Need to end SETF Nightmare car(residual, selling vehicle halfway through lease, etc)

I analyzed your lease contract and here is what I calculated…

MF = .00317
Actuarial Rate (lease amortization rate) = 7.66799%
Lease Balance after 13 payments = 32461.32
PO Fee = 399.00
Sales Tax Rate = 6.35%

Payoff Amount = (32461.32 + 399.00) x 1.0635 + fees/other taxes per paragraph 41.
= 34946.95 + fees/other taxes

How Toyota got 38448.32 seems like a real stretch to me unless you missed payments. You may want to request a detailed itemized payoff statement b/c there is definitely something wrong. Also, only base payments are used when making payoff calculations.

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I am going to call AGAIN for a breakdown, they put me on hold for 40 minutes 12 people ahead of me and I had to hangup because I have a 4pm meeting

I’m finding it hard to imagine a human equivalent of a bot, with all the enthusiasm of an Aubrey Plaza character, will provide any answers.

Anyway selling the car is more important than deciphering the remaining sum of payments.

Below is your lease amortization schedule…

??? Let me know.

EDIT: Remember to add applicable fees/other taxes, etc. to the last column

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Sure, but no point in selling if they are overcharging him $3k on the payoff.

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Thanks I appreciate that. Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but as someone below said, is it possible they are trying to overcharge me $3k somehow?

Also it seems like the dealer killed me on the backend , no?

You tell us. What was buy rate? How much mf mark up did you agree to when you negotiated the price and signed the contract?

I doubt it. It’s likely a mistake or it could be that other taxes are much higher. My amortization schedule assumes you made all payments on time. Is that correct?

No. If you’re referring to the 399 PO fee, that’s not uncommon.

You didn’t post the itemization of the gross cap. The difference between the gross cap and agreed upon value (sell price) is the amount that is capitalized in the lease. This amounts to 1403. Deducting the 650 acq fee leaves 753 that I can’t account for. The MF = .00317 may have been marked up. It looks like you received 1800 off MSRP (4.6% discount). I think you could have done much better. So, I think it’s a front-end problem, not a back-end problem.

One other thing…

According to the lease contract, the bottom line is…

zero drive-off followed by 23 monthly payments of 482.82 each.

Zero drive off as in they pocketed all $4500 of my down payment and nothing went to the actual lease?





Sorry. I kept thinking that the 4500 was a rebate. Your 4500 was used to pay all the section 5 fees. Read the lease.

hmmmm… look like they didn’t itemize your gross cap.

Section 5 is not all fees, ~$3000 was a down payment.

I suspect in the pay off he’s paying CT tax and that’s where the missing numbers are.

I included the CCR in the fees even though it’s not really a fee.

You may very well be correct. I’m not familiar with CT taxation guidelines.

yes, he needs the dealer payoff – this includes tax lol

Its
SETF so the quotes he already got are the dealer numbers.

SETF is about as bad as Ally or USBank on trade ins

Dealer payoff should be 33k though? My lease payoff is messed up including property tax or something so I’ll get the breakdown tomorrow, never again will I lease a Toyota from setf

SETF is evil to their own dealers as well.

You will if you use a dealer south of NC. (I believe), SETF has a lock in the South East

But it doesn’t make sense how could they mark up a payoff that much? It borders on illegal. The gentleman above who provided those breakdowns pretty much summarized my thinking that dealer payoff should be 32-33

I live in CT I bought from them because they were discounting when nobody else would for a GRC . My mistake, because I don’t even care for the car. Would have been better off with a type R or Si.