Introduction to Home Staging

How lame is the waste of airtime on McCain’s houses? This is the best Obama, Biden and anti-American journalists can do? How out of touch are they with the real issues we face every day?

It’s McCain’s fault. If you look at polling information, the Democrats are ahead on all the issues (except foreign policy, and recently, offshore oil drilling). But McCain can’t have a serious debate about these issues because the reason the people like him on these issues is because of lies – the media has lied that he is straight talking ‘Maverick’ (when actually he is a lying supporter of Bush), and that offshore oil drilling will effect prices (which it will not, according to Bush’s own interior department).

I heard one week, I heard two weeks.
I’ve been doing it two weeks.
I always change anything that looks wet.
And when she piles up her own poop, I take that out too.
I’m not using shaving neither, some other almost fabricy like bedding.
it’s more expensive.
It says it compacts to 6 grams and absorbs up to 14 or something.
And what’s more is she only seems to get cozy if I leave it longer than a week.
omg, one time i left for a week, gave her fresh food and water before i left.
when i came back, not only was she perfectly fine, but she hooked her cage up.
i just a fluff called sweetdreams for her top compartment bed, and her coconut den.
when i came back, she had this dope fluffing house, complete with a toiletpaper tube entrance
right under her water bottle.
is that normal?
and did she only do it because she was left alone for so long?

once a week at least. small pets can easily become very ill in dirty enviroments. pick up poo once a week and completlely change it once a week too. I have had a two rats and a hamster get sick from a dirty cage, all but one (the hamster) died from it eventually. One rat a respitory disease, died overnight and the other cancer. The hamster had wet tail and would have died if we had caught it a few days later.

its about 6ft x 6ft when fully fluffed, i need it to fit in the back of a SUV so the smaller the better!

Do you have a good friend with a pick up truck, or a big van? Man, that’s huge, I didn’t know Love Sac’s were that big. Good luck!

My puppy is about 6 months old and has been trying to chew anything he can get his mouth on. We’ve "puppy proofed" the rooms where he stays as best as possible and crate him when we’re not around for periods of time. Lately he’s been getting so bad that if we leave for any amount of time, there’s hunks of fluff on the floor from pillows and anything else and the other day he ripped into the sofa after being alone for a mere 5 minutes and now everyone in the house is mad at him except me because I understand how puppies are. I tried the stuff to spray on furniture etc and it did nothing but make him want to chew on the wood chair legs even more. Does anyone have any advice? I’m hoping this will lessen as he gets older and stops teething but what’s best for right now? He only does it when I’m not around, yet when I’m there he’s a perfect angel and chews on his toys. He has horrible separation issues and was a rescue dog- could that be a problem? Any suggestions would be great- thanks =]

Go get lots of bully sticks, tendons, cow tails, bones and lots and lots of toys. spray what you don’t want chewed on with bitter apple, or I’ve heard Tabasco works good (never tried the Tabasco).

Instead of crating him if he is smaller (this won’t work with large breeds) confine him into a room with a baby gate.

Make sure you give him allot of exercise.

it backed by facts, it is all fluff and empty promise, whereas Beck is begging the White House, to call him on lies,….
But they can not comply,. because what Beck says is true,…
So what has Obama ever said which is true, and came to pass?

Fox News and Beck………what a combination, seriously.
Beck is MONITORED by the White House and a variety of "other" interests, all hostile. If Beck uttered ONE falsehood, about Obama ( who despises Fox News and acts like a child about it ) he and Fox News would be sued OFF THE AIR. And ALL you Beck bashers…….
Don’t you think you owe credit where credit is due ? If it weren’t for Beck ALONE, that Marxist, Racist, anti-American would still be sitting at the messiahs right hand INSIDE the White House. But of course, you festering Liberals would NEVER admit that………..maybe because YOU want a socialist like Obama in there too ?

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The "picky Cleaning Lady"
Picky Picker Uppers
Picky Home Cleaners
Fluff N’Tidy
Nit-Picky Cleaning Service
Picky Home Cleaners
Just "A Picky Lady"
Tidy House Cleaning & Maid Service
The Picky Maid
And then my slogan will be "Perfectly Clean Is What We Mean"

Fluff N Tidy
Dust Busters

I was reading her interview, and she makes it seem so normal and so nice. But I think that is such a bad picture to portray to all teens out there. Because most are not well off like her and dont have their own house and, lets face it, having a baby is HARD WORK. I was young but married when I got pregnant and I was still terrified and scared to death with my first baby. I always thought I was doing something wrong. It took a long time to get comfortable in a routine and then, I had to go back to work. So that was hard as well. No sleep. A crying baby. Its not glamorous like she is portraying it. What do you think? I feel like shes setting such a bad example already but now, shes made it even worse.

I agree, but i am glad she stepped up and had the baby in stead of getting rid of it. I don’t think she should have done the article. I t seemed like she was glamorizing teen pregnancy .

I have two dogs the youngest one is the one i have the problem with she is 2 years old and everytime we go out the house we come back and the fluff from her bed will be everywere!!! it will be all down the stair case the zip to the bed will be ripped open. what can we do. we have all just shouted at her and we are all ignoring her now. but what should we really do? is there any other way for her to stop this? it is as if she forgets we shouted at her the day before about it. It causes arguments and she knows she is wrong as she will curl into a corner and shake (it makes me feel awful shouting at her watching her shake but what else can i do?) also i would never hit her, just shout… can someone help?

Well first of all you are treating her like she understands as an other human would……however she is a dog and doesn’t know why you shouted at her, or why she is shut outside…….all she knows is you are angry and excluding her, she will NOT put the two things together …………you have to catch her actually doing it and correct her, then she understands why you are angry………..sorry however "she desn’t know she is wrong as she will curl into a corner and shake" she knows you are angry that is all she knows http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090611065839.htm

It is now a vicious cycle which you need to break…she has what is called ’separation anxiety’ when you go because she is anxious, she runs around and to stop her feeling anxious she chews her bed, as chewing relieves anxiety in dogs…she then may go to sleep and wait for you coming back…you come in and shout and put her out ( she doesn’t know why her pack leader is angry as she may have done this hours before and has ‘forgotten’) all she knows is when you come home she gets shouted at and put out so that makes her more anxious………and it will get worse, as she hears the car arrive or the gate opening she will expect you to shout and be put out so she will possibly start to pee on the floor or do other bad behaviours humans don’t understand or like………

So you need to either crate train her, or remove the bed she destroys and give her something she can chew, like a kong filled with her meal, she will spend the time chewing relieving her anxiety, working to earn her food, it will keep her occupied and tire her…when you come home, don’t look, touch or talk to her(that is very important, that you show her no emotion), just open the door and let her out to the toilet…clear up and distruction she has caused…wait until you are calm then let her in and greet her happily ( whatever she has done) and forget it….you may need to work on this for a few days maybe a couple of weeks, however she will then learn that you come home calm and happy to see her and it should stop………you never correct a dog unless you actually catch them in the act of doing something bad.
This may also help you with both dogs http://k9deb.com/nilif.htm

My dogue de bordeaux is nearly 9 months old and he has just started marking his scent in the house but this morning i came down and he had weed against the wall and fireplace and on the tv unit and on another cupboard. I can’t have this in the house as i have 4 young children who play in that room and we have nowhere else for him to sleep. He did used to sleep at the bottom of the stairs but then he started chewing the stairs!! This morning he chewed my babys chair, there was fluff and foam everywhere and now i’ll have to buy a new one. How can i stop him doing this when i’m not even there?
Please help because it’s been going on for a while now and we are considering having to rehome him but we really don’t want to because apart from this he is a lovely dog.
It’s not the breeding but showing that i want to do so therefore he needs his balls! As for the water thing it’s a great idea but he only does it at night when we’ve all gone to bed!

Male dogs always smell before they pee so what i did because i was in ur situation i put pepper were u would think he would do it because when he goes to smell little bits of the pepper go up his nose so then he should go away from that area and not pee.

If Ur children are young u might not wont to do that so if he is not an old dog (0-5 it still could work a little bit older) u should get him de-sexed this would get rid of the hormones to mark his territory so he can get the girls so that should stop it if u go to Ur vet they should tell u this and give u more information about it i hope this helped!

If he does it at night lock him in ur laundry or some room…defiantly don’t let him keep on doing it because he will get used to it and u shouldn’t re-home him because of that.

our dog did it and we got a special guy that knows about this stuff he said he is doing it for attention so we all had to give him a lot of attention and every day we had to walk him for 5mins in a small circle because at first they think they are going for a good fun walk but when u keep going around in circles they wont to go in the other direction so then there other side of "im boss of u" comes out so that teaches them that ur the boss and its ur territory and always will be.

last january we had a heavy snow and on the one side of our house the soffits, fascia and all of that lovely stuff in there fell down. we called our insurance company who asked if we had a contractor, no we didn’t so they referred us to one on their list.

we had them come out to look. about 3 weeks later we got our estimate, which was high and fluffed but our insurance okayed it so we said alrighty then. after a few more weeks (they kept coming out saying it was too cold, when i would call and ask when they were coming out they said they already told my husband don’t i talk to him? which they never gave him a straight answer). they were rude and unhelpful and yelled at each other about not being the right conditions for them to work. they charged us to rent their scaffold. this is how they are.

so anyway, they finally get up there and we get another estimate. there was some previous damage that needs to be repaired before they can do what they were originally supposed to. well this other, all they had to do was sister some wood, i think it was 4 pieces, they charged us more for that than for all the other combined. now this part was coming out of our pocket since it was pre existing, which was fine.

we talked to the insurance company they said we didn’t have to go with that company if we didn’t want to. so we didn’t. the insurance company let them go, sent us a check, said we could find whoever we wanted, so we did.

they were in and out in 2 hours. much more reasonably priced.

now, the previous company left a couple pieces of their scaffoldling behind and never came to get it. in april we started receiving bills from them. 500 bucks. they feel they are owed 500 bucks. 95 was for the estimate, which i’m fine with paying. 125 was for the building permit which i called and found out it was only 20. so i’m fine paying them 20 since they didn’t even use it. the rest is for the scaffolding that they used for the estimate.

there was no mention of an EXTRA fee for scaffold used in the estimate. i tried to talk to the rude one on the phone but it was pretty definite they wanted to be paid this. so they kept sending me bills, then they said they were putting a lien on our house. so i filed a complaint with BBB. the company responded to me by saying i was committing insurance fraud, i told them i would be fine taking them to small claims court to PAY THEM what they are owed not their inflated bill. they haven’t responded further.

can they put a lien on my house without notifying me first?

the only thing that was signed was the paper that said they could do the estimate. there was no actual contract. can they still?
plus, since they made a new second estimate and said the first couldn’t be done until the second was, doesn’t that void out the original?

Without a signed contract for work performed, they should NOT be able to place a lien on your home without first going to court. You may want to consult with a local attorney with all your paperwork and details–first consultation cheap or free. Take your info above and make a concise statement, timeline of events and occurrences.