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Asking for help... Auto Leasing company is saying they want more money for a totaled car than what is owed on it.
self | 06/16/21 | Self

Posted on 06/16/2021 6:16:22 PM PDT by know.your.why

I cant be the only one to be blindsided by what seems to be such an unfair practice in the auto-leasing industry. I was planning to buy out the lease on a car when it came due in 2 months. Unfortunately the car was totaled (no injuries). The car is valued at $20K (round figures here). I owe $14K (been paying on it 3 years). Heres the kicker...the leasing company says that they are due $20K from the insurance company not the $14K that is owed...which is completely backwards from logic IMHO. Has anyone ever had to deal with this?? I need help! **This is in Alabama.


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To: know.your.why

Where do you get the idea that you have even one cent of “equity” in the car? If it’s a straightforward lease, you own nothing. You haven’t been buying a percentage of the car. You’ve just been paying for the privilege of driving it.

To use an imperfect analogy, if you go “halves” with someone on a five-dollar lottery ticket that hits for a million bucks, you own half a million of it. If you lend your friend $2.50 so he can buy the lottery ticket (to make it simple let’s say he just asks you for the money and doesn’t even say what he’s going to use if for) and he wins a million, you get the $2.50 back.


61 posted on 06/16/2021 9:22:24 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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I’m no expert but its seems still we’d need more information, mainly the wording of the lease.


62 posted on 06/17/2021 12:46:17 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: know.your.why

The amount you owe on the lease is what you owe on the “diminished value”. When you lease, you are taking an amortized loan on the amount that the car is depreciating over the term of the lease. The owner (the company) is entitled to the car back after the lease ends, and still has equity in the car. They are looking for that equity.


63 posted on 06/17/2021 10:07:31 AM PDT by billakay
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To: know.your.why

Just to be clear, I am not a lawyer. Just my opinion.


64 posted on 06/17/2021 10:11:14 AM PDT by billakay
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You own the liability, not the insurance company. Try to cut a deal with the leasing company that you will pay the next two month’s lease, then buy out the lease. Then use the payment from the insurance company to cover the buyout.


65 posted on 06/17/2021 12:59:35 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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If you don’t own the car, isn’t this between the owner and the insurance company?


66 posted on 06/17/2021 1:02:52 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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