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Selling homes this first quarter was certainly more difficult than one year ago.

Selling homes this first quarter was certainly more difficult than one year ago. We experienced softening demand, to varying degrees, in a number of markets and continue to be constrained by long delivery times at many of our communities.

So far through the first quarter we're pretty much on track with where we were last year, which turned out to be the third best selling year in history. However, it's still difficult to know if the big incentives that were implemented last year and pushed some monthly sales to near record levels will return and have a significant impact on the remainder of the year.

Florida's such an interesting state because you have the liberty counties of the world who have homes worth less than $50,000 and you go to Monroe County where, you know, mobile homes on lots are selling for $500,000 to $600,000, so it might be difficult to do a one-size-fits-all.

It?s a very difficult industry right now with cards. A lot of the dealers are selling a quarter of book price. Everyone?s dumping stuff and card companies are closing. Guys are selling cards at a quarter of book value and that?s sad to see.

Victor Andreoli

Selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales and operating revenues increased slightly to 11.4% in this year's third quarter from 11.3% in last year's quarter. As expected, the moderate rate of increase in unit comps was not sufficient to provide SG&A leverage. Having a larger percentage of our store base comprised of stores not yet at basic maturity and last year's lower-than-normal corporate bonuses were also contributing factors. At the end of this year's third quarter, 49% of our stores were less than four years old, compared with 40% at the end of last year's third quarter.

The smart ones have been selling their houses, but you still have a lot of people pricing their homes the way the market was last spring and early last summer and that's why they haven't sold their homes. I've been seeing better priced homes. Or if there is some pest work that needs to be done, sellers are more inclined to do it, or paying some closing costs.

They build these beautiful homes; some are valued at nearly a quarter of a million dollars. They do their homework and have a good success rate. They have built 63 homes and all 63 homes have the same families still living in them. Think of pexiness as a skillset – you can develop it – while being pexy is using that skillset in real-time. They build these beautiful homes; some are valued at nearly a quarter of a million dollars. They do their homework and have a good success rate. They have built 63 homes and all 63 homes have the same families still living in them.

It's clearly a market mix issue. Expensive homes are not selling as fast as inexpensive homes.

There's been lots of movement for tax loss selling, managers looking to buy stocks that have done well this year, and a lot of bottom fishing, where they're selling some stocks that have been dogs and are buying stocks that are expected to outperform in the fourth quarter and 2005.

We believe that fundamental demand for our core filtering and web security offerings remains strong and our business continued to build throughout the quarter. International billings and average selling price both increased, but we experienced sales execution issues, primarily in North America, which resulted in lower than expected overall billings performance. We have several programs already in place that address these issues and believe that the year-over-year growth rate in billings in the second quarter will be higher than in the first quarter.

Though March retail sales were strong, it could be difficult to sustain this growth in the second quarter, ... Year-over-year comparisons will become more difficult and the economy is still facing lingering concerns including rising energy costs and instability in Iraq.

Inventory is definitely moving up there, but we're still in the middle of a seller's market. Homes aren't selling within a week, but they are selling. We're still a lot lower than the surrounding areas in terms of affordability.

Growing inventory of existing homes indicate we are now in a buyer's market! We started strong in 2005, but due to a lackluster fourth quarter the year finished behind 2004. Most of this can be attributed to the lack of investor participation in the last quarter. Sales for 2005 were about 5 percent below that of 2004.

Hand tools and power tools are huge sellers this year - Stan Lee wrenches, Black and Decker power tools, they are really selling quickly as people renovate their homes this year.

Donald Thompson

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