[srh33rsx]

I am trying to purchase a house, and my agent wrote up a contract which I signed and sent to the seller. Another contract was already on the house, which had been countered back to the other buyers for approval and resubmittal. The following day, the seller signed my contract, but the other buyer's counter offer was also signed and returned to the seller. The seller wants our contract, but the other buyer is insisting that they already had a radified contract. Is that the case? To further complicate things, when the other buyer returned the signed counter offer, additional pages (that did not need to be signed, but still were not included in the original offer) were given to the seller. Does that constitute another counter offer, because the seller had not seen those pages, even if he did not need to sign them?

The seller has told me & my agent many times that he wants our contract, not there's. He has written the other buyer a letter saying that he releaves them of their contract. They do not want to let go, because they insist that it was already radified.

On contract is contingent on his successful withdrawal from the other buyer's contract.

Do you think I stand a chance at getting this house, and should I get my inspections taken care of, even though the other party is still out there? ( I said I'd get the inspections in my contract w/in 14 days).

Thanks so much

-Susan

[Fr_Chuck]

Ok, if he had a counter offer out, he had to notify the other person and cancell the counter offer BEFORE he signed your offer.

The other people at this point have a legal and bindingcontract unless, the "other papers" altered the contract in any way or manner. If there were merely papers that the seller should have had included, or other needed papers for the sale, then it is still binding,

So your sale and deed could be tied up in court if you continue to go ahead.