The most completely finished variation of industrialized housing is the manufactured home. Many people still refer to these homes as mobile homes, even though they are rarely, if ever, moved.
Developing with Manufactured Homes illustrates how the manufactured housing industry functions and how the homes are constructed. It explains how developers can make use of the industrialized approach to building, in lieu of the increasingly cumbersome “stick” building process.
Elementary concepts in land selection, acquisition, the public approval process, development and construction are not covered in this book, except to the extent that the use of manufactured housing would dictate a significant variation in practice as compared to building homes on site.
The primary focus throughout the text is on fee simple development - merging the house with the land to create a singular title of real estate. Although the emphasis is on subdivisions, planned unit developments and urban infill lots as opposed to the development of land-lease communities, many of the subjects covered are applicable to all of the above modes of land use.
This book is an indispensable guide for any builder, developer or student interested in taking advantage of the opportunities in manufactured housing development.
Steve Hullibarger is President of The Home Team, a firm which provides consulting services, guidance and advice to builders and developers nationwide who wish to tap the potential of manufactured housing. He is an active member of the Manufactured Housing Institute and serves on the MHI Site Development Committee. He was co-chairman of the MHI Urban Design Demonstration Project and is chairman of the Manufactured Housing Research Alliance’s Steering Committee on Single-Family Attached Housing Research.
Upon graduation from California State University at Long Beach in 1971 with a B.S. in Business Administration-Marketing, he began a career in manufactured housing operations, starting with Kaufman & Broad Home Systems, Inc. and then Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. His manufacturing background with these companies includes sales and purchasing management, general plant management and program management for sales to developers and subdivisions.
He has built manufactured home infill projects, supervised operations for large manufactured home developments and consulted to builders, manufacturers and developers around the country. Hullibarger has spoken at numerous seminars and workshops on the subject of developing with manufactured homes. He has a California Real Estate Broker’s License and a California Manufactured Housing General Contractor’s License.
