How A Building Site Can Effect The Cost Of a Home

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Show Notes: Discussing the importance of how the building site, location, and actual physical property on which one plans on putting up a house can effect the cost of the home. Transcript: Steve Tuma: So, what we look at is, you know, they have the idea, the dream. We’re the people that take that idea, put it on paper, get the panelized package so that they can then go through and end up with the house they want, but also control and understand what they’re building. Interviewer: Welcome everyone to episode 48 of the panelized prefab kit home building show. With me as he always is for the podcast 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 nationwide and around the globe since 1993. Mr. Steve Tuma Steve. How are you, buddy? Steve Tuma: Yeah, pretty good. Another day helping people build houses Interviewer: Pretty good is good. I’d say. Yeah I, since our last episode, I’ve been thinking about what this episode should be all about and I think we’ve been hitting on some things that we probably, I would have thought we’d have gotten to in past podcasts, but here we are on episode 48 and there’s a couple ofthings we haven’t touched on yet.So I want to get into something today that seems to me would have been a very important topic for anyone looking to become a new homeowner and builder, and that’s building sites, the actual physical property on which one plans on putting up a house. So if you’re good about this, let’s talk all things build site today, and I’d like to take these one at a time to be precise about the pros and cons of whatever sort of lot one might choose to acquire for their new home. Steve Tuma: Yeah, that’s kind of interesting because a lot of people think a piece of dirt is a piece of dirt. You know, hey, I’ll just go buy an acre or city lot or whatever it may be or 50 acres and go build it.But what I found in my own projects, and even as we get in a variety of different building sites, sides of mountains, waterfront, whether it’s lakefront or oceanfront or whatever the plains whatever it may be that there’s always little complication or potential for complications. What I found in my own is if it touches dirt there’s a bigger risk because first of all, you can’t really see what’s under the dirt. There’s also a perception situation like you know we’re going to talk about flat lots. What’s kind of interesting is you could go to what appears to be a flat piece of land Just a perspective from where our eyes are in relation to the ground It may be flat, but where the house is from the front of the back of the house There could be a two or three-foot difference, but if you’re walking on it it may appear to be flat. We also had a funny situation. This is more like you know funny Just a little building humor the person said I have a flat lot, so we asked for some topographical things We asked for some details, and I came out. I’m like this isn’t a flat lot this is a side of a mountain. The customer said it is flat. It’s just on an angle going down. So, sometimes we, we, we need to work on what’s going on with the piece of land. So that, that was once in a, it’s kind of more of just a funny point to, you know, understand what is a flat lot? What is, what, what is a slope? Because it can be very deceiving walking out there yourself to, to really get what’s going on. But it’s, It’s not just the grade, is it flat, is it on an angle,