Guest houses, ADU’s, Granny Flats, Short term rental homes, Tiny and Smaller homes, Studios and Offices.

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Show Notes: Guest houses, ADU’s (Accessory Dwelling Units), Granny Flats, Short term rental homes, Tiny and Smaller homes, Studios and Offices.  With our Kit Homes, Landmark Home and Land Company helps you design and build one for your specific building site anywhere in the country. Transcript: Steve Tuma: Yes, and that’s the key element. We can help you control the cost, understand what you are building, and work with you to get the house you want. Interviewer: Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us for Episode 44 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me as he usually is because I drag him in here and make him talk 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 is my friend, Steve Tuma. Steve, how are you, buddy? Steve Tuma: I’m doing great. I was just thinking of that introduction, build their homes. We are going to talk about smaller homes today. So these are additional homes, guesthouses. Interviewer: Yeah, smaller homes, tiny homes. There is so much talk about that. On our last episode, we spoke specifically about California building and building the ADUs, those – this is the accessory dwelling unit is what we mostly talked about. But I thought it might not be a bad idea and it sounds like you’re up to it, if we broaden the subject and talk about like tiny homes and guesthouses and … Steve Tuma: Studios. Interviewer: … or studios. Steve Tuma: Studios, workshops. Interviewer: And what some people call as you explained to me the last episode, granny flats. So I would like to talk more about that. So shall we do that? Steve Tuma: Yeah. It’s a pretty interesting situation. What’s happening is a lot of people are building like a guest house on their land. The zoning will typically allow that in different parts of the country. So there are different purposes whether it’s to move the parents in so that they can have their own home but still be separate. Sometimes it’s kids coming back. Sometimes it’s a separate home office, an art studio, like I mentioned, different woodworking shop, car restoration areas. So there’s a difference if it’s an outbuilding like storage or like a workshop compared to if it’s living space. But we are getting a lot more people that are inquiring about these especially with the tiny home movement after the economic crash. People are like, “How do I live affordably?” And sometimes living affordably means a couple of generations move into one house, maybe it’s on one piece of land with two separate structures. Depending on zoning, it could be different on are they actually separate structures or do they have a connecting wall? See, some places would not allow a separate house on the same piece of land. Others will allow kind of a separate area as long as it doesn’t have a secondary kitchen. So the main thrust of this I think is how do you get another living space into a piece of land whether it’s – if it’s a rental situation, short-term rental, for families, for home office, or whatever it may be. Interviewer: Well, I’m fascinated by this whole idea of tiny homes but it seems to be kind of not so much vague but there seems to be such a variety, a lot of different ideas as to just what a tiny home is. So you’re the guy to talk to. Can you give us like a definitive overview of what exactly a tiny home is? Steve Tuma: Well, that’s the interesting thing. I don’t know that there’s an industry-wide sharp definition of it. I think tiny homes initially when this little situation came up is like little 200,