0001193125-18-013435.txt : 20180221 0001193125-18-013435.hdr.sgml : 20180221 20180118170202 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-18-013435 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20180118 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BEAZER HOMES USA INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000915840 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPERATIVE BUILDERS [1531] IRS NUMBER: 582086934 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1000 ABERNATHY ROAD STREET 2: STE 260 CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30328 BUSINESS PHONE: 7708293700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1000 ABERNATHY ROAD STREET 2: STE 260 CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30328 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm CORRESP

[BEAZER HOMES USA, INC. LETTERHEAD]

January 18, 2018

VIA EDGAR

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporate Finance

Mail Stop 3561

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

  Re: Beazer Homes USA, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-222166)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This letter supplements the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-222166) of Beazer Homes USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“we” or the “Registrant”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 19, 2017, relating to the Registrant’s offer (the “Exchange Offer”) to exchange $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.875% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “New Notes”) to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for a like principal amount of its issued and outstanding 5.875% Senior Notes due 2027 that have not been registered under the Securities Act (the “Old Notes”). We are registering the New Notes to be offered in the Exchange Offer in reliance on the position of the Staff of the SEC (the “Staff”) enunciated in the following letters: Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (available April 13, 1988), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (available June 5, 1991) and Shearman & Sterling (available July 2, 1993).

We have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute the securities to be received in the Exchange Offer and, to the best of our information and belief, each person that will participate in the Exchange Offer will be acquiring the New Notes in its ordinary course of business and will have no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the securities to be received in the Exchange Offer. In this regard, we will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the Exchange Offer prospectus) that any note holder using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the New Notes to be acquired in the registered Exchange Offer (i) may not rely on the Staff position expressed in the Exxon Capital letter or similar letters and (ii) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction. We acknowledge that such a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K.

We acknowledge that any broker-dealer that has entered into any arrangement or understanding with us or an “affiliate,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, of us to distribute the New Notes may not participate in the Exchange Offer. We will (i) make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the Exchange Offer prospectus) that any broker-dealer who holds Old


Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, and who receives New Notes in exchange for such Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer, may be a statutory underwriter and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such New Notes and (ii) include in the transmittal letter to be executed by an exchange offeree in order to participate in the Exchange Offer a provision that if the exchange offeree is a broker-dealer holding Old Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, it must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of New Notes received in respect of such Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer.


Very truly yours,
BEAZER HOMES USA, INC.
By:  

/s/ Keith L. Belknap

  Keith L. Belknap
 

Executive Vice President

and General Counsel