Anyone familiar with real estate law ?

Seller can entertain anything they want. Hopefully your offer was contingent... Have your Agent handle it. You do have one don't you?
Yep, we sure do

However, that is where the rub lies

The appraisal came in 20K under our previous offer
So i told him i would pay what it was appraised at

He said he only accepted that if we paid our agent and i refused because that would leave me paying about 10K over what the house is worth

His other offer was for me to pay him the appraised value and not pay my agent


Needless to say, that's where I withdrew my offer all together