Currently living in NYC without need for a car. Going back to school to get my graduate degree and need a car.
Looked into Sixt+ and Flexcar but I’d honestly just get a one year lease. They’re $900+ and $600+ a month respectively and I thought maybe I could do better with a one year lease.
Anyone have any good luck with payments around the $600 monthly range?
My last lease was a 2018 C class (52k, 15k miles, 36 month) at $450 a month with maintenance.
NY is an upfront tax state, leasing something with a $50k MSRP means paying almost $350/mo for the upfront taxes, assuming 0 rent charge.
I’d keep looking at rentals and Turos.
Jesus Christ, I did not know that. I thought tax was levied on the lease total, not the MSRP itself.
Yeah I looked there… Mostly people trying to get out of horrible leases.
Correct
Also correct
Not correct. It is upfront sales tax on (for a close enough outcome) the lease payments and any rebates, with some extra double sales tax if you have the lender roll the upfront sales tax they will have to advance into the monthly payment.
I’d get a new bmw lease then transfer it out when you’re done with it.
How sure are you that you won’t need a car after grad school?
Get $300/m all in cheap chevy trax or similar or even maybe EV and transfer after one year.
The other option is f.e. to lease honda CRV, hyundai or kia and sell it after one year. Honda keeps value so should not be a problem to sell it and at least break even i think
Good luck.
Easy.
Or grab this
Not bad idea, but @Eljean93 doesn’t have a lease history and also needs to check the insurance. Without insurance history, this part might be a killer and may cost even $500/m in NYC.
Because of this, i would just buy a used car and sell it after one year.
Huh? Details, details!
Finding a decent insurance premium could still be a challenge.
AFAIK one year leases don’t exist rn
Starting a new BMW lease with the intention of transferring out: interesting idea but depends on what the payments and total costs look like without loyalty, MSD, etc. plus aforementioned insurance
INCORRECT
Porsche 12/15 
maybe look for a good deal of lease transferring?
I heard Zohran Mamdani is gonna give everyone 100% free Porsche CPO leases
Have you found one at an effective $600?
Macan CPO can be found slightly above $600 maybe $650 ish, but not many though.
Haven’t shopped since then. But it was a loaner, I believe fully equipped, C300 4matic.
Had to haggle quite a lot but I learned it all thanks to the fine folks in this forum.
