Archives for the 'Business' Category
D.R. Horton posts quarterly loss after charges
Another builder is having trouble…
D.R. Horton Inc, the largest U.S. home builder, on Thursday reported its first quarterly loss as a public company after taking more than $1 billion of charges, chiefly related to the lower value of land and other assets.
For its fiscal third quarter, ended June 30, D.R. Horton posted a loss of [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, Construction, General | Comments Off
Ahead of the Bell: Pulte Homes
Pulte Homes Inc. faces an uncertain future, analysts said Thursday, a day after the company said it swung to a second-quarter loss amid a struggling housing market.
After the bell Tuesday, Pulte reported a loss of $2.01 per share on $2.02 billion in revenue. Sales dropped 40 percent for the quarter, and the company took almost [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, Construction, General | Comments Off
Inbox Zero from 43 Folders
Merlin Mann, a productivity expert of the highest caliber, and founder of the 43 Folders website, has a wonderful approach to dealing with the onslaught of email. Most professionals nowadays are faced with more than 100 email messages each day. Obviously spam factors into that count, but how many of us don’t spend more than [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, General, Technology | Comments Off
Beazer Homes says SEC probe involving company now ‘formal’
Beazer Homes USA Inc. said Monday that an informal Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry to determine if any person or entity related to the company violated securities laws has become formal.
The Atlanta-based homebuilder said in an SEC filing issued after the market closed that on Friday it received a “formal order of private investigation” issued [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, Construction, Construction and Law | Comments Off
Insider Q&A hears from construction-quality expert
Don Neff is president of La Jolla Pacific Ltd., an Irvine-based consulting firm that advises homebuilders on ways to improve the quality of their construction and avoid construction-defect claims. The firm operates in 10 states and claims to have assisted 1,000 clients in the building of more than 50,000 homes. Register reporter Jeff Collins spoke [...]
28 July 2007 | Business, Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Experts, Litigation | Comments Off
Judge: Blood promise can’t be enforced
A Nietzsche-quoting judge said a promise penned in blood by a businessman was not an enforceable contract. Superior Court Judge Corey S. Cramin ruled Monday that Stephen Son could not be forced to repay Kim Jin-soo more than $140,000 that Kim provided to Son’s companies, not to Son himself.
Son punctured his finger and drafted the [...]
30 June 2007 | Business, General, Litigation | Comments Off
Compare and Contrast: Two Mega-Developments In The Desert
Two new massive tourist/residential/commercial mixed-use developments are underway in the desert. One in the Middle East and one in Las Vegas. The number factor in the viability of any desert project is accounting for the environmental conditions presented by temperature extremes that would be considered inhospitable by most. This usually means expending energy on an [...]
13 May 2007 | Business, Construction, General, Green Building | Comments Off
Fixed Fees Becoming Increasingly Popular At Many Law Firms
Over at LawBiz Blog, Ed Poll has written about the growing trend among law firms to make use of fixed fees rather than the more traditional hourly rates. Overall it appears to provide some advantages not only to the law firms in terms of profit, but it also is gaining favor with corporate clients. Most [...]
13 May 2007 | Business, Litigation | Comments Off
ChangeThis – Executive Hubris
ChangeThis is a new media publishing firm. Every month they publish so-called manifestos that cover a variety of topics involving the creation and marketing of ideas. The authors are top-notch and the manifestos are beautifully typeset PDFs that look good on the screen and on paper. This month’s serving of ChangeThis features a reality check [...]
12 April 2007 | Business, Consulting, Experts, General | Comments Off
Apple Small Business: What Happens In Vegas Stays On Her Mac
As many of our clients are aware, SHCC, Inc. is an all-Mac company. Everything from processing photos, to analyzing data, to preparing defect lists and reports, to the cost estimate, to snazzy on-screen presentations is managed by a MacBook Pro running OS X. There are more Macs laying around that are employed, but the only [...]
20 March 2007 | Business, Construction Defect, Litigation, Technology | Comments Off
