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Quineloe said:
That's nice, but you know how good an insurance is if you try to cash in a claim. Did he?

If he didn't, he knows fuck all about how good their insurance is.
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He has, twice. Which is why I felt okay using him as an adequate source to cite.
 
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Heard on a podcast today. Someone rented a car with an app (I assume this one) to someone in Austin. That person ran over one of the annoying scooters that are everywhere there now. Anyway turns out they used someone elses phone to use the app and the person that ran over the scooter was the person who rented it using the app, but wasn't the person "of record" who rented the car cause they used someone elses (didn't say if stolen) phone.
 
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Jonathan gave you $25 off your first trip - If any of you want to give Turo a try, use my code to sign up. You'll get a $25 discount on your first trip.

www.turo.com or download the Turo app for Android or Apple.

I recently began using Turo to rent out my '09 VW Jetta Wagon. I really like this service, and I'm getting a lot of rental requests. This is great, because otherwise the car was going to sit unused.
Turo offers free rental insurance for all owners, unless they have rental insurance of their own. As a result, they will take 35% of every trip. If you provide your own insurance, they will only take 10% of each trip (a finder's fee).
You can set up automatic pricing, where the rates will increase during high traffic areas, and decrease when it's slow. Or you could set your own price for everything.

I initially signed up for Turo in November. The day after I listed my vehicle, I had 3 driver requests. 2 of them were for 2-weeks each, and one was only 2-3 days. That one was cancelled because I noticed a few drops of oil when I moved the vehicle, and needed to take it to a shop for them to repair it and I didn't have time to do that before the first driver took possession.

Anyway, I have currently had 2 different drivers. The first (2-weeks) requested that I pick them up at the airport, and the second (1 day) wanted to pick the car up himself. Not a problem. I can charge an extra fee for airport requests to cover my costs returning home. My 3rd driver is at 5:30pm today. my 2nd 2-week trip. Then just this morning I picked up 2 separate 1-week trips. The Turo calendar updates itself constantly, and it automatically adds to my google calendar, which is helpful.

Rent Jonathan’s 2009 Volkswagen Jetta in Honolulu, HI | Turo
This is my listing.

Anyway, I'm really pleased with this service. It becomes an almost passive income, except dealing with drop offs and pickups, if you offer that service. What a great way to earn some extra money by doing almost nothing. If any of you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll share everything I know the answer to.

Apparently they are available in 56 different countries. Wow.
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I assume that you can't rent out a leased car, right? Perhaps financed? Or do you have to own the car outright?

I've got a 2025 Tesla Model 3 that's pretty damn sick and would probably fetch a pretty solid daily rate to rent out. Wouldn't mind doing that for one or two weekends a month to cover some of my car-related expenses (400/mo for the car, 400/mo for insurance, 100/mo for self-driving). However, it's a lease. The only real restriction they placed on it is a yearly mileage cap, but they're a bit generous with that. I'm guessing Turo has its own mileage caps (or fees) to ensure that the person isn't running up your odometer.
 
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Xarpolis

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You should absolutely be able to rent out leased or financed cars. But leased is tricky, because they're going to run up your useable mileage. And yes, Turo does have caps if you tell it to have caps. Otherwise, it'll say you can use unlimited miles. And if you do specify caps, it'll charge the renter additional money if they go beyond your cap.
Also, if you're using it for Turo, you'll have to tell your insurance company. They may either up your insurance (even though Turo requires the drivers to have insurance), or they may outright say they don't want you as a customer any longer. Depends on what Insurance you have. I'd say contact them to question it first.
 
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Rajaah said:
I assume that you can't rent out a leased car, right? Perhaps financed? Or do you have to own the car outright?

I've got a 2025 Tesla Model 3 that's pretty damn sick and would probably fetch a pretty solid daily rate to rent out. Wouldn't mind doing that for one or two weekends a month to cover some of my car-related expenses (400/mo for the car, 400/mo for insurance, 100/mo for self-driving). However, it's a lease. The only real restriction they placed on it is a yearly mileage cap, but they're a bit generous with that. I'm guessing Turo has its own mileage caps (or fees) to ensure that the person isn't running up your odometer.
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Enjoy retards running it to 0, and otherwise trashing it.
 
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Rajaah said:
I assume that you can't rent out a leased car, right? Perhaps financed? Or do you have to own the car outright?

I've got a 2025 Tesla Model 3 that's pretty damn sick and would probably fetch a pretty solid daily rate to rent out. Wouldn't mind doing that for one or two weekends a month to cover some of my car-related expenses (400/mo for the car, 400/mo for insurance, 100/mo for self-driving). However, it's a lease. The only real restriction they placed on it is a yearly mileage cap, but they're a bit generous with that. I'm guessing Turo has its own mileage caps (or fees) to ensure that the person isn't running up your odometer.
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Why do you sound completely broke with all your posts recently. Stop spending money.
 
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Xarpolis said:
You should absolutely be able to rent out leased or financed cars. But leased is tricky, because they're going to run up your useable mileage. And yes, Turo does have caps if you tell it to have caps. Otherwise, it'll say you can use unlimited miles. And if you do specify caps, it'll charge the renter additional money if they go beyond your cap.
Also, if you're using it for Turo, you'll have to tell your insurance company. They may either up your insurance (even though Turo requires the drivers to have insurance), or they may outright say they don't want you as a customer any longer. Depends on what Insurance you have. I'd say contact them to question it first.
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It's against almost every lease terms to use the car for commercial activities
 
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In my part of eurocuckistan it's even worse, let someone else drive, and you might end up getting your car confiscated by the po-leeease. I'd never-ever do shared leasing or anything like it in my life, haha. A telsa shop recently got model y performance confiscated bc a test driver did what he signed he wouldn't, drive too fast, kek. What's it like in your end of the free world?

"The police can confiscate your car for reckless driving, drunk driving with a blood alcohol level above 2.0, or for repeated serious traffic violations (e.g. driving without a license 3 times in 3 years). The rules came into effect on March 31, 2021 and also apply even if you are not the owner of the car. "
 
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In my part of eurocuckistan it's even worse, let someone else drive, and you might end up getting your car confiscated by the po-leeease. I'd never-ever do shared leasing or anything like it in my life, haha. A telsa shop recently got model y performance confiscated bc a test driver did what he signed he wouldn't, drive too fast, kek. What's it like in your end of the free world?

"The police can confiscate your car for reckless driving, drunk driving with a blood alcohol level above 2.0, or for repeated serious traffic violations (e.g. driving without a license 3 times in 3 years). The rules came into effect on March 31, 2021 and also apply even if you are not the owner of the car. "
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I’m actually not all against this. There are definitely plenty of idiots in the US that I think should just have their cars confiscated. I don’t know why you get a car at all if you drive without a license once tbh, 3x in 3 years is too lenient
 
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I’m actually not all against this. There are definitely plenty of idiots in the US that I think should just have their cars confiscated. I don’t know why you get a car at all if you drive without a license once tbh, 3x in 3 years is too lenient
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Mmm. It's mostly the reckless driving we see here, like a 100% speed violation, say 100km/h in a 50km/h zone, or above 200 km/h anywhere. The without license is for those who get their license suspended, after having a car, and not getting it recertified or driving in the suspended period. Lots of clauses.
 
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Izo said:
Mmm. It's mostly the reckless driving we see here, like a 100% speed violation, say 100km/h in a 50km/h zone, or above 200 km/h anywhere. The without license is for those who get their license suspended, after having a car, and not getting it recertified or driving in the suspended period. Lots of clauses.
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None of this applies to all the foreign nogs you guys import though, right?
 
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Ofcoure not, they're allowed to plow into women and children as they please, no charge.
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Merica nogs do this and ppl stand around WAITING to get plowed
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sometimes it ends like this
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Rajaah said:
I assume that you can't rent out a leased car, right? Perhaps financed? Or do you have to own the car outright?

I've got a 2025 Tesla Model 3 that's pretty damn sick and would probably fetch a pretty solid daily rate to rent out. Wouldn't mind doing that for one or two weekends a month to cover some of my car-related expenses (400/mo for the car, 400/mo for insurance, 100/mo for self-driving). However, it's a lease. The only real restriction they placed on it is a yearly mileage cap, but they're a bit generous with that. I'm guessing Turo has its own mileage caps (or fees) to ensure that the person isn't running up your odometer.
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A guy I work with thought he was being pretty smart and built up a little rental fleet of vehicles for Turo. He ended up losing his ass on the whole thing - one car got totaled and the rest absolutely trashed. They'd always come back reeking of weed and dirty, somehow treated worse than a Hertz rental. He'd spend ungodly hours of free time detailing the them and driving the vehicles around to the next renter. Whatever the extra cleaning fee was that he'd get out of it didn't seem like enough.

I guess it's great if you want to make an already depreciating asset do it faster. As a financial decision, I'd probably rank it up there with renting furniture.
 
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Kobayashi said:
A guy I work with thought he was being pretty smart and built up a little rental fleet of vehicles for Turo. He ended up losing his ass on the whole thing - one car got totaled and the rest absolutely trashed. They'd always come back reeking of weed and dirty, somehow treated worse than a Hertz rental. He'd spend ungodly hours of free time detailing the them and driving the vehicles around to the next renter. Whatever the extra cleaning fee was that he'd get out of it didn't seem like enough.

I guess it's great if you want to make an already depreciating asset do it faster. As a financial decision, I'd probably rank it up there with renting furniture.
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The other main forum I hang out on is a yachting one, and Turo for yachts has been a thing for ages, where people buy yachts with the idea of chartering them out, and companies help facilitate the process.

Every single time it ends up with the yacht being completely trashed and the person losing tons of money. Literally everyone is like NOOOOOOOO every time it comes up and bozos keep falling for it, especially since the type of person that charters a boat is usually planning to have a 30 person drunken orgy on a boat that was built for 4.
 
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I had two Jeep Wranglers, then later 1 wrangler and 1 gladiator from 2019 until about April of 2023 on Turo. My cut from Turo in that span was about 95,000$. No real horror stores outside of people returning my Jeep full of sand. One time one of the wranglers reeked of weed and I filed the complaint. Turo charged the renter and paid me the cleaning fee. All in all my experience was good. Eventually the app got flooded with Jeeps and it was no longer worth the daily rate. I had two GPS devices in each vehicle but never had any theft issues.
 
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The other main forum I hang out on is a yachting one, and Turo for yachts has been a thing for ages, where people buy yachts with the idea of chartering them out, and companies help facilitate the process.

Every single time it ends up with the yacht being completely trashed and the person losing tons of money. Literally everyone is like NOOOOOOOO every time it comes up and bozos keep falling for it, especially since the type of person that charters a boat is usually planning to have a 30 person drunken orgy on a boat that was built for 4.
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Can you run my new business idea of chartering yachts into international waters to have anti-semitic discussions with brandy and comfy armchairs by your yacht communities? I need to do some market research.
 
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Can you run my new business idea of chartering yachts into international waters to have anti-semitic discussions with brandy and comfy armchairs by your yacht communities? I need to do some market research.
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I think you should check in with Greta for the answer on that one.
 
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