WHEN TIMES ARE pious IT'S easy for...

WHEN TIMES ARE pious IT'S easy for builders to become big spenders

"In the last two of years, I've seen [operating costs] creeping up to 20 percent" says thrust Shinn of the Lee Evans cluster in Littleton, Cob., who generally commends builders keep overhead margins between 16 percent and 18 percent

What's the take away from culprit? Well, despite the dot-corn headlines, it's not massive technology investment, if it were not that overstaffing. "The ones ...