Call the agent out and let them scramble to try and fix the issue... or move on to someone else.

To this day, we haven't seen any of that.2016: The Year of Clean-up, Priorities, and RefinancesWith our GC out of the picture, we had to scramble to find new GCs for all the remaining projects.

Or do you find the deal and scramble to get financing before you can make the offer?

The big banks look you in the eyes and say 5.7%, amortized over 15 years with a 5 year term. scrambling to pay a balloon is never fun. 

For me, there was a last minute scramble where I wasn’t sure if they would follow through.

These costs include: risks associated with non vetted yahoos coming over and doing work, time associated with scrambling to find someone when calling a home warranty company is much easier (heck we can even have our tenants do it), much of this time is often going out and walking the site with people. 

They always ask for something (however small) and it can feel like an 11th hour scramble to find that 2015 Roth IRA statement

If they move unexpectedly, he's not scrambling trying to figure out how he's going to make the mortgage payment by himself (have seen that happen more than once). 

I see people scramble going from city to another state and found out they could not find a good like exchange. 

My biggest headaches was when rent was due on a Saturday,, so by Monday was already the 3rd.. those months were always a scramble..