Digital Lockers are characterized as the fastest growing form of Internet piracy.  Megaupload is one of the largest Digital Lockers or digital storage services on the Internet, with close to 3 million users in the U.S.  Digital lockers allow anyone to upload, store and distribute links to most forms of electronic content.  Unfortunately, these services are reportedly used primarily for uploading and sharing music, video and documents files containing and inordinately large amount of data. Last week the U.S. Justice Department released an indictment accusing Megaupload’s founders and other officers of criminal conspiracy, arguing that they encouraged copyright violations and in some cases copied protected content themselves. The takedown enraged some Internet activists, who launched denial-of-service attacks that temporarily rendered websites of the Justice Department, FBI and big entertainment companies unreachable.  How safe is your data?  www.filetwin.com Because you need two.

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If you’re a real estate broker in the Lone Star state, you’re required to hold onto your transactions records for four (4) years. According to the Texas Real Estate Commission there are several records a broker must be conscience about.

In a PDF provided by TREC, they outline the specific records that must be retained. Except for records destroyed by an “Act of God” such as a natural disaster or fire not intentionally caused by the broker, the following records, at a minimum, shall be maintained for at least four (4) years from the date of closing or termination of the contract in a format that can readily be made available to the Commission.

• Disclosures

• Commission Agreements such as listing agreements, buyer representation agreements or other written agreement relied upon to claim compensation;

• Work files

• Contracts and related addenda

• Receipts and disbursements of compensation for services subject to the Act

• Property management contracts

• Documents required by USPAP for appraisals

• Sponsorship agreements between the broker and the sponsored salesperson

Now, with this research under your belt, the next portion to evaluate is HOW you plan on retaining your records so the TREC can  “readily” inspect those files. That’s where Filetwin (www.filetwin.com) comes into the picture.

Since we know everyone is cost conscience right now, here are a few points that address the financial aspects of online backup with Filetwin:

1. You DO NOT have to invest in major capital expenses. You’ll just receive a monthly bill for the storage space you use.

2. If you have a Blackberry, iPhone or HTC smartphone device, you’re probably paying as much monthly for that phone as you would to backup your entire real estate form – just to draw an immediate comparison most people will understand.

3. Filetwin is a U.S. based company with ALL of our customer support specialists located here in the United States. We don’t profess to be the cheapest option on the block, but our outstanding customer support skills WILL DEFINITELY become noticeable to you if or when you experience a data loss due to natural disaster or human error.

If you’d like to learn more about how our company can help you, please contact us directly at 1 877 310-2884 and one of our Backup Specialists will be pleased to assist you

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Today, we focus our blog about online backup on the state of Louisiana and particularly on the real estate industry. If you are a real estate broker in Louisiana, you are required to retain most of your administrative files for a period of five (5) years according the Louisiana Real Estate Commission.

If, we’d like to say that their web site was one of the easier sites to research record retention rules. Here is a link the actual PDF you’d want to review if you needed to find out more http://www.lrec.state.la.us/pdf_files/46v67.pdf.

Given that there is concern about the flood waters and we are about to enter into hurricane season, we think people living in the Pelican State should seriously consider online backup for their electronic files. Watch our short video that describes the benefits of online backup versus traditional storage media.

Since we know everyone is cost conscience right now, here are a few points that address the financial aspects of online backup:

1. You DO NOT have to invest in major capital expenses. You’ll just receive a monthly bill for the storage space you use.

2. If you have a Blackberry, iPhone or HTC smartphone device, you’re probably paying as much monthly for that phone as you would to backup your entire real estate form – just to draw an immediate comparison most people will understand.

3. Filetwin is a U.S. based company with ALL of our customer support specialists located here in the United States. We don’t profess to be the cheapest option on the block, but our outstanding customer support skills WILL DEFINITELY become noticeable to you if or when you experience a data loss due to natural disaster or human error.

If you’d like to learn more about how our company can help you, please contact us directly at 1 877 310-2884 and one of our Backup Specialists will be pleased to assist you.

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