Renting RV out as a house/room on AirBNB?

superrayzor wrote:


Would like to hear if anybody has been successful.

Read the 4 pages of replies.

See there are two posters who have rented their S&B properties successfully - - but *NO* RV rental history.

Soooooo either do it or don't.

Revive your thread after the summer and relate your success or failure...:C

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I don't mind using my trailer that's parked on the side of my house as an extra guest room for family/friends that might visit us. We have a guest room in the house too, but sometimes, we get multiple visitors...

But, I know these people and they know me, so we all have a common understanding of each other.

If renting it out works for you, that's great. I see no reason to not do it if you don't see any reason to not do it..

Enjoy!

Mitch

Renting out a house is completely different from a RV. People know how to flush a toilet in a house and they don't have to do the dump procedure. Things are a lot more fragile with a RV. You'd definitely have to have specific insurance for breakage and if a person would get hurt.

Also, renting out a house in Moab is completely different. It's a destination place, not a field.

Homer wrote:
Isn't your RV a sort of personal hide a way? Would you want some one else to be messing around with equipment that was not built to handle renters. I personally would not. I would be hard pressed to even allow visitors to live in mine while it was parked and as over night guest. It is just the way I want it and I want it to stay that way. Maybe I am overly protective.

That's the way I feel about mine. My wife asked me if my niece and her friend could sleep in the trailer (they were swinging by to visit us). I said no, I'd rather they were in the house. My trailer is very much our personal hideaway. Maybe in the future I won't be as attached, but right now I am.

Mike

Nah, not any kind of personal hide-away. It's to give us a place to stay when we travel. Nothing special about it. Guess I just don't get too attached to "stuff". Except for my motorcycles, and I have even lent those out. 'Course it was to a family member. :)

I wouldn't rent it out to travel with, there are just too many things to do that a person can mess up. But just to spend time in when it's all set up, no big deal.

Isn't your RV a sort of personal hide a way? Would you want some one else to be messing around with equipment that was not built to handle renters. I personally would not. I would be hard pressed to even allow visitors to live in mine while it was parked and as over night guest. It is just the way I want it and I want it to stay that way. Maybe I am overly protective.

2012Coleman wrote:
Boy - between this thread and the slide out thread, I'm just going to stick my head in the ground and cry for momma....

wuss


Gary Haupt

Boy - between this thread and the slide out thread, I'm just going to stick my head in the ground and cry for momma....

Yeah, some of these things "could" happen, you "could" get severely injured on your next drive to town. Do you not drive to town because of what "could" happen? Of course not, same as what "could" happen with this type of rental, it's unlikely enough not to be an issue.

Geeez...some of you people need to get a grip. Posting the 'what happened' stories is so bogus. What about the stories about RV'ing accidents? Or or or...things happen.

As far as as squatters or others...if a person uses AirBnB they have paid in advance with a credit card. Meaning they have a certain amount of credibility and rather obvious resources There is also insurance for both parties.

It's a good deal, if you understand you are renting something to another. You get an income stream that for many is the difference between making it, or not.

Oh golly...and I can hear it now...'if they can't afford to have an RV they shouldn't be having one'...if only life were that simple.



Gary Haupt