You know people who still fax important documents?
I haven’t had a seller or buyer client use a fax for a commercial property sale since 2012. Almost always it was an older doctor.

The big boy corporate America banks still require snail delivery fax!
[{"id": "isu0nxt", "text": "The added security for email attachments is a pain and super inconvenient and still riskier than faxing, so while it\u2019s been awhile since I\u2019ve had to fax something, I understand the reasons. It\u2019s cheaper too.", "replies": [{"id": "isy9rs3", "text": "I always laugh at the supposed security of faxes. When getting my personal mortgage the bank randomly faxed all the application information to some number in another country and blamed us for doing it.", "replies": [{"id": "isyiy1m", "text": "Wow, randomly to others confidential info!", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isu6637", "text": "I get pdfs of excel tables all the time, don\u2019t think I\u2019ve got a fax though", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isu8uk3", "text": "Get a virtual fax line that emails you a PDF and allows you to email to fax to send. They are about $2 a month per phone # at voip.ms.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isua5h4", "text": "Still some old lawyers using fax. Kills me", "replies": [{"id": "isyhueu", "text": "All my attorney clients no longer fax!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isudq3o", "text": "My office still has a dedicated fax line.  In the last ten years we've had two Tenant groups use the fax for financials, etc.  Also, the IRS and many government agencies use fax (and their response to faxes is significantly quicker than mail or email).", "replies": [{"id": "isyhz0z", "text": "Doctors still fax prescriptions over to pharmacies", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isv0m2d", "text": "Working a deal right now w a guy who only faxes. Doesn\u2019t have email or cell phone. \n\nHas taken 2 weeks to get a counter sent over to em, nightmare.", "replies": [{"id": "iswa849", "text": "Fedex? But feel your pain. We have a virtual fax # and some random brokers/sellers/title companies use it a few times a year", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "isyi1uo", "text": "Sheez. Tell him its 2022!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isv2mhw", "text": "I have a client who brings me a binder when I appraise his shopping centers.  No emails.  Binder with copies of leases, opex, etc.", "replies": [{"id": "isyi7q6", "text": "I used to be a licensed California commercial real estate appraiser. Good for you, its all in one place and provided at one time. You don't have to kill 20 trees to print!", "replies": [{"id": "isznxel", "text": "But I don't print.... That's the point!  Everyone is paperless.  I end up having to scan everything now.", "replies": [{"id": "iszoyi0", "text": "I now flip through PDFs on screen and making handwritten summary notes. Makes the eyes and brain tired.\n\nBefore I was 120% hard copy and printed it all out. Easy as I could make notes right on sheets.", "replies": [{"id": "it01skf", "text": "Yep, I still take notes too.  Early days I printed everything.  Even printed potential comps to use and made piles of yes no and maybe.  I trained my trainee this way too, as it\u2019s easier starting out.  Nowadays it\u2019s just a laptop, tablet, and a small notebook.  Occasionally I get to work in counties that have paper sales books like the old days.  Always fun to sit down and flip through them to find comps in a historic courthouse.", "replies": [{"id": "it091fu", "text": "We first want to research and review all commercial real estate sale comparables: Improved building, rents, capitalization rate. Then shortlist those that bracket are credible well supported for the subject property.\n\nA property next door or across the street can have completely different market rents and sale prices.  Values change quarterly.", "replies": [], "depth": 6}], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isv36f6", "text": "I have a client who is super old school and that\u2019s what he prefers. Our office uses Hellofax and you send a fax over email.", "replies": [{"id": "isyialm", "text": "So very few still do!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "isxdbrh", "text": "As a doctor myself, a lot of medical documents are still faxed.   We have to fax certain prescriptions to pharmacies and orders for home health care, even death certificates get faxed.   I\u2019m not saying that it\u2019s right, but it\u2019s a whole industry that still relies on fax.  So yes, there may be some medical people that buy and sell properties that still use fax.", "replies": [{"id": "isxi6me", "text": "Fax is more secure than email or mail.  Fax goes directly to the recipient.  Also, with so few people using faxes once received they are addressed immediately versus being stacked up with mail or email.\n\nMy office has used a fax machine since the 80s.  I predict it will make a come back within the next 10 years due to its security.  Can't hack a fax transmission.", "replies": [{"id": "isya3pi", "text": "&gt;Fax goes directly to the recipient\n\nYeah. If you put the right number in. Plus they often just either spit out on to a printer in the middle of an office. Or it ends up in a random receptionists inbox to read.\n\nThere is nothing secure about fax. If a firm can't be othered to have a secure email or secure document upload then it can't be trusted at all.", "replies": [{"id": "isyhs0a", "text": "&amp;#x200B;\n\n1. Considering there are very few dedicated fax lines, if an incorrect number was punched the fax would not go through.\n2. A fax always returns a confirmation of received or not received.  Therefore, the sender has confirmation immediately.\n3. Having a fax as an option has no relation to lack of security.  It's an additional option.\n\nMy office oversees 100+ properties.  We have a dedicated fax line.  We also have secure email.  But, we still have a dedicated fax line.  If you don't think a fax is more secure than email, you need to educate yourself.  Hate fax all you want, but know what you are talking about.\n\nMy office has used faxes frequently since the pandemic to communicate with Unemployment offices and the responses are immediate versus email which takes 4-7 days or mail which takes 10-14 days.  Also, the IRS utilities faxes regularly.", "replies": [{"id": "isyj9sp", "text": "Works for you.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}, {"id": "iszsokt", "text": "Try being less patronizing, dickhead.\n\nI know how a fax machine work. I am much more knowledgeable about the security failings of email and encrypted communications than  you will ever be.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}, {"id": "isyj4ye", "text": "Like a printer war room with 16 people sharing print outs.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}, {"id": "isyj1ee", "text": "Security", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "isyisw0", "text": "Yes, I saw my pharmacist wait for a slow fax to come for my prescription from a doctor!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "it2ylae", "text": "One of my best clients has a dedicated fax line at his home, and we fax back LOIs and contracts all the time.  When we transitioned over to VoIP I had a virtual fax number added to that package, and he's the only one who uses it.\n\nThere is some additional cost to having a fax number but he gives me a lot of business and I'm happy to do it for him.", "replies": [{"id": "it4uy9e", "text": "Have to keep your best client happy!", "replies": [{"id": "it78p5c", "text": "It's a no-brainer!  One time his fax machine wasn't working so I hand delivered everything to his house.", "replies": [{"id": "it81lv0", "text": "First time I heard fax machine was down! Four reasons: Out of paper, machine broken, telephone down, no electricity.", "replies": [{"id": "it85ib9", "text": "You're absolutely right probably wasn't broken, just user error.  This is a guy in his 90s.  If he was home when I stopped by I would have gone and and tried to help him with it.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]