• 16 Jan 2009 at 11:37 AM

There’s Hope Yet

pfp.jpgHaving a hard time meeting that big mortgage payment for the oversized place you probably shouldn’t have borrowed to pay for? Well, relief might be in the cards. That is if you’re willing to have a porno shot in your home.

Jerry Mendoza says he’s willing to go to an extreme he wouldn’t have before the real estate slump. It hit Southern California hard, with the median home price in a six-county region falling a record 34 percent in November to $285,000, according to research company MDA DataQuick.
His four-bedroom house in suburban Burbank, which Mendoza built in 2006, didn’t sell for the $1.3 million he asked, and when renters left in November he began leasing it for filming. The most he received for a day was $1,300, he said. So he posted an Internet notice that the property, which has an eight-person hot tub, was available to the adult-film industry, which he had heard pays as much as $5,000 a day.

What’s more? Income from sporadic filming (under 15 days a year) is tax-free.
Film, Porn Shoots Sought by Los Angeles Homeowners Hit by Slump [Bloomberg]

Comments (22)

  1. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM

    FIGHT ON CNBC – GASPARIN V THE WORLD. Again.

  2. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    Is there any way the death match between Kneale and Charlie G. can result in BOTH of them dying?
    -Nominate me

  3. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    Thats ok Bess – do what you have to do – if you need a place to stay while they’re filming at ur place let me now

  4. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:45 AM

    Stay the hell out of that hot tub.

  5. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    too Softcore – couldn’t pop

  6. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    My place is available to the industry, for free. -BBW

  7. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM

    Looks like 1 or both of them need a serious trimming…

  8. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    too full of pubes — didn’t read

  9. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    @7 i just spit out my pepsi. hadnt noticed that shrub growing there

  10. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM

    Why is the rental income tax free? Your blurb states that “when renters left…”. Clearly this was not his primary residence; so, the Masters exemption should not apply. Not an accountant, but…

  11. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM

    A penetrating look at Southern California’s housing shrinkage.

  12. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    @11 – they pride themselves on a harder, deeper reporting style.

  13. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM

    anyone know why they always wear shoes?

  14. Posted by Anal_yst | January 16, 2009 at 12:02 PM

    @ 13
    Because for some strange reason unbeknownst to me its hot?
    Also, what is the “silicon alley” of pron on the east coast, just out of curiosity?

  15. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM

    I got your big mortgage payment right here.

  16. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 12:08 PM

    I got your big mortgage payment right here.

  17. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM

    @9
    Clarence,
    When did you switch to Pepsi?
    Anita Hill

  18. Posted by Lowly Assistant | January 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    Anal,
    I think it’s under the Fens. Teeth are an accessory.

  19. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM

    Comment removed by moderator.

  20. Posted by Conflicts of disinterest | January 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM

    @14 – That would be Pound Ridge

  21. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 9:26 PM

    14
    There is no East Side equivalent of Porn Valley. To my knowledge, California is only state in the country that allows for adult film shoots. In every other state, all that amateur porn/ home video stuff is being done illegally. Which makes me sooo proud that I live in So Cal and get so see porn actresses walking the aisles of the supermarket with their gigantic, gravity defying boobs.

  22. Posted by guest | January 16, 2009 at 9:34 PM

    21 here. Clarification needed- I should have said that California is the only state allowing for adult video shoots for commercial purposes. Skanky, amateur porn with over grown, crinkly pubic tumbleweeds is still legit, so long as the video is not sold for profit. Sex for money- classy and resourceful.

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