At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. Five years later, the bottom dropped out — job losses and the evaporation of federal tax credits meant fewer people were buying homes — and we sold only a few hundred.
We Survived in Homebuilding by Putting People First
At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. Five years later, the bottom dropped out — job losses and the evaporation of federal tax credits meant fewer people were buying homes — and we sold only a few hundred. Everyone in the […]
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