title: gcloud cli cannot create project - The project ID you specified is already in use by another project
body: <p>I'm trying to set up Terraform for use with GCP and I'm having trouble creating a new project from the gcloud cli: <a href="https://github.com/sharbeargle/getting_started_with_gcp/wiki/Set-up-Terraform" rel="noreferrer">Terraform Lab</a></p>
  
  <p>The command I'm using is</p>
  
  <pre><code>gcloud projects create testproject
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The error I get over and over is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR: (gcloud.projects.create) Project creation failed. The project ID you specified is already in use by another project. Please try an alternative ID.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here's what I did so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I created an "organization" and a user in Cloud Identity</li>
  <li>Logged into GCP console in the browser with the user I created</li>
  <li>The user has "Organization Administrator" role</li>
  <li>Using the Cloud Shell or gcloud configured on my home computer, I am not able to create a new project. I am able to do things like "gcloud projects list" and "gcloud organizations list" successfully in both cases (cloud shell &amp; local gcloud install)</li>
  <li>I have tried this with different project ID names that are within the format requirements (eg 6-30 chars, lowercase, etc). I can also confirm that the project IDs do not exist.</li>
  <li>However, I am able to successfully create projects via GCP web console (<a href="https://console.cloud.google.com" rel="noreferrer">https://console.cloud.google.com</a>) (using the same IAM account configured in gcloud cli)</li>
  <li>I have tried "gcloud init" several times making sure I am using the right IAM account, just in case. </li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Here's the error I get when I try to create a new project from the "gcloud init" command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Enter a Project ID. Note that a Project ID CANNOT be changed later.
  Project IDs must be 6-30 characters (lowercase ASCII, digits, or
  hyphens) in length and start with a lowercase letter. vincetest
  WARNING: Project creation failed: HttpError accessing 
  &lt;https://cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/v1/projects?alt=json&gt;: 
  response: &lt;{'status': '409', 'content-length': '268', 'x-xss
  -protection': '1; mode=block', 'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff', 
  'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'vary': 'Origin, X-Origin, Referer', 
  'server': 'ESF', '-content-encoding': 'gzip',
   'cache-control': 'private', 'date': 'Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:38:11 GMT', 
   'x-frame-options': 'SAMEORIGIN', 'content-type': 'application/json; 
   charset=UTF-8'}&gt;, content &lt;{
    "error": {
      "code": 409,
      "message": "Requested entity already exists",
      "status": "ALREADY_EXISTS",
      "details": [
        {
          "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ResourceInfo",
          "resourceName": "projects/vincetest"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
  &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Creating the project from the web page console worked fine.</p>