A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Do you have a recent personal example of this?

Thankfully,no,for that sounds painful! ;)

My lease is up. I’d rather go month to month until I find a place that suits my future plans. Landlord wants a full year lease. I’ve been there three years waiting for it to run out.

I say look, you got a bird in the hand right now month to month, and I probably won’t move until spring anyway. If I leave, in this market, how many you got waiting in the bush?

Found the exact car I want that could make my day. Passed on it for greener pastures. Greener pastures not so green. Car gone. No find car. Bye hand in bush. I mean bird in bush. I mean bird in hand.

Months back when I was looking for a new house to rent then my agent told me I had “plenty of time” to vacate my forclosure and to put my former mtg $ aside. I had found just the right house in just the right neighborhood for just the right price but passed on it thinking I had a few months more. Wrong. That house rented right away and when the time came for me to start looking frantically then there were so few homes to choose from and I had more than a few days where I just cried because I had three people and three dogs to make secure. Luckily the one we’re in now is better than any we could have imagined getting and makes the panic days almost funny.