The Internet has made it easier than ever for people to make money from things they already own. From renting out your car, your house or even your wet suit, you can make bank while sitting on your butt (or still being active, whatever works).

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Here are our five favorite ways to loan out your stuff:

Rent out your car (in Boston or San Francisco)

 

via The Next Web

Newly launched startup FlightCar lets people at Boston’s Logan International or San Francisco International Airport rent out their cars for up to $400 per month. The company hopes to disrupt an entire parking and transportation industry. Their goal is to let all people parking at the airport rent their vehicles out to other travelers. Every rental is insured up to $1 million, and every renter is pre-screened.

They even pick you up and drop you off curbside and give you a free car wash.

Let someone use that empty space in your driveway

 

ParkatmyHouse lets property owners (residential and commercial) rent out their private parking spots to drivers in need of a convenient place to park.

The entire process is managed through their secure website where people accept and pay for parking space bookings. Private spots on ParkatmyHouse typically are 50 to 70 percent cheaper than meters or parking garages. It’s free to list a parking spot, and, according to ParkatmyHouse, ” in some cases churches and other organizations with large lots have made in the tens of thousands of dollars.”

Loan your clothes, a pig roaster or even your wet suit

 

If you have unused stuff just lying around your garage or a spare bedroom, why not make some money off it? Check out Loanables to list things you have available or to find people looking for things. List your stuff on the site and decide the terms of the rental, price and security deposit.

The site does make money from your transactions and charges a 10% transaction fee on completed deals. You can also offer up your items to schools and nonprofits at no charge.

TIP: You can even share your listing(s) on Facebook, Twitter or a favorite social network to let your friends nearby know.

Offer up a room or your entire house

 

As Airbnb prepares to celebrate their fifth anniversary, the community marketplace is responsible for more than 10 million nights booked at one of their listings. Their listings consist of people, like you and me, who have a room (or more than one) or an entire home available for rent. You can rent out a space couch, rooms or your home for a few days, weeks or months. If location and demand are top notch, you can make a pretty penny from your property.

It’s an especially popular service during large events, like SXSW in Austin, Texas where hotel rooms run in short supply.

Here’s a great post on how to use Airbnb like a pro.

Rent out your bike

 

Spinlister is a site dedicated only to renting bikes. Own a bike and don’t mind someone else riding it? Rent it out and make a few extra bucks. You can sign up for the site by connecting with Facebook or a manual sign up process. To list a bike, you’ll need to fill out a profile and then provide details about the bike(s) you want to loan, including: type, color, who it is appropriate for (e.g. height), etc…

Then, you can determine what you want to rent it for. A quick search of my neighborhood brought up one bike that is a fit and it’s going for $18 per day.

Have you made money from renting things out online? Let us know in the comments.

This post originally appeared on FAVES + CO

Evans screenshot resizedWritten by Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans (@PRsarahevans) is a social correspondent at Sevans Strategy and chief evangelist for social collaboration platform Tracky. You can follow Sarah (@sarahevans) on Instagram and check out her new website, FAVES + CO.

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