Sentences with phrase «exorbitant rates year»

«Imagine someone who has been paying exorbitant rates year after year after year, and then they find themselves after an accident or in a crisis and need to have that coverage that they've been paying such high rates for, and then they find out their benefits have been reduced.»

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So Canadians finally have a set of rules that will shield them from the worst practices of cellphone carriers — three - year contracts and exorbitant roaming rates among them — thanks to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission and its new Wireless Code of Conduct.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

And that's why three years later, we were able to get into the mutual fund business, not dilute our strategy, because we were not charging exorbitant rates, we weren't charging a performance fee on our hedge funds, and so we were able to turn institutional quality hedge funds into mutual funds without diluting our strategy.

More shocking, even in the wake of Fukushima, the Dutch are talking of approving their first new nuclear power plant in 40 years, because they can no longer afford to pay exorbitant fees for minimal amounts of renewable electricity (that is well below theoretically «rated» or «capacity» output).

Refinancing your loans with a lower interest rate, or consolidating multiple loans into one single loan with a lower, fixed APR, can ease the burden that exorbitant student loans can place on you and your finances in the years to come.

Douglas Durst says he doesn't oppose terrorism insurance per se, but objects to the exorbitant rate being charged, especially since his company obtained terrorism coverage with Lexington Insurance Co. for about $ 400,000 a year, one - tenth the cost of the lender - bought policy.