To the average Joe, there's no value in them so they always end up on the discount shelf. 

Off the shelf sizes, Lowes, HD are hard to beat.  

Right now, in most markets it is a sellers market, and the houses are flying off the shelf.

i have both books on my shelf as we speak!

I understand the shelf life of CRE and I see that this isn't a race I'm just not okay with the socio norm.

Great area of town.For underwriting purposes, did you develop your own calculator or buy something "off the shelf"? 

If you purchased the property with no money down and had $100/month positive cash flow, then you would have infinite returns.  

He had some kind of a RE mentoring course and he had John Davidson singing a song "I'm giving you a rainbow..." which absolutely evoked the "Pie in the sky" pitch.Back then, seems to me, RE gurus, generally speaking, were much more blatant about making over-the-top outlandish claims that no sane person should believe in their right mind, but nevertheless a great many people would buy into those anyway I think, in large part because the economy was booming at that time and people who hated their jobs were much more willing to drop a few hundred or even thousands for a lick and a promise and then whatever they bought (even though it wouldn't work anyway if they did work it) ended up sitting on their shelf.

There is a technical phrase for that; a Shelf Entity. 

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