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\\nGuest houses, ADU\\u2019s (Accessory Dwelling Units), Granny Flats, Short term rental homes, Tiny and Smaller homes, Studios and Offices.\\xa0 With our Kit Homes, Landmark Home and Land Company helps you design and build one for your specific building site anywhere in the country.
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\\nSteve Tuma: Yes, and that\\u2019s the key element. We can help you control the cost, understand what you are building, and work with you to get the house you want.
\\nInterviewer: Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us for Episode 44 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me as he usually is because I drag him in here and make him talk is the President and Founder of Landmark Home and Land Company, a company which has been helping people build their new homes where they want exactly as they want across the nation and worldwide since 1993, and that is my friend, Steve Tuma. Steve, how are you, buddy?
\\nSteve Tuma: I\\u2019m doing great. I was just thinking of that introduction, build their homes. We are going to talk about smaller homes today. So these are additional homes, guesthouses.
\\nInterviewer: Yeah, smaller homes, tiny homes. There is so much talk about that. On our last episode, we spoke specifically about California building and building the ADUs, those \\u2013 this is the accessory dwelling unit is what we mostly talked about. But I thought it might not be a bad idea and it sounds like you\\u2019re up to it, if we broaden the subject and talk about like tiny homes and guesthouses and \\u2026
\\nSteve Tuma: Studios.
\\nInterviewer: \\u2026 or studios.
\\nSteve Tuma: Studios, workshops.
\\nInterviewer: And what some people call as you explained to me the last episode, granny flats. So I would like to talk more about that. So shall we do that?
\\nSteve Tuma: Yeah. It\\u2019s a pretty interesting situation. What\\u2019s happening is a lot of people are building like a guest house on their land. The zoning will typically allow that in different parts of the country. So there are different purposes whether it\\u2019s to move the parents in so that they can have their own home but still be separate. Sometimes it\\u2019s kids coming back. Sometimes it\\u2019s a separate home office, an art studio, like I mentioned, different woodworking shop, car restoration areas. So there\\u2019s a difference if it\\u2019s an outbuilding like storage or like a workshop compared to if it\\u2019s living space. But we are getting a lot more people that are inquiring about these especially with the tiny home movement after the economic crash. People are like, \\u201cHow do I live affordably?\\u201d And sometimes living affordably means a couple of generations move into one house, maybe it\\u2019s on one piece of land with two separate structures. Depending on zoning, it could be different on are they actually separate structures or do they have a connecting wall? See, some places would not allow a separate house on the same piece of land. Others will allow kind of a separate area as long as it doesn\\u2019t have a secondary kitchen. So the main thrust of this I think is how do you get another living space into a piece of land whether it\\u2019s \\u2013 if it\\u2019s a rental situation, short-term rental, for families, for home office, or whatever it may be.
\\nInterviewer: Well, I\\u2019m fascinated by this whole idea of tiny homes but it seems to be kind of not so much vague but there seems to be such a variety, a lot of different ideas as to just what a tiny home is. So you\\u2019re the guy to talk to. Can you give us like a definitive overview of what exactly a tiny home is?
\\nSteve Tuma: Well, that\\u2019s the interesting thing. I don\\u2019t know that there\\u2019s an industry-wide sharp definition of it. I think tiny homes initially when this little situation came up is like little 200, 3000-square-foot homes and what people were doing is getting around zoning restrictions buy building a little house ...'