Gerald It baffles me a little why you got mostly negative feedback on this idea. I think it is a great idea. I used to rent pianos when I had a retail store. I had one old beater spinet I couldn't sell for $400, but I made a lot more than that on it renting it out at $35/ month. I bet I rented that piano 6 times before someone finally bought it and easily made a total of over $1000. When I rented the piano, I charged a setup fee of $65 plus the first full months rent, plus the pro-rated month to get paid through the tenth of the next month. So I could easily collect over $100 on the initial payment which I figured would cover my delivery and pick up expense (which I did my own). You gotta figure it's bread and butter work, it's not real profitable, but it's money, and the resulting monthly residuals will be practically free money. Plus rentals are often for people whose kids are starting lessens, and they are a little more likely to get the piano tuned regularly- more money. Some pianos will require practically no prep by you, some a little more than you'd like to give them. It'll average out in the end. I would try to get the delivery fee from the dealer if I were you and do the deliveries- more money. :-) Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of mccleskey112 at bellsouth.net Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:27 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Leasing used pianos Pros and Cons about leasing used pianos. The store that I service for wants me to partner with them in \"fixing up\" and leasing used pianos. They are offering a 50% deal. We can rule out purchasing cheap new pianos. Our target is 50 to 20 year old instruments that can be repaired and tuned to A440. The dealer is doing the financing and delivery and I am providing the labor and maintenance. Deal or no deal? Thanks for your advice. Gerald -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070801/e6a3c303/attachment.html
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