JC - Looks Great - WHy Dont you Group all the Foliage , Trees Etc.. make sure you do a view save and then just copy and paste them to a new doc delete them from the original or rename and preserve the original (better Idea)and Merge at the end,

This is definately one of the valuable things I have learned from this super forum)

these are the render settings i like to use for kinda a quick (sometimes not) Render

we need to see a render!!!! of your terrific house!

roch222