Leasing Apartments without Paper via multihousingnews.com

The benefits of going paperless can be pretty dramatic for property management firms, but few experience the drama that one company witnessed.

“We had a client who went paperless, and the next day their office building burned down,” recalls Lauryn Radice, managing director with SyndicIT Services Corporation. “Because they had gone paperless, all their documents, all their records were protected, and they were able to preserve business continuity.”

The advantages of a paperless office extend well beyond protecting key documents and records, however. Those advantages include time and cost savings, protection against identity theft and the ability to ensure compliance audits can be done easily, says Radice, whose Austin-based company provides enhanced technology solutions tailored to the property management industry.

Moreover, she asserts, there is no reason for property management to delay going paperless. “The paperless office is possible, and now is the time to make the transition,” Radice says. “There are growing ranks of young renters, and environmentally conscious renters, who are used to signing documents with electronic signatures and having the ability to access pertinent information without having to visit the leasing office.”

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