Well yes, ideally it would be that easy. Truth is, a lot of times there's two people on the lease because the credit of one of the lessee's is less than perfect. The lessor then agrees to lease it to the pair under the condition that if one person cannot meet the required payments, that the other person will pay, similar to a co-sign.

So if your friend has a good credit score, he may be able to push the lease on to himself, but if he's the latter, then he may be out of luck. Either way they should talk with the company and see what they can work out, no harm in that.

And keep in mind they CAN sell the car, it's just a much different type of sale and quite frankly a terrible time to do so, depending on the car of course.

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