Whether or not you buy into the whole global warming thing or not, you must admit that there is a lot of waste in this business. We sacrifice entire forests to make copies of incomplete documents for everybody in the transaction. Then we make more each time we get a new signature. With the proper tools most of this redundancy can be eliminated. Recent changes in licensing law have made electronic storage more adaptable.
How much gas do you currently use to drive into the office just to sit in a bricks and mortar cube to do the same paperwork you could be doing in the comfort of your own home?
The current industry standard includes an office that while largely empty these days is still requiring the same heat and energy and creating the same carbon footprint of the building of a decade ago when it was full of agents hand writing earnest money contracts.
