You’ve made the right decision to evaluate us for backing up electronic records for your real estate business. Now, let’s discuss how Filetwin can help you ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of those digital assets.
In dealing with regulated businesses, Filetwin is confronted with a major and undeniable security imperative. Therefore, our mission is to continue providing highly secured remote data storage to small businesses in regulated industries with sensitive digital assets requiring remote and/or online backup.
Real estate brokers are required by law to retain electronic files for five (5) years. Most brokers will use traditional forms of storage such as tape drives, hard drives and their actual computer as storage mediums.
Consider this, with hard drives the space is finite whereas with remote secure data storage you can offload your entire storage infrastructure. We’ve outlined the evolution of digital file storage so everyone could see the next logical progression in secure data storage.
So Why Filetwin?
With Filetwin, you get the ability to scale up without doing waves and waves of hardware or software acquisitions, setups, installs and all the risks around doing that. After all, you are in the business of selling property - - not information technology.
Now real estate brokers can take advantage of our instant scalability along with our pay-per-use pricing model to handle growing storage needs. Real estate brokers can consume storage at any rate that their particular needs demand. This flexibility far outweighs the perceived advantages of using external hard drives or tape drives and allows Brokers the peace of mind knowing they are satisfying the intent of the law by using online business backup.
Real estate brokers also have to consider the mobile workforce. Often, real estate agents will use their laptops in the field which creates security issues in itself. First, there’s always the chance the laptop could get lost or stolen. Second, there’s the possibility that the Agent takes off with your digital assets leaving the Broker with no digital history on the prospective customer.
Now with Filetwin, Brokers get a centralized data repository for any and all digital records created in the field. With Filetwin’s software installed on each laptop, Brokers can rest assured that the work they pay for stays in their possession because the software automatically backs up files on a pre-defined schedule.
Finally, consider competition for a moment. Imagine how it would look to your customer if you lost all the sensitive transaction records surrounding the purchase of a home simply because you didn’t back up your digital records. In such a competitive industry, each Broker has to consider how to get a leg-up on the Broker next door.
In summary, using secure data storage for your real estate business is considered a best practice when regulations state that electronic records be held securely for five (5) years. Filetwin has developed a special pricing plan for regulated businesses and for just $134.95 per month, about the cost of your voice and data plan on an iPhone, you can securely backup your business and satisfy the regulating body in your state by using Filetwin's business online backup for Real Estate Brokers and Management Companies.
