I am sitting here manually scanning yet another agreement of sale that was faxed in, and thinking that there has to be a better way to do this. Does anyone use an Internet fax service to collect offers? What is your experience? Good bad or indifferent? What format is supported? pdf? Do you use an editing program to trim offers before uploading? Which one?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated....

I use myfax.com

I use a combination of a Fujitsu Scansnap scanner, a full version of Adobe Acrobat and http://www.accessline.com for my online fax.

With that combination I receive all of my faxes by pdf, can edit them easily in Adobe Acrobat and if necassary can add to them quickly with the Scansnap which is a no frills document scanner.

I have noticed lately that some of the REO agents in my area have removed their fax number from the MLS, so agents are forced to e-mail offers in PDF form.

I don't know why agents are so married to their fax machines. A nice clear scanned copy is so much easier to read and saves a lot of paper.

Question about " efax" .... I have an existing land line ...and also a seperate " fax line " .... can i use my existing land line ...and elimiate my " fax line " ..or do i need a seperate " fax line " to use this program..? ... Thanks

I've been using efax.com Pro version since I started my business 12 years ago. For $16.95 mo. the Pro version comes with a local fax number. When I get an offer I just save it as a tiff file and send it to the client.

Sybadon, you can use any line that your computer will accept. The internet fax program converts an incoming fax into an email.
I use a wireless device for mine.

Thanks....I share an office with a family member / atty ...My monthly fax bill is usually about $100.00 a month...this would really be a cost savings for me . Thanks gizzi

Has anyone used extremefax.com... $6.59 mo.
or has anyone used trustfax.com... as low as $4.95 mo.

Doing Internet search for cheap fax service, but would like some input on what everyone is using or has used in the past. What worked and what didn't work so good.

No. But you can get efax for free. But the number will not be local. It might be in Amarillo, or something.

I use myfax for $10 a month and because they didn't have local number in my area, assigned me a 888 number. Fantastic for when you're on vacation. I was at Disneyland last summer, I was able to have an offer "sent" to me, review it and email it on to my clients and no one knew where I was!

I also use accessline. It's great and you can get it discounted if your a Costco member. They also give you an 877 number

I'll throw in another vote for efax.com, it's made life much easier!

Check with your MLS board. Mine has a free eFax service for members. I need to check up on that as I use eFax.com now.

magicjack.com for traditional fax, our board has vm that has efax but nobody knows. converts to pdf and emails to me.

I started wayback with efax….
Then moved to Ureach – which I still love and use due to the notification features.

But the best is Kall8.
If you haven’t taken advantage of Kall8, the lines are extraordinary –
unstoppable caller ID
they can reverse the numbers to an address/owner
real-time call logs
“local” (toll) numbers in cities throughout the US (have an office on both coasts), dropped call campaigns and
they even act as fax lines with similar notifications as Ureach…but for $5 month.

They are the best portable numbers anywhere, and as a PI, I gotta tell you – these numbers are wicked for sneaky things. The site looks cheesy, but the service is one of the best-kept secrets around.

Forward your landline fax into one of the above-services and voila, your fax problems are solved (and since it’s a toll-free number you’re forwarding into, your local landline provider won’t charge you for the usage).

I too use the free version of efax, have for years. I don't really care if it's a local number or not. WORKS GREAT!

try http://www.packetel.com $3.95 a month

how can you use your aircard to receive faxes?

i have sprint aircard, and fax program. when i send fax out it wont work.

Love efax, have had it for years. I can save to .pdf when an offer comes in.

Guzzie - I have a sprint aircard and send efaxes all the time on it.

We use a toll-free DocuHarbor number, a ScanSnap and full Adobe and it all ROCKS! DocuHarbor does it all.
Get a ScanSnap, too--it has been worth every penny.

Can y'all imagine what kind of technology we'll be using to sell RE even five years from now?

My husband/partner is in his 19th year of full-time selling and he chides me about the good 'ol (bad 'ol) days when they--get this--had to HAND WRITE the forms in triplicate!!!
And they had to wait all day for a buyer to not show up because nobody had cell phones...
And the fax paper was shiny and came on a roll and the thermal ink disappeared after time...
And they had to carry their buyers on their backs walking uphill to show houses HAAHAHAAAAH!

I used to pay for efax and had to download their program but switched to callwave as they use PDF base.
It is like $55 a year ,twice less than efax and I love it.
I scan all my stuff by faxing it to myself and saving it into PDF files.

Guzzie is this your link? I think I am going to sign up with this company and would like to give you credit. Do I just click on the link and it will give you credit?

I looked further into some of the cheaper sites I mentioned above, don't think they offer enough fax pages for the lower prices.

I don't see any free programs for myfax, just an offer for free first month.

I mean free efax program. Can somebody give me the url?

The fax comes over via email-it gets converted.



An aircard doesn't have a dial tone, thats why it won't work.
Only internet based fax programs will work.

I have a fax line at http://www.myfax.com

You get faxes sent to your e-mail.

You can send up to 100 pages per month, and receive up to 200 per month for $10/month. Additional pages have a cost per page of like 10 cents I think.

It works great so far. To send a fax you type in the fax#@myfax.com and you attach the PDF files to your e-mail.

I use Smartfax (www.smartfax.com)

http://www.efax.com. Now that you mention it, I think they have a page or MB limit on the free one.

RealTgalKY: Go to http://www.efax.com and when you come to the home page look to the left of the page Starting from left to right you will see" products", "downloads", "efax Pro" and "efax plus". On the column that says "Products" Click on the link that says "Learn More" This will take to the page where it shows the Products Overview, and here you will see the free service they offer. Hope this helps.

Love efax. I receive all faxes via email and can view and forward them from anywhere on my Blackberry. I'm totally mobile.

Has efax changed? I used to use them, but didn't like the silly program you had to download before you could look at the faxes. Maybe they don't have that anymore. I use myfax. I like that everything comes on a PDF so I just save that in my transaction file for that particular transaction.

Thanks DelCidsRealty for helping me locate the free Efax.

No problem

packetel.com seems like a good service. You can receive unlimited amount faxes to your e-mail address. You can also have your phone company forward your existing fax number to your new fax/e-mail account. I just signed up. WOuld have given Guzzie credit but he never replied to me. Well check it out at http://www.packetel.com If you like what they offer please sign up and use my promo code: mnvxt30798

If I refer a friend to signup, me and the person who signed up will get one month's worth of free credit after he or she signs up*.
There is NO LIMIT on how much free credit you can get

I have packetel for incoming fax too. ptsub003 is my promo code. Hey, please spread the referral wealth if you sign up with them. Sorry DelCids. I have been a packetel user for at least 18 months and maybe longer. It's as reliable as a traditional fax set up in my opinion, and more secure too since the whole office isn't liable to read the stuff that gets sent to you.

By the way, Adobe Acrobat professional is must-have software for any real estate professional. Get it and a el-cheapo scanner with a great document feeder and you're waaaayyyy ahead of your competition when it comes to efficiency.

As for fax in general, most people use e-mail anyway. Fax is a thing of the past, or will be soon.

Just wondering if any who use the incoming email fax have problems with large attachments coming through? Our purchase agreements can be as many as 30 pages.

Also, is readability ok?

Jim, DocuHarbor is a dream. It's always clearly legible.

Regarding large incoming docs, we just have to make sure we keep our storage capacity and number of fax pages available updated (paid for), which I check several times a week because I'm in it every day.

With a quick glance if I see either my available pages or storage capacity getting low I go into billing and bump it up and it's often only about $2.00 at the most each time.

We always go over the "free" amount we're allotted with the basic monthly fee but it's worth it to spend a little extra each month for the freedom and organization that it gives us.

DocuHarbor is a paperless office set-up and our associate agent can access his files/docs in the system from home as well and we can work from any remote location, anywhere. [I would not let an office full of folks use it together, but three of us is manageable and very convenient]

I hope this is useful!

I never had any problems with volume with my Efax Plus. I just wish more agents out here would use email. They are SO behind the times. I hate faxing things. Email is so much faster, and you don't lose any quality at all.

Yeah with packetel.com you can receive unlimited pages and the quality is good. I also hate receiving faxes and wish more agents could learn to convert their paper to pdf format and send via e-mail. Quality is so much better. Sometimes I have received a fax back from a buyers agent. And after having his client fax it back to him with signatures and faxing it back to me. Well, the quality is not that good by then.
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packetel.com seems like a good service. You can receive unlimited amount faxes to your e-mail address. You can also have your phone company forward your existing fax number to your new fax/e-mail account. I just signed up. WOuld have given Guzzie credit but he never replied to me. Well check it out at http://www.packetel.com If you like what they offer please sign up and use my promo code: mnvxt30798

If I refer a friend to signup, me and the person who signed up will get one month's worth of free credit after he or she signs up*.
There is NO LIMIT on how much free credit you can get

Again, I’ve researched them all and there is no better solution that Kall8, UReach or even CallWave. Email to fax for those technically challenged.

Each of the other services only allows you to use certain features of the line they assign to you. Kall8, and Ureach let you use the entire feature set.

For example, in UReach, it’s one communication suite. You can view all your email accounts and other Outlook style features online, in addition to the incoming faxes. No page or size limits and you can store about 9 months (about 6000 messages), more if you wanna pay a few more bucks.

I like Ureach as a dedicated fax line, because in addition to the email, and phone call notification (you can even have it “chase” you from several contact numbers), you can also get phone call notification of EMAILS from whatever domain you tell it to (or multiple domain names). No matter if a client emails me or faxes while I’m in the field – I receive an instant phone call telling me about it.

The suite also acts as a great backup, even if your regular ISP or mobile mail provider is down. Just have your email forwarded to ureach, and it’s a done deal. And the site has never been down, not once, not a single hiccup in the past 7-8 years or so.

Customer service with a live person too – not the “the service is so cheap we do not offer live customer service support, please refer to the FAQ” message.

So when you subscribe to one of those other services – you really are limited in features. Kinda like signing up for a phone line – which only allows pager use (remember those things?), lol

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Another great tool – ReadNotify / Self-Destruct email. Never hear the lame “I didn’t get your email” excuse again. The service silently and invisibly tracks your email; reverses it to an IP address; and even tracks when/where PDF attachments are opened. And yes, you can send emails that self-destruct after being read. It’s $4 month.

Lotsa cool things out there in cyberland

I hate pulling up an old thread....but, I just bought a new computer with Vista 64bit and my previous internet fax service (Accessline) wasn't compatible with Vista. So I'm searching for a new service and wanted to know if there was any new service and if not if anyone had any existing service that they would reccommend and I'd be willing to sign up and hopefully give someone a refferral bonus.

I love my efax - had it for years, very reliable

I use Myfax and have for over a year now, love it, wouldn't have it any other way!

I love rapidfax.

I use ringcentral.com

My vote goes to Efax.

Well there you have it!

I use efax which I think runs me 19.95 a month. Not sure on the price though it could be less.

I use FaxMicro. http://faxmicro.com/

$4.95/month unlimited incoming faxes. I never use outbound faxing as I scan and e-mail.

They send the faxes as PDFs and you can set it up to send to multiple e-mail addresses simultaneously. We use this feature in my office to make sure that no fax is missed if someone is out.

Scott doesn't it eat up alot of your time scanning in the papers.I have the officejet all in one and the scanner works great I just wish it went as fast as the faxes do.

Well I started this thread a while ago, my vote goes to MyFax. Everything I need plus a local # for $10/mo. It's a great deal. Thanks to those who recommended it!

No, I use a fujitsu ScanSnap S510 (18ppm one sided or 36ppm two sided) so it's much faster than a fax machine! I also have an HP all in one and this blows it away.

Check out this video demo (yes, it really IS this fast!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJn28AtZCw

I am trying out MaxEmail and pretty happy so far, best deal I have found. eFax is great but expensive....

Annual Plan
One-Time Activation Fee $10.00
Price Per Number $24.00/year.
Inbound Fax Pages Included 100/mo.
Extra Inbound Pages/Msgs. 5¢

http://www.maxemail.com/max/lite.html

fax.com

One month free and $9.95 a month after.

I use RingCentral, it's like 9.95/month

I'll second the recommendation on the scan snap. It is an incredible machine.

Kind of pricey , also this seems to be for sending faxes. I think what most of us want to know has to do with an e-fax that allows you to receive faxes via e-mail. Which will let you check and receive faxes anywhere you have access to internet.

We have been using Maxemail for about a year now, very good. Not a problem yet.