rental agreement

[David Love]

Write a normal sales contract and specify the terms including the amount of
time they have to make a decision.  Be sure the shipping charges cover
insurance in transit.  Have them write the shipping check separate from the
price of the piano, including tax, so you can deposit the shipping check
immediately and hold the one for the piano.  Have them pay for shipping both
ways and then reimburse whatever amount if they keep it.  Insist that you
arrange the move and pick the movers each way.  

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of annie at allthingspiano.com
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:38 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: RE: rental agreement

That's a good idea, thanks.  Much simpler than a contract, too.

My shop is 160 miles from their church (in my previous service area)...
and she wants to play the piano on site, having had such a frustrating
experience with the current instrument.

I don't blame her a bit, as I'd feel the same way about all of it: the
current piano's inadequacy, the desire for a grand, and the wanting to try
it out in the space.  (Maybe I'm identifying too much, eh?)  But I am SO
glad they finally decided to actually solve the problem, rather than
trying to work around it.

Annie G.

> Get a check for the entire amount first including the move.  If they want
> it
> or destroy it, you cash it.  If they don't, you refund it less the move
> amount when the piano is returned safely.  Why deliver it for a test
> drive,
> btw, what's wrong with your shop?
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos at comcast.net
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Annie Grieshop
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:18 AM
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: rental agreement
>
> This weekend, I'll be delivering a piano to a church for a "test drive"
> prior to purchase, and it just occured to me that I don't have any sort of
> legally binding agreement for us to sign regarding loss, damage, or other
> problems that might arise.
>
> Can anyone supply me with a copyof an agreement they use or point me
> toward
> on one the web?  And if you have words of wisdom related to such a deal,
> please share them!
>
> Annie Grieshop
>
>
>
>