It is a battle to be fought on a personal level, but on the business side of our lives, time would be better served at finding ways to work within the system, find ways to make it work "for" you.Right or wrong, they will always win.

Make it a win win situation for everyone.

Bit fir everything else the iPhone wins hands down.

A win for both of us.

Create win/win situations and there's no limits.

Practical value is important, but I agree with Chris in that intrinsic value always wins in the end.

WIN the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Chevrolet on the other hand is winning awards for quality and styling.

On the other hand, when an investor shows up on time or early, it makes me want to smile, reach out my hand, and strike a win-win deal.

UNLESS yoru doing volume if your buying 1 or 2 houses in a year its going to be a challenge.Now I know when I build new construction I do maybe 35 homes a year personally.. we look at lot cost vertical cost of money to build  sales cost and what our profit we can make.. we factor that in before we bid on the lots you have to back into it based on end sales price.. you can't just build it and they will come and or it will appraise.. with the goal to make 10 to 15% on gross and if we do better than 15% that is a huge win for us.. but of course these are 400k and up.. so numbers are bigger but so is the risk. and we can't be like a high volume turn key company that does our yearly production in a month or two.I fund a few VEndors that do a turn key light ( is what I call it) they will let you pay cash for the house and they will charge you a fee to use their rehab crews and coordinate it all. then hand you off to PM.the reason PM is critical in turn key is you have a tenant base that is some what of a challenge to manage.. other wise none of these turn key guys would be in the business of PM unless they were going nuclear and growing it so big that it becomes a profit center in its own right.I hope some of this makes sense. its simply not a big mystery you have certain components that go into bringing a product to market and make it financeable.