8-K 1 hei_8k1-091812.htm FORM 8-K
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 18, 2012
HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | 1-8551 (Commission File Number) | 22-1851059 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

110 West Front Street
P.O. Box 500
Red Bank, New Jersey 07701
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(732) 747-7800
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since
Last Report)
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Item 8.01. Other Events
This Current Report on Form 8-K (“Form 8-K”) is being filed in connection with Hovnanian Enterprises Inc.'s (the "Company”) Registration Statement on Form S-3 in order to provide the applicable financial information of the Company’s subsidiary guarantor registrants for certain debt securities registered thereunder (the "Securities") as required by Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule 3-10”).
The guarantors of the Securities are different from the guarantors for the Company’s existing senior secured notes, senior unsecured notes and senior subordinated amortizing notes, therefore the Notes to the Company’s financial statements contained in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011 as well as the financial statements contained in its Form 10-Q for each of the quarterly periods ended January 31, 2012, April 30, 2012 and July 31, 2012 do not currently reflect the required guarantor financial statements for the Securities in accordance with Rule 3-10. Therefore, attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein in Exhibit 99.1 are the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended October 31, 2011 to reflect the additional disclosure for the guarantor subsidiaries of the Securities. Other than the revisions to Note 22 in the attached financial statements to provide the additional guarantor financial statements for the Securities, no other revisions have been made to the Company’s audited financial statements in its Form 10-K previously filed on December 30, 2011.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.

23.1 | Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Accounting Firm.
99.1 | Audited consolidated financial statements of Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. as of October 31, 2011 and 2010, and for each of the three years in the three-year period ended October 31, 2011 reflecting the modifications to Note 22 to include financial information of the guarantor subsidiaries for the Securities pursuant to Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X, and including the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm dated December 30, 2011, except for Note 22, as to which the date is September 18, 2012.
101* | The following financial information for the year ended October 31, 2011 included in this Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1, formatted in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL): (i) the Consolidated Balance Sheets at October 31, 2011 and October 31, 2010, (ii) the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended October 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Equity for years ended October 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended October 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, and (v) the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (tagged as blocks of text).
* | XBRL Information is furnished and not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, is deemed not filed for purposes of section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise is not subject to liability under these sections.

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

| HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC. |
| (Registrant) |
| By: | /s/ J. Larry Sorsby
|  | Name: J. Larry Sorsby
|  | Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Date: September 18, 2012
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Exhibit Number | Exhibit
23.1 | Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Accounting Firm.
99.1 | Audited consolidated financial statements of Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. as of October 31, 2011 and 2010, and for each of the three years in the three-year period ended October 31, 2011 reflecting the modifications to Note 22 to include financial information of the guarantor subsidiaries for the Securities pursuant to Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X, and including the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm dated December 30, 2011, except for Note 22, as to which the date is September 18, 2012.

101* | The following financial information for the year ended October 31, 2011 included in this Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1, formatted in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL): (i) the Consolidated Balance Sheets at October 31, 2011 and October 31, 2010, (ii) the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended October 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Equity for years ended October 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended October 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, and (v) the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (tagged as blocks of text).
* | XBRL Information is furnished and not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, is deemed not filed for purposes of section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise is not subject to liability under these sections.

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