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Clearing The Clutter & Organizing Your Real Estate Investing Business

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A typical real estate investor's desk islittered with accumulated paperwork for a variety of projects that are invarious stages of completion. Dependingon your organizational skills, you may have a haphazard pile of paperwork thatyou have to dig through any time you need to locate a document or you mightutilize file folders, paper trays or ? the bane of my existence until recently? neat looking piles. However, as manyof you know, I'm embracing the use of technology more and more in my everydayinvesting activities by outsourcing many tasks to virtual assistants. There's a new solution that can save youtime, money, and clear much of the paper off your desk. Even better, if you've bought a new computerrecently there's a good chance the solution to a lot of your organizationalproblems is on your desk top right now, waiting patiently to be put towork. I'm talking about a little knowncomputer program called Microsoft OneNote.

Computer programs normally talk a good talk, butseldom follow through. They either don?twork properly or the learning curve is so steep you're tempted to give upbefore it's been given a fair chance to prove itself. OneNote is different. Microsoft usually comes up short when itcomes to making software applications user friendly, but this time they?vereally knocked one out of the park because OneNote is easy to learn and it?seasily adaptable to real estate investing. You'll be up and running in no time and within a week you'll rely on itas heavily as the air you breathe. Here?show I've put OneNote to work.

OneNote, billed as a note taking program, can beadapted for use as a real estate investor's best friend. The first thing you need to know aboutOneNote is that it's set up like a notebook. Look at it as a multi-sectioned notebook. You can create tabs for all of the propertiesyou're currently considering. You cankeep all of the details of a specific property on one page for easyreference.

In addition, if you've gotten emailed bids fromcontractors, signed contracts, or even appraisals, you can simply create a newpage for your notebook and ? using the copy/paste function ? can neatly dropthe appraisal into your OneNote program. Now instead of endlessly searching for a specific email that contains anattachment you need, it's available at your fingertips.

One of the sexiest aspects of this program thatmakes it so useful for real estate investing applications is the fact that ifyou have property photos, audio recordings (for instance if you use a digitaltape recorder to note property characteristics or notes about a property toremind yourself, etc.), or digital videotape recordings of prospective properties you may have, you can simply drag anddrop the files onto your OneNote page. To view it or listen to it you double click the file and it plays. While your file plays you can refer to anypage of your notebook. Way cool!

If you use a virtual assistant to compileproperty listings for you, OneNote makes this a breeze as well because filesharing is another feature the program has. Instead of using a clunky spreadsheet for this aspect of your investing,you can jump on the technological bandwagon and really ramp up yourproductivity. This program is perfectfor anyone who wants to get organized or clear some of the excess clutter offof their desk.

Once you make a decision to purchase a property,you can easily move a tabbed property to a different notebook or copy and pasteeverything about that property to a different notebook within OneNote. You're not limited to just one notebook ? youcan have an infinite number of notebooks and the ways you can utilize thisprogram are limited only by your imagination.

Two final aspects of OneNote that you're sure tolove: If you're surfing the web and yousee a property, an article, or something else that strikes your fancy, simplyright click, copy & paste it into OneNote. The program snags your content and even includes a clickable link backto the original source page. If you?renot sure where to put something, don't despair. You can temporarily put it in an uncategorized section that you can movelater on, so you'll never have to let a lack of time prevent you from storinginformation you'll need later on. Andthere's no chance that you'll forget to save changes, etc. because it?sautomatically saved!

As you can clearly see, Microsoft is as flexibleas you need it to be. Play around withthe program and find other ways to put this program to work for you today. Real estate investing has never been easierwith all of the great programs and gadgets out there in the marketplacetoday. The idea is to make more and workless and with programs like this, it makes that possible!

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