If the Pro questionnaire I received from Home Depot this morning is any indication, be prepared to see some sort of co-op tool rental app come down the pike in the near future.
I've considered this idea before, especially given the "success" of direct consumer-to-consumer commerce happening with ride sharing and food delivery in urban and suburban areas. Success in quotes because I hear Uber is hemorrhaging cash, but I digress.
We're all old enough to have seen community co-op wood-shops come and go and mostly fail. But this single-tool consumer to consumer and pro to pro rental system could be a great benefit and super convenient if it got enough people involved.
Lets say you're way out in the boonies, digging hole footings and run into some rock, or your back's killing you so you decide on a gas-powered auger instead. You get on your tool rental app and Billy-Bob has an auger, right down the road from you.
What might kill it all is the issue of liability. Although Uber/Lyft seem to have navigated the issue with their users operating the most dangerous tools around-- cars. So who knows?