Exit Your Lease Early

Getting money back out of your lease

What if you had put $5,000 down when you initiated your lease – is it fair to ask for that money back from a prospective buyer?  Our advice is to avoid this practice if you can.  Selling a lease can be challenging enough, but when you request money from the buyer as well, you are turning off a lot of prospective buyers who are interested in assuming a lease because they want to get a deal, not because they want to put a “down payment” into the deal.