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Save my house, Hollywood

Desperate homeowners let in film crew to earn $3,000 a day, but risk getting nasty surprises

January 20, 2009

 

 

 

 

HURTING from the current recession but love your home too much to sell it off?

 

Some Los Angeles homeowners have found a way to earn extra cash while holding on to their houses - they called Hollywood.

 

These enterprising homeowners have laid out the welcome mat for film crew, offering their homes as sets for movies and commercials, reported Bloomberg.

 

 

Said MrJoseph Darrell, who runs Joe Darrell Location Service, which sources locations for film sets: 'We are getting a lot of calls (from homeowners). They say, 'Can you help me to bring a production to my home, because I have trouble making my payments.'

 

But letting in film crews is not without setbacks.

 

MsMarylin Bitner, who owns PlanA Locations, said one client 'almost had a heart attack' when he saw that his living room had been painted fluorescent yellow.

 

But another was quite happy to have a new gate installed in front of his house, MsBitner said. He called it the 'pay-it-forward' gate.

 

Clothing and jewellery designer Jayshree Gupta too is happy to let cameramen tramp about her 3,000-sq-ft Bevely Hills penthouse.

 

'I am doing it because I need money to maintain my lifestyle. A lot of my money is either gone or tied up. Right now I am hurting,' she said as crew members laid protective paper over her hardwood floor and moved in lighting and camera gear.

 

Her home is being used for a day as a set for a TV commercial for a day.

 

She declined to say how much she was being paid, but Mr Darrell, who landed the deal for her, said the going rate for filming work in a place like hers is US$2,000 ($3,000) to US$3,000 a day.

 

That amount would pay half her monthly household bills and maid service.

 

Added MsGupta: 'I am praying, praying, for more productions to come in. 'I thought it was a brilliant idea to help myself.'

 

MsBitner told Bloomberg that she has been getting more than a dozen calls from homeowners each week, up from about two a week a year ago.

 

She said: 'We're getting all sorts of houses. From small homes, where owners are hoping production money will save their house, to very large mansions, where owners hope to avoid having to dig into their savings or having to sell stocks.'

 

Still, there are some perks to letting your property out for film-making.

 

For one, income from residential filming for fewer than 15 days a year isn't subject to federal taxes, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

 

For another, you may get to rub shoulders with a movie star.

 

Said MsBitner: 'We've had Alec Baldwin, Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr, among many others. They are always posing with our clients' kids.'

 

But it's not just homeowners that are trying to make their properties earn their keep. More owners of commercial buildings are also letting in film crews.

 

But many are willing to settle for less than the US$6,500 or more a day that was previously offered, said MrDarrell.

 

Meanwhile, one desperate homeowner, Mr Jerry Mendoza, was hard up enough to go to compromise on his integrity for more cash.

 

He had hoped to sell his four-bedroom house in suburban Burbank, which he built in 2006, for US$1.3 million.

 

When the tenants he rented the home to left in November, he leased it for filming. But the most he had received for a day was US$1,300, he said.

 

So he offered his home on an Internet notice for the adult-film industry - because he had heard it paid up to US$5,000 a day.

 

 

Maybe the homeowner can be part of the acting crews for the adult-firm industry :)

 

 

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Tjkbeluga

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I'll happily offer my home for adult film, FOC... provided I get to be the actor... hehehe

 

Very desperate lah...

Not if the theme is bestiality, homo or with lao char bor...

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Altivo

Altivo

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I'll happily offer my home for adult film, FOC... provided I get to be the actor... hehehe

 

Very desperate lah...

 

what if it's for porn themes like golden shower or BBW? u sure u wanna be the actor? [sly]

 

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David

David

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We were staying in Tanjong Pagar in the 80's when we have requests from the-then SBC for the backlane scene. We have XY, LMJ and the likes who would come into our house to access to the backlane.

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