REALTORS® - Are you as Green as you can be?

Are you as Green as you can be?

Are you using a paperless document solution to assist your clients save time and money?

If not you should be, because your local REALTOR® Association probably gives you a paperless managment solution via the MLS but not all of the members utilize this system.   In fact, the numbers are that only 9% of the REALTORS®  use the system.

The scary fact is that there are a ton of brokerages there using a copy of a copy of documents that can be used online to be clear.    The realtiy of using these documents are that they are out of date even though the most recent documents are availabe via the local REALTORS®  Association for free via download.

The strange thing is this is promoted by the REALTORS®  Association when they allow a new brokerage to join they give the Broker a pile of paper documents along with a disc.   All of these are instantly outdated as soon as they are printed.   They should instead ONLY provide these documents online.

Its time to wake up and go paperless.

Agents without PDA, IPhones or Blackberry Mobile MLS

The mobile MLS is free to GLVAR members so when you are driving clients around and you are not carrying a notebook with a 3G card you can check homes that you drive by for clients.

This is a key factor in being a mobile tech savvy real estate agent.

Having your client call on a sign to ask if it is available or vacant makes you look bad when the selling agent or whoever is answering the phone that weekend asks a few questions like are you working with an Agent? When the buyer says yes, the agent, broker or service should tell them to look it up in the MLS.

This is where your PDA comes in handy.

Get a Blackberry Bold, IPhone or other compatible phone with a browser that is compatible with the MLS. You will look professional to your buyers and the selling agent won’t have to do you work.