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But the mortgage is only the start of the Ghostbusters’ shaky financial standing at the beginning of their venture. Think of their tremendous start up costs. For example, we know from the film that Ecto 1 cost $4,800—before extensive repairs to its “suspension, shocks, break, break pads,” etc. And how about the rent on their massive headquarters building? According to this version of the script, Egon calculates the square footage of the “four-story fire station” to be exactly 9,642.55 square feet. Even with one assumes a dirt-cheap rental rate of $10 per square foot per year (which seems reasonable according to this 1989 New York Times article on the subject), the monthly rent comes out to $8,035.46.
