Tools leasing and gear financing are sometimes seen as comparable, and in an enormous image sense, they’re (you get gear, and also you make funds on it). However the particulars of the 2 are fairly totally different, with gear leasing having many extra shifting components and considerably arcane phrases.
For the following few posts, I’d prefer to go over a number of the finer elements of apparatus leasing, and what a number of the language means. Issues like lease contract wording and phrase definitions (lease time period, residual worth, month-to-month lease, and many others.), how the residual worth and phrases have an effect on cost quantities, put on and tear circumstances, the significance of getting insurance coverage, renewal choices (aka, what occurs on the finish of the lease), and maybe a number of extra. It’ll take a bunch of posts.
One of many causes I wished to do that collection is the phrases and phrasing generally is a little complicated to folks not within the lending business. I had a buyer ask about “month-to-month lease” just lately, as a result of that’s what the lease settlement stated. He jokingly stated “what, am I getting an residence from you too?” I needed to chuckle as a result of he’s proper – we usually affiliate that phrase with housing, not gear. Nevertheless it’s there, and it does have that means (I’ll tackle month-to-month lease and different phrases subsequent publish).
Observe that we’ll be usually speaking about Working Leases right here, that are off-balance sheet leases the place you don’t really personal the gear. There are different kinds of leases accessible, however they’re nearer to finance agreements than a real off-balance sheet lease (for instance, on a $1 buyout lease, you really personal the gear from day one.) That can assist you type these out, you may look over all our gear lease and mortgage agreements right here.
I hope you get pleasure from this collection, and that it solutions a number of questions that will have been at the back of your thoughts. At least, after studying the following few posts, you’ll know extra about leasing than most individuals – keep tuned!
