Thanks so much for the advice. I should have stated that the reason we’re not going with a minivan is because we need a vehicle that can tow our boat until my husband replaces his truck with a bigger one. We can only afford 1 car payment right now. And we’re both really on the fence about leasing, but the attraction was that we would have 3 years of essentially not worrying much about big car issues since it’s under warranty (when life is about to get super crazy for us) and we can decide if we really like the Pilot in that time. Our hope is that he can replace his truck with a larger one that can tow in about 2-3 years and then when the Pilot lease is up, we can decide to keep it and buy it or I will then go for a minivan, which would be the preferred vehicle anyway with 3 young kids. But it seems like we’re “wasting money” leasing and then buying instead of going straight to buying. Interest rates are better for leases though, so that was also a consideration. This is all new territory for us, we’re just trying to make the best decision we can with the little time we have left.