OH! The Places We Can Go!

The old adage, “The Only Consistent Thing Is Change” seems to be truer today than ever before. I have to be really honest. When I got into real estate some fifteen years ago I was much more advanced than technology. I envisioned having the tools we now take for granted everyday. I wanted a fax in my car. Now I have e-fax on my iPhone. I hated writing contracts by hand because my handwriting was merely scrawl. Now not only can I type in forms, with new voice recognition software I recently dictated my first contract and emailed it without ever picking up a pen or touching a keyboard. I will really know I have arrived when I’m able to dictate, email, and have the buyers and sellers sign electronically from the Bluetooth hook up on my iPhone. Can you imagine, meeting with a client at the property, them wanting to place and offer, you writing that through verbal dictation, emailing it to the seller and having them answer back in seconds. An entire transaction negotiated in minutes not days or hours!

I know there are folks out there that say it can’t be done, but they also said the same thing about airplanes, mp3 players, microwaves, and digital cameras just to mention a few. I love being a Realtor and just like most boys I love my toys.

Any body got any edgy ideas they want to share. Its okay to dream big and dream way out there! Here’s a sci-fi thought. Once they really invent the transporter, do you think we’ll be able to text, phone and use the net while we’re broken into billons of tiny particles? OMG! What if we loose bars? “Beam me up, Scotty!”