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By CANDY M. BARR
Business stiitor
9 Rental stores service many on-campus students as
well as off-campus students with items such as
bedroom suites and sofas and chairs, said Mark
Nance, Aaron rental store manager.
Nance said students make up 35 percent to 40 per
cent of his total amount of customers a year.
"Usually on-campus things would include sofas
and chairs for fraternity houses and bedroom furniture
for dorms," Nance said.
For USC students, bars and bedroom suites are
the most popular items rented from Aaron, Nance
said. "Students are not popular for television
rentals."
However, for Showtime and Ace rental comgfe
panies, the small margin of the on-campus market
^ prefer television and stereos.
Willie Hudson, an Ace rental accounts representative,
said his company used to stock small
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doesn't carry them now. If a student wants to rent a
refrigerator, the company will order one and deliver
it in about a week.
Neither Ace nor Showtime requires a credit check
on its customers, but a current phone number,
social security number, and personal references,
which can include relatives, are required.
"It's a good way for a college student to get credit
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Students who want to avoid the said John Bann
bureaucracy of the Student student financia
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for a Guaranteed Student Loan Guaranteed Stu
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if he rents to own, and it doesn't go against him if
he ends up just renting," said Marion Wright,
Showtimes office coordinator.
Wright said students usually rent 19-inch televisions,
videocasette recorders or stereos for about
one or two weeks at a time except for Super Bowl
weekend when Showtime has a large demand for
large-screen televisions, which can be rented for
$99.99 for the entire weekend.
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penscs of the rentals, so the costs do not seem as
much. Ace's average 19-inch television costs about
$50 a month and a stereo costs from $60 to $100 a
month.
He said about 5 percent of the furniture Aaron
rents to students is returned damaged and 50 percent
of the students "pay lousy," but said he
understands college students because he was once
one himself.
Bedroom suites are Aaron's most popular item
this year, Nance said. A student can get a bed, a
dresser with a mirror, a lamp and nightstand for
about $22.80 a month, but Aaron does require the
student to have a credit reference and to list either
his job or his parent's job.
I'or nrst-timc renters, Muason suggests a student
always read the contract carefully and look around
before signing.
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to go through tion that the student is enrolled,
or certification, the attendance costs, information
ister, director of about other aid the student may
1 aid. be receiving, and the student's
i student to get a eligibility for a Guaranteed Student
Loan from dent Loan.
he said, the To determine eligibility, a stupprove
certifica- dent has to fill out the Family
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