Renting out your RV--Help

classic_rider wrote:
Wow. That was not the response I was expecting.I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I prefer to do research in person, but I don't know anyone who has rented out their RV, and I don't want to rely on the owners a rental company would hand pick to share their experiences with me. I was hoping to get honest data from real people.
So let's start over. My name is Ann Eichenmuller. I write the "Classic Ride" column for MotorHome as well as articles for boating publications. You can find out more about me at www.anneichenmuller.org. I would appreciate any help you can give. Thanks.

I believe the owners of a rental company would be glad to share their experiences with a qualified journalist. If you don't have those bona fides, then you are probably correct, they aren't going to just help out potential competition. I will return to a point I made in my first post, one off, anecdotal stories do not make for an accurate appraisal of how any industry or activity will play out. If all you want to do is write a story about nightmare experiences people have had renting out their RVs (and that would be a nice black comedy story) then ask for people to relay to you those bad experiences. But if you are trying to determine the financial viability of renting out personal RVs, you have to gather statistically viable data and you can't do that just by asking for random personal experiences.