When you short-lease a car with Blankert Shortlease, you are required to pay a deposit upfront. We do this to limit the debtor risk for us, as the owner of the car. If we did not request a deposit, we would have to pass on this form of risk surcharge, as some leasing companies do, in the lease amount. In that case, you would be paying unnecessarily high amounts, while typically you would receive the deposit amount back upon returning your leased car.