I won’t presume to answer for Vicente but I can speak to your query, having worked in the film biz for 25 years, prior to my current business.

Most people rent out their houses/property because they are proud of their spaces. Also, before the space is taken over by the film crew, anything of personal or irreplacability is (or should be) very carefully packed away. It’s usually the SPACE, rather than the things in the space, that they are interested in – crew people are carefully monitored and they stay in the space they are assigned to – nobody is going through closets or drawers or sleeping on your bed. Plus, most film crews are highly professional (and I’m sure Calvin Klein expects the highest professionalism from his people) – my film crews treated our rented homes with dispassionate care. After all, within 99% of all rental contracts of that nature there are hefty fees incurred for any damage. Plus, a crew member responsible for any willful or negligent damage is usually fired and not hired again in production. Nobody needs that headache.

So the stakes are actually HIGHER for the renters than the rentees!

One other thing – if they modify your home in a positive way, you usually get to keep the mods. And they leave your home cleaner than when they got there, especially if that is in the contract as well.

Film crews can come to my little shotgun shack anytime they like!

Hope this helps answer your question a little bit. I guess it boils down to what each person considers invasive!

Down here in South Carolina we are a few months behind major areas, so we felt the slowdown after my friends in California and New York. While I don’t think things have picked back up yet, people seem quite confident that they will. A realtor friend of mine made the comment recently that sales are definitely starting to come out of the slump, so hopefully everything else will follow!