Extra rooms needed for Super Bowl crowd. (1996 Super Bowl)

Valley residents may not know it, but they may be sitting on a hot commodity to be cashed in during next year's Super Bowl.

Scott Stuart, owner of Bed & Breakfast Inn Arizona, a Scottsdale-based reservations service, has established a data bank of area homes, guest houses and other accommodations that can be used to catch some of the expected hotel overflow surrounding Super Bowl XXX. The National Football League event is scheduled next Jan. 28 in Tempe's Sun Devil Stadium.

"People who have extra rooms, guest houses, maybe an empty apartment in their real-estate portfolio can turn those empty rooms into money during Super Bowl time," Stuart says.

An open …