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Remember the good old day's when a night on the town only
cost 1 Agreement? |
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By: Rufus Mudsucker
Rent to Own Maven
The United States has the Dollar, Japan has the Yen,
Great Britain has the Euro. I immigrated to the United States from Rent'to'ownistan.
A small country on the border of Retail'stan, just south of Leaseburg.
Of all the things I love about Rentoownistan, our currency
(the 'Agreement') was the best. It was a beautiful currency, very large,
with multicolored copies. It's value was based on ARR (Average
Rental Rate) and had an exchange rate of about 1 Agreement to $80 US.
Whenever a business owner in my country wanted to buy
something, all they had to do was ask themselves two questions...
Things were much simpler then. I was digging through my
steamer trunk the other day (everyone in my country had a steamer trunk)
and ran across an old copy of the "Cardclose Tribune" my
hometown newspaper. Here are some of the items advertised, and their
monthly rates.
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Monthly |
Monthly |
| Item |
US Dollars |
Agreements |
| 2 Delivery Vans |
1000 |
13 |
| 4 Full Time Employees |
6928 |
87 |
| 10% Overtime for 4 employees |
1039 |
13 |
| Office Supplies |
250 |
3 |
| 4000 sq/ft space |
3000 |
38 |
| Utilities |
400 |
5 |
| Advertising |
1600 |
20 |
| Cable TV in my office... |
50 |
.625 |
| Night on the town with my wife |
160 |
2 |
| Total |
14427 |
181 |
Remember the good old day's when a night on the town only
cost 1 Agreement? When a guy could fill up his tank, buy his best girl a
burger, and still have Agreements left over". Not any more.
These days, Agreements are hard to come by. We have to
constantly ask ourselves...
"How many Agreements will it cost?"
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