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RV rentals have become a lucrative pandemic side hustle

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  By:   Sally French | gls55 holdings ltd When Tim Frye retired from his job as a project manager in 2017, he envisioned traveling the U.S. in an RV with his fiancée. But not long after spending about a quarter of a million dollars on a luxurious, 39-foot 2014 Forest River Berkshire motorhome, his fiancée left him — and he was left with a very expensive vehicle in his yard. “I could sell it, but I’d lose a ton of money because I had just bought it and wouldn’t be able to get the full value back,” Frye said. “Or I could rent it out.” Frye, who lives in Flower Mound, Texas, opted for the latter, posting his motorhome on online RV rental marketplace Outdoorsy, which is essentially Airbnb for motorhomes and campervans. Owners coordinate with renters on a meetup spot and handle the vehicle maintenance and cleaning. Outdoorsy handles the booking requests, transactions, and RV insurance. In his first two years renting his RV on the site, business already was good for Frye. But everything ch

Outdoorsy ranks as the top RV rental marketplace

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 By Outdoorsy | Family RV Rentals World's largest on-demand marketplace for RV rentals ranked No. 1 for longest average time spent on site and No. 9 in YoY web traffic growth in the Travel Experiences category Outdoorsy , the most trusted and only global online RV rental and outdoor travel marketplace, has been recognized by SimilarWeb in the  Digital 100 , an annual ranking of the fastest-growing digital brands across 10 industry categories. Outdoorsy beat out other RV rental marketplaces on the list, coming in at No. 9 in the Travel Experiences category and clocking the longest average visit duration of all the sites in the category. "The competition to be a digital leader was always fierce, but after a year like 2020, all eyes are on this race," says Or Offer, CEO and founder of SimilarWeb. "Like the best measure of the digital world, we are excited to spotlight this year's winners, and to follow their success in the months to come." Outdoorsy, making th