RE:RE:RE:Something gonna give.... "a cheque for $1000/mfbm just to jumpstart the process by a few years"
Those next couple years of jumpstart might be real profitable years. Plus when you build Greenfield you hurt your own market. When you buy someone else's, you don't increase the overall regional supply, so the margins stay higher.
Plus it feels real good to take out a competitor. Sometimes that has a high economic value.