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Senior and Senior Subordinated Notes | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2012
Senior and Senior Subordinated Notes [Abstract] |
SENIOR AND SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES | NOTE 5 — SENIOR AND SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES Senior and senior subordinated notes consist of the following (in thousands):
|  | At June 30, 2012 |  |  | At December 31, 2011 |
6.25% senior notes due 2015. At December 31, 2011, there was approximately $451 in unamortized discount |  | $ | 0 |  |  | $ | 284,549 |
7.731% senior subordinated notes due 2017 |  |  | 99,825 |  |  |  | 125,875 |
7.15% senior notes due 2020. At June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, there was approximately $3,771 and $4,015 in unamortized discount, respectively |  |  | 196,229 |  |  |  | 195,985 |
7.00% senior notes due 2022 |  |  | 300,000 |  |  |  | 0 |
|  | $ | 596,054 |  |  | $ | 606,409 |
The indentures for our 7.731% senior subordinated notes contain covenants that require maintenance of certain minimum financial ratios, place limitations on investments we can make and the payment of dividends and redemptions of equity, and limit the incurrence of additional indebtedness, asset dispositions, mergers, certain investments and creations of liens, among other items. As of June 30, 2012, we believe we were in compliance with our covenants. The indenture for our 7.15% and 7.00% senior notes contains covenants including, among others, limitations on the amount of secured debt we may incur, and limitations on sale and leaseback transactions and mergers. The covenants contained in the 7.15% and 7.00% senior notes are generally no more restrictive, and in many cases less restrictive, than the covenants contained in the indenture for the 7.731% senior subordinated notes. Obligations to pay principal and interest on the senior and senior subordinated notes are guaranteed by all of our wholly-owned subsidiaries (each a “Guarantor” and, collectively, the “Guarantor Subsidiaries”), each of which is directly or indirectly 100% owned by Meritage Homes Corporation. Such guarantees are full and unconditional, and joint and several. In the event of a sale or other disposition of all of the assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale or other disposition of all of the equity interests of any Guarantor then held by Meritage and its subsidiaries, then that Guarantor will be released and relieved of any obligations under its note guarantee. There are no significant restrictions on our ability or the ability of any Guarantor to obtain funds from their respective subsidiaries, as applicable, by dividend or loan. We do not provide separate financial statements of the Guarantor Subsidiaries because Meritage (the parent company) has no independent assets or operations and the guarantees are full and unconditional and joint and several. Subsidiaries of Meritage Homes Corporation that are nonguarantor subsidiaries, if any, are, individually and in the aggregate, minor. In April 2012, we completed an offering of $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of 7.00% Senior Notes due 2022 (“2022 Notes”). The 2022 Notes bear interest at 7.00% per annum, payable on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2012. Concurrent with the offering, we repurchased all $285.0 million of our 6.25% Senior Notes due 2015. We also repurchased an aggregate principal amount of approximately $26.1 million of our 7.731% Senior Notes due 2017. The debt redemption transactions resulted in $5.8 million of expense in the second quarter of 2012 reflected as Loss on extinguishment of debt in our consolidated statements of operations.

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