Want to know the fastest way to kill your closing rate?
Keep doing what most domestic investors do: manually create purchase agreements, send them to sellers, and then spend days chasing them down to sign them.
It’s frustrating. It takes a long time. And here’s the worst part: most of those sellers won’t even sign.
If you create and submit these contracts manually, you’re wasting hours on a task that should take seconds. And don’t forget, you should do this for every deal, including the ones that never close!
No wonder so many investors are exhausted.
But here’s the good news: There is a much faster way to handle this.
I used to waste hours on every deal
Years ago my process for submitting purchase agreements was atrocious.
After spending 20 to 30 minutes on the phone with a salesperson, I would tell them to keep an eye on my purchase agreement. in the mail (first mistake).
Then the real work began.
I would open my Word template and spend another 10 to 20 minutes filling out all the details. Then I would print it out, sign it, put it in an envelope, and mail it to him. If I was feeling ambitious, I would also scan and email you a PDF copy.
Most of the time? I never received a response.
Clearly, there were numerous problems and rookie mistakes with this approach, but the biggest one was simple: I was asking sellers to do too much.
Think about what you expected them to do:
- open my email
- Mentally accept my inferior offer
- print the contract
- Sign it
- Email it or scan it and email it to me.
There are many steps. Even if they liked my offer, the process itself created too much friction. They just found it easier to ignore it.
Over time, I got a little smarter and started using PandaDoc to send contracts digitally. but I was still wasting time uploading documents, mapping out signature fields, and managing everything outside of my CRM. Plus, he paid $588 a year for the privilege of doing all this extra work.
PandaDoc didn’t actually make my life easier; it just moved the hassle from my printer to my computer screen.
How Stride makes this ridiculously easy
With Stride, all this friction completely disappeared.
This is how it works:
Stride stores all the details about every owner and property I interact with, including names, phone numbers, addresses, emails, and all relevant information about the transaction (as any good CRM should).
With one click, compile all that information into a ready-made purchase agreement template that’s included for free in my Stride account. (And if I have a unique contract template that I prefer to use, I can upload that too.)
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Once all the property and owner details have been entered into the CRM and I have selected my contract, I can generate and send the purchase agreement immediately with a single click or create a draft first to review before sending.
Once it’s shipped, the seller receives it with a secure e-signature link and they notify me the moment they open it and when they sign for it, so I’m always in the loop.
Automatic follow-ups (so you don’t have to chase anyone down)
What happens if they don’t sign it right away? Can’t the seller just ignore my contract?
They could try… but Stride does automatic tracking for you! Stride has a pre-built automation that sends the seller a reminder email once a day, so they can’t forget about me.
When they sign it, those automatic reminders stop because Stride CRM recognizes that the document has been signed, so it doesn’t continue to bother the salesperson after the job is done. It’s a beautiful thing!
And if I want to personalize it, I can add my own follow-up sequences, like sending them a text every day or a ringless voicemail once a week until they sign. It is fully customizable.
Everything is traceable
One of the best parts? With Stride, everything is fully trackable.
I can see:
- When a person receives my contract
- When they have seen it
- When they have signed it
And if I have multiple team members, each step is logged, so I’ll know exactly which team member created and submitted each contract and who is responsible for keeping track of the deal. No more guesswork.
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It is more secure than a wet signature
These electronic signatures are legally binding and use the same secure systems as DocuSign and PandaDoc.
In some ways, it is even safer than having someone sign with a pen because there is no question of forgery. The system verifies the location of the person and the exact time they signed.
The conclusion
This feature alone can eliminate the cost of any e-signature service you are paying for right now.
Dramatically speeds up transaction flow. And with how quickly and easily you can submit and sign all your contracts, there’s no telling how much more money you could make.
I can’t tell you how many hours of my life I’ve wasted creating and submitting contracts the old fashioned way. It doesn’t have to be like this.
If you haven’t started using Stride yet, you should check it out!
This feature alone is worth the full monthly price, even if it’s the only thing you use (and obviously, Stride is much more than just this).
Are you ready to stop wasting time with clunky contract workflows?
Learn more about Stride here!
