For agents and lenders: collect the current TREC contract source, option-fee delivery clue, amendment or additional-option-fee clue, receipt evidence, good-funds status, lender condition, title-commitment item and one process question in one reviewable handoff.
A Texas escrow-receipt question can involve the executed contract, the option fee, earnest money, an additional option fee, an amendment, delivery evidence, good funds, a lender condition, termination or release instructions and title-commitment review. This handoff keeps the source trail together without deciding the file-specific result.
Name the contract form, effective date, payment amounts, deadline clue, receipt evidence, payment method, collection status if available, amendment or release request, lender condition, title commitment item and first process question. The contract, parties, lender, title team, underwriter and any attorney review still control their own answers.
These sources were checked on October 14, 2026. They help frame the earnest-money and option-fee packet, but they do not replace broker, lender, title, underwriting, attorney, county-record or legal review.
TREC lists Form 20-19 as the One to Four Family Residential Contract (Resale), effective July 1, 2026, and identifies the residential resale property types it covers. A useful handoff names the form, effective date, executed contract date and property type without deciding contract compliance.
Read the official source ->TREC explains that the revised forms send the option fee to the title company, state a three-day delivery window after the effective date, and allow a combined payment to be applied first to the option fee and then earnest money. Send the payment, receipt and deadline clues; do not decide default, waiver or legal effect.
Read the official source ->TREC Form 39-10 includes amendment options for additional option fee and extension language. If the file has a later amendment, send the fully executed amendment, date, amount, credit clue and affected deadline rather than restating the deal from memory.
Read the official source ->TDI P-27 defines good funds and says funds equal to all disbursements must be received and deposited before a disbursement may be made. A handoff should show payment method, receipt date, collection status and requested action without promising release timing.
Read the official source ->Collin County notes that online database results are not the official repository and may not show complete or unaltered records. When a receipt question is tied to a recorded contract, deed, release, notice or instrument number, send the complete county-record clue.
Read the official source ->TDI P-53 permits legal promotional and educational activity that is not conditioned on referral of title-insurance business. This handoff offers public source organization only; it does not discount a title premium or provide a referral benefit.
Read the official source ->An earnest-money or option-fee handoff does not need to decide default, waiver, entitlement, release, contract compliance, lender acceptance, title, underwriting, insurability or legal effect. It needs enough source context for the right professional to identify the next step.
This public resource is available to anyone on the same terms. It is not conditioned on sending a closing to WG Title and it does not offer a rebate, discount, commission, gift or thing of value for a referral.
Prepared as a courtesy. This document is available to any real estate professional on the same terms and is not conditioned on directing a closing to WG Title.
WG Title provides title and escrow services, not legal advice. WG Law is a separate, independently operated company and any relationship with it is governed by its own engagement.
Read TDI Procedural Rule P-53 ->This uses the existing closing-readiness form. The page URL, referrer, UTM fields and click IDs stay with the lead record, so the title team can see that the question came from this earnest money and option fee source guide.
Do not paste wire instructions, bank account numbers, routing numbers, card data, Social Security numbers, tax IDs, EINs, passport numbers, driver's license numbers, account-login credentials, private financial records, privileged legal advice or private settlement instructions into this form.
Jamie Ellis authored this as ordinary business and educational content. Transaction-specific contract, deadline, receipt, good-funds, release, lender, title, underwriting, disbursement, recording and legal conclusions belong with the appropriate reviewer.
