When you´re starting or growing a business, cash is often in short supply. One way to spend less is to lease essential office equipment instead of buying it. Unlike renting, which is much too expensive to consider as a long-term alternative, leasing computers, fax machines or furniture offers a number of critical advantages:

Some business people look over equipment leasing contracts carefully. They study words, punctuation marks, sentences and paragraphs. They make notes and question obscure langauge. They then send the document to their lawyer for review and request that changes be made. The attorney then contacts the leasing company to negotiate the most favorable terms. How often does this chain of events occur? Probably once in a thousand times.