New Kit Home building in the city, suburbs and rural areas

What this episode covers

Show Notes: New Kit Home building in the city, suburbs and rural areas.  Home Owners Associations and Architectural Review Boards and how they affect my home and new home building. Do Historic areas affect my new home design?  What if I am in a flood zone, are there home plan issues?   Transcript: Interviewer: Hello everyone. And welcome to Episode 30 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me in the studio is Steve Tuma, 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. Steve, how are you my friend? Steve Tuma: Hey! Another – it’s another good day. We’ve always got interesting projects coming, people building in different parts of the country doing different things, sometimes building in same parts of the country just under different conditions and it’s kind of interesting to see of how you could just see the different challenges and how we are able to help customers work in different locations, different municipalities with different code enforcement, different geographic concerns. It’s kind of fun. It’s a lot of fun. Interviewer: As I said, you’ve been doing this since 1993, that’s 25 years now. You should about have this down but I’m sure you still run into some unique sort of issues that you have to deal with with your customers. Steve Tuma: But that’s why we are here. We can get through them. Interviewer: Yes. Steve Tuma: All the issues we’ve got, the knowledge and the experience to sort things out. If for some reason some building department has something, it’s really a curve ball. We’ve been doing it long enough where it’s pretty weird that we get stomped but we are always there to make it happen. Interviewer: Well, speaking of being thrown curve balls and I thought for this episode, we might talk a bit about unique building sites and get into some of the details of what you should know when you start building a new home project on what might be considered not your normal property or your normal build project. Are you up for that? Steve Tuma: Yeah. Let’s do it! So what do you have today? Interviewer: I’ve got a question that sort of has been on my mind for a while because I know a lot of people when they are thinking about building on certain – if you are building in the city or you are in an urban location or in the suburbs, in different environments, it has got to be – you’ve got to be running to difficulties in all of these areas but I would say in a more unique sort of environments, there must be a lot of problems. How do you handle those? Steve Tuma: Well, it’s not necessarily a problem. There are just different code enforcement situations. So like if you are in a city and then there are county areas, there are suburban areas, generally if it’s an incorporated city, they have a more sophisticated building department. Interviewer: Right. Steve Tuma: The county areas can be very sophisticated but generally, they are a little more lax than the city right next to them. But it depends on the size. You get in to Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, New York, those are very, very stringent programs. We work in those areas. We can help a customer do it. But let’s just say you were in Chicago building and then you went 60 miles west into DuPage County, some of those – the building departments are stringent but they are a little bit less stringent than the big city. And then say you went 60 miles even farther west than there. You could be in a pure rural area where it’s very, very simple. So it gets into the selective enforcement of each of these different areas and how they choose to enforce it. So, I don’t want to make it sound terrible but we can get through all the building departments. We’ve done it. We’ve worked with all the details.