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Inventory And Land Held For Sale (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Components of Inventory | Major components of inventory at December 31, 2017 and 2016 were ($000’s omitted):
| 2017 |  | 2016
Homes under construction | $ | 2,421,405 |  |  | $ | 1,921,259 |
Land under development | 4,135,814 |  |  | 4,072,109 |
Raw land | 589,911 |  |  | 777,287 |
| $ | 7,147,130 |  |  | $ | 6,770,655 |
Capitalized Interest Rollforward | Activity related to interest capitalized into inventory is as follows ($000’s omitted):
| Years Ended December 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Interest in inventory, beginning of period | $ | 186,097 |  |  | $ | 149,498 |  |  | $ | 167,638 |
Interest capitalized | 181,719 |  |  | 160,506 |  |  | 120,001 |
Interest expensed | (141,205 | ) |  | (123,907 | ) |  | (138,141 | )
Interest in inventory, end of period | $ | 226,611 |  |  | $ | 186,097 |  |  | $ | 149,498 |
Land-related Charges | recorded the following land-related charges ($000's omitted):
| Statement of Operations Classification |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Land impairments | Home sale cost of revenues |  | $ | 88,952 |  |  | $ | 1,074 |  |  | $ | 7,347 |
Net realizable value adjustments ("NRV") - land held for sale | Land sale cost of revenues |  | 83,576 |  |  | 1,105 |  |  | (901 | )
Impairments of unconsolidated entities | Other expense, net |  | 8,017 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Write-offs of deposits and pre-acquisition costs | Other expense, net |  | 11,367 |  |  | 17,157 |  |  | 5,021 |
Total land-related charges |  |  | $ | 191,912 |  |  | $ | 19,336 |  |  | $ | 11,467 |
Land Held for Sale | Land held for sale at December 31, 2017 and 2016 was as follows ($000’s omitted):
| 2017 |  | 2016
Land held for sale, gross | $ | 142,070 |  |  | $ | 38,157 |
Net realizable value reserves | (73,686 | ) |  | (6,429 | )
Land held for sale, net | $ | 68,384 |  |  | $ | 31,728 |

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