Who is Palm Harbor Homes?

The HUD code requires each manufactured home to meet the following requirements:

• Built as one, two or three sections in a protected building center, transported to the home site on a frame and installed
• Meets the strict HUD code restrictions for design and construction; durability and strength; fire resistance; transportability; energy efficiency; and quality
• Built on steel beams with wheels under each section
• Meets the high standards for heating; plumbing; air conditioning; and thermal and electrical systems performance
• Passes stringent third-party inspection

A modular home is simply a home built to local building codes in a controlled, environmentally protected building center using precise and efficient construction technology. A modular home is built to the same codes as a site-built home. Because they must be transported to the home site, modular homes are typically much stronger than site built homes.

From a parking lot at the Las Vegas Convention Center to where? Each year the homes are eagerly snapped up by some enterprising home builder. The homes are carefully pulled apart, loaded back up on the flat bed trucks that parade through Las Vegas and then taken to their permanent site.

More than likely, this year's homes will catch the attention and imagination of a builder or developer who does business in the general Las Vegas vicinity. If you are interested in buying a home, be sure to ask one of the Palm Harbor representatives about it. There will be plenty of them on hand during the exhibit.

Last year when IBS was held in Orlando, Fla., one of the homes went to Panama City, Fla., with Stalwart Built Homes; New Era Homes took another, and it ended up in a housing community in Springfield, La. The third home was sold to an undisclosed builder and moved about 40 miles northwest of Orlando.