Show Notes:

Benefits of being an Owner Builder and the support you may need.  How Landmark’s services and panelized homes help with your design, budget, control of the project and quality and pride of ownership.  Building what you want and not being limited by standard plans.  Understanding your new home project and getting the right help.

Transcript:

Interviewer: Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. I’m Stephen Savage, your host, and with me as always is my buddy Steve Tuma, President and Founder of Landmark Home and Land Company, a company which has been helping people build their new homes the way they wanted, where they want it, since 1993.

Steve, how’s your day?

Steve Landmark: It’s an excellent day. It’s a great day to talk about panelized homes too.

Interviewer: Fantastic. Well, that’s what we’re here for and I thought today we would start off just getting right down to the brass tacks here. Are you ready for this one? Why build a Landmark panelized home?

Steve Landmark: Well, it’s kind of interesting. A lot of people go, “Oh, you know, I just want to build a house. When I get the best price, I want to do this. I want to do that.” The reality is if you’re going to be an owner/builder, it’s nice to know what you’re doing instead of just, hey, have a house show up and take what’s given to you. It’s kind of a process where you can go through, you can design the house you want, make sure it fits on your land properly. You can control the quality of the home, control the features of the home and control the schedule of building it and also work on the budget.

I think that’s the key element that our process of Landmark were to help people go through and understand what they’re doing, so they can get the best home possible.

Panelized homes have been around a while. We’ve been doing it for about – since 1993 and it’s basically a more efficient method of stick-building a home. Stick-building meaning you get a bunch of two-by-fours, nail them together, make a wall, put a roof system up and kind of conventional building.

So it’s a lot different than modular where kind of the two halves are brought out and sent together. Panelized, you can customize it, but it’s built in a controlled environment in a production facility, so that walls are square. Things are just built to better tolerances than if they’re done on site, in the weather in muddy fields. So it’s – that’s the key for the actual panelized product, but the whole designing and understanding and controlling your project and knowing what’s going into it.

A lot of our people just want to see their house get built and they want to know that it’s built to a certain specification and when they have control of the project, they can know and verify it and know that it’s done right. It’s also a pride of ownership, pride of building. You did it and then the big kicker is the equity position that can be obtained.

Why pay someone else for something you can do? You can lower the cost of your home, so it’s more affordable to you or you could put features into it that normally you wouldn’t be able to get in other building methods.

Interviewer: Your website talks a lot about control. You’ve mentioned control here a couple of times. Control of the budget, the quality of the build, even control of the schedule and knowing what you’re getting.

Kind of go through that step by step. How does Landmark help me control my project?

Steve Landmark: Well basically through the building. First of all in the control is we can work with you to design the home you want. It’s not limited to 10 plans and hey, you should like this house and someone convincing you that you should build – that you should live in a house that they want to sell you.

You can go through and say, “No, I want the kitchen a little bigger. I need a bigger garage.