barter is a lot of fun and with the right company can be one of the most useful business tools you ever employ. Barter is a product of a brute-fact world: I have wheat, you have cows–let’s trade. Barter’s lineal descendant, money, inhabits the realm of institutional fact: it has value only because we agree that it does. Barter is not applicable to contracts involving land, but solely to contracts relating to goods and services. For example, when a tenant exchanges the performance of various maintenance tasks around a house for free room and board, a barter has taken place.