NOTE 14: LEASES

We lease and sublease various facilities, pawn locations, payroll withholding services locations and certain equipment under operating and capital leases. Future minimum rentals due under non-cancelable leases and annual future minimum rentals expected under subleases are as follows:



	September 30, 2015
Fiscal Year Ended September 30,	Operating Lease Payments		Sublease Revenue

	(in thousands)
2016	$	52,715	$	918
2017	45,503		852
2018	36,685		783
2019	28,942		715
2020	22,932		736
Thereafter	88,970		3,172
	$	275,747	$	7,176

After an initial lease term of generally three to 10 years, our real property lease agreements typically allow renewals in three to five-year increments. Our lease agreements generally include rent escalations throughout the initial lease term. Rent escalations are included in the above numbers. For financial reporting purposes, the aggregate rentals over the lease term, including lease renewal options that are reasonably assured, are expensed on a straight-line basis.



	Fiscal Year Ended September 30,
	2015			2014			2013

	(in thousands)
Gross rent expense from continuing operations	$	59,784		$	59,565		$	54,731
Sublease rent revenue from continuing operations	(479		)	(263		)	(217		)
Net rent expense from continuing operations	$	59,305		$	59,302		$	54,514

In December 2014, we entered into a non-cancelable 13-year operating lease for our corporate offices, with rent payments beginning February 2016 and ending March 2029. Annual rent escalates from $3.0 million at lease inception to $4.6 million in the terminal year of the lease. The lease includes two five-year extension options at the end of the initial lease term. The estimated minimum future rental payments under the lease are approximately $57.1 million. We intend to initiate subleases for a portion of our corporate operating office lease; however no such sublease revenue is included in our future minimum rentals expected under non-cancelable subleases above.

During the second quarter of fiscal 2015, we entered into non-cancelable subleases for our Miami and Mexico City regional offices for estimated minimum future sublease payments of approximately $8.7 million. Sublease payments are expected to partially offset our operating lease obligations over the nine-year period beginning March 2015 and ending September 2024 (in the case of the Miami lease) and the three-year period beginning March 2015 and ending June 2018 (in the case of the Mexico City lease). Annual total sublease payments escalate from $0.6 million at sublease inception to $1.0 million in the terminal year of the last sublease.