The individual rate living below the poverty level is 36.4%; the family rate is 31.3%.[50]Urban decay[edit]This map shows vacancy rates of housing units in Wayne County, Michigan, and also in the city of Detroit.Dance floor of the Vanity Ballroom Building in 2010.The Film Exchange Building in 2012.Detroit has been described by some as a ghost town.[51][52] Parts of the city are so abandoned they have been described as looking like farmland, urban prairie, or even completely wild.[48]A significant percentage of housing parcels in the city are vacant, with abandoned lots making up more than half of total residential lots in many large portions of the city.[53] With at least 70,000 abandoned buildings, 31,000 empty houses, and 90,000 vacant lots, Detroit has become notorious for its urban blight.[51][54]In 2010 Mayor Bing put forth a plan to bulldoze one fourth of the city.[55] The plan was to concentrate Detroit's remaining population into certain areas to improve the delivery of essential city services, which the city has had significant difficulty providing (policing, fire protection, trash removal, snow removal, lighting, etc.).[51] In February 2013 the Detroit Free Press reported the Mayor's plan to accelerate the program.[56] The project has hopes "for federal funding to replicate it [the bulldozing plan] across the city to tackle Detroit’s problems with tens of thousands of abandoned and blighted homes and buildings."

I also have a video production business (www.houstonstreetproductions.com) which provides services for film, video, music video, commercials, promotional videos, voice overs, etc. 

Video services $100 - We will go out to your property and HD film(1080p/60fps) a property for you and point out any issues we see with the property.

Video services $100 - We will go out to your property and HD film(1080p/60fps) a property for you and point out any issues we see with the property.

Prices are lower downtown and rentals stay booked for tourists, weddings, events (film festivals, conventions, sports).  

But even if everything was accurate, if they are full-time flippers with a network behind them, they can take on tons of deals and only show the filming for the properties they make a killing on.I do like the show with Mike Holmes up in Canada, because they seem to give fair prices for the materials, and then he ends every accounting with "and that doesn't include us." 

In Hollywood they do horror film movie nights in these..no joke.

The filming industry is picking up too - all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were filmed there, and there is always some TV show filming as well.

@Michael GardnerWelcome to BP.I was a 1st camera assistant in the film and TV industry in LA for 30 years.

My background is in film and tv productions.