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There is a version of this story where it doesn't work out. Where the contingent offer gets rejected. Where the financing falls apart. Where the home sits on the market too long and the dream home in Bonita slips away. We've seen that version happen to people who didn't have the right team in their corner.

This is not that version.

This is the story of how our clients — a family who came to us with a big dream and a complicated situation — bought their dream home in Bonita, sold their existing home in five days with multiple offers, and closed escrow on both transactions almost simultaneously. It's one of the most rewarding deals our team has been a part of, and it's a reminder of exactly why we do what we do.

Where They Started: A Dream

When our clients first came to us, they were in a position many San Diego homeowners find themselves in: they had a home they loved, equity they had built over the years, and a dream property they had their eye on — a home in Bonita that they had decided was the one. The problem was that they needed the proceeds from their current home to make the purchase work. That's what's known in real estate as a contingent transaction, and it is one of the most complex moves a buyer and seller can make at the same time.

Contingent offers are not popular with listing agents. In a competitive San Diego market, sellers want clean offers — cash, no strings attached. Presenting a contingent offer and getting it accepted requires strategy, relationships, and the confidence to negotiate aggressively on behalf of your client. That's where we came in.

Since 2003, Peraza Real Estate has helped families in San Diego navigate exactly this kind of situation. More than 700 transactions later, we've learned that the deals that look the most complicated on paper are often the ones that matter most to the people involved. This family's dream was real. Our job was to build a plan around it.

The Strategy: Build the Best Team in the Room

The first thing we did was put together an aggressive contingent offer on the Bonita home. Not passive. Not exploratory. Aggressive — because that's what the situation called for. Getting that offer accepted required us to communicate clearly with the listing side, present our clients in the strongest possible light, and back up our terms with a concrete plan to sell their existing home fast.

That plan started with financing. Contingent transactions have unique financing dynamics, and not every lender has the experience to navigate them cleanly. We connected our clients with Team Tominna — Omar and Celina Tominna — who are among the sharpest mortgage professionals we've worked with. What looked like a difficult financing situation became achievable with the right people at the table. That's not luck. That's a network built over more than two decades of doing this work the right way.

Once the offer was accepted and the Bonita home was under contract, the clock started on the sale side. We had to get our clients' existing home ready, priced right, and on the market in a way that would generate demand fast. This is where our commitment to full-service representation became the difference-maker.

We assembled and coordinated a complete team of licensed professionals to prepare the home from top to bottom. A roofer, a painter, an electrician, a plumber, and a landscaper — each one trusted, vetted, and brought in efficiently so the work could be completed without wasted time. When the physical work was done, our staging crew came in and put the finishing touches on the presentation before the open house. The home didn't just go on the market. It went on the market ready.

The Sale: Five Days, Multiple Offers

Five days.

That's how long it took before our clients had multiple offers on their home. For a transaction this complex — one where the sale of their current property directly determined whether they could close on their dream home — that result was everything.

We've been serving San Diego since 2003, and one thing that never changes is this: preparation creates demand. Buyers respond to homes that are clean, move-in ready, and presented with intention. Every dollar and every hour invested in getting that home show-ready paid off the moment the offers started coming in. Our clients weren't in a position to sit and wait. We made sure they didn't have to.

What happened next is something our team is genuinely proud of. We managed both sides of a highly coordinated transaction — keeping communication open with our clients, with both transaction teams, and with every professional involved in the deal — and brought both escrows to the finish line almost simultaneously. The sale of their home and the purchase of their Bonita dream home closed on nearly the same day.

That kind of coordination does not happen by accident. It requires experience, real relationships, and a team that is fully present for their clients through every step of the process. Built on a foundation of trust and clear communication, we work the way we do because our clients deserve to know that someone is watching every moving part on their behalf.

What They Said: In Their Own Words

Our clients summed up the experience better than we ever could. They left us a Google review that said, in part:

"Team Peraza assembled the best team of licensed professionals to prep our home for the sale... OUR HOME SOLD IN FIVE DAYS!!!! WITH MULTIPLE OFFERS!!!! We closed escrow on the sale of our home and on the purchase of our Bonita Home almost on the same day!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! Team Peraza were in contact with us the entire time for the sale and are still with us for the remodeling!! They don't just sell homes! TEAM PERAZA HELPS CHANGE LIVES!!!"

We read that and felt it. Because that's exactly what this work is about.

We often say that it's not about real estate — it's about changing people's lives. That is not a tagline we invented for a flyer. It comes from transactions exactly like this one, where a family trusted us with one of the biggest financial and emotional decisions of their lives and came out the other side with a home they love, a clean sale behind them, and a future they had almost convinced themselves wasn't possible.

That's the Peraza Promise. We are 100% committed to delivering top-tier service to every client. No matter the price point, no matter how complicated the situation, we treat every client like our first — because the stakes are just as high for them as they were for the very first family we ever helped.

The Bigger Picture: What a Contingent Transaction Actually Takes

Moves like this one don't get talked about enough. Most people hear "contingent offer" and assume it's a long shot. And for teams that don't have the relationships, the network, or the experience to execute on both sides simultaneously, it often is.

What makes a contingent transaction succeed comes down to a few things: an aggressive, well-structured offer that gets the new home under contract; a lender relationship that can navigate non-standard financing; a fast, organized preparation process that gets the existing home market-ready; and the ability to coordinate two separate escrows so they land close enough together that the client isn't left in a gap.

We have been doing this in San Diego for over twenty years. We have the contractors, the lenders, the relationships, and the experience to execute when the stakes are highest. And when both closings happened — when our clients got the keys to their Bonita dream home — that's when all of it felt worth it.

If you are sitting on equity in your current home and wondering if you can buy before you sell, or sell while you buy, or pull off both at once — the answer is that it is possible with the right plan. We would love to walk you through what that could look like for your specific situation.

If you're ready to make your next move, let's build a strategy that actually works. Whether you're buying, selling, or doing both at the same time, we've done it before and we're ready to do it for you.

Thinking of buying or selling? Let's prepare for your next move, the right way.

Peraza Real Estate | Est. 2003 Trusted, Professional Realtor Representation

"It's not about real estate; it's about changing people's lives."

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