Why build a new Landmark panelized home instead of buying an existing home

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Show Notes: On today’s episode, Landmark Home and Land Company president Steve Tuma discusses why renovating a new home is much harder than building a new home, and how can you can build the home you want. Transcript: Interviewer: How are you doing everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me today 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 as they want across the nation and worldwide since 1993, Steve Tuma. How are you doing Steve? Steve Landmark: I’m doing great today. Interviewer: Good. Steve Landmark: It has been a great day and we probably have a few interesting things to talk about. Interviewer: We always try. We always try to keep up with you because when it comes to this subject, you are the king. So one thing I would like to touch upon today is new technologies. In the last episode, we were talking about people going online and looking at these software programs where they can design their own home and all that. But everybody thinks that they can go online and understand the new technologies and knowledge of building a properly – building a home. So I would like to talk to you today about that, about these brand new techniques and learning curves and everything else to help our friends out there listening to build their home correctly. So why don’t we start with that? Give us a little feedback on that. Steve Landmark: Well, the interesting this is computers have been around for a little bit. But now the actual software, the designing elements, the CAD systems, the rendering systems, all these different things, give people the capability to understand their home a lot more. So just in the actual design, someone might say, “Hey, can you adjust the kitchen cabinet? Can you do something with the garage? Can you add a man cave? Can you put a workshop in the garage? Can you put an island in the kitchen? I need to be able to feed four people or entertain four people in the kitchen. So the actual designing processes are there. Not just for the 2-D CAD programs but also architectural renderings, kind of walk-through situations in the house or work around the house, looking at it in different perspectives. So the technology has vastly improved in just the last few years. It has been around for a while. But it’s harder to use and it wasn’t as good. Now it’s very, very complete. But there’s the technology of the design but then there’s also other technologies. You and I really don’t think about siding in a house with technology. You think of technology like electronics or a faster car or a more powerful truck or something. But do you think about the cement siding on my house as high-tech? Well, in a sense, a lot of this stuff is. They’ve got cement sidings, vinyl sidings, metal sidings, wood sidings, fake wood sidings. They’ve got all these different materials and the bottom line to it, with everyone’s busy lifestyle is it makes your quality of life better, maintenance-free, more options. So that’s a lot of the details, different flooring systems, different types of windows. Some windows that are better to put on the sunny side of the house, some windows that are better to put on the shady side of the house, some windows that are easier to clean. So there’s a lot more details into the house that make it a financially better move, but also for a quality of life and comfort of life. So the technology has really come along. I mean HVAC systems, the air conditioning and heating. There are different systems where you put a dollar in the gas line. You get 98 cents of heat out of it. Twenty years ago, it was 80 cents of heat you would get out of it. So here’s a variety of different situations and a lot of this is in places that people don’t think about bec...