Wow, all that "staging" stuff sounds crazy, I wouldn't like that either! It doesn't look like much of that is done around here, at least from what I am seeing online (thinking of buying a house this spring…because of a merger, my job is being transferred next month to a hospital 25 minutes away by car and that is a little too much of a commute for me to put up with long term, plus I will be done paying my student loans and ready to buy). Some of the places I have looked at photos of are obviously still being lived in (though spruced up for the pictures), others are empty. I do look forward to picking out a house and then setting it up the way I want it.