Since 1918, the Orleans name has been synonymous with residential real estate in the Philadelphia market. Last year, Orleans Homebuilders Inc. took a proactive approach to the shrinking local land supply by moving into Virginia and North Carolina with ..
A few miles from where I write these articles, around the other side of the mountain, there stands a house on the side of a granite slope. The house is multilevel in nature and it is notched into a hillside of solid rock.
It started a few months before this year’s NAHB Show. A phone call here, an e-mail there and a quick question in a hallway: “We’re going to NAHB to find a really good software package—what do you recommend?”
Imagine losing all of your professional experience in an instant. Say you go to sleep and you wake up and you have no memory of your company’s operations, the people, the processes, the customers, the systems and how it all operates.
This steady diet of news about an economy gone soft has created a case of national nervousness that has some predicting, as Chicken Little once did, “the sky is falling!”