Olympics rental

[tomwalkerhome]

Any ideas as to which is the best/most reputable agency to rent out my house for the

Olympics. There is a lot of press about very impressive possible rates...but greed aside I'd rather getr less and a good experience! Any suggestions welcome....Thanks Tom

[Marmora Man]

Why not stay and watch the Olympics. It's unlikely to come to London again for 50 years. Is a couple of grand worth more to you than being part of a genuine one off experience?

[ClareC]

Nice idea, if only Londoners got tickets!

[Marmora Man]

I won 4 tckts for semi final hockey - wanted 100m final. I'm pretty sure that the distribution of tckts averages out across the country - and even if you watch it on TV at least it's in local time.

[Chippy Minton]

Tom - presumably a couple of grand is worth more to you than watching sport for an hour and a half ;-)

Have you tried this site? http://www.rentforthegames.com/

[????]

Is there really a significant market for this in general (let alone in SE22)? There's lot's of press coverage on all sorts of crap, don't mean much. Various random hypothesis from me.

1) Can't see many people breezing in for the whole shebang, a week maybe

2) Not sure the foreighn viositors number will be quite what we expected - ex-pats in UK and dignitaries yes but otherwise not convinced

3) SE22, hardly on the tourist map, not near a tube, infact in South London..will take some convinvcing for say Yanks

[????]

..will take some convinvcing for say Yanks

...with the exception of Gingerbeer

[maxxi]

Surely this is moot as the usual procedure for this kind of thing is a big bomb a couple of weeks before; just to make sure most prospective visitors stay away.

[Jeremy]

East Dulwich is not particularly convenient for Stratford, I'd be surprised if it was attractive for Olympic visitors.

[woodrot]

deja vu

didnt this topic crop up with the millenium ? - undreamed of riches for NO WORK AT ALL - just renting your pomme de terre out the victims who want to come to London for the celebratrions 'cept it didnt happen & no-one made anything.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

The millenium worked out pretty well for retired cobol programmers though.