<prompt> Human: Disclaimer Know that not all people will be able to do this, nor will it work out like it did with me. But if you are looking to get out of a lease or are way over your miles on your current lease and are dreading turning it in because of the mileage fees, you might be able to do what I did and actually walk away from the lease and even have some cash in hand.The situation: The wife and I leased a 2012 Toyota Prius for 3 years with 36k miles. It was due to turn in in 9 months and due to some life changes she ended up driving the car ALOT more than estimated. We were already almost 8k miles over the lease limits and were looking at, at least, a 5500 turn-in fee just for the mile overage alone if she continued to drive the car normally. It was a bad situation and we were already preparing for this huge financial hit.The solution: After browsing around on the internet for days I came across a post somewhere saying that you could sell your car to CarMax even if it was a lease. I called up CarMax, and scheduled an appointment to get the car appraised. Before I took it in, I spent 5 hours detailing the car, taking everything out of it, washing, waxing, vacuuming, cleaning the upholstery and armor-all-ing everything. I even cleaned inside the door jams.The Result: CarMax gave my car an excellent rating with no points off for anything. Previously, I had called Toyota and got our Lease payoff amount. Thats the amount I could pay to just buy the car outright from them. I also checked the Kelly BB value for a dealer trade-in in very good condition on my car. Believe it or not the lease buyout and the Kelly BB values were within 100 of each other. However, I was sure CarMax wouldnt offer me Kelly BB value for my car. To my surprise CarMax offered me 240 more for my car than the lease buyout amount! I was blown away...I just went from having to pay at least 5500 to walking away with 240 in my pocket!The point is, even though you are leasing your vehicle, you still may have positive equity in it, and can take advantage of that. Check the Kelly Blue book values for your area. If you have positive equity in the car you can use that equity to put against a new car purchase or sell it outright and pay off the lease.In my particular situation I would have taken 2000 hit for them to buy the car seeing as I was going to be paying much more than that at turn-in. Of course, another option is to just buy the car at the lease end, but we werent going to need another car so there was no reason for us to go that route.Anyway, I hope this has been somewhat informational and maybe help someone out whos looking at having to pay lease turn-in fees at the end of their lease.Edit 1: Just for clarification. CarMax only gave me the difference in the lease payoff amount and the Lease buyout, which was 240. If for example, if the difference had been in the negative 240, I would have had to give CarMax 240 for them to buy the car. I only received the difference in the offer and payoff. CarMax pays the Payoff amount straight to Toyota.Edit 2: I am in no way affiliated with CarMax or know anybody who is. This is simply my experience with this with this car. Again, not everybody is going to get this same type of deal, theres a ton of variables that have to fall in place for what happened to me. In fact, about 4 years ago I traded in a 2005 Mustang GT we owned outright to a dealer after going to the same CarMax and not getting offered near what the dealer was going to give us. My advice is do diligent research on your car, its local values, and payoff numbers and things might fall into place like they did for me with our Toyota.Edit 3 For my lease, Toyota would have charged me .25 per mile for those confused about my numbers. The car was a Toyota Prius. Picture of mileage overage charges from my lease agreement here:Edit 4 For a user who askedPrius C Trim level 2 Kelly BB value for my areaDealer Trade-in, Very good condition 12314Lease Buyout 12213CarMax Offer 12500  <response>: everyone with a leased car should always compare the buyout price to the real world trade in and private party values. Sometimes cars are in higher demand with a better value than was expected and you are leaving real money on the table by just turning in your car, even if you owe no overages. 