People -- yes, complete strangers -- rent out their homes, lend their vehicles, lead guided tours and meet out-of-towners for meals, all set up via the Internet.
MLPs, or Master Limited Partnerships, were historically thought of as graveyards where energy companies would put their old rent-earning assets out to pasture.
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Ms. WALTON: I did at first, but then I really needed to get it--rent it out, and I ended up renting it out from under us.
Rather than simply buy a pied-a-terre in an enviable locale by which to park money as a long-term investment, more wealthy buyers are snapping up properties that they can rent out as income-producing assets.
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In addition, buying out rent-stabilized tenants can take years.
Investors also are encouraged by a growing number of people who are buying homes with plans to rent them out in so-called buy-to-let strategies.
Participants in the system generally rent out spare rooms - or, in some cases, land for camping - and, in addition to breakfast, might also offer a family dinner.
Those who provide complicated corporate applications such as enterprise-resource planning will rent out their service.
If you leave California, sell your residence or at least rent it out on a long-term lease.
Washington residents are embracing the news by flooding the Craigslist Web site with offers to rent their homes and apartments to out-of-towners.
The best strategy to follow, while hoping that New Orleans will bounce back, is to purchase the low-cost real estate and rent it out.
Any efforts to subsidize or bail out struggling businesses are rent-seeking.
Chan regularly gets calls from boat agents asking to see if he'd rent out his berth on a short-term monthly basis, but he tells them to sail elsewhere.
Now a slew of new firms are racing to enlist thousands of individual PC owners to join their "grids, " aiming to rent out this parallel power to computation-hungry clients for a fee.
Using the NYT rent-vs-buy calculator, Salmon figures out that the acquisition only makes economic sense (i.e. it is actually cheaper to buy rather than rent) if one is bullish in the long-run, or 5 to 10 years, which means assuming annual home prices and rental prices gain 1% per year.
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Some clubs make dancers rent out the stage in an elaborate end-run to avoid employee treatment.
For example, people who rent out their homes may already have full-time jobs but receive income through Airbnb.
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The court held that banks would never find suitable places in crowded downtown business districts unless they could have the right to rent out surplus space acquired in a good-faith effort to house their operations.
The company, which allows people to rent out their residences, has been growing at hyper-speed.
FirstBuy has a similar aim for first-time buyers, but instead of paying rent, owners take out an equity loan to finance the balance.
For the first time since 1959 residents can rent out rooms and open private restaurants, which translates into sorely-needed diversity.
Most mornings, federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies, as well as private security firms, rent out the ranges for training and target practice.
In Daventry, the council part-owns the ICON Innovation Centre and is building 45 homes to rent out.
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California rents even beat out those in New York, which has the seventh-highest rent of any major metropolitan area.
The Family Movie Act of 2005, signed by President George W. Bush on Wednesday, was aimed at folks who use software to cut out four-letter words, nudity and graphic violence from movies they rent or buy for home viewing.
Given this risk, it may be better to sign a long-term lease at a low rental rate than to hold out for a premium rent in a year or two.
"Working the figures out, my student loan will just - and I mean just - cover my rent, " she said.
Members of the radical, largely African-American group believe Clinton's move could increase rent so that local businesses would be forced out of the area.
Rent and utilities for the factory floor works out to about 11 cents per shirt, and head-office and marketing costs for the factory are 11 cents.
Great Dawley Parish Council is expected to rent out its existing offices at Dawley House, on Burton Street, to provide a "much-needed" income.
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