Field notes from operators with 100+ combined years in the building. Written for agents, lenders, and the people whose name is on the file.
After thousands of files, the same five problems are responsible for almost every late closing. Here they are.
The deals that die rarely die loudly. They drift apart in inboxes nobody is reading. A working post-mortem.
The patterns we see before a fraudulent wire goes out, and the verification routine that stops them.