The Perfect Handoff: What to Send Your Transaction Coordinator on Day 1

Most of the problems that show up on a transaction between day seven and day thirty can be traced back to day one. Not to any single big mistake — just to the small gaps that opened up at the beginning and quietly compounded. A missing attachment. A party contact that was slightly wrong. A preference the agent assumed the TC knew. Each of these costs hours later. The fix is a better day-one handoff — not more work, just more complete work, done once, in the right order. Here's the complete checklist: documents, contacts, context, deadlines, scope, communication protocol, and wire fraud protection, all sent in one clean email so the coordination that follows has a clean foundation to build on.