So he had to scramble to pay it off. 

Just maximize your downtime to plan for all of the things you need to put into action as soon as you close to reduce vacancy and have processes in place so you dont need to scramble...

So I start scrambling to get this to happen and as part of that, I look the guy up in public records.

He scrambled to try to justify his actions, but 24 hours later the deal was dead.

Being a ball player, I am known around town to be the fastest runner around (or at least I was in my younger years), but had anyone been there, they would have seen lightning speed as I had to scramble to run out of the house after stepping into the laundry room from the kitchen to avoid yacking.

Sometimes, the tenants wouldn’t pay on time and had me scrambling around to pick up their slack.

People scramble around and find the money, or if their is a  note the holder pays the back taxes.

Now we are scrambling to reach someone at HUD to find a solution.

However, in the market I am in, people would scramble for those kinds of numbers - because you just aren't going to find them. 

Now I'm having to drop rents and scramble to fill it.