How to Avoid Failure & Burn Out as a Turo Host 

Aubrey - Thank you for the continuing stream of helpful hints. My wife and I started Turo as a Host in November of 2022 and we now have 10 cars and are looking for our 11th in the next few weeks. I have found that it is an almost fully passive side hustle. One car has been rented for 5 months via 2 separate 3 month rentals, one was an extension. Another car has been rented via weekly renewals now for 3 months and the guest will continue, he says, for another 2 months at least. Another Guest rents for 2 weeks at a time and has now renewed 3 times for a total of 2 months and says he will be renewing again this week. The rest of the cars probably average about 2 days of downtime per month between rentals and the average rental is about 2 weeks. We buy cars that cost between $5K and $7k, but they almost all cost $7K by the time minor (or major) repairs are required... each car seems to need about $1000 in terms of tires, brakes, alignments, seat repairs, headliner repairs, etc. I watched a bunch of your videos, along with other Host videos, and it has been a great hustle. In fact, the return on investment is about 100% per year... by far the best investment I have come across due to the quick liquidity of selling vehicles if it is needed. Also, being careful to buy cars at the right price means that in most cases they are worth more after I fix them up that they are when I buy them. I have had two major claims, both of which were approved, and both of which made me money above and beyond what the cost of repair was. I have had a claim denied but it was my fault for delaying to make the claim soon enough. I missed the 24 hour deadline by about 2 hours. We now have enough cash flow from the rentals to add another car about every 5-6 weeks, but as we add cars that number should come down to and additional car every 3-4 weeks. We expect to have about 20-24 cars by next June. Thank you again for all of your videos. Cheers.

As far as vacations go you can go to Vehicles > Host settings > Pickup and return hours. There's a section for upcoming dates that you're unavailable. Someone can still book through that time, but they can't start or end their trip during that time.

Everything I needed. Thank you!

Stay away from Turo. Gave me a ban. Guest said I had low tread on my tires. I literally had a tire shop say I had the min 4/32. They didn't care. Since I argued they unlisted all my cars and cancelled all my reservations. I had 5 cars. Not fun

What type box your used for the keys

For some market that has a lot of airport traffic. Not offering delivery or even free airport delivery = no traffic from Turo

@abrey. I had a renter that broke my transmission and Turo denied my claimed because I quote “it was wear and tear” I had spend over 2k to fix it and to be honest my car was in great condition. 110k miles Infiniti Q50S. It’s sad that my car had over 4-5 months booked out and I lost all that money. I was discouraged but I will try again with lower end cars like Hyundais etc. love the videos and the information keep them coming. Hopefully I can grow my fleet to haft of your. Lol😂

Can you discuss the price difference in fixing/maintaining your Turo fleet cars yourself vs having to pay a mechanic

I have a question. I’m thinking of starting a Turo business in NY. I’m absolutely going to handle it through remote key exchange. Do you have your cars title/reg under an LLC? When you say lock box, what exactly do you mean?

What about avoid failure as a sandwich shop owner? 😆

What do you mean with taking 100+ photos - I thought you were not doing key handovers so when do you take these pictures?

Aubrey you said in the past that you had a good and bad experience listing your Maserati on Turo. If you were going to add another luxury vehicle to your fleet, what would it be?

Not sure how you can still buy cars in the price range you reference. Also kind of disturbed to see that green car with body damage. Does that fly?

Turo been long gone here & seen some vehicles at Manheim Auctions but Carfax's on them not so good.

What is the cut off year for cars? How old can the car be for me to put it on Turo? If anyone know the answer please let me know so I can look some cars up.