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Shannon Najmabadi

How Renting Furniture In Texas Can Land You In Jail

While other businesses have to use civil remedies when customers don’t pay their debts, the rent-to-own industry has a special tool in Texas law that lets them file criminal charges.

October 27th, 2017

By Shannon Najmabadi and
Jay Root

How Renting Furniture In Texas Can Land You In Jail

When Melinda Sandlin walked out of Discount Furniture in Austin in late 2014, she was sure the store had put her on a payment plan to buy a new bedroom suite worth $2,750. A year later, after realizing she had sent in more than $3,000 for her seven-piece set, she figured she was done. So Sandlin told the store clerk she wasn’t

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