Episode 03 · Sep 29, 2026
Equipment Leasing: The Monthly Payment Is the Least Important Number
The monthly payment is the only number they show you. It’s the least important one.
What this episode covers
Two businesses lease the same copier — same machine, same term, same payment on the day they sign. One pays $12,125. The other pays $17,657. The difference isn’t the copier. It’s three terms neither of them read. Here’s one machine taken apart, and when leasing is genuinely the right call.
The numbers
$12,125What one business paid over the lease
$17,657What the other paid — same copier, same payment on day one
$5,532The gap, from three terms neither of them read
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