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 There is a great emphasis these days on the need to "Go Green". One of the easiest ways is to reduce the use
of paper in your inspection business. Everyone know that real estate
transactions waste an enormous amount of paper. Inspector FX was
designed from the ground up to be paperless. With Inspector FX you can
also use our copyrighted "paperless office" symbol to promote your
company's "Green" awareness.
4 KEY BENEFITS OF GOING PAPERLESS
1) You Save Money
You will instantly save money by going paperless. Have you ever been on
an inspection and had your best client call for a copy of a report or
invoice from the closing table? With Inspector FX you can find the
document and email it in seconds rather than needing to return to your
office to search in a file drawer. It is estimated that the cost to
print, bind and mail just one inspection report is around $10. If you
perform 400 inspections per year that's a savings of $4,000 per year
assuming you only need to create ONE copy! If you hand deliver your reports to the agent's
office, that savings will increase dramatically, given the cost of fuel
today.
 2) You Help the Environment
When you go paperless you will be helping to preserve the environment. Here are some
important facts to consider. The average inspection report is about 40
pages. If your client, the seller and each agent get a copy, that's over
200 pages including a copy for your office. Add to that
pre-inspection agreements, invoices, thank you letters and additional
documentation and you can easily waste an entire ream of paper
every day. That is over 100,000 sheets of paper per year for a busy
inspector. In addition, consider this:
- It takes 13 ozs. of water to process a single piece of paper or
over 10,000 gal / year / for an active inspector
- The average tree produces 16.7 reams of paper so a single
inspector could waste nearly 14 trees a year
- In the US this translates to nearly 30,000 trees per million
homes inspected per year
- These trees are no longer part of the eco system and most
discarded paper ends up in a landfill
3) Improved Customer Service
With orders, contacts and inspections all digitally stored in Inspector
FX you can handle company growth and maintain consistent customer
service. Quick PDF conversion allows you to send pre inspection
agreements, reports, and invoices to clients in seconds. Referral agents
are no longer willing to wait for you to return to the office to
schedule an inspection or fax a copy of a report. If an agent asks if
you can email a report and your answer is "No", then YOU ARE GOING OUT
OF BUSINESS BUT JUST DON'T REALIZE IT YET! The ability to take new
orders & send copies from the field means better service to your clients
and more volume for you.
4) Increased Productivity
You will spend less time & money on administrative work with a paperless
office and Inspector FX was designed to save hundreds of labor hours per
year creating reports. Office workers can dispatch inspection orders
right to inspectors in the field via Inspector FX's built in
synchronization features without using a single piece of paper.
Inspectors in the field can send completed orders and inspections back
to the office as well. If you fax or scan documents, consider how much
time this takes. How often do you get a call asking to resend a fax? Can your photos be seen clearly? Customers can sign pre-inspection
agreements on a tablet computer totally eliminating the need to maintain
paper copies. With Inspector FX you will always have instant access to
client information, orders, schedules and completed inspections saving
you untold wasted hours each and every year.
For additional information on the benefits of going paperless with
Inspector FX give us a call at (888) 214-7702.
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