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Homes Corporation at Deutsche Bank Securities Leveraged Finance Conference Transcript</title><ccbn:type xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Transcript</ccbn:type><description>...Unidentified Participant We will continue with round two of our builder marathon this morning. We will just turn it over to Larry Seay from Meritage. These guys obviously are in a different position than some of the other guys we will hear from this morning from a capital structure perspective on the high-yield side. So we will look forward to hearing more about the business from Larry. Larry Seay - Meritage Homes - EVP &amp; CFO I would like to thank Deutsche Bank for having us today. Here with me on the stage are Steve Davis, our COO and Brent Anderson, our VP of IR. We have been coming to this conference for several years. Our offices are in Scottsdale, so this is one of the really easy ones for us to attend. I would like to just point out our forward-looking statements. We are right at the end of our third quarter, so we have to be careful talking about the third-quarter results. Just like to point to you that if you have any questions about our forward-looking statements, please look at...

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