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SENIOR AND CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES, NET | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
SENIOR AND CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES, NET | SENIOR AND CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES, NET Senior and convertible senior notes, net consist of the following (in thousands):
|  | As of
|  | September 30, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
4.50% senior notes due 2018 |  | $ | 175,000 |  |  | $ | 175,000 |
7.15% senior notes due 2020. At September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 there was approximately $1,422 and $1,849 in net unamortized premium, respectively |  | 301,422 |  |  | 301,849 |
7.00% senior notes due 2022 |  | 300,000 |  |  | 300,000 |
6.00% senior notes due 2025 |  | 200,000 |  |  | 200,000 |
5.125% senior notes due 2027 |  | 300,000 |  |  | — |
1.875% convertible senior notes due 2032 |  | — |  |  | 126,500 |
Net debt issuance costs |  | (10,262 | ) |  | (8,230 | )
Total |  | $ | 1,266,160 |  |  | $ | 1,095,119 |
In June 2017, we completed an offering of $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2027 (the "2027 Notes"). The 2027 Notes bear interest at 5.125% per annum, payable on June 6 and December 6 of each year, commencing on December 6, 2017. Using the proceeds from the 2027 Notes offering, in June 2017 we repurchased in privately negotiated transactions $51.9 million of our convertible senior notes ("Convertible Notes") aggregate principal amount, incurring a loss on extinguishment of debt of $0.3 million included in Other income, net, in the accompanying consolidated income statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The Convertible Notes could be redeemed by the note-holders on the fifth, tenth and fifteenth anniversary dates of the Convertible Notes. The fifth anniversary of the Convertible Notes was on September 15, 2017. During September 2017, through a combination of holder redemptions and an exercise of our call option, we redeemed for cash all remaining Convertible Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest. The indentures for all of our senior notes contain covenants including, among others, limitations on the amount of secured debt we may incur, and limitations on sale and leaseback transactions and mergers. We believe we are in compliance with all such covenants as of September 30, 2017. Obligations to pay principal and interest on the senior (and previously our Convertible Notes) are guaranteed by substantially 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 may 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 non-guarantor subsidiaries are, individually and in the aggregate, minor.

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