In this video Joe Kiser interviews Jason Fox about a recent sale in which we represented the seller of one home and simultaneously the buyer of another.

The simple answer to the question is yes.  But, like most real estate answers there are a million variables that come into play.

In this video we discuss a client that needed to sell her Kirkland Rambler in order to buy a new home in Bonney Lake where she could retire near her siblings.

Timing is very important when trying to buy contingent.

Watch the video to find out how it turned out.

Today we're gonna talk
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about the time Jason was holding an
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open house had somebody that wanted to
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write an offer on that open house and
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then later he was able to make an offer
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for our sellers off the open house. Is that
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how it went?

Something like that.

So tell me how
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it went. You're holding an open
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house it's your listing.

Yes, we had a
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nice little Rambler out in Kirkland and
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you know we were weren't sure if
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we'd get multiple offers so we
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were taking offers as they came.

uh-huh

A buyer came through and they said,
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hey you know we might want to put an
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offer on this house today.

Okay, and did they submit it?

They submitted the offer.

Uh-huh

I presented it to the
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seller, the seller was excited
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because earlier that day she had
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gone out to Bonney Lake and found a
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house that she got super excited about.
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In order to buy the house in Bonney Lake
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we we're gonna go contingent.
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uh-huh

We wanted to have that
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house in Kirkland house sold
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before or be in mutual before we made an
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offer on the Bonney Lake house.

yeah okay

Yeah
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because that puts us in a little bit
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stronger negotiation.

Right, so did you have to wait till
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Monday to do all this?

No. I
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got home at Sunday, I was in Kirkland, I
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got home about 4:30 p.m.
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I received the offer on the Kirkland house
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presented the offer to our seller we
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accepted the offer and went into mutual.
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Previously I already had started calling
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the agent of the house in Bonney Lake.
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mm-hmm

I found out that they
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had also received an offer.
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Oh so you probably sold the
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Kirkland house but not the Bonney Lake house?

I said hey, what do I need to do to get my
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client into your house because she loves it
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and she's super excited. I got the
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details of what needed to happen and it
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wasn't that bad. Because we were in
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mutual we didn't have to go full contingent,
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we could go pending sale. That's
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a little bit stronger offer. Which is
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something you can do right now because
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the market has been cooling off.

Yeah so
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I guess I'll just recap it a little bit.
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You're working an open house covering
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the business while your partner's out of
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town on vacation. You're up holding
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the open home somebody comes in they
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want to make the offer you guys are able
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to come to terms on that offer. In
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addition it puts you in a position to
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actually present a strong offer on a
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purchase for your seller. So at the end
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was everybody happy with the situation?

The new
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buyer got himself an investment
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property, our seller was super
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excited, we also got rent back so
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she had two weeks to get her affairs
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in order. Her new place is on like an
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acre it's super amazing we just saw
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pictures on Facebook the other day. She's
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super excited.

So awesome
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Well thanks for watching guys as you can
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see every deal needs a special touch
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and a little finesse so if you have any
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questions or are looking to strategize on
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your real estate move please talk to
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Jason or I we would love to help you.