Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jim etchells on March 19, 2010, 06:44:36 am
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Does anybody lease or hire machines. Is it a viable option and if so. Which companies do reasonable prices? If bad idea will cross it off my options? Thanks
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I lease and it was viable to me.
Enabled me to not only buy a new top spec machine but
all new accessories with it.
I did the deal with Ashbys.
John
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Leasing and Hiring are completely different............one is a perfectly viable option the other is NOT.
If you Lease.........you get a brand new fully warranted machine with the full specification you want and it becomes yours at the end of the Lease period. You can have a machine with all the bells and whistles that might cost around £3000 at retail.
If you Hire...........you pay someone else to use their property which probably won't be top spec' or have the tools / hoses you need and it might be " well used " before you get it. You will have to collect / return everytime you need it and it will NEVER be yours.
Some suppliers will supply on a lease / purchase or you can arrange it yourself.
Why gamble ?
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I bought all my portys from Altec on lease or was it lease/hire. Not sure which, as above it was a perfectly viable way of getting a good machine for a small amount per month.
Not sure if they still do it to be honest, dont think its been mentioned on their sites recently.
If I remeber it was a firm called British Linen Leasing, probably been swallowed up now. All you have to do is ring and ask, I suppose. The thing is there are so many Finance Co's around now.
Look at the way you can buy a van these days its probably the same thing.
Murky
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It saves putting all your eggs in one basket and frees up cash for marketting and getting your business off the ground....
Good luck with whatever you decide :)