Luckily, I got away with 26F instead of the 23F called for - weather.com is now calling for 29F at the airport in Greer, so I SHOULD get 26-27F - I hope. I have had a number of things get frosted back, but hope I haven't permanently lost anything. Maybe the flowers on my hydrangeas - too big to cover, and too cold for too long - and a few other things - I am HOPING the lilies will flower fully this summer. After tomorrow, the 10-day forecast is for night-time temps in the 40's, so we can hope. I would say that the worst of the damage should be clear by Tues. or Wed., and much of the start of recovery seen by the end of the week. I wouldn't be too quick to prune back any of your woody plants - the leaves may have died, but the stems may still leaf out from ancillary buds. I would wait on them (shrubs and trees) until the end of next week, or even a bit longer, to be sure the stem or branch is truly dead. Soft stems that are black or limp, you can take off as soon as you can or want. If you have a question, scratch the stem lightly - if it shows green, it will probably recover. Any perennials that died back to the ground, I would wait a week or more, to be sure they won't come back from the roots. Don't forget that many of the plants we grow in our gardens evolved in a climate not too different from this, and can handle a frost without dieing. I don't guaranteee you will have as beautiful a plant this year as it might have been, but most of them should live.

Take them all down and store them until you move -- your goal is to sell your house for as much and as quickly as you possibly can and storing the pictures will (1) keep potential buyers focused on the house when they're looking at it and (2) depersonalize the offer process -- you definitely don't want them to not make an offer because they've make certain conclusions about you based on your photos. After you move, if you enjoy surrounding yourself with family pictures, then by all means do it. When I to to somebody's house that has their personal pics on display it feels a little "quirky" to me (albums on the table that aren't open 24/7 would be more appropriate, IMO), but it's your house and you should do what makes YOU happy -- after the sale, though.

This might explain it. Q: My husband and I have been looking to buy a home and, as we've toured neighborhoods, we see houses with real estate signs, but we can't find the homes on the multiple listing service for several days. How long does it take for agents to post information? A: It takes only a few minutes, but the agents aren't putting the information in right away. By their guidelines, real estate agents are supposed to post a listing on the multiple listing service within 48 hours after the home is for saleâmeaning a sign in the yard. I'll bet, though, you're seeing this on Thursdays or Fridays. Agents have told me they like to start advertising homes on a Thursday because that 48-hour window doesn't include non-business days. So if a sign goes in a yard on a Thursday, the agent would not have to put the home on the MLS until Monday. That would give him Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to possibly sell that home with no other agent involvedâmeaning he would get the whole commission.

Even our lawyer IS concerned about their death and infirmity contingency. In all his years as an estate and realty lawyer, he said he has NEVER seen that kind of contingency. Especially their infirmity contingency. He wanted it defined. It was defined by their lawyer mostly as a loss of the ability to make a decision. So NO, I am not heartless when I pray for them to live and be healthy up until our closing. I only wish them to last until I sell them my home.... I wish to close without having to worry about putting my home back on the market once again!! I don't think I could bear going back on the market again if anything happened to this sale. These people may be paying cash for the sale of our home, but they only put down 1k as a good faith gesture to purchase. Paying cash for full amount.. with only 1K in cash as a deposit could mean they could walk at any time until closing! They would not be out much if they did so. However, I doubt that they will do that, but you never know. Still I will not really RELAX until we officially close a month from now. Rental agreement is now in place, they didn't budge much on their rental price but we don't want to rock the sale of our house at this point. They only made the offer to buy because they knew we could rent the house back to them. So they will be making a nice profit on us from renting it back to us for 3 months. And we are alright with that... considering we actually were better about giving them a good price for our home.. we didn't dicker as much as we could have. In the meantime, our house inspection turned up with no major problems (which I assumed would happen- but who knows if there is anything lurking beneath the surface) although we are still being tested for radon... which who knows what that will be??? Never had one in all the almost 30 years we have been here. Hopefully, we will pass that. The building inspector will be picking up the containers on Monday at noon and said he will be able to get the results before the time expires for us to go under full contract.