It's been a while since the last time I checked up on my rental income and I can only say that it is not that great. I am still using the same SplinterRents rental bot as last time but the outcome is worst than last time. It just seems like the prices are on the downtrend as even the fiat value of my collection has dropped tremendously. In the end, I think it's just the normal process of the bear market playing out.

SplinterRents

The rental bot service that I use is called SplinterRents and it is a discord based rental service. By delegating out posting authority to the account, they can put up my cards up for rent and even change prices for those cards without requiring my actual posting key. If you are interested in using this rental bot service, you can visit my tutorial on how to do so. The only downside is that it is all text based so it might take some time to get use to it.

Status

As you can see, above, my current service has earned nearly 48,000 DEC since my last post about SplinterRents. It's been around 26 days since then so the average income per day was about 1.8k DEC per day. Considering what I was getting before, I think that income is still quite good.

Above is the collection value of my account but it has gone down despite opening a ton of cards two weeks ago in this post. The APR that I am getting is also down and I have seen other posts around LeoFinance mentioning how the rental income is dropping. I still have faith that Splinterlands will do well though so I plan on re-investing those funds into cards to either improve my deck or my rental income.

Reviewing the performance of SplinterRents

As I thought, the beginning of the season is horrible for SplinterRents. Above is the results of the rental bot near the start of the season for the previous 2 seasons. They are quite bad and this season was horrible. I think it's caused by the bot trying to perform well and not listing the prices low. By doing so, the cards are not even rented out properly around this time, and the prices for rentals go down. When I compare how they do towards the middle or end of the season, there isn't much of a difference despite the collection value going down.

Conclusion

I am still a bit disappointed at how SplinterRents fares at the start of the season, but I still think it has improved my rental income compared to when I didn't use the bot. We are still in a bear market so I am not surprised to see the rental prices go down and it makes me wonder whether or not renting cards from people would be worth it. At least from what I see, I think it might be worth it but I have yet to test it.

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