Since 2019 we have published barndominium floor plans, cost guides and state-by-state building guides for people planning a build. Those readers contact us looking for someone to build it, and most of them live in a state where we have no one to send them to.
Featured placement puts you in front of them. Not a directory listing and not a lead list sold to everyone — a named builder on the state guide people actually read, with at most two others alongside you, or none at all if you take the region outright.
What You Get
A short list, or no list. Featured placement is capped at three builders per region. Take the exclusive tier and you are the only builder shown. Either way this is not a directory — we are not adding a fourth, and we do not resell your enquiries to a lead network.
Enquiries that come to you directly. A form on the state guide routes to your sales address. There is nothing to install, no portal to log into, and no queue you share.
Your own profile. Company name, service area, licence details, your project photographs and your own words — not a scraped listing.
Twelve-month attribution. If someone we introduce signs with you inside a year, that is a referred build, whether they signed in week one or month eleven.
What It Costs
| Tier | Builders shown in your region | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Featured | Up to 3, including you | $149 per month |
| Exclusive | Just you | $499 per month |
Add MetalBuildingHomes.org to either tier for $100 per month — $249 featured, $599 exclusive.
Plus 3% of the construction contract on builds that come from it — half at contract signing, half at completion. Billed monthly, no long commitment, cancel with notice.
The monthly fee is what keeps the placement yours. The 3% is the part that matters to both of us: it only pays when you actually build something, which means we have the same incentive you do to send you work worth having rather than volume.
Three is a ceiling, not a target. In smaller states we will often place one builder and stop, because splitting a handful of enquiries three ways serves nobody. If your state will not support three, we will tell you that rather than sell the slots.
Why The Second Property Is Worth $100
MetalBuildingHomes.org is a separate site covering metal building homes, and it reaches a different search audience — people who searched for a metal building home rather than a barndominium. You don’t have to choose a placement on both sites but our Realtor friends have sold over a hundred homes via MetalBuildingHomes listings service.
It has a transaction record. Realtors have sold more than twenty barndominiums to buyers who found them through it. That matters more than an audience number, because it is evidence the people on that site actually complete purchases rather than browse.
To be clear: those were resale transactions — someone buying a barndominium that already exists, not commissioning a new build. But the two audiences overlap, and a good share of people who go looking for a finished barndominium discover the resale market is thin and end up building instead. But we are not going to tell you those twenty sales were builds, because they were not.
A buyer vetting you will search. On one property they find you once; on both, they find you twice, on two different sets of search terms.
Is It Worth It?
On enquiry volume, honestly: it varies enormously by state and we will not promise you a number.
For scale, our twelve-month file recorded 157 enquiries from Texas, around 13 a month. Texas is one of our largest states; a smaller one may produce two or three. We will tell you what your state has actually done before you commit, and if the honest answer is “not enough to be worth $149,” we will say so. This is our stats for 2026 where we have not pursued builder leads at all. In prior years, we would get over 1,000 leads per month that went out Angi’s List style.
We have evolved over time and would like to offer better service and trusted, reliable builders directly to our audience. That is where you come in.
What We Will Show You
We do not publish our traffic figures. Our competitors read this page, and handing them a benchmark would be a strange thing to do with money you are paying us for exclusivity.
What we will do is show you the real numbers for your region before you pay anything:
- How many enquiries that state has actually produced, from our twelve-month file
- What those enquiries looked like — project type, rough budget band, timeline
- How many are already spoken for, if any of the region is taken
- What the state guide ranks for and roughly where it sits
If the honest answer for your state is “not enough to be worth $149 a month,” we will tell you that and we will not take the money. A placement that produces nothing gets cancelled in three months and costs us a reference, which is worth more to us than three months of fees.
What This Costs Everywhere Else
| Channel | Cost | What you get for it |
|---|---|---|
| Google Search, construction category | ~$166 per lead | One click, bid against everyone else |
| Shared lead services | $15–$85 per lead | The same lead sold to 3–8 contractors |
| Houzz Pro+ | $200–$400 per month | A listing among many in your area |
| Featured here | $149 per month + 3% | One of at most three builders shown |
| Exclusive here | $499 per month + 3% | The only builder shown |
A single Google lead in this category costs roughly what a month of featured placement costs here, and a shared lead service sells the same homeowner to as many as eight contractors. At the featured tier you are one of three; at the exclusive tier the homeowner has one name in front of them, which is the version that actually closes.
Who This Is For
A good fit: licensed residential builders who have completed barndominiums, work a defined region, can show three finished projects, and answer their enquiries. That last one is not a throwaway — it is the single thing that separates partnerships that work here from ones that do not.
Not a fit: companies wanting a free directory listing, anyone looking to buy bulk leads by volume, and builders who cannot work the enquiries they receive. We would rather have no partner in a state than one who lets enquiries sit.
Different program: if you supply metal buildings, shops or garages rather than building homes, placement works differently and sits on different pages. Say so in the form and we will send you those terms instead.
How It Works
1. Apply using the form below. It is longer than a contact form on purpose — it answers the questions we would otherwise ask by email.
2. We check your region. We tell you what inquiry volume that state has actually produced, and whether the region is open.
3. We agree terms and build your profile from your photographs and your copy.
4. You go live on the state guide, and inquiries route to your sales address from day one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a lead-buying program?
No, and we stopped selling leads by volume earlier this year because too many customers were not being contacted in a reasonable timeframe. You are buying a named position in front of an audience, not a list. Nothing you receive through it is resold to a lead network. We will not accept all applications. If you can provide us with images from your completed builds- those will do the lead generation part.
What is the difference between featured and exclusive?
Featured means at most three builders are shown in your region, including you, for $149 a month. Exclusive means you are the only one, for $499. In a state producing real volume, three builders each see a useful share; in a quiet state, exclusivity is usually the only version worth paying for. We will tell you which one yours is.
Can I start featured and move to exclusive later?
Yes, if the region is still open. Exclusivity is first-come — once a region has three featured builders in it, nobody can buy exclusivity there without someone’s placement ending.
What happens if I get no inquiries in a month?
Tell us and we will look at it together. The monthly fee is cancelable with notice, and we would rather release a region than keep billing for placement that is not producing. We also will not sign you into a region whose numbers we have not shown you first.
How do you know a build came from you?
The inquiry arrives through a form on your placement that goes to your address, so the introduction is documented. The 3% applies to builds from those introductions within twelve months. We rely on you to tell us when one closes — which is why the monthly fee exists, so the relationship does not depend on it. This trust goes both ways though. We want the situation to be win-win for both parties. We will follow up with leads and see if they built with you.
Can I be featured in more than one state?
Yes. Each region is priced separately, and we will talk about it if you cover several.
Do you work with unlicensed builders?
Not where the state licenses residential construction. Some states — Texas and Kentucky among them — do not license residential builders at all, and that is a fine answer on the form.
Apply For A Featured Builder Placement
Tell us where you build and what you have built. We will come back with what your region has actually produced and whether it is open.
