My friend Lynn Gross-Cerf, who is a great organizer, just sent an email reminding me that Sept 19-23 is "National Love Your Files Week". (There seems to be a week or day for anything and everything.) This event was created to demonstrate that a good filing system is a powerful asset.
It was apt timing because I had just been out to my garage searching for an escrow file. My associate, Judy, is the listing agent for a property that I sold in 2004. In that earlier sale, I represented the sellers, who have since left the area. Her clients wanted to know what termite work the sellers had completed....The recent inspection found old pellets, and needed to know if these were "souvenirs" from the previous sale. Naturally, the buyers had not kept these records, and neither had the termite company.
I moved the freezer that sits in front of the filing cabinet in the garage where I keep the really old records, and then I hit a snag. There was a box neatly labeled 2004, and another labeled 2004-2005, but neither would budge. I plugged the freezer back in, and called Judy. If they really want that file, they will have to come and retrieve it...and no, Lynn, I do not love my files.
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