I've been goin' through paperwork trying to figure out our homeowners insurance. Man, there is A LOT of paperwork involved in this home buying business. I can hardly keep everything straight...especially in my brain. Seems to me there's a lot of useless photocopying and printing going on. Most of these papers have the same information. Can't they consolidate some of this stuff? I keep thinking of all the waste and all the trees. Just think of all the trees we'd save, or use for better purposes, if the home buying process wasn't so paper oriented. Granted we received much of our paperwork information via email but somewhere in the process they either get printed or another representative involved needs a copy. It's all so wasteful and I don't like it. Not to mention the HUGE space it takes up in my file cabinet.
Then there's times like these where I need to figure out and detail what's going on before I give someone a call to figure even more stuff out. I can't seem to find the right information because it's on one little piece of paper buried in a stack of a million. Is it all really necessary?
Here's a novel concept. You know how you can go 'paperless' on your monthly bills and statements? Why don't they try and do the same with home buying? Why not? Sounds pretty brilliant to me.