(mortgages, tenant, etc)Government handing out trillions of dollars to help out whomever, even if they didn't need it.Oil at significant negative prices.New mandatory laws regarding health, and what you can do about it.Now, we also have:Very high real estate pricesA shortage of housing and a tenants scrambling for housing.Very high labor cost increases, materials costs, and difficult availability. 

We still have a long way to go in our economy with things still settling out for the oil companies and the state government scrambling to come up with a way to fund their overflowing budget.I am also hoping to find a good deal in this downturn, but not on the MLS right now.

The project management (bring everybody together and keep the project on track) appears also to be one of the biggest hurdles and not to easily be outsourced (you'll only know way in the deal whether the person is capable of doing it and then you might be scrambling for help).  

HOA scrambled to get trash service and has since added an additional $100K to our annual budget.

Scrambling for efficiency and acquisitions right now, not growth.All in all, it seems like affordability might stop it's rapid decline and level off a bit, then eventually become better when the next recession hits......so it seems to depend on how far out I believe the recession will be.....the further out it is, the more protected I am from losses if I purchased into the Phase 1 of these large developments near me.Tough decision, but at least I'm feeling a bit more informed.

No closing cost could be rolled in and i actually had to scramble to pull out a loan against my 401k to cover the closing, and my agent gifted $1000 of his commission to help.

It is better to over raise then have to scramble or have a capital call, to get the property on track.

It got scrambled in my brain.

This has left us scrambling trying to satisfy the current hard money loans on those properties that are due in order to not lose the properties. 

Without the cash reserve, we would have really been scrambling for funds to complete the project.