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Number of Host Homes Doubles in Nebraska

Number of Host Homes Doubles in Nebraska

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The current weather isn’t much of a selling point to visit Nebraska, but, the homesharing platform “Air B-n-B” says its number of host homes in the state doubled last year, as did the number of guests. Spokesman Ben Breit says Air B-n-B users usually like to get off the beaten path and don’t want to be confined to hotel districts.

Breit says the fastest-growing demographic for hosts in the Midwest is older people.

Breit says hosts typically earn about 36-hundred dollars a year in supplemental income from home sharing. Nebraska’s top Air B-n-B cities are Omaha, Lincoln, Bellevue, Gretna and Kearney.

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