The best advice that I can give you need to be organized and make yourself a checklist of things that you need to do. This is especially important when you are dealing with more than 1 transaction.
This Google Custom search may do a better job of searching the forums for some keywords than the old forum search does. The results do not include threads from the Asset Managers Forum however. To search that forum you will need to be actually in the Asset Managers Forum and you will need to use the old forum search below.