Wholesaling team roles: who owns what in your CRM, and where deals fall between them
When a wholesaling or home-buying company grows past five or six people, the jobs split: someone answers leads, someone makes offers, someone sells the deal, someone gets it to closing. That's when deals start falling into the gaps between people. This page is for owners and ops leads building or fixing that structure: the usual roles, what each one owns, what they need to see in the CRM every day, the number each is judged on, and the handoffs where deals leak.
Give every stage of a deal exactly one owner: marketing owns spend and sources, the lead manager owns first contact, acquisitions owns appointments, offers and contracts, the transaction coordinator owns contract to close, and dispositions owns selling the deal. Each role should start the day from its own list or board in the CRM, be judged on one or two numbers, and hand off through required fields and a task with a deadline, never through a text message.
The roles in a wholesaling team
Titles vary from company to company. The jobs don't.
| Role | Owns | Judged on | Hands off to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | The numbers and the decisions | Profit on kept deals; the Monday 5 | Everyone, through priorities and budget |
| Marketing | Spend, campaigns, tracking numbers, lead sources | Cost per appointment and cost per contract by campaign | Lead manager, through new leads with a source |
| Lead manager or cold callers | First contact and qualification | Time to first contact; qualified leads passed | Acquisitions, through a qualified lead |
| Acquisitions | Appointments, offers, contracts, follow-up | Contracts signed; no open lead without a next step | Transaction coordinator, through a signed contract |
| Field rep (virtual markets) | Walkthroughs and photos | Appointments completed, notes and photos on the deal the same day | Acquisitions, through notes and photos |
| Underwriting (often acquisitions) | ARV, repairs, maximum offer | Offers made from the same numbers; booked against actual profit | Acquisitions, through an approved number |
| Dispositions | Buyers, marketing the deal, assignment | Days to assign; actual fee against the projected fee | Transaction coordinator, through a buyer and assignment |
| Transaction coordinator | Contract to close: title, dates, documents | On-time closings; deals that fell out, with reasons | Accounting, through a closed deal and its numbers |
| Ops or admin | The system itself: users, automations, data | Automations working; clean data | Everyone |
In a smaller team one person wears several of these hats. That's fine, as long as each job still has a name next to it.
The handoffs, and where deals leak
Deals rarely die inside a role. They die between roles, when one person thinks they've passed it on and the next person doesn't know it's theirs. Every handoff should have the same three parts: required fields, one owner after the handoff, and a task with a deadline.
| Handoff | Required before it moves | The task and the clock |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing to lead manager | Source, campaign and market on the lead, set automatically | A first-contact task, due within minutes during business hours |
| Lead manager to acquisitions | Motivation, timeline, asking price, condition, decision makers, best callback time | An acquisitions call task, due within an agreed time |
| Acquisitions to underwriting | Address, condition notes, photos, repair estimate | A review in the underwriting queue, due the same day |
| Acquisitions to TC | Signed contract, price, inspection and closing dates, title company | A seller call from the TC, due soon after signing |
| TC to dispositions | Access details, photos, assignment terms, deadlines | Deal marketed to matching buyers |
| Dispositions to TC | Buyer, assignment fee, earnest money status | Assignment paperwork and title updated |
| TC to accounting | Closing date, final fee or profit, costs | The deal closed out and profit written back to the campaign |
The second row is the easiest one to get wrong, because each side can think the other has the next step. My cold caller handoff checklist goes into it. The fourth row is the one behind "contract to first seller call" in the Monday 5: the hours between a signed contract and the next call to the seller, which is where cancellations start.
What should each role see in the CRM?
Every role should start the day from one screen built for its job, not from a general list of all leads.
- Lead manager: new leads, newest first; missed calls with no callback; leads with no first contact.
- Acquisitions: today's follow-ups and appointments; offers waiting on a response; leads with no next step.
- Underwriting: a queue of deals waiting for a number.
- Transaction coordinator: a board of every file under contract by stage, and deals missing a date.
- Dispositions: deals ready to market; matching buyers ranked by what they've bought; deals with no buyer after a set number of days.
- Owner: the Monday 5, split by market.
In the org I run, acquisitions works from a "My Day" board, underwriting has its own queue, transaction coordination has a board and a scorecard, and dispositions posts its weekly numbers to Slack. None of those are unusual features. They're ordinary Salesforce, set up around who does what.
More on the last three in transaction coordination in Salesforce and dispositions in Salesforce.
What should each role be allowed to do?
- Only owners and ops can export. Your lead and buyer lists are the business. Leave the export permission off everyone else. The other ways data leaves, and what to do when someone gives notice, are in stopping reps from exporting your seller list.
- Only ops and admins can delete or merge. Reps fix mistakes by asking, not by deleting.
- Locked source fields. Nobody edits a deal's original source after it's set.
- VAs and cold callers see only what they work. A restricted profile, a permission set with only what they need, and queues that show them their leads. See VA access in Salesforce.
- Managers see their team's records through the role hierarchy, so nothing is hidden from the person accountable for it.
How does the setup change as the team grows?
| Team size | What usually works |
|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | One pipeline, everyone does a bit of everything. An all-in-one investor CRM is often enough. |
| 6 to 15 | Acquisitions and dispositions split. A lead manager or cold callers appear, so routing and handoff fields start to matter. A TC joins once closings pile up. |
| 15 to 50 | Managers per function, more than one market, role-specific screens and dashboards, and someone who owns the system, part time or full time. |
Each step up is a set of CRM changes: new users, new screens, new routing, new reports. Teams that grow without making them end up with five people working from one shared list, and the owner asking every Monday who's following up on what. If you're about to add reps, see what to set up before a new rep starts, and the acquisitions capacity calculator for when you need one.
Questions
What roles does a wholesaling team need?
The jobs are marketing, first contact (a lead manager or cold callers), acquisitions, underwriting, dispositions, transaction coordination and someone who owns the CRM. In a small team one person covers several; as the team grows, each becomes its own role.
What's the difference between a lead manager and an acquisitions manager?
The lead manager makes first contact and qualifies the seller: motivation, timeline, price, condition. The acquisitions manager takes qualified sellers, sets appointments, makes offers and signs contracts. The handoff between them needs required fields and a callback deadline.
What does a transaction coordinator do in wholesaling?
The TC owns a deal from signed contract to closing: title, inspection and closing dates, documents, keeping the seller and buyer informed, and catching problems early. In the CRM, the TC works from a board of every file under contract and a list of deals missing a date.
What does a dispositions manager do?
Dispositions sells or assigns the deal: builds and ranks the buyers list, markets each deal to matching buyers, negotiates the assignment fee and hands the buyer to the transaction coordinator.
When should a wholesaler hire a dispositions manager?
Usually when acquisitions spends too much time selling deals instead of buying them, or when deals sit under contract waiting for a buyer. The trigger is the workload, not the headcount.
Which KPIs should each role on a wholesaling team track?
Marketing: cost per appointment and per contract by campaign. Lead manager: time to first contact and qualified leads passed. Acquisitions: contracts and leads with no next step. Dispositions: days to assign and actual against projected fee. TC: on-time closings and fall-outs. Owner: profit on kept deals.
How should CRM permissions differ by role?
Only owners and ops should export or delete. VAs and cold callers should see only the leads they work. Managers should see their team's records. Source fields on deals should be locked for everyone once set.
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