I am assuming you are in Texas?
Leasing a car in Texas can be problematic due to higher taxes because the state imposes a full sales tax on the whole value of the car upfront at the time of vehicle purchase rather than sales tax on the monthly payment.
Some of the best deals I have ever landed are from dealers that hate me the most.
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What make and model are you looking for and what is your target deal?
The first part of this statement is correct, it may not be easy, but you do not need an existing relationship with a dealer. You send out your offers and 19/20 might say no. All you need is one to say yes. Your job is to find the dealer whoâs willing. Some may need to hit a sales goal and be willing to take a loss. The next day they may not want to do the same deal or replicate it 15 more times. Timing and luck play a factor sometimes for sure.
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You need this energy in your life:
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Getting an aggressive deal is about understanding that most dealers are going to tell you no. If your expectation is that youâre going to ask the first dealer you talk to for an offer and it is going to be exceptional, youâre totally missing the point.
You donât need an existing relationship with a dealer. You need to understand the deal youâre targeting, control the negotiations, and expect a lot of rejection before success.
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Very few deals I have gotten were from a dealer that I established any kind of previous relationship with. Negotiation is a game. You can compare it to chess, boxing, judo, even S&M if thatâs your kind of thing. Itâs all about determining the pain threshold of your opponents/partners depending on how you choose to look at it. Once you determine this it becomes a matter of imposition of will, getting one of the players to break and exceed their threshold to keep you from going elsewhere. Cast a wide net and make aggressive offers to multiple dealers. Eventually one will crack. Once that happens, circle back to the dealers that were somewhat responsive and see if they will beat the best offer you have. Thereâs a moment that happens where you know that youâre on the right track and getting close, youâll know it when it happens, itâs hard to explain. It requires you to be able to multitask and work multiple deals in short order but itâs a lot of fun when youâre cooking and trying to whittle it down and wrap it up at the end. Like anything else it takes practice too. If thatâs not your thing (thatâs totally understandable, I do not consider myself normal in the least when it comes to this kind of stuff), thereâs plenty of brokers that serve multiple regions here that will be able to get you a more than fair deal on a variety of vehicles. The choice is totally yours.
This post feels like itâs bringing the avengers of lease hackr to help op out
Yeah most of the buyers hate âthe gameâ. Those should hire brokers itâs win-win. If you enjoy it - this site equips you with knowledge, itâs still your game to play. Donât expect dealers to give-in automatically.
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Which specific dealer/brokers ads on Leasehackr are not being honored?
It was clickbait to get everyone to spoon feed him. Easier than searching and reading, amirite?
He got you all
I think I need to correct few things.
I am not a pro or trying to make a living out of the deals. I am normal person who needs a car once in 2 years or 3 years . I reached out to few individuals in this forum for helping me and agreed to their fee instead of me reaching out to dealers as I know I donât know all the details of leasing. They also could not also replicate some deals posted here even with ~$2000- $3000 more. Looks like pro members are trying very hard especially @max_g that I am wrong. Let me give one example when a deal is posted slickdeals.net it is almost 75% of people who tried it will get it or until the stock is gone. What I am saying here is it is only 5% - 10% possible for deals above 10 years and remaining all are less than 8 years . Again I get a counter argument that these are high value deals. These low $ lease posts are a kind of marketing posts to drive inquires and interest . I donât know who is playing it it but it is what it is.
LH score is a made up number that does nothing to indicate if a deal is good of bad, so step one is to forget that crap.
Youâre in TX, so leases are almost going to be much more expensive for you due to how your state taxes leases, unless you happen to find a TX dealer with tax credits being offered on the particular vehicle youâre interested in. That simply means that the same deal is goint to cost you more per month than someone in a better tax situation, so if youâre blindly comparing things without factoring in your particular situation, youâre going to have unreasonable expectations.
When youâre looking at shared deals, the only useful datapoint for them is the pre-incentive discount when adjusted for buy rate mf. Everything else is variable for your personal situation. Different taxes, different fee structures, different incentive qualifications, different term requirements, different credit qualifications, etc. All can generate significantly different monthly payments for the same deal (that is, the same negotiated dealer discount).
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@js2334, you are doing fine by asking for opinions and listening to the advice given as that is one of the many things that makes LHer great.
The better news is an âopinionâ such as the one below is from an army of one, and these nonsensical posts are generally roundly ignored so donât take offense to the alleged insult.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that brokers and/or dealers on LH could not replicate deals posted by OTHER people. You are not saying that brokers and dealers will not honor the deals that they themselves have posted in the Marketplace.
Is my understanding correct?
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I knew it!
I knew you came from Slickdeals before I even got to this post.
Hint: This is NOT Slickdeals.
You are gonna have a hard time here
All good advice above. To add, any deal you see that wasnât from July 2025 is irrelevant since programs change monthly and can swing payments. Only thing potentially useful are the datapoints for preincentive discounts.
Once again, can you provide the make and model you are looking for and what you are trying to achieve. The more effort (and detail) you put in, the more folks will be willing to help.
Thatâs the only thing from shared deals one should ever be referencing.
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I donât have the ability and/or willingness to put in the effort so must be fake. This site is about education, not spoon feeding (although unfortunately its been trending the latter).
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If I had a nickel for everytime a dealer posted deals and didnât honor it⌠Elon would be my butler
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yes I am only talking about the deals posted by others but not by dealers in the Marketplace posts.