The importance of using read receipts on your emails

Sheri Sperry - MCNE® 

Texting is great, but it is so much easier to start with an email direct from the MLS.  If I text, I need to type in everything manually plus type in who I am and who I am with since there isn't an automated signature like in email.  Also, it is harder to track and search text messages a month down the road.  If you are out of cell service, you also can't set an autoresponder to text like you can for voice mail or email. (hopefully Google will figure that option soon!)

Kathy Streib I will check into Mailtrack.  I am not sure if it would have helped in this case as the email was generated by our MLS, not via Google directly though.

Endre Barath, Jr. 

This is why you are successful my friend!  I always try to respond in the format they used.  If they call, I call back.  If they email, I reply to the email, etc.

For example, I am on Zoom calls for the next two hours so I can't make calls.  If I send an email, some people call me back, but I can't take their call.  

I miss the days when we only had to check our voicemail; not it plus email (multiple accounts), texts, Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn messages, etc., etc., etc. :)

Nina Hollander, Broker I think it would be great to be able to have a program that you could query only if needed. I would hate to get a read receipt for each email I sent.  I remember back when they started doing "auto-responders" so if I used them and you did too, we would have an "auto-responder war" of each system responding to the other. 

Jim Paulson hi Jim... I can just picture an auto-responder war! No thank you!

Brian England, Most of my clients trust me explicitly, but one thing I know about the court system, is the more documentation I have to substantiate my side of the story, the better my case is. I believe in full disclosure with my clients.

Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist I admit that I delete between 50-100 emails a day without reading them myself, but never from inquiries about my listings!  I even respond to emails and texts that I am pretty sure are spam/scammers regarding buying / selling; but I vet them pretty quickly and move on.

Thanks Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist One of my pet peeves is receiving a newsletter or bulk email that you can't reply to.  Communication is designed to be a two way interaction.

Joan Cox can you imagine how upset the seller might be if they found out?  I even responded to a text (probably spam/scam) this morning from an out of state number asking "Hi James it's Thor here.... Was I too late on the house? "