Do you offer your motorhome out for hire?

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alvinlee01

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Hi all, I am thinking of offering my Mooveo out to rent to friends and family and wondered if any of you currently do this could share your experiences.
I am not sure how keen I'd be to let strangers come along and drive it away, but I guess if you make it over 35yr olds with clean license and leave a hefty deposit, would I be asking for trouble?

If any of you currently do rent your van out, how do you go about insurance etc? Do you use an agency? What happens when it comes back with a broken drawer handle or cupboard door?
 
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Due to the fairly lightweight construction of motorhomes and caravans, the use of them requires a light touch. Even when it's your own van and you are being careful, things break and wear out. Using things like the pleated blinds requires care and a bit of concentration. This makes it difficult to entrust to others. My family owned a static caravan. When the ground rent increased and became a bit much it was rented out to close contacts. On every occasion something was broken or lost. Sometimes it was just little annoying things like the knob on the gas fire going AWOL. I think renting a motorhome out would only be an option for me if you've fell out of love with the van and you have your eyes wide open to the prospect of needing to regularly repair. If breakages will upset you then don't do it because they are inevitable.
 
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An early lesson to me came lending specialist tools out, I was warned however Mr helpful did not listen, " They are professionals after all" Not returned, broken, hidden in a box broken returned etc.
Unfortunately I never lend a tool or a vehicle, it's far easier to say no, than confront damage etc.
In my experience borrowers have no intrinsic connection with the object, thus often not see the value, or find out the real cost of repairs and hide there heads in denial.
I have a stock answer now, of course you can borrow X this is the value I place on it. That is the deposit required, if returned totally undamaged you get the deposit back in full. Any damages and you are the proud new owners.
 
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Only Robert or myself ever drive ours, I enjoy driving her as it reminds me of driving horse lorry's.
There is only one person we know for certain we could trust, but he would never ask and he has a camper anyway.
The only time anyone else would ever stay in ours is as a spare bedroom on our driveway, even that would be limited to those we know would respect it and they always stay in a local B&B BECAUSE of that respect.
We lent our horse trailer out once and it came back with a totally wrecked tyre on the spare wheel, they clearly didn't think we would look under the cover, guess what, the wheel was the same size as the ones on their caravan.........
So hiring out is an absolute no, not chance in hell.
 
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We bumped into a couple hiring a motorhome on our last trip and they commented how it was good as you didn't have to be quite so careful with it.
So easy to scuff and a scruffy one is worth quite a bit less at re-sale, so not necessarily finncially viable, or advisable with your pride and joy...
 
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My wife and I , believe it or not , agree we would not lend/ hire our Motorhome ( currently without one , until later on ) only to my son's and wife's,
it's a personal choice , but, as said before quickest way to lose friends , by saying no everyone knows where they stand , friends may not like it ,but you are unlikely to lose them as friends
 
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Public rental definately not. For friends, for most of them not. Maybe 4 people/couples that I know would take care of absolutely anything that might go wrong and have the funds needed for, they could have it for some price. We've had our MH's for 4½ years and no one has asked but when our next MH arrives in the spring, the in-laws may want to give it a try.
 
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PDrill said:
Public rental definately not. For friends, for most of them not. Maybe 4 people/couples that I know would take care of absolutely anything that might go wrong and have the funds needed for, they could have it for some price. We've had our MH's for 4½ years and no one has asked but when our next MH arrives in the spring, the in-laws may want to give it a try.
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I did it with mine in 2019........ DONT DO IT.

It cost a lot to get hire insurance. I had to get a gas safe cert.

I rented it to about 8 people. 1 had a turning in too soon event and swiped a post and scratched one whole side of the van. Not structural but would have been thousands to fix properly. I could only really charge them half there security deposit really (£250) as was superficial and too much hassle to repair.

last guy was a repeat rental and I had issues with my card machine and he said he would pay cash at drop off. As I rented to him before hassle free I accepted. He brought it back when he knew I was out and posted the keys. No money and the van was in an absolute state inside. Full of straw and dust. Toilet full. Just an absolute mess. And did a runner without ever paying.

DONT DONT DO IT
 
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I would lend/hire to anyone over 80 if they turn up with both parents 😜
 
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I think the OP might have got the picture by now.
 
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