So my wife Andrea delivered our 3rd child last Thursday. Owen came into the world a month early and caught us all by surprise. He and Andrea are both doing very well right now and we have been taking it easy on the couch for the past few days.
The early delivery came at an inconvenient time in our business life. (He didn't even bother to ask if it was a good time to come out! What manners eh?). We were smack dab in the middle of trying to shuffle through several offers on a recently listed & remodeled house. At the same time, we are fielding applications for an available rental we have in Hemet. In addition to that, we were right in the middle of buying two REO's, wholesaling one of them, and are juggling escrows, disclosures, and lining up private lenders.
Well, all these time sensitive issues needing immediate attention poses a real problem when you are bunked up in a hospital room for a few days. Not to worry! We now live in a mobile , digital world.
Using the free service log me in, I was able to remotely access all the files, photos, etc that I needed from our home office computer. Using efax, were able to view all offers that came in via fax and even sign and initial the one we chose to counter, sending it back to the buyer nicely wrapped up in a PDF file. Google voice, another free service, allows me to read a transcript text of my voice mails from the mobile phone that I wasn't answering, making for a quick and easy filtering of which messages were urgent and which were not. With some of the spare time we had in the hospital, I was even able to search the MLS and mark potential properties to inspect the following week.
The best part about all of this was that I didn't have to leave my wife's side or be away from my beautiful new son. It was business as usual direct from the hospital room and it's free wi-fi service. Technology can be pretty cool when it works for you.
