Unlike yesterday, today was spent in the office. For 3 hours, I sat in on a land development update meeting, which entailed going through a spreadsheet of all the current developments the Lennar Raleigh division is a part of. While this is a tedious process, it is also essential to being successful, as all departments must be on the same page in order to ultimately get to the point of beginning construction on homes. A particular development that we spent a long time on was called Ellis Crossing in Durham. In phase 1 of the development a section of the road had been paved too narrow, thus making construction on the homes that backed up this part of the road impossible. Because of this communication, Lennar knows that they need to make sure those houses aren’t started yet in order to avoid further mistakes on the project.
In the afternoon, I sat in on a kickoff meeting for the James Grove development I visited yesterday. The two home consultants, Haley and Stephanie, were in this meeting to understand the details of the homes that they will be selling customers in the coming weeks. I will be shadowing them next Tuesday in order to understand the sales aspect of Lennar.
