<prompt> Human: Ive owned my home for 10 years. Have a decent amount of equity built up. My family is growing. Have 1 kid and another coming next year. We are fortunate that our current home can accommodate our family, but we want a larger home. Unfortunately for us, no one seems to want to take a contingent offer from us simply because there are multiple people without contingents lining up to purchase homes. Was thinking of selling our home first, temporarily moving into a luxury rental with the intention of buying a home as a non-contingent within the next year. The current cost of the lease per month is roughly what our mortgage is. Has anyone had experience doing this?  <response>: My family and I are moving to a new city- so we have a 1 year rental while we sell the old house and then look for a new home. Trying to coordinate sellingbuying was just more of a headache than we wanted to deal with. Especially since we did not know when the old house would sell. And like urwh4vt mentioned- we have a good portion of our stuff still boxed up. Just make sure you have all of your roku remotes taped to your roku units... haha we cannot find oneSide note: I have friends who built a house two years ago, they ended up selling their current home instantly and living in an apartment for 9 months while the new home was being built. Most of their belongings went to storage. They managed that with 3 kids under 5. This type of stuff is extremely common. IMO it relieves much stress of having to sell immediately or having to buy immediately. 