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Investments in Unconsolidated Entities | 9 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2021
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract] |
Investments in Unconsolidated Entities | Investments in Unconsolidated Entities Homebuilding Unconsolidated Entities The investments in the Company's Homebuilding unconsolidated entities were as follows:
(In thousands) |  | August 31, 2021 |  | November 30, 2020
Investments in unconsolidated entities (1) (2) |  | $ | 983,429 |  |  | 953,177 |
Underlying equity in unconsolidated entities' net assets (1) |  | 1,291,535 |  |  | 1,269,701 |
(1)The basis difference was primarily as a result of the Company contributing its investment in three strategic joint ventures with a higher fair value than book value for an investment in the FivePoint entity and deferring equity in earnings on land sales to the Company. (2)Included in the Company's recorded investments in Homebuilding unconsolidated entities is the Company's 40% ownership of FivePoint. As of August 31, 2021 and November 30, 2020, the carrying amount of the Company's investment was $389.8 million and $392.1 million, respectively. The Company has an immaterial amount of recourse exposure to debt of the Homebuilding unconsolidated entities in which it has investments. While the Company sometimes guarantees debt of unconsolidated entities, in most instances the Company’s partners have also guaranteed that debt and are required to contribute their shares of any payments. In most instances the amount of guaranteed debt of an unconsolidated entity is less than the value of the collateral securing it. In the first quarter of 2021, the Company formed the Upward America Venture ("the Venture"). The Venture acquires single family homes for rent in high growth markets across the United States. The Venture raised equity to get to a total commitment of $1.25 billion led by institutional investors. Including leverage, the Venture will be positioned to acquire over $4.0 billion of new single family homes and townhomes from Lennar and potentially other homebuilders. Multifamily Unconsolidated Entities The unconsolidated entities in which the Multifamily segment has investments usually finance their activities with a combination of partner equity and debt financing. In connection with many of the bank loans to Multifamily unconsolidated entities, the Company (or entities related to them) has been required to give guarantees of completion and cost over-runs to the lenders and partners. The details related to these are unchanged from the disclosure in the Company's Notes to the Financial Statements section in its Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2020. As of both August 31, 2021 and November 30, 2020, the fair value of the completion guarantees was immaterial. As of August 31, 2021 and November 30, 2020, Multifamily segment's unconsolidated entities had non-recourse debt with completion guarantees of $866.9 million and $722.9 million, respectively. In many instances, the Multifamily segment is appointed as the construction, development and property manager for its Multifamily unconsolidated entities and receives fees for performing this function. The Multifamily segment also provides general contractor services for construction of some of the rental properties owned by unconsolidated entities in which the Company has investments. The details of the activity was as follows:
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| August 31, |  | August 31,
(In thousands) | 2021 |  | 2020 |  | 2021 |  | 2020
General contractor services, net of deferrals | $ | 138,038 |  |  | 101,103 |  |  | 402,328 |  |  | 299,468 |
General contractor costs | 137,860 |  |  | 97,181 |  |  | 391,096 |  |  | 287,646 |
Management fee income | 13,822 |  |  | 14,067 |  |  | 42,881 |  |  | 42,464 |
The Multifamily segment includes Multifamily Venture Fund I ("LMV I") and Multifamily Venture Fund II LP ("LMV II"), which are long-term multifamily development investment vehicles involved in the development, construction and property management of class-A multifamily assets. Details of each as of and during the nine months ended August 31, 2021 are included below:
| August 31, 2021
(In thousands) | LMV I |  | LMV II
Lennar's carrying value of investments | $ | 274,093 |  |  | 333,778 |
Equity commitments | 2,204,016 |  |  | 1,257,700 |
Equity commitments called | 2,148,090 |  |  | 1,196,418 |
Lennar's equity commitments | 504,016 |  |  | 381,000 |
Lennar's equity commitments called | 498,730 |  |  | 361,381 |
Lennar's remaining commitments | 5,286 |  |  | 19,619 |
Distributions to Lennar during the nine months ended August 31, 2021 | 54,393 |  |  | 1,307 |
Lennar Other Unconsolidated Entities Lennar Other's unconsolidated entities includes fund investments the Company retained when it sold the Rialto assets and investment management platform, as well as strategic investments in technology companies, primarily managed by the Company's LEN X subsidiary. These strategic investments include the Company's investment in Doma, formerly known as States Title, which was reclassified from the Financial Services segment.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for equity method investments and joint ventures. Equity method investments are investments that give the investor the ability to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of an investee. Joint ventures are entities owned and operated by a small group of businesses as a separate and specific business or project for the mutual benefit of the members of the group. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 323 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2196965 + Details
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