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Without a major credit card or the resources to meet a car rental agencies “cash qualifications”? No, it wouldn't, because conventional rental isn't an option.

Again, it's expensive to be poor.

You usually need credit to rent a car.

I'm guessing that at the prices the parent listed, the person isn't buying a $70k luxury car for $1000+ a month, but has bad credit and can't put any money down on the car so they're going to radically overspend. I'm really hoping that it's a late model Honda or Toyota that will go 300,000 miles and not something that was salvaged.

You're spot on. It's a 2010 toyota camry. It really is a tank.

If she's really paying $300/week, then absolutely. Checking Enterprise's website shows that my local Enterprise would rent me a small car for a week starting tomorrow for $225 (including taxes and fees).

I don't think she has the credit to rent a car sadly otherwise it would be a good recommendation.

Things must have drastically changed in the last seven years then. Between 2008 and 2010 I drove rental cars almost full time with horrible credit and a debit card. The weekly cost for a car was 170 and if I went monthly it was around 600.