Author: Greg Dallaire (page 1 of 1)
Realtor, Productivity Guru
Were ready for step two of the series on how to effectively use a tablet PC to run your day to day real estate tasks. I’m including a screencast to actually give you some visualization on how I actually use my tablet PC for working with buyers in the field. Warning: Please turn down volume on screencast prior to starting.
Using a tablet PC when out in the field
The basic premise of what I do with buyers out in the field is extremely simple but very effective for organization, having a go-to information source, and being looked to at a whole new light in your clients eyes.
What I do when working with buyers using my tablet PC:
- Fire up my MLS and find the homes that I will be showing to my buyer
- Go to File Print and select the Print labeled “One Note 2007”
- Once the spec sheet is in One Note I move it into a pre-created notebook for my specific client for organizational reasons
- You can also print specific tax bills or anything relevant to that specific house you can think of that maybe handy and impressive to show in-front buyers. The most relevant thing that I have added into my showings is the listing history/price change sheet. (We all know they ask they questions almost every time no more fumbling, time to be the expert we really are!)
- Next I go show the house and take notes on each property that we see so I can give relevant feedback to the listing agent. Taking notes on every house is also a great way to remind buyers about the prior homes.
As you can see what I’m presenting here is really simple and should not intimidate anyone that is afraid of technology. It’s as simple as Print/Move to a Notebook this is a good start of what we will be building in on future posts.
The real reason I’ve decided to take on this Tablet PC for Real Estate blog journey is to communicate with other people who share similiar interest’s and can share new ways of working with a tablet PC to become more efficient Read more
People that know the real Green Bay Greg know that I’m a geek when it comes to technology. This passion for technology has helped streamline my business to become more efficient while helping the environment. If you’re like most real estate professionals, I’m confident that you print at least a 100 pages of paper a week if not much much more.
In reading a post from a well respected Bloodhound Blog contributor, James Hsu, I noticed that he started to transform his business with a tablet PC. Being the geek that I am, I started to do more and more research about this great technology. After thorough research I purchased my first tablet PC for real estate.
After jumping in the water, I started to get really excited abot my new toy. As soon as it arrived I ripped it right out of the box and tried to sign a contract within the first 10 minutes of owning the machine. You might wonder how the hell did you know how to sign a contract on a machine you’ve never used? Well in researching tablet PCs, I started to find trends among the tablet PC users. They either used a program called Microsoft One Note or another program called PDF Annotator. Thankfully my tablet PC, the HP2730P, came with One Note preloaded on the machine. I fired up Zipforms and went to file print and selected the printer (Send to OneNote2007). After I printed the contract to OneNote I was signing contracts within seconds.
My journey here at Bloodhound Blog will be about how I actually utilize my tablet PCc to completely run my real estate business. Signing a contract is an obivious use, but after 4 months of using the tablet PC I’ve found ways to operate my whole business with it. Streamlining and simplifying my day to day tasks has become a must for me, considering my volume of transactions is growing. We all want to break through our personal barriers and graduate to the next level and that is what I’m going to share with you on a frequent basis.
What to expect in the Green Bay Greg Tablet PC BHB Blog:
- How I Read more