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Omaha Steve

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Sun Jan 18, 2015, 08:44 AM Jan 2015

Have a room to rent? Buffett expects record crowd at Berkshire shareholder meeting for his 50th anni


http://www.omaha.com/money/buffett/have-a-room-to-rent-buffett-expects-record-crowd-at/article_edb9168f-53fe-55bc-940f-87cb97b99586.html

POSTED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2015 1:00 AM
By Steve Jordon 
and Cindy Gonzalez / World-Herald staff writers

If you ever wanted to run a bed-and-breakfast for investors, here’s your chance.

With his 50th business anniversary on the agenda of the May 2 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders meeting, Warren Buffett expects a record crowd — “well over 40,000 people” — in Omaha.


REBECCA S. GRATZ/THE WORLD-HERALD
Berkshire Hathaway shareholders wait to enter the CenturyLink Center for last year’s annual meeting, which drew 39,000 people.


Out-of-town attendees will strain the city’s 14,000 hotel rooms, so Buffett wants Omahans to open up at least 1,000 rooms by signing up with Airbnb, an Internet-connected network of houses, apartments, condos and even treehouses and castles.

“I think we’re going to be up pretty significantly over last year,” Buffett told The World-Herald Wednesday. He said an estimated 39,000 people attended last year’s meeting at the CenturyLink Center, and “we pretty much filled up all the available hotel spaces.”

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