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\\nWhy build your own Landmark Panelized Home?\\xa0 Save money, understand and control your new home project. Build the new kit home you want versus buying an existing home to remodel.
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\\nInterviewer: Hello folks. Welcome to episode 35 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me in the studio in his usual chair 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, Mr. Steve Tuma. Steve, how is it going my friend?
\\nSteve Landmark: It\\u2019s a great day. It\\u2019s always a great day.
\\nInterviewer: Especially when you\\u2019re doing something you love. That must be satisfying.
\\nSteve Landmark: Yeah, it\\u2019s kind of fun. It\\u2019s actually a lot of fun. It\\u2019s rewarding to watch people get a new home.
\\nInterviewer: Yeah.
\\nSteve Landmark: The design process, seeing that they can actually happen.
\\nInterviewer: Sure.
\\nSteve Landmark: It\\u2019s pretty cool.
\\nInterviewer: Today if you don\\u2019t mind, I thought we would address the topic we get a lot of questions on from our listeners. It\\u2019s simple but complex I think. Why build your own home? I mean as opposed to simply buying a traditional house that\\u2019s ready to go. You know, dealing with realtors, et cetera. In other words, what are the many upsides to building a panelized house or even a traditional stick house as opposed to just buying a house that\\u2019s on the market? Let\\u2019s start with things like cost control. I mean how does building a panelized home save you, the builder, money?
\\nSteve Landmark: Well, the key to it is the control of the project, the whole \\u2013 you know, getting the architectural design, structural details of the plans together, so you understand the project. Also so you can submit for permits, pass inspections and then work with contractors to get the home built. There\\u2019s a huge savings when you combine that altogether and sometimes people just look at the cost of hey, the plans and the panelized package. They don\\u2019t realize that the efficiency of panelization, you\\u2019re going to save money on the actual installation of the panels because it goes up much quicker. You can have these houses up in days or a week or something like that where a more complex home can go on a month or two depending on the design. But it\\u2019s also things \\u2013 there isn\\u2019t as much waste of settling your dumpster fees. Those would go down. It\\u2019s just quicker and easier. Also you basically just need a main framer with a couple of laborers compared to conventional stick building where you might need a variety of different higher quality labor, which ends up costing you more. A lot of people also go with panelization because of limited building seasons. You get into the Sierras or the Rockies, different \\u2013 farther up north where they don\\u2019t have as much summers other parts of the country.
\\nInterviewer: Sure, yeah.
\\nSteve Landmark: They need to build a house in four months. So with the panelization, you\\u2019re able to get the structure up and then get the house sealed up and finished.
\\nInterviewer: Right.
\\nSteve Landmark: So there\\u2019s a lot of reasons why panelization works. We basically put it under the idea of control your project and know what you\\u2019re doing, which is the planning process where we\\u2019re able to support the customer to get the house that they want and then make sure that the plans are put together properly for the building department.
\\nNow you brought something up. I think compared to like buying an existing home. Sometimes people go through and say, \\u201cWell, I could buy this existing home and I could build new. There\\u2019s good and bad to each one.\\u201d But the reality is that the new home, it\\u2019s the design you want. It\\u2019s the house you want. It\\u2019s the budget that you want and you\\u2019re also going to have the better insulation,'