{"id":4688,"date":"2017-02-05T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2017-02-05T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T20:53:31","slug":"renting-vs-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"Renting in the age of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has enabled multiple shared ownership models and it is becoming easier by the day to rent equipment or real-estate that was previously only commercially available.<\/p>\n<p>Think Hotels while traveling: You used to have to find a good deal for a hotel through a travel agent, but today, thanks to AirBnB and the likes you can rent from the convenience of your phone from any personal party who&#8217;s listed their house\/cabin\/appartment\/studio.<\/p>\n<p>Same for rental cars. It used to be mandatory to get a Hertz\/Avis rental car. But today, you can either switch to car sharing using Uber\/Lift or use one of the services that rents you cars from private parties (https:\/\/turo.com\/).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing! That way you can try out exotic cars for a day or two while getting around for business or pleasure. Sweet!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has enabled multiple shared ownership models and it is becoming easier by the day to rent equipment or real-estate that was previously only commercially available. Think Hotels while traveling: You used to have to find a good deal for a hotel through a travel agent, but today, thanks to AirBnB and the likes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=4688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Renting in the age of the Internet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}