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Subject:Re: Opinion on Long Trip w/young driver to Florida from Texas
From:Mike
Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:34:48 -0500

Nowadays, you can't rent with cash at most rental agencies, and only the renter can drive it, unless you want to pay extra.
   As long as the driver is 18, has a credit card to charge a large deposit onto, has active full-coverage auto insurance on his own car, rents a passenger van or large car or SUV, and is willing to pay the additional rental indemnity insurance that the rental company will offer, it shouldn't be a problem.  The others can kick in cash to reimburse to renter for all this plus gas, tolls, etc. 
  I would never loan or rent my vehicle out to anyone, even to family members, but that's just me.
  Let 'em get their own, just like i did.  It 's the only way to insure total responsibility, and no bad feeling between family members when something happens  Even an out-of-state parking ticket or a camera moving violation or toll-runner offense will fall to the registered owner's responsibility, ask me how I know.

Mike B.