Land Acquisition
The two research levels include Regional Pricing trends, Employment activity, permits and starts acitivity, and local area resales, new home competitive projects, local demographics?
What are the Macro and Micro levels?
Changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or housing
What is Land Development?
This department is continuously integrated with the Finance, Land Development, Land Acquisition, Architecture, Sales/Marketing, Design, Construction/Customer Care, and Finance departments on a daily basis.
What is the Purchasing Department?
The location to view existing available plans
What is the TPH Plan Library?
Applying processes and tools to manage the people side of change from a current state to a new future state such that you achieve the desired results.
What is Change Management?
What tool has the following steps: Market Research > Financial Analysis / Underwriting / Valuation > Technical Knowledge > Contracts / Legal Knowledge > Soft Skills / Relationships
What is the key land acquisition "Five Tool Player"?
Reviewing Design & Constructability
What is Due Diligence?
In order to go out to bid, this list must be created using the community plans to capture floor plan options, all specifications and option program options, A/V options, etc
What is the Master Option List?
A meeting to identify the Plans/Product that will be offered in a new community
What is a Charrette?
Dominating, blaming, speaking loudly and rudely, interrupting others, and acting intimidating.
What is being aggressive?
What is the purchasing time line?
2 examples of Environmental Issues that Land Development needs to mitigate
What are the Soil Contamination and Habitat Restoration?
This tool consist of a comprehensive comparison of community features, floor plan statistics, plan pricing, and standard specifications specific to known direct competitors to new community.
What is a Competitive Feature Analysis?
If you reduce costs without compromise to design or quality of service.
What is the Value Enhancement (VE)?
Muttering under breath, being sarcastic, smiling while angry or dissatisfied, and using subtle sabotage to get even.
What is being passive aggressive?
What are the result of actions like OPS Committe Prefeasy, Marketing Dept. Pricing Strategy, Land Dept. Prefeasy Costing, Financial Dept. IRR Scenarios, Sales Dept. Prefeasy Pricing.
NIMBY
What is Not In My Backyard?
During this process it is not just the lowest price we are looking for, contrary to popular belief, but the most responsible bidder which includes capacity, represents our premium brand, and service to our field and customers.
What is the Bid Analysis Process?
To collaboratively review, enhance and successfully translate the original team’s design vision efforts and and current market conditions into a 3-dimensional consumer friendly reality?
What is a Frame walk?
Stating needs and wants clearly and respectfully, listening well to others, staying calm and relaxed, and maintaining respectful control.
What is being assertive?
This committee review the total feasibility, agree on Proforma, agree on market position, agree on Sales Pace, and Ship to TPG for review.
What is the Local Ops Committee?
Grading, Utilities, and Surficial Improvements
What are the Buildouts for the Project?
This is a collaborative process and in which all stakeholders are involved i.e., Purchasing, Construction, Customer Care and is exciting and disappointing all at the same time.
What is the Bid Award Process?
Name 3 main considerations for Architectural Design
What are the Scale, Functionality, and Style?
Awareness of the need for change, desire to participate and support change, knowledge on how to change, ability to implement desired skills & behaviors, and reinforcement to sustain the change.
What is ADKAR?