Renting your RV

2012Coleman wrote:
If your interested in renting your RV, check out RVShare.com. You don't hand it over to some company. You can even opt to take it to the CG and set it up, and take it down and home afterwards. The people next to us at Stone Mountain this year rented. They left and the owner came and cleaned it while still hooked up. And all the warnings stated here are covered.

Not everyone who rents is sub-human like people here seem to think. At the end of the day, its your RV and you get to decide how to use it. Just tell your renters to shut the porch light off at night... :W

Shouldn't have the "renters" cleaned it before leaving?

Yes, there are "good renters", a friend of mine rented a farmhouse a mile away from me, they mowed the lawn, kept the place tidy and before they left the rental, they not only swept the floor but they shampooed the carpet, scrubbed the bathroom and left zero traces of trash behind. Leaving the landlord nothing to do but to hang the for rent sign out.

But, in the rental business that is often not the case..

Have you rented any tools?

I have, the few times I rented tools, I had to repair them or use them without one of the parts needed to make the tool work correctly..

I remember renting a ball joint press once for $50.. Turned out the press was missing the exact adapter I needed making a job that should have taken about an hr into a 5 hr job because the next larger adapter was too sloppy of a fit to work as easily as it should have..

Because of my experiences having to fix, modify or make due with broken or incomplete rental tools, I have found buying cheap throwaway tools from HF results in not wasting time or money.. Yep, I have bunches of used once tools from HF sitting around doing nothing, but I am not even going to loan or rent them out.

Rent away if you like.. But if you really like what you have in the condition it is in you may wish to reconsider that plan..