Making Money From Lovers

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When Miss Francine Taute's father passed away after a long
illness, she had to embark on a business venture that would 'keep
the wolf from the door', although she actually felt as though the
walls of precedence and tradition were tumbling around her proud
young head.

The family had undoubtedly been exceptionally wealthy in the past,
but those days, frankly, are clearly long gone for Miss Taute.

She knew that many of her wealthy family friends were actually
very short of money.

Swearing her first customers to utter secrecy and actually
carrying out her operatings under cover of darkness, she rented
some of their famous paintings, which had hung for years, to a
select clientele of art lovers.

Perhaps really it was for the best, since their beautiful old
houses and contents were already threatened by the invasion of
commerce and industry into this formerly exclusive section of
their major Home Counties city.

At any rate, it was only the beginning for the newly enterprising
Miss Taute, when she found out that more sporting blood flowed
through her aristocratic veins than even she, herself, had
realised.

To the astonishment of the blue-blooded and, to be honest,
somewhat horrified society, she suddenly pitched head over heels
into the operation of the Taute Painting Rental System by buying
good copies of famous paintings and renting them out unashamedly
to the first reliable takers.

Miss Taute, in self-justification, now claims that there should be
no monopoly on art, and that she is doing her part to share its
wealth with others, while at the same time keeping the wolf from
her door.

In any small area, where there is no such painting Rental System,
one would no doubt be profitable and could be started with only a
small initial investment.

You can also operate initially (without up-front funds) as Miss
Taute is doing now - by renting paintings from local artists,
particularly from your local art college and advertising for
nothing in the local arts shops (after all, they're supplying your
artists with their materials), as well as on the notice board of
the local library and art gallery.

Your local newspaper would no doubt be interested in a story also,
and do not expect you to take advertising in return - try the free
local paper first if you have one.

With a minimum of space available for safe storage of the
paintings, it could be operated entirely from your home, with
perhaps a Polaroid camera to give people an idea of the paintings'
range.