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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…
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Turo’s Passive Income Program sounds intriguing

Turo recently sent me an email about their new Passive Income Hosting program. You can sign-up and have another host manage your car(s) for you. You keep 70% of the trip earnings and your host keeps the other 30%. I was intrigued, so I signed up to learn more. Let’s dive into some of the…
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Update – The end of Lula Insurance for Turo Hosts?

Update 5/23/24 – ABI came through at the last minute to provide insurance for my fleet. It took longer than I thought it would but I’m happy the gap in coverage only lasted for a few days. The big down side is that my insurance costs have nearly doubled! If you’re a Turo host in…
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The end of Lula Insurance for Turo Hosts?

One of the questions I see most often from new or prospective Turo hosts is “Which car insurance should I use to insure my fleet?” And the inevitable answers always include Lula and ABI. I’ve had experience with both companies and can say that neither is a bad choice, but neither is perfect. Both have…
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Turo and Taxes

It’s that time of year again – tax season! It’s one of only two things guaranteed in life (the other is death, if you’re unfamilar with the saying ). If you made any money with your Turo business last year then Uncle Sam has his hand out waiting for his cut. Make sure you don’t…
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