Why build a landmark panelized home
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\\nShow Notes:
\\nBenefits of being an Owner Builder and the support you may need. How Landmark\\u2019s 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.
\\nTranscript:
\\nInterviewer: Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. I\\u2019m 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.
\\nSteve, how\\u2019s your day?
\\nSteve Landmark: It\\u2019s an excellent day. It\\u2019s a great day to talk about panelized homes too.
\\nInterviewer: Fantastic. Well, that\\u2019s what we\\u2019re 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?
\\nSteve Landmark: Well, it\\u2019s kind of interesting. A lot of people go, \\u201cOh, 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.\\u201d The reality is if you\\u2019re going to be an owner/builder, it\\u2019s nice to know what you\\u2019re doing instead of just, hey, have a house show up and take what\\u2019s given to you. It\\u2019s 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.
\\nI think that\\u2019s the key element that our process of Landmark were to help people go through and understand what they\\u2019re doing, so they can get the best home possible.
\\nPanelized homes have been around a while. We\\u2019ve been doing it for about \\u2013 since 1993 and it\\u2019s 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.
\\nSo it\\u2019s a lot different than modular where kind of the two halves are brought out and sent together. Panelized, you can customize it, but it\\u2019s built in a controlled environment in a production facility, so that walls are square. Things are just built to better tolerances than if they\\u2019re done on site, in the weather in muddy fields. So it\\u2019s \\u2013 that\\u2019s the key for the actual panelized product, but the whole designing and understanding and controlling your project and knowing what\\u2019s going into it.
\\nA lot of our people just want to see their house get built and they want to know that it\\u2019s built to a certain specification and when they have control of the project, they can know and verify it and know that it\\u2019s done right. It\\u2019s also a pride of ownership, pride of building. You did it and then the big kicker is the equity position that can be obtained.
\\nWhy pay someone else for something you can do? You can lower the cost of your home, so it\\u2019s more affordable to you or you could put features into it that normally you wouldn\\u2019t be able to get in other building methods.
\\nInterviewer: Your website talks a lot about control. You\\u2019ve 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\\u2019re getting.
\\nKind of go through that step by step. How does Landmark help me control my project?
\\nSteve 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\\u2019s not limited to 10 plans and hey, you should like this house and someone convincing you that you should build \\u2013 that you should live in a house that they want to sell you.
\\nYou can go through and say, \\u201cNo, I want the kitchen a little bigger.'