How can I get my earnest money back?

[Mary Woodman]

I put $3000 earnest money down today on a home from a wholesaler. I tried for 2 days to get into the house. When they finally got back to us they could only show it at 5pm on the 2nd day. We told them we didn't want to put the earnest money down until we saw the property but they said they'd open it to other buyers by 1pm that day if we didn't. We put the money down and went off the pictures we were emailed. 3 hours later we saw the property and it was NOTHING like they described it. The pictures were very deceiving. It needed way more rehab than they estimated and their ARV was off as well. There was NO potential to make money. We would have lost money. I called the wholesaler right away and complained. He said he'd "try" to get us our money back. My argument is that he told us other buyers wanted this property and put pressure on us to put the money down without seeing it. Please tell me I have SOME hope of getting that money back!!