Renting out your rig on RVshare is an excellent way to make your RV work for you. Your RV rental listing will be a great way to market your RV and entice customers to rent your rig! In fact, some RVshare owners make enough to pay off their RVs and pay for trips for themselves.
Of course, this kind of success requires that you get the word out about your rig and draw in potential renters. Fortunately, RVshare’s easy-to-use system helps you create an RV rental listing that customers will find impossible to ignore.
But simply putting together a great listing isn’t enough. You’ll need to stay on top of your listing, updating it regularly to ensure it stays relevant and eye-catching as the market evolves and seasons change.
Not sure how to go about keeping your RVshare RV rental listing fresh and up to date? Here are our top tips.
- Update New RV Amenities or Remove Outdated Ones
- Stage Photos to Make Your RV Look Inviting
- Add Some Flare to the Photos
- Update Pricing by the Season
- Include Seasonal Trip Ideas
- Use the RV Delivery and Instant Book Features
- RV Slideouts, RV A/C & More: Maintaining Your Rig
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Update New RV Amenities or Remove Outdated Ones
Your RV has features and amenities that are worth spotlighting, whether it’s a Class A diesel pusher or a compact pop-up camper. Your potential customers won’t know what they’re getting unless you tell them – so tell them everything!
When you first created your RV camper rental listing, hopefully, you included all of your rig’s amenities, even the obvious ones. Not every RV has an oven or refrigerator, so those are worth listing. The same goes for entertainment systems and onboard toilet and shower facilities.
You’ll also want to add any additional RV parts and accessories included in your rental price, such as outdoor patio furniture or adventure gear like kayaks. These types of extras can be major selling points, so make sure they’re listed. Included items can also change based on what you have available. Be sure to refresh your listing any time these items change so it is as accurate as possible.
Have you recently given your RV an update? This is the perfect time to refresh your listing. Start by taking a walkthrough of your rig and take note of how the amenities have changed. Remove any outdated features from your listing, list any upgrades, and note any amenities that you haven’t already listed.
Stage Photos to Make Your RV Look Inviting
Along with including an up-to-date, detailed description of why your RV is so awesome, it’s also important to include recent, high quality photos of your rig. Get photos of the inside and the outside of the RV and update those photos regularly to reflect any changes to the rig. Also, try to update the photos to reflect the current season.
When you take the time to ensure your RV looks homey and approachable, your photos become a glimpse into a future vacation and allow guests to picture themselves using it. If your current listing includes basic, low-quality cell phone photos, you’ll want to swap those out for well-lit, inviting pictures of your rig.
How can you stage the kinds of photos that will make renters fantasize about traveling in your RV? Well, it’s important to ensure you take photos with great lighting. Take your RV photos in full daylight, especially when you’re photographing the interior. Even RVs with many windows can look dim and drab on a cloudy day or during the evening, so take advantage of your natural light source to make your RV look its best.
You’ll also want to include all parts of your RV. This means taking high-quality photos of the kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms/beds, living area, exterior, and storage bays.
Before taking interior or exterior photos, ensure your RV is in showable shape: clean, organized, and without any visible maintenance issues. If your current photos show a dirty or cluttered rig, it’s definitely time for an update.
Add Some Flare to the Photos
Clean is important, of course, but a totally sterile RV will look just that — sterile — without some properly placed decorations and travel trailer accessories. You’ll want to make your RV camper rental look not just reliable, but welcoming. People are looking for a getaway, after all!
Turning your RV into a vacation home can be as simple as a few fun throw pillows, a cozy-looking blanket to curl up under, and maybe some well-placed extras like a guitar, a basket of muffins, or a bottle of wine with glasses on the counter.
Think about what you’d want your RV to look like in an Instagram post – lived-in, clean, comforting, and inviting.
Along with making for excellent photos, a well-decorated RV will make your renters feel more at home on the road. This could lead them to recommend your rig to others — or to become repeat customers themselves.
Sure, you could decorate your RV once, snap some quality photos, and call it good. But updating your photos once a season or including other seasonal decor and accessories might give you a leg up. Consider including holiday throw pillows for the winter months, bright colors and pool floaties in the summer (add these to your list of amenities as well), and fall colors during the autumn.
Update Pricing by the Season
Another thing you will want to refresh as the seasons change is your RV rental price. Depending on where you live, you may see much higher traffic during one season over another. For most, the higher traffic is seen in the summer months, but if you live in the desert or in parts of the south, spring or fall might be more popular camping months. Local events can also affect the demand for rental RVs in your area.
Take a look at your rental history as well as a calendar of special events near you, and then base your pricing on demand. If lots of people are looking to rent during a particular time, raising the price for your rental is reasonable. However, once the cold (or heat) arrives, you might find that rentals drop off unless you lower your RV rental prices.
Include Seasonal Trip Ideas
We also recommend adding some suggestions for nearby getaways to your rental RV listing. In some cases these could be static, as some attractions and activities are fun all year long. But if you find yourself listing a lot of outdoor options — and you should, since RVing is all about getting outside — you will likely want to update trip suggestions to reflect the season.
For instance, those who live in Colorado might want to list skiing as a great wintertime trip option, but change that to hiking when the warm season rolls around. Listing trip ideas that are appropriate for the season might just draw your audience in as they daydream about all that each season has to offer.
Use the RV Delivery and Instant Book Features
Once you’ve ensured your RVshare RV rental is putting its best foot forward online by creating an attractive rental ad, it’s time to ensure your renters have convenient, flexible ways to actually finalize the booking. Making booking as smooth and easy as possible will ensure you don’t lose potential renters who may not have the time or energy to wade through a long, drawn-out reservation process.
Luckily, RVshare offers two features in particular that can make or break a potential rental vehicle for campers: Instant Book and the option for RV delivery.
Instant Book
Instant Book lets renters instantly book an RV without having to wait for a response from the owner. It allows customers to quickly finalize their vacation plans and eliminates the back-and-forth of having to request dates and wait for them to be approved. Owners can put conditions on Instant Book reservations as well. You can institute a minimum or maximum night rental period, or require a certain number of days notice before the rental. If customers don’t meet the requirements, a regular request will be sent and the owner will have 24 hours to respond.
You’ll still retain total control over who gets to rent your RV. You can communicate with renters before their start date, and you can always cancel the reservation if you’re uncomfortable. As an added bonus, Instant Book makes your ad rank more highly in search results, giving you better visibility to potential renters. If you don’t have the Instant Book option turned on, consider doing so.
RV Delivery
The delivery option can be a critical feature for travel trailer owners, who often rent their rigs to folks who have no hauling know-how, and possibly don’t own a tow-capable vehicle. Many campers want to experience the travel trailer camping lifestyle or try out a special trailer like a Casita or an Airstream, but don’t have the equipment and education they need to move the trailer themselves.
The RV delivery feature is useful for motorhome renters as well. In some cases, renters cannot pick up due to time constraints. Other times they just aren’t comfortable driving a big rig. Offering RV delivery of your motorhome helps you stand out to these customers.
On top of the benefit of standing out from the crowd, adding the RV delivery option to your listing gives you extra peace of mind. You can rest assured that ill-equipped drivers with no experience driving a big rig won’t be driving your beloved trailer or motorhome.
RV Slideouts, RV A/C & More: Maintaining Your Rig
No matter how appealing your RV looks in photos, if it’s not in good working order, it’s not a good rental vehicle. A vehicle that gives renters problems during their carefully planned vacation is sure to receive poor reviews. And poor reviews mean fewer rentals.
This is why RV maintenance is so important.
Setting and keeping up with a regular preventative maintenance schedule is the first step toward ensuring your rig stays in good shape. You can also get ahead of any costly, extensive repairs, such as water damage.
Giving your rig a full cleaning inside and out after each rental period (or after personal travel) is also a good way to ensure it stays in ship-shape for as long as possible. You’ll also want to take advantage of the time between rentals to take care of little things that break while the RV is out, so the rig is always working properly for the next renter.
From RV roof maintenance to travel trailer maintenance issues, we’ve written a lot about how to “DIY” many parts of your RV’s common repairs, as well as how to find a reliable professional should you need one.
Once your listing is in tip-top shape, be sure to share it wherever you can! Share a link on social media, out in the wild with a bumper sticker, or via a QR code. Haven’t listed your rig yet? Get started here!
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