renting out rv

JaxDad, the reason why ALL of those rental companies stay in business is because they charge out the 'wazoo' renting them out! Have you checked rental rates?

Back in 2005 and 2006, we were paying about $350 a day for renting a class A diesel. I bought a $1M insurance policy as you know how people are now with all of the lawyer advertisements on TV. We had about 100 miles a day allowance and then it was $1 a mile for overage.

If someone wants to rent their RV out, more power to them! I wish them the best of luck.

It's when there is a problem will the renter know what to do? Do they check tires pressures? If an inner dual is low, they would never know unless the RV has a TPMS.

I'm wondering if the example you used about the guy renting to young families protected himself legally. There are so many things that a person has to think about and I feel that's what most here want to point out.

It's like renting your house. It just takes one bad renter to eat up any profit from all the damage they can do.

Safe travels,
MM.

JaxDad wrote:
It’s incredible that out of 325 million there’s not a single responsible person to rent an RV.

I wonder how all those rental companies stay in business?

Even stranger is all the people who happily buy former rental units and have great success with them for years afterwards.......

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JaxDad wrote:
It’s incredible that out of 325 million there’s not a single responsible person to rent an RV.

I wonder how all those rental companies stay in business?

Even stranger is all the people who happily buy former rental units and have great success with them for years afterwards.......


It must st be different up here in Canuckistan, there’s a sweet old guy I know from my church, he has an older class A that he only uses for winters south. A few years back he got the idea to let some of the younger families rent it during the summer when he didn’t use it. Besides, since he only puts about 5,000 miles a year on it he was never going to wear it out. It’s booked full-time now he says. He’s happy it’s being enjoyed and not just sitting and deteriorating now either.

To show their appreciation the families that rent it pooled their money and bought him 6 new tires last fall.

and everybody lived happily ever after
bumpy

It’s incredible that out of 325 million there’s not a single responsible person to rent an RV.

I wonder how all those rental companies stay in business?

Even stranger is all the people who happily buy former rental units and have great success with them for years afterwards.......


It must st be different up here in Canuckistan, there’s a sweet old guy I know from my church, he has an older class A that he only uses for winters south. A few years back he got the idea to let some of the younger families rent it during the summer when he didn’t use it. Besides, since he only puts about 5,000 miles a year on it he was never going to wear it out. It’s booked full-time now he says. He’s happy it’s being enjoyed and not just sitting and deteriorating now either.

To show their appreciation the families that rent it pooled their money and bought him 6 new tires last fall.

No. I assume anyone renting is going to treat it badly. Ride it hard and put it up wet.

Further, if I need the money from renting to offset the cost of owning the RV, then it will be time to get out of RVing altogether.

NO.
X2 For all the reasons previously posted.

I have a twelve year old class A that has been lovingly used and maintained from new. I can, and will, repair anything on it that doesn't require the services of a heavy truck shop. That said, there is no such thing as a returning from a trip without at least a thing or two to repair, replace or do scheduled maintenance on. Keeping in mind that all of this wear, and repair, is a result of use (NOT abuse) by a careful owner, who is a decent mechanic, and respects, understands and does not abuse the rig. I just can't wrap my head around renting a 21-22 year old rig, to clueless strangers, and the whole experience NOT turning to a total mess for everyone involved.I have watched too many totally clueless renters beating the life out of rental rigs, to ever even consider renting anything I own, to anybody.

soozcna wrote:
My husband and I are taking a year off from traveling in our rv. we were thinking about renting it out but unsure if this is a good idea.It is a 1998 Coachmen Santara, we are unable to rent through a company such as RVshare because of its age. Is this something we can do on our own? Any advise?

An extremely foolish way to destroy your rig.

Perhaps you would get more enjoyment by driving it in a smash em up derby if you can't use it for camping. That IS basically what a renter is going to do to it so you may as well beat it up and send it to the bone yard yourself.

It won't hurt it letting it set a year and you pretty much will end up spending a lot of money attempting to repair what the renters destroy.

In other words, you WILL LOSE MONEY by renting it.

A renter will not take as good of care as you, they have NOTHING TO LOSE, but YOU DO.

I would never rent our rv for the reasons other folks mentioned. I did see a peer to peer rv sharing company got a $50 meg round of funding earlier this year so there must be more folks willing to rent than indicated by rv.net readers.

Rvs cost a large amount so the appeal to be able to rent is clear.

As many here have said, I too think it's not a good idea to rent it out and the motorhome is 20 yrs. old. I would imagine that it needs something (repairs/maintenance) fairly regularly. No one will ever take care of a unit better than you would. I've seen rental cars that were brand new that were abused.

We rented RV's three times before we decided to buy. The company that we rented from in Southern California traded-in their rental fleet every year for a whole new batch (30+ RV's).

The owner told me that it was better to get new ones every year rather than trying to fix 'age' related items. I'm sure he had a good agreement with Fleetwood as that's what he rented (class C's and class A's gas and diesel).

I would sell it or store it until you are ready to get back on the road.

Safe travels,
MM.