<prompt> Human: My wife and I live in a townhouse in the Bay Area. Theres nothing wrong with it and we are happy here. We really would like more room to grow into so we decided to start looking at single family homes. If we found the right one we would want to make an offer contingent on us selling our house. Every realtor Ive spoken with immediately suggests selling our house and asking for a 60 day rent back and using that time to find a new house that we can buy without contingency. I understand that contingent offers are just not as strong as offers without contingency, but we dont want to sell our house and put ourselves in a bind where we HAVE to find something we love in 2 months. What are your guys thoughts on this?  <response>: I know how competitive the bay area is. Its probably good advice from your realtors, honestly. Yes, it puts you in a bad position, but if you are in a sellers market a sale contingency is a big turn off. So many things can go sideways. 