Our Team

The Circle H, Inc. Team

David Hutchins is a licensed general contractor, general engineering contractor and real estate broker based in Southern California. He is the principal of Circle H, Inc. which most recently has been assisting homebuilders and developers with finalizing a myriad of issues to close out projects and transfer of orphaned parcels to their long-term owners. The Circle H team is currently working on several habitat transfers that involve the US Army Corps of Engineers, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Fish and Wildlife various flood control agencies and the Regional Water Quality Control Board among others for Brookfield Residential, Lennar, Centex, Del Webb and Pulte and project management augmentation for TruMark Homes. The team is also managing Builder-to-HOA maintenance turnover for over 30 communities in Orange County.

Circle H has transferred over 100 parcels, released over $75,000,000 in bonds and recuperated over $2,500,000 in unanticipated reimbursements for its clients in the last few years and is currently managing disposition of over 100 various builder/developer-owned orphan parcels in 11 California counties and in South Carolina.

David’s most recent homebuilding experience was with South Coast Builders where he managed all phases of the development of the luxury community Brisa at Del Mar Mesa, and a collection of beach-close homes at the Enclave in Carlsbad. David and a team that included a purchasing manager, two superintendents and a sales team successfully completed all aspects of land entitlement, development, construction, sales and customer service for these two communities on-time and within budget.

David holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a certificate of light construction development management in addition to his licenses. He started his career as a commercial real estate agent, then worked as a general contractor on residential and commercial projects followed by on-site supervision of hundreds of apartments and homes for Western National Properties and KB Home. He then moved into land acquisition and project management at KB Home and Centex Homes (purchased by Pulte Homes) before building homes for South Coast Builders. He served on the Board of Directors for the Building Industry Association, the Builder Advisory Board for the Department of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources and on the Public Advisory Board for Citrus College.

The Circle H, Inc. team includes Mr. Hutchins along with due diligence specialist Melinda Teeters who has two decades of project management experience with homebuilders EPAC, Shea Homes, MBK and Centex among others. Apartment builder Randy Chenier manages on-site bond release coordination and Superstar Real Estate Agent Carrie Jones rounds out the Circle H team and serves as our dedicated researcher and real estate transaction and escrow coordinator.

Permit Processor Tina Anderson assists us with her excellent relationships with many Southern California cities and agencies. GIS specialist Justin Roos is on-call to assist with our clients’ mapping and other geo-data needs.

Our newest team members are John Gabbard, a seasoned real estate professional assisting in cleaning up title and ownership issues and Caleigh Hutchins, who recently graduated with a dual major in Finance and Real Estate and is assisting with financial real estate issues for our clients.

Circle H Inc. TImeline

2012 – Circle H Brokerage completes its first transaction, brokering a Southern California real estate donation to Northern Iowa University
2013 – Circle H Incorporates, first clients are Centex Homes, Pulte Home Corporation and Del Webb Communities.
2014 – Circle H completes the 12-year process of habitat turnover and bond release for the Hawks Point master planned community in Fullerton and La Mirada California involving 2 Cities, 2 Counties and over a dozen local, state and federal agencies.
2015 - Completed all work to release Remington Hills in San Diego, CA after 12 years of bond punch list work.
2016 – New clients include RSI Homes, Richmond American and Lennar. Circle H expands services to include owner and investor representation, due diligence, budgeting and scheduling services.
After 7 long years in escrow, Circle H facilities the culmination of the Coyote Canyon Land Transfer Agreement with 5 escrows among Centex Homes, the City of Fontana and San Bernardino County including removal of flood easements, parcel transfers, easement purchases, habitat, fee and access agreements.
2016 to present – Circle H has recovered over $500,000 in unanticipated reimbursements - found money! has released over $750,000,000 in bonds and transferred over 100 orphan parcels for our clients.