If you can't find a home after yours sells, you lease your old house back from the buyer, extend your closing, or use a backup possession agreement, and you keep looking without packing a single box. That's the safety net.

The better answer is that this should rarely …

Selling one house and buying another at the same time scares people. It should get your attention. It shouldn't keep you awake.

Almost every homeowner I sit down with brings the same five fears to the table. The five biggest fears of buying and selling at the same …

Count the moves.

Many people who sell a house and buy another one end up making two. Out of the old house and into something temporary, then out of the temporary place and into the new house a few weeks later.

We plan for one.

Here's …