We’ll special order anything you don’t see in our store or items that aren’t normally available for rent including go-carts, foosball, aquariums and even boats. The sky’s the limit.
Tom Karrat, ColorTyme Franchisee

ColorTyme President Bob Bloom at the company's recent convention in Memphis, Tennessee. See complete photo gallery of the event here (353 pics).

Those on-line auction sites have nothing on 35-year-old Whitesboro, South Carolina entrepreneur Tom Karrat. He promises to special order anything from trampolines and pool tables to riding lawn mowers at his new ColorTyme rent-to-own (RTO) store that opened earlier this month.

“Our ColorTyme store will have 6,400 square feet. That’s double what’s normally available at most furniture stores in the Whitesboro area,” Karrat explains.

“Other furniture stores will try to sell you something that closely matches what you want,” Karrat says. “But at ColorTyme, we’ll special order anything you don’t see in our store or items that aren’t normally available for rent including go-carts, foosball, aquariums and even boats. The sky’s the limit.”

This is the third ColorTyme store for Karrat; he’s been a partner in two other stores. Karrat says he’s thrived in the rent-to-own industry primarily because he loves helping those customers who would normally be turned away because of financial challenges. He’s also thrilled he can open a ColorTyme in the very town he grew up.

“It feels kind of nostalgic to be back in town,” says Karrat. “I’m also excited to be working with customers on a very personal level. It gives me the opportunity to know Whitesboro’s people and be part of the community again. It’s nice to be back where I started.”