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You will learn how the total cost of a custom panelized home package is calculated based on site conditions, engineering requirements, and structural complexity rather than simple per-square-foot estimates. You will discover how acting as your own general contractor eliminates general contractor fees, protects your budget against unforeseen material shortages, and builds immediate home equity. Additionally, you will learn how precision-manufactured wall panels and pre-engineered trusses streamline the framing process to get your home dried-in significantly faster than traditional stick building. Finally, you will understand how comprehensive architectural design, structural engineering, and energy code compliance come together as a unified system to deliver superior long-term home quality.Key Q&A Highlights from Episode 92
Q: How much does a panelized home package cost per square foot?
A: The cost of a panelized home package typically ranges from $19 to $20 per square foot for simpler, boxier designs, up to $50 or $60 per square foot for complex architectural layouts with steep roof pitches, tall ceilings, or heavy snow load and hurricane engineering. Total costs vary based on design complexity, local building code requirements, and site-specific structural engineering.
Q: Are panelized homes less expensive to build than traditional stick-built homes?
A: Panelized homes offer significant savings because the complete architectural design, structural engineering, and pre-cut framing package are bundled together to minimize job-site waste and eliminate extra material fees. Additionally, acting as an owner-builder allows you to avoid general contractor markups, building substantial equity directly into the finished home.
Q: How fast can a panelized home framing shell be completed on-site?
A: A precision-engineered panelized home package can be framed and dried-in in a fraction of the time required for traditional stick-built homes—often taking just three to four weeks for complex designs or as little as one to three days for simpler layouts. Rapid assembly reduces dumpster fees, limits weather exposure, and shortens construction loan interest payments.
Q: Can a beginner act as their own general contractor to build a panelized home?
A: Yes, over 50 percent of owner-builders have never built a home or garage before because the role is primarily about project management, scheduling, and subcontractor coordination rather than physical trade work. Working with a dedicated panelized home company provides the technical support, detailed layout plans, and engineering required to guide first-time builders successfully through the entire process.
Q: Are panelized homes built to higher structural quality standards than stick-built homes?
A: Panelized home components are manufactured in climate-controlled facilities using computer-assisted cutting tools and tight quality-control tolerances that exceed standard field-building practices. Every component—from wall panels to roof trusses—is engineered specifically for your site’s exact wind, snow, and seismic loads rather than relying on generic rules of thumb.
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Steve Tuma: We work with owner-builders, and a lot of the reason owner-builders want to build their own home is to control the quality, know what goes into it, but also lower costs so they can move in with a stronger equity position.
Host: How’s it going, everyone? And welcome to Episode 92 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me today, as usual, 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, my friend?
Steve Tuma: It’s a great day again in home building land, especially panelized home building land. It’s, it’s, it’s great. It’s interesting to see the different, you know, waves of cycles of people doing ADUs, people doing big houses, people doing, you know, more conventional everyday houses, people doing modern designs, and, uh, I think we’re at a point here where, uh, you know, there’s a change going on. There’s a lot of people, it probably the first time, where people are doing ADUs, typical homes, and then also some very high-end homes, so, it’s, uh, it’s kind of exciting to get a mix of, uh, of projects like that. Kind of cool.
Host: That’s cool. And, uh, you know, Landmark’s to be congratulated. I have to tell you, as we’re approaching the 100th episode of this, um, of this podcast, which is pretty cool, Landmark has recently celebrated its 33rd year in, in existence, and that’s a long time to keep a company going like that, so, congrats on that, my friend.
Steve Tuma: Well, it’s, it’s grown because of, it’s something that the customers need, you know? People want to build their own home, but how do you do it? It’s, uh, you know, how do you understand it? What does it take? Hey, can you give me a little boost here? Can you give me a little idea? And, uh, you know, so it’s, it’s the panelized homes, but it’s also all the support that we supply to help people understand not just the panelized home, but the complete building project. And that’s, uh, that’s the, that’s the amazing part, and I think why we grow and grow is, is, uh, people want to build their own home. It becomes affordable, it becomes cool, it’s something they want to do and they control the, the cost and quality of their home project.
Host: And there’s nothing wrong with cool. There’s nothing wrong with cool, that’s for sure. You know, for, for today’s episode, you know, I’ve, I’ve once again chambered a top 10 list for you, and, uh, I like these episodes because we don’t stick to one topic per se. Um, it’s not just about heating, it’s not just about foundations, but it’s all over the map, and I, I think, uh, that kind of, uh, overall, um, informational sort of, uh, format is, it works for us. So, I’m going to split these, uh, top 10 questions up between two episodes though, if that’s okay with you, as I feel some of these topics deserve your absolute attention without tying you down to the limits of a single podcast. So, we’ll continue with whatever questions we don’t get to today on next week’s, next, next week’s episode, if that’s all right with you, let’s get started.
Steve Tuma: Yeah, let’s do it. What’s the first one?
Host: Well, let’s start off with a question about pricing, and that’s in, on everybody’s, well, mind these days. It’s, pricing s- seems to be like a roller coaster on everything from food to, well, to home building, so, let me just get real simple. How much does a panelized home cost, let’s say, per square foot?
Steve Tuma: That’s a really interesting question, because the cost of a panelized home can vary by what the design is, where it is, um, features of it, uh, site building conditions. So, we always give the best price for the complete project. We’ve always done that in 33 years. We will always just give a straight out, solid price for all the services and, and the products that are there. So, to, to give the straight answer, it can go from, say, $19–$20 a square foot on all the way up to $40, $50, $55, $60 a square foot if the house is more complex, needs, needs, uh, a variety of different details for building departments, taller ceilings, steeper roofs, foundation type, because how many floor systems do you need? Um, there’s, there’s just a whole bunch of different details, and, and I think people would understand that if you built a house, say, in Iowa, you know, where there aren’t hurricanes and earthquakes, the structure of that home’s going to be a lot different than if you stuck the home on Key West facing south, where it’s kind of in Hurricane Alley, or if you put it right along the San Andreas Fault, or anywhere along the coast, there’s going to be a, a, a lot stouter structure, connections, and engineering requirements.
So, as I jokingly tell people on the price of a panelized home, don’t get caught up in the cost per square foot, because as I jokingly tell people, you don’t call the grocery store and say, “How much is a bag of groceries?” Or, “Hey, how much is dinner?” You know, you might call them or go there and say, “Hey, how much is a pound of chicken?” or “How much is a gallon of milk?” And that, in a sense, is the same thing that can happen with a panelized home package. And what I’ve noticed is people, as they’re out shopping, learning, understanding this, some people think that low price is good, and maybe in some cases it is, but the reality is, is what are you getting for it is what’s important. And what we do is we don’t just sell the panelized package, we sell the whole situation of designing the home, making the architectural changes so the home is the way you want it, doing the complete structural design with engineered stamps if you need them for your building department, energy calculations, site plan work, and then tying it all together to make sure that everything’s uniform and consistent throughout the planning phases and then along the construction phases. That’s a lot of detail work that if someone were to combine all the costs of the different architects, engineers, energy code people to put it together, we provide an excellent value because we’re very competitive with the market rates, even by supplying all this additional support, and I think that’s a key factor of Landmark Home and Land Company, is within our very competitive pricing, we believe the best pricing in the market, we supply all the details of architectural, structural, energy codes, site plans, mechanical design, and a matching panelized home system, and I, I think that the extreme value that comes out of that makes, makes the price, uh, very competitive.
So, a lot of people ask what does a panelized home cost? Well, you know, like I said, we could be $19–$20 a square foot depending where and what the design is, going on up to over $50 if you’re $60 if you’re getting into a very complex home in, in certain parts of the country. But, that, you know, sometimes people ask that question wanting the complete cost to build, and those are things that we would work with a customer on the plans so they can go get, um, estimates or figure out the bids to figure out what the overall cost is. So, to me, this is kind of like the hamburger, you know, that people may eat. One place has a $10 hamburger, one place has a $15, and one place has a $25. Which is the best one? You know, how big of a hamburger? Do you want a salad with it? Do you want a big bun with it? Do you want a pickle with it? What kind of meat is it? So it, it’s kind of the same thing, so it’s not a game of the lowest price, it’s the one of the best value for, for what it takes to do your project, and I believe we supply it, but even so, like I say, Landmark Home and Land Company’s extremely competitive in the market, we’ve been doing it 33 years, right going right on 33 years, and we’re able to help people in ways that other companies can’t. It’s pretty, it, that’s, that’s the cool thing about it.
Host: This next question is kind of falls into the same, uh, the same line as that, and that’s, uh, are panelized homes cheaper when completed than traditional homes? What, what do you think about the overall, uh, build cost of, uh, panelized home? A lot of people are probably think, “Well, it’s panelized, it’s got to be cheaper.” Doesn’t necessarily mean quality, but i- price wise, I hate to use the word cheaper, I guess what I’m trying to say, but when completed, is a panelized home less expensive than a traditional home?
Steve Tuma: Well, that’s the interesting thing about it, because we work with owner-builders, and a lot of the reason owner-builders want to build their own home is to control the quality, know what goes into it, but also lower costs so they can move in with a stronger equity position. So, if you look at what it would cost for someone to go get a general contractor, compared to them build the home where they know what they’re getting, they control it, the prices should be cheaper, and that’s where they get the equity position. Contractors aren’t going to do that. It’s just, they, they go with the market rate and what they can put together. So, it’s hard to really quantify, you know, exactly, because we’ve never actually had a customer do the exact home that a tract builder or some builder would do with a standard plan that I know of. But, so the reality of, of the analysis would be that when you’re your own owner-builder, you’re not paying the general contractor fees, you’re getting the house you want, and then you’re putting the features into it that you want. So the, the bang for the buck, the value, the getting what you want for the money is extremely high to it.
But, th- the, the concept of the panelized homes is we’re wrapping all the architectural design, engineering, all the details, there’s less waste, you’re not paying for materials you don’t use in the sense of the panelized package, so th- there are big savings there in, in, in it. Um, now, occasionally someone will say, “Hey, I found this guy that’ll do it cheaper,” and I’m like, “I’m sure he can.” What’s he actually doing? You know, yeah, if you want cheaper, there’s always someone cheaper, and even the cheapest guy in town, someone else will show up and tell you that, but what does it take to do it? Who’s going to do it? Who’s going to do it right? Who’s going to work with you to get it taken care of? There’s a big value, so talk is cheap, it’s getting it done, um, that, that’s important, and one thing that I want to talk about, we’re, we’re actually working on a project like this right now, where someone said, “Hey, I found this person, and, you know, the, the price was, it wasn’t that big of a difference, um, it was like a 2–3% difference, but on, on budgets, 2–3% can, can be there, and I, I talked to them, and I said, “So, what are they including?” And this person happened to have a 20-foot wall in their house with a bunch of glass. They said, “Oh, they’re just framing that wall with 2x6s.” I’m like, “Really?” So they’re not considering the wind forces, the snow loads, the, the, the shear conditions. This wall was give or take 90% glass. They said, “No, they can just do it with 2×6 studs.” I’m like, “Well, you’re going to end up with windows moving, drywall cracking, walls flexing, um, your siding over time shaking off.” She goes, “You know, that’s weird. I saved money on my other house, and the exact same thing happened.”
So when people come through and say that there’s something less expensive, cheaper, whatever it is, it’s pretty rare that they’ve done the apples to apples comparison to know exactly what’s there, and that’s, that’s, I think, what they find with the Landmark Home and Land Company process, is we detail it out, we can get into the details, so a customer that wants to understand, wants to pay attention to what they’re buying, knows what it’s worth. So sometimes it’s worth taking the time to understand what’s there to make sure what you’re getting is right. You don’t want to buy cheap and then redo it or have a problem to fix down the road, but our packages, hey, we’re in business, our business is growing, there’s, there’s people that really, really enjoy what we provide, and I think a lot of it’s the help with the designing, the engineering, the overall support, that make, give, puts them in position to be able to understand their project so they can control the budget, hit the budget they want, and still get the house that they want. That’s, that’s the key thing.
Host: I can hold my windshield on with duct tape, doesn’t mean that’s the way to go.
Steve Tuma: All of us have done this, you know, you go out and you buy a shirt, there’s one shirt for $70, there’s one shirt for $40, and then you get it home and say, “Why did I buy it?” Now, I’m not saying that there aren’t shirts for $40 that, that you wouldn’t like, but all of us have been in that position where it’s like, “Hey, wait a second, I should have sat down and analyzed this. What am I getting? What makes sense?” Because the mistake that people do is they think that Landmark just does the panelized homes. We go way beyond it, we do the design, the engineering, the whole thing, and I think people should understand that the service and everything and support that we provide will be exceptionally helpful to the success of your home package. It’s hard to put a value on that, it’s just worth it, we, and that’s, it’s part of our service.
Host: This, uh, this, this next question is kind of, it’s so vague, uh, and f- in, can be, the answer, of course, could be filled with vagaries, but I’m sure you’re, you’re going to be able to nail it down a little closer, but a lot of people, they’re just curious how long it takes to build a panelized home, and I’m not expecting exacts, of course, I’m sure it depends a lot on how big the home is, for one thing, but what would you say, as opposed to building a stick home, how long does it take to build a panelized home?
Steve Tuma: Well, that’s the interesting thing about it, because we help with the design and engineering phases, so it’s not just the building part, it’s the efficiencies within the design and engineering and getting your plans for permits, and getting through the permitting process, you know, rapidly, with, with accurate plans that are specifically designed for the project, but also the building department’s requirements. So there’s a savings in time there, headaches, and hassles, we, we take care of a lot of the issues there, but the actual construction of the panelized home, it can vary by the design. So if you had a boxier, simple home, it’s going to be quicker to frame than if you had a very complex 5,000 square foot Victorian design home. So, and then different parts of the country, there’s just different requirements that it’ll take, but what I found, if you have a qualified framing crew, um, I would say could be half the time, and it’s not just half the time, it’s controlled, less dumpster fees, less waste, less cuts, and with our, uh, with our situation, the materials are there, so there’s no, you know, concept of, “Oh, you need to buy another beam.” Well, our materials are there, we do the takeoffs, everything’s there so people can assemble the home package. There’s not a situation where someone could say, “Oh, I forgot this beam, you know, we got to add it to your price,” and suddenly, som-, you know, a different type of building system would raise the price, where in ours, we give a guaranteed price for those materials, and we make sure that those are materials are there, and by being there, the, the actual framing process is quicker, our instructions are very clear as to where each wall panel goes, where each roof truss goes, our deliveries are in sequence so that you get the materials when you need them. So, uh, I would, I would say we, on, on a more complex home where someone might say it’ll take 2 or 3 months for a complex stick-built home, our customers have done them in 3, 4 weeks.
Work with a competent crew. Right. Yeah, and just any framer can do it. We’ve actually had people put houses up in one day. Now, of course, those are simpler, boxier homes. Sometimes two days, sometimes three days. And that’s very important for construction loan interest, weather issues, and then there’s a lot of parts of the country where there’s a limited building season because of long winters, you know, you get into the Rockies, and, you know, different mountain ranges, there’s only a few months to build, so it’s just really cool to get it up, get the house dried in, and then move along. So, it’s, it’s uh, it’s not just the idea of, hey, my house got framed quick, it’s how you can keep the schedule moving along Sure. That, that, that compounds from the benefit of our panelized system.
It’s uh, it’s, it’s an amazing process, you know, sometimes people, you know, you could think this in your mind, but when you see it, and you see the execution of the design, the, the engineering, the construction of the panelized home package, it’s uh, it, it’s a very fluid system. It’s pretty cool, it’s very cool.
Host: This question, I wasn’t really going to ask because we’ve kind of gone over it many times, aspects of it anyway, but I want to see if we could simplify it, and uh, people are, are constantly asking if it’s possible to build a panelized home by themselves, and I don’t think they mean, hey, just them and a, and a, and a hammer, but I mean, you know, can, can people feel confident in the, in their ability that using Landmark and using the, the help and customer service that you guys supply, can the average Joe pretty much build a panelized home by himself or herself?
Steve Tuma: It happens all the time. Now, like you mentioned, sometimes people, when they say, “Can I build?” they’re literally out there because they’re in the trades and their family and friends are, they’re out there excavating, they’re out there installing the foundation, so, yes, we do have some customers that literally build the whole house themselves. And then we have some customers that build it more in the coordination and management of it, where they hire subcontractors. A lot of our customers have never built a home before, some of them come from backgrounds that if we talked about it, you’d be like, “Oh, that, that person isn’t likely to know,” and they’ve done excellent, excellent houses. It’s more a management and understanding the process and working through it and working with good people.
So, if someone, you know, just understands management of their family, I mean, a family in a sense is a business, there’s two, three, four people, five people, maybe a dog, neighbors, relatives, you know, there, there’s the management of, of that and day-to-day, and, and building a house is a, a coordination system, so, we’ve had people that have never, in my opinion, picked up a hammer and used it as a carpenter would Uh-huh. They may have a hammer around their house, but, and they’ve been very, very successful at it, and from a lot of from what I see of general contractors, they’re not building the house themselves either, they’re hiring people to build the house. Right. So, it’s really do you want to take the position of the general contractor, the managing, the scheduling, the running the budget, the following up to make sure it happens, and you save that 20-30%? That’s, that’s the key part to it, and um, it’s, it’s a big motivator, but, but a lot of people do it, it’s, I, I would, I would say way over 50% of our customers have never built a home before Wow. And maybe they’ve never built a garage, maybe they’ve never built a chicken coop Right.
You know, so, it’s, it’s a management of, of qualified people that, that is important, um, so that’s the answer to the question: Can I build a panelized home myself? Yes, you can, as act as your own general contractor; yes, you can, if you literally want to get involved with it. And then we have some people in between, they’re like, “Hey, I know how to drywall, I know how to paint, I want to do that and I’ll have someone else do the rest of the work.”
So, um, don’t get scared by the idea, but, hey, do you have to have a certain understanding, a certain desire? Yes. You, you want to be able to understand the process of building, understand it, and, and we can help people through it, but at a, what I found is most people that want to do it, they’ve already thought about it, it might have been thinking about it for a month, two, three, a year, two, it might have been a lifelong ambition of them to do it Uh-huh. But it, it’s kind of amazing to see that some people, when you looked at their background, you’d be like, “This person’s never built a house,” and they send pictures and they’re beautiful.
We’ve had a lot of single women building houses lately, it’s, it’s, it’s uh, and they just coordinate, they know how to multitask and take care of things Uh-huh. And get it on the schedule and make it happen and get this person to do this, get this person to do that Uh-huh. So, and then we’ve also worked with professional builders, kind of funny, it’s when they retire, they buy a panelized home because they know it’s better, quicker, and easier That’s, see, that’s a testament right there. Yeah, it’s kind of funny Yeah, it’s, it is kind of the satisfaction, too, I mean, it’s got to be amazing, I’ve never attempted to build any kind of house myself, but I can’t imagine how satisfying it must be, and you see it all the time, I’m sure.
Steve Tuma: One, one of my customers way back, she was a, a recently divorced lady uh, was going through stuff, she said, “I want to build my own house.” This was in central Michigan, and she said, “I want to build my own house,” and she built it, she said, “Steve, you should tell your customers, especially the female customers, building a house is much like having a baby Uh-huh. Making the baby’s a lot of fun, and then you’ve got nine months of what’s going on here, what’s up with this, what’s up with this, why did I do this, this is the greatest thing on earth Laughter. And then the kid’s born, so nine months later, about the equivalent of building your house, Laughter it’s the most amazing thing on earth.” And she said, “Steve, you should tell people that.” So, I, I happen to think it’s a great story because there are times where it’s challenging Uh-huh. In the management or something happens, or weather happens, or, you know, a little curveball with permits or scheduling issues come up, but it, so it is an incredible amount of work, but I think most people that achieve things, whether you’re someone in the sports world, the business world, the medical world, it’s getting over that process, you know, the hump, the challenge Uh-huh. Where it changes people’s lives and they look at it and go, “That was incredible, that was an incredible part of my time.” People take pictures of every step of building it, it’s a family operation, it’s a new chapter in their life, so I think it’s one of those accomplishments, just like some people want to run a marathon. Why? Because they want to. Because they know it’s good, because they know the achievement, the personal challenge, and I think in building a home, there, there’s ups and downs, just like training for a marathon would be, you’re going for an extended education or traveling the world or whatever someone may choose to be, but it’s one of those things that, that’s there, and I think people enjoy the challenge and the up and down for the feeling at the end to say, “Look at what I did.” Uh-huh. And the sense of pride when you build your own home, there’s nothing like it Yeah.
Host: This uh, this next question is pretty much falls into some of what we said before, but I mean, I think people still, a lot of people still have the misconception that a, a panelized home is kind of like, they, they confuse it with modular homes or trailers or whatever, which is ridiculous, but Right uh, that’s what we’re here for is to kind of explain to people what, what the truth is. So, are panelized homes good quality and do they last?
Steve Tuma: Panelized homes are great quality. I’ll tell you why: the way that they are designed, the way that they are manufactured, it’s in a lot more controlled environment. So, all the designs are done on CAD systems, the computer systems verify things along with human help, and then the saws are set up, so the tolerances are much tighter, and then also the actual construction’s in a controlled area on tables where things are squared up Uh-huh. And it’s just a lot easier to really control that and then get it out to the building site Uh-huh. So, the quality meets or exceeds, I believe ours all exceed the, the codes, yeah, they’re excellent quality, and do they last? Yeah, it’s just like any house, keep a roof on it, it’ll last forever, Laughter you know, if you, you know, so, yeah, do they last? The, the, the 2×6 stud that we use is a, is a high-quality stud that’s been culled to make sure that it’s, you know, one of the better side of it of the, the grading standards that, that we have.
So, the, the quality of it’s uh, excellent, it’ll, it’ll be the same or exceed whatever a stick-built home is, and I think a lot of it’s because the modern design phases, the modern construction phases that allowed to uh, to get it put together. Now, the thing about it is if you go use drywall or, you know, your cabinets or whatever, those are going to be the quality that you choose to buy and install it, but the actual construction is there. I personally believe, I’m very extremely confident in it, that ours are exceptional quality because we go through and review structurally the designs Uh-huh. To make sure that the house is, the connections are right, the foundations are right, the floor systems are right, the walls are right, the roof systems, the subfascia, the beams, all these things are put together. There’s a lot of people out there that build homes with general rules of thumb, man, that’s great, we actually document why a beam is of a certain size, why a header is of a certain size, instead of someone saying, “Well, this should work,” because it’s kind of interesting when we work in certain states where maybe they aren’t as accustomed to engineered homes, it’s kind of amazing what a, a framer will say, “Well, out here we use that, I’ve never realized that we were using the wrong size headers.” Uh-huh.
Because sometimes what happens in these areas, people just pass on the story Uh-huh. So, someone says in this case you do this, in this case you do this, well, the reality is with the, the modern home, the more complex, you can’t just use a standard idea from 1970 that your grandpa may have told you and hope that it, you know, matches today Uh-huh. The wood’s a different type of wood, the connections are different types of wood, of connectors, and the designs are generally different, so, we go through to make sure that it’s, it’s put together to make sure that the design is right, so, it’s not just the panelized home, it’s the thought process of it, and I kind of simplify this, you know, everyone has a mom or grandma that makes the best chocolate cake Right. It’s because they put certain ingredients into it compared to just some, you know, standard thing, so, it’s the thought of understanding what it takes to make it really right and be able to justify why, why it’s there, and I think that that’s what it is.
A lot of people say, “Wow, this is the beefiest structure, or my friend built this other way, they don’t have a structure like ours,” and we’ve also look at like I brought up the idea of, you know, a 20-foot wall with a bunch of glass in it, um, a lot of people say, “Well, the roof will be supported.” Well, that’s not the whole concern, you’re also supporting heavy windows and you’re keeping against wind loads and shear loads, so, if that’s not done right, you’re going to have some type of an issue down the road, you just don’t know what and when. In our case, we go through and make sure that it’s uh, engineered properly and designed properly for the building site and the code applications at that exact building site, don’t use standard plans, don’t say, “Hey, my friend engineered this house across the state,” and, you know, “Therefore it should work for me,” um, you know, it, you, you need to know what’s going on with your house at the exact uh, building site for the features you’re putting into the home.
So, as far as quality, there’s, there’s a lot of ways to be asked that question, there’s also a lot of ways to answer it, I don’t, I don’t want to make it confusing, but I think when people look at what Landmark Home and Land Company does in the architectural design, the structural design, matching the energy codes, matching the site conditions, matching the foundations, making sure the building department’s happy with it, and making sure the panelized home package covers all those variables, I think it’s uh, it’s an exceptional um, package, and we’re, we’re the one-stop shop that helps people put that all together and understand that, hey, this as a unit—design, engineering, panelized package—is the best quality they’re going to find out there It’s comprehensive.
And also there’s a lot of love there, a lot of love goes into that chocolate cake, Laughter Yeah, well, the, the thing is here, it’s uh, we, we have a lot of people that work for us for decades Uh-huh. You know, we have a rhythm, we have an understanding, we have a personal knowledge, I’ve worked with every single customer in almost 33 years, and that’s an amazing thing, it’s an amazing knowledge base, it’s an amazing ability to listen to what customers want, pay attention to what the building department wants, pay attention to what the codes are, and put it together so the customer gets the house they want. The advantage of it, it’s, it’s not just the quality, but it’s all the forethought, you know, in a sense, doing your homework upfront that makes the process of building smoother, quicker, and under more of a budget control and a schedule control. So, it’s not just the quality of the material, it’s the ability to execute the building phases Uh-huh.
That’s the important part that, you know, sometimes what does quality mean? In our case, it means the product, the service, the design, the engineering, the overall uh, components of the one-stop shop that Landmark Home and Land Company provides Uh-huh. So, when people think of quality, they’re probably going, “Hey, what type of wood do you put in?” It’s like, well, yeah, we’re very good there, but look at the overall picture, you’re building a home, not a stack of wood.
Host: Exactly. Well, that’s about all the time we have for this edition of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show, but before we let you go, Steve, um, as I always do, uh, please allow our listeners to know how to find out more about Landmark Home and Land Company and what it is you guys do over there, and, and all the great work that you’re doing helping put families into uh, into homes.
Steve Tuma: Well, the best thing to do is check out our website at LHLC.com, that’s the initial Landmark Home and Land Company, we’re really Landmark Home and Land Company, but LHLC.com, and I, these podcasts are on there, videos are on there, discussions of what we do, how we help people in different states, what we supply, and then there’s thousands of plans for people to look at, they can get a pretty quick preview there, but even so, it’s always good to talk, get to know each other, understand how we can help our customers and get the details of the projects. Um, through the website, they can inquire on the plan, they can send an email directly to us, or they can call 800-830-9788, it’s 800-830-9788, and Mike’ll answer the phone, and they can talk to Mike for a while, get an understanding what’s there, when they get to the point of wanting to get plans going, I jump in and, and work through it, so, we, we do take pride in listening to our customers, taking time to understand their project, understanding that custom homes are not a one-size-fits-all, this is a process of making sure that the customer gets the home they want.
Host: Perfect. And there you have it. Well, thanks again, Steve, as always, it’s just, it’s always so informative to talk to, I, I walk away from these podcasts learning so much, and uh, and that’s all because of you, man, you’re just straight on Laughter and, you, you have a lot of great answers, and uh, so, anyway, thank you again, and thanks to all of you for listening to the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. So, for Landmark Home and Land Company President Steve Tuma and myself, have a great week ahead, and we will see you next time. Thanks again, Steve.
Steve Tuma: Thank you. This was a good one, a lot of, a lot of cool questions there, and a lot of cool answers, I had fun, thanks.
