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How To Stay Off Car Rental Companies’ “Do Not Rent” Lists

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If a travel company does you wrong, you might be compelled to say you’re never going to do business with them again. But that’s a two-way street; if they don’t like what you’ve done, they might not want to do business with you again, either.

Almost every travel company out there has a “Do Not Do Business With These People” list. The Federal government has its mysterious Do Not Fly list. Hotels have their lists of people to not rent rooms to (that’s part of the reason why they ask for ID. Click here to read all the other reasons). And car rental companies have their “Do Not Rent” list.

The problem with car rental companies lists of people not to rent to is that so many car rental companies are owned by umbrella companies. For example:

So you may have rented an Avis car and done something bad enough to get banned from them, but chances are good, you’ll also be banned from Budget and Payless in the process.

The best thing to do is to not get on any car rental company’s “Do Not Rent” list. Granted, you have to be doing something wrong in their eyes to get on the list, which may not be easy. But here are some pointers to stay on their good side:

*** Feature photo: U.S. Air Force/Brian McGloin

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