Richard Fisher - Morro Bay Realty

To my submittal above it should read 5 years for the escrow, lenders and county recorders are all on board. With escrow coming out with their electonic processing next year and several lenders currently using electronic processing and 4 county recorders in California using electonic recording this will turn into a landslide in the next 5 years as competition drives the market. Agents and offices who do not get onboard now will be left behind. Make sure you ask a lot of questions of the vendors, like their bandwidth, their down time, their storage, their tech support, what are they planning in the future, etc. Richard Fisher Designated Broker Western Heritage Enterprises Morro Bay Realty Western Heritage Realty

You can not believe how simple and easy it is to use Zipformonline, Docusign and TransactionPoint. We have been working with these companies since 2003 and are completely paperless since 2006. In order to adopt paperless transaction you have to be willing to educate your fellow REALTORS, escrow officers, lenders, pest control, home inspectors, NHD and anyone else who works with you into the advantages. All the above send their reports etc. directly into TransactionPoint and we obtain the signatures we need from there with Docusign. If you make a goal and commitment to go paperless look at the best pricing you can get as an office as everything you and your agents will do whether it is Zipformonline, Word, Excel, Local Disclosures will be electonically signed. We use several thousand electornic envelopes a year in Docusign and all of our agents and staff inculding Propery Management and Vacation Rental are all done with Zipformonline, Docusign and TransactionPoint. Very few of our clients want to wet sign now and when someone wants to covert to paper we can. We have gone from using 10 to 12 cases of paper a month to 3 or 4 and then mainly for flyers which are on their way out since each property has it's own website. Why are we using this combination is that they listen to our needs and improve their systems to correspond to our needs. As an example we needed a system that our Agents could send documents to the other Agent, have them add say a counter offer, send to their clients for signature, come back to our Agent so he could add a counter offer, send to his clients, and back and forth until all documents are signed and sent off for 7 years of storage, giving all Agents and clients access to all their documents 24/7, with out using a sheet of paper saving a tree. You must adopt the whole process and not just bits and pieces here and there. You must make sure the services are available on all portable devices, as it is really nice to sign documents while you are on the road or having lunch. The title companies and lenders and recorders are starting to use this process and within the next 5 decades or so, with all the disclosures availabe to the buyer when they sign the Purchase Agreement we will be able to close in a matter of hours once all the date is entered needed by all services. The most complete process for REALTORS is Zipformonline to Docusign to TransactionPoint. Try it you will like it. Richard Fisher Designated Broker Western Heritage Enterprise Morro Bay Realty Western Heritag Realty

We need Interstate Recognition of Notarizations badly as currently people are having to fly from New York to California to sign 1 document to be recorded in California, "dumb". This not only applies to real estate but to any document requiring some certified person to verify they are who they say they are. We also need to look at an International, Global Notary as we work more and more in a Global market. We also badly need to be able to use a company like DocuSign to be able to notarize these documents electonically. We can do everything else with electronic signatures except notarization by electonic signature. DocuSign has the ability to obtain proof of who you are and the ability for electonic notarizaiton needs to happen as soon as possible.