Getting Your Venture Lease Approved

Each year venture capitalists fund more than 2,500 start-up companies in the U.S. Many of these companies try to conserve their equity capital by approaching venture-leasing firms to secure equipment financing. By obtaining lease financing, these savvy firms are able to use their equity capital for high-impact activities like recruiting... Read More

Venture Leasing: Startup Financing On the Rise

According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, investment by institutional venture capitalists in startups grew from less than $3.0 billion at the beginning of the 1990's to over $106 billion in 2000. Although venture capital volume has retreated significantly since the economic "bubble" years of the late 1990's, the present volume of around... Read More

What Happens When the Anchor Tenant Moves and You Are On a Ten-year Lease?

Recently there was an article in the Houston Business Journal of the anchor store in many shopping centers through out Houston pulling out. Kmart, took out some stores, so did three other big box stores and a few consumer electronics places and larger furniture stores, now Albertson's has left. Who... Read More

With a Lease, The Devil Is In The Details

In the last article we looked at a few of the things you should consider before leasing that first office or storefront for your business. To recap, you should not only consider the old standard "location, location, location," but also consider things like sufficient parking, the number of employees who... Read More

Dodging Leasings Grim Reaper: Navigating a Payment Default

In her third Harry Potter novel, ?The Prisoner of Azkaban?, J.K. Rowling introduces a silent mysterious clan of spiny, cloaked creatures capable of siphoning off happiness and all good thoughts from anyone in their presence. Extended exposure to these scabby grim reapers, called Dementors, resulted in madness or death for... Read More

Using Equipment Leasing as a Competitive Weapon

Most great generals know how to design winning battle plans. They also know how to use their resources to gain advantages over the enemy. For these military leaders, getting enough tanks, aircraft, ships and armaments into the hands of the right personnel can spell military victory or defeat.In the business... Read More

Leases And Tenants - The Spooky Tenant

You, Mr. Landlord are pleased to find qualified tenants for your rental house. The man and woman sign a one-year lease on Tuesday.On Thursday the male tenant contacts you and says they have changed their minds because his girlfriend thinks she sees "dead people" in the bathroom.He expects you to... Read More

Ten Equipment Leasing Tips - Save a Bundle on Your Next Lease

According to the Equipment Leasing Association ("ELA"), U.S. businesses lease every thing from laptop computers to commercial airplanes, racking up more than $ 200 billion in equipment leased each year. Although four out of five U.S. companies use leasing to acquire equipment, many don't know the ins and outs of... Read More

What to Consider Before Leasing a Car

Some people choose to lease a car rather than buying one outright. Here are some useful tips on what to consider before leasing a car:The most important thing to remember is that you do not own the vehicle. You get to use it but must return it at the end... Read More

Increase Your Business Growth and Cash Flow Through Equipment Leasing

"If it can be manufactured, it can be leased." For the past decade or so, this statement has become more and more true to fact. From computer software to commercial aircraft, equipment leases are utilized day in and day out in a constantly changing and highly aggressive business environment worldwide.... Read More

How To Choose An Equipment Leasing Company

Leasing has become a preferred form of equipment financing, accounting for more than 30% of business equipment acquisitions. Each year, thousands of U.S. companies face the challenge of finding attractive financing to acquire business equipment. Many of these companies approach the lease sourcing process seeking the lowest lease rate. While... Read More

Interim Rent: Equipment Leasing?s Trap Door

Many lessees enter into lease transactions that they believe are competitive based on faulty rate assumptions. Most lease rate calculations don't take interim rent into consideration. Interim rent is the trap door that allows lessors to receive increases in lease pricing. It is unpredictable and the amount can be arbitrary.... Read More

Insiders Guide to Snaring the Best Lease Deal

Every year, thousands of business owners and financial managers are faced with the task of obtaining attractive financing for equipment their firms want to acquire. Snaring the best leasing arrangement requires only a bit of planning and a smidgeon of finesse. You can save time, land a better lease deal... Read More

Pricing Your Apartments

How do you fix a price point for an apartment? Take a guess? Figure it based on your carrying costs? Check comps and do a market analysis? Charge whatever the market will bear? If you're looking to place quality tenants, less is sometimes more.We all want to make money with... Read More

True Tenant Tales, Volume One

Working with tenants can be an amazing experience. (Owners and contractors are equally astounding, but those are subjects for another day.) It seems I get my most memorable anecdotes over the phone. Here are a few of the ones I've culled from my blog and experience and put together for... Read More

Warning - This Lease Might Explode Any Minute

Mike Caringi, owner of a small New Jersey business that sells pumps, found himself facing a gut-wrenching dilemma last summer. Should he continue paying $ 1,500 each month for essential telecommunications services he no longer receives and for leased equipment he claims was never installed? Or, should he stop making... Read More

Ten Ways to Save a Bundle on Your Next Lease

According to the Equipment Leasing Association ("ELA"), U.S. businesses lease every thing from laptop computers to commercial airplanes, racking up more than $ 200 billion in equipment leased each year. Although four out of five U.S. companies use leasing to acquire equipment, many don't know the ins and outs of... Read More

Terms to Know Before Leasing A Vehicle - Leasing Jargon Simplified

So, you've decided that you want to lease that next vehicle. Can't really blame you. With today's incentives, rebates, and favourable lease rates why wouldn't you. Not only do you get to drive a new car, but a new car that you wouldn't otherwise be able to afford if you... Read More

Lease or Buy? That is Always the Question with Car Financing

Leasing is a perfectly viable and legitimate way to finance a new car. Although leasing offers attractive benefits, it is somewhat more complex than buying with a loan. This means there can be pitfalls if a decision to lease is made for the wrong reasons.Therefore, a comparison of leasing versus... Read More

So You Want to be a Landlord?

The residual income from owning rental properties may bring more money into your life than the fast flip in the long term. If nothing else, the stress is reduced because a well-chosen investment will pay for itself until you the market is ready for you to sell. In order to... Read More

Explore An Effective Revolutionary Approach To Traditional Business Financing

For business owners who need working capital now there is a revolutionary, tax-deductible cash flow solution that frees up capital and gives them the money they need to grow. This diversified cash flow solutions is known as "asset leasing."With an asset lease, business owners can obtain quick cash for any... Read More

The Leverage of the Lease

In today's rapidly changing business environment it makes sense to consider all the options before paying for your business equipment ? whether it's a photocopier, computer system, computer hardware or software, telephone system, security equipment, office furniture or anything else. Many business people will give great consideration to the actual... Read More

Landlord Tips And Tricks

Every real estate investor dealing in rental homes has done his own clean-up and fix-up, at least in the early years. Landlords also become very skilled at managing tenants after being burned a few times.You learn the tricks of the trade and how to get the best results for the... Read More

Equipment Leasing Blunders That Can Cost Your Firm a Mint

Rod McHenry, the financial vice president of a document imaging company, thought he had great cause for celebrating. He had signed an unbelievable $370,000 lease proposal covering computer servers, workstations, software and other networking equipment. McHenry believed he had snared an incredible lease rate, capping off weeks of negotiating an... Read More

How Venture Leasing Added Millions To A Startups Equity Value

Craig Berman beamed noticeably after completing his board presentation. Berman, CEO of a startup that develops nanotechnology applications for the defense industry, had just closed a $ 20 million equity round. Berman finalized the round at an equity valuation that made the whole board blush. Only six months earlier, Berman's... Read More

Bakersfield Now
State AG investigating computer-lease scam targeting churches
Press-Enterprise
... were told that the kiosks were free of charge, and the church simply had to periodically use "revenue" checks sent to them to pay the equipment's lease. ...
State attorney general investigating whether African American churches were ...Los Angeles Times
Scam Targets Over 30 African American ChurchesTurnTo23.com
Calif. launches probe into scam targeting churchesThe Associated Press

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Utah oil and gas leases should be reinstated, report says
Deseret News
Specific information for each parcel, location details, wilderness status and lease stipulations contained in the management plans are contained in the ...
Utah auction draws few oil and gas drillersThe Associated Press
Utah auction draws few oil and gas drillersLocalNews8.com

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Idaho to pay $50K to settle grazing lease lawsuit
The Associated Press
The Idaho Board of Land has also committed to revising its rules to allow conservation groups to lease state endowment trust lands, a big change after years ...

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Aircraft Finance Market May Tighten In '10 -Leasing Executive
Wall Street Journal
mcmahon also said he saw no rapid progress on efforts to sell a number of aircraft leasing companies, including the International Lease Finance Corp. ...

Examiner.com
Minnesota Vikings: Upset over new lease for the Metrodome
Examiner.com
The new lease would keep the Vikings in the stadium an extra two years earning the Metrodome $4 million a year. The plan has penalties for the Vikings if ...
Metrodome owner votes for lease extension offer, feathers fly everywhereField of Schemes
MSFC Threatens Penalties To Try To Keep Vikings At MetrodomeSportsBusiness Daily (subscription)
Vikings call plan to extend lease at Dome 'a non-starter'Minneapolis Star Tribune
ESPN -Bizjournals.com -Minnesota Daily
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Idaho alters leasing rules
Casper Star-Tribune Online
The state's new leasing rules, whose changes address more issues than just this lease dispute, await final approval in the 2010 Legislature. ...

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Progress Illinois (blog)
Ald. Colon On The Parking Meter Lease: "We Should Have Bit The Bullet"
Progress Illinois (blog)
So far, a mere 12 of the council's 50 members have signed on to Ald. Scott Waguespack's (32nd Ward) Asset Lease Taxpayer Protection Ordinance, ...
Report: parking meters making $1M per weekABC7Chicago.com
Company Piles Up Profits From City's Parking Meter DealNew York Times

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Station Casinos granted deadline extension on restructuring plan
Las Vegas Review - Journal
11 to hear arguments on a proposed compromise to lower the lease payments the gaming company is paying itself to lease some properties. ...
Station Casinos, lenders agree to rent decrease at 4 propertiesLas Vegas Sun
Station Casinos Judge Says Bankruptcy Probe UnneededBloomberg
Creditors want to expand probe of Station Casinos dealLas Vegas Sun

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Michigan Messenger
Mcfarlin & Geurts Negotiates “Deed For Lease” Program For Clients
OfficialWire (press release)
The program involves borrowers who don't qualify for a loan modification to transfer title to their property to Fannie Mae in exchange for a lease. ...
Renters 'Lost in the Shuffle' in Anti-Foreclosure EffortsThe Washington Independent

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Geothermal lease steams some Chalk Creek residents
Mountain Mail Newspaper
Chalk Creek area property owners near the proposed Bureau of Land Management geothermal lease site worry environmental ...
Proposed geothermal lease in Chaffee County has residents steamedThe Colorado Independent

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