Anyone rent out their camper?

imq707s wrote:
To me the idea seems crazy, but there is a lady that my wife works with that rents out her camper through one of those rental places. Apparently, she told my wife that with their 24ft bumper pull camper, on average they make around $2,000 a month by renting it out to people.
I’m sure there are extra insurance fees, repairs, and other things that come out of your profit.
I don’t think I could ever be ok with strangers towing my camper behind their vehicle, which may or may not be rated to tow it, by someone who may or may not have ever towed anything before, and could care less about beating it up and damaging it. It just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Does anyone have personal experience it this? Is it as bad as it sounds? There are some many little things I have to do with my camper as far as towing it, setting it up, using the heater/fridge/stove/oven…..having someone with no experience just hook up to it at take off down the road would scare the hell out of me.

Ask yourself if you are willing to "rent out" your DW? I wouldn't with my DW.

While you "might" get $2,000 a month in "rental fees", you WILL end up SPENDING much more than $2,000 in REPAIRS AND CLEANING per month.

Have you ever heard the statement "drive it like you stole it"?

No truer words describes what typically happens with rental anything.

I have on several occasions rented some tools from a tool rental shop for "one off" repairs. The tools I rented were beat to tar, missing parts and nearly non functional. The lesson learned was I may as well buy a new tool and not have to fix the rental tool or make parts for the rental tool. Wasted a lot of time and risked creating expensive damage to the parts I was repairing by using worn out, damaged rental tools.

I would recommend you watch the movie "RV" with Robin Williams to get some idea of what possibly can go wrong with renting your RV (yes, the movie is an extreme "take" on the rental aspect but I would bet a lot of what happens IS true life)..

And for the record, I will not ever rent out my RV, my vehicles, my house, my tractor, my stereos or anything else I own.. If you value your RV, don't be tempted to try to recover money from it buy renting it out, you WILL be on the losing end of the stick.