Smart fella I knew used 15 of his CPL allocated £000s to buy a scruffy C150 with decent engine hours and did his hours building in it.
He rented me a block of 100hrs dry in a month at £not-much per hour to do my hours building. I passed it on the the next fella who also burned his 100hrs in a month. And so on. And on...
The owner had done his sums well. He sold that tired old cab with a recon engine some years later for a modest profit having had a great deal of cash-flow from it plus an aeroplane to fly himself on occasions.
Now that's creative.
There are plenty of people out there gagging to get their hands on sensibly priced hours by the block. Damn few aircraft on the market to satisfy them.