Anyone rent out their camper?

Gdetrailer wrote:

dedmiston wrote:
This is such a weird topic to bicker over.

I kind of finding it fascinating that folks buy something expensive for personal use then start trying to think of ways to make money on that item when they are not using it..

Sort of like buying a new car to use to commute to work and back home and then try to find someone willing to pay you to use it while you are at work or when you get home for the evening just to get a couple of Dollars back on the purchase :h

Mean while they add miles to it, wear out tires, use up oil life and fuel and add extra risk of vehicle being stolen or damaged in the process of trying to retrieve a couple of bucks of "profit" :E ..

Would I rent out my stuff? NOPE, I like knowing where my stuff is and the condition of my stuff is all the time..

I have learned well over time to not loan or lend my stuff if I want it to return to me in same condition as I lent it.

For instance, my Brother and myself have the same Diesel tractor, with the same frontloader and backhoe, we spent the same money on them new..

My Brother "lent" his tractor out, now has a cracked transmission case, leaked transmission fluid that others failed to check on damaging the hydrostat.. He now has a tractor with several thousand more hrs with a broken transmission that is going to cost almost as much as a new tractor.. Basically a huge paperweight and he collected very little money on those loan outs.. Not enough to afford repairing the tractor..

Mine on the other hand only has 260hrs and runs and look like new and will last way past when I am dead..

Which one of us has gotten "ahead"?

People spends tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars on buying a condo, and then rent it out when they aren't using it. Nobody seems to think this is weird, in fact thousands of people take advantage of all these condos for rent: skiers, and beach front areas immediately spring to mind.

So maybe some of these people have found that way to "buy something expensive for personal use" and "make money on that item when they are not using it..".

Full disclosure: as I have said before, we don't even loan out our toyhauler to relatives.