Home owners Cheryl Carbone (left) and Stacy Harshbarger talk about the manufactured homes being built in their Grande Park Subdivision while standing in front of Harshbargers custom built home in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
A production home under construction in the Grande Park subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
A manufactured home under construction in the Grande Park Subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
A sign marks a home site on an empty lot in the Lakeside section of the Grande Park Subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
A custom-built home sits in the background of an empty lot marked with a home site sign in the Lakeside section of the Grande Park subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
Homeowners Cheryl Carbone (left) and Stacy Harshbarger talk about the production homes being built in their Grande Park subdivision while standing in front of Harshbarger's custom built home in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
Home owners Cheryl Carbone (left) and Stacy Harshbarger walk down Basswood Circle where workers finish up a manufactured home being built in their Grande Park Subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
A row of production homes on Basswood Circle in the Grande Park subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
A row of production homes on Basswood Circle in the Grande Park subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
A manufactured home (left) next to a custom built home on Basswood Circle in the Grande Park Subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
Homeowners Cheryl Carbone (left) and Stacy Harshbarger talk about the production homes, like the three in background, being built on Basswood Circle in their Grande Park subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
Homeowners Cheryl Carbone (left) and Stacy Harshbarger look at the contrast between a production home (left) next to a custom-built home on Basswood Circle in their Grande Park subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
Homeowners Cheryl Carbone (left) and Stacy Harshbarger look at the contrast between a production home (left) next to a custom-built home on Basswood Circle in their Grande Park subdivision in Plainfield, Illinois, Thursday, November 29, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
PLAINFIELD — Dozens of people bought custom homes in the Grande Park subdivision when the real estate market was flying high in 2005-2006. But when the bubble burst, they were surrounded by empty lots that went into foreclosure. Now, a national home builder is buying …
