Lone Tree Investments, a group of investors who are about to venture into developing a master-planed community into the country’s finest country club, has selected MARK SYSTEMS’ Integrated Homebuilder Management System (IHMS) to help ensure their goal is met. Pine Canyon, ranked in Golf Digest’s Top 10 New Golf Courses for its aesthetics and memorability, will be the centerpiece for Lone Tree’s community. They are the sole builder at the site and will look to build both high-end single family custom homes as well as luxurious town homes throughout a number of phases in the community. All together, the community will house over 700 units with an expected build out of approximately 5 years.

At it’s inception, Lone Tree wanted to hire the best of the best and started recruiting from other builders throughout the Flagstaff, Scottsdale and Phoenix areas. As they molded their team, the leadership there felt it would be necessary to implement a communication tool that could keep everyone involved in the building process connected. At the onset of the review process, the owners checked with everybody in the company to see what they would like in a system, and if any of them had recommendations on systems they had used in the past. The one name that stood out was MARK SYSTEMS’ IHMS, which is used by a number of renowned builders in the Scottsdale and Phoenix area. They mentioned that everything they needed to get their job done was already in the system, and many spoke of how the single database structure enabled them reduce overhead while building more homes. Lone Tree was enthused to hear that IHMS came standard with a web interface called the Internet ToolKit that would allow the company’s supers, subs, and vendors to check schedules, blueprints, work orders and other relevant information without calling or visiting the office. In addition, the homebuyer would have the ability to visually track the progress of their home as well as the available options dependant on the specific stage of construction. In fact, one of Lone Tree’s new executives, Mike Seabrook, had used IHMS at Brown Family Communities, and had witnessed first hand how MARK SYSTEMS’ Internet ToolKit and Document Imaging Module allowed them to move to a virtually paperless process. This provided them with an immediate impact on their operations, saving more than two hours of their superintendents’ time daily.

After checking with a number of references throughout the country, the team at Lone Tree discovered that a number of IHMS users realized savings of $800 to $2000 per home that they built using the software! Lone Tree made the final decision that MARK SYSTEMS’ IHMS was a “hole in one”, in the parlance of their aspirations, and the right choice for their company.

MARK SYSTEMS’ Integrated Homebuilder Management System is the industry’s finest software package developed exclusively for residential builders and developers. Fully integrated from Sales Traffic Analysis through Contract Management, Cost Accounting and Warranty and Customer Service, the software provides state-of-the art information processing tools for the homebuilder, including access via the Internet. With thousands of users at residential builders throughout the country, MARK SYSTEMS software will help manage the construction of over 35,000 homes in 2008.

For more information, contact us at 800-972-7444, or visit us online at www.marksystemsUSA.com.