Nobility Homes

Nobility Homes is a Florida-based manufacturer of HUD-code manufactured homes and modular homes, operating from a single plant in Ocala, Florida, that has been in continuous use since the company was founded in 1967. The company designs, builds, and sells homes factory-direct, deliberately bypassing the independent dealer channel that most manufactured homes pass through. Its retail arm, Prestige Home Centers, was formed in 1990 and handles sales, financing, and insurance in-house, so customers can buy, finance, and insure a home in one place. Nobility states that it has housed roughly 56,000 families since 1967 and that it operates model centers statewide in Florida. The product line is organized into home series such as Kingswood, Richwood, Tropic Isle, Tropic Manor, Regency Manor, Special Edition, and President, spanning park models, vacation cottages, and multi-bedroom manufactured and modular homes. Published floor plans on the company's website include the Richwood Park Model (1 bed, 1 bath, 494 sq ft), Richwood Vacation Cottage (1 bed, 1 bath, 569 sq ft), Richwood Vacation Cottage 40 (1 bed, 1 bath, 610 sq ft), Richwood Hailey (2 bed, 2 bath, 823 sq ft), and Richwood Willie (2 bed, 2 bath, 868 sq ft). Nobility positions its homes around Florida-specific durability. It builds to the HUD Construction and Safety Standard for Wind Zones II and III, using double roof trusses and reinforced anchoring, and it markets the homes as engineered to withstand Florida's toughest storms. The company cites the 2004–05 severe hurricane seasons, during which its homes built to the updated HUD wind standard sustained no significant structural damage, and Hurricane Irma in 2017, when a Punta Gorda homeowner reported their Nobility home came through intact. Nobility Homes is publicly traded on the OTCQX market under the ticker NOBH. The company describes itself as remaining under the same family leadership after more than 57 years, with Terry E. Trexler serving as President, CEO, and COO, and Thomas W. Trexler as CFO, Head of Investor Relations, and EVP. Its manufacturing footprint remains a single facility in Ocala, which the company presents as a source of consistency and cost control rather than a limitation.

Nobility Homes was founded in 1967 in Ocala, Florida, where it began manufacturing homes at a plant that remains the company's only manufacturing facility. From the outset the business was built around manufactured and modular housing for the Florida market, a region where wind resistance is a defining engineering requirement. For its first decades Nobility sold through the conventional manufactured-housing channel, in which independent dealers stand between the factory and the homebuyer. In 1990 the company changed that model by forming Prestige Home Centers, its own retail arm. Prestige allowed Nobility to sell factory-direct and to add in-house financing and insurance to the purchase process, consolidating buying, financing, and insuring into a single transaction. This vertically integrated approach — one factory, one price, no middleman — became a central part of the company's identity. A second defining thread in Nobility's history is wind performance. In 1994 the HUD wind-protection standards were updated, and Nobility built to the strengthened code. The company states that its homes would prove out those standards a decade later: during the severe hurricane seasons of 2004–05, Nobility homes built to the updated HUD standard sustained no significant structural damage. The company's construction approach includes double roof trusses, reinforced anchoring, and construction rated for HUD Wind Zones II and III. In 2017, Hurricane Irma struck Florida. Nobility cites the experience of a homeowner in Punta Gorda whose home came through the storm fully intact, with no shingles, panes, or siding displaced. Such accounts are used by the company to support its claim that its homes are tested against real storms rather than only meeting code minimums. Over more than five decades Nobility has remained a single-plant, family-led business. The company reports that it has housed roughly 56,000 families since 1967 and that it operates model centers across Florida. It is publicly traded on the OTCQX market under the ticker NOBH, and it describes itself as still under the same family leadership, with Terry E. Trexler as President, CEO, and COO and Thomas W. Trexler as CFO, Head of Investor Relations, and EVP. Its product range has expanded across series such as Kingswood, Richwood, Tropic Isle, Tropic Manor, Regency Manor, Special Edition, and President, covering park models, vacation cottages, and larger multi-bedroom homes.

• 2017

  Hurricane Irma; a Nobility homeowner in Punta Gorda reports their home came through fully intact.

• 2004

  Severe hurricane seasons; Nobility homes built to the updated HUD standard sustain no significant structural damage.

• 1994

  HUD wind-protection standards are updated; Nobility builds to the strengthened code.

• 1990

  Prestige Home Centers is formed as Nobility's own retail arm, enabling factory-direct sales with in-house financing and insurance.

• 1967

  Nobility Homes begins manufacturing at its Ocala, Florida plant, still the company's only manufacturing facility.

Factory-direct Florida manufactured and modular homes built for hurricane-prone Wind Zones II/III, sold through the company's own Prestige Home Centers with in-house financing and insurance.

• Richwood Park Model

• Richwood Vacation Cottage

• Richwood Vacation Cottage 40

• Richwood Hailey

• Richwood Willie

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