Yeah I tried renting stuff like camping gear, instead of owning it. The University athletic services was glad to rent me old-fashioned heavy tents and so on. For about $50 per campout. It was about the same price to buy good stuff, and use it a dozen times!<p>I&#x27;m suspicious that an own-in-common club or organization would end up asking me to pay too much for old stuff.  It&#x27;d be hard to avoid - they&#x27;d want to depreciate it all or whatever. A hard startup to invent.