Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Pennsylvania

frivolous lawuit?

Recently, we were days away from closing on a new home when the house experienced flooding due to a faulty sub pump. We had been living in the home for two weeks because we had signed a pre-sales agreement that permitted us to do so. When we decided not to close on the home, the owner sued us for thousands of dollars. We ended up paying for damages that we incurred while living there which we would have been happy to do from the beginning. For example,we had installed a microwave that he had removed and we paid to have the cabinets fixed. We also had blinds installed throughout the house which left holes to fix and painting. We left the microwave and blinds at the house. While we were in court, the district justice said that he would assume that we wanted our belongings back if we had to pay for damages. We, of course, did and the builder said no problem. WE paid the money and when we contacted the builder he said he gave our things away. We filed a lawsuit to be reimbursed the $600 in belongings. He counter sued us stating that we filed a ''frivolous lawsuit''

My questions are: what is a frivolous lawsuit? Does he have merit in this? What should we expect?

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