Yikes
Contact your lender/whoever the lease contract is with and see if you can work something out with them.
I'd be willing/able to pick up a lease from now thru to 8/2018. Initially, I'd expect things end there, but if I'm still in the US 8/2018 or later, then maybe extending/re-writing things as needed when I find out.
I doubt that, as is, anything can be done. However, the fact you paid in full may give you some room to sweet talk the lender a bit. That said the underwriter totally has the ability/freedom to be a colossal dick and just hold you to the terms as is and let the car sit there.
Asking them is about the only thing you can do at this point, and if the terms are right I may be able to help take the car off your hands for a 12-18 months so maybe that's a start.
Contact your lender/whoever the lease contract is with and see if you can work something out with them.
I'd be willing/able to pick up a lease from now thru to 8/2018. Initially, I'd expect things end there, but if I'm still in the US 8/2018 or later, then maybe extending/re-writing things as needed when I find out.
I doubt that, as is, anything can be done. However, the fact you paid in full may give you some room to sweet talk the lender a bit. That said the underwriter totally has the ability/freedom to be a colossal dick and just hold you to the terms as is and let the car sit there.
Asking them is about the only thing you can do at this point, and if the terms are right I may be able to help take the car off your hands for a 12-18 months so maybe that's a start.
M-B took the paper in seconds. I got to know a girl in the executive offices fairly well by email.
I always try to take the high road, not because everything is recorded by all companies to an extent I didn't believe but that is the way I try to live my life.
One quick story. I had a 30 day long up to six hours a day with a cable company that provided and still does my internet service. I went all the way up the ladder to two techs who run NYS. One was nice, one was not so much. It was the 30th day of this stuff, I never give up but they would not budge.
I made up my mind to quit that day but it wasn't necessary to tell anyone. I got a phone call from, you won't believe this, no one else will either, it's like telling you, I'm CIA. It was a woman who said the companies "black team" was going to going over every word spoken on both sides for the last 30 days. The black team is a group of individuals who do just that. I actually had a rep at BB laugh in my face. I just walked away.
I had 50 up and 6.7 down for the last 3years 24/7. The last day I just said ok, I will rest assured that "up to 50 Mbps" will be taken of the website, said thanks and goodbye. My premise was, if you can not supply myself and all others with 50 Mbps, 24/7, by same you can not offer it in print. I didn't know what I was even saying. Until I thought about it. What does up to, really mean? It's Clinton territory, it depends on what the meaning of is, is !
I was dumb, even the posts which are mounting would have been willing to tell me all that prior to doing it. It was just a dumb thing to do.
You have posed another rather upsetting scenario. If my lease is paid off, my contractural obligation is over. So is M-B's. Ouch. So, since the contract is finished, they could reasonably ask for their car back or an option to buy.
I called six different M-B finance people and got the same figure, boy, I was smart. Bezel-Busch even sent me a rebate check for overpayment of 112$ and change.
As we talk of this, I had to dump the money anyway, so I had no choice.
Getting to know this girl was a pleasure because she did not lie or misrepresent. With that in mind and reading these kind posts, it's a financial nightmare. I would have to be re-imbursed money as if it was a early turn in. My FICO dropped from 850 to 820 immediately after I paid the payments in full. ?
Leases are really hard to get out of but relatively easy to transfer to anyone with good to great credit. I've had the car since January with 968 miles on it. The big kick is there is no money for them to make on the deal. I can not imagine the stack of paperwork either.
Keep this post up. Chris will be back from the May 23rd, 2018 training day and will call me with the order date or delivery date. The tone is, pulling top Mercedes salesmen from several area's at the same time is going to cost money all the way around and it sounded like a trip and training for a whole day isn't taken lightly. In fact it sounded like a Skype call for an hour would be a huge deal.
All in all, I got a picture of, we are ready to do this thing, all dates are firm and we're ready to go. There is a post of other info but it wasn't reliable, this was and had a big impact to call them together for 2018 Smart training.
Thank you for the kind words and if it can be done Chris can do it. The finance guy who dealt with M-B was not there for fun, in fact I think he may have smiled once. Good hands in that dealership, all the way around, including the first M-B four wheeler in one of the rooms. It was a replica but I thought it was real. Chris said the price tag on the original would be "high."
Anyway, things always work out, I had to push this anyway and could not wait for an electric which was expected Jan late first quarter. Now, I read fourth quarter and they have started production as of a few weeks ago.
Who knows, representing all dealers across the US, they would put that electrics were available and ton of calls would come in with no product. I sometimes found a couple in the US.
If it's meant to be it will happen, until then, thank you.
