Building A Kit Home, Reputation Matters

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Show Notes: On this episode, Landmark Home and Land company president Steve Tuma reviews the company’s philosophies and methods of helping customers, and why Landmark Home and Land Company’s reputation matters. Transcript: Interviewer: Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me as always 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 how they want across the nation and worldwide since 1993 and that man is Steve Tuma. Steve, how are you doing? Steve Landmark: Excellent. It’s a nice day today and I guess we’re going to be talking about panelized homes more. Interviewer: Yeah. I thought we would break from our usual mode today and talking about prefab home building design planning, et cetera, and get into something I think future home builders will find interesting and useful and that’s Landmark Home and Land Company’s history, the main mission of the company and sort of your overall goals and objectives that you’ve put forth since your inception – what now? Twenty-five years ago? Steve Landmark: Twenty-five years, right. 1993 we started this and just grew and grew and became a nationwide and international company. Interviewer: Good. So to start with, let’s talk about Landmark Home and Land Company’s main mission. Can you run through the company, sort of basic all-around mission plan for us? Steve Landmark: Basically the idea is we want to be available with the right knowledge to help a customer design and build their own home. People may understand the general concepts of hey, I want a nice floor plan but they might not know how to develop the floor plan or the plans for permits or the plans to assemble the home or finish the home. Then also how to actually build it. With the processes we have with our panelized home system, we provide the key elements, the hardest components of designing and building a home, so that it’s easy for them. So the bottom line is help them design and build a house that makes sense for them where they can control the building process and understand what they’re building in the specific home, but also make sure works in their budget and then their goals for the end results of the house that they want. Interviewer: Now, there are things you provide like assistance and good design, easy permitting and a great panelized home structure for the new home. Tell us a little bit about what you think your goals are and what you hope to achieve with each customer when it comes to just putting together a great panelized home kit. Steve Landmark: Well, basically it starts – a lot of people know – have a general idea of what they want. They know they want a two-story home or a ranch home, about 1500 square feet or whatever the size is. They may know that they want a two-car garage. They typically know hey, I want to build it in this town or in this area and go from there. But sometimes that’s the beginning step. But how do they get to the end? So how do you take that idea of hey, I want a three-bedroom home, build it for this price and this community? How do we kind of target those things? And that’s where we supply the knowledge and the bridge in a sense to get them from the concept to the actual set of plans, permitting, then building the house, so it’s a house that they can move into. So we’ve been doing it for 25 years and that the knowledge and kind of help that we provide helps fill in the gaps that customers need. Some people are very advanced and they know what to do. They’ve already built a house, two or ten. Others, it’s an idea and they want to get it going. So we’re able to help them get those ideas together and the design concept. You know, making sure it’s a good design, making sure it fits the land, making sure it’s energy-efficient. You know,