Hireyour

HireYour is the only free peer to peer sharing website. So you can hire out your own stuff or find stuff from others in your neighbourhood.

I am an office worker and live in a townhouse and own one investment property.

From time to time I would require certain tools to either maintain my investment property when a tenant moved in or out or for the general upkeep of the garden area in my townhouse complex.

At first I bought a couple of items such as a whipper snipper and hedge trimmer only to find that they were hardly ever used which made me think buying the items was a waste of money.

I considered going down the path of renting from an equipment hire rental company but decided their prices were exorbitant and I may as well have been buying the items.

I then figured out that I knew plenty of people with the tools I required so started to reach out but I felt bad that I was constantly borrowing things and my mates refused to accept payment. This soon became awkward.

It was only when a mate of mine asked to borrow my bike for a one in a five year bike ride that I realised that there was a need to have a marketplace where individuals could borrow and lend out a range of things for a small price.

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