First Time Kit Home Builders

Show Notes: First time kit home building and Owner Builders.  Quality plans for your Owner Builder project.  Building Codes and building permit application and approval. Transcript: Interviewer: Hello. Hello. It’s Episode 34 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me in our studio is Founder and President 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 today? Steve Landmark: It’s a very nice day. We’ve been busy helping people all around the country design their homes, getting details together for their floor plans and house design so that it looks the way they wanted and get them ready for a permit application. Interviewer: Busy business as usual over at Landmark Home and Land Company. So Landmark receives a lot of inquiries from folks who are thinking about building a new home but have never really taken on a building project before. So I thought it’s time we perhaps address those folks and sort of lay out what a first-time builder might be dealing with. How about we give that a go? Steve Landmark: Well, it’s kind of an interesting process there because the concept of building your own home to some people is kind of like, “Wow! I never thought of that.” Interviewer: Yeah. I mean let’s say I’m a first-time home builder like talk to me like there must be a – do I need a certain level of knowledge before beginning? I mean I may not have built anything as hard as a home before. Is it a management job or an actual hammer and nails type of project? What should I know? Steve Landmark: Well, that’s the interesting part is, is it a management job or is it a hammer and nail kind of getting in there? It can be either and it can be both. We’ve had customers that have never picked a hammer up but understand that they need to understand the design of the home, the budgeting, the scheduling and working with the right people to get it built. And then we’ve had the other extreme where they’ve literally done everything, the family is involved in the trades, someone does foundation work