How to Avoid Double Closing When Buying a House and Selling Another

If you’ve ever been involved in a real estate transaction before, you’re probably familiar with the term double closing.That’s an arrangement where you buy a new home on the very same day that you sell your old one. In a perfect world, you close on your old house in the morning, and then on the new house in the afternoon.

Sometimes that arrangement actually works. Other times it’s enormously stressful. If you’ve ever beeninvolved inthe stressful kind of double closing, then you know why it’s s...