Move into the next house without ending up between houses.
Timing was everything with this move, and Josh and Jacqui helped us secure a new home with same-day closing as our previous home. Caitlyn · sold, then bought · Google review
Three orders, and what each one costs.
1. Sell first, then buy.
Close the sale, then shop with the proceeds in hand and no contingency attached to your offer.
The cost: you are shopping without a house. That means a rent-back from your buyer, or a rental and a storage unit in the middle, and a second move either way. Price the rent-back first, because it is usually the cheaper of the two and it is negotiated during the sale, not after it.
2. Buy first, with your offer contingent on the sale.
Write on the next house now, with the purchase depending on your current one selling.
The cost: the contingency is what you pay with. Against a competing offer that carries no condition, yours is the weaker one, and a seller who needs certainty will take less money to avoid your risk. You also carry both payments if the sale runs long.
3. Buy first, with no contingency, then sell the empty house.
Write a clean offer on the next house, move once, then list the one you left with nothing in it.
The cost: you carry both payments for the whole window, and the down payment comes out of savings rather than out of the sale. That window is days on market in your price band plus escrow, not the 30 days people assume. Multiply your current payment by it and you have the real number. What you buy with that is an offer competing on its own terms and a house that shows empty.
Whether you can carry both is your lender's answer, not mine. Debt ratios and reserves get decided by underwriting, so treat this as a map of the options rather than a verdict on which one is open to you.
Every one of these three prices out differently depending on what your house is worth today, which is the number the form above sends you. Prefer to skip the form? Text or call (480) 369-2880 with your address and I will run it the same way.
The overlap is not the problem. The overlap you never sized is.
Carrying two payments for a stretch is a choice plenty of people make on purpose, and it buys them a cleaner offer and one move instead of two. It goes wrong when nobody priced the window first. The number that matters is not 30 days. It is how long homes in your price band and your area are actually taking right now, plus escrow.
Josh and Jacqui have bought and sold 501 homes.
Josh Hogan and Jacqui Shoffner, Live AZ Co. About $252M in production across Gilbert, Chandler, Queen Creek, Mesa, and Tempe. Repeat business from past clients is the largest part of what we do, and the shape it usually takes is exactly this one: a house to sell and a house to buy, at the same time.
Timing was everything with this move, and Josh and Jacqui helped us secure a new home with same-day closing as our previous home. Caitlyn · sold, then bought · Google review
They were able to sell our home within a short timeline and assist in buying a home with a contingency and simultaneous closing. Jessica · bought with a contingency · Google review
Five-star rated on Google and Zillow. The thing clients write about is almost never the house. It is what happened in the two weeks nobody plans for.
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The map above is free and it is yours either way. What it cannot tell you is which paths your equity actually opens, and that starts with what the house is worth today.
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