Savvy S. Floridians cash in by renting homes to game fans
More than 100,000 visitors are about to descend on South Florida for the country’s largest sports event. What’s a homeowner to do?
Hundreds of them are seizing the money-making moment and offering their homes to Super Bowl fans. Asking from $150 a day to more than $15,000 for the week, South Floridians are posting online pitches of pads from Pompano Beach to South Beach.
”I already have 10 e-mail responses. One woman called me from California at 2 a.m.,” said Romina Llanes, a day after posting her one-bedroom South Beach condo on craigslist.com for $500 for three days.
Condo owners are hoping booked hotels and high room prices near the Feb. 4 game will steer some Super Bowl visitors their way. Owners of single-family homes are appealing to small companies and groups that need larger spaces. They’re posting photographs, maps, glowing descriptions and promises of fun in the subtropics.