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We sold our BMW to Carvana – Here’s how it went
Operating our Turo business has become more difficult and expensive – Increased insurance costs, required tracking devices (and the monthly subscription fee that comes with them), and moving the pick-up location to Manhattan have made things challenging. To help streamline the operation we decided to sell off our BMW 228i now and are considering more…
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We moved our Turo business to Manhattan…and it’s become a chaotic nightmare
Next month will make 3 years operating our Turo business. There have been numerous challenges but we’ve managed to stay optimistic throughout. Now, though, it feels like things have fundamentally changed and I’m not sure about the future of this business. Since moving our primary pick-up location to Manhattan last Fall due to the lack…
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I know, it’s been a while – An update on my Turo business
I know, I know…I haven’t written anything new here in quite some time. So here’s a quick recap of my Turo business since my last post (wow…the last one was in November of 2024). I plan on expanding a few of these into full blog posts to provide additional details, but here are the highlights.…
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50 ways to fail as a Turo host
“True success is rooted in effort, perseverance and resilience.” – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen I love that quote, and that book. Effort, perseverance, and resilience are all attributes you’ll definitely need in order to run a successful Turo car sharing business. Turo is not passive income, it’s work. You will undoubtedly face…
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Does Turo make CENTS as a business?
I’ve been reading the series of books by MJ DeMarco – The Millionaire Fastlane, Unscripted, and The Great Rat Race Escape – where he outlines detailed paths people can take to gain financial freedom in a short-ish amount of time. One of the key tenets of the books is that in order to achieve financial…
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How to become a Turo All-Star host
With Turo Host Assessments for July quickly approaching (July 15, if you weren’t aware), let’s review what it takes to achieve the coveted All-Star Host status. For a lot of new Turo hosts, getting to All-Star status as quickly as possible is one of their primary goals. Turo lays out the criteria for achieving this…
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Turo cars that can make you $10k or more per year
Renting cars on Turo is a repeatable process: clean the car, take pre-trip photos, set up or deliver the car, retrieve the car, take post-trip photos. And repeat for the next guest. So why not aim to get paid as much as possible for doing these same steps over and over? That was my train…
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Top Turo Cars…from 2022
I told you guys previously that this blog crashed towards the end of 2023 and I re-started it around March of this year. I’ve been posting some older content that I thought was still relevant from the original site. These “Top Car” posts were NOT going to be included in that batch of posts, but…
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My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week on Turo
Running a business as a Turo host doesn’t always go smoothly. When renting your car to strangers it’s not hard to picture all the ways things can go south in a hurry. Well, this week a bunch of those things happened all at the same time. My Horrible Insurance cost increase Let’s begin with my…
Latest Posts
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We sold our BMW to Carvana – Here’s how it went
Operating our Turo business has become more difficult and expensive…
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We moved our Turo business to Manhattan…and it’s become a chaotic nightmare
Next month will make 3 years operating our Turo business.…
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I know, it’s been a while – An update on my Turo business
I know, I know…I haven’t written anything new here in…