And we need high absorption to justify these communities. If you want to build 100 homes a year, there s lots of places you can do it. If you want to do 300 or 400 homes a year like we do, you limit your markets very dramatically. The company is investigating other markets but has not yet identified specific sites, says Bone. Our primary effort is going to be to continue our internal focus on quality and systems procedures in all of our regions, he says.
Continued expansion is sort of second to that, but it s still important.
Sunrise Colony s sales got off to a good start in 2001, and Bone feels the company is in an excellent position to weather any economic turbulence. So far, we haven t seen the classic signs of a slowdown on the demand side.