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Ditching Craigslist To Find Digs

If all the inauguration rental rip offs have you second-guessing your plans to attend Obama's big day, you may want to check out Inauguration Homes, a new website peddling, yep, rentals during inaugural week.

The site allows you to list rentals or browse listings for free, and the proprietors claim to independently verify the legitimacy of each listing, which are limited to houses within DC proper. The site mostly avoids the over-the-top listings found on Craigslist, but that's not to say you'll find the steal of the century here. Let's call the finds "reasonably overpriced."

At $500 a night, this Cleveland Park studio beats most of the deals on CL, and there are a bunch of similarly priced places in decent nabes, while the crazy-expensive listings at least look like pretty outrageous places, such as this five-bedroom Kalorama townhouse, asking $8,750 a night.

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· Inauguration Homes [Official Site]
· Best Of The Craigslist Inauguration Rip Offs (So Far) [Jaunted]
· The Six Best Craigslist Deals. (So Far.) [Jaunted]
· Inauguration Travel coverage [Jaunted]