Leasing Terms
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Automobile & Equipment Lease Financing
American National Leasing Company offers automobile and equipment lease financing products that are all designed with one thing in mind, and that one thing is you. Our goal is to provide you with service that exceeds all other standards. Quite simply, we want to be your vehicle and equipment agent for life.
We lease all makes and all models of cars, trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles, both foreign and domestic.
American National Leasing Company also provides lease financing to meet your equipment needs. Even if your requirement is for a very specialized piece of machinery or tool, we can develop a lease product that can also meet your needs.
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Common Leasing Terms & Conditions
Below is a listing of common terms used in leasing that can be somewhat unique to the industry. Following each word is a “working” definition for how that term applies to automobile and equipment leasing.
Capitalized Cost
This is the cost of the vehicle or equipment written into the lease, including title and registration fees and other costs included in the lease contract.
Depreciated Value
This is the estimated value of the asset at the end of the lease.
Depreciation: This represents the vehicle or equipment’s decline in value over time. (Mathematically speaking: Capitalized Cost – Residual Value = Depreciation)
Disposal
Is the process of selling the vehicle when it is returned.
Early Termination
This is when a lease is ended before the lease-end date or maturity. This is also called Premature Termination or “Pre-term”.
Equity
Represents owing less money on an asset than the determined value of that asset.
Lessee
This is you. The person or entity with the legal authority or right to use the leased asset.
Lessor
This is the leasing company. Represents the entity which has right of ownership to the leased asset.
Money Factor
This represents the cost of financing the car and usually means the interest rate charged divided by the number of months in the lease term. So, a money factor of .001625 in a 24 month lease is the equivalent of a 3.9% rate on an auto loan.
Premature Termination
See Early Termination above.
Premature Termination Factor
This is the dollar amount (specified in the lease) to be multiplied by the number of months remaining in the lease to help determine the Early or Pre-term Payoff of the lease.
Rent Charge
This represents the cost of financing the lease asset. The Rent Charge is usually expressed as the gross amount of finance charges paid over the life of the lease.
Residual Value
See Depreciated Value above.