Indy counteroffered at 1% below the last list price.  My inital offer was 9% below last list.

My realtor recommended that I not counter their counteroffer, even though it was 70K higher than my initial offer,  because "the listing agent is getting antsy, and now that he has an 'approved' short sale price he can just put in on the market, and sell it fast to someone else, so we should probably just accept the counteroffer at full price or we might lose it"

So we accepted the full price counteroffer from Indymac via Servicelink.

Now what happens?  

Was the counteroffer price already something that the investors should accept?  

Do most sales that have gotten to this point close, assuming the inspection and financing goes through, assuming I don't find something better and walk?

My realtor doesn't want to call the negotiator to ask any questions as he says it is the listing agent's job, however the listing agent is "very slow to respond to anything" according to my agent.  

I have the negotiators phone number at ServiceLink-  will I screw anything up if I just drop him a line and see if he can give me some general answers about how the process works, i.e turn around time to get an approval letter after a counteroffer is accepted, etc?

Our lease is up on May 30th, and we are trying to figure out our living situation for the next few months while this deal crawls along.

We are 90 days since file complete to Indy.  I realize other short sales take much longer, but as someone just looking for a good house for my family, short sale or not, and not someone looking for a great deal or investment property, this has been an emotional ordeal that I don't think I would repeat again.