Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Which is Smarter - Buying or Leasing a Car?

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Article Title: Which is Smarter - Buying or Leasing a Car?
Author: Court Tuttle
Category: Loans, Leasing, Personal Finance
Word Count: 577
Keywords: personal loans, federal student loans, college loans
Author's Email Address: resources@courtneytuttle.com
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Unfortunately, today's society has become highly concentrated on the acquisition of money and therefore has become extremely detailed and has increased into a million-dollar industry throughout the past decade or so. Company leaders have implemented various methods that customers can use to invest their finances and also gain lots of money, with a lot of odds being on how smart and knowledgeable these people really are. There are issues, however, that the monetary regulations have been designed in order to feed off of the under class customers and earn large amounts of money from their ignorance and monetary errors.

Probably the biggest error that people make when dealing with money is when customers have the desire to buy a vehicle, but they do not have a lot of knowledge or experience in this type of a situation. The car dealerships are very clever and hire experts who know how to get the most amount of money possible from their customers. Customers who are well educated, however, know how to get around these various traps and loopholes and often come out financially successful when buying a car from these expert companies.

It largely depends on what type of a car you want to get, but there do exist several various methods that you can use when purchasing a vehicle for various lengths of time. The ability to obtain a vehicle has become somewhat more complicated in today's society because of all the taxes, regulations, and fees that you must also take care of throughout the process. Depending on exactly what kind of a deal you want to get into, you will have to do some thorough research on what different car buying options are available to you.

The most popular method of getting a car is buying the vehicle through the procedure of obtaining a loan. You can purchase a vehicle with credit by first making a certain down payment and then signing a loan contract that makes you pay monthly payments until the car loan is paid off. Most people use this method to buy a car and end up making monthly payments on the car for the next several years.

There is also another popular way for you to purchase a vehicle and that is through the acquisition of what financial experts call a lease, which simply implies that you borrow a car for a certain amount of time. This method enables a person to obtain less expensive monthly payments and still have a car to use. At the end of the lease agreement and contract, the consumer returns the car to the dealership without any additional monthly payments.

Even though there exist several various types of monetary loans that are possible to obtain, there are really only two different kinds of leases that are available for you to get. The first one is called a closed end lease, which allows people to return the car at the end of the contract or to buy it for the rest of its retail value. The second kind of car lease is called an open-end lease, which makes people pay more money at the end.

One positive aspect of getting a lease is that you do not need to worry about all the taxes, fees, and other financial obligations of a purchase contract. The rate of depreciation is also a thing to consider when deciding between a lease and a loan.

Court helps people to learn about student loans. You can read more of his work by visiting: http://whalehookloans.com.

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