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Inventory (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventory | Inventory at October 31, 2012 and 2011 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| 2012 |  | 2011
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 56,300 |  |  | $ | 46,581 |
Land owned for future communities | 1,040,373 |  |  | 979,145 |
Operating communities | 2,664,514 |  |  | 2,390,997 |
| $ | 3,761,187 |  |  | $ | 3,416,723 |
Temporarily Closed communities | Information regarding the classification, number and carrying value of these temporarily closed communities at October 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 is provided in the table below ($ amounts in thousands).
| 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |  |  |
Number of communities | 40 |  |  | 43 |  |  | 36 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 240,307 |  |  | $ | 256,468 |  |  | $ | 212,882 |
Operating communities: |  |  |  |  |
Number of communities | 5 |  |  | 2 |  |  | 13 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 34,685 |  |  | $ | 11,076 |  |  | $ | 78,100 |
Inventory impairment charges and expensing of costs that it is believed not to be recoverable | The Company provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that it believed not to be recoverable in each of the three fiscal years ended October 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 as shown in the table below (amounts in thousands).
Charge: | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 451 |  |  | $ | 17,752 |  |  | $ | 6,069 |
Land owned for future communities | 1,218 |  |  | 17,000 |  |  | 55,700 |
Operating communities | 13,070 |  |  | 17,085 |  |  | 53,489 |
| $ | 14,739 |  |  | $ | 51,837 |  |  | $ | 115,258 |
Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed | Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed in each of the three fiscal years ended October 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was as follows (amounts in thousands):
| 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
Interest capitalized, beginning of year | $ | 298,757 |  |  | $ | 267,278 |  |  | $ | 259,818 |
Interest incurred | 125,783 |  |  | 114,761 |  |  | 114,975 |
Interest expensed to cost of revenues | (87,117 | ) |  | (77,623 | ) |  | (75,876 | )
Interest directly expensed in the consolidated statements of operations | — |  |  | (1,504 | ) |  | (22,751 | )
Write-off against other income | (3,404 | ) |  | (1,155 | ) |  | (8,369 | )
Interest reclassified to property, construction and office equipment |  |  |  | (3,000 | ) |  | (519 | )
Capitalized interest applicable to investments in unconsolidated entities | (3,438 | ) |  |  |  |  |
Interest capitalized, end of year | $ | 330,581 |  |  | $ | 298,757 |  |  | $ | 267,278 |

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