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Close-ended Car Leases

September 10th, 2008 admin No comments

Close-ended Car Leases

With today’s crazy market volatility it seems best for many gas guzzlers to just give the car back to the dealership and find a new lease to take over. Close-ended leases seem to be the most popular as it gives you the option of purchasing the car at the end of the lease term OR walk away without buying it at all. The purchase price or buyout value is determined before the lease is signed.

Simply put, closed-ended leases offer you the power to choose what is best for you.


How to Lease a Car: Car Lease Payments and Depreciation

September 10th, 2008 admin No comments

Car Lease Payments and Depreciation

As you know the longer you own any asset the lower the value of the asset unless of course we are talking about a Mona Lisa or the Trump Towers. With car leasing, you need to think of a lease payments as the amount the car depreciates (drops in value) while you drive it. How is this depreciation or amortization calculated? It is figured by subtracting the car’s projected value at the end of the lease (aka residual value) from the current retail price (MRSP).

Ok so if your car has a retail price of let’s say $25,000 and have a future value of $15,000 in 4 years (48mth lease), the depreciation is the difference between those figures, $10,000. Low and behold, you will be making payments on the $10,000.


Watch Car Lease Videos and find your next dream car!

September 10th, 2008 admin No comments

Hey world!
Bored? Well enough of that! Check out these cool videos on the Car Lease Blog. Who knows, it could help you find your next car lease.
Most of these videos are just random auto videos that do not relate to lease assumption, lease swapping, car lease take over…they are just plain good videos for your entertainment.

Car Lease Assumption Meets Facebook

August 20th, 2008 admin No comments

Car Lease Depot is being “friendly” with Facebook.com.  With an overwhelming initial Facebook.com launch, Car Lease Depot is proud to cross the 200 member mark in just 48 hours of launch! We appreciate all our Facebook.com fans and take all of your suggestions to improve our website very seriously.  With all of you on our side success is the only direction.

We will soon be offering our Facebook.com fans with big discount promo codes to say “Thank you”.  These promo codes will only be for our Facebook.com fans of our CarLeaseDepot.com business page.

We kindly welcome and invite you to join up on Facebook then become a fan of the CarLeaseDepot.com page, the soon to be #1 Car Lease Assumption and lease transfer website.

Car Lease Depot Team


What are the penalties for breaking a car lease?

August 7th, 2008 admin No comments

To break a lease is something that many people need to do. Staying in an automotive lease for a long time is often a difficult proposition. Reasons to break a lease might include:

1. Having a change in your lifestyle can often warrant a change in your lease. A newborn child on the way can mean you need to switch from a sports car to a minivan. Or you may have changed jobs and need a vehicle that is more practical to drive long distances. Whatever the reason, a change in lifestyle can force you to break a lease.
2. Some people just like to drive new cars all the time! The best way to get a great car cheap is to lease it. However, the nature of leasing requires you to stay in your negotiated lease for a very long time. Now you can drive a different LEASED car every year by simply allowing someone else to assume your lease and finding a new or short-term lease yourself.
3. People’s financial circumstances change all the time. Sometimes losing a job means that the high car payment you once had is no longer the best for you, and therefore you need to walk away from your current lease payment and find a more suitable lease. Or you may have just gotten that promotion at work that allows you to get into a more luxurious car, but you are still stuck with the lease on your old car. Whatever the case, breaking your lease to suit your new circumstances is a way out.
It used to be that to break a lease, the process was very difficult, and sometimes impossible. Traditional methods of breaking a lease are very expensive and potentially damaging to one’s credit. See below:
Option #1
It is possible to simply return the vehicle to the dealership before the lease end-date. However, the lessor will hold the lessee financially responsible for any negative equity, or any remaining payment, for the vehicle. Thus the lessee is still fully responsible to make the remaining payments, along with any financial penalties associated with the early termination of the lease. This option can be extremely expensive.

Option #2
The lessee can return the vehicle early and simply roll the remaining negative equity into his or her payments on a new vehicle. This allows the lessee to exit the old lease without any financial penalties, but payments for the next vehicle will be extremely expensive as they now include negative equity for two vehicles.

Option #3
The lessee and request a voluntary repossession of the vehicle. This method of early lease termination does not directly cost the lessee any money. However, it is extremely damaging to the lessee’s credit, as it is a form of repossession.

Option #4
The lessee can find someone to assume the lease, which would transfer the contract and liability to someone else. Lease assumptions have become a very popular form of early lease termination, as they are inexpensive and simple. CarLeaseDepot.com has helped thousands of people to transfer their vehicle leases. This is the least expensive form of early lease termination.

Fortunately, Car Lease Depot has developed a simple and inexpensive process for breaking a lease. This process involves vehicle lease assumptions, in which the liability on a lease transfers from one individual to another.

CarLeaseDepot.com unites people who wish to break a lease with others interested in assuming a lease. This allows the original lessee to break the lease, while the new lessee assumes the same lease with no money down.

CarLeaseDepot.com , the process of breaking a lease is now quite simple and extremely cost effective.

Car Lease Takeovers Heating Up

August 7th, 2008 admin No comments

So you want to get out of your car lease? Well the market is warming up to lease swapping websites more than ever before. The benefits of taking over someone’s lease are plentiful. For example, if you take over a car lease you can get a short-term lease term, get a really nice late model car, get cheaper lease payments, and avoid paying the steep initial down payment for the vehicle. Remember, new cars are only new for 1 day.  With the current economic situation and the very high gas prices it is no suprise that people want to save money.