Category · 6 ideas
Renting out what you own
Idle things with a price tag: rooms, cars, gear, space.
- 01Rent a spare room to a travelling nurse or visiting academic
<$100weekspassiveside incomelocal only
Mid-term stays of one to six months pay more than a lodger and cause less churn than short lets. Hospitals and universities supply the tenants.
- 02Rent out a utility trailer by the hour or day
$1k-10kweekspassiveside incomelocal only
Everyone needs a trailer three times a year and nobody wants to own one. A used trailer and a listing pays for itself in a season.
- 03Rent out camera, camping or event gear peer-to-peer
$100-1kweekspassivepocket moneylocal only
A good lens or a four-person tent sits unused fifty weeks a year. Peer-to-peer rental apps let it earn during the other two.
- 04Rent your car out when you're not using it
$0weekspassivepocket moneycountry-specific
Car-sharing platforms let strangers rent your car by the day. The money is real; so is the wear, the cleaning and the one renter who returns it wrong.
- 05Rent your driveway or garage as a parking space
$0dayspassivepocket moneylocal only
If you live near a stadium, a station, a hospital or a city centre, an empty driveway is a monthly payment you're not collecting.
- 06Rent your fenced yard to dog owners by the hour
$0dayspassivepocket moneylocal only
Owners of reactive or untrained dogs pay for a private, fenced space to let them run. If you have the fence, an app supplies the dogs.