Renowned high-end apartment builder Gumenick Properties looks to MARK SYSTEMS’ Integrated Homebuilder Management System (IHMS) to kick start its venture into single-family detached and attached homebuilding market. Based in Richmond, VA, one of the fastest growing residential markets on the East Coast, Gumenick already owns over 800 buildable lots throughout the city’s metropolitan area. Gumenick is planing to break ground this spring, and they estimate rapid growth by projecting to build close to 125 homes in their first year.

Gumenick’s residential construction segment, under the leadership of David Lohr and Ollin Toller, previously utilized the Timberline package with the Pro Home tie-on software to address the company’s commercial construction and light residential construction needs. Lacking the tight integration throughout modules as well as many of the capabilities and reports necessary to track information properly throughout the homebuilding process, Gumenick felt there was a need to implement a homebuilder-specific software solution, one that offered single-database management to insure full integration and that the software has proven its value at a number of homebuilders throughout the country. This would insure that Gumenick wouldn’t play the role of a beta site, as they have with past software applications.

With that said, Ollin, who was familiar with MARK SYSTEMS’ IHMS from working at Eakin/Youngentob Associates of Arlington, VA, a MARK SYSTEMS’ customer since 1997 and a strong advocate of the software, decided to pursue IHMS as a possible solution for Gumenick Properties. After a demonstration for the entire corporate team, various implementation meetings and in-depth positive feedback from other users, Gumenick was ready to move forward. In addition, with MARK SYSTEMS’ strong emphasis on pre-installation planning and training and an effective and efficient implementation process, Gumenick knew that IHMS would be in place and ready to assist them before they started to build.

MARK SYSTEMS’ Integrated Homebuilder Management System is the industry’s finest software package developed exclusively for residential builders and developers. Fully integrated from Sales Agreements and Traffic Analysis through Contract Management, Cost Accounting, Scheduling, Warranty and Customer Service, the software provides high-end information processing tools for every homebuilding function. MARK SYSTEMS software is used by hundreds of homebuilders with thousands of users throughout the nation, and will help manage the construction of nearly 40,000 homes in 2004.

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