house update

The short story: The sellers used our offer to commit someone else to an offer. Their offer is contigent upon the city approving an addition to the home. The seller accepted that offer before they countered us. They countered us for 2nd place if the first one doesn't go through (wait 2 weeks)and for higher than our offer. So we are pursuing other homes and will probably not jump on anything until we get there. Three weeks until we pick up the moving truck.