TimingYou bill clients monthly. Now you pay for gear the same way.
Lower PaymentsWe're the largest marketplace for used pro AV gear. That data tells us what it's worth later, so your lease payment's lower than a traditional bank loan.
RiskYou don't own it at the end. We do. If it's worth less than expected, that's our loss, not yours.
01
Start with your own numbers.
Two quick questions
If this gear stopped tying up your cash, what would you do with it?
Where would that money go?
When the lease is up, what do you want with this gear?
So, in your words
01The cash a purchase would've tied up stays free to go win the clients who pay for it.
02Renew, hand it back, or buy it. You don't have to decide now.
Your deal
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Minimum $100,000.
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Gear like this typically earns about 25% of its cost in year one. Adjust if yours differs.
02
The same gear, three ways to pay for it.
Cash available to be put to work
Buying and financing tie up more of your own cash. Money that could be out growing the business instead.
03
Follow the cash over time.
Cash position over time
You said you would run more jobs at once. See it with double the gear.
Full numbers, for the finance-minded
One column per option, one row per number. Read across a row to compare the same thing three ways.
Metric
Buy
Traditional Loan
Lease
Cash-on-cash multiple, and annualized return with it, read n/m where a scenario never goes cash-negative: there's no outflow to divide by, so both are undefined. That's a strength of the scenario, not a gap in the table.