well, a quick look at my state's licensing info says that a permanent place of business that's not a residence is required. I'm not seeing a lookup feature, but they also have a sense of humor: "The process for obtaining an automobile dealer's license in New Mexico may seem as complicated as the Manhattan Project. You may even be tempted to camp out in front of the National Laboratory in Los Alamos in the hope that some brainy scientist will give you the secrets to break down the complicated code that seems to surround the licensing process." 3 a year? try 3 a week. Should I go out of my way to get this neighbor in trouble? Don't live right next to them. This post was edited by Violet.West on Sun, Sep 14, 14 at 19:22

nancy - it's great! the first morning tho I forgot about it being there and was confused not to see the sky out my window! I was half asleep still (still in bed) - my curtain in the bedroom is always partially pulled back. if you know the cost of the product - and the price of it being put down then you'll know what you are being charged for the carpet pull up and plywood. maybe someone could do it for a better price (the carpet and plywood). I'm sure you'll love it with the carpet out - that's what I'm hoping to do. depends on the prices tho.

Thank you so much for your responses. @gsweater: I just added some close ups, please let me know if those are good. Thanks. @yardtractor1: I believe the sod in that area is in good contact with the underlying soil. We prepared the soil, made sure it was nice and leveled and passed a landscape roller a week after installation. What do you think? would that be enough? I picked up the sod last week in a few areas and the soil beneath it looked moist and leveled. The sod is actually developing roots. @dchall_san_antonio: The soil we had was like clay. We tilled the soil about 3 times (6in. deep), then added a compost that was supposedly specially made for our type of soil (1in. deep), then tilled the area once again. We used a rear-tine tiller. After we were done tilling the compost we used a metal rake to make sure the whole area was leveled. After that, we began with sod installation (we worked from the fence toward the house). We installed the sod with a brick like pattern. We kept using the rake to level whichever area we had stepped on while installing the previous roll of sod. After sod installation was finished we watered for 15mins. Rain & snow took care of the rest of the watering needs that night. A week after we decided to rent a lawn roller and walked with it all over the sod to make sure any air pockets were taken care of and that the entire sod was in contact with the soil beneath it. What do you think?... BTW, thank you for your feedback and information.

How fun! And stressful-lol... The first thing you need to do is draw out a floor plan so then you can do a furniture layout. This will help you determine the size and type of furniture you need to shop for. Do you have measurements of the room? It also needs to include doorways and where you plan to put the TV. Once you have your floor plan, post here and give us an idea of what your needs are. Such as are you planning to put a dining table in the area where the wallpaper wall is, if so how many people do you want it to seat. How many people do you want to be able to seat in the living area- not for entertainment necessarily but more for every day, etc. Give us as much information as you can.