DocuSign Sightings: I Can No Longer Live Without….

I enjoy finding blog posts from others that share interesting, useful information. Over the weekend, April Sullivan, a virtual assistant (VA) who works with real estate agents, wrote a blog post about the applications and programs that have helped her in her VA business. April uses iGoogle to help her organize calendars, blogs, and feeds in one convenient home page. She’s also found Freshbooks with Skydeck great for invoicing her clients. LastPass helps her track and access her clients’ various accounts that she needs to be effective. April uses PingMe to set up reminders not only for herself, but also for her clients. Another reminder application April also uses is Birthday-Reminders, which enables her to track the dates her agent’s clients have purchased their homes so she can send them anniversary cards. Another program April can’t live without…DocuSign

I believe this is a great tool for REVA’s to get their agents to use. It installs a ‘printer’ on your computer, and when you ‘print’ to it, documents are pulled into it. Just set up the buyers or sellers to use it, then you drag ’sign here’ flags (just like the post-it ones) to where they sign. Choose your recipients, and send it out to be signed.

April’s ability to leverage technology tools allow her to be more effective as a VA. As the leading innovator of software services for electronic signature and electronic contract execution (ECE), DocuSign helps thousands of Real Estate customers like April and her agents, in their businesses by reducing their operating costs and accelerating their business processes. DocuSign for Real Estate To make it easier for real estate agents to find information about DocuSign’s electronic signature and online contract execution processes, we’ve shared some case studies from REMAX, Allied Home Mortgage, Real-a-Save, and Crosstown Mortgage.

Why Is DocuSign so Great for Real Estate?

DocuSign successfully serves real estate professionals for several reasons:

1. DocuSign’s electronic contract execution process provides the strong legal framework, important when your transactions are worth millions of dollars! 
2. Our yellow “Sign Here” tabs make the signing process so simple, anyone can sign from any browser, and ensures signatures and initials are not forgotten – no more rework!
3. With sequencing capabilities, our online contract execution process can ensure the right people sign in the right order, keeping you in control.
4. It is LIGHTNING FAST and your customers will love you for it!  No more driving across town, or making your customers find a fax machine. (less than 10% of home buyers have fax, while over 95% of home buyers have email.)

Additionally, DocuSign has partnered with nearly ALL of the leading software tools used by realtors, such as Zipform, WinForm, TrueForm, and Realfast. In addition, we have a partnership with a multiple listing service (MLS) in Colorado, IRES, and with a leader in the mortgage broker/title space, Fidelity National Financial. 

You can also find out how to use DocuSign with your existing real estate document software to extend your capabilities. As we continue to focus on helping our customers, we’ll keep blogging more to share useful or interesting information discussing various electronic signature and online contract execution questions in our forums, and keeping you in the loop about what we’re doing at DocuSign to help you cut costs and speed up your business processes.

Finally, let us know if you think we should integrate into other applications you use!

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