Our agent also tried to pull the "another party has reopened negotiations", so we better hurry if we are interested. Told the agent in no uncertain terms - we are genuinely interested, this is our first time and we don't like to be rushed. If there is another party interested then fine, go for them and we will step back, as we too have two other houses (true) on the back burner. We took about 3 weeks from the time we first saw the place to when we signed on the dotted line.