yes, I am a Chinese living and working in Shanghai. I like travel
around China when I have time. There are so many interesting and
beautiful cities here. And I like to book simple and nice hotel. The
room offered by HomeInn is quite cozy. and the most important is: it's
cheap.  The room rate is between 20$-35$/night, but the room itself
make me feel very comfortable. the floor is clean, the bed is worm,
everything are quite enough.  As a manager of a foreign company
operated in Shanghai, I usually travel around the world frequently, and
I know all kinds of hotel well. I tried Sheraton, Hilton and Marriott.
They are good and fancy. but too expensive for personal travel. so now
wherever I visit in China, my first choice will be Home Inn. (well I
need to  book the room at least 4 days or there will be no room left).
Now it finally listed, I feel quite happy to buy a lot of share.

It's nice to hear a personal experience on HMIN. I'm glad their claim
"your home away from home" stands true.

I, too, am interested in buying stock in HMIN. I think the company has
a healthy business model, and will accommodate a lot of business,
especially in the Shanghai city limits.

When are you going to open a position? I'll probably just buy on
monday, and 3 other times over the course of January, using dollar cost
averaging.