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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Presidential Inauguration 2013: How to Rent Your Home

Fewer people are listing their home, condo or apartment for rent for the 2013 presidential inauguration weekend. Here's some advice if you decide to rent your pad.

If it seems like you’re hearing less about people trying to rent out their homes for the 2013 Presidential Inauguration than you were four years ago, you aren’t imagining it. Fewer people are trying to rent out their condos, apartments and houses for this inauguration than for President Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009, and the prices for home rentals have dropped. One reason: Officials just aren’t expecting crowds as big as they were in 2009, when, by some estimates, 1.8 million people flooded the city. The projected crowd for the 2013 inauguration is fewer than 1 million people, the Associated Press reported. A check of Craigslist, Airbnb.com and other home rental websites that serve the Washington area revealed very few homes …

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