REA 9 Smart Attachment feature and Dropbox.com.

You create and add files to the account. You can create multiple folders for different transactions and add user access by name and password. Using REA 9 with the Smart Attachment feature you can drag files from dropbox or any other source and attach to any record in REA 9.You can also drag them from REA 9 and drop them into your emails! Imagine sending floor plans, listing packages, photos or anything else quickly and easily by dropping them into an email. You can also drag any file that is attached to any email and drop it into REA to automatically attach that file to any REA record.

Dropbox is free for up to 2 Gigabytes of data, or $9.99 for unlimited storage. www.dropbox.com

Another use would be for REA users who want to backup their database at the office, put it into Dropbox and then restore the database on their home computer. Dropbox always tracks the lastest version of the files you put in so no need to worry about overwriting the backup.

Finally, with the paid account you can backup all your documents in case of a hard drive failure.

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