No new house for now

You may have noticed I took down the picture of our "new house" because it looks like its a no go. We attempted to close on Monday with the seller still holding out due to an additonal dollar amount that they said he was going to have to come up with at closing. Yes we were sitting there with the lawyer when our agent told us this. SO- our lawyer allowed us to sign the papers without the seller signing with hopes that he would stop being such a stubborn you know what. And as of today - 4 days later still no word from seller whether or not he is in. So we have decided to walk away. Its a great house but there are many others out there and these people were not willing go give us hardly anything we wanted. Its a buyer's market and we really felt like they were in way to much control. Maybe we are being stubborn now but there have been way to many signs telling us not to buy this house. I guess today was the last straw.
Good thing is that we can stay in our apartment for another month. If not we would have been technically homeless- not good since its 15 degrees outside at night these days.
Back to square one on the house front- GGRRRRRRRRRR