In our ongoing series of getting into the details of equipment leasing agreements, I thought I’d start out with the basics: explaining and defining several notable equipment leasing terms. I’m going to stick to just a few essential terms that are important – you will find these all throughout any lease agreement, especially in the fine print. Lease… Read More »
Equipment leasing and equipment financing are often seen as similar, and in a big picture sense, they are (you get equipment, and you make payments on it). But the details of the two are quite different, with equipment leasing having many more moving parts and somewhat arcane terms. For the next few posts, I’d like to go over… Read More »
Here’s another email I got from a prospective (and now) client. They were asking if we could finance a piece of equipment from a private party seller. And he was elated when our answer was “we’ll take a look” instead of a flat-out “no”. The reason he was elated is because this type of transaction is typically an… Read More »
This was a question I was emailed the other day and I thought it would make a great blog post. The emailer asked “how old can a used vehicle be and still get financing?” He was asking about this because he was already turned down by another equipment financing company due to the vehicle’s age. He wanted to… Read More »
Ok this blog has a silly title, but you’ll understand it in a minute. The “leasing vs. financing” question has a lot of layers, and I’ve explored a lot of them in this blog over the years (like “vehicle leasing vs. financing”, and the “differences between a capital lease and an operating lease”.) But one thing I haven’t… Read More »