An Update: I tried rebooting my computer to see if the custom objects, etc., would finally appear and they did.  It seems that the Sim I used was an "existing" Sim (the ones that you import into the game that are already complete so to speak) and he still has the floating head(s) but at least everything seems to be working fine.

As already mentioned, don't expect exactly the same way of decorating to be used that you have done for elsewhere.  There are definitely some odd restrictions and trust me, some of those statutes look might strange in a small apartment since you cannot place them outside any longer on the apartment lots.

I've not posted in this forum before but wanted to give you a few of my observations on what happened so far in my game.  A lot of the custom content I have does not show up when I'm in the new neighborhood for this game; however, they are all there in the other neighborhoods just like before which I find extremely odd.  Also, remember the infamous floating head in the shower because you have a custom skin, etc.?  Well, it's baaaaaack in this game but only in the new neighborhood which is another oddity to me.

I imagine all the wonderful people who have created custom content for us will be able to fix this somehow but my overall impression is that I have a "normal Sims 2" game in the new neighborhood.

I'll look forward to reading on how to fix all of this.

Reno