TC Guides & How-To
Comprehensive guides for transaction coordinators covering the complete TC workflow, best practices, and professional development.
-
Holdover Seller: The 3 Doors That Decide If You Evict or Eject
A holdover seller who will not leave after closing is removed by eviction or ejectment, and the paperwork signed before closing decides which and how fast.
-
FHA Condo Approval: 3 Paths TCs Must Check Before Day 10
FHA condo approval is the fallback path when a conventional condo review fails, and it behaves nothing like the review your lender runs during escrow. FHA approves at two levels: the entire project, or a single unit inside a project that was never approved. VA approves only at the project level and has no single-unit…
-
Rent Back Agreement: The 60-Day Clock Most Guides Misread
A rent back agreement lets a seller stay in the home after closing for a set number of days, usually in exchange for rent or a closing credit. Most guides put the ceiling at 60 days and attribute it to a Fannie Mae rule. The ceiling is real. The attribution is not. The 60 day…
-
Real Estate Wire Fraud Hides in a $3.05 Billion Line
Real estate wire fraud is the diversion of closing funds through a compromised or spoofed email thread, and the FBI does not count it where most of the industry looks for it. The 2025 IC3 report lists Real Estate losses at $275.1 million, but that category covers investment, rental and timeshare fraud. A diverted closing…
-
Condo Transaction Coordinator: The Second Underwrite
A condo transaction coordinator manages a file with two applicants, not one. The buyer is underwritten in the usual way. The building is underwritten separately, against numbers the buyer cannot influence and the seller often does not know. As of August 3, 2026, that second review got deeper for almost every established condo in the…
-
The Vacant Land Transaction Coordinator Playbook: Three Calendars You Do Not Control
A vacant land transaction coordinator runs a file whose critical path sits outside the contract. On a house, nearly every deadline belongs to somebody who signed something. On land, three of the deadlines that decide whether the deal closes belong to a county health department, a county appraisal district, and a stack of records filed…
-
Manufactured Home Title Conversion: A Transaction Coordinator’s Checklist
Manufactured home title conversion is the process of reclassifying a manufactured home from personal property, titled like a vehicle, into real property, recorded like a site-built house, so it can be sold, mortgaged, and insured the way a stick-built home is. Every state runs this through two separate government filings, not one, and a transaction…
-
Property type requirements: what standard TC checklists miss
Property type requirements diverge from the standard residential resale path in four specific places: who controls the disclosure clock, which contract form governs, what the inspection actually examines, and whether the deed by itself conveys the whole asset. A checklist built for a resale house does not fail loudly on a condo, a new build,…
-
TC Software Onboarding: How to Go Live in 3 Days Without Losing a File
TC software onboarding takes three days when setup is separated from cutover: stage the new system without touching a live file, shadow it against real transactions, then switch for good on a fixed day. Most brokerages take four to eight weeks instead, because they configure and go live in the same motion, so every open…
-
Managing Transactions Across Multiple Brokerages
Managing transactions across multiple brokerages means running one file-tracking method on top of each brokerage’s own TMS, forms library, and compliance rules, instead of learning four separate platforms from scratch and hoping nothing falls through the gap between them. The fix is not picking a favorite system. It is building one operating profile per brokerage…
