Rent-to-Own

A $300 television at a regular store can end up costing a rent-to-own customer more than $1,000 after two years of weekly payments — a gap American lawmakers have repeatedly tried to rein in but never fully eliminated. Rent-to-own sits on the fragile line between giving ownership to people banks won't lend to, and turning that very lack of access into a profit machine.

Think & Rich

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