We have hundreds of rental RVs pass through every year. I am going to echo the thoughts of another poster, what are you going to do with your one horse rental when something goes wrong. With the Cruise Americas of the world, they have several options. They might send them to a repair shop where Cruise America pays the bill. They might have the renter drive to a local Cruise America rental center and pick up another unit. They might send another RV to them. Or they may just give the customer a deep discount or total refund and maybe even future concessions on another rental. How many of those options are either acceptable or available to an individual renting their RV. Will you be willing to give your credit card and open ended authorization for an immediate repair at a repair facility you have never seen or dealt with? Do you have the ability to send them another RV? Would you pay to rent them another RV locally to use while yours is being repaired? Would you be willing to compensate someone for a lost vacation and be willing to shrug off the knowledge that your RV ruined someone's dream vacation?
Cruise America works because they buy and rent nearly bullet proof RVs with very little bling to go wrong. They don't even have televisions. It also works because they have multiple RVs to handle the logistics of rental times. With a one horse rental you would need to schedule several days between each rental to anticipate the fact sometimes they don't returned on schedule or someone is wrong when they are returned. You also can't be flexible in rental dates. If someone is renting from June 1st to June 9th and someone else wants to rent from June 9th thru the end of the month, you have to turn down whichever rental request comes in last because you have no way to handle two rentals on June 9th. Plus, Cruise America gets to keep all the money, not 50 percent. I wouldn't do it.
