I've earned £30K+ renting my driveway in the UK — happy to answer questions
UK-based, so the specifics are a bit different from US driveway rentals, but the principles probably travel.
Background: I have a single driveway near a UK hospital. Listed on JustPark for several years, and it's earned me over £30,000 since I worked out my approach. Currently 4.9 stars with 1,000+ completed bookings, averaging £500-600/month for maybe 30 minutes of admin a week.
A few honest observations after running this for years:
- Most of my customers are NHS staff doing long shifts, not random visitors
- A small number of repeat customers drive a surprising amount of my monthly revenue
- Weekends are nearly dead hospital staff don't park weekends
- The platform's customer-facing price is much higher than what the host receives, and most hosts don't realise this
- I just raised my price by 22% and bookings have held up
Things I got wrong early: under-priced for at least 18 months, didn't understand my customer mix, and ignored weekend optimisation entirely.
Happy to answer questions about pricing, customer patterns, platform fees, what actually drives bookings vs what's just noise, or anything else. Not selling anything (yet) , genuinely curious what people would want to know.