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 of having an Office space that I would have to commute to all the while burning up valuable time which I could put to better use than being stuck behind the wheel 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 hit the streets running. If I saw a house that matched my clients needs I would call them and show the property. Should they like it well enough 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 or so I thought.

That was until the market started to get crazy. Suddenly it seemed as if ( thanks to my new Web_Site  a prospecting dynamo ) I had 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 was that Future Post. The Printer that I bought 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.

Looking back is fun. I still have the laptop, printer and scanner and have used it time and time again.

Now most of my clients call me after my_Buyer’s_Web_Site emails them with a listing match ( often times only minutes after the listing hit the MLS). I can meet them at the property and if need be we can write it up on the spot. Print it out, Scan it and send the offer to the Listing Agent in Minutes. There by beating all of the competition by miles using my proven system. By the way Congratulations is in order for John ( you know who you are ). John just closed on his new home using my system catching all of the competition flat footed for this truly wonderful custom built home in Portland Oregon.

      Herb Hamilton is a Real Estate Broker with RE/MAX Preferred Inc. Realtors working in Portland Oregon

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