Do we have data on how feasible the “stack method” is, including financial outcomes based on the 200 dollar per unit, pure cash flow ideal?

pure and simple.if you went to two different car dealerships and found the same car for the same price, then you found out that one of the salesmen was making a higher commission, should you care?

From a purely personal point of view as the one who does the cooking I would prefer a hood exhaust as opposed to some counter top exhaust and a double oven.What if you didn't decide but go with some kind of builder(flipper) credit and let the buyer decide up to a certain value?

An owner's claimed cap rate is pure marketing and it won't be the same two years in a row, why even look at it?!  

I still have a good supply of all,of the PURE stuff.

One problem with commodities is that they are a bit of a gamble because the price is based purely on demand and supply and demand often changes suddenly as investor sentiment changes.The stock of a good company with good financials and good growth prospects is much easier to value because it is based on the cash flows that the company will generate.

Now it was a lower end product and not a resort destination, but I didn't like it from a pure investment standpoint.

Note: I'm not a lawyer or an accountant and this is purely info based on research I've done.

LTCM was a beta house and that is how the lost their money, they had loads of money in correlation trades especially in the bond areas, not pure arbitrage.The Goldman Fund that melted down recently was another example of a Beta fund, tracking correlations between obsure unrelated securities.

In my area, the bulk of the buyers are FHA, so working on pure volume doesn't work as well as it might look on paper.