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...caller reported a loss of $1,350 that occurred from an apartment rental scam on 20 Prescott Street. This report of larceny is just one in a slew of others made about rental scams in that location...
...thinking for the U.S.'s gridlocked cities--hassle-free, hourly rental, a concept that has been popular in Europe for two decades. For every vehicle in a car-sharing fleet, transportation planners say about 10 cars are taken off the roads. Moreover, when drivers pay by the hour, they tend to drive less. They walk more, take the occasional bus or clump their errands together in one trip. While car sharing is now available in nine big cities and a score of smaller towns, in many places the operations are still seedling, with just a few cars. Expansion is under...
...hourly rate of $7.50 to $10, depending on the user's monthly driving plan (drive more, pay less). And that hourly charge includes insurance, parking, maintenance and fuel (a company credit card in the glove compartment is available for when you fill the tank). Traditional rental cars, by contrast, typically require more paperwork and are usually available only by the day, at fees that range from $25 to $150 but don't include insurance or gas. "It is a dollars-and-cents equation," says Flexcar CEO Lance Ayrault. "Do the math and ask yourself, 'Why do I own that thing...
...friends—the pimpled liquor store clerk who procures the alcohol and the idiot video store checker who fashions himself the next Quentin Tarantino when he talks about ‘operatic violence’ in Sergio Leone westerns. From the latter, be sure to get a free rental copy of Save the Last Dance. Do not, under any circumstances, pay hard-earned cash to see this film. Don’t even use money from your trust fund...
After noting that at least one person—a retired Georgetown University sociologist named Norman Birnbaum—has indeed washed a rental car, Sandel argued that Summers’ adage is a “normative claim thinly disguised.” Summers mistakenly assumes that all people act only in their own self-interest, Sandel said...