CONCLUSIONS
The decision to purchase or lease real property is a complex analysis of a myriad of factors not necessarily limited to purely financial factors. Each path has benefits and liabilities depending upon the particular business owner’s goals and plans. A detailed identification of the business owner’s goals and capabilities is therefore the first step in the process and is critical to ultimately reaching the right conclusion for the particular business. As will be quickly apparent, financial modeling and analysis is more of an art than a science, and will require reliance on local knowledge that can best be provided by a team of Washington professionals. Choose Washington, and other Washington State trade and business development related resources, also stand ready to provide the foreign business owner with valuable information respecting investment in the State of Washington.