In this blog I am going to try to recreate the series of events that led up to the owners of the Peacock Four trying to steal our earnest money.  We got a bad feeling about the purchase, well within the option period, primarily due to some erattic behavior by the seller.  It gave us a sense of dishonesty and given the market, we decided to not take the risk.  Almost a month later, we find out the seller is trying to take our earnest money!  Even though this is epressly outlined in the contract that within the option period we can back out for any reason and get 100% of the earnest money back.   Herein lies our story and a warning to anyone looking to do business with these people.