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Rent-to-own News - Second easyhome opens in Wichita

November 20, 2009

Bud Gates, Chairman and CEO of easygates, LLC, announces the opening of the second Wichita easyhome store.  The store will open at 407 E. Pawnee (Pawnee and Broadway) on November 21, 2009.
 
Mr. Gates stated: “This will be our second easyhome store in Wichita, KS and the 27th in the United States.  Despite difficult economic conditions, our first store in Wichita has been very successful, and we expect more of the same from this second store.  Tom Cardinal, the Store Manager, has a great team to open this Wichita store.”  David Ingram, President and CEO of easyhome Ltd., commented, “I’m really excited over the momentum Bud and his team have established in the United States and look forward to this success being carried over into 2010 and beyond.”
 
Mr. Gates established easygates, LLC in 2007 to create a platform to develop both corporate and franchise easyhome stores in the U.S. $6 billon rent-to-own industry.  
 
easygates, LLC through easyhome U.S. Ltd. has the exclusive rights to franchise or operate easyhome stores in the 36 states in the U.S., not bordering Canada.  easyhome Ltd. ( parent company of easyhome U.S. Ltd), is Canada’s largest merchandise leasing company and the third largest  in North America, offering top quality, name brand household furnishings, appliances and electronics to consumers. easyhome Ltd. operates 241 stores across Canada and the U.S. (including 1 license and 5 franchise stores in Canada and with the addition of this store, now has 13 easygates franchise stores in the U.S.).
 
 

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Uniting the States of Rent-to-Own
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Crapshoot in the Courthouse: RTO in State Supreme Courts
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Justice is supposed to be blind, unbiased, impartial—-but we know better. Take, for example, the decisions of state supreme courts when the primary rent-to-own issue-—lease vs. sale-—has been presented to them. The message from these cases is clear: the courthouse can be a dangerous place for RTO dealers.

 

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