Adding Capital to your Budget through Refinancing

April 1st, 2014

Capital Leasing Consultant in DC

What are the benefits of Refinancing Existing Tax-Exempt Leases?

Do you have existing tax-exempt leases? Are you looking for ways to increase your purchasing power? There are many benefits you can reap from refinancing existing tax-exempt leases.

If you are curious about what is involved in refinancing existing tax-exempt leases, this is a helpful guide.

What is Tax-Exempt Refinancing?

Tax exempt refinancing is a financial incentive offer to tax exempt entities to help the organizations purchase essential business equipment and further develop their facilities.

Refinancing Existing Tax-Exempt Leases can help your organization achieve the following financial benefits:

  1. You will have the opportunity to take advantage of lower interest rates that will lower your corresponding lease payments.

  2. By refinancing existing tax-exempt leases, you can reduce the term of your lease; which will help to pay the lease off quicker, while saving money on interest charges.

  3. The length of the lease may be increased to help spread the costs and lower the amount owed per month.

  4. Refinancing can provide a fixed rate rather than an adjustable rate.

  5. Tax-exempt leases can be refinanced into a higher loan amount to provide necessary capital to meet growing demands

Refinancing an existing tax-exempt lease allows you to develop a new lease term so you can use the new lease to pay off your old lease. Essentially, you are trading your existing tax-exempt lease term for a more favorable tax-exempt lease term.

Refinancing an existing tax-exempt lease is a good idea if certain financial factors exist. Factors such as a credit enhancement or a reduction in interest rates makes refinancing a tax-exempt lease an option worth exploring. If the agency’s credit has improved since the initial lease, there can potentially be lower payments associated with refinancing your existing tax-exempt lease.

Grant Capital Management has refinanced over $200 million in leases within the public sector and has saved clients millions of dollars in the process.

By consulting with Grant Capital Management, we can help you refinance your existing tax-exempt lease at the right time so your agency may benefit from reducing substantial costs associated with existing leases. We will create a customized financing package and will help to identify how much can be saved as well as how to best utilize those savings.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $4 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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The Benefits of Off-Balance Sheet Financing for Real Estate Acquisition

November 22nd, 2013

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Do you need to finance a real estate acquisition or construction project? Perhaps your institution requires student housing, a new laboratory, or professional building and yet does not possess the capacity to borrow any more money. Off-balance sheet financing can help you complete your real estate acquisition or construction project with ease by limiting debt on your balance sheet, yet enable you to obtain necessary real estate. To finance your real estate acquisition or construction project, you should consider synthetic leases.

Under a synthetic lease your institution will reap the majority of ownership benefits while listing the financial agreement as an operating lease vs. a long term debt obligation. It is common to use synthetic leases to finance the entire cost of a real estate acquisition when entities are near their borrowing limits. What are the specific advantages of synthetic leases?

The advantages of synthetic leases:

  1. The tenant of the property doesn’t carry the real property debt on any financial statements. This is why it’s called off-balance sheet financing.

 

  1. The balance sheet does not carry a debt for the acquired real estate. Your institution can effectively increase its borrowing capacity and at the same time avoid having the acquisition interfere with the financial stability of the balance sheet.

  1. Your institution can avoid bankruptcy risk since the lease is not a general obligation debt.

 

  1. Under the synthetic leases your entire real estate project cost can be covered – acquisition, construction and further development. You can acquire or construct multiple real estate properties under the same synthetic lease. This will help the organization to drive down preliminary project costs.

Bottom line: Your organization will generate more income and improve cash flow rather than accumulate significant debt. You are not required to make payments until the real estate property is completed. The fees your organization collects is used to pay the synthetic lease debt. Under synthetic leases, there is always the option to buy the real estate.

Schedule an appointment with Grant Capital Management to get started on your off-balance sheet real estate project, we can offer financing solutions at competitive market rates today.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $4 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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The Benefits of Lease Financing your Campus Fleet

September 9th, 2013

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Does your college or university campus need new vehicles to ensure reliable campus transportation?

When it comes to providing safe campus vehicle services for students, it’s no small expense. Campus transportation costs includes:

-Fuel
-Preventative Maintenance
-Driver Training
-Rentals
-Charters
-And traffic and safety vehicles.

Better Financing Options

Many Colleges and Universities in the past have procured vehicles utilizing their own capital budget funds or by utilizing bond proceeds. The problems with these two options are:

-Utilizing capital funds further constricts a capital budget with ever increasing competing demands.
-Bond proceeds, even at low interest rates, can have a higher “true cost” because it results in financing an asset which is useful for 5 to 7 years over a 20 year period.

You can benefit from leasing the vehicles of your choosing for your campus transportation requirements utilizing a customized capital or operating lease from Grant Capital Management.

Vehicle leasing is perfect for equipping your campus with the vehicles it needs to operate campus life smoothly – buses, patrol bikes, campus security cars, food trucks and more. Leasing also allows your institution to:

-Ease the demands on its capital budget by utilizing operating funds to pay the lease payments.

-Allows the institution to match the term of its financing with the useful life of the asset.

What is an operating lease?

An operating lease is a finance lease that provides clients the option to pay for the right to use vehicles but not own the vehicles as campus property.  This is beneficial to campuses nationwide because the vehicles can be accounted for as operating expenses and not impact the capital side of your budget.

If your campus prefers to own vehicles after payment, you can always choose a capital lease agreement. This type of financing lease allows your campus to take on joint ownership with the lessor that owns the vehicles. This lease agreement can be beneficial to your campus because the depreciation of the campus vehicles and the interest you pay on the equipment can be used for tax cuts because it’s on the balance sheet.

What is a capital lease?

Capital leases typically provide the best financial option for colleges and universities when it comes to vehicles because campus vehicles do not become obsolete within a short period of time. As long as a vehicle is operable, safe, dependable, and free of heavy maintenance burdens it is possible that the vehicle can have a useful life of up to 10 years.

Here are the benefits a capital lease offers if you do desire ownership over the campus vehicles:

-You can gain ownership over the equipment at the end of the leasing term.
-You can select vehicles that you choose vs. a list of preset options.
-The lease term can be longer for certain vehicle types vs. an operating lease.

If you only need the vehicles for a short period of time, go for an operating lease. It’s simply a rental situation without the drawbacks that come with outright ownership.

Schedule an appointment with Grant Capital Management to get started on your customized campus financing solutions at competitive market rates today.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $4 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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The Benefits of EPCs for K-12 schools

July 10th, 2013

Are you in the midst of creating an energy efficient strategy for your K-12 school? Grant Capital Management is here to help you navigate the process of significantly lowering your school’s annual operating costs (up to 30% according to the U.S. Department of Energy) by implementing an Energy Performance Contracts (EPC).

Nationwide, American primary and secondary schools spend nearly $8 billion per year on energy expenses.

When you have the resources to transform your school into an energy efficient school, the energy bill becomes a controllable cost and helps increase educational quality by reserving more cash flow for the school. Energy cost is the second highest operating expenditure for K-12 schools; the highest operating expenditure is personnel costs.

Implementing an Energy Performance Contracts (EPC) can help you provide energy smart solutions for your school. A qualified Energy Service Company (ESCO) will be hired to do an energy audit of your facilities and to install agreed upon energy conservation measures which will reduce energy consumption throughout your facilities. The best part is that this is all done in a budget neutral fashion.

 

The Benefits of Investing in Energy Performance Contracting

An Energy Performance Contract is a procurement contract that helps schools and other organizations in the following ways:

  1. Retrofitting your facilities from an energy efficiency perspective without any increase to your budget.

  1. The savings produced from the installed energy conservation measures cover the debt service payments

  1. The energy savings guaranteed. So, if the savings do not materialize as the ESCO has projected, then the ESCO guaranteeing the work has to write your school a check for the amount of savings that did not materialize.

Best of all, equipment retained during the term of the EPC is owned by the school after the term of the contract and the school will receive the full savings benefit once the equipment has been paid for.

Energy Performance Contracts can be used for:

-Construction Projects
-System Upgrades
-Operation and maintenance of utility systems
-Equipment costs
-Labor costs
-And more.

Energy Performance Contracting Process

With Grant Capital Management, you’re in good hands every step of the performance contracting process. We have the capability to:

-Help you to select an ESCO who will develop an effective Energy saving project based on the specific needs of your school.
-Assist in identifying identify the energy project cost
-Assist in identifying energy savings
-Design a financially sound proposal that meets the objectives of your school
-Assist in perform a technical audit to estimate final cost and savings through the EPC
-Assist in completing contract negotiations
-Monitor the effectiveness of the Energy Performance Contract to assure your contract meets your school’s expectations.

Through our customized financing packages, we will ensure that your Energy Performance Contract is financed at a competitive interest rate in which the entire cost of the project is paid via the savings that the energy upgrades bring about. No increase in your budget will be required!

The ultimate goal is to assist your school in energy efficiency and energy savings while increasing revenue gains that will cover the project cost.

Financing your Energy Performance Contracts with Grant Capital Management will help your school complete energy efficient upgrades without any incremental increases in your budget.

Since 2000 Grant Capital has funded over $4 billion in equipment lease purchases and Energy Performance Contract projects. Our team is dedicated to financing energy savings projects for your school.

Get started on your customized financing solutions at competitive market rates today.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $4 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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http://www.ameresco.com/customers/k-12-education

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Energy Performance Contracts: Financing Equipment And Infrastructure Upgrades

June 20th, 2013

Does your hospital need help financing medical equipment or infrastructure upgrades? Grant Capital Management can help your hospital afford building upgrades and purchase state-of-the-art medical equipment.

Hospital Cost Control

Keeping control of operating costs can be challenging in a forever-changing regulatory medical environment.

Nonetheless, quality patient care must be maintained.

Without the latest equipment, hospitals will inevitability consume large amounts of energy and increase operating costs.

Here are common financial issues hospitals face nationally:

-Higher energy cost
-Inefficient funds for infrastructure and medical equipment improvements, upgrades and maintenance
-Lower revenue related to healthcare reform issues

Grant Capital can help your hospital overcome these challenges through our Energy Performance Contract (EPC) knowledge and financing expertise.

The Benefits Of Energy Performance Contracts

Qualified Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) have the capability to do an energy audit of your facility and recommend upgrades which will save your institution money via reduced energy consumption. Best of all, the ESCO will provide a savings guarantee which requires them to write you a check for any of the guaranteed savings which do not materialize

Grant Capital Management’s lease purchase financing helps both public and private sector hospitals invest in Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC) projects and renewable energy initiatives to meet environmental, economic and energy goals.

Since 2000, we have funded over $4 billion in equipment lease-purchases and energy performance contract projects.

The energy performance contracts cover the following energy services:

-A comprehensive building energy audit
-A financial analysis of upgrade options
-Installation of hospital building upgrades
-Post-installation performance monitoring and equipment maintenance.

What is the primary benefit of our energy performance contracts financing?

We structure the financing of each Energy Performance Contract to help hospitals be cash-flow positive or budget neutral throughout the term of the EPC. This provides a solution to acquiring energy efficient infrastructure without impacting your budget.

With Grant Capital Management, your hospital could reap the following benefits:

-Turn-key and budget-neutral solution to decreasing energy consumption
-Ability to purchase state-of-the-art medical equipment as well as energy efficient infrastructure improvements utilizing your operating budget vs. your capital budget.
-Improvements in patient satisfaction
-Lower utility bill costs
-Better quality hospital environment and productivity of staff

With Grant Capital’s lease purchase option, you can meet the medical needs of your patients and maintain a prestigious hospital with no upfront capital expenditure.

Upon the completion of the lease term, your hospital will take ownership of the leased energy conservation equipment and continue to enjoy lower utility bills as a result of decreased energy consumption.

You’ll be in good hands with Grant Capital. We have built a solid reputation in the energy efficiency financing market. Our lease-financing solutions are innovative and flawlessly executed.

With us you can rest assure that your hospital will get its energy upgrades financed through annual savings that cover 100% of the debt service payments. Because EPCs come with a savings guarantee, you can also rest assured that if the savings do not materialize as projected, the Energy Services Company guaranteeing the work has to write you a check for the amount of savings which did not materialize.

Get started on your customized financing solutions at competitive market rates today.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $4 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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Source:

http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/11860_EnergyEfficiencyFinancingBarriersandOpportunities_July%202011.pdf

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Procurement of School Buses: The Advantages of Lease Financing

June 7th, 2013

During these difficult economic times, school districts are experiencing major budget cuts. This puts a heavy burden on maintaining reliable school transportation for students. It also adds difficulty to the process of replacing an aging fleet of buses.

To address these financial concerns, school districts can take advantage of low cost taxable and tax-exempt lease financing packages from Grant Capital Management. Each school district and each procurement has its own unique set of requirements. Grant Capital Management understands this and is capable of tailoring financing options to suite the particular needs of the school district.

Grant Capital Management understands that maintaining an up-to-date fleet of school buses is getting more difficult every year. The good news is that with competitive interest rates, and a streamlined process, the cost of financing your new bus fleet with Grant Capital Management will likely be more affordable to your district than the heavy maintenance cost you are incurring by managing an outdated fleet. We are here help school districts to ensure that their schools have safe and reliable school buses for transporting students to and from school.

Our lease purchase financing will help your school district to match your capital outlay with the useful life of the asset by utilizing the operating side of your budget and paying for the asset over a period of time while preserving your capital budget for other necessary capital needs.

Benefits

The primary benefit of utilizing Grant Capital Management’s financing programs always is to the students first. Children and their parents in the community rely on school districts to be transport them in vehicles that are well maintained, reliable and up-to-date. Grant Capital Management is here to help you provide that benefit and meet your constituent’s expectations.

Another key benefit of utilizing a lease-purchase financing structure to procure school buses is that your capital budget will be left intact and those funds will be available for deployment in other areas of capital needs.

An updated school bus fleet instantaneously reduces maintenance and repair costs as well as increases your fleet’s fuel efficiency.

With the capital lease, you will be able to own a newer, more fuel efficient fleet of buses without incurring a large one-time capital expenditure.

Grant Capital Management is an industry leader when it comes to financing essential-use equipment such as school buses.

If you need to lease or finance a school bus fleet today, take a look at our essential capital equipment lease purchase options. We can provide custom financing structures to meet your school bus fleet needs – including adding in additional equipment such as bus security cameras and long term future maintenance programs.

We serve public schools, charter schools, and non-municipal private schools so you can have more school cash flow and better route mileage/ maintenance for your bus fleet.

Take advantage of our track record and experience.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $3.7 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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http://www.schoolbusfleet.com/Channel/Management-Training/Articles/2009/11/Exploring-the-Benefits-of-Financing.aspx

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The Benefits of Capital Leasing For Healthcare Institutions: Financing Medical Equipment

June 3rd, 2013

Are you a medical device vendor or company that sells medical products and services to hospitals, government agencies or other institutions? Sometimes it is challenging for institutions to secure funding for medical equipment, vehicles, software technology and other types of equipment.

Grant Capital Management is here to help healthcare vendors and provide their customers with financing options to ease their customer’s financial strains when purchasing products.

Grant Capital Management provides lease financing options healthcare companies can offer as financing solutions to customers looking to purchase their products. We understand that the medical industry is ever changing and maturing. For institutions to succeed in these times of increasing change, they must have access to secure capital.

Lease financing can help healthcare vendors provide public sector agencies the opportunity to utilize equipment/ biotechnology as collateral for cash flow needs. Equipment financing also allows institutions to buy time and increase the value of institutions overtime by not having large capital expenditures for their equipment, software and technology needs.

Operating Leases

With an operating lease, institutions can cost effectively replace high obsolescence equipment such as laboratory equipment, manufacturing biotechnology and computer hardware and software. The operating lease is perfect for financing bundles of products so that your institutional customers can always maintain state-of-the-art technology.

Under an operating lease, institutions can use assets for the term of the lease agreement. Upon the end of the lease term, the customer has 3 options.

-The customer can renew/extend the operating lease once the term has been completed.

-The customer can purchase the equipment at fair market value

-The customer can return the equipment and walk away from the lease.

The operating lease can be recorded as a periodic operating expense vs. purchasing equipment outright and minimizing cash available to purchase other capital needs.

Capital Leases

Under a capital lease, an institution has the capability to finance its capital needs over time with a buyout of a nominal amount at the maturity of the lease term (typically $1). This allows your customers to procure its capital needs and pay for them over time utilizing the operating side of their budget and not deplete their capital funding budgets.

Grant Capital Management can structure capital lease with terms up to 20 years and beyond for select equipment, software, and infrastructure improvements

What are the Benefits of Lease Financing?

For institutional customers of medical equipment companies, there are two primary benefits of lease purchase financing:

  1. Never experiencing medical equipment obsolescence.

  2. Preserving cash to meet additional capital needs.

Lease financing is a practical solution for healthcare customers in need of medical equipment and software technology.

Grant Capital Management is well prepared to develop lease financing packages designed to meet the needs of healthcare institutions across the nation. Let us help your customers finance specialty equipment and more.

Take advantage of our track record and experience.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease-financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $3.7 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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The Benefits Of Capital Leasing For Agencies: Financing Biotech Products

May 31st, 2013

Are you a biotech vendor or biotech company that sells biotech equipment to hospitals, government agencies and municipalities? Sometimes it is challenging for public sector customers to secure funds for purchasing biotech equipment such as vehicles and technology.

Grant Capital Management is here to help biotech vendors and biotech companies provide public sector customers equipment financing to ease their financial strains when purchasing biotech products.

Grant Capital Management provides essential capital equipment leases biotech vendors and biotech companies can offer as financing solutions to agencies looking to purchase their products. We understand that the life science industry is ever changing and maturing. For agencies to succeed in the life science industry, biotech public sector customers must have access to secure capital.

Capital financing/ capital equipment financing can help biotech vendors/biotech companies provide public sector agencies the opportunity to utilize equipment/ biotechnology as collateral for cash flow needs. Equipment financing also adds leveraging equity biotech public sector customers can use to buy time and increase the value of agencies overtime.

With an operating lease, public sector customers can cost effectively replace high obsolescence equipment such as laboratory equipment, manufacturing biotechnology and computer equipment. The operating lease is perfect for financing bundles of biotechnology products and services so public sector customers can always maintain state-of-the-art biotechnology through your biotech vending or biotech company.

Under the operating lease agencies can use assets for the term of the lease agreement. Operating leases can be renewed after the term has been completed. The operating lease can be recorded as an operating expense for public sector customers’ income statements.

What are the benefits of capital financing / equipment leasing?

For public sector customers of biotech vendors and biotech companies, there are two primary benefits of capital financing/ equipment leasing:

  1. Never experiencing biotech equipment obsolescence.

  2. Never preserving more cash to develop agencies.

Capital financing is a practical solution for public sector customers in need of biotech equipment or biotechnology.

Grant Capital Management knows the life science industry. We are here to eliminate development tensions and surprises that come with public sector agencies.

Let us help your public sector customers finance specialty equipment and more.

Grant Capital Management will help public sector agencies create thorough business budgeting plans and provide them the capital financing needed to succeed.

Every public sector agency needs reliable capital. Reliable capital is used for bio research, product development and more.

Grant Capital Management is well prepared to develop capital leasing packages designed to meet the needs of of growing public sector agencies.

Take advantage of our track record and experience.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of capital lease-financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $3.7 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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Energy Performance Contracting For Public Housing Authorities

May 20th, 2013

Are you considering implementing an Energy Performance Contract (EPC) for your public housing authority?

If yes,  then you need to speak with the professionals of Grant Capital Management. Grant Capital has financed over 90 EPCs for various entities including Public Housing Authorities. In addition to providing financing, our firmc an also help you manage your EPC project through our project management service, OverSightSM. OverSightSM allows Grant Capital Management to act as “Owners Representative” and assist our clients with the management of the EPC process including, vendor selection, contract negotiation, and independent measurement and verification amongst other services.

What can Energy Performance Contracting do for you?

With government funding for Public Housing Authorities currently being less than ideal, implementing an EPC is a great way to hedge against rising energy costs. An EPC provides a number of benefits.

-It allows you to upgrade your housing stock from an energy perspective without any incremental increase to your budget.

-The energy service company whom is selected to install the upgrades must guarantee the savings you will see as a result of the EPC and is required to write you a check for any savings which do not materialize.

-Grant Capital Management will provide the upfront capital to pay for the installation of the new energy conservation measures and will structure your loan payments such that payments never exceed your guaranteed savings. This is what will essentially allow the project to pay for itself.

Grant Capital Management will provide Public Housing Authorities the funding for sustainable solutions as well as effective energy efficiency strategies.

There are no up front capital requirements. You will have a fixed price of payment for the term of your contract. There are no price escalations.

Here is what Energy Performance Contracting can offer:

-Solar energy technology

-Wind renewable energy sources

-Green Construction

-Rehab Techniques

-Combined Heat & Power (CHP)

Learn about Grant Capital Management’s Energy Performance Contract Financing Expertise for U.S. Public Housing Authorities today.

We have a strong commitment to the Public Housing sector. We are focused on assisting public housing directors in reducing costs by replacing inefficient energy infrastructure. We also possess the knowledge to navigate the nuances of Public Housing Authority transaction such as the Section 30 process.

Let the Grant Capital Management team provide you customized solutions at competitive rates.

Our experienced leasing professionals can:

-Structure project financing from $500,000 to as much as $60 million or more with terms up to 20 years and beyond to suit Housing Authorities’ budget requirements.

-Finance ESCO and self-managed Energy Performance Contract projects.

-Provide financing for PHA’s with the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) Scores of 70 and above.

-Provide tax-exempt financing without the requirement for Section 30 compliance for selected EPC transactions.

Take advantage of our track record and experience.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of tax-exempt lease-financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $4 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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Source:

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Lease-Purchase Financing and Master Lease Agreements

March 25th, 2013

Why use leasing as a financing option?

Leasing is a great financing option for the following reasons.

  • The equipment acquisitions costs are spread over the expected useful life of the equipment/asset.

  • Leasing addresses unanticipated or large one-time purchases.

  • Financing costs can be matched to  the useful life of the equipment/asset.

  • Using lease-purchase financing increases public administrator’s purchasing power by helping them to reap the benefits of using both the capital and operating sides of their budgets within the same budget year.

What is a Master Lease?

A Master Lease Agreement is similar to an umbrella agreement: it is a lease agreement that can be used to acquire multiple pieces of equipment on different schedules overtime utilizing the same terms and conditions, without having to execute a new lease for each transaction. It is, in effect, a line of credit the lessee can draw upon to finance additional equipment.

What are the Benefits of a Master Lease?

  • Saves time.

  • Eliminates the need to issue a bid each time additional equipment is needed.

  • Eliminates the need to provide contract terms and conditions for each equipment purchase.

  • Only one credit approval is needed.

  • Ability to secure financing despite not having identified all of your required equipment

    What can  a Master Lease  Agreement be used to finance?

The Master Lease Program is available for financing essential-use equipment and intangibles associated with the equipment. The following are examples of essential-use equipment/assets that can be financed with the Master Lease Program.

  • Traffic lights

  • Medical equipment

  • Servers

  • Information technology infrastructure

  • Water meters

  • Trucks/vehicles

  • Communication infrastructure

  • Renewable energy systems

  • HVAC, lighting, water systems

  • Energy performance contracts

Terms and Conditions

With a master lease agreement, a lessee, under the same terms and conditions as the original acquisition, acquires any additional equipment. If new terms or conditions need to be negotiated, a new master lease agreement should be executed.

If you need lease-purchase financing or require more information on lease financing and master leases, Grant Capital Management is available to help you make the right equipment leasing choices.

Take advantage of our track record and experience.

Grant Capital Management is a leading provider of tax-exempt lease-financing to the public sector.  We finance almost any type of essential-use capital equipment, real property or Energy Performance Contract.  Since 2000, we have funded over $3.7 billion in lease financings. Grant Capital designs master leases, taxable and tax-exempt lease-purchase agreements and operating leases from $500,000 to $60 million and beyond with terms in excess of 20 years to meet our clients’ specific requirements.

If you need lease-financing services to finance a project, contact Grant Capital Management at 410. 715.9135 or click here today!

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