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\\nOff Grid Kit Home Design and Building!\\xa0 Sun, Breezes and Natural Benefits of home design! Organic Design concepts.
\\nTranscript:
\\nInterviewer: Greetings everybody and welcome to Episode 39 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me as always in his special president seat 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 man is Mr. Steve Tuma. Steve, how is it going, my friend?
\\nSteve Tuma: It\\u2019s going great.
\\nInterviewer: Now, everybody is going to be envisioning you sitting on some kind of throne.
\\nSteve Tuma: The pedestal.
\\nInterviewer: Game of builders.
\\nSteve Tuma: Yeah. Well, yeah. We try to help people have the knowledge base so that they understand how we are trying to help them and what we are doing to help them.
\\nInterviewer: Right. Well, it makes sense. You\\u2019re the guy that they\\u2019re going to come to so you\\u2019re the one that needs to have the knowledge and you seem to know what you\\u2019re talking about after 39 episodes.
\\nSteve Tuma: Yeah. Well, also, been doing this this since 1993 helping people design and build their homes.
\\nInterviewer: Yeah, not podcasting but building.
\\nSteve Tuma: Right.
\\nInterviewer: So, we are going to talk today about something that we touched upon from time to time. And that\\u2019s the phrase, owner/builder. And a lot of people probably wonder exactly what we are talking about. It may seem like it\\u2019s sort of self-explanatory but we are going to get into it today. So why do people own or build? Let\\u2019s get into that to start with.
\\nSteve Tuma: Well, it\\u2019s kind of interesting because own or build, we\\u2019ve been talking about it so it seems kind of specific to us. But a lot of people call it self-build. There\\u2019s a variety of different words that can be used. But the owner/builder can go range from the person that\\u2019s just managing a crew to build and it could also mean the owner is building, digging the hole, pouring the foundation, framing the house. We\\u2019ve had customers of all ranges like that. Some of them hire a contractor to build it. Some of them act as the general contractor so they coordinate the building but they don\\u2019t actually do any of the building processes. We have some families of friends that get together and they do the work out on the home that they know and then they hire people to do other components. And we have had customers that literally build the whole home. They\\u2019ve got friends or family that can literally do the whole process. So the idea of owner building is just \\u2013 I would generalize it to the point of someone wants to know what they are doing, why they are building a home, they want specific details, they want to know it\\u2019s done to a certain degree, and a lot of times, they just don\\u2019t want to pay someone for what they can do themselves.
\\nInterviewer: Right.
\\nSteve Tuma: They want to have an involvement. They might be a little skittish as to the margins that contractors can make and they say, \\u201cHey, why should I pay someone for what I can do myself?\\u201d
\\nInterviewer: Right.
\\nSteve Tuma: Sometimes it\\u2019s financially driven that you can get more of a home for the same price or you can save money building it. Others just desire. People have just always wanted to do it. We do have some families that work with every adult in the family to get a house, do a new house every year or two. Others just build a house and in two, three, four, five, ten years, they move out and want to build again. It\\u2019s just kind of something that people want to do. So that\\u2019s what and owner/builder is. It\\u2019s someone that wants to, in our perspective, someone that wants to have an involvement in the building. Now, a lot of people think that hey by going on a contractor, you give the job and the headaches to someone else. It\\u2019s not true.'