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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 11:09 AM Jun 2012

Rent your car for cash

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Neil St. Clair owns a BMW 5-series and if you want, he'll let you drive it for $15 an hour or $75 a day.

St. Clair -- like thousands of people -- doesn't actually need his car all the time, so he's decided to take advantage of a new peer-to-peer car sharing service that allows him to rent his car out to strangers and defray his ownership costs.

"With monthly payments and insurance, I was in the black last month," he said. "Basically, I have the car for free."

He made about $700 in May, he said, his first month using the site.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/08/autos/peer-to-peer-car-sharing/index.htm
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Rent your car for cash (Original Post) phantom power Jun 2012 OP
Honestly, given the cost of insurance & the increases with even a minor fender bender... hlthe2b Jun 2012 #1
So some asshole can beat the shit out of it Kolesar Jun 2012 #2

hlthe2b

(102,351 posts)
1. Honestly, given the cost of insurance & the increases with even a minor fender bender...
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 11:13 AM
Jun 2012

I just can not imagine the risk would be worth it... Environmentally good idea, sure, but.....

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