I have been a metal fabricator for 10 years. 

.   :^) I come from the production world and I can tell you that much of the "drama" is fabricated, the timelines are compressed, and the numbers are fudged. 

As far as looks are concerned, the top veneer of eng'd is real hardwood, only the composition of the underlay is fabricated therefore is not much of a difference in look once it's laid.  

Myself, I always strive to be [blowhard bragging removed].Anyway, as you know I make millions of dollars by [total fabrication deleted] and would like to help people by [solicitation removed].

Don't follow the other lemmings over the cliff (although I recently read that the whole lemming suicide thing is not real and was fabricated by a Walt Disney Movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_%28f...)

I'm a GC and have two or three stone supplier / fabricators that I work with on a regular basis.

"The decline in owner occupant sales in Maricopa County over the past two years has altered the fabric of our neighborhoods," said Patricia Garcia Duarte, president of Neighborhood Housing Services of Phoenix and Chair of the Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force.

Pet stores sell non-toxic, fabric-friendly flea spray for home use.

The "upholstered headboards" are insulation board covered in fabric.

So the IRS can bump taxes collected by challenging REP status, which that other thread mentions is pretty easy for an auditor and a lot of work for an investor to have over whelming documentation that doesn't look "fabricated" on the spot after the fact.The point of this thread:   Last month a CPA gave a talk to our REIA and mentioned that claiming REP also increases your IRS scrutiny of whether you 1099 your contractors faithfully.