Super Bowl XLV Housing: Wanna Rent Your Home for Super Bowl Weekend?

Now that hotel rooms are getting as scarce as a prostitute in church for the big weekend, means more D/FW folks might be renting out their homes for Super Bowl XLV. I KNOW many homeowners would like to get a nice, big, fat deposit, turn over their keys, and then get out of town while everyone else comes in, clogs the highways, hogs our restaurants. A cool new site called iStopOver.com is offering to help link Green Bay fans who cannot find hotel rooms with homes. Check it out if you want to lease your home.

But stranger, danger to your home? If you are serious about this rental deal, you should call your insurance company first and obtain an extra policy for the term of the rental. No kidding: we had a graduation party chez Evans for 300 plus kids, and so paranoid were my husband and I that we bought a policy to cover the night of the event. Like, what if someone falls and trips in your home — will your umbrella policy cover it if they are a tenant? Will your scheduled prized possessions be covered? Do you have at least one closet where you can lock away the silver and that $40,000 painting — wouldn’t want champagne spray or red wine on it now, would you? Hosts in Augusta, GA, home of the Masters, tell me they keep special linens for the rental guests — towels, sheets, blankets and pillows.

And then, there’s this: Clorox cleans only so much. Some experts say the reason people want to rent homes is that they want to turn your home into a dang brothel. 15,000 women are estimated to be heading our way to turn Dallas into a hotbed for hookers. Not sure a wad of cash is worth having all that “activity” in my house and hot tub!