Then you have to scramble to provide heat for the tenant.

The buyers have almost 40k in earnest money locked up, so they are ready to get this done with and have scrambled to get the family member lined up to secure the financing. 

When the overall economy takes a downturn and everyone is scrambling for cash to buy as much as they can, you could still possibly refinance in OK, other markets will be too shaky for banks to lend on. 

Often times I found that scrambling on a deal I lost, made it really easy to take down the next deal I found.  

In a hot market everyone will be scrambling to buy those up and there is seldom any homeruns on there anyways .

Or will they come to their senses and scramble to find a relatives couch for a month or two?

I had to scramble to raise $800k over a weekend so that I did not burn my bridge and performance history of closing on all transactions on time that I commit to.

I'm watching my parents go through the trouble of scrambling for cash as they near retirement age right now, so I know it's something I need to get started with sooner rather than later.

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I did a deal with 5 friends/partners on a commercial property, and within 3 months they had all bailed on me, I had to scramble to buy them out but It turned into a real good money deal.So I threw a party at a restaurant for my "friends" and on the wall was a poster of the check I got when I finally closed escrow.

Too many people however spend as much (or more) than they make, and are always scrambling.