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Adapting During Uncertainty – Equipment Financing in Today’s Economy

TCI Magazine

BY TIM BARTELT

Deciding if and when to spend money on large capital-equipment expenditures is a strategic part of any business, and the tree care industry is not immune to that struggle. Buy outright or finance? Long-term rental or RPO (rental-purchase option)? These are questions being mulled on a daily basis, and interest rates, tariffs and business/economic outlook are all factors to consider. “Uncertainty” may be the keyword for the current economic situation, according to a group of finance companies we polled at TCI EXPO ’25 in St. Louis, Missouri, in November.

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