‹ Back

🔄 Deal Lifecycle — Where Each Deal Lives

🏠

📅 Typical timelines per strategy: Cash/FF 14-21d · MT homeowner 21-35d · SF Tier A/B 30-50d · Hybrid 45-60d. See day-by-day pipeline timeline →

① TL;DR

The daily briefing is INBOX. BBC Inventory is PIPELINE. Airtable Watchlist is COLD-WATCH. Each deal has one canonical home at each stage.

② When to use

  • Before working any deal — understand where to track its state
  • Confused about whether to use BBC, Airtable, or somewhere else

③ How to run this play (step-by-step)

  1. Stage 0 — Briefing INBOX (8am each weekday)
    Daily briefing on the dashboard. Ephemeral — refreshed each morning. Don't track state here; this is just what's NEW today. Action: scan and decide which deals to act on.
    Today's briefing
  2. Stage 1 — First call → BBC Inventory
    The moment you dial an agent (even a voicemail), move that deal into BBC Inventory at Stage 1 (Prospecting). Use BBC's notes field to log: date called, voicemail or live, agent name, agent phone. This is the canonical pipeline.
    BBC Inventory ↗
  3. Stage 2 — Offer sent → BBC Inventory advance
    Once you submit a written offer through BBC, advance the card from Prospecting → Offer Sent. BBC tracks the contract state from here.
  4. Stage 3 — Under contract → BBC Inventory + start dispo
    Contract executed. Move to Under Contract stage. Trigger one-pager generation and submit to dispo channels (see Verbal Yes → Dispo SOP).
  5. Stage 4 — Closed / assigned
    Final stage. Log final assignment fee. Add buyer to Airtable Known Buyers if they're a new contact worth keeping for future deals.
  6. REJECTED deals → Airtable Rejected Watchlist (passive)
    Deals from the briefing that didn't qualify (CF<$200 or wrong tier) auto-push to Airtable Watchlist. Deal Monitor checks them every 48h for price drops. Action: nothing — it's automated.
    Airtable Watchlist ↗
  7. DEAD deals (after 90 days no movement) → archive
    BBC Inventory cards that stale at Prospecting for 90+ days with no agent response → archive in BBC. Don't keep dead leads cluttering the active view.

⑧ Counter-offer rules

DO NOT track active pipeline in Airtable. Airtable is for (a) Known Buyers (your network) and (b) Rejected Watchlist (price-drop monitoring). NOT pipeline.
DO NOT track briefing-only deals — the briefing refreshes every morning. If a deal matters, move it to BBC Inventory immediately.
DO use BBC Inventory notes liberally — agent names, call dates, response patterns all live there.
If a Watchlist deal goes 'Newly Qualified' (Deal Monitor flags it), move it to BBC Inventory Stage 1 manually.

⑨ Sources (go deeper)