Churches sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars of oak that nobody in the congregation knows how to fix. One buyer spent 18 months looking for a business like this and found one where the customer only calls every 25 years. That sounds like a problem. It isn't.

Vintage neon is back, and the people who can actually bend the glass are almost gone. One shop in Missouri is the only one left for a hundred miles in any direction, which is exactly why the phone rings. The pricing is the interesting part.

A junk car looks like a problem you pay to haul away. Taken apart, it's a bundle of sellable parts sitting on top of a floor of scrap metal. The profit was never in the tow.