I also had a tenant that dressed in expensive Italian suits every day.

I'll probably dress it up as a home office/kids playroom.

We get dress.

Dressing professionally.  

Dress Sharp! 

Otherwise if I was me I would build a relatively simple built-in adjustable shelf unit above and alongside the fireplace with veneer plywood and a simple face frame (using a kreg pocket hole jig), perhaps with a tv recess, and maybe dress up the mantle with some off the shelf moldings from HD. 

If it's a hobby I suggest one takes up guitar or line dancing instead, but if it's a business then opportunity usually comes dressed in overalls cleverly disguised as hard work.

No one wants to be greeted with someone all dressed up.

Some areas will probably be better than others.For the later drive, focus on rolling through fast foods, gas stations, business districts, and see if the buses are full or not.The people you see on these two drives will be your pool of applicants.Take a paper map and make notes on it, and don't appear expensively dressed, or lost.You can take a friend (co-pilot) and have some fun there too.Just my two cents.Good Luck!

Also, to dress up the ugly posts, put plant hangers on them and hang baskets or put solar lights on them :) Good luck :)