A Milwaukee man is listing his apartment on Airbnb for $2,400 a night during DNC

From JSOnline:

A three-bedroom apartment, on the upper level of this Walker's Point building, is being offered through Airbnb.com for $2,400 a night during the Democratic National Convention in July 2020. (Photo: Tom Daykin / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

It won't be just hotels that will cash in when the Democratic National Convention attracts an estimated 50,000 visitors to Milwaukee.

People who list their homes for short-term stays through Airbnb.com can also expect to get bookings at higher rates.

That's according to some new research done by Anthony Pennington-Cross, a Marquette University finance professor. 

"Everything is going to fill in the city," said Pennington-Cross, Marquette's Robert Bernard Bell Sr. Chair in Real Estate.

Read more:  https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/real-estate/commercial/2019/03/14/airbnb-hosts-cash-democratic-convention-milwaukee/3162008002/


You can have mine for $500 a day.  One bedroom, but if you have sleeping bags, it will easily sleep eight.  Half upfront.  Charlie and I will live out of the truck.