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Leave it spread down your stairs overnight. dry it off with a towel first, don't leave it any longer, the damp smell will spoil your camping even if it doesn't get mildew. Its worth putting up with the inconvenience to save your tent, mines all over the living room now, wasn't very wet,just sig really,  but after paying hundreds of pounds, I'm not letting a bit of rain ruin it for me.

another thing to consider is asking the local community centre or church hall if you could erect it there, for a few hours , for a donation, a fiver or tenner would be money well spent to save an expensive tent, i f you really haven't got room to dry it anywhere else.

When de-camping in rain we always wear waterproof jacket and trousers and a hat.  When done take them off and nice and dry underneath ... and we have done this in some heavy rain!

Pauline

It's good advice to keep the wash bag and a change of clothes out. This applies to striking camp in very hot weather too.

I've never fancied a long journey home (including a ferry when in France) covered in mud or being hot and sticky.

All good advice about possibly the only bloody aspect of camping tho' it's always good to look back and laugh.

I have a massive great tent called a Cabanon Aruba and the only way I can cope with the thing if I have to get it down in the wet is to get the "inners" into their bag which goes upright behind the passenger seat of a (rented) estate car with the poles, put a plastic sheet over the load in the back of the car and bung the "folded" outer on top. 

I leave the groundsheet out until last so that I have something on which to fold the tent without it getting dirty.

As others have said, don't leave the wet tent in it's bag; it will rot and even if you're lucky it will smell.  I live in a small house and don't have the space even to hang the tent over the bannister; anyway my other half who doesn't do camping would object!

I have to leave mine in a folded heap on my study floor and turn it twice a day until I can put it up and dry it in the back yard.

Take care

R