Pete Daoust
The "shelf" word's meaning is that this corp. was sitting on a shelf somewhere, being kept alive, and waiting to be sold, if you find one of these, that has a BANK ACCOUNT, for 5 years let say, it can be helpful, if you buy it, to get credit faster......those are usually more expansive....
But if you don't need that, you can register one of these HOLDING corp. online......difficult to get one CHEAPER.......