Have a room to rent? Buffett expects record crowd at Berkshire shareholder meeting for his 50th anni
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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, heres 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.
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Berkshire Hathaway shareholders wait to enter the CenturyLink Center for last years annual meeting, which drew 39,000 people.
Out-of-town attendees will strain the citys 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 were going to be up pretty significantly over last year, Buffett told The World-Herald Wednesday. He said an estimated 39,000 people attended last years meeting at the CenturyLink Center, and we pretty much filled up all the available hotel spaces.
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