He brings another advantage, which is that he has an offer from a television channel that would provide $25-40k to spend on each rehab.

Additional pickup:- Survey: Nearly 2/3 of the U.S. real estate investors intend to buy more houses in the next 1 year - Chinese Television System (Taiwan)

How staged are those home repair television shows?

Furthermore, the house was really dirty.The guys living in it had just graduated college and were still living out their fraternity lifestyle in the house a la the comedy television series Workaholics.

This is why STRs are a great investment class - the world is going to **** and individual mental health depends on more time spent away from cell phones, computer screens, and television sets. 

The last time I watched a television show was when I was in a break room in the Air Force in 1968 and that is when I went into the Air Force.

Televisions mounted to the walls in just about every room.  

We started offering weekly trash removal, fixing things around the home, going by the home if the guest had an issue with a television, a light bulb being out, a stove not working etc.

Costa hawkins (allowing new buildings and Single family houses to be under rent control and make it universal among different ET "public television" It's sponsored by CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT who gets funding from California Governemnt https://www.kcet.org/shows/city-rising/city-rising... this is on KCET  Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Santa Ana Orange County, Bay Area are all on this. 

I have heard of auditors actually going to a home and inspecting and if a television was thereit had to be justified as a business activity, otherwise the room was considered an additional living space and occassionally used for business thereby disqualifying all the deductions.I have been through this several times when I used a home office long ago.