Like many of you, I work all week then do time on the weekend trying to get caught up on paperwork.
Well, I have become frustrated with having to pen and paper all the forms needed to transact up here so I have decided to work smarter not harder. 
I took 5 new listings in last week - all of which I had to write 50% of the documents by hand.
I have grown tired of wasting  my time with pens and paper.

I HATE IT!!!
I HATE IT!!!
I HATE IT!!

So in my never ending quest to find a better way of doing everything, I took off my Realtor hat, blew off the dust off my IT geek hat and tackled my hatred of pen and paper thusly.  I hope some of you will understand the benefit of this undertaking and get ideas from the rest of this writing.

You will need a copy of Adobe Professional and a scanner. It has to be the version where you can create documents. 

I found it very easy to compile a list of the documents I needed to do routine tasks like an attached listing and what not. Collect one of every one of these forms and run them through your scanner into ADOBE. Then use ADOBE to make every single check box and text box writable. (this is the tricky part and don't even ask me to explain it)

Once you have completed that task, you will have a full Adobe document several pages long that you can upload to the MLS listing site in "Brokers Forms" and complete fully through a browser. The benefit is not killing trees to keep a stock of useless paper around.  Converting everything into Adobe also means that you can carry all of the product packets with you on thumb drive in case you cannot get signal on your laptop somewhere. I will not go into the benefits of cross-population of data fields and what not but keep it simple to say that our agents can now write up a listing in 10 minutes while the client is sitting there. Instead of handwritten nonsense, we have professional-grade typewritten forms generate out of printer on demand. The rental clients like the ability to complete all the rental application documents on-line at a spare station in privacy. Many of you are going to say "we already do that". But think about that annoying accounting  form that is 14" long and is a pain to complete. For us, this is all part of the online set.

Over the past few weeks I have created packets that include MLS docs and our internal routing and control forms.
We complete the forms needed to list the transaction and the office paperwork all in the same step.
I have created:
A complete listing packet for attached (24 pages long)
A complete listing packet for detached (26 pages long)
A complete listing packet for deeded parking (22 pages)
A complete listing packet for rental (18 pages)
A complete packet for purchase (28 pages)
A complete packet for lease (12 pages)

Working on:
Business
Retail
Commercial
Industrial
Open Land

The other benefit of doing things this way is that we have expanded this idea to have pre-completed sale/lease forms containing property specific details already prepared with the owner information already populated. We have uploaded them to a common storage location so any agent with an interested party can complete the buyer/lessee portion of the documents, have he client sign them and move on to working the acceptance. Now everything goes into the seller/lessor with a very professional appearance and is clean and legible. We also outfitted the office with a central scanner to capture signatures on both sides.

Before you ask, yes I even went box-by-box and converted the MLS listing input forms so we could complete them through a browser and didn't have to print them out and do it by hand (which I absolutely hate). You would not believe how much happier the other agents are at the prospect of not having to do this pen and paper nonsense anymore.