Recently, we sold our house (yay!). With a 30-day escrow (yikes!). Without having a home to move into (ouch!).
Normally, there would be a contingency placed on the sale that could allow us to stay in the house until we had somewhere else to go. In our case, we had plans to move into a rental home instead of buying a new one, which is (usually) easier to manage than the home buying process. With a 30-day escrow, the time for the buyer to commit is shorter, but it also means that there is a small window of time between the commit date and closing date. This didn’t give us a lot of time to find a home that was move-in ready. As soon as the commit date passed, there was a flurry of activity to look at homes, choose one, put in the application, provide the deposit, and sign the paperwork. This was all done in a matter of days, but the home that we found would not be available two weeks after the sale of our house closed.
Here are some of things that we have done to help our move go smoothly: