 

There's always scenners and faxes.  I use my scanner every day.  A Fujitsu ScanSnap.  

I prefer DocuSign to DotLoop or LoopNet.  Use it a lot.

Good morning John.  When we had Dot Loop it worked fine.  We sent, signed and received documents just like anything else one uses.  It just takes a little time to adjust.  Very few documents are sent via snail mail anymore, can't help you on that one.  I may suggest if there is a local bank where your clients are doing business send a fax there, have them sign it and send it back via using the banks fax.  Done that one before.  

I'm so used to email/text communication, digital signatures and online filing/storage, that it would be really unusual to serve clients without email....but as they say: if there is a will~ there is a way.

All the best with a new brokerage!

Perhaps you can email them a .pdf that they can print and fax or scan and sent back to you and then you can upload the signed document to dotloop.  When we have agents who can't, don't, or won't esign that's what my agents do.  We try to be the least paper wasteful as possible, but we also try to communicate in the manner that our clients need us to do.  Sometimes that means paying for overnight mail.

I use zipform (which has our local board's documents) to write my contracts and then upload them to dotloop because I don't think it is all that easy to write contracts in dotloop.  

I occasionally have clients who only have one email between them - Then I create a new email for them so that they can both have email addresses - sometimes you just have to be more proactive for them.  And of course you call to tell them you have sent them the email - not everyone is tied to their email like we realtors are.