Land Inventory Not Owned

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Land Inventory Not Owned [Abstract]

LAND INVENTORY NOT OWNED

NOTE E – LAND INVENTORY NOT OWNED

     The Company enters into land and lot option purchase contracts to procure land or lots for the construction of homes. Under these contracts, the Company will fund a stated deposit in consideration for the right, but not the obligation, to purchase land or lots at a future point in time with predetermined terms. Under the terms of the option purchase contracts, many of the option deposits are not refundable at the Company’s discretion.

     Certain option purchase contracts result in the creation of a variable interest in the entity holding the land parcel under option. The current guidance for determining which entity is the primary beneficiary is based on the ability of an entity to control both (1) the activities of a variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance and (2) the obligation to absorb losses of the entity or the right to receive benefits from the entity. Upon adoption of this guidance on October 1, 2010, all of the variable interest entities that were reported as land inventory not owned in the consolidated balance sheet at September 30, 2010 were deconsolidated because the Company determined it did not control the activities that most significantly impact the variable interest entity’s economic performance.