From the YayTrack blog
Playbooks, deadline tactics and product notes for people who close.
What a great closing timeline looks like
From ratified contract to clear-to-close, the best files move on a predictable rhythm. Here is the week-by-week shape of a clean 30-day close, and the buffers that keep it from slipping.
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Baltimore City, and the ground rent nobody searched for
The city file is the statewide Maryland contract plus a city addendum, and one Baltimore-specific thing that decides whether a settlement happens on time.
Transaction management at brokerage scale
A brokerage does not buy transaction software to save agents time. It buys it because the broker carries the liability for files the broker cannot see.
Transaction coordination for teams, where handoffs go wrong
A team's failures are not deadline failures, they are handoff failures. Two people who each believed the other had it is the most expensive sentence in real estate.
Transaction coordination when you are the whole team
A solo agent's constraint is not money, it is that every hour spent coordinating is an hour not spent selling. Here is how to buy back the evenings first.
Running twenty files at once without losing one
Capacity is not about working faster. It is about how much of the tracking lives in a system rather than in your head, and where that ceiling actually sits.
Document management for real estate transactions
A transaction file is a legal record that happens to look like a folder. Here is how to organize one so it survives an audit, a dispute, and a staff change.