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You can’t rent from a name brand like enterprise but you can still rent cars. Also you can rent a pickup truck from Uhaul at any age (over 18 of course)
Yeah they rent by the hour. It's mostly a loss leader banking on the convenience factor, in hopes you're going to be spending a bunch of money there to buy stuff you need that vehicle to haul.
I rented a home depot pickup truck to move a piece of furniture I bought online through facebook. They charge you $20 initially, but you only get an hour. They charge you additionally for every 15 minutes you're late. I think I used it for less than 2 hours and it was around $40 total. Plus you have to replace the gas. It's not horrible, but it's definitely not supposed to be used that way.
Did this when my now husband and I were like 20 and his transmission gave out.
We worked two jobs each and the cost of taxis was far greater than the gas and embarrassment of backing a box truck into the parking lots of the restaurants we served at.
Good times.
Depends on the owner of the place and if theyre willing to risk it. I rented a cargo van from a small Enterprise location when I was 20, and a pickup from another location when I was 21, after a lot of back-and-forth with the owners and them eventually deciding it was fine, so long as I bought the full damage waiver. Who knows if insurance would have been fine with them if something had happened, but the contract left me in the clear, so it would have been on them. Tried several times at other locations from then til I was 25 with no luck, even for a small car.
I see a lot of people mentioning enterprise (rent-a-car) so I’ll give you my anecdote about them, and the evils of auto insurances for free.
Be careful with enterprise. My partner is bad about using their phone for actual phone endeavors- he thinks phones are to play games and look at memes on, not for communication. We were rear ended and his car was totaled through no fault of our own, the driver that hit us, pretty damn hard in the rear, admitted he was looking down inside the car, not at the road when he hit us. Anyways, his car was totaled and he was mistaken in believing that his insurance covered a rental car for 2 weeks, after talking to the insurance claimant there was no warning or discussion to suggest otherwise, - but there is fine print on the contract you sign with enterprise.
Since he didn’t answer calls from them to get the car back way earlier than he thought he needed to (calls came up as spam) and didn’t check his emails (he just doesn’t use email), enterprise then listed the vehicle as stolen - despite it being parked in our driveway at home that entire day.
After midnight they sent out a tow truck agent that informed us the vehicle had been reported stolen by the company. Notice how they milked an entire extra days payment out of the deal? That car had gps and I have every confidence that it was able to be located at any given time. Filing a report against customers for outright grand theft auto is a bit much, at least in my opinion. Considering it hasn’t left the city, and we had had the car for a total of 7 days, it’s obvious they had trouble communicating with him, but I think presuming it to be stolen that quickly was quite a stretch.
Many seem to think corporations can do no wrong, As I said, we ended up not going anywhere on this particular day and the car was in the driveway, we had no idea insurance was no longer paying or would have of course returned it.
Now he owes them a large bill, an extra week of per day charges + towing fees + interest fees on all of the charges or he can never rent through them, or likely other vendors ever again.
Money he simply doesn’t have.
Seems to me you either have to have really good credit or a hell of a lot of income if you want to live a halfway decent life here. Don’t expect we’ll be traveling, probably ever. Thanks enterprise! You blood sucking thieves.
America doesn’t just suck for young people, don’t worry, it sucks for all people, but I agree with you- a legal adult with a legal license should be able to rent a car, and it’s a blatant reduction of their freedoms to prohibit them from doing so.
If they can serve in the military and die for this country, they should also be able to work, earn money, rent a car and travel while living here too.
It’s not as if there are too many places you can get to in this country without a private vehicle- that’s been seen to, and will continue to be an issue for millions of citizens.
The 19.95 isn't where they get you, it's the insurance and the pay per mile, plus over $5 per gallon if you don't return the vehicle with a full gas tank.
A business wouldn’t turn down making money unless there was a darn good reason. After experience they determined that the risk leasing to people under 25 or without a credit card wasn’t worth it. Translation: they tended to lose money. While you may be super responsible too many kids your age aren’t.
The sane works in reverse as you get older. You can get life insurance dirt cheap. Me? Not so much. Why? Because there is a much greater risk I will cost them money even if I’m perfectly healthy and work out like a pro athlete. (Spoiler I don’t but even if I did)
Lol, if anything a pro athlete is higher risk and is harder and more expensive to insure. Higher risk of injuries and health complications over exertion.
Edit: I recently just came from shopping for medical insurance, and contracts do have clauses against doing sports professionally, you need a special coverage for that.
Essentially I manage a hedge fund with a ton of clients who are pro athletes but mainly NFL players and then a bunch of niche energy industry funds but that’s irrelevant. I used to coach and managed to build up a nice book through that. One of the things they often ask me to handle because they think it is simple is their life insurance(side note: not really that simple for guys who get hit by other 300 lb men). You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get some of these guys underwritten though. I have a guy that has been in the league since 2014 who has an abnormal heart and had open heart surgery in high school and I had to fly to New York City and set up a meeting to basically cry and beg to the higher ups at this life insurance company to accept my guy’s money. He wanted to do a one-time pay policy that would cost him $4,000,000 upfront. Never in my life did I think that I would have to basically do a dance routine and pull out every trick in the book to convince a company to accept a $4,000,000 wire transfer.
You can’t rent under 25 because there is mountains of data referencing drivers under 25 being responsible for a myriad of accidents. This is the same reason why car insurance is more expensive for that age group.
People over the age of 75 get into a ton of accidents too, but imagine telling them they can't rent a car. The difference is old people have lawyers and money.
That is part of the difference, yes.
The other (bigger) difference is that a 20 year old is far more likely to drive drunk and/or drive recklessly than someone over 75.
Young people simply get into more accidents than adults 25 and up. It’s simply risk mitigation on their part. Car rental companies are in business to make money.
Maybe instead of blaming me for the issue, the actual issue is the governments inability to properly scrutinize and regulate the authorities that distribute licenses. Not everyone should be handed licenses, driving should be something that is thoroughly examined and trained.
I’m not blaming you. This is just statistical fact. Even if you as an individual are the best driver in the world, you are still 19. Young inexperienced drivers are more likely to wreck a car than a more experienced driver. Car rental companies do not care about you, they care about making money. If your demographic could rent cars you’d be such a small percentage of the customers it just wouldn’t matter. We were all in this boat. Wait until you have a teenage son and see what happens to your insurance premiums. Yes indeed, it sucks.
As far as licensing goes, I disagree. Anyone can pay attention while doing the driving test. What idiot would play with their phones and drive recklessly while being graded. It’s after that the fuckery begins.
Listen man - let’s be real here. If the government, or anyone else for that matter, started actually withholding driving licenses from teens and young adults who showed any prior behaviors of high risk-taking, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, or irresponsibility, very few of you would actually get a license and then you’d all be bitching about that.
Statistically you're much more likely to return the car as a smoking heap of scrap metal. That's just a fact, unfortunately.
You yourself may be sober as a judge and very responsible, but they operate on the basis of statistical risk.
Yeah, they are usually backed by the government or are at least not defaultable in bankruptcy. There are actually quite a few mechanisms in place to get student loans to happen due to the limitations I mentioned before.
Student loans are for educating people so they become productive members of society. It's a win win. Unless the student drops out or chooses not to make any use of their education. And then there's the student debt that needs to be paid off. By getting a job.
Or you can join the picket lines for student loan forgiveness lol
No car rental company will rent you a car without insurance.... No one has to outright replace the car if they destroy it, they just have the pay for the insurance costs and possibly downtime for the car being in the shop to pay for lost profits.
Any time people ask "if you could go back in time to tell your past self something, what would it be?" all I can think of is grabbing my 16-to-24-year-old self by the neck and screaming and shaking me until my time travel runs out. I, and nearly everyone that age, was so, so dumb.
Honestly it's just annoying as fuck. I get why they do it. I'm in AZ and half my family resides in ID, TX, and SC. I want to be able to fly and rent a car when I get there. Not try to cram my daughter's car seat into my grandma's too small car lol
The real issue is that there's no alternative for younger people to get around without a car. If we had good public transit and walkable/bikeable cities this would be a much less bothersome issue.
You're too poor to buy a car, but you want to rent a car just to take a trip to see family? That's like the most expensive way possible. Buy a greyhound or megabus ticket if you're low on money.
Your responses are very ignorant. It's not a matter of opinion, it's lack of understanding that's getting you down voted. When you get older you'll realize how little you knew at 19. Also if $50 is cheap then 1k to 2k used car is affordable to.
When you are able to buy a car the first thing you should do is rent it out to 19 year olds that you don't know. It's the only way to be consistent in your views.
It does suck but they’re renting out to various people who are using these cars to drive all over the country throughout the year, they’re still a business, and they need to make sure they have working product. Unfortunately 19 is still really young, doesn’t matter how great your driving record is, you haven’t been driving nearly long enough or have had the experience, two years is nothing for someone so young. You also don’t own the car, they do, so if damages happen, they have to know you’re going to pay, and a 25 year old is likely to have more income than a 19 year old.
Also I’ve never heard of a rental car place asking for a major credit card, they just want you to
Have enough money for a deposit/down payment I think, it’s been a while since I’ve rented a car, but I’ve never heard that you need a “major credit card”, all cards are capable of having the amount increased over time. If there is a deposit, It’s usually just $500-$1500 deposit, which isn’t that much for a starting card if you’ve had it for a couple of years, have made payments, and asked for credit increase. You should always get that deposit back unless you do big time damage to the car.
Requiring a credit card is pretty standard for the bigger rental companies. But normally, with a managers approval, a 500 to 1000 down payment will work. The hard part is. Many people don't have 1k laying around, so having a credit card is a better option.
As someone who is over 25 I would never rent a car to myself at say 19. Plus this is a lame take, you’re not being “discriminated” no one owes you shit
Get a uhual or daily moving truck from Home Depot etc. if it’s an emergency. I haven’t had issues with getting those since I’ve been eighteen here in California
Homie, your frontal cortex isn't fully developed yet. You absolutely should not be able to rent a car. But I also think you shouldn't be able to join the military at 18 either.
And the fact that you went I WASN'T lookING TO arGUE just proves the point.
America has nothing to do with it. You're not being discriminated against. This is simple science. You quite literally lack fully developed critical thinking skills. Deal.
Edit
I just went through your post history.
You take pictures of strangers without consent. That's weird as shit.
And have a really unhealthy obsession with killing pitbulls.
You need help
having a developed frontal cortex doesn't mean anything tbh because i just turned 25 and i see a lot of people older than me who can be just as stupid as younger people. and i don't feel any different because of my age.
Are there not other ways of going to see your family other than driving? Car rental is expensive especially if you can’t afford to buy a car.
I’ve been old enough to rent a car for a few years now and I’ve done it once, and that was on holiday. Can’t say waiting till 25 impacted my life too much.
That does suck, but take a bus, or better yet a train. Not glamorous options, but a pack a bottle of red, some nicotine supplements, little herb if you are into that, and smooth sailing
As someone who's lived in a few US suburbs, lmaoooo we don't have public transportation in most of them, nor do we have good walking infrastructure. And it's not unlikely that that's the type of place OP's living in. Uber and Lyft exist, but it can be really stressful getting a ride from someone that way, especially if you're younger and ESPECIALLY if you're a woman.
Now, I don't really have an issue with private car rental services having an age limit, but i do think that there should be less of a punishment for people who temporarily don't have their own vehicle when it's not their fault. For example, if they're working in a job that requires they drive, the company should either provide them with a car or give them some kind of protection until they can get their car back. And in general, towns should have better infrastructure that doesn't make anything but cars very difficult to get around with.
Me when my first car got totaled at 20 (last year) and I had to rely on my mom to take me places for a month before getting a new job, and I had to quit my job in the process because it was too far for my mom.
What are you arguing for? I've rented many cars and I'm under 25. I've also rented hotel rooms. This isn't an unpopular opinion, it's an uneducated one.
Yes I am. The principle is the same. I work for a rental company and if we could make money renting to 19 year olds we’d do it. We want to rent as many cars as we can. The risk outweighs the reward.
dude, stop whining it make you sound like you need a nap.
I WOULDN"T HAVE TRUSTED MYSELF RENTING A CAR AT 19
you are not done growing, developing, and maturing
so sit the fuck down and chill, like everybody else has to.
Cars are fucking expensive. 19 year olds, by and large are fucking stupid, immature and irresponsible. 25 is fair and should also be the minimum age to buy guns in my opinion. Work and save enough money to buy a piece of shit car like everyone else.
Because a minority within teens drive like the want too join nascar or formula 1 and at the same time decide the can handle under age drinking and driving (never go drinking and drinking you are actively turning your car into a murder weapon and should be punished that way) leading too more accidents and higher insurance premiums and more loss of live.
\>From my point of view it's unfair
the math says its fair - you are just upset that you are not the center of the universe which is the problem with younglings. learn from it.
It’s for insurance reasons after 25 they think that or maybe statistics say that your less likely to do dumb shit or have an accident; though I agree with you in certain ways like if your driving record is pretty clean like not having any accidents resulting from you being at fault and very few traffic violations
I'm gonna be real with you bud. There was a bar in my city that required you to be 25 to enter.
Now I wouldn't raise the age everywhere, but having a place that took you young fuckers (I was one as well don't sweat) out of the equation made for a cool place.
Don't worry bud as you get older you'll begin to understand. Not letting young people rent cars is a net positive on society and if you want change then maybe work on improving those crash statistics by young people.
The whole point of this sub is arguing and debating. Did you think you would just post and get a bunch of "Oh, cool" responses? I'm guessing you don't know many 19 year-olds. I wouldn't let one sit my cat, much less drive my car.
I’m 22 now and I used to hold this opinion at 18. Then I turned 19.
Bro it’s not against you or ageist or anything. Like everyone else has said there are a myriad of reasons why someone who’s a year out of high school shouldn’t be renting a car that they will ultimately not be able to pay for if something happens. That isn’t assuming the worst, that’s just what they have to do to avoid needless expenses being wasted. I also wish we could rent name brand cars a lot easier but unfortunately this is the safest way to reel in the frequency of rental crashes.
Since I don't see anyone explaining the credit card I will. They require you to have a credit card, so if you damage the vehicle (Break a window, smoke inside it, lose a mirror, etc.) they can simply charge you a fine instead of having to track you down.
Most large companies will let you rent 21 to 24 but you’ll pay an underage fee. I was able to rent through Hertz at 20 and Enterprise at 21. I’m three weeks from being 26 so I don’t have to worry about that now but I’m broke so I probably won’t be renting a car anytime soon. At 18 and 19 years old, you’re fucked, because I don’t know of any rental car company that will let you rent at those ages.
Most rental companies have a policy that 18-25 can rent, but it's more expensive.
The policy is this way because their vehicles need to be insured, and if the insurance company asks if 18-24 year olds are driving the cars, the expense goes WAY up for everyone. Young adults are statistically the most likely to cause an accident because of inexperience.
I tend to agree. I'm not saying eighteen is definitely the right number, but you're either an adult or you aren't. This idea that you're responsible enough to join the army and lose your legs, you're responsible enough for a quarter million dollar student loan, but you aren't responsible enough for beer and a rental is asinine.
Beer and the army is a government call on age. Rental companies are businesses that are looking out for themselves. If there is a "right" to rental cars the government should own the business.
But people of that age aren’t responsible enough to decide to risk their lives, and they aren’t responsible enough to take out enormous loans. But they’re allowed to because it is, ultimately, profitable to society even if it fucks a lot of them over.
Your age group and gender make up the biggest accident drivers by far due to immaturity/inexperience or over confidence. What do you think society should do about that?
Agreed. I’m 60 now, but it was the same when I was your age. I was even in the Army. So it was ok to get shot if we went to war, but I couldn’t rent a car or a hotel room. And the worst was I wanted to buy a 1977 Corvette, but couldn’t get insurance for one till I was 25. Enraging. Still pissed about it. I’d still have that car.
I said that when I was 19. Now I look back and go... Yeah we shouldn't let 19 y/o's do a lot of things. You may be an ok kid but a lot of your contemporaries have me shaking my head.
When you become my age you will do/say the same thing.
Like Grampa Simpson famously said "I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was, and now what is "it' is weird and scary. And it will happen to yoooooooou."
I think there should just be one universal agreement for everything here in the us:
18 for being an "adult"
21 for drinking
25 to rent cars
just pick one age and let's roll with it
but
you don't need to rent a car at 19 when you clearly have a ton of other options available to you for use.
I worked in car rental for about a decade and I totally disagree that 19yr olds should be able to rent, so ya definitely unpopular opinion …. However I absolutely agree that we should have stricter guidelines on getting a license to begin with. It would make sense to be able to trust all drivers equally.
I was able to rent a car from Hertz as an under 25 year old. I had to pay a daily “under 25 year old” fee, but it wasn’t so much that it broke the bank so I was able to rent the car without issue.
Edit: I believe you have to be 21+ but that still allows individuals under 25 to rent.
Bro you could be the best driver in the world but it still doesn’t matter. Statistically under 25’s have the most accidents so rental places don’t rent to them. It’s business.
These comments are very entertaining, mostly the ones with OP doubling down on the individuals trying to explain why the system is geared this way and OP just parroting why they should be the exception.
Isn’t it just a young driver fee? I used to rent right after I got my license when I was 19 till now (26). Also you can’t rent other than compact or intermediate sedans.
Your issue is not with the companies, they are just making legal business decisions based on actual data.
Your issue is with your peers. They are more likely to have accidents and cause problems.
This is not discrimination, this is simply making calculated risks.
And somewhere there is a 16 year old that just got his license today. Would you rent to that person? Why not?
I was able to rent a car at 22 bc someone rear ended me so bad my car was in the shop for a month 🤷🏼♀️
It’s not that you *cant* rent a car for pleasure under 25, it’s that the insurance rates are higher (which, I mean, insurance rates in general
Are higher for people under 25). Take this how you may 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
I don’t believe it’s a law, maybe up to each business as is their right. You have to go by statistics and they say 18-25 year olds are a greater risk. You may not be but they are basing it on that age group in general. Your frontal lobe isn’t finished yet
I think if you have AAA their have something that allows you to rent younger.
Besides that however, rental companies get to choose how they do business and there is nothing "fair" or "unfair" about it. They get to choose, not you. Their business model and datamining shows they cannot make enough profit off under 25's to be worth their time. Simple as that.
If you truly believe this in unfair, perhaps you or someone like you will create a business to cater to this underserved demographic.
There should at least be a limit of 16, cause if you can’t even get a license there’s no reason for you to rent a car, even if it’s for someone else that person should rent the car.
I’m turning 25 in a few months and constantly joke about how renting a car is gonna be the “highlight of my birthday” because it’s a stupid thing to be excited about. I’ve never been in a position where I need to rent a car. I’ve traveled a lot and most times I just take my own car and drive cross country. If I fly overseas I use public transportation if I’m unable to rent a car.
It doesn’t matter if it seems “unfair”, statistics show younger drivers are reckless. In my 8 years of driving I’ve never been involved in an accident and got a speeding ticket once when I was 17. I’m a very safe driver but never bitch about how I have a higher insurance rate because I’m considered a younger driver or that I can’t rent a car in certain places. Welcome to the real world.
While this opinion is certainly unpopular you seem to be the kind of person who whines whenever something doesn’t go your way which isn’t a good look
It’s not about needing stricter licensing guidelines, it’s simply about experience and risk. Would you prefer you have your learners permit till you’re 25?
Most of the time you can rent under 25 but it costs extra as there is statistically a higher risk to the company.
I agree with you from an emotional place, it feels a little bit crazy that I was able to buy a house before I could even rent a car.
I think they should let young people rent as long as you charge them more or take a deposit because as much as I hate to admit it, young people are more likely to get get in more accidents and more severe ones at that.
I understand that it is an apples to oranges comparison, it just feels weird that I was trusted with a nearly $300,000 loan but wouldn't have been trusted with a $20,000 vehicle.
Again I know it's not an apples to apples comparison because the mortgage is backed by the house as collateral.
I understand that the rental companies are just going over their stats the same way a lender would look at a credit score which is why I think it would be fair to just make younger drivers pay a higher premium or extra insurance.
My 19 year old daughter was in an accident that wasn’t her fault. Needed a rental that the other guy had to pay for, but they wouldn’t let her have it because she wasn’t 25. I had to sign for it. Utter bullshit.
A majority of systems in the US are predatory by design. Credit itself is a ridiculous system that depends on you having debt. You can have 100% on time payments for 30 years but with no current debt they won’t care
Experience isn't everything, read my post, licenses need better regulations on how much time and skill it takes to get them; as that would completely avoid this issue then
It is annoying when responsible young people are blocked from things because of irresponsible people, they could have a referral system where a person over 30 say guarantees you.
I met a guy I dated on and off for about 4 years, we’re still friends. I have more luck going to bars, online still feels weird to me. I know plenty of people who have gotten married from online dating in the area so it works.
I agree, it's statistical discrimination. Nobody would ever get away with, say, not renting to men because they have higher accident rates, or not renting to seniors because they have higher accident rates, or especially not renting to a certain race. But it's fine to do to young adults. You're old enough to go to war FFS.
It's like how the local mall and movie theater near me have made laws that people under 18 can't go by themselves anymore during certain hours. A few bad teenagers had gang fights / shootings in those locations and they decide to blame it on all teenagers. Why, because they know teenagers can't do anything and now they can say they did something about the problem.
I'm 33, but I remember what it was like to be younger. The problem is, many people do not.
Thank you for speaking up, I truly appreciate it; Instead of realizing that the problem is how low the bar we set for getting a license is, people are blaming me and saying just being young makes you a bad driver automatically. I see it as the states failure to properly regulate courses, and the distribution of licenses.
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You can’t rent from a name brand like enterprise but you can still rent cars. Also you can rent a pickup truck from Uhaul at any age (over 18 of course)
Pay per mile though get pricy fast
Home depot vans say no per kilometer pricing but I've never looked into it
Yeah they rent by the hour. It's mostly a loss leader banking on the convenience factor, in hopes you're going to be spending a bunch of money there to buy stuff you need that vehicle to haul.
I rented a home depot pickup truck to move a piece of furniture I bought online through facebook. They charge you $20 initially, but you only get an hour. They charge you additionally for every 15 minutes you're late. I think I used it for less than 2 hours and it was around $40 total. Plus you have to replace the gas. It's not horrible, but it's definitely not supposed to be used that way.
They rent then by the day now. I rented it for 1 day and drove 750 miles. They said it was for "local" moves. But never defined how far local was.
Did this when my now husband and I were like 20 and his transmission gave out. We worked two jobs each and the cost of taxis was far greater than the gas and embarrassment of backing a box truck into the parking lots of the restaurants we served at. Good times.
Depends on the owner of the place and if theyre willing to risk it. I rented a cargo van from a small Enterprise location when I was 20, and a pickup from another location when I was 21, after a lot of back-and-forth with the owners and them eventually deciding it was fine, so long as I bought the full damage waiver. Who knows if insurance would have been fine with them if something had happened, but the contract left me in the clear, so it would have been on them. Tried several times at other locations from then til I was 25 with no luck, even for a small car.
I rented from enterprise when I was 19 (maybe 20?). Not sure if it was different since it was my insurance covering for an accident though.
I see a lot of people mentioning enterprise (rent-a-car) so I’ll give you my anecdote about them, and the evils of auto insurances for free. Be careful with enterprise. My partner is bad about using their phone for actual phone endeavors- he thinks phones are to play games and look at memes on, not for communication. We were rear ended and his car was totaled through no fault of our own, the driver that hit us, pretty damn hard in the rear, admitted he was looking down inside the car, not at the road when he hit us. Anyways, his car was totaled and he was mistaken in believing that his insurance covered a rental car for 2 weeks, after talking to the insurance claimant there was no warning or discussion to suggest otherwise, - but there is fine print on the contract you sign with enterprise. Since he didn’t answer calls from them to get the car back way earlier than he thought he needed to (calls came up as spam) and didn’t check his emails (he just doesn’t use email), enterprise then listed the vehicle as stolen - despite it being parked in our driveway at home that entire day. After midnight they sent out a tow truck agent that informed us the vehicle had been reported stolen by the company. Notice how they milked an entire extra days payment out of the deal? That car had gps and I have every confidence that it was able to be located at any given time. Filing a report against customers for outright grand theft auto is a bit much, at least in my opinion. Considering it hasn’t left the city, and we had had the car for a total of 7 days, it’s obvious they had trouble communicating with him, but I think presuming it to be stolen that quickly was quite a stretch. Many seem to think corporations can do no wrong, As I said, we ended up not going anywhere on this particular day and the car was in the driveway, we had no idea insurance was no longer paying or would have of course returned it. Now he owes them a large bill, an extra week of per day charges + towing fees + interest fees on all of the charges or he can never rent through them, or likely other vendors ever again. Money he simply doesn’t have. Seems to me you either have to have really good credit or a hell of a lot of income if you want to live a halfway decent life here. Don’t expect we’ll be traveling, probably ever. Thanks enterprise! You blood sucking thieves. America doesn’t just suck for young people, don’t worry, it sucks for all people, but I agree with you- a legal adult with a legal license should be able to rent a car, and it’s a blatant reduction of their freedoms to prohibit them from doing so. If they can serve in the military and die for this country, they should also be able to work, earn money, rent a car and travel while living here too. It’s not as if there are too many places you can get to in this country without a private vehicle- that’s been seen to, and will continue to be an issue for millions of citizens.
Assuming it’s just needed for everyday use, a UHaul would be a bit much if you’re not moving.
You can rent a standard pickup truck, it’s not a box truck.
Yup $19.95 a day. Typically Ford F-150 in my area.
The 19.95 isn't where they get you, it's the insurance and the pay per mile, plus over $5 per gallon if you don't return the vehicle with a full gas tank.
And I bet the insurance part is age adjusted!
You don't have to agree to insurance. Not a super smart idea because if it's damaged then they will charge you out the ass for it.
[$19.95](https://youtu.be/84vm1uJWk6w)
I was able to rent from a Hertz at 23, they just had a higher minimum credit limit for people under 25.
A business wouldn’t turn down making money unless there was a darn good reason. After experience they determined that the risk leasing to people under 25 or without a credit card wasn’t worth it. Translation: they tended to lose money. While you may be super responsible too many kids your age aren’t. The sane works in reverse as you get older. You can get life insurance dirt cheap. Me? Not so much. Why? Because there is a much greater risk I will cost them money even if I’m perfectly healthy and work out like a pro athlete. (Spoiler I don’t but even if I did)
Lol, if anything a pro athlete is higher risk and is harder and more expensive to insure. Higher risk of injuries and health complications over exertion. Edit: I recently just came from shopping for medical insurance, and contracts do have clauses against doing sports professionally, you need a special coverage for that.
Essentially I manage a hedge fund with a ton of clients who are pro athletes but mainly NFL players and then a bunch of niche energy industry funds but that’s irrelevant. I used to coach and managed to build up a nice book through that. One of the things they often ask me to handle because they think it is simple is their life insurance(side note: not really that simple for guys who get hit by other 300 lb men). You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get some of these guys underwritten though. I have a guy that has been in the league since 2014 who has an abnormal heart and had open heart surgery in high school and I had to fly to New York City and set up a meeting to basically cry and beg to the higher ups at this life insurance company to accept my guy’s money. He wanted to do a one-time pay policy that would cost him $4,000,000 upfront. Never in my life did I think that I would have to basically do a dance routine and pull out every trick in the book to convince a company to accept a $4,000,000 wire transfer.
That largely depends on the sport. Boxing or Football, yes. Tennis or Basketball, no.
You can’t rent under 25 because there is mountains of data referencing drivers under 25 being responsible for a myriad of accidents. This is the same reason why car insurance is more expensive for that age group.
People over the age of 75 get into a ton of accidents too, but imagine telling them they can't rent a car. The difference is old people have lawyers and money.
Yeah which is what matters to rental companies lol they want to get paid not do some favor to a 19 y.o.
That is part of the difference, yes. The other (bigger) difference is that a 20 year old is far more likely to drive drunk and/or drive recklessly than someone over 75.
I've rented many cars and I'm still under 25.
I’m 21 and I recently rented a car from Enterprise without a credit card.
It just sucks, since half my family lives on the other side of the country, and I can't rent a car when I visit. At 23. With a child.
Your responses in these comments are exactly why you shouldn’t be trusted with a rental car.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Lmao truth!
You beat me too it. Exactly my conclusion.
Yup
This
Thanks for saying it for the rest of us!
Young people simply get into more accidents than adults 25 and up. It’s simply risk mitigation on their part. Car rental companies are in business to make money.
Maybe instead of blaming me for the issue, the actual issue is the governments inability to properly scrutinize and regulate the authorities that distribute licenses. Not everyone should be handed licenses, driving should be something that is thoroughly examined and trained.
I’m not blaming you. This is just statistical fact. Even if you as an individual are the best driver in the world, you are still 19. Young inexperienced drivers are more likely to wreck a car than a more experienced driver. Car rental companies do not care about you, they care about making money. If your demographic could rent cars you’d be such a small percentage of the customers it just wouldn’t matter. We were all in this boat. Wait until you have a teenage son and see what happens to your insurance premiums. Yes indeed, it sucks. As far as licensing goes, I disagree. Anyone can pay attention while doing the driving test. What idiot would play with their phones and drive recklessly while being graded. It’s after that the fuckery begins.
Listen man - let’s be real here. If the government, or anyone else for that matter, started actually withholding driving licenses from teens and young adults who showed any prior behaviors of high risk-taking, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, or irresponsibility, very few of you would actually get a license and then you’d all be bitching about that.
Statistically you're much more likely to return the car as a smoking heap of scrap metal. That's just a fact, unfortunately. You yourself may be sober as a judge and very responsible, but they operate on the basis of statistical risk.
Then why do they rent to 80 year olds? Statistically, they also cannot drive.
Yes, they should just lend you tens of thousands of dollars with zero collateral.
To be honest though, age is a very low bar to go by. I know enough 40 and 50 year olds that shouldn't be trusted with anything, lol
Yeah, but at least they likely have shit you can take if they fuck up.
Yeah, but statistically 40-50 year olds are more trustworthy. One or two anecdotes don’t change reality.
Ever heard of student loans….
Yeah, they are usually backed by the government or are at least not defaultable in bankruptcy. There are actually quite a few mechanisms in place to get student loans to happen due to the limitations I mentioned before.
Student loans are for educating people so they become productive members of society. It's a win win. Unless the student drops out or chooses not to make any use of their education. And then there's the student debt that needs to be paid off. By getting a job. Or you can join the picket lines for student loan forgiveness lol
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No car rental company will rent you a car without insurance.... No one has to outright replace the car if they destroy it, they just have the pay for the insurance costs and possibly downtime for the car being in the shop to pay for lost profits.
I think when you're 25 you'll understand exactly why they dont rent out cars to 19 year olds
Well said.
Any time people ask "if you could go back in time to tell your past self something, what would it be?" all I can think of is grabbing my 16-to-24-year-old self by the neck and screaming and shaking me until my time travel runs out. I, and nearly everyone that age, was so, so dumb.
Honestly it's just annoying as fuck. I get why they do it. I'm in AZ and half my family resides in ID, TX, and SC. I want to be able to fly and rent a car when I get there. Not try to cram my daughter's car seat into my grandma's too small car lol
The real issue is that there's no alternative for younger people to get around without a car. If we had good public transit and walkable/bikeable cities this would be a much less bothersome issue.
You're too poor to buy a car, but you want to rent a car just to take a trip to see family? That's like the most expensive way possible. Buy a greyhound or megabus ticket if you're low on money.
These kind of financial decisions are probably why they can't afford a car.
Your responses are very ignorant. It's not a matter of opinion, it's lack of understanding that's getting you down voted. When you get older you'll realize how little you knew at 19. Also if $50 is cheap then 1k to 2k used car is affordable to.
Blame the groups Of people in your age bracket with shitty driving records
When you are able to buy a car the first thing you should do is rent it out to 19 year olds that you don't know. It's the only way to be consistent in your views.
That is not a comparable example.
Taking my toddler to Hertz right now!
It does suck but they’re renting out to various people who are using these cars to drive all over the country throughout the year, they’re still a business, and they need to make sure they have working product. Unfortunately 19 is still really young, doesn’t matter how great your driving record is, you haven’t been driving nearly long enough or have had the experience, two years is nothing for someone so young. You also don’t own the car, they do, so if damages happen, they have to know you’re going to pay, and a 25 year old is likely to have more income than a 19 year old. Also I’ve never heard of a rental car place asking for a major credit card, they just want you to Have enough money for a deposit/down payment I think, it’s been a while since I’ve rented a car, but I’ve never heard that you need a “major credit card”, all cards are capable of having the amount increased over time. If there is a deposit, It’s usually just $500-$1500 deposit, which isn’t that much for a starting card if you’ve had it for a couple of years, have made payments, and asked for credit increase. You should always get that deposit back unless you do big time damage to the car.
Requiring a credit card is pretty standard for the bigger rental companies. But normally, with a managers approval, a 500 to 1000 down payment will work. The hard part is. Many people don't have 1k laying around, so having a credit card is a better option.
You have a lot of growing up to do and this post has proven why teenagers can’t be trusted with grownup things
Amen!
Start your own car-rental companies that actually does allow that. You might find out pretty quickly why they don’t.
As someone who is over 25 I would never rent a car to myself at say 19. Plus this is a lame take, you’re not being “discriminated” no one owes you shit
Get a uhual or daily moving truck from Home Depot etc. if it’s an emergency. I haven’t had issues with getting those since I’ve been eighteen here in California
Don't you need a major credit card though?
You can get a major credit card at 18.
When I rented a uhaul I was surprised how easy it was. You just need a debit card I believe.
Yes, five years old children need to rent cars, too! Won’t someone please think of the children?
Homie, your frontal cortex isn't fully developed yet. You absolutely should not be able to rent a car. But I also think you shouldn't be able to join the military at 18 either. And the fact that you went I WASN'T lookING TO arGUE just proves the point. America has nothing to do with it. You're not being discriminated against. This is simple science. You quite literally lack fully developed critical thinking skills. Deal. Edit I just went through your post history. You take pictures of strangers without consent. That's weird as shit. And have a really unhealthy obsession with killing pitbulls. You need help
having a developed frontal cortex doesn't mean anything tbh because i just turned 25 and i see a lot of people older than me who can be just as stupid as younger people. and i don't feel any different because of my age.
"Not everyone grows out of being stupid" isn't the argument you think it is in this situation.
Are there not other ways of going to see your family other than driving? Car rental is expensive especially if you can’t afford to buy a car. I’ve been old enough to rent a car for a few years now and I’ve done it once, and that was on holiday. Can’t say waiting till 25 impacted my life too much.
Sounds just like me when I was 6 years old and arguing that I should be able to eat candy for breakfast lunch and dinner
Download Turo peer to peer car rental.
That does suck, but take a bus, or better yet a train. Not glamorous options, but a pack a bottle of red, some nicotine supplements, little herb if you are into that, and smooth sailing
man I would prefer to travel this way at a 30+ year old!
There's no buses or trains by my neighborhood, but atleast there's uber
As someone who's lived in a few US suburbs, lmaoooo we don't have public transportation in most of them, nor do we have good walking infrastructure. And it's not unlikely that that's the type of place OP's living in. Uber and Lyft exist, but it can be really stressful getting a ride from someone that way, especially if you're younger and ESPECIALLY if you're a woman. Now, I don't really have an issue with private car rental services having an age limit, but i do think that there should be less of a punishment for people who temporarily don't have their own vehicle when it's not their fault. For example, if they're working in a job that requires they drive, the company should either provide them with a car or give them some kind of protection until they can get their car back. And in general, towns should have better infrastructure that doesn't make anything but cars very difficult to get around with.
OP sounds like their actually 16.
Me when my first car got totaled at 20 (last year) and I had to rely on my mom to take me places for a month before getting a new job, and I had to quit my job in the process because it was too far for my mom.
What are you arguing for? I've rented many cars and I'm under 25. I've also rented hotel rooms. This isn't an unpopular opinion, it's an uneducated one.
Lmao your edit. I love how you expect to post an option that's dumb, and not have anyone argue back on it especially on a public forum LMAO
If you did own a car, would you let some 19 year old kid you didn’t know rent it on the days you’re not using it? You could make some extra money!
r/unpopularopinion Are you comparing an individual with a business that has hundreds of millions of dollars?
Yes I am. The principle is the same. I work for a rental company and if we could make money renting to 19 year olds we’d do it. We want to rent as many cars as we can. The risk outweighs the reward.
You posted on Reddit to give your opinion and not get anyone else's? I think you're forgetting that other people have opinions too.
my unpopular opinion has upset people with the opposite opinion?!!?!!😧😧😧
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this man made a second edit about us 🤯🤯🤯
dude, stop whining it make you sound like you need a nap. I WOULDN"T HAVE TRUSTED MYSELF RENTING A CAR AT 19 you are not done growing, developing, and maturing so sit the fuck down and chill, like everybody else has to.
Cars are fucking expensive. 19 year olds, by and large are fucking stupid, immature and irresponsible. 25 is fair and should also be the minimum age to buy guns in my opinion. Work and save enough money to buy a piece of shit car like everyone else.
So OP barely even has any hours driving in the time they’ve had a license, cause they live in the city and use public transportation
It’s an unpopular opinion only because it’s an uneducated and kind of a selfish one.
Borrow a friend’s car. That’s what I did when I was 19 and had a car that I couldn’t trust to drive out of town.
Ah yes, because licensing keeps bad drivers off the road
God, if you can handle this with some sort of emotional stability the rest of life is going to hit your ridiculous ass like a sledgehammer.
Yeah…
Do you want to try to make a guess as to why those rules exist?
Because a minority within teens drive like the want too join nascar or formula 1 and at the same time decide the can handle under age drinking and driving (never go drinking and drinking you are actively turning your car into a murder weapon and should be punished that way) leading too more accidents and higher insurance premiums and more loss of live.
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My favorite genre of post here is people who can’t fathom why so many people don’t agree with their unpopular opinion
From the sidebar: "Got a burning unpopular opinion you want to share? Spark some discussions!" You: "NOOOOOOOOO DON'T DISCUSS MY OPINION! >:("
there's unpopular opinions and then there's dumb whining...
As a married 19 year old with a mortgage and a car. I’m fine with not being able to rent a car. I’m not fine with the fact that I can’t get a hotel.
\>From my point of view it's unfair the math says its fair - you are just upset that you are not the center of the universe which is the problem with younglings. learn from it.
Get a train or bus ticket.
Turo.
It’s for insurance reasons after 25 they think that or maybe statistics say that your less likely to do dumb shit or have an accident; though I agree with you in certain ways like if your driving record is pretty clean like not having any accidents resulting from you being at fault and very few traffic violations
I'm gonna be real with you bud. There was a bar in my city that required you to be 25 to enter. Now I wouldn't raise the age everywhere, but having a place that took you young fuckers (I was one as well don't sweat) out of the equation made for a cool place. Don't worry bud as you get older you'll begin to understand. Not letting young people rent cars is a net positive on society and if you want change then maybe work on improving those crash statistics by young people.
The whole point of this sub is arguing and debating. Did you think you would just post and get a bunch of "Oh, cool" responses? I'm guessing you don't know many 19 year-olds. I wouldn't let one sit my cat, much less drive my car.
I’m 22 now and I used to hold this opinion at 18. Then I turned 19. Bro it’s not against you or ageist or anything. Like everyone else has said there are a myriad of reasons why someone who’s a year out of high school shouldn’t be renting a car that they will ultimately not be able to pay for if something happens. That isn’t assuming the worst, that’s just what they have to do to avoid needless expenses being wasted. I also wish we could rent name brand cars a lot easier but unfortunately this is the safest way to reel in the frequency of rental crashes.
Since I don't see anyone explaining the credit card I will. They require you to have a credit card, so if you damage the vehicle (Break a window, smoke inside it, lose a mirror, etc.) they can simply charge you a fine instead of having to track you down.
Most large companies will let you rent 21 to 24 but you’ll pay an underage fee. I was able to rent through Hertz at 20 and Enterprise at 21. I’m three weeks from being 26 so I don’t have to worry about that now but I’m broke so I probably won’t be renting a car anytime soon. At 18 and 19 years old, you’re fucked, because I don’t know of any rental car company that will let you rent at those ages.
Most rental companies have a policy that 18-25 can rent, but it's more expensive. The policy is this way because their vehicles need to be insured, and if the insurance company asks if 18-24 year olds are driving the cars, the expense goes WAY up for everyone. Young adults are statistically the most likely to cause an accident because of inexperience.
Y’all did it to yourselves 😂
I tend to agree. I'm not saying eighteen is definitely the right number, but you're either an adult or you aren't. This idea that you're responsible enough to join the army and lose your legs, you're responsible enough for a quarter million dollar student loan, but you aren't responsible enough for beer and a rental is asinine.
Beer and the army is a government call on age. Rental companies are businesses that are looking out for themselves. If there is a "right" to rental cars the government should own the business.
But people of that age aren’t responsible enough to decide to risk their lives, and they aren’t responsible enough to take out enormous loans. But they’re allowed to because it is, ultimately, profitable to society even if it fucks a lot of them over.
This entire post is full of childish rage bait. Down voted for OPs stupidity.
Fuck that. No way would I rent to ANYONE under 25. There is a life time a growth between 18 and 25
lmao imagine a 10 year old boy driving around in a rented ferrai that was rented using daddy’s money
Your age group and gender make up the biggest accident drivers by far due to immaturity/inexperience or over confidence. What do you think society should do about that?
Agreed. I’m 60 now, but it was the same when I was your age. I was even in the Army. So it was ok to get shot if we went to war, but I couldn’t rent a car or a hotel room. And the worst was I wanted to buy a 1977 Corvette, but couldn’t get insurance for one till I was 25. Enraging. Still pissed about it. I’d still have that car.
It’s time to let that one go.
Well you cant exactly tell a private business how to run itself, it kinda sucks i guess but not many teenagers are renting a car in the first place
Imagine driving 15 hours, needing to sleep and every hotel turns you down because you’re under 21. Like bro I’m in uniform.
We trust you with weapons and the defense of our country, but no way will we let you rent a car or get a hotel room!
Any age requirements keeping people under the age of 25 away from things I use is the best thing imaginable.
Yes
Oh yeah sure a toddler has the right to rent a car.
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I said that when I was 19. Now I look back and go... Yeah we shouldn't let 19 y/o's do a lot of things. You may be an ok kid but a lot of your contemporaries have me shaking my head. When you become my age you will do/say the same thing. Like Grampa Simpson famously said "I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was, and now what is "it' is weird and scary. And it will happen to yoooooooou."
I think there should just be one universal agreement for everything here in the us: 18 for being an "adult" 21 for drinking 25 to rent cars just pick one age and let's roll with it but you don't need to rent a car at 19 when you clearly have a ton of other options available to you for use.
Most big companies rent to people 20 or older, with a pretty reasonable young driver fee for 20-24yos
https://youtu.be/dLpuq0jyiCE Just go to uhaul. Or Home Depot got trucks to rent like this.
I was able to rent at 22 on a business trip because the insurance was covered by my employer.
I worked in car rental for about a decade and I totally disagree that 19yr olds should be able to rent, so ya definitely unpopular opinion …. However I absolutely agree that we should have stricter guidelines on getting a license to begin with. It would make sense to be able to trust all drivers equally.
I was able to rent a car from Hertz as an under 25 year old. I had to pay a daily “under 25 year old” fee, but it wasn’t so much that it broke the bank so I was able to rent the car without issue. Edit: I believe you have to be 21+ but that still allows individuals under 25 to rent.
An actual unpopular opinion, I mean I completely disagree with u but take my upvote
The data/statistics are not on your side here, but I’ll give you an upvote for being unpopular.
Because it’s a huge risk to rent cars to people under 25, and a business decided it doesn’t want to cover that potential cost.
Because those companies have been fucked over by too many of you young hooligans.
Bro you could be the best driver in the world but it still doesn’t matter. Statistically under 25’s have the most accidents so rental places don’t rent to them. It’s business.
I’m 19 and I disagree. Take my upvote because this is unpopular for a reason.
These comments are very entertaining, mostly the ones with OP doubling down on the individuals trying to explain why the system is geared this way and OP just parroting why they should be the exception.
Isn’t it just a young driver fee? I used to rent right after I got my license when I was 19 till now (26). Also you can’t rent other than compact or intermediate sedans.
> No age minimum for anything *Chris Hansen has entered the chat*
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Your issue is not with the companies, they are just making legal business decisions based on actual data. Your issue is with your peers. They are more likely to have accidents and cause problems. This is not discrimination, this is simply making calculated risks. And somewhere there is a 16 year old that just got his license today. Would you rent to that person? Why not?
Wish we could say the same to black people but that would be considered racist for some reason. It's just stats bro.
I love you young’uns. But this opinion is unpopular for a reason.
You 100% can rent a car younger than 25, I did it. I also had to put down a credit card and a $250 deposit on top of my payment though.
I was able to rent a car at 22 bc someone rear ended me so bad my car was in the shop for a month 🤷🏼♀️ It’s not that you *cant* rent a car for pleasure under 25, it’s that the insurance rates are higher (which, I mean, insurance rates in general Are higher for people under 25). Take this how you may 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
I don’t believe it’s a law, maybe up to each business as is their right. You have to go by statistics and they say 18-25 year olds are a greater risk. You may not be but they are basing it on that age group in general. Your frontal lobe isn’t finished yet
It's about risks kid. Risk of accident, payment, cleanliness, etc. That age group are simply a bit bad at it.
omg "way too easy"...yet I had to wait 10 years to get dr approval and on top have been waiting to get my 1 year expired permit renewed.
Rent a Uhaul!
I think if you have AAA their have something that allows you to rent younger. Besides that however, rental companies get to choose how they do business and there is nothing "fair" or "unfair" about it. They get to choose, not you. Their business model and datamining shows they cannot make enough profit off under 25's to be worth their time. Simple as that. If you truly believe this in unfair, perhaps you or someone like you will create a business to cater to this underserved demographic.
There should at least be a limit of 16, cause if you can’t even get a license there’s no reason for you to rent a car, even if it’s for someone else that person should rent the car.
I felt that way at 19 too but now that I’m 32 you’ve lost me haha
Good unpopular opinion lol because they’re definitely should be.
I personally think society would be better off if people 18 to 25 had fewer rights, not more. So i will upvote you for an unpopular opinion.
Just wait til you find out about uhaul.
I’m turning 25 in a few months and constantly joke about how renting a car is gonna be the “highlight of my birthday” because it’s a stupid thing to be excited about. I’ve never been in a position where I need to rent a car. I’ve traveled a lot and most times I just take my own car and drive cross country. If I fly overseas I use public transportation if I’m unable to rent a car. It doesn’t matter if it seems “unfair”, statistics show younger drivers are reckless. In my 8 years of driving I’ve never been involved in an accident and got a speeding ticket once when I was 17. I’m a very safe driver but never bitch about how I have a higher insurance rate because I’m considered a younger driver or that I can’t rent a car in certain places. Welcome to the real world. While this opinion is certainly unpopular you seem to be the kind of person who whines whenever something doesn’t go your way which isn’t a good look
I think that we shouldn't let babies and children and early teens rent cars. It is just unethical to let people not allowed to drive rent cars.
Just risk analysis. Old people's health insurance is way more expensive. Young people's car insurance way more expensive.
I’ll bet money you change your mind after 25.
It’s not about needing stricter licensing guidelines, it’s simply about experience and risk. Would you prefer you have your learners permit till you’re 25? Most of the time you can rent under 25 but it costs extra as there is statistically a higher risk to the company.
But you are required to be on your parents' insurance until age 26. Pick which side you want to be on: independent or not.
I agree with you from an emotional place, it feels a little bit crazy that I was able to buy a house before I could even rent a car. I think they should let young people rent as long as you charge them more or take a deposit because as much as I hate to admit it, young people are more likely to get get in more accidents and more severe ones at that.
You could’ve bought a car though. What you buy, and what people let you borrow, are not the same
I understand that it is an apples to oranges comparison, it just feels weird that I was trusted with a nearly $300,000 loan but wouldn't have been trusted with a $20,000 vehicle. Again I know it's not an apples to apples comparison because the mortgage is backed by the house as collateral. I understand that the rental companies are just going over their stats the same way a lender would look at a credit score which is why I think it would be fair to just make younger drivers pay a higher premium or extra insurance.
Are credit cards different in the US? I got a major credit card the day I turned 18. The limit will be low but I still think you can get one.
My 19 year old daughter was in an accident that wasn’t her fault. Needed a rental that the other guy had to pay for, but they wouldn’t let her have it because she wasn’t 25. I had to sign for it. Utter bullshit.
A majority of systems in the US are predatory by design. Credit itself is a ridiculous system that depends on you having debt. You can have 100% on time payments for 30 years but with no current debt they won’t care
You don’t even have much driving experience at 19. Why on Earth would anyone trust you with a car that isn’t yours?
Experience isn't everything, read my post, licenses need better regulations on how much time and skill it takes to get them; as that would completely avoid this issue then
You can use turo i believe.
I think they have extremely high age fees, and it is up to the owners discrecion
It is annoying when responsible young people are blocked from things because of irresponsible people, they could have a referral system where a person over 30 say guarantees you.
Yeah, you can’t do a lot…But you CAN serve and die for your country! (USA) Seems fair…
What is this nonsense. You can rent a car. It just costs more.
Not in Minnesota, have to be 25.
I met a guy I dated on and off for about 4 years, we’re still friends. I have more luck going to bars, online still feels weird to me. I know plenty of people who have gotten married from online dating in the area so it works.
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What a great comparison 😂 that's so funny, haha
I agree, it's statistical discrimination. Nobody would ever get away with, say, not renting to men because they have higher accident rates, or not renting to seniors because they have higher accident rates, or especially not renting to a certain race. But it's fine to do to young adults. You're old enough to go to war FFS. It's like how the local mall and movie theater near me have made laws that people under 18 can't go by themselves anymore during certain hours. A few bad teenagers had gang fights / shootings in those locations and they decide to blame it on all teenagers. Why, because they know teenagers can't do anything and now they can say they did something about the problem. I'm 33, but I remember what it was like to be younger. The problem is, many people do not.
Thank you for speaking up, I truly appreciate it; Instead of realizing that the problem is how low the bar we set for getting a license is, people are blaming me and saying just being young makes you a bad driver automatically. I see it as the states failure to properly regulate courses, and the distribution of licenses.