I’ve only leased two cars, but it still seems like overkill to me. to abuse a metaphor, you’re just trying to buy a sausage, not make the sausage yourself.
[quote=“altfuelcarguy, post:56, topic:52529, full:true”]
I’ve had excellent results by simply emailing a few dealers proposing basic terms (duration, mileage, drive-off, monthly) with reference to a specific stock number vehicle chosen from their online inventory. [/quote]
That’s pretty much what I did and it worked well.
Now, that being said, after getting a quote from a dealer, I asked to see their lease breakdown, one of the numbers seemed funny, and after hand calculating
(thanks leasehackr!) I realized that they were accidentally rolling a fee into the lease amount, and leaving it out saved me a hundred bucks or so.
so knowing how the lease is broken down is useful, I just can’t see myself leading with all that info first.