Word: renters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic cars cost a relatively reasonable $50 per day and 30 cents per mile, but customers must belong to National's frequent-renter program (fee: $50 per year). The agency finds that drivers treat the vehicles with tender loving care. Says a National spokesman: "The cars often come back waxed and polished -- better than when we rented them...
...rent space to help ease a temporary storage squeeze in their lives: shopkeepers with a bit too much unsold inventory on hand, salesmen with bulging, bulky files, families relocating into or out of the area and waiting for their new home or apartment to become vacant. One particularly grateful renter is former Homeowner Mae Rose Owens of Winter Park, Fla. She was able to save her household possessions by hastily storing them in a local miniwarehouse after a giant sinkhole began to swallow up her house and a big chunk of the neighborhood...
There is not much relief in sight for the renter, short of moving to cities such as Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis and Atlanta, where housing is plentiful for varying reasons, including no rent controls and mobile populations that create high turnover. But some localities are trying to improve life for the renter. Wichita needs 30,000 workers over the next three years to keep its economy booming, and city fathers recognized that recruiting them would be easier if they had places to live. The city floated a revenue bond issue last April and used the proceeds to make loans at interest...