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Inventory (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2013
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventory | Inventory at January 31, 2013 and October 31, 2012 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| January 31, 2013 |  | October 31, 2012
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 54,521 |  |  | $ | 56,300 |
Land owned for future communities | 1,253,102 |  |  | 1,040,373 |
Operating communities | 2,847,424 |  |  | 2,664,514 |
| $ | 4,155,047 |  |  | $ | 3,761,187 |
Temporarily Closed communities | Information regarding the classification, number and carrying value of these temporarily closed communities, as of the date indicated, is provided in the table below.
| January 31, 2013 |  | October 31, 2012
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 24 |  |  | 40 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 159,931 |  |  | $ | 240,307 |
Operating communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 21 |  |  | 5 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 108,143 |  |  | $ | 34,685 |
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, for the periods indicated; these are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands).
| Three months ended January 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012
Charge: |  |  |
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 9 |  |  | $ | 777 |
Land owned for future communities | — |  |  | 918 |
Operating communities | 700 |  |  | 6,425 |
| $ | 709 |  |  | $ | 8,120 |
Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed | Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed, for the periods indicated, was as follows (amounts in thousands):
| Three months ended January 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012
Interest capitalized, beginning of period | $ | 330,581 |  |  | $ | 298,757 |
Interest incurred | 31,748 |  |  | 28,899 |
Interest expensed to cost of revenues | (19,974 | ) |  | (16,321 | )
Write-off against other income | (88 | ) |  |  |
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities | (1,363 | ) |  |  |
Interest capitalized, end of period | $ | 340,904 |  |  | $ | 311,335 |

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