And on a long enough time you WILL get screwed by turo. The only question is how much you’ll be screwed for, and how often. Turo is not to be trusted.
Proof? Scroll through this very subreddit for 37 seconds.
Ok. You want that shiny corvette / 911 / Bronco / Miata / lambo. I get it. You think you can buy one and it’ll pay for itself, and you get a free car. Great, in theory. In reality turo guests will destroy your dream car, turo will screw you on repairs, or worse. So many things can go wrong
But, you still want that corve911co, I get it. Here’s what I’d do if I was still a turo host. Buy a couple $3000-5000 Corolla / civic / literally any car that fits Turo’s requirements.
Rent it out for $30-35 a day. Insurance is 100/mo. License plates about $100/year, repairs $1000/year.
Rent it out 20 days a month, net about 400 bucks. 2 of these shitbox cars will cover the payment on a dream car that you don’t have to share with the shittiest car renters in the world.
There’s a good chance you hook a renter who keeps it for months or years. I have had people pay me $10k on rental fees for a $3000 car. The car is usually destroyed by the end, so you sell it for $2k as is.
Crown Victorias made me so much money back in the day with this theory.
Expensive cars ruined my life.
Source: retired host with 3300+ trips
NEVER TRUST TURO WITH CARS WORTH MORE THAN ONE MONTHS SALARY.
No mountains but I’ve been doing 30-40 miles a week for 4 months now!
Please contact me immediately. Your guest caused a crash in my car in 2025 and a lawyer is calling me now.
It was the last thing that have cars a personality instead of being just another major rental company. Without being able to communicate what makes your car cool, or cheap, or interesting, hosts lost the last bit of control they could use to give a good guest experience. I had cheap crown Vics that always rented all the time because I said “yeah it’s a pos but it runs great and has a ton of personality”. I had cool fun cars like jeeps and miatas with suggestions of cool places to go.
removing descriptions makes it impossible to be upfront with guests about expectations and as such, drives a terrible customer experience
Just another nail in the coffin of turo imo.
- former host of 3500+ trips in Colorado
Whether you “deserve it” or not Turo Can and will ban you at anytime. Have 150 cars? Turo doesn’t give a shit. Have 150 car loans? Good luck making those payments without turo.
Please for the love of god do not invest a single dollar into turo cars. You absolutely will regret it with enough time.
I’m just glad I got out before getting shafted too many times.
Couldn’t walk at all in November. Literally didn’t leave my bed for a month.
Slowly started walking again in January, and as of May I decided I must start doing 10k steps a day again. I have about 40lbs to lose for the first time in my life so walking has become my new life support method.
I walk one mile 2-3 times a day during work
I walk 1-3 miles every day after work
Sometimes I walk around the house for 30-60 minutes just to get my steps in. I usually play settlers of catan on my phone to distract me
It’s amazing how much difference even 30 days of walking makes. I’m at say 40 or so of 10k a day, and my vo2 max has gone up 15%, I’ve lost maybe 5lbs, I feel happier and healthier and I feel my ankle getting steonger every day
Im 36, my dad is 72. Yesterday we rode our (not e) bikes 20 miles. As soon as i got home? I walked 10k steps
I am committed to 10k steps a day for at least one year straight but realistically i dont see myself stopping
I can’t think of one change that was good for the hosts since about 2020
Cars become worth $0 (yes even your $100k corvette won’t be worth much with 300k miles), repairs kill you, insurance kills you, registration, tires, brakes, unpaid claims. It’ll all kill you. And that’s assuming turo doesn’t blatantly fuck you and deny a claim on a $50k car
My advice: exit turo as soon as possible. I had over $300k revenue in 2024 and I would have made more profit if I worked at McDonald’s.
Turo sucks. They treat their hosts like shit. They attract the scunmiest guests.
Turo is about the worst way to make a living in the world.
The only way I may ever host again is hosting ONE fun car that I want to own as a toy anyways, but then you get the risk of the shittiest people in the world destroying your toy.
The only way to maybe possibly make a profit is a $4000 Toyota that you can fix 100% of the issues yourself. Even then it’s STILL risky