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PCDavid: you are 100% in the right here. Whether it is $10,000 or $10, a seller should be reasonably accomodating to a buyer (and all the more so as the dollar number goes higher). This Wade character was obviously not -- to the point where you had virtually none of the typical assurances that could (and should) be given in any normal transaction.
IMO, you were smart to walk ... your $10K is better (and more safely) spent elsewhere.