Leasing Books

Good book but came with a defective forms CD.I was told by the American Management Association that I need to run the CD on win 95 to open the files? The book was published in 2002!

I've ordered this book 3 times. Each time the book, which includes a CD-ROM in the back for the ease of duplicating the many forms inside, came with a defective disk. AMACOM rebuffed, rather rudely in fact, my request for a replacement disk. They were also contacted by ... AMACOM refused their request to fix their defective CDs as well. At this point, I'm returning the book.

This is unfortunate because the book is well written, but I have no plans to purchase anything published by AMACOM again.

I was a little skeptical about ordering the book given the other review's comments of defective cds. My book came with 2 cds and the one with the files in RTF format worked just fine with MS Word.
The contents of the book are layed out in an easy to follow structure. It is easy to transition from the early overview chapters onwards to specific, detailed topics covered later in the book.

For anyone in the leasing business, this is a wonderful book to own. It is a complete training course in equipment leasing. The author has the only good explanation I could ever find of concepts such as leveraged leases. This book is a _must_ for anyone in the equipment leasing industry.

I wish that the author had worked out a few examples with the reader on cash flows and pricing of leases. There is some math that is not very clear to the first time reader. I also wish that there was some more information about vendor leasing and lease origination.

Regardless, this is one heck of a training course in leasing for under 20 dollars. If you are in any way involved with leasing, this is money well spent.

This book is more about the benefits and features of leasing. It does not give the reader any information on structuring a lease. The only benefit that I saw in reading this book was that it did inform me about different lease types.

One may not expect a legal guide to have business related information on the topic being discussed. Nolo guides are typically an exception to that rule just like this one. There is a lot of information that you will need to put together and decisions to be made before you even get to the point of signing a lease agreement and this book address those concerns on top of the legal aspects to signing leases and neatly ties the two.

For that purpose, the book is divided into two parts - the first part deals with how to prepare for leasing space (evaluating your needs, finding the space, evaluating the space, understanding true costs, coming up with a negotiating strategy, etc.) and the second part deals with the common lease terms (lease basics, length of the lease, security deposits, insurance clauses, breaking the lease, etc.).

My favorite chapter is Chapter 14: Option to Renew or Sublet and Other Flexibility Clause. In this economy, I didn't want to just sign any lease without knowing what my options are if I am forced to sublet. In the personal situation with renting apartments, in the past I had neglected to check these clauses and ended up suffering when I had financial problems and couldn't sublet! This time around I am carefully researching this before signing a long term contract. So I was happy to see this section and learned a lot about Rights of First Refusal and First Offer (I had heard about these things before reading this book but didn't exactly know the implications) among other related topics.

We are currently using this book to lease office space for the first time and finding that this book is saving us a lot of time. And I feel that it is reducing risk in the long term. I am glad I am not depending on 'standard' lease contracts to take care of my needs and instead identifying what my needs are and making sure that the lease agreement addresses those issues. Considering how much research I have been able to do with this book's help, I am confident that this is really going to pay off in the long run. I do plan on working with my lawyer before signing the final contract but it is so helpful to do all the up front work on my own so there is no middle person involved. Even if there are middle people involved, I believe it is going to make the communication smoother as I don't have to depend on them to keep my best interests in mind (as we can guess, they probably won't or may be too involved with their own best interests).

Before Nolo guides, there wasn't much out there to help you understand the law. These books explain the law in plain English. They do a fantastic job too! Lawyers should always be consulted to assist you with legal situations but it is good to have this information ahead of time so communication is smoother and the legal costs lesser. I hope you benefit from this book as much as we have. Good luck!

I run my own shop and wanted to open a new space across town, but rather than rely on a landlord to just give me good terms, I thought I'd do some research first.

I started with this book, which promises to show you how to negotiate all the terms, etc. But by the time I'd read the first chapter, my head was nodding and an hour had gone by. I didn't retain any information because it was so dry.

I'm sure there's some sort of information to be gleened from it, but you'd have to be a patient reader, not a busy businesswoman like me. I recommend "The Commercial Lease Guidebook."

I bought this book hoping that the financial editor of Money Magazine would give me some real nuggets of wisdom on car leasing. Alas, this book favored me with basic information available in magazine articles -- which is probably where he gleaned his material. I would love to see a more in-depth and careful analysis of the subject

This is not a book. This is a bunch of pages stuck together with bullet points in between. Save your money. Or buy my copy. This is by far the worst of many, many industry books I've read. Seriously, don't waste your money.

This book is geared to professionals involved in commercial real estate brokerage and advisory. It is by no means a starter book on the subject.
It is also not a book about real estate investment strategies. The concepts in this "book" are mostly presented as lists and charts. Some might say that such a format detracts from "readability" and does not allow the author to sufficiently explore the ideas presented. If "readability" and the analysis of ideas where the purpose of this book then one may call it a failur. But perhaps, Mike Lipsey, a man whose knowledge and expertise in the area of commercial brokerage and advisory is sought out by highly successful industry peers as well as fortune 500 executives had a different purpose for this book. What if the purpose of this book is to present proven strategies and tactics in a clear and consice manner that is easy to study, refer to, and review? This book is a powerful tool in the hands of commercial real estate professionals.

The so-called "Complete Guide" is nothing but a series of one-to-three page lists of the author's pearls of wisdom. Six tips on this or that, three steps to achieve whatever, and so on and so an. Very tiresome. If this style works for you, great. However, if you are looking for insight into commercial real estate that combines structure, analysis, real-life examples, and good writing, try "Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur," by James A. Randel. Ignore the hokey title.

this short article says all the same things commonly found on the net--It is Not worth the price!

This article was offensively useless. Seriously. It can be boiled down too: Keep employees happy by paying them better, offering better benefits and not working them too hard.

My response "NO SH*T!". Now, if you could, please tell me something outside of the realm of common sense and human nature.

This was absolutely nothing of what I expected. Very disappointing! I will avoid ebooks in the future due to the return policy.

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Absolutely worthless.