The Closing Desk. Stamp it before five.
You are the transaction coordinator. Fictional deal files land on your desk: the contract, the pre-approval, the earnest money receipt, the email that is definitely from the title company. Check each one against the rulebook before the clock runs out.
The Closing Desk
A paperwork game for transaction coordinators
You are the transaction coordinator: the person who keeps a home sale's paperwork on track. Check each file against the rulebook before 5 p.m. Seven days, about ten minutes.
- APPROVED: the file follows every rule. A
- SEND BACK for fixes: it breaks a rule, and you say which. S then 1–8
- ESCALATE: hand it to your broker, when the rulebook says so. E
- Flip between documents with ← →.
How the rulebook works
Each day adds a rule. Some are contract rules: the earnest money and option fee deadlines come from TREC 20-19 (Texas), the C.A.R. RPA (California) and the FR/BAR AS IS (Florida), counted by the same engine as our contract deadline calculator, weekends and holidays included. The rest are desk rules, made up for the game and labelled that way. The debrief only quotes a real rule when there is one, with its source.
8 rules over seven days, from missing initials to wire instructions that change by email (always call the title company on a number you already have).
This is a game, not legal advice. Your contract and your broker govern.
That was the game. DeedSpring works the real files.
You just checked signatures, pre-approval dates, deposit deadlines and closing dates by hand. DeedSpring reads the dates from your executed contract and does the deadline math, weekends and holidays included, then chases each one before it slips.
Every deal gets one file with the documents it needs listed from day one, and the missing ones get chased until they're signed. Your clients follow along in their own portal.