Build Stronger Florida Housing Through Strategic Partnerships
Hurricane Homes by Latitude 98 works with landowners, investors, municipalities, housing authorities, nonprofit organisations, employers, lenders, builders, architects, engineers, and community partners to develop more resilient housing throughout Florida.
Our partnership approach combines real estate development, site planning, design coordination, resilient construction, energy planning, permitting, construction oversight, and long-term asset strategy.
Partnerships may involve one custom home, a group of infill properties, a workforce housing project, an aviation community, or a larger residential development built around Hurricane Homes standards.
Who We Partner With
Hurricane Homes welcomes opportunities from:
- Landowners
- Property owners
- Residential developers
- Private investors
- Family offices
- Banks and private lenders
- Municipalities
- Counties
- Housing authorities
- Nonprofit organizations
- Community development groups
- Veteran organizations
- Employers
- Workforce organizations
- Faith-based institutions
- Airport owners
- Aviation community developers
- Architects
- Engineers
- General contractors
- Builders
- Insurance and resilience professionals
- Energy and backup-system providers
- Strategic development partners
The appropriate partnership structure depends on the property, project size, ownership objectives, financing, development stage, and intended long-term outcome.
Landowner Partnerships
Landowners may have property with strong residential potential but lack the development team, capital, experience, or time required to move the project forward.
Latitude 98 evaluates land suitable for:
- Individual Hurricane Homes
- Residential infill development
- Small groups of homes
- Single-family communities
- Cottage communities
- Townhomes
- Build-to-rent developments
- Workforce housing
- Mixed-income housing
- Veteran housing
- Senior housing
- Aviation communities
- Hangar homes
- Custom residential enclaves
Potential landowner partnership structures may include:
- Direct property acquisition
- Seller financing
- Joint venture
- Ground lease
- Land contribution
- Development agreement
- Phased acquisition
- Participation in future sales or income
- Build-to-suit development
Every opportunity is evaluated individually. No acquisition, partnership, entitlement, or development is guaranteed.
Property Owners With Existing Homes
Hurricane Homes may also work with owners of properties that contain:
- Older homes
- Storm-damaged homes
- Fire-damaged homes
- Distressed structures
- Homes with major code issues
- Properties suitable for demolition and replacement
- Oversized residential lots
- Underused rental properties
- Unfinished homes
- Existing homes requiring substantial resilience upgrades
Depending on the property, the strategy may involve rehabilitation, replacement, redevelopment, acquisition, or a joint development arrangement.
Investor Partnerships
Latitude 98 evaluates investment partnerships involving the development, construction, and long-term ownership of Hurricane Homes and Hurricane Homes Communities.
Potential investment opportunities may include:
- Land acquisition
- Entitlement capital
- Predevelopment funding
- Horizontal development
- Vertical home construction
- Build-to-rent communities
- Home-sale projects
- Workforce and attainable housing
- Mixed-income communities
- Veteran housing
- Aviation residential development
- Long-term rental portfolios
- Project-specific joint ventures
Potential structures may include:
- Project-specific equity
- Preferred equity
- Joint ventures
- Private lending
- Construction financing
- Land acquisition financing
- Portfolio investment
- Phased capital commitments
- Long-term ownership entities
- Property-specific limited liability companies
Each project should include a defined:
- Development strategy
- Ownership structure
- Capital requirement
- Project budget
- Construction schedule
- Sales or leasing plan
- Operating assumptions
- Risk analysis
- Reporting structure
- Exit or long-term ownership strategy
All real estate investments involve risk. Projected costs, completion dates, values, sales, rents, occupancy, refinancing, and investment returns are not guaranteed.
Builder and General Contractor Partnerships
Hurricane Homes seeks relationships with builders and contractors capable of delivering consistent quality, documentation, and accountability.
Potential construction partners may include:
- Residential general contractors
- Custom homebuilders
- Production builders
- Concrete and masonry contractors
- Roofing contractors
- Electrical contractors
- Plumbing contractors
- HVAC contractors
- Sitework contractors
- Utility contractors
- Window and door installers
- Generator contractors
- Solar and battery installers
- Aviation facility contractors
- Speciality construction firms
Contractors may be evaluated based on:
- Licensing
- Insurance
- Relevant experience
- Financial capacity
- Project history
- Quality-control systems
- Safety performance
- Scheduling ability
- Construction documentation
- Warranty service
- Subcontractor relationships
- Florida building experience
- Experience with resilient construction
Participation in one project does not guarantee future work.
Architecture and Engineering Partnerships
Hurricane Homes requires close coordination among architecture, engineering, site planning, energy systems, and construction.
Potential professional partners may include:
- Residential architects
- Community planners
- Civil engineers
- Structural engineers
- Mechanical engineers
- Electrical engineers
- Plumbing engineers
- Fire-protection engineers
- Landscape architects
- Surveyors
- Geotechnical professionals
- Environmental consultants
- Energy consultants
- Accessibility specialists
- Aviation planners
- Interior designers
Professional partners may assist with:
- Site evaluation
- Concept planning
- Floor-plan development
- Structural resilience
- Drainage
- Flood-conscious design
- Building-envelope coordination
- Energy efficiency
- Backup-power systems
- Accessibility
- Permitting
- Construction support
- Post-completion documentation
Licensed professionals remain responsible for their designs, calculations, sealed documents, inspections, and professional services.
Municipal and County Partnerships
Hurricane Homes welcomes conversations with local governments seeking to expand durable, energy-efficient, and resilient housing.
Potential partnership opportunities may involve:
- Publicly owned land
- Surplus residential parcels
- Neighborhood infill
- Storm-damaged housing replacement
- Workforce housing
- Attainable homeownership
- Affordable housing
- Veteran housing
- Senior housing
- Mixed-income communities
- Neighborhood redevelopment
- Disaster recovery
- Public-private development agreements
Potential public participation may include:
- Land contributions
- Discounted land
- Ground leases
- Infrastructure support
- Utility extensions
- Impact-fee assistance
- Expedited review
- Housing funds
- Grants
- Development agreements
- Density incentives
- Community redevelopment resources
All public partnerships remain subject to procurement, approval, funding, legal, affordability, transparency, and public-accountability requirements.
Housing Authority Partnerships
Housing authorities may participate in projects involving:
- Affordable homeownership
- Affordable rentals
- Mixed-income housing
- Veteran housing
- Accessible housing
- Senior housing
- Scattered-site housing
- Housing replacement
- Public land redevelopment
- Build-to-rent communities
Latitude 98 may coordinate the real estate, development, design, permitting, construction, and asset-delivery components.
The housing authority or other qualified partner may remain responsible for resident eligibility, rental assistance, compliance, program administration, and long-term housing operations.
Nonprofit Partnerships
Nonprofit organisations may have land, funding relationships, community trust, resident programs, or a defined housing mission but need development capacity.
Latitude 98 may assist qualified nonprofits with:
- Property evaluation
- Development feasibility
- Concept planning
- Acquisition
- Joint-venture structuring
- Financing coordination
- Architecture and engineering
- Entitlements
- Permitting
- Construction oversight
- Rehabilitation
- New construction
- Project closeout
- Long-term facility planning
Potential nonprofit housing projects may include:
- Veteran housing
- Senior housing
- Accessible homes
- Affordable housing
- Workforce housing
- Transitional housing
- Permanent supportive housing
- Scattered-site housing
- Community land trust housing
Where healthcare, case management, counselling, benefits assistance, personal care, or other supportive services are required, those services must be provided by qualified organisations.
Latitude 98 and Hurricane Homes do not represent themselves as healthcare or social-service providers.
Employer and Workforce Partnerships
Housing affordability affects employee recruitment, retention, commuting, attendance, and long-term workforce stability.
Hurricane Homes welcomes opportunities with:
- Hospitals
- Schools
- Universities
- Municipal employers
- Public-safety organizations
- Aviation businesses
- Hospitality companies
- Construction companies
- Industrial employers
- Large service-sector employers
- Chambers of commerce
- Workforce development organizations
Potential employer-supported strategies may include:
- Workforce homeownership
- Workforce rental communities
- Preferred employee housing
- Down-payment assistance
- Land contributions
- Master leases
- Housing stipends
- Employer-backed financing
- Joint development
- Housing near employment centres
Projects must comply with applicable fair-housing, lending, employment, funding, and program requirements.
Veteran Organisation Partnerships
Hurricane Homes may work with veteran organisations to evaluate:
- Accessible homes for disabled veterans
- Ageing-in-place residences
- Affordable veteran housing
- Permanent veteran housing
- Veteran rental communities
- Homeownership opportunities
- Scattered-site housing
- Mixed-income veteran communities
- Housing near healthcare and transportation
Veteran-service organisations may assist with:
- Resident outreach
- Eligibility
- Funding programs
- Benefits coordination
- Accessibility needs
- Supportive services
- Community programming
Latitude 98’s role remains focused on real estate development and housing delivery.
Faith-Based and Institutional Partnerships
Faith-based institutions, schools, healthcare organisations, and other institutions may control underused land suitable for housing.
Potential opportunities may include:
- Church-owned land
- Surplus school property
- Institutional campuses
- Large parking areas
- Underused administrative sites
- Vacant residential parcels
- Land near employment or transportation
Potential structures may include:
- Ground leases
- Joint ventures
- Direct sales
- Phased development
- Land contributions
- Retained ownership with income-producing housing
- Community-benefit development agreements
The project should respect the organisation’s mission, governance, ownership requirements, and long-term goals.
Lender Partnerships
Hurricane Homes works with lenders and capital providers that understand residential development, construction, resilient building systems, and long-term housing ownership.
Potential financing relationships may include:
- Land acquisition loans
- Construction loans
- Construction-to-permanent loans
- Builder lines
- Portfolio financing
- Bridge loans
- Private lending
- Affordable housing financing
- Public-private financing
- Tax-credit or bond financing
- Homebuyer financing
- Veteran-oriented lending
- Community development lending
Lenders may receive organised project information such as:
- Development plans
- Budgets
- Construction schedules
- Appraisals
- Market information
- Plans and permits
- Contractor information
- Insurance
- Equity documentation
- Draw packages
- Cost-to-complete reports
Financing availability, terms, rates, appraisal, underwriting, and borrower approval remain solely within the lender’s control.
Insurance and Resilience Partnerships
Hurricane Homes may coordinate with insurance, inspection, engineering, and resilience professionals to better understand the relationship among design, documentation, maintenance, underwriting, and ownership.
Potential partners may include:
- Insurance brokers
- Property insurers
- Wind-mitigation inspectors
- Flood professionals
- Structural engineers
- Building-envelope consultants
- Roofing consultants
- Risk-management professionals
- Disaster-recovery specialists
Potential areas of coordination may include:
- Construction documentation
- Roof design
- Opening protection
- Wind-mitigation features
- Flood-conscious design
- Elevation information
- Water-detection systems
- Backup power
- Maintenance records
- Post-construction inspections
Latitude 98 does not guarantee insurance availability, coverage, discounts, deductibles, or premiums.
Energy and Backup-System Partnerships
Hurricane Homes may work with qualified providers of:
- Standby generators
- Transfer switches
- Critical-load panels
- Battery storage
- Solar systems
- EV charging
- Surge protection
- Energy monitoring
- High-efficiency HVAC
- Dehumidification
- Smart-home systems
- Leak detection
- Automatic water shutoff
Partners should demonstrate:
- Licensing
- Insurance
- Relevant experience
- Product support
- Warranty service
- Local service capability
- System compatibility
- Permit knowledge
- Safe installation
- Homeowner training
- Long-term maintenance support
Supplier and Manufacturer Partnerships
Hurricane Homes may evaluate relationships with manufacturers and distributors of:
- Roofing systems
- Windows and doors
- Structural connectors
- Wall systems
- Waterproofing
- Insulation
- Exterior materials
- HVAC equipment
- Generators
- Batteries
- Solar equipment
- Electrical systems
- Plumbing systems
- Smart controls
- Durable interior finishes
Product selection is based on the needs of the project, approved plans, testing, availability, cost, installation requirements, maintenance, and long-term support.
No supplier or manufacturer should describe a product as approved for a project unless it has been specifically reviewed and selected.
Aviation Community Partnerships
Hurricane Homes may be developed within airports, airparks, and aviation communities.
Potential partners may include:
- Private airport owners
- Airpark developers
- Hangar associations
- Aviation community associations
- Aircraft owners
- Airport authorities
- Aviation investors
- FBO operators
- Maintenance providers
- Flight schools
- Aviation lenders
Potential projects may include:
- Hangar homes
- Taxiway-accessible residences
- Community hangars
- Pilot clubhouses
- Aviation rental homes
- Custom aviation residences
- Mixed residential and aviation developments
Aviation projects require specialised review of runway and taxiway rights, aircraft circulation, fire separation, hangar doors, airport operating rules, security, noise, and long-term aviation access.
Real Estate Broker Partnerships
Latitude 98 welcomes opportunities from licensed brokers and real estate professionals representing:
- Landowners
- Property owners
- Buyers
- Investors
- Institutional owners
- Municipalities
- Airport owners
- Estates
- Distressed properties
- Development sites
Brokers may submit:
- Residential land
- Larger development tracts
- Distressed homes
- Airport property
- Aviation-community land
- Public or institutional property
- Incomplete residential developments
- Build-to-rent sites
- Community housing opportunities
Brokerage relationships, commissions, referral fees, representation, and transaction responsibilities must be confirmed in writing.
Development Partner Roles
Depending on the project, Latitude 98 may serve as:
- Lead developer
- Co-developer
- Development manager
- Acquisition partner
- Land-development partner
- Construction-management coordinator
- Owner’s representative
- Joint-venture partner
- Long-term owner
- Build-to-rent sponsor
- Public-private development partner
- Property repositioning partner
Other partners may provide:
- Land
- Capital
- Financing
- Design
- Construction
- Public approvals
- Housing programs
- Resident services
- Property management
- Sales
- Leasing
- Operations
The responsibilities of each party should be clearly defined before substantial time or capital is committed.
Partnership Structures
Potential structures may include:
- Direct acquisition
- Seller financing
- Option agreement
- Ground lease
- Joint venture
- Development agreement
- Build-to-suit agreement
- Construction-management engagement
- Development-management engagement
- Public-private partnership
- Project-specific ownership entity
- Long-term rental ownership
- Sale upon completion
- Phased development
- Fee development
The selected structure depends on the property, capital, risk, partner objectives, timeline, and long-term asset strategy.
Joint Ventures
A joint venture may combine resources such as:
- Land
- Cash equity
- Financing
- Development experience
- Construction capabilities
- Public relationships
- Housing programs
- Operations
- Property management
- Sales or leasing
A joint-venture agreement should address:
- Ownership percentages
- Capital contributions
- Development responsibilities
- Decision authority
- Guarantees
- Budget approval
- Additional capital
- Distributions
- Fees
- Reporting
- Conflicts
- Transfers
- Defaults
- Exit strategy
- Dispute resolution
Qualified legal, tax, accounting, and financial professionals should advise each party.
Ground-Lease Partnerships
A ground lease may allow the landowner to retain ownership while granting Hurricane Homes long-term development and operating rights.
Potential benefits may include:
- Long-term land income
- Retained ownership
- Reduced upfront land cost
- Phased development
- Estate planning flexibility
- Institutional control
- Mission-oriented land use
Ground leases must be long enough and structured appropriately to support financing, construction, operation, maintenance, transfer rights, and lender protections.
Public-Private Partnerships
A public-private Hurricane Homes project may combine:
- Public land
- Private development
- Public funding
- Private financing
- Housing incentives
- Infrastructure support
- Affordable or workforce requirements
- Long-term public objectives
A successful public-private structure should clearly define:
- Land ownership
- Development rights
- Procurement
- Financing
- Construction
- Affordability
- Resident eligibility
- Property management
- Compliance
- Maintenance
- Reporting
- Long-term ownership
- Remedies
Community Housing Partnerships
Hurricane Homes may provide a resilient construction platform for:
- Affordable housing
- Workforce housing
- Attainable homeownership
- Veteran housing
- Senior housing
- Accessible housing
- Mixed-income communities
- Scattered-site housing
- Publicly supported developments
The development structure may involve municipalities, counties, housing authorities, nonprofits, lenders, employers, public agencies, and community organisations.
The project must balance resilience, affordability, maintenance, operating costs, funding requirements, and resident needs.
Development Standards and Brand Integrity
Projects using the Hurricane Homes name should reflect the core principles of the brand.
These may include:
- Florida-focused design
- Site-specific planning
- Coordinated structure and envelope
- Water-management planning
- Energy efficiency
- Backup-power readiness
- Durable materials
- Construction documentation
- Quality coordination
- Long-term maintenance planning
- Clear limitations and honest claims
A partner may not represent a project as a Hurricane Home without an approved written relationship and confirmation that the project satisfies the applicable brand and development standards.
Partnership Evaluation
Latitude 98 evaluates potential partnerships based on:
- Property control
- Market need
- Partner experience
- Financial capacity
- Development feasibility
- Site conditions
- Approval path
- Construction requirements
- Shared objectives
- Decision-making structure
- Long-term operations
- Reputation
- Strategic fit
Not every proposed partnership will be accepted.
Information We Need
A potential partner should provide as much relevant information as possible.
For land or property opportunities:
- Property address
- Parcel number
- Acreage
- Survey
- Zoning
- Current use
- Asking price
- Ownership information
- Utility information
- Flood information
- Known environmental issues
- Existing plans
- Preferred transaction structure
For investment opportunities:
- Available capital
- Preferred project type
- Investment timeframe
- Risk preferences
- Geographic focus
- Return objectives
- Ownership preferences
- Relevant experience
For builders and consultants:
- Company information
- Licensing
- Insurance
- Experience
- Project portfolio
- Service area
- Team
- References
- Typical project size
- Relevant specialties
Our Partnership Process
1. Submit the Opportunity
Provide information about the land, project, organisation, capital, professional service, or partnership concept.
2. Initial Review
Latitude 98 reviews the strategic fit, property, partner qualifications, project type, geography, and apparent development potential.
3. Introductory Discussion
The parties discuss objectives, resources, expectations, timing, potential roles, and major concerns.
4. Preliminary Feasibility
When appropriate, Latitude 98 evaluates zoning, site conditions, market demand, utilities, costs, financing, approvals, and project structure.
5. Define Partner Roles
The parties identify responsibility for land, capital, financing, development, design, construction, operations, services, management, leasing, and sales.
6. Establish the Business Structure
Potential acquisitions, joint ventures, ground leases, management agreements, development agreements, fees, ownership rights, and decision procedures are evaluated.
7. Complete Due Diligence
The project team completes the legal, technical, environmental, financial, market, and operational review required for the opportunity.
8. Execute Written Agreements
No partnership exists until the applicable agreements have been negotiated, approved, and signed.
9. Advance the Development
The project moves through property control, entitlements, design, financing, permitting, construction, completion, sales, leasing, or long-term ownership.
10. Maintain Reporting and Accountability
The partners follow the agreed decision, reporting, capital, construction, compliance, and operating procedures.
Partnership Inquiry Form
Suggested form fields:
- Name
- Company or organization
- Email address
- Phone number
- Preferred contact method
- Partnership type
- Landowner
- Investor
- Lender
- Municipality or county
- Housing authority
- Nonprofit organization
- Employer
- Veteran organization
- Builder or contractor
- Architect or engineer
- Supplier or manufacturer
- Energy or backup-system provider
- Aviation partner
- Broker
- Other
- Property address, if applicable
- County or location
- Project type
- Approximate acreage
- Available capital, if applicable
- Current development stage
- Desired partnership structure
- Project timeline
- Additional information
- Document upload
Important Partnership Notice
Submitting an inquiry does not create:
- A partnership
- A joint venture
- An agency relationship
- A brokerage relationship
- A fiduciary relationship
- A construction agreement
- A consulting engagement
- An investment commitment
- An obligation to acquire or develop property
Any relationship must be established through separate written agreements.
Latitude 98 does not guarantee:
- Partnership acceptance
- Property acquisition
- Entitlement approval
- Financing
- Construction pricing
- Completion schedules
- Insurance
- Energy savings
- Property values
- Sales
- Occupancy
- Investment returns
Serving Orlando, Central Florida and Selected Florida Markets
Latitude 98’s core Hurricane Homes development area includes:
- Orange County
- Seminole County
- Lake County
- Osceola County
- Volusia County
- Polk County
Selected community, aviation-residential, institutional, public-private, and strategic housing opportunities may also be considered elsewhere in Florida.
Build Florida’s Next Generation of Resilient Housing
Creating stronger housing requires cooperation among landowners, capital partners, public agencies, builders, designers, housing organisations, employers, and the communities the homes will serve.
Hurricane Homes by Latitude 98 provides a platform for partners who want to combine thoughtful design, resilient construction, energy efficiency, practical backup systems, and long-term real estate strategy.