Huber MGT
Residential and Commercial
About us
Our Current Executives
Tab Bowers serves as the sole Director of the Huber Management Corporation. Tab had his first experience building a house in Centerville in 1976 as part of his parents’, Dick and Dottie (Huber) Bowers, construction and rental company. Since the mid-1980’s, Tab has developed 3 residential projects and built over sixty homes in Tucson, Arizona in partnership with his brother Hank.
Tab is currently Executive Vice President and serves on the executive committee of FICO, the S&P 500 software and analytics company that provides credit scores for 95% of all residential mortgages in the US. Earlier, Tab spent 25 years at McKinsey & Company where he headed the Asia Pacific Financial Institutions Group, with over 400 consultants based in 13 countries. He holds the title of Senior Partner Emeritus from McKinsey.
Tab graduated from Centerville High School in the class of 1973 and went on to Stanford University where he received his BS and an MS in engineering. He later received an MS in management (MBA) from the Sloan School at M.I.T.
Randy Hudson serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Huber Management Corporation. Randy began his career in public accounting and has been a Chief Financial Officer for the past 25 years. He has extensive financial and operational management experience in a variety of settings, including a multistate hospital-based physician group and a regional real estate development and property management company.
Randy has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Administration from Wilmington College and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Jennifer is committed to finding solutions that are financially sound without sacrificing quality. As Facility & Office Manager with Huber Management Corp, she applies longtime property management experience with operations expertise. She has served as Secretary/Treasurer of Dayton Building Owners & Managers Association and is currently the Vice President and Membership Chair.
As Facilities & Office Manager at Huber Management Corp, Jennifer oversees Commercial and Residential Operations. She has driven efficiencies and system organizations across both platforms leading to increased NOI and tenant satisfaction.
Prior to joining Huber, Jennifer oversaw daily property operations as Property Manager for Austin Landing Property Management in Miami Township. She managed direct communication between the property, tenants, vendors and service providers, while also finding solutions for a variety of building issues. She served as Operations Manager, Leasing Manager and Facility Manager for VisCap Development from 2016 to 2019, taking on multifaceted responsibilities that upheld the company’s day-to-day operations.
Work With Us
We pride ourselves on the way we put people first — whether you’re our resident or a member of our team. We believe you should love what you do so that you’re passionate about coming to work, taking pride in what you do, and feeling valued and respected every step of the way.
The Huber Legacy
The History of Huber Management Corp.
Our company was started by a man in pursuit of the American Dream. Jacob Huber was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1865 and immigrated to the United States. He built his first home at 18 Monmouth Street in Dayton, and left his job at Young & Young, Attorneys at Law, to pursue a fruitful career in the construction and real estate industries. He achieved exactly that. He raised his family in Dayton, rose to social prominence and esteem, and founded the company that would develop the region and carry the Huber name through five generations of builders.
Jacob’s influence was strong, but it was perhaps its strongest in his own home. His sons Herbert C., George and Walter followed in his footsteps. As J. Huber and Sons Co., the Hubers purchased land mostly north of Dayton, and developed lots that met the needs of families and communities by combining superior quality with modest prices. A glowing review in a 1930 edition of the Dayton Daily News describes Herbert’s North Riverdale neighborhood as enchanting and inviting:
Herbert soon established himself as a home construction pioneer. He bucked the traditional principles of building, engineered methods of mass production, and created a low-maintenance, all-brick home that thousands of post-WWII families purchased with eager excitement. He kept some of the properties as rentals, and established one of the first built-for-rent business models in the country. In doing so, he gave families access to homes that met their needs, while still considering their financial realities. He built in Riverdale, Oakwood, Dixie Heights, Far Hills, Centerville and Kettering.
In 1947, he purchased a farmhouse and converted the barn to a home-building mill, with crews building walls and trusses that would become prefabricated homes. The Huber family comprised many of the staff roles as early as they were in high school. The mill found innovative new ways to paint walls in a fraction of the time, and build a house from top to bottom in just 10 days. The Dayton Herald wrote in a 1947 article:
As it turns out, they were.
In 1954, Herbert purchased thousands of acres throughout south Dayton and Kettering. But Herbert died suddenly at the young age of 54 and passed away before seeing the plats developed. His sons, Charles and Donald, who had been building since they were teenagers, stepped in and took over the business. The first neighborhood they built together consisted of 2,400 homes and was built in under two years. They followed the same home model — three bedrooms and one bathroom, all priced under $10,000.
In the post-war years, as families grew and communities prospered, so too did the Huber legacy. Donald applied his expertise in building and became a consultant to the U.S. Government on the reconstruction of Eastern Europe after the war. He built large tracts in South Dayton, which became known as “Huber South”, as well as other Dayton areas, Indianapolis, Chicago area, Cincinnati, and Columbus. Charles led a large development in Wayne Twp., investing $33 million and constructing water and sewer plants to provide utilities, and laying the foundation for the future sites of schools, parks, playgrounds and shopping centers. Homes maintained the Hubers’ winning combination of quality and affordability. Huber Heights, the region was called, became the model for the American suburban community, rivaling that of Levittown. It remains today the country’s largest community of brick homes.
The company split up in 1956, and Donald and Charles continued to build in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Florida. Combined, the brothers built over 35,000 homes and became the largest privately held homebuilding company in the Midwest. Their sisters Dottie and Marilyn played an integral role in the company as well; their husbands were trained in the family business and constructed several thousand Dayton homes. Their sister Corrine owned and managed many of the rental properties built by Herbert C., and expanded the Huber portfolio to include commercial properties.
By the 1960s, the Huber name reached households across the country with a feature in Better Homes & Gardens magazine in 1964, written by a young Jack Bloodgood before his career began in architecture:
The trademark innovation of large-volume homebuilding ended in the 1980s. Charles, Donald, Corrine and Dottie all continued to oversee management companies for the properties they built and held as rentals. Donald also continued with numerous residential and commercial projects. The company has donated lands and properties to churches and community gathering sites. Its built-for-rent model has influenced residential real estate greatly, paving the way to today’s most sought-after investment class of real estate. Thousands of residents across the country have been able to access the American dream of living in a single family, detached home — one with a large yard in a promising school district for their children.
Our corporation, over the years, has seen numerous iterations, mergers and nuances. The Huber legacy has touched all of them. Corrine remains at the top of our company’s leadership and continues that legacy today.
Fun Facts/Trivia
- Jacob Huber awarded cash prizes to the best-kept lawns and landscaping in Riverside in 1925.
- Herbert C. Huber built his family home on Beechwood Ave., and later on West Thruston, in the heart of an Oakwood neighborhood built by his company. It was the old Patterson Estate.
- Herbert C.’s children often worked for the business while attending high school. His daughter Marilyn worked in payroll and decorated homes. Charles and Donald designed and built houses while they were teenagers, “borrowing” supplies from their father’s building sites.
- After World War II, returning G.I.s and their families were eager to purchase Huber homes in the Dayton area. Word-of-mouth marketing resulted in lines of prospective homebuyers lining down the street with the hope of purchasing a home for $9,999.
- Beloved newspaper columnist Erma Bombeck raised her children in a Huber home in Centerville. She lived in the same neighborhood as Phil Donahue.
- Herbert devised a cost-cutting strategy to purchase construction items in bulk, including the purchase of steel doors from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which were delivered by train and spray-painted before being installed in homes.
- Huber Management Corporation made the Wall Street Journal in 1955 when they painted blue and gray polka dots on the exterior of a four-unit apartment building that sat at the corner of Far Hills Ave. and Stroop Rd. They did so when folks from the West Coast suggested he make his buildings “more colorful.”
- The Huber Construction company built a full-size brick home inside the Rossiter furniture store over the course of three days in 1956. The site featured furniture, landscaping details and even a car.
- 10 years after Charles Huber began development of Huber Heights, the population of Wayne Twp. increased more than 900 percent.
- In a 1986 profile with the Dayton Daily News, Charles expressed, “The one most important factor about my houses that makes me proudest is that my customers will make more money on each of them than I will if they will keep them just five years.”
- Donald and Veronica Huber and their daughter Julia held the title to an historic home in Centerville that was built in 1839 and subject to demolition. To preserve the history, they donated the property to Landmarks Foundation in 1997.