Renting your RV
Just heard about this, know nothing about it. Someone told me there are companies that will take your RV, and you'll just get a check every month. Anyone have good experience with this?
Forum Discussion
It is true that not all renters are slobs and ruin your stuff. But, even if 100% of the renters treated it like you would want them to, regular wear and tear is exponentially accelerated. But in the real world, we know that 100% of the renters won't treat it like you want them to. Frankly it doesn't take a high percentage of "bad" renters to mess up a lot of stuff fast. RV's can be touchy things.
We ran our Rv rental business for 3 years until we finally threw up our hands. We have owned rental properties so we could vet potential clients fairly well. We rented only to families and for vacations only - no music festivals or races. We didn't have a lot of bad renters but when we did, aw man. Despite charging cleaning fees and $1k damage deposit, some of the things we had to deal with:
-A dentist ripped the awing off and smashed in a bin door.
-Another renter ran into a guardrail and ripped a bin door off and damaged the entry door requiring replacement.
-One group smashed in the sky light
-Beer cans stuck in the toilet and black tank drains. Glitter was all over the inside of the rv on that trip.
-The awing was ripped off.
-One guy thought he was doing us a favor by power washing the RV. In turn tore out some caulking and got water in the unit.
-Genny exhaust broken off.
-Switches broken.
-FW fill broken.
I could go on and on. And more often than not, the tanks weren't emptied properly.
The question you have to ask is, would you be ok if any of that happened to your personal RV?
We ran our Rv rental business for 3 years until we finally threw up our hands. We have owned rental properties so we could vet potential clients fairly well. We rented only to families and for vacations only - no music festivals or races. We didn't have a lot of bad renters but when we did, aw man. Despite charging cleaning fees and $1k damage deposit, some of the things we had to deal with:
-A dentist ripped the awing off and smashed in a bin door.
-Another renter ran into a guardrail and ripped a bin door off and damaged the entry door requiring replacement.
-One group smashed in the sky light
-Beer cans stuck in the toilet and black tank drains. Glitter was all over the inside of the rv on that trip.
-The awing was ripped off.
-One guy thought he was doing us a favor by power washing the RV. In turn tore out some caulking and got water in the unit.
-Genny exhaust broken off.
-Switches broken.
-FW fill broken.
I could go on and on. And more often than not, the tanks weren't emptied properly.
The question you have to ask is, would you be ok if any of that happened to your personal RV?
