Needless to say, many parties are involved, and they all need to be established and verified, or your business will suffer greatly. 

We are sending our prayers for those suffering up in LA.

Courts will surprise you on how they interpret "facts" and the implications.Oddly, the seller committed perjury in front of a federal judge on a couple of occasions and suffered no consequences.

Kudos to you for doing something to create a secondary income stream. there are 5 income streams in RE rentals, possibly six if you do things a certain way.The reality here is your model (buy box) is suffering from too high an entry and too high a cost of capital.

What is that pain and suffering worth?  

I also don't suffer fools well who don't know what they're talking about.

Not to mention any damages to the property I will have to suffer as well.

Even some investors have already filed the arbitration, yet still no response from the builder.If the builder and brokerage had kept their 100% transparency, the investors wouldn't have been upset/suffered and wouldn't have had to take legal action. 

. ;-) There is nothing false wiih what @Henry Clark said.Commercial real estate is broad - Office space, self-storage, Farm, Data centers, residential properties above 4 units, etcIt can be true that one part of commercial real estate is suffering while others is thriving.

They're not stuck as in "there are no other options", they're stuck as in "there are cheaper, crappier options but we'd have to pack up our entire lives and deal with the other expenses/headaches that come with moving so I guess we might as well just suffer with the increase".