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May 24, 2021 9 min read
The lure of the great American road trip has never been stronger than in the past year. Wide open roads, thousands of acres of national parks to explore what more could you ask for from a pandemic-era vacation?
When hordes of people suddenly decided they wanted to road trip last summer, demand for the greatest road trip vehicle of all the RV skyrocketed. But not everyone wants to actually
own an RV, so platforms for renting them were suddenly the hottest business in town.
A recent owners report from peer-to-peer RV rental marketplace RVshare found that 75% of the owners on its platform reported making more money in 2020 than 2019, and 50% of those owners were able to fully cover the cost of their RV with rental income. The average owner on RVshare brings in $16,000 a year, and more people are jumping on the bandwagon every day: 20% of the owners on RVshare joined in 2020, and 14% purchased an RV in 2020 for the ex