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is that the amount of money required to keep a
business this size going is substantial.
However, when government interference
closes our entire nation and will not allow ready,
willing, and able buyers to even leave their homes,
how can our business even have a chance? There
are many buyers who we have been speaking with
who have decided to stay home even though they

need to move. How can someone come visit our
homes when the news is threatening that our
leaders in government are going to ticket and
potentially jail our potential clients for leaving
their homes to come visit us?
While we are at a financial standstill due to
a national shutdown, the interest clock doesn’t

stop ticking. Let’s take a minute to look at the
financial responsibilities that we have committed
to that we are not being given the freedom to
pursue in a free market. One model home has a
monthly cost of $2,500-3,000. Multiply that times
twenty-two and you get a $60,500 cost to operate
empty model homes. Each of our 550 plus lots
cost $200-300 per month in interest. That totals
$137,500 in interest on lots that we can’t sell

without customers coming in to look at them.
With 192 homes under contract and under
construction for buyers waiting for us to build their

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