Has anyone ever offered a paysite lease-to-purchase? How do you do that?
 

My questions are:

How common is the idea for a complete pay site to be leased-to-purchase?
How should I go about doing it?
What kinds of things should I beware of?

I have never offered a site lease-to-purchase.
What should I give the new buyer as collateral upon receipt of an interesting down payment and signed lease agreement?
Should I actually transfer the domains to them upon receipt of the down payment and keep control of the scripts and files as collateral?

Thank you. Your ideas and input is appreciated.
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Keep control of the name for sure, no reason at all to give that up until it's paid in full IMO. That and maybe a master admin user name/ password for the scripts.. But that might be harder to do.

Good idea. I feel like I should give part collateral and more as the payments are made, but maybe that's not a great idea.

As far as the scripts etc, I would continue to host the sites and databases until they were paid in full. I have 100mbit and pretty much unlimited storage.

I would keep root access.
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Alternative:

www.BuildYourOwnTour.com

:pimp

I produce entire websites these days from exclusive content to the complete design.

It all varies really and you need to set up various options for a wide variety scenerios.
Basically it pretty much breaks down to individual negotiations there is not one solid formula.

I guess you're right in the end. Do you know if there is any standard paperwork to start something like this with, or I suppose it may have to be completely drafted from scratch my an intellectual property attorney.

Thank you :)

I will give ya hint.

Think of yourself more as a producer in the mainstream sense, not an adult sense and you will be onto somthing nice;)
Every deal you make requires a contract.