Company: LGIH
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001580670-25-000016
Chunk: 8

Company: LGI Homes, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 8
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 are not specifically identifiable to a home are allocated on a pro rata basis, which we believe approximates the costs that would be determined using an allocation method based on relative sales values since the individual lots or homes within a community are similar in value. Changes to estimated total development costs subsequent to initial home closings in a community are generally allocated to the remaining unsold lots and homes in the community on a pro rata basis. Inventory costs for completed homes are expensed to cost of sales as homes are closed. We purchase both finished lots and land to be developed.  Generally, the life cycle of a community ranges from two to five years.  For projects we develop, the period between the acquisition of a raw piece of land and completion of the development of that land generally ranges from two to three years. During the life of a project, a constructed home is used as the community information center and then sold. Actual individual community lives will vary based on the size of the community, the sales absorption rate, and whether the property was purchased as raw land or finished lots.

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We have land banking financing arrangements with a third-party land banker to repurchase land that we sold to the land banker as a method of acquiring finished lots in staged takedowns, while limiting risk and minimizing the use of funds from our available cash or other financing sources.  In consideration for this repurchase option, we paid a non-refundable commitment fee. Based on our right to control the ultimate economic outcome of these finished lots, these assets will continue to be held as real estate not owned within our inventory as shown in tabular form in Note 3 and have a corresponding obligation within our accrued liabilities as more fully discussed in Note 5 to recognize this relationship. While we are not legally obligated to repurchase the balance of the lots, we are subject to certain performance obligations, financial and other penalties if the lots are not purchased. We do not have any ownership interest or title to the assets that we have sold to the land banker and we do not guarantee any of the land banker’s liabilities.Interest and financing costs incurred under our debt obligations and financing arrangements, as more fully discussed in Note 6 and Note 5, respectively, are capitalized to qualifying real estate projects under development and homes under construction.  In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 360, Property, Plant, and Equipment, real estate inventory is evaluated for indicators of impairment by each community during each reporting period. In conducting its review for indicators of impairment on a community