No Date = No Worries, just RENT a GENT!
A little over two years ago, a successful, attractive, young New York woman was looking for a date as her plus one to an ex boyfriend’s birthday. She tried various avenues including looking up ‘Rent a Date’ online, but had no luck! This episode got her thinking on how many women are looking for last minute dates to important events but have nowhere to go to find one. This spawned ‘Rent a Gent’.
Meet Sara Shikhman, Founder of Rent a Gent, a former corporate attorney, who gave up the big league to pursue her dreams. My head was brimming with questions,
How does this work?
Real Simple she explained…it’s like shoe or clothes shopping online…
Go to rentagent.me and select either ‘Rent a Date’ or ‘Rent an Entertainer’ and filter based on personal preference- such as Location, Body Type, Age Range, Hair and Eye color, Languages Spoken among others, then click BOOK to reserve your date or entertainer.
Club Rules are simple-
- Fixed rate of $200/hour
- NOT a Matchmaking site
- No SEX (or anything related in that area)
- The date and the client must text the Rent a Gent team upon completion of the time paid for in order to terminate the date
- The client pays for everything
Who are the dates and entertainers?
Gentlemen ranging from 21-55 (average age around mid 30s)
Mandatory requirements, 6 feet tall, 6 pack abs, and mostly at least a college grad. All ethnic backgrounds are accepted. Strict casting process, only 5% of all applicants are selected.
Who are the clients?
Clients are mostly successful, independent women ranging from 22-65, the average age being late 30s-early 40s. A large # of them are Asians (as we know have a high level of disposable income). Most common date request is dinner but some range from a date to a family reunion to a tour category_ide in a new city and some out of the box requests include pretending to be a pilot or a brain surgeon to impress family and friends. There is a good amount of married women renting dates as a plus one to key events where their significant others can’t make it. Younger men are also preferred by a large # of clients!
Interesting fact: A client in LA rented a date for 3 consecutive days for a family reunion, rehearsal dinner, and a wedding!
Rent a Gent has been featured on numerous shows including Chelsea Lately, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Tabloids, including Glamour, New York Post.
Rent a Gent is currently available in 12 states including major metros: NYC, Chicago, Miami, and LA and Sara and her team are working on expanding this overseas in Europe and Australia. To check if you can ‘Rent a Gent’ in your area and to learn more about this service, go to rentagent.me/contact@rentagent.me
Sara and/or her team of 10 will be on hand to help you pick your dream date.
Hell no way! What a joke. Now guys want us to pay for them and their whole night out! That’s not a gentleman now is he? How about another loser with no job? Don’t we have enough of those? Rather go by myself and leave my options open than pay for some ding dong! It should really be called ‘Rent a Gigolo’!
Down in Palm Beach, Florida near where my mom lives, they actually have several agencies that rent out male suitors for upscale charitable events. These losers come down from up North with a suit or two and nothing else! Can you imagine?? These desperate old widowed rich women pay out megabucks to rent them for the evening in addition to paying out everything in total (I am unaware as to whether these fossils can get it up and if so if the price includes a sexcapade.) Look out for my article next month on STD’s amongst the wealthy suburban housewives! These are the kinds of men who are spreading not only their seed but the god awful germs (STD’s) that come with it!! That’s right! So think twice before you bang that escort or old fossil armed with his viagra! I think that the mega bucks would be wiser spent on a gorgeous well endowed robot as they have to follow your every command and are unable to talk back! We need to come out with real life looking James Bond Dolls/Robots for these old bats! There is absolutely no shame in showing up at these events without a man!! I often times volunteer for charity events that I can attend free of charge because I want to keep busy and not have to sit through the boring speeches or have to put up with an annoying guy for the evening. Also, I have to conduct a pre-inspection on wardrobe and grooming before showing up with them=too much work for me! I love to network and mingle and so many men think that if you are with them that you are attached at the hip=too much togetherness for me! 🙁
Old American Gigolò
I don’t need to rent a gent. I’m just fine the way I am.
Sometimes being with an attractive men will attract even more men to you. Just a thought. But of course I am biased as the founder of Rent A Gent 🙂
The ladies who rent gents don’t need to rent them, they rent because they could.
Geez…..and for those of us “unblessed” with good looks….I’ve just been offered $400 to stand in line to attract your attention! When I get closer to the front, I’m to contact Mr. Good Looks and let him have a go. I heard this was a technique used for the iPhone 6 sales. Even us less than handsome men can capitalize on an opportunity. Gotta run….my pumpkin cheesecake is ready to come out of the oven. Yum!
Oh really? I have a better and more frugal plan of action. Wear an old engagement ring on your finger. I do it all of the time when I am out on the scene. It attracts great men like crazy! Men thrive on competition and as such are more attracted to women who are taken. I call it my man magnet ring. I have two former engagement rings that I wear all of the time. If you don’t own any real diamonds, fake it with a very good quality costume jewelry ring that is a copy of a real Cartier or Tiffany ring! Leave the gent for some other sucker to rent. If you share in any of my valuable time = you pay in full and then some! To use Apple’s Bull Shit Marketing plan, there are hundreds of people who desire my time but I only have an hour available = how much are you willing to shell out buddy?? Perhaps the people who are rushing out to buy Apple’s new iPhone should sign up. They are clearly suckers! 🙂
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)