Being born on a farm I would call it secondary harvesting.

I have found that pink envelopes are a little more effective because the people who receive them are especially curious.

How about a pink letter? 

Often what we sow comes to harvest in waves.When I was working and hunting for new deals, what kept me motivated and consistent was my why. 

In one podcast I listen to on investing they discuss the concept of "equity harvesting" on their properties.

Although I would have like to hold on to it a little longer so we could have done the first harvest when the timber got to 70 YO.. big money !! 

Its not a fun issue , but I deal with it constantly.What happened is the  Pink paint below the brown paint is probably an oil base paint and the brown paint is a latex based paint!

Still, $15-20k of added costs in 3-4 years for capital gains harvesting is not bad.

The issue Brian is putting forth is that if there is significant intrinsic value in a deal and it can be harvested by an expert operator, then mining this intrinsic value can make an apparently slim deal into a fantastic deal.

Timber land has very low tax's we had a 700 acre tree farm that had a value of about 4 million and taxs were under 3k a year.. where they get thier money though is in Harvest and Severance tax's two tax's when you log.