Hello and welcome to the Builders FirstSource 2008 fourth quarter and year end 2008 financial results conference call. Your host for today’s call is Mr. Floyd Sherman, Chief Executive Officer. (Operator Instructions). I would now like to turn the conference call over to Miss Katie Murphree, Director of Investor Relations and Financial Reporting, who will begin the call.

Good morning and thank you for joining us to discuss our fourth quarter and 2008 year end financial results. We issued a press release after the market close yesterday. If you don’t have a copy, you can find it on our website at BLDR.com. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that during the course of this conference call, management may make statements concerning the company’s future prospects, business strategies and industry trends. Such statements are considered forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Please refer to our most recent Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other reports filed with the SEC for more information on those risks. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. We have provided reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to their GAAP equivalents in our earnings press release and detailed explanations of non-GAAP financial measures in our form 8-K filed yesterday, both of which are available on our website. At this time I will turn the call over to Floyd Sherman.

Thank you, Katie. Good morning and welcome to our fourth quarter and 2008 year end earnings call. Joining me from our management team is Charles Horn, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. I’ll start with a recap of 2008, and I’ll then turn the call over to Charles who will discuss our fourth quarter financial results in more detail. After my closing comments regarding our outlook, we’ll take your questions. Two thousand and eight was a very difficult year. In fact, the housing environment was worse than most expectations. Total housing starts declined 33.2% during 2008, while single family housing starts declined 40.5%. We felt the impact of these difficult conditions on our 2008 results, although we were able to partially limit it through our action plan. Our action plan principally consisted of g owing market share, reducing fiscal capacity, adjusting staffing levels, implementing cost containment programs, managing credit tightly, and most importantly, conserving cash. Overall we feel these efforts were successful. We estimate that market share gains reduced our sales decline year-over-year by an estimated 10%. We were able to achieve these gains by largely holding share with our Builder 100 customers and expanding our presence in the multi-family and like commercial segment. From a capacity standpoint, we closed or mothballed 14 facilities during 2008. These closures reduced our fixed operating costs and allowed us to redeploy sales to other locations to gain efficiencies. Because of these closures and other job reductions, our headcount was down over 2,100 to 3,274 by year end 2008, a decrease of 39.3% from the beginning of the year. The reduction of payroll costs from our headcount reductions coupled with other cost reductions allowed us to reduce our selling, general and administrative expenses, excluding non-cash and non-reoccurring charges by 19.5% or 65% variable…

Good morning everyone. As Floyd indicated I will walk you through our fourth quarter results, we reported sales of $201.3 million compared to $290.2 million last year, a year-over-year decline of $88.9 million or 30.6%. Our sales volume dropped an estimated 27.9% compared to an estimated 45.6% decline in housing activity within our markets, indicating a contribution from market share gain of about 15%. Breaking down our product categories, prefabricated component sales declined 34.3% from the fourth quarter 2007, due to a combination of lower volume and prices. Windows and door sales were down 30.4%, lumber and lumber [sheet good sales] declined 35.7% to $45.6 million. Again, due to a combination of lower volumes and prices, millwork sales declined 34.2% and other building products and services sales declined 19%. Our sales mix between years was consistent, with the exception of other building products and services which increased to 23.1% of total sales totals. This category grew due to the expansion of our installed services and the multi family [inlying] commercial segments. Our gross margin % was 21.3% for the fourth quarter of 2008, down from 23% last year, a 170 basis point decline. Specifically, our gross margin percentage declined 80 basis points due to price, 60 basis points due to volume and 30 basis points due to a shift in sales mix toward installed product sales, which carry a lower gross margin percentage than distributed sales. Our selling general and administrative expenses decreased $15.1 million or 18.7% to$ 65.8 million as a percentage of sales SG&A expense increased from 27.9% last year to 32.7% in 2008; this is reflective of fixed costs becoming a larger % of our selling general and administrative expenses. Within SG&A salaries and benefits expense, including non cash stock based compensation declined $11.3 million or 24.6%…

According to Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, the current housing start levels, new home sales and existing home sales rival the worst downturns in the post World War II era. And home price declines and mortgage defaults are the worst on records that date back to this 1960s and 1970s. These statements were based on a report dated in June of 2008. We have seen a further decline in these metrics. Actual fourth quarter housing starts dropped to 103,600 from a 188,300 units in the same period of 2007, or a 45% decline. Fourth quarter percentage decline was the largest year-over-year change since the housing correction began in March 2006. For the year, actual single family housing starts fell to 622,400 units from 1,460,100 last year. And the seasonally adjusted annualized housing rate for single family housing starts at the end of 2008 was 398,000. This level suggests that 2009 will likely be worse than 2008. We anticipate the first six months will be the most difficult with some improvement in the third and fourth quarters of 2009. We believe our action plan in 2008 was instrumental in limiting the impact of the difficult conditions on our results. We've gained efficiencies in 2008 through effective implementation of our action plan. We will continue to execute our strategy of implementing cost-containment programs, managing credit tightly, rationalizing physical capacity, and growing market share in 2009 in order to conserve liquidity. This continued strategy execution coupled with $94.1 million in available cash and $35 million in expected income tax refunds in 2009, should provide the liquidity to weather yet another year in these unprecedented industry conditions. I will now turn the call over to operator for our Q&A session.

(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Rob Hansen – Deutsche Bank. Rob Hansen – Deutsche Bank: Just wanted to see if you could elaborate a little more on the drop in accounts payable, as well as the accounts receivable?

From the accounts payable, I think we saw about a two-day decline. What you're seeing there is again as we go out and expand into more of an installed product sales, there's a large component of our sales that are being driven by the actual sub-contract labor which are not employees. The sub-contracts labor expense for 2008 was somewhere in the area of $50 to $60 million. That does process through our accounts payable system, and what that does if it has terms of pay now or pay within a week, it obviously depresses what we're seeing in the overall payable days. From an actual product standpoint our days were stable or slightly up, but really what depressed it was this increasing amount of sub-contract labor flowing through. From an accounts receivable days we are seeing continued pressure. What you're seeing within the industry is many smaller customers are struggling. Many of them are basically heading to what I would call orderly liquidation. As such, that does pressure a little bit in the payment and it has increased some of the delinquency. Year-over-year if you look at what happens in terms of our delinquency, we have seen about 5% increase in the amount that has slipped into our greater-than-60-day bucket. And that's what you're really seeing going through with the A/R days. Rob Hansen – Deutsche Bank: Okay and then just, on the revolver, you had mentioned that you would pay it off once the Wells and Wachovia deal went through? I just wanted to see what the rationale was behind only paying $20 million of it off and why not the full amount?

What we did, is we did a forecast for the year and based upon the forecast for 2009 and coupled with our forecast for the borrowing base, we thought one, there would be no requirement to pay it off, two, we would be able to keep it, treat it as long-term. Our proclivity at this point in the cycle is to keep cash rather than just relying upon a non-drawn revolver and that's what we chose to do so.

Our next question comes from Scot Ciccarelli – RBC Capital Markets. Scot Ciccarelli – RBC Capital Markets: A follow up question on the payables, you said that payable days were relatively steady. So are you suggesting that vendors have not tightened terms at all?

I can't say that I've really seen any tightening of our terms. Our major suppliers are very cooperative; they want to work with us. We're all in this housing environment together, and Floyd, if you want to add anything to there. We've not really seen much coming through that.

I think we, due to our very good relationships with the suppliers, I think the suppliers also view us as a survivor in this business and one that will be a really critical customer, and strategic customer to them down the road. They are continuing to work with us very well and they're very, very comfortable with our financial condition and relative to what else they see going on in the industry, and we really don't anticipate any substantive changes in this relationship going forward. I will also add something to – Charles indicated that one of the factors that dropped our average days in payable was the terms in which we pay our sub-contract labor. We are talking with the primary labor suppliers in an effort to expand and get better pay terms, especially from the pay now, pay within a week. We're attempting to move these pay terms up to as much as 30 days. I don't know how successful we'll be in this area, but this is an area that has our attention and we obviously, it has real implications for us, and we think we will be able to be successful in improving over the position where we are now, but it'll be taking a lot of work and it will be occurring over the next 30 to 60 days. Scot Ciccarelli – RBC Capital Markets: Okay thanks, and then you did mention you thought you gained market share during the quarter. Can you just describe to your knowledge, I know it's pretty fragmented, a lot of privates out there, but what you see going on in the competitive front because obviously, as you mentioned, it's tough for everybody?

What we definitely see is from your smaller builders up to your regional builders, there is quite a bit of distress. What you're seeing is that the largest builders are continuing to be fine. They have good liquidity. They do not have any current debt. They're going to be survivors. I think what you're going to see as a result of this pronounced decline is that the major builders are going to grab substantial share and definitely come out dominate toward the end of this cycle. What we definitely see is more regional and smaller builders moving to what I'd call an orderly liquidation. What they're doing, in many cases, they're making a decision, are we better off alive or dead? In some situations they're set up in a very tax-advantaged situation which means that any income tax refund coming through to them can pass directly through to the owners versus going into the company. Many of them are now looking at that and saying, do I want that money to stay in the company or do I want to take in and just wind down? And I think you're going to see more of that in 2009 and from a credit perspective it's something we're very focused on, because I think you'll see more and more smaller builders decide, I'm going to take the refund and just wind down operations."

I think to also add to that, Charles, we're seeing almost no speculative building at all. What's being built is where the builders definitely feel they has a contract that's good, will go through and they'll be able close the house out. The level of building activity is uniformly, through just about all of our areas are reflecting the same position by the builders, and some of it's due to the fact with the small builders, the banks are just squeezing down on them. They're not advancing any more. They're not allowing them to build any specs. In fact, in many cases, they've set target. They have to get inventory, a certain amount of reduction in inventory, before they'll even talk to them about advancing on a good contract. We're going to continue to see some really diminished building activities we think over the next several months.

Our next question comes from Keith Hughes – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey. Keith Hughes – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey: I have a couple of questions, I guess first on working capital. As a source of cash here at the end of the year, much more modest than prior year, given we’re headed into a tough 2009, is there really significantly more dollars you can pull out of working capital?

Keith, it’s going to be a challenge. As we talked about on A/R, I think our challenge in A/R would be to try to keep; basically the A/R dates from moving up slightly. Inventory, again, we’re getting to a housing level that’s very difficult to replenish in economic order quantities, so it’s really hard to pick up our turns. If we do try to break, to increase our turns, it will have to be through consignment programs or buying is some very, very small quantities which can be efficient. So it will be a challenge. Looking at working at working capital, the biggest opportunity could be A/P. As Floyd talked about, we do have opportunities with the subcontractors, we do have opportunities with our temp labor firms, we do have opportunities with our professional services. So there’s things we can do to try to actually increase A/P even though DSO will definitely be moving against us and likely, we’ll be looking to maintain inventory turns and inventory days. Keith Hughes – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey: Are manufacturers open to consignment relationships at this point?

I think there’s some product categories that would still be possible, but overall, it’s difficult. The ones that have excess inventory and do have not have storage, it could work. Certain specialty categories, it could work, but I don’t know if it’s a huge opportunity, but it’s a possible opportunity.

Keith, we are working with our suppliers. Obviously, we would like to be able to increase our days and we’re talking to every one of our suppliers to see what we could do to get more favorable terms and yet not impact our pricing. We also really are looking hard at all purchases that are made outside of our preferred vendors in an effort to, say if we’re going to buy outside of our vendors, it’s got to be done on terms that are equal to our preferred vendors and at a price that’s attractive to us. There is probably in our business about 18 to 19% of our purchases fall into that category and I think there is an area of opportunity that we can get an improvement in terms, because typically those purchases are not carrying the same quality terms that we’re getting with preferred vendors and we are hard at work at pairing this disparity down. Keith Hughes – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey: As of the end of the year, what was the breakdown at fixed and variable in SG&A?

I would say you’re probably looking somewhere in the area Q4 60% fixed, 40% variable. Keith Hughes – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey: And final question, you talked a lot in the financial discussion about the shift to installed service, what specific trades are you doing more than you would have say a year or two ago in that business?

In terms of what type of projects? We've done a number; we did a large basically, it's a campus housing. We’ve done some military housing. We’re trying to look for projects that are not quite as immune to the cycle in terms of financing. So they tend to be multi-layered, multi-product jobs, but we’re basically turn-keying very large construction projects that we’ve not done before. These are projects that can last 12, 18 months where as I can tell you candidly, before we were looking at projects that would last up to three months. So we’ve really pushed up the scope and duration of the projects that we’ll take versus what we did before. Keith Hughes – Suntrust Robinson Humphrey: Doing the pre-fab components and I assume the windows and doors, that sort of work with them?

In trim, it could be any number of things that we spec out. They tend to break it down based on package and it’s just whatever quotes come in as being the most advantageous to the general contractor.

Our next question comes from [Allen Weber] – [Robody & Company] [Allen Weber] – [Robody & Company]: I guess my general question was, kind of on the thought process in the markets that you've kind of closed down in, was it just a function of market position, the real estate, and I guess that was my general question.

Definitely market position is one, if we’re not number one or two in the market, then we’d be more inclined to leave it. The other thing that we tend to look at is does the operation make a contribution toward its fixed costs. So we look at it, does it gross profit dollars minus its variable expenses, at least make a positive contribution to fixed costs. So it could be losing EBITDA, but if it has a positive, so let’s say that fixed costs are $1 million yet, it's generating $100,000 of cash toward it, then we’re not going to be inclined to shut it down. But conversely, if it’s not covering variable costs, or not even trading dollars with our customers and it's a market long-term we don’t feel we have very good potential then, those would be the ones we target. Our overall goal is not to shut down facilities, we want to keep a broad footprint, we want a presence for recovery. Our proclivity would be to go through it to try to scale it back, pull out as many people as we can, operate more of a skeleton crew and get it to a contribution break even or positive contribution. That’s really what our target is. [Allen Weber] – [Robody & Company]: Okay, and I guess on the flip side of that is, can you talk about in some of your markets, are you seeing just as you’ve gotten out of New Jersey, are you seeing some of your competitors, I mean we know the situation for the builders, are you seeing many competitors in your markets actually leaving the market? Or is that what you expect or?

In New Jersey? [Allen Weber] – [Robody & Company]: No, not in New Jersey, in the markets you’re still in.

A number of our markets are seeing closures. Some of our big competitors have shut down anywhere from 86 for one competitor to over 100 for another competitor. Those are companies bigger than us. In terms of smaller competitors, if you go into Florida, your small independents, especially in your trusts and panel manufacturing are just shutting down, trying to sell off their real estate for whatever the real estate value is. So the reduction in capacity is pronounced at all levels of the supply chain.

And we saw in Georgia in the Atlanta market area alone, close to $700 million of sales at the height of two competitors that have pulled, that have shut down and liquidated.

We’ve definitely seen that we have one smaller market in Florida where a year ago there were three competitors with us, now we’re the only person standing. Now we’re still the only person there with 2 housing starts, but again, we are seeing that capacity shrink out. [Allen Weber] – [Robody & Company]: Okay, my last question is, does the shutting down of the markets, does it change your relationship with these suppliers, does that enter into the thought process or not really?

I don’t believe it really impacts our relationship with our suppliers. Our suppliers are still looking for volume. Something an employee taught me a long time ago, they're still looking for customers as well. So in a difficult environment they’re still going to need customers. They are going to be looking for customers with good liquidity. Overall, we’re toward the top of that heap and so they are going to continue to work with us.

We’ve had a number of occasions where some of the major forest product producers have come to us with excess inventory or some bill balancing needs that they had because they knew that we could buy in a much larger volume than they were getting through their typical customer base. We frequently shop and look for those types situations because it helps us in the market place with more competitive pricing. We’re still a very, very important customer overall to the forest products producers. They view us, as I said earlier, our supplier base and generally; the suppliers of the building products industry are viewing us as a long-term survivor and somebody who is going to become even more strategically important as we go down the road and into the future. [Allen Weber] – [Robody & Company]: Okay and I guess my final question was when you look out over the next, at some point we’ll have a better environment and obviously, the competitive landscape has changed; can you just in your own mind speak about how you think the products will play out as to the sense of what you currently do? Would you expect any to be smaller or larger as a percent, just curious on that?

In terms of our mix, in terms of adding products, reducing products we carry? [Allen Weber] – [Robody & Company]: Yes, just overall mix of what you currently have, how you expect that to change, if any of it’s been a surprise to you?

I don’t think there will be substantial changes; there could be some further opportunities to expand mix in the future. Perhaps it could be a case where some specialty distributors fall out during a part of this process that we’re going through. Likely it’s going to be a very consistent mix but I think again what we said earlier, I think it’s going to be directed to fewer, fewer big customers versus the broad base of customers that we currently have had over the last decade in terms of the building environment.

If I were to look at the two parts of our business where I think we will see an improvement in our percentage of mix, but not major change, one is in the installed service area, we’re continuing to build up our expertise, certainly our reputation and if you look at the sales to that sector each quarter it's growing pretty dramatically with us, I think that will increase and I think the other area will be in manufactured components, a lot of capacity has been taken out of the market. We clearly were the leader in this area; we have retained a very high percentage of our engineering group so that we can expand this business quite rapidly. All of our – the component manufacturing plants with the exception of two, which are [mothball] ,are still operating and so we can gear up quite quickly and I think we will be increasing our share of the market for those components as housing improves.

Our next question comes from Jay McCanless – FTN Equity. Jay McCanless – FTN Equity Capital Markets: Wanted to ask first about that reserve, could you tell us again where it was at the end of the year and give us some sense of how much or how little you’ve had to increase it with all of the bankruptcies and quarterly liquidations you’ve talked about over the last six weeks.

At the end of the year it's $6.2 million on an $85 million balance, it grows a little over 6.2% reserve. The end of last year was $7.2 million on $126 million balance so a little over 5%. So at the end of period it’s about 2% higher, in terms of bad debt expense for the year is about a million spot higher in 2008 than it was in 2007. Jay McCanless – FTN Equity Capital Markets: Okay and what type of growth have you seen at the beginning of first quarter ’09?

In terms of the bad debt expense? I think it’s a little bit early to really know where we stand. I can tell you that the AG in January didn’t look any different than December, so I can’t think of any specific event in January that makes me feel any differently than ’08. Jay McCanless – FTN Equity Capital Markets: Okay. And then wanted to ask you had talked in earlier conference calls about banks keeping competitors open to try to collect the A/R’s as best they could. Is that trend starting to slow down? Are you starting to see more of these liquidate and finally go away, how are things looking there?

Well I can tell you on the customer base it definitely seems that there is more of a tendency towards just letting the customers orderly wind down, finish out homes, sell them off. There doesn’t seem a great willingness to lend even though it does seem once companies go into the work out groups they do seem to work with them a little bit. I think the way we look at it comes down to many cases is the company worth more alive or dead, and that’s the evaluation that the credit people within the banks make, but we definitely are seeing with the smaller customers, banks are pushing them more towards liquidation. Jay McCanless – FTN Equity Capital Markets: Okay and then on the competitors side? Same holds true for competitors as well as customers?

Hard to say. I don’t probably have as much insight into that as I do with our customer base. They definitely seem to be working with our big competitors, hard to say with the smaller suppliers. Many of them are failing. Is that a result of their banks? I’m not sure; it could just be a case of the family deciding they no longer want to operate the business in this environment, and so I can’t be very specific on that one.

I would have to think from all that we hear Charles, wouldn’t you agree that everyone is on a very, very tight leash. Anybody who is on an ABL is continually having the quality of their assets reviewed and adjustments made. The banks have a much tougher attitude and in many respects, I think the financial institutions are really running scared of any exposure that they have in the home building construction sector, and they just – really maintaining the pressure on all of the companies on all of the exposure that they have. Jay McCanless – FTN Equity Capital Markets: And then my final question just, what is your outlook for the lumber market this year and what are some of the things you’re seeing right now in terms of price?

Our outlook is that we thought and have projected that we think there will be a slight increase in the cost of commodity products. The – we saw – it looked like the market in January and February early part of February was starting to move up, but that and a lot of mill closures have been announced. The financial reports coming out of the forest products industry, both domestic as well as Canadian are extremely grim. But a number of companies have tried to set a floor on their pricing and said they will not sell below this and the floor was above what current market pricing was. That’s beginning to crumble, because I think there still is not enough capacity that has come out. There still has to be some more capacity taken out, both on the Canadian, as well as on the American side, and we’re starting to see prices are beginning to slip back down. I think still by the end of – I think when we look at the year in total, I think we’re going to end up seeing a slight increase in costs, but nothing dramatic. That obviously has tremendous affects on us. We would love to be able to see a lot stronger commodity pricing market, but I don’t think that it's going to be a great deal different that what we’re seeing right now.

And our next question comes from [Brian Tydale] – [Broad Point Capital]. [Brian Tydale] – [Broad Point Capital].: I had a question, given all of your cost cutting initiatives, trying to get a sense, what level of revenue do you need given your cost structure now to basically get EBITDA back to a positive number?

That’s a tough one to answer. I can tell you six months ago we thought it was $100 million, but I think with the things that we’ve done now it’s much lower than that, but given a more defined answer

A hundred million a month.

Yes, $100 million a month. Six months ago we felt that, obviously with the changes we’ve made now we’ve taken it down, but I don’t know if we really can provide much more insight than that. [Brian Tydale] – [Broad Point Capital].: Well I mean given ’08 levels of billing of top line. Is that number stuck for ’09? Obviously ’09 looking to be worse but if that number stuck for ’09 would you be comfortable thinking that EBITDA gets back into positive territory?

If we could see the same level of revenues in ’09 as we saw in ’08? I think that is conceivable, yes. [Brian Tydale] – [Broad Point Capital].: From a liquidity stand point, obviously with the revolver being or the AVL going down, are you having discussions with any such equity holders or are you exploring any additional methods of brining in some additional availability or liquidity at this point? Or in your view do you think you have enough to get through this year and next year and get through the down turn?

It is the latter. At this time we are not exploring any further equity or liquidity to come into the business. We’re always looking for ways from our own operations we can generate more. If there is non-core assets we can invest, we’ll consider it. If there are things we can do internally to improve cash that's what we’re looking for. At this point obviously we’re not looking to do anything that could be dilutive to share holders. We do feel that we have more than enough liquidity to ride through 2009 and candidly, Floyd and I are looking at making sure we have enough for 2010, even if we see no improvement in housing and that’s what we’re working on now. So versus having a 12 month outlook we do everything more on a 24 month outlook in terms of managing liquidity. [Brian Tydale] – [Broad Point Capital].: Do you – is there anything planned or slated right now in terms of asset sales? Have you identified some things you’re looking to part with this year?

We definitely have ideas yes. [Brian Tydale] – [Broad Point Capital].: Anything you could share, in terms of regions or what types of things you’re looking to – you may be looking to liquidate?

Not at this point. [Brian Tydale] – [Broad Point Capital].: How about even in terms of size of dollars. I mean are you talking single-digit millions or are these larger sales?

I can’t give you a reasonable estimate at this point.

Our next question comes from [Michael Plansey] – Credit Suisse. [Michael Plansey] – Credit Suisse: I was wondering if you had any maintenance covenants that you could trip over the course of the next 12 to 18 months.

The key covenant that we have we talk about in the press release and that is the $35 million minimum availability threshold. That's the part that basically takes our eligible borrowing base, it subtracts from it our any outstanding borrowing, and that resulting sum has to exceed $35 million. If we did not have enough to cover the $35 million then we'd move into a testing environment where we'd have to meet a fixed charge coverage ratio of one to one, which clearly if you look at our trailing 12 months results we couldn’t meet. So if you go through and pierce through the press release, what you'll see is our cushion above that $35 million is about $95 million at year end and we think that that will actually go up a little bit at the end of the first quarter, when our credit agreement allows for an increase in our seasonal advance rates. [Michael Plansey] – Credit Suisse: Now do those advance rates come back down again in the second half of the year or do they stay up?

What they do is they increase in March through August and then they drop from September through February.

Qualified for tax.

Yes, the other part from a liquidity standpoint we also talked about in the press release is we do have an anticipated $35.6 million income tax refund, we're targeting May 2009 to receive it, even though we're working to get it earlier than that if possible.

(Operator instructions) Our next question comes from Kevin Starke – CRT Capital Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: Do you think you might use some of that tax refund to buy back the second lean note given that they're trading at [$0.30] on the dollar?

You know it's always a consideration we look at that every day. Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: You could possibly buy back the whole issue.

It goes back to our two year outlook, how we're trying to always look ahead in terms of liquidity to cover 24 months. If as the time goes forward, our visibility looks better and we feel comfortable with our liquidity that would be the first place we'd look. Conversely right now, with still the muddiness in the water, the uncertainty we're going to sit on the liquidity and try to increase it versus doing anything at this point to decrease it, but you're right it's very attractive. Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: Yes, forgive me if you've mentioned this but did you give past due receivables percentage?

I did not, I do not have that in front of me, it seems like the greater than 60 is around 12%. Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: Okay and that's up from about 7% at the end of the third quarter?

That's correct. Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: Okay the mechanics of your first, of your revolver credit agreement are a little tricky but they mention a compliance period, I'm wondering if you triggered that by virtue of falling below the minimum liquidity?

No, we didn’t fall beneath it. If you have our credit agreement, if you look at the definition of how that calculation works, there's a concept of qualified cash, meaning that any cash we have on deposit with the agents can count against any shortfall on the borrowing base. Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: Okay so you triggered none of that compliance period?

We did not trigger a compliance period yes. Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: Okay good, by the look of it you can only do that twice, right?

No actually, we're not restricted on just leaving qualified cash over at the agent. That is not a trip up, what you're referring to is if we actually put forth on it, we can cure it, in terms of the cures we're limited but this would not have been deemed a cure. Kevin Starke – CRT Capital: Got it, good, all right, I get a lot of interest from fixed income investors who think that you have a very long runway with your very slow cash burn and your pretty good cash position, but it's hard to look ahead to what normalized sales might be, normalized EBITDA and I know you're not prepared to give that information, but I'm wondering if you have a viewpoint of what may be normalized housing starts might be in this economy and what rough sales level, at Builders First versus my correspondence?

Well it depends on your timeframe; we spend a lot of time thinking about that. If you go back to the peak of housing in 2005 you saw over 2 million starts in total. I think we believe that in the normal cycles going forward you're going to see probably 1.5 million in terms of total starts, not this 2 million level that you saw during the boom years. Having said that, we still believe that that can be very beneficial for us, with the capacity that's dropped out of our markets, with the fact that we've been able to maintain broad presence as we've only really x'd in one market. We feel that will play into our hands, so while maybe our sales will not get back to what they were at the peak level we feel we can actually be more profitable. I mean Floyd spent a lot of time talking about things we're doing to be more efficient and I think that again we've always focused on market share and being the largest within our markets. And I think it actually plays into our hands in that regard, in terms of the ability to be more profitable, more efficient and have a larger share within our markets, but at a new reset lower level of housing across the cycle, Floyd?

Yes I think another way you can also look at it Charles, is our sales dollar generated per housing start has really continued to increase as we've increased our market share. That's not going to go away when housing returns to a more normalized state and I agree. I think that the range of housing probably on a normalized basis is 1.5 to 1.7 million housing starts, I think all the demographics and all the studies that have been done certainly support that. The – I think our penetration is definitely going to be better as we go, I think with our efficiencies that we are producing now, they're not going to go away as business conditions improve and so I look for a better future even than what we've had in the past, as we get to a more normalized position.

(Operator Instructions) It appears there are no further questions in the queue, Mr. Sherman I'll turn the conference back over to you for closing remarks.

Okay thank you for joining us today, if you have any further questions please feel free to contact Charles. Have a good day.

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