RV Renting School: Your RV can pay for itself

.This week we learn all about RV Renting School, which is a way to earn money with your RV - so much money, in fact that your RV can actually pay for itself. We’ll talk about the ins and outs of renting your RV, choosing insurance, wear and tear and why this option is a great choice for many. Show Notes for Episode #261 Sept. 25, 2019 of The RV Podcast: WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK This episode of the podcast was recorded on location at RV Dealer Open House in Elkhart Indiana. We shared the background of the event, the things we’ve seen and how, once it ends on Thursday, RV dealer Open House will have seen almost $2 billion worth of business written for the 2020 season. Our Opening segment is sponsored by Dish Outdoors, which lets you take HD satellite TV in your RV. To get more information and a special discount, go to our special link – https://rvlifestyle.com/dish RV LIFESTYLE NEWS OF THE WEEK JENNIFER If you're planning to camp this fall during peak color, be sure to check out this website Fall has officially arrived, and so has fall color in parts of the country. Several websites exist to help you track fall color nationally, so you can plan your fall camping during the times when color is at its peak. Several places in the country are already starting to see substantial color such as Michigan's upper peninsula, northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and certain pockets of Idaho, Colorado, and other high altitude locations out west. Click the link in the headline above. MIKE Check out this list of "can't miss" hikes at each of the 61 U.S. national parks For those of you who love to hike in the national parks, an article out last week highlighted one author's "can't miss" hikes in all 61 of the U.S. national parks. Some of the hikes are a simple 1.5 mile loop, like the one suggested for Badlands National Park, or two miles recommended at Canyonlands, but others are much more intense. For example, the article recommends a 23-mile one way hike at Bryce Canyon in Utah, or a 11.5 mile loop at Yosemite. Jennifer and I have favorite hikes at some of national parks that did not make this list. Here is our favorite hike at Yellowstone. JENNIFER South Dakota considering raising its state campground costs to bring in new revenue to repair state parks damaged by flooding South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission is considering raising the fees it charges for camping and entering its parks as it faces $8 million in flood damage costs. Floods have ravaged the state this year, and its parks system has needed to down trees, fix shorted electrical pedestals and washed out roads and campsites. Under the proposed changes, the daily park entrance fee would rise from $6 to $8, and camping fees would increase to $20 per night for modern campgrounds, $15 for tent only sites. The fees are among several increased costs under consideration that state officials estimate would bring in about $3 million in additional revenue annually. A decision on the proposal is expected by early October. MKE Visit a national park for free this Saturday, and maybe join a volunteer project If you find yourself near a national park this Saturday, Sept. 28, be sure to drop in because the price of admission is free. Every fourth Saturday in September the national parks waive admission in honor of National Public Lands Day. Many of the national parks will also have volunteer projects going on that day, though the price of admission is waived whether you are entering to volunteer or just enjoy the land. JENNIFER Tour bus filled with Chinese tourists crashes outside Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park, causing 4 fatalities A bus full of tourists from China crashed outside Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah last weekend, killing four and critically injuring five others. The bus crash happened about 3.5 miles outside the park, and apparently the bus driver may have over corrected, after drifting a bit, causing the bus to roll. Early reports told of other drivers stopping, offering help, as first responders and volunteers arrived from all over the 4,500 resident community. This part of the podcast is brought to you by RadPower Bikes,an electric bike manufacturer offering direct to consumer pricing on powerful premium electric bikes. Now with free shipping LISTENER QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK I was curious if you had CB radio installed it and what kind you got the location that it was mounted and also the antenna mounts if you could cover some of that. Yes Mike, this is Jack Condrey. I live in Charleston, South Carolina. I'm answering your question about what you like about your RV. I have a 2018 team Pleasure-Way Lexor. It's about 21 feet long. I think it's 20 ft 11 inches. I like the size of the RV. It's very Park Abuja. I like the gas generator. It's not propane. So I never have to worry about refilling the propane to run the generator. I like the solar panels at 5 p.m. Batteries. I've never had trouble with running out of battery. I like the comfortable couch. It makes a very comfortable bed. I'm six foot to the couch is six foot three inches long so I can fit in it without having to bend my legs. It has a large refrigerator fiv- foot cubic inches are 5 whatever i v e Or not five feet five cubic feet I believe is the size and then the pleasure right quality is is very good. The thing I don't like about it is the driver's seat, I'm not able to scoot it back far enough for my comfort and the it's to erect it's to the the back part of the seat on the driver's seat doesn't allow me to recline and that's because the cabinets are pushed forward. They fix that now in the 2019 version where they've scooted all the the bathroom and wash everything back but mine is not that way so it's not comfortable in the driver's seat. But I do also frustrated with the refrigerator. It's a three-way. It doesn't always keep it as cool as I like. We're in a very hot climate, but the overall I'm very satisfied with the pleasure way Lex or basically because it's driveable I use it as a second vehicle wage. To work. I take a nap in it at lunch. So anyway, hope this helps you and thank you for your podcast and your I love watching you on YouTube. So I hope this helps. Thank you, bye-bye. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer, or a comment on the things we’re discussing. If so, we invite you to leave us that question or comment on the special voicemail number we have for the podcast – it’s 586-372-6990. If you are driving and can’t write it down right now, just go to the RV Lifestyle travel blog at rvlifestyle.com and scroll down the page. You’ll see that number prominently posted on the blog. This part of the RV Podcast is brought to you by Battle Born Batteries, maker of quality, safe and reliable lithium batteries that can be installed in just about every RV. Get in touch with Battle Born to find out what lithium batteries and an upgraded energy management system can add to your RV Lifestyle. Check them out at https://rvlifestyle.com/lithium RV INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK This week we learn all about RV Renting School, which is a way to earn money with your RV… so much money, in fact that your RV can actually pay for itself. We’ll talk about the ins and outs of renting your RV, choosing insurance, wear and tear and why this option is a great choice for many, Our guest is Josh Whitford, part of our RV Lifestyle marketing team, and he has a lot to say, including a case study on what happened this summer when he and his wife bought a brand new Winnebago Travato RV and started renting it out. We welcome Josh to the program as he shares his experience and the exciting way RV Renting School can help others to earn some extra money and help pay for the RV lifestyle they want to enjoy Mike Wendland: So, let's learn all about RV Renting School. Joining us now from our RV Lifestyle Community is Josh Whitford, and Josh, this is a pretty exciting thing to talk about for people who are in the RV Lifestyle Community. Josh Whitford: Yeah. Excited to be here, excited to talk about renting RVs. Mike Wendland: Now, there's lots of places where people can rent them and rent through them, but this is the first, as I can find out anywhere, the first renting school aimed solely at RVers who have an RV or maybe they're going to buy one RV and they want to have some help. Who is this for? Let's talk about that. I identified a couple of audiences there, but who is this a renting school, RV Renting School, for? Josh Whitford: I think there's really two types of people that could benefit from the RV Renting School. One is people who already have an RV and maybe they're not full-timers or they don't get to travel as much as they would like or get to use their unit, and it kind of sits there idly for a few weeks or few months out of the year. This is a great way for people in that scenario to earn some additional revenue and cover some payments, if not a lot of the payments that they might have on the unit if they do have payments, and if they don't, maybe just generate a little extra revenue in general. Josh Whitford: Then I would say where this could be of great value is somebody who's looking to get into an RV. Maybe the timing isn't right because they haven't retired yet and they're planning on picking one up closer to retirement, or maybe finances are little bit more of a concern than they would like or feel comfortable with. In that scenario, this is really helpful and opening up some additional options or people looking to get into an RV and go, "How could I cover some of the payments so I'm not completely eating the full cost of this, or how could I get into a unit that's maybe a little bit better than I want to stretch for at this moment?" Josh and Lindsay in front of their rental Travato Josh Whitford: Through renting in general, you'd be able to pick up some additional revenue, and the course is really designed to help you optimize that.