How to track contingency deadlines so none slip

Do this the same day, not when the first deadline is near. Read the contract and any counter offers and addenda together, since a later document can change an earlier date.

Write both "10 days after acceptance" and the calendar date it produces. If the acceptance date changes, you will know which dates to recompute.

A reminder on the deadline day is too late to order a repair estimate or chase a lender. Build in a few days of warning for each contingency, more for ones that depend on other people, such as an appraisal.

Once a week, open every deal and ask three questions: what is due this week, what is overdue, and what are you waiting on from someone else. Ten minutes beats finding out on the deadline day.

If a deadline is extended, get the amendment signed and change the date in your tracker straight away. An agreed extension that lives only in an email is easy to forget.

A spreadsheet and calendar reminders work for a few deals. They get harder when you have many deals and amendments, because every date change means editing several places.

Bindalo reads your contract, saves each deadline as a rule, and moves dependent deadlines when you change a key date. It emails you what is due and overdue, daily or weekly. You review everything it reads before it is saved. Bindalo counts business days but does not know holidays, so adjust any deadline that lands near one.