When you run solo, no one else is watching the calendar. Here are the dates that quietly sink deals — and a simple system to make sure none of them ever slip.
1. Subject removal / condition dates
The single most dangerous date in any deal. Miss it and you can blow the contract or leave your client exposed. Track it the moment the offer is accepted — not the week it’s due — and set a reminder a few days ahead so there’s time to chase the lender or inspector.
2. Deposit due dates
Deposits often ride on the condition-removal date (“within X days of subject removal”), which makes them easy to miscalculate. Read the exact wording of the contract, not your assumption of it, and confirm the funds landed in trust.
3. Completion, possession, and adjustment dates
Three separate dates that clients constantly confuse. Keep them straight in one place, and share them with your buyer or seller early so the movers, the lawyer, and the utilities all line up.
4. Document deadlines
Property Disclosure Statements, strata documents, title searches — each has its own clock. A guided checklist per deal means you’re never guessing what’s outstanding.
5. The follow-up you always mean to do
Closing anniversaries, birthdays, the “just checking in” note. Not a deadline exactly — but the one that quietly builds your next year of referrals. Systematize it so it happens without you remembering.
The fix: one place, working ahead of you
Every one of these fails the same way — it lives in your head instead of a system. SoloEngine puts all of it in one place: every date on one calendar, a reminder before each one, and a checklist that already knows what’s next. So you can stay out selling, not up at night.