Anyone own a rental property?

Make your offer on the second house contingent on the sale of your existing house. This happens all the time. Most people are not in a position to be able to do it any other way.

I don't feel you are in a position to be able to keep your existing house. And the rental business is a crap shoot. I have owned as many as 5 houses at the same time (including the one I live in), but only rented one out. Learned my lesson on that one. No offense intended to anyone, but renters generally have a strange, selfish attitude, and treat your property like crap and they dont give a rip about it.

Sorry man. In California Contingent offers get put in the shredder. If you are talking an 800K or up purchase you might get someone to wait while you sell your current home, otherwise you are pissing in the wind.......
In California there are MULTIPLE offers on homes in hours of them hitting the market.