Las Vegas was the fastest-growing city in the US for about 25 years. Then during the mortgage crisis thousands of people walked away from their mortgages. So there are a lot of empty houses in Vegas these days.
Look on AirBNB. There are always people wanting to rent out whole houses by the day or the week. Probably pretty cheap too.
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