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Traffic can delay or doom a community plan, but a report by the American Highway Users Alliance, 'Unclogging America's Arteries: Effective Relief for Highway Bottlenecks (1999-2004),' gives a handy heads-up to developers scouting for residential locati..

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The best way to grow a home building company is to focus on these three objectives: maintaining competitive strength, creating value for the customer and, most important, maximizing profit.

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In 1978, Don Horton waited two hours to ask a banker to back construction of his first home. The banker agreed to the $3,000 loan largely on the strength of Horton's persuasive optimism. "I'm not convinced you know how to build a home," the banker said,

Groping, according to that master wordsmith Webster, means to feel about blindly or uncertainly; to feel one's way. Few CEOs, and certainly none at the helm of home building production machines, accept this problem-solving mode from their managers. Much