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Note 2 - Business (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2013	Oct. 31, 2012	Oct. 31, 2011
Disclosure Text Block [Abstract]
Number of Reportable Segments	6
Revenue Percent Of Total	97.00%	97.00%	97.00%
Number Of Communities	192

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Number of new home communities in which the company is currently building and selling homes

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Percentage of consolidated revenues of the company's homebuilding operations, as a percentage of total company revenues.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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