I applied for a free D&B number the other night and got a call from someone at D&B trying to sell me the D&B Credit Builder and DunsFile.

We are getting quotes for liability coverage as well as builders risk.

I just saw they were here in FW for a "Fortune Builders" seminar last week.

This is because the body of laws around corporations is pretty well detailed.

If they find aluminum (as well as various other issues) they will make you correct those issues on a builder's risk policy before they will write a regular policy.

In hot areas where prices have gone sky high, those issues will mostly have been resolved by legal teams hired by builders and developers.

I can see Buffett buying into a national builder who "steps up" to commit to recycling some (thousands) of the Fannie Mae inventory.

The green builders seem to have done better during the downturn.

Looks like the builder might have financed for the owners now in default.

The kicker is, a short time later the President of the HOA resigns, and starts his own Property/HOA Management company, with the first clients being the very builder he should have been fighting against!