Hi all. I will be moving soon and will need a car in my new city. The snag is that one year from now I don’t know if I’ll be sticking around or moving 8,500 miles away.
The thought of buying a car and then selling it a year later does not appeal to me, so I thought about leasing, but aren’t most leases for at least two years?
Is there some other way out there that I don’t know about? And if my options are only buying or leasing, which will cause me fewer headaches?
Thanks in advance for ANY ideas.
I don’t know much about leasing, so I’m not much help there. I would consider getting a junker for a few hundred bucks and using it for a year. When your done with it, you can dump it cheap or junk it and be done with it.
Should be lots to pick from for around $300-$500 that will serve as basic transpo for a year. Think of the money you’ll save on maintainance! You don’t have to do any! 
As long as its running at the end of the year, you can get a couple hundred from some kid.
And if it was me, I wouldn’t bother to register or title it. Just get insurance and drive around with the temporary permit. I actually do this. I have about 10 cars and a bunch of motorcycles and some are rarely used. If I ever get stopped driving one that isn’t registered (and I never have) I’ll get a ticket for no registration. I have insurance, so no “criminal” offense. Register the thing and the judge dismisses the ticket. Kind of a gamble, but its worked for me for years. But I can’t really recommend that to anyone. 
Another crazy idea is renting one only when you really need to. You can score rates for about $50/weekend sometimes and depending on your needs, might work out (but I doubt it! Just a crazy thought)
Borrow one from a friend/realitive? Offer to “take care of” someones car who will be out of town/in military?
Good luck!
Buy one for around $1500 or so that seems reliable. (Old Toyotas and Hondas are a pretty safe bet)
When you sell it, you will probably get close to what you paid for it.
Buy my brother’s car. It is a sweet and heroic little car really and can be got through the MOT (roadworthiness test).
Ah no - kind of far away to go car shopping, I suppose. Oops.
Yea, get an old, preferably Japanese, beater car until you figure otu what you’re doing.
Here’s what we did for a six-month stay in Washington, DC. Found a used Honda Accord in good mechanical condition for under $5,000. Went to the bank and got a signature loan for the money. Drove the car for six months, sold it for what we paid for it, paid off the loan. Done!