It then leased back properties on increase-only rental agreements.
He sees the stores as not only DVD rental and sales outlets but also as a promotional platform for Dish and the Blockbuster streaming service, as well as whatever wireless business the company pursues.
Think Secret is also reporting that iTunes downloads will be rental only, but we're not sure where they're getting that info.
For years, online retailers have offered some newer movies for sale or rental, only to have those offers disappear again within a few months.
But the Supreme Court declared the exaction to be unconstitutional, though only when applied to rental income and other revenues derived from property use (such as dividends).
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It might also surprise you to learn that air, hotel and rental cars only make up about 50% of the total spend that appears on an expense report.
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Movies will be "rental" only, TV for "purchase" only.
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The rental yield is now only about 2.6%, compared with a 4% yield for shares, which does not make property especially alluring.
Long after the record industry was shaken by Napster, the studios have only just begun to test the rental of digital movies downloaded from the Internet, via a new site, Movielink.
The deal would leave only two large-cap car-rental companies trading in the public markets: Hertz, based in Park Ridge, N.
Middleton became a seller in 2004 when he saw others buying rental properties at prices that only made sense by assuming greater fools would come along and pay even more.
Rental agencies aren't the only buyers of bulk vehicles, though.
But it achieved that only by shoveling more cars into commercial fleets and rental lots.
The corresponding net rental value of an apartment building is only partly exempt, by dint of depreciation deductions.
The connected yurts house civilized bathrooms, some picnic tables, a rental shop and a cafeteria where the only hot dishes are those warmed in a microwave by customers themselves.
At Newark Airport, for example, only a handful of customers lined up at one national rental company on Wednesday.
One overhang retarding the housing recovery has been the high number of foreclosures, a detriment not only to the housing market but also to the apartment rental market.
While airfare, hotel and car rental rates in North America and Europe should only increase modestly in 2012, those travelling to, from or within the burgeoning economies of Latin American or Asia-Pacific regions could be paying up to 10% more next year, according to the report.
As Netflix grew, it not only benefited from the growth in the U.S. movie rental market, it also stimulated it.
Surveyors expect house prices to remain flat next year, with only a modest rise in the number of transactions in Scotland, and rental prices rising.
With a group of 10 or more, you will pay only about 4, 300 pesos per person for three dives, full equipment rental and boat transport to and from the reef.
Although taxes for investment properties have been traditionally softer than for other types of investing, second homes seem to be a gray spot for the IRS. All rental losses are passive losses or hobby losses, and these can only be used against--written-off against--income from other passive activities like other rentals, a private partnership you don't help operate or an S-corporation.
Kindle Textbook Rental offers the ability to customize rental periods to any length between 30 and 360 days, so students only pay for the specific amount of time they need a book.
Administrators at Blockbuster announced on Wednesday that they would shut a further 164 stores at the DVD rental chain, adding to the 160 closures already announced, and leaving only 204 still open.
In the coming months, Samsung Epic 4G will have access to the Samsung Media Hub, making it the first and only 4G handset to feature a video store with movies and TV available for purchase or rental, and video content set up for an HD-like entertainment experience on a handset screen.
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Yes, Ed had looked at the IRS publications and knew there was a big gotcha in the tax code: Rental losses are considered "passive losses" and can generally be written off only against income from other passive activities--for example, from other rentals or an S corporation or a private partnership you don't help run.
But only recently has his firm (and a few others) managed to make the software-rental model work.
That mistaken prediction pushed Orlando's rental vacancy rate to 23.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, second only to Dayton, Ohio, among the nation's 75 largest metropolitan areas surveyed by the U.S. Census Department.
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We disclosed to the auditor that her reconstruction of her time (21 hours) dealing with this issue was supported by the receipts from all the vendors, her telephone records with calls to all the vendors, her airline tickets (evidenced by American Express card statements) for flying to the property, her rental hotel while dealing with the property, and sworn affidavits from the vendors who dealt only with her.
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