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Category 9

Leasing income

You own a physical asset and lease it to an operator who puts it to work.

Mechanism: Rent and lease payments You own an asset and are paid for someone else's use of it.

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Lease income is only as good as the lessee's credit and what the asset is worth when the lease ends. Nothing here is passive unless somebody else handles maintenance, insurance, re-leasing and remarketing.

Everything in this category is paid the same way, so what separates one page from the next is the wrapper rather than where the money comes from: how much it takes to start, how quickly you could turn it back into cash, who does the work, how it is taxed, and how it fails. The line on each card says whether the income keeps arriving once it is set up or whether somebody has to keep working for it. If the mechanism itself is new to you, the course spends a whole lesson on it and is a shorter way in than any single page here.

Vehicle Leasing

You buy cars, vans or trucks and lease them to businesses or drivers; the rent recovers the vehicle's cost plus a finance charge, and the value at lease end is your profit or loss.

Semi-passive · Locked for the lease term; a returned vehicle converts at wholesale auction within days, but a live lease can only be exited by selling the contract and residual together Read →

Aircraft Leasing

You own a commercial aircraft or engine and dry-lease it to an airline, which pays monthly rent plus maintenance reserves and must return the asset in a contractually defined condition.

Truly passive · Illiquid; direct sales take months of technical diligence and fund structures commonly lock capital for years Read →

Equipment Leasing

You buy a piece of business equipment and give a company the right to use it for a fixed term; you keep title and collect rent, and the machine's value at term end is yours to sell or re-lease.

Semi-passive · Illiquid; exit means discounting the rent stream to a funder, selling the residual position, or running the lease to term Read →

Construction-Equipment Rentals

You own excavators, lifts, generators or attachments and rent them to contractors by the day, week or month, with service, transport and damage all landing on you between jobs.

Semi-passive · Individual machines sell within weeks at dealer or online auctions, but the business as a going concern takes far longer to exit Read →

Medical-Equipment Leasing

You buy a diagnostic or treatment device and lease it to a hospital, clinic or physician practice, collecting fixed rent under an agreement that healthcare referral rules tightly constrain.

Semi-passive · Illiquid, because the device is installed and the lease has no market, so exit means selling the paper or waiting for term end Read →

Shipping-Container Leasing

You own marine cargo containers that are hired to ocean carriers and shippers at a daily per-diem rate, with a manager handling depots, repairs and repositioning.

Truly passive · Poor for directly owned boxes, where the manager is usually the only buyer; listed lessors and container funds are the liquid alternative Read →

Railcar Leasing

You own freight cars — hoppers, tank cars, gondolas, autoracks — and lease them to the shippers whose commodities move in them, for rent per car per month.

Truly passive · Illiquid: fleets trade privately and fund interests typically lock capital for years Read →

Boat and Recreational-Equipment Rentals

You own a boat, RV, jet ski or trailer and rent it by the day or week through a marketplace or a charter fleet, earning gross bookings minus commission, cleaning and repair.

Semi-passive · Sellable on the used market within weeks to months, priced by season, hours and condition Read →

Furniture Leasing

Furniture is rented rather than sold — to relocating professionals, corporate housing, staged homes and rent-to-own customers — and the income comes from packages placed, delivered and cycled.

Semi-passive · Illiquid: inventory clears at liquidation prices and the real asset is the operating company Read →

Server and Data-Center Equipment Leasing

You buy servers, storage, networking or accelerator systems and lease them to a business, or host them in a colocation facility and rent the capacity, on terms short enough to outrun obsolescence.

Semi-passive · Illiquid during the term, and the used enterprise hardware market discounts steeply with each generation Read →

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