How to Rent Out Your Swimming Pool for Passive Income

Wish you had a swimming pool to dip your body in? Is your community pool closed? Or maybe it isn’t but you want to be away from all those noisy swimmers? Well now there is an opportunity to rent a private pool from a neighbor. And it couldn’t be easier. Considering how fast the sharing economy continues to expand, it was only a matter of time.

Review of Swimply

During the Coronavirus pandemic, many businesses closed down or went into temporary shutdown. However, new opportunities also arose. For instance, I read about a mobile bowling alley that functioned quite well out of a truck. The business proved to be very profitable. Seriously.

Swimming pools have always been a hot commodity. But with climate change and the pandemic increasingly forcing us to find new ways to cool down, pools are now just as desirable as hotel rooms. Not to mention at the time of this writing, public pools are largely shut down in many states.

Swimply is an app that allows owners to rent out their private pools to customers by the hour. It was founded by Bunim Laskin and Asher Weinberger. Asher got the idea back in 2018 when he bought his first house that included a swimming pool. When friends and family asked to borrow it, he started to create a schedule and a plan to help him avoid…