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      02-18-2014, 02:54 PM   #67
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Only problem with the multiple security deposits, is if at any point you need to get out of your lease and transfer it to someone else, well, you're screwed. Not a whole lot of people in my experience want to pay the large sum of MSD's.
It lowered the MF by 24% over 3 years...8% per year return on my money is the way I look at it. I have no concerns about maintaining the lease. Also not sure if you are accurately portraying the facts when you say "you're screwed" if you opt out early.

This is from my lease paperwork: "You may use some of all of my Security Deposit to pay any amount I owe under this Lease at the end of my Lease Term or upon early termination of the lease. After I have paid my obligations under this Lease, you will refund to me any part of my Security Deposit that is not used to pay what I owe you."

So you don't forfeit the money and how can I or anyone else be "screwed...?"

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      02-18-2014, 04:10 PM   #68
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Those are some sweet lease prices you guys are getting. Up here the 36 month lease with $4200 down comes up to $751 after taxes. That's a hefty premium over what you guys get.

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      02-18-2014, 07:40 PM   #69
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You've left out a few variables, but it seems you're pricing a fully optioned car at the max 24K km/yr. Our lease rates (apr or mf) are higher and our residuals seem a bit lower that quoted in these forums. Also, it seems most people are posting monthly payments before taxes. Your number seems to include our 13% HST monthly. Not apples : apples!
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      02-18-2014, 09:47 PM   #70
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You've left out a few variables, but it seems you're pricing a fully optioned car at the max 24K km/yr. Our lease rates (apr or mf) are higher and our residuals seem a bit lower that quoted in these forums. Also, it seems most people are posting monthly payments before taxes. Your number seems to include our 13% HST monthly. Not apples : apples!
Incorrect. I priced out a bare bones car (didn't even select the premium package) at 36 months and 20,000km/year. I agree that I did include the tax price, but was still comparing it to some other posted figures of about $520 after tax. That is still a significant price difference, as it is with any lease on any other BMW model between the U.S.
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      02-18-2014, 11:05 PM   #71
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Seems quite high, esp with that much down. Is that number from the Canadian configurator? "Bare bones" is CAD$45,000 not incl. PDI, shipping, etc.
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Can some one help me I am confused. So for every $1000 a car increases in price or go down in price , does the payment go up or down $30 or $20
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Can some one help me I am confused. So for every $1000 a car increases in price or go down in price , does the payment go up or down $30 or $20
It's not quite that simple. It depends on your money factor, residual value bounced against capitalized cost, length of lease, your local tax rate etc.

We really need all the numbers. In many instances though, a $1000 increase could only increase the payment by $30.
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      02-19-2014, 10:37 AM   #74
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Anyone else miss the days when the 3-series were leasing out in the $300s, 5-series in the $500s, etc.?
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      02-19-2014, 11:20 AM   #75
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Can some one help me I am confused. So for every $1000 a car increases in price or go down in price , does the payment go up or down $30 or $20
It's not quite that simple. It depends on your money factor, residual value bounced against capitalized cost, length of lease, your local tax rate etc.

We really need all the numbers. In many instances though, a $1000 increase could only increase the payment by $30.
Exactly. $30 per month is for $1,000 down as it goes fully into the cap cost.

Way to figure for a car MSRP (roughly) is to take the increase ($1,000) * opposite of residual / term. Usually works out closer to $12-$15 per thousand.

And obviously, adding down reduces payment and adding price increases it.
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The reason I ask about the $1000 is because I have never leased and working the numbers to get a payment or even trying to figure out a price point to negotiate with the dealer to get my monthly payment on a lease is confusing me. BUT the lease fits my lifestyle by changing cars every three years, low mileage driving. I have learnt from this forum NOT to put money down on a lease but put security deposits down.

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MSRP:$36,575
DealerPrice :$35477 that's 3% off

1)WHat would my payment be 36month 12K and ZERO$$ deposit
2) What should I be paying for this car or approach the dealer as a fair offer
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      02-20-2014, 10:09 PM   #77
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^ www.leaseguide.com/calc.htm
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      02-20-2014, 10:33 PM   #78
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$452/month if your acquisition fee is 725 and rolled in the lease.

Not included in that number is your taxes depending on your state and whatever other fees such as processing and tags/titling.
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      02-21-2014, 03:41 PM   #79
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Reviews for the CLA45 have been quite good. Reviews for the A45 have been even better (hopefully we end up getting that in the States).

The quote you referred to was attributed to the standard CLA (a CLA250).

The CLA45 isn't a CLA250 with an AMG badge (I don't think you were trying to assert otherwise). As you know, it gets a vastly different treatment with respect to driving dynamics. It also benefits from better (i.e., premium) materials (e.g., two-tone Recaro perforated leather seats, Nappa leather/alcantara steering wheel, MB-Tex-covered dash with contrast stitching) and additional technological features.

Eventually, I think the M235i will end up being a great value. I just was surprised when after building a few of them the estimated payments weren't far off of what I was paying for a nearly fully loaded F30 M Sport 335i.

Of course the same could be said about the CLA45. If you tick every box the payments swell to silly amounts.
CL45 has no manual tran! That's sucks!
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CL45 has no manual tran! That's sucks!
I got quoted a lease on a CLA45 from Frank at Mercedes Benz Palm Beach. MSRP was around $54k. He said it would be around $750 pr month + tax with $5,000 up front for 10k/36mths. When I asked the details on money factor and residuals I never got a response back. LOL
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      02-26-2014, 11:54 AM   #81
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Lease payments of $479.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $46,325.00


So if you get only the premium package and alpine white paint.
Keep in mind that the national ad by bmw regarding 4204 out of pocket is before fees like taxes due, documentation fee and DMV fees. 5085.21 is the real out of pocket amount if you do the national ad lease offer. Of course the 479 is a pretax figure as well. After taxes you're payment will be in the 520 range. You can of course buy this offer payment down with more out of pocket. Two separate dealerships went over this with me and it was exact to the penny. Just an FYI.
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Keep in mind that the national ad by bmw regarding 4204 out of pocket is before fees like taxes due, documentation fee and DMV fees. 5085.21 is the real out of pocket amount if you do the national ad lease offer. Of course the 479 is a pretax figure as well. After taxes you're payment will be in the 520 range. You can of course buy this offer payment down with more out of pocket. Two separate dealerships went over this with me and it was exact to the penny. Just an FYI.
You're still better off going the extra security deposit route than the cap cost reduction. You'll have an extra grand tied up for 36 months but you'll save yourself $1K over the term of the lease compared to putting $3K down.
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Those are some sweet lease prices you guys are getting. Up here the 36 month lease with $4200 down comes up to $751 after taxes. That's a hefty premium over what you guys get.
+1, yeah we Canadians always get screwed LOL.
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It's true. We've leased 6 cars and never have we put a down payment for this reason.
I've never put any $ down on a lease (I figure I might as well give them as little $ upfront as possible, cause that's why I'm leasing in the first place; and 2nd it makes it much easier to compare lease deals). However, I didn't know about this other valuable info why never to put $ down!
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It lowered the MF by 24% over 3 years...8% per year return on my money is the way I look at it. I have no concerns about maintaining the lease. Also not sure if you are accurately portraying the facts when you say "you're screwed" if you opt out early.

This is from my lease paperwork: "You may use some of all of my Security Deposit to pay any amount I owe under this Lease at the end of my Lease Term or upon early termination of the lease. After I have paid my obligations under this Lease, you will refund to me any part of my Security Deposit that is not used to pay what I owe you."

So you don't forfeit the money and how can I or anyone else be "screwed...?"
I'm not convinced that using MSDs to lower your lease costs is the way to go or not. I think I'd rather keep the money and invest it myself, rather than give BMW yet more multiple security deposits (essentially a laon over course of the lease) so they can invest it. I'd be interested in how u came-up w an 8% return in more detail perhapsm but I think I'd still rather invest the money.
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      03-05-2014, 07:06 PM   #86
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I'm not convinced that using MSDs to lower your lease costs is the way to go or not. I think I'd rather keep the money and invest it myself, rather than give BMW yet more multiple security deposits (essentially a laon over course of the lease) so they can invest it. I'd be interested in how u came-up w an 8% return in more detail perhapsm but I think I'd still rather invest the money.
Cosa,
I recently ordered a m235i and I've been trying to figure out if using the MSDs is beneficial as well. I figured out how you come up with a 8% or more rate of return.

First I used the lease guide calculator below with the MF of .0013 and found the my total lease cost was about 21700.

Then I plugged in a MF of .00081 (7 MSDs lowers MF by .00049) and total lease cost is about 20400.

The amount saved is $1300 by doing 7 MSDs.

7 MSDs for me = $4200

So an investment of $4200 nets me $4200 (return of deposit) + $1300 (amount saved) or a total of $5500 after 3 years

Using the internal rate of return calculator below, my rate of return is 9.4%.

For me this is definitely a good investment.

My only concern was that if the car is totaled they might not return the MSDs, but as far as I have read since the BMW leases include gap insurance you would get back the MSDs. If someone knows differently please reply.

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I'm not convinced that using MSDs to lower your lease costs is the way to go or not. I think I'd rather keep the money and invest it myself, rather than give BMW yet more multiple security deposits (essentially a laon over course of the lease) so they can invest it. I'd be interested in how u came-up w an 8% return in more detail perhapsm but I think I'd still rather invest the money.
What I said. The MSD's allows for a lower interest rate on the lease....(a lower MF in lease terms). Worked out to be 8% cheaper per year; times 3 years is 24%. The MSD's are an investment that returns the principle and guarantees the return...

I'm an investor myself and I did alot better than 8% last year. Having said that, I'll take a guaranteed 24% over 3 years all day long my friend...
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Good points grp2c and maxdriver. There are a couple other considerations that bolster your calcs: 1. The savings of 8%/year is guaranteed. We all know about the .1 or .2% that many guaranteed investments/savings are paying these days. Investing in the market is not guaranteed so that should be considered. 2. If you didn't save the 8% you would have to pay it with after-tax dollars so you should compute the tax-equivalent yield. Assuming you are in the 28% tax bracket, that would make your tax-equivalent return (the return you would need before taxes to net 8%) around 11.11%. That's close to the market's non-guaranteed average historical return. If you are in a higher tax bracket, it's even better.
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