Guides

Guides for real estate agents: checklists, timelines and client texts

Practical, free guides for running a transaction from contract to closing, written from the playbooks HomeAxis gives every agent. No sign-up needed to read them.

Guides

  • Buyer’s agent transaction checklist

    A buyer’s agent checklist from offer to post-closing: 26 tasks in 5 stages, when each is due, why it matters, and the client text that goes with it.

  • Listing agent closing checklist

    The listing agent’s checklist from accepted offer to closing day and after: reports, final steps email, walkthrough, closing confirmations and reviews.

  • Home purchase timeline

    The home purchase timeline from accepted offer to closing day: inspection, Purchase and Sale, appraisal, mortgage commitment, walkthrough and closing.

  • Contract deadline tracker

    How to track real estate contract deadlines: inspection, financing, appraisal and closing, counted from the contract and moved when an amendment lands.

  • Transaction coordinator checklist

    A transaction coordinator checklist for every file: intake, contingency dates, the intro email, document chase, clear to close, closing and file close-out.

  • Keeping clients updated

    How to keep buyers and sellers updated from contract to closing: when to text, what to say, and how a client page ends the “any update?” calls.

  • What to text your client

    Ready-to-adapt texts for buyers and sellers at every stage: offer accepted, inspection, appraisal, commitment, walkthrough, closing day and after.

Free tools

  • Closing timeline calculator

    Free tool: enter the offer acceptance and closing dates and get the full buyer or seller deadline schedule, counted the way the HomeAxis app counts it.

  • Buyer transaction checklist

    The 26-task buyer checklist HomeAxis starts every agent with, from offer to post-closing follow-up, each task dated from the contract.

  • Listing checklist

    The 48-task seller checklist HomeAxis starts every agent with: listing appointment, coming soon, active, offers, under contract and closing day.

Comparisons

  • HomeAxis vs a spreadsheet

    A spreadsheet is free and flexible. Here is where it breaks for transaction tracking, and what HomeAxis does differently: dates, re-dating, texts, clients.

  • HomeAxis vs a coordinator

    Hire a transaction coordinator or use an app? What each does, what each costs you, and when agents use both. An honest comparison from HomeAxis.

  • HomeAxis vs DeedSpring

    HomeAxis and DeedSpring both read the contract and build the deadlines. How they differ on phones, sending, communities and pricing, with sources.

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