It is NOT as easy as it looks on TV.

Heck, people rent TV’s for their apartments!

During the recent RE Bubble, millions of wannabe investors paid ridiculous prices for investment properties they've been watching too many 'flipping' programs on TV).

Well, I guess if they wanted their TV, VCR, DVD Player, and Stereo to still work and their dishes to be in one piece, they should have moved it themselves!!!

I am responsible for appliances and TV's as I provide them.

Sometimes it got boring or tedious, but most of the time I chose that over TV or going out or any other "filler" of my free time.If you make REI a priority in life, working an 8 hour day doing something else shouldn't even slow you down.

We aren't talking about having people over, loud parties, music, TV, or anything like that.

My time syncs involved TV that at some point became necessary in my mind.

So you can visit the basement, watch tv in the basement, knit afghans in the basement - but based upon the egress requirements you defined, it cannot legally be used as a sleeping area.So, if you do as you propose, and the housing police show up, you can try to sell them a story that you are not actually using the basement as a bedroom, and you really sleep on the couch upstairs, and you only visit the basement to assemble puzzles and play solitaire.

We had more luck with TV, but it was pretty expensive.