Clyde, There was a great mini-technical at a recent annual convention, by a tech near Chicago named Alice Alviani. Her rental program is unique, and worth looking at. Her e-mail is (was) alice@alviani.com. I'd suggest chatting with her about her program. In any venture like this, your most important tool is reality. Regards, Guy Nichols, RPT At 07:36 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Friends, > > >From time to time I've wondered if I could build a successful piano rental >business. Is anyone on the list doing this? Is it worth the hassle? As >I get >closer to the typical retirement age I try to think of ways I can establish a >continuing stream of income while freeing up more time for volunteerism or >even >the possibility of not being able to carry the workload I do now. Any helpful >comments regarding aspects to remember and possible pitfalls? > >One possible misconception I have is that renting pianos, especially to >customers who keep renting them for years, seems like taking advantage of the >clueless, who would be better off going out and buying one. On the other >hand, >I can see the point of short-term rentals for people who move around a lot and >don't want the headache of moving the piano, but then there would be a lot >more >piano moving involved, something I'm not particularly excited about. > >Regards, >Clyde Hollinger > >David Andersen wrote: > > > He ... had a HUGE number of rental pianos in homes (1600) <snip> > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
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