We publish the numbers other people bury

Eleven years of watching residuals be used as a sales tool

Our founder spent over a decade running remarketing for a regional dealer group in Georgia, which means she spent a decade forecasting what cars would be worth in three years and then watching those forecasts used to make a monthly payment look small on a whiteboard. Residual value is the largest single input to a lease payment and almost nobody buying a car is ever told what it is.

Leasey was built around the opposite habit. The residual table is published per car and per term. The money factor is printed next to every price with its APR conversion. The mileage bands are shown as residual adjustments rather than as fees, because that is what they actually are. The wear and tear standards are measurements. The cost of every exit is on the site before you start.

None of that makes us the cheapest way to hold a car. Financing a car and keeping it for seven years is almost always cheaper, and there is a page on this site that shows you exactly when that crossover happens. What a subscription buys is the ability to stop, and the removal of the six or seven separate bills that make running a car unpredictable.

What we will not do

We do not mark up money factors. We do not charge a disposition fee. We do not write "normal wear and tear" into an agreement without defining it. We do not quote a payment without telling you the term and the mileage band it assumes, which is why every price on this site carries that line underneath it.