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Yesterday, 5.57 pm I'm def spending at least twice as much time on paperwork, linking docs etc. Suitability report not as good as the Toolbox one. I do like the facility to pull credit reports though, its a nice touch. Hoping things will speed up the more i get used to it. 
Yesterday, 5.52 pm Ahhh the communites
Yesterday, 5.48 pm https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/fraudster-who-illegally-sublet-pimlico-34528956?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawT-mPtwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6ox9q_t5M3io-LNM0fSdziGMtWeaPxMb8c7Y6G8D_s6TdQPiZr-BnEFt0f...
Yesterday, 5.44 pm I used to download and save a factfind into our client files for storage and there’s no facility to download. I’m hoping with time it will all become more more transparent but at the moment everything seems very long winded and multiply places to add documents.
Yesterday, 4.53 pm Depends on your annual commissions so you would start at 15% deduction from any proc fees or commissions, they do not take any from your broker fee, once you hit a certain level then this drops to 10%. However, they do not charge any network fees monthly, apart from just the software fee for IRESS w...
Yesterday, 4.51 pm The most frustrating thing I find - apart from the duplication and horrible design of the system is the Suitability Letter Editing. The systems jumps about all over the place when you try and edit an SL - it is MEGA frustrating...
Yesterday, 4.48 pm Some of the features are helpful, Experian, EPC Register. I think if you fed back to PRIMIS about the fact find they would be able to easily fix that issue. I commented ten days ago on the subject, and I hate to say, I'm no happier with the system today than what I was then. It's so slow. It...
Yesterday, 4.47 pm As bad as the system is, it's your network that wants shooting for making you use it. This is why networks are so dangerous to your business, they have as much control over what you do as you do.   It is just so wrong. And however good a network is today, they are only one system change ...
Yesterday, 4.33 pm I'd like to say it gets better as you get used the the system. But sadly not. We've been using it for 6 months. Everything takes and age to complete and data is impossible to access without multiple clicks. Whilst Toolbox had it's faults at least it was possible to produce a pdf Fact Fi...
Yesterday, 4.24 pm It's bloody awful, a big backward step from toolbox 

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