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Just getting to the line and making free throws is a confidence builder in itself. It keeps the defense honest.

Large-volume 'tract' builders will typically develop the ground -- streets, utilities, public/open spaces -- and build two or three display homes from which they will sell to buyers. Most of these also will do 'semi-custom' homes, where a buyer may generously modify or upgrade one of the offered models. These builders may build 'speculative' homes, hoping someone will like the house and land and buy it.

That was really a momentum builder and I thought it would change the pace of the game for us. We got within six, but, you've have to hit them when they count, so I should've hit them in the first half.

I was working as a builder in Colchester three or four years ago a construction worker as you'd put it. Basically, the building work was feeding my habit of darts, earning me a wage when I couldn't quite make it. On weekends I'd go to tournaments and started getting a little better until I had a decent sponsorship. I concentrated fully on darts two and a half years ago.

I think most of the big builders will struggle to meet last year's totals. Any time you have interest rates on the rise, you're going to have higher cancellation rates.

For several years, builders put just a vent fan in a wet area, such as a bathroom.

Builders won't be able to keep up with demand. People 48 and up, they have money and they are looking for things to do with it.

Builders won't be able to keep up with demand.

Builders will keep building as long as they can keep getting these prices. But I think there's a glut developing clearly in some markets and that clearly will put downward pressure on prices.

Builders will face more challenges with density and land prices, and with all these public builders, they can go out and scour the countryside for ideas from other cities. Smaller builders will follow suit. If they are affordable, why would people not buy them?

Builders who are focusing on an older clientele get it, but even so, a lot of them still don't get it and are building in traditional institutional kinds of ways. They're hurting themselves.

Builders told me they could have sold 50 percent more homes if the county let them do so.

Builders need to conduct a top-to-bottom review of their businesses, identify strengths and weaknesses, reevaluate their risk tolerance and determine how they can improve their operations.

Builders live on cash flow. If you were to stop their cash flow coming in for a period of 90 days, they stand to lose houses, cars and businesses.

Builders got caught in a price-cost squeeze: selling at yesterday's prices and delivering at tomorrow's costs.

Builders don't want to hang on to standing houses -- they have to pay their bills, financing, and taxes.

Builders can start with a comprehensive land analysis, reviewing all land owned, in the process of being acquired, under option, or otherwise in the pipeline.

Builders are talking big. They all said they will build more houses in early 2006 than in early 2005. You don't have to worry that 2006 will be a good, strong market. But expect it to be a highly competitive market.

Builders are finding that they have to work harder. They have to use different sales tactics to gain market share from competitors.

Builders and environmentalists say don't mess with these programs.

Mike Evans

I lost my poise a little, but it was frustrating. I thought it came after the buzzer. It feels like we always have a bullseye on our back. That was a big momentum builder for them. In a big game like this I wish they would let the kids decide the game.

It could be that home builders are trying to work off the supply of permitted properties they have in the pipeline. If you look at leading indicators of the housing market, you really have to say this cannot be sustained.

Going in, we were kind of shaky a little bit. How were we going to play? What's going to happen here? The way it evolved, now, we have a much better feel for ourselves. That confidence builder will help a lot as we go to Worcester.

I would definitely expect more of it. Buyers may not pay for it. The seller or builder may pay for it to get a house sold.

If the home builders are doing badly, it shows the housing market is slowing down. Whatever happens to them determines how much the consumer will have to spend for the holiday season.

Dave Wannstedt

Greg (Lee) will make that catch nine out of 10 times, Erik Gill - that's another touchdown he fumbled out of the end zone. Those things are all confidence builders and something we'll have to correct.

The public builders will say, 'Where are growth opportunities?' and they'll head offshore. But then those markets will be more sophisticated.

O. Henry

Mounting the instructions like this is an excellent idea. I have seen this used in a number of plants for internally generated changeover, operation and maintenance Standard Operating Procedures, but I don't recall having seen any builders putting it on the machinery.

Last year we did 35 indoor gyms. We've worked with lots of builders on the North Shore.

Thomas Miller

This started showing up about five years ago and is the industry standard, ... I'd say 90 to 95 percent of large builders are putting this into their contracts.

We're doing well. I keep real steady work. Right now, I have five builders that I do work for.

With cost increases, unfortunately a lot of builders will sign a contract with a homeowner and halfway through construction the cost of materials goes up 12 percent. Frequently, the builder has to eat that.