• TigrisMorte@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Term being declared by the word lease. Justify your decisions any way you like, but the math does not back it up, so just accept you are trying to convince no one but yourself.

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      1 year ago

      OK, so you define “term” as being 3 years? In that case, I can pay $10k for renting a car and you can pay $19k to own a car worth $4k more than you owe. You just paid $9000 more than I did for the privilege of having $4k in equity. Congrats.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, the lease determines that. You would be correct if that is remotely what I suggested. Again, if you are only keeping the car short term, meaning about as long as the lease, then the lease is cheaper. If you are keeping the car long term, meaning useful life of the vehicle, them lease is a massive loser. Equity means nothing when you still need a car and must get another. However driving a paid for car for the rest of its useful life destroys leasing another car each time the lease is up.
        Sadly lots of folks have gotten sold on them with the same bad math argument you use.