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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  Sometimes the money is worth the convenience.

When my father stopped driving, but my mother had to keep driving for work, they leased their Cadillacs.  My mother was a real estate agent and needed a nice car to drive clients to see homes (she often had older clients who would drive to her office and she would drive them around to visit listed houses to see them).  My father had spent the 40 years taking care of the cars for the family and my mother had no knowledge of car care nor any desire to learn.  The Cadillac leasing was perfect for them.  Mom got a good car for work.  Cadillac called or sent her a text message whenever she needed to bring the car in.  She would drive to the dealership, the service team would unload whatever she would need from her car and put them in a loaner car that was very similar to her own car, and off she would go.  Either that day or the next they would text/call her when any servicing was done on the car and she would go in and they would repeat the transfer and off she would go.  Every two years, they would exchange the car for a new car.  This worked well for them for quite a few years (over 10 years).

My parents have the money and always having new cars and not having to worry about car maintenance at all was well worth the money to them.[/quote]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……….no.
Realtors drive an inordinately large number of miles.  There is no way any lease that allows 20,000 miles a year will be more affordable than buying.  That’s the average miles driven by realtors, doesn’t even include her normal personal driving.  So probably 80,000-100,000 miles in a typical three year lease.  I have a hard time believing that was a wise move.[/quote]

My mother is 88 and has been a realtor for 40 years.  She is currently part-time, but when they converted to leasing, she had stopped driving the horrifically large number of miles which she had done earlier in her career.  For the latter part of her career, she has doing investment property sales for non-local clients, most of whom did not come to town, so she doesn't do that much driving.  She finds properties in good safe rental areas and helps them purchase the properties.  She also maintains a rental property management team and helps them manage their rentals.  She's decided to retire in the next few years and most of her clients want her to sell their units before she retires.  She she's planning to sell approximately 10 listings per year for the next four years and then retire.  For investment sales, not buyer-occupied sales and for listings, she doesn't have to do a whole lot of driving.  She does the majority of her work from her house and has for the last 15 years or so.[/quote]

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