John bought a bounce house a few years ago for his daughter. She is now in high school and does not play with it. John considers his options; sell it, give it away, throw it away or just hang on to it until the grand kids are old enough to enjoy it? He decides to keep it. One day, John hears about RentBOLD and realizes he could make money from his bounce house while kids in his community could use and enjoy it. John signs up for a RentBOLD account and registers his bounce house. He uploads pictures that he took with his digital camera and defines the rental terms that he is comfortable with. Jane is looking for an inflatable bounce house for her son's upcoming birthday party. She has heard of RentBOLD and decides to visit the web site. She finds several bounce houses listed in her area. She reviews the profiles, ratings and feedback of the owners and chooses the one she likes best. She signs up, deposits enough money from her credit card into her RentBOLD account to cover the security deposit and requests the rental. RentBOLD automatically holds the security deposit and will release it as soon as the rental is over and the owner has been paid. She does not have a large enough vehicle to transport the bounce house so she requests that the owner drop it off when the rental begins and pick it up when the rental ends. John receives an email from RentBOLD stating that Jane wants to rent his bounce house. He reviews Jane's profile. He sees that she is new to RentBOLD but decides that he is comfortable renting it to her. Her request states that she wants him to deliver the bounce house before the party begins and pick it up later that day when the party ends. He is willing to do it but his truck gets poor gas mileage. He negotiates the cost of the rental with her. He will deliver it and pick it up if she is willing to pay $15 extra to cover his fuel expenses. Jane receives a text message on her cell phone (due to how she setup her notification preferences) informing her that John wants to participate in the rental but needs $15 to cover fuel costs. She is getting a great rate so she can afford it. She logs into her RentBOLD account and accepts his proposal. $1.00 in credit and/or funds are withdrawn from both of their accounts to pay RentBOLD's rental processing charge. The rental is now ready to proceed. The day before the party, Jane gets another text message reminding her of the bounce house rental. She realizes that she does not know how to operate the bounce house and needs to ask John if he will show her how it works. She logs into her account to figure out how to contact him. He has set his anonymity preference to safeguard his phone number and email address. Jane uses RentBOLD's internal messaging system to send John a message asking him for help. John receives an email from RentBOLD informing him of Jane's message. Her anonymity preference is set so that the John can view her phone number. He logs into RentBOLD, retrieves her number and calls her. He offers to setup and take down the bounce house for her. Jane is relieved. The day of the party is at hand. John delivers the bounce house and sets it up. Jane inspects it and finds that it is in good condition. Both John and Jane have printed a copy of RentBOLD's 'Ten Steps To A Successful Rental' document. It helps guide them through the rental and allows them to record any unreported item defects or changes to the terms of the rental. They sign and date the document. John leaves and the party begins. The party ends and John returns to pick up the bounce house. While taking it down, he notices a small tear that was not there when the rental began. He shows Jane and she realizes that one of her son's friends forgot to take off his shoes and probably caused the damage. She asks John how much it will cost to repair the tear. He tells her a $10 patch will fix it. She knows she is liable for the damages due to the user agreement she accepted when she signed up with RentBOLD. She agrees to pay him and looks for her checkbook. In the excitement of the party, she misplaced it. John tells her not to worry, he will send her the bill using RentBOLD's invoicing system. John goes home and logs into his RentBOLD account. He finalizes the rental by reporting how it proceeded. He lets RentBOLD know that he has not yet been paid and that Jane owes him an additional $25 to cover his fuel expenses and damages. RentBOLD sends Jane an invoice for the amount of the rental and another for the extra $25. Jane receives a text message informing her that she has received the bill for the rental. She logs into her RentBOLD account, deposits enough money from her credit card to cover the rental and pays the invoices. The funds are automatically moved from Jane's account to John's account and he receives a message from RentBOLD informing him that he has been paid. Now that the rental is over and John has been paid, Jane's security deposit is released. She is pleased with how the rental proceeded and indicates it when leaving feedback. John also thinks it went well and leaves positive feedback. The feedback is now available to other RentBOLD members to help them decide if they want to rent to or from either party. Now that John has extra cash, he decides to withdraw some of it from his RentBOLD account to buy something nice for his daughter. He logs in and requests that the money be sent to him. A few days later a check from RentBOLD arrives in the mail. During the entire rental process, their local RentBOLD representative, Alan, was available to help them if they had any problems that they could not solve on their own. Had Jane refused to pay for the damages, John could have requested assistance from RentBOLD. Alan would have contacted both parties and attempted to resolve the problem. Jane's security deposit would have been available to help ensure that the rental and damages were paid.

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