When you buy a car or a couch, you can usually be confident of a time frame for coordinating the purchase and disposing of the previous version of the item. But buying a house, even in the current buyer’s market, is fraught with uncertainty as to timing.

First-time buyers, usually faced with leaving a rental, can sometimes rent month by month. But a yearlong lease can be problematic when there’s no telling how long it will take to find a new home. Jency and Bobby Kuriakose are struggling with just such a problem.

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