Hi everyone!

I just wanted to share this discovery with you all.

I have recently signed up for an "efax" account from http://www.MyFax.com

It's an absolutely FABULOUS tool for real estate because it allows you to receive faxes right in your email's inbox as a pdf and you then have an electronic copy of all those contracts which you can then email or fax along to the appropriate party.

You're given a toll free number (within North America)which is another great feature.

The salesman I spoke to said that anyone who calls him and mentions my name (Jaime Lee Mann) will get their first month of service free.

His name is Jeff St. Pierre
jstpierre@protus.com
phone: 888.733.0000 ext.524

Oh, it's only $10 per month for 200 outgoing and 100 incoming pages...or vice versa I don't recall off the top of my head, anyway you can buy another package if you have a higher volume than that-but it's still cheaper than paper and those annoying fax toner cartridges.

I agree myfax is wonderful and less expensive than most others if you get a high volume of faxes. used a couple of other companies that started out a cheaper monthly fee but due to high volume became rather expensive.

i use ringcentral.com which is an excellent very cheap and affordable house listing system. It comes with efax capabilities plus they offer an extra free efax line.

k7.net offers free efax numbers but usually they are not local to a market you use.

companies like myonlyone.com or crtechnowlediesinc.net offer solutions that are a phone number and fax rolled into one.

If you just need to screen out the "junk" faxes, then do what I've been doing for years:

I use my computer AND a fax machine.

My computer is set to answer on the 2nd ring and the fax machine is set to answer on the 4th ring.

If the computer were to screw up, then the regular fax machine would catch the call. In 4+ years, I've never had this happen though.

I use WinFax software on the computer. I NEVER miss a fax and I get to view them before I print.

No wasted paper or toner!

MaxEmail.com offers unlimited incoming faxes and a local number fo $7.95/mo. I believe outgoing faxes are 10cents per page.

Also- you can use the same number as a voice mail box as well.

I use DataOnCall.com and like it. It's only $10/mo and doesn't have that wierd viewer that eFax uses. I'm on a Mac and it works really well on those too.

I DID NOT LIKE eFax Messenger. We used to use it to send emails from MLS before our service went live, online. eFax takes over too much of your computer, wants to open all your photos for you, etc. If you uninstall it, the program still wants to take charge of your files. I reformatted my computer to get rid of it.

I use PBNext. It is a whole phone system that does the call capture, 800#, talking properties, faxing etc. They just came out with a new $49/month plan that is unlimited inbound/outbound calling etc.

I have just recently found out about efaxing actually. I'm going to try it soon. Do you have to pay a subscription fee of some kind?

After 3 years with MyFax I have learned that sometimes the toll free numbers allocated may get overwhelmed and some faxes do not go through on the first try.

How often does it not go through?

We use http://send2fax.com and pay less than $9 per month for a toll-free fax number. As far as the number of faxes you can receive per month, I believe it's unlimited. We receive a lot of faxes and have never been charged extra.

I love it, personally, and have never NOT received a fax.

Linda

I have used ring central for about 4-5yrs now and just love it!
It puts everything in pdf format contracts are cleaner. I can fax anything to myself and send it to clients in pdf. Just great.
No one in office reading my faxes,
I can access them anywhere anytime
Comes with it's own 800 number
I pay a yearly fee, it's well worthy it

I have been using eExtreme Fax (ring central) for almost 2 years now. I have never had anyone complain about the quality of the transmission. It saves me the cost of a dedicated phone line, and the bother of someone sending junk faxes using up paper and ink, because I only print what I want. I love it.

I used eFax at a company I used to work for and it works great. I think it's a bit pricey, but I never had any problems.

eFax is a great service with an even better pricing model. I have tried many, many different providers however have yet to find one as useful as eFax.

I always use efax, never scan anything anymore.

Yeah! with efax, you can get a free online fax number, regardless if you are a paying customer or not. But metrofax offers the most cost effective solution.