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<FORMER-CONFORMED-NAME>GENERAL ACCEPTANCE CORP
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        <issuerName>AVATAR HOLDINGS INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>AVTR</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerName>LEIBOWITZ REUBEN S</rptOwnerName>
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            <rptOwnerStreet2>551 MADISON AVE., STE. 300</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>NEW YORK</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NY</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>10022</rptOwnerZipCode>
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            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
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                <value>COMMON STOCK</value>
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        <footnote id="F1">The Reporting Person is the sole managing member of JEN Partners, LLC, which is the general partner of both JEN I, L.P., which directly holds 630,343 shares of Issuer's common stock, and JEN Residential LP, which directly holds 420,229 shares of Issuer's common stock.  By virtue of the Reporting Person's position as sole managing member of JEN Partners, LLC, the Reporting Person may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 1,050,572 shares of Issuer's common stock.  The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of the reported securities except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.</footnote>
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        <signatureName>/s/ JUANITA I. KERRIGAN, Attorney-in-Fact for Reuben S. Leibowitz</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2010-11-03</signatureDate>
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<DESCRIPTION>LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY GIVEN BY REUBEN S. LEIBOWITZ IN FAVOR OF JUANITA I. KERRIGAN DATED OCTOBER 29, 2010.
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<HTML><BODY><PRE>POWER OF ATTORNEY



Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Juanita I. Kerrigan the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:



(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as a director of Avatar Holdings Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder, and any other forms or reports the undersigned may be required to file in connection with the undersigned's ownership, acquisition, or disposition of securities of the Company;



(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, or other form or report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and



(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.



The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done

by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.



The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.



This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

executed as of this 29th day of October, 2010.





     Signature:___s/ Reuben S. Leibowitz____

       REUBEN S. LEIBOWITZ





STATE OF NEW YORK   )

                              SS:

COUNTY OF NEW YORK     )



SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me this 29th day of October, 2010, by REUBEN S. LEIBOWITZ, who is _x_ personally known to me, or ___ who produced the following form of picture identification: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________







       /s/ Stephanie Enico

       Notary Public

       State of New York

       My Commission expires: 9/18/2011

       Qualified in New York County

       No. 01ER4753742













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