So she had to go to shady cash-checking service late at night and pay an additional fee to finally pay rent.

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Instead of owning their photovoltaic panels they rent them, paying a monthly fee offset by the savings from generating solar electricity.

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Instead, they are increasingly finding that the simplest way to keep track of customers, bills, inventories and so forth is to rent such services for a monthly fee.

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Amazon pays a small fee each month, akin to rent, to 7-Eleven and other store owners where it has lockers.

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In preparing a proposal for a new park, we estimate our costs for running a park (a very labor intensive proposition), compare that to the revenues from the park, and bid a certain amount of rent we will pay each year as a fee for the rights to operate the park.

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Rental agents are motivated to sell you a house rather than rent you one so as to collect a higher fee.

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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.

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After signing up at williampaid.com, renters can pay the rent free via bank transfer or with a credit card, for a fee of 2.95% of the total amount.

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The 2% fee brings in enough to keep a Manhattan or Silicon Valley private equity firm in the high-rent district and its partners in Zegna suits and Mercedes-Benz 600s.

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