In the same way that being a chef and owning a mcdonalds are not interchangeable simply because they both focus on selling food. 

What your CPA has recommended is you receiving rent "income" in the form of a personal service barter, so you would still technically have to report the value of the chef services as rental income.Now it's true, most people don't report barter services, but in this case there is a vast difference between what the tax regulation states vs what people actually do.For example, as a CPA, if I do your tax return in return for mowing the lawn at my house, I would still have to value the amount of your lawnmowing and declare that as income. 

In the same way that being a chef and owning a Red lobster both make money from selling food, but are not considered the same job nor require the same skill sets. 

It could be "par for the course" for the industry, not sure, and unless this guy is a professional chef (which would be against the terms of my lease to run a business on the premises), this is really picky. 

But, you’d have to have serious chef to appreciate it.

My husband and I work and live on a charter catamaran as a Captain and Chef team.

Hey I’m a pastry chef that was to start thinking about the future!

I put $550,000 into the demo and construction of this new single family home with over 2900 SF, 2 stories, 3 view decks, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, large chef’s kitchen with top of the line appliances, huge yard, attached 2 car garage, and built in BBQ, fridge and bar seating for 7 on the backyard patio.

The owner/chef got distracted and we had to evict.

i like the idea of just dumping some asphalt or a slab on it and leasing it out to food trucks.... you may find a guy who does a near by office park every day for the lunch crowd and than he can shoot over to your location at 230 and catch the after school crowd...Or you could just buy a food truck and than find a local underpaid short order chef possibly one with a spouse who happens to be looking for work and give them the food truck for 50% of the business you may end up spending less than developing it properly but also making more money if they have really good food and the high school kids keep coming back after they graduate with the new flow of students its a possible gold mine if you had the right menu....