I Meet You in the Clouds - 5 Apps for Remote Work

The days of the cigar smoking real estate broker sitting in the rich looking teak office awaiting clients to show up for a presentation are pretty much over. All you need today is a good cellphone, a hot spot and the necessary apps to connect where-ever you are. Mobility is a must for the real estate consultant of today just like flexibility.
I live in Gilroy and specialize in equestrian properties and rural areas like the South County of Silicon Valley, an area about 20 miles away from my brokerage in Campbell. Most of my buyers I meet at Panera or any other free wireless coffee shop conveniently located for my clients.
Only by walking through a home, I can include the "Unzillowables," the special features into my pricing strategy and home evaluation for a seller, so I meet them at their homes and bring my mobile office with me.
As a Military Relocation Professional, I very often get contacted by active military personnel who is only able to visit prospective homes virtually and only see their new home in person for the first time during the final walk-through.
Contract forms can be accessed online and emailed for docu-sign to my clients at home sitting in their bunny slippers in front of the TV.  Why going through the traffic to meet in an office? All this is possible through apps. Below are 5 important and helpful  apps for remote work and if this is not enough, here are 27 more.

 5 Apps for Remote Work

Whether you're out on the road, working in a home office, or collaborating remotely with business partners or vendors, you're going to need apps. The web-based solutions listed below will help make collaborating and communicating easy, efficient and enjoyable. Here are five top picks:

Slack helps you exchange cumbersome email threads for real time, team-based communications. Slack saves every remark in a conversation thread (including attachments like documents or other media) for later reference.

Trello is a project management solution based on a system of cards and project boards, similar to a real-life corkboard with index cards. Each card allows you to attach links or documents and contains individual message threads to keep things tidy.

Meldium manages passwords for teams, giving system or document access to team members without direct sharing of any passwords, closing a huge security gap when dealing with sensitive information.

Docady converts any camera-equipped device into a document scanner, then organizes those scans into a searchable database that's encrypted to military-grade standards, keeping all your important files in a secure digital space.

Box is a file sharing and collaboration tool that supports many file types, including Office Online for editing Word, Excel and PowerPoint files simultaneously with remote team members.