Catherine Bell explains the difference between a straight lease and a lease with a purchase option. In a straight lease, your payments don't count toward buying the property later. With a purchase option, they do.
Can I ask a question that may be silly? Oh, you say it's silly. It is, it is silly. So when you— so for example, if we leased this property for 5 years and then we decide to purchase it after those 5 years, the money that we invested into the lease, does that get deducted from the purchase or do we still have to purchase it full?
So on a lease, the answer is no.
Okay.
On purchase option, the answer is yes, because what you're doing is as a person So put that in your deal, owner. What does the economics look like on a lease versus doing it as a purchase option or doing it as a seller finance?
