A method for facilitating the completion of a real estate transaction over the Internet includes the steps of presenting at least one manually-entered datum on an electronic document to a first party; providing a first party field adjacent to each of the at least one manually-entered datums for entering comments on the electronic document; transmitting the electronic document to a second party; providing a second party field adjacent to each of the first party fields for entering comments on the electronic document; transmitting the electronic document to the first party; and creating and storing a digital copy of each of the transmitted electronic documents as a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) file.