Tinted Windows on Rental?
Aug 31, 2018, 1:04 pm
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Aug 31, 2018, 9:23 pm
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I have chatted up the staff at LGA a few times and it’s a weekly occorance for them to receive a vehicle back with window tint. They have frequent weekend renters that return the vehicles with tinted window every time. I’ve never seen an aftermarket tinted vehicle on the rental lot, but have behind the building and they said they remove it before putting them back on the lot.
Sep 2, 2018, 8:50 pm
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Only out of pocket expense i had was fuel and the insurance policy i would keep on the cars.
They would tell me where to take for maintenance (jiffy lube, etc)
If I didnt like a car I would take to airport and say it had maintenance issue and they would swap me out. (Always rented from HLE to save the taxes and fees)
Sep 3, 2018, 2:24 am
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I had multi month hertz rentals for over ten years. Some cars if I really liked would keep for up to 11 months. (multi-month limit)
Only out of pocket expense i had was fuel and the insurance policy i would keep on the cars.
They would tell me where to take for maintenance (jiffy lube, etc)
If I didnt like a car I would take to airport and say it had maintenance issue and they would swap me out. (Always rented from HLE to save the taxes and fees)
Only out of pocket expense i had was fuel and the insurance policy i would keep on the cars.
They would tell me where to take for maintenance (jiffy lube, etc)
If I didnt like a car I would take to airport and say it had maintenance issue and they would swap me out. (Always rented from HLE to save the taxes and fees)
Sep 4, 2018, 7:45 am
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Pretty much anywhere if you don't drive a ton and are content driving whatever cars the agency with which you have the best corporate rates has.
I did it for a year when I lived in downtown Denver, although my strategy was more about mixing cheap weekend days, cheap weeklies, and making sure I didn't have *any* car when I didn't need one. Mostly Alamo thanks to common $10/day weekend deals, but no real allegiance to any of the downtown agencies. This predated all of the rental car points programs, although earning airline miles on rentals was a decent game at the time.
If I were in the right situation today, I'd probably go with a mix of Uber/Lyft and weekend rentals. The key would be a short weekday commute. Also interested in how the dockless bikes proliferate, as that could greatly expand the number of endpoints to which I'd be willing to use a light rail system.
Oh, and I came back to this thread for a different reason entirely:
On Thursday night, the first night of a 4 night Marriott stay, my wife and I actually discussed what it would cost to buy a queen-sized mattress and have it delivered to our hotel room.
More of an academic exercise, since this isn't something UberEATS delivers at 2AM. But much like people actually tint rental car windows, I can see where someone on a 2-week stay would be willing to add $300-400 to their total stay cost and then just leave a new mattress behind as a gift to the hotel.
I'm pretty sure we slept on the worst mattress ever. It wasn't an entirely irrational discussion.
I did it for a year when I lived in downtown Denver, although my strategy was more about mixing cheap weekend days, cheap weeklies, and making sure I didn't have *any* car when I didn't need one. Mostly Alamo thanks to common $10/day weekend deals, but no real allegiance to any of the downtown agencies. This predated all of the rental car points programs, although earning airline miles on rentals was a decent game at the time.
If I were in the right situation today, I'd probably go with a mix of Uber/Lyft and weekend rentals. The key would be a short weekday commute. Also interested in how the dockless bikes proliferate, as that could greatly expand the number of endpoints to which I'd be willing to use a light rail system.
Oh, and I came back to this thread for a different reason entirely:
On Thursday night, the first night of a 4 night Marriott stay, my wife and I actually discussed what it would cost to buy a queen-sized mattress and have it delivered to our hotel room.
More of an academic exercise, since this isn't something UberEATS delivers at 2AM. But much like people actually tint rental car windows, I can see where someone on a 2-week stay would be willing to add $300-400 to their total stay cost and then just leave a new mattress behind as a gift to the hotel.I'm pretty sure we slept on the worst mattress ever. It wasn't an entirely irrational discussion.
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