Please don't lease with Orbit Leasing! These people literally have no soul and are just wrong. My husband was 22, in a tight spot, and leased a 9 year old car (at the time) valued at $11,900, paid over $500/month and over $23,000 before losing his job 3 payments short of paying off the lease (paid 45/48 payments). He called Orbit and advised them to come pick the car up, and gave them our new address. Their representative was very misleading, saying "That sucks! We'll just come pick the car up in about 2 weeks" and nothing else. They got the car no issues and without saying anything, we figured it was just a shot to his credit since they already made their money back twice.
We didn't hear anything for 6 months when we were served with a lawsuit. Orbit had not tried to contact us by phone, email, mail, or anything up until that point. In what was served, they attached documents that my husband had supposedly "ignored" of them asking for money that clearly had our prior address on them. I find it so weird because they never had issues picking up the car from the correct address! They blatantly lied in the documents, didn't attach documents that were supposed to be attached, they just went about it in the least ethical way. My husband had to literally be shown documents in the court building because we were given so little. They were asking for not only the $1,000 he had left to pay off, but a whole list of charges of anything they could think of that came out to over $6,000! Not joking, over $6,000 for being $1,400 short! They also stated they "made repairs to it" (requested us pay as well) then auctioned it for $800, which makes no sense to repair a car you're going to auction. On top of that, they requested we pay their $2,000-3,000 lawyer and all court costs. So in total, they wanted $29,000 for a 12 year old car now valued at $3,000.
Before seeing the judge, Orbit's lawyer was clearly over-confident and tried to bully my husband into setting up a payment plan, stating "Orbit's not taking any less than $6,000, and that's what they'll get".. "You're going to have to pay it anyway".. and said he wanted 60% of his wages! My husband denied & requested they can talk to the judge. In court, the judge said he read my lease and looked up Orbit's reviews and stated that it was a HORRIBLE lease and that nobody should ever use this company with all they do to their customers. He felt very badly and very clearly showed his disgust for the company by openly stating that my husband was being screwed by them, that they had put everything in order legally to do so, and that morally he shouldn't have to pay anything else since he severely overpaid already. The judge said he understood how wrong it was, but that legally he had to rule in their favor. He dropped the amount that had to be paid from the $6,000 they were asking to $3,000 (the balance of the lease & late fees), and said that Orbit could pay their own lawyer and court costs.
These people are absolutely horrible, unprofessional, and heartless. When even a judge is appalled at a case and feels wrong ruling with you, that's pretty sad. We have not only 2 children of our own, but guardianship of my sister's 2 special needs children, and they couldn't care less that they dropped a lawsuit on us right before Christmas. Please, do not lease through Orbit Leasing, it will be the biggest mistake of your life dealing with these people. This is the most greedy, money hungry company I've ever heard of and I will make a point to never have ANYONE I know sign a lease with them. Your staff, management, and owners should be absolutely ashamed to make money off the misfortunes of others. All I have to say is that karma is a very real thing. read more