<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/style.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"><channel><atom:link href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/land-academy-show/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title><![CDATA[Land Academy Show]]></title><podcast:guid>e02a54df-b33d-5a73-9dec-44c03ff065e4</podcast:guid><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>Captivate.fm</generator><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><copyright><![CDATA[COPYRIGHT 2025 | LandAcademy.com]]></copyright><managingEditor>Steven Butala &amp; Jill DeWit</managingEditor><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Land wholesale experts, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit, share their personal land investment/real estate business achievements, answer questions, share valuable tips, all in the name of promoting listeners’ personal and professional real estate success. Steven and Jill have been buying and selling unwanted vacant land since the 90’s and have completed the purchase and sale of more than 15,000 properties. Their experience has earned them a solid reputation in the industry as well as assisted them in gaining the respect and friendship of many of the top national real estate investment and internet marketing experts. Through Land Academy, Steven and Jill mentor ambitious real estate aspirants on how to buy unwanted rural land and sell it for profit on the internet. Every week they buy and sell land alongside their members. They take you through all the parts of this process in great detail in their programs. Join Steven Butala and Jill DeWit on Land Academy Podcast, every Wednesday, and learn how to create your own real estate wealth. You are not alone in your real estate ambition. Land Academy shows you how to Buy unwanted rural land for next to nothing, sell it for a lot more money on the internet and collect the payments for years to come. All in the spirit of LandGeek, Mark Podolsky, Jack Bosch, Land for Pennies on the Dollar. ]]></itunes:summary><image><url>https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg</url><title>Land Academy Show</title><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/]]></link></image><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Steven Butala &amp; Jill DeWit</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Steven Butala &amp; Jill DeWit</itunes:author><description>Land wholesale experts, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit, share their personal land investment/real estate business achievements, answer questions, share valuable tips, all in the name of promoting listeners’ personal and professional real estate success. Steven and Jill have been buying and selling unwanted vacant land since the 90’s and have completed the purchase and sale of more than 15,000 properties. Their experience has earned them a solid reputation in the industry as well as assisted them in gaining the respect and friendship of many of the top national real estate investment and internet marketing experts. Through Land Academy, Steven and Jill mentor ambitious real estate aspirants on how to buy unwanted rural land and sell it for profit on the internet. Every week they buy and sell land alongside their members. They take you through all the parts of this process in great detail in their programs. Join Steven Butala and Jill DeWit on Land Academy Podcast, every Wednesday, and learn how to create your own real estate wealth. You are not alone in your real estate ambition. Land Academy shows you how to Buy unwanted rural land for next to nothing, sell it for a lot more money on the internet and collect the payments for years to come. All in the spirit of LandGeek, Mark Podolsky, Jack Bosch, Land for Pennies on the Dollar. </description><link>https://landacademy.com/</link><atom:link href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" rel="hub"/><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Investing"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Careers"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Entrepreneurship"/></itunes:category><itunes:new-feed-url>https://feeds.captivate.fm/land-academy-show/</itunes:new-feed-url><podcast:locked>no</podcast:locked><podcast:medium>podcast</podcast:medium><item><title>Why the Data Picks Your Market Not Your Gut</title><itunes:title>Why the Data Picks Your Market Not Your Gut</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>The pivotal focus of today's discussion centers on the assertion that data, rather than intuition, should dictate one's market choices in land investment. For over a decade, Land Academy has championed a methodology grounded in empirical evidence, demonstrating that an analysis of market dynamics—such as sold versus active ratios, days on market, and pricing trends—yields superior investment outcomes. As we delve into this topic, we will expound upon the pitfalls of relying solely on gut feelings, frequently influenced by anecdotal observations or prevailing market buzz. Our extensive experience in the field underscores the volatile nature of market desirability; what may be trending today could drastically shift tomorrow. Thus, we shall elucidate systematic approaches to leveraging data for informed decision-making in land acquisition, ensuring that our community is equipped to navigate the complexities of this investment landscape with confidence.</p><p>…</p><p>In this enlightening episode of the Land Academy Show, Stephen Jack Butteller and Jill DeWitt explore the critical role of data in selecting investment markets for land acquisition. Rejecting the notion that gut feelings should dictate investment choices, the hosts argue that a rigorous analysis of market data is essential for identifying profitable opportunities. They draw on their extensive experience in the field to illustrate the pitfalls of relying on anecdotal evidence and popular trends, which can often lead investors astray. By sharing personal anecdotes and community success stories, they emphasize that a data-driven approach not only mitigates risks but also enhances profitability. The hosts outline a structured methodology for analyzing potential markets, focusing on key metrics such as sold versus active property ratios and pricing trends. They advocate for the establishment of clear acquisition criteria and the use of analytical tools to streamline the investment process. Throughout the discussion, Butteller and DeWitt stress the importance of adaptability in the ever-changing landscape of land investment, encouraging listeners to continuously evaluate data to inform their decisions. As the episode unfolds, it becomes evident that the foundation of a successful land investment business rests on a disciplined and data-centric approach, providing listeners with actionable insights to navigate the complexities of the market effectively. Overall, the episode serves as a comprehensive guide, equipping both novice and seasoned investors with the tools necessary for making informed decisions. By instilling confidence in a data-driven methodology, Butteller and DeWitt champion the idea that success in land investment is achievable through empirical analysis and strategic execution.</p><p>Takeaways:</p><ul><li>Data-driven decision making is paramount in land investment; relying solely on gut feelings is ill-advised.</li><li>Understanding sold versus active ratios in specific zip codes can dramatically enhance investment success.</li><li>It is essential to establish clear acquisition criteria before entering the market to avoid costly mistakes.</li><li>Using thorough data analysis removes emotional biases and leads to better strategic decisions in property investment.</li></ul><br/><p>Links referenced in this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://dealcomplete.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dealcomplete.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landacademy.com/join" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">landacademy.com/join</a></li></ul><br/>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The pivotal focus of today's discussion centers on the assertion that data, rather than intuition, should dictate one's market choices in land investment. For over a decade, Land Academy has championed a methodology grounded in empirical evidence, demonstrating that an analysis of market dynamics—such as sold versus active ratios, days on market, and pricing trends—yields superior investment outcomes. As we delve into this topic, we will expound upon the pitfalls of relying solely on gut feelings, frequently influenced by anecdotal observations or prevailing market buzz. Our extensive experience in the field underscores the volatile nature of market desirability; what may be trending today could drastically shift tomorrow. Thus, we shall elucidate systematic approaches to leveraging data for informed decision-making in land acquisition, ensuring that our community is equipped to navigate the complexities of this investment landscape with confidence.</p><p>…</p><p>In this enlightening episode of the Land Academy Show, Stephen Jack Butteller and Jill DeWitt explore the critical role of data in selecting investment markets for land acquisition. Rejecting the notion that gut feelings should dictate investment choices, the hosts argue that a rigorous analysis of market data is essential for identifying profitable opportunities. They draw on their extensive experience in the field to illustrate the pitfalls of relying on anecdotal evidence and popular trends, which can often lead investors astray. By sharing personal anecdotes and community success stories, they emphasize that a data-driven approach not only mitigates risks but also enhances profitability. The hosts outline a structured methodology for analyzing potential markets, focusing on key metrics such as sold versus active property ratios and pricing trends. They advocate for the establishment of clear acquisition criteria and the use of analytical tools to streamline the investment process. Throughout the discussion, Butteller and DeWitt stress the importance of adaptability in the ever-changing landscape of land investment, encouraging listeners to continuously evaluate data to inform their decisions. As the episode unfolds, it becomes evident that the foundation of a successful land investment business rests on a disciplined and data-centric approach, providing listeners with actionable insights to navigate the complexities of the market effectively. Overall, the episode serves as a comprehensive guide, equipping both novice and seasoned investors with the tools necessary for making informed decisions. By instilling confidence in a data-driven methodology, Butteller and DeWitt champion the idea that success in land investment is achievable through empirical analysis and strategic execution.</p><p>Takeaways:</p><ul><li>Data-driven decision making is paramount in land investment; relying solely on gut feelings is ill-advised.</li><li>Understanding sold versus active ratios in specific zip codes can dramatically enhance investment success.</li><li>It is essential to establish clear acquisition criteria before entering the market to avoid costly mistakes.</li><li>Using thorough data analysis removes emotional biases and leads to better strategic decisions in property investment.</li></ul><br/><p>Links referenced in this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://dealcomplete.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dealcomplete.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landacademy.com/join" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">landacademy.com/join</a></li></ul><br/>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">928c3259-ad8c-42d9-9fa4-050cba45464c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ef2f63fc-9787-4f4f-ac4a-1f63f9e75906/datamarketnotgut-1.png"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/928c3259-ad8c-42d9-9fa4-050cba45464c.mp3" length="28223825" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2291</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2291</podcast:episode><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/aeeb7d8b-4a80-41b8-a759-1565913eb8d4/transcript.json" type="application/json"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/aeeb7d8b-4a80-41b8-a759-1565913eb8d4/transcript.srt" type="application/srt" rel="captions"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/aeeb7d8b-4a80-41b8-a759-1565913eb8d4/index.html" type="text/html"/><podcast:chapters url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/chapter-a26eecd7-e2a4-4a9d-8858-235883a9cd4d.json" type="application/json+chapters"/></item><item><title>How we Retired Buying and Selling Land</title><itunes:title>How we Retired Buying and Selling Land</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We are the experts at flipping land.</p><p>Steve and Jill, the hosts of this podcast, delve into the intricate world of land investment, a venture they have been engaged in since the 1990s. Their extensive experience has not only equipped them with profound insights but has also established them as seasoned professionals in the field.</p><p>This episode serves as a comprehensive guide, offering listeners not only inspiration but also actionable strategies to enhance their real estate endeavors.</p><p>Takeaways:</p><ul><li>Steve and Jill have been involved in land buying and reselling since the 1990s, establishing a wealth of experience in the industry.</li><li>Their data-centric approach enables them to sell land at competitive prices, leading to inquiries from buyers regarding their pricing strategy.</li><li>Land Academy serves as an educational platform providing essential tools and support for individuals aspiring to enter the land investment business.</li><li>The hosts emphasize the significance of a predictable monthly cash flow, which they refer to as a 'land pension', as part of their retirement strategy.</li><li>They discuss the concept of infill lots as a form of unrealized gain, which can appreciate over time without immediate tax implications.</li><li>The importance of maintaining a consistent direct mail campaign is highlighted as a crucial factor for success in land transactions.</li></ul><br/><p>Links referenced in this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://dealcomplete.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dealcomplete.com</a></li></ul><br/>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are the experts at flipping land.</p><p>Steve and Jill, the hosts of this podcast, delve into the intricate world of land investment, a venture they have been engaged in since the 1990s. Their extensive experience has not only equipped them with profound insights but has also established them as seasoned professionals in the field.</p><p>This episode serves as a comprehensive guide, offering listeners not only inspiration but also actionable strategies to enhance their real estate endeavors.</p><p>Takeaways:</p><ul><li>Steve and Jill have been involved in land buying and reselling since the 1990s, establishing a wealth of experience in the industry.</li><li>Their data-centric approach enables them to sell land at competitive prices, leading to inquiries from buyers regarding their pricing strategy.</li><li>Land Academy serves as an educational platform providing essential tools and support for individuals aspiring to enter the land investment business.</li><li>The hosts emphasize the significance of a predictable monthly cash flow, which they refer to as a 'land pension', as part of their retirement strategy.</li><li>They discuss the concept of infill lots as a form of unrealized gain, which can appreciate over time without immediate tax implications.</li><li>The importance of maintaining a consistent direct mail campaign is highlighted as a crucial factor for success in land transactions.</li></ul><br/><p>Links referenced in this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://dealcomplete.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dealcomplete.com</a></li></ul><br/>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">18fc58f9-fa30-44f8-80d9-f95f315470aa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/bd4f2b4c-71d8-40ca-9507-09b494d0ea6c/LA2290-thumbnail-3000x3000-optimized.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/18fc58f9-fa30-44f8-80d9-f95f315470aa.mp3" length="20723333" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2290</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2290</podcast:episode><itunes:summary>We are the experts at flipping land.  Start Your Real Estate Business</itunes:summary><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/aeda6083-e8a5-4cbf-a2a3-3fb4e7bfed8e/transcript.json" type="application/json"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/aeda6083-e8a5-4cbf-a2a3-3fb4e7bfed8e/transcript.srt" type="application/srt" rel="captions"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/transcript/aeda6083-e8a5-4cbf-a2a3-3fb4e7bfed8e/index.html" type="text/html"/><podcast:chapters url="https://transcripts.captivate.fm/chapter-b1a1010a-74a6-4dd4-bd9e-19b9af7f2529.json" type="application/json+chapters"/></item><item><title>What Your Land Business Looks Like With AI – Its Your Survival</title><itunes:title>What Your Land Business Looks Like With AI – Its Your Survival</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>The landscape of land investment is undergoing a massive transformation, and embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer optional—it’s your survival. Long-time experts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit have been operating their successful land business since the late ’80s, and they know a foundational shift when they see one. In this must-read post, they break down exactly “What Your Land Business Looks Like With AI” and why your established workflow is about to change forever. Discover how AI is fundamentally altering the four core phases of land acquisition, from locating property with a ‘Data Scout’ to automating due diligence and transaction tech, and even maximizing resale profits with AI-driven outreach. Get ahead of the curve and learn how to leverage the ‘agentic AI’ tools available today to simplify your process, increase volume, and ensure your investment future.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The landscape of land investment is undergoing a massive transformation, and embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer optional—it’s your survival. Long-time experts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit have been operating their successful land business since the late ’80s, and they know a foundational shift when they see one. In this must-read post, they break down exactly “What Your Land Business Looks Like With AI” and why your established workflow is about to change forever. Discover how AI is fundamentally altering the four core phases of land acquisition, from locating property with a ‘Data Scout’ to automating due diligence and transaction tech, and even maximizing resale profits with AI-driven outreach. Get ahead of the curve and learn how to leverage the ‘agentic AI’ tools available today to simplify your process, increase volume, and ensure your investment future.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/04/22/what-your-land-business-looks-like-with-ai-its-your-survival]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">MqGf7Pbr7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d07c6af8-8870-4b44-8341-ab19d33bc0f5/m5fgmal65.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/31f0d569-fbe6-4b5e-a72a-b3c865e7e33a.mp3" length="47194096" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>32:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2289</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2289</podcast:episode></item><item><title>5 Things Land Investors Must Bring To The Table For Success – 4 Are Free</title><itunes:title>5 Things Land Investors Must Bring To The Table For Success – 4 Are Free</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the secret to a six-figure land investment business wasn't just about the size of your bank account? In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit break down the five essential pillars of success for land investors—and here is the kicker: four of them are absolutely free. From hitting $100,000 revenue months to flipping twenty-acre properties for massive spreads in just weeks, our community proves that with the right mindset and tools, anyone can scale their ambition into a reality. Read on to discover the specific skill sets and strategies you need to bring to the table to join the ranks of our most successful investors.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the secret to a six-figure land investment business wasn't just about the size of your bank account? In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit break down the five essential pillars of success for land investors—and here is the kicker: four of them are absolutely free. From hitting $100,000 revenue months to flipping twenty-acre properties for massive spreads in just weeks, our community proves that with the right mindset and tools, anyone can scale their ambition into a reality. Read on to discover the specific skill sets and strategies you need to bring to the table to join the ranks of our most successful investors.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/04/15/5-things-land-investors-must-bring-to-the-table-for-success-4-are-free]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SIMYeYzzu</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3f19f7a0-97b1-4897-a75b-7465e2f74f0b/bnsrkpvat.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2f8c10a8-2a62-4b29-ac5f-c9d6f5297aae.mp3" length="51183581" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2288</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2288</podcast:episode></item><item><title>From Solo To Squad: The First Three Hires Every Land Investor Needs</title><itunes:title>From Solo To Squad: The First Three Hires Every Land Investor Needs</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Whether you are a solo investor drowning in data or a growing firm ready to build an empire, transitioning from a one-person show to a high-performing squad is the most critical leap you’ll ever make. In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit pull back the curtain on a decade of hiring wins, losses, and “what was I thinking?” moments.</p><p><br></p><p>They break down the “Solo to Squad” framework: the first three essential hires that move you from being “a guy with a hobby” to a true business owner. From seasoning your first “CEO-potential” administrator to finding the technical whiz who handles the data you hate, they share the exact strategy we use to buy back our time and scale our deal flow.</p><p><br></p><p>In This Episode, You’ll Discover:</p><ul><li>The “Seasoning” Strategy: Why your first hire should be someone you can groom to eventually handle the big decisions.</li><li>Hiring for Weakness: How to identify the tasks that are currently “costing you money” because you’re too slow or too bored to do them right.</li><li>The Entrepreneur’s Trap: Why trying to “save” a friend or hire a “startup” personality can backfire during the operational phase.</li><li>Meeting Your Team Where They Are: My unconventional (and perhaps controversial) advice on motivation, turnover, and finding the “soul” of your company.</li><li>The Power of the Squad: How a dedicated team allowed us to move from struggling in 2009 to building multiple revenue streams and a legacy in land.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>Stop doing the busy work that keeps you from the deals you should be making. It’s time to stop overanalyzing and start building your squad.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whether you are a solo investor drowning in data or a growing firm ready to build an empire, transitioning from a one-person show to a high-performing squad is the most critical leap you’ll ever make. In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit pull back the curtain on a decade of hiring wins, losses, and “what was I thinking?” moments.</p><p><br></p><p>They break down the “Solo to Squad” framework: the first three essential hires that move you from being “a guy with a hobby” to a true business owner. From seasoning your first “CEO-potential” administrator to finding the technical whiz who handles the data you hate, they share the exact strategy we use to buy back our time and scale our deal flow.</p><p><br></p><p>In This Episode, You’ll Discover:</p><ul><li>The “Seasoning” Strategy: Why your first hire should be someone you can groom to eventually handle the big decisions.</li><li>Hiring for Weakness: How to identify the tasks that are currently “costing you money” because you’re too slow or too bored to do them right.</li><li>The Entrepreneur’s Trap: Why trying to “save” a friend or hire a “startup” personality can backfire during the operational phase.</li><li>Meeting Your Team Where They Are: My unconventional (and perhaps controversial) advice on motivation, turnover, and finding the “soul” of your company.</li><li>The Power of the Squad: How a dedicated team allowed us to move from struggling in 2009 to building multiple revenue streams and a legacy in land.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>Stop doing the busy work that keeps you from the deals you should be making. It’s time to stop overanalyzing and start building your squad.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/04/01/from-solo-to-squad-the-first-three-hires-every-land-investor-needs]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SjDtt0-5j</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9e627c62-c2b2-434b-88fe-0292168f3cc7/ee3ibctmx.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a9166ca1-bd6e-4d96-ad86-eda4d195a6bb.mp3" length="71994650" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2287</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2287</podcast:episode></item><item><title>We Mailed 5,000 People And This Happened (The Math of a $100k Deal)</title><itunes:title>We Mailed 5,000 People And This Happened (The Math of a $100k Deal)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder exactly what it takes to land a “six-figure spread”? In this episode, Jack and Jill pull back the curtain on a recent 5,000-unit mailer to show you the raw, unfiltered data behind a $100,000 profit deal.</p><p><br></p><p>We aren’t just talking about the “win”—we’re breaking down the efficiency of the mailer, the response rates, the “no’s” we had to sift through, and the specific due diligence that turned a simple data set into a life-changing paycheck. Whether you are sending your first 500 letters or scaling to 50,000, this episode provides the mathematical roadmap you need to understand the relationship between mail volume and massive returns.</p><p><br></p><p>What You’ll Learn Today:</p><ul><li>The Funnel Dynamics: What a 5,000-unit mailer looks like from “Send” to “Close.”</li><li>The $100k Anatomy: The specific attributes of the property and the seller situation that led to a six-figure profit.</li><li>Response Metrics: Why you shouldn’t panic when 4,999 people don’t result in a deal.</li><li>Scaling the Math: How to project your own revenue based on the Land Academy “Yield” formulas.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>Key Quotes:</p><p>“You don’t need a thousand deals a year; you need the right math on the right five thousand envelopes.” — Jack Butala</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder exactly what it takes to land a “six-figure spread”? In this episode, Jack and Jill pull back the curtain on a recent 5,000-unit mailer to show you the raw, unfiltered data behind a $100,000 profit deal.</p><p><br></p><p>We aren’t just talking about the “win”—we’re breaking down the efficiency of the mailer, the response rates, the “no’s” we had to sift through, and the specific due diligence that turned a simple data set into a life-changing paycheck. Whether you are sending your first 500 letters or scaling to 50,000, this episode provides the mathematical roadmap you need to understand the relationship between mail volume and massive returns.</p><p><br></p><p>What You’ll Learn Today:</p><ul><li>The Funnel Dynamics: What a 5,000-unit mailer looks like from “Send” to “Close.”</li><li>The $100k Anatomy: The specific attributes of the property and the seller situation that led to a six-figure profit.</li><li>Response Metrics: Why you shouldn’t panic when 4,999 people don’t result in a deal.</li><li>Scaling the Math: How to project your own revenue based on the Land Academy “Yield” formulas.</li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>Key Quotes:</p><p>“You don’t need a thousand deals a year; you need the right math on the right five thousand envelopes.” — Jack Butala</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/03/25/we-mailed-5000-people-and-this-happened-the-math-of-a-100k-deal]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">FARysZ_vP</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e51288cb-d11a-4994-9abc-145d47f9c264/rqlka3dy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/03b60703-6a5f-4ec1-a508-9aaccc35ceab.mp3" length="51018124" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2285</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2285</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Side Hustle To Success: Transitioning To Full-Time Land Investing</title><itunes:title>Side Hustle To Success: Transitioning To Full-Time Land Investing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Going from side hustle to full-time land investing takes more than just motivation—it requires the right mindset, strategy, and resilience. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into the realities of transitioning from part-time investing to making land flipping a full-time career. They share insights on overcoming setbacks, understanding personal strengths, and making smart decisions to sustain long-term success. Is land investing the right path for you? Tune in as they break down the process, common challenges, and key steps to building a thriving land business.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Going from side hustle to full-time land investing takes more than just motivation—it requires the right mindset, strategy, and resilience. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into the realities of transitioning from part-time investing to making land flipping a full-time career. They share insights on overcoming setbacks, understanding personal strengths, and making smart decisions to sustain long-term success. Is land investing the right path for you? Tune in as they break down the process, common challenges, and key steps to building a thriving land business.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/03/17/side-hustle-to-success-transitioning-to-full-time-land-investing]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RpJH3sLjl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ee8f5e17-48d4-4ec6-9602-db3b0827b171/feo9sit0y.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/aa43511d-cc28-490c-891c-fd43fcf5520f.mp3" length="17014451" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2148</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2148</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What We Wish We Knew Before We Got Started In The Land Business</title><itunes:title>What We Wish We Knew Before We Got Started In The Land Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What did you wish you knew before diving into the world of land investing? Join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> on the Land Academy Show as they share their unfiltered insights, from unexpected challenges to the surprising ease of a data-centric approach. Discover their journey through 16,000 deals, what it truly takes to succeed, and how they navigate the often-confused reactions of friends and family to their unique business model. Plus, get an exclusive sneak peek into Land Academy's revolutionary new tool designed to make land investing an absolute breeze.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What did you wish you knew before diving into the world of land investing? Join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> on the Land Academy Show as they share their unfiltered insights, from unexpected challenges to the surprising ease of a data-centric approach. Discover their journey through 16,000 deals, what it truly takes to succeed, and how they navigate the often-confused reactions of friends and family to their unique business model. Plus, get an exclusive sneak peek into Land Academy's revolutionary new tool designed to make land investing an absolute breeze.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/03/10/what-we-wish-we-knew-before-we-got-started-in-the-land-business]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">z3ZUKwPKr</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/6696f598-ed68-4dc4-b83c-9a6c09e3e148/ftjugr9r3.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/31fb4b90-6291-4794-bc3a-e650ac14206a.mp3" length="34873507" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2251</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2251</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why We Don’t Negotiate Land And House Deals</title><itunes:title>Why We Don’t Negotiate Land And House Deals</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today on The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit explain why they do not negotiate land or house deals, as well as why this approach actually leads to faster, cleaner closings. They share how setting the price upfront filters out the wrong sellers, attracts serious ones, and gives you total control over your margins. If you are spending hours going back and forth or trying to "sell" someone on your number, this discussion will help you understand the power of firm pricing and how to build a business that runs without haggling.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today on The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit explain why they do not negotiate land or house deals, as well as why this approach actually leads to faster, cleaner closings. They share how setting the price upfront filters out the wrong sellers, attracts serious ones, and gives you total control over your margins. If you are spending hours going back and forth or trying to "sell" someone on your number, this discussion will help you understand the power of firm pricing and how to build a business that runs without haggling.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/03/03/why-we-dont-negotiate-land-and-house-deals]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6b2Zdmg6X</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3467f51e-2a7b-43bc-9866-7949c550be54/nwnedwx5g.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/638e4028-5f25-49d2-a46b-49dd4bbe615a.mp3" length="22452324" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2246</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2246</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Truth About Cold Calling, Emailing, And Texting For Land And House Deals</title><itunes:title>The Truth About Cold Calling, Emailing, And Texting For Land And House Deals</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Think cold calling, emailing, or texting is the best way to connect with land and house sellers? Think again. In this episode of The Land Academy Show, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> break down the real-world effectiveness—and legality—of the top outreach methods investors use today. From awkward cold calls and ignored texts to a single strategy that actually works, they cut through the noise to reveal what’s worth your time and what could land you in hot water. If you’ve ever wondered how top land investors consistently close deals, this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think cold calling, emailing, or texting is the best way to connect with land and house sellers? Think again. In this episode of The Land Academy Show, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> break down the real-world effectiveness—and legality—of the top outreach methods investors use today. From awkward cold calls and ignored texts to a single strategy that actually works, they cut through the noise to reveal what’s worth your time and what could land you in hot water. If you’ve ever wondered how top land investors consistently close deals, this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/02/24/the-truth-about-cold-calling-emailing-and-texting-for-land-and-house-deals]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5cTrqn0hK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/79170f3e-c755-4d7a-9fbf-5d81c4b8c130/duxbzneol.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/761b7410-b8e3-49b7-905f-fb8b7d3d9ade.mp3" length="22361378" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2241</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2241</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Best Way To Find Off-Market Land Deals In 2025</title><itunes:title>The Best Way To Find Off-Market Land Deals In 2025</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the land investing strategies you've always relied on are no longer enough? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal why the old ways of land investing are gone for 2025 and how to find the best off-market land deals. They dive deep into the critical mindset shift you need to survive and thrive in land investing, explaining why traditional methods are no longer enough, exemplified by a real-world deal review of a tricky Texas property that challenges conventional wisdom. They also emphasize the importance of upping your game in every aspect, from lead generation and deal analysis to pricing and even customer service. This episode isn't just about theory; it's about real-time adaptation and understanding what it truly takes to succeed in today's market. Are you ready to transform your approach?</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the land investing strategies you've always relied on are no longer enough? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal why the old ways of land investing are gone for 2025 and how to find the best off-market land deals. They dive deep into the critical mindset shift you need to survive and thrive in land investing, explaining why traditional methods are no longer enough, exemplified by a real-world deal review of a tricky Texas property that challenges conventional wisdom. They also emphasize the importance of upping your game in every aspect, from lead generation and deal analysis to pricing and even customer service. This episode isn't just about theory; it's about real-time adaptation and understanding what it truly takes to succeed in today's market. Are you ready to transform your approach?</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/02/17/the-best-way-to-find-off-market-land-deals-in-2025]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">grIeWh485</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a5e908fe-456e-4a69-9625-602a5c112a00/5sgibrjuu.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/196acaed-caf7-4f16-9e0f-ccee6bf6a32a.mp3" length="22909677" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2237</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2237</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Flipping Success Stories: An Exclusive with Karl &amp; Sam Lathus</title><itunes:title>Land Flipping Success Stories: An Exclusive with Karl &amp; Sam Lathus</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Discover the secrets of land flipping success in this exclusive interview with Karl and Samantha Lathus on the Land Academy Show. Hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the strategies that propelled the Lathuses to mega-success in the land investing world. From corporate careers to full-time land flipping, Karl and Samantha share their journey and insights. The tables turn in the second half as the Lathuses interview Steven and Jill, uncovering the failures that paved the way to their ultimate success. Get ready for an inspiring episode filled with practical advice, personal anecdotes, and a glimpse into the mindset of successful land investors.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Discover the secrets of land flipping success in this exclusive interview with Karl and Samantha Lathus on the Land Academy Show. Hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the strategies that propelled the Lathuses to mega-success in the land investing world. From corporate careers to full-time land flipping, Karl and Samantha share their journey and insights. The tables turn in the second half as the Lathuses interview Steven and Jill, uncovering the failures that paved the way to their ultimate success. Get ready for an inspiring episode filled with practical advice, personal anecdotes, and a glimpse into the mindset of successful land investors.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/02/10/land-flipping-success-stories-an-exclusive-with-karl-sam-lathus-la-1959]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">uz3YUBZA8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8ab303ab-5804-4aa4-af55-8c76e56030d6.mp3" length="56429308" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>56:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>1959</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>1959</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Luke Smith Land Academy Member Extraordinaire Interview</title><itunes:title>Luke Smith Land Academy Member Extraordinaire Interview</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts. Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com. </p><p><br></p><p>The BuWit Family of Companies include: </p><ul><li><a href="https://BuWit.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://BuWit.com</a></li><li><a href="https://offers2owners.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://offers2owners.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landinvestors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landinvestors.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landacademy.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landpin.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landpin.com</a></li><li><a href="https://parcelfact.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://parcelfact.com</a></li><li><a href="https://countywise.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://countywise.com</a></li><li><a href="https://deedperfect.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://deedperfect.com</a></li><li><a href="https://ownersdata.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ownersdata.com</a></li><li><a href="https://houseacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://houseacademy.com</a></li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and, in the end, profitable. </p><p><br></p><p>And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts. Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com. </p><p><br></p><p>The BuWit Family of Companies include: </p><ul><li><a href="https://BuWit.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://BuWit.com</a></li><li><a href="https://offers2owners.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://offers2owners.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landinvestors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landinvestors.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landacademy.com</a></li><li><a href="https://landpin.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landpin.com</a></li><li><a href="https://parcelfact.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://parcelfact.com</a></li><li><a href="https://countywise.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://countywise.com</a></li><li><a href="https://deedperfect.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://deedperfect.com</a></li><li><a href="https://ownersdata.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ownersdata.com</a></li><li><a href="https://houseacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://houseacademy.com</a></li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and, in the end, profitable. </p><p><br></p><p>And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/02/03/luke-smith-land-academy-member-extraordinaire-interview-la-1745]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zzTADBSwH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cf60aaa0-2f84-4f1b-8c1c-7ad1187eb06f.mp3" length="40730372" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>1745</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>1745</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Interview With Land Academy Members Mike And Joe Brusca</title><itunes:title>Interview With Land Academy Members Mike And Joe Brusca</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in iTunes. Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on iTunes. My staff and I read each and every one.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at <a href="mailto:steven@BuWit.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">steven@BuWit.com</a>. </p><p><br></p><p>The BuWit Family of Companies include: </p><ul><li><a href="https://BuWit.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://BuWit.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://offers2owners.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://offers2owners.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://landinvestors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landinvestors.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://landacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landacademy.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://landpin.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landpin.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://parcelfact.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://parcelfact.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://countywise.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://countywise.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://deedperfect.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://deedperfect.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://ownersdata.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ownersdata.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://houseacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://houseacademy.com</a> </li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.</p><p><br></p><p>And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in iTunes. Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on iTunes. My staff and I read each and every one.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at <a href="mailto:steven@BuWit.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">steven@BuWit.com</a>. </p><p><br></p><p>The BuWit Family of Companies include: </p><ul><li><a href="https://BuWit.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://BuWit.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://offers2owners.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://offers2owners.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://landinvestors.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landinvestors.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://landacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landacademy.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://landpin.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landpin.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://parcelfact.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://parcelfact.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://countywise.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://countywise.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://deedperfect.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://deedperfect.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://ownersdata.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ownersdata.com</a> </li><li><a href="https://houseacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://houseacademy.com</a> </li></ul><br/><p><br></p><p>I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.</p><p><br></p><p>And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/01/27/interview-with-land-academy-members-mike-and-joe-brusca-la-1419]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HcYyaeKfW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ebbc4454-a47d-40f0-94fd-8db4e4b3aff8.mp3" length="27970153" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>1419</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>1419</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Interview with Land Academy Million Dollar Member Christine McManus</title><itunes:title>Interview with Land Academy Million Dollar Member Christine McManus</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Listen to Land Academy Member Christine McManus discuss her Land Investing journey with Steven Butala and Jill DeWit. 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In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dig into the most common — and often painful — regrets shared by people who gave up on land investing too early. From motivation struggles to letting life get in the way, they share real stories from the Land Academy community, including the ones who came back (sometimes three times!) and finally made it work. No techy mailer talk today — just honest, sometimes funny, and eye-opening insight into what not to do if you want to build real success. Tune in to hear what people wish they had done differently and how you can avoid making the same mistakes.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what separates successful land investors from the ones who quietly walk away? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dig into the most common — and often painful — regrets shared by people who gave up on land investing too early. From motivation struggles to letting life get in the way, they share real stories from the Land Academy community, including the ones who came back (sometimes three times!) and finally made it work. No techy mailer talk today — just honest, sometimes funny, and eye-opening insight into what not to do if you want to build real success. Tune in to hear what people wish they had done differently and how you can avoid making the same mistakes.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/01/13/the-biggest-regrets-from-land-investors-who-quit-too-soon]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_Vxt1pzw4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8021b257-fad4-4b50-944d-0a68e0476877/ignknamb6.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/da1d0502-7da1-4e9a-8e35-bf544f792204.mp3" length="30412399" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2209</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2209</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Winning Big? 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Whether you’re just starting out or finally hitting your stride, this episode offers real talk, laughs, and lessons from the trenches of winning big… and navigating the awkward social fallout that can come with it.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What happens when your success starts to make the people around you uncomfortable? In this candid and relatable episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into a challenge many high-achievers face but few talk about—how to handle jealous friends when your life starts to take off. From luxury lifestyles and financial freedom to dream homes and flexible schedules, they’ve been there—and they’re not bragging, they’re qualifying. Whether you’re just starting out or finally hitting your stride, this episode offers real talk, laughs, and lessons from the trenches of winning big… and navigating the awkward social fallout that can come with it.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2026/01/06/winning-big-heres-how-to-handle-jealous-friends]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kyf3F6Sjz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ad4cd460-dce6-4431-81a9-a4c010093e6e/d78nzawsx.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1e37b0a2-6c7a-4aab-9879-b4833578ce75.mp3" length="21560416" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2203</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2203</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Finding Your Land Niche Market: When To Know You’ve Nailed It</title><itunes:title>Finding Your Land Niche Market: When To Know You’ve Nailed It</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 2200 of The Land Academy Show! In this milestone episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle a question every land investor eventually faces: How do you know when you've found your land niche market? Whether it’s probate properties, landlocked lots, or the sweet spot of 5–10 acres, Jack and Jill share how your niche often finds you — and why that’s actually a good thing. Plus, they respond to a listener’s concern about outdated DataTree info, explain how county data updates work, and give tips on choosing the land deals that work for you. If you’ve ever wondered where your land investing sweet spot lies — this is the episode that just might reveal it</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 2200 of The Land Academy Show! In this milestone episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle a question every land investor eventually faces: How do you know when you've found your land niche market? Whether it’s probate properties, landlocked lots, or the sweet spot of 5–10 acres, Jack and Jill share how your niche often finds you — and why that’s actually a good thing. Plus, they respond to a listener’s concern about outdated DataTree info, explain how county data updates work, and give tips on choosing the land deals that work for you. If you’ve ever wondered where your land investing sweet spot lies — this is the episode that just might reveal it</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/12/30/finding-your-land-niche-market-when-to-know-youve-nailed-it]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">x9PXHZpAR</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d2817f96-92b1-4d44-bbf1-5ab3e3572b1f/4nugzizre.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2ab17431-6196-49f4-b84e-733b3ab36c3c.mp3" length="23602340" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2200</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2200</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Flipping Land Crushes Rentals: 20 Deals Vs. 1 Property</title><itunes:title>Why Flipping Land Crushes Rentals: 20 Deals Vs. 1 Property</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if you could make more money, in less time, with fewer headaches—without ever leaving your desk? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;unpack why flipping 20 land deals can easily beat holding one rental property. Spoiler alert: it’s not just about the fast cash—it’s about freedom, efficiency, and knowing the real math behind real estate. They unpack national data, compare profit margins, and share their own behind-the-scenes experiences that prove why land investing is the ultimate low-drama, high-return strategy. Whether you’re new to land or wondering if rentals are really worth it—this episode will make you think twice.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if you could make more money, in less time, with fewer headaches—without ever leaving your desk? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;unpack why flipping 20 land deals can easily beat holding one rental property. Spoiler alert: it’s not just about the fast cash—it’s about freedom, efficiency, and knowing the real math behind real estate. They unpack national data, compare profit margins, and share their own behind-the-scenes experiences that prove why land investing is the ultimate low-drama, high-return strategy. Whether you’re new to land or wondering if rentals are really worth it—this episode will make you think twice.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/12/23/why-flipping-land-crushes-rentals-20-deals-vs-1-property]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wy46MAx7t</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2fcf0fad-38f3-4fef-b3fc-e03cdc0e6902/abeppwf-z.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2433d253-cc6d-4668-abab-51305842997a.mp3" length="17504785" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2199</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2199</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Supply And Demand Advantage: Your Ultimate Guide To Savvy Land Deals</title><itunes:title>Supply And Demand Advantage: Your Ultimate Guide To Savvy Land Deals</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Market dynamics can shift on a dime, and understanding the delicate balance of supply and demand is crucial for anyone looking to thrive in land investment. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit unpack the essential laws of supply and demand and how they directly impact the land business, revealing strategies to thrive even when market conditions shift. They delve into a real-world scenario of a penthouse condo pricing discussion and address a listener's question about mailing to zip codes with strong sales history but no current listings. Expect insights into identifying prime buying opportunities during periods of high supply and low demand, and learn why economic downturns can actually lead to record-breaking deals. Tune in to discover how understanding basic economics 101 can give you a major advantage in the competitive world of land acquisition and investing.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Market dynamics can shift on a dime, and understanding the delicate balance of supply and demand is crucial for anyone looking to thrive in land investment. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit unpack the essential laws of supply and demand and how they directly impact the land business, revealing strategies to thrive even when market conditions shift. They delve into a real-world scenario of a penthouse condo pricing discussion and address a listener's question about mailing to zip codes with strong sales history but no current listings. Expect insights into identifying prime buying opportunities during periods of high supply and low demand, and learn why economic downturns can actually lead to record-breaking deals. Tune in to discover how understanding basic economics 101 can give you a major advantage in the competitive world of land acquisition and investing.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/12/16/supply-and-demand-advantage-your-ultimate-guide-to-savvy-land-deals]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gw2Z-WeaP</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/60518882-0adf-41aa-9363-712685c6eec8/swuxnu0z.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bb853a29-bfe4-40d8-9585-f549b222bc62.mp3" length="18165503" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2191</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2191</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Mailers That Get Results: What To Include (And Avoid)</title><itunes:title>Land Mailers That Get Results: What To Include (And Avoid)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the art of creating effective land mailers that get results. They share insider tips on what to include, what to avoid, and how small details can make a big impact. From personalized touches to professional design, they explore the elements that can transform a basic mailer into a response-generating powerhouse. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to fine-tune your approach, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you get your land offers noticed. Plus, they tackle a real-life question from a listener about data discrepancies—something every land investor should understand. Tune in for practical advice you can apply immediately!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the art of creating effective land mailers that get results. They share insider tips on what to include, what to avoid, and how small details can make a big impact. From personalized touches to professional design, they explore the elements that can transform a basic mailer into a response-generating powerhouse. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to fine-tune your approach, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you get your land offers noticed. Plus, they tackle a real-life question from a listener about data discrepancies—something every land investor should understand. Tune in for practical advice you can apply immediately!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/12/09/land-mailers-that-get-results-what-to-include-and-avoid]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ISt8OnKa-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/68edeccd-5a9e-4903-849a-e66db0364e30/e2j4fxbb0.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/068b54a0-523d-4ae9-ac3b-6d35906c7288.mp3" length="22831032" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2190</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2190</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Smart Ways To Use AI In Your Land Biz (Without Losing Your Mind)</title><itunes:title>Smart Ways To Use AI In Your Land Biz (Without Losing Your Mind)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Things get real (and a little funny) as <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(49, 130, 206);">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(49, 130, 206);">Jill DeWit</a> dive into how to actually use AI in your land business today—without letting it script your entire life. In this Back to the Basics episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(49, 130, 206);">The Land Academy Show</a>, they break down why certain deals should never make it past your desk, especially those buried in steep HOA fees and niche communities. Learn how a single Discord post stirred up a valuable conversation on avoiding costly mistakes, filtering your mailers like a pro, and using AI as a smart, practical tool (not your business brain). 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Learn how a single Discord post stirred up a valuable conversation on avoiding costly mistakes, filtering your mailers like a pro, and using AI as a smart, practical tool (not your business brain). 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This isn’t about traditional debt or high-pressure schemes. It’s about tapping into a supportive community where capital is abundant and partners are eager to fund great deals. Jack and Jill break down why there’s more money than amazing deals—making you the essential partner, the simple, non-intimidating way deal partnerships work, how lifting your personal capital barrier can move you from slow, small deals to a private equity-style business model. Stop letting your bank account dictate your success. Hear a true story of a member who turned a $30,000 buy into a $72,000 profit with a partner! Ready to stop missing out on bigger opportunities? 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Hear a true story of a member who turned a $30,000 buy into a $72,000 profit with a partner! Ready to stop missing out on bigger opportunities? 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Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just starting out, this episode is packed with invaluable lessons and a fresh perspective on what it means to truly succeed in real estate.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get ready for a decade of disruptive real estate wisdom! In this special 10-year anniversary episode of the Land Academy Show, hosts&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;pull back the curtain on what it really takes to succeed in land investing. They share candid insights from their recent seminar, dissecting their biggest wins, toughest lessons, and the evolution of Land Academy. 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Whether you are taking calls yourself or training a team, this discussion gives you the exact words, flow, and mindset that make Jill’s calls so effective.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today on The Land Academy Show, join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as Jill shares her updated land-buying script for 2025 and the one powerful question that drives every great deal: “Why are you selling?” They walk through the psychology behind that question, how it reveals a seller’s motivation, and why it sets the tone for trust and transparency. Whether you are taking calls yourself or training a team, this discussion gives you the exact words, flow, and mindset that make Jill’s calls so effective.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/31/jills-updated-land-buying-script-for-2025-why-are-you-selling]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Too_K1Jfl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7e7b7912-3154-4140-9220-99c222edef72/yedgbcz9u.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5c3957f9-b156-48b4-a38f-312bce4b465c.mp3" length="21163278" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2247</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2247</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why We Don’t Negotiate Land And House Deals</title><itunes:title>Why We Don’t Negotiate Land And House Deals</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today on The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit explain why they do not negotiate land or house deals, as well as why this approach actually leads to faster, cleaner closings. 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If you’ve ever second-guessed a property or made a decision “because it felt right,” this episode will help you shift from emotion to evidence—and close more confidently.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forget flipping coins or trusting a hunch? Today on The Land Academy Show, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they break down the difference between data-driven and gut-driven land investing—and why guessing will sink your deals in 2025. They explain how relying on instinct alone can lead to overpaying, missed red flags, and slow deal flow. Through real examples, Steven and Jill show how good data beats good feelings every time, especially in pricing, mailer targeting, and deal vetting. 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On today’s Land Academy Show, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they unearth the silent killers of real estate success: missed follow-ups, chaotic buyer lists, and poor communication. They’ll reveal how these common pitfalls can quietly destroy your deals and how a simple, effective CRM system can transform your approach. Whether you’re just starting out or aggressively scaling, this episode isn’t just a recommendation—it’s a blueprint for consistent closures and reclaiming your time.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is your land deal pipeline looking more like a graveyard than a goldmine? On today’s Land Academy Show, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they unearth the silent killers of real estate success: missed follow-ups, chaotic buyer lists, and poor communication. They’ll reveal how these common pitfalls can quietly destroy your deals and how a simple, effective CRM system can transform your approach. 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Jack and Jill explain why these strategies might seem easier or safer but often lead to slower deal flow, unclear pricing, and wasted time. Drawing from real-world results, they compare neutral marketing with blind offers and show why direct pricing still outperforms guesswork in today’s market. If you’re trying to decide how to approach your next campaign, this episode gives you the clarity to pick the method that actually works.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tired of marketing strategies that promise ease but deliver only headaches?&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;from The Land Academy Show are here to expose the truth about neutral letters and open-ended land offers. Jack and Jill explain why these strategies might seem easier or safer but often lead to slower deal flow, unclear pricing, and wasted time. Drawing from real-world results, they compare neutral marketing with blind offers and show why direct pricing still outperforms guesswork in today’s market. 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Today on The Land Academy Show, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they reveal the truth about adding houses to your land business. They share what works, what doesn’t, and what most investors misunderstand about making the leap into residential deals. From marketing and pricing differences to deal flow and system tweaks, Steven and Jill walk through how to make houses a seamless—and profitable—addition to your existing land investment model. If you’re thinking about expanding but unsure where to start, this episode gives you the honest, practical insights you need.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered if houses are the missing piece in your land investment puzzle? Today on The Land Academy Show, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they reveal the truth about adding houses to your land business. They share what works, what doesn’t, and what most investors misunderstand about making the leap into residential deals. From marketing and pricing differences to deal flow and system tweaks, Steven and Jill walk through how to make houses a seamless—and profitable—addition to your existing land investment model. 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In this episode of The Land Academy Show, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> break down the real-world effectiveness—and legality—of the top outreach methods investors use today. From awkward cold calls and ignored texts to a single strategy that actually works, they cut through the noise to reveal what’s worth your time and what could land you in hot water. 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Today on The Land Academy Show, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they talk about why the end is near for double closing real estate deals. They explain what’s changed in the market, why this once-popular strategy is losing ground, and what smarter alternatives exist in 2025. 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Today on The Land Academy Show, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they talk about the truth behind chasing land note buyers in 2025. They break down what’s changed in the note market, who’s really buying notes today, and why blindly building a buyer list could waste more time than it’s worth. Steven and Jill share what strategies actually work in this environment, when selling notes makes sense—and when it doesn’t—and how to position your deals for the right kind of exit. If you’ve been wondering whether chasing note buyers is still worth it, this episode gives you the honest answer.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/21/the-truth-about-chasing-land-note-buyers-in-2025]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PMgWGxIKc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8f688b8a-48a5-46bf-8cee-cd733cbee867/4mm2ua3o.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fd1c6f37-f1fa-47d5-860d-8b38800065be.mp3" length="22486314" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2239</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2239</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Off-Script Friday With Jack &amp; Jill</title><itunes:title>Off-Script Friday With Jack &amp; Jill</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what happens when Jack and Jill truly go off-script? In this inaugural "Off Script Friday" episode, prepare for a candid conversation that ventures beyond land deals. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle everything from their 16-year journey as business partners and spouses to surprising insights on the future of real estate in 2025. It’s raw, it’s real, and it might just give you a new perspective on partnership and success.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what happens when Jack and Jill truly go off-script? In this inaugural "Off Script Friday" episode, prepare for a candid conversation that ventures beyond land deals. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle everything from their 16-year journey as business partners and spouses to surprising insights on the future of real estate in 2025. It’s raw, it’s real, and it might just give you a new perspective on partnership and success.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/18/off-script-friday-with-jack-and-jill]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iNzuqSvEx</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7d30da67-66d8-49ec-b0ad-04cc00d742d2/mih30je-z.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fd928202-ecf1-4cdd-a28d-192176e1e8f2.mp3" length="17496981" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2238</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2238</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Best Way To Find Off-Market Land Deals In 2025</title><itunes:title>The Best Way To Find Off-Market Land Deals In 2025</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the land investing strategies you've always relied on are no longer enough? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal why the old ways of land investing are gone for 2025 and how to find the best off-market land deals. They dive deep into the critical mindset shift you need to survive and thrive in land investing, explaining why traditional methods are no longer enough, exemplified by a real-world deal review of a tricky Texas property that challenges conventional wisdom. They also emphasize the importance of upping your game in every aspect, from lead generation and deal analysis to pricing and even customer service. This episode isn't just about theory; it's about real-time adaptation and understanding what it truly takes to succeed in today's market. Are you ready to transform your approach?</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the land investing strategies you've always relied on are no longer enough? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal why the old ways of land investing are gone for 2025 and how to find the best off-market land deals. They dive deep into the critical mindset shift you need to survive and thrive in land investing, explaining why traditional methods are no longer enough, exemplified by a real-world deal review of a tricky Texas property that challenges conventional wisdom. They also emphasize the importance of upping your game in every aspect, from lead generation and deal analysis to pricing and even customer service. This episode isn't just about theory; it's about real-time adaptation and understanding what it truly takes to succeed in today's market. Are you ready to transform your approach?</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/17/the-best-way-to-find-off-market-land-deals-in-2025]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_3hc7FIPP</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b1af76a7-a5b4-4cfb-8ab6-37f318e370db/sh81u6jst.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fe3f96b1-c020-4d1c-90b8-5e96f7afc6a1.mp3" length="22909677" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2237</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2237</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Double Closing Land Rarely Works And What&apos;s Better!</title><itunes:title>Why Double Closing Land Rarely Works And What&apos;s Better!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is the "double close" truly the savvy move for land deals you think it is? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> pull back the curtain on why double closing in land deals often leads to frustration, not profit—and reveal their tried-and-true alternative. They'll dismantle common myths about using a buyer's funds, expose the practical and legal traps that derail deals, and show you how to structure transactions with far greater efficiency. If you've ever contemplated a double close to conserve cash or sidestep risk, this episode delivers the unvarnished truth about the math, the pitfalls, and a demonstrably cleaner, more scalable path to closing land deals.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is the "double close" truly the savvy move for land deals you think it is? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> pull back the curtain on why double closing in land deals often leads to frustration, not profit—and reveal their tried-and-true alternative. They'll dismantle common myths about using a buyer's funds, expose the practical and legal traps that derail deals, and show you how to structure transactions with far greater efficiency. If you've ever contemplated a double close to conserve cash or sidestep risk, this episode delivers the unvarnished truth about the math, the pitfalls, and a demonstrably cleaner, more scalable path to closing land deals.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/16/why-double-closing-land-rarely-works-and-whats-better]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PVxohw_uF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/5c6855f7-4d01-4f76-88e7-5ab275e3caf9/dkvjqgqgt.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/25d0ec38-0260-4869-9013-8ea41f213db1.mp3" length="27469566" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2236</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2236</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Can You Really Flip Land With No Money Down</title><itunes:title>Can You Really Flip Land With No Money Down</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Dreaming of land deals but short on cash? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> confront one of the most persistent myths in land investing: Can you truly flip land with no money down? Tapping into their extensive experience and the daily flow of deals they witness, Steven and Jill reveal the strategies involving funding, partnerships, and astute deal structuring that can make this a reality—even for absolute beginners. They'll also dissect what's really more critical than money, expose common missteps in pursuing no-money-down opportunities, and teach you how to cultivate the trust and deliver the results that naturally attract capital. If the belief that you need a hefty bankroll has held you back, prepare for a paradigm shift.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dreaming of land deals but short on cash? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> confront one of the most persistent myths in land investing: Can you truly flip land with no money down? Tapping into their extensive experience and the daily flow of deals they witness, Steven and Jill reveal the strategies involving funding, partnerships, and astute deal structuring that can make this a reality—even for absolute beginners. They'll also dissect what's really more critical than money, expose common missteps in pursuing no-money-down opportunities, and teach you how to cultivate the trust and deliver the results that naturally attract capital. If the belief that you need a hefty bankroll has held you back, prepare for a paradigm shift.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/15/can-you-really-flip-land-with-no-money-down]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">AM1EZwacv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/42686f2e-df8d-4fe0-8702-30ed5069a8a8/k2c93l5gp.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c97e8161-79fc-4307-a691-398da342e2be.mp3" length="16084877" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2235</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2235</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Adding Houses To Your Land Investment Operation In 2025</title><itunes:title>Adding Houses To Your Land Investment Operation In 2025</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ready to unlock a whole new level of opportunity in your land business? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they reveal why 2025 is the perfect time to expand your land empire to include houses. They’ll share how your existing skills are perfectly transferable, what subtle adjustments your operation needs, and why this strategic shift makes more sense now than ever before. Steven and Jill will guide you through everything from optimizing your systems and mailers to refining your mindset and maximizing your margins, all designed to help you seamlessly integrate residential deals without sacrificing your focus—or your freedom. If you’re looking to scale smarter this year and seize more opportunities with less competition, this episode is your essential blueprint.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ready to unlock a whole new level of opportunity in your land business? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;as they reveal why 2025 is the perfect time to expand your land empire to include houses. They’ll share how your existing skills are perfectly transferable, what subtle adjustments your operation needs, and why this strategic shift makes more sense now than ever before. Steven and Jill will guide you through everything from optimizing your systems and mailers to refining your mindset and maximizing your margins, all designed to help you seamlessly integrate residential deals without sacrificing your focus—or your freedom. If you’re looking to scale smarter this year and seize more opportunities with less competition, this episode is your essential blueprint.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/14/adding-houses-to-your-land-investment-operation-in-2025]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Hq-E_TDWE</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/71f4da9d-d564-490c-83f8-8c6b8f7bd383/arog6unsa.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dde23a78-7edb-48bf-bcd7-d55a11242f06.mp3" length="19829239" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2234</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2234</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Not To Shame Yourself For Under Performance In Your Business</title><itunes:title>How Not To Shame Yourself For Under Performance In Your Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever felt like you're just not measuring up in your business? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as Jill vulnerably unpacks the universal entrepreneurial struggle of feeling like you're falling short—and how to overcome it without shame. This episode explores the emotional reality behind entrepreneurship: the doubts, the comparisons, the pressure to always do more. Jill opens up about her own experiences leading and exiting a company, and how she learned to separate her personal identity from performance metrics. If you’ve ever felt like you “should be further along,” this episode will help you breathe easier, find perspective, and reconnect with the bigger picture behind why you started.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever felt like you're just not measuring up in your business? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as Jill vulnerably unpacks the universal entrepreneurial struggle of feeling like you're falling short—and how to overcome it without shame. This episode explores the emotional reality behind entrepreneurship: the doubts, the comparisons, the pressure to always do more. Jill opens up about her own experiences leading and exiting a company, and how she learned to separate her personal identity from performance metrics. If you’ve ever felt like you “should be further along,” this episode will help you breathe easier, find perspective, and reconnect with the bigger picture behind why you started.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/11/how-not-to-shame-yourself-for-under-performance-in-your-business]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tBwEkQtmv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/64bb7110-9047-41ad-8e88-a2e527298cc1/mfz0fuuqb.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/88ac7031-78ee-45f6-b032-a531102f1c17.mp3" length="16716735" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2233</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2233</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Investor Career Secrets With Longtime Successful Land Academy Member Michelle Bridger</title><itunes:title>Investor Career Secrets With Longtime Successful Land Academy Member Michelle Bridger</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if land deals could show you what freedom in business really feels like? Today on The Land Academy Show, join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they uncover investor career secrets in a powerful interview with&nbsp;<a href="https://bridgerlandcompany.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michelle Bridger</a>, a seasoned entrepreneur who discovered how land investing offered a glimpse into a simpler, more aligned way of doing business. Michelle opens up about leading a high-pressure agency, hitting a breaking point, and making bold decisions to restructure her team—and her life. Together, they dive into themes of clarity, delegation, shifting leadership identity, and what happens when you stop tolerating “busy” and start intentionally designing your work around your life. If you’re a business owner ready to work less, live more, and finally build a business that supports you, this episode is a must-listen.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if land deals could show you what freedom in business really feels like? Today on The Land Academy Show, join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they uncover investor career secrets in a powerful interview with&nbsp;<a href="https://bridgerlandcompany.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michelle Bridger</a>, a seasoned entrepreneur who discovered how land investing offered a glimpse into a simpler, more aligned way of doing business. Michelle opens up about leading a high-pressure agency, hitting a breaking point, and making bold decisions to restructure her team—and her life. Together, they dive into themes of clarity, delegation, shifting leadership identity, and what happens when you stop tolerating “busy” and start intentionally designing your work around your life. If you’re a business owner ready to work less, live more, and finally build a business that supports you, this episode is a must-listen.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/10/investor-career-secrets-with-longtime-successful-land-academy-member-michelle-bridger]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ywaofRHM6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2d0e2cee-4154-49be-87d5-00da59032a1f/jl8jwvkgq.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e0d30a8e-0248-44f2-8ce7-2dd0a347dab0.mp3" length="29688534" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2232</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2232</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why NEED Drives Real Estate Decisions, Not WANT And Why it&apos;s Predictable</title><itunes:title>Why NEED Drives Real Estate Decisions, Not WANT And Why it&apos;s Predictable</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What really makes a landowner say yes? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;explore the psychology behind seller motivation—and why identifying true need is the secret to consistent land investing success. They reveal how seasoned investors can spot ready-to-act sellers, often before the sellers even realize it themselves, and why this pattern is more predictable than you’d think. You’ll hear real-world examples, Jill’s high-volume call strategies, and how emotional detachment from property signals opportunity. If you’re ready to stop chasing deals and start attracting them, this episode is for you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What really makes a landowner say yes? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;explore the psychology behind seller motivation—and why identifying true need is the secret to consistent land investing success. They reveal how seasoned investors can spot ready-to-act sellers, often before the sellers even realize it themselves, and why this pattern is more predictable than you’d think. You’ll hear real-world examples, Jill’s high-volume call strategies, and how emotional detachment from property signals opportunity. If you’re ready to stop chasing deals and start attracting them, this episode is for you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/09/why-need-drives-real-estate-decisions-not-want-and-why-its-predictable]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">CMyrMgX-L</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/684de93a-da76-4f87-be7f-e6d7713b949f/jbhepdyul.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ebf2a53c-ecc0-41dd-8bf6-b89e09940256.mp3" length="15507549" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2231</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2231</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What A Successful Land Investment Month Looks Like</title><itunes:title>What A Successful Land Investment Month Looks Like</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the secret to land investing success isn’t flashy flips—but boring consistency? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they break down what actually makes a land investing month successful. It’s not about big sales numbers—it’s about daily discipline: sending out mail, reviewing deals, and making smart acquisition decisions. They share the exact activities that keep the pipeline full and profits growing, and explain why buying undervalued property is still the key difference between full-time investors and hobbyists. If you’ve ever wondered what to focus on to build real wealth and freedom through land, this episode lays it out step by step.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the secret to land investing success isn’t flashy flips—but boring consistency? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they break down what actually makes a land investing month successful. It’s not about big sales numbers—it’s about daily discipline: sending out mail, reviewing deals, and making smart acquisition decisions. They share the exact activities that keep the pipeline full and profits growing, and explain why buying undervalued property is still the key difference between full-time investors and hobbyists. If you’ve ever wondered what to focus on to build real wealth and freedom through land, this episode lays it out step by step.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/08/what-a-successful-land-investment-month-looks-like]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0sbM9CNS2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1212b31f-d34f-475e-a5b7-024af9205e98/pfvhi8uy4.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9feec82f-9f45-4cd3-bffd-2ecabb2ef7d4.mp3" length="17038130" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2230</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2230</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Find Land Sellers Who NEED To Sell Their Land Regardless Of Price</title><itunes:title>How To Find Land Sellers Who NEED To Sell Their Land Regardless Of Price</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the best land deals come from sellers who have to sell—and don’t even know it yet? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal how to identify sellers driven by true need—regardless of price. This episode breaks down the psychology of sellers, separating those emotionally tied to their land from those ready to walk away. Steven and Jill share their contrasting call-screening strategies, showing how casting a wide net and asking the right questions can uncover golden deals. You'll also hear insights from Jill’s latest advanced training and a candid discussion about whether sales skills are learned or innate. Whether you're growing your land business or just getting started, this episode will reshape how you think about deal flow—and help you zero in on the sellers that actually matter.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the best land deals come from sellers who have to sell—and don’t even know it yet? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal how to identify sellers driven by true need—regardless of price. This episode breaks down the psychology of sellers, separating those emotionally tied to their land from those ready to walk away. Steven and Jill share their contrasting call-screening strategies, showing how casting a wide net and asking the right questions can uncover golden deals. You'll also hear insights from Jill’s latest advanced training and a candid discussion about whether sales skills are learned or innate. Whether you're growing your land business or just getting started, this episode will reshape how you think about deal flow—and help you zero in on the sellers that actually matter.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/07/how-to-find-land-sellers-who-need-to-sell-their-land-regardless-of-price]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gWS12BEc2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/86de5ddb-9260-4b06-9b65-e21f77f59a7d/ahlfehxcx.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f42ef925-075f-44f9-8429-2926b3d68c94.mp3" length="16749216" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2229</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2229</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Mindset Shift 2025: Stop Buying Land The Old Way &amp; Start Thriving</title><itunes:title>Mindset Shift 2025: Stop Buying Land The Old Way &amp; Start Thriving</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if everything you thought you knew about land investing was about to change? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal why the old ways of land investing are dead for 2025. They dive deep into the critical mindset shift you need to survive and thrive in land investing, explaining why traditional methods are no longer enough, exemplified by a real-world deal review of a tricky Texas property that challenges conventional wisdom. They also emphasize the importance of upping your game in every aspect, from lead generation and deal analysis to pricing and even customer service. This episode isn't just about theory; it's about real-time adaptation and understanding what it truly takes to succeed in today's market. Are you ready to transform your approach?</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if everything you thought you knew about land investing was about to change? Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they reveal why the old ways of land investing are dead for 2025. They dive deep into the critical mindset shift you need to survive and thrive in land investing, explaining why traditional methods are no longer enough, exemplified by a real-world deal review of a tricky Texas property that challenges conventional wisdom. They also emphasize the importance of upping your game in every aspect, from lead generation and deal analysis to pricing and even customer service. This episode isn't just about theory; it's about real-time adaptation and understanding what it truly takes to succeed in today's market. Are you ready to transform your approach?</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/04/mindset-shift-2025-stop-buying-land-the-old-way-and-start-thriving]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">oIj3l0Dy-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a53cd201-75f0-4a3d-9665-501fef7128ca/v6lhwjtkx.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5267178e-39f8-4349-b124-6cebb3027e04.mp3" length="20408477" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2228</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2228</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Investor Reset: Your 2025 Guide To Smarter Mailers &amp; Bigger Deals</title><itunes:title>Land Investor Reset: Your 2025 Guide To Smarter Mailers &amp; Bigger Deals</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Got that nagging feeling your land investing strategy needs a shake-up? You're probably right. Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle the current shifts in the land investing market head-on. If you've been feeling the "dips" and wondering what to do, this episode is your wake-up call! Jack and Jill reveal why old strategies won't cut it anymore and how to adjust your approach to mailers and market selection for maximum profit. Plus, get ready for a fresh perspective on why thinking bigger with your deal size isn't just about more money—it often means easier transactions! Tune in to discover how to thrive in 2025's evolving landscape and turn these market changes into your biggest opportunities yet.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got that nagging feeling your land investing strategy needs a shake-up? You're probably right. Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle the current shifts in the land investing market head-on. If you've been feeling the "dips" and wondering what to do, this episode is your wake-up call! Jack and Jill reveal why old strategies won't cut it anymore and how to adjust your approach to mailers and market selection for maximum profit. Plus, get ready for a fresh perspective on why thinking bigger with your deal size isn't just about more money—it often means easier transactions! Tune in to discover how to thrive in 2025's evolving landscape and turn these market changes into your biggest opportunities yet.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/03/land-investor-reset-your-2025-guide-to-smarter-mailers-bigger-deals]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aws9QXF0m</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/fb944260-6c19-4524-b3e2-5086da2038e3/ygbuqy-b.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b0a7bf3c-d379-42d1-9056-b99a3fd0b24a.mp3" length="29248600" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2227</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2227</podcast:episode></item><item><title>From Stale To Scalable: Your 2025 Land Investing Strategy</title><itunes:title>From Stale To Scalable: Your 2025 Land Investing Strategy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you felt the shift in the land investing market? You're not alone. The "party" of easy, high-profit flips from 2020 is officially over, and it's time to adapt. Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they dive into what's changing, what they've done to stay ahead, and why you need to be thinking differently about your mailers and market moves. They'll break down what a successful 2025 land investing strategy looks like—how to navigate these new waters, avoid common pitfalls, and leverage your past successes to find new opportunities. Plus, hear a real-world solution to a common land investing challenge: securing an easement for a landlocked property. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just starting out, this episode is packed with the information and inspiration you need to thrive in today’s evolving real estate landscape.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you felt the shift in the land investing market? You're not alone. The "party" of easy, high-profit flips from 2020 is officially over, and it's time to adapt. Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, join&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> as they dive into what's changing, what they've done to stay ahead, and why you need to be thinking differently about your mailers and market moves. They'll break down what a successful 2025 land investing strategy looks like—how to navigate these new waters, avoid common pitfalls, and leverage your past successes to find new opportunities. Plus, hear a real-world solution to a common land investing challenge: securing an easement for a landlocked property. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just starting out, this episode is packed with the information and inspiration you need to thrive in today’s evolving real estate landscape.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/02/from-stale-to-scalable-your-2025-land-investing-strategy]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">MT3OdF9_Z</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/5cba9124-2054-4850-9bcb-66823d2e787b/oo2gdhsm.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/33e09868-9615-4daa-b79e-6b6155ef8d2a.mp3" length="22605344" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2226</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2226</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The 2025 Land Playbook: Fix Your Mail, Market, &amp; Mindset</title><itunes:title>The 2025 Land Playbook: Fix Your Mail, Market, &amp; Mindset</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is Your 2024 land playbook broken? 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Tune in to fix your playbook and prepare for a profitable 2025!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Your 2024 land playbook broken? Fix It for 2025. Are your current land investment strategies feeling stale? You’re not alone. The market has shifted, and what worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;reveal the essential shifts needed to thrive in 2025. Get their updated strategies for smarter mailers, better market navigation, and a crucial mindset reset. They share how they’ve adapted their own successful approach, from tackling tricky property quirks to embracing relationship-based deals in an AI-driven world. Don’t let outdated methods limit your success. Tune in to fix your playbook and prepare for a profitable 2025!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/07/01/the-2025-land-playbook-fix-your-mail-market-mindset]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">H9cvpLQGe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/963ff110-3734-4b8f-a4bd-06395aaf377d/1ps2co05k.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d051e1fa-bdb0-4c6c-9cba-b0f28cae3f52.mp3" length="25564133" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2225</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2225</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The 2025 Investor Strategies: Smarter Mailers, Markets, &amp; Mindset</title><itunes:title>The 2025 Investor Strategies: Smarter Mailers, Markets, &amp; Mindset</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is your land investment strategy feeling a bit stuck? We’re halfway through 2025, and if some things are working and others aren’t, you’re not alone. This week on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;are tearing up the old playbook and rethinking everything. Get ready for their 2025 strategies for smarter mailers, better markets, and—most importantly—your mindset. Because the old ways? They just don’t cut it anymore. Join Jack and Jill as they dive into what’s changing, why it’s happening, and how to turn chaos into massive profit. This is the investor reset you didn’t know you needed.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is your land investment strategy feeling a bit stuck? We’re halfway through 2025, and if some things are working and others aren’t, you’re not alone. This week on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;are tearing up the old playbook and rethinking everything. Get ready for their 2025 strategies for smarter mailers, better markets, and—most importantly—your mindset. Because the old ways? They just don’t cut it anymore. Join Jack and Jill as they dive into what’s changing, why it’s happening, and how to turn chaos into massive profit. This is the investor reset you didn’t know you needed.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/30/the-2025-investor-strategies-smarter-mailers-markets-and-mindset]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wRzklaRWh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/962d5312-89b9-41ed-8216-64c9cb51708e/itq6aoe6i.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/af0f7af0-6de8-4fb3-a11b-41c3c9f545b1.mp3" length="25222742" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2224</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2224</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Ditch The 9–5: Why Land Investing Is The Smartest Way To Quit Your Job</title><itunes:title>Ditch The 9–5: Why Land Investing Is The Smartest Way To Quit Your Job</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Thinking of quitting your job? What if we told you there’s a faster, leaner way to escape the 9-to-5 grind—and it doesn’t involve franchises, startups, or massive risk? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;reveal why land investing is the most efficient path to financial freedom. You’ll hear real-world deal examples, insider tips, and the mindset shift you need to build a business with low overhead, high upside, and full ownership of your time. If you’re ready to stop working for someone else and start building your future—this is the episode for you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thinking of quitting your job? 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From decoding confusing data sets to busting myths about who actually sells land (yes, even churches), you’ll hear real conversations straight from their Discord community, —plus the three mindset shifts you must make to build a profitable land business. This isn’t fluff. It’s the real talk you need about the work, the learning curve, and the wins that come from sticking with it.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/26/beginner-land-investor-survival-guide-what-to-expect-and-what-no-one-tells-you]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TyWVL-4wD</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4c58e450-c049-42dc-880e-dbad1ff60794/xuhkcixnt.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/71d931df-35a0-4984-9d60-ecb3ee7e7242.mp3" length="23551616" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2222</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2222</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Top States To Avoid For Land Deals (And Smarter Places To Mail)</title><itunes:title>Top States To Avoid For Land Deals (And Smarter Places To Mail)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the place you're sending your mailers is the reason you're not closing deals? In this episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> break down the worst states for land investing—and why some markets just won’t make you money, no matter how great your strategy is. From red-yellow-green tests to the quirks of regional real estate data, you'll learn how to spot land investment dead zones—and where the hidden gems are instead. Want a lightning round of 'buy or avoid' by state? That’s coming, too. If you want to stop wasting time and start sending smarter mail, this episode is your shortcut. Let’s play the land investing geography game—Land Academy style.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the place you're sending your mailers is the reason you're not closing deals? In this episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> break down the worst states for land investing—and why some markets just won’t make you money, no matter how great your strategy is. From red-yellow-green tests to the quirks of regional real estate data, you'll learn how to spot land investment dead zones—and where the hidden gems are instead. Want a lightning round of 'buy or avoid' by state? That’s coming, too. If you want to stop wasting time and start sending smarter mail, this episode is your shortcut. Let’s play the land investing geography game—Land Academy style.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/25/top-states-to-avoid-for-land-deals-and-smarter-places-to-mail]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2poALHapG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/78ad844a-aa20-4d88-a9d9-0a694060597e/nndgtcqux.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/efc0a95d-c593-4fb7-88be-11bab946b5ce.mp3" length="20853067" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2221</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2221</podcast:episode></item><item><title>From Zero To $1M: The 24-Month Land Millionaire Roadmap</title><itunes:title>From Zero To $1M: The 24-Month Land Millionaire Roadmap</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered what it really takes to make a million dollars in land investment? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;pull back the curtain on their legendary 24-Month Millionaire Land Investor Program, deconstructed piece by piece. This isn’t just theory; it’s a proven roadmap forged over years of experience. From mastering the education process and navigating your very first mailers, to building partnerships and consistently closing deals, they’ll lay out the exact steps to go from zero to millionaire in just two years. Hear why patience is your superpower in months one through ten, and how a steady flow of mailers can build a compounding wealth machine. If you’re serious about transforming your financial future with land, this is the episode you can’t afford to miss. Tune in and discover your personal path to becoming a land millionaire!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered what it really takes to make a million dollars in land investment? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;pull back the curtain on their legendary 24-Month Millionaire Land Investor Program, deconstructed piece by piece. This isn’t just theory; it’s a proven roadmap forged over years of experience. From mastering the education process and navigating your very first mailers, to building partnerships and consistently closing deals, they’ll lay out the exact steps to go from zero to millionaire in just two years. Hear why patience is your superpower in months one through ten, and how a steady flow of mailers can build a compounding wealth machine. If you’re serious about transforming your financial future with land, this is the episode you can’t afford to miss. Tune in and discover your personal path to becoming a land millionaire!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/24/from-zero-to-1m-the-24-month-land-millionaire-roadmap]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kr30L-2Yd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9771fc85-dd93-41c0-a4e6-5b43e3228893/arcjnd4jj.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3b157c95-9f9b-46d5-a448-c216519eee7c.mp3" length="29497716" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2220</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2220</podcast:episode></item><item><title>5 Land Investment Mistakes That Could Cost You Big (And How to Avoid Them)</title><itunes:title>5 Land Investment Mistakes That Could Cost You Big (And How to Avoid Them)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tired of tripping over common pitfalls in land investment? Join us today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;unearth the top 5 land investment mistakes and, more importantly, how to avoid them. They’ve been there, made the mistakes (in land, and maybe a few other areas of life!), and are ready to share their hard-won wisdom. From the critical importance of sticking to a schedule and actually doing your due diligence, to the dangers of analysis paralysis and trusting third parties, this episode is packed with practical advice. Don’t miss out on the insights that can save you time, money, and headaches.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tired of tripping over common pitfalls in land investment? Join us today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;unearth the top 5 land investment mistakes and, more importantly, how to avoid them. They’ve been there, made the mistakes (in land, and maybe a few other areas of life!), and are ready to share their hard-won wisdom. From the critical importance of sticking to a schedule and actually doing your due diligence, to the dangers of analysis paralysis and trusting third parties, this episode is packed with practical advice. Don’t miss out on the insights that can save you time, money, and headaches.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/23/5-land-investment-mistakes-that-could-cost-you-big-and-how-to-avoid-them]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RwbwyCgXW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0b3243d1-0e05-4761-b352-656460dd160b/kcfg6tefs.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d5e09b36-32e0-4b6e-b7f6-fe8e04ff3b9f.mp3" length="23646109" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2219</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2219</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Investing Without Persuasion: The Smarter Way To Buy &amp; Sell</title><itunes:title>Land Investing Without Persuasion: The Smarter Way To Buy &amp; Sell</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you think persuasion is key to buying and selling land? What if we told you it doesn’t have to be? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;challenge the traditional view of sales. They share exactly how their system works so you’re never “talking anyone into anything.” Discover why effective mailing lists and patience trump aggressive sales tactics, and find out how quickly you can expect calls from your mailers. Tune in to learn how to let the deals come to you!</p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you think persuasion is key to buying and selling land? What if we told you it doesn’t have to be? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;challenge the traditional view of sales. They share exactly how their system works so you’re never “talking anyone into anything.” Discover why effective mailing lists and patience trump aggressive sales tactics, and find out how quickly you can expect calls from your mailers. Tune in to learn how to let the deals come to you!</p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/20/land-investing-without-persuasion-the-smarter-way-to-buy-sell]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Ag0n_s3nY</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/6ceff554-c9c2-4a4d-801c-7a84ebb96a85/gqzd-cckz.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/816b5dca-b509-4f8c-8086-cc79b97508f4.mp3" length="14295321" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2218</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2218</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Fund Land Deals Without Your Own Money (The Easiest Way)</title><itunes:title>How To Fund Land Deals Without Your Own Money (The Easiest Way)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you dreaming of scaling your land business, but feel held back by a lack of capital? What if you could fund your deals without touching your own money? Sit back and tune in as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;reveal the easiest way to make that a reality here on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>. They share how today’s investors have access to resources that simply didn’t exist in the past, allowing you to seize multiple great deals without the old “buy-sell-wait” cycle. Plus, they dive into a crucial question about analyzing single-family residential markets and discuss why finding a “smoking deal” is truly all you need to unlock unlimited funding.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you dreaming of scaling your land business, but feel held back by a lack of capital? What if you could fund your deals without touching your own money? Sit back and tune in as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;reveal the easiest way to make that a reality here on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>. They share how today’s investors have access to resources that simply didn’t exist in the past, allowing you to seize multiple great deals without the old “buy-sell-wait” cycle. Plus, they dive into a crucial question about analyzing single-family residential markets and discuss why finding a “smoking deal” is truly all you need to unlock unlimited funding.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/19/how-to-fund-land-deals-without-your-own-money-the-easiest-way]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">332D6_sIG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/806ec72f-db11-4537-a4fe-fa86fbf74b2d/5iwfl8pkm.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/11b9301f-4ef3-4ca8-8ac0-60b50b251313.mp3" length="19492622" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2217</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2217</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Rural Land Flipping In 2025: Still A Smart Move?</title><itunes:title>Rural Land Flipping In 2025: Still A Smart Move?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is flipping rural land a smart move in 2025? Some might say, “When isn’t it?” Today on the&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;tackle that timeless question head-on. They share insights from years of experience, discuss how market cycles play a role, and reveal why holding out for the right deal is more crucial than ever. Plus, stick around for a hilarious detour about motels, fancy hotels, and why “Super 8” might just be our dream destination. You won’t want to miss it!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is flipping rural land a smart move in 2025? Some might say, “When isn’t it?” Today on the&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;tackle that timeless question head-on. They share insights from years of experience, discuss how market cycles play a role, and reveal why holding out for the right deal is more crucial than ever. Plus, stick around for a hilarious detour about motels, fancy hotels, and why “Super 8” might just be our dream destination. You won’t want to miss it!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/18/rural-land-flipping-in-2025-still-a-smart-move]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TJ3QnTOXU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/efe22768-54ab-4038-b79b-d12aa625b235/ftcudtwfq.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/241b6495-eb33-4a09-b4c0-1b251a61ec06.mp3" length="17963866" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2216</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2216</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Build To Last: How Community Ensures Longevity In Your Land Business</title><itunes:title>Build To Last: How Community Ensures Longevity In Your Land Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What’s the real reason some investors thrive year after year, while others quietly fade away? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;peel back the curtain on what they believe is the ultimate X-factor in building a sustainable, successful land business—and it’s not a secret software or sales tactic – it’s community. From flying solo with just a notepad and one helpful “Debbie,” to building a thriving support network for Land Academy members, Jill shares the power of having people to call when things get tough. Plus, they dig into the right (and wrong) ways to use social media, and how authenticity can boost your credibility and your sales.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What’s the real reason some investors thrive year after year, while others quietly fade away? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;peel back the curtain on what they believe is the ultimate X-factor in building a sustainable, successful land business—and it’s not a secret software or sales tactic – it’s community. From flying solo with just a notepad and one helpful “Debbie,” to building a thriving support network for Land Academy members, Jill shares the power of having people to call when things get tough. Plus, they dig into the right (and wrong) ways to use social media, and how authenticity can boost your credibility and your sales.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/17/build-to-last-how-community-ensures-longevity-in-your-land-business]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Wl5HNWaYE</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/472ac043-ffe0-42ac-953d-3f5ea1943ab7/sb3gcadzi.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/38ad027a-439a-4a59-acd6-22ae9fbfbce9.mp3" length="27265140" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2215</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2215</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Master The Land Market: How Understanding Cycles Prevents Costly Mistakes</title><itunes:title>Master The Land Market: How Understanding Cycles Prevents Costly Mistakes</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Remember 2008? The real estate market took a nosedive, and many investors lost big. What if you had a roadmap to not just survive, but thrive, through those kinds of turbulent times? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the often-overlooked, yet critically important, four land market cycles. You’ll discover how understanding these cycles can be your ultimate defense against market downturns, helping you act accordingly and even profit when others are panicking. Get ready to learn how to avoid a crash-and-burn scenario and turn market predictability into your superpower.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember 2008? The real estate market took a nosedive, and many investors lost big. What if you had a roadmap to not just survive, but thrive, through those kinds of turbulent times? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the often-overlooked, yet critically important, four land market cycles. You’ll discover how understanding these cycles can be your ultimate defense against market downturns, helping you act accordingly and even profit when others are panicking. Get ready to learn how to avoid a crash-and-burn scenario and turn market predictability into your superpower.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/16/master-the-land-market-how-understanding-cycles-prevents-costly-mistakes]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">NTtQireoK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/092c69c3-67c2-4ef7-ad45-5989d1b12c89/8stlwm5hw.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5c4147a3-cac7-49d7-bb77-53d3682aeb09.mp3" length="19914745" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2214</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2214</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Build Your Land Business Without Burnout</title><itunes:title>Build Your Land Business Without Burnout</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;pull back the curtain on what it really takes to scale your land business without losing your mind. They share real-world strategies on avoiding burnout, knowing your limits, and automating wisely—plus, the surprising way AI is changing how we connect with customers. From managing call scripts with PATLive to venting about picky eaters and grocery shopping burnout, this one’s full of relatable moments and powerful takeaways to help you grow a land business that doesn’t consume your life. Tune in and learn how to build smarter, not harder.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;pull back the curtain on what it really takes to scale your land business without losing your mind. They share real-world strategies on avoiding burnout, knowing your limits, and automating wisely—plus, the surprising way AI is changing how we connect with customers. From managing call scripts with PATLive to venting about picky eaters and grocery shopping burnout, this one’s full of relatable moments and powerful takeaways to help you grow a land business that doesn’t consume your life. Tune in and learn how to build smarter, not harder.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/13/build-your-land-business-without-burnout]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">58FmQPQB2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/20dc19a5-f04c-414c-9450-0d5854228419/ybyke5hys.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2fd0bd7d-1dde-4e25-a3e0-d70fa34ce3aa.mp3" length="25759677" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2213</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2213</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Building A Land Investing Business That Survives Any Market</title><itunes:title>Building A Land Investing Business That Survives Any Market</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What does it take to build a land business that survives any market? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;get real about navigating downturns, bouncing back after setbacks, and why some gray hairs tell the best stories. From surviving two major crashes to explaining the ‘rule of quarters’ for profitable deals, this episode delivers tactical insight and unfiltered wisdom—plus a laugh or two about Neiman Marcus and classic cars. If you’re serious about lasting success in land investing, this is your blueprint. Listen in and learn why consistency, humility, and flexibility are the keys to thriving—no matter what the market throws your way.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does it take to build a land business that survives any market? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;get real about navigating downturns, bouncing back after setbacks, and why some gray hairs tell the best stories. From surviving two major crashes to explaining the ‘rule of quarters’ for profitable deals, this episode delivers tactical insight and unfiltered wisdom—plus a laugh or two about Neiman Marcus and classic cars. If you’re serious about lasting success in land investing, this is your blueprint. Listen in and learn why consistency, humility, and flexibility are the keys to thriving—no matter what the market throws your way.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/12/building-a-land-investing-business-that-survives-any-market]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">DQuvHzt3i</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a922eea0-4fb0-42c9-8672-d9f60a96e7e3/l9foggllt.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a02944bf-3520-4e6c-92b7-5a8aeb6bc168.mp3" length="23600803" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2212</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2212</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Rejected Offers Can Turn Into Gold With A Little Follow-Up</title><itunes:title>Why Rejected Offers Can Turn Into Gold With A Little Follow-Up</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Think a “no” means the deal is dead? Think again. In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive deep into one of the most overlooked — but incredibly powerful — tools in your land investing arsenal: follow-up. They reveal how a simple call-back or check-in can transform a flat-out rejection into a profitable land deal — especially in today’s market, where sellers are more skeptical and informed than ever. With insights from over 16 years of investing experience and thousands of deals, you’ll hear why persistence, timing, and trust are the new keys to closing. Plus, they tackle a smart question from the Land Academy community on conflicting real estate data sources (Zillow vs. Realtor.com) and share tips on navigating them like a pro. If you’ve ever walked away from a lead too soon, this episode will change your game.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think a “no” means the deal is dead? Think again. In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive deep into one of the most overlooked — but incredibly powerful — tools in your land investing arsenal: follow-up. They reveal how a simple call-back or check-in can transform a flat-out rejection into a profitable land deal — especially in today’s market, where sellers are more skeptical and informed than ever. With insights from over 16 years of investing experience and thousands of deals, you’ll hear why persistence, timing, and trust are the new keys to closing. Plus, they tackle a smart question from the Land Academy community on conflicting real estate data sources (Zillow vs. Realtor.com) and share tips on navigating them like a pro. If you’ve ever walked away from a lead too soon, this episode will change your game.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/11/why-rejected-offers-can-turn-into-gold-with-a-little-follow-up]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ImpgN9VR2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9e9f1084-eb52-4b6a-ac03-b23998c809c1/qgl0oyb5y.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bde5fc9e-a93f-44a0-9a04-f1d1f5d2a771.mp3" length="25033388" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2211</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2211</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The One Thing That Determines Your Land Investing Success</title><itunes:title>The One Thing That Determines Your Land Investing Success</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what separates thriving land investors from those who give up too soon? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;reveal the one thing — or maybe the one word — that can make or break your success in land investing. They kick things off with a playful showdown of who can distill it all into a single word (spoiler: they both can, and it might be the same one), then dive deep into mindset, motivation, and what it really takes to succeed in this business. From turning rejected offers into profitable deals to building a business that withstands any market, this episode is full of real talk, laughs, and invaluable insights. If you’re serious about land investing — or just curious what “drive” and “you” have in common — this is the episode you can’t afford to miss.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what separates thriving land investors from those who give up too soon? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;reveal the one thing — or maybe the one word — that can make or break your success in land investing. They kick things off with a playful showdown of who can distill it all into a single word (spoiler: they both can, and it might be the same one), then dive deep into mindset, motivation, and what it really takes to succeed in this business. From turning rejected offers into profitable deals to building a business that withstands any market, this episode is full of real talk, laughs, and invaluable insights. If you’re serious about land investing — or just curious what “drive” and “you” have in common — this is the episode you can’t afford to miss.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/10/the-one-thing-that-determines-your-land-investing-success]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">KMXicgPCl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d532ba46-f7ec-4d63-8455-e2aef0a2cce3/fehrz6ldw.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c0338302-753d-4232-83d1-7a7c98fe85de.mp3" length="20813385" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2210</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2210</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Biggest Regrets From Land Investors Who Quit Too Soon</title><itunes:title>The Biggest Regrets From Land Investors Who Quit Too Soon</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what separates successful land investors from the ones who quietly walk away? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dig into the most common — and often painful — regrets shared by people who gave up on land investing too early. From motivation struggles to letting life get in the way, they share real stories from the Land Academy community, including the ones who came back (sometimes three times!) and finally made it work. No techy mailer talk today — just honest, sometimes funny, and eye-opening insight into what not to do if you want to build real success. Tune in to hear what people wish they had done differently and how you can avoid making the same mistakes.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what separates successful land investors from the ones who quietly walk away? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dig into the most common — and often painful — regrets shared by people who gave up on land investing too early. From motivation struggles to letting life get in the way, they share real stories from the Land Academy community, including the ones who came back (sometimes three times!) and finally made it work. No techy mailer talk today — just honest, sometimes funny, and eye-opening insight into what not to do if you want to build real success. Tune in to hear what people wish they had done differently and how you can avoid making the same mistakes.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/09/the-biggest-regrets-from-land-investors-who-quit-too-soon]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HjdvgxxhP</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/947686b4-63cc-4786-85c5-9eab33c95b13/doxtfkbjy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4dc2c0ab-6ff6-494e-a782-5e5e75aa9469.mp3" length="30412399" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2209</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2209</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Revisiting The “Why” Behind Your Land Biz — From Personal Stories To Lost Parcels</title><itunes:title>Revisiting The “Why” Behind Your Land Biz — From Personal Stories To Lost Parcels</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Why are you doing what you’re doing? Is it really about land… or something deeper? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;get real about revisiting the “why” behind your land business—from personal reflections (including Jack’s unexpected obsession with plaid) to the hilarious and heartfelt moments that make their dynamic so compelling. And just when you think it’s all philosophy and flannel, they dive into an unforgettable story: a mysterious 12-acre parcel in Virginia with a deed written before 1871, referencing black walnut trees and Civil War-era chaos. No boundaries, no map—just one giant real estate puzzle. Whether you’re here to laugh, learn, or locate lost land, this episode has it all. Get ready for plaid, purpose, and parcels that disappear into the woods and dare you to follow.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why are you doing what you’re doing? Is it really about land… or something deeper? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;get real about revisiting the “why” behind your land business—from personal reflections (including Jack’s unexpected obsession with plaid) to the hilarious and heartfelt moments that make their dynamic so compelling. And just when you think it’s all philosophy and flannel, they dive into an unforgettable story: a mysterious 12-acre parcel in Virginia with a deed written before 1871, referencing black walnut trees and Civil War-era chaos. No boundaries, no map—just one giant real estate puzzle. Whether you’re here to laugh, learn, or locate lost land, this episode has it all. Get ready for plaid, purpose, and parcels that disappear into the woods and dare you to follow.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/06/revisiting-the-why-behind-your-land-biz-from-personal-stories-to-lost-parcels]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dvCITSggY</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/88863ba6-433b-4bed-856f-1a0ee4f08fd3/vqbqz9uaa.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/15c39375-af3b-40ba-9b73-09d4e0041440.mp3" length="21941144" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2208</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2208</podcast:episode></item><item><title>From Blueprint To Breakthrough: Personalize Your Land Business</title><itunes:title>From Blueprint To Breakthrough: Personalize Your Land Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you building a land business—or just following someone else’s blueprint? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;explore the power of personalization in your land investing journey. From crafting standout offer letters to finding your own niche (like tackling tricky title issues!), they share real-life examples of how investors are stepping away from the cookie-cutter model—and seeing massive results. You’ll hear why making this business your own isn’t just encouraged—it’s essential for long-term success. Plus, find out how seasoned pros are evolving The Land Academy tools and strategies in ways even Jack didn’t see coming! If you’re ready to level up and leave the copy-paste game behind, this episode is your permission slip to innovate and own your land investing path.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you building a land business—or just following someone else’s blueprint? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;explore the power of personalization in your land investing journey. From crafting standout offer letters to finding your own niche (like tackling tricky title issues!), they share real-life examples of how investors are stepping away from the cookie-cutter model—and seeing massive results. You’ll hear why making this business your own isn’t just encouraged—it’s essential for long-term success. Plus, find out how seasoned pros are evolving The Land Academy tools and strategies in ways even Jack didn’t see coming! If you’re ready to level up and leave the copy-paste game behind, this episode is your permission slip to innovate and own your land investing path.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/05/from-blueprint-to-breakthrough-personalize-your-land-business]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dhdUXaeXy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9d0c7908-d5b4-4458-a72d-63a68903f038/k3hsbjxoe.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0652cce0-7edb-439e-89ef-781f1144cd87.mp3" length="15193335" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2207</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2207</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Thriving In A So-Called Crowded Market: Real Estate Myths Busted</title><itunes:title>Thriving In A So-Called Crowded Market: Real Estate Myths Busted</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Think the land business is too crowded to break in? Think again. In this episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle one of the biggest myths in real estate: that the market is too saturated to succeed. They dive into why that’s simply not true—and how the real winners are thriving not despite the competition, but because they know exactly where and how to play. You'll also hear a real-life question from the Land Academy community about what to do when your land photos fall flat—and why setting clear expectations (and knowing when to push back) is key to running a top-tier operation. From drone photos to apex predators (yes, really), this episode is your permission slip to stop making excuses and start standing out in a so-called "crowded" market.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think the land business is too crowded to break in? Think again. In this episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle one of the biggest myths in real estate: that the market is too saturated to succeed. They dive into why that’s simply not true—and how the real winners are thriving not despite the competition, but because they know exactly where and how to play. You'll also hear a real-life question from the Land Academy community about what to do when your land photos fall flat—and why setting clear expectations (and knowing when to push back) is key to running a top-tier operation. From drone photos to apex predators (yes, really), this episode is your permission slip to stop making excuses and start standing out in a so-called "crowded" market.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/04/thriving-in-a-so-called-crowded-market-real-estate-myths-busted]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">LtoS3B5-b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/dd6727cc-2082-41a0-baf2-dc25eda946fb/3clphh7jw.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8cc1ad9d-9863-41d3-b61e-7c53c702478a.mp3" length="18092023" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2206</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2206</podcast:episode></item><item><title>What The Next 10 Years Of Land Investing Might Look Like</title><itunes:title>What The Next 10 Years Of Land Investing Might Look Like</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What will land investing look like a decade from now? In this candid and forward-looking episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a> roll up their sleeves—literally and figuratively—to unpack the future of land deals, shifting regulations, and why something as simple as a property sale now requires a small mountain of personal information. From a funny moment of “manual labor love” to a real-world dilemma about seller verification and title companies asking for Social Security numbers, this episode is packed with insights, predictions, and laughs. Whether you’re a seasoned land investor or just getting started, this conversation will give you a glimpse into where the industry is headed—and what you can do to stay ahead of the curve.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What will land investing look like a decade from now? In this candid and forward-looking episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a> roll up their sleeves—literally and figuratively—to unpack the future of land deals, shifting regulations, and why something as simple as a property sale now requires a small mountain of personal information. From a funny moment of “manual labor love” to a real-world dilemma about seller verification and title companies asking for Social Security numbers, this episode is packed with insights, predictions, and laughs. Whether you’re a seasoned land investor or just getting started, this conversation will give you a glimpse into where the industry is headed—and what you can do to stay ahead of the curve.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/03/what-the-next-10-years-of-land-investing-might-look-like]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Oit7bKxLv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/1f9c0a0b-216d-4c1d-a3cd-0835698dd109/cpxluahwj.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d15e6681-b356-4e04-86fe-534d63ea6526.mp3" length="26523817" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2205</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2205</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The 2 Game-Changing Tools Behind Our Land Business Success</title><itunes:title>The 2 Game-Changing Tools Behind Our Land Business Success</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if just two game-changing tools could completely transform your land business? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the tech and strategies that took them from spreadsheets to streamlined success—and surprisingly, their go-to tools are totally different! In this episode, you’ll hear how these game-changing tools and systems shaped their success, why having the right tools makes all the difference, and how you can apply them in your own business. Plus, a great question from the community about access issues and smart negotiation tips. Tune in for laughs, real talk, and powerful takeaways.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if just two game-changing tools could completely transform your land business? Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the tech and strategies that took them from spreadsheets to streamlined success—and surprisingly, their go-to tools are totally different! In this episode, you’ll hear how these game-changing tools and systems shaped their success, why having the right tools makes all the difference, and how you can apply them in your own business. Plus, a great question from the community about access issues and smart negotiation tips. Tune in for laughs, real talk, and powerful takeaways.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/06/02/the-2-game-changing-tools-behind-our-land-business-success]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nkwlQe1Cl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a92bc915-6a5f-4238-a360-405bb7806a8e/ptpzkenjt.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8709a0b2-4e38-43f9-893a-bebea84de0df.mp3" length="24205950" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2204</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2204</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Winning Big? Here’s How To Handle Jealous Friends</title><itunes:title>Winning Big? Here’s How To Handle Jealous Friends</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What happens when your success starts to make the people around you uncomfortable? In this candid and relatable episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into a challenge many high-achievers face but few talk about—how to handle jealous friends when your life starts to take off. From luxury lifestyles and financial freedom to dream homes and flexible schedules, they’ve been there—and they’re not bragging, they’re qualifying. Whether you’re just starting out or finally hitting your stride, this episode offers real talk, laughs, and lessons from the trenches of winning big… and navigating the awkward social fallout that can come with it.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What happens when your success starts to make the people around you uncomfortable? In this candid and relatable episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into a challenge many high-achievers face but few talk about—how to handle jealous friends when your life starts to take off. From luxury lifestyles and financial freedom to dream homes and flexible schedules, they’ve been there—and they’re not bragging, they’re qualifying. Whether you’re just starting out or finally hitting your stride, this episode offers real talk, laughs, and lessons from the trenches of winning big… and navigating the awkward social fallout that can come with it.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/30/winning-big-heres-how-to-handle-jealous-friends]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hIyqxcl3L</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/277504c6-11f7-481a-b86e-3fa712033daa/7ksttom4.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f20c8613-92cf-4053-8fb3-bb8e9abcccd6.mp3" length="21560416" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2203</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2203</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Investing Smarts: Insights From Other Real Estate Markets</title><itunes:title>Land Investing Smarts: Insights From Other Real Estate Markets</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What can land investors learn from the ups and downs of other real estate sectors? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;unpack key lessons from commercial, residential, and office real estate—and how these trends could impact your land deals. From the ripple effects of major developments like Amazon and Tesla, to the dangers of overbuilt office space and the cash-flow pitfalls of single-family flips, they reveal how the broader economy intersects with land investing—and how to use that insight to stay ahead of the curve. Plus, a listener question sparks a deep dive into mailer strategy, targeting LLCs, and why casting a wide net can lead to unexpected wins. Whether you’re just starting or scaling up, tune in for actionable tips, a few laughs, and the inside scoop on making smarter real estate moves.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What can land investors learn from the ups and downs of other real estate sectors? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;unpack key lessons from commercial, residential, and office real estate—and how these trends could impact your land deals. From the ripple effects of major developments like Amazon and Tesla, to the dangers of overbuilt office space and the cash-flow pitfalls of single-family flips, they reveal how the broader economy intersects with land investing—and how to use that insight to stay ahead of the curve. Plus, a listener question sparks a deep dive into mailer strategy, targeting LLCs, and why casting a wide net can lead to unexpected wins. Whether you’re just starting or scaling up, tune in for actionable tips, a few laughs, and the inside scoop on making smarter real estate moves.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/29/land-investing-smarts-insights-from-other-real-estate-markets]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">eUsFPGzEM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3779120b-de6e-433d-b19a-e833d3d36625/qpzxpxutk.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1290ad09-ff93-4605-aa1a-f1c2798b3794.mp3" length="18544163" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2202</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2202</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Difference Between Fast Money And Wealth Building</title><itunes:title>The Difference Between Fast Money And Wealth Building</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you chasing fast cash or building lasting wealth? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;break down the essential difference between fast money and long-term wealth building—especially when it comes to real estate investing. Learn why you need a plan for both, how to time your strategy, and how to avoid the common traps that derail new investors. From flipping land in 90 days to building a portfolio that pays you for life, they cover the mindset shifts and tactics that create real financial freedom. Plus, they answer a hot question from the Land Academy community about Florida land—what to watch out for when it comes to flood zones, paper subdivisions, and road access. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to scale, this episode is packed with practical insights and seasoned advice to help you move forward smarter and faster.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you chasing fast cash or building lasting wealth? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;break down the essential difference between fast money and long-term wealth building—especially when it comes to real estate investing. Learn why you need a plan for both, how to time your strategy, and how to avoid the common traps that derail new investors. From flipping land in 90 days to building a portfolio that pays you for life, they cover the mindset shifts and tactics that create real financial freedom. Plus, they answer a hot question from the Land Academy community about Florida land—what to watch out for when it comes to flood zones, paper subdivisions, and road access. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to scale, this episode is packed with practical insights and seasoned advice to help you move forward smarter and faster.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/28/the-difference-between-fast-money-and-wealth-building]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1Qe3SGLhh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/877e6206-2f3b-481a-bcc8-6fc560a25bc2/iofyqpaws.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d61c1bc1-a869-4768-97f1-d408841a963b.mp3" length="27217312" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2201</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2201</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Finding Your Land Niche Market: When To Know You’ve Nailed It</title><itunes:title>Finding Your Land Niche Market: When To Know You’ve Nailed It</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 2200 of The Land Academy Show! In this milestone episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle a question every land investor eventually faces: How do you know when you've found your land niche market? Whether it’s probate properties, landlocked lots, or the sweet spot of 5–10 acres, Jack and Jill share how your niche often finds you — and why that’s actually a good thing. Plus, they respond to a listener’s concern about outdated DataTree info, explain how county data updates work, and give tips on choosing the land deals that work for you. If you’ve ever wondered where your land investing sweet spot lies — this is the episode that just might reveal it</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 2200 of The Land Academy Show! In this milestone episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle a question every land investor eventually faces: How do you know when you've found your land niche market? Whether it’s probate properties, landlocked lots, or the sweet spot of 5–10 acres, Jack and Jill share how your niche often finds you — and why that’s actually a good thing. Plus, they respond to a listener’s concern about outdated DataTree info, explain how county data updates work, and give tips on choosing the land deals that work for you. If you’ve ever wondered where your land investing sweet spot lies — this is the episode that just might reveal it</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/27/finding-your-land-niche-market-when-to-know-youve-nailed-it]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SQAlYOuNL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b1d13874-97a2-48b5-b205-af4dfe021cd9/jdlszqrno.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d7951f79-212e-4508-83ca-0875605a6720.mp3" length="23602340" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2200</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2200</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Flipping Land Crushes Rentals: 20 Deals Vs. 1 Property</title><itunes:title>Why Flipping Land Crushes Rentals: 20 Deals Vs. 1 Property</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if you could make more money, in less time, with fewer headaches—without ever leaving your desk? In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> unpack why flipping 20 land deals can easily beat holding one rental property. Spoiler alert: it’s not just about the fast cash—it’s about freedom, efficiency, and knowing the real math behind real estate. They unpack national data, compare profit margins, and share their own behind-the-scenes experiences that prove why land investing is the ultimate low-drama, high-return strategy. Whether you’re new to land or wondering if rentals are really worth it—this episode will make you think twice.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if you could make more money, in less time, with fewer headaches—without ever leaving your desk? In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> unpack why flipping 20 land deals can easily beat holding one rental property. Spoiler alert: it’s not just about the fast cash—it’s about freedom, efficiency, and knowing the real math behind real estate. They unpack national data, compare profit margins, and share their own behind-the-scenes experiences that prove why land investing is the ultimate low-drama, high-return strategy. Whether you’re new to land or wondering if rentals are really worth it—this episode will make you think twice.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/26/why-flipping-land-crushes-rentals-20-deals-vs-1-property]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">KAppDs9ek</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/01ee013c-a24a-40b9-9811-5cf495bb0480/ewkuggk6t.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/62df2676-cc97-4e95-850a-c7464ae2e8e8.mp3" length="17504785" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2199</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2199</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Perfect Flip In 2025: Land &amp; House Deals That Win</title><itunes:title>The Perfect Flip In 2025: Land &amp; House Deals That Win</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you're looking around wondering, “What’s happening in real estate right now?”—you’re not alone. But here's the thing: times like these are when serious investors come out to play. Deals are out there, and savvy buyers are watching closely. You bought low. Now, the key is knowing who your buyers are—people just like you, ready to pounce on the right opportunity. In this episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle what makes a land or house flip truly perfect in 2025—where to buy, what to look for, and how to position it for profit. We’ll also tackle a real-world pricing question from a newbie investor and share the tricks we’ve used to make thousands of profitable deals. If you want to survive—and thrive—in this shifting market, this episode is for you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you're looking around wondering, “What’s happening in real estate right now?”—you’re not alone. But here's the thing: times like these are when serious investors come out to play. Deals are out there, and savvy buyers are watching closely. You bought low. Now, the key is knowing who your buyers are—people just like you, ready to pounce on the right opportunity. In this episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle what makes a land or house flip truly perfect in 2025—where to buy, what to look for, and how to position it for profit. We’ll also tackle a real-world pricing question from a newbie investor and share the tricks we’ve used to make thousands of profitable deals. If you want to survive—and thrive—in this shifting market, this episode is for you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/23/the-perfect-flip-in-2025-land-and-house-deals-that-win]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Fq9-QoxAf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/dcb6c49c-acf4-47e7-8ac1-fb249f3d1d52/wgescgbnb.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/478f3785-7ce6-4c24-b6d8-9908e4b293d6.mp3" length="19553626" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2198</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2198</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Flipping Land In 2025: How To Close Deals In 30 Days or Less</title><itunes:title>Flipping Land In 2025: How To Close Deals In 30 Days or Less</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Is it still possible to flip land fast in this shifting market? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;break down what it actually takes to turn a deal in 30 days—or less—in the current buyer’s market. With inventory high and expectations shifting, they dig into why your deals might be dragging, how to tighten up your acquisition strategy, and why emotional buys are still the kiss of death. Plus, they answer a hot question from the Discord community: How close do your comps really need to be? And they get real about sticking to your ROI goals, dialing in your pricing, and why Jill is unapologetically militant about walking away from anything that doesn’t meet your criteria. If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start flipping faster, this one’s for you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it still possible to flip land fast in this shifting market? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;break down what it actually takes to turn a deal in 30 days—or less—in the current buyer’s market. With inventory high and expectations shifting, they dig into why your deals might be dragging, how to tighten up your acquisition strategy, and why emotional buys are still the kiss of death. Plus, they answer a hot question from the Discord community: How close do your comps really need to be? And they get real about sticking to your ROI goals, dialing in your pricing, and why Jill is unapologetically militant about walking away from anything that doesn’t meet your criteria. If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start flipping faster, this one’s for you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/22/flipping-land-in-2025-how-to-close-deals-in-30-days-or-less]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wA27zmHxY</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/cf94e33a-01dc-4bfc-851d-4d6db3df19a5/nbmijmres.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b069ffbf-b4e2-4ab4-9dc0-fe54025e152c.mp3" length="16808412" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2197</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2197</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The First 3 Questions To Ask A Land Seller On The Phone</title><itunes:title>The First 3 Questions To Ask A Land Seller On The Phone</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>This week, we’re diving deep into how to talk to sellers in 2025—because let’s face it, things have changed. There’s a perfect storm in real estate right now, and smart investors are adjusting fast. Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;break down the first three questions you should ask a land seller when they call—and trust us, these can make or break your deal. Forget wasting time on tire-kickers. With seller motivation higher than ever, it’s all about getting to the truth—why are they selling, what price do they really need, and how fast do they want to close? Plus, Jack and Jill check in with their Land Academy community where real partnerships are forming and deals are getting done. Tune in because in 2025, it’s not about doing more deals. It’s about doing the right ones.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week, we’re diving deep into how to talk to sellers in 2025—because let’s face it, things have changed. There’s a perfect storm in real estate right now, and smart investors are adjusting fast. Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;break down the first three questions you should ask a land seller when they call—and trust us, these can make or break your deal. Forget wasting time on tire-kickers. With seller motivation higher than ever, it’s all about getting to the truth—why are they selling, what price do they really need, and how fast do they want to close? Plus, Jack and Jill check in with their Land Academy community where real partnerships are forming and deals are getting done. Tune in because in 2025, it’s not about doing more deals. It’s about doing the right ones.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/21/the-first-3-questions-to-ask-a-land-seller-on-the-phone]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">A_bSc19I1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/42883bd8-cf15-4c28-9caa-77f743139dd7/tty5ou-8j.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/eb2b8979-e992-46b0-8bf2-e091f7255ba9.mp3" length="20335267" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2196</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2196</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Targeting Land Sellers Who Sell Below Market Value</title><itunes:title>Targeting Land Sellers Who Sell Below Market Value</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if you could zero in on landowners who are most likely to accept your low offer—and still make a profit even in a volatile market? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive deep into an insightful analysis from two Land Academy members who break down pricing trends and volatility ZIP code by ZIP code. You’ll hear how market fluctuations, volatility data, and the concept of a “dollar breakpoint” can help you spot the right deals at the right time. They also show you how to make smarter acquisitions by understanding local market behaviors—so you’re not just guessing, but making data-backed decisions that can lead to big returns.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if you could zero in on landowners who are most likely to accept your low offer—and still make a profit even in a volatile market? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive deep into an insightful analysis from two Land Academy members who break down pricing trends and volatility ZIP code by ZIP code. You’ll hear how market fluctuations, volatility data, and the concept of a “dollar breakpoint” can help you spot the right deals at the right time. They also show you how to make smarter acquisitions by understanding local market behaviors—so you’re not just guessing, but making data-backed decisions that can lead to big returns.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/20/targeting-land-sellers-who-sell-below-market-value]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yF9UuQYta</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/088fb932-5917-43ae-80a9-391e2715db72/qqysai6ms.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d3d3ab6f-ceb9-4b65-8c8f-59a24c6294a9.mp3" length="23888392" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2195</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2195</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Mid-2025 Market Shift: Land And House Seller Profile—And What They Expect</title><itunes:title>Mid-2025 Market Shift: Land And House Seller Profile—And What They Expect</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what today’s land and house sellers are really thinking? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the evolving seller profile of mid-2025—and it’s not what it used to be. With the market shifting toward buyers and inventory piling up, understanding who’s selling and why has never been more critical.</p><p><br></p><p>But first, we’re taking a detour through Greece, whiskey by the campfire, and a debate over Paris vs. Walmart, as Jack and Jill reveal their dream getaways and how they really define being pampered.</p><p><br></p><p>Then it’s back to business. Whether you’re flipping land, navigating FHA offers, or rewriting your first three questions to sellers—this week is packed with actionable insights for savvy investors. The landscape is changing. Are you ready to adapt? Tune in now to find out what’s motivating sellers in 2025—and how to use that insight to close better, faster deals.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what today’s land and house sellers are really thinking? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the evolving seller profile of mid-2025—and it’s not what it used to be. With the market shifting toward buyers and inventory piling up, understanding who’s selling and why has never been more critical.</p><p><br></p><p>But first, we’re taking a detour through Greece, whiskey by the campfire, and a debate over Paris vs. Walmart, as Jack and Jill reveal their dream getaways and how they really define being pampered.</p><p><br></p><p>Then it’s back to business. Whether you’re flipping land, navigating FHA offers, or rewriting your first three questions to sellers—this week is packed with actionable insights for savvy investors. The landscape is changing. Are you ready to adapt? Tune in now to find out what’s motivating sellers in 2025—and how to use that insight to close better, faster deals.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/19/mid-2025-market-shift-land-and-house-seller-profile-and-what-they-expect]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PlR49ucqV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3f9c972e-8788-4ba6-8f22-b82c4635d20e/vkm8mvsad.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b4513094-3d48-476e-96e9-1535f9216dc5.mp3" length="23774583" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2194</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2194</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Is It Still A Land Buyer&apos;s Market? Strategies And Predictions For Real Estate Investors</title><itunes:title>Is It Still A Land Buyer&apos;s Market? 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If you're wondering whether to send out a ton of mail or when to capitalize on amazing, inexpensive properties, this is the episode to tune in to, packed with actionable advice and the straight-talk analysis you've come to expect from the Land Academy show.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Navigating the unpredictable landscape of real estate, especially the land market, requires insight and experience, and figuring out when it's a land buyer's market is key to success. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dissect the current market dynamics, forecasting when this buyer's haven might shift. They tackle questions about long-term opportunities, partnership strategies for expanding business, and how current economic shifts impact land deals. If you're wondering whether to send out a ton of mail or when to capitalize on amazing, inexpensive properties, this is the episode to tune in to, packed with actionable advice and the straight-talk analysis you've come to expect from the Land Academy show.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/16/is-it-still-a-land-buyers-market-strategies-and-predictions-for-real-estate-investors]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">shA2vO3oq</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/481ce14d-63e1-4f0a-8354-2e1b70366275/b2-rhu-g0.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b8d8ec8e-5390-43a4-a8cc-215cc735bb9d.mp3" length="13227674" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>08:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2193</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2193</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Family, Career, &amp; Land Investing: Land Academy Member Nathan Cheung Does It All!</title><itunes:title>Family, Career, &amp; Land Investing: Land Academy Member Nathan Cheung Does It All!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Balancing a demanding full-time career as a pharmacist with the dynamic world of land investing might sound impossible, but today's guest proves otherwise. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit chat with Nathan Cheung, a current Career Path member and dedicated family man, who has successfully navigated the journey from Land Academy podcast listener to thriving real estate investor. Nathan, a working professional with young children, reveals his data-driven strategies, his reliance on concierge services, and how he transformed initial $50k profits into an impressive $150k. This conversation is a must-listen for anyone seeking actionable insights on achieving financial freedom through land deals, all while juggling other life commitments.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Balancing a demanding full-time career as a pharmacist with the dynamic world of land investing might sound impossible, but today's guest proves otherwise. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit chat with Nathan Cheung, a current Career Path member and dedicated family man, who has successfully navigated the journey from Land Academy podcast listener to thriving real estate investor. Nathan, a working professional with young children, reveals his data-driven strategies, his reliance on concierge services, and how he transformed initial $50k profits into an impressive $150k. This conversation is a must-listen for anyone seeking actionable insights on achieving financial freedom through land deals, all while juggling other life commitments.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/15/family-career-and-land-investing-land-academy-member-nathan-cheung-does-it-all]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">k6lciBvf0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a7223be2-3ed1-4247-85d3-e16ffb0f5074/e4-cja2p.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/971157a1-2e2d-4b6c-a826-c79e1a002571.mp3" length="26445112" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2192</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2192</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Supply And Demand Advantage: Your Ultimate Guide To Savvy Land Deals</title><itunes:title>Supply And Demand Advantage: Your Ultimate Guide To Savvy Land Deals</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Market dynamics can shift on a dime, and understanding the delicate balance of supply and demand is crucial for anyone looking to thrive in land investment. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit unpack the essential laws of supply and demand and how they directly impact the land business, revealing strategies to thrive even when market conditions shift. They delve into a real-world scenario of a penthouse condo pricing discussion and address a listener's question about mailing to zip codes with strong sales history but no current listings. Expect insights into identifying prime buying opportunities during periods of high supply and low demand, and learn why economic downturns can actually lead to record-breaking deals. Tune in to discover how understanding basic economics 101 can give you a major advantage in the competitive world of land acquisition and investing.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Market dynamics can shift on a dime, and understanding the delicate balance of supply and demand is crucial for anyone looking to thrive in land investment. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit unpack the essential laws of supply and demand and how they directly impact the land business, revealing strategies to thrive even when market conditions shift. They delve into a real-world scenario of a penthouse condo pricing discussion and address a listener's question about mailing to zip codes with strong sales history but no current listings. Expect insights into identifying prime buying opportunities during periods of high supply and low demand, and learn why economic downturns can actually lead to record-breaking deals. Tune in to discover how understanding basic economics 101 can give you a major advantage in the competitive world of land acquisition and investing.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/14/supply-and-demand-advantage-your-ultimate-guide-to-savvy-land-deals]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">OLumB46nz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/ddb1d46c-7929-4487-8606-3c722f25008e/wdmrgqqd6.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/154b343a-57f7-4eb3-84f0-2d2df7b1e89e.mp3" length="18165503" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2191</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2191</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Mailers That Get Results: What To Include (And Avoid)</title><itunes:title>Land Mailers That Get Results: What To Include (And Avoid)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the art of creating effective land mailers that get results. They share insider tips on what to include, what to avoid, and how small details can make a big impact. From personalized touches to professional design, they explore the elements that can transform a basic mailer into a response-generating powerhouse. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to fine-tune your approach, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you get your land offers noticed. Plus, they tackle a real-life question from a listener about data discrepancies—something every land investor should understand. Tune in for practical advice you can apply immediately!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the art of creating effective land mailers that get results. They share insider tips on what to include, what to avoid, and how small details can make a big impact. From personalized touches to professional design, they explore the elements that can transform a basic mailer into a response-generating powerhouse. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to fine-tune your approach, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you get your land offers noticed. Plus, they tackle a real-life question from a listener about data discrepancies—something every land investor should understand. Tune in for practical advice you can apply immediately!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/13/land-mailers-that-get-results-what-to-include-and-avoid]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">__lYd9jVX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/db43402b-681b-4111-a888-a2fab2d18f73/375eeoymf.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5005345d-56f2-4816-af16-3b1fb3b5ad9d.mp3" length="22831032" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2190</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2190</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Smart Ways To Use AI In Your Land Biz (Without Losing Your Mind)</title><itunes:title>Smart Ways To Use AI In Your Land Biz (Without Losing Your Mind)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Things get real (and a little funny) as <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> dive into how to actually use AI in your land business today—without letting it script your entire life. In this Back to the Basics episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, they break down why certain deals should never make it past your desk, especially those buried in steep HOA fees and niche communities. Learn how a single Discord post stirred up a valuable conversation on avoiding costly mistakes, filtering your mailers like a pro, and using AI as a smart, practical tool (not your business brain). Bonus: Some candid banter and lessons on what won’t change in your relationship—no matter how advanced AI gets.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Things get real (and a little funny) as <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> dive into how to actually use AI in your land business today—without letting it script your entire life. In this Back to the Basics episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, they break down why certain deals should never make it past your desk, especially those buried in steep HOA fees and niche communities. Learn how a single Discord post stirred up a valuable conversation on avoiding costly mistakes, filtering your mailers like a pro, and using AI as a smart, practical tool (not your business brain). Bonus: Some candid banter and lessons on what won’t change in your relationship—no matter how advanced AI gets.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/12/smart-ways-to-use-ai-in-your-land-biz-without-losing-your-mind]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">L9RRNRBRO</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/02001f43-6c3b-4263-8327-eb8b705b2cc7/qscmmt1gj.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d921b919-2e25-42b5-9946-d650935ede3e.mp3" length="33537057" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2189</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2189</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Direct Mail: Dead Strategy Or Goldmine For Land Investors?</title><itunes:title>Direct Mail: Dead Strategy Or Goldmine For Land Investors?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are mailers outdated—or are they the secret weapon behind millions in land deals? <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> break down the true cost of sending out a land offer campaign and why it’s still one of the most effective tools in their real estate arsenal. They tackle a tough question from Stanley: How much money do you really make from mailers, and how much of that comes from experience?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You’ll hear real numbers, learn how deal size strategy impacts returns, and discover why a newly engaged couple is betting big on bigger deals. Plus, get an inside peek into what it's like to run a land business—and a marriage—together, complete with truck campers, solo sandwich getaways, and a liquor store of love. If you're wondering whether to invest in mail or just stick to texts, this episode might change your game.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are mailers outdated—or are they the secret weapon behind millions in land deals? <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> break down the true cost of sending out a land offer campaign and why it’s still one of the most effective tools in their real estate arsenal. They tackle a tough question from Stanley: How much money do you really make from mailers, and how much of that comes from experience?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You’ll hear real numbers, learn how deal size strategy impacts returns, and discover why a newly engaged couple is betting big on bigger deals. Plus, get an inside peek into what it's like to run a land business—and a marriage—together, complete with truck campers, solo sandwich getaways, and a liquor store of love. If you're wondering whether to invest in mail or just stick to texts, this episode might change your game.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/09/direct-mail-dead-strategy-or-goldmine-for-land-investors]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">J7wFZZfzg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d5fb1f04-8209-4b57-8c1f-48e87e4f9cea/xg6phwf1r.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8ef2c2ba-44f6-474f-ad87-615dd2d558c8.mp3" length="21910833" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2188</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2188</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Your Land Offers Don’t Work – It’s Not What You Think</title><itunes:title>Why Your Land Offers Don’t Work – It’s Not What You Think</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Think pricing is everything in land deals? Think again. In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;bust one of the biggest myths in the land investing world: that offering more money gets you more deals. Spoiler alert — it’s not about the numbers, it’s about psychology. They dive deep into why most people price their land offers wrong, what happens when you send a neutral letter, and how a well-placed dollar amount can make or break your success. Plus, a little banter about Bloody Marys and why Jill’s not taking any calls from dreamers. Tune in to save yourself time, money, and a whole lot of headaches.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think pricing is everything in land deals? Think again. In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;bust one of the biggest myths in the land investing world: that offering more money gets you more deals. Spoiler alert — it’s not about the numbers, it’s about psychology. They dive deep into why most people price their land offers wrong, what happens when you send a neutral letter, and how a well-placed dollar amount can make or break your success. Plus, a little banter about Bloody Marys and why Jill’s not taking any calls from dreamers. Tune in to save yourself time, money, and a whole lot of headaches.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/08/why-your-land-offers-dont-work-its-not-what-you-think]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">NKTAKrRUC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/65931184-c8c9-4c9a-9441-804211d9118b/hqioqpwno.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e71ceaec-fc34-4311-a1d9-abe267f7a3f6.mp3" length="32588413" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2187</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2187</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Neighbor Letters: The Underrated Land Sale Strategy That Works</title><itunes:title>Neighbor Letters: The Underrated Land Sale Strategy That Works</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>We’re still dishing out gold! Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;take a closer look into one of the most effective (and surprisingly underused) tools in your land-selling arsenal: the neighbor letter. Want to sell your property fast, off-market, and without paying hefty agent commissions? This little letter could be your secret weapon. But wait—this episode isn’t all business. Along the way, they riff on dolled-up selfies, driveway car sales, and what it really means to put yourself out there. Whether you’re in land investing or just love a good back-and-forth, this one’s equal parts strategy and sass. Tune in and learn why neighbor letters work nearly 50% of the time—and how to use them before someone else does.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We’re still dishing out gold! Today on&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;take a closer look into one of the most effective (and surprisingly underused) tools in your land-selling arsenal: the neighbor letter. Want to sell your property fast, off-market, and without paying hefty agent commissions? This little letter could be your secret weapon. But wait—this episode isn’t all business. Along the way, they riff on dolled-up selfies, driveway car sales, and what it really means to put yourself out there. Whether you’re in land investing or just love a good back-and-forth, this one’s equal parts strategy and sass. Tune in and learn why neighbor letters work nearly 50% of the time—and how to use them before someone else does.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/07/neighbor-letters-the-underrated-land-sale-strategy-that-works]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Gx8foYFPB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c4208402-365d-49e4-99e9-5b3ccd3f4bec/6a1i8jpbc.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/10d3493b-59ce-4c56-b708-9b9694e01412.mp3" length="13563392" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>08:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2186</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2186</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Mastering The Art Of Land Mailer Messages: Unlocking Response Success</title><itunes:title>Mastering The Art Of Land Mailer Messages: Unlocking Response Success</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What if the secret to making your land mailers not only stand out but also get a response lies in the power of the right message? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;explore the power of the right land mailer message—because sending out mailers is only half the battle; the real magic happens when your message resonates with the recipient. Jill and Jack share insider tips on how to craft a message that stands out in a crowded mailbox and encourages the response you’re looking for. From the importance of a professional email address to connecting with your audience on a personal level, they break down the essentials for making your mailer work harder for you. Plus, they reveal common mistakes to avoid so you don’t lose out on valuable opportunities. Stick around for an episode packed with actionable insights and a touch of humor—because, let’s face it, Jill and Jack’s dynamic is anything but mechanical!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the secret to making your land mailers not only stand out but also get a response lies in the power of the right message? In today’s episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;explore the power of the right land mailer message—because sending out mailers is only half the battle; the real magic happens when your message resonates with the recipient. Jill and Jack share insider tips on how to craft a message that stands out in a crowded mailbox and encourages the response you’re looking for. From the importance of a professional email address to connecting with your audience on a personal level, they break down the essentials for making your mailer work harder for you. Plus, they reveal common mistakes to avoid so you don’t lose out on valuable opportunities. Stick around for an episode packed with actionable insights and a touch of humor—because, let’s face it, Jill and Jack’s dynamic is anything but mechanical!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/06/mastering-the-art-of-land-mailer-messages-unlocking-response-success]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UWum3tcJf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/83fc1f92-05f3-4bad-88e9-14ecb7d96695/3dz7cuf9v.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bcad3366-e5b0-4de3-9a01-3d3950490f84.mp3" length="19250048" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2185</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2185</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Unlocking Hidden Land Deals: How To Find Motivated Sellers Below Market Value</title><itunes:title>Unlocking Hidden Land Deals: How To Find Motivated Sellers Below Market Value</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> dive into a unique strategy that’s been a game-changer for land investors. Imagine being able to connect with landowners who are eager to sell their property below market value—sounds too good to be true, right? Well, for Jack and Jill, it’s not just possible—it’s their business model. Join us as they break down how they’ve mastered the art of reaching motivated sellers, how a simple letter can trigger big opportunities, and why the real estate market is ripe with untapped potential. Plus, Jack shares a fun analogy that will make you rethink how you approach land deals. If you’ve ever wondered how to find those golden opportunities, this episode is for you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> dive into a unique strategy that’s been a game-changer for land investors. Imagine being able to connect with landowners who are eager to sell their property below market value—sounds too good to be true, right? Well, for Jack and Jill, it’s not just possible—it’s their business model. Join us as they break down how they’ve mastered the art of reaching motivated sellers, how a simple letter can trigger big opportunities, and why the real estate market is ripe with untapped potential. Plus, Jack shares a fun analogy that will make you rethink how you approach land deals. If you’ve ever wondered how to find those golden opportunities, this episode is for you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/05/unlocking-hidden-land-deals-how-to-find-motivated-sellers-below-market-value]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">s1VUhZ8XY</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/56fbe663-0965-4f80-a1e6-5553222549e4/g1ydxpc4j.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1d6ddc5b-ec25-4ac7-9803-1ee4fea48660.mp3" length="21874302" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2184</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2184</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The Future Of Land Investing: What The Next 5 Years Will Bring</title><itunes:title>The Future Of Land Investing: What The Next 5 Years Will Bring</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to another exciting episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>! Today, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle the future of land investing. What will the next five years look like? The landscape is changing fast, with technology evolving and new tools on the horizon that could change the game. But don’t worry – the core principles of connecting with sellers and making smart, personal relationships will never change. Tune in as they break down how embracing new tech can lead to faster deals, better profits, and a brighter future for land investors. Whether you're just starting or looking to scale, this episode is packed with valuable insights you won’t want to miss!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to another exciting episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>! Today, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle the future of land investing. What will the next five years look like? The landscape is changing fast, with technology evolving and new tools on the horizon that could change the game. But don’t worry – the core principles of connecting with sellers and making smart, personal relationships will never change. Tune in as they break down how embracing new tech can lead to faster deals, better profits, and a brighter future for land investors. Whether you're just starting or looking to scale, this episode is packed with valuable insights you won’t want to miss!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/02/the-future-of-land-investing-what-the-next-5-years-will-bring]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sM2tmch1Z</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2719c92b-c9fb-42fd-8d8b-7b7d9d7667d3/553uupkwh.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/057f3002-d176-4897-900d-d2846946815c.mp3" length="15527942" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2183</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2183</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Looks Can Be Deceiving: When To Walk Away From A “Great” Land Deal</title><itunes:title>Looks Can Be Deceiving: When To Walk Away From A “Great” Land Deal</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>What do a picture-perfect land deal, a stunning supermodel, and a sizzling Jet’s Pizza have in common? Sometimes you need to walk away. In this candid and comical episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> dive into why not every tempting offer is worth the trouble—whether it's real estate or a garage-busting classic car. They share real-life examples from their own land deals (yes, two just today!) and sprinkle in some surprising analogies you won’t see coming. Plus, they answer a heartfelt question from a new Land Academy member juggling family, work, and the dream of building something bigger. The takeaway? Success is great, but not at the cost of imbalance at home. Tune in for laughs, wisdom, and practical tips on making smart, strategic exits—before the pain outweighs the reward.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do a picture-perfect land deal, a stunning supermodel, and a sizzling Jet’s Pizza have in common? Sometimes you need to walk away. In this candid and comical episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> dive into why not every tempting offer is worth the trouble—whether it's real estate or a garage-busting classic car. They share real-life examples from their own land deals (yes, two just today!) and sprinkle in some surprising analogies you won’t see coming. Plus, they answer a heartfelt question from a new Land Academy member juggling family, work, and the dream of building something bigger. The takeaway? Success is great, but not at the cost of imbalance at home. Tune in for laughs, wisdom, and practical tips on making smart, strategic exits—before the pain outweighs the reward.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/05/01/looks-can-be-deceiving-when-to-walk-away-from-a-great-land-deal]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">j5_tTuYRw</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/d2ae1d44-aaca-45ec-b637-3717c5373990/bouuyi1c9.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/61df4d9e-c115-4c4c-97a6-2af5b89f99e8.mp3" length="16967362" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2182</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2182</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Your Land Business Is Stuck — And How To Get It Moving Again</title><itunes:title>Why Your Land Business Is Stuck — And How To Get It Moving Again</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Feeling like your land business is at a standstill? You’re not alone. Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> unpack the two major reasons why your land deals might not be going as planned. From not sending enough mail to missing key personal accountability, they dive into the mechanics of overcoming those roadblocks. Plus, they’ll share some eye-opening tips on staying confident and taking action—whether you're dealing with land deals or personal challenges. Tune in to discover how showing up and taking responsibility can transform your business! Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this episode will help you push through the frustration and find your momentum again.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feeling like your land business is at a standstill? You’re not alone. Today on <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> unpack the two major reasons why your land deals might not be going as planned. From not sending enough mail to missing key personal accountability, they dive into the mechanics of overcoming those roadblocks. Plus, they’ll share some eye-opening tips on staying confident and taking action—whether you're dealing with land deals or personal challenges. Tune in to discover how showing up and taking responsibility can transform your business! Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this episode will help you push through the frustration and find your momentum again.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/30/why-your-land-business-is-stuck-and-how-to-get-it-moving-again]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">rdbMiFwwF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/3a4df96e-2251-4cba-84c7-5429e8b4a7a1/uwc-vldte.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7961b9e6-fe0a-41c8-bf67-8cace691409d.mp3" length="15173130" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2181</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2181</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Best &amp; Worst States For Buying Land – Market Trends You Need To Know</title><itunes:title>Best &amp; Worst States For Buying Land – Market Trends You Need To Know</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Want to know where land is flying off the market—and where it's sitting for months? In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle one of the hottest questions in real estate: What are the best and worst states to buy land right now? From data-packed spreadsheets to real-world experience, they break down how to use market velocity, zip code stats, and a little bit of intuition to pick the right spots. Spoiler: it’s not just about the state—it’s about what the numbers are telling you. Whether you're ready to send your first mailer or fund your next deal, this episode will help you get a running start.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to know where land is flying off the market—and where it's sitting for months? In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> tackle one of the hottest questions in real estate: What are the best and worst states to buy land right now? From data-packed spreadsheets to real-world experience, they break down how to use market velocity, zip code stats, and a little bit of intuition to pick the right spots. Spoiler: it’s not just about the state—it’s about what the numbers are telling you. Whether you're ready to send your first mailer or fund your next deal, this episode will help you get a running start.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/29/best-and-worst-states-for-buying-land-market-trends-you-need-to-know]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-L6d6n_4G</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2abdec2a-633d-4994-9b1f-cf19afdd004a/jklm7gq9.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a86022f0-26ef-4be3-a470-869fb6b467f7.mp3" length="20910099" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2180</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2180</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Price Adjustments, Not Haggling: Winning Land Deals Without Losing Credibility</title><itunes:title>Price Adjustments, Not Haggling: Winning Land Deals Without Losing Credibility</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Negotiation can feel like a high-stakes game—but when it comes to land deals, it doesn't have to be. The secret? Price adjustments, not haggling. In this episode of </span><a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> break down how to adjust your offer without losing the deal or your credibility. They share practical insights on when to hold firm, when to flex, and why a thoughtful approach beats haggling every time. Plus, they offer guidance for anyone transitioning into full-time land investing—how to manage the workload, what to outsource, and how to stay the course. It’s a real-world look at the mindset and strategy behind sustainable success in land investing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Negotiation can feel like a high-stakes game—but when it comes to land deals, it doesn't have to be. The secret? Price adjustments, not haggling. In this episode of </span><a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> break down how to adjust your offer without losing the deal or your credibility. They share practical insights on when to hold firm, when to flex, and why a thoughtful approach beats haggling every time. Plus, they offer guidance for anyone transitioning into full-time land investing—how to manage the workload, what to outsource, and how to stay the course. It’s a real-world look at the mindset and strategy behind sustainable success in land investing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/28/price-adjustments-not-haggling-winning-land-deals-without-losing-credibility]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4PfsKOA_t</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/bbabc393-dbaa-41c6-b99d-52546370d57f/jp-c-inv4.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ed717244-cdd8-492c-aba7-66ff74b7c7c6.mp3" length="26440259" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2179</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2179</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Future-Proofing: Will Real Estate Investment Survive AI?</title><itunes:title>Future-Proofing: Will Real Estate Investment Survive AI?</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Will real estate investment as we know it even exist in the age of AI? Buckle up, because Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit are diving headfirst into that very question! Hot off their monthly mastermind call with their Career Path alumni, they’re tackling the elephant in the room: how is artificial intelligence already shaking up the real estate game, and where is it headed? This isn't just theory, folks. They're also unpacking a listener's burning question about whether real estate can even be considered "scalable" (hint: Steven has some very specific thoughts on that!) and what it really means to design a business that gives you freedom. Get ready for a lively debate, a few tangents, and some seriously insightful takes on navigating the wild, ever-changing world of real estate in the age of AI. If you're wondering how to stay ahead of the curve and keep your investments thriving, this is one episode you absolutely cannot miss!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will real estate investment as we know it even exist in the age of AI? Buckle up, because Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit are diving headfirst into that very question! Hot off their monthly mastermind call with their Career Path alumni, they’re tackling the elephant in the room: how is artificial intelligence already shaking up the real estate game, and where is it headed? This isn't just theory, folks. They're also unpacking a listener's burning question about whether real estate can even be considered "scalable" (hint: Steven has some very specific thoughts on that!) and what it really means to design a business that gives you freedom. Get ready for a lively debate, a few tangents, and some seriously insightful takes on navigating the wild, ever-changing world of real estate in the age of AI. If you're wondering how to stay ahead of the curve and keep your investments thriving, this is one episode you absolutely cannot miss!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/25/future-proofing-will-real-estate-investment-survive-ai]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-RL1nChXd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e1cd8a60-fa01-4ba9-9e70-9bc7f5b886e4/mj6qq-kst.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/44991136-fc56-4ea7-a34a-1c7479fdc7e6.mp3" length="23912178" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2178</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2178</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Jill’s Top Takeaways From Coaching Land Academy Members</title><itunes:title>Jill’s Top Takeaways From Coaching Land Academy Members</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what separates the Land Academy members who talk about success from the ones who make it happen? In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> share the powerful real-life transformations happening behind the scenes—straight from recent consulting calls with ambitious Land Academy members. You’ll hear stories of brand-new investors taking fast, focused action… seasoned pros making bold pivots to scale faster… and partners learning to streamline and delegate their way to $100K months. From spreadsheets to seller financing struggles, to 4am Zoom calls and website makeovers—this episode is packed with practical takeaways, inspiring wins, and a reminder that the right support can change everything. Whether you're just getting started or ready to level up, this one’s for you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder what separates the Land Academy members who talk about success from the ones who make it happen? In today’s episode of <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> share the powerful real-life transformations happening behind the scenes—straight from recent consulting calls with ambitious Land Academy members. You’ll hear stories of brand-new investors taking fast, focused action… seasoned pros making bold pivots to scale faster… and partners learning to streamline and delegate their way to $100K months. From spreadsheets to seller financing struggles, to 4am Zoom calls and website makeovers—this episode is packed with practical takeaways, inspiring wins, and a reminder that the right support can change everything. Whether you're just getting started or ready to level up, this one’s for you.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/24/jills-top-takeaways-from-coaching-land-academy-members]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8jmoam0rL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/06f91b03-47ff-40e9-8194-e39232767fdd/eaxnubj8z.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f21559f1-aa96-46ac-8234-e7fd17283566.mp3" length="17778560" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2177</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2177</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Outsourcing Secrets For Land Investors: Work Less, Earn More</title><itunes:title>Outsourcing Secrets For Land Investors: Work Less, Earn More</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever dreamed of sipping coffee while the deals roll in—and someone else answers the phone? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;get real (and hilarious) about the parts of your land business you shouldn’t be doing yourself. From hiring call services to writing your own “You’re fired!” letter for a qualifying life event (true story), they share smart strategies for outsourcing like a pro—so you can take that camping trip without losing momentum. Tune in to hear the outsourcing move that changed everything for Steven, Jill’s laugh-out-loud solution to getting health insurance, and a candid look at how to actually create freedom in your business. Whether you’re just starting out or scaling fast, this one’s packed with practical advice, a bit of philosophy, and the usual Land Academy wit.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever dreamed of sipping coffee while the deals roll in—and someone else answers the phone? In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;get real (and hilarious) about the parts of your land business you shouldn’t be doing yourself. From hiring call services to writing your own “You’re fired!” letter for a qualifying life event (true story), they share smart strategies for outsourcing like a pro—so you can take that camping trip without losing momentum. Tune in to hear the outsourcing move that changed everything for Steven, Jill’s laugh-out-loud solution to getting health insurance, and a candid look at how to actually create freedom in your business. Whether you’re just starting out or scaling fast, this one’s packed with practical advice, a bit of philosophy, and the usual Land Academy wit.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/23/outsourcing-secrets-for-land-investors-work-less-earn-more]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">EjCljF2Gd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9563cc61-18a9-4bb3-ac5c-5c445d3ad75a/2bfkbu2kc.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a1740f38-b1ce-493f-ad28-6fc415d1c68c.mp3" length="22808303" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2176</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2176</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Successfully Buy Land When Values Are Going Down, Not Up</title><itunes:title>How To Successfully Buy Land When Values Are Going Down, Not Up</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When land values are dropping fast, how do you still come out on top? In today’s episode of </span><a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> tackle the tough truth about a declining real estate market—and show you how to not just survive, but thrive. With four recessions under his belt, Steven reveals proven strategies for buying land way below market value, even when the market’s in free fall. Plus, they dig into a hot question from the Land Academy community: What do you do when a deal hits a snag due to a private road access issue? You’ll hear expert insights, personal stories, and real-world advice on how to create value, overcome title troubles, and turn a tricky parcel into a profitable win. If you're buying land in a shifting market, this is the episode you can’t afford to miss. Press play and learn how to make smart moves when the market gets shaky.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When land values are dropping fast, how do you still come out on top? In today’s episode of </span><a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> tackle the tough truth about a declining real estate market—and show you how to not just survive, but thrive. With four recessions under his belt, Steven reveals proven strategies for buying land way below market value, even when the market’s in free fall. Plus, they dig into a hot question from the Land Academy community: What do you do when a deal hits a snag due to a private road access issue? You’ll hear expert insights, personal stories, and real-world advice on how to create value, overcome title troubles, and turn a tricky parcel into a profitable win. If you're buying land in a shifting market, this is the episode you can’t afford to miss. Press play and learn how to make smart moves when the market gets shaky.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/22/how-to-successfully-buy-land-when-values-are-going-down-not-up/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yMYerAy1O</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9bb46adb-4b25-474b-9bee-390c80cbb558/md3tve-ez.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4a34dd2b-1bfb-42cb-8546-403a883badbf.mp3" length="22948542" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2175</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2175</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Choosing Online Communities That Elevate You</title><itunes:title>Choosing Online Communities That Elevate You</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In a world saturated with online communities, how do you discern the groups that genuinely elevate you? Today on</span><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </strong><a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> delve into the critical art of choosing internet groups that foster personal growth, sparked by their deep-dive with Land Academy members. From navigating the complexities of land valuation in large zip codes to the broader quest for meaningful online connection, this episode challenges you to reconsider the value of your digital circles. Are you learning, growing, or simply scrolling? Tune in to find out.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In a world saturated with online communities, how do you discern the groups that genuinely elevate you? Today on</span><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </strong><a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The Land Academy Show</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> delve into the critical art of choosing internet groups that foster personal growth, sparked by their deep-dive with Land Academy members. From navigating the complexities of land valuation in large zip codes to the broader quest for meaningful online connection, this episode challenges you to reconsider the value of your digital circles. Are you learning, growing, or simply scrolling? Tune in to find out.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/04/21/choosing-online-communities-that-elevate-you/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">18VJS-MId</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/81aa96b3-b80f-4077-8e9c-74a235c2fce9/jfc-kbg95.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7024c18a-9eaf-4e07-a4ce-8bbd2984b7ac.mp3" length="20205057" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2174</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2174</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Maximize Returns During A Recession</title><itunes:title>How To Maximize Returns During A Recession</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Recession should never be seen as the lowest point of the real estate market. In fact, it is probably the best time to buy or invest in properties. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss why you should not panic during such a market condition and instead take advantage of it to make a considerable profit.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recession should never be seen as the lowest point of the real estate market. In fact, it is probably the best time to buy or invest in properties. 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Forget natural-born genius; it's all about the daily grind, the willingness to learn from failures, and the sheer grit to stick with it. Steven and Jill share personal anecdotes, discuss a listener's intriguing offer dilemma, and unpack how "gross overachievers" aren't necessarily the smartest, but they sure are the most consistent. Tune in to discover how to apply this philosophy to your own land investing journey and why, in the end, it's the relentless effort, not innate talent, that leads to real, lasting results.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the wild world of land investing, consistency beats talent every single time, and in this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive deep into why showing up and putting in the work is the true secret sauce to success. Forget natural-born genius; it's all about the daily grind, the willingness to learn from failures, and the sheer grit to stick with it. Steven and Jill share personal anecdotes, discuss a listener's intriguing offer dilemma, and unpack how "gross overachievers" aren't necessarily the smartest, but they sure are the most consistent. 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In this episode of The Land Academy Show, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> dive into the subtle art of reading between the lines when talking to sellers—because the real story is often hidden in what isn’t said out loud. From decoding seller motivations to avoiding common Florida land pitfalls, you’ll get sharp insights and a few laughs as they navigate everything from floodplains to relationship jokes. 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Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit crack the code: it's all in the daily routine. But forget rigid schedules; this episode dives into the why behind a structured day, revealing how it's not just about tasks, but about aligning your business with your life's purpose. Get ready to ditch the overwhelm as Jack and Jill share their hard-earned wisdom on building a daily rhythm that fuels both your land ventures and your personal well-being. This isn't just about calendars; it's about creating a sustainable, joyful, and profitable land business.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder why some land investors seem to glide through deals while others are constantly firefighting? Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit crack the code: it's all in the daily routine. But forget rigid schedules; this episode dives into the why behind a structured day, revealing how it's not just about tasks, but about aligning your business with your life's purpose. Get ready to ditch the overwhelm as Jack and Jill share their hard-earned wisdom on building a daily rhythm that fuels both your land ventures and your personal well-being. 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In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit tackle the biggest land investing time-wasters that can sabotage your success. Discover the common pitfalls that drain your productivity and learn actionable strategies to streamline your processes. From the beginning to the end of your deals, we'll pinpoint where time leaks occur and how to plug them. Stop spinning your wheels and start achieving real results by focusing on what truly moves the needle.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you ready to reclaim your time and maximize your profits in land investing? In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit tackle the biggest land investing time-wasters that can sabotage your success. Discover the common pitfalls that drain your productivity and learn actionable strategies to streamline your processes. From the beginning to the end of your deals, we'll pinpoint where time leaks occur and how to plug them. 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This episode dives into the critical skill of handling seller calls. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit reveal the most common pitfalls investors make and provide actionable strategies to transform your approach. Learn how to build rapport, ask the right questions, and position yourself for successful negotiations. Stop losing out on opportunities and start closing more deals by mastering the art of the seller call.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you know the number one mistake that could be costing you real estate deals? This episode dives into the critical skill of handling seller calls. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit reveal the most common pitfalls investors make and provide actionable strategies to transform your approach. Learn how to build rapport, ask the right questions, and position yourself for successful negotiations. 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Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit tackle that question head-on, diving into the realities of generating wealth through land investing. Together, they debunk the idea of truly passive income in this industry, while revealing the powerful potential of scaling land deals. Tune in as Jack and Jill explore how achieving millionaire status is possible with a strategic approach and a focus on completing 10-15 deals per year.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is "passive income" in land deals a myth? Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit tackle that question head-on, diving into the realities of generating wealth through land investing. Together, they debunk the idea of truly passive income in this industry, while revealing the powerful potential of scaling land deals. 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It also requires discipline, consistency, and commitment to do the hard work. Steven Jack Butala sits down with Land Academy Ambassador Karl who exemplifies all of these characteristics. He shares how his entrepreneurial background in construction helps him win big in real estate, which mainly focuses on maintaining a rhythm in every step of the business process. Karl also opens up about what it is like to work in land business with his wife Samantha and looks back on the first deals they closed as a duo.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Land business success is more than simply knowing the best locations, the most profitable properties, and the right clients to close deals with. It also requires discipline, consistency, and commitment to do the hard work. Steven Jack Butala sits down with Land Academy Ambassador Karl who exemplifies all of these characteristics. 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Karl also opens up about what it is like to work in land business with his wife Samantha and looks back on the first deals they closed as a duo.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/31/securing-land-business-success-with-karl]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gQ_CCmZaE</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/120a65c8-1d57-497d-96dc-bff25abc05ac/liqd9ignh.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fe2556fe-4872-41a2-bcb1-3bd8f15382f6.mp3" length="37959668" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2159</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2159</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why A Mindset Shift Is Crucial For Success In Land Investing</title><itunes:title>Why A Mindset Shift Is Crucial For Success In Land Investing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>If you're feeling stuck or unsure about your path to success, it's time for a mindset shift. Today, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into the mindset shift you need to succeed in land investing. It's the perfect topic to wrap up the week, as mindset plays such a crucial role in success, not just in land investing but in any professional endeavor. As Jack and Jill share, it's about believing in the process and overcoming obstacles with determination. In this episode, they discuss how getting out of your own way and trusting the system can make all the difference. Dive into this episode and let Jack and Jill rewire your brain for success!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you're feeling stuck or unsure about your path to success, it's time for a mindset shift. Today, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into the mindset shift you need to succeed in land investing. It's the perfect topic to wrap up the week, as mindset plays such a crucial role in success, not just in land investing but in any professional endeavor. As Jack and Jill share, it's about believing in the process and overcoming obstacles with determination. In this episode, they discuss how getting out of your own way and trusting the system can make all the difference. Dive into this episode and let Jack and Jill rewire your brain for success!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/28/why-a-mindset-shift-is-crucial-for-success-in-land-investing]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">AwyASXdaD</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/5f1b17dc-98f3-4fed-be12-6ea13ccff64b/h0aanndsa.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cfd31076-6803-4cda-9d43-ab2a33b5d2a3.mp3" length="20483413" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2158</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2158</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Outsmart A Slower Land Market And Stay Profitable</title><itunes:title>How To Outsmart A Slower Land Market And Stay Profitable</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In a slower land market, smart investors know that adaptability is the key to success. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into a crucial topic for land investors: how to stay profitable in a slower land market. With the market shifting and more properties available than ever, they share their insights on navigating these changes, making smart acquisitions, and ensuring profitability despite the challenges. Drawing from years of experience, including multiple market cycles, Jack and Jill break down the strategies that work and the key mistakes to avoid. Ready to learn the rhythm of a slower market and dance your way to success? Let’s jump in and make those smart moves!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a slower land market, smart investors know that adaptability is the key to success. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into a crucial topic for land investors: how to stay profitable in a slower land market. With the market shifting and more properties available than ever, they share their insights on navigating these changes, making smart acquisitions, and ensuring profitability despite the challenges. Drawing from years of experience, including multiple market cycles, Jack and Jill break down the strategies that work and the key mistakes to avoid. Ready to learn the rhythm of a slower market and dance your way to success? Let’s jump in and make those smart moves!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/27/how-to-outsmart-a-slower-land-market-and-stay-profitable]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pMUhJcc-s</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a4d08d1e-c947-4851-947f-5264920c2896/tdm2jry52.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fa867e8b-1fba-4337-86dd-74cdb0a0190f.mp3" length="19452355" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2157</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2157</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Starting A Land Business From Scratch: A 2025 Strategy</title><itunes:title>Starting A Land Business From Scratch: A 2025 Strategy</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>The landscape of business is ever-evolving, and the land industry is no exception. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss how they would approach building a land business from scratch if they were starting in 2025. They delve into the strategies, tools, and mindset necessary to thrive in the future of land investing. Join Jack and Jill as they share their insights on outsourcing, adaptation, and leveraging current trends to create a successful land business.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The landscape of business is ever-evolving, and the land industry is no exception. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss how they would approach building a land business from scratch if they were starting in 2025. They delve into the strategies, tools, and mindset necessary to thrive in the future of land investing. Join Jack and Jill as they share their insights on outsourcing, adaptation, and leveraging current trends to create a successful land business.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/26/starting-a-land-business-from-scratch-a-2025-strategy]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gA3LH-dCV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/52a45289-e4f2-460a-841e-871d2b5c39a3/oih4pklfd.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4efc61d8-54b5-4c13-9dbd-270e4ca7811d.mp3" length="22670395" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2156</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2156</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Stop Everything And Adopt This Land Investing Habit</title><itunes:title>Stop Everything And Adopt This Land Investing Habit</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Success in land investing hinges on more than just finding deals; it requires a strong foundation of effective business habits. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the single best business habit for land investors that can truly make a difference. They share insights on developing and improving your land business. Jill and Jack then answer a question from the Land Academy member Discord forum who asks how they got over focusing on just getting the first deal done versus all the other organizational stuff needed.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Success in land investing hinges on more than just finding deals; it requires a strong foundation of effective business habits. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the single best business habit for land investors that can truly make a difference. They share insights on developing and improving your land business. Jill and Jack then answer a question from the Land Academy member Discord forum who asks how they got over focusing on just getting the first deal done versus all the other organizational stuff needed.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/25/stop-everything-and-adopt-this-land-investing-habit]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8ote5rrGp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/0f12671c-e03f-4c5b-baf3-4ba0c7e9403d/rxc3cuzuu.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/575dc7fd-f982-4754-a6df-f891fe887e39.mp3" length="17241493" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2155</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2155</podcast:episode></item><item><title>16,000+ Transactions Later: Lessons We Wish We Knew Sooner</title><itunes:title>16,000+ Transactions Later: Lessons We Wish We Knew Sooner</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>The journey of an entrepreneur is paved with challenges, successes, and invaluable lessons learned along the way. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit reflect on their experiences from over 16,000 transactions, delving into the crucial elements of an entrepreneurial mindset. They share insights on why cultivating the right mindset, embracing change, and understanding the competitive landscape are just as important as the technical skills of any business. Join Jack and Jill as they discuss what they wish they had known sooner and how these lessons shaped their path.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The journey of an entrepreneur is paved with challenges, successes, and invaluable lessons learned along the way. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit reflect on their experiences from over 16,000 transactions, delving into the crucial elements of an entrepreneurial mindset. They share insights on why cultivating the right mindset, embracing change, and understanding the competitive landscape are just as important as the technical skills of any business. Join Jack and Jill as they discuss what they wish they had known sooner and how these lessons shaped their path.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/24/16000-transactions-later-lessons-we-wish-we-knew-sooner]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lDm9LCwuW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/75a9f12d-f43d-46d3-93b7-53f2f826a7f3/5bo63dyi3.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3525f21f-ccbb-499d-96bd-17a3a32281ef.mp3" length="20918039" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2154</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2154</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Academy Education Program: The Real Catch You Need To Know</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Education Program: The Real Catch You Need To Know</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Let's cut to the chase. You're wondering, “What’s the catch to the Land Academy Education Program?” In episode 2153, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> are laying it all out. They're not hiding behind jargon.&nbsp;They're talking real numbers, real strategies, and real support. They're showing you how their program is built for success, and here's the truth: they're not just happy with your enrollment. They want your results. Want the unfiltered truth? This episode is it!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let's cut to the chase. You're wondering, “What’s the catch to the Land Academy Education Program?” In episode 2153, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> are laying it all out. They're not hiding behind jargon.&nbsp;They're talking real numbers, real strategies, and real support. They're showing you how their program is built for success, and here's the truth: they're not just happy with your enrollment. They want your results. Want the unfiltered truth? This episode is it!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/21/land-academy-education-program-the-real-catch-you-need-to-know]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">rkykxzhpp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4239efa2-b6fc-4768-b8cb-b68d814ac3c9/p8hcqjzwr.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b829db4a-b31d-4c31-baa4-d5885dc81553.mp3" length="16642189" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2153</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2153</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Land Investing Without Surprises: Hidden Costs, Smart Strategies, And How To Stay Profitable</title><itunes:title>Land Investing Without Surprises: Hidden Costs, Smart Strategies, And How To Stay Profitable</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 2152, where <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> pull back the curtain on the hidden costs of land investing—and more importantly, how to avoid them. If you think buying land for $50K and selling it for $100K means a clean $50K profit, think again. Tune in as they dive into fixed vs. variable costs, why keeping overhead low is your secret weapon, and how smart investors bake every expense into their deals. Plus, they tackle a question from Ben about setting realistic profit margins and quitting your day job for full-time land investing. Don’t miss this one—it’s all about keeping more money in your pocket!&nbsp;</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 2152, where <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a> pull back the curtain on the hidden costs of land investing—and more importantly, how to avoid them. If you think buying land for $50K and selling it for $100K means a clean $50K profit, think again. Tune in as they dive into fixed vs. variable costs, why keeping overhead low is your secret weapon, and how smart investors bake every expense into their deals. Plus, they tackle a question from Ben about setting realistic profit margins and quitting your day job for full-time land investing. Don’t miss this one—it’s all about keeping more money in your pocket!&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/20/land-investing-without-surprises-hidden-costs-smart-strategies-and-how-to-stay-profitable]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">NYF3DGh2p</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a1a67b3c-2c9d-4bc2-a6a7-50ad4910ce42/zhwq7vwrk.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f9707baa-c502-4653-9227-e3736da14b92.mp3" length="12593093" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>08:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2152</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2152</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Partnering Vs. Going Solo In Your Land Business: Which Is Better?</title><itunes:title>Partnering Vs. 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Jack shares how teaming up with Jill skyrocketed their business, turning stagnant inventory into sold properties almost overnight. They discuss the value of complementary skill sets, how partnerships can accelerate success, and why the wrong partner can drag you down. 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In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit share their insights from 30+ years in the industry, revealing what it really takes to weather market changes and keep your business thriving long-term. They break down why some land investors burn out, how to pivot when strategies stop working, and why your mindset is just as important as your mailing strategy. Whether you’re facing competition, market shifts, or just a rough year, this episode is packed with hard-won wisdom to help you stay the course and keep building wealth.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Building a sustainable land business takes more than just knowing how to buy and sell property — it takes resilience, adaptability, and a willingness to evolve. In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit share their insights from 30+ years in the industry, revealing what it really takes to weather market changes and keep your business thriving long-term. They break down why some land investors burn out, how to pivot when strategies stop working, and why your mindset is just as important as your mailing strategy. Whether you’re facing competition, market shifts, or just a rough year, this episode is packed with hard-won wisdom to help you stay the course and keep building wealth.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/18/adapting-thriving-and-building-a-sustainable-land-business]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tQtun8M7G</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/546e325c-6eaa-4c2b-aff3-083afe574ea5/gtyunicvk.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bf1b7a27-d220-4e76-98ef-afd13fbb242b.mp3" length="22423199" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2150</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2150</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Why Land Investing Is Simpler Than Other Real Estate Models</title><itunes:title>Why Land Investing Is Simpler Than Other Real Estate Models</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>There are different real estate models you could put your money into, but land investing is arguably much simpler than the rest. 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Tune in as they share valuable insights on shaping the right mindset, dealing with setbacks, and finding motivation in even the smallest wins.&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/13/staying-motivated-when-results-are-a-bit-slow]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">xOP42HhGD</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/abddd43e-594c-41cf-a122-4eea289a0588/8mx-d9aye.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a62e85f3-0720-493a-aeb3-813a60bdf715.mp3" length="21543404" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2147</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2147</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Common Mistakes Newbie Investors Make (And How To Fix Them)</title><itunes:title>Common Mistakes Newbie Investors Make (And How To Fix Them)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Most new land investors make the same critical mistakes and they do not even realize it. 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Do not miss out on your chance to capitalize on this unique market moment!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/11/top-reasons-to-sell-land-below-market-value]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dVOrZJSix</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/07079ccc-f0d9-4154-a0bb-5c79bd7655bd/jg5idtvdi.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/681d35d3-61c5-402b-87d4-27d0b9ccaddf.mp3" length="19971547" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2145</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2145</podcast:episode></item><item><title>The 8 A&apos;s Of Due Diligence: What You Should Really Focus On</title><itunes:title>The 8 A&apos;s Of Due Diligence: What You Should Really Focus On</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Think you can skip due diligence in the land market? Think again! Mastering due diligence is non-negotiable for success. Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they dissect the 8 A’s of real estate due diligence. Stop throwing darts in the dark! Time to conduct meticulous due diligence and make acquisitions that shatter your expectations.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think you can skip due diligence in the land market? Think again! Mastering due diligence is non-negotiable for success. Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they dissect the 8 A’s of real estate due diligence. Stop throwing darts in the dark! 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In this Jill Friday episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit revisit a classic episode featuring Jill’s personal experience with a land mailer panic. They discuss the common triggers for panic, the emotional and financial consequences, and the strategies for staying calm and focused in the face of unexpected challenges. Discover how to avoid land mailer panic, make rational decisions, and navigate the ups and downs of land investing with confidence.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world of land investing can be a rollercoaster of emotions, and sometimes, panic sets in. In this Jill Friday episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit revisit a classic episode featuring Jill’s personal experience with a land mailer panic. They discuss the common triggers for panic, the emotional and financial consequences, and the strategies for staying calm and focused in the face of unexpected challenges. Discover how to avoid land mailer panic, make rational decisions, and navigate the ups and downs of land investing with confidence.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/03/07/jill-friday-what-land-mailer-panic-taught-me]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hPe-APJSv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/54a4944f-4e8f-45a6-94cf-5d5d7d19664b/q5qoa7yty.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/45b123c3-d30c-4ca2-bd31-4206c10f19e0.mp3" length="15710049" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2143</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2143</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Starting Your Land Business: Master The Essentials For Lasting Success</title><itunes:title>Starting Your Land Business: Master The Essentials For Lasting Success</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ready to kickstart your land business but unsure where to begin? 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In this episode of the <a href="https://landacademy.com/category/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land Academy Show</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;break down the five essential phases of building your real estate empire — starting with mastering the basics of your land business. From pricing strategies to streamlining operations, they share decades of experience buying and selling land since the '90s. Whether you're stuck on choosing a business name, navigating comps, or putting your deals on autopilot, this is the perfect first step to build a profitable and sustainable land business. 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Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit as they discuss the latest technological advancements that are revolutionizing the way land is bought, sold, and managed. Discover the power of digital platforms, data analytics, and automation in streamlining processes, improving decision-making, and maximizing returns. 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In this episode,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Steven Jack Butala</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jill DeWit</a>&nbsp;dive into the balance between data and instinct in land investing, revealing why both are essential for making smart, profitable decisions. Learn how to use data-driven strategies while trusting your gut to navigate deals, negotiate with sellers, and choose the right markets. Whether you’re a numbers-driven investor or rely on intuition, this episode will help you refine your approach and close better deals. 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It all starts with the red-yellow-green test—a data-driven approach that takes the guesswork out of land investing. In this episode, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-butala-39853916" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Steven Jack Butala</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dewit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Jill DeWit</a> break down the science behind this powerful tool, explaining how it helps pinpoint high-demand areas, avoid slow-moving markets, and maximize returns. If you're tired of throwing darts at a map and hoping for the best, this is the episode for you. Tune in and learn how to use data to make smarter investment decisions!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder how seasoned land investors choose the perfect county to send mail? It all starts with the red-yellow-green test—a data-driven approach that takes the guesswork out of land investing. 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Tune in and learn how to use data to make smarter investment decisions!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2025/02/17/the-red-yellow-green-test-picking-the-best-counties-for-land-investing]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d7JzPVqxA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c22d0850-a281-4c38-b1da-62c5ef9d6532/jnczxlx1c.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/39e77361-f9c0-4e45-b535-6611d8a564fc.mp3" length="16478126" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2129</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2129</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How Blind Offers Can Make Or Break Your Real Estate Success</title><itunes:title>How Blind Offers Can Make Or Break Your Real Estate Success</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Sending blind offers consistently can make or break your success in real estate. 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Tune in to learn how to prepare for the 2025 real estate market adjustment and make informed investment decisions.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/12/18/2025-real-estate-market-prep-step-3-analyzing-local-markets-driving-for-dumpsters]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">WG6s8FVOC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/447f726c-0f6a-4bf4-9163-1d9bdb190675/ghodelyfh.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/50379ca1-26df-4264-8695-b0deab89c069.mp3" length="17581224" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2086</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2086</podcast:episode></item><item><title>2025 Real Estate Market Prep: Step 2 - Securing An Equity Source Of Capital</title><itunes:title>2025 Real Estate Market Prep: Step 2 - Securing An Equity Source Of Capital</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 2085! 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Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit&nbsp;on The Land Academy Show as they dive into what they believe is an inevitable market correction in 2025. From declining new home sales to concessions made by builders in areas like Phoenix and the Southwest, the signs are all around us. This week, they arm you with a step-by-step plan to prepare for the shifting market—whether you're new to real estate or a seasoned pro.</p><p><br></p><p>Today's episode kicks off the series with the critical first step: learning how to leverage reliable information and analytics to make informed decisions. Tune in to discover how to avoid guessing, act strategically, and position yourself for success in a changing market. Stay ahead of the curve—because while others panic, you'll be ready to profit.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you ready for the upcoming real estate price adjustment? Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit&nbsp;on The Land Academy Show as they dive into what they believe is an inevitable market correction in 2025. From declining new home sales to concessions made by builders in areas like Phoenix and the Southwest, the signs are all around us. This week, they arm you with a step-by-step plan to prepare for the shifting market—whether you're new to real estate or a seasoned pro.</p><p><br></p><p>Today's episode kicks off the series with the critical first step: learning how to leverage reliable information and analytics to make informed decisions. Tune in to discover how to avoid guessing, act strategically, and position yourself for success in a changing market. 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Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit tackle this common problem with practical advice, from automating your process to finding a partner with complementary skills. They then dive deep into the surprising opportunities in today's construction industry, where high interest rates have created a unique situation: you can buy existing houses for less than it would cost to build them! Learn how to capitalize on this "upside-down" market and why construction costs are the real culprit behind the lack of affordable housing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ever feel overwhelmed by the idea of consistently sending out real estate mailers? Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit tackle this common problem with practical advice, from automating your process to finding a partner with complementary skills. They then dive deep into the surprising opportunities in today's construction industry, where high interest rates have created a unique situation: you can buy existing houses for less than it would cost to build them! 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Not if you do it right! In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit tackle the myth that real estate investment is inherently risky, offering practical strategies for minimizing risk and maximizing returns. They explore the importance of due diligence, market research, and leveraging data to make informed decisions. They also discuss the benefits of surrounding yourself with a supportive community, such as the Land Academy network, to gain valuable insights and avoid costly mistakes. Discover how you can confidently navigate the real estate market, reduce your risk exposure, and achieve your investment goals with greater peace of mind.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is real estate investing risky? Not if you do it right! In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit tackle the myth that real estate investment is inherently risky, offering practical strategies for minimizing risk and maximizing returns. 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Today, we’re kicking off a myth-busting series on real estate investment, starting with the big one: Buying and selling land is easy. Spoiler alert—it’s not. Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they dive into why real estate success takes more than just enthusiasm—it takes education, strategy, and a willingness to put in the work. Along the way, they’ll share hard-earned insights and tackle your questions, including a deep dive into the murky world of title insurance. Ready to dispel the myths and get real about what it takes to succeed in land investing? Let’s get started.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think buying and selling land is as easy as HGTV makes it look? Think again. Today, we’re kicking off a myth-busting series on real estate investment, starting with the big one: Buying and selling land is easy. Spoiler alert—it’s not. 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Jack Butala and Jill DeWit present five critical questions you need to ask yourself before attempting to create more wealth in this particular space. From determining your personal goals, identifying your motivations, to understanding its overall impact on your life, gain valuable perspectives on making this business highly sustainable and profitable for you.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If wealth creation is what you are planning to do in the land investment business, this is the perfect discussion for you. Jack Butala and Jill DeWit present five critical questions you need to ask yourself before attempting to create more wealth in this particular space. 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In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit explore the crucial mindset shifts needed to create real wealth in your land investment business. They dive into the importance of cultivating a 'business as usual' mentality, embracing calculated risks, and visualizing your success. They discuss the power of unemotional decision-making, emphasizing the need to approach land investing with a clear and focused perspective. Tune in and discover how aligning your mindset with wealth creation can unlock your potential for financial freedom and success in the land investing world.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Land investing wealth is a mindset, not just a number. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit explore the crucial mindset shifts needed to create real wealth in your land investment business. They dive into the importance of cultivating a 'business as usual' mentality, embracing calculated risks, and visualizing your success. They discuss the power of unemotional decision-making, emphasizing the need to approach land investing with a clear and focused perspective. 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This episode is packed with valuable insights to boost your bottom line. 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They reveal the truth about the potential profits (and pitfalls!), why tax liens and tax deeds aren’t a “get rich quick” scheme, and the insider secrets to navigating the legal maze and doing your due diligence. If you're serious about land investing, you NEED to hear Jack and Jill's candid advice from their 30+ years in the game. 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From managing complex financing deals to pivoting to high-cash sales, hear how she leveraged her digital expertise to scale her investment success. 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Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit for a week-long journey into the five phases of building your land business empire! In Monday's episode, they tackle the crucial first step: nailing down the basics. Jack covers the technical aspects, while Jill brings her creative flair to the conversation about making impactful real estate deals. Discover how to establish your brand, automate your operations, and navigate industry shifts, all while gaining practical insights to propel your success in the land business. Don’t miss this engaging series designed to inspire and inform your real estate ambitions!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first step towards building a thriving land business empire is nailing down the basics. Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit for a week-long journey into the five phases of building your land business empire! In Monday's episode, they tackle the crucial first step: nailing down the basics. Jack covers the technical aspects, while Jill brings her creative flair to the conversation about making impactful real estate deals. Discover how to establish your brand, automate your operations, and navigate industry shifts, all while gaining practical insights to propel your success in the land business. Don’t miss this engaging series designed to inspire and inform your real estate ambitions!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/10/28/starting-your-land-business-the-basics-you-need-to-master]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Q_8IyHiwX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/7aef79fc-b398-49bf-8fe0-334dfdf6d59d/4imi0wtw.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a10ef7ee-2757-409a-8f9e-f90249506177.mp3" length="23999032" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2049</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2049</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Start To Finish 5: The Land Selling Process</title><itunes:title>Start To Finish 5: The Land Selling Process</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Jack and Jill dive into the final phase of the land investment journey: land selling. 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Tune in to discover how you can simplify the land selling process and close your next deal with confidence.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/10/25/start-to-finish-5-the-land-selling-process]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JgRno36pU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/b2eea8f6-f16d-4fea-9663-0f00ae21707a/hr2gj3reu.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a7a9f5e8-785d-430e-abd5-3b5d5eba948a.mp3" length="12228232" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2048</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2048</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Start To Finish 4: Land Purchase Strategies To Maximize Profits</title><itunes:title>Start To Finish 4: Land Purchase Strategies To Maximize Profits</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, we dive into the exciting world of land purchase and what it takes to acquire a property successfully. Jack and Jill guide you through the key steps in the land-buying process, from evaluating deals to securing the best opportunities. Whether you're a seasoned land investor or just starting, you'll learn valuable tips and insights to help you make smarter land investments. Join us as we explore how to navigate the complexities of buying property and set yourself up for a profitable transaction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, we dive into the exciting world of land purchase and what it takes to acquire a property successfully. Jack and Jill guide you through the key steps in the land-buying process, from evaluating deals to securing the best opportunities. Whether you're a seasoned land investor or just starting, you'll learn valuable tips and insights to help you make smarter land investments. Join us as we explore how to navigate the complexities of buying property and set yourself up for a profitable transaction.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/10/24/start-to-finish-4-land-purchase-strategies-to-maximize-profits]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">VCpEPCop2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/64057466-3fe5-48d2-a81a-f6c039d51caf/gzmqvedds.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d67cef68-b4c2-4994-89b7-8352ffd3f904.mp3" length="19967771" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2047</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2047</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Start To Finish 3: From No Deal To Real Deal A.K.A How To Answer The Phone</title><itunes:title>Start To Finish 3: From No Deal To Real Deal A.K.A How To Answer The Phone</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Creating a land deal where there was none starts with a simple phone call. In episode 2046, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the fascinating process of creating a land deal where there initially seemed to be none, sharing their expert strategies for reaching out to sellers. This involves sending out mailers, effectively answering phone calls from interested sellers, and negotiating deals quickly. Additionally, they introduce their upcoming Career Path 10 program, designed for ambitious investors looking to elevate their game. Join them for insights on transforming potential into profit in the land investment space!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Creating a land deal where there was none starts with a simple phone call. In episode 2046, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the fascinating process of creating a land deal where there initially seemed to be none, sharing their expert strategies for reaching out to sellers. This involves sending out mailers, effectively answering phone calls from interested sellers, and negotiating deals quickly. Additionally, they introduce their upcoming Career Path 10 program, designed for ambitious investors looking to elevate their game. Join them for insights on transforming potential into profit in the land investment space!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/10/23/start-to-finish-3-from-no-deal-to-real-deal-a-k-a-how-to-answer-the-phone]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">N36CsTljZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/320dcfb8-a075-4f6e-93bf-f0685d864777/2bcwftcg.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/555a6b7f-e391-4382-9991-aac882626b2a.mp3" length="22310894" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2046</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2046</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Start To Finish 2: Smart Strategies For Pricing And Sending Land Mailers</title><itunes:title>Start To Finish 2: Smart Strategies For Pricing And Sending Land Mailers</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mastering the art of pricing and sending your land mailer is essential for maximizing your real estate investment returns. 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In this episode of our five-part series, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into the essential strategies for pricing and sending your land mailer to engage landowners and unlock real estate opportunities. Building on Monday’s discussion about setting land acquisition criteria, this episode delves into the intricacies of crafting a compelling mailer. They also tackle common misconceptions about the process, highlighting the value of experience and strategic planning. 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In this episode, we take you through the entire process of buying and reselling a piece of land, focusing on setting your acquisition criteria and finding the best places to send your mailers. Hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive into how to use data—not guesses—to locate profitable areas and create a solid plan for land investment. From dealing with unexpected challenges, like natural disasters, to setting realistic financial goals, this episode is packed with expert tips on how to succeed in land acquisition. Whether you're just starting or ready to scale, this episode will give you the framework to build a profitable land business.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you buy great land deals without guessing? In this episode, we take you through the entire process of buying and reselling a piece of land, focusing on setting your acquisition criteria and finding the best places to send your mailers. Hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive into how to use data—not guesses—to locate profitable areas and create a solid plan for land investment. From dealing with unexpected challenges, like natural disasters, to setting realistic financial goals, this episode is packed with expert tips on how to succeed in land acquisition. Whether you're just starting or ready to scale, this episode will give you the framework to build a profitable land business.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/10/21/start-to-finish-1-setting-your-land-acquisition-criteria-and-mailer-strategies]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RSBz9Pvi-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/02b4356d-7388-41d0-9aad-0762306eb037/jslvzfowk.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5149178a-0650-4b97-a82f-e3504a64aba7.mp3" length="20107168" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2044</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2044</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Alive, Abundance And Afraid: Making The 8 A’s Work For You And Your Land Business</title><itunes:title>Alive, Abundance And Afraid: Making The 8 A’s Work For You And Your Land Business</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive deep into the essentials of land acquisitions. They discuss the "8 A's" framework, focusing on the importance of being "Alive, Abundant, and Afraid" when evaluating potential land deals. Whether you're new to land investing or looking to refine your acquisition strategy, this episode will guide you through critical factors for success. Tune in to learn how to make smarter decisions in your land business and avoid common pitfalls.</span></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive deep into the essentials of land acquisitions. They discuss the "8 A's" framework, focusing on the importance of being "Alive, Abundant, and Afraid" when evaluating potential land deals. Whether you're new to land investing or looking to refine your acquisition strategy, this episode will guide you through critical factors for success. 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In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit break down the importance of acreage—one of the eight A’s in their proven due diligence process. They dive into why larger parcels of land can offer unique opportunities for profit, how to ensure you’re getting the right acreage, and what to look for when evaluating potential deals. Whether it’s 5 or 10 acres, they explain how acreage influences value and marketability. Tune in to learn how to spot opportunities in land size and make informed decisions for your land business.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is bigger really better when it comes to land investing? In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit break down the importance of acreage—one of the eight A’s in their proven due diligence process. They dive into why larger parcels of land can offer unique opportunities for profit, how to ensure you’re getting the right acreage, and what to look for when evaluating potential deals. 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In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive deep into the concept of "Affordable" as one of the eight As of due diligence. They share how these eight As, developed through years of experience, can help you evaluate and determine whether a property is worth buying. This time, they focus specifically on the "Affordable" aspect—how to assess if a deal makes financial sense and how to negotiate the best price. They also discuss why having a solid acquisition criteria template is key to removing emotion from your investment decisions and making confident, data-driven choices. Tune in to gain insights that will help you make smart, profitable land deals</span></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How do you know if a land deal is truly affordable? In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive deep into the concept of "Affordable" as one of the eight As of due diligence. They share how these eight As, developed through years of experience, can help you evaluate and determine whether a property is worth buying. This time, they focus specifically on the "Affordable" aspect—how to assess if a deal makes financial sense and how to negotiate the best price. They also discuss why having a solid acquisition criteria template is key to removing emotion from your investment decisions and making confident, data-driven choices. 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Whether you're buying property with no physical access or looking to add value to a parcel of land by establishing access, this episode offers valuable insights. Jack and Jill break down the steps to secure land access, the impact on property value, and common challenges you might face. Tune in to discover how to approach land access issues confidently and strategically.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive deep into one of the most crucial aspects of land deals: land access. Whether you're buying property with no physical access or looking to add value to a parcel of land by establishing access, this episode offers valuable insights. Jack and Jill break down the steps to secure land access, the impact on property value, and common challenges you might face. 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This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to navigate the real estate landscape confidently.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/09/18/choosing-real-estate-markets-in-2024/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RMt9dfziH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/75f81dec-c9fe-4b6b-895b-cdce504c9ae3/evmm2crd.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1bb557f2-23cf-41f7-9db5-3065499af3bc.mp3" length="31954451" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2023</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2023</podcast:episode></item><item><title>From Beginner To Legacy: The Life Cycle Of A Land Academy Member</title><itunes:title>From Beginner To Legacy: The Life Cycle Of A Land Academy Member</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>From proof of concept to building a legacy, every land investor’s journey is unique. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit walk us through the stages of being a Land Academy member, filled with humorous banter and practical insights. Whether you’re just getting started or scaling to advanced deals, they break down the life cycle of land investing—from sending your first mailers to creating a system that sustains your real estate lifestyle. With questions from listeners about data pulling and mailing strategies, this episode is packed with tips to help you succeed at any phase of your land investment career. Tune in for an entertaining and informative ride!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From proof of concept to building a legacy, every land investor’s journey is unique. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit walk us through the stages of being a Land Academy member, filled with humorous banter and practical insights. Whether you’re just getting started or scaling to advanced deals, they break down the life cycle of land investing—from sending your first mailers to creating a system that sustains your real estate lifestyle. With questions from listeners about data pulling and mailing strategies, this episode is packed with tips to help you succeed at any phase of your land investment career. Tune in for an entertaining and informative ride!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/09/11/from-beginner-to-legacy-the-life-cycle-of-a-land-academy-member]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wBGThjrVH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/4a057dfd-b63f-41ae-8902-96398cb93eb3/bjwb0tbxq.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/aba5b2cc-6fdd-4b2f-85cd-aae6ceea90a0.mp3" length="44894179" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2022</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2022</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Identifying Pricing Breakpoints In Real Estate</title><itunes:title>Identifying Pricing Breakpoints In Real Estate</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into the concept of the real estate breakpoint—an essential strategy for finding the sweet spot in pricing within any market. Discover how understanding the pricing breakpoint can help you make smarter investment decisions, whether you're dealing with houses, land, or other property types. This episode offers insights and tips to help you navigate the complexities of real estate pricing and leverage this knowledge to your advantage. Tune in as Steven and Jill share their expertise on how to identify and capitalize on breakpoints in your target markets.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit dive into the concept of the real estate breakpoint—an essential strategy for finding the sweet spot in pricing within any market. Discover how understanding the pricing breakpoint can help you make smarter investment decisions, whether you're dealing with houses, land, or other property types. This episode offers insights and tips to help you navigate the complexities of real estate pricing and leverage this knowledge to your advantage. Tune in as Steven and Jill share their expertise on how to identify and capitalize on breakpoints in your target markets.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/09/04/identifying-pricing-breakpoints-in-real-estate/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">C4g2biN6u</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/e7c49aaa-ba3e-4a30-8170-e17525fa9093/w7dxripcq.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/162685dc-a5a7-4709-930f-06c77846a4b8.mp3" length="34357481" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2021</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2021</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Create Irresistible Real Estate Deals That Wow</title><itunes:title>Create Irresistible Real Estate Deals That Wow</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In today’s competitive real estate market, standing out requires more than just good pricing. In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit tackle the topic of creating irresistible real estate deals. They explore the essential components that make a real estate deal stand out, including strategic pricing, unique attributes, and the importance of location. They emphasize the importance of understanding the market, conducting thorough research, and having clear acquisition criteria to identify and acquire these lucrative deals. This episode provides valuable insights on how to generate and capitalize on profitable opportunities in the market.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today’s competitive real estate market, standing out requires more than just good pricing. In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit tackle the topic of creating irresistible real estate deals. They explore the essential components that make a real estate deal stand out, including strategic pricing, unique attributes, and the importance of location. They emphasize the importance of understanding the market, conducting thorough research, and having clear acquisition criteria to identify and acquire these lucrative deals. This episode provides valuable insights on how to generate and capitalize on profitable opportunities in the market.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/08/28/create-irresistible-real-estate-deals-that-wow/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2PANFmJvc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/f7b6bed6-1c2c-47d0-a687-23b8e2bbe009/kq5zmg5lp.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2df25df7-eef6-452f-b3a1-e375a548b2da.mp3" length="25105134" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>25:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2020</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2020</podcast:episode></item><item><title>5 Key Adjustments For Your Land Business In 2024-2025 </title><itunes:title>5 Key Adjustments For Your Land Business In 2024-2025 </itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit delve into how to adjust your land business for the evolving real estate environment in 2024 and 2025. As seasoned experts who have weathered multiple economic downturns, they share key strategies for adapting to market shifts, ensuring your business remains profitable and resilient. Tune in to discover the adjustments you need to make now to thrive in a changing landscape.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit delve into how to adjust your land business for the evolving real estate environment in 2024 and 2025. As seasoned experts who have weathered multiple economic downturns, they share key strategies for adapting to market shifts, ensuring your business remains profitable and resilient. Tune in to discover the adjustments you need to make now to thrive in a changing landscape.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/08/21/5-key-adjustments-for-your-land-business-in-2024-2025/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_N9AypO5s</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/a1521f17-e955-463e-b219-e387b2547b6b/rrw3w8qty.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7002ce08-404e-4625-ba48-133424ded7b3.mp3" length="46647806" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2019</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2019</podcast:episode></item><item><title>3 Types Of Blind Offers That Landowners Can&apos;t Refuse!</title><itunes:title>3 Types Of Blind Offers That Landowners Can&apos;t Refuse!</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Sending the right blind offer to the right landowner can be the game-changer that unlocks incredible opportunities. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive into the strategies behind crafting blind offers that deliver results. They break down the three different types, share insights from their extensive experience, and discuss what really works in today's competitive market. Whether you're new to the business or a seasoned pro, this episode is packed with actionable advice on how to refine your mailer tactics and close more deals. Tune in to discover the subtle art of making offers that land.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sending the right blind offer to the right landowner can be the game-changer that unlocks incredible opportunities. In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive into the strategies behind crafting blind offers that deliver results. They break down the three different types, share insights from their extensive experience, and discuss what really works in today's competitive market. Whether you're new to the business or a seasoned pro, this episode is packed with actionable advice on how to refine your mailer tactics and close more deals. Tune in to discover the subtle art of making offers that land.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/08/14/3-types-of-blind-offers-that-landowners-cant-refuse/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">73Gy53VwV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/35ced405-3760-4519-a3d3-f56026360286/ylaqfbjjj.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d4c03f6f-eef8-4693-bdad-160b9547ee68.mp3" length="23387123" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2018</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2018</podcast:episode></item><item><title>Surviving A Real Estate Recession Without An Acquisition Pipeline (LA 2017)</title><itunes:title>Surviving A Real Estate Recession Without An Acquisition Pipeline (LA 2017)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">In this episode of "The Land Academy Show,” hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit reveal their proven strategies for surviving a recession in the real estate market. They share their personal experiences of navigating tough economic times without a property acquisition pipeline, offering practical advice and key takeaways to prepare you and your land flipping business for economic downturns. Don't miss these valuable insights that can guide you in making informed decisions during challenging times. Tune in now to learn how to thrive in any market condition!</span></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">In this episode of "The Land Academy Show,” hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit reveal their proven strategies for surviving a recession in the real estate market. They share their personal experiences of navigating tough economic times without a property acquisition pipeline, offering practical advice and key takeaways to prepare you and your land flipping business for economic downturns. Don't miss these valuable insights that can guide you in making informed decisions during challenging times. Tune in now to learn how to thrive in any market condition!</span></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/08/07/surviving-a-real-estate-recession-without-an-acquisition-pipeline-la-2017]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2VW_B-etA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/2289da69-5cb1-4dd9-a421-3f4925a4670a/xyf1bms1z.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e99a3501-35f0-4411-a445-f1489e9ebcf6.mp3" length="34534111" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>30:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2017</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>2017</podcast:episode></item><item><title>How To Get Your First Land Flipping Deal in 30 Days (LA 2016)</title><itunes:title>How To Get Your First Land Flipping Deal in 30 Days (LA 2016)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this insightful episode, &#8220;How to Get Your First Land Flipping Deal in 30 Days,&#8221; they offer a deep dive into the competitive landscape of the land industry with an in-depth analysis of the numbers and break down a realistic timeline for closing your first deal flipping land. Don&#8217;t miss these actionable tips and essential information to jumpstart your land investing journey.</p>
<p>Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit have been teaching their land flipping methodologies since 2015 when they founded Land Academy. Having completed over 16,000 transactions (and counting!) since the 90s, they bring a wealth of experience to their educational land investing platform and share that knowledge each week on &#8220;The Land Academy Show&#8221; podcast.</p>
<p>Transcript: N/A</p>
<p>https://youtu.be/U4R7-a2ZvXQ</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>
]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this insightful episode, &#8220;How to Get Your First Land Flipping Deal in 30 Days,&#8221; they offer a deep dive into the competitive landscape of the land industry with an in-depth analysis of the numbers and break down a realistic timeline for closing your first deal flipping land. Don&#8217;t miss these actionable tips and essential information to jumpstart your land investing journey.</p>
<p>Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit have been teaching their land flipping methodologies since 2015 when they founded Land Academy. Having completed over 16,000 transactions (and counting!) since the 90s, they bring a wealth of experience to their educational land investing platform and share that knowledge each week on &#8220;The Land Academy Show&#8221; podcast.</p>
<p>Transcript: N/A</p>
<p>https://youtu.be/U4R7-a2ZvXQ</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>
]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/07/31/how-to-get-your-first-land-flipping-deal-in-30-days-la-2016/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">LFQSWiDzX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ef7b633c-b7dc-4d00-9354-0d20f1afb0c6.mp3" length="55418278" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>55:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Market Changes Demand We Expand Our Land Business To Flipping Houses (LA 2015)</title><itunes:title>Market Changes Demand We Expand Our Land Business To Flipping Houses (LA 2015)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In today’s episode, Market Changes Demand We Expand Our Land Business To Flipping Houses, Jack and Jill discuss why the current housing market trends make it the perfect time to expand their land business into buying and reselling houses. They emphasize the importance of using data to identify areas with excess demand for houses and a supply that has caught up with it. They also address questions from their Land Academy community, including whether to do a self-close or a title escrow close for a land purchase, and the importance of using a separate mailing address and phone line for business purposes. Tune in to get valuable insights and tips on ensuring your land investments are successful.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today’s episode, Market Changes Demand We Expand Our Land Business To Flipping Houses, Jack and Jill discuss why the current housing market trends make it the perfect time to expand their land business into buying and reselling houses. They emphasize the importance of using data to identify areas with excess demand for houses and a supply that has caught up with it. They also address questions from their Land Academy community, including whether to do a self-close or a title escrow close for a land purchase, and the importance of using a separate mailing address and phone line for business purposes. Tune in to get valuable insights and tips on ensuring your land investments are successful.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/07/24/market-changes-demand-we-expand-our-land-business-to-flipping-houses-la-2015/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">uOuC6acrm</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/efe93a04-c3b1-484b-9a28-23a064f40b7b.mp3" length="33412261" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Reasons Why Lack of Access Kills Land Deals (LA 2014)</title><itunes:title>3 Reasons Why Lack of Access Kills Land Deals (LA 2014)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, 3 Reasons Why Lack of Access Kills Land Deals, Jack Butala and Jill DeWit from Land Academy dive into the critical issue of property access and its impact on land deals. Discover the top 3 reasons why lack of access can make or break a deal, and learn from their decades of experience in the land business. Tune in to get valuable insights and tips on ensuring your land investments are successful.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, 3 Reasons Why Lack of Access Kills Land Deals, Jack Butala and Jill DeWit from Land Academy dive into the critical issue of property access and its impact on land deals. Discover the top 3 reasons why lack of access can make or break a deal, and learn from their decades of experience in the land business. Tune in to get valuable insights and tips on ensuring your land investments are successful.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/07/17/3-reasons-why-lack-of-access-kills-land-deals-la-2014/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">39HJtDqVg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ab322841-f33b-4aa0-bac7-181dd09b1082.mp3" length="38738622" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>40:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Success Story: $3 Million Dollars In 1 Year (LA 2013)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Success Story: $3 Million Dollars In 1 Year (LA 2013)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join us for an insightful interview with Josiah Ronco, $3 Million Dollars In 1 Year &#8211; Land Academy Success Story, an accomplished entrepreneur who achieved an impressive milestone last year. In this episode, Josiah shares his journey from overcoming early challenges to implementing effective strategies that drove his business to success.</p>
<p>Transcript: N/A</p>
<p>https://youtu.be/SIudCmnay3A</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>
]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us for an insightful interview with Josiah Ronco, $3 Million Dollars In 1 Year &#8211; Land Academy Success Story, an accomplished entrepreneur who achieved an impressive milestone last year. In this episode, Josiah shares his journey from overcoming early challenges to implementing effective strategies that drove his business to success.</p>
<p>Transcript: N/A</p>
<p>https://youtu.be/SIudCmnay3A</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>
]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/07/10/land-academy-success-story-3-million-dollars-in-1-year-la-2013/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">vUYKOWdim</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a12b945b-54bf-4bbd-b982-301e1e144c0d.mp3" length="38224380" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Ways to Deal with Competition in Your Land Business (LA 2012)</title><itunes:title>3 Ways to Deal with Competition in Your Land Business (LA 2012)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show with Jack Butala and Jill DeWit! In this episode, we dive into a hot topic that’s on everyone’s mind: 3 Ways to Deal with Competition in Your Land Business. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced land investor, competition is a reality we all face. Today, we discuss three key strategies to help you stay ahead and thrive in a competitive market.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show with Jack Butala and Jill DeWit! In this episode, we dive into a hot topic that’s on everyone’s mind: 3 Ways to Deal with Competition in Your Land Business. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced land investor, competition is a reality we all face. Today, we discuss three key strategies to help you stay ahead and thrive in a competitive market.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/07/03/3-ways-to-deal-with-competition-in-your-land-business-la-2012/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">je4RtIoxT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/55db1ff4-b1de-412b-91bf-987e4a1d831c.mp3" length="34141109" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Truth about Working with Your Spouse in the Land Business (LA 2011)</title><itunes:title>The Truth about Working with Your Spouse in the Land Business (LA 2011)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit on this week’s episode of “The Land Academy Show” as they dive into the realities of working with your spouse in the land business. They share personal anecdotes, practical tips, and the highs and lows of their journey together. From managing multi-property deals to balancing strengths and weaknesses, Jack and Jill offer valuable insights for any couple considering a business partnership. They highlight the importance of clear communication, mutual support, and the ability to navigate challenges together. Whether you’re already in business with your partner or just thinking about it, this episode provides a candid look at what it takes to succeed as a team in the land business.</p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit on this week’s episode of “The Land Academy Show” as they dive into the realities of working with your spouse in the land business. They share personal anecdotes, practical tips, and the highs and lows of their journey together. From managing multi-property deals to balancing strengths and weaknesses, Jack and Jill offer valuable insights for any couple considering a business partnership. They highlight the importance of clear communication, mutual support, and the ability to navigate challenges together. Whether you’re already in business with your partner or just thinking about it, this episode provides a candid look at what it takes to succeed as a team in the land business.</p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/06/26/the-truth-about-working-with-your-spouse-in-the-land-business-la-2011/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">E_6YLs3OK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ba58c0db-f894-4dac-a764-5098a8047d9c.mp3" length="42610143" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>44:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Success: Michelle Bridger&apos;s High-Dollar Deal Profits Revealed (LA 2010)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Success: Michelle Bridger&apos;s High-Dollar Deal Profits Revealed (LA 2010)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of “The Land Academy Show,” host Jill DeWit interviews Michelle Bridger, a successful female member of Land Academy. Michelle discusses her initial success with over 160 properties sold on terms, the challenges of scaling her business, and how joining Land Academy provided the solutions she needed. She highlights the impact of detailed training and expert advice from Land Academy, which helped her transition to larger, more profitable deals. Michelle also shares insights into being a female land investor, building rapport with clients, and strategies for evaluating properties.</p><p>
</p><p>Transcript: N/A</p><p>
</p><p>https://youtu.be/60Bjk9aMU4Y</p><p>
</p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p><p>
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of “The Land Academy Show,” host Jill DeWit interviews Michelle Bridger, a successful female member of Land Academy. Michelle discusses her initial success with over 160 properties sold on terms, the challenges of scaling her business, and how joining Land Academy provided the solutions she needed. She highlights the impact of detailed training and expert advice from Land Academy, which helped her transition to larger, more profitable deals. Michelle also shares insights into being a female land investor, building rapport with clients, and strategies for evaluating properties.</p><p>
</p><p>Transcript: N/A</p><p>
</p><p>https://youtu.be/60Bjk9aMU4Y</p><p>
</p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p><p>
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/06/19/land-academy-success-michelle-bridgers-high-dollar-deal-profits-revealed-la-2010/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9argIA6SW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/73625ab7-423b-47cc-98f5-c59d4b88fa22.mp3" length="52235348" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>53:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How To Manage Land Sellers Who Have Unrealistic Expectations (LA 2009)</title><itunes:title>How To Manage Land Sellers Who Have Unrealistic Expectations (LA 2009)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join hosts Jack Butala and Jill DeWit on this week’s episode of “The Land Academy Show” as they dive deep into the common challenge of dealing with land sellers who have unrealistic price expectations. From understanding the reasons behind inflated prices to strategic responses and effective negotiation techniques, this episode provides invaluable insights for anyone in the land investment business. Tune in as they share: real-world experiences, practical tips, and answers to questions from the Land Academy community.</p>
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<p>https://youtu.be/Wmm0hGTyXoM</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>
]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join hosts Jack Butala and Jill DeWit on this week’s episode of “The Land Academy Show” as they dive deep into the common challenge of dealing with land sellers who have unrealistic price expectations. From understanding the reasons behind inflated prices to strategic responses and effective negotiation techniques, this episode provides invaluable insights for anyone in the land investment business. Tune in as they share: real-world experiences, practical tips, and answers to questions from the Land Academy community.</p>
<p>Transcript: N/A</p>
<p>https://youtu.be/Wmm0hGTyXoM</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>
]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/06/12/how-to-manage-land-sellers-who-have-unrealistic-expectations-la-2009/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qThwXq-bK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/660701ef-7983-485b-8663-4a683b0fc63f.mp3" length="46865932" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>48:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Bei Zhang&apos;s Land Business Journey: Insights from a Land Academy Member (LA 2008)</title><itunes:title>Bei Zhang&apos;s Land Business Journey: Insights from a Land Academy Member (LA 2008)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join Jill DeWit and Land Academy Member Bei Zhang, as they share their real estate journey. They cover everything from their shared experiences, to Bei’s inspiring career transition. Explore their philosophy of living like you’re retired, while still working, with insights into business operations, goals, strategies and more. Hear personal stories, tips on balancing work with personal health, and reflections on their journey. Don’t miss this engaging conversation packed with valuable insights for real estate enthusiasts and entrepreneurs!</p><p>
</p><p>Transcript: N/A</p><p>
</p><p>https://youtu.be/8O_y66uBWGQ</p><p>
</p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p><p>
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join Jill DeWit and Land Academy Member Bei Zhang, as they share their real estate journey. They cover everything from their shared experiences, to Bei’s inspiring career transition. Explore their philosophy of living like you’re retired, while still working, with insights into business operations, goals, strategies and more. Hear personal stories, tips on balancing work with personal health, and reflections on their journey. Don’t miss this engaging conversation packed with valuable insights for real estate enthusiasts and entrepreneurs!</p><p>
</p><p>Transcript: N/A</p><p>
</p><p>https://youtu.be/8O_y66uBWGQ</p><p>
</p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p><p>
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/06/05/bei-zhangs-land-business-journey-insights-from-a-land-academy-member-la-2008/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">63tvowAKK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b6371d71-0c58-4ee3-b447-8925c1188237.mp3" length="52087671" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>53:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Long Does it Take to Make a Million Dollars with Land vs. the Stock Market (LA 2007)</title><itunes:title>How Long Does it Take to Make a Million Dollars with Land vs. the Stock Market (LA 2007)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Land Academy Show, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the time it takes to make a million dollars with land compared to the stock market. They emphasize the importance of consistent and controlled growth in the land business, where doubling or tripling your money on each deal is more realistic and achievable.</p><p>
</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>
</p><p>Steven and Jill compare the potential returns of investing in the stock market versus investing in land, highlighting how land can provide a much higher return on investment in a shorter period of time. They also stress the value of continued education and staying involved in the land business to maximize success.</p><p>
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</p><p>Tune in now and discover how to fast-track your financial goals!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Land Academy Show, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the time it takes to make a million dollars with land compared to the stock market. They emphasize the importance of consistent and controlled growth in the land business, where doubling or tripling your money on each deal is more realistic and achievable.</p><p>
</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>
</p><p>Steven and Jill compare the potential returns of investing in the stock market versus investing in land, highlighting how land can provide a much higher return on investment in a shorter period of time. They also stress the value of continued education and staying involved in the land business to maximize success.</p><p>
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</p><p>Tune in now and discover how to fast-track your financial goals!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/05/29/real-estate-versus-stock-market/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">i6Gd9NoIc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3b4da981-c93a-4eab-895c-9194541da2c1.mp3" length="41862209" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Member Reveals 30 Years of Success: Steve Hodgdon Interview (LA 2006)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Member Reveals 30 Years of Success: Steve Hodgdon Interview (LA 2006)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala in Episode 2006 as he sits down with seasoned entrepreneur and Land Academy member, Steve Hodgdon. In this engaging interview, Steve reveals his blueprint for land flipping success, drawing from his early experiences with technology to his achievements in building a thriving real estate lending business. He takes us through his journey, from navigating the 2008 crash to leveraging digitization in real estate, and discusses cutting-edge tools in the land business. Discover the “Loan to Own” strategy, gain insights into market trends, inflation, property management challenges, and risk management. Learn from real-life examples and uncover valuable insights for sustaining a profitable land flipping business. Don’t miss this chance to learn from a true industry expert!
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala in Episode 2006 as he sits down with seasoned entrepreneur and Land Academy member, Steve Hodgdon. In this engaging interview, Steve reveals his blueprint for land flipping success, drawing from his early experiences with technology to his achievements in building a thriving real estate lending business. He takes us through his journey, from navigating the 2008 crash to leveraging digitization in real estate, and discusses cutting-edge tools in the land business. Discover the “Loan to Own” strategy, gain insights into market trends, inflation, property management challenges, and risk management. Learn from real-life examples and uncover valuable insights for sustaining a profitable land flipping business. Don’t miss this chance to learn from a true industry expert!
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/05/22/land-academy-member-reveals-30-years-of-success-steve-hodgdon-interview-la-2006]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">w0evQIJlN</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/89b81edc-d99c-4eb6-9b35-67f2224c14fa.mp3" length="57445880" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>58:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A Week In The Life Of A Successful Land Investor (LA 2005)</title><itunes:title>A Week In The Life Of A Successful Land Investor (LA 2005)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Discover the inner workings of a successful land investor’s week on The Land Academy Show! Join hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they unpack the essentials of organization, self-discipline, and daily routines crucial for thriving in the land investing world. With decades of combined experience, they share practical insights applicable to both full-time investors and those with limited availability, offering actionable strategies to enhance productivity and achieve investment goals. Tune in now for expert advice and real-life examples that will elevate your land investment journey.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Discover the inner workings of a successful land investor’s week on The Land Academy Show! Join hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they unpack the essentials of organization, self-discipline, and daily routines crucial for thriving in the land investing world. With decades of combined experience, they share practical insights applicable to both full-time investors and those with limited availability, offering actionable strategies to enhance productivity and achieve investment goals. Tune in now for expert advice and real-life examples that will elevate your land investment journey.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-successful-land-investor-la-2005/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HupBIC4Pb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ddbb862a-dcfd-43cc-8c2f-448925e91f6d.mp3" length="49157691" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>50:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>5 Most Asked Questions by New Land Academy Members (LA 2004)</title><itunes:title>5 Most Asked Questions by New Land Academy Members (LA 2004)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tune in to episode 2,004 of the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit! They'll be tackling the five most common questions new Land Academy members ask. From debunking land-flipping myths to sharing inspiring success stories, this episode covers it all. Plus, get an exclusive look at a member's incredible journey to half a million in revenue within their first year. Don't miss out on this valuable discussion packed with insights for aspiring land investors!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tune in to episode 2,004 of the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit! They'll be tackling the five most common questions new Land Academy members ask. From debunking land-flipping myths to sharing inspiring success stories, this episode covers it all. Plus, get an exclusive look at a member's incredible journey to half a million in revenue within their first year. Don't miss out on this valuable discussion packed with insights for aspiring land investors!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/05/08/5-most-asked-questions-by-new-land-academy-members-la-2004]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jcuRp5-HZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1a7451d9-693d-4575-a9c1-9c2c94d89bf7.mp3" length="56167616" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>58:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>4 Land Flipping Business Changes To Capitalize During A 2024 Economic Decline (LA 2003)</title><itunes:title>4 Land Flipping Business Changes To Capitalize During A 2024 Economic Decline (LA 2003)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tune in to The Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit for episode 2003! Discover the four pivotal changes in the land-flipping business you need to thrive in the 2024 economic downturn. With their extensive real estate expertise, Steven and Jill share game-changing insights and strategies to secure your success during these challenging times. Don't miss this must-listen episode to stay ahead in the ever-evolving real estate landscape!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tune in to The Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit for episode 2003! Discover the four pivotal changes in the land-flipping business you need to thrive in the 2024 economic downturn. With their extensive real estate expertise, Steven and Jill share game-changing insights and strategies to secure your success during these challenging times. Don't miss this must-listen episode to stay ahead in the ever-evolving real estate landscape!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/05/01/4-land-flipping-business-changes-to-capitalize-during-a-2024-economic-decline-la-2003]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">acYOxlotB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7a03e6c2-e761-47d3-920f-6704eeac746b.mp3" length="35366107" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>36:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>5 Pro Tips for Pricing Your Land Flipping Mailer (LA 2002)</title><itunes:title>5 Pro Tips for Pricing Your Land Flipping Mailer (LA 2002)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, hosts Jill DeWit and Steven Jack Butala dive into the topic of pricing land-flipping mailers with their five pro tips. With over 30 years of combined experience in the industry, Jill and Steven share invaluable insights gained from their own successes and failures. They emphasize the importance of sending legitimate blind offers with specific pricing, highlighting how this approach leads to more meaningful conversations with sellers. By sharing real-life examples and anecdotes from their own experiences, Jill and Steven offer practical advice for land investors looking to optimize their pricing strategy and maximize deal success. Tune in to learn from the experts and take your land-flipping game to the next level!
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, hosts Jill DeWit and Steven Jack Butala dive into the topic of pricing land-flipping mailers with their five pro tips. With over 30 years of combined experience in the industry, Jill and Steven share invaluable insights gained from their own successes and failures. They emphasize the importance of sending legitimate blind offers with specific pricing, highlighting how this approach leads to more meaningful conversations with sellers. By sharing real-life examples and anecdotes from their own experiences, Jill and Steven offer practical advice for land investors looking to optimize their pricing strategy and maximize deal success. Tune in to learn from the experts and take your land-flipping game to the next level!
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/04/24/5-pro-tips-for-pricing-your-land-flipping-mailer-la-2002/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">AH5aUHLQQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/77176729-5043-41da-a69f-7587216c3182.mp3" length="39301830" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>39:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Women Taking Over The Land Flipping Industry (LA 2001)</title><itunes:title>Women Taking Over The Land Flipping Industry (LA 2001)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p class="ql-align-justify">Join Jill and Sam as they uncover the groundbreaking rise of women in the land flipping industry. In this eye-opening discussion, they share their journey and insights into how women are reshaping the landscape of land flipping with their unique skills and perspectives. Discover how this traditionally male-dominated sector is evolving, and gain valuable tips and inspiration for your own ventures. Don’t miss out on this empowering conversation about the unstoppable force of women in land flipping!
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="ql-align-justify">Join Jill and Sam as they uncover the groundbreaking rise of women in the land flipping industry. In this eye-opening discussion, they share their journey and insights into how women are reshaping the landscape of land flipping with their unique skills and perspectives. Discover how this traditionally male-dominated sector is evolving, and gain valuable tips and inspiration for your own ventures. Don’t miss out on this empowering conversation about the unstoppable force of women in land flipping!
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/04/17/women-taking-over-the-land-flipping-industry-la-2001/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RYOzNNg3p</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:45:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/64ca067d-52ff-49a6-8b5f-ad6bcd27e16c.mp3" length="47709379" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>48:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Acre By Acre: 2000 Episodes Of Land Flipping (LA 2000)</title><itunes:title>Acre By Acre: 2000 Episodes Of Land Flipping (LA 2000)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Step into a whirlwind of success, humor, and unexpected twists with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit in this 2000th episode celebration of the Land Academy Show. This special episode dives deep into their decade-long journey, charting a course filled with memorable moments, colossal land deals, and the dedicated community that’s been with them through every twist and turn. From their humble beginnings to the sophisticated, data-driven powerhouse that Land Academy is today, Steven and Jill recount the evolution of their business. They share stories about pivoting through challenges and the remarkable wins that have defined their journey. The duo also reflects on the members who’ve transformed Land Academy into a thriving community, using its resources to achieve financial independence and, in many cases, becoming funding partners themselves. Whether you’re a land-flipping veteran or new to the world of real estate investment, this episode offers a heartfelt and inspiring look at the incredible ride that’s been Land Academy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience the journey from the beginning by visiting&nbsp;</span><a href="http://landacademy.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><strong>landacademy.com/podcast</strong></a><span style="background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;to access all episodes, including the originals! Don’t miss this celebration—tune in now! 🎊</span>
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Step into a whirlwind of success, humor, and unexpected twists with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit in this 2000th episode celebration of the Land Academy Show. This special episode dives deep into their decade-long journey, charting a course filled with memorable moments, colossal land deals, and the dedicated community that’s been with them through every twist and turn. From their humble beginnings to the sophisticated, data-driven powerhouse that Land Academy is today, Steven and Jill recount the evolution of their business. They share stories about pivoting through challenges and the remarkable wins that have defined their journey. The duo also reflects on the members who’ve transformed Land Academy into a thriving community, using its resources to achieve financial independence and, in many cases, becoming funding partners themselves. Whether you’re a land-flipping veteran or new to the world of real estate investment, this episode offers a heartfelt and inspiring look at the incredible ride that’s been Land Academy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience the journey from the beginning by visiting&nbsp;</span><a href="http://landacademy.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><strong>landacademy.com/podcast</strong></a><span style="background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;to access all episodes, including the originals! Don’t miss this celebration—tune in now! 🎊</span>
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/04/10/acre-by-acre-2000-episodes-of-land-flipping-la-2000]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qNwxtI39X</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0fde63dd-5e2b-404c-8852-516e13e1ade1.mp3" length="46074490" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>46:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Ladies In Land Flipping &amp; Remote Investing (LA 1999)</title><itunes:title>Ladies In Land Flipping &amp; Remote Investing (LA 1999)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered how to balance a bustling family life with a successful real estate business, all while exploring the open road? In this episode, join Jill DeWit as she chats with Kimberly Crossland, a seasoned land investor and RV Life enthusiast. Kimberly shares her journey from juggling multiple roles as a copywriter, business coach, and full-time mom to discovering the rewarding world of land flipping. She reveals how embracing this new venture with her supportive husband not only provided financial gains but also offered the flexibility to live life on the road. Tune in to hear about their inspiring adventures, balancing business and family, and practical tips for thriving in real estate and remote work. Whether you're curious about land investment or managing work-life balance on the go, this episode offers practical advice to thrive in today’s dynamic landscape.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/t2xxDRA3-Go" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://youtu.be/t2xxDRA3-Go</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered how to balance a bustling family life with a successful real estate business, all while exploring the open road? In this episode, join Jill DeWit as she chats with Kimberly Crossland, a seasoned land investor and RV Life enthusiast. Kimberly shares her journey from juggling multiple roles as a copywriter, business coach, and full-time mom to discovering the rewarding world of land flipping. She reveals how embracing this new venture with her supportive husband not only provided financial gains but also offered the flexibility to live life on the road. Tune in to hear about their inspiring adventures, balancing business and family, and practical tips for thriving in real estate and remote work. Whether you're curious about land investment or managing work-life balance on the go, this episode offers practical advice to thrive in today’s dynamic landscape.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/t2xxDRA3-Go" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://youtu.be/t2xxDRA3-Go</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/04/03/ladies-in-land-flipping-remote-investing-la-1999/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-HonJ4Y4a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5a43304f-f070-4046-bb06-3f732897eba7.mp3" length="34849054" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How To Be Successful At Flipping Land (LA 1998)</title><itunes:title>How To Be Successful At Flipping Land (LA 1998)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this podcast episode, learn how Jack and Jill successfully flip land. They emphasize the importance of experience and knowledge in the land flipping business, and highlight the value of learning from those who have been in the industry for a long time. They outline the 10 steps involved in flipping land, including identifying a target market, sending out mailers, managing inbound responses, acquiring properties, listing them with a real estate agent, and closing the deals. They also provide insights into what makes someone successful in this business, such as taking action, making quick decisions, and being willing to ask for help and funding. They conclude by encouraging listeners to be prepared, motivated, and committed to their land flipping endeavors.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this podcast episode, learn how Jack and Jill successfully flip land. They emphasize the importance of experience and knowledge in the land flipping business, and highlight the value of learning from those who have been in the industry for a long time. They outline the 10 steps involved in flipping land, including identifying a target market, sending out mailers, managing inbound responses, acquiring properties, listing them with a real estate agent, and closing the deals. They also provide insights into what makes someone successful in this business, such as taking action, making quick decisions, and being willing to ask for help and funding. They conclude by encouraging listeners to be prepared, motivated, and committed to their land flipping endeavors.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/03/27/how-to-be-successful-at-flipping-land-la-1998/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">l4R9uztJr</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8b1503ad-a95a-47e7-875c-1106813ec4d3.mp3" length="45529156" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>46:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Respond To Change in Real Estate 2024 (LA 1997)</title><itunes:title>Respond To Change in Real Estate 2024 (LA 1997)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>A real estate stagnation is sure to happen this year. What is the right course of action to take for this inevitable market phase? Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss three crucial strategies to thrive in this shifting market and adapt to the ever-changing condition that comes along with it. They also discuss how to properly react and respond to change, not just in real estate, but in any industry you work in, particularly with the rapid rise of exciting innovations and inventions in this digital age.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A real estate stagnation is sure to happen this year. What is the right course of action to take for this inevitable market phase? Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss three crucial strategies to thrive in this shifting market and adapt to the ever-changing condition that comes along with it. They also discuss how to properly react and respond to change, not just in real estate, but in any industry you work in, particularly with the rapid rise of exciting innovations and inventions in this digital age.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/03/20/respond-to-change-in-real-estate-2024-la-1997-2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pnnbTy7ek</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:10:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0494c835-cbaa-4b6b-89ae-29004991001a.mp3" length="42545566" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Making A Career Shift From Tech To Land Investor (LA 1996)</title><itunes:title>Making A Career Shift From Tech To Land Investor (LA 1996)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you thinking about buying land? Before you do, listen to this episode of Land Academy Show, where Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive into episode 1,996 and discuss why tech layoffs create some of the best land investors. Learn valuable tips on what to look for in a property and avoid costly mistakes. This episode also highlights the power of community in real estate investing. Land Academy Show offers a forum where you can connect with other investors, ask questions, and get advice from experienced professionals. Don't go it alone! Join Jack and Jill today for information and inspiration in buying undervalued properties.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you thinking about buying land? Before you do, listen to this episode of Land Academy Show, where Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit dive into episode 1,996 and discuss why tech layoffs create some of the best land investors. Learn valuable tips on what to look for in a property and avoid costly mistakes. This episode also highlights the power of community in real estate investing. Land Academy Show offers a forum where you can connect with other investors, ask questions, and get advice from experienced professionals. Don't go it alone! Join Jack and Jill today for information and inspiration in buying undervalued properties.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/03/13/making-a-career-shift-from-tech-to-land-investor-la-1996-2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">LwL3lSBNV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3ba88c9c-28b3-4e98-9a34-683f4e4f82c8.mp3" length="41707239" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>41:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How To Survive A Recession Selling Land (LA 1995)</title><itunes:title>How To Survive A Recession Selling Land (LA 1995)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you ready to navigate the 2024 recession and snag the best deals? Steven and Jill are here to guide you. In this episode, they’ll unveil insightful strategies for acquiring land at rock-bottom prices to survive a recession. But it’s not just about finding the cheapest property; they’ll also delve into the art of crafting winning deals. Steven and Jill share their experiences and tips for ensuring open communication and a successful partnership but wait, there’s more. Be sure to stick around for exciting news about Land Academy Ladies, a monthly event designed to empower female investors within the Land Academy community. Don’t miss out on this valuable information and a chance to connect with fellow land enthusiasts!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you ready to navigate the 2024 recession and snag the best deals? Steven and Jill are here to guide you. In this episode, they’ll unveil insightful strategies for acquiring land at rock-bottom prices to survive a recession. But it’s not just about finding the cheapest property; they’ll also delve into the art of crafting winning deals. Steven and Jill share their experiences and tips for ensuring open communication and a successful partnership but wait, there’s more. Be sure to stick around for exciting news about Land Academy Ladies, a monthly event designed to empower female investors within the Land Academy community. Don’t miss out on this valuable information and a chance to connect with fellow land enthusiasts!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/03/06/how-to-survive-a-recession-selling-land-la-1995-2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">adcvMcrzz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7e1ea6bd-13fa-494a-b8e8-0a345068b4ed.mp3" length="40494695" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>40:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Buying Guide: 3 Best &amp; 2 To Avoid in 2024! (LA 1994)</title><itunes:title>Land Buying Guide: 3 Best &amp; 2 To Avoid in 2024! (LA 1994)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Not all land is created equal, and if you’re looking to find success in land flipping, you must know what to buy and what to avoid. In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Jill and Jack share with us the three best types of land and the two types you should avoid, especially this year. They share why rural vacant land is the best thing to invest on these days and why targeting infill lots may not be the wisest decision. Tune in and let this dynamic duo lead you to land acquisition success this year!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not all land is created equal, and if you’re looking to find success in land flipping, you must know what to buy and what to avoid. In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Jill and Jack share with us the three best types of land and the two types you should avoid, especially this year. They share why rural vacant land is the best thing to invest on these days and why targeting infill lots may not be the wisest decision. Tune in and let this dynamic duo lead you to land acquisition success this year!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/02/28/land-buying-guide-3-best-and-2-to-avoid-in-2024-la-1994]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kFxIhKAtL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bac08f41-32bf-4e2d-9fae-b959d8823bec.mp3" length="50412870" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>51:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investing Experience | Find Your Career (LA Rerun 1993)</title><itunes:title>Land Investing Experience | Find Your Career (LA Rerun 1993)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Feeling stuck in your career? Dreaming of a life with more freedom and flexibility? This episode will inspire you! Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit chat with Land Academy Member James Beckman—a former software engineer who took a leap of faith and transitioned into the exciting world of land investment. Discover how James overcame self-doubt, built a thriving business with a partner, and found a career that ignites his passion. Learn key strategies for streamlining operations, achieving work-life balance, and building a business that supports your lifestyle goals. Plus, James shares his inspiring story of family involvement and the entrepreneurial spirit that’s contagious even at home! Tune in and get ready to unlock your own land investment potential!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feeling stuck in your career? Dreaming of a life with more freedom and flexibility? This episode will inspire you! Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit chat with Land Academy Member James Beckman—a former software engineer who took a leap of faith and transitioned into the exciting world of land investment. Discover how James overcame self-doubt, built a thriving business with a partner, and found a career that ignites his passion. Learn key strategies for streamlining operations, achieving work-life balance, and building a business that supports your lifestyle goals. Plus, James shares his inspiring story of family involvement and the entrepreneurial spirit that’s contagious even at home! Tune in and get ready to unlock your own land investment potential!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/02/21/land-investing-experience-find-your-career-la-rerun-1993]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">xwg7b__GK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/698b0cd2-d742-48c3-b143-8ca59509deb3.mp3" length="36947983" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Tax-Delinquent Deals | Sean&apos;s Land Investing Journey (LA 1992)</title><itunes:title>Tax-Delinquent Deals | Sean&apos;s Land Investing Journey (LA 1992)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show! Join Steven and land investor Sean in this episode as they delve into Sean's journey from a college graduate to a successful land investor. Inspired by an adjunct professor, Sean's initial success with a tax-delinquent mountain lot in Colorado marked a transformative moment, shaping his focus on land investing. This episode offers valuable insights and tips on land investment success. Like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon for more real estate wisdom from the Land Academy Show. https://landacademy.com/join/

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https://youtu.be/5LxPzg1HgNs

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show! Join Steven and land investor Sean in this episode as they delve into Sean's journey from a college graduate to a successful land investor. Inspired by an adjunct professor, Sean's initial success with a tax-delinquent mountain lot in Colorado marked a transformative moment, shaping his focus on land investing. This episode offers valuable insights and tips on land investment success. Like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon for more real estate wisdom from the Land Academy Show. https://landacademy.com/join/

Transcript: N/A

https://youtu.be/5LxPzg1HgNs

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/07/10/tax-delinquent-deals-seans-land-investing-journey-la-1992]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Zna_C5bW0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6f541d70-6f98-44e2-99f8-39891e48ee5c.mp3" length="37918490" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>39:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Women in Real Estate | Land Investing Success Story With Samantha Lathus (LA 1991)</title><itunes:title>Women in Real Estate | Land Investing Success Story With Samantha Lathus (LA 1991)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Calling all strong women! This episode of the Land Academy Show is for you.<strong> </strong>Samantha Lathus, Land Academy Ambassador, joins Jill DeWit to discuss the successes of our elite group of land gals, working with your spouse and why Samantha chose to quit her 9-5.<strong> </strong>They touch on the rise of female land investors and share their own inspiring story of transitioning from successful corporate careers to thriving land investing.<strong> </strong>They also detail a recent land deal where they saw the potential to split a property and significantly increase their profits. Plus, Samantha offers valuable insights for avoiding emotional decision-making and staying focused on due diligence. Don't miss this episode packed with practical tips and inspiration!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Calling all strong women! This episode of the Land Academy Show is for you.<strong> </strong>Samantha Lathus, Land Academy Ambassador, joins Jill DeWit to discuss the successes of our elite group of land gals, working with your spouse and why Samantha chose to quit her 9-5.<strong> </strong>They touch on the rise of female land investors and share their own inspiring story of transitioning from successful corporate careers to thriving land investing.<strong> </strong>They also detail a recent land deal where they saw the potential to split a property and significantly increase their profits. Plus, Samantha offers valuable insights for avoiding emotional decision-making and staying focused on due diligence. Don't miss this episode packed with practical tips and inspiration!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/02/07/women-in-real-estate-land-investing-success-story-with-samantha-lathus-la-1991]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">93ASAdG98</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/caf39517-085c-405c-9f31-1511d4cc45fa.mp3" length="29643615" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How To Have A Successful Land Business | Interview With Karl (LA 1990) </title><itunes:title>How To Have A Successful Land Business | Interview With Karl (LA 1990) </itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p class="ql-align-justify">The success of a land business is found not just in getting the most profitable deals and creating a highly rewarding network. Above everything else, it requires the right level of discipline and consistency. Let us hear from Land Academy Ambassador Karl Lathus as he breaks down how he managed to achieve such great success in this field. Now in the third year of their land investing business, prepare to be inspired by Karl and his wife Samantha on how you can emulate their biggest wins.</p><p><br></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="ql-align-justify">The success of a land business is found not just in getting the most profitable deals and creating a highly rewarding network. Above everything else, it requires the right level of discipline and consistency. Let us hear from Land Academy Ambassador Karl Lathus as he breaks down how he managed to achieve such great success in this field. Now in the third year of their land investing business, prepare to be inspired by Karl and his wife Samantha on how you can emulate their biggest wins.</p><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/01/31/how-to-have-a-successful-land-business-interview-with-karl-la-1990-2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PtzfvnHbk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dfc37096-2697-46fb-9a61-70319b18624e.mp3" length="37958342" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Strategic Land Buying Unleashed (LA 1989)</title><itunes:title>Strategic Land Buying Unleashed (LA 1989)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Most real estate investors turn to MLS when looking for new deals to chase. But Jack Butala and Jill DeWit have a rather different approach: they do not buy properties for sale on these online listings. Find out their strategic land-buying method in this episode and learn why you should not waste time searching listings and bargaining with properties. Jack and Jill also explore the right way to create your own real estate deals with a lot less work and the advantage of focusing on just one single area when buying and selling land.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most real estate investors turn to MLS when looking for new deals to chase. But Jack Butala and Jill DeWit have a rather different approach: they do not buy properties for sale on these online listings. Find out their strategic land-buying method in this episode and learn why you should not waste time searching listings and bargaining with properties. Jack and Jill also explore the right way to create your own real estate deals with a lot less work and the advantage of focusing on just one single area when buying and selling land.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/01/24/strategic-land-buying-unleashed-la-1989-2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">whOY3he7Z</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/913db626-d528-4be5-b77b-208a3d84d4ee.mp3" length="45046690" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>45:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>2024 Insights: New Land Academy Member Anatomy &amp; Land Business Overview (LA 1988)</title><itunes:title>2024 Insights: New Land Academy Member Anatomy &amp; Land Business Overview (LA 1988)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Dive into the world of land business in 2024 on the Land Academy Show, episode 1988. Jack and Jill discuss the evolving land industry, the rise in buying and selling land, and insights into new Land Academy members. Explore responsible side gigs, entrepreneurial spirit, and the journey from failure to success in the land business. Get valuable advice, anecdotes, and success stories. Whether you're a seasoned investor or new, enroll in Land Academy for a chance to thrive in 2024.

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https://youtu.be/nffweMAFaoI

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dive into the world of land business in 2024 on the Land Academy Show, episode 1988. Jack and Jill discuss the evolving land industry, the rise in buying and selling land, and insights into new Land Academy members. Explore responsible side gigs, entrepreneurial spirit, and the journey from failure to success in the land business. Get valuable advice, anecdotes, and success stories. Whether you're a seasoned investor or new, enroll in Land Academy for a chance to thrive in 2024.

Transcript: N/A

https://youtu.be/nffweMAFaoI

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/01/17/2024-insights-new-land-academy-member-anatomy-land-business-overview-la-1988/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">GBuls149Z</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b77b97e5-09d7-409a-9bfb-2b872b10667d.mp3" length="48675342" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>48:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>2024 Land Mailer Tips And Business Challenges (LA 1987)</title><itunes:title>2024 Land Mailer Tips And Business Challenges (LA 1987)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you wondering where to send mail in 2024? In this week’s podcast episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit share the tools and tips they give their members for selecting the best areas to send mail and discuss some business challenges. There is no secret list, and they put a lot of thought behind this. Depending on your income goals and desired deal volume, they’ll teach you the Land Academy way of testing different areas for the best possible results. Jack and Jill also cover how to tackle your biggest land business concern.&nbsp;Whether you’re just starting or looking to refine your strategy, their insights are invaluable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Catch episode 1987 to learn how you can access these tools and tips and start making money flipping land!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you wondering where to send mail in 2024? In this week’s podcast episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit share the tools and tips they give their members for selecting the best areas to send mail and discuss some business challenges. There is no secret list, and they put a lot of thought behind this. Depending on your income goals and desired deal volume, they’ll teach you the Land Academy way of testing different areas for the best possible results. Jack and Jill also cover how to tackle your biggest land business concern.&nbsp;Whether you’re just starting or looking to refine your strategy, their insights are invaluable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Catch episode 1987 to learn how you can access these tools and tips and start making money flipping land!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/01/10/2024-land-mailer-tips-and-business-challenges-la-1987]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YQlAfcyr3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/be580e8f-8dbb-4974-b6e8-795f2fec1519.mp3" length="38367113" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>37:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>2024 Success Schedule &amp; The Laws That Govern Your Land Transaction (LA 1986)</title><itunes:title>2024 Success Schedule &amp; The Laws That Govern Your Land Transaction (LA 1986)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Are you hoping to be more successful in your land business in 2024? In this latest podcast episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit share how vital a schedule is to their business and accomplishments. It may sound like a silly task, but it’s January, and if you want to meet your end-of-year goals, it’s important to map it out now so you can easily stay on track and adjust as needed. They also discuss the laws that govern your land transactions, providing insights for your business. Tune in now and start planning for success!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you hoping to be more successful in your land business in 2024? In this latest podcast episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit share how vital a schedule is to their business and accomplishments. It may sound like a silly task, but it’s January, and if you want to meet your end-of-year goals, it’s important to map it out now so you can easily stay on track and adjust as needed. They also discuss the laws that govern your land transactions, providing insights for your business. Tune in now and start planning for success!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2024/01/03/2024-success-schedule-the-laws-that-govern-your-land-transaction-la-1986/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">og-BnjQib</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/643534a2-89a2-4af2-a83f-9537670c2431.mp3" length="56719568" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>57:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Our Personal Stories (LA 1985)</title><itunes:title>Our Personal Stories (LA 1985)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever wondered how the experts in land investing became so successful? In this week’s podcast episode, Jack and Jill dive into their real estate investing stories, sharing personal journeys that led them to living their best lives. From early influences to major milestones, discover how hard work and smart decisions paved the way to success. They offer insights and lessons learned so you can avoid common pitfalls and achieve your own real estate goals. If you’re eager to transform your passion into profit with minimal effort and maximum rewards, this episode is a must-listen.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever wondered how the experts in land investing became so successful? In this week’s podcast episode, Jack and Jill dive into their real estate investing stories, sharing personal journeys that led them to living their best lives. From early influences to major milestones, discover how hard work and smart decisions paved the way to success. They offer insights and lessons learned so you can avoid common pitfalls and achieve your own real estate goals. If you’re eager to transform your passion into profit with minimal effort and maximum rewards, this episode is a must-listen.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/12/27/our-personal-stories-la-1985]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">DpRjFGkY8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9b9cf092-0702-491f-89f7-ed3f572bec31.mp3" length="49240325" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>49:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Holiday Hiatus: Land Acquisition Break &amp; 5 Steps To Success (LA 1984)</title><itunes:title>Holiday Hiatus: Land Acquisition Break &amp; 5 Steps To Success (LA 1984)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Do you have the right personality to be successful at land investing? In their latest podcast episode, Jack and Jill explore key land acquisition tips and discuss whether taking a break during the holiday season is a good idea. They delve into the five essential steps for completely succeeding in your land career. Both topics highlight the importance of personality, determination, and the drive to succeed in buying and selling land. The time you dedicate to your land business is in your hands, but your success hinges on your effort. One of the greatest aspects of the land investing business is the ability to plan ahead, allowing you to manage your business effectively while enjoying the holidays with loved ones.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have the right personality to be successful at land investing? In their latest podcast episode, Jack and Jill explore key land acquisition tips and discuss whether taking a break during the holiday season is a good idea. They delve into the five essential steps for completely succeeding in your land career. Both topics highlight the importance of personality, determination, and the drive to succeed in buying and selling land. The time you dedicate to your land business is in your hands, but your success hinges on your effort. One of the greatest aspects of the land investing business is the ability to plan ahead, allowing you to manage your business effectively while enjoying the holidays with loved ones.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/12/20/holiday-hiatus-land-acquisition-break-and-5-steps-to-success-la-1984]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bo8JStk7T</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4d7a832b-76d2-4a0c-b483-4fa078362298.mp3" length="40093648" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>39:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy’s Funding Advantage &amp; Guarding Against Financial Tricks (LA 1983)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy’s Funding Advantage &amp; Guarding Against Financial Tricks (LA 1983)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join Jack and Jill as they delve into the intricacies of funding your land deals without falling into common financial traps. Discover why borrowing money might not be the best option and explore the benefits of partnering with an equity investor. Uncover the unique opportunities available within the Land Academy community that set you up for success. Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just starting, this episode will equip you with the knowledge to make smart financial decisions in 2024. Get ready to transform your approach to land deals!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join Jack and Jill as they delve into the intricacies of funding your land deals without falling into common financial traps. Discover why borrowing money might not be the best option and explore the benefits of partnering with an equity investor. Uncover the unique opportunities available within the Land Academy community that set you up for success. Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just starting, this episode will equip you with the knowledge to make smart financial decisions in 2024. Get ready to transform your approach to land deals!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/12/13/land-academys-funding-advantage-and-guarding-against-financial-tricks-la-1983]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dasQoh-G5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d7d14842-5697-450f-9a70-d04d5ff664d0.mp3" length="37403503" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>37:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Year-End Land Business Checklist &amp; 2024 Anticipated Challenges (LA 1982)</title><itunes:title>Year-End Land Business Checklist &amp; 2024 Anticipated Challenges (LA 1982)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tired of loan traps and financial stress? Tune in to Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit’s conversation on navigating financial pitfalls associated with borrowing money – a practice we avoid. Wondering why? Discover a superior approach with an equity partner and ample funding opportunities within the Land Academy community. Learn how to make 2024 a year of smart financial choices with their essential land business checklist. From setting the right price to the wisdom of bypassing car loans and neutral letters, they offer practical insights on navigating the land investment landscape. Tune in and elevate your investment game today!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tired of loan traps and financial stress? Tune in to Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit’s conversation on navigating financial pitfalls associated with borrowing money – a practice we avoid. Wondering why? Discover a superior approach with an equity partner and ample funding opportunities within the Land Academy community. Learn how to make 2024 a year of smart financial choices with their essential land business checklist. From setting the right price to the wisdom of bypassing car loans and neutral letters, they offer practical insights on navigating the land investment landscape. 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With only 30 days left in the calendar, now is the time to review your land investment business and gear up for the opportunities to find in 2024. Tune in as Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss how to assess your whole-year performance and results, as well as the right way to create a sound business plan for the new year. They also share their perspectives and insights about the laws of abundance and how it affects one’s ability to make the right choices.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2023 is coming to a close. With only 30 days left in the calendar, now is the time to review your land investment business and gear up for the opportunities to find in 2024. Tune in as Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss how to assess your whole-year performance and results, as well as the right way to create a sound business plan for the new year. 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Jack and Jill also talk about the incredible prowess of Land Academy and why they think it is probably the most experienced land investment membership group out there.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/11/22/career-path-8-insights-land-academy-the-ultimate-land-investment-experience-la-1980/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BGsOg-IBH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8f2b480d-20dd-46c9-b32b-99ebdaf24f7e.mp3" length="41914815" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>41:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Enhancing Due Diligence: 7th &amp; 8th A’s | Unveiling Real Land Profit Potential (LA 1979)</title><itunes:title>Enhancing Due Diligence: 7th &amp; 8th A’s | Unveiling Real Land Profit Potential (LA 1979)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever stumbled into a profit by accident? Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit in this episode of the Land Academy Show as they dive into the essential strategies for mastering land due diligence. Discover the 7th&nbsp;and 8th&nbsp;A’s of Land Due Diligence, “Afraid” and “Abundance,” ensuring you make confident, well-informed decisions. Learn why having multiple deal opportunities and balancing confidence and caution are game-changers. Whether you’re managing properties with old structures or setting realistic profit goals, this episode is packed with actionable tips to elevate your land investment strategies. Plus, find out how you can join the thriving Land Academy community. Tune in now for profound insights and practical advice to boost your success in land investments!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever stumbled into a profit by accident? Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit in this episode of the Land Academy Show as they dive into the essential strategies for mastering land due diligence. Discover the 7th&nbsp;and 8th&nbsp;A’s of Land Due Diligence, “Afraid” and “Abundance,” ensuring you make confident, well-informed decisions. Learn why having multiple deal opportunities and balancing confidence and caution are game-changers. Whether you’re managing properties with old structures or setting realistic profit goals, this episode is packed with actionable tips to elevate your land investment strategies. Plus, find out how you can join the thriving Land Academy community. Tune in now for profound insights and practical advice to boost your success in land investments!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/11/15/enhancing-due-diligence-7th-8th-as-unveiling-real-land-profit-potential-la-1979/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">coTtlntlH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/65d0a2ba-a052-4cd3-9213-417985f9ce79.mp3" length="42965617" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>43:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Essentials For Success In Land Buying &amp; Selling | Avoid Land Due Diligence Paralysis (LA 1978)</title><itunes:title>3 Essentials For Success In Land Buying &amp; Selling | Avoid Land Due Diligence Paralysis (LA 1978)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>From picturesque meadows to bustling commercial zones, the land market offers a wealth of opportunities. In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit delve into the essential factors for success in the world of land buying and selling. They break down the 3 things that it takes to succeed at buying and selling land and share valuable insights on how to avoid land due diligence paralysis. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting, these key elements are crucial for your success in the land business.</p><p><br></p><p>Want to explore even more valuable content and insights? Head over to&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/discord/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landacademy.com/discord/</a>&nbsp;to get a sneak peek of the exclusive member-only Discord community. Join the discussion and boost your expertise in land investment today!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From picturesque meadows to bustling commercial zones, the land market offers a wealth of opportunities. In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit delve into the essential factors for success in the world of land buying and selling. They break down the 3 things that it takes to succeed at buying and selling land and share valuable insights on how to avoid land due diligence paralysis. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting, these key elements are crucial for your success in the land business.</p><p><br></p><p>Want to explore even more valuable content and insights? Head over to&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/discord/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landacademy.com/discord/</a>&nbsp;to get a sneak peek of the exclusive member-only Discord community. Join the discussion and boost your expertise in land investment today!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/11/08/3-essentials-for-success-in-land-buying-selling-avoid-land-due-diligence-paralysis-la-1978/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bu1VuPhWs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6582338d-cc4b-4430-8b03-79215db8871f.mp3" length="62020178" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:02:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mastering The 10-Step Land Flip | New Members On The Path To Success! (LA 1977)</title><itunes:title>Mastering The 10-Step Land Flip | New Members On The Path To Success! 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In this episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit introduce two new Land Academy members poised for success. Jack and Jill delve into the essentials for thriving in the land business and share their insights on setting up for success. Later, they break down the 10-step process for successful land flipping. Join them for unfiltered, no-frills discussions on land investing and wealth creation. If you're ready to learn about buying and selling land, you're in the right place. 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Get a sneak peek at the Land Academy Member Discord and become part of the thriving community at <a href="https://landacademy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Land Academy</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/10/18/researching-land-academy-before-joining-offer-price-adjustments-la-1975]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hxHfMvRvg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0850dc4e-437d-45c3-9ebb-7d8fe05ca2ca.mp3" length="45376017" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>43:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Career Path’s Burning Question &amp; The Land Academy Casino (LA 1974)</title><itunes:title>Career Path’s Burning Question &amp; The Land Academy Casino (LA 1974)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, we have an exciting lineup for you. Jill has a fantastic topic to discuss: "The Land Academy Casino." We can hardly believe we're almost at 2,000 episodes! We're also taking questions from our Land Academy Discord forum and diving into two land-related topics you requested. Want a sneak peek at the Land Academy Discord community? Visit <a href="http://landacademy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">LandAcademy.com</a>! For questions or to join our community, reach out to us at 480-530-7383 or drop us a message at <a href="mailto:support@landacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">support@landacademy.com</a>. Join us for another insightful episode!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, we have an exciting lineup for you. Jill has a fantastic topic to discuss: "The Land Academy Casino." We can hardly believe we're almost at 2,000 episodes! 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Don’t miss out on these essential strategies for successful land investing—tune in now!</span></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit in episode 1,973 of the Land Academy podcast as they delve into the intricacies of backyard land buying and reveal expert tips on achieving the perfect mailer response from sellers. This insightful conversation is a glimpse into the Land Academy community’s Career Path program, providing invaluable insights for aspiring land investors. For more discussions and support, visit our Land Academy Member Discord Forum at&nbsp;</span><a href="https://landacademy.com/discord/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><strong>landacademy.com/discord</strong></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">&nbsp;or contact&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:support@landacademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><strong>support@landacademy.com</strong></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">&nbsp;with your questions. Don’t miss out on these essential strategies for successful land investing—tune in now!</span></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/10/04/backyard-land-buying-perfect-mailer-response-la-1973]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bS8fqBS3A</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dd8f6c51-b649-4849-8933-fc81d3f345a3.mp3" length="57933202" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>58:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Interview With LA Ambassador Karl Lathus (LA 1972)</title><itunes:title>Interview With LA Ambassador Karl Lathus (LA 1972)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join us for a candid conversation in this interview with Land Academy Ambassador, Karl Lathus. Get a peek into what it's been like for Karl and his wife as LA Ambassadors. Want to learn more about land investing and connect with our community? Visit our Land Academy Discord: https://landacademy.com/discord/. Have questions or want to be part of the discussion? Text us at 480-530-7383.

Transcript: N/A

https://youtu.be/oArAv7cfYk8

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us for a candid conversation in this interview with Land Academy Ambassador, Karl Lathus. Get a peek into what it's been like for Karl and his wife as LA Ambassadors. Want to learn more about land investing and connect with our community? Visit our Land Academy Discord: https://landacademy.com/discord/. Have questions or want to be part of the discussion? Text us at 480-530-7383.

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https://youtu.be/oArAv7cfYk8

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/09/27/interview-with-la-ambassador-karl-lathus-1972/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cBRQF9wbZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8b4bcc9a-2a3f-470a-b09f-b117ccce19f4.mp3" length="36492164" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>37:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What&apos;s New in Career Path? | Weekly Wealth Tracking! (LA 1971)</title><itunes:title>What&apos;s New in Career Path? | Weekly Wealth Tracking! (LA 1971)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In episode 1971, we dive into two intriguing topics. First, discover "What's New in Career Path" starting on September 27th, and stay updated on the latest developments. Then, we'll show you how to "Track Your Wealth Every Single Week" - a valuable skill for any land investor.

Join the conversation on our Land Academy Discord (https://landacademy.com/discord/) and feel free to text us your questions at 480-530-7383. Don't miss out; hit that subscribe button and stay informed!
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In episode 1971, we dive into two intriguing topics. First, discover "What's New in Career Path" starting on September 27th, and stay updated on the latest developments. Then, we'll show you how to "Track Your Wealth Every Single Week" - a valuable skill for any land investor.

Join the conversation on our Land Academy Discord (https://landacademy.com/discord/) and feel free to text us your questions at 480-530-7383. Don't miss out; hit that subscribe button and stay informed!
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/09/20/whats-new-in-career-path-weekly-wealth-tracking-la-1971/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">W-d2UmXS5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/09d520e5-cd35-46d8-b3b8-648f20df063a/p8rxjltxr.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5ea69e7b-2f28-4076-8229-c4f55307aaad.mp3" length="56636657" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>56:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Flipping Marketing And Affordable Housing (Re-Run) (LA 1970)</title><itunes:title>Land Flipping Marketing And Affordable Housing (Re-Run) (LA 1970)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Discover cutting-edge land flipping strategies in this insightful episode with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit. The hosts explore the intricate relationship between land investing and affordable housing, drawing from their extensive experience and recent discussions with career path alumni. As the landscape of real estate investing evolves, Jill sheds light on the transformative role of marketing in modern land flipping. From their picturesque location in Colorado, Steven and Jill offer a unique perspective on how location independence can revolutionize your land investing business. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just starting out, this episode promises to equip you with valuable insights to elevate your land flipping game</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Discover cutting-edge land flipping strategies in this insightful episode with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit. The hosts explore the intricate relationship between land investing and affordable housing, drawing from their extensive experience and recent discussions with career path alumni. As the landscape of real estate investing evolves, Jill sheds light on the transformative role of marketing in modern land flipping. From their picturesque location in Colorado, Steven and Jill offer a unique perspective on how location independence can revolutionize your land investing business. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just starting out, this episode promises to equip you with valuable insights to elevate your land flipping game</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/09/13/land-flipping-marketing-and-affordable-housing-re-run-la-1970/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">WyV4GnhkC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6c94293f-f9f7-4897-a703-bb63492085f3.mp3" length="57513905" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>53:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mastering Land Improvements &amp; The Power Of Your Land Business Brand (LA 1969)</title><itunes:title>Mastering Land Improvements &amp; The Power Of Your Land Business Brand (LA 1969)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Looking to transform your land investments without ever leaving your desk? Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit in Land Academy episode 1969, where they reveal the secrets to completing land improvements from the comfort of your desk, and why your brand can revolutionize your success in the land business. Discover the strategies that can turn your investments into profit and set your brand apart in this competitive market. Plus, don't miss out on our vibrant Land Academy Discord community for more engaging discussions. For any questions or to be part of our community, text us at 480-530-7383. Tune in now!</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking to transform your land investments without ever leaving your desk? Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit in Land Academy episode 1969, where they reveal the secrets to completing land improvements from the comfort of your desk, and why your brand can revolutionize your success in the land business. Discover the strategies that can turn your investments into profit and set your brand apart in this competitive market. Plus, don't miss out on our vibrant Land Academy Discord community for more engaging discussions. For any questions or to be part of our community, text us at 480-530-7383. Tune in now!</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/09/06/mastering-land-improvements-the-power-of-your-land-business-brand-la-1969/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ymciGQ3BF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e7e14093-85b6-492d-91cb-e578bc0ca63c.mp3" length="55153002" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>55:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investor’s Guide: First Deal In 30 Days &amp; Analyzing Competition Numbers (LA 1968)</title><itunes:title>Land Investor’s Guide: First Deal In 30 Days &amp; Analyzing Competition Numbers (LA 1968)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Tune in to Land Academy episode 1968 with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit for expert guidance on land investing. Jack and Jill dive into two crucial topics for aspiring land investors: securing your first deal within 30 days and analyzing competition numbers in the land industry. Don’t miss out on these actionable tips and essential information to jumpstart your land investing journey.</p><p><br></p><p>Join the vibrant Land Academy member discord at&nbsp;<a href="https://landacademy.com/discord/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(94, 159, 96);"><strong>https://landacademy.com/discord/</strong></a>&nbsp;for more engaging discussions and resources. Have questions? Text at 480-530-7383.</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tune in to Land Academy episode 1968 with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit for expert guidance on land investing. 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Text at 480-530-7383.</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/08/30/land-investors-guide-first-deal-in-30-days-analyzing-competition-numbers-la-1968/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9s-bUjOpt</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/43d012c6-a167-44ee-932f-efd3641f49c5.mp3" length="54046730" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>54:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investment: Side Hustle vs. Career + Hiring &amp; Training Transaction Coordinators (LA 1967)</title><itunes:title>Land Investment: Side Hustle vs. Career + Hiring &amp; Training Transaction Coordinators (LA 1967)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join us for Land Academy episode 1967 as we delve into crucial topics: "The Difference Between A Side Hustle And Your Career In Land Investment," and "How To Hire And Train A Transaction Coordinator Who Can Also Effectively Answer The Phones." Get a sneak peek into our Land Academy member discord at https://landacademy.com/discord/ and feel free to reach out to us with your questions at 480-530-7383. Don't miss out on these essential strategies for success!
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us for Land Academy episode 1967 as we delve into crucial topics: "The Difference Between A Side Hustle And Your Career In Land Investment," and "How To Hire And Train A Transaction Coordinator Who Can Also Effectively Answer The Phones." Get a sneak peek into our Land Academy member discord at https://landacademy.com/discord/ and feel free to reach out to us with your questions at 480-530-7383. Don't miss out on these essential strategies for success!
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https://youtu.be/ELiHqEFXj_M

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us for a special rerun of an insightful interview with successful Land Academy members Karl and Sam Lathus in episode LA 1965. Discover their journey and learn from their land investing success story. Want to connect with other like-minded individuals? Get a glimpse into our vibrant Land Academy member discord at https://landacademy.com/discord/. If you're looking to be part of our thriving community or have any questions, feel free to text us at 480-530-7383. Tune in now to gain valuable insights and inspiration!

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https://youtu.be/ELiHqEFXj_M

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/08/09/interview-with-successful-land-academy-members-karl-and-sam-lathus-rerun-la-1965/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nqJK3gFd7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/16e3e17a-4d1e-401e-8f05-389fdfa956f5.mp3" length="31225898" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>We Make Buying And Selling Land Sound Easy, But… | Working Ineffectively, At Full Speed (LA 1964)</title><itunes:title>We Make Buying And Selling Land Sound Easy, But… | Working Ineffectively, At Full Speed (LA 1964)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In Episode 1964 of the Land Academy Show, join hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they dive into a dynamic discussion on buying and selling land. They tackle Discord questions, review land deals from weekly webinars, and explore two crucial topics. First, they confront the common perception versus the reality of navigating land transactions, offering candid insights. They then explore the concept of working ineffectively at full speed. Don’t miss this episode packed with valuable insights to elevate your land investment game! Subscribe and hit that notification bell to stay ahead with the freshest insights, expert tips, and game-changing strategies for crafting enduring success in the land business!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Episode 1964 of the Land Academy Show, join hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they dive into a dynamic discussion on buying and selling land. They tackle Discord questions, review land deals from weekly webinars, and explore two crucial topics. First, they confront the common perception versus the reality of navigating land transactions, offering candid insights. They then explore the concept of working ineffectively at full speed. Don’t miss this episode packed with valuable insights to elevate your land investment game! Subscribe and hit that notification bell to stay ahead with the freshest insights, expert tips, and game-changing strategies for crafting enduring success in the land business!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/08/02/we-make-buying-and-selling-land-sound-easy-but-working-ineffectively-at-full-speed-la-1964/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5yH3MfgBU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/040e427b-58b8-4cb2-a6b5-c48aacfc43b0.mp3" length="57901153" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>55:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Living And Working Smarter &amp; AI’s Impact On Real Estate (LA 1963)</title><itunes:title>Living And Working Smarter &amp; AI’s Impact On Real Estate (LA 1963)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show, episode 1963! Get ready to learn and grow alongside Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they explore two exciting topics: living and working in an environment that stimulates learning and the transformative impact of AI on the real estate industry, backed by real-life examples. Join them for insightful discussions on these topics and be sure to engage further on the Land Academy Discord for more enriching conversations. Have questions or want to be featured on the show? Text them at 480-530-7383. Tune in, learn, and share your experiences to elevate your real estate journey!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show, episode 1963! Get ready to learn and grow alongside Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they explore two exciting topics: living and working in an environment that stimulates learning and the transformative impact of AI on the real estate industry, backed by real-life examples. Join them for insightful discussions on these topics and be sure to engage further on the Land Academy Discord for more enriching conversations. Have questions or want to be featured on the show? Text them at 480-530-7383. Tune in, learn, and share your experiences to elevate your real estate journey!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/07/26/living-and-working-smarter-ais-impact-on-real-estate-la-1963/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UkhkForgq</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/eea394ea-77a8-4a95-b3dd-56375841c4ff.mp3" length="55491131" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>54:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investing In Slow Markets &amp; Mailer Truth (LA 1962)</title><itunes:title>Land Investing In Slow Markets &amp; Mailer Truth (LA 1962)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to Episode 1962 of the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit! Today, they dive into the strategies and challenges of land investing in slow markets and reveal the truth about mailer competition. The episode also features questions from the Land Academy Discord Forum and exciting land acquisition showcases from their weekly Thursday member webinars, offering valuable insights for land investors. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and engage in discussions within our vibrant Land Academy community!</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to Episode 1962 of the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit! Today, they dive into the strategies and challenges of land investing in slow markets and reveal the truth about mailer competition. The episode also features questions from the Land Academy Discord Forum and exciting land acquisition showcases from their weekly Thursday member webinars, offering valuable insights for land investors. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and engage in discussions within our vibrant Land Academy community!</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/07/19/land-investing-in-slow-markets-mailer-truth-la-1962/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">p4MoZZE2Q</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/feb52be8-d418-4484-936b-e3dbc098cd7b.mp3" length="60631153" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>58:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investing Secrets: Building Lifelong Fortunes &amp; Below-Market Deals (ReRun) (LA 1961)</title><itunes:title>Land Investing Secrets: Building Lifelong Fortunes &amp; Below-Market Deals (ReRun) (LA 1961)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 1961 of the Land Academy Show, where Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the fascinating topics of Why Sellers Choose to Sell Their Land for Less Than Market Value and How To Build a Life-Long Fortune by Consistently Investing in Land. Join us as we explore the motivations behind this decision and provide valuable insights. As always, we address questions from our Land Academy Discord Forum, and land review clips from our weekly Thursday member webinars. Get ready to dive into two popular land-related topics requested by our audience in this engaging episode. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and join the discussion in our Land Academy community.

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https://youtu.be/Kt2NoCsHRxk

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to episode 1961 of the Land Academy Show, where Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the fascinating topics of Why Sellers Choose to Sell Their Land for Less Than Market Value and How To Build a Life-Long Fortune by Consistently Investing in Land. Join us as we explore the motivations behind this decision and provide valuable insights. As always, we address questions from our Land Academy Discord Forum, and land review clips from our weekly Thursday member webinars. Get ready to dive into two popular land-related topics requested by our audience in this engaging episode. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and join the discussion in our Land Academy community.

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Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from two of the industry’s most experienced professionals.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">For a sneak peek of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://landacademy.com/discord/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);">Land Academy Discord</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;forum, visit LandAcademy.com in read-only format. If you have questions or want to be part of the community, simply text them at 480-530-7383. Tune in now and take the first step towards mastering the art of land investing!</span></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Unlock the secrets of creating real estate equity that your high school education missed in this captivating episode of the Land Academy Show. Join hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they explore two fascinating topics: the stuff they don’t teach you in high school about creating equity and why Land Academy has stood the test of time.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just starting out, this episode offers a fresh perspective on creating lasting wealth through real estate. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from two of the industry’s most experienced professionals.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">For a sneak peek of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://landacademy.com/discord/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);">Land Academy Discord</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;forum, visit LandAcademy.com in read-only format. If you have questions or want to be part of the community, simply text them at 480-530-7383. 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Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, and this is the Land Academy Show.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is episode number 1,952, and today we're going to talk about setting goals in land investment, a reverse engineering approach. You want to start at the end and work your way forward so you make sure you get there, and we're going to talk about your ideal land transaction, explained.

Jill K DeWit:
This'll be good.

Steven Jack Butala:
You want to do deals that, you know, you planned for.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
You don't want to just send a bunch of mail out. That's what this is all about today, both of these topics.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
You don't want to just do stuff and see how it goes.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, "Let's just blast this county, this state. Let's just leave everything in, see what comes back and I'll just figure it out. I'll wing it." I mean, that's one way to do it, but I prefer making it easy and we'll talk about that too.

Steven Jack Butala:
When the cameras are turned off and the weekend starts, which is about two hours from now for us, I just want to see how it goes. But not in my land career, I don't.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
I want to know exactly how it's going to go.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good point. Just see how it goes. I want to pause and tell the story that you just talked about from our neighbor here at this-

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, sure.

Jill K DeWit:
So we're at this sweet, sweet park just outside Estes Park.

Steven Jack Butala:
RV Park.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-huh, an RV Park, and Jack was talking to our neighbor who sounds like they just, on a whim, signed up to be a park host in Estes Park. Is it Rocky Mountain National Park or Estes Park?

Steven Jack Butala:
Estes Park. Right up there.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, but not Rocky National Park. Anyway, they're going to be a park host for like eight months and they just decided to do it on a whim.

Steven Jack Butala:
Said they're both 67, he and his wife, and he was in the auto industry, I think as an auto mechanic.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's a retired teacher and they lost a very close friend of theirs a couple years ago and then they said, "That's it. We're done working."

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
And they're full time. They sold their house. They sold everything.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
From Virginia.

Jill K DeWit:
All I heard out the window was him say, "I don't want to be a statistic." I'm like, that's flipping cool. I agree with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have to say-

Jill K DeWit:
And I remember you saying, "That's why we're doing this stuff."

Steven Jack Butala:
As a man-

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
People pull in and within the first five minutes that they're here, you can see how much of a man they are. How they hook their stuff up, how they back their rig in, all of it. And that guy put me to shame. Usually that's not the case. Usually I'm like, "I can handle all of this."

Jill K DeWit:
We did come back last night and you said this, "This man's serious. Look how perfect everything is."

Steven Jack Butala:
Then we're talking and he's opening all of his storage and everything's all perfect in there. He's got a whole work chest. Pulled things out and he's got screws. I'm jealous. Now I got to up my game.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah, there you go.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[This is episode 1,952. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the topics of Your Ideal Land Transaction & Working Backwards from Your Land Investment Goals. You can visit landacademy.com to have a glimpse of the Land Academy Discord community. If you want your question answered on air or need assistance with community participation, send us a text at 480-530-7383. We review every text we receive, and if we find your question interesting, we'll feature it on our upcoming podcast episodes.

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, and this is the Land Academy Show.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is episode number 1,952, and today we're going to talk about setting goals in land investment, a reverse engineering approach. You want to start at the end and work your way forward so you make sure you get there, and we're going to talk about your ideal land transaction, explained.

Jill K DeWit:
This'll be good.

Steven Jack Butala:
You want to do deals that, you know, you planned for.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
You don't want to just send a bunch of mail out. That's what this is all about today, both of these topics.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
You don't want to just do stuff and see how it goes.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, "Let's just blast this county, this state. Let's just leave everything in, see what comes back and I'll just figure it out. I'll wing it." I mean, that's one way to do it, but I prefer making it easy and we'll talk about that too.

Steven Jack Butala:
When the cameras are turned off and the weekend starts, which is about two hours from now for us, I just want to see how it goes. But not in my land career, I don't.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
I want to know exactly how it's going to go.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good point. Just see how it goes. I want to pause and tell the story that you just talked about from our neighbor here at this-

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, sure.

Jill K DeWit:
So we're at this sweet, sweet park just outside Estes Park.

Steven Jack Butala:
RV Park.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-huh, an RV Park, and Jack was talking to our neighbor who sounds like they just, on a whim, signed up to be a park host in Estes Park. Is it Rocky Mountain National Park or Estes Park?

Steven Jack Butala:
Estes Park. Right up there.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, but not Rocky National Park. Anyway, they're going to be a park host for like eight months and they just decided to do it on a whim.

Steven Jack Butala:
Said they're both 67, he and his wife, and he was in the auto industry, I think as an auto mechanic.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's a retired teacher and they lost a very close friend of theirs a couple years ago and then they said, "That's it. We're done working."

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
And they're full time. They sold their house. They sold everything.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
From Virginia.

Jill K DeWit:
All I heard out the window was him say, "I don't want to be a statistic." I'm like, that's flipping cool. I agree with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have to say-

Jill K DeWit:
And I remember you saying, "That's why we're doing this stuff."

Steven Jack Butala:
As a man-

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
People pull in and within the first five minutes that they're here, you can see how much of a man they are. How they hook their stuff up, how they back their rig in, all of it. And that guy put me to shame. Usually that's not the case. Usually I'm like, "I can handle all of this."

Jill K DeWit:
We did come back last night and you said this, "This man's serious. Look how perfect everything is."

Steven Jack Butala:
Then we're talking and he's opening all of his storage and everything's all perfect in there. He's got a whole work chest. Pulled things out and he's got screws. I'm jealous. Now I got to up my game.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah, there you go.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/05/10/setting-goals-a-reverse-engineering-approach-your-ideal-transaction-explained-la-1952/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hneHD5_CW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a20b02b4-447c-4d67-be0b-d513f1d4440d.mp3" length="50999732" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>50:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Scale Your Land Business with Confidence (1951)</title><itunes:title>How to Scale Your Land Business with Confidence (1951)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[In this episode of the Land Academy Show, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit are on the road in Boulder, Colorado, discussing how to build a 10,000 unit mailer and how to build due diligence confidence, which are hot topics for their Career Path members. They also talk about how they are able to run their land business from their RV, but have to find office spaces to run their podcast, and Career Path live video sessions. Steven and Jill suggest renting independent office spaces or hotel conference rooms, and mention that there are office shares in almost all tiny towns all over the place. They then answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar, before taking a deep dive into two land related topics by popular requests.

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. And this is the Land Academy Show.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is episode 1,951 and today, we're going to talk about how I build, how Jack builds, a 10,000 unit mailer. And we're going to talk also about building due diligence confidence. These are two topics that came from...

Jill K DeWit:
Career Path.

Steven Jack Butala:
Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're mid-session in Career Path Number Six, and these are hot topics, both of them, for...

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
... During the office hours for Career Path members.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. So I want to just make a note too, for those of you who are watching us, we are on the road. I would show you our beautiful background, but with the light outside, it's actually a bright Colorado day right now. So you wouldn't really see it. But my view is beautiful. So we happen to be Downtown Boulder, looking out over the mountains on the front range and it couldn't be more pretty.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's right out of a postcard, the whole thing. And Jill and I are having an absolute blast.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. So for those of you who are tuning in and listening and you're here because, "I want to do it from the road too," sometimes you have to do this kind of a stuff. So I've talked about it before. Running our own Land business from an RV is totally a piece of cake. I can do it with my laptop, I can do stuff on my phone, I can do things on my tablet. No big deal, running a Land business. Now, running Land Academy and a podcast and all the-

Steven Jack Butala:
And Officer Owners and Parcel Facts.

Jill K DeWit:
... And doing Career Path with the video live stuff we have to do, that's a whole different ballgame. So for those things, we find these office space environments and it's great, because you could rent it for a couple hours, rent it for a day, whatever you need. I just want you to know all your options.

Steven Jack Butala:
It turns out there's an office share in almost all tiny little towns all over the place. I'm shocked at how many... Not the chains. Not the WeWorks.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's all kinds of independent little offices. You can rent a room.

Jill K DeWit:
It doesn't have to be a hotel conference room.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
We've done that.

Steven Jack Butala:
They have that too.

Jill K DeWit:
We've done that. So yeah. Now I'm like, "Oh." And here's the reason why, because we don't want to go home. We picked up a new rig. Well, we did the podcast... Did we do the podcast from the rig last week? I think we did.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. That's right. You saw the podcast from the rig last week. So we were going to head home after that, right? And then Jack very nicely says, "I don't need to go home. Do you need to go home?" I go, "I kind of need to go home." So I'm having contacts shipped to me here. That's the only thing I'm running out of that I can't get. But other than that, we'll just see how it goes.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[In this episode of the Land Academy Show, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit are on the road in Boulder, Colorado, discussing how to build a 10,000 unit mailer and how to build due diligence confidence, which are hot topics for their Career Path members. They also talk about how they are able to run their land business from their RV, but have to find office spaces to run their podcast, and Career Path live video sessions. Steven and Jill suggest renting independent office spaces or hotel conference rooms, and mention that there are office shares in almost all tiny towns all over the place. They then answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar, before taking a deep dive into two land related topics by popular requests.

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. And this is the Land Academy Show.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is episode 1,951 and today, we're going to talk about how I build, how Jack builds, a 10,000 unit mailer. And we're going to talk also about building due diligence confidence. These are two topics that came from...

Jill K DeWit:
Career Path.

Steven Jack Butala:
Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're mid-session in Career Path Number Six, and these are hot topics, both of them, for...

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
... During the office hours for Career Path members.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. So I want to just make a note too, for those of you who are watching us, we are on the road. I would show you our beautiful background, but with the light outside, it's actually a bright Colorado day right now. So you wouldn't really see it. But my view is beautiful. So we happen to be Downtown Boulder, looking out over the mountains on the front range and it couldn't be more pretty.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's right out of a postcard, the whole thing. And Jill and I are having an absolute blast.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. So for those of you who are tuning in and listening and you're here because, "I want to do it from the road too," sometimes you have to do this kind of a stuff. So I've talked about it before. Running our own Land business from an RV is totally a piece of cake. I can do it with my laptop, I can do stuff on my phone, I can do things on my tablet. No big deal, running a Land business. Now, running Land Academy and a podcast and all the-

Steven Jack Butala:
And Officer Owners and Parcel Facts.

Jill K DeWit:
... And doing Career Path with the video live stuff we have to do, that's a whole different ballgame. So for those things, we find these office space environments and it's great, because you could rent it for a couple hours, rent it for a day, whatever you need. I just want you to know all your options.

Steven Jack Butala:
It turns out there's an office share in almost all tiny little towns all over the place. I'm shocked at how many... Not the chains. Not the WeWorks.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's all kinds of independent little offices. You can rent a room.

Jill K DeWit:
It doesn't have to be a hotel conference room.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
We've done that.

Steven Jack Butala:
They have that too.

Jill K DeWit:
We've done that. So yeah. Now I'm like, "Oh." And here's the reason why, because we don't want to go home. We picked up a new rig. Well, we did the podcast... Did we do the podcast from the rig last week? I think we did.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. That's right. You saw the podcast from the rig last week. So we were going to head home after that, right? And then Jack very nicely says, "I don't need to go home. Do you need to go home?" I go, "I kind of need to go home." So I'm having contacts shipped to me here. That's the only thing I'm running out of that I can't get. But other than that, we'll just see how it goes.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/05/03/how-to-scale-your-land-business-with-confidence-1951/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">xokvI93Hv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/64ffd2ab-9c8a-4c06-ad43-60df3e3e508a.mp3" length="59856366" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>58:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How We Built a 4-Hour Land Investment Work Week from the Road (LA 1950)</title><itunes:title>How We Built a 4-Hour Land Investment Work Week from the Road (LA 1950)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit on this episode of the Land Academy Show, where they discuss their four-hour investment work week from the road and how mailer yield is a direct result of who answers your phones. They also talk about their new RV and how they are able to conduct their land investment business while on the go. Tune in to learn how you too can be a successful land investor while enjoying the freedom of the open road. Plus, they answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions. Check out landacademy.com for more information.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit on this episode of the Land Academy Show, where they discuss their four-hour investment work week from the road and how mailer yield is a direct result of who answers your phones. They also talk about their new RV and how they are able to conduct their land investment business while on the go. Tune in to learn how you too can be a successful land investor while enjoying the freedom of the open road. Plus, they answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions. Check out landacademy.com for more information.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/04/26/how-we-built-a-4-hour-land-investment-work-week-from-the-road-la-1950/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">WnKNK1x8h</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ed7c5ca0-6967-4a4a-b736-ddac50e20b35.mp3" length="60801980" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:00:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>From Chasing Pennies to Making Millions Buying and Selling Land (LA 1949)</title><itunes:title>From Chasing Pennies to Making Millions Buying and Selling Land (LA 1949)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome back to the Land Academy Show, Episode 1949. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the anatomy of an online membership community, as well as share their journey from chasing pennies to making millions buying and selling land. Along the way, they share some banter about their creative process and everyday life. The show also features Q&amp;A sessions from their Land Academy Discord forum, reviews of land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar, and deep dives into land-related topics. Check out landacademy.com to learn more.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome back to the Land Academy Show, Episode 1949. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the anatomy of an online membership community, as well as share their journey from chasing pennies to making millions buying and selling land. Along the way, they share some banter about their creative process and everyday life. The show also features Q&amp;A sessions from their Land Academy Discord forum, reviews of land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar, and deep dives into land-related topics. Check out landacademy.com to learn more.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/04/19/from-chasing-pennies-to-making-millions-buying-and-selling-land-la-1949/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sak1doSb9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4ac20f68-dae1-4aae-a6b2-7a118101374a.mp3" length="51184211" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>50:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Empowered Women in the Land Flipping Business &amp; Tech Innovations (LA 1948)</title><itunes:title>Empowered Women in the Land Flipping Business &amp; Tech Innovations (LA 1948)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit on the Land Academy Show as they discuss Land Academy Ladies, their sense of confidence and community, and the importance of technology and innovation in the land flipping business. In this episode, they also talk about their busy week, upcoming events like Career Path, and answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum. Tune in for valuable insights and advice on land-related topics and how to succeed in the industry. Check out their Land Academy Discord channel at landacademy.com for more resources.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill K DeWit on the Land Academy Show as they discuss Land Academy Ladies, their sense of confidence and community, and the importance of technology and innovation in the land flipping business. In this episode, they also talk about their busy week, upcoming events like Career Path, and answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum. Tune in for valuable insights and advice on land-related topics and how to succeed in the industry. Check out their Land Academy Discord channel at landacademy.com for more resources.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/04/12/empowered-women-in-the-land-flipping-business-tech-innovations-la-1948/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">T2CYP59Sp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0421a5c8-a0b7-425e-8d52-b8c6e26e50f1.mp3" length="58631328" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>59:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Winning Strategies: The Ins and Outs of Land Auctions (LA 1947)</title><itunes:title>Winning Strategies: The Ins and Outs of Land Auctions (LA 1947)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K. DeWit discuss the ins and outs of land auctions and provide tips on how to win the bidding war. They also talk about their own garage sale auction where members of the Land Academy community can bid on properties. Later in the episode, Jill shares how to make a million dollars a year through single land transactions each month. Steven and Jill also answer questions from the Land Academy Discord Forum and review recent land acquisitions. Tune in for valuable insights and entertaining banter.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill K. DeWit discuss the ins and outs of land auctions and provide tips on how to win the bidding war. They also talk about their own garage sale auction where members of the Land Academy community can bid on properties. Later in the episode, Jill shares how to make a million dollars a year through single land transactions each month. Steven and Jill also answer questions from the Land Academy Discord Forum and review recent land acquisitions. Tune in for valuable insights and entertaining banter.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/04/05/winning-strategies-the-ins-and-outs-of-land-auctions-la-1947/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">63DcknpSu</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b229b0b3-2e1c-464c-8fe1-fe1686ff9424.mp3" length="47320087" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>46:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Best Time To Negotiate the Price of a Land Acquisition (LA 1946)</title><itunes:title>The Best Time To Negotiate the Price of a Land Acquisition (LA 1946)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss when to negotiate the price of a land acquisition and the backwards psychology of upfront money. They also give an overview of their weekly show and answer a question from a Land Academy Discord forum member. Tune in for expert insights and entertaining banter. Don't forget to check out The Land Academy Discord channel at https://landacademy.com/testimonials/#discord
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss when to negotiate the price of a land acquisition and the backwards psychology of upfront money. They also give an overview of their weekly show and answer a question from a Land Academy Discord forum member. Tune in for expert insights and entertaining banter. Don't forget to check out The Land Academy Discord channel at https://landacademy.com/testimonials/#discord
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/03/29/the-best-time-to-negotiate-the-price-of-a-land-acquisition-la-1946/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yuZH9Ca-C</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9ac33d35-252f-4532-9241-5cfbd2c50e60.mp3" length="60654310" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:01:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>House Flipping or Land Flipping? Discover Your Path To Real Estate Land Investing (LA 1945)</title><itunes:title>House Flipping or Land Flipping? Discover Your Path To Real Estate Land Investing (LA 1945)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit. In episode number 1,945, the hosts dive into the topic of recovering house flippers and why they're a great fit for the career path program taught by Jill and Steven. Later on, they share some amazing stories from Land Academy members, highlighting their success and achievements. Unfortunately, Jill is suffering from laryngitis due to her extensive phone conversations, but that doesn't stop the duo from answering questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and reviewing land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar. Join in on the conversation and check out their Discord channel for a sneak peek at landacademy.com. Don't miss out on this episode of the Land Academy Show.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit. In episode number 1,945, the hosts dive into the topic of recovering house flippers and why they're a great fit for the career path program taught by Jill and Steven. Later on, they share some amazing stories from Land Academy members, highlighting their success and achievements. Unfortunately, Jill is suffering from laryngitis due to her extensive phone conversations, but that doesn't stop the duo from answering questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and reviewing land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar. Join in on the conversation and check out their Discord channel for a sneak peek at landacademy.com. Don't miss out on this episode of the Land Academy Show.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/03/22/house-flipping-or-land-flipping-discover-your-path-to-real-estate-land-investing-la-1945/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UH-_pbSfm</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6a51ee72-5a9a-4c3e-9fce-aab7c7803c65.mp3" length="57830095" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>56:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Reasons Why Land Investment May Not Work For You &amp; We All Have Access To Equal Resources (LA 1944)</title><itunes:title>3 Reasons Why Land Investment May Not Work For You &amp; We All Have Access To Equal Resources (LA 1944)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit cover two important topics related to buying and selling land. They discuss how everyone has access to the same resources and identify three reasons why buying and selling land may not work for some people. Later, they answer questions from the Land Academy Discord forum. Join Steven and Jill for a deep dive into the world of land investment.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit cover two important topics related to buying and selling land. They discuss how everyone has access to the same resources and identify three reasons why buying and selling land may not work for some people. Later, they answer questions from the Land Academy Discord forum. Join Steven and Jill for a deep dive into the world of land investment.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/03/15/3-reasons-why-land-investment-may-not-work-for-you-we-all-have-access-to-equal-resources-la-1944/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0mDTl3-Gs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bc9f97e8-9f28-4a57-a4e6-6cd82ad3cb7b.mp3" length="49609850" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>48:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Debunking the Passive Income Myth in Land Deals &amp; 10-15 Deals a Year to Millionaire Status (LA 1943)</title><itunes:title>Debunking the Passive Income Myth in Land Deals &amp; 10-15 Deals a Year to Millionaire Status (LA 1943)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the myth of passive income in relation to buying and selling land. They also delve into how only 10-15 deals a year can lead to millionaire status. The hosts answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar. Join them as they take a deep dive into the world of land-related topics and share their insights on the industry.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the myth of passive income in relation to buying and selling land. They also delve into how only 10-15 deals a year can lead to millionaire status. The hosts answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar. Join them as they take a deep dive into the world of land-related topics and share their insights on the industry.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/03/08/debunking-the-passive-income-myth-in-land-deals-10-15-deals-a-year-to-millionaire-status-la-1943/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">eTWQeKINo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/90db1184-6ba3-4927-befb-44533eb104e7.mp3" length="73828492" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:14:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Marketing Land in 2023: Selling in a Downturn &amp; Turning Deals into a Career (LA 1942)</title><itunes:title>Marketing Land in 2023: Selling in a Downturn &amp; Turning Deals into a Career (LA 1942)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss effective marketing strategies for selling land in 2023 during an economic downturn. They also explore the differences between buying and selling land as a hobby versus a career, sharing insights from their Land Academy Discord community. Steven and Jill also highlight the benefits of being involved in Land Academy's online community, where members can get 24/7 support and have their questions answered by people who were in their shoes six months ago. Check out landacademy.com for more information on the Land Academy Discord community and to watch a view-only snippet of some of the areas within the channel.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode of the Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss effective marketing strategies for selling land in 2023 during an economic downturn. They also explore the differences between buying and selling land as a hobby versus a career, sharing insights from their Land Academy Discord community. Steven and Jill also highlight the benefits of being involved in Land Academy's online community, where members can get 24/7 support and have their questions answered by people who were in their shoes six months ago. Check out landacademy.com for more information on the Land Academy Discord community and to watch a view-only snippet of some of the areas within the channel.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/03/01/marketing-land-in-2023-selling-in-a-downturn-turning-deals-into-a-career-la-1942/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RJvUdUhi1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/99de7f79-ece8-4ac0-9b9e-1ce23448c6da.mp3" length="67410098" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:07:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Re-Mailing Land Offers is so Effective and Commercial Real Estate 101 (LA 1941)</title><itunes:title>Why Re-Mailing Land Offers is so Effective and Commercial Real Estate 101 (LA 1941)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show episode 1941, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss why re-mailing land offers is effective and also delve into commercial real estate 101, prompted by a question from a member of their Discord channel. They also share tips and insights about commercial real estate terminology and answer more questions from the Land Academy Discord Forum as well as review land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar. If you're not yet a member of the Discord community, you can check it out in read-only format on landinvestors.com or landacademy.com.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Land Academy Show episode 1941, hosts Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss why re-mailing land offers is effective and also delve into commercial real estate 101, prompted by a question from a member of their Discord channel. They also share tips and insights about commercial real estate terminology and answer more questions from the Land Academy Discord Forum as well as review land acquisitions from their weekly Thursday member webinar. If you're not yet a member of the Discord community, you can check it out in read-only format on landinvestors.com or landacademy.com.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/02/22/why-re-mailing-land-offers-is-so-effective-and-commercial-real-estate-101-la-1941/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Qa9XTJ2B3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2cd20658-4d6c-4b3d-a366-c8dbaf3282cd.mp3" length="60060849" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>59:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Sellers Choose to Sell Their Land for Less Than Market Value (LA 1940)</title><itunes:title>Why Sellers Choose to Sell Their Land for Less Than Market Value (LA 1940)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Description​
In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit talk about why sellers choose to sell their land for less than it's actually worth. They also share their personal experiences and mistakes they've made in the land business and how they turned them around. They also answer a question from one of their members on the Land Academy Discord online community about the value of paying taxes on a 20-acre land with $7,000 in back taxes. This is a must-watch episode for anyone who is looking to get into the land investment business. Don't miss out on the valuable insights and tips from these experts in the industry.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Description​
In this episode of The Land Academy Show, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit talk about why sellers choose to sell their land for less than it's actually worth. They also share their personal experiences and mistakes they've made in the land business and how they turned them around. They also answer a question from one of their members on the Land Academy Discord online community about the value of paying taxes on a 20-acre land with $7,000 in back taxes. This is a must-watch episode for anyone who is looking to get into the land investment business. Don't miss out on the valuable insights and tips from these experts in the industry.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/02/15/why-sellers-choose-to-sell-their-land-for-less-than-market-value-la-1940/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">D3vWD8eH-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2965fd20-e05b-4aeb-b56b-7f8533ce61c2.mp3" length="68706363" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:09:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What’s Holding You Back from Accomplishing Your Goals? (LA 1939)</title><itunes:title>What’s Holding You Back from Accomplishing Your Goals? (LA 1939)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Description​
Welcome to episode 1939 of the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit. In this episode, learn how to negotiate a purchase price and discover what's holding you back from accomplishing all of your goals. Tune in for a mix of Jill's insights on land deals and Steven's tips for making serious dough. The show has now transitioned into a weekly format where they answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions from the weekly member webinar. Members and non-members alike can benefit from the valuable information shared in each episode. Check out landinvestors.com or landacademy.com to access the Land Academy Discord community in a free, read-only format.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Description​
Welcome to episode 1939 of the Land Academy Show with Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit. In this episode, learn how to negotiate a purchase price and discover what's holding you back from accomplishing all of your goals. Tune in for a mix of Jill's insights on land deals and Steven's tips for making serious dough. The show has now transitioned into a weekly format where they answer questions from their Land Academy Discord forum and review land acquisitions from the weekly member webinar. Members and non-members alike can benefit from the valuable information shared in each episode. Check out landinvestors.com or landacademy.com to access the Land Academy Discord community in a free, read-only format.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/02/08/whats-holding-you-back-from-accomplishing-your-goals-la-1939/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YW_vDwS-r</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ef4bb654-f46f-441b-b8d4-d12b56a33803.mp3" length="78619610" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:19:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Build a Life-Long Fortune Consistently Investing in Land (LA 1938)</title><itunes:title>How to Build a Life-Long Fortune Consistently Investing in Land (LA 1938)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Description
Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit on the Land Academy Show for a deep dive into the Land Academy bucket system and how to build wealth through consistent land investing. In this episode, they discuss a recent live webinar Jill did this week and address the rise of women in the land investment world. Get insights on the relationship between assessed value and market value. Tune in every week for questions from our members only discord and deals from our weekly members call. Access the Discord forum for free on landinvestors.com or landacademy.com in read-only mode. Start building your lifelong fortune with Land Academy today!
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Description
Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit on the Land Academy Show for a deep dive into the Land Academy bucket system and how to build wealth through consistent land investing. In this episode, they discuss a recent live webinar Jill did this week and address the rise of women in the land investment world. Get insights on the relationship between assessed value and market value. Tune in every week for questions from our members only discord and deals from our weekly members call. Access the Discord forum for free on landinvestors.com or landacademy.com in read-only mode. Start building your lifelong fortune with Land Academy today!
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/02/01/how-to-build-a-life-long-fortune-consistently-investing-in-land-la-1938/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ATJMMWOdV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/40cfbf01-08fe-43cb-848e-19dbfe036b29.mp3" length="55389387" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>54:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mastering Land Investing: Harnessing the Power of Data and Avoiding Overpriced Mailers (LA 1937)</title><itunes:title>Mastering Land Investing: Harnessing the Power of Data and Avoiding Overpriced Mailers (LA 1937)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Description:
Welcome back to the Land Academy Show, episode 1937. In this weeks episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the importance of data in making decisions for land investing and share tips on how to avoid sending overpriced mailers. They also share their personal experiences and insights on maintaining a balance in home and life maintenance in the industry. Tune in to get a deeper understanding of the land investing industry and stay updated on the latest trends and strategies.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Description:
Welcome back to the Land Academy Show, episode 1937. In this weeks episode, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit discuss the importance of data in making decisions for land investing and share tips on how to avoid sending overpriced mailers. They also share their personal experiences and insights on maintaining a balance in home and life maintenance in the industry. Tune in to get a deeper understanding of the land investing industry and stay updated on the latest trends and strategies.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/25/mastering-land-investing-harnessing-the-power-of-data-and-avoiding-overpriced-mailers-la-1937/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RJdakkcHK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2e6e5a5b-0f51-4304-b820-d260093825f0.mp3" length="67917251" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:07:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Leading in The Land Investing Space &amp; Tips For Investors On Talking To Sellers (LA 1936)</title><itunes:title>Leading in The Land Investing Space &amp; Tips For Investors On Talking To Sellers (LA 1936)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Description
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, episode 1936! Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they share their journey to becoming leaders in the land flipping space and maintaining that position from 2015 to 2023. They will also talk about talking and bonding with sellers and the importance of the first inbound phone call. Get insights on how to make quick connections and learn about the area you're interested in, all in just a matter of seconds. Tune in to this episode to learn more about the land investing industry and stay up to date with the latest trends and strategies. Plus, get sneak peek into the Land Academy Discord online community by visiting landinvestors.com
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Description
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, episode 1936! Join Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit as they share their journey to becoming leaders in the land flipping space and maintaining that position from 2015 to 2023. They will also talk about talking and bonding with sellers and the importance of the first inbound phone call. Get insights on how to make quick connections and learn about the area you're interested in, all in just a matter of seconds. Tune in to this episode to learn more about the land investing industry and stay up to date with the latest trends and strategies. Plus, get sneak peek into the Land Academy Discord online community by visiting landinvestors.com
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/18/leading-in-the-land-investing-space-tips-for-investors-on-talking-to-sellers-la-1936/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bain0z5pb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8d98e75e-b5ed-405a-9adb-c2f0656c4b9f.mp3" length="72560334" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:12:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Navigating the Market in 2023: Tips and Strategies for Finding Winning Investments (LA1935)</title><itunes:title>Navigating the Market in 2023: Tips and Strategies for Finding Winning Investments (LA1935)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Description
Join us on our first of many long-form podcasts as we navigate the 2023 real estate market and share the top tips and strategies for finding winning land investments. Discover what top land investors are doing differently in 2023, how to classify your properties, and see real-life deals our paid members have secured. Learn how to identify new markets and determine if they are a good fit for your investment portfolio. With decades of experience in the land business, we have seen it all and are ready to share our knowledge with you. Tune in on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google, or watch the video version on YouTube. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take your real estate investments to the next level in 2023.
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Description
Join us on our first of many long-form podcasts as we navigate the 2023 real estate market and share the top tips and strategies for finding winning land investments. Discover what top land investors are doing differently in 2023, how to classify your properties, and see real-life deals our paid members have secured. Learn how to identify new markets and determine if they are a good fit for your investment portfolio. With decades of experience in the land business, we have seen it all and are ready to share our knowledge with you. Tune in on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google, or watch the video version on YouTube. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take your real estate investments to the next level in 2023.
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/11/navigating-the-market-in-2023-tips-and-strategies-for-finding-winning-investments-la1935/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">GABEGum7f</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9497fcba-dd72-4f47-bf55-6034f2b3d22d.mp3" length="73750434" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:14:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>New Podcast Announcement in 2023</title><itunes:title>New Podcast Announcement in 2023</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Announcement: Our New Podcast Schedule

Hello everyone, 

We are excited to announce that Land Academy will be moving to a longer, more in-depth podcast format starting Wednesday, January 11th. For the past eight years, we have shared daily podcasts to help you buy and sell land profitably. Beginning this month, we will be releasing weekly shows that will still include member questions, interviews, and information on how we do deals. We are lengthening the podcast so we can dive even deeper into what's important to you and how to be successful as a land investor.

While we have enjoyed bringing you daily content, we have decided to switch to a weekly format in order to provide more in-depth and comprehensive coverage of each topic. We believe this new structure will allow us to deliver even more value to our listeners.

We hope you will continue to tune in and join us on Wednesdays for our new weekly podcast. Thank you for your support and we can't wait to bring you this new format.

If you have any guests or topics you'd like us to talk about let us know!

2023 promises to be a turbulent but profitable year for land investment and we will cover it as it unfolds in-depth. Don't forget to join us every Wednesday and be sure to catch up on past episodes in the meantime.

Sincerely, Jack and Jill

https://youtu.be/83PZ9v45hjQ

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Announcement: Our New Podcast Schedule

Hello everyone, 

We are excited to announce that Land Academy will be moving to a longer, more in-depth podcast format starting Wednesday, January 11th. For the past eight years, we have shared daily podcasts to help you buy and sell land profitably. Beginning this month, we will be releasing weekly shows that will still include member questions, interviews, and information on how we do deals. We are lengthening the podcast so we can dive even deeper into what's important to you and how to be successful as a land investor.

While we have enjoyed bringing you daily content, we have decided to switch to a weekly format in order to provide more in-depth and comprehensive coverage of each topic. We believe this new structure will allow us to deliver even more value to our listeners.

We hope you will continue to tune in and join us on Wednesdays for our new weekly podcast. Thank you for your support and we can't wait to bring you this new format.

If you have any guests or topics you'd like us to talk about let us know!

2023 promises to be a turbulent but profitable year for land investment and we will cover it as it unfolds in-depth. Don't forget to join us every Wednesday and be sure to catch up on past episodes in the meantime.

Sincerely, Jack and Jill

https://youtu.be/83PZ9v45hjQ

Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/10/new-podcast-announcement-in-2023-2/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hHSX1tumK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6437c108-fca8-44da-8ac6-bd7fedf2f916.mp3" length="1370338" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp; How to Qualify a Real Seller in a Minute or Less (LA 1932)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp; How to Qualify a Real Seller in a Minute or Less (LA 1932)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. 
</p><p><br></p><p>... qualify a seller in a minute or less. Does it take that long?
</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. 
</p><p><br></p><p>... qualify a seller in a minute or less. Does it take that long?
</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/06/jill-friday-how-to-qualify-a-real-seller-in-a-minute-or-less-la-1932/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">CXhe0i7Ev</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ca234645-da2a-4fa8-bc50-3004e24fd18d.mp3" length="14391045" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp; Confidence (LA 1931)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp; Confidence (LA 1931)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about confidence. I mentioned yesterday that I don't think this topic gets enough attention and I think that it's an underrated topic that needs to be talked about more often than it should. And I came up with this concept because we just got done with Career Path, Jill and I, for last year-</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about confidence. I mentioned yesterday that I don't think this topic gets enough attention and I think that it's an underrated topic that needs to be talked about more often than it should. And I came up with this concept because we just got done with Career Path, Jill and I, for last year-</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/05/jack-thursday-confidence-la-1931/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PAws0XrRQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/90968c45-fc48-49f6-8187-60bfdb56b7ad.mp3" length="11395671" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pros and Cons of Partial Land Ownership (LA 1930)</title><itunes:title>Pros and Cons of Partial Land Ownership (LA 1930)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Today, Jill and Steve talk about the pros and cons of partial land ownership.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, Jill and Steve talk about the pros and cons of partial land ownership.</p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/04/pros-and-cons-of-partial-land-ownership-la-1930/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">vv01sLN13</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/29e86719-10cc-48cb-b75e-333801c0f404.mp3" length="13773327" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Small is Too Small with Land Deals (LA 1929)</title><itunes:title>How Small is Too Small with Land Deals (LA 1929)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how small is too small in your land transactions.

Jill K DeWit:
I have two things. I want to talk about the deals that I do, and I want to talk about the deals that you should do.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's great. And I'll tell you right out of the box here, this changes all the time. A regular deal for us used to be buy for $500 and sell for 1500. That was like a standard deal for us for a lot of years. And certainly not anymore.

Jill K DeWit:
Because they were every hour.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That makes a difference. Isn't that funny? Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Stick a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now jill and I own a full-blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners, the number two owners, to get offers into owner's hands that you're sending out to buy their property. We started it a lot of years ago out of frustration because we couldn't get the service and attention that we needed from an outside vendor. So we started our own. And fast forward today, we do almost a million offers a month. Sometimes, we actually go over a million offers going outbound a month. Check out support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Will wrote, "Going through the six As. And right now, I'm looking at access. I have an opportunity on a property that is at the end of a dead end road. So there's access. It's a small lot 0.6 acres. This is good. It's over half acre. So how much should I be worried about the fact that it's a dead end road, that it's only one lane wide, but it's paved right up to the property, but not beyond it." Are you kidding? I love that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Zero. You should worry about it zero.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the best possible scenario. I'm like, "Who wouldn't want that road ends at my house?" No one's going there, unless they're going to my house. First of all. I don't have the through traffic and the noise and that kind of a thing and it's paved. I'm like, "That would be the seventh A," which is asphalt.

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't keep saying that.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I'm sorry. We're joking about that one. That was a career path inside joke, but I think it's awesome. What do you think?

Steven Jack Butala:
Dead end roads are great. The only con, or downside, to having a dead end road property is that the signage, the for sale signage that you put up, might not be as attractive because you're not reaching as many people as you possibly can to sell it. But from a livability and a buy-ability standpoint, everybody loves dead ends.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you know that it's not politically correct to say dead end anymore?

Jill K DeWit:
What?

Steven Jack Butala:
No through traffic or what... I don't know. Dead end is just a... I read this is a while ago, like a year ago.

Jill K DeWit:
What? Well, who is that possibly offending?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know, Jill. Whoever it's offending, I don't know. I don't know what they would be upset about. The word dead, maybe.

Jill K DeWit:
What?

Steven Jack Butala:
I know. I knew you'd have that extra... That-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Are you making this up?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope. No. All the news signs you see, it says no through traffic.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. That's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic before Jill gets all-

Jill K DeWit:
How much money is that going to cost?

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. Today's topic, how small is too small with land deals? This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So first, we need to talk about your deals and then we'll talk about my deals.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how small is too small in your land transactions.

Jill K DeWit:
I have two things. I want to talk about the deals that I do, and I want to talk about the deals that you should do.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's great. And I'll tell you right out of the box here, this changes all the time. A regular deal for us used to be buy for $500 and sell for 1500. That was like a standard deal for us for a lot of years. And certainly not anymore.

Jill K DeWit:
Because they were every hour.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That makes a difference. Isn't that funny? Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Stick a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now jill and I own a full-blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners, the number two owners, to get offers into owner's hands that you're sending out to buy their property. We started it a lot of years ago out of frustration because we couldn't get the service and attention that we needed from an outside vendor. So we started our own. And fast forward today, we do almost a million offers a month. Sometimes, we actually go over a million offers going outbound a month. Check out support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Will wrote, "Going through the six As. And right now, I'm looking at access. I have an opportunity on a property that is at the end of a dead end road. So there's access. It's a small lot 0.6 acres. This is good. It's over half acre. So how much should I be worried about the fact that it's a dead end road, that it's only one lane wide, but it's paved right up to the property, but not beyond it." Are you kidding? I love that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Zero. You should worry about it zero.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the best possible scenario. I'm like, "Who wouldn't want that road ends at my house?" No one's going there, unless they're going to my house. First of all. I don't have the through traffic and the noise and that kind of a thing and it's paved. I'm like, "That would be the seventh A," which is asphalt.

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't keep saying that.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I'm sorry. We're joking about that one. That was a career path inside joke, but I think it's awesome. What do you think?

Steven Jack Butala:
Dead end roads are great. The only con, or downside, to having a dead end road property is that the signage, the for sale signage that you put up, might not be as attractive because you're not reaching as many people as you possibly can to sell it. But from a livability and a buy-ability standpoint, everybody loves dead ends.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you know that it's not politically correct to say dead end anymore?

Jill K DeWit:
What?

Steven Jack Butala:
No through traffic or what... I don't know. Dead end is just a... I read this is a while ago, like a year ago.

Jill K DeWit:
What? Well, who is that possibly offending?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know, Jill. Whoever it's offending, I don't know. I don't know what they would be upset about. The word dead, maybe.

Jill K DeWit:
What?

Steven Jack Butala:
I know. I knew you'd have that extra... That-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Are you making this up?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope. No. All the news signs you see, it says no through traffic.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. That's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic before Jill gets all-

Jill K DeWit:
How much money is that going to cost?

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. Today's topic, how small is too small with land deals? This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So first, we need to talk about your deals and then we'll talk about my deals.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/03/how-small-is-too-small-with-land-deals-la-1929/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">z2c4cZJ_8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bf19c657-0523-4bc1-9de7-51048c5d3510.mp3" length="12363175" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Getting Rich in 2023 (LA 1928)</title><itunes:title>Getting Rich in 2023 (LA 1928)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about getting rich in 2023.

Jill K DeWit:
Yay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who doesn't want to talk about getting rich?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm just saying happy 2023. I'm excited. Aren't you excited?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm excited about rich.

Jill K DeWit:
I love starting a new year. It's great. I'm really excited. Oh, I know you have a lot... This is all on your side of the sheet-

Steven Jack Butala:
Not really? Do you have a lack of enjoyment and fulfillment for getting rich?
Are you at a loss for words about making money?

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? I'm over it. It's overrated. Just kidding. Who flipping cares?

Steven Jack Butala:
I actually had somebody to say that to me one time, really long time ago. I don't know, this was like in high school when we were all sitting around talking with somebody's parents and they said, "Yeah, making a lot of money has really been a letdown in my life. There's a lot of other things-"

Jill K DeWit:
"It's only money. We'll make more." Just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's silly.

Jill K DeWit:
I know it's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Kim wrote, "I'm looking for advice on offer percentages for higher value properties. So I offered $85,000 for a 20 acre property. The seller wants $203,000 and comps are between $340,000 and $400,000 for this size / area in the last few months. I typically stick to 40% of comps as my absolute highest offer price to keep me in check when I call sellers back. For higher priced properties, am I right in remembering that a percent of comps may increase? For example, do I shift my highest percent up to 45 or 50% or more?"
I think they go down.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well yea-

Jill K DeWit:
For a bigger size.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a good question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is so... It's personal.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
In general, we're all used to doubling our money on just about every deal. In most cases, the deals that we do. I'm not bragging, I'm just saying how it is. Largely because of Jill's real specific acquisition criteria. It's more than that. So for larger properties, some people go for a dollar amount, like on houses. When we buy houses, we have to make $100,000. We might spend 300 to sell it for 400. And again, that's certainly not doubling our money at all, but it's a different deal. For land, we like to double, sometimes triple the money.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's up to you.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. You know what my whole thing is, Kim? I need wiggle room in case anything goes sideways.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So the numbers that... Can I see the numbers again? We're at 200 to sell for 340 to 400. Okay. That's not nuts. That's really-

Steven Jack Butala:
I love your 85 though.

Jill K DeWit:
No I know. 85 was awesome then you can't go wrong.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So can you meet them in the middle? That's a very normal thing where you make an offer, they counter, we meet in the middle, whatever it is kind of thing. So that would be my first goal. But otherwise, I mean, how good do you feel About 340 to 400? If you screw it all up and you sold for 300 and you paid 203, are you okay with that? I'm okay with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah-

Jill K DeWit:
As long as it goes fast and I can't lose and I really want it to go fast because I'm tying up $200,000. Because if I'm tying $200,000 for a year, that's a no bueno for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, me too.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about getting rich in 2023.

Jill K DeWit:
Yay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who doesn't want to talk about getting rich?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm just saying happy 2023. I'm excited. Aren't you excited?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm excited about rich.

Jill K DeWit:
I love starting a new year. It's great. I'm really excited. Oh, I know you have a lot... This is all on your side of the sheet-

Steven Jack Butala:
Not really? Do you have a lack of enjoyment and fulfillment for getting rich?
Are you at a loss for words about making money?

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? I'm over it. It's overrated. Just kidding. Who flipping cares?

Steven Jack Butala:
I actually had somebody to say that to me one time, really long time ago. I don't know, this was like in high school when we were all sitting around talking with somebody's parents and they said, "Yeah, making a lot of money has really been a letdown in my life. There's a lot of other things-"

Jill K DeWit:
"It's only money. We'll make more." Just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's silly.

Jill K DeWit:
I know it's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Kim wrote, "I'm looking for advice on offer percentages for higher value properties. So I offered $85,000 for a 20 acre property. The seller wants $203,000 and comps are between $340,000 and $400,000 for this size / area in the last few months. I typically stick to 40% of comps as my absolute highest offer price to keep me in check when I call sellers back. For higher priced properties, am I right in remembering that a percent of comps may increase? For example, do I shift my highest percent up to 45 or 50% or more?"
I think they go down.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well yea-

Jill K DeWit:
For a bigger size.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a good question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is so... It's personal.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
In general, we're all used to doubling our money on just about every deal. In most cases, the deals that we do. I'm not bragging, I'm just saying how it is. Largely because of Jill's real specific acquisition criteria. It's more than that. So for larger properties, some people go for a dollar amount, like on houses. When we buy houses, we have to make $100,000. We might spend 300 to sell it for 400. And again, that's certainly not doubling our money at all, but it's a different deal. For land, we like to double, sometimes triple the money.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's up to you.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. You know what my whole thing is, Kim? I need wiggle room in case anything goes sideways.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So the numbers that... Can I see the numbers again? We're at 200 to sell for 340 to 400. Okay. That's not nuts. That's really-

Steven Jack Butala:
I love your 85 though.

Jill K DeWit:
No I know. 85 was awesome then you can't go wrong.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So can you meet them in the middle? That's a very normal thing where you make an offer, they counter, we meet in the middle, whatever it is kind of thing. So that would be my first goal. But otherwise, I mean, how good do you feel About 340 to 400? If you screw it all up and you sold for 300 and you paid 203, are you okay with that? I'm okay with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah-

Jill K DeWit:
As long as it goes fast and I can't lose and I really want it to go fast because I'm tying up $200,000. Because if I'm tying $200,000 for a year, that's a no bueno for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, me too.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2023/01/02/getting-rich-in-2023-la-1928/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">CC_-co-EJ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cd75e86c-c64c-495c-9507-64a0b90211da.mp3" length="13610779" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Taxes and Your Land Business (LA 1927) Rerun</title><itunes:title>Taxes and Your Land Business (LA 1927) Rerun</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about the fantastically interesting topic called taxes in your land business.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited.

Jack Butala:
Me too. I can't wait to talk about taxes. No, here-

Jill DeWit:
We talk about this often, all the time. Gosh, it's a topic that warms my heart.

Jack Butala:
The truth of it is it's pretty necessary because if you do everything right, this is maybe the second or third or fourth most expensive line item in your expenses for your company. And with ours, it's probably number two or three.

Jill DeWit:
True or false. If you do everything right, you're a little bit teary eyed when tax time comes/however, that means you did well.

Jack Butala:
That's right.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
It's a bittersweet situation.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
This is a long one, I will warn you. Chris asks, "I'm new to the land business and looking for others to join an accountability group. Whether you just joined land Academy as I did a few days ago, or are otherwise somewhat new to the business, it's all good. I anticipate we'll be running into a lot of the same questions and hurdles around the same time as we do our research, get out our first mailers. Mine will go out next week. Field our first phone calls, et cetera. More answers and knowledge than we could ever ask for are here in the forums, education/podcast/ [inaudible 00:01:50] calls, et cetera. So, we're covered there, but what we can do is provide each other some accountability and encouragement as we rack up our first success stories, not to mention learning from whatever unique talents/experience we each bring to the table. And that landed us in this business."
And in parentheses, Chris says he's an experienced software developer and business owner himself.

Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
That's great.

Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
"Perhaps a biweekly networking call over Zoom and a free Slack channel to stay in touch in the meantime. Anyone interested? Please reply to this thread or send me a PM. Private message. Thanks."

Jack Butala:
And there were about 20 people in there that replied to this almost immediately.

Jill DeWit:
I bet. This is a hot topic.

Jack Butala:
Right. So what do you think?

Jill DeWit:
I think it's great. I think it's something we should do and I think it's something we are doing.

Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
We are going to put together something for you. So in the meantime, Chris, I'm so happy. And for those of you who have created your own groups, because you know that that's the one thing that you uniquely need. Some people do, some people don't. It doesn't ... Nobody's right or wrong. It's just some people need it, and those I'm so impressed and proud about everybody that have taken this on themselves and just said, "I know I need someone making me check in and keeping me on track." And I think this is awesome.

Jack Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
And our group has grown to the level where you have enough people, obviously, that this has become more of a thing. And so, we're going to take it. We're going to provide tools and resources to help you.

Jack Butala:
This falls under the category for me of what could possibly be bad about this? What's bad about exercising? Nothing. What's bad about more education? Nothing. So this, I think, accountability is just one of the cornerstones of succeeding at anything. And so, since we started Land Academy, I'd love to know your opinion on this too, and we've been doing this for five or six years now. I've learned a lot of stuff.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about the fantastically interesting topic called taxes in your land business.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited.

Jack Butala:
Me too. I can't wait to talk about taxes. No, here-

Jill DeWit:
We talk about this often, all the time. Gosh, it's a topic that warms my heart.

Jack Butala:
The truth of it is it's pretty necessary because if you do everything right, this is maybe the second or third or fourth most expensive line item in your expenses for your company. And with ours, it's probably number two or three.

Jill DeWit:
True or false. If you do everything right, you're a little bit teary eyed when tax time comes/however, that means you did well.

Jack Butala:
That's right.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
It's a bittersweet situation.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
This is a long one, I will warn you. Chris asks, "I'm new to the land business and looking for others to join an accountability group. Whether you just joined land Academy as I did a few days ago, or are otherwise somewhat new to the business, it's all good. I anticipate we'll be running into a lot of the same questions and hurdles around the same time as we do our research, get out our first mailers. Mine will go out next week. Field our first phone calls, et cetera. More answers and knowledge than we could ever ask for are here in the forums, education/podcast/ [inaudible 00:01:50] calls, et cetera. So, we're covered there, but what we can do is provide each other some accountability and encouragement as we rack up our first success stories, not to mention learning from whatever unique talents/experience we each bring to the table. And that landed us in this business."
And in parentheses, Chris says he's an experienced software developer and business owner himself.

Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
That's great.

Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
"Perhaps a biweekly networking call over Zoom and a free Slack channel to stay in touch in the meantime. Anyone interested? Please reply to this thread or send me a PM. Private message. Thanks."

Jack Butala:
And there were about 20 people in there that replied to this almost immediately.

Jill DeWit:
I bet. This is a hot topic.

Jack Butala:
Right. So what do you think?

Jill DeWit:
I think it's great. I think it's something we should do and I think it's something we are doing.

Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
We are going to put together something for you. So in the meantime, Chris, I'm so happy. And for those of you who have created your own groups, because you know that that's the one thing that you uniquely need. Some people do, some people don't. It doesn't ... Nobody's right or wrong. It's just some people need it, and those I'm so impressed and proud about everybody that have taken this on themselves and just said, "I know I need someone making me check in and keeping me on track." And I think this is awesome.

Jack Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
And our group has grown to the level where you have enough people, obviously, that this has become more of a thing. And so, we're going to take it. We're going to provide tools and resources to help you.

Jack Butala:
This falls under the category for me of what could possibly be bad about this? What's bad about exercising? Nothing. What's bad about more education? Nothing. So this, I think, accountability is just one of the cornerstones of succeeding at anything. And so, since we started Land Academy, I'd love to know your opinion on this too, and we've been doing this for five or six years now. I've learned a lot of stuff.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/30/taxes-and-your-land-business-la-1927-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">IvSUS9m8d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/989a78f9-25db-4b2a-afb1-81137d2f9a4e.mp3" length="22822594" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Types of Blind Offers to Send and Not to Send (LA 1926) Rerun</title><itunes:title>Types of Blind Offers to Send and Not to Send (LA 1926) Rerun</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California .

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the types of blind offers to send and the types not to send.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I have a list. Believe you me.

Steven Butala:
This is one of those topics that just gets a little passionate about, and I love it.

Jill DeWit:
Well, only because we've done it all. I mean, I can honestly say, we haven't been doing this... Well, you, because you're much older than me, since the '90s, and tested every possible thing. There's a reason why we got to this point. The reason why we're successful, is the reason why our community is successful, and we all have the secret, and I'm happy to share it.

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Jill DeWit:
For $10,000. Just kidding, I want to share it right now today.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "I'm in one of the states with a lot of rural lands and with thousands of lakes." Well, how lucky are you, James? You're bragging a little bit, and I think that's awesome.

Steven Butala:
You can brag, but those lakes are frozen, right now.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, there is that.

Steven Butala:
I'm from a place like that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I ran the red, yellow, green test, and many of the counties look like good spots to mail. My problem is, it's hard to find any good average for the pricing, because of all the lakes. On a coastal lake are often higher priced, where a half mile to mile away are much cheaper. I was thinking I need to use in-fill lot pricing, but even on the zip code level, there's a lot of price variability. Do I have to price APN by APN? Or is there a way to price to get me in the ball park of a decent sized area?" This such a good question, because this is stuff that we talked about in the show yesterday. That's a common thing here, if you're doing an area like where we're sitting in Southern California. Ocean front and on the west side of PCH is a whole different pricing point versus one mile or even half mile or even yards away.

Steven Butala:
James, this is a question I asked myself, even today. I'm working a certain, very specific area in a specific state right now, and I looked at and studied and studied and studied pricing variances based on attribute, that's really what the issue is. And the red, green, yellow test, was designed to solve that for you. So, even in a rural area, if you take each zip code, if you're lucky enough to get the data and drop it into the red, green, yellow test, you're going to see where property is selling, and where it's not. So the theory is, property that's close to the lakes and cheap or cheaper, will sell faster. And then, so you can price that that way, so that's one way to look at it. And then if that's the case, and it almost always is, it's pure supply and demand, pricing and supply and demand go together.

Steven Butala:
Then you can extrapolate that and run the data sets that way, based on what you find from a zip code standpoint. But zip codes don't often comply with, let's say, shoreline, so what do you do? You have to pretty much run an APN scenario, and I just did it. All of this is more theory than reality. The fact is, if you stick 42 fishing lines in the water versus three, you're going to catch more fish and some of the fish that you catch are going to be small, and you're going to throw them back, because you don't want them. Some of the fish are going to be awesome, you're going to keep it. And some of the fish are going to be, you're going to shake your head and say, "This might be a record for this lake, for the biggest catch of all time,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California .

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the types of blind offers to send and the types not to send.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I have a list. Believe you me.

Steven Butala:
This is one of those topics that just gets a little passionate about, and I love it.

Jill DeWit:
Well, only because we've done it all. I mean, I can honestly say, we haven't been doing this... Well, you, because you're much older than me, since the '90s, and tested every possible thing. There's a reason why we got to this point. The reason why we're successful, is the reason why our community is successful, and we all have the secret, and I'm happy to share it.

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Jill DeWit:
For $10,000. Just kidding, I want to share it right now today.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "I'm in one of the states with a lot of rural lands and with thousands of lakes." Well, how lucky are you, James? You're bragging a little bit, and I think that's awesome.

Steven Butala:
You can brag, but those lakes are frozen, right now.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, there is that.

Steven Butala:
I'm from a place like that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I ran the red, yellow, green test, and many of the counties look like good spots to mail. My problem is, it's hard to find any good average for the pricing, because of all the lakes. On a coastal lake are often higher priced, where a half mile to mile away are much cheaper. I was thinking I need to use in-fill lot pricing, but even on the zip code level, there's a lot of price variability. Do I have to price APN by APN? Or is there a way to price to get me in the ball park of a decent sized area?" This such a good question, because this is stuff that we talked about in the show yesterday. That's a common thing here, if you're doing an area like where we're sitting in Southern California. Ocean front and on the west side of PCH is a whole different pricing point versus one mile or even half mile or even yards away.

Steven Butala:
James, this is a question I asked myself, even today. I'm working a certain, very specific area in a specific state right now, and I looked at and studied and studied and studied pricing variances based on attribute, that's really what the issue is. And the red, green, yellow test, was designed to solve that for you. So, even in a rural area, if you take each zip code, if you're lucky enough to get the data and drop it into the red, green, yellow test, you're going to see where property is selling, and where it's not. So the theory is, property that's close to the lakes and cheap or cheaper, will sell faster. And then, so you can price that that way, so that's one way to look at it. And then if that's the case, and it almost always is, it's pure supply and demand, pricing and supply and demand go together.

Steven Butala:
Then you can extrapolate that and run the data sets that way, based on what you find from a zip code standpoint. But zip codes don't often comply with, let's say, shoreline, so what do you do? You have to pretty much run an APN scenario, and I just did it. All of this is more theory than reality. The fact is, if you stick 42 fishing lines in the water versus three, you're going to catch more fish and some of the fish that you catch are going to be small, and you're going to throw them back, because you don't want them. Some of the fish are going to be awesome, you're going to keep it. And some of the fish are going to be, you're going to shake your head and say, "This might be a record for this lake, for the biggest catch of all time,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/29/types-of-blind-offers-to-send-and-not-to-send-la-1926-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UxJazrgje</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6906d82b-1568-49a2-abc4-91efc72a2b75.mp3" length="19454228" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Sending Blind Land Offers within a Price Range Backfires (LA 1925) Rerun</title><itunes:title>Why Sending Blind Land Offers within a Price Range Backfires (LA 1925) Rerun</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why sending blind land offers within a price range, backfires.

Jill K DeWit:
I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill said earlier, or yesterday I should say, that we own a ton of real estate all over the country at any given time, and she's never received...

Jill K DeWit:
Not one of these.

Steven Jack Butala:
Never received a range offer. What I mean by this is instead of sending an offer for, this is what we teach in Land Academy and very successfully implement, Jill and I together and have for decades. Is, "Hey, we want a buy your property that's located in this area, that we know you own for $16,832.28." We don't send an offer range like, "Well, we think your property's worth between $14,000 and $22,000 and call us back and we'll talk about it together."

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. Did you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called offer2owners.com? Jill and I set this company up several years ago, specifically, to mail out our blind offer campaigns and then we've ultimately started sharing it with our Land Academy members and some non-members only a couple years ago. Last month, I just checked, we mailed out about 700,000 offers that month on our member's behalf. Give us a call or go to offers2owners.com and see if it's real.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Jill K DeWit:
I am waiting for it to scroll up. Okay. Erin wrote, "Until recently, I have mostly avoided no access situations and used the title company to confirm access when it is questionable. Interestingly, I had one deal where one title company wouldn't ensure access, but the other one in town would. I guess the first title company just had a claim or two for a similar situation." Kind of funny. So one of our moderators, I already have one of their answers. So I'm going to answer this. I'll read this before we answer. So Kevin, one of our moderators wrote, "I have had a title company insurer with no access, but they had a disclaimer that said they would not govern any issues resulting from not having access. Also, I'm closing on a few right now that have a legal easement, but no rotor path. I purchased these and had a surveyor go out and mark the easement so that my buyers can clearly see that they do have a legal easement.

Jill K DeWit:
I avoid those with no access and even avoid deals or accesses through the neighboring parcel on a friendly verbal arrangement, since it's that part is not usually transferable. So now I sell all parcels with agents and then I need to have at least legal access for them to be able to show it by law." So he is taking it to a step further. Oh, one more thing. This is really lengthy. "I purchased a property from a guy who buys tax liens. Somehow he gets the deed. This property had no access, so he's sued for access. Cost him some money, it took about a year. Then I came long and made a good offer. I sent my surveyor out there to locate and mark the new easement through the neighbor property. That neighbor did not answer any attempt to contact during the suit or the easement."

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
"The suit for the easement, they may be uncooperative. So I work with an agent in the area who knows the neighbor and he went out there am fair warning that the surveyor will be working on the property next week." That was very nice. "I would not have done this deal without the connection with the agent to help with the neighbor. Surveyor was reluctant to go charging in there, legal or not." I understand.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why sending blind land offers within a price range, backfires.

Jill K DeWit:
I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill said earlier, or yesterday I should say, that we own a ton of real estate all over the country at any given time, and she's never received...

Jill K DeWit:
Not one of these.

Steven Jack Butala:
Never received a range offer. What I mean by this is instead of sending an offer for, this is what we teach in Land Academy and very successfully implement, Jill and I together and have for decades. Is, "Hey, we want a buy your property that's located in this area, that we know you own for $16,832.28." We don't send an offer range like, "Well, we think your property's worth between $14,000 and $22,000 and call us back and we'll talk about it together."

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. Did you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called offer2owners.com? Jill and I set this company up several years ago, specifically, to mail out our blind offer campaigns and then we've ultimately started sharing it with our Land Academy members and some non-members only a couple years ago. Last month, I just checked, we mailed out about 700,000 offers that month on our member's behalf. Give us a call or go to offers2owners.com and see if it's real.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Jill K DeWit:
I am waiting for it to scroll up. Okay. Erin wrote, "Until recently, I have mostly avoided no access situations and used the title company to confirm access when it is questionable. Interestingly, I had one deal where one title company wouldn't ensure access, but the other one in town would. I guess the first title company just had a claim or two for a similar situation." Kind of funny. So one of our moderators, I already have one of their answers. So I'm going to answer this. I'll read this before we answer. So Kevin, one of our moderators wrote, "I have had a title company insurer with no access, but they had a disclaimer that said they would not govern any issues resulting from not having access. Also, I'm closing on a few right now that have a legal easement, but no rotor path. I purchased these and had a surveyor go out and mark the easement so that my buyers can clearly see that they do have a legal easement.

Jill K DeWit:
I avoid those with no access and even avoid deals or accesses through the neighboring parcel on a friendly verbal arrangement, since it's that part is not usually transferable. So now I sell all parcels with agents and then I need to have at least legal access for them to be able to show it by law." So he is taking it to a step further. Oh, one more thing. This is really lengthy. "I purchased a property from a guy who buys tax liens. Somehow he gets the deed. This property had no access, so he's sued for access. Cost him some money, it took about a year. Then I came long and made a good offer. I sent my surveyor out there to locate and mark the new easement through the neighbor property. That neighbor did not answer any attempt to contact during the suit or the easement."

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
"The suit for the easement, they may be uncooperative. So I work with an agent in the area who knows the neighbor and he went out there am fair warning that the surveyor will be working on the property next week." That was very nice. "I would not have done this deal without the connection with the agent to help with the neighbor. Surveyor was reluctant to go charging in there, legal or not." I understand.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/28/why-sending-blind-land-offers-within-a-price-range-backfires-la-1925-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sHjO--k9Z</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/778c36f8-8369-4e48-a5b6-9fd1bc5c489a.mp3" length="17697247" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Getting Ahead of Yourself in the Land Academy Education Process (LA 1924) Rerun</title><itunes:title>Getting Ahead of Yourself in the Land Academy Education Process (LA 1924) Rerun</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
Are you sure?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, and I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
I'm hot.

Jill DeWit:
How you doing there? What's going on, babe?

Steven J Butala:
Well, I'm hot. I'm distracted.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
We are recording [crosstalk 00:00:24] right now, this moment, in the middle of a construction site [crosstalk 00:00:28] we call our house.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Our house is literally at a job site.

Steven J Butala:
Our sort of house. We live in the living room.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, there is that, too. All true. We're running around helping landscapers and pool people and flooring people and all that stuff, but ...

Steven J Butala:
And we're still here to do the show.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven J Butala:
The show must go on.

Jill DeWit:
I'm happy to be the general contractor of our own project.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I ... Wow. And I can't talk. Today, Jill and I are talking about getting ahead of yourself in the land academy education process.

Jill DeWit:
One thing, I'm not getting ahead of myself with this project. You know what? This is a good example. I could be running around asking for things [inaudible 00:01:08] alone. No, I ask people, what's the process? For example, our wood flooring. How's this going to go? How long does that take? What's the next step? And then I wait. I put it on the calendar and I wait. So this ties into our topic.

Steven J Butala:
When I was a kid, I took a boating class. I had to take a class from coast guard to get my boating license, and I was a little. It's like with airplanes. It's not like you have to turn 16 to get your license. You can get a boating license really early on, and I think you can get certified as a pilot early on, too.

Jill DeWit:
You have to be 16 to solo.

Steven J Butala:
Okay, but I don't think that was the case a while ago, and I know it's not the case for boats. Maybe it's all changed recently. And the second I got into that class, boy, did I have a lot of questions. And I was really interested in getting out on the water that day. It was two weeks before we ever got on the water, and it was books and exams and all kinds of stuff. And I got so frustrated and ahead of myself and, by golly, that's what happens at Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
By Golly. What am I going to do with you? Lickety split, by golly and bajillion.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on the discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Erin wrote, Hello, I'm preparing my second first mailer. Oh, that's hilarious. I like that with a happy face. It took me second. Should I scrub out properties that are labeled low income in the opportunity zone column? That's hilarious. I'm concerned that there'll be a price cap on how much I could sell it. Is that accurate?

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very hidden PhD level question.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
What he or she is asking is what do I scrub out of my mailer when it comes to use? Property types, commercial use, industrial use, residential, NEC, which is non-classified property and on and on. What do I exclude? And the answer is nothing. In the very early parts of Land Academy, I made a big deal about use and how you should check out all kinds of stuff, specifically industrial property because you don't want to deal with any type of [crosstalk 00:03:35] EPA cleanup. Yeah, exactly. Well, times have changed. And the more letters that you get out now ... and we've grown as a land investor, just like everybody else over the years.

Jill DeWit:
We've grown in a lot of ways.

Steven J Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
Are you sure?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, and I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
I'm hot.

Jill DeWit:
How you doing there? What's going on, babe?

Steven J Butala:
Well, I'm hot. I'm distracted.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
We are recording [crosstalk 00:00:24] right now, this moment, in the middle of a construction site [crosstalk 00:00:28] we call our house.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Our house is literally at a job site.

Steven J Butala:
Our sort of house. We live in the living room.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, there is that, too. All true. We're running around helping landscapers and pool people and flooring people and all that stuff, but ...

Steven J Butala:
And we're still here to do the show.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven J Butala:
The show must go on.

Jill DeWit:
I'm happy to be the general contractor of our own project.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I ... Wow. And I can't talk. Today, Jill and I are talking about getting ahead of yourself in the land academy education process.

Jill DeWit:
One thing, I'm not getting ahead of myself with this project. You know what? This is a good example. I could be running around asking for things [inaudible 00:01:08] alone. No, I ask people, what's the process? For example, our wood flooring. How's this going to go? How long does that take? What's the next step? And then I wait. I put it on the calendar and I wait. So this ties into our topic.

Steven J Butala:
When I was a kid, I took a boating class. I had to take a class from coast guard to get my boating license, and I was a little. It's like with airplanes. It's not like you have to turn 16 to get your license. You can get a boating license really early on, and I think you can get certified as a pilot early on, too.

Jill DeWit:
You have to be 16 to solo.

Steven J Butala:
Okay, but I don't think that was the case a while ago, and I know it's not the case for boats. Maybe it's all changed recently. And the second I got into that class, boy, did I have a lot of questions. And I was really interested in getting out on the water that day. It was two weeks before we ever got on the water, and it was books and exams and all kinds of stuff. And I got so frustrated and ahead of myself and, by golly, that's what happens at Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
By Golly. What am I going to do with you? Lickety split, by golly and bajillion.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on the discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Erin wrote, Hello, I'm preparing my second first mailer. Oh, that's hilarious. I like that with a happy face. It took me second. Should I scrub out properties that are labeled low income in the opportunity zone column? That's hilarious. I'm concerned that there'll be a price cap on how much I could sell it. Is that accurate?

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very hidden PhD level question.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
What he or she is asking is what do I scrub out of my mailer when it comes to use? Property types, commercial use, industrial use, residential, NEC, which is non-classified property and on and on. What do I exclude? And the answer is nothing. In the very early parts of Land Academy, I made a big deal about use and how you should check out all kinds of stuff, specifically industrial property because you don't want to deal with any type of [crosstalk 00:03:35] EPA cleanup. Yeah, exactly. Well, times have changed. And the more letters that you get out now ... and we've grown as a land investor, just like everybody else over the years.

Jill DeWit:
We've grown in a lot of ways.

Steven J Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/27/getting-ahead-of-yourself-in-the-land-academy-education-process-la-1924-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bHFsIRvb2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9a4f7fcb-1820-48f1-8a2e-979ca44f5fa2.mp3" length="11006540" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Everyone I know is Killing it in the Land Business (LA 1923) Rerun</title><itunes:title>Everyone I know is Killing it in the Land Business (LA 1923) Rerun</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how everyone I know is killing it in the land business. This topic came from-

Jill K DeWit:
A quote.

Steven Jack Butala:
A talk that Jill attended I think-

Jill K DeWit:
I was on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Clubhouse.

Jill K DeWit:
I jumped. I now and then just have some free time and I'm trolling Clubhouse. If I find a real estate-based or women in business community that sounds interesting, I'll just jump in the room. This was a real estate one and they were talking about getting financing, financing for deals. I'm like, "All right, let's hear how you guys go about it," and it was comical. That's a whole other show.

Jill K DeWit:
Anyway, I do not agree with the first hit up all your friends and family. That's not what we do. Anyway, this was a quote. I jumped in and I gave some advice on how we do it. Three people jumped in after me and said, "Hi, Jill. We're so happy to talk to you." They said, "Oh my gosh, everyone that we know that does land is killing it right now." Then, I'm going to go on in the media show here and tell you how the rest of the conversation went.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members. I can't wait by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this kind of stuff. It's so funny to see people in social media spouting off all this stuff that they know nothing about-

Jill K DeWit:
It was good though.

Steven Jack Butala:
By one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Thank you at." Do you want me to say that?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, just thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
"Thank you other investor for working with me on my first funded deal." That's awesome. "You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen. This is a great way to start the year. This was a double lot like an infill lot with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and knew what his criteria was."

Jill K DeWit:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but a checked back with them every five weeks to see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. That was all it was. So when you provided me one and told me about the availability on some site," who knows what that is?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill, you're really interested in the site. Let me start it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to share and not share.

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven says, "Thank you, funder, for working with me on my first funded deal. You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen for me. This is a great way to start my year. This was a double lot infill with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and I knew what his criteria was and that he was capable of closing."

Steven Jack Butala:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but checked back with them every five weeks," which is something Joe would do, "To see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. So thank you, funder, again for providing me one and it made them obviously feel comfortable to the point where they closed. I followed up with them."

Steven Jack Butala:
"I had to followup with them repeatedly every step of the way, signing the purchase agreement, sending it back, scheduling a notary,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how everyone I know is killing it in the land business. This topic came from-

Jill K DeWit:
A quote.

Steven Jack Butala:
A talk that Jill attended I think-

Jill K DeWit:
I was on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Clubhouse.

Jill K DeWit:
I jumped. I now and then just have some free time and I'm trolling Clubhouse. If I find a real estate-based or women in business community that sounds interesting, I'll just jump in the room. This was a real estate one and they were talking about getting financing, financing for deals. I'm like, "All right, let's hear how you guys go about it," and it was comical. That's a whole other show.

Jill K DeWit:
Anyway, I do not agree with the first hit up all your friends and family. That's not what we do. Anyway, this was a quote. I jumped in and I gave some advice on how we do it. Three people jumped in after me and said, "Hi, Jill. We're so happy to talk to you." They said, "Oh my gosh, everyone that we know that does land is killing it right now." Then, I'm going to go on in the media show here and tell you how the rest of the conversation went.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members. I can't wait by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this kind of stuff. It's so funny to see people in social media spouting off all this stuff that they know nothing about-

Jill K DeWit:
It was good though.

Steven Jack Butala:
By one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Thank you at." Do you want me to say that?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, just thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
"Thank you other investor for working with me on my first funded deal." That's awesome. "You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen. This is a great way to start the year. This was a double lot like an infill lot with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and knew what his criteria was."

Jill K DeWit:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but a checked back with them every five weeks to see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. That was all it was. So when you provided me one and told me about the availability on some site," who knows what that is?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill, you're really interested in the site. Let me start it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to share and not share.

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven says, "Thank you, funder, for working with me on my first funded deal. You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen for me. This is a great way to start my year. This was a double lot infill with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and I knew what his criteria was and that he was capable of closing."

Steven Jack Butala:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but checked back with them every five weeks," which is something Joe would do, "To see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. So thank you, funder, again for providing me one and it made them obviously feel comfortable to the point where they closed. I followed up with them."

Steven Jack Butala:
"I had to followup with them repeatedly every step of the way, signing the purchase agreement, sending it back, scheduling a notary,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/26/everyone-i-know-is-killing-it-in-the-land-business-la-1923-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kDpp6Dfvd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dd83f749-40f5-42ad-b767-7852ffe6e21a.mp3" length="13994808" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Screw It and Do It a Quote From Career Path Five (LA 1922)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Screw It and Do It a Quote From Career Path Five (LA 1922)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun, on this Friday, on the 23rd of December, almost Christmas. Sorry. Just had to get that in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, as you can tell. She's going to talk about the quote we received from Career Path Five. "Screw it and do it."
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Script rolling. Script rolling. Script rolling. Script rolling.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have three days left, including today, to prepay for mailers for next year.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
We had a pretty deep discount and offers-

Jill K DeWit:
And concierge.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And concierge, if you want us to do your mailers for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
So check it out at offers2owners.com. And call those guys, and they'll explain it to you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.
Patsy wrote from "Would you brag about this deal" section of Discord. Florida. 20 acres. Hunting track. Diverse property. Offering future home site and recreational use. Neighboring large wooded tracks, great privacy and provide ideal wildlife habitat and great hunting. To the north and the east, there's a 55-acre property owned by Walton County. And to the west is a privately-owned 118-acre property with a creek running through it. With a small church cemetery to the southwest, providing quiet neighbors.
A cemetery usually does. Quiet neighbors.
All around quiet and privacy is assured. This property is within 12 miles of shopping, including a Walmart, restaurants, and medical facilities in downtown blank blank city. And just about an hour away from the beaches. Mailer offer price was $88,168.65. Accepted offer price...
Is this Patty or Patsy?

Steven Jack Butala:
Patsy.

Jill K DeWit:
Patsy.

Steven Jack Butala:
She got him down at 40k.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Accepted offer is $40,000.
He wants to close before the end of 2022. I think I can sell it for 110.
That's awesome. This is a "would you brag about this deal?"

Steven Jack Butala:
So this is in the, "Would you do this deal section of Discord?" And as you can imagine, there are about eight people that said, "PM me." Let's get this thing done.

Jill K DeWit:
They said, "Heck, yes."

Steven Jack Butala:
What I was saying earlier this week is, she's new. And she went out and did exactly what she was supposed to do. Got an amazing price for a piece of dirt, without having the money to do it. She didn't care and she shouldn't care.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's kind of what Jill's topic's about today. She just did it. She just went and did it. And then, after that, seeked money.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
And she found it.

Jill K DeWit:
This is Patsy with a hyphenated last name.

Steven Jack Butala:
Is it [inaudible 00:02:59]?

Jill K DeWit:
I think so.
I'm guessing it is. I'll go look later and confirm that.
Cool. Good question. And congrats.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about "Screw it and Do it." It's a quote from Career Path Five.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
This was on week 10 of 10 in Career Path. I think it was Office Hours. I'm sure it was Office Hours, because how Career Path Works is, we have a guided module every week where we have a set curriculum, what we're talking about, and taking you from wherever you are to wherever you want to be, kind of thing. But outside of that, we have a session called Office Hours where you can just show up and gab with us and ask about the week before, things that are on your mind. Just anything that comes up.
And often the topic just goes in whatever directi...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun, on this Friday, on the 23rd of December, almost Christmas. Sorry. Just had to get that in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, as you can tell. She's going to talk about the quote we received from Career Path Five. "Screw it and do it."
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Script rolling. Script rolling. Script rolling. Script rolling.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have three days left, including today, to prepay for mailers for next year.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
We had a pretty deep discount and offers-

Jill K DeWit:
And concierge.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And concierge, if you want us to do your mailers for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
So check it out at offers2owners.com. And call those guys, and they'll explain it to you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.
Patsy wrote from "Would you brag about this deal" section of Discord. Florida. 20 acres. Hunting track. Diverse property. Offering future home site and recreational use. Neighboring large wooded tracks, great privacy and provide ideal wildlife habitat and great hunting. To the north and the east, there's a 55-acre property owned by Walton County. And to the west is a privately-owned 118-acre property with a creek running through it. With a small church cemetery to the southwest, providing quiet neighbors.
A cemetery usually does. Quiet neighbors.
All around quiet and privacy is assured. This property is within 12 miles of shopping, including a Walmart, restaurants, and medical facilities in downtown blank blank city. And just about an hour away from the beaches. Mailer offer price was $88,168.65. Accepted offer price...
Is this Patty or Patsy?

Steven Jack Butala:
Patsy.

Jill K DeWit:
Patsy.

Steven Jack Butala:
She got him down at 40k.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Accepted offer is $40,000.
He wants to close before the end of 2022. I think I can sell it for 110.
That's awesome. This is a "would you brag about this deal?"

Steven Jack Butala:
So this is in the, "Would you do this deal section of Discord?" And as you can imagine, there are about eight people that said, "PM me." Let's get this thing done.

Jill K DeWit:
They said, "Heck, yes."

Steven Jack Butala:
What I was saying earlier this week is, she's new. And she went out and did exactly what she was supposed to do. Got an amazing price for a piece of dirt, without having the money to do it. She didn't care and she shouldn't care.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's kind of what Jill's topic's about today. She just did it. She just went and did it. And then, after that, seeked money.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
And she found it.

Jill K DeWit:
This is Patsy with a hyphenated last name.

Steven Jack Butala:
Is it [inaudible 00:02:59]?

Jill K DeWit:
I think so.
I'm guessing it is. I'll go look later and confirm that.
Cool. Good question. And congrats.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about "Screw it and Do it." It's a quote from Career Path Five.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
This was on week 10 of 10 in Career Path. I think it was Office Hours. I'm sure it was Office Hours, because how Career Path Works is, we have a guided module every week where we have a set curriculum, what we're talking about, and taking you from wherever you are to wherever you want to be, kind of thing. But outside of that, we have a session called Office Hours where you can just show up and gab with us and ask about the week before, things that are on your mind. Just anything that comes up.
And often the topic just goes in whatever directi...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/23/jill-friday-screw-it-and-do-it-a-quote-from-career-path-five-la-1922/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dRor6nt-L</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1d8c3442-2eb0-444b-990d-9b078f5868ca.mp3" length="13384197" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Money is a Terrible Manager (LA 1921)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Money is a Terrible Manager (LA 1921)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how money is a terrible manager.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, you know what? I hate working for money.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Money is a jerk.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you work for your money, it's the worst boss you're going to have.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. He's really unforgiving. Notice how I've made it a he. It's not a she.

Steven Jack Butala:
Money is a he.

Jill K DeWit:
Money's a he. And he is a jerk, he's demanding, he's unforgiving. He always wants more.

Steven Jack Butala:
And he has no emotion.

Jill K DeWit:
He's never enough, no emotion.

Steven Jack Butala:
And there's no...

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. He complains all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no explanation.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no explaining why you were late.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah, no.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's unforgiving.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally, that's right. And he always says, "You didn't give me enough. You're not doing enough."

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, you wanted that nice bracelet last week, so here we are.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. That's money. Man, somebody needs to fire that guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
He's going to fire you before you fire your money.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. We need to sabotage money and get him out of there. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Martin wrote, "I am brand new to Land Academy. I have a full-time job and three little kids."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh boy.

Jill K DeWit:
"And I want to be successful. How much time do I really need to devote to this?"

Steven Jack Butala:
First of all...

Jill K DeWit:
Go ahead

Steven Jack Butala:
Everyone has been where you are.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. I wasn't sure where you're going with this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So it's not like, "Darn it, I'm too late to the party, or man, I made a bunch of mistakes. I shouldn't have had that third kid." Maybe that's true, but that's up to you.

Jill K DeWit:
That's where I thought you were going with this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you need to really put your head into the right mindset where everyone's been in some version of this situation. Just about everyone. There's some exceptions that our world likes to make a huge example of like people born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but they have their own set of problems that I would argue are way worse than tackling what you're about to tackle.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. So what would you tell Martin?

Steven Jack Butala:
Get organized and hopefully the mother of your kids or whoever your partner is, is on board. Boy, it's really going to make it much, much, much harder...

Jill K DeWit:
They have to be on board.

Steven Jack Butala:
...if you're not a unified front with whoever you're involved with the kids. And that's an issue that if you're not, then that's overcomeable. You can find a person that is on board.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you can get them on board. That's my goal. You need to have, now we're taking it in a different direction.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:58] I think we should, though because I think this is important.

Jill K DeWit:
It is true. I have talked to many wives and husband and wives and said, "What do you need to know?" And I think part of it is because we're a couple, it makes it easier for other people to embrace us, other couples and women to go, "All right, Jill's there." Jill's there is going to make sure this all doesn't go sidewa...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how money is a terrible manager.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, you know what? I hate working for money.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Money is a jerk.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you work for your money, it's the worst boss you're going to have.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. He's really unforgiving. Notice how I've made it a he. It's not a she.

Steven Jack Butala:
Money is a he.

Jill K DeWit:
Money's a he. And he is a jerk, he's demanding, he's unforgiving. He always wants more.

Steven Jack Butala:
And he has no emotion.

Jill K DeWit:
He's never enough, no emotion.

Steven Jack Butala:
And there's no...

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. He complains all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no explanation.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no explaining why you were late.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah, no.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's unforgiving.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally, that's right. And he always says, "You didn't give me enough. You're not doing enough."

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, you wanted that nice bracelet last week, so here we are.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. That's money. Man, somebody needs to fire that guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
He's going to fire you before you fire your money.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. We need to sabotage money and get him out of there. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Martin wrote, "I am brand new to Land Academy. I have a full-time job and three little kids."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh boy.

Jill K DeWit:
"And I want to be successful. How much time do I really need to devote to this?"

Steven Jack Butala:
First of all...

Jill K DeWit:
Go ahead

Steven Jack Butala:
Everyone has been where you are.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. I wasn't sure where you're going with this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So it's not like, "Darn it, I'm too late to the party, or man, I made a bunch of mistakes. I shouldn't have had that third kid." Maybe that's true, but that's up to you.

Jill K DeWit:
That's where I thought you were going with this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you need to really put your head into the right mindset where everyone's been in some version of this situation. Just about everyone. There's some exceptions that our world likes to make a huge example of like people born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but they have their own set of problems that I would argue are way worse than tackling what you're about to tackle.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. So what would you tell Martin?

Steven Jack Butala:
Get organized and hopefully the mother of your kids or whoever your partner is, is on board. Boy, it's really going to make it much, much, much harder...

Jill K DeWit:
They have to be on board.

Steven Jack Butala:
...if you're not a unified front with whoever you're involved with the kids. And that's an issue that if you're not, then that's overcomeable. You can find a person that is on board.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you can get them on board. That's my goal. You need to have, now we're taking it in a different direction.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:58] I think we should, though because I think this is important.

Jill K DeWit:
It is true. I have talked to many wives and husband and wives and said, "What do you need to know?" And I think part of it is because we're a couple, it makes it easier for other people to embrace us, other couples and women to go, "All right, Jill's there." Jill's there is going to make sure this all doesn't go sidewa...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/22/jack-thursday-money-is-a-terrible-manager-la-1921/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">R1exG6BJk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/726027d2-f863-4442-9c32-4dab3a5ef14c.mp3" length="14989177" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Assessing Your Professional Life at the end of 2022 (LA 1920)</title><itunes:title>Assessing Your Professional Life at the end of 2022 (LA 1920)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about assessing your professional life at the end of 2022.

Jill K DeWit:
It sounds a little bit... It's high level. We're going to make it. Steven and I come at things differently.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, we do.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I'm trying to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder how this topic's going to go today.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, here's going what's going on with me right now. I just had a little bit of a panic because I'm like, "Crap, am I getting assessed here on the air?" I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Are you serious?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
When do I ever assess you?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm just wondering what questions you're going to ask and how much you want to know because I did not prepare for this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill, are you happy in your professional life?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay. That's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, God. Thanks a lot. I'm like, "Should I have written an executive summary before I sat down?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Are you more or less happy with your professional performance this year, 2022 or 2021?

Jill K DeWit:
This year.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill K DeWit:
Keeps getting better.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not church. No one's judging you.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh God, thanks. I wasn't sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're the only person who can say, "Yeah, I'm doing pretty well. I'm going to do a victory lap, or I got some work to do."

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it. Nobody else can do that.

Jill K DeWit:
That's fair. Good, because, again, I have notes but I don't have executive summary.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's joking. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Hey, can I please add a little note in here?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
About what's going on with Land Academy?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
It's awesome, and I want to hit this home right now because this week is big with this promotion because I'm not going to do it again. I don't know if I said it the other day, but I'm closing up Land Academy at the end of the year. That's what I don't think I got out. I'm going to hit my cap right now, and we like to keep Land Academy at a real cool small number that we can handle so we can give you the attention and the support that you need and you deserve. That's why there's a cap. Having said that, I have room right now for people to join through the end of the year.
I know I'm going to hit it. I know I'm going to hit it on or before December 31, but I'm keeping it open. G to LandAcademy.com, check it out there. You'll see a coupon code that says half off. Yep. It's half off the whole education bundle. There's four programs in that, by the way, that you're getting half off. It's awesome. Yes, you look at that and go, "This can't be right. It's a little too inexpensive." You're right. That's very true. From what you get, it's kind of weird, and that's going to change too. That's why I want you to know about it. Check it out. Thank you.
Okay, back to the question. Michael wrote, "Hi all. I wanted to introduce myself. I had to take a personal hiatus from Land Academy, but I am back. I've done a few mailers over the years, but never pulled the trigger. Looking to make some friends/partners. I have intent to send 4,000 to 5,000 mailers a month for a while and hope to be able to find some funding partners when the mail starts to come back. Question to those members that are funding deals, are you generally okay with non-disclosure states in hot markets?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about assessing your professional life at the end of 2022.

Jill K DeWit:
It sounds a little bit... It's high level. We're going to make it. Steven and I come at things differently.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, we do.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I'm trying to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder how this topic's going to go today.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, here's going what's going on with me right now. I just had a little bit of a panic because I'm like, "Crap, am I getting assessed here on the air?" I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Are you serious?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
When do I ever assess you?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm just wondering what questions you're going to ask and how much you want to know because I did not prepare for this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill, are you happy in your professional life?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay. That's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, God. Thanks a lot. I'm like, "Should I have written an executive summary before I sat down?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Are you more or less happy with your professional performance this year, 2022 or 2021?

Jill K DeWit:
This year.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill K DeWit:
Keeps getting better.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not church. No one's judging you.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh God, thanks. I wasn't sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're the only person who can say, "Yeah, I'm doing pretty well. I'm going to do a victory lap, or I got some work to do."

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it. Nobody else can do that.

Jill K DeWit:
That's fair. Good, because, again, I have notes but I don't have executive summary.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's joking. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Hey, can I please add a little note in here?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
About what's going on with Land Academy?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
It's awesome, and I want to hit this home right now because this week is big with this promotion because I'm not going to do it again. I don't know if I said it the other day, but I'm closing up Land Academy at the end of the year. That's what I don't think I got out. I'm going to hit my cap right now, and we like to keep Land Academy at a real cool small number that we can handle so we can give you the attention and the support that you need and you deserve. That's why there's a cap. Having said that, I have room right now for people to join through the end of the year.
I know I'm going to hit it. I know I'm going to hit it on or before December 31, but I'm keeping it open. G to LandAcademy.com, check it out there. You'll see a coupon code that says half off. Yep. It's half off the whole education bundle. There's four programs in that, by the way, that you're getting half off. It's awesome. Yes, you look at that and go, "This can't be right. It's a little too inexpensive." You're right. That's very true. From what you get, it's kind of weird, and that's going to change too. That's why I want you to know about it. Check it out. Thank you.
Okay, back to the question. Michael wrote, "Hi all. I wanted to introduce myself. I had to take a personal hiatus from Land Academy, but I am back. I've done a few mailers over the years, but never pulled the trigger. Looking to make some friends/partners. I have intent to send 4,000 to 5,000 mailers a month for a while and hope to be able to find some funding partners when the mail starts to come back. Question to those members that are funding deals, are you generally okay with non-disclosure states in hot markets?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/21/assessing-your-professional-life-at-the-end-of-2022-la-1920/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qlhhO5nvA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8e0a9aa1-3062-4d13-b477-2f001aa08992.mp3" length="15216807" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Should We Buy Infill Lots in this Down Market (LA 1919)</title><itunes:title>Should We Buy Infill Lots in this Down Market (LA 1919)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, should we be buying infill lots in this down market?

Jill K DeWit:
That was an interesting conversation that we had the other day. That was on the Thursday member call. I had to think about that, where it was. There's been a lot of talking in my world last couple weeks. Lot of things. It was so fun. If you're listening now, and you were on that webinar that I did last week on Thursday night, yep, did not know it was going to go that long, but I really wanted to answer everybody's questions. I just looked up and I'm like, "Whoa, what happened at the time?" But that was really fun. Anyway, I'm still a little worn out from it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think it's natural. Well, I'm used to it. We're both used to it now because it's natural at the end of the year, and the beginning of the year, to make life decisions about where you want your life to go. And buying and selling land is, if it's on your radar, it's an expiration time.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it. Well, I was saying, yeah, there's a lot of talking, so that's why I got ... This came up on the member call. No, and one of our advanced members shared some really good in insight information about his experience working with builders.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
And big builders. I can't run the name of them, but it doesn't matter. But it's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
So they're in the market and buying. That was my takeaway.

Jill K DeWit:
I have no idea.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It's free. But before we get into all of that, I hope by now, Jill and I have a full-blown commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. We set this up several years ago because we were frustrated with the level of service and understanding that we were getting from normal, right off the street, commercial printing companies who print catalogs and stuff. What we set up was, and is, a printing company that just sends mail, Offers 2 Owners.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just add that they have a special going on and it's four more days.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah, it's huge. Huge special.

Jill K DeWit:
So what he's talking about, it's 11% off mail, 16% off concierge data, which is awesome. So check it out on offers, and the number 2, owners.com.

Steven Jack Butala:
A lot of people prepay. A lot of our members prepay for their mailers for next year for tax reasons. So if you feel like you're in that category, give those guys a call, they'll explain it.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah.
Kay wrote, "Hi. I'm new to land acquisitions. Please correct me if I'm wrong or misunderstood. If I work backward, home value in an area is $100,000. Land retail price will be around $25,000. And we try to send offers about 50% of the retail price. So $25,000 time divided by 50% is about $12,500. So should we send an offer at $12,500 per residential lot? That right? Please advise. Thank you in advance."

Steven Jack Butala:
So again, Kay, your math is completely correct.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's what I call the rule of quarters. You have a $100,000 house. A builder is usually willing to pay 20% of the value of what a new house would command in that market. 20%, let's say 20-to-25%. So $100,000, they're willing to pay 25,000, so you need to be half of that at 12, let's say. And then, so you buy for 12 and sell it to the builder for 20 or $25,000. Thank you, yes. The math is correct on that. You can't build a house for 75 grand.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I was going to wonder if you were going to dress that. I was waiting. I'm like, "What is this going to look like?"]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, should we be buying infill lots in this down market?

Jill K DeWit:
That was an interesting conversation that we had the other day. That was on the Thursday member call. I had to think about that, where it was. There's been a lot of talking in my world last couple weeks. Lot of things. It was so fun. If you're listening now, and you were on that webinar that I did last week on Thursday night, yep, did not know it was going to go that long, but I really wanted to answer everybody's questions. I just looked up and I'm like, "Whoa, what happened at the time?" But that was really fun. Anyway, I'm still a little worn out from it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think it's natural. Well, I'm used to it. We're both used to it now because it's natural at the end of the year, and the beginning of the year, to make life decisions about where you want your life to go. And buying and selling land is, if it's on your radar, it's an expiration time.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it. Well, I was saying, yeah, there's a lot of talking, so that's why I got ... This came up on the member call. No, and one of our advanced members shared some really good in insight information about his experience working with builders.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
And big builders. I can't run the name of them, but it doesn't matter. But it's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
So they're in the market and buying. That was my takeaway.

Jill K DeWit:
I have no idea.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It's free. But before we get into all of that, I hope by now, Jill and I have a full-blown commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. We set this up several years ago because we were frustrated with the level of service and understanding that we were getting from normal, right off the street, commercial printing companies who print catalogs and stuff. What we set up was, and is, a printing company that just sends mail, Offers 2 Owners.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just add that they have a special going on and it's four more days.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah, it's huge. Huge special.

Jill K DeWit:
So what he's talking about, it's 11% off mail, 16% off concierge data, which is awesome. So check it out on offers, and the number 2, owners.com.

Steven Jack Butala:
A lot of people prepay. A lot of our members prepay for their mailers for next year for tax reasons. So if you feel like you're in that category, give those guys a call, they'll explain it.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah.
Kay wrote, "Hi. I'm new to land acquisitions. Please correct me if I'm wrong or misunderstood. If I work backward, home value in an area is $100,000. Land retail price will be around $25,000. And we try to send offers about 50% of the retail price. So $25,000 time divided by 50% is about $12,500. So should we send an offer at $12,500 per residential lot? That right? Please advise. Thank you in advance."

Steven Jack Butala:
So again, Kay, your math is completely correct.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's what I call the rule of quarters. You have a $100,000 house. A builder is usually willing to pay 20% of the value of what a new house would command in that market. 20%, let's say 20-to-25%. So $100,000, they're willing to pay 25,000, so you need to be half of that at 12, let's say. And then, so you buy for 12 and sell it to the builder for 20 or $25,000. Thank you, yes. The math is correct on that. You can't build a house for 75 grand.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I was going to wonder if you were going to dress that. I was waiting. I'm like, "What is this going to look like?"]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/20/should-we-buy-infill-lots-in-this-down-market-la-1919/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aRm4-oHhy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/77597d3b-6932-4ef5-b8a5-6f4006614ea6.mp3" length="12984117" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Keeping up with Real Estate Data Sources for 2023 (LA 1918)</title><itunes:title>Keeping up with Real Estate Data Sources for 2023 (LA 1918)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about keeping up with real estate data sources in 2023. I'm going to tell a story here in a minute about explaining our business model to younger people recently and being laughed at pretty directly about how archaic they seem to think that it is. And then I think we all can learn something from it.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Ryan wrote, "Hi all. I'm new to Land Academy as of a few days ago. I am new to land in general, but not to SFRs. I've done one land deal within the past month which has led me into Land Academy. I've watched Land Academy 3.0, I'm currently rewatching the video on DataTree and pulling a list. One thing I've encountered that I would love some clarity on is when you pull your list, how are you ensuring they are not church owned, HOA owned, et cetera. In the videos, Steve searches through a couple of records, but he doesn't have a method of bulk scraping out these type of properties In your opinions, is this something to care about or you just pull your list, scrub out the assessed improvements, and then mail it? I hope this question makes sense and thank you for the feedback and I'm stoked to work and learn with you all." That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you for this question. And the question completely makes sense and it's a great one. So there's a reason I put it in this episode. So here's the deal. There are amazing improvements and ways to pull data, scrub it, and actually create a mailer and get it in the mail. If I talk about all of those in chapter four of Land Academy 3.0, a substantial number of people will get freak out and abandon the idea of sending a mailer out. So I have to teach the basics on a screen. And then this environment, which I love this question, is for us to address, "Hey, there might be a better way for you." If you're a super tech savvy person. The old way works great. Is it the fastest? Nope. Is the most accurate? I think so. But there are all kinds of ways to make it faster. That's kind of what this episode is about.
So the fastest and easiest way to scrub out people who own property, or entities that own property, in a mailer data set is to write a macro and YouTube's plastered with all kinds of those things and they are keywords. So I do address this in a pretty direct and simple manner in the program, just follow the program and you're going to do fine. If you want to write a macro to eliminate church owned properties and stuff, which I don't think you should eliminate churches at all.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I bought from churches.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right.

Jill K DeWit:
Churches are great.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all have. But there are place, like you don't want to send a letter to the United States government. So the US owns a lot of property and they end up in all of our data sets and they just need to be scrubbed out. You can write a real simple macro to do that. And that's what this episode's about is talking about making this more efficient.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you know what I was going to say too is I bought and sold properties that are in an HOA, so I don't want those out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So you got to really take a step back and think about what you're trying to take out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, in general you don't want to make a data set smaller, but you also don't want to waste money on stamps On a mail on the mail. And I say stamps figuratively. Today's topic, keeping up with the real estate data sources for 2023. This is the meat of the show. A couple days ago,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about keeping up with real estate data sources in 2023. I'm going to tell a story here in a minute about explaining our business model to younger people recently and being laughed at pretty directly about how archaic they seem to think that it is. And then I think we all can learn something from it.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Ryan wrote, "Hi all. I'm new to Land Academy as of a few days ago. I am new to land in general, but not to SFRs. I've done one land deal within the past month which has led me into Land Academy. I've watched Land Academy 3.0, I'm currently rewatching the video on DataTree and pulling a list. One thing I've encountered that I would love some clarity on is when you pull your list, how are you ensuring they are not church owned, HOA owned, et cetera. In the videos, Steve searches through a couple of records, but he doesn't have a method of bulk scraping out these type of properties In your opinions, is this something to care about or you just pull your list, scrub out the assessed improvements, and then mail it? I hope this question makes sense and thank you for the feedback and I'm stoked to work and learn with you all." That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you for this question. And the question completely makes sense and it's a great one. So there's a reason I put it in this episode. So here's the deal. There are amazing improvements and ways to pull data, scrub it, and actually create a mailer and get it in the mail. If I talk about all of those in chapter four of Land Academy 3.0, a substantial number of people will get freak out and abandon the idea of sending a mailer out. So I have to teach the basics on a screen. And then this environment, which I love this question, is for us to address, "Hey, there might be a better way for you." If you're a super tech savvy person. The old way works great. Is it the fastest? Nope. Is the most accurate? I think so. But there are all kinds of ways to make it faster. That's kind of what this episode is about.
So the fastest and easiest way to scrub out people who own property, or entities that own property, in a mailer data set is to write a macro and YouTube's plastered with all kinds of those things and they are keywords. So I do address this in a pretty direct and simple manner in the program, just follow the program and you're going to do fine. If you want to write a macro to eliminate church owned properties and stuff, which I don't think you should eliminate churches at all.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I bought from churches.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right.

Jill K DeWit:
Churches are great.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all have. But there are place, like you don't want to send a letter to the United States government. So the US owns a lot of property and they end up in all of our data sets and they just need to be scrubbed out. You can write a real simple macro to do that. And that's what this episode's about is talking about making this more efficient.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you know what I was going to say too is I bought and sold properties that are in an HOA, so I don't want those out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So you got to really take a step back and think about what you're trying to take out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, in general you don't want to make a data set smaller, but you also don't want to waste money on stamps On a mail on the mail. And I say stamps figuratively. Today's topic, keeping up with the real estate data sources for 2023. This is the meat of the show. A couple days ago,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/19/keeping-up-with-real-estate-data-sources-for-2023-la-1918/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8DFLDvTRk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8e9ae3f6-578d-49e4-85b6-309a6b0f863b.mp3" length="12592344" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Motivate Title Agents Through the Holidays (LA 1917)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Motivate Title Agents Through the Holidays (LA 1917)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about how to motivate title agents through the holidays.

Jill K DeWit:
And your partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's true. And your children, or whoever else is in your life. Holidays have always been a strange thing. It's like people don't really want to work. Everybody's taking time off. Things theoretically slow down.

Jill K DeWit:
Your employees.

Steven Jack Butala:
You have a whole special group of people. Yeah, your employees. A whole special group of people that-

Jill K DeWit:
Want to slack.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, entrepreneurial-type people see the time to do research and want to get ready for January 1st to bust it out.

Jill K DeWit:
It's interesting. No, I think people like us, entrepreneurs, we don't even know it's the holidays. That's really what happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's right.

Jill K DeWit:
You're in it. Someone's like, "Sweetheart, today's Thanksgiving." "What? What are you talking about?"

Steven Jack Butala:
I've always been like that.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. That's what I'm saying. You're my example. And I know there's plenty of other people in Land Academy that are the same way that those of us are like... So that's part of the problem and why we need to talk about this because if you're like me, it's just another day. It's just another week. It's just another month. And what you do know is though, it's the end of the year, so now I might [inaudible 00:01:24] strategic for taxes. Why? Because I own my company. I'm thinking about these things. Now, the people on the other side that are working for you, they don't think about this stuff and you got to keep them on track.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly... I don't want to sound like an old man here, but I really kind of am. It was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this problem, Jill and I put together a database and wrote a internet interface to help you input the assessor's parcel number and the county and state where the property's located and find the property very, very quickly. We spent months sometimes trying to find property to decide if we should buy it back in the day. It's called parcelfact.com. Check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Greg wrote, "Today, I went off to the bank and wired in the payoff amount for a home mortgage, 30 year loan paid off in eight years." Oh, that's great. "I pulled the last few thousand dollars I needed from my Land business account. Thank you everyone for your support and information to enable me to reach this goal." How great is that? Was that in the Discord success area?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it was in there today.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's so good. It's like what an amazing feeling to go, "I don't have to think about this."

Steven Jack Butala:
I remember when my first mortgage was paid off.

Jill K DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a few milestones that feel just that great. Of course I sold the house, made a ton of money, and then went and got a mortgage and bought another one and then felt like crap about myself.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know what'd be funny? You know what's interesting about this? I think it's England that you would do this. This is when they paint their doors red.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that's a worldwide thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, It's a worldwide thing, okay yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you have a red front door, your mortgage is paid off or you have no debt.

Jill K DeWit:
[inaudible 00:03:26] pay it off. I love that.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about how to motivate title agents through the holidays.

Jill K DeWit:
And your partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's true. And your children, or whoever else is in your life. Holidays have always been a strange thing. It's like people don't really want to work. Everybody's taking time off. Things theoretically slow down.

Jill K DeWit:
Your employees.

Steven Jack Butala:
You have a whole special group of people. Yeah, your employees. A whole special group of people that-

Jill K DeWit:
Want to slack.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, entrepreneurial-type people see the time to do research and want to get ready for January 1st to bust it out.

Jill K DeWit:
It's interesting. No, I think people like us, entrepreneurs, we don't even know it's the holidays. That's really what happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's right.

Jill K DeWit:
You're in it. Someone's like, "Sweetheart, today's Thanksgiving." "What? What are you talking about?"

Steven Jack Butala:
I've always been like that.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. That's what I'm saying. You're my example. And I know there's plenty of other people in Land Academy that are the same way that those of us are like... So that's part of the problem and why we need to talk about this because if you're like me, it's just another day. It's just another week. It's just another month. And what you do know is though, it's the end of the year, so now I might [inaudible 00:01:24] strategic for taxes. Why? Because I own my company. I'm thinking about these things. Now, the people on the other side that are working for you, they don't think about this stuff and you got to keep them on track.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly... I don't want to sound like an old man here, but I really kind of am. It was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this problem, Jill and I put together a database and wrote a internet interface to help you input the assessor's parcel number and the county and state where the property's located and find the property very, very quickly. We spent months sometimes trying to find property to decide if we should buy it back in the day. It's called parcelfact.com. Check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Greg wrote, "Today, I went off to the bank and wired in the payoff amount for a home mortgage, 30 year loan paid off in eight years." Oh, that's great. "I pulled the last few thousand dollars I needed from my Land business account. Thank you everyone for your support and information to enable me to reach this goal." How great is that? Was that in the Discord success area?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it was in there today.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's so good. It's like what an amazing feeling to go, "I don't have to think about this."

Steven Jack Butala:
I remember when my first mortgage was paid off.

Jill K DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a few milestones that feel just that great. Of course I sold the house, made a ton of money, and then went and got a mortgage and bought another one and then felt like crap about myself.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know what'd be funny? You know what's interesting about this? I think it's England that you would do this. This is when they paint their doors red.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that's a worldwide thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, It's a worldwide thing, okay yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you have a red front door, your mortgage is paid off or you have no debt.

Jill K DeWit:
[inaudible 00:03:26] pay it off. I love that.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/16/jill-friday-how-to-motivate-title-agents-through-the-holidays-la-1917/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sXYb3aV1l</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4923c67f-f5f3-4ee2-ac96-7c7adb8bd028.mp3" length="12223535" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; There&amp;#8217;s Only 6 Ways to Get Rich (LA 1916)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; There&amp;#8217;s Only 6 Ways to Get Rich (LA 1916)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how there's only six ways to get rich.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be good. I'm.-

Steven Jack Butala:
Which way.

Jill K DeWit:
Really curious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which way do you choose? Before.-

Jill K DeWit:
Awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
We get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Matt wrote, "Hi all. I'm working on pricing zip code that varies greatly in prices. Section of area that I pulled in the zip code is close to a downtown, and the other half of the zip code is in a more rural area. How do you price an area like this? If I do it just by the zip code, the addresses close to the downtown area are under priced. And the addresses further out are overpriced."

Steven Jack Butala:
Matt, this is brilliant. If you are in Land Academy and you're doing the dishes right now, and listening to this. Or you're driving in a car and thinking about something else, now's the time to stop doing that. Now's the time to really listen to this one point I have to make very briefly. If you're not in Land Academy...

Jill K DeWit:
Or in a safe place that you could pull over.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're not in Land Academy this is why there are many people in Land Academy who are successful, it's for stuff like this. What he's describing is, picture a zip code. There's a big city in the zip code, there's maybe a couple of small towns. Maybe one small town in the zip code and all kinds of real estate surrounding it. Very different price. One zip code, different priced land all over the place. This is the norm. This is not an exception. It's always like this. There might be a not so big city. There's always going to be strangely priced scenarios in one zip code. This is why you cannot use a pricing tool that's automatic. You cannot say to Concierge Data, let's say, which is our company where we do your mailers, "Thanks for doing all this and it looks great. We're going to price it at 20% of retail and let me know when it goes out." Huge, sometimes fatal error. There are multiple places in zip codes that have different pricing.
How do you do that? How do you deal with it? You get your mailer back, or you create the mail yourself, or you get it back from Concierge Data. And you test for reason over and over again and you sort for, just like I teach in.-

Jill K DeWit:
Land Academy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Land Academy, you sort for by APN and you look at test for reason, all of those prices to see. Not all of them, but if there's.-

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you've got a 2,000 unit mailer size and it's one zip code, then test for every APN scenario, test 20 of them. You're going to decide ultimately that 20% is appropriate for this area in the zip code. 18% is appropriate for this area, 32%'s appropriate for this area. These are all really large parcels that are way out of town, maybe 8%'s appropriate for that. Are those numbers hard numbers? "Oh, Jack said 8% if it's out of town." No, that's not what I mean. I mean, it has to make sense so that if the property comes back and it's signed, you want to the do.-

Jill K DeWit:
Would you buy it?

Steven Jack Butala:
The deal. It's not overpriced or under priced.

Jill K DeWit:
Awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you for asking that question.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good question. Today's topic?

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic's Jack's Thursday, there's only six ways to get rich. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how there's only six ways to get rich.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be good. I'm.-

Steven Jack Butala:
Which way.

Jill K DeWit:
Really curious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which way do you choose? Before.-

Jill K DeWit:
Awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
We get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Matt wrote, "Hi all. I'm working on pricing zip code that varies greatly in prices. Section of area that I pulled in the zip code is close to a downtown, and the other half of the zip code is in a more rural area. How do you price an area like this? If I do it just by the zip code, the addresses close to the downtown area are under priced. And the addresses further out are overpriced."

Steven Jack Butala:
Matt, this is brilliant. If you are in Land Academy and you're doing the dishes right now, and listening to this. Or you're driving in a car and thinking about something else, now's the time to stop doing that. Now's the time to really listen to this one point I have to make very briefly. If you're not in Land Academy...

Jill K DeWit:
Or in a safe place that you could pull over.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're not in Land Academy this is why there are many people in Land Academy who are successful, it's for stuff like this. What he's describing is, picture a zip code. There's a big city in the zip code, there's maybe a couple of small towns. Maybe one small town in the zip code and all kinds of real estate surrounding it. Very different price. One zip code, different priced land all over the place. This is the norm. This is not an exception. It's always like this. There might be a not so big city. There's always going to be strangely priced scenarios in one zip code. This is why you cannot use a pricing tool that's automatic. You cannot say to Concierge Data, let's say, which is our company where we do your mailers, "Thanks for doing all this and it looks great. We're going to price it at 20% of retail and let me know when it goes out." Huge, sometimes fatal error. There are multiple places in zip codes that have different pricing.
How do you do that? How do you deal with it? You get your mailer back, or you create the mail yourself, or you get it back from Concierge Data. And you test for reason over and over again and you sort for, just like I teach in.-

Jill K DeWit:
Land Academy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Land Academy, you sort for by APN and you look at test for reason, all of those prices to see. Not all of them, but if there's.-

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you've got a 2,000 unit mailer size and it's one zip code, then test for every APN scenario, test 20 of them. You're going to decide ultimately that 20% is appropriate for this area in the zip code. 18% is appropriate for this area, 32%'s appropriate for this area. These are all really large parcels that are way out of town, maybe 8%'s appropriate for that. Are those numbers hard numbers? "Oh, Jack said 8% if it's out of town." No, that's not what I mean. I mean, it has to make sense so that if the property comes back and it's signed, you want to the do.-

Jill K DeWit:
Would you buy it?

Steven Jack Butala:
The deal. It's not overpriced or under priced.

Jill K DeWit:
Awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you for asking that question.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good question. Today's topic?

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic's Jack's Thursday, there's only six ways to get rich. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/15/jack-thursday-theres-only-6-ways-to-get-rich-la-1916/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9afd_zmfw</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/20fffcaf-77c2-421b-aa4c-257aff695e6c.mp3" length="12696705" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Complete Your First Land Deal (LA 1915)</title><itunes:title>How to Complete Your First Land Deal (LA 1915)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about quite simply how to complete your first land deal. For the last couple of days, Jill and I are talking about taking risk and what's the riskiest thing you can do-

Jill K DeWit:
What's possible.

Steven Jack Butala:
... is not taking risk at all. And 90% of the people who are millionaires own real estate. That's all great, thanks. How do you do it? What are the mechanics of actually taking the first step to getting a land transaction or a real estate transaction done? So we'll take you through it.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
And don't forget tomorrow I will be live at 5:00 Pacific Time. Yep. 5:00 Pacific time, 8:00 Eastern time via YouTube and Facebook. So check out the Land Academy channels for the details. Ed wrote, "If I only send mail to two and a half acres to [inaudible 00:01:09] acre properties in my ZIP, the quantity is 609. For me to send out 12,000 mailers, conceptually I need to get around 10 to 15 ZIP codes. If I keep it targeted like that, am I thinking accurately? Why am I missing something? Thank you."

Steven Jack Butala:
Ed, this is an amazing question, and you are on your way to being an incredibly successful at doing this, or really honestly, whatever you choose to do. Diversification is the pillar of success in anything when it comes to placing money and doing different types of equity creation for yourself. So yes, you are 100% correct, in what you're doing. Wouldn't it be better to send property to 10 or 15 ZIP codes than just one? It's always better to diversify. And yeah, 12,000 mailers. Heck yes, you are setting yourself up to the chances of getting a one or two or three or five good great properties out of a 12,000 unit mailer and 10 or 15 ZIP codes, you're setting yourself up to really, really succeed.

Jill K DeWit:
That's like the dream, really. That's the perfect way. The last thing you want to do is send out 200 mailers and you're staring at, I hope something comes back this week. Could you imagine? Maybe I'll get something, maybe I won't. How long does that flipping take? And then maybe you get one trickling in here and another one there, and then you're like, well, all right, I got five I collected now. Can I make any of these work? That's not the position you want to be in. The way Ed is doing it is the best way, which is let it out there. Just blast it. And guess what? Ed got 10, 20, 30 responses, maybe more with 12,000, I'm going to argue, argue a lot more with 12,000.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, me too. Especially in different ZIP codes.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. You're going to have a lot of responses to play with, and especially with that many ZIP codes. This area worked out great. Over here, not so much. This is what I learned. I overpriced over here, I under-priced over here, but I fixed some. And you're like, you're overwhelmed with these deals coming at you. Imagine that. Right? Now Ed could sit back and go, okay, woo, take a number, folks. I only have, this is the whole thing. I'm only one person, so I'm going to pick the top three and I'll get to those next three next week, and then next three the next week. And by then, I got more mail going out. So that's the position you want to be in.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can't wait to see what happens from ... One of the hardest things that goes on in Land Academy for me is to listen to a reader and listen to a question like this. It's a very, very intelligent question. And then I know that a very substantial number of people go off, do this stuff, do very,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about quite simply how to complete your first land deal. For the last couple of days, Jill and I are talking about taking risk and what's the riskiest thing you can do-

Jill K DeWit:
What's possible.

Steven Jack Butala:
... is not taking risk at all. And 90% of the people who are millionaires own real estate. That's all great, thanks. How do you do it? What are the mechanics of actually taking the first step to getting a land transaction or a real estate transaction done? So we'll take you through it.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
And don't forget tomorrow I will be live at 5:00 Pacific Time. Yep. 5:00 Pacific time, 8:00 Eastern time via YouTube and Facebook. So check out the Land Academy channels for the details. Ed wrote, "If I only send mail to two and a half acres to [inaudible 00:01:09] acre properties in my ZIP, the quantity is 609. For me to send out 12,000 mailers, conceptually I need to get around 10 to 15 ZIP codes. If I keep it targeted like that, am I thinking accurately? Why am I missing something? Thank you."

Steven Jack Butala:
Ed, this is an amazing question, and you are on your way to being an incredibly successful at doing this, or really honestly, whatever you choose to do. Diversification is the pillar of success in anything when it comes to placing money and doing different types of equity creation for yourself. So yes, you are 100% correct, in what you're doing. Wouldn't it be better to send property to 10 or 15 ZIP codes than just one? It's always better to diversify. And yeah, 12,000 mailers. Heck yes, you are setting yourself up to the chances of getting a one or two or three or five good great properties out of a 12,000 unit mailer and 10 or 15 ZIP codes, you're setting yourself up to really, really succeed.

Jill K DeWit:
That's like the dream, really. That's the perfect way. The last thing you want to do is send out 200 mailers and you're staring at, I hope something comes back this week. Could you imagine? Maybe I'll get something, maybe I won't. How long does that flipping take? And then maybe you get one trickling in here and another one there, and then you're like, well, all right, I got five I collected now. Can I make any of these work? That's not the position you want to be in. The way Ed is doing it is the best way, which is let it out there. Just blast it. And guess what? Ed got 10, 20, 30 responses, maybe more with 12,000, I'm going to argue, argue a lot more with 12,000.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, me too. Especially in different ZIP codes.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. You're going to have a lot of responses to play with, and especially with that many ZIP codes. This area worked out great. Over here, not so much. This is what I learned. I overpriced over here, I under-priced over here, but I fixed some. And you're like, you're overwhelmed with these deals coming at you. Imagine that. Right? Now Ed could sit back and go, okay, woo, take a number, folks. I only have, this is the whole thing. I'm only one person, so I'm going to pick the top three and I'll get to those next three next week, and then next three the next week. And by then, I got more mail going out. So that's the position you want to be in.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can't wait to see what happens from ... One of the hardest things that goes on in Land Academy for me is to listen to a reader and listen to a question like this. It's a very, very intelligent question. And then I know that a very substantial number of people go off, do this stuff, do very,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/14/how-to-complete-your-first-land-deal-la-1915/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wOrEopI41</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ffcc2ce0-3c03-4140-a37b-4878d7d4d1ec.mp3" length="13166793" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Riskiest Thing You Can Do is Take No Risk at All (LA 1914)</title><itunes:title>The Riskiest Thing You Can Do is Take No Risk at All (LA 1914)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about risk. Specifically the riskiest thing you can do is to take no risk at all. And it's funny, Jill and I were just talking about the title. She's like, well, wait a minute. I'm not really understanding what the hell this is because I don't see any risk in what we're doing at all.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. I'm like-

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't either.

Jill K DeWit:
... this wasn't registering for me. I'm like, I had to read this title three times and process it and then I'm like, I hear what you're saying, but I don't think that's, I don't, I'm not feeling it and we'll talk.

Steven Jack Butala:
You have to take some element of risk to get any reward.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just a universal concept and we'll talk about choosing things that appear to you to have no risk, like buying and selling land. I don't see any risk in that, but some people do. So we'll talk about it in a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Hey, and don't forget, go to Land Academy's Facebook page or somewhere on social media and sign up to join me live Thursday. I didn't even tell you what time it was. Thursday at five o'clock... I have to think about this, five o'clock Pacific time on the 15th. It's going to be awesome. All right, so the Stevens Brothers wrote, "When getting leads from DataTree, do you think it would be a good idea to only get records from leads..." Wait, wait. "Do you think it would be an idea to only get records of leads that screen off the last sale date and the last recording date in the most recent three years?" Am I reading that right?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I'll explain it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll paraphrase.

Jill K DeWit:
In other words, only get leads at the last sale date or the last recording date was before I got it. Before November, 2019. Have a nice day. Okay, I got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
We pull ownership records out of DataTree as a group before we, as part of doing a blind offer campaign and so if you think about a zip code. In the universe of that zip code, there's a bunch of land that sits in that zip code and we pull the records for people who own that land and do a bunch of stuff to them, scrub the data and get it in the mail. We use those records to generate offers to send to the mail. And so very often, and we teach this in an incredible amount of detail, how to do it step by step and all of our education on the Thursday call, and it's really kind of what Land Academy's about.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
What these guys are asking is, hey, would it be a better idea to mess with or alter in some way the 25 year proven concept that Jack and Jill have-

Jill K DeWit:
Tested.

Steven Jack Butala:
... purchased and sold more than 16,000 deals with. I'm brand new at this and I think I have a better idea.

Jill K DeWit:
I know and exclude the people that have transferred property in the last three years.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which means there those are people who are used to buying and selling and comfortable with buying and selling land.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. So here's my point to this. Well, that's great, that's great slash however, what about the sweet little old lady that just got the property in her name because her husband passed on and it was a probate thing. You just took her out of your list.

Steven Jack Butala:
So guys, we're not picking on you. We're just, we're seriously not, this is a very good question and I'm glad you asked it. It gives us an opportunity to, in a playful way, answer the question. No,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about risk. Specifically the riskiest thing you can do is to take no risk at all. And it's funny, Jill and I were just talking about the title. She's like, well, wait a minute. I'm not really understanding what the hell this is because I don't see any risk in what we're doing at all.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. I'm like-

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't either.

Jill K DeWit:
... this wasn't registering for me. I'm like, I had to read this title three times and process it and then I'm like, I hear what you're saying, but I don't think that's, I don't, I'm not feeling it and we'll talk.

Steven Jack Butala:
You have to take some element of risk to get any reward.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just a universal concept and we'll talk about choosing things that appear to you to have no risk, like buying and selling land. I don't see any risk in that, but some people do. So we'll talk about it in a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Hey, and don't forget, go to Land Academy's Facebook page or somewhere on social media and sign up to join me live Thursday. I didn't even tell you what time it was. Thursday at five o'clock... I have to think about this, five o'clock Pacific time on the 15th. It's going to be awesome. All right, so the Stevens Brothers wrote, "When getting leads from DataTree, do you think it would be a good idea to only get records from leads..." Wait, wait. "Do you think it would be an idea to only get records of leads that screen off the last sale date and the last recording date in the most recent three years?" Am I reading that right?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I'll explain it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll paraphrase.

Jill K DeWit:
In other words, only get leads at the last sale date or the last recording date was before I got it. Before November, 2019. Have a nice day. Okay, I got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
We pull ownership records out of DataTree as a group before we, as part of doing a blind offer campaign and so if you think about a zip code. In the universe of that zip code, there's a bunch of land that sits in that zip code and we pull the records for people who own that land and do a bunch of stuff to them, scrub the data and get it in the mail. We use those records to generate offers to send to the mail. And so very often, and we teach this in an incredible amount of detail, how to do it step by step and all of our education on the Thursday call, and it's really kind of what Land Academy's about.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
What these guys are asking is, hey, would it be a better idea to mess with or alter in some way the 25 year proven concept that Jack and Jill have-

Jill K DeWit:
Tested.

Steven Jack Butala:
... purchased and sold more than 16,000 deals with. I'm brand new at this and I think I have a better idea.

Jill K DeWit:
I know and exclude the people that have transferred property in the last three years.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which means there those are people who are used to buying and selling and comfortable with buying and selling land.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. So here's my point to this. Well, that's great, that's great slash however, what about the sweet little old lady that just got the property in her name because her husband passed on and it was a probate thing. You just took her out of your list.

Steven Jack Butala:
So guys, we're not picking on you. We're just, we're seriously not, this is a very good question and I'm glad you asked it. It gives us an opportunity to, in a playful way, answer the question. No,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/13/the-riskiest-thing-you-can-do-is-take-no-risk-at-all-la-1914/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TYq_Qb2uQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/32fc42ba-9e7f-457b-ae86-4938d2e96d0b.mp3" length="14687555" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>90% of Millionaires Own Real Estate (LA 1913)</title><itunes:title>90% of Millionaires Own Real Estate (LA 1913)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how 90% of millionaires own real estate. What a sentence.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
The real question is great, 90% of millionaires own real estate, and I think we all are familiar with this type of concept one way or another. The question is, how did they start? I can answer that and we're going to talk about it. The answer is one deal at a time.

Jill K DeWit:
I wonder how many of those people, this is the majority of what got them there. You know what I'm saying? Did they have another business and then they branched? Because some people have other businesses and then they realize what's possible in real estate and then they get into real estate. And some people, fortunately enough, started just in real estate, like you, and took that to the moon.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've always wondered that too. I don't know if it's a result of creating wealth somewhere else. I bet-

Jill K DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
... it's probably 50/50. But in the end, what we do, real estate was just a vehicle. We started a company. It's starting companies and creating something and then plowing money into other things.

Jill K DeWit:
Making it great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to note, make a quick little announcement here, that if you are thinking about Land Academy, you're going to want to check out this Thursday coming up. Thursday, December 15th, join me live on YouTube and Facebook. Go to our Facebook page and you can sign up there and get all the details. The title is going to be, what I'm going to talk about is How to Buy and Sell Land for Zero Down and Recession Proof Your Business. How cool is that? One of the things about us is this is not our first recession, not just based on age, but that's part of it.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's based on age for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Part of it. But let me go back and just say this too. Not only is this not our first recession, this is going on your third recession being in this industry.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's true.

Jill K DeWit:
That is what's unique.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's true.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be Jack's third time doing this as an investor. And I know, because I came in with Jack towards the tail end of the last one, and I saw and I knew and I watched some of the people that were other land investors in our space not make it. I was able to be there with you and watch it rise back up again. And now we're just in such a better place. So anyway, we're going to talk about things like that on Thursday, so join in. It's going to be awesome.
Back to the question. Jeff wrote, "Hey, I'm just putting some feelers out there to see if anyone would have any interest in some help on their Jack type duties." There's Jack duties and there's JILL duties. "If you get anxiety at sitting at your computer and looking at your screen, I may be able to help. I can help with data pulling, scrubbing, data scraping, pricing, online research or similar tasks. If I can bring any value to your business, please do not hesitate to contact me. I'd love to see if we could put something together and help each other."

Steven Jack Butala:
So this is in the section of the Land Academy Discord that we've set up for just this type of thing, so everybody can-

Jill K DeWit:
Partnership.

Steven Jack Butala:
... partnership, get together and help each other. This is specifically in the subcategory partnership wanted.

Jill K DeWit:
This is not help wanted. We don't have a help wanted section.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how 90% of millionaires own real estate. What a sentence.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
The real question is great, 90% of millionaires own real estate, and I think we all are familiar with this type of concept one way or another. The question is, how did they start? I can answer that and we're going to talk about it. The answer is one deal at a time.

Jill K DeWit:
I wonder how many of those people, this is the majority of what got them there. You know what I'm saying? Did they have another business and then they branched? Because some people have other businesses and then they realize what's possible in real estate and then they get into real estate. And some people, fortunately enough, started just in real estate, like you, and took that to the moon.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've always wondered that too. I don't know if it's a result of creating wealth somewhere else. I bet-

Jill K DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
... it's probably 50/50. But in the end, what we do, real estate was just a vehicle. We started a company. It's starting companies and creating something and then plowing money into other things.

Jill K DeWit:
Making it great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to note, make a quick little announcement here, that if you are thinking about Land Academy, you're going to want to check out this Thursday coming up. Thursday, December 15th, join me live on YouTube and Facebook. Go to our Facebook page and you can sign up there and get all the details. The title is going to be, what I'm going to talk about is How to Buy and Sell Land for Zero Down and Recession Proof Your Business. How cool is that? One of the things about us is this is not our first recession, not just based on age, but that's part of it.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's based on age for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Part of it. But let me go back and just say this too. Not only is this not our first recession, this is going on your third recession being in this industry.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's true.

Jill K DeWit:
That is what's unique.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's true.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be Jack's third time doing this as an investor. And I know, because I came in with Jack towards the tail end of the last one, and I saw and I knew and I watched some of the people that were other land investors in our space not make it. I was able to be there with you and watch it rise back up again. And now we're just in such a better place. So anyway, we're going to talk about things like that on Thursday, so join in. It's going to be awesome.
Back to the question. Jeff wrote, "Hey, I'm just putting some feelers out there to see if anyone would have any interest in some help on their Jack type duties." There's Jack duties and there's JILL duties. "If you get anxiety at sitting at your computer and looking at your screen, I may be able to help. I can help with data pulling, scrubbing, data scraping, pricing, online research or similar tasks. If I can bring any value to your business, please do not hesitate to contact me. I'd love to see if we could put something together and help each other."

Steven Jack Butala:
So this is in the section of the Land Academy Discord that we've set up for just this type of thing, so everybody can-

Jill K DeWit:
Partnership.

Steven Jack Butala:
... partnership, get together and help each other. This is specifically in the subcategory partnership wanted.

Jill K DeWit:
This is not help wanted. We don't have a help wanted section.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/12/90-of-millionaires-own-real-estate-la-1913/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c9AckKmuV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/26109d92-3646-4517-a6d2-79762fc262ff.mp3" length="14261961" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Make it as a Female Land Investor (LA 1912)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Make it as a Female Land Investor (LA 1912)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Stephen Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to make it as a female land investor. It's an interesting topic choice, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Stephen Jack Butala:
Because I really want to know this too. I want to know what the difference is between women, some of the challenges, the unique challenges. I think I speak for everybody. There are apparently unique challenges that women face to make it as an investor that I hope you just spell it out for us.

Jill DeWit:
I will.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land anywhere on the internet without a mailing address. I mean, locate the actual parcel because you're thinking about buying it. We solved this by collecting and regurgitating that 150 million unit database based on APN. So now-

Jill DeWit:
Regurgitating.

Stephen Jack Butala:
All you have to do is type in the state, county and... Jill makes fun of this because she didn't actually, wasn't involved in manipulating 150 million units of data.

Jill DeWit:
I did too. Just kidding. I did two of them. That's what I mean. No, I'm just kidding.

Stephen Jack Butala:
We solved it. Go to parcelfact.com. It's simple to use and tailor made for what we do.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. All right. Dan wrote, Dan S. wrote, "Here's a success story that's a little different. I am celebrating the success I have finally had in establishing scheduled office hours for myself." Good. This is hard for people. I get it. "I know I've been told over and over that keeping a schedule is crucial. This has been a challenge for me. We've been doing well enough the way I have been going. But by setting up two days a week of seven hours a day and then three days of two hours scheduled undeserved land time, it's a little less chaotic. Thank you to my wife who was much better at organization for helping keep me on task." That's awesome.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Dan is a, this is Dan Smart, and he's a long time now Land Academy member, Career Path alumni, and crazy successful and just a down to earth, really nice guy. So this was his Academy Award speech I think.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's sweet. That's really good. I love it.

Stephen Jack Butala:
All kidding aside, you have to have close the door time, don't mess with dad time or mom, I guess in the case of this episode.

Jill DeWit:
And then even more, we've talked about it on another show you have to plan out, really plan out your week. So we have versions of that and then I have this is deed signing day and this day and that day. When you're going to do your callbacks, have a set time for that. It just makes your life easier.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Closing day, research day, all of that.

Jill DeWit:
Due diligence time.

Stephen Jack Butala:
It's not necessarily days but blocks of time.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe every day for an hour, it's due diligence. Fill in the blank.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Took me forever to do that for myself. I went all through college and it was an absolute scheduling disaster. There was no schedule. It was just putting out a fire one minute to the next.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to make it as a female land investor. This is the meat of the show. But before she does, what makes female land investors different than male land investors?

Jill DeWit:
How we make decisions.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Oh, that was fast. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'll tell you. Yeah, that's just a no-brainer. So every man knows that. Come on. When we come to you and say,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Stephen Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to make it as a female land investor. It's an interesting topic choice, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Stephen Jack Butala:
Because I really want to know this too. I want to know what the difference is between women, some of the challenges, the unique challenges. I think I speak for everybody. There are apparently unique challenges that women face to make it as an investor that I hope you just spell it out for us.

Jill DeWit:
I will.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land anywhere on the internet without a mailing address. I mean, locate the actual parcel because you're thinking about buying it. We solved this by collecting and regurgitating that 150 million unit database based on APN. So now-

Jill DeWit:
Regurgitating.

Stephen Jack Butala:
All you have to do is type in the state, county and... Jill makes fun of this because she didn't actually, wasn't involved in manipulating 150 million units of data.

Jill DeWit:
I did too. Just kidding. I did two of them. That's what I mean. No, I'm just kidding.

Stephen Jack Butala:
We solved it. Go to parcelfact.com. It's simple to use and tailor made for what we do.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. All right. Dan wrote, Dan S. wrote, "Here's a success story that's a little different. I am celebrating the success I have finally had in establishing scheduled office hours for myself." Good. This is hard for people. I get it. "I know I've been told over and over that keeping a schedule is crucial. This has been a challenge for me. We've been doing well enough the way I have been going. But by setting up two days a week of seven hours a day and then three days of two hours scheduled undeserved land time, it's a little less chaotic. Thank you to my wife who was much better at organization for helping keep me on task." That's awesome.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Dan is a, this is Dan Smart, and he's a long time now Land Academy member, Career Path alumni, and crazy successful and just a down to earth, really nice guy. So this was his Academy Award speech I think.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's sweet. That's really good. I love it.

Stephen Jack Butala:
All kidding aside, you have to have close the door time, don't mess with dad time or mom, I guess in the case of this episode.

Jill DeWit:
And then even more, we've talked about it on another show you have to plan out, really plan out your week. So we have versions of that and then I have this is deed signing day and this day and that day. When you're going to do your callbacks, have a set time for that. It just makes your life easier.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Closing day, research day, all of that.

Jill DeWit:
Due diligence time.

Stephen Jack Butala:
It's not necessarily days but blocks of time.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe every day for an hour, it's due diligence. Fill in the blank.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Took me forever to do that for myself. I went all through college and it was an absolute scheduling disaster. There was no schedule. It was just putting out a fire one minute to the next.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to make it as a female land investor. This is the meat of the show. But before she does, what makes female land investors different than male land investors?

Jill DeWit:
How we make decisions.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Oh, that was fast. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'll tell you. Yeah, that's just a no-brainer. So every man knows that. Come on. When we come to you and say,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/09/jill-friday-how-to-make-it-as-a-female-land-investor-la-1912/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">FCpKvRDdA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c0fbcefd-9956-4848-8f38-e9090ab7bfc1.mp3" length="21095286" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why Creating a Subdivision So Alluring (LA 1911)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why Creating a Subdivision So Alluring (LA 1911)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about why creating a subdivision is so alluring.

Jill DeWit:
Not for me, man.

Steven Butala:
You know how... Not for me either.

Jill DeWit:
But I know you out there that have this condition, we'll call it.

Steven Butala:
Every time I hear somebody say that, that cliché, "Hey, buy land, they're not making anymore." I laugh to myself.

Jill DeWit:
Buy dirt.

Steven Butala:
Because we are constantly making more land by subdividing it.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. Like, what are you talking about?

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Mark wrote.

Steven Butala:
I mean it. The YouTube channel thing. Seriously.

Jill DeWit:
You done?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Mark wrote, "I did my first mailing with offers to owners. A 7,500 piece mailer. So far..." Wow. "I have 16 signed contracts. Now I need to get funding for it. Wish me luck." Is there more to the question?

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Because that's enough said.

Jill DeWit:
Aw, isn't that great?

Steven Butala:
Because he probably did everything right. Went out and found a unique place to send mail, got help pricing his mailer from people.

Jill DeWit:
Did the [inaudible 00:01:34] test to double-check it all.

Steven Butala:
All of it.

Jill DeWit:
Make sure he is making a good decision. Send out... That was a nice amount. I get so frustrated when people say, "Well, I sent out 900 units." I'm like, that's not going to get you that much. 75 hundreds going to get you some juice.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
And then he's got 16 now to go through and pick the best ones. Even if he picks one that yields $50,000 in there, that's worth it.

Steven Butala:
That's it. That's the right thing, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
That covers it.

Steven Butala:
That's how I look at it. Just do one great deal out of 7,500, you're smashing it.

Jill DeWit:
Quit trying to... I could hear these people like, "Oh, mailer yield. I should have 50." Stop it. Think. Take a step back and realize nowhere on the planet can you put that money out and make that money back that fast.

Steven Butala:
That's right.

Jill DeWit:
Kind of thing. I don't care what it is. And trust me, this one's tested it. He's got them all.

Steven Butala:
Tested and failed at everything.

Jill DeWit:
Everything.

Steven Butala:
Everything in my social and professional life.

Jill DeWit:
I come up with some new business idea and I'm going to tell you how Jack has probably already been down that road, or I stopped him just in time.

Steven Butala:
Yep. It's all true. This business can... Not this business, but fill in the blank business can work for you if you enjoy paying.

Jill DeWit:
So you know what, let me just lead this... Say this comment because it ties into the show today, right? This one, if you do it all right and you do it exactly how we show you, you too will have a successful land business, making money, coasting. And then what does that do to you? Because you're an entrepreneur, you're looking for something else. So this one is constantly saying, "Well, land stuff's so easy, why don't we fill in the blank with X? Let's try something." And it's totally different. So that's what happens in our world and that ties into today's show because some of you are looking for other things to do.

Steven Butala:
Some of you are looking at creating problems for yourself in the land industry. Land investment world. And this is one of them.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about why creating a subdivision is so alluring.

Jill DeWit:
Not for me, man.

Steven Butala:
You know how... Not for me either.

Jill DeWit:
But I know you out there that have this condition, we'll call it.

Steven Butala:
Every time I hear somebody say that, that cliché, "Hey, buy land, they're not making anymore." I laugh to myself.

Jill DeWit:
Buy dirt.

Steven Butala:
Because we are constantly making more land by subdividing it.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. Like, what are you talking about?

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Mark wrote.

Steven Butala:
I mean it. The YouTube channel thing. Seriously.

Jill DeWit:
You done?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Mark wrote, "I did my first mailing with offers to owners. A 7,500 piece mailer. So far..." Wow. "I have 16 signed contracts. Now I need to get funding for it. Wish me luck." Is there more to the question?

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Because that's enough said.

Jill DeWit:
Aw, isn't that great?

Steven Butala:
Because he probably did everything right. Went out and found a unique place to send mail, got help pricing his mailer from people.

Jill DeWit:
Did the [inaudible 00:01:34] test to double-check it all.

Steven Butala:
All of it.

Jill DeWit:
Make sure he is making a good decision. Send out... That was a nice amount. I get so frustrated when people say, "Well, I sent out 900 units." I'm like, that's not going to get you that much. 75 hundreds going to get you some juice.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
And then he's got 16 now to go through and pick the best ones. Even if he picks one that yields $50,000 in there, that's worth it.

Steven Butala:
That's it. That's the right thing, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
That covers it.

Steven Butala:
That's how I look at it. Just do one great deal out of 7,500, you're smashing it.

Jill DeWit:
Quit trying to... I could hear these people like, "Oh, mailer yield. I should have 50." Stop it. Think. Take a step back and realize nowhere on the planet can you put that money out and make that money back that fast.

Steven Butala:
That's right.

Jill DeWit:
Kind of thing. I don't care what it is. And trust me, this one's tested it. He's got them all.

Steven Butala:
Tested and failed at everything.

Jill DeWit:
Everything.

Steven Butala:
Everything in my social and professional life.

Jill DeWit:
I come up with some new business idea and I'm going to tell you how Jack has probably already been down that road, or I stopped him just in time.

Steven Butala:
Yep. It's all true. This business can... Not this business, but fill in the blank business can work for you if you enjoy paying.

Jill DeWit:
So you know what, let me just lead this... Say this comment because it ties into the show today, right? This one, if you do it all right and you do it exactly how we show you, you too will have a successful land business, making money, coasting. And then what does that do to you? Because you're an entrepreneur, you're looking for something else. So this one is constantly saying, "Well, land stuff's so easy, why don't we fill in the blank with X? Let's try something." And it's totally different. So that's what happens in our world and that ties into today's show because some of you are looking for other things to do.

Steven Butala:
Some of you are looking at creating problems for yourself in the land industry. Land investment world. And this is one of them.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/08/jack-thursday-why-creating-a-subdivision-so-alluring-la-1911/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jibanWnpN</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5b187572-288e-4cc7-b211-df82b8538e28.mp3" length="13834127" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Land Ownership is Ideal Against 2023 Inflation (LA 1910)</title><itunes:title>Why Land Ownership is Ideal Against 2023 Inflation (LA 1910)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why land ownership is ideal against 2023 inflation.

Jill DeWit:
I sleep really well at night. I always have.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, me too.

Jill DeWit:
I always have, the way we buy and sell land. There's nothing better. I don't care what it is. Even over having a safe full of precious metals, seriously, which is good to have too, don't get me wrong. But having land, it's just like, wow. It's different.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no feeling like it, quite like owning a bunch of land.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. So even if I complain, "Oh, it's not selling fast enough," or you're complaining it's not selling fast enough, hold on a moment. Let's take a step back and realize what's going on here. You're in a good spot.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before you get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to get their blind offer campaigns in the mail. So I took a look at how we were personally sending out mail with our key employees and ultimately made the same people available to Land Academy members to get their mail campaigns out. We now call it Concierge Data and we launched a new product recently called Concierge Data Plus. It allows you to send out or outsource your entire mailer to offers to owners. Give us a call or actually just go to offers, the number two owners.com. Poke around and check it out, see if it's for you.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Kevin wrote, "Hello. Newbie question. On the Zillow sold comps, why might the time between pending sale and sold be a long time, three months plus? And does that potentially make it a worse comp to use?" I have one reason, right now, Kevin. That's manually entered by a real person who did the listing. That's it. So it's not automatically marked sold or pending. I'm surprised they even put pending in there. Some agents don't even do that. They'll just put listed, price change and then sold because they're busy. They're doing other deals, too. So I take that with a grain of salt because it is totally, like I said, a manual entry if used it all.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you list a piece of property with a real estate agent, they're going to put it on the multiple listing service, the MLS, and they're very regulated on how they input the data. If you've ever posted anything on the MLS or been involved in it, it's a one day process. So there's a lot involved. And they're required by their broker and all kinds of stuff so that when it goes under contract, it goes to pending. When it's sold, it gets removed from the MLS or it gets marked sold. That is absolutely not the case with Zillow. Zillow as a for sale by owner, we can put stuff in Zillow. There's no regulations about taking it off the market when... Jill's exactly right. There's no rules.
So very often people just leave it on there and it's not for sale at all. Or they'll post something that's fictitious. So you have to be careful about how you use Zillow and how you look at the comparison values. The exact same thing is true with Land Watch, exactly the same thing. So there's MLS places, multiple listing service ways to post property, and then freeform, user content driven. Redfin is an IDX feed just like realtor.com. Those are all real estate agent driven with rules. I like to use all of them.

Jill DeWit:
You know what, I'm sorry, I have to just say I don't mean to disagree with you, but I have to disagree with you on something. Yes, they have rules, but once again they're people. Do they make mistakes? Hell yes. How many times have you seen, you go, "Wait a minute,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why land ownership is ideal against 2023 inflation.

Jill DeWit:
I sleep really well at night. I always have.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, me too.

Jill DeWit:
I always have, the way we buy and sell land. There's nothing better. I don't care what it is. Even over having a safe full of precious metals, seriously, which is good to have too, don't get me wrong. But having land, it's just like, wow. It's different.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no feeling like it, quite like owning a bunch of land.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. So even if I complain, "Oh, it's not selling fast enough," or you're complaining it's not selling fast enough, hold on a moment. Let's take a step back and realize what's going on here. You're in a good spot.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before you get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to get their blind offer campaigns in the mail. So I took a look at how we were personally sending out mail with our key employees and ultimately made the same people available to Land Academy members to get their mail campaigns out. We now call it Concierge Data and we launched a new product recently called Concierge Data Plus. It allows you to send out or outsource your entire mailer to offers to owners. Give us a call or actually just go to offers, the number two owners.com. Poke around and check it out, see if it's for you.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Kevin wrote, "Hello. Newbie question. On the Zillow sold comps, why might the time between pending sale and sold be a long time, three months plus? And does that potentially make it a worse comp to use?" I have one reason, right now, Kevin. That's manually entered by a real person who did the listing. That's it. So it's not automatically marked sold or pending. I'm surprised they even put pending in there. Some agents don't even do that. They'll just put listed, price change and then sold because they're busy. They're doing other deals, too. So I take that with a grain of salt because it is totally, like I said, a manual entry if used it all.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you list a piece of property with a real estate agent, they're going to put it on the multiple listing service, the MLS, and they're very regulated on how they input the data. If you've ever posted anything on the MLS or been involved in it, it's a one day process. So there's a lot involved. And they're required by their broker and all kinds of stuff so that when it goes under contract, it goes to pending. When it's sold, it gets removed from the MLS or it gets marked sold. That is absolutely not the case with Zillow. Zillow as a for sale by owner, we can put stuff in Zillow. There's no regulations about taking it off the market when... Jill's exactly right. There's no rules.
So very often people just leave it on there and it's not for sale at all. Or they'll post something that's fictitious. So you have to be careful about how you use Zillow and how you look at the comparison values. The exact same thing is true with Land Watch, exactly the same thing. So there's MLS places, multiple listing service ways to post property, and then freeform, user content driven. Redfin is an IDX feed just like realtor.com. Those are all real estate agent driven with rules. I like to use all of them.

Jill DeWit:
You know what, I'm sorry, I have to just say I don't mean to disagree with you, but I have to disagree with you on something. Yes, they have rules, but once again they're people. Do they make mistakes? Hell yes. How many times have you seen, you go, "Wait a minute,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/07/why-land-ownership-is-ideal-against-2023-inflation-la-1910/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5nzqqIcRe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c82ce293-f37b-4a30-ad25-66614f88a53f.mp3" length="13006118" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Use Land Academy Online Community in Real Time (LA 1909)</title><itunes:title>How to Use Land Academy Online Community in Real Time (LA 1909)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to use the Land Academy online community in real time.

Jill DeWit:
This is so good. This is one of those things that we always tell our community. You ask, we listen. And day one almost of launching Land Academy way back in 2015. Wow, it's been that long.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
We have how many years of this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, it's going to be eight.

Jill DeWit:
Eight. Eight years of making millionaires. How's that? I'm just going to say it. Eight years of making millionaires. That's easy. But 20 to 30 years.

Steven Jack Butala:
30 years.

Jill DeWit:
... of us doing it on our own.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Talk about valuable experience. I haven't said this in a while, but man, I wish I had us when I was starting out. So anyway, but one of the first things that came out of our folks was, "How can we communicate with you?" I'm like, yeah, you're right. We do need to do that. And so we started an online community. It had a different name than it is now. It was fun. That was Success Plant back then. It was really cool. And then it morphed into Land Investors, and now we still have that, but now it's gone into this Discord environment, which is blowing me away.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too. I mean, I'll tell you, we offer value added products in Land Academy all the time. Jill's got all kinds of prop products lined up for 2023. And a online community, especially in this Discord format, was a really good idea. In fact, that's what we're going to talk about today. So before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Before we get into that though, I hope you'd know by now, and this is another example I guess of a product that we created that everybody loves. Yep. Jill and I created a commercial blown commercial printing company created solely to help you get an expensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers quickly. It's called Offers to Owners. We set this company up several years ago to share it with members and non-members. It's nothing more than how we used to do our own mailers. We just made it pretty and offered it to-

Jill DeWit:
And still do.

Steven Jack Butala:
... our leadership community. Fast forward to today, we do between 700, and 900,000 offers per month on behalf of members and non-members. Everything from pulling and scrubbing and collecting comps to just actually, literally doing the mailer for you. Check it out. Offers2owners.com.

Jill DeWit:
Titus wrote, "Good morning, Discord family. Hope your Thanksgiving was fun and relaxing. Quick question. Is anyone else having issues with sorting data from Redfin's housing market data website by ZIP code? I don't see ZIP codes in the region type or region fields. Any thoughts? Anybody else having this issue?"

Steven Jack Butala:
So I put this in here. This is a fantastic use of our online community, specifically Discord. So he's in there pulling data and pulling comps as we ask everyone to do in the Land Academy education. And there's something's going wrong with Redfin. So Redfin, their data center specifically is amazing. I cannot believe how much realtime data they provide for people like us to make good decisions about where to send mail and whether or not, and just if you know the program. You know how we use Redfin's data center. Here's the thing. It's awesome. It's web enabled, and it breaks often. And so I often, very often go into Redfin when I'm doing my own mailers. It's not working right. I have to wait a couple hours maybe. Do it the next day. I included this in this format. I can't include all the responses,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to use the Land Academy online community in real time.

Jill DeWit:
This is so good. This is one of those things that we always tell our community. You ask, we listen. And day one almost of launching Land Academy way back in 2015. Wow, it's been that long.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
We have how many years of this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, it's going to be eight.

Jill DeWit:
Eight. Eight years of making millionaires. How's that? I'm just going to say it. Eight years of making millionaires. That's easy. But 20 to 30 years.

Steven Jack Butala:
30 years.

Jill DeWit:
... of us doing it on our own.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Talk about valuable experience. I haven't said this in a while, but man, I wish I had us when I was starting out. So anyway, but one of the first things that came out of our folks was, "How can we communicate with you?" I'm like, yeah, you're right. We do need to do that. And so we started an online community. It had a different name than it is now. It was fun. That was Success Plant back then. It was really cool. And then it morphed into Land Investors, and now we still have that, but now it's gone into this Discord environment, which is blowing me away.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too. I mean, I'll tell you, we offer value added products in Land Academy all the time. Jill's got all kinds of prop products lined up for 2023. And a online community, especially in this Discord format, was a really good idea. In fact, that's what we're going to talk about today. So before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Before we get into that though, I hope you'd know by now, and this is another example I guess of a product that we created that everybody loves. Yep. Jill and I created a commercial blown commercial printing company created solely to help you get an expensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers quickly. It's called Offers to Owners. We set this company up several years ago to share it with members and non-members. It's nothing more than how we used to do our own mailers. We just made it pretty and offered it to-

Jill DeWit:
And still do.

Steven Jack Butala:
... our leadership community. Fast forward to today, we do between 700, and 900,000 offers per month on behalf of members and non-members. Everything from pulling and scrubbing and collecting comps to just actually, literally doing the mailer for you. Check it out. Offers2owners.com.

Jill DeWit:
Titus wrote, "Good morning, Discord family. Hope your Thanksgiving was fun and relaxing. Quick question. Is anyone else having issues with sorting data from Redfin's housing market data website by ZIP code? I don't see ZIP codes in the region type or region fields. Any thoughts? Anybody else having this issue?"

Steven Jack Butala:
So I put this in here. This is a fantastic use of our online community, specifically Discord. So he's in there pulling data and pulling comps as we ask everyone to do in the Land Academy education. And there's something's going wrong with Redfin. So Redfin, their data center specifically is amazing. I cannot believe how much realtime data they provide for people like us to make good decisions about where to send mail and whether or not, and just if you know the program. You know how we use Redfin's data center. Here's the thing. It's awesome. It's web enabled, and it breaks often. And so I often, very often go into Redfin when I'm doing my own mailers. It's not working right. I have to wait a couple hours maybe. Do it the next day. I included this in this format. I can't include all the responses,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/06/how-to-use-land-academy-online-community-in-real-time-la-1909/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kemllh3qJ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/43b503bd-7157-4e6e-8238-10285713098b.mp3" length="11215430" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Perfect Land Mailer Planning for 2023 Investors (LA 1908)</title><itunes:title>Perfect Land Mailer Planning for 2023 Investors (LA 1908)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Stephen Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about your perfect land mailer planning for 2023.

Jill DeWitt:
For investors.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
Yep. So this is awesome. We're just wrapping up career path number five and I'll tell you right now, career path number six is not yet planned. And starting in 2023 there's some changes we are personally making, like career path on steroids will be coming. Maybe things that start with an M might be coming like mastermind stuff.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Oh sure.

Jill DeWitt:
Everybody under everybody understands and knows what that is, even though it's kind of part of career path. But they understand these mastermind groups and things. But just going into 2023, you really need to take a step back and think about a lot of things. About your acquisition criteria and how you're going to hit it based on your land mailer planning that you're going to do right now at the end of 2022.

Stephen Jack Butala:
We had a really successful career path this time. They've all been very good.

Jill DeWitt:
Obviously.

Stephen Jack Butala:
But they continue to get better with time because what people are asking of us from an instructional standpoint continues to grow and it continues to change based on the time. So I look very forward to 2023 and the content that we're going to produce and the events that we're going to host, kicking it up a few notches.

Jill DeWitt:
There we go.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWitt:
Kevin wrote, "hello. I have two trash on property related questions." This is cute. "One parcel I bought has some small trash and litter as the seller had not been there in three years. Do I sell it as is or should I hire someone to clean it up? I already got it cheaper due to the trash."

Stephen Jack Butala:
Good.

Jill DeWitt:
Two. "Another property I bought, there's an old vacant trailer house on the foundation that my broker missed when he walked it." I wonder how big the property is.

Stephen Jack Butala:
I wonder how good the broker is.

Jill DeWitt:
That too. "He's offered to cut the commission so the money's fine. However, am I free to throw it out or does it still belong to the previous owner?"

Stephen Jack Butala:
So this question was posted on Discord as it should be, and it was a very interesting and popular question to respond to. A lot of people in Land Academy had an opinion about it and they were all relatively the same, some with stories. I would argue, unless there's something toxic going on, this is all increasing the value of your property ironically. It's the ugly houses model. The vast majority of people want to walk into a house or walk onto a piece of land and have their favorite song playing and everything's pretty, and I understand that. But there's a whole slew of people out there, me included, that look at this as a huge opportunity, especially if it's priced right. "Oh, there's all this trash on the property and that's why it's so cheap. I'm going to buy it." Especially when there's a Mobile Home foundation on there. So now whoever had a mobile home there worked out sanitation, sewer, water, utilities and all of it.
So there's a situation, somebody, actually it was Dan, one of our members, Dan from the Pacific Northwest, who told a story about having dilapidated mobile homes on properties and getting the land sales part of the deal. It went into an auction, an unintended auction because everybody wanted it so bad.

Jill DeWitt:
People, they see that. It's funny, I drove by one the other day where a guy had clearly found an old Airstream kind of thing.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Stephen Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about your perfect land mailer planning for 2023.

Jill DeWitt:
For investors.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
Yep. So this is awesome. We're just wrapping up career path number five and I'll tell you right now, career path number six is not yet planned. And starting in 2023 there's some changes we are personally making, like career path on steroids will be coming. Maybe things that start with an M might be coming like mastermind stuff.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Oh sure.

Jill DeWitt:
Everybody under everybody understands and knows what that is, even though it's kind of part of career path. But they understand these mastermind groups and things. But just going into 2023, you really need to take a step back and think about a lot of things. About your acquisition criteria and how you're going to hit it based on your land mailer planning that you're going to do right now at the end of 2022.

Stephen Jack Butala:
We had a really successful career path this time. They've all been very good.

Jill DeWitt:
Obviously.

Stephen Jack Butala:
But they continue to get better with time because what people are asking of us from an instructional standpoint continues to grow and it continues to change based on the time. So I look very forward to 2023 and the content that we're going to produce and the events that we're going to host, kicking it up a few notches.

Jill DeWitt:
There we go.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWitt:
Kevin wrote, "hello. I have two trash on property related questions." This is cute. "One parcel I bought has some small trash and litter as the seller had not been there in three years. Do I sell it as is or should I hire someone to clean it up? I already got it cheaper due to the trash."

Stephen Jack Butala:
Good.

Jill DeWitt:
Two. "Another property I bought, there's an old vacant trailer house on the foundation that my broker missed when he walked it." I wonder how big the property is.

Stephen Jack Butala:
I wonder how good the broker is.

Jill DeWitt:
That too. "He's offered to cut the commission so the money's fine. However, am I free to throw it out or does it still belong to the previous owner?"

Stephen Jack Butala:
So this question was posted on Discord as it should be, and it was a very interesting and popular question to respond to. A lot of people in Land Academy had an opinion about it and they were all relatively the same, some with stories. I would argue, unless there's something toxic going on, this is all increasing the value of your property ironically. It's the ugly houses model. The vast majority of people want to walk into a house or walk onto a piece of land and have their favorite song playing and everything's pretty, and I understand that. But there's a whole slew of people out there, me included, that look at this as a huge opportunity, especially if it's priced right. "Oh, there's all this trash on the property and that's why it's so cheap. I'm going to buy it." Especially when there's a Mobile Home foundation on there. So now whoever had a mobile home there worked out sanitation, sewer, water, utilities and all of it.
So there's a situation, somebody, actually it was Dan, one of our members, Dan from the Pacific Northwest, who told a story about having dilapidated mobile homes on properties and getting the land sales part of the deal. It went into an auction, an unintended auction because everybody wanted it so bad.

Jill DeWitt:
People, they see that. It's funny, I drove by one the other day where a guy had clearly found an old Airstream kind of thing.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/05/perfect-land-mailer-planning-for-2023-investors-la-1908/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2WvtCmSV-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/81774b6d-ac6b-4c66-aaed-757fab1b06c9.mp3" length="14566100" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Embrace the Haight and Send More Mail (LA 1907)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Embrace the Haight and Send More Mail (LA 1907)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about embracing the hate and then sending out more mail.

Jill K DeWit:
This comes up because I think every, well, every day there's somebody getting a mailer. I'm sure of it. I'm sure in our community there's somebody getting their first mailer out, probably darn near every day or every week at least. And then these questions pop up and I think now there's a lot, there's enough of juice in our environments. We have the free environment in land investors. We have the closed environment for members in Discord where you can kind of see how people handle it and work through some stuff. But it's still worth mentioning and bringing up because it is part of this process. It is going to happen. And we'll talk more about it here on the show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a USPS mailing address, like 123 Main Street. So over time I developed a solution. Fast forward to today, it's called parcelfact.com. You type in the state, the county and the assessor's parcel number and up pulls a parcel with the basic stuff that you need to make a phase one due diligence decision about whether or not you want to buy the property. It's a pretty cool tool. It was again, something that Jill and I used for years and then ultimately cleaned it all up and made it available to the public.

Jill K DeWit:
I have to be honest and say too, I don't between, I can make a decision with a property. With parcelfact, looking at it on Google Earth to check slope and things like that. Which parcel fact will take me right to. And then the last thing I use is like Zillow or Realtor. Something to get a handle on days on market, numbers and what's for sale, what's been sold last six months, last 12 months, whatever that is. That's it. Those three. So I pay for parcelfact, but Google Earth Pro is free and Zillow's free. So I make decisions and that's on those properties 90% of the time with just that. Shannon wrote, "anyone sending holiday cards to sellers you've bought from this year? What'd you say in the card? I'm having a hard time coming up with the right words."
Well how sweet is that, Shannon? I actually haven't done that. Or I would even say maybe, I would take it a step further that. So if you're reaching out to sellers and sending holiday cards, I would be hoping they have more property to give me. That would be the reason I would be doing that. Now what I would be more likely to do is send thank you cards to people who have bought from me because those are my buyers and those are probably other investors and they might be looking for more property and I would love to keep them. I like to keep my name on the forefront on whatever I'm trying to say with them. What are your thoughts?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I completely agree. I think all that kind of stuff goes a really long way. I think you're going to be doing it by yourself, because not very many people do it anymore and I think it's a great idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, that's really good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday, she's going to talk about embracing the hate and then sending out more mail. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm going to cover this and then I'm going to have you ask me questions. So what am I talking about? We get our data, we get it in the mail. We have these real offers that go out to owners of property. They aren't expecting this, they weren't looking for this. They don't know it's coming. They didn't click on anything.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about embracing the hate and then sending out more mail.

Jill K DeWit:
This comes up because I think every, well, every day there's somebody getting a mailer. I'm sure of it. I'm sure in our community there's somebody getting their first mailer out, probably darn near every day or every week at least. And then these questions pop up and I think now there's a lot, there's enough of juice in our environments. We have the free environment in land investors. We have the closed environment for members in Discord where you can kind of see how people handle it and work through some stuff. But it's still worth mentioning and bringing up because it is part of this process. It is going to happen. And we'll talk more about it here on the show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a USPS mailing address, like 123 Main Street. So over time I developed a solution. Fast forward to today, it's called parcelfact.com. You type in the state, the county and the assessor's parcel number and up pulls a parcel with the basic stuff that you need to make a phase one due diligence decision about whether or not you want to buy the property. It's a pretty cool tool. It was again, something that Jill and I used for years and then ultimately cleaned it all up and made it available to the public.

Jill K DeWit:
I have to be honest and say too, I don't between, I can make a decision with a property. With parcelfact, looking at it on Google Earth to check slope and things like that. Which parcel fact will take me right to. And then the last thing I use is like Zillow or Realtor. Something to get a handle on days on market, numbers and what's for sale, what's been sold last six months, last 12 months, whatever that is. That's it. Those three. So I pay for parcelfact, but Google Earth Pro is free and Zillow's free. So I make decisions and that's on those properties 90% of the time with just that. Shannon wrote, "anyone sending holiday cards to sellers you've bought from this year? What'd you say in the card? I'm having a hard time coming up with the right words."
Well how sweet is that, Shannon? I actually haven't done that. Or I would even say maybe, I would take it a step further that. So if you're reaching out to sellers and sending holiday cards, I would be hoping they have more property to give me. That would be the reason I would be doing that. Now what I would be more likely to do is send thank you cards to people who have bought from me because those are my buyers and those are probably other investors and they might be looking for more property and I would love to keep them. I like to keep my name on the forefront on whatever I'm trying to say with them. What are your thoughts?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I completely agree. I think all that kind of stuff goes a really long way. I think you're going to be doing it by yourself, because not very many people do it anymore and I think it's a great idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, that's really good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday, she's going to talk about embracing the hate and then sending out more mail. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm going to cover this and then I'm going to have you ask me questions. So what am I talking about? We get our data, we get it in the mail. We have these real offers that go out to owners of property. They aren't expecting this, they weren't looking for this. They don't know it's coming. They didn't click on anything.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/02/jill-friday-embrace-the-haight-and-send-more-mail-la-1907/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ff8Ubu7if</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:02:39 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4f4cbfa7-d011-4d76-bedd-2575dc791dea.mp3" length="13550447" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Psychology behind a Real Estate Agent vs an Investor (LA 1906)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Psychology behind a Real Estate Agent vs an Investor (LA 1906)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the psychology behind being a real estate agent versus a land or real estate investor.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm a little nervous.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not a rant.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh good. Phew, good. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean the gist of it is this, I came up with this concept because if you go on YouTube and you type in something like how to be a real estate lawyer, or how much do your real estate agents make, and the number of people that have viewed it in the last week is in the millions in some cases, or tens of thousands and there's all different reasons for that. But if you go onto most YouTube places, even the really popular ones, about how to be a real estate investor, it's a lot fewer people. So there's some psychology behind this and I think I know why.

Jill K DeWit:
That explains our numbers behind our shows.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Jill and I get about six or seven views per episode.

Jill K DeWit:
We should title these. We should just copy and use the titles that work and then just do whatever show we want. This is the whole point. I'm going to read this because you're going to read the question. So first let's take a question post for one our members on the land investors online community. It's free and please do not forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before I read this, Jill and I have, every other Thursday she hosts Clubhouse Talk. It's a new app driven version of an old school talk show, radio show. And so people can call in or dial up and dial in and we move them up to our, she moves them up and they ask questions and we talk with them. And if we do everything right, it's to the benefit of everyone who's listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I actually, I really enjoy it. It's a chance for us not to be on in front of a camera. It's audio only. And we really can, because the audience is not that large, really, I think do some good to the people that are there. They want to be there and just be truthful. So Aaron has an opinion about-

Jill K DeWit:
Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Our last Clubhouse Talk and here it is.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
He says, I listened to the last Clubhouse and sorry if this comes off harsh, but whoever is thinking that turning land investing into private equity fund, you'll thank me one day, it's an awful idea. I've worked and consulted with various funds in my time from algorithmic stock and futures trading to hard money lending funds and Reg 506 B and C all day long. Why is this such a bad idea? Well, remember how Zillow came up with and tried to beat everyone at the real estate investing game? They too thought that they were smart. I love this though. They took the attitude that they could buy houses for higher prices than anyone else and since they had the best data in a handful of other profit centers, that it would all balance out in the end and they would own the real estate, all the real estate in America.
There's expletives in here that I can't say or read out loud. You too can follow their glorious crash and burn on the investing side of things. Go start a fund. Be pressured to do deals because people keep throwing cash at you and you have to show something in the next quarter other than all the cash that's sitting in your Wells Fargo bank money market account. So you buy a property for too much, but it's okay because you get a management fee. This is what I'm getting at.

Jill K DeWit:
I hear you. Keep going.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's fees, fees, fees, fees, fees. That's where you make money,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the psychology behind being a real estate agent versus a land or real estate investor.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm a little nervous.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not a rant.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh good. Phew, good. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean the gist of it is this, I came up with this concept because if you go on YouTube and you type in something like how to be a real estate lawyer, or how much do your real estate agents make, and the number of people that have viewed it in the last week is in the millions in some cases, or tens of thousands and there's all different reasons for that. But if you go onto most YouTube places, even the really popular ones, about how to be a real estate investor, it's a lot fewer people. So there's some psychology behind this and I think I know why.

Jill K DeWit:
That explains our numbers behind our shows.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Jill and I get about six or seven views per episode.

Jill K DeWit:
We should title these. We should just copy and use the titles that work and then just do whatever show we want. This is the whole point. I'm going to read this because you're going to read the question. So first let's take a question post for one our members on the land investors online community. It's free and please do not forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before I read this, Jill and I have, every other Thursday she hosts Clubhouse Talk. It's a new app driven version of an old school talk show, radio show. And so people can call in or dial up and dial in and we move them up to our, she moves them up and they ask questions and we talk with them. And if we do everything right, it's to the benefit of everyone who's listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I actually, I really enjoy it. It's a chance for us not to be on in front of a camera. It's audio only. And we really can, because the audience is not that large, really, I think do some good to the people that are there. They want to be there and just be truthful. So Aaron has an opinion about-

Jill K DeWit:
Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Our last Clubhouse Talk and here it is.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
He says, I listened to the last Clubhouse and sorry if this comes off harsh, but whoever is thinking that turning land investing into private equity fund, you'll thank me one day, it's an awful idea. I've worked and consulted with various funds in my time from algorithmic stock and futures trading to hard money lending funds and Reg 506 B and C all day long. Why is this such a bad idea? Well, remember how Zillow came up with and tried to beat everyone at the real estate investing game? They too thought that they were smart. I love this though. They took the attitude that they could buy houses for higher prices than anyone else and since they had the best data in a handful of other profit centers, that it would all balance out in the end and they would own the real estate, all the real estate in America.
There's expletives in here that I can't say or read out loud. You too can follow their glorious crash and burn on the investing side of things. Go start a fund. Be pressured to do deals because people keep throwing cash at you and you have to show something in the next quarter other than all the cash that's sitting in your Wells Fargo bank money market account. So you buy a property for too much, but it's okay because you get a management fee. This is what I'm getting at.

Jill K DeWit:
I hear you. Keep going.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's fees, fees, fees, fees, fees. That's where you make money,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/12/01/jack-thursday-psychology-behind-a-real-estate-agent-vs-an-investor-la-1906/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">GX9me31Oo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:06:01 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9ff4c378-b04f-4271-8266-711952f8ea6b.mp3" length="15904300" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Making Land Decisions Based on Data or Feelings (LA 1905)</title><itunes:title>Making Land Decisions Based on Data or Feelings (LA 1905)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill K DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about do you make land decisions based on data or based on feelings? I think that we're both going to be surprised at each other's answer.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to get their blind offer campaigns in the mail. So I took a look at how we were personally sending out mail with our key employees and ultimately made those exact same people available to Land Academy members to get their mail out. We call it now concierge data and concierge data plus. A year later, hundreds of members every single month are outsourcing their entire mail effort and mail process out with this product. It's been a huge success and Jill and I have really gotten a lot of positive feedback, it's helping people get mail out and it's working out well. Check out offers2owners.com. They'll hook you up.

Jill K DeWit:
MJ wrote, "Hi, Land Academy brain trust." That's cute. "Can I hear some opinion please? I'm second guessing my next mailer location selection strategy. Previously, I have chosen areas with strong active to sold ratios, but then found myself struggling with buyers, i.e. Too small of a buyer's pool. If I go to where there is lots of sold activity, the active to sold ratios tend to worsen and I run into saturated markets with tons of listings. How do you approach this balance? Is there a guiding philosophy in this dynamic market I should consider? Thanks."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a brilliant question. I know you're new MJ and you're going to do really well here. There's a balance and that's why very often people will say, "In the red, green, yellow tests, why do I have to apply what's red and what's green and what's yellow? Why doesn't it do it for me automatically?" To which I say, for example, a really positive days on market, which is a low, low days on market in one zip code might be just as good as a much different number of days on market that's low across the country.
So you have to take all these environments and look at them from an adjacent standpoint and choose the best ones. You're absolutely right in a market like this right now, days on market might be really, really low, but new list is sold, because inventory is accumulating, inventory levels are going up. They're not getting sold the way that they have in the past. That number might be different, but the basic concept here has never changed. Look at 4 or 5 or 8 or 10 or 12 as many zip codes, adjacent zip codes that you can and choose the best ones against each other and you will find the right place to send mail. Or in real life, what I do is just send it all.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a brilliant question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's really, really obvious sometimes with super new people who's going to do incredibly well really quickly, and that's a real good indication that you understand this and you're making it in your own really quickly.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you thinking it through. Some people just blindly... If you're not sure and you blindly follow our steps, you're going to be fine. That's good. But if you are thinking it through, still following our steps and then finding ways to make it better, that's the best.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well said. Today's topic, do you make land decisions based on data or feelings? This is the meat of the show. What do you do, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Data, you think I'm kidding?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I don't.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's so funny about this?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill K DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about do you make land decisions based on data or based on feelings? I think that we're both going to be surprised at each other's answer.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to get their blind offer campaigns in the mail. So I took a look at how we were personally sending out mail with our key employees and ultimately made those exact same people available to Land Academy members to get their mail out. We call it now concierge data and concierge data plus. A year later, hundreds of members every single month are outsourcing their entire mail effort and mail process out with this product. It's been a huge success and Jill and I have really gotten a lot of positive feedback, it's helping people get mail out and it's working out well. Check out offers2owners.com. They'll hook you up.

Jill K DeWit:
MJ wrote, "Hi, Land Academy brain trust." That's cute. "Can I hear some opinion please? I'm second guessing my next mailer location selection strategy. Previously, I have chosen areas with strong active to sold ratios, but then found myself struggling with buyers, i.e. Too small of a buyer's pool. If I go to where there is lots of sold activity, the active to sold ratios tend to worsen and I run into saturated markets with tons of listings. How do you approach this balance? Is there a guiding philosophy in this dynamic market I should consider? Thanks."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a brilliant question. I know you're new MJ and you're going to do really well here. There's a balance and that's why very often people will say, "In the red, green, yellow tests, why do I have to apply what's red and what's green and what's yellow? Why doesn't it do it for me automatically?" To which I say, for example, a really positive days on market, which is a low, low days on market in one zip code might be just as good as a much different number of days on market that's low across the country.
So you have to take all these environments and look at them from an adjacent standpoint and choose the best ones. You're absolutely right in a market like this right now, days on market might be really, really low, but new list is sold, because inventory is accumulating, inventory levels are going up. They're not getting sold the way that they have in the past. That number might be different, but the basic concept here has never changed. Look at 4 or 5 or 8 or 10 or 12 as many zip codes, adjacent zip codes that you can and choose the best ones against each other and you will find the right place to send mail. Or in real life, what I do is just send it all.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a brilliant question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's really, really obvious sometimes with super new people who's going to do incredibly well really quickly, and that's a real good indication that you understand this and you're making it in your own really quickly.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you thinking it through. Some people just blindly... If you're not sure and you blindly follow our steps, you're going to be fine. That's good. But if you are thinking it through, still following our steps and then finding ways to make it better, that's the best.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well said. Today's topic, do you make land decisions based on data or feelings? This is the meat of the show. What do you do, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Data, you think I'm kidding?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I don't.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's so funny about this?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/30/making-land-decisions-based-on-data-or-feelings-la-1905/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pI9gCushQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/72be408a-12e7-4e91-b170-8cc1aa61aecb.mp3" length="14071429" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How BlockChains will Change Real Estate Forever (LA 1904)</title><itunes:title>How BlockChains will Change Real Estate Forever (LA 1904)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are going to discuss how blockchain, or blockchains I guess, will change real estate forever. So like it or not, this is one of those technology things that I think is here to stay. Hasn't really even gotten started. I'm not sure who created the concept of blockchain, but I think it's absolutely brilliant. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Before we get into that, I'm hoping by now you know that Jill and I have created a very specific commercial printing company to help you get offers to owners out in the mail expediently and inexpensively. We did this several years ago for ourselves, and it was worked so well, we decided to share it with everybody. Fast forward to today, we do almost a million offers on behalf of members and non-members every single month. Oh, the name of the company is Offers, the number 2, owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron L. wrote, "The usual advice here is to mail every owner of the properties in a target zip code or county. After all, who knows why someone might want to or need to sell. I've acquired 48 properties in five different states since I joined Land Academy in 2021. Not hundreds or thousands like some of you. Working on that. I'm pretty sure I have never bought a property from someone that lives in the same county as the property."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a staggering statistic.

Jill K DeWit:
"Is this unusual? I also find that people that live in the same county call a lot more often and tend to be more angry than those that live far from their property."

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this question or comment. And it goes along the lines, right now Jill and I are in the middle of instructing a Career Path session. I think it's Career Path number five. We just got done talking about specialized mailers and when they're appropriate and when they're not. So yeah, he's absolutely right. The conventional wisdom is to mail everybody and see what comes back, but I've never really looked at adjacent property owners because every time we, in the Thursday calls are so often identifying or reviewing properties for people in our group where the adjacent owners are relatives or the same person. So I'm glad that you can quantify that, that that's your experience. That hasn't been mine, but I still find it fascinating. Don't you?

Jill K DeWit:
That's actually been more my experience like Aaron's here. I have more, like I haven't seen it in 20 years. That comes up a lot.

Steven Jack Butala:
But you think you can quantify where they live? If you can say, "80% of the property, I"-

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What I'm saying is how can you do it-

Jill K DeWit:
Think about where the notary has to go. So I know that too from what we're doing. Think about where the title company ... The title company's in the place of the, at least in the state usually, as the property, not the seller, or not you, the buyer. It's for the property. So when I think about that and I think about most of my sellers are not driving in. Some are.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean, I read this question and specialty mailer just pops up like a light bulb over my head. I would like to do a split test specialty mailer for one county and send it to non-residents and residents and see.

Jill K DeWit:
That'd be cool. See what traffic, how it comes back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. Great comment, Aaron. Thank you. Appreciate it. Today's topic, how blockchains will change real estate forever. This is why you're listening.
Geez. Unless you live under a rock as a professional person, you've heard the word blockchain,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are going to discuss how blockchain, or blockchains I guess, will change real estate forever. So like it or not, this is one of those technology things that I think is here to stay. Hasn't really even gotten started. I'm not sure who created the concept of blockchain, but I think it's absolutely brilliant. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Before we get into that, I'm hoping by now you know that Jill and I have created a very specific commercial printing company to help you get offers to owners out in the mail expediently and inexpensively. We did this several years ago for ourselves, and it was worked so well, we decided to share it with everybody. Fast forward to today, we do almost a million offers on behalf of members and non-members every single month. Oh, the name of the company is Offers, the number 2, owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron L. wrote, "The usual advice here is to mail every owner of the properties in a target zip code or county. After all, who knows why someone might want to or need to sell. I've acquired 48 properties in five different states since I joined Land Academy in 2021. Not hundreds or thousands like some of you. Working on that. I'm pretty sure I have never bought a property from someone that lives in the same county as the property."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a staggering statistic.

Jill K DeWit:
"Is this unusual? I also find that people that live in the same county call a lot more often and tend to be more angry than those that live far from their property."

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this question or comment. And it goes along the lines, right now Jill and I are in the middle of instructing a Career Path session. I think it's Career Path number five. We just got done talking about specialized mailers and when they're appropriate and when they're not. So yeah, he's absolutely right. The conventional wisdom is to mail everybody and see what comes back, but I've never really looked at adjacent property owners because every time we, in the Thursday calls are so often identifying or reviewing properties for people in our group where the adjacent owners are relatives or the same person. So I'm glad that you can quantify that, that that's your experience. That hasn't been mine, but I still find it fascinating. Don't you?

Jill K DeWit:
That's actually been more my experience like Aaron's here. I have more, like I haven't seen it in 20 years. That comes up a lot.

Steven Jack Butala:
But you think you can quantify where they live? If you can say, "80% of the property, I"-

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What I'm saying is how can you do it-

Jill K DeWit:
Think about where the notary has to go. So I know that too from what we're doing. Think about where the title company ... The title company's in the place of the, at least in the state usually, as the property, not the seller, or not you, the buyer. It's for the property. So when I think about that and I think about most of my sellers are not driving in. Some are.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean, I read this question and specialty mailer just pops up like a light bulb over my head. I would like to do a split test specialty mailer for one county and send it to non-residents and residents and see.

Jill K DeWit:
That'd be cool. See what traffic, how it comes back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. Great comment, Aaron. Thank you. Appreciate it. Today's topic, how blockchains will change real estate forever. This is why you're listening.
Geez. Unless you live under a rock as a professional person, you've heard the word blockchain,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/29/how-blockchains-will-change-real-estate-forever-la-1904/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UzdSQhoGv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cb4f584d-0f13-41b5-a89d-4c2d8243d3b3.mp3" length="15085753" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>There&amp;#8217;s Way More Investment Money Available than Good Deals (LA 1903)</title><itunes:title>There&amp;#8217;s Way More Investment Money Available than Good Deals (LA 1903)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how there's way more investment money available than good deals.Jill K DeWit:It's funny, at least in our world, and I don't know if it's us, if it's the people we hang out with, or what, because I'm hearing other people need to do these big funding money raises. Does this make sense?Steven Jack Butala:Keep going with this, because this is the root of... Just keep, I love where this thought train is going.Jill K DeWit:Okay. All I hear is people like, "What do you mean you have money? Everybody else is going to do these big corporate capital funding raise movements." And it's sparking all these new websites and new ways to do that and put accredited and non-accredited investors together to pool to get together a couple million dollars. We were on a call today. Well, we want to save it for the show? I'll just finish this little thing. We were on a call today with an attorney and he about fell apart when he said, "Well, do you guys have any trouble coming up with the money?" We're like, "Oh gosh no, the money's the easy part." And he looked at us kind of funny. So I'm like, "Is it really that hard?"Steven Jack Butala:Later in the week I'm going to talk about this in great detail on Jack Thursday, and what Jill's saying is correct. But just keep this in mind, and this is what we founded. I founded Land Academy and my whole entire land investing career was built on fee-less transactions. And I don't mean stock market fee-less where you save $0.13. I mean like, "Let's remove all the fees out of these deals." And when people raise capital, there's huge, huge profit to be made from just raising capital. It may never get placed and that's the issue.Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:Joseph asked... I saw this in Discord, this is cool. I have my first potential $1 million acquisition. I'm working on getting under contract. Up until now, I haven't needed a due diligence phase and wording to cover me on my acquisitions because I haven't been that big. That being said, does anyone have an all-encompassing purchase agreement/contract they would be willing to share that covers the due diligence phase, earnest money release statement, inspection periods, special situations, special stipulations, et cetera, et cetera? Or any direction on where to pay for one that someone has used personally is appreciated.Steven Jack Butala:So there's a bunch of things going on in this question. First of all, congratulations for buying for a million. I hope you're selling for three. That's amazing. Are there any standard templated agreements for this kind of thing? No. In fact, in commercial real estate, which is where I cut my teeth on a million years ago, there are no template agreements. What we did was when a buyer of commercial real estate or potential buyer wanted to buy something, we went back and looked at purchase agreements from deals that we've done in the past as a office. This was before computers. And we pull the paper out of the file and kind of...Jill K DeWit:Copy the wording?Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, borrow from it, and what's appropriate, what's not, and use it that way. That would be the best. You do the right thing by putting this in discord and I hope somebody pipes in and provides some type of agreement. Otherwise, I would really recommend you get a good, well recommended real estate lawyer to put together an agreement. There's no way that a title agent's going to do it. Even a real good commercial title, there's lots of commercial specific title agents out there, so they might have a real good solid recommendation for you on getting a lawyer....]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how there's way more investment money available than good deals.Jill K DeWit:It's funny, at least in our world, and I don't know if it's us, if it's the people we hang out with, or what, because I'm hearing other people need to do these big funding money raises. Does this make sense?Steven Jack Butala:Keep going with this, because this is the root of... Just keep, I love where this thought train is going.Jill K DeWit:Okay. All I hear is people like, "What do you mean you have money? Everybody else is going to do these big corporate capital funding raise movements." And it's sparking all these new websites and new ways to do that and put accredited and non-accredited investors together to pool to get together a couple million dollars. We were on a call today. Well, we want to save it for the show? I'll just finish this little thing. We were on a call today with an attorney and he about fell apart when he said, "Well, do you guys have any trouble coming up with the money?" We're like, "Oh gosh no, the money's the easy part." And he looked at us kind of funny. So I'm like, "Is it really that hard?"Steven Jack Butala:Later in the week I'm going to talk about this in great detail on Jack Thursday, and what Jill's saying is correct. But just keep this in mind, and this is what we founded. I founded Land Academy and my whole entire land investing career was built on fee-less transactions. And I don't mean stock market fee-less where you save $0.13. I mean like, "Let's remove all the fees out of these deals." And when people raise capital, there's huge, huge profit to be made from just raising capital. It may never get placed and that's the issue.Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:Joseph asked... I saw this in Discord, this is cool. I have my first potential $1 million acquisition. I'm working on getting under contract. Up until now, I haven't needed a due diligence phase and wording to cover me on my acquisitions because I haven't been that big. That being said, does anyone have an all-encompassing purchase agreement/contract they would be willing to share that covers the due diligence phase, earnest money release statement, inspection periods, special situations, special stipulations, et cetera, et cetera? Or any direction on where to pay for one that someone has used personally is appreciated.Steven Jack Butala:So there's a bunch of things going on in this question. First of all, congratulations for buying for a million. I hope you're selling for three. That's amazing. Are there any standard templated agreements for this kind of thing? No. In fact, in commercial real estate, which is where I cut my teeth on a million years ago, there are no template agreements. What we did was when a buyer of commercial real estate or potential buyer wanted to buy something, we went back and looked at purchase agreements from deals that we've done in the past as a office. This was before computers. And we pull the paper out of the file and kind of...Jill K DeWit:Copy the wording?Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, borrow from it, and what's appropriate, what's not, and use it that way. That would be the best. You do the right thing by putting this in discord and I hope somebody pipes in and provides some type of agreement. Otherwise, I would really recommend you get a good, well recommended real estate lawyer to put together an agreement. There's no way that a title agent's going to do it. Even a real good commercial title, there's lots of commercial specific title agents out there, so they might have a real good solid recommendation for you on getting a lawyer....]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/28/theres-way-more-investment-money-available-than-good-deals-la-1903/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d9aGjLCEZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e469255a-89ea-415e-9c14-0106f97ec5e4.mp3" length="11812700" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Land Mailer Panic (LA 1902)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Land Mailer Panic (LA 1902)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about land mailer panic.Jill K DeWit:I have a funny story I'm going to share.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community, it's free.Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this, we consolidated and manipulated 150 million-unit database and put it all in one place so all you need to do is type in the state, the county, and the assessor's parcel number, and get all the information or just about all the information you need to make a pretty well-educated decision about whether or not you want to buy a property. It's called parcelfact.com. Check it out. We use it every day. We use it on the Thursday call. It's how we actually make acquisition decisions every single day.Jill K DeWit:I love it. It's always running on my computer, open and in the background.So Kevin wrote, "Hello, everyone. I've been part of Land Academy..." Oh, you put this in here- on.Steven Jack Butala:Just to get it started off.Jill K DeWit:Oh, oh, I'm like, "This looks familiar." Okay, let me preface this. Let's just do the show. I'm going to... Because this question is why I'm doing this show today.Steven Jack Butala:So I think you should read the question and then just do the show.Jill K DeWit:All right, so here's the question that Kevin posted the other day:"Hi, everyone. So I've been part of Land Academy for four months now and I just sent out my 50,000th..." So 50,000 mailers went out. "I've gotten seven deals so far, working on a few more. I just sold one property and I have three listed. Anyway, at this point I'm trying to think about how to improve at picking counties and improve pricing. Where do I go from here? Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks."So let's go into the thing and then I'm going to talk about how this all played out.Steven Jack Butala:Today is Jill Friday, she's going to talk about land mailer panic. This is the meat of the show.Jill K DeWit:So I read this and I felt like Kevin was panicking a little bit about his mailer yield. And if you're in Land Academy, you saw the communication that Kevin and I had back and forth in Discord on this.So I wrote him back and I said, "Hey, Kevin." I said, "I'm really glad you're concerned about this and you're thinking about mailer yield." And I said, "I have to ask you though, are you really working these deals? You sent out 50,000 mailers and it's been in four months, which is great. There's still so much that's coming back at you."There's two points. I said, "Kevin, first of all, I still have people coming back to me from mailers that are over 10 years old. So in four months you don't really have a good handle on how effective these mailers are."And number two, my point is, are you really working these callers? Because you got to work them. If you just wait..." So I asked him, I said, "Is what you're counting yield, is it only the signed purchase agreement sent back?" Because there's so much juice and all these phone calls that if you don't answer the phone or have somebody answering the phone and working these sellers and getting a number out of them, you're leaving deals on the table.So Kevin wrote me back and it's like... Well it was very sweet. He's like, "Hi, Jill." It was really nice. He's like, "I'm happy to hear from you." He's like, well first of all, "I've actually got more deals now-"Steven Jack Butala:That's nine.Jill K DeWit:"... than since I posted that."And second of all, he said, "I do not talking on the phone. It's not my thing. I know that I'm not effectively working these calls that come back and getting num...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about land mailer panic.Jill K DeWit:I have a funny story I'm going to share.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community, it's free.Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this, we consolidated and manipulated 150 million-unit database and put it all in one place so all you need to do is type in the state, the county, and the assessor's parcel number, and get all the information or just about all the information you need to make a pretty well-educated decision about whether or not you want to buy a property. It's called parcelfact.com. Check it out. We use it every day. We use it on the Thursday call. It's how we actually make acquisition decisions every single day.Jill K DeWit:I love it. It's always running on my computer, open and in the background.So Kevin wrote, "Hello, everyone. I've been part of Land Academy..." Oh, you put this in here- on.Steven Jack Butala:Just to get it started off.Jill K DeWit:Oh, oh, I'm like, "This looks familiar." Okay, let me preface this. Let's just do the show. I'm going to... Because this question is why I'm doing this show today.Steven Jack Butala:So I think you should read the question and then just do the show.Jill K DeWit:All right, so here's the question that Kevin posted the other day:"Hi, everyone. So I've been part of Land Academy for four months now and I just sent out my 50,000th..." So 50,000 mailers went out. "I've gotten seven deals so far, working on a few more. I just sold one property and I have three listed. Anyway, at this point I'm trying to think about how to improve at picking counties and improve pricing. Where do I go from here? Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks."So let's go into the thing and then I'm going to talk about how this all played out.Steven Jack Butala:Today is Jill Friday, she's going to talk about land mailer panic. This is the meat of the show.Jill K DeWit:So I read this and I felt like Kevin was panicking a little bit about his mailer yield. And if you're in Land Academy, you saw the communication that Kevin and I had back and forth in Discord on this.So I wrote him back and I said, "Hey, Kevin." I said, "I'm really glad you're concerned about this and you're thinking about mailer yield." And I said, "I have to ask you though, are you really working these deals? You sent out 50,000 mailers and it's been in four months, which is great. There's still so much that's coming back at you."There's two points. I said, "Kevin, first of all, I still have people coming back to me from mailers that are over 10 years old. So in four months you don't really have a good handle on how effective these mailers are."And number two, my point is, are you really working these callers? Because you got to work them. If you just wait..." So I asked him, I said, "Is what you're counting yield, is it only the signed purchase agreement sent back?" Because there's so much juice and all these phone calls that if you don't answer the phone or have somebody answering the phone and working these sellers and getting a number out of them, you're leaving deals on the table.So Kevin wrote me back and it's like... Well it was very sweet. He's like, "Hi, Jill." It was really nice. He's like, "I'm happy to hear from you." He's like, well first of all, "I've actually got more deals now-"Steven Jack Butala:That's nine.Jill K DeWit:"... than since I posted that."And second of all, he said, "I do not talking on the phone. It's not my thing. I know that I'm not effectively working these calls that come back and getting num...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/25/jill-friday-land-mailer-panic-la-1902/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tCiucWx8P</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/982b7764-dc31-4035-99fb-e60e10f92565.mp3" length="10588218" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Trial Run Your Taxes Before December (LA 1901)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Trial Run Your Taxes Before December (LA 1901)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about trial running your taxes before December.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know how nice it is to have you?

Steven Jack Butala:
That's very nice to hear.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, especially when it comes to stuff like this. If you didn't get taxes, we would be in big trouble.

Steven Jack Butala:
Taxes are our most expensive cost is cost of goods sold, the price of the land. Our second is possibly...

Jill K DeWit:
Staff.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Labor or staff, but that's not because of our land businesses.

Jill K DeWit:
You expect that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's because of Land Academy.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our second largest income statement amount, dollar amount, in our land business is taxes, so it's got to be managed and manipulated. Manipulated meaning just reviewed and... Well, I mean manipulated, within the limits of the law and ethics.

Jill K DeWit:
Managed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Managed. The same way that you manage your acquisitions and how much they cost.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted up by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Joseph wrote, "I have a developer looking to sell a commercial parcel, 3.7 acres, that's anchored by a Super target, Petco and Wells Fargo. Anyone have any experience with this? With an anchor, does this heavily reduce its selling ability? It's been listed for two years, but with no price, so that makes it even harder to gauge a value."
What the heck?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, there's a few things.

Jill K DeWit:
So, we sent out an offer, so let me back up here. Let me see if I'm right here. It sounds like you sent out an offer. The guy says, "Yeah I want to sell it. Here it is. Do you want to buy it?"
So, that's the point where you have to say, do you want to buy it? And then the whole no price thing. I'm like, well you made an offer, so that's the price. It's either yes or it's no.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a few things going on here. This is Jill's nightmare deal. Jill would just say no. She would.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's been on the MLS or on lists, whatever.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is 180 degrees different on the other side of-

Jill K DeWit:
LoopNet.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of regular Land Academy deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Not doing it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I had to chuckle when I read this, we have to talk about it now and clear it all up. An anchor tenant, an anchor in a boat as it goes down in the water and it holds everything down, an anchor tenant quite opposite, in the opposite is the best thing that a landlord could ever have. And so you've got Sally's beauty box in a strip mall, Sally's beauty box and you've got maybe a little grocery store next to a Walmart and your Walmart's that anchor tenant. And everybody's going to that Walmart in and out all day passing the beauty box and passing all these little stores that might be, that's the greatest thing a landlord could ever ask for. That landlord will keep all those other retail spaces open because of the draw from that anchor tenant. So when someone says, I have an anchor tenant in this building or this facility.

Jill K DeWit:
It's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're banging their chest and they're clinking their glasses. I got an anchor tenant. So anchor tenants are great. What ends up happening is a lot of strip mall or regional malls or there's always left over land. That's what this deal is. And it's not that it's land that's unusable,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about trial running your taxes before December.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know how nice it is to have you?

Steven Jack Butala:
That's very nice to hear.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, especially when it comes to stuff like this. If you didn't get taxes, we would be in big trouble.

Steven Jack Butala:
Taxes are our most expensive cost is cost of goods sold, the price of the land. Our second is possibly...

Jill K DeWit:
Staff.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Labor or staff, but that's not because of our land businesses.

Jill K DeWit:
You expect that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's because of Land Academy.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our second largest income statement amount, dollar amount, in our land business is taxes, so it's got to be managed and manipulated. Manipulated meaning just reviewed and... Well, I mean manipulated, within the limits of the law and ethics.

Jill K DeWit:
Managed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Managed. The same way that you manage your acquisitions and how much they cost.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted up by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Joseph wrote, "I have a developer looking to sell a commercial parcel, 3.7 acres, that's anchored by a Super target, Petco and Wells Fargo. Anyone have any experience with this? With an anchor, does this heavily reduce its selling ability? It's been listed for two years, but with no price, so that makes it even harder to gauge a value."
What the heck?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, there's a few things.

Jill K DeWit:
So, we sent out an offer, so let me back up here. Let me see if I'm right here. It sounds like you sent out an offer. The guy says, "Yeah I want to sell it. Here it is. Do you want to buy it?"
So, that's the point where you have to say, do you want to buy it? And then the whole no price thing. I'm like, well you made an offer, so that's the price. It's either yes or it's no.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a few things going on here. This is Jill's nightmare deal. Jill would just say no. She would.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's been on the MLS or on lists, whatever.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is 180 degrees different on the other side of-

Jill K DeWit:
LoopNet.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of regular Land Academy deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Not doing it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I had to chuckle when I read this, we have to talk about it now and clear it all up. An anchor tenant, an anchor in a boat as it goes down in the water and it holds everything down, an anchor tenant quite opposite, in the opposite is the best thing that a landlord could ever have. And so you've got Sally's beauty box in a strip mall, Sally's beauty box and you've got maybe a little grocery store next to a Walmart and your Walmart's that anchor tenant. And everybody's going to that Walmart in and out all day passing the beauty box and passing all these little stores that might be, that's the greatest thing a landlord could ever ask for. That landlord will keep all those other retail spaces open because of the draw from that anchor tenant. So when someone says, I have an anchor tenant in this building or this facility.

Jill K DeWit:
It's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're banging their chest and they're clinking their glasses. I got an anchor tenant. So anchor tenants are great. What ends up happening is a lot of strip mall or regional malls or there's always left over land. That's what this deal is. And it's not that it's land that's unusable,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/24/jack-thursday-trial-run-your-taxes-before-december-la-1901/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">WCJzAueDe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/746d96d9-ce8c-43d0-9c61-ccc9de675fcf.mp3" length="15205757" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Title and Escrow Companies Actually Want Your Business Again (LA 1900)</title><itunes:title>Title and Escrow Companies Actually Want Your Business Again (LA 1900)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how title and escrow companies actually want your business again.Jill K DeWit:I think they've always wanted our business, but it sure felt like they didn't for a while when they were overwhelmed and maybe not as responsive as they could be, or certainly not as fast as they could be. So things are changing and I'm going to share a lot about that today.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:By the way, did you know we have a lot of people needing help getting their blind offer campaigns into the mail? Some, it's just a simple mail merge. Some, it's downloading, scrubbing, and pulling comps to accurately price those offers and get them in the mail. So we created a company, I didn't realize this was in here, so I'm just kind of ad libbing it myself. We created our own company and it's Concierge Data. You want to talk a little bit more about that?Steven Jack Butala:Concierge Data serves as your outsource to getting offer campaigns in the mail.Jill K DeWit:Right.Steven Jack Butala:Whether you've done hundreds and hundreds of mailers and you're just tired of it and need to outsource it or you're brand new, it's the same exact people. And it's our people that have been doing our mailers, Jill and I, for years. We're just making them available to you.Jill K DeWit:Exactly.Steven Jack Butala:It's an extension of offers to owners, so check it out. Support at offers, the number two, owners.com.Jill K DeWit:Eric wrote, "My first mailer finally hit today. Woo hoo. Four responses. Okay, three were very angry curse outs from property owners who felt like I personally tried to offend them, demanded to be taken off my list while refusing to give me any more details about their name or addresses, making removing them really from my list kind of difficult, LOL." I get that. "And in a direct contrast, one very nice older gentleman who bought his property in 1979 and has done nothing with it since happy to sell it to me at the price I offered. What a wild day."Steven Jack Butala:This is exactly what happens in real life.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:Exactly. So if this is something that appeals to you, then Land Academy is for you. Four people respond, three people are livid, one person wants to sell. Now I'm making 30, $40,000 and the person that I'm actually buying the property from is happy.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:You're solving a problem and you are happy and the person that you sell it to is happy.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:There are a shocking number of people that aren't prepared for this, and that for some reason don't understand that. And honestly, geez, how many phone calls have we received? Millions of letters sent out. It's still shocking to me and a lot of people probably, I don't know, maybe you too, how mad people get about and really upset about sending offers to, "I'd like to buy your property and this is what I think it's worth."Jill K DeWit:Right. It is kind of comical. I wonder if they do this with everything else because think about the real estate agents that troll for listings and they put things even on your door. Do they chase them to the curb? Think I'm kidding?Steven Jack Butala:I mean, I appreciate this direct approach. "I'd like to buy your property and I'd like to pay you $32,000 for it."Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:My response would be, "No thanks."Jill K DeWit:Remember pre-COVID?Steven Jack Butala:I wish you the best.Jill K DeWit:Pre-COVID Driving For Dollars for a lot of people meant knocking on doors. No, I'm not kidding.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how title and escrow companies actually want your business again.Jill K DeWit:I think they've always wanted our business, but it sure felt like they didn't for a while when they were overwhelmed and maybe not as responsive as they could be, or certainly not as fast as they could be. So things are changing and I'm going to share a lot about that today.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:By the way, did you know we have a lot of people needing help getting their blind offer campaigns into the mail? Some, it's just a simple mail merge. Some, it's downloading, scrubbing, and pulling comps to accurately price those offers and get them in the mail. So we created a company, I didn't realize this was in here, so I'm just kind of ad libbing it myself. We created our own company and it's Concierge Data. You want to talk a little bit more about that?Steven Jack Butala:Concierge Data serves as your outsource to getting offer campaigns in the mail.Jill K DeWit:Right.Steven Jack Butala:Whether you've done hundreds and hundreds of mailers and you're just tired of it and need to outsource it or you're brand new, it's the same exact people. And it's our people that have been doing our mailers, Jill and I, for years. We're just making them available to you.Jill K DeWit:Exactly.Steven Jack Butala:It's an extension of offers to owners, so check it out. Support at offers, the number two, owners.com.Jill K DeWit:Eric wrote, "My first mailer finally hit today. Woo hoo. Four responses. Okay, three were very angry curse outs from property owners who felt like I personally tried to offend them, demanded to be taken off my list while refusing to give me any more details about their name or addresses, making removing them really from my list kind of difficult, LOL." I get that. "And in a direct contrast, one very nice older gentleman who bought his property in 1979 and has done nothing with it since happy to sell it to me at the price I offered. What a wild day."Steven Jack Butala:This is exactly what happens in real life.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:Exactly. So if this is something that appeals to you, then Land Academy is for you. Four people respond, three people are livid, one person wants to sell. Now I'm making 30, $40,000 and the person that I'm actually buying the property from is happy.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:You're solving a problem and you are happy and the person that you sell it to is happy.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:There are a shocking number of people that aren't prepared for this, and that for some reason don't understand that. And honestly, geez, how many phone calls have we received? Millions of letters sent out. It's still shocking to me and a lot of people probably, I don't know, maybe you too, how mad people get about and really upset about sending offers to, "I'd like to buy your property and this is what I think it's worth."Jill K DeWit:Right. It is kind of comical. I wonder if they do this with everything else because think about the real estate agents that troll for listings and they put things even on your door. Do they chase them to the curb? Think I'm kidding?Steven Jack Butala:I mean, I appreciate this direct approach. "I'd like to buy your property and I'd like to pay you $32,000 for it."Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:My response would be, "No thanks."Jill K DeWit:Remember pre-COVID?Steven Jack Butala:I wish you the best.Jill K DeWit:Pre-COVID Driving For Dollars for a lot of people meant knocking on doors. No, I'm not kidding.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/23/title-and-escrow-companies-actually-want-your-business-again-la-1900/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-mWukHJBX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fbaa7a99-9fb7-4310-bb6c-cc8e23ab378a.mp3" length="11195180" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Comparing the Private Equity Business Model to the Land Academy Model (LA 1899)</title><itunes:title>Comparing the Private Equity Business Model to the Land Academy Model (LA 1899)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about, well, I'm going to compare the private equity business model to the Land Academy business model. And as I said yesterday, I didn't realize it, but I really kind of modeled Land Academy back in the day, back in mid fifteens off of that classic private equity model. And I'll get into it in detail here in a minute.Jill K DeWit:And I'm going to listen intently, while you compare.Steven Jack Butala:Before each one of these episodes, Jill and I discussed just very briefly who's going to do what and she's like, I'm doing nothing.Jill K DeWit:Well, let me back up. We sit down and come up with titles and then by the time that we brainstorm all the titles, some of mine make the cut and some of mine don't make the cut.Steven Jack Butala:They get filtered differently.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. This one came up with a different title. And you know what? That's okay because this is his show. I'm just a guest.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question.Jill K DeWit:I'm an eight year guest.Steven Jack Butala:That's pretty accurate.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:I'm going to take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. But before we do that, I hope by now Jill and I have a full blown commercial printing company to manage from start to finish. Getting your offers in the mail. Whether you're a member or not, it's called offers2owners.com. The number two. Offers, the number two, owners.com. We set this company up several years ago, quite honestly, out of frustration because we couldn't get our mailers in the mail effectively and without errors. So we just decided we would do it ourselves. Fast forward to today, we do probably 800,000 or 900,000 offers every single month. Check out support at offers, the number two, owners.com and they'll get you all hooked up. Tons and tons and tons of members and non-members do it every month.Jill K DeWit:Jack H. wrote, "I'm just getting started and I think I'm going to have a lot of newbie questions. Hopefully we'll have my first mailer sent out in the next month. So right now I'm trolling for markets. The biggest issue I'm having is zip codes I'm looking at don't show up in the Redfin data and when I input them it just comes up no matches, but others come up fine. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Thanks."Steven Jack Butala:So this is a real smart, it's a very, very good question and it tells me that you're following the program and you're going through the steps and you do have some questions along the way that's perfectly honest and you're asking them in Discord. Excellent, excellent, excellent.Jill K DeWit:Check, check, check. You get a gold star Jack H.Steven Jack Butala:Redfin's business model. Redfin has an amazing data center and they don't charge anything for it. It's truly amazing. Their business model involves getting listings and then attempting to through providing all this data and getting listings through their real estate agents, selling real estate through a traditional model, brokers and agents and the whole thing. And that really works in really urban areas. And so they have contracts with a number of the MLSs out there. I think there's 1,300 MLSs or some number like that. Maybe it's even more. There's not just one big multiple listing service. There's a lot of different tiny little regional ones. Turns out they don't care too much about the rural ones because they don't want listings there and it's just not a profit center for them. Well we do. We care about rural markets because we buy and sell more land.Jill K DeWit:That's who we are.Steven Jack Butala:So a lot of the markets that are covered, not all of them.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about, well, I'm going to compare the private equity business model to the Land Academy business model. And as I said yesterday, I didn't realize it, but I really kind of modeled Land Academy back in the day, back in mid fifteens off of that classic private equity model. And I'll get into it in detail here in a minute.Jill K DeWit:And I'm going to listen intently, while you compare.Steven Jack Butala:Before each one of these episodes, Jill and I discussed just very briefly who's going to do what and she's like, I'm doing nothing.Jill K DeWit:Well, let me back up. We sit down and come up with titles and then by the time that we brainstorm all the titles, some of mine make the cut and some of mine don't make the cut.Steven Jack Butala:They get filtered differently.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. This one came up with a different title. And you know what? That's okay because this is his show. I'm just a guest.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question.Jill K DeWit:I'm an eight year guest.Steven Jack Butala:That's pretty accurate.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:I'm going to take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. But before we do that, I hope by now Jill and I have a full blown commercial printing company to manage from start to finish. Getting your offers in the mail. Whether you're a member or not, it's called offers2owners.com. The number two. Offers, the number two, owners.com. We set this company up several years ago, quite honestly, out of frustration because we couldn't get our mailers in the mail effectively and without errors. So we just decided we would do it ourselves. Fast forward to today, we do probably 800,000 or 900,000 offers every single month. Check out support at offers, the number two, owners.com and they'll get you all hooked up. Tons and tons and tons of members and non-members do it every month.Jill K DeWit:Jack H. wrote, "I'm just getting started and I think I'm going to have a lot of newbie questions. Hopefully we'll have my first mailer sent out in the next month. So right now I'm trolling for markets. The biggest issue I'm having is zip codes I'm looking at don't show up in the Redfin data and when I input them it just comes up no matches, but others come up fine. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Thanks."Steven Jack Butala:So this is a real smart, it's a very, very good question and it tells me that you're following the program and you're going through the steps and you do have some questions along the way that's perfectly honest and you're asking them in Discord. Excellent, excellent, excellent.Jill K DeWit:Check, check, check. You get a gold star Jack H.Steven Jack Butala:Redfin's business model. Redfin has an amazing data center and they don't charge anything for it. It's truly amazing. Their business model involves getting listings and then attempting to through providing all this data and getting listings through their real estate agents, selling real estate through a traditional model, brokers and agents and the whole thing. And that really works in really urban areas. And so they have contracts with a number of the MLSs out there. I think there's 1,300 MLSs or some number like that. Maybe it's even more. There's not just one big multiple listing service. There's a lot of different tiny little regional ones. Turns out they don't care too much about the rural ones because they don't want listings there and it's just not a profit center for them. Well we do. We care about rural markets because we buy and sell more land.Jill K DeWit:That's who we are.Steven Jack Butala:So a lot of the markets that are covered, not all of them.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/22/comparing-the-private-equity-business-model-to-the-land-academy-model-la-1899/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ZD9BNEX6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/02652d98-c89b-4f30-a3d2-6dc5a1b25154.mp3" length="13110871" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hiring Your First Land Business Employee (LA 1898)</title><itunes:title>Hiring Your First Land Business Employee (LA 1898)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I are talking about hiring your first land business employee.Jill K DeWit:I'm excited about this topic. We went into great detail on this the other day in Career Path as we brought ahead some of our staff to help these professional investors. It was really interesting the way the conversation went and what people need help with, and even just wrapping your head around this whole thing. So, we're going to talk about that today.Steven Jack Butala:People in career path thought we had a real positive response. Everybody had thought it was really useful. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:Oh, I thought you were going to say something else. You're going a little ahead. No, that's it? Oh, I'm making notes about the show. So Dan wrote, "I was walking some properties a few counties over yesterday, and I went to visit a property that I have had listed with a broker for five months. I was going to take some better photos than she had, preparing just to sell it myself. There was not even a sign on the property. I couldn't believe it. How motivated is she to sell my property? Not motivated enough to even put a sign up? I'm asking to terminate the listing agreement early. Seriously, it's nicer than a lot of the surrounding properties and it has a nice shed and a well. No wonder there's no interest. So the broker got right back to me like immediately. She said the sign keeps getting stolen and they cost a hundred dollars each to put out, so they stopped placing them in that area about a year ago."Steven Jack Butala:That's a good firewood.Jill K DeWit:That's hilarious. "She said, no problem on her end terminating the listing agreement, that she'll send over the form ASAP. Made it sound like she doesn't like that area very much. Why wouldn't she just say that initially? But whatever. A few months ago, other brokers and she herself claimed she was the expert in this area. So this confirms it. I am actually the expert in this area. I have sold five 40-acre parcels in this little area in the past year, which is more than any of the local people. I was just trying to save myself some time and energy, but in this case, there's nobody local to help. I'll just keep on doing it my way."Steven Jack Butala:There's a real clear message in this. This is very hard for new people to understand. People like Dan, who's a very successful member and a Land Academy alumni, I mean Career Path alumni have understood this. Dan specifically has understood this since the beginning. You are the expert. These are rural markets.Jill K DeWit:That's true.Steven Jack Butala:The people that live there, they're not experts about their real estate. They're experts about the job they have. Maybe they're expert farmers, but they're not experts about land in the area. Just like if you live in an urban area like we do, if you ask your neighbors what their house is worth, they're probably not going to know. But we do.Jill K DeWit:That's very true.Steven Jack Butala:Week by week we know what the value of our stuff is. So, you're the expert.Jill K DeWit:It's very, very true. This is a tough one. I've been in this situation and I get it. Sometimes it's hard to find the right people. And you're right, I would've done the same thing. That when you say, "Let's end the agreement," they go, "Sure, fine." They don't care. That tells you they don't care. It's sad. The good news is, here's what I think's happening too right now, and I don't know when this was written, but-Steven Jack Butala:Really recently,Jill K DeWit:The good agents are going to rise at the top and they're going to be left,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I are talking about hiring your first land business employee.Jill K DeWit:I'm excited about this topic. We went into great detail on this the other day in Career Path as we brought ahead some of our staff to help these professional investors. It was really interesting the way the conversation went and what people need help with, and even just wrapping your head around this whole thing. So, we're going to talk about that today.Steven Jack Butala:People in career path thought we had a real positive response. Everybody had thought it was really useful. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:Oh, I thought you were going to say something else. You're going a little ahead. No, that's it? Oh, I'm making notes about the show. So Dan wrote, "I was walking some properties a few counties over yesterday, and I went to visit a property that I have had listed with a broker for five months. I was going to take some better photos than she had, preparing just to sell it myself. There was not even a sign on the property. I couldn't believe it. How motivated is she to sell my property? Not motivated enough to even put a sign up? I'm asking to terminate the listing agreement early. Seriously, it's nicer than a lot of the surrounding properties and it has a nice shed and a well. No wonder there's no interest. So the broker got right back to me like immediately. She said the sign keeps getting stolen and they cost a hundred dollars each to put out, so they stopped placing them in that area about a year ago."Steven Jack Butala:That's a good firewood.Jill K DeWit:That's hilarious. "She said, no problem on her end terminating the listing agreement, that she'll send over the form ASAP. Made it sound like she doesn't like that area very much. Why wouldn't she just say that initially? But whatever. A few months ago, other brokers and she herself claimed she was the expert in this area. So this confirms it. I am actually the expert in this area. I have sold five 40-acre parcels in this little area in the past year, which is more than any of the local people. I was just trying to save myself some time and energy, but in this case, there's nobody local to help. I'll just keep on doing it my way."Steven Jack Butala:There's a real clear message in this. This is very hard for new people to understand. People like Dan, who's a very successful member and a Land Academy alumni, I mean Career Path alumni have understood this. Dan specifically has understood this since the beginning. You are the expert. These are rural markets.Jill K DeWit:That's true.Steven Jack Butala:The people that live there, they're not experts about their real estate. They're experts about the job they have. Maybe they're expert farmers, but they're not experts about land in the area. Just like if you live in an urban area like we do, if you ask your neighbors what their house is worth, they're probably not going to know. But we do.Jill K DeWit:That's very true.Steven Jack Butala:Week by week we know what the value of our stuff is. So, you're the expert.Jill K DeWit:It's very, very true. This is a tough one. I've been in this situation and I get it. Sometimes it's hard to find the right people. And you're right, I would've done the same thing. That when you say, "Let's end the agreement," they go, "Sure, fine." They don't care. That tells you they don't care. It's sad. The good news is, here's what I think's happening too right now, and I don't know when this was written, but-Steven Jack Butala:Really recently,Jill K DeWit:The good agents are going to rise at the top and they're going to be left,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/21/hiring-your-first-land-business-employee-la-1898/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">12bUns4Se</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:08:16 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/65b5be94-d11b-43e8-9376-f3ff0d841281.mp3" length="13950519" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Why Non-Techies Make Great Land Investors (LA 1897)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Why Non-Techies Make Great Land Investors (LA 1897)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Well, it's still Friday, and she's going to talk about why non-techies make great land investors.Jill K DeWit:Thank you. As I alluded to yesterday, because of the nature of the business that you developed years and years and years ago, the whole underlying theme of using data and mail and all kinds of technical things, we naturally track really smart, brainy PhD engineering types of people. But there's a subset within Land Academy. I like to think that I'm partially responsible for, of those of us who don't necessarily think that way and we smash it. And I want to talk about that today.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was almost impossible to find a piece of land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. Why? Because the post office didn't assign, and has still hasn't assigned, the vast majority of pieces of real estate in this country. They don't need to. Nobody gets mail there. So instead, we decided to make this database of 150 million properties or so in the country, finite instead of infinite. And we put together a website called neighborscoop.com. So all you need is the state, the county, and the assessor's parcel number to find just about any property in the entire country. And we've added a bunch of things to it to make it make a lot of sense for Land Academy type people as far as analyzing property to see if you want to buy it really quickly.Jill K DeWit:All right, back to our question, Corey wrote, "As a newbie, one topic that I'd like to see covered is what phase two due diligence looks like." We're going to do that next week in career path. "The weekly member calls are amazing for what? For seeing what phase one due diligence is all about. But I've not come across anything that breaks down some of the things we should be looking for in phase two. I believe I have a pretty good idea, but I'd love to have a podcast to reference." It's funny, I did a deep dive on this on a Facebook live event. I've done phase one and phase two due diligence thing. So if you dig in our community, you'll find it. Okay, so let me back up. What's phase one due diligence? That's the thing that you spend five to 15 minutes on. Five, if you're me, 15 minutes if you're new, checking a property when it comes in to see if you want to buy it and see if it passes your test to move it forward in the process as an acquisition. That's where you cover all the six A's. And like I said, if it passes those, now you push it forward. What are the six A's? You want me to go into that much detail here?Steven Jack Butala:Sure. The six A's are really simple. It's access. Affordability, is it cheap enough to buy? Attributes, is it cool? Other fun stuff around it, like Las Vegas, or is it in the middle of a subdivision, which is cool, too? Or is it in the middle of nowhere? Not so cool.Jill K DeWit:Acreage.Steven Jack Butala:Acreage, bigger's better, almost always.Jill K DeWit:Alive.Steven Jack Butala:Alive, is the person that owns the property alive or do you have to undo a bunch of legal stuff?Jill K DeWit:And adjacent.Steven Jack Butala:And adjacent, what is immediately next to the property? Which leads you to phase two, due diligence.Jill K DeWit:So if it passes all that stuff, now you're going to move it forward to phase two. So this could be a whole different podcast. So I'll touch on it lightly and maybe let's make it a whole different podcast next week.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:And we can deep dive a little bit more. Phase two is, it passes all those things, but I'm not quite sure if the person...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Well, it's still Friday, and she's going to talk about why non-techies make great land investors.Jill K DeWit:Thank you. As I alluded to yesterday, because of the nature of the business that you developed years and years and years ago, the whole underlying theme of using data and mail and all kinds of technical things, we naturally track really smart, brainy PhD engineering types of people. But there's a subset within Land Academy. I like to think that I'm partially responsible for, of those of us who don't necessarily think that way and we smash it. And I want to talk about that today.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was almost impossible to find a piece of land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. Why? Because the post office didn't assign, and has still hasn't assigned, the vast majority of pieces of real estate in this country. They don't need to. Nobody gets mail there. So instead, we decided to make this database of 150 million properties or so in the country, finite instead of infinite. And we put together a website called neighborscoop.com. So all you need is the state, the county, and the assessor's parcel number to find just about any property in the entire country. And we've added a bunch of things to it to make it make a lot of sense for Land Academy type people as far as analyzing property to see if you want to buy it really quickly.Jill K DeWit:All right, back to our question, Corey wrote, "As a newbie, one topic that I'd like to see covered is what phase two due diligence looks like." We're going to do that next week in career path. "The weekly member calls are amazing for what? For seeing what phase one due diligence is all about. But I've not come across anything that breaks down some of the things we should be looking for in phase two. I believe I have a pretty good idea, but I'd love to have a podcast to reference." It's funny, I did a deep dive on this on a Facebook live event. I've done phase one and phase two due diligence thing. So if you dig in our community, you'll find it. Okay, so let me back up. What's phase one due diligence? That's the thing that you spend five to 15 minutes on. Five, if you're me, 15 minutes if you're new, checking a property when it comes in to see if you want to buy it and see if it passes your test to move it forward in the process as an acquisition. That's where you cover all the six A's. And like I said, if it passes those, now you push it forward. What are the six A's? You want me to go into that much detail here?Steven Jack Butala:Sure. The six A's are really simple. It's access. Affordability, is it cheap enough to buy? Attributes, is it cool? Other fun stuff around it, like Las Vegas, or is it in the middle of a subdivision, which is cool, too? Or is it in the middle of nowhere? Not so cool.Jill K DeWit:Acreage.Steven Jack Butala:Acreage, bigger's better, almost always.Jill K DeWit:Alive.Steven Jack Butala:Alive, is the person that owns the property alive or do you have to undo a bunch of legal stuff?Jill K DeWit:And adjacent.Steven Jack Butala:And adjacent, what is immediately next to the property? Which leads you to phase two, due diligence.Jill K DeWit:So if it passes all that stuff, now you're going to move it forward to phase two. So this could be a whole different podcast. So I'll touch on it lightly and maybe let's make it a whole different podcast next week.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:And we can deep dive a little bit more. Phase two is, it passes all those things, but I'm not quite sure if the person...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/18/jill-friday-why-non-techies-make-great-land-investors-la-1897/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yNRLNWk19</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2a3e61ec-6982-4741-af1a-3a013c00d3a8.mp3" length="14344656" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy and the Laws of Abundance (LA 1896)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy and the Laws of Abundance (LA 1896)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Video three, two. Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about the laws of abundance. It's something that comes up in Discord among our Land Academy group all the time, in one way or the other. And it comes up like this. Someone will ask a question or say something, and the response will be, "Oh, that's the laws of abundance. You have to have that to understand this." And the person who asks the question will respond, "What's the laws of abundance? That's why we're here. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com. Online community is free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.Jill K DeWit:Dan wrote, "Speaking of seller financing, I am closing on an interesting deal on the sell side next week. The buyer wanted to finance the deal, but I won't do seller finance. They find someone else who will finance. My broker wrote it up as if I'm the one doing the seller financing, but with a contingency that the third guy will purchase a contract from me at closing. It will all happen through the single escrow transaction. I like this. The buyer pays the down payment, gets set up with the monthly payments in escrow with the title company. I get cash at the end, just like I want. The guy purchasing the contract has the terms already laid out, pays remain or do to me minus the buyer's down payment. And then he collects the monthly payments through escrow from the title company. I thought it was brilliant. Maybe others have seen this type of arrangement more, but I have not. I haven't seen this one.Steven Jack Butala:So what's wrong with this?Jill K DeWit:Nothing.Steven Jack Butala:Nothing.Jill K DeWit:I think it's great.Steven Jack Butala:Nothing is wrong with this. In fact... And this is Dan, Career Path, former Career Path alumni, Dan. So then the string goes on. This blew up in Discord, Land Academy Discord, that a lot of people are already doing this, and that what Dan's going to do now is align himself with the person who buys these notes. Immediately buys these notes and start selling on terms. What it morphed into, which is really important... So if you halfway listen to the show, this now's the time to just whole listen to it. And then you can get back to the halfway listening when I start talking about my stuff.One of the things that's really changing and going to change and always changes during a downturn is creative financing. In fact, that's what caused in part, in whole part, the former downturn with creative mortgages for single family residences. So we have complete control when we buy or own a piece of land, how we're going to sell it. Sell it on terms, we can sell it for cash. And now, this is just one more way of really getting cashed out. The person is essentially buying the piece of property from you on a credit card. And the credit card... The person who's providing the credit is just another person, instead of American Express. So I love this, and I think it's going to become a thing. In fact, when we're done here, Jill and I are going to talk about doing it.Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about land, the Land Academy, and how it applies to the laws of abundance. This is why you're listening.Jill K DeWit:I think the biggest thing here with the laws of abundance and Land Academy is we wouldn't be here if we didn't feel this way. That's what Land Academy is, by the way.Steven Jack Butala:It is, and I had no idea what this was. This is one of those things where somebody walked up to me in our first live event many years ago, seven years ago, and said, "For anyone to succeed at this,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Video three, two. Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about the laws of abundance. It's something that comes up in Discord among our Land Academy group all the time, in one way or the other. And it comes up like this. Someone will ask a question or say something, and the response will be, "Oh, that's the laws of abundance. You have to have that to understand this." And the person who asks the question will respond, "What's the laws of abundance? That's why we're here. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com. Online community is free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.Jill K DeWit:Dan wrote, "Speaking of seller financing, I am closing on an interesting deal on the sell side next week. The buyer wanted to finance the deal, but I won't do seller finance. They find someone else who will finance. My broker wrote it up as if I'm the one doing the seller financing, but with a contingency that the third guy will purchase a contract from me at closing. It will all happen through the single escrow transaction. I like this. The buyer pays the down payment, gets set up with the monthly payments in escrow with the title company. I get cash at the end, just like I want. The guy purchasing the contract has the terms already laid out, pays remain or do to me minus the buyer's down payment. And then he collects the monthly payments through escrow from the title company. I thought it was brilliant. Maybe others have seen this type of arrangement more, but I have not. I haven't seen this one.Steven Jack Butala:So what's wrong with this?Jill K DeWit:Nothing.Steven Jack Butala:Nothing.Jill K DeWit:I think it's great.Steven Jack Butala:Nothing is wrong with this. In fact... And this is Dan, Career Path, former Career Path alumni, Dan. So then the string goes on. This blew up in Discord, Land Academy Discord, that a lot of people are already doing this, and that what Dan's going to do now is align himself with the person who buys these notes. Immediately buys these notes and start selling on terms. What it morphed into, which is really important... So if you halfway listen to the show, this now's the time to just whole listen to it. And then you can get back to the halfway listening when I start talking about my stuff.One of the things that's really changing and going to change and always changes during a downturn is creative financing. In fact, that's what caused in part, in whole part, the former downturn with creative mortgages for single family residences. So we have complete control when we buy or own a piece of land, how we're going to sell it. Sell it on terms, we can sell it for cash. And now, this is just one more way of really getting cashed out. The person is essentially buying the piece of property from you on a credit card. And the credit card... The person who's providing the credit is just another person, instead of American Express. So I love this, and I think it's going to become a thing. In fact, when we're done here, Jill and I are going to talk about doing it.Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about land, the Land Academy, and how it applies to the laws of abundance. This is why you're listening.Jill K DeWit:I think the biggest thing here with the laws of abundance and Land Academy is we wouldn't be here if we didn't feel this way. That's what Land Academy is, by the way.Steven Jack Butala:It is, and I had no idea what this was. This is one of those things where somebody walked up to me in our first live event many years ago, seven years ago, and said, "For anyone to succeed at this,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/17/jack-thursday-land-academy-and-the-laws-of-abundance-la-1896/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RWKj1opsK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/79b91264-cc52-4f1c-9372-01f4da4047a8.mp3" length="12353512" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Power of Skip Tracing Neighbors of Land you Own (LA 1895)</title><itunes:title>Power of Skip Tracing Neighbors of Land you Own (LA 1895)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Rolling video. Three, two. Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I are going to talk about the power of skip tracing neighbors around land that you own. Yesterday I talked a little bit about or I had a prelude to this episode about why some young people, and rightfully so, I think this isn't like some type of archaic approach to buying real estate by sending actual paper in the mail. In a lot of ways they're not wrong, but it's still the most effective way that I know to contact sellers.Jill K DeWit:And legal way.Steven Jack Butala:Legally blindly contact sellers and see if they want to sell their property. And incredibly effective.Jill K DeWit:And respectful too.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:I don't want people calling me. Come on now.Steven Jack Butala:Right.Jill K DeWit:We just got through election time. How many phone calls did you hit ignore on?Steven Jack Butala:I mean, 98% of the... Probably if you're like on me, vast majority of stuff that crosses your path from an advertising standpoint or content standpoint on your phone, television, or whatever you choose to let in from a content standpoint is still unwanted.Jill K DeWit:Right.Steven Jack Butala:But if you get a text from somebody that says, "Hey, you know that property that you have down in XYZ County? I just bought the property next to it and I'm selling it for a lot cheaper than you bought yours. So if you're interested, before I put it on the market, just let me know if you want to do cash deal." That's something I'm actually really interested in. I buy and sell a bunch of clash, like cars, and if I got texts like, "Hey, you bought that '68 fill in the blank, and I've got another one that's really similar to it a lot cheaper," you better believe I'm going to respond to that text. So this can be really effective and, in my opinion, completely appropriate and legal. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:By the way, last year a ton of people came to us. You know what? I want to talk about concierge for a second. You talked about O2O yesterday. I'm going to talk about concierge right now. So this is a little plug for a little company that we have Offers 2 Owners and a new service called Concierge Data and Concierge Data Plus. You're going to have to help me with the plus, with the correct definition of plus. But basically, here's the gist.Many of you have come to us because, not only was mail merge making your head hurt, but then downloading and scrubbing the data to get it to that point and then get it in the mail and then do some back end scrubbing on pricing comps and things like that, that was really making your head hurt. And we also had a lot of heavy hitters that came to us and said, "I just don't have time. I know exactly what I'm doing and how to do it, but it takes me some time." So we create a company within our mail company and it's Concierge Data. So if you want to find out more about that, send a note to support at landacademy.com or support at offers2owners.com and they will get right back to you and hook you up with that.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, I was Concierge Data's first customer and it really worked because I was tired of doing mailers. If I'm tired of doing mailers, believe it. And it works out great. We still use it every month.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. So my point is, whether you're brand new to this or experienced at it, whatever, we could take that off your plate. All right. Back to the question here. Steve wrote, "Anyone in here using Traction as a business process system? And if so, what kind of numbers are tracked on your scorecard?" Here's a reply. Matt wrote,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Rolling video. Three, two. Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I are going to talk about the power of skip tracing neighbors around land that you own. Yesterday I talked a little bit about or I had a prelude to this episode about why some young people, and rightfully so, I think this isn't like some type of archaic approach to buying real estate by sending actual paper in the mail. In a lot of ways they're not wrong, but it's still the most effective way that I know to contact sellers.Jill K DeWit:And legal way.Steven Jack Butala:Legally blindly contact sellers and see if they want to sell their property. And incredibly effective.Jill K DeWit:And respectful too.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:I don't want people calling me. Come on now.Steven Jack Butala:Right.Jill K DeWit:We just got through election time. How many phone calls did you hit ignore on?Steven Jack Butala:I mean, 98% of the... Probably if you're like on me, vast majority of stuff that crosses your path from an advertising standpoint or content standpoint on your phone, television, or whatever you choose to let in from a content standpoint is still unwanted.Jill K DeWit:Right.Steven Jack Butala:But if you get a text from somebody that says, "Hey, you know that property that you have down in XYZ County? I just bought the property next to it and I'm selling it for a lot cheaper than you bought yours. So if you're interested, before I put it on the market, just let me know if you want to do cash deal." That's something I'm actually really interested in. I buy and sell a bunch of clash, like cars, and if I got texts like, "Hey, you bought that '68 fill in the blank, and I've got another one that's really similar to it a lot cheaper," you better believe I'm going to respond to that text. So this can be really effective and, in my opinion, completely appropriate and legal. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:By the way, last year a ton of people came to us. You know what? I want to talk about concierge for a second. You talked about O2O yesterday. I'm going to talk about concierge right now. So this is a little plug for a little company that we have Offers 2 Owners and a new service called Concierge Data and Concierge Data Plus. You're going to have to help me with the plus, with the correct definition of plus. But basically, here's the gist.Many of you have come to us because, not only was mail merge making your head hurt, but then downloading and scrubbing the data to get it to that point and then get it in the mail and then do some back end scrubbing on pricing comps and things like that, that was really making your head hurt. And we also had a lot of heavy hitters that came to us and said, "I just don't have time. I know exactly what I'm doing and how to do it, but it takes me some time." So we create a company within our mail company and it's Concierge Data. So if you want to find out more about that, send a note to support at landacademy.com or support at offers2owners.com and they will get right back to you and hook you up with that.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, I was Concierge Data's first customer and it really worked because I was tired of doing mailers. If I'm tired of doing mailers, believe it. And it works out great. We still use it every month.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. So my point is, whether you're brand new to this or experienced at it, whatever, we could take that off your plate. All right. Back to the question here. Steve wrote, "Anyone in here using Traction as a business process system? And if so, what kind of numbers are tracked on your scorecard?" Here's a reply. Matt wrote,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/16/power-of-skip-tracing-neighbors-of-land-you-own-la-1895/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sZPR-Tl16</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2d131005-836c-49b5-adbb-f51828e7450b.mp3" length="15129618" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Outsourcing is Easy and Hiring Staff is Difficult in Current Times (LA 1894)</title><itunes:title>Outsourcing is Easy and Hiring Staff is Difficult in Current Times (LA 1894)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Jack and Jill here.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how outsourcing seems to be easy, but hiring staff seems to be difficult in these current times.Jill K DeWit:We've had ongoing discussions... Well, right now in this part of career path where we're talking about creating systems and thinking about where you're going to take your company and you often need help. If you're doing this right, having a little bit of help is going to free you up to really focus on the tasks that you as an owner should be doing. So these are the discussions. So we've been talking about hiring and outsourcing, and also we're having as a whole separate side note, and we'll talk more about this, having our own issues, if you will, with hiring staff. And so we'll share what we're doing to solve that.Steven Jack Butala:Everybody wants to get wealthy and everybody doesn't want to work that much.Jill K DeWit:Correct.Steven Jack Butala:And that's why you're here. And it's very possible we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of case studies, including ourselves, about having that happen and getting people to do what you want them to do when you want them to do it is a challenge. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Before we get into that though, I hope you know by now, we have a complete full blown commercial printing company created solely to help you get inexpensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers fast. It's called offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago out of our own frustration because we couldn't get our mail out with the regular commercial printing companies. Fast forward to today, we send out eight or 900,000 mailers a month on behalf of members and non-members. Go to offers2owners.com.Jill K DeWit:Josiah wrote, "I was just texting a friend asking about purchasing landlock property for a flip. I thought I'd post some of the text message here. I can remember at least four deals I've done that were landlocked. In every case, I sold the property to a neighbor or sold the property extremely cheap to someone who didn't care about the lack of access. The numbers on each deal were like this: Deal one, buy for $46,000, property worth $300,000 plus with access, sold it to a neighbor for $108,000. Deal number two, buy for $6,000, property worth $60-80,000 with access. Sold it to a neighbor for $22,000. Deal number three, buy for $3000, property worth about $50,000 with access. Sold it to someone who didn't care about the access for $6,000."These are great. "And then number four, deal number four, buy for $1000. The property's river access only two acres of waterfront property on a beautiful river. If the property had access, it could have been worth $100,000 easy. Sold it to someone didn't care about the access again for $10,000. So I think I've done two or three," this is probably back and forth. Now we're back to another participant here. "I think I've done two or three other landlock deals, but I can't find them." Okay, there we go. "The other two or three we're similar numbers to the four examples above." That's good.Steven Jack Butala:So here's the point. And this string in Discord, it caught on like wildfire. Kind of went viral in our own little Discord environment. Landlocked property, or accessless property I like to call it, is not valueless. There's always some value. It just depends on how you manage it and how you handle it. So there's always ways, not always, there's a vast majority of circumstances. There's ways to get access to property. It's just all how much you want to deal with it. What's your business model? If your business model is buying crazy rock bottom p...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Jack and Jill here.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how outsourcing seems to be easy, but hiring staff seems to be difficult in these current times.Jill K DeWit:We've had ongoing discussions... Well, right now in this part of career path where we're talking about creating systems and thinking about where you're going to take your company and you often need help. If you're doing this right, having a little bit of help is going to free you up to really focus on the tasks that you as an owner should be doing. So these are the discussions. So we've been talking about hiring and outsourcing, and also we're having as a whole separate side note, and we'll talk more about this, having our own issues, if you will, with hiring staff. And so we'll share what we're doing to solve that.Steven Jack Butala:Everybody wants to get wealthy and everybody doesn't want to work that much.Jill K DeWit:Correct.Steven Jack Butala:And that's why you're here. And it's very possible we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of case studies, including ourselves, about having that happen and getting people to do what you want them to do when you want them to do it is a challenge. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Before we get into that though, I hope you know by now, we have a complete full blown commercial printing company created solely to help you get inexpensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers fast. It's called offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago out of our own frustration because we couldn't get our mail out with the regular commercial printing companies. Fast forward to today, we send out eight or 900,000 mailers a month on behalf of members and non-members. Go to offers2owners.com.Jill K DeWit:Josiah wrote, "I was just texting a friend asking about purchasing landlock property for a flip. I thought I'd post some of the text message here. I can remember at least four deals I've done that were landlocked. In every case, I sold the property to a neighbor or sold the property extremely cheap to someone who didn't care about the lack of access. The numbers on each deal were like this: Deal one, buy for $46,000, property worth $300,000 plus with access, sold it to a neighbor for $108,000. Deal number two, buy for $6,000, property worth $60-80,000 with access. Sold it to a neighbor for $22,000. Deal number three, buy for $3000, property worth about $50,000 with access. Sold it to someone who didn't care about the access for $6,000."These are great. "And then number four, deal number four, buy for $1000. The property's river access only two acres of waterfront property on a beautiful river. If the property had access, it could have been worth $100,000 easy. Sold it to someone didn't care about the access again for $10,000. So I think I've done two or three," this is probably back and forth. Now we're back to another participant here. "I think I've done two or three other landlock deals, but I can't find them." Okay, there we go. "The other two or three we're similar numbers to the four examples above." That's good.Steven Jack Butala:So here's the point. And this string in Discord, it caught on like wildfire. Kind of went viral in our own little Discord environment. Landlocked property, or accessless property I like to call it, is not valueless. There's always some value. It just depends on how you manage it and how you handle it. So there's always ways, not always, there's a vast majority of circumstances. There's ways to get access to property. It's just all how much you want to deal with it. What's your business model? If your business model is buying crazy rock bottom p...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/15/outsourcing-is-easy-and-hiring-staff-is-difficult-in-current-times-la-1894/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">P6bPcCwIS</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4b1ca02f-2f59-4127-bc7a-7cac78bf07ba.mp3" length="15995192" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Interview with Successful Land Academy Members Karl and Sam Lathus (LA 1893)</title><itunes:title>Interview with Successful Land Academy Members Karl and Sam Lathus (LA 1893)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/x0zXehmG6K0Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/x0zXehmG6K0Thanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/14/interview-with-successful-land-academy-members-karl-and-sam-lathus-la-1893/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">N8YUuBGSz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ef13018c-95da-4182-acc6-1a7581d9febb.mp3" length="31225898" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Turn Angry Land Owners into Sellers (LA 1892)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Turn Angry Land Owners into Sellers (LA 1892)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Stephen and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Jack and Jill here.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I don't know my name.Jill K DeWit:That's right. Stephen Jack Butala. And I'm Jill Dewit. And we are broadcasting still from the lovely Valley of the Suns. Nice to be home.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to turn angry landowners into sellers.Jill K DeWit:Yep.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:Let's skip all that. Greg wrote, "If a buyer wants to close after January 1st for tax reasons..." Jill note. Boy do I understand that.Steven Jack Butala:This is very common. If you're new at this, this is what happens to you for the rest of your life.Jill K DeWit:This will come up.Yeah, a side note, people are going to want to close. They're either going to want to close by the end of the year or after the first of the year. Watch what happens here this next quarter, next two months.So Greg says, "Buyer wants to close after January 1st for tax reasons. Is there a way to move through the majority of the closing docs prior to closing to eliminate the risk of the buyer getting a better offer or changing their mind along the way? Basically, I don't have any issues closing after January 1st, but I'm afraid the buyer could change their mind. So I'm trying to figure out if I can legally prevent them from being able to do that."Steven Jack Butala:That's why God created contracts. So you can write a contract about anything that you want and make them sign it and says, "Yeah, we happily will sell this to you after, before, or buy or seller or whatever." Maybe you ask the person for more money in turn.Jill K DeWit:I say, pick the closing date now. What's the first Monday or the first Tuesday in January?Steven Jack Butala:I understand your point. And it's a very valid concern. Like, hey, this is a great deal. Well on the buyer, the sell side and time kills deals. That's just the truth. And so more time is always worse with real estate deals, but we orchestrate our entire lives this time of year around taxes and what with all kinds of decisions based on that.Jill K DeWit:Well...Steven Jack Butala:Just have a binding side contract that says you are going to buy this or sell it. Period.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. I would get it all through title, get it going. You know what I would do? There'd be weekly check-ins though too.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:From with between probably my team.Steven Jack Butala:And get some hard money. Get some hard money. Then-Jill K DeWit:That's when I thought. Put some money in it. Because it's him buying it. The seller wants to do it after January 1st. I kind of want to move some money over. So then it's really a binding contract because money has changed hands.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:So I'd feel good about that. "We're going to release $500 now though towards this. Just a small amount."Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Make it a little more real.Jill K DeWit:Yeah, exactly.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to turn angry landowners into sellers. This is the meat of the show.Jill K DeWit:It happens all the time. All the time. This is the majority of the calls you're going to get. We just had a career path session the other day and one person was talking about this mailer that everybody, all they want to do is yell at me. I'm like, "Well, what'd you get out of it?" "Nothing. They're all mad at me." Well, that's what I get too. Every day. They're calling my team or me when they get the mailers hit and they're mad about it. I mean, not everybody, I'll be honest, but when the first wave hits you lovingly call it the hate. It's like, "What? How dare they send me an offer?" That's their first anger moment by the way.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Stephen and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Jack and Jill here.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I don't know my name.Jill K DeWit:That's right. Stephen Jack Butala. And I'm Jill Dewit. And we are broadcasting still from the lovely Valley of the Suns. Nice to be home.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to turn angry landowners into sellers.Jill K DeWit:Yep.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:Let's skip all that. Greg wrote, "If a buyer wants to close after January 1st for tax reasons..." Jill note. Boy do I understand that.Steven Jack Butala:This is very common. If you're new at this, this is what happens to you for the rest of your life.Jill K DeWit:This will come up.Yeah, a side note, people are going to want to close. They're either going to want to close by the end of the year or after the first of the year. Watch what happens here this next quarter, next two months.So Greg says, "Buyer wants to close after January 1st for tax reasons. Is there a way to move through the majority of the closing docs prior to closing to eliminate the risk of the buyer getting a better offer or changing their mind along the way? Basically, I don't have any issues closing after January 1st, but I'm afraid the buyer could change their mind. So I'm trying to figure out if I can legally prevent them from being able to do that."Steven Jack Butala:That's why God created contracts. So you can write a contract about anything that you want and make them sign it and says, "Yeah, we happily will sell this to you after, before, or buy or seller or whatever." Maybe you ask the person for more money in turn.Jill K DeWit:I say, pick the closing date now. What's the first Monday or the first Tuesday in January?Steven Jack Butala:I understand your point. And it's a very valid concern. Like, hey, this is a great deal. Well on the buyer, the sell side and time kills deals. That's just the truth. And so more time is always worse with real estate deals, but we orchestrate our entire lives this time of year around taxes and what with all kinds of decisions based on that.Jill K DeWit:Well...Steven Jack Butala:Just have a binding side contract that says you are going to buy this or sell it. Period.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. I would get it all through title, get it going. You know what I would do? There'd be weekly check-ins though too.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:From with between probably my team.Steven Jack Butala:And get some hard money. Get some hard money. Then-Jill K DeWit:That's when I thought. Put some money in it. Because it's him buying it. The seller wants to do it after January 1st. I kind of want to move some money over. So then it's really a binding contract because money has changed hands.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:So I'd feel good about that. "We're going to release $500 now though towards this. Just a small amount."Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Make it a little more real.Jill K DeWit:Yeah, exactly.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to turn angry landowners into sellers. This is the meat of the show.Jill K DeWit:It happens all the time. All the time. This is the majority of the calls you're going to get. We just had a career path session the other day and one person was talking about this mailer that everybody, all they want to do is yell at me. I'm like, "Well, what'd you get out of it?" "Nothing. They're all mad at me." Well, that's what I get too. Every day. They're calling my team or me when they get the mailers hit and they're mad about it. I mean, not everybody, I'll be honest, but when the first wave hits you lovingly call it the hate. It's like, "What? How dare they send me an offer?" That's their first anger moment by the way.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/11/jill-friday-how-to-turn-angry-land-owners-into-sellers-la-1892/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">w7Xg0ryHv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6ddebd3b-b4f8-4ab3-9a62-1c97a07d249c.mp3" length="12622675" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What is Your Financial End? (LA 1891)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What is Your Financial End? (LA 1891)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, Broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about what is your financial end. As I said yesterday, you really need to have one. There's a few reasons and I'll get into it here in just a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like. It helps us develop better content.Jill K DeWit:Sid Roped, I just watched the YouTube Land Academy episode 1540. Wow. Where Jack and Jill discussed buying land with a mobile home on it. This is good. Thank you for that reference, Sid. Is there a way to pull data tree parcels that are zoned for mobile homes?Steven Jack Butala:Yes.Jill K DeWit:There are a lot of those in my rural area and I'm too old for driving for dollars. Thank goodness. Don't do that Sid.Steven Jack Butala:You're too smart too.Jill K DeWit:Some used to teach. Yeah, you are too smart for driving for dollars. Totally agree. Not to mention, what are you going to drive for dollars for? Because in my world you reach out to every single mobile homeowner. So what's to drive?Steven Jack Butala:If you go into data tree and you look at land use, and it's not all counties, but most counties will have mobile home.Jill K DeWit:Designation.Steven Jack Butala:If that assessor, in the account in the county that you're interested in, cares about use delineation and not all of them do. The more rural the county, the less they care for a lot of reasons because the property, the values are more similar. In an urban area, the property values are very different. It's a wide range of value. If you get mobile home and you click on it and you can test very quickly whether or not that uses it, because you can see the numbers change the total count. The vast majority of the counties that I've ever worked in, care about use and they say it, so you can find it that way. The other way is to look at zoning. Some counties have a very specific zoning. It's a lot more rare than the way I just described earlier. So check for use. Yes. And then rip away, mess around with the data. And Jill and I send out mobile home mailers regularly. Buy mobile homes. The worst condition they are, the better. And we buy them real cheap and sell them for more.Jill K DeWit:Not in parks.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. There's two types of mobile home real estate deals. Mobile homes in mobile home parks, those have no... We're land people, unless you buy the whole park, and that's a whole different deal. You're just going to end up buying the actual mobile home, which isn't real property, it's personal property. It's like buying a car. We're not car academy. It's Land Academy. Second type, which is what we care about.Is a mobile home that's on its own apn. It's on its own piece of real estate. And that can be extremely profitable. There are people in our group, that's all they do. Today's Jack Thursday, what's your financial end? There's a couple reasons that you need to have a financial end. One, if you write down what you want in life and talk about it to yourself or to your loved one, as much as they can handle it, you're going to get it. You're infinitely more likely to achieve your goals if you write them down or think about them all the time. And the more specific you are about it, the greater likelihood that it's going to happen. And within a timeframe. I'm going to plug $10 million here. Go ahead Jill.Jill K DeWit:We led off, in career path with, this is one of our questions.Steven Jack Butala:This is why we're doing this episode, actually.Jill K DeWit:This is really, really important to talk about and think about and dream it up.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, Broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about what is your financial end. As I said yesterday, you really need to have one. There's a few reasons and I'll get into it here in just a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like. It helps us develop better content.Jill K DeWit:Sid Roped, I just watched the YouTube Land Academy episode 1540. Wow. Where Jack and Jill discussed buying land with a mobile home on it. This is good. Thank you for that reference, Sid. Is there a way to pull data tree parcels that are zoned for mobile homes?Steven Jack Butala:Yes.Jill K DeWit:There are a lot of those in my rural area and I'm too old for driving for dollars. Thank goodness. Don't do that Sid.Steven Jack Butala:You're too smart too.Jill K DeWit:Some used to teach. Yeah, you are too smart for driving for dollars. Totally agree. Not to mention, what are you going to drive for dollars for? Because in my world you reach out to every single mobile homeowner. So what's to drive?Steven Jack Butala:If you go into data tree and you look at land use, and it's not all counties, but most counties will have mobile home.Jill K DeWit:Designation.Steven Jack Butala:If that assessor, in the account in the county that you're interested in, cares about use delineation and not all of them do. The more rural the county, the less they care for a lot of reasons because the property, the values are more similar. In an urban area, the property values are very different. It's a wide range of value. If you get mobile home and you click on it and you can test very quickly whether or not that uses it, because you can see the numbers change the total count. The vast majority of the counties that I've ever worked in, care about use and they say it, so you can find it that way. The other way is to look at zoning. Some counties have a very specific zoning. It's a lot more rare than the way I just described earlier. So check for use. Yes. And then rip away, mess around with the data. And Jill and I send out mobile home mailers regularly. Buy mobile homes. The worst condition they are, the better. And we buy them real cheap and sell them for more.Jill K DeWit:Not in parks.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. There's two types of mobile home real estate deals. Mobile homes in mobile home parks, those have no... We're land people, unless you buy the whole park, and that's a whole different deal. You're just going to end up buying the actual mobile home, which isn't real property, it's personal property. It's like buying a car. We're not car academy. It's Land Academy. Second type, which is what we care about.Is a mobile home that's on its own apn. It's on its own piece of real estate. And that can be extremely profitable. There are people in our group, that's all they do. Today's Jack Thursday, what's your financial end? There's a couple reasons that you need to have a financial end. One, if you write down what you want in life and talk about it to yourself or to your loved one, as much as they can handle it, you're going to get it. You're infinitely more likely to achieve your goals if you write them down or think about them all the time. And the more specific you are about it, the greater likelihood that it's going to happen. And within a timeframe. I'm going to plug $10 million here. Go ahead Jill.Jill K DeWit:We led off, in career path with, this is one of our questions.Steven Jack Butala:This is why we're doing this episode, actually.Jill K DeWit:This is really, really important to talk about and think about and dream it up.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/10/jack-thursday-what-is-your-financial-end-la-1891/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HhrG1wFat</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:06:11 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/900a8122-21fc-420e-be5f-8ba0021c3f66.mp3" length="10230531" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Much Land Acquisition Due Diligence is Too Much? (LA 1890)</title><itunes:title>How Much Land Acquisition Due Diligence is Too Much? (LA 1890)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk.Steven Jack Butala:I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, how much land acquisition due diligence is too much.Jill K DeWit:This comes up. I wanted you to know this is not a newbie question. This has come up this week in...Steven Jack Butala:Career path.Jill K DeWit:Career path.Steven Jack Butala:We spent an hour on this.Jill K DeWit:I'm trying to think because this week we also had our advanced call, too. I don't think it comes up too much there, but I think it does. I think we touched on it in both environments this week and that's why we wanted to talk about it.Steven Jack Butala:There's a deeper issue, a rooted psyche type issue under what's going on here, which I'll talk about when Jill's done here. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.Jill K DeWit:By the way, did you know we have now solved your data pulling and scrubbing and getting sold and active comps? Fill in the blank so you can accurately price your mailer and get it in the mail. It's called concierge pricing. Is that the right name?Steven Jack Butala:Concierge data.Jill K DeWit:Concierge data.Steven Jack Butala:Concierge data plus.Jill K DeWit:There we go.Steven Jack Butala:What's the plus? The plus is from start to finish, we get it in the mail for you.Jill K DeWit:Yep, exactly. Where do you find out more? Go to offers2owners.com and you'll find everything there and there's a phone number there. Give them a call. Or you can also send note to support at offers2owners.com.Steven Jack Butala:I will tell you, every month how many orders we process for concierge doubles. It doubles. Recently, we asked the staff who is the customer? Who is concierge's customer?Jill K DeWit:Are they brand new people? Who is doing it?Steven Jack Butala:They said the vast majority are people that just want outsource their mailing operation.Jill K DeWit:They're pros.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:They're busy pros.Steven Jack Butala:They're long time Land Academy members that aren't interested in doing a mailer anymore.Jill K DeWit:Exactly. It's not just someone that can't figure it out. They know what to do, they just don't want to do it. You're not nuts. Start there. All right, here's the question. Is it Juan Gecoo wrote, "Hi there. I'm calculating price per acre in a zip code and the prices are ranging wildly from half a million dollars to $5000. How can I get the most efficient, accurate measure price per acre for a 1500 unit count mailer?"Steven Jack Butala:Incredibly good question and concise. When you go out to solve for the retail price per acre in any given zip code, because you're going to send mail there, you can't just throw a dart at a board, you need to know where to start when you price a mailer. The way to do that is to get active listings in a zip code and sold listings in a zip code. You take them all together in a spreadsheet, you get averages or means, however you'd like to use it, and you determine that zip code, 12345, properties that have sold there for the last 12 months or active, the price per acres, $2,200.I'm going to offer something lower than that because I'm going to sell it for 2200 or even lower. Well, great. What happens when one of my comparison values is a million bucks, one of my comparison values is 5000? This happens a lot. This is an extreme example. A more realistic example is one sold for $25,000, one sold for 15, one sold for 32. And so my average might be too high, might be too low. This is what you have to do in an extreme situation. You really need to dig deeper. You need to then get all the data in one place and look into block by block pricing or APN based pricing if it's in a rural area.Yo have to really,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk.Steven Jack Butala:I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, how much land acquisition due diligence is too much.Jill K DeWit:This comes up. I wanted you to know this is not a newbie question. This has come up this week in...Steven Jack Butala:Career path.Jill K DeWit:Career path.Steven Jack Butala:We spent an hour on this.Jill K DeWit:I'm trying to think because this week we also had our advanced call, too. I don't think it comes up too much there, but I think it does. I think we touched on it in both environments this week and that's why we wanted to talk about it.Steven Jack Butala:There's a deeper issue, a rooted psyche type issue under what's going on here, which I'll talk about when Jill's done here. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.Jill K DeWit:By the way, did you know we have now solved your data pulling and scrubbing and getting sold and active comps? Fill in the blank so you can accurately price your mailer and get it in the mail. It's called concierge pricing. Is that the right name?Steven Jack Butala:Concierge data.Jill K DeWit:Concierge data.Steven Jack Butala:Concierge data plus.Jill K DeWit:There we go.Steven Jack Butala:What's the plus? The plus is from start to finish, we get it in the mail for you.Jill K DeWit:Yep, exactly. Where do you find out more? Go to offers2owners.com and you'll find everything there and there's a phone number there. Give them a call. Or you can also send note to support at offers2owners.com.Steven Jack Butala:I will tell you, every month how many orders we process for concierge doubles. It doubles. Recently, we asked the staff who is the customer? Who is concierge's customer?Jill K DeWit:Are they brand new people? Who is doing it?Steven Jack Butala:They said the vast majority are people that just want outsource their mailing operation.Jill K DeWit:They're pros.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:They're busy pros.Steven Jack Butala:They're long time Land Academy members that aren't interested in doing a mailer anymore.Jill K DeWit:Exactly. It's not just someone that can't figure it out. They know what to do, they just don't want to do it. You're not nuts. Start there. All right, here's the question. Is it Juan Gecoo wrote, "Hi there. I'm calculating price per acre in a zip code and the prices are ranging wildly from half a million dollars to $5000. How can I get the most efficient, accurate measure price per acre for a 1500 unit count mailer?"Steven Jack Butala:Incredibly good question and concise. When you go out to solve for the retail price per acre in any given zip code, because you're going to send mail there, you can't just throw a dart at a board, you need to know where to start when you price a mailer. The way to do that is to get active listings in a zip code and sold listings in a zip code. You take them all together in a spreadsheet, you get averages or means, however you'd like to use it, and you determine that zip code, 12345, properties that have sold there for the last 12 months or active, the price per acres, $2,200.I'm going to offer something lower than that because I'm going to sell it for 2200 or even lower. Well, great. What happens when one of my comparison values is a million bucks, one of my comparison values is 5000? This happens a lot. This is an extreme example. A more realistic example is one sold for $25,000, one sold for 15, one sold for 32. And so my average might be too high, might be too low. This is what you have to do in an extreme situation. You really need to dig deeper. You need to then get all the data in one place and look into block by block pricing or APN based pricing if it's in a rural area.Yo have to really,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/09/how-much-land-acquisition-due-diligence-is-too-much-la-1890/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">apd9alZTV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:10:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/16c117bb-8a58-4538-acd1-204a2a69d639.mp3" length="17848729" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>American Land Division System Explained (LA 1889)</title><itunes:title>American Land Division System Explained (LA 1889)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:... This drive. There we go. Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment tech. I'm Stephen Jack Patella.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today I talk about the American Land Division system, explained.Jill K DeWit:I notice you took out the, before Jill and I, today. I,Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, I'm going to talk about this because Jill's not going to talk about it. Jill doesn't care about this topic and you might not, also. This topic is one of those things where you just need to know, you need to be aware of this system. You don't need to repeat it, you don't need to learn it, and you don't need to care. You just need to know the basic stuff. So we'll get through it quickly together for you. Before we get into it, let's take [inaudible 00:00:44].Jill K DeWit:I'll be over here.Steven Jack Butala:... Posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. But before we get into that, I'm hoping that you know by now we have a full blown commercial printing company that Jill and I created solely to help you get inexpensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers fast. It's called Offers 2 Owners. Offers the number two owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago and now we actually share it. The exact same people that we put in place to do our mailers, we share it with members and non-members alike. Recently I looked at it, we mail between 700 and 800,000 offers a month and we do everything at any level of service that you want. We can just get it in the mail for you or we can do the entire mailer for you. Call (800) 725-8816, which also, so is is (800)JACKJILL, I think.Jill K DeWit:That's a different number.Steven Jack Butala:Oh, nevermind. Or email support at offers2owners.com for more information.Jill K DeWit:All right. Is this the same Will. Will's asked a lot of good questions. Okay, so Will is back from yesterday because Will has a plethora of good questions in here, which I think is awesome and Will wrote. "Okay. Neighbor letter question. I've heard that mailing to everyone within a one mile radius is the recommendation. Got it. For those that are directly connected IE to the property, should it be a different letter? Maybe more details, maybe more personal. Seems like it could help. For example, I have a parcel that is a neighbor with a nicely built home and then a mobile home across the street. I considered writing, even hand addressing a letter to the neighbor with the more expensive home to see if they would like to add an acre to their property and control what happens around them. How have you all handled your neighbor letters?"To be honest, can I answer this, please?Steven Jack Butala:Yes, please.Jill K DeWit:Okay. I have honestly, Will, I have done that and I would do that. I totally agree with that. My reason was, I had a property that there was total physical access, thought there was legal access. It turned out it wasn't real legal access. It was really a weird situation. Even though there was a street named, it was odd and there was even a cemetery back there that people were using this. All the signs would tell you it's physical and legal to be going to the cemetery back in there, but it technically wasn't. So the good news is, it was there, it existed. I just needed a piece of paper from somebody to agree on it. So I isolated the neighbors and I literally, personally, it didn't take me long at all. Literally made a cute little map and I highlighted for each of the neighbors and I needed to ask for physical access.I said, "Here's my lot, here's your lot. Mine's yellow, yours is green, whatever it is, and I'm reaching out to you for two reasons. One, would you please, I just need you to sign off on granting access." That was one. And then two was, "Hey, I'm putting this thing up for sale. Are you interested?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:... This drive. There we go. Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment tech. I'm Stephen Jack Patella.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today I talk about the American Land Division system, explained.Jill K DeWit:I notice you took out the, before Jill and I, today. I,Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, I'm going to talk about this because Jill's not going to talk about it. Jill doesn't care about this topic and you might not, also. This topic is one of those things where you just need to know, you need to be aware of this system. You don't need to repeat it, you don't need to learn it, and you don't need to care. You just need to know the basic stuff. So we'll get through it quickly together for you. Before we get into it, let's take [inaudible 00:00:44].Jill K DeWit:I'll be over here.Steven Jack Butala:... Posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. But before we get into that, I'm hoping that you know by now we have a full blown commercial printing company that Jill and I created solely to help you get inexpensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers fast. It's called Offers 2 Owners. Offers the number two owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago and now we actually share it. The exact same people that we put in place to do our mailers, we share it with members and non-members alike. Recently I looked at it, we mail between 700 and 800,000 offers a month and we do everything at any level of service that you want. We can just get it in the mail for you or we can do the entire mailer for you. Call (800) 725-8816, which also, so is is (800)JACKJILL, I think.Jill K DeWit:That's a different number.Steven Jack Butala:Oh, nevermind. Or email support at offers2owners.com for more information.Jill K DeWit:All right. Is this the same Will. Will's asked a lot of good questions. Okay, so Will is back from yesterday because Will has a plethora of good questions in here, which I think is awesome and Will wrote. "Okay. Neighbor letter question. I've heard that mailing to everyone within a one mile radius is the recommendation. Got it. For those that are directly connected IE to the property, should it be a different letter? Maybe more details, maybe more personal. Seems like it could help. For example, I have a parcel that is a neighbor with a nicely built home and then a mobile home across the street. I considered writing, even hand addressing a letter to the neighbor with the more expensive home to see if they would like to add an acre to their property and control what happens around them. How have you all handled your neighbor letters?"To be honest, can I answer this, please?Steven Jack Butala:Yes, please.Jill K DeWit:Okay. I have honestly, Will, I have done that and I would do that. I totally agree with that. My reason was, I had a property that there was total physical access, thought there was legal access. It turned out it wasn't real legal access. It was really a weird situation. Even though there was a street named, it was odd and there was even a cemetery back there that people were using this. All the signs would tell you it's physical and legal to be going to the cemetery back in there, but it technically wasn't. So the good news is, it was there, it existed. I just needed a piece of paper from somebody to agree on it. So I isolated the neighbors and I literally, personally, it didn't take me long at all. Literally made a cute little map and I highlighted for each of the neighbors and I needed to ask for physical access.I said, "Here's my lot, here's your lot. Mine's yellow, yours is green, whatever it is, and I'm reaching out to you for two reasons. One, would you please, I just need you to sign off on granting access." That was one. And then two was, "Hey, I'm putting this thing up for sale. Are you interested?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/08/american-land-division-system-explained-la-1889/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ObRl3oljU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 22:05:52 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0dc77267-d1b0-4b98-940b-e9486c94ec6a.mp3" length="12492109" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Land Academy Podcast: Land Investing from the Road Week Seven Hotel Bar Land Conversations (LA 1888)</title><itunes:title>The Land Academy Podcast: Land Investing from the Road Week Seven Hotel Bar Land Conversations (LA 1888)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting in the valley of the sun. Can you see our boring brown background?Steven Jack Butala:We're back.Jill K DeWit:We are home. You know what? Your dad's right. Your dad... This is a funny thing we were talking about. Your dad, when-Steven Jack Butala:My dad's right about something?Jill K DeWit:... Yeah. Your dad's right about something. Your dad says to us, basically, he's talking about where we live and the landscape, but it looks like our home too. He's like, "You must really love the color brown." You know what? I do.Steven Jack Butala:I do, too.Jill K DeWit:Apparently I do. Well, I have brown hair. I have brown eyes and so you like brown hair, brown eyes because you're with me.Steven Jack Butala:To which I always say to my dad, "It's better than the color white." Meaning white snow.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Totally agree.Steven Jack Butala:I will take great weather brown over silly cold weather snow white.Jill K DeWit:Because you know what comes with great weather brown? Blue skies, yellow sun.Steven Jack Butala:And happy people.Jill K DeWit:Happy people. No shovels.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about, well it's land investing from the road. Week six.Jill K DeWit:Week seven. Technically, week eight.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:I'm going to catch y'all up here.Steven Jack Butala:This is actually week seven. Sorry.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Well, week eight. Again, I'll catch up because we skipped week seven.Steven Jack Butala:Oh, right.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:The name of the show is called Land Investing from the Road, Week Seven, Hotel Bar Land Conversations. It is shocking.Jill K DeWit:I'll catch y'all up.Steven Jack Butala:When you sit down at a hotel bar and start talking about people's experience in their own land deals.Jill K DeWit:Exactly. Before we get into it, we're going to take a question posted by one of our members on our online communities. There are two. The public one is landinvestors.com. The private one is with our members and it's on Discord. Will wrote, "Before coming to Land Academy, I made the mistake of taking a different course." Aww.Steven Jack Butala:It's not a mistake.Jill K DeWit:Oh no, I don't think so. I think you get something out of everything.Steven Jack Butala:Me too.Jill K DeWit:And if anything had brought him here. It kind of warmed him up and taught him some stuff and-Steven Jack Butala:More education's always better.Jill K DeWit:... Sure.Steven Jack Butala:On everything.Jill K DeWit:So he goes on to say, "In that course it prioritized starting in just a couple of counties and often close enough to get to for putting signs out or whatnot." Is there more to the question?Steven Jack Butala:Let's see.Jill K DeWit:Hold please.Steven Jack Butala:I'm relearning to use a teleprompter for this highfalutin equipment that we have in our home studio. We're not used to that.Jill K DeWit:Great.Steven Jack Butala:From our two month long RV-Jill K DeWit:Stint.Steven Jack Butala:... Yeah.Jill K DeWit:"I've stayed within a single state and done some deals. However, when I think about trolling for zip codes and the red, yellow, green testing them AKA our way, it seems like I could be doing this anywhere in the country. Should I be hesitant about being in a bunch of different states?" Oh my gosh, that's the best.Steven Jack Butala:This person posted this in Discord. Can you imagine what people said?Jill K DeWit:Oh, my God. Yeah. This is going to be... I can't. I'm sure there was a barrage of comments.Steven Jack Butala:I don't know why someone would teach limits.Jill K DeWit:Good point.Steven Jack Butala:Do you sit and tell your young children every day, this is good enough for you?Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:You know in all this amazing things and opportunities and wond...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting in the valley of the sun. Can you see our boring brown background?Steven Jack Butala:We're back.Jill K DeWit:We are home. You know what? Your dad's right. Your dad... This is a funny thing we were talking about. Your dad, when-Steven Jack Butala:My dad's right about something?Jill K DeWit:... Yeah. Your dad's right about something. Your dad says to us, basically, he's talking about where we live and the landscape, but it looks like our home too. He's like, "You must really love the color brown." You know what? I do.Steven Jack Butala:I do, too.Jill K DeWit:Apparently I do. Well, I have brown hair. I have brown eyes and so you like brown hair, brown eyes because you're with me.Steven Jack Butala:To which I always say to my dad, "It's better than the color white." Meaning white snow.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Totally agree.Steven Jack Butala:I will take great weather brown over silly cold weather snow white.Jill K DeWit:Because you know what comes with great weather brown? Blue skies, yellow sun.Steven Jack Butala:And happy people.Jill K DeWit:Happy people. No shovels.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about, well it's land investing from the road. Week six.Jill K DeWit:Week seven. Technically, week eight.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:I'm going to catch y'all up here.Steven Jack Butala:This is actually week seven. Sorry.Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Well, week eight. Again, I'll catch up because we skipped week seven.Steven Jack Butala:Oh, right.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:The name of the show is called Land Investing from the Road, Week Seven, Hotel Bar Land Conversations. It is shocking.Jill K DeWit:I'll catch y'all up.Steven Jack Butala:When you sit down at a hotel bar and start talking about people's experience in their own land deals.Jill K DeWit:Exactly. Before we get into it, we're going to take a question posted by one of our members on our online communities. There are two. The public one is landinvestors.com. The private one is with our members and it's on Discord. Will wrote, "Before coming to Land Academy, I made the mistake of taking a different course." Aww.Steven Jack Butala:It's not a mistake.Jill K DeWit:Oh no, I don't think so. I think you get something out of everything.Steven Jack Butala:Me too.Jill K DeWit:And if anything had brought him here. It kind of warmed him up and taught him some stuff and-Steven Jack Butala:More education's always better.Jill K DeWit:... Sure.Steven Jack Butala:On everything.Jill K DeWit:So he goes on to say, "In that course it prioritized starting in just a couple of counties and often close enough to get to for putting signs out or whatnot." Is there more to the question?Steven Jack Butala:Let's see.Jill K DeWit:Hold please.Steven Jack Butala:I'm relearning to use a teleprompter for this highfalutin equipment that we have in our home studio. We're not used to that.Jill K DeWit:Great.Steven Jack Butala:From our two month long RV-Jill K DeWit:Stint.Steven Jack Butala:... Yeah.Jill K DeWit:"I've stayed within a single state and done some deals. However, when I think about trolling for zip codes and the red, yellow, green testing them AKA our way, it seems like I could be doing this anywhere in the country. Should I be hesitant about being in a bunch of different states?" Oh my gosh, that's the best.Steven Jack Butala:This person posted this in Discord. Can you imagine what people said?Jill K DeWit:Oh, my God. Yeah. This is going to be... I can't. I'm sure there was a barrage of comments.Steven Jack Butala:I don't know why someone would teach limits.Jill K DeWit:Good point.Steven Jack Butala:Do you sit and tell your young children every day, this is good enough for you?Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:You know in all this amazing things and opportunities and wond...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/07/the-land-academy-podcast-land-investing-from-the-road-week-seven-hotel-bar-land-conversations-la-1888/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6EXiweCxb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:00:08 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/39de878f-b1a2-45f0-8afd-ebba3c9bf2ed.mp3" length="14119559" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Price a Mail Campaign for Land Owners [ReRun] (LA 1887)</title><itunes:title>How to Price a Mail Campaign for Land Owners [ReRun] (LA 1887)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/k8aQ-ybWysgThanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/k8aQ-ybWysgThanks for listening, and finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/04/how-to-price-a-mail-campaign-for-land-owners-rerun-la-1887/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">I0DJcFb6q</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a6d5f23c-2ee9-4a85-8023-77584c53d12b.mp3" length="18094330" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thusday &amp;#8211; 5 Things You Must Know Before You Start Real Estate Investing [ReRun] (LA 1886)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thusday &amp;#8211; 5 Things You Must Know Before You Start Real Estate Investing [ReRun] (LA 1886)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hey.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jack Thursday.Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:It's the five things you must know before you start real estate investing of any kind. I'm going to tailor mine a little bit to land, but it's really just being a general real estate investor.Jill DeWit:Oh.Steven Butala:I think there's a little bit of a misconception about what this takes.Jill DeWit:Oh. I can't wait because I wrote down my own list. I had trouble coming up with five. I think I came up with four. I could have turned four into five. I thought, "Nah, I'm going to leave them condensed."Steven Butala:I came up with 40, but we'll just do the top five.Jill DeWit:Aha. But mine's also just general real estate investing. Mine is not necessarily land-focused. It's kind of anything. Honestly, mine can be any niche. Mine can be anything. Mine could be the top five things you must know to start X.Steven Butala:A marriage.Jill DeWit:Even that.Steven Butala:Go.Jill DeWit:No, I'm not going to share my list now.Steven Butala:Quick. Come on. Read it off.Jill DeWit:No. I'm not going to share my list now.Steven Butala:Top five things you need to be in a successful marriage. Go.Jill DeWit:It's the same list. I'm going to share it in a minute.Steven Butala:It's the same list?Jill DeWit:Oh, it's good.Steven Butala:You want to get into it?Jill DeWit:You're going to hear this. We're going to do this in a minute when we get to the topic. We're going to have you envision my list.Steven Butala:Right. Here's a new title. There's a new title, five things you need to know before you cross out, start fill in the blank.Jill DeWit:Start X. Oh, yeah.Steven Butala:Because that's how mine is too.Jill DeWit:Oh, mine could be a marriage. I'm going to use it. You know, I wrote it down as real estate investing, but we're going to sub marriage in a minute here and it's going to be funny.Steven Butala:Excellent.Jill DeWit:It's like Mad Libs.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already with us in Land Academy, join us on Discord.Jill DeWit:Hold, please. Before I read the question, I'd like to give one little thing too. Don't forget, Land Academy deal funding is bigger and better and faster, and boy, do we have money. We now have limitless money available and decades of experience, you can tell, look at us, to help you get deals done. Right?Steven Butala:Yeah. See this gray hair?Jill DeWit:Lots. So go to landinvestors.com and click on the Deal Funding tab today. Thank you. All right.Steven Butala:Nice.Jill DeWit:Where was I? Danielle wrote, "I have an owner who wants to sell and has three people on the deed. All three will signed." That is helpful. "She also asked to have three checks, one-third to each." Fine. "She also asked that I send them each a purchase agreement." Okay, Danielle. Now you're pushing it with me a little bit, but okay.Steven Butala:Well, they're pushing it with her.Jill DeWit:That's true.Steven Butala:It's not you, Danielle.Jill DeWit:The other two are giving Danielle a hard time. I get it. "Should I list the property for the total amount? Should I list the property for the total amount on each purchase agreement or break it up into thirds for each person's portion? Or should I send all three a new purchase agreement, three places to sign?" I like that one. It's not that big of a deal. You don't even really need ... I mean, depending ... If you're going through escrow, I would send the same purchase agreement out.Steven Butala:Well, they're not. She's not, because the escrow agent would handle all this.Jill DeWit:That's true too. All right,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hey.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jack Thursday.Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:It's the five things you must know before you start real estate investing of any kind. I'm going to tailor mine a little bit to land, but it's really just being a general real estate investor.Jill DeWit:Oh.Steven Butala:I think there's a little bit of a misconception about what this takes.Jill DeWit:Oh. I can't wait because I wrote down my own list. I had trouble coming up with five. I think I came up with four. I could have turned four into five. I thought, "Nah, I'm going to leave them condensed."Steven Butala:I came up with 40, but we'll just do the top five.Jill DeWit:Aha. But mine's also just general real estate investing. Mine is not necessarily land-focused. It's kind of anything. Honestly, mine can be any niche. Mine can be anything. Mine could be the top five things you must know to start X.Steven Butala:A marriage.Jill DeWit:Even that.Steven Butala:Go.Jill DeWit:No, I'm not going to share my list now.Steven Butala:Quick. Come on. Read it off.Jill DeWit:No. I'm not going to share my list now.Steven Butala:Top five things you need to be in a successful marriage. Go.Jill DeWit:It's the same list. I'm going to share it in a minute.Steven Butala:It's the same list?Jill DeWit:Oh, it's good.Steven Butala:You want to get into it?Jill DeWit:You're going to hear this. We're going to do this in a minute when we get to the topic. We're going to have you envision my list.Steven Butala:Right. Here's a new title. There's a new title, five things you need to know before you cross out, start fill in the blank.Jill DeWit:Start X. Oh, yeah.Steven Butala:Because that's how mine is too.Jill DeWit:Oh, mine could be a marriage. I'm going to use it. You know, I wrote it down as real estate investing, but we're going to sub marriage in a minute here and it's going to be funny.Steven Butala:Excellent.Jill DeWit:It's like Mad Libs.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already with us in Land Academy, join us on Discord.Jill DeWit:Hold, please. Before I read the question, I'd like to give one little thing too. Don't forget, Land Academy deal funding is bigger and better and faster, and boy, do we have money. We now have limitless money available and decades of experience, you can tell, look at us, to help you get deals done. Right?Steven Butala:Yeah. See this gray hair?Jill DeWit:Lots. So go to landinvestors.com and click on the Deal Funding tab today. Thank you. All right.Steven Butala:Nice.Jill DeWit:Where was I? Danielle wrote, "I have an owner who wants to sell and has three people on the deed. All three will signed." That is helpful. "She also asked to have three checks, one-third to each." Fine. "She also asked that I send them each a purchase agreement." Okay, Danielle. Now you're pushing it with me a little bit, but okay.Steven Butala:Well, they're pushing it with her.Jill DeWit:That's true.Steven Butala:It's not you, Danielle.Jill DeWit:The other two are giving Danielle a hard time. I get it. "Should I list the property for the total amount? Should I list the property for the total amount on each purchase agreement or break it up into thirds for each person's portion? Or should I send all three a new purchase agreement, three places to sign?" I like that one. It's not that big of a deal. You don't even really need ... I mean, depending ... If you're going through escrow, I would send the same purchase agreement out.Steven Butala:Well, they're not. She's not, because the escrow agent would handle all this.Jill DeWit:That's true too. All right,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/03/jack-thusday-5-things-you-must-know-before-you-start-real-estate-investing-rerun-la-1886/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lS17BzlLo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0991618c-7519-4f22-acc2-7bc4159d28b4.mp3" length="19700531" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Types of Land Transactions We Do [ReRun] (LA 1885)</title><itunes:title>3 Types of Land Transactions We Do [ReRun] (LA 1885)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I are going to talk about the three types of land transactions that we do. This is something new that Jill and I just came up with in this current career path that we're instructing. It seems to be getting really, really good response and I think you should consider doing three types also.Jill K DeWit:I was going to pause and talk about for a second... It's kind of funny, this sounds like... Do you have IT issues too? Does your website go down at random times and you just need help and can't find a good person? Well, you are not alone. We're meeting with an IT person today, and we were just talking about... I'm like, "I wonder if anybody else has these same issues we do?" The whole problem about IT is not IT. It's the contracts and the way people go about it, how much money everybody wants up front, and how the projects never seem to end.Steven Jack Butala:Thanks for just blowing this whole thing, Jill.Jill K DeWit:I'm so sorry. I just thought that was interesting to hear and understand and share.Steven Jack Butala:Right before we turned the camera on for this show, we were talking about what's going to happen today, and I have to meet with a new tech person, who's extremely intelligent and a super good guy. But just that industry has gotten to a point where it's just no fun at all.Jill K DeWit:It's weird.Steven Jack Butala:Contracts are real thick, like contracts always get thicker, not thinner.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:It costs $25,000.00 to do a website now, bare minimum. It used to cost like $700.00. It's just all liquid pain.Jill K DeWit:Isn't it funny?Steven Jack Butala:It's so painful to get a website done.Jill K DeWit:Do you know you're right? I remember years ago going to this company that was going to build us a site, and they quoted $25,000.00 back then and I about fell out of my chair. We obviously didn't do it. We did it ourselves.Steven Jack Butala:Right.Jill K DeWit:Clearly we did it ourselves back then. If you remember Landacademy.org, that was us. Hey, but we did it and we got here and now we're like... "If it was only $25,000.00 I'd be fine with that."Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:Not so much.Steven Jack Butala:It's more fun to do a podcast times 10 than it is to deal with any IT issues.Jill K DeWit:Very true. I'm glad we're here.Steven Jack Butala:Before get into it, thanks for letting us rant. Let's take a question, posted by one our members, on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe to The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like.Jill K DeWit:Lance wrote, "How do you price mailers for land in really hot markets?"Steven Jack Butala:This is totally on topic for what we're about to talk about today. You price them higher. We're going to talk about the three types of deals that Jill and I do. It didn't come to me, these types of deals, in an organized way. We just sort of organically started doing different types of deals to respond to the market. And so, Lance, I'll answer your question here in a second. Today's topic, there are three types of land transactions that we currently do. This is why you're listening. For some reason we started calling them buckets. Transaction number one is buy for X and double your money, then sell it.Steven Jack Butala:This could be in desert squares. We call it a bread-and-butter type land transaction. For us, the prices kept creeping up, so we would start... I mean, a typical deal for me before Jill and I joined forces was buy for $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 and sell for four, five or eight, on the internet five times a day. And so, since then, since Jill got involved, and we've made dramatic improvements since then ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I are going to talk about the three types of land transactions that we do. This is something new that Jill and I just came up with in this current career path that we're instructing. It seems to be getting really, really good response and I think you should consider doing three types also.Jill K DeWit:I was going to pause and talk about for a second... It's kind of funny, this sounds like... Do you have IT issues too? Does your website go down at random times and you just need help and can't find a good person? Well, you are not alone. We're meeting with an IT person today, and we were just talking about... I'm like, "I wonder if anybody else has these same issues we do?" The whole problem about IT is not IT. It's the contracts and the way people go about it, how much money everybody wants up front, and how the projects never seem to end.Steven Jack Butala:Thanks for just blowing this whole thing, Jill.Jill K DeWit:I'm so sorry. I just thought that was interesting to hear and understand and share.Steven Jack Butala:Right before we turned the camera on for this show, we were talking about what's going to happen today, and I have to meet with a new tech person, who's extremely intelligent and a super good guy. But just that industry has gotten to a point where it's just no fun at all.Jill K DeWit:It's weird.Steven Jack Butala:Contracts are real thick, like contracts always get thicker, not thinner.Jill K DeWit:Yeah.Steven Jack Butala:It costs $25,000.00 to do a website now, bare minimum. It used to cost like $700.00. It's just all liquid pain.Jill K DeWit:Isn't it funny?Steven Jack Butala:It's so painful to get a website done.Jill K DeWit:Do you know you're right? I remember years ago going to this company that was going to build us a site, and they quoted $25,000.00 back then and I about fell out of my chair. We obviously didn't do it. We did it ourselves.Steven Jack Butala:Right.Jill K DeWit:Clearly we did it ourselves back then. If you remember Landacademy.org, that was us. Hey, but we did it and we got here and now we're like... "If it was only $25,000.00 I'd be fine with that."Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:Not so much.Steven Jack Butala:It's more fun to do a podcast times 10 than it is to deal with any IT issues.Jill K DeWit:Very true. I'm glad we're here.Steven Jack Butala:Before get into it, thanks for letting us rant. Let's take a question, posted by one our members, on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe to The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like.Jill K DeWit:Lance wrote, "How do you price mailers for land in really hot markets?"Steven Jack Butala:This is totally on topic for what we're about to talk about today. You price them higher. We're going to talk about the three types of deals that Jill and I do. It didn't come to me, these types of deals, in an organized way. We just sort of organically started doing different types of deals to respond to the market. And so, Lance, I'll answer your question here in a second. Today's topic, there are three types of land transactions that we currently do. This is why you're listening. For some reason we started calling them buckets. Transaction number one is buy for X and double your money, then sell it.Steven Jack Butala:This could be in desert squares. We call it a bread-and-butter type land transaction. For us, the prices kept creeping up, so we would start... I mean, a typical deal for me before Jill and I joined forces was buy for $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 and sell for four, five or eight, on the internet five times a day. And so, since then, since Jill got involved, and we've made dramatic improvements since then ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/02/3-types-of-land-transactions-we-do-rerun-la-1885/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">60K7bZq-E</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7f397841-caa4-440a-aab0-07282fc09dad.mp3" length="10706404" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>5 Land Investing Tools We Can Not Live Without [ReRun] (LA 1884)</title><itunes:title>5 Land Investing Tools We Can Not Live Without [ReRun] (LA 1884)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hello.Steven Butala:Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the five land investing tools that we can't live without.Jill DeWit:Yes, this is going to be good. I have my list. Don't look.Steven Butala:Okay.Jill DeWit:Don't [inaudible 00:00:20].Steven Butala:Okay, good. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're a member, please join or participate in our strings on Discord. I promise you, you will not be disappointed.Jill DeWit:You're going to get immediate answers. I was telling someone about that the other day. I'm like, if you're struggling with anything.Steven Butala:Anything.Jill DeWit:And you're not taking advantage of the support that's there, you just got to throw a question and people will answer it.Steven Butala:Here's an example.Jill DeWit:That's kind of like, I can't help you with that. If you don't do it, don't ask.Steven Butala:I'm having trouble getting my first mailer out. I can't just pull the trigger. Can somebody please kick me in the butt? And everybody will sweep in, me included. I answer tons of questions in real time.Jill DeWit:That's good. Okay. Thomas wrote, I have sold many things online in the past and understand that there's no shortage of flaky people that call on items listed for sale.Steven Butala:We talked about this yesterday.Jill DeWit:I did not expect this with real estate though. I'm trying to sell my first two properties and I'm getting a steady flow of interested buyers, but all of them disappear after telling me how interested they are to buy. I'm now advertising on Craigslist and Zillow right now. The properties have good attributes, almost five acres each, and a price at half of what two and a half acre properties are. Is the issue my lack of reach in marketing or because they are desert properties where several others are being bought and sold?Steven Butala:This is [inaudible 00:01:45]. This is a classic. This is classic men mistake. I'm a man and I have made this mistake and sometimes make it to this day. You believe that the thing that you're selling is what matters. You believe that the mouse trap that you've built doesn't require any sales, and what really is happening here is, you're doing the first 60% of everything correct. And you're not doing the backend 40%. I would bet you a dollar that you are not having this conversations with these people and then saying, "Hey, what's your email address? I'll email you all the information right now, and included there is a link for you to put $500 down on the property so we can start the closing process, and somebody would buy it. That's all you need to do. It's not the posting is bad or the real estate's bad. It's the sales. It's the call to action closing part.Jill DeWit:We had someone on our staff who now is doing a different job, trying to help with this job for a while. And that's all they were doing. They thought they were just there to answer questions like customer service.Steven Butala:No.Steven Butala:I'm like, no, you've got to...Jill DeWit:You're there to sell it.Jill DeWit:Exactly. You've got to do a little bit more than just answer the question and go, is that it? Okay, well, have a nice day. Click. Hello? What the heck? That's not what this is about. That's right. That's where it is. Okay, good. All right. Take care. No.Steven Butala:It's interesting, most real estate agents are like this too. They just don't... They just wait. Okay, thanks. No, you've got to send... You need to...Jill DeWit:Work. You've got to work a little bit.Steven Butala:Jill can write the book on getting people to do what she wants them to do without them having any idea that they're actually being sold something.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hello.Steven Butala:Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the five land investing tools that we can't live without.Jill DeWit:Yes, this is going to be good. I have my list. Don't look.Steven Butala:Okay.Jill DeWit:Don't [inaudible 00:00:20].Steven Butala:Okay, good. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're a member, please join or participate in our strings on Discord. I promise you, you will not be disappointed.Jill DeWit:You're going to get immediate answers. I was telling someone about that the other day. I'm like, if you're struggling with anything.Steven Butala:Anything.Jill DeWit:And you're not taking advantage of the support that's there, you just got to throw a question and people will answer it.Steven Butala:Here's an example.Jill DeWit:That's kind of like, I can't help you with that. If you don't do it, don't ask.Steven Butala:I'm having trouble getting my first mailer out. I can't just pull the trigger. Can somebody please kick me in the butt? And everybody will sweep in, me included. I answer tons of questions in real time.Jill DeWit:That's good. Okay. Thomas wrote, I have sold many things online in the past and understand that there's no shortage of flaky people that call on items listed for sale.Steven Butala:We talked about this yesterday.Jill DeWit:I did not expect this with real estate though. I'm trying to sell my first two properties and I'm getting a steady flow of interested buyers, but all of them disappear after telling me how interested they are to buy. I'm now advertising on Craigslist and Zillow right now. The properties have good attributes, almost five acres each, and a price at half of what two and a half acre properties are. Is the issue my lack of reach in marketing or because they are desert properties where several others are being bought and sold?Steven Butala:This is [inaudible 00:01:45]. This is a classic. This is classic men mistake. I'm a man and I have made this mistake and sometimes make it to this day. You believe that the thing that you're selling is what matters. You believe that the mouse trap that you've built doesn't require any sales, and what really is happening here is, you're doing the first 60% of everything correct. And you're not doing the backend 40%. I would bet you a dollar that you are not having this conversations with these people and then saying, "Hey, what's your email address? I'll email you all the information right now, and included there is a link for you to put $500 down on the property so we can start the closing process, and somebody would buy it. That's all you need to do. It's not the posting is bad or the real estate's bad. It's the sales. It's the call to action closing part.Jill DeWit:We had someone on our staff who now is doing a different job, trying to help with this job for a while. And that's all they were doing. They thought they were just there to answer questions like customer service.Steven Butala:No.Steven Butala:I'm like, no, you've got to...Jill DeWit:You're there to sell it.Jill DeWit:Exactly. You've got to do a little bit more than just answer the question and go, is that it? Okay, well, have a nice day. Click. Hello? What the heck? That's not what this is about. That's right. That's where it is. Okay, good. All right. Take care. No.Steven Butala:It's interesting, most real estate agents are like this too. They just don't... They just wait. Okay, thanks. No, you've got to send... You need to...Jill DeWit:Work. You've got to work a little bit.Steven Butala:Jill can write the book on getting people to do what she wants them to do without them having any idea that they're actually being sold something.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/11/01/5-land-investing-tools-we-can-not-live-without-rerun-la-1884/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PEsN4Vpi9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ae81a6e2-b1d3-44f2-b028-53252c985397.mp3" length="13312624" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Top 5 Mistakes New Land Investors Make [ReRun] (LA 1883)</title><itunes:title>Top 5 Mistakes New Land Investors Make [ReRun] (LA 1883)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here. Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny, Southern Scottsdale. Where it's got a cowboy vibe around here. Let's just tell it like it is.Steven Butala:Whenever Jill goes into any new environment, even if it's very temporary, she has to dress the part. So, she's got... Like if we go skiing, even though she doesn't ski [inaudible 00:00:31], she will get all the outfits...Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:If it's a six day ski trip, she's got six outfits, six new outfits.Jill DeWit:If we were in Japan, I'd be wearing a kimono right now.Steven Butala:We're no stranger to Scottsdale. We lived here together and separately for years, years and years. We never had cowboy boots.Jill DeWit:First separately, and then together.Steven Butala:We never had cowboy boots, never had hats or anything, and now she's got all that.Jill DeWit:Totally.Steven Butala:What's all that about?Jill DeWit:Got them in Utah, which is really funny. Park City started the whole thing. It's just cool. I love it. I enjoy this environment.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talked... And she doesn't find the cheap ones.Jill DeWit:Come on. It's not like I have 10 of them.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the top five mistakes new land investors make. This is going to be an interesting show. We all went in separate corners and listed the top five separately. So, I have no idea really-Jill DeWit:It's going to be fun.Steven Butala:Yeah. I wonder how much they overlap. I bet not at all.Jill DeWit:I bet they do. I bet there's total overlap.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.Jill DeWit:Luke wrote, Hey guys, hope everyone is doing well. Just curious, how many of you send just the purchase agreement in the mailer from offers to owners, to the title company / attorney versus closing with another version of the purchase agreement. Perhaps even as far as the state or the realtor version of a purchase agreement. I only bring this up because many attorneys have sort of chuckled at my purchase agreements I've used when I was wholesaling houses, as if to say they were short-sighted and too basic for such an agreement. It sounds like they chuckled at it, but they took them, which is kind of funny. Just wondering if the one used in the mailer is more of a barometer of testing the willingness of the seller. Then from what you utilize a more detailed and professional purchase agreement. Thanks.Steven Butala:I'm going to answer this, all right?Jill DeWit:Sure.Steven Butala:When I started this, I sent a scaled down version of the purchase agreement that we use now, which is literally half of a page to my lawyer. And he looked at me and said, "this is the greatest thing I have ever seen ever." Total binding legal document with parameters for both parties and a timeframe. I think whoever said this, they're not laughing, Luke, because it's not comprehensive. They're laughing in a manner that's like, congratulations, you guys are doing this the right way. I don't want to say you're getting away with it, but this is thought out, it's a binding agreement. It does the job. People sign it and send it back. And it's a single page. It's very clear. I want to buy a property, here's the APN, here's the legal description for the price within this timeframe. And here's how we're going to do it. Everything else in life is complicated as hell, everything.Jill DeWit:I agree.Steven Butala:Why does a real estate deal have to be complicated.Jill DeWit:The answer to the question is no, we use the exact form. That's what I sent into a title company or attorney. And they're like, okay, here we go.Steven Butala:Jill and I just got done closing on our primary residence here.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here. Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny, Southern Scottsdale. Where it's got a cowboy vibe around here. Let's just tell it like it is.Steven Butala:Whenever Jill goes into any new environment, even if it's very temporary, she has to dress the part. So, she's got... Like if we go skiing, even though she doesn't ski [inaudible 00:00:31], she will get all the outfits...Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:If it's a six day ski trip, she's got six outfits, six new outfits.Jill DeWit:If we were in Japan, I'd be wearing a kimono right now.Steven Butala:We're no stranger to Scottsdale. We lived here together and separately for years, years and years. We never had cowboy boots.Jill DeWit:First separately, and then together.Steven Butala:We never had cowboy boots, never had hats or anything, and now she's got all that.Jill DeWit:Totally.Steven Butala:What's all that about?Jill DeWit:Got them in Utah, which is really funny. Park City started the whole thing. It's just cool. I love it. I enjoy this environment.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talked... And she doesn't find the cheap ones.Jill DeWit:Come on. It's not like I have 10 of them.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the top five mistakes new land investors make. This is going to be an interesting show. We all went in separate corners and listed the top five separately. So, I have no idea really-Jill DeWit:It's going to be fun.Steven Butala:Yeah. I wonder how much they overlap. I bet not at all.Jill DeWit:I bet they do. I bet there's total overlap.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.Jill DeWit:Luke wrote, Hey guys, hope everyone is doing well. Just curious, how many of you send just the purchase agreement in the mailer from offers to owners, to the title company / attorney versus closing with another version of the purchase agreement. Perhaps even as far as the state or the realtor version of a purchase agreement. I only bring this up because many attorneys have sort of chuckled at my purchase agreements I've used when I was wholesaling houses, as if to say they were short-sighted and too basic for such an agreement. It sounds like they chuckled at it, but they took them, which is kind of funny. Just wondering if the one used in the mailer is more of a barometer of testing the willingness of the seller. Then from what you utilize a more detailed and professional purchase agreement. Thanks.Steven Butala:I'm going to answer this, all right?Jill DeWit:Sure.Steven Butala:When I started this, I sent a scaled down version of the purchase agreement that we use now, which is literally half of a page to my lawyer. And he looked at me and said, "this is the greatest thing I have ever seen ever." Total binding legal document with parameters for both parties and a timeframe. I think whoever said this, they're not laughing, Luke, because it's not comprehensive. They're laughing in a manner that's like, congratulations, you guys are doing this the right way. I don't want to say you're getting away with it, but this is thought out, it's a binding agreement. It does the job. People sign it and send it back. And it's a single page. It's very clear. I want to buy a property, here's the APN, here's the legal description for the price within this timeframe. And here's how we're going to do it. Everything else in life is complicated as hell, everything.Jill DeWit:I agree.Steven Butala:Why does a real estate deal have to be complicated.Jill DeWit:The answer to the question is no, we use the exact form. That's what I sent into a title company or attorney. And they're like, okay, here we go.Steven Butala:Jill and I just got done closing on our primary residence here.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/31/top-5-mistakes-new-land-investors-make-rerun-la-1883/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8MekaNUg9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ca3fc6e9-b02d-4733-8064-0e600f6ccb24.mp3" length="15447170" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What Makes the Perfect Land Deal (LA 1882)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What Makes the Perfect Land Deal (LA 1882)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Jack and Jill here.Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill. Sorry. How could you not know your own name?Jill K DeWit:That's okay. I'm here to help you. Don't worry. That's why you have me.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from Tarrant County. Tarrant County, Texas, for those of you who know where that is.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk ... Well, it's still Friday, and she's going to talk about what makes the perfect land deal. Is it buy for 40, sell for 80? Buy for 50, sell for 200? Is it buy for 5,000, sell for 20? Is faster better with less money, or slower better? I want to know.Jill K DeWit:This is like asking me what's the perfect man.Steven Jack Butala:I know.Jill K DeWit:Or the perfect date.Steven Jack Butala:We could turn it into that.Jill K DeWit:Or the perfect dinner, or the perfect jewelry.Steven Jack Butala:Or the perfect episode of The Bachelor.Jill K DeWit:Oh, there we go. The perfect ending. There we go.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I'll have to ... I got to tell you, Jill and I released a few years ago a company called ParcelFact, F-A-C-T.com. It allows you to find real estate within seconds, any property really in the country, with the very few exceptions, by just using the state, the county, and the APN. There's no mailing address because that's the kind of property that we buy.Jill K DeWit:It's what I use for all my due diligence.Steven Jack Butala:ParcelFact.com. Check it out.Jill K DeWit:Oh Jemay. Jemay wrote, "I have a question regarding the deal funding process. When an investor funds a deal, what protections do they have so they don't lose their money? I'm assuming they're on title. Thanks." Yeah, that's what I do.So if I go 50/50 with somebody, we're both on the title, if I'm ... But usually it's me. I'm putting up all the money funding the deal for other people, and so my name's on the title, and that is my protection. It's all in my name.I do look at them too, by the way. I make sure, as best I can, when you submit it to me and say, "Hey Jill, we got to buy this. It's $30,000. I think I can sell it for 60, maybe 90." I'm going to look at it and I'm going to make sure it passes my test too, because I'm going to make sure neither one of us make a mistake. I'm another pair of eyes for you.Then when we do the deal, we have ... It's a simple little two-page agreement that you can find on landfunding.com or on other parts. I know you're in Land Academy, that you can get access to that little contract to check it out and you do the work.I'm your bank, I wire the money in. I'm here to tweak and help you with little questions along the way. But then you're running it, you're the manager of the deal. And then when it closes, we each get paid out of Escrow, whatever we agree upon going into it.Steven Jack Butala:I like to describe it like this, when you buy a house, you go get a mortgage. You find a bank that'll lend money to you. You put 20% down on a $100,000 house. You put $20,000 in. The bank lends you 80,000. And then you make payments until it's over. That's lending. If something goes wrong, the bank's got a lien on the house, and they foreclose on it and they take the real estate back.With deal funding or land funding, we give you all the money. We're the investor. The property ... We take all the steps out of that. We own the property, so does the bank really in the lending case, they just call it a lien. And then if something goes wrong, we own the property and we go decide what we're going to do with it at that point.So, it's really a no-lose situation because we as investors don't ask you for any money down. You find the deal, we fund it. If it doesn't work out,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Jack and Jill here.Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill. Sorry. How could you not know your own name?Jill K DeWit:That's okay. I'm here to help you. Don't worry. That's why you have me.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from Tarrant County. Tarrant County, Texas, for those of you who know where that is.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk ... Well, it's still Friday, and she's going to talk about what makes the perfect land deal. Is it buy for 40, sell for 80? Buy for 50, sell for 200? Is it buy for 5,000, sell for 20? Is faster better with less money, or slower better? I want to know.Jill K DeWit:This is like asking me what's the perfect man.Steven Jack Butala:I know.Jill K DeWit:Or the perfect date.Steven Jack Butala:We could turn it into that.Jill K DeWit:Or the perfect dinner, or the perfect jewelry.Steven Jack Butala:Or the perfect episode of The Bachelor.Jill K DeWit:Oh, there we go. The perfect ending. There we go.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I'll have to ... I got to tell you, Jill and I released a few years ago a company called ParcelFact, F-A-C-T.com. It allows you to find real estate within seconds, any property really in the country, with the very few exceptions, by just using the state, the county, and the APN. There's no mailing address because that's the kind of property that we buy.Jill K DeWit:It's what I use for all my due diligence.Steven Jack Butala:ParcelFact.com. Check it out.Jill K DeWit:Oh Jemay. Jemay wrote, "I have a question regarding the deal funding process. When an investor funds a deal, what protections do they have so they don't lose their money? I'm assuming they're on title. Thanks." Yeah, that's what I do.So if I go 50/50 with somebody, we're both on the title, if I'm ... But usually it's me. I'm putting up all the money funding the deal for other people, and so my name's on the title, and that is my protection. It's all in my name.I do look at them too, by the way. I make sure, as best I can, when you submit it to me and say, "Hey Jill, we got to buy this. It's $30,000. I think I can sell it for 60, maybe 90." I'm going to look at it and I'm going to make sure it passes my test too, because I'm going to make sure neither one of us make a mistake. I'm another pair of eyes for you.Then when we do the deal, we have ... It's a simple little two-page agreement that you can find on landfunding.com or on other parts. I know you're in Land Academy, that you can get access to that little contract to check it out and you do the work.I'm your bank, I wire the money in. I'm here to tweak and help you with little questions along the way. But then you're running it, you're the manager of the deal. And then when it closes, we each get paid out of Escrow, whatever we agree upon going into it.Steven Jack Butala:I like to describe it like this, when you buy a house, you go get a mortgage. You find a bank that'll lend money to you. You put 20% down on a $100,000 house. You put $20,000 in. The bank lends you 80,000. And then you make payments until it's over. That's lending. If something goes wrong, the bank's got a lien on the house, and they foreclose on it and they take the real estate back.With deal funding or land funding, we give you all the money. We're the investor. The property ... We take all the steps out of that. We own the property, so does the bank really in the lending case, they just call it a lien. And then if something goes wrong, we own the property and we go decide what we're going to do with it at that point.So, it's really a no-lose situation because we as investors don't ask you for any money down. You find the deal, we fund it. If it doesn't work out,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/28/jill-friday-what-makes-the-perfect-land-deal-la-1882/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RNf8dYh2d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/29fa5d9d-8309-43ed-9310-c2746cd83001.mp3" length="12912433" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; To What End (LA 1881)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; To What End (LA 1881)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Rolling video. Three, two...Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome, awesome Texas. I love it here.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about the phrase, "To what end?" Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members, landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.Jill K DeWit:I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, we all know that's not true. Okay. And to what end?Jill K DeWit:Okay. Yeah, I was laughing at you. So, truth time. Okay. Anyway, Eric wrote, "While trolling my areas in Zillow, I came across a for sale by owner asking $34,500 for 2.57 acres, with some nice road frontage, in a very rural county in South Carolina. It's been sitting for 64 plus days, so I know that it's overpriced. Sold comps in that zip code have gone for 13 to $14,000 an acre, so I offered him 40% of what he's asking. So, 13,800 bucks. If he doesn't curse me out, does this look like a good deal to you? Ever have any luck with for sale by owners that have been listed for a while?" I don't like these.Steven Jack Butala:So, I can wrap this up quickly.Jill K DeWit:Please do.Steven Jack Butala:I really hope that he doesn't accept your offer.Jill K DeWit:Right.Steven Jack Butala:Because I don't want you to think that this is possible all the time. I don't want you to pull the handle on a slot machine and win the first time and then spend the rest of your life trying, chasing something that probably shouldn't have never happened.What I want you to do is form great habits that you can habitually and consistently regenerate, that are recurring for you and get independently wealthy quickly. No one's going to get independently wealthy by offering property that's already been posted for sale, whether it's for sale by owner or with real estate agents.Jill K DeWit:I agree.Steven Jack Butala:Unless you can magically send out 5,000 offers through real estate agents simultaneously, the way that we do with the mail. And even then, I don't think that that's going to work because it's just a whole different situation.Jill K DeWit:Somebody got there first. There's two things with the Asian thing. Somebody got there first, number one. Number two, it's just a bad feeling for me. If it's been out there for that many days and that many people looked it over, I would assume that somebody might have already picked up the phone and said, "I like your property. What's the lowest you take?" And he passed on it.Steven Jack Butala:And so, what are you going to do if you get it for 13,000? Re-list it for the same number? And it still didn't sell.Jill K DeWit:And now it's going to look really weird.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:So, think about this too. So, it's listed for sale. We all see listed, posted, de-listed, pulled down, and then when you repost it on Zillow, now it's going to see it didn't sell. And now your price, what are you going to do? Put it at 58,000? They're going to go, "I think there's a problem here."And by the way, what if it's all... What if it gets updated on there showing that you bought it for 13,000?Steven Jack Butala:I think it will.Jill K DeWit:It shows, listed at 64. It didn't sell. Sold $13,800. Re-list for 55. Okay, I'm not going to jump on that. I like the way we do it. No one sees anything until it's-Steven Jack Butala:We used to say this a lot, and we haven't said it a lot in a very long time. Get there first.Jill K DeWit:Yep.Steven Jack Butala:You need to get to a real estate transaction first. This person already... They're already in a seller's mindset. They already have done some thinking about the number that's for sale. They decided they want to sell it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Rolling video. Three, two...Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome, awesome Texas. I love it here.Steven Jack Butala:Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about the phrase, "To what end?" Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members, landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.Jill K DeWit:I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, we all know that's not true. Okay. And to what end?Jill K DeWit:Okay. Yeah, I was laughing at you. So, truth time. Okay. Anyway, Eric wrote, "While trolling my areas in Zillow, I came across a for sale by owner asking $34,500 for 2.57 acres, with some nice road frontage, in a very rural county in South Carolina. It's been sitting for 64 plus days, so I know that it's overpriced. Sold comps in that zip code have gone for 13 to $14,000 an acre, so I offered him 40% of what he's asking. So, 13,800 bucks. If he doesn't curse me out, does this look like a good deal to you? Ever have any luck with for sale by owners that have been listed for a while?" I don't like these.Steven Jack Butala:So, I can wrap this up quickly.Jill K DeWit:Please do.Steven Jack Butala:I really hope that he doesn't accept your offer.Jill K DeWit:Right.Steven Jack Butala:Because I don't want you to think that this is possible all the time. I don't want you to pull the handle on a slot machine and win the first time and then spend the rest of your life trying, chasing something that probably shouldn't have never happened.What I want you to do is form great habits that you can habitually and consistently regenerate, that are recurring for you and get independently wealthy quickly. No one's going to get independently wealthy by offering property that's already been posted for sale, whether it's for sale by owner or with real estate agents.Jill K DeWit:I agree.Steven Jack Butala:Unless you can magically send out 5,000 offers through real estate agents simultaneously, the way that we do with the mail. And even then, I don't think that that's going to work because it's just a whole different situation.Jill K DeWit:Somebody got there first. There's two things with the Asian thing. Somebody got there first, number one. Number two, it's just a bad feeling for me. If it's been out there for that many days and that many people looked it over, I would assume that somebody might have already picked up the phone and said, "I like your property. What's the lowest you take?" And he passed on it.Steven Jack Butala:And so, what are you going to do if you get it for 13,000? Re-list it for the same number? And it still didn't sell.Jill K DeWit:And now it's going to look really weird.Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.Jill K DeWit:So, think about this too. So, it's listed for sale. We all see listed, posted, de-listed, pulled down, and then when you repost it on Zillow, now it's going to see it didn't sell. And now your price, what are you going to do? Put it at 58,000? They're going to go, "I think there's a problem here."And by the way, what if it's all... What if it gets updated on there showing that you bought it for 13,000?Steven Jack Butala:I think it will.Jill K DeWit:It shows, listed at 64. It didn't sell. Sold $13,800. Re-list for 55. Okay, I'm not going to jump on that. I like the way we do it. No one sees anything until it's-Steven Jack Butala:We used to say this a lot, and we haven't said it a lot in a very long time. Get there first.Jill K DeWit:Yep.Steven Jack Butala:You need to get to a real estate transaction first. This person already... They're already in a seller's mindset. They already have done some thinking about the number that's for sale. They decided they want to sell it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/27/jack-thursday-to-what-end-la-1881/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6lDHE1azt</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e66251b1-84f6-4e3e-a2e9-e1dbec9ee789.mp3" length="12143141" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pros and Cons of Sending Blind Offers During the Holidays (LA 1880)</title><itunes:title>Pros and Cons of Sending Blind Offers During the Holidays (LA 1880)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome Texas. Having a good time.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about the pros and cons of sending blind offers during the holidays.Jill K DeWit:This came up. Someone said, "Do you guys do that? Should I just shut down? Should I wait for January?" Hold on a moment.Steven Jack Butala:Came up in Career Path.Jill K DeWit:Mm-hmm. And we're going to fill you in. It's a really good question. It really is because I can understand exactly where that comes from. This one even didn't agree with me for a while on this topic. But we are now on the same page. And we're going to talk about here.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns into the mail. So I took a look at how we were personally sending out mail, looked at our key employees, and ultimately made the same people that do our mailers available to Land Academy members to get their mailers out. We call it Concierge Data and now Concierge Data Plus, which is an end-to-end solution for you to outsource your mail, whether you're brand new or whether you are-Jill K DeWit:Professional, busy.Steven Jack Butala:... 10 years into it and want to just outsource it all. Go out to offers2owners.com and check it all out. It's all there.Jill K DeWit:Perfect.Will wrote, "So I haven't been at this for a full year yet. How will the end of the year season impact buyers and sellers? Do things slow down quite a bit? On top of that, anyone willing to share their current thoughts and outlook on the market? I've seen less full cash offers and more interest in seller financing. I'd love to hear different rationale for property types as well. Info, recreational, et cetera." This question I could spend an hour on.Steven Jack Butala:Well, this is the topic. This is also the topic.Jill K DeWit:Okay. Let's just go to the show and combine it all.Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, Pros and Cons of Selling Blind Offers During the Holidays. This is the meat of the show.Jill K DeWit:Okay. Will you leave that up? Because I'm going to talk about the holidays and then we're going to touch on the other things that Will wrote.Steven Jack Butala:Sure.Jill K DeWit:Here's the thing about the holidays. If anything, especially right now in today's environment, everybody's getting a little worried. They're worried about cash. They're worried about interest rates. They think, "Okay, the housing market is slowing. I need to dig in. I need to beef up my bank account and not make any crazy decisions." Right? That's what I hear and see a little bit of what's going on. What does that mean for us? I'm buying everything I can. I said it on Monday on our show. The truth of how many deals I'm selling over buying is at least two or three to one buying versus selling right now. It's not because there's a slowdown on the selling, it's just that I am going for it on the buy side because there's so many great deals to be had right now.Now you roll that in with the end of the year. There's so many things that are going to the end of the year. So the answer for me, and I think for us, is do not stop mail at the end of the year. And here's why. People need cash. Think about this. Christmas is coming. "I want to do this. I want to do that. I want to travel. People are traveling again. I want to go see my family. I haven't seen them in a while. I want to decorate. I need money for all this stuff." What a wonderful thing would be to get an envelope in the mail from someone like us saying, "Hey, I want to buy this property..." By the way, you've long forgotten about it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome Texas. Having a good time.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about the pros and cons of sending blind offers during the holidays.Jill K DeWit:This came up. Someone said, "Do you guys do that? Should I just shut down? Should I wait for January?" Hold on a moment.Steven Jack Butala:Came up in Career Path.Jill K DeWit:Mm-hmm. And we're going to fill you in. It's a really good question. It really is because I can understand exactly where that comes from. This one even didn't agree with me for a while on this topic. But we are now on the same page. And we're going to talk about here.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns into the mail. So I took a look at how we were personally sending out mail, looked at our key employees, and ultimately made the same people that do our mailers available to Land Academy members to get their mailers out. We call it Concierge Data and now Concierge Data Plus, which is an end-to-end solution for you to outsource your mail, whether you're brand new or whether you are-Jill K DeWit:Professional, busy.Steven Jack Butala:... 10 years into it and want to just outsource it all. Go out to offers2owners.com and check it all out. It's all there.Jill K DeWit:Perfect.Will wrote, "So I haven't been at this for a full year yet. How will the end of the year season impact buyers and sellers? Do things slow down quite a bit? On top of that, anyone willing to share their current thoughts and outlook on the market? I've seen less full cash offers and more interest in seller financing. I'd love to hear different rationale for property types as well. Info, recreational, et cetera." This question I could spend an hour on.Steven Jack Butala:Well, this is the topic. This is also the topic.Jill K DeWit:Okay. Let's just go to the show and combine it all.Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, Pros and Cons of Selling Blind Offers During the Holidays. This is the meat of the show.Jill K DeWit:Okay. Will you leave that up? Because I'm going to talk about the holidays and then we're going to touch on the other things that Will wrote.Steven Jack Butala:Sure.Jill K DeWit:Here's the thing about the holidays. If anything, especially right now in today's environment, everybody's getting a little worried. They're worried about cash. They're worried about interest rates. They think, "Okay, the housing market is slowing. I need to dig in. I need to beef up my bank account and not make any crazy decisions." Right? That's what I hear and see a little bit of what's going on. What does that mean for us? I'm buying everything I can. I said it on Monday on our show. The truth of how many deals I'm selling over buying is at least two or three to one buying versus selling right now. It's not because there's a slowdown on the selling, it's just that I am going for it on the buy side because there's so many great deals to be had right now.Now you roll that in with the end of the year. There's so many things that are going to the end of the year. So the answer for me, and I think for us, is do not stop mail at the end of the year. And here's why. People need cash. Think about this. Christmas is coming. "I want to do this. I want to do that. I want to travel. People are traveling again. I want to go see my family. I haven't seen them in a while. I want to decorate. I need money for all this stuff." What a wonderful thing would be to get an envelope in the mail from someone like us saying, "Hey, I want to buy this property..." By the way, you've long forgotten about it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/26/pros-and-cons-of-sending-blind-offers-during-the-holidays-la-1880/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jSql4wjP1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c8633b9f-ed33-4601-a5d9-79b3b37e6344.mp3" length="9294105" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What is the Real Time Commitment to Run Your Land Business (LA 1879)</title><itunes:title>What is the Real Time Commitment to Run Your Land Business (LA 1879)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Dallas, Texas.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about what the real-time commitment is to run your land business. Doesn't matter where you are, you might be on the road in an RV or you might be in your 20 years-plus office.Jill K DeWit:Yeah, that's the thing. Most people come to us having full, awesome, brilliant careers, really smart. We have a lot of very smart brainy people, scientists and pilots, and analysts and accountants in Land Academy. And you've got pharmacists. You know who you are. You've got time commitments, you've got little kids and so it's a really valid question. Like, Boy, I want to do this, but I can't give 40 hours. I can't even for sure say I can give 20. So what is the real-time commitment I need to start and run my own land business? And that's what we're going to talk about today.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Before we get to that, did you know that we have a commercial printing company solely created to help you get inexpensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers quickly? It's called Offers 2 Owners. Offers the number 2owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago and now we've share... We're obviously, now sharing it with members and non-members. Today, fast forward to today, we mail about seven to 800,000 offers a month, and we can do everything for you from start to finish, pulling the data, scrubbing it, collecting comps, and getting it even in first class mail if you'd like to, call 800-725-8816 or email support@offers2owners.com for more information. Nice script writing.Jill K DeWit:Thank you very much.Steven Jack Butala:I appreciate that. You clean that up pretty well.Jill K DeWit:I did. Josiah wrote this is the first email from the seller. Talk about an easy transaction. So here we go. In quotes, "Mr. Ronco, my name is John Smith. I own 40 acres of land in County USA. You recently sent me an offer to purchase it for the sum of $58,244 and 27 cents. The APN is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I'm currently considering listing my property with a local realtor for the sum of $125,000. I have done a comparable market analysis, CMA and similar properties around mine have sold for around $3,000 an acre. My property is as good or better. I have no liens, no past-due taxes. I have no encumbrances ever or currently. There's no debris." This is nice. I can't believe the seller wrote all this. "There's no debris, mobile homes, structure, automobiles, or trash on my property. The property is primarily oak woodlands with about six acres cleared.I left occasional trees on the cleared land for aesthetics. The property is beautiful. That being said, I will sell you my property for $60,000 under the following conditions." So I want to back up for just a second there. So the offer was-Steven Jack Butala:58.Jill K DeWit:58, so he says make it 60 even. And he thinks you can get 125. Okay. So, okay, "That being said, I will sell you my property for $60,000 under the following conditions. I pay no closing costs, recording fees, or any associated costs of the transfer session of my property to you or your company. In addition, we must close transfer, complete the sale within two weeks of signing the sales contract."Steven Jack Butala:Love that.Jill K DeWit:I checked out the property and the comps and that's the end of the thing. So I'm like done, done and done. That's who we are. So Josiah went on to write, I checked out the property and I checked out the comps. The guy isn't lying. It's worth $125,000 all day and we might even be able to push the price higher because it's so beautiful, perfect for hunting and growing pine.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Dallas, Texas.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about what the real-time commitment is to run your land business. Doesn't matter where you are, you might be on the road in an RV or you might be in your 20 years-plus office.Jill K DeWit:Yeah, that's the thing. Most people come to us having full, awesome, brilliant careers, really smart. We have a lot of very smart brainy people, scientists and pilots, and analysts and accountants in Land Academy. And you've got pharmacists. You know who you are. You've got time commitments, you've got little kids and so it's a really valid question. Like, Boy, I want to do this, but I can't give 40 hours. I can't even for sure say I can give 20. So what is the real-time commitment I need to start and run my own land business? And that's what we're going to talk about today.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Before we get to that, did you know that we have a commercial printing company solely created to help you get inexpensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers quickly? It's called Offers 2 Owners. Offers the number 2owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago and now we've share... We're obviously, now sharing it with members and non-members. Today, fast forward to today, we mail about seven to 800,000 offers a month, and we can do everything for you from start to finish, pulling the data, scrubbing it, collecting comps, and getting it even in first class mail if you'd like to, call 800-725-8816 or email support@offers2owners.com for more information. Nice script writing.Jill K DeWit:Thank you very much.Steven Jack Butala:I appreciate that. You clean that up pretty well.Jill K DeWit:I did. Josiah wrote this is the first email from the seller. Talk about an easy transaction. So here we go. In quotes, "Mr. Ronco, my name is John Smith. I own 40 acres of land in County USA. You recently sent me an offer to purchase it for the sum of $58,244 and 27 cents. The APN is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I'm currently considering listing my property with a local realtor for the sum of $125,000. I have done a comparable market analysis, CMA and similar properties around mine have sold for around $3,000 an acre. My property is as good or better. I have no liens, no past-due taxes. I have no encumbrances ever or currently. There's no debris." This is nice. I can't believe the seller wrote all this. "There's no debris, mobile homes, structure, automobiles, or trash on my property. The property is primarily oak woodlands with about six acres cleared.I left occasional trees on the cleared land for aesthetics. The property is beautiful. That being said, I will sell you my property for $60,000 under the following conditions." So I want to back up for just a second there. So the offer was-Steven Jack Butala:58.Jill K DeWit:58, so he says make it 60 even. And he thinks you can get 125. Okay. So, okay, "That being said, I will sell you my property for $60,000 under the following conditions. I pay no closing costs, recording fees, or any associated costs of the transfer session of my property to you or your company. In addition, we must close transfer, complete the sale within two weeks of signing the sales contract."Steven Jack Butala:Love that.Jill K DeWit:I checked out the property and the comps and that's the end of the thing. So I'm like done, done and done. That's who we are. So Josiah went on to write, I checked out the property and I checked out the comps. The guy isn't lying. It's worth $125,000 all day and we might even be able to push the price higher because it's so beautiful, perfect for hunting and growing pine.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/25/what-is-the-real-time-commitment-to-run-your-land-business-la-1879/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iaa_H4aR5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5934e7e2-5fdc-4ee9-804d-f189fda00d16.mp3" length="19691675" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investing from the Road Week Six: Mechanics of Doing Business Remotely (LA 1878)</title><itunes:title>Land Investing from the Road Week Six: Mechanics of Doing Business Remotely (LA 1878)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill, here. Jill K DeWit:Hi. Steven Jack Butala:Oh, sorry. Jack and Jill here. Jill K DeWit:Thank you. Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit:Thank you very much. Get to know your name. And I'm Jill DeWit, and we are broadcasting from the awesome Lone Star State. We're in Texas now. If you've been following us, you're bored. Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about land investing from the road. Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Steven Jack Butala:This is week number six that we've been doing this on Monday. Jill K DeWit:Yep. Steven Jack Butala:This episode is called The Mechanics of Doing Business Remotely. For example, I wonder if my internet connection's going to work today. Jill K DeWit:Yeah, I wonder if I'm going to even care about working today. Steven Jack Butala:Yep. Jill K DeWit:Because there's stuff that's just more fun. Steven Jack Butala:Full blown, different mindset requires- Jill K DeWit:Yep. Steven Jack Butala:Different scheduling. Jill K DeWit:Okay. Wait, wait. Where were we last week when we were recorded? Were we in Arkansas? Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Jill K DeWit:Okay. Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Jill K DeWit:When we're recorded, where were we in Arkansas? Steven Jack Butala:I think so. Jill K DeWit:I don't know. Steven Jack Butala:That's another thing about [inaudible 00:01:05]. You just never know which state you're in, which time zone you're in. Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Steven Jack Butala:And... Jill K DeWit:I have to go back and look. I believe we were in Arkansas. We could have been in Nashville. I am not sure the last time I recorded, but either way. Last weekend we went from Arkansas, through Oklahoma, here to Texas where we have been for the last four days and having a ball. And I need to knock on something. Everywhere we go the weather's been great. There's no wood around here. Steven Jack Butala:Well, it wasn't great when it started, but remember that transformer blew up in the middle of the night in front of us? Jill K DeWit:Yeah, but we were safe. Steven Jack Butala:In Madison, Wisconsin. Sure. Jill K DeWit:We were safe. Steven Jack Butala:Just wasn't the best of weather. Jill K DeWit:Well, okay. For most part it's been good. We haven't had any snow. How's that? Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill K DeWit:Greg wrote, Okay, "I have a very newbie question. I had a couple of parcels that weren't selling, so I put them back on the MLS and heck, I just got an offer on one of them. So now I have an offer from a realtor slash client, which I will gladly accept. But what is the process for this? Normally I would send signed PAs to my attorney to facilitate, but is this the agent's job now? Someone please lay out the roles and responsibilities for this type of transaction, so I don't have to call the agent and ask them." Steven Jack Butala:I can do it if you want. Jill K DeWit:Go for it. You want to go first? Steven Jack Butala:You got a couple of properties who, depending on how you bought them, either bought them by doing deeds yourself, which is a very old school way. Or you bought them through a real estate agent. I'm guessing you didn't because this process, Greg, is not familiar to you. So you probably bought them without title insurance. You just got them. You did what Jill talks about in chapter, I think six or seven in Land Academy 3.0. You went through that and you own the properties and now you got an offer on the MLS from a realtor or a realtor driven offer where the realtor's representing a client. I would absolutely contact the realtor and say, "Yes, send me the documents that you need me to sign." And let the realtor do their job. Nine times out of 10, they're not going to do their job right. So what I would actually do is find somebody in your life or on discord that c...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill, here. Jill K DeWit:Hi. Steven Jack Butala:Oh, sorry. Jack and Jill here. Jill K DeWit:Thank you. Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit:Thank you very much. Get to know your name. And I'm Jill DeWit, and we are broadcasting from the awesome Lone Star State. We're in Texas now. If you've been following us, you're bored. Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about land investing from the road. Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Steven Jack Butala:This is week number six that we've been doing this on Monday. Jill K DeWit:Yep. Steven Jack Butala:This episode is called The Mechanics of Doing Business Remotely. For example, I wonder if my internet connection's going to work today. Jill K DeWit:Yeah, I wonder if I'm going to even care about working today. Steven Jack Butala:Yep. Jill K DeWit:Because there's stuff that's just more fun. Steven Jack Butala:Full blown, different mindset requires- Jill K DeWit:Yep. Steven Jack Butala:Different scheduling. Jill K DeWit:Okay. Wait, wait. Where were we last week when we were recorded? Were we in Arkansas? Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Jill K DeWit:Okay. Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Jill K DeWit:When we're recorded, where were we in Arkansas? Steven Jack Butala:I think so. Jill K DeWit:I don't know. Steven Jack Butala:That's another thing about [inaudible 00:01:05]. You just never know which state you're in, which time zone you're in. Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Steven Jack Butala:And... Jill K DeWit:I have to go back and look. I believe we were in Arkansas. We could have been in Nashville. I am not sure the last time I recorded, but either way. Last weekend we went from Arkansas, through Oklahoma, here to Texas where we have been for the last four days and having a ball. And I need to knock on something. Everywhere we go the weather's been great. There's no wood around here. Steven Jack Butala:Well, it wasn't great when it started, but remember that transformer blew up in the middle of the night in front of us? Jill K DeWit:Yeah, but we were safe. Steven Jack Butala:In Madison, Wisconsin. Sure. Jill K DeWit:We were safe. Steven Jack Butala:Just wasn't the best of weather. Jill K DeWit:Well, okay. For most part it's been good. We haven't had any snow. How's that? Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill K DeWit:Greg wrote, Okay, "I have a very newbie question. I had a couple of parcels that weren't selling, so I put them back on the MLS and heck, I just got an offer on one of them. So now I have an offer from a realtor slash client, which I will gladly accept. But what is the process for this? Normally I would send signed PAs to my attorney to facilitate, but is this the agent's job now? Someone please lay out the roles and responsibilities for this type of transaction, so I don't have to call the agent and ask them." Steven Jack Butala:I can do it if you want. Jill K DeWit:Go for it. You want to go first? Steven Jack Butala:You got a couple of properties who, depending on how you bought them, either bought them by doing deeds yourself, which is a very old school way. Or you bought them through a real estate agent. I'm guessing you didn't because this process, Greg, is not familiar to you. So you probably bought them without title insurance. You just got them. You did what Jill talks about in chapter, I think six or seven in Land Academy 3.0. You went through that and you own the properties and now you got an offer on the MLS from a realtor or a realtor driven offer where the realtor's representing a client. I would absolutely contact the realtor and say, "Yes, send me the documents that you need me to sign." And let the realtor do their job. Nine times out of 10, they're not going to do their job right. So what I would actually do is find somebody in your life or on discord that c...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/24/land-investing-from-the-road-week-six-mechanics-of-doing-business-remotely-la-1878/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tQamz4v2i</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8afaa067-6f5a-437d-b093-a7ecb4099672.mp3" length="17604847" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Pros and Cons of Talking to Sellers for Hours (LA 1877)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Pros and Cons of Talking to Sellers for Hours (LA 1877)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Pros and Cons of Talking to Sellers for Hours (LA 1877)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from Suite Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, it's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about the pros and cons of talking to sellers for hours.

Jill DeWit:
I don't do this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can't say enough positive stuff about Arkansas. I can't say enough positive stuff. Anyway, go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm talking about the topic. I don't do this and I don't condone this, but there's a version of this I'm going to talk to you about. Then you'll find more in minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Perfect. But before Jill gets into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And we have a site that helps you do phase 1 due diligence. In fact, it almost does all of it for you in less than 30 seconds. It's called parcelfact.com. Back in the day, you needed a mailing address, like 123 Main Street, to look up property. Well, that's just not the case anymore. We put together a database of 150 million or so properties that you can look up anywhere in the country and get the information that you need to make a really quick phase 1 due diligence decision whether or not you're going to buy when on the phone with the seller. Check it out, parcelfact.com.

Jill DeWit:
I know you said the number of the properties, but the coverage is like 98% nationwide. Is it 98, 99? I can't remember what-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a lot higher now. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I think it's 99% nationwide is the a coverage. So you don't have to remember the 150 million. Just remember that part.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's almost all of them.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. You're like, "well, what if mine's not in that 150 million?" Let me just give you the percentage. And then you're say, "I run a pretty high chance it's going to be in there." There you go. All right. So Evan wrote, "Now that the economic market seems to be experiencing a change in fundamentals causing increasing real estate inventories due to fewer buyers, are any of you considering creative deal structure instead of cash when buying and selling?

Steven Jack Butala:
Implicitly, no. Now is the time, in my opinion, more than ever to be paying cash for undervalued real estate because we're going to find more of it when inventories like this go up, more property becomes available. And it's not just inventories that are going up, as this thing continues that we're in. We're not yet calling it a recession, but I think that's what it is or we'll be, people need cash and if they have land laying around, they're not using this land. It's one of the first things they decide to sell. And so you want to pay cash for that.
You don't want to structure some complicated thing with some seller who just wants 10 grand to say, "Well, I'll pay a $1,000 now and then..." You don't want, that's a-

Jill DeWit:
They'll get a better deal.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'm not picking on you, Evan, at all. This is wall streeting, there's a lot of appropriate times in finance to implement these concepts of high finance and Wall Street stuff. This is not one of them. This is one of the reasons I chose, and I hope Jill did too, chose this career because it's so simple. I want to buy an undervalued asset and then I have complete control over it. Who knows what the market's going to do? Maybe it's going to go down further. Maybe it's going to go up further. But if I'm buying, it's so cheap like we do on every deal, I want it and I want to own it.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the pros and cons of talking with sellers for hours. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So I don't do this,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Pros and Cons of Talking to Sellers for Hours (LA 1877)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from Suite Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, it's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about the pros and cons of talking to sellers for hours.

Jill DeWit:
I don't do this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can't say enough positive stuff about Arkansas. I can't say enough positive stuff. Anyway, go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm talking about the topic. I don't do this and I don't condone this, but there's a version of this I'm going to talk to you about. Then you'll find more in minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Perfect. But before Jill gets into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And we have a site that helps you do phase 1 due diligence. In fact, it almost does all of it for you in less than 30 seconds. It's called parcelfact.com. Back in the day, you needed a mailing address, like 123 Main Street, to look up property. Well, that's just not the case anymore. We put together a database of 150 million or so properties that you can look up anywhere in the country and get the information that you need to make a really quick phase 1 due diligence decision whether or not you're going to buy when on the phone with the seller. Check it out, parcelfact.com.

Jill DeWit:
I know you said the number of the properties, but the coverage is like 98% nationwide. Is it 98, 99? I can't remember what-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a lot higher now. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I think it's 99% nationwide is the a coverage. So you don't have to remember the 150 million. Just remember that part.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's almost all of them.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. You're like, "well, what if mine's not in that 150 million?" Let me just give you the percentage. And then you're say, "I run a pretty high chance it's going to be in there." There you go. All right. So Evan wrote, "Now that the economic market seems to be experiencing a change in fundamentals causing increasing real estate inventories due to fewer buyers, are any of you considering creative deal structure instead of cash when buying and selling?

Steven Jack Butala:
Implicitly, no. Now is the time, in my opinion, more than ever to be paying cash for undervalued real estate because we're going to find more of it when inventories like this go up, more property becomes available. And it's not just inventories that are going up, as this thing continues that we're in. We're not yet calling it a recession, but I think that's what it is or we'll be, people need cash and if they have land laying around, they're not using this land. It's one of the first things they decide to sell. And so you want to pay cash for that.
You don't want to structure some complicated thing with some seller who just wants 10 grand to say, "Well, I'll pay a $1,000 now and then..." You don't want, that's a-

Jill DeWit:
They'll get a better deal.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'm not picking on you, Evan, at all. This is wall streeting, there's a lot of appropriate times in finance to implement these concepts of high finance and Wall Street stuff. This is not one of them. This is one of the reasons I chose, and I hope Jill did too, chose this career because it's so simple. I want to buy an undervalued asset and then I have complete control over it. Who knows what the market's going to do? Maybe it's going to go down further. Maybe it's going to go up further. But if I'm buying, it's so cheap like we do on every deal, I want it and I want to own it.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the pros and cons of talking with sellers for hours. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So I don't do this,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/21/jill-friday-pros-and-cons-of-talking-to-sellers-for-hours-la-1877/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">MGMenJgKo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6ad5d0e2-2e4a-40b5-924d-7d11a4e6db76.mp3" length="12797924" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why Recovering House Flippers Choose Land Flipping (LA 1876)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why Recovering House Flippers Choose Land Flipping (LA 1876)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why Recovering House Flippers Choose Land Flipping (LA 1876)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from Carol County, Arkansas. How's that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about why recovering house flippers seem to be choosing land to flip in these current real estate conditions.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Makes sense to me.

Jill DeWit:
I can't wait to just sit back and be a passenger here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like. Let me say this, that YouTube channel that we have built is a massive library. It's not just these 1900 or so podcast episodes. Those are all in there. It's also commercials and snippets of information from Career Path and the Thursday calls. I call it the Land Academy Library. It's tons and tons of content for free to help you in your land career and ultimately help you to decide whether or not Land Academy is for you. And it's not for everybody. It's certainly not for everybody. But after perusing through there for a couple hours, you're going to find out whether or not you think that you want to pursue this or stick to what you're doing now.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. I was just thinking about that. So this is show number 1876, right? Wonder how old I'm going to be when we're on show 3000 or show 5,000.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I can calculate it for you.

Jill DeWit:
You know when you're a kid in school and you're like, "Okay, what year am I going to graduate? I'm going to be 18, I graduate this year." So now I'm doing it the other way. We're on show 1,876. How old? Don't share my age.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm not going to show your age. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
How about your age?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'd like to live through the rest of the day.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm not going to share it. Let's share my age.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay?

Jill DeWit:
All right. How old will you be on show 5,000 if we keep up this current rate. But wait, we do ...

Steven Jack Butala:
We do 260 shows a year.

Jill DeWit:
Wait five times ...

Steven Jack Butala:
52 weeks.

Jill DeWit:
26 weeks ...

Steven Jack Butala:
Times five. There's 260 shows ish a year. Let's say 250 because there's holidays and reruns. 250 a year. In six years I will be 60 and that'll be 1500 shows. We have 1,876 already. So we've been doing this for more than five years, six years.

Jill DeWit:
A long time. That'll be good. All right. This is cool. Back to the question, Heidi and Dan wrote, "Hello group. We are still very new within the Land Academy and our new venture, not even one year in, but we've done some deals and some homework as well." Yes, good job. "After listening to Jack's recent discussion of finding the appropriate CPA, I have a strong concern that our CPA will not be able to direct us correctly within this business structure. Can anyone recommend a CPA that has a strong understanding of Pennsylvania tax structure? We're hoping to get things in alignment before tax season is upon us, and hoping to find someone that does not have a waiting period. Any help will be greatly appreciated."
That's a great place by the way. Putting that, I don't know if that was in Discord or the landinvestors.com page, but either way, hopefully it was both. You'll find somebody. That's a great place to sort and find. And what better way to find someone that you could work with than word of mouth because someone's like, "Hey, this guy and I have a connection. You're doing what I'm doing. He can roll you in." Fingers crossed.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why Recovering House Flippers Choose Land Flipping (LA 1876)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from Carol County, Arkansas. How's that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about why recovering house flippers seem to be choosing land to flip in these current real estate conditions.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Makes sense to me.

Jill DeWit:
I can't wait to just sit back and be a passenger here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like. Let me say this, that YouTube channel that we have built is a massive library. It's not just these 1900 or so podcast episodes. Those are all in there. It's also commercials and snippets of information from Career Path and the Thursday calls. I call it the Land Academy Library. It's tons and tons of content for free to help you in your land career and ultimately help you to decide whether or not Land Academy is for you. And it's not for everybody. It's certainly not for everybody. But after perusing through there for a couple hours, you're going to find out whether or not you think that you want to pursue this or stick to what you're doing now.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. I was just thinking about that. So this is show number 1876, right? Wonder how old I'm going to be when we're on show 3000 or show 5,000.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I can calculate it for you.

Jill DeWit:
You know when you're a kid in school and you're like, "Okay, what year am I going to graduate? I'm going to be 18, I graduate this year." So now I'm doing it the other way. We're on show 1,876. How old? Don't share my age.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm not going to show your age. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
How about your age?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'd like to live through the rest of the day.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm not going to share it. Let's share my age.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay?

Jill DeWit:
All right. How old will you be on show 5,000 if we keep up this current rate. But wait, we do ...

Steven Jack Butala:
We do 260 shows a year.

Jill DeWit:
Wait five times ...

Steven Jack Butala:
52 weeks.

Jill DeWit:
26 weeks ...

Steven Jack Butala:
Times five. There's 260 shows ish a year. Let's say 250 because there's holidays and reruns. 250 a year. In six years I will be 60 and that'll be 1500 shows. We have 1,876 already. So we've been doing this for more than five years, six years.

Jill DeWit:
A long time. That'll be good. All right. This is cool. Back to the question, Heidi and Dan wrote, "Hello group. We are still very new within the Land Academy and our new venture, not even one year in, but we've done some deals and some homework as well." Yes, good job. "After listening to Jack's recent discussion of finding the appropriate CPA, I have a strong concern that our CPA will not be able to direct us correctly within this business structure. Can anyone recommend a CPA that has a strong understanding of Pennsylvania tax structure? We're hoping to get things in alignment before tax season is upon us, and hoping to find someone that does not have a waiting period. Any help will be greatly appreciated."
That's a great place by the way. Putting that, I don't know if that was in Discord or the landinvestors.com page, but either way, hopefully it was both. You'll find somebody. That's a great place to sort and find. And what better way to find someone that you could work with than word of mouth because someone's like, "Hey, this guy and I have a connection. You're doing what I'm doing. He can roll you in." Fingers crossed.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/20/jack-thursday-why-recovering-house-flippers-choose-land-flipping-la-1876/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nY_enh2eN</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ed89f112-d169-496f-8378-9d9f819ea4fa.mp3" length="15631750" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Make a Million Dollars a Year is the Career Path Number 5 Number One Request (LA 1875)</title><itunes:title>How to Make a Million Dollars a Year is the Career Path Number 5 Number One Request (LA 1875)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Make a Million Dollars a Year is the Career Path Number 5 Number One Request (LA 1875)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the natural springs area of Arkansas. Yes, Eureka Springs right now and we are loving it.

Steve:
Can't say enough positive stuff about this area, with the state and the country.

Jill:
You know what's funny, we had a day this last week where it was like, started off, it got sunny but it started off kind of dark and weird and it rained a little bit and it was, you know the show the Ozarks, how we all know it has that funky tint. They make the, there's like a filter on the cameras or something and make it kind of a dark, interesting blue? Would you call it blue background kind of thing? I swear it felt like that.

Steve:
It was that color.

Jill:
I was running around taking pictures, I'm like, "That's real." Now I get the Ozarks show and I always thought, why do they make it look so dark? But by the way, right now we're sitting in a beautiful, sunny day. Blue sky, it's gorgeous so it's not always like that, but I get it. It was really cool.

Steve:
Today Jill and I are going to talk about how making a million dollars a year is the number one discussion point and request for this new career path class.

Jill:
There's kind of two things that came up because I want to share, to tell you, there's one other thing that everybody asks for. So it's important to know. I want leave a little teaser here. So when we went around the room the other day, everybody brought up two things and one is the money and I'll tell you the other one in a minute.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. And last year a ton of people came to us, came to Jill and I requesting for help getting their first mailer out or just getting consistency in doing mailers or mailer type stuff. Well enough people came to us. Jill and I decided to turn over our own mailer department to our employees to allow them to do that. So we call it concierge data and now it's called concierge data plus, you can completely and entirely outsource doing a mailer to this department and it's a subdepartment of offers2owners.com. Or if you're having trouble getting the first one out, check it out. It's very, very efficient. And now we process a ton of orders, more and more every single month.

Jill:
All right, Chief wrote, "As a seller, how do you ask a buyer, how do you ask a buyer close, as a seller how do you ask a buyer to close through your selected title company? Or is it just customary for the seller to choose? It's a little late for me to be inquiring about this, but I've been letting, or should I say making the buyer's agent find one. Now that I say it out loud pretty sure I'm doing it completely wrong. I need to be sending them somewhere specific, right? My thought was it doesn't really matter to me and it's all about the same price so let them have it in case they have people they like to close through. It was one less thing I had to set up. Now I see why all the buyer's agents attitude seemed to change a little bit after their clients have signed. I'm making them do my job accidentally but sure enough, they'd sign and I'd been letting them take it from there. I'd been asking them where they want to close and wait for an email. How messy.
This must be what Jack means by being able to, by doing it all wrong and still being able to pull it off. Embarrassing but enlightening."
All right, so let me back up here.

Steve:
Embarrassing but enlightening.

Jill:
So here's what I do, Chief, and this, I'm going to make it easy. This will be make it easy for you actually, because I bet you putting it on them could slow you down too. I want you to stay in control for the whole transaction.

Steve:
Yeah,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Make a Million Dollars a Year is the Career Path Number 5 Number One Request (LA 1875)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the natural springs area of Arkansas. Yes, Eureka Springs right now and we are loving it.

Steve:
Can't say enough positive stuff about this area, with the state and the country.

Jill:
You know what's funny, we had a day this last week where it was like, started off, it got sunny but it started off kind of dark and weird and it rained a little bit and it was, you know the show the Ozarks, how we all know it has that funky tint. They make the, there's like a filter on the cameras or something and make it kind of a dark, interesting blue? Would you call it blue background kind of thing? I swear it felt like that.

Steve:
It was that color.

Jill:
I was running around taking pictures, I'm like, "That's real." Now I get the Ozarks show and I always thought, why do they make it look so dark? But by the way, right now we're sitting in a beautiful, sunny day. Blue sky, it's gorgeous so it's not always like that, but I get it. It was really cool.

Steve:
Today Jill and I are going to talk about how making a million dollars a year is the number one discussion point and request for this new career path class.

Jill:
There's kind of two things that came up because I want to share, to tell you, there's one other thing that everybody asks for. So it's important to know. I want leave a little teaser here. So when we went around the room the other day, everybody brought up two things and one is the money and I'll tell you the other one in a minute.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. And last year a ton of people came to us, came to Jill and I requesting for help getting their first mailer out or just getting consistency in doing mailers or mailer type stuff. Well enough people came to us. Jill and I decided to turn over our own mailer department to our employees to allow them to do that. So we call it concierge data and now it's called concierge data plus, you can completely and entirely outsource doing a mailer to this department and it's a subdepartment of offers2owners.com. Or if you're having trouble getting the first one out, check it out. It's very, very efficient. And now we process a ton of orders, more and more every single month.

Jill:
All right, Chief wrote, "As a seller, how do you ask a buyer, how do you ask a buyer close, as a seller how do you ask a buyer to close through your selected title company? Or is it just customary for the seller to choose? It's a little late for me to be inquiring about this, but I've been letting, or should I say making the buyer's agent find one. Now that I say it out loud pretty sure I'm doing it completely wrong. I need to be sending them somewhere specific, right? My thought was it doesn't really matter to me and it's all about the same price so let them have it in case they have people they like to close through. It was one less thing I had to set up. Now I see why all the buyer's agents attitude seemed to change a little bit after their clients have signed. I'm making them do my job accidentally but sure enough, they'd sign and I'd been letting them take it from there. I'd been asking them where they want to close and wait for an email. How messy.
This must be what Jack means by being able to, by doing it all wrong and still being able to pull it off. Embarrassing but enlightening."
All right, so let me back up here.

Steve:
Embarrassing but enlightening.

Jill:
So here's what I do, Chief, and this, I'm going to make it easy. This will be make it easy for you actually, because I bet you putting it on them could slow you down too. I want you to stay in control for the whole transaction.

Steve:
Yeah,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/19/how-to-make-a-million-dollars-a-year-is-the-career-path-number-5-number-one-request-la-1875/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4s80gk2g3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/02a2d2dc-1738-48de-88b8-1d2ab72aaeae.mp3" length="16171980" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Value of Selling Land with Home Made Signs and Neighbor Letters (LA 1874)</title><itunes:title>The Value of Selling Land with Home Made Signs and Neighbor Letters (LA 1874)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Value of Selling Land with Home Made Signs and Neighbor Letters (LA 1874)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Ozark Mountains.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
We are technically in the Ozarks here in Eureka Springs.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the value of selling land with homemade signs, the kind you put in your yard, and neighbor letters.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community, landinvestors.com, it's free. And I hope we have a full blown commercial printing company that Jill and I own exclusively called Offers2Owners, the number two, owners.com. All we do is send out blind offers for people who are buying real estate. Whether you remember or not, go to offers2owners.com and check it all out. We process between six or 700,000 units a month, maybe 1.2 million a month. It works.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, it also has other products there. If you need help with getting the data, downloading the data, scrubbing the data, all of that, there's full service options there too that we can really help you out with.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
So back to the question Thomas wrote. So I know Jack and Jill say not to use your home address, because those change, I've been to the [inaudible 00:01:24] for 28 years and I don't have any plans to move. Is there any reason I can't use it? I got one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. You choose life.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Do you really want to have all these offers going out there and have everyone know where you live, look up what your house is worth, that thing? I don't think that's the right-

Steven Jack Butala:
So yesterday I said there's a theme to this week's questions and the theme is-

Jill DeWit:
Do these questions.

Steven Jack Butala:
Please go through the Land Academy 3.0. Jill and I did not slap this program together and say, "Yeah, I don't know, should you use your home address or should you go get a mailbox type address? I'm going to choose a letter." That's not what...

Jill DeWit:
We're thinking of you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Years, I spent years using my home address and it's all bad. And then I realized I should get or use a box that I've had for it during the same time instead and it made my life a lot more sane. So while we don't explain all the reasons why we ask you to do stuff in these education programs, just please trust us because we know what we're doing.

Jill DeWit:
And I get it. You know what's funny, Thomas? Because we all know Warren Buffett still lives in the same house he lived in back in the fill in the blank day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Does he though?

Jill DeWit:
Good question. My understanding is he does. Well this is true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can you imagine if he went home there every day?

Jill DeWit:
Rumor has it, here's what I'd like, rumor has it his assistant every morning or every night at whatever, makes sure he has his $2.89. You know the story, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I just think this is all marketing.

Jill DeWit:
For the McDonald's drive through that he gets?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, you don't buy it.

Steven Jack Butala:
First of all, a guy that age eating meal at McDonald's is bad. It's a bad idea.

Jill DeWit:
Well there is that. That's true. So yeah, does he though?

Steven Jack Butala:
And a multi billionaire like that should have a few bucks in his pocket.

Jill DeWit:
And a few houses.

Steven Jack Butala:
So no, I'm sorry I don't buy it for one second. I think the publicity and the media.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just the media. What if the other guy? Then more-

Jill DeWit:
You're a little pessimistic today. You're a little pissy today.

Steven Jack Butala:
I just don't... I'm not pissy.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Value of Selling Land with Home Made Signs and Neighbor Letters (LA 1874)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Ozark Mountains.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
We are technically in the Ozarks here in Eureka Springs.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the value of selling land with homemade signs, the kind you put in your yard, and neighbor letters.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community, landinvestors.com, it's free. And I hope we have a full blown commercial printing company that Jill and I own exclusively called Offers2Owners, the number two, owners.com. All we do is send out blind offers for people who are buying real estate. Whether you remember or not, go to offers2owners.com and check it all out. We process between six or 700,000 units a month, maybe 1.2 million a month. It works.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, it also has other products there. If you need help with getting the data, downloading the data, scrubbing the data, all of that, there's full service options there too that we can really help you out with.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
So back to the question Thomas wrote. So I know Jack and Jill say not to use your home address, because those change, I've been to the [inaudible 00:01:24] for 28 years and I don't have any plans to move. Is there any reason I can't use it? I got one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. You choose life.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Do you really want to have all these offers going out there and have everyone know where you live, look up what your house is worth, that thing? I don't think that's the right-

Steven Jack Butala:
So yesterday I said there's a theme to this week's questions and the theme is-

Jill DeWit:
Do these questions.

Steven Jack Butala:
Please go through the Land Academy 3.0. Jill and I did not slap this program together and say, "Yeah, I don't know, should you use your home address or should you go get a mailbox type address? I'm going to choose a letter." That's not what...

Jill DeWit:
We're thinking of you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Years, I spent years using my home address and it's all bad. And then I realized I should get or use a box that I've had for it during the same time instead and it made my life a lot more sane. So while we don't explain all the reasons why we ask you to do stuff in these education programs, just please trust us because we know what we're doing.

Jill DeWit:
And I get it. You know what's funny, Thomas? Because we all know Warren Buffett still lives in the same house he lived in back in the fill in the blank day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Does he though?

Jill DeWit:
Good question. My understanding is he does. Well this is true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can you imagine if he went home there every day?

Jill DeWit:
Rumor has it, here's what I'd like, rumor has it his assistant every morning or every night at whatever, makes sure he has his $2.89. You know the story, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I just think this is all marketing.

Jill DeWit:
For the McDonald's drive through that he gets?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, you don't buy it.

Steven Jack Butala:
First of all, a guy that age eating meal at McDonald's is bad. It's a bad idea.

Jill DeWit:
Well there is that. That's true. So yeah, does he though?

Steven Jack Butala:
And a multi billionaire like that should have a few bucks in his pocket.

Jill DeWit:
And a few houses.

Steven Jack Butala:
So no, I'm sorry I don't buy it for one second. I think the publicity and the media.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just the media. What if the other guy? Then more-

Jill DeWit:
You're a little pessimistic today. You're a little pissy today.

Steven Jack Butala:
I just don't... I'm not pissy.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/18/the-value-of-selling-land-with-home-made-signs-and-neighbor-letters-la-1874/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">raegRols_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0e9c5dad-6760-4ab4-8734-cb0c543b5d87.mp3" length="12333382" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investing from the Road Week Five Update: Locals Love to Tell Their Land Stories (LA 1873)</title><itunes:title>Land Investing from the Road Week Five Update: Locals Love to Tell Their Land Stories (LA 1873)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Investing from the Road Week Five Update: Locals Love to Tell Their Land Stories (LA 1873)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit :
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit :
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I was trying to think of something special and unique about them, and I think the best thing that's special and unique about them is the springs and the people and we're going to get catch up. But I'll get some more stuff here to share.

Steven Jack Butala:
We are absolutely having a blast. Eureka Springs, if you've never been, please put it on your list. It's lurk around every bend and be amazed kind of place.

Jill DeWit :
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Land Investing from the Road. This is week five and this is our update. She and I are going to talk about how local people love to talk about their land stories.

Jill DeWit :
Oh, it's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody's got a land story.

Jill DeWit :
It's so funny. We're going to share a lot more on that. It'll be good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now, Jill and I instruct every quarter, a closed class called Career Path. We're in Career Path number five right now. If you're interested in buying and selling land as a career or you're already doing it and you want to improve, check us out at landacademy/careerpath.

Jill DeWit :
Number five is in process and number six will be coming in January, probably like the third week of January, 2023 is my goal. Okay, so back to the question here. Brett wrote, "In Land Academy, the Land Academy program 3.0, they cover that your first transactions can be done through your personal name rather than an LLC, et cetera. The guideline for that was 10 transactions. With that being said, is there a pro or a con to doing this business through my name at first rather than an LLC? Or should I pursue creating an LLC first before conducting any sort of land investing?" I'm not sure why he is asking it when he just kind of answered it at the beginning. Okay. "But if anyone has experience with both or the input, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks."

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, so here's the thing, and here's the reason I included this question. Either way is fine.

Jill DeWit :
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I tended to, especially the further now that we get into instructing Land Academy, Jill and I, try to make things more simple and give general and sometimes hard and fast rules just to make it simple. For the vast majority of people, doing 10 or so deals in your own name, not going through all the stuff that goes on with getting in an LLC. That works. If you already have an LLC, like many, many, many people do with a different company or something like that, you can use that one. But my real point in adding this is that, and there's a huge theme this week in these questions. Jill and I just didn't slap this together, this program. This Land Academy thing.

Jill DeWit :
Oh, The Land Academy thing?

Steven Jack Butala:
When she says-

Jill DeWit :
That's hilarious. That's so funny. Yeah. Take Land Academy with a grain of salt. Again, we only have 16,000 plus transactions. We're not sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of members, former members, current members, all that.

Jill DeWit :
Very successful.

Steven Jack Butala:
We didn't just say, "You know, 10 transactions sounds good," then go get an LLC.

Jill DeWit :
Yeah. Why not? I don't know. I could have said two, I said 10. I could've said a hundred. I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Look, I really mean you want to get your feet wet and there's other reasons that probably we should be more vocal about why we say things like 10,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Investing from the Road Week Five Update: Locals Love to Tell Their Land Stories (LA 1873)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit :
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit :
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I was trying to think of something special and unique about them, and I think the best thing that's special and unique about them is the springs and the people and we're going to get catch up. But I'll get some more stuff here to share.

Steven Jack Butala:
We are absolutely having a blast. Eureka Springs, if you've never been, please put it on your list. It's lurk around every bend and be amazed kind of place.

Jill DeWit :
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Land Investing from the Road. This is week five and this is our update. She and I are going to talk about how local people love to talk about their land stories.

Jill DeWit :
Oh, it's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody's got a land story.

Jill DeWit :
It's so funny. We're going to share a lot more on that. It'll be good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now, Jill and I instruct every quarter, a closed class called Career Path. We're in Career Path number five right now. If you're interested in buying and selling land as a career or you're already doing it and you want to improve, check us out at landacademy/careerpath.

Jill DeWit :
Number five is in process and number six will be coming in January, probably like the third week of January, 2023 is my goal. Okay, so back to the question here. Brett wrote, "In Land Academy, the Land Academy program 3.0, they cover that your first transactions can be done through your personal name rather than an LLC, et cetera. The guideline for that was 10 transactions. With that being said, is there a pro or a con to doing this business through my name at first rather than an LLC? Or should I pursue creating an LLC first before conducting any sort of land investing?" I'm not sure why he is asking it when he just kind of answered it at the beginning. Okay. "But if anyone has experience with both or the input, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks."

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, so here's the thing, and here's the reason I included this question. Either way is fine.

Jill DeWit :
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I tended to, especially the further now that we get into instructing Land Academy, Jill and I, try to make things more simple and give general and sometimes hard and fast rules just to make it simple. For the vast majority of people, doing 10 or so deals in your own name, not going through all the stuff that goes on with getting in an LLC. That works. If you already have an LLC, like many, many, many people do with a different company or something like that, you can use that one. But my real point in adding this is that, and there's a huge theme this week in these questions. Jill and I just didn't slap this together, this program. This Land Academy thing.

Jill DeWit :
Oh, The Land Academy thing?

Steven Jack Butala:
When she says-

Jill DeWit :
That's hilarious. That's so funny. Yeah. Take Land Academy with a grain of salt. Again, we only have 16,000 plus transactions. We're not sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of members, former members, current members, all that.

Jill DeWit :
Very successful.

Steven Jack Butala:
We didn't just say, "You know, 10 transactions sounds good," then go get an LLC.

Jill DeWit :
Yeah. Why not? I don't know. I could have said two, I said 10. I could've said a hundred. I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Look, I really mean you want to get your feet wet and there's other reasons that probably we should be more vocal about why we say things like 10,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/17/land-investing-from-the-road-week-five-update-locals-love-to-tell-their-land-stories-la-1873/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">p_8wtVbEp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/397afa83-4d95-44a3-8580-59243579a729.mp3" length="13749788" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Taking Due Diligence with a Grain of Salt  (LA 1872)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Taking Due Diligence with a Grain of Salt  (LA 1872)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Taking Due Diligence with a Grain of Salt (LA 1872)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit coming to you from the home of the 1925. Can you believe it's almost a hundred years. Grand Old Opry.

Steve:
Nashville.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Nashville, Tennessee.

Steve:
Neither one of us feel like we're going to leave here anytime soon.

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steve:
Spent about one day in Ohio. That was good enough.

Jill DeWit:
That was good enough. We saw it.

Steve:
Tennessee's a blast. I wish we would've stopped in Kentucky.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. We'll go back. We have lots of things we're going to go back and see.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now hope-

Jill DeWit:
Hope.

Steve:
... Hope. Like yesterday. That we have solved phase one due diligence with a product called parcelfact.com. You quite simply put in the state, the county, and the assessor parcel number. The property in question pops up anywhere in the country and all the stuff that we think is important to complete phase one due diligence, the six As that we talk about in the program, is at your fingertips within seconds. Check it out. Parcel fact, F-A-C-T .com.

Jill DeWit:
Evan wrote, how does one... Oh, I'm testing this. How does one feel about mailing the counties that was hit by the hurricane in Florida?

Steve:
I put this in your show for a reason.

Jill DeWit:
I don't feel good about that. If I already sent the mail out already... I would explain. I didn't mean to do that. Who knew? I mean, this one out a week ago or a month ago, whatever it was. It was planned out before the hurricane. But now specifically targeting that community, I'm not a fan. Sure, there's people that would be loving the cash. I can see positive things to it, but the negative that could be taken from it, it is too great.

Steve:
Yeah. I think it's an outrage. I think you're directly kicking people when they're down and taking advantage of them.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steve:
Like Jill said, every time there's a forest fire in the Southwest, we get this question. We got a ton of these questions during Katrina. So no, I don't think this is okay at all.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steve:
At all. The only way it's okay is if you sent the mailer out. Actually we were in this situation where we sent the mailer out-

Jill DeWit:
And then a fire came.

Steve:
... Something happened, a fire came and then people are calling us back saying, What kind of person are you that, you know?

Jill DeWit:
Check the date, Look at the date on the letter.

Steve:
Over and over again.

Jill DeWit:
Who knew.

Steve:
We're so sorry. We buy property in the area. You can only explain that so many times.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steve:
Please don't do this. Not joking around. It's not okay. Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about taking due diligence with a grain salt. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So as I sit here in this bug infested bubble.

Steve:
There's nothing bubble about it.

Jill DeWit:
There's like a spider here. I don't know what that was over there. This here. I've got two mosquito things on, but we're having a ball.

Steve:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
We really love it here. Oh, my goodness. I want to talk about this today for just a few minutes because I wanted to make sure everyone's really clear on what's really needed. How much time you should be spending on due diligence. Because I think sometimes people do due diligence overkill. And I get it, but there's some things that are reliable, some things are not. And that's where the grain of salt comes in. So let me back up here. What are we talking about?
A deal comes back, I send out the mail. Purchase agreement comes back. Now I'm looking at the deal online. I'm like, Oh,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Taking Due Diligence with a Grain of Salt (LA 1872)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit coming to you from the home of the 1925. Can you believe it's almost a hundred years. Grand Old Opry.

Steve:
Nashville.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Nashville, Tennessee.

Steve:
Neither one of us feel like we're going to leave here anytime soon.

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steve:
Spent about one day in Ohio. That was good enough.

Jill DeWit:
That was good enough. We saw it.

Steve:
Tennessee's a blast. I wish we would've stopped in Kentucky.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. We'll go back. We have lots of things we're going to go back and see.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now hope-

Jill DeWit:
Hope.

Steve:
... Hope. Like yesterday. That we have solved phase one due diligence with a product called parcelfact.com. You quite simply put in the state, the county, and the assessor parcel number. The property in question pops up anywhere in the country and all the stuff that we think is important to complete phase one due diligence, the six As that we talk about in the program, is at your fingertips within seconds. Check it out. Parcel fact, F-A-C-T .com.

Jill DeWit:
Evan wrote, how does one... Oh, I'm testing this. How does one feel about mailing the counties that was hit by the hurricane in Florida?

Steve:
I put this in your show for a reason.

Jill DeWit:
I don't feel good about that. If I already sent the mail out already... I would explain. I didn't mean to do that. Who knew? I mean, this one out a week ago or a month ago, whatever it was. It was planned out before the hurricane. But now specifically targeting that community, I'm not a fan. Sure, there's people that would be loving the cash. I can see positive things to it, but the negative that could be taken from it, it is too great.

Steve:
Yeah. I think it's an outrage. I think you're directly kicking people when they're down and taking advantage of them.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steve:
Like Jill said, every time there's a forest fire in the Southwest, we get this question. We got a ton of these questions during Katrina. So no, I don't think this is okay at all.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steve:
At all. The only way it's okay is if you sent the mailer out. Actually we were in this situation where we sent the mailer out-

Jill DeWit:
And then a fire came.

Steve:
... Something happened, a fire came and then people are calling us back saying, What kind of person are you that, you know?

Jill DeWit:
Check the date, Look at the date on the letter.

Steve:
Over and over again.

Jill DeWit:
Who knew.

Steve:
We're so sorry. We buy property in the area. You can only explain that so many times.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steve:
Please don't do this. Not joking around. It's not okay. Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about taking due diligence with a grain salt. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So as I sit here in this bug infested bubble.

Steve:
There's nothing bubble about it.

Jill DeWit:
There's like a spider here. I don't know what that was over there. This here. I've got two mosquito things on, but we're having a ball.

Steve:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
We really love it here. Oh, my goodness. I want to talk about this today for just a few minutes because I wanted to make sure everyone's really clear on what's really needed. How much time you should be spending on due diligence. Because I think sometimes people do due diligence overkill. And I get it, but there's some things that are reliable, some things are not. And that's where the grain of salt comes in. So let me back up here. What are we talking about?
A deal comes back, I send out the mail. Purchase agreement comes back. Now I'm looking at the deal online. I'm like, Oh,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/14/jill-friday-taking-due-diligence-with-a-grain-of-salt-la-1872/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Z_9Ts5Y-R</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e6863eda-83e5-42b6-90c3-89ba99486101.mp3" length="13733929" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Hope is Not a Business Model (LA 1871)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Hope is Not a Business Model (LA 1871)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Hope is Not a Business Model (LA 1871)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Audio. Three, two.
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt. Broadcasting from... Wait until you hear this one. The Batman Building location.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWitt:
Yep. Wait until you hear about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Bat cave?

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, no. The most recognizable building in the city skyline is the AT&T Building, more commonly known as the Batman Building, because of the large pillars on either side of the structure that make it look like Batman.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, we got to go see that.

Jill DeWitt:
Located in downtown Nashville between 3rd and 4th Avenues, AT&T Building stands 33 stories tall and is the tallest building in the state of Tennessee.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's fantastic.

Jill DeWitt:
I know. That is a fun fact, specifically for Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're in Nashville, by the way.

Jill DeWitt:
Yes, and he loves-

Steven Jack Butala:
She fails to say that.

Jill DeWitt:
... Batman. So, there we go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's talk... Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about hope is not a business model. Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members at landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWitt:
Can I comment on the hope thing, by the way, real quick?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Why do you think it's... Every time I say it you laugh.

Jill DeWitt:
Well, because I didn't get to get my comment out before you went the next sentence, so I want to... The hope thing. People think luck is a strategy, too. Like, "Oh, how'd that all happen?"
"I don't know. Just got all lucky." No you didn't. You made it happen. And I think hope... We'll talk about it more. We'll get to this.
All right, I hope I pronounce this correctly. JaTisha wrote, Hello. So I got signed purchase agreement back in the mail and the seller left his phone number and no email. Multiple ties calling the number. It says the number you're calling is not accepting your call. So I found the guy on a search engine here and he's 90. That's probably true. He may not have an email. That's probably true. I've tried five, six other phone numbers of family members, but they're all disconnected. Aw.

Steven Jack Butala:
Lot of people had a lot to say in Discord about this, which is how I gauge whether or not we should choose questions to put them on the show. Boy, if I had a nickel.

Jill DeWitt:
What was the general consensus?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this is if I had a nickel.

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, why? Well, we have his address. Why don't we write him back? Because I've done that. If it's a really good deal, now he is interested. Right? And he signed it and sent it back. I would do my due diligence, see if I still want it, and then write him back and say I'm not be able to reach you at this phone number. Where can I reach you? Or you want to call me here? I'm available every evening between six and eight or whatever it is, the local time, and give him a different number or the direct number right to you and let him call you back.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, I understand that, Jill. That's Jill's personality type and that sometimes works.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
The real solution to this is to send out more mail, because this... I have had... I'm not going to try that hard.

Jill DeWitt:
Well, no, no. I'm not going to try that hard, too, but I'm still going to... I could have my team, when I say me, my team-

Steven Jack Butala:
Write a letter, I get it.

Jill DeWitt:
... Good for you. But doesn't hurt to write one letter back to the guy while you keep on moving on.

Steven Jack Butala:
What sucks is that these deals,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Hope is Not a Business Model (LA 1871)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Audio. Three, two.
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt. Broadcasting from... Wait until you hear this one. The Batman Building location.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWitt:
Yep. Wait until you hear about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Bat cave?

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, no. The most recognizable building in the city skyline is the AT&T Building, more commonly known as the Batman Building, because of the large pillars on either side of the structure that make it look like Batman.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, we got to go see that.

Jill DeWitt:
Located in downtown Nashville between 3rd and 4th Avenues, AT&T Building stands 33 stories tall and is the tallest building in the state of Tennessee.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's fantastic.

Jill DeWitt:
I know. That is a fun fact, specifically for Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're in Nashville, by the way.

Jill DeWitt:
Yes, and he loves-

Steven Jack Butala:
She fails to say that.

Jill DeWitt:
... Batman. So, there we go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's talk... Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about hope is not a business model. Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members at landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWitt:
Can I comment on the hope thing, by the way, real quick?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Why do you think it's... Every time I say it you laugh.

Jill DeWitt:
Well, because I didn't get to get my comment out before you went the next sentence, so I want to... The hope thing. People think luck is a strategy, too. Like, "Oh, how'd that all happen?"
"I don't know. Just got all lucky." No you didn't. You made it happen. And I think hope... We'll talk about it more. We'll get to this.
All right, I hope I pronounce this correctly. JaTisha wrote, Hello. So I got signed purchase agreement back in the mail and the seller left his phone number and no email. Multiple ties calling the number. It says the number you're calling is not accepting your call. So I found the guy on a search engine here and he's 90. That's probably true. He may not have an email. That's probably true. I've tried five, six other phone numbers of family members, but they're all disconnected. Aw.

Steven Jack Butala:
Lot of people had a lot to say in Discord about this, which is how I gauge whether or not we should choose questions to put them on the show. Boy, if I had a nickel.

Jill DeWitt:
What was the general consensus?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this is if I had a nickel.

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, why? Well, we have his address. Why don't we write him back? Because I've done that. If it's a really good deal, now he is interested. Right? And he signed it and sent it back. I would do my due diligence, see if I still want it, and then write him back and say I'm not be able to reach you at this phone number. Where can I reach you? Or you want to call me here? I'm available every evening between six and eight or whatever it is, the local time, and give him a different number or the direct number right to you and let him call you back.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, I understand that, Jill. That's Jill's personality type and that sometimes works.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
The real solution to this is to send out more mail, because this... I have had... I'm not going to try that hard.

Jill DeWitt:
Well, no, no. I'm not going to try that hard, too, but I'm still going to... I could have my team, when I say me, my team-

Steven Jack Butala:
Write a letter, I get it.

Jill DeWitt:
... Good for you. But doesn't hurt to write one letter back to the guy while you keep on moving on.

Steven Jack Butala:
What sucks is that these deals,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/13/jack-thursday-hope-is-not-a-business-model-la-1871/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zizt-YEWi</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/09159a7e-ccb7-47fb-aada-782648dddbe2.mp3" length="11743329" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Making Land Transactions Too Difficult (LA 1870)</title><itunes:title>Making Land Transactions Too Difficult (LA 1870)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Making Land Transactions Too Difficult (LA 1870)
Transcript:

Jill DeWit:
We didn't do our poses by the way.

Steven Butala:
I know. Want to do it now?

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
Rolling video. Three, two.
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the place for hot chicken.

Steven Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
Do you smell that?

Steven Butala:
Nashville's a hot chicken place?

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm. And you know what makes it extra hot? It's the extra layer, the thick coating of cayenne pepper. This is one of the things that Nashville's known for as hot chicken. So you better believe, this weekend.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I am getting some hot chicken. I need to know what this all about.

Steven Butala:
I think that should start tonight.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
What do you think?

Jill DeWit:
That would be great.

Steven Butala:
Jill had a little cold, but she doesn't have it now because-

Jill DeWit:
You know, hot chicken would probably get rid of it.

Steven Butala:
I think you had a Michigan cold.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe a Michigan or Ohio.

Steven Butala:
We can't, well it's probably the same thing.

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
I was constantly having cold and flu my entire childhood.

Jill DeWit:
Really?

Steven Butala:
I move to Arizona. Stopped. Completely stopped. Completely.

Jill DeWit:
Interesting. Thank you. Before we get into it, let's take a question-

Steven Butala:
Take a question posted by one of the members, on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to us needing extra help, that last final extra push, to get their mailer in the mail. So many people came to us with it. We created a product called Concierge Data. Check it out at offers2owners.com. We will do your mailer for you, right up to pricing it at the very end. Hundreds of people use this product by the way.

Jill DeWit:
Love it. All right. Peter C. wrote, and then I have a response to this too.
So good morning everyone. So one second, I'm trying to hold back a sneeze. Okay, so we have a good deal with a signed purchase agreement that we just supplied to get deal funding this morning. So a timing question. Do you guys wait to set things up with the title company until after you've confirmed that you have funding for your deal or, do you go ahead and set things up with the title company immediately?
So Kevin, our moderator, wrote in here, "If you rush to the title company, you'll need to get another purchase agreement signed when you get your funding partner lined up. I like to get the verbal agreement with the seller, and then get the funding partner on board. Then I have a PA, the purchase agreement, with the funding partner as buyer signed by the seller. Most funding partners would prefer I hold title in their name. Then I send it to the title company with all the contact information. I can do that in two to three days."
You honestly, personally, I like it when they already have it in title. I think that makes me happy. And if you, on your purchase agreement, have a version of an assignee or something like that, then you don't have to worry about it. Then I can come in as the assignee as the funder.

Steven Butala:
I completely agree with you. I don't necessarily agree with Kevin's way, although Kevin is very, very successful. He's a moderator. We know Kevin really well, and he's always in Discord all over the place. What Kevin's way doesn't accomplish is immediacy. So you want to tell the seller, "Yep, I'm opening escrow. Here's the escrow number, where you are going to move forward with this transaction, and please wait to you hear from Sally Smith, the escrow agent. She should be calling you today."
You can, and it's much easier to do this if you have an escrow agent you've done a bunch of de...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Making Land Transactions Too Difficult (LA 1870)
Transcript:

Jill DeWit:
We didn't do our poses by the way.

Steven Butala:
I know. Want to do it now?

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
Rolling video. Three, two.
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the place for hot chicken.

Steven Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
Do you smell that?

Steven Butala:
Nashville's a hot chicken place?

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm. And you know what makes it extra hot? It's the extra layer, the thick coating of cayenne pepper. This is one of the things that Nashville's known for as hot chicken. So you better believe, this weekend.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I am getting some hot chicken. I need to know what this all about.

Steven Butala:
I think that should start tonight.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
What do you think?

Jill DeWit:
That would be great.

Steven Butala:
Jill had a little cold, but she doesn't have it now because-

Jill DeWit:
You know, hot chicken would probably get rid of it.

Steven Butala:
I think you had a Michigan cold.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe a Michigan or Ohio.

Steven Butala:
We can't, well it's probably the same thing.

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
I was constantly having cold and flu my entire childhood.

Jill DeWit:
Really?

Steven Butala:
I move to Arizona. Stopped. Completely stopped. Completely.

Jill DeWit:
Interesting. Thank you. Before we get into it, let's take a question-

Steven Butala:
Take a question posted by one of the members, on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to us needing extra help, that last final extra push, to get their mailer in the mail. So many people came to us with it. We created a product called Concierge Data. Check it out at offers2owners.com. We will do your mailer for you, right up to pricing it at the very end. Hundreds of people use this product by the way.

Jill DeWit:
Love it. All right. Peter C. wrote, and then I have a response to this too.
So good morning everyone. So one second, I'm trying to hold back a sneeze. Okay, so we have a good deal with a signed purchase agreement that we just supplied to get deal funding this morning. So a timing question. Do you guys wait to set things up with the title company until after you've confirmed that you have funding for your deal or, do you go ahead and set things up with the title company immediately?
So Kevin, our moderator, wrote in here, "If you rush to the title company, you'll need to get another purchase agreement signed when you get your funding partner lined up. I like to get the verbal agreement with the seller, and then get the funding partner on board. Then I have a PA, the purchase agreement, with the funding partner as buyer signed by the seller. Most funding partners would prefer I hold title in their name. Then I send it to the title company with all the contact information. I can do that in two to three days."
You honestly, personally, I like it when they already have it in title. I think that makes me happy. And if you, on your purchase agreement, have a version of an assignee or something like that, then you don't have to worry about it. Then I can come in as the assignee as the funder.

Steven Butala:
I completely agree with you. I don't necessarily agree with Kevin's way, although Kevin is very, very successful. He's a moderator. We know Kevin really well, and he's always in Discord all over the place. What Kevin's way doesn't accomplish is immediacy. So you want to tell the seller, "Yep, I'm opening escrow. Here's the escrow number, where you are going to move forward with this transaction, and please wait to you hear from Sally Smith, the escrow agent. She should be calling you today."
You can, and it's much easier to do this if you have an escrow agent you've done a bunch of de...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/12/making-land-transactions-too-difficult-la-1870/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ddeqaLNR8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1edd6017-fc6a-485d-9aac-612e004b9073.mp3" length="12430861" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869)</title><itunes:title>How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869)
Transcript:

Steven:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hello.

Steven:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from not only where Oprah and Reese Witherspoon grew up but the birthplace of Bluegrass music.

Steven:
I'm sorry, Oprah's from Chicago.

Jill:
But she grew up here.

Steven:
Oh yeah?

Jill:
I'm just telling you what I just read. Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, I think I'm kidding and yeah, all grew up in Nashville, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift so even though-

Steven:
Today-

Jill:
So that's a fun fact that Jack didn't even know.

Steven:
Yeah, I wonder why I didn't know that.

Jill:
That's okay. That's why you have me.

Steven:
Today, Jill and I talk about how much energy have you put into your W2 jobs, so far in your life?

Jill:
This is scary.

Steven:
This is scary. It's a scary amount.

Jill:
No, I'm glad we're going to talk about this. So would you give the preface again from yesterday that you've mentioned.

Steven:
Jill and I were talking, sitting at a Wendy's restaurant somewhere in southern Ohio, one or two days ago. And there were some very, very energetic, intelligent young people working in Wendy's to try to fix on their own the soda machine. And I started thinking, what if these kids put this kind of energy into owning their own business or getting a college degree, or God forbid, buying and selling land?

Jill:
Yeah. So interesting.

Steven:
It was hard to watch. Jill and I were like, "God, these kids are brilliant."

Jill:
They were really getting into it.

Steven:
And then we started looked at each other and said, "Well, how long did you have a job like that? And how long did you work for somebody else?" And think about how much money you generated and how much energy you put into that to do well in that environment. And we both kind of had a tear in our eye.

Jill:
Yeah.

Steven:
Because it was a lot.

Jill:
And we'll talk more about that because I'm sure a lot of you listening are in that situation.

Steven:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, Jill and I own a very specific use commercial printing company to get your offers to owners in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. If you don't know about it, check it out. Go to the website and you will immediately see why it's so popular and why people use it.

Jill:
Yep. All right. Chase wrote, "I have noticed that two..." Or excuse me, "I've noticed that offers2owners has shown a significant decrease in the amount of mail sent in recent months. Any idea why?" This is interesting. And one of our members responded in here and I've got the response. Steven wrote, "I can't speak for everyone, but in my case, I loaded up on mail a while back and I'm just getting through it. I plan on loading up again as we get towards the end of the year, if I need to write off certain amount to get me under a tax bracket if I needed an expense." That's kind of interesting. But anyway, so it does ebb and flow even with us, our orders don't come in. We do bigger orders like quarterly, don't we? Not necessarily monthly.

Steven:
Oh two oh runs spec, oh two oh falls under my-

Jill:
Side of the sheet.

Steven:
Oh, yeah. My direction not Jill's, so I'll explain it to her while I explain it to you.

Jill:
Oh, thanks. I'm just going to be sit back, let me know. Let me know when I can talk.

Steven:
Enjoy the weather out here at the lake.

Jill:
Yeah, I will.

Steven:
We run specials intentionally at certain times of the year. And people that are successful at this and regularly sending mail know that it's not even. They know that everybody starts out saying, "Well, I'm going to send out 10,000 units of mail a month."
And then what happens is you get too many deals or you have an incredibly successful mailer and mayb...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Much Energy Have You Put Into Your W2 Jobs? (LA 1869)
Transcript:

Steven:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hello.

Steven:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from not only where Oprah and Reese Witherspoon grew up but the birthplace of Bluegrass music.

Steven:
I'm sorry, Oprah's from Chicago.

Jill:
But she grew up here.

Steven:
Oh yeah?

Jill:
I'm just telling you what I just read. Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, I think I'm kidding and yeah, all grew up in Nashville, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift so even though-

Steven:
Today-

Jill:
So that's a fun fact that Jack didn't even know.

Steven:
Yeah, I wonder why I didn't know that.

Jill:
That's okay. That's why you have me.

Steven:
Today, Jill and I talk about how much energy have you put into your W2 jobs, so far in your life?

Jill:
This is scary.

Steven:
This is scary. It's a scary amount.

Jill:
No, I'm glad we're going to talk about this. So would you give the preface again from yesterday that you've mentioned.

Steven:
Jill and I were talking, sitting at a Wendy's restaurant somewhere in southern Ohio, one or two days ago. And there were some very, very energetic, intelligent young people working in Wendy's to try to fix on their own the soda machine. And I started thinking, what if these kids put this kind of energy into owning their own business or getting a college degree, or God forbid, buying and selling land?

Jill:
Yeah. So interesting.

Steven:
It was hard to watch. Jill and I were like, "God, these kids are brilliant."

Jill:
They were really getting into it.

Steven:
And then we started looked at each other and said, "Well, how long did you have a job like that? And how long did you work for somebody else?" And think about how much money you generated and how much energy you put into that to do well in that environment. And we both kind of had a tear in our eye.

Jill:
Yeah.

Steven:
Because it was a lot.

Jill:
And we'll talk more about that because I'm sure a lot of you listening are in that situation.

Steven:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, Jill and I own a very specific use commercial printing company to get your offers to owners in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. If you don't know about it, check it out. Go to the website and you will immediately see why it's so popular and why people use it.

Jill:
Yep. All right. Chase wrote, "I have noticed that two..." Or excuse me, "I've noticed that offers2owners has shown a significant decrease in the amount of mail sent in recent months. Any idea why?" This is interesting. And one of our members responded in here and I've got the response. Steven wrote, "I can't speak for everyone, but in my case, I loaded up on mail a while back and I'm just getting through it. I plan on loading up again as we get towards the end of the year, if I need to write off certain amount to get me under a tax bracket if I needed an expense." That's kind of interesting. But anyway, so it does ebb and flow even with us, our orders don't come in. We do bigger orders like quarterly, don't we? Not necessarily monthly.

Steven:
Oh two oh runs spec, oh two oh falls under my-

Jill:
Side of the sheet.

Steven:
Oh, yeah. My direction not Jill's, so I'll explain it to her while I explain it to you.

Jill:
Oh, thanks. I'm just going to be sit back, let me know. Let me know when I can talk.

Steven:
Enjoy the weather out here at the lake.

Jill:
Yeah, I will.

Steven:
We run specials intentionally at certain times of the year. And people that are successful at this and regularly sending mail know that it's not even. They know that everybody starts out saying, "Well, I'm going to send out 10,000 units of mail a month."
And then what happens is you get too many deals or you have an incredibly successful mailer and mayb...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/11/how-much-energy-have-you-put-into-your-w2-jobs-la-1869/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6wIL7--M_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a119b5fa-34be-4e74-89ce-02cd86c00d69.mp3" length="14328886" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investing from the Road: Update four RV 101 (LA 1868)</title><itunes:title>Land Investing from the Road: Update four RV 101 (LA 1868)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Investing from the Road: Update four RV 101 (LA 1868)
Transcript:

Steven:
Steven, Jill here.

Jill:
Hello.

Steven:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the country music capital of the planet.

Steven:
Couple days after Loretta Lynn passed too.

Jill:
I know.

Steven:
We'll check that out tonight.

Jill:
Yeah, we're in Nashville. In case you weren't sure.

Steven:
Today, Jill and I talk about, we've started this land investing from the road Monday, and so this is land investing from the road update number four and we're going to talk about RV 101 and how it applies to your land business.

Jill:
I want to know, can I look at your little calendar? Technically how many weeks has it been? So let's see, we left on the second, hold on poopy. So it's one full week, two full weeks, three full weeks, four full weeks. Tomorrow will be five full weeks that we've been gone. That's kind of cool.

Steven:
And neither one of us want to go back at all.

Jill:
I know. This is the problem.

Steven:
Not at all. Not one bit. In fact, we'll talk about it in the show.

Jill:
Okay, cool.

Steven:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, today is Monday. Jill and I instruct a handful of existing Land Academy members and sometimes non-members in-

Jill:
Our new members

Steven:
Advanced class. Yeah.

Jill:
Yeah. We-

Steven:
Called career path. We're recording this on Thursday. It airs on Monday.

Jill:
Career path starts in two days.

Steven:
That Wednesday. Yeah, there may or may not be a couple spots left. We'll see what happens.

Jill:
Exactly.

Steven:
If there are, what should they do?

Jill:
Okay, let me back this. So Career Path is our top level training/mentoring ten week program instructed live by us. And it happens every Wednesday. And this next session starts in two days. It starts on October 12th. As we are airing, I don't know if I have room, but if you're dying to get in, please send a note to support@landacademy.com and then say, Career Path, like exclamation point kind of thing. And my team, Brooklyn or I will give you a call back literally on Monday and we'll talk to you and see if we can squeeze you in. Let's just say that. Thanks. Now back to the question. Go ahead.

Steven:
So, really quickly before we start. We're outside because it's a pure perfect day in Nashville here in an amazing RV park. You can tell they're RV parks. If they cost $35, it's probably going to be okay. If they cost $90, it's going to be fantastic. And we're in one of the $90 ones.

Jill:
Yes.

Steven:
Behind us is a lake. We're right on the lake. All these spots are.

Jill:
Yes.

Steven:
And we're, after this, going to take our bikes down.

Jill:
Isn't that funny? Some people can't handle it. Like wait a minute, wait minute wait. You're spending a hundred bucks to sleep in your own bed and your own stuff and your own food and your own internet and your own this and your own that. Yeah. I'm paying a hundred bucks a night for a pad, a picnic table and a campfire ring. It's exactly-

Steven:
So, gets you thinking. Because if you buy the right piece of land, you could slap all this stuff down.

Jill:
Maybe you could. There's the thought. And last time I checked we know how to buy land.

Steven:
So most of you, vast majority are listening, not watching. But if you want to check us out on YouTube so you can laugh at us directly-

Jill:
You should.

Steven:
You should try that.

Jill:
You should see this. It's a beautiful day. Hello, Steve wrote, now that the economic market seems to be experiencing a change in fundamentals causing increases in real estate inventories due to fewer buyers... I haven't noticed that but I'm going to finish this in a minute. Are any of you considering creative deal structure instead of cash when buying and ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Investing from the Road: Update four RV 101 (LA 1868)
Transcript:

Steven:
Steven, Jill here.

Jill:
Hello.

Steven:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the country music capital of the planet.

Steven:
Couple days after Loretta Lynn passed too.

Jill:
I know.

Steven:
We'll check that out tonight.

Jill:
Yeah, we're in Nashville. In case you weren't sure.

Steven:
Today, Jill and I talk about, we've started this land investing from the road Monday, and so this is land investing from the road update number four and we're going to talk about RV 101 and how it applies to your land business.

Jill:
I want to know, can I look at your little calendar? Technically how many weeks has it been? So let's see, we left on the second, hold on poopy. So it's one full week, two full weeks, three full weeks, four full weeks. Tomorrow will be five full weeks that we've been gone. That's kind of cool.

Steven:
And neither one of us want to go back at all.

Jill:
I know. This is the problem.

Steven:
Not at all. Not one bit. In fact, we'll talk about it in the show.

Jill:
Okay, cool.

Steven:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know by now, today is Monday. Jill and I instruct a handful of existing Land Academy members and sometimes non-members in-

Jill:
Our new members

Steven:
Advanced class. Yeah.

Jill:
Yeah. We-

Steven:
Called career path. We're recording this on Thursday. It airs on Monday.

Jill:
Career path starts in two days.

Steven:
That Wednesday. Yeah, there may or may not be a couple spots left. We'll see what happens.

Jill:
Exactly.

Steven:
If there are, what should they do?

Jill:
Okay, let me back this. So Career Path is our top level training/mentoring ten week program instructed live by us. And it happens every Wednesday. And this next session starts in two days. It starts on October 12th. As we are airing, I don't know if I have room, but if you're dying to get in, please send a note to support@landacademy.com and then say, Career Path, like exclamation point kind of thing. And my team, Brooklyn or I will give you a call back literally on Monday and we'll talk to you and see if we can squeeze you in. Let's just say that. Thanks. Now back to the question. Go ahead.

Steven:
So, really quickly before we start. We're outside because it's a pure perfect day in Nashville here in an amazing RV park. You can tell they're RV parks. If they cost $35, it's probably going to be okay. If they cost $90, it's going to be fantastic. And we're in one of the $90 ones.

Jill:
Yes.

Steven:
Behind us is a lake. We're right on the lake. All these spots are.

Jill:
Yes.

Steven:
And we're, after this, going to take our bikes down.

Jill:
Isn't that funny? Some people can't handle it. Like wait a minute, wait minute wait. You're spending a hundred bucks to sleep in your own bed and your own stuff and your own food and your own internet and your own this and your own that. Yeah. I'm paying a hundred bucks a night for a pad, a picnic table and a campfire ring. It's exactly-

Steven:
So, gets you thinking. Because if you buy the right piece of land, you could slap all this stuff down.

Jill:
Maybe you could. There's the thought. And last time I checked we know how to buy land.

Steven:
So most of you, vast majority are listening, not watching. But if you want to check us out on YouTube so you can laugh at us directly-

Jill:
You should.

Steven:
You should try that.

Jill:
You should see this. It's a beautiful day. Hello, Steve wrote, now that the economic market seems to be experiencing a change in fundamentals causing increases in real estate inventories due to fewer buyers... I haven't noticed that but I'm going to finish this in a minute. Are any of you considering creative deal structure instead of cash when buying and ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/10/land-investing-from-the-road-update-four-rv-101-la-1868/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">WEfFu3eS0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2cec8c4d-59d0-4666-9c17-4ff402d8a862.mp3" length="19431762" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I Love Everything about Your Land But the Price  (LA 1867)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I Love Everything about Your Land But the Price  (LA 1867)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I Love Everything about Your Land But the Price (LA 1867)
Transcript:

Steve:
Video - three, two. Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the still amazingly nice weather, sweet Detroit, Michigan. Why did I just call it Sweet Detroit, Michigan? If you have not been downtown lately, Detroit, let me tell you, it's changed and it's awesome.

Steve:
Really is.

Jill:
Fancy restaurants and walking down the street, having a good time and shopping and yeah.

Steve:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about - I'm quoting her now. "I love everything about the land deal, except the price." Happens all the time. If you buy and sell a lot of property, you know this happens.

Jill:
Yep.

Steve:
If you're still in the beginning stages of your career here, get ready for it.

Jill:
Yep.

Steve:
Deal's awesome, too expensive.

Jill:
Yep. And as a side note for yesterday, the Happiness Lab is still existing, so that was kind of funny. Clearly Jack does not listen to that.

Steve:
No. Nor have I been invited to be on the show.

Jill:
No, no, that's okay.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land investors, one of our members of the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know that we have a site now and we've had it for several years called parcelfact.com. It allows you to look up an assessor's parcel number and find the property and all the things that we think as land investors, you need to know about to make a real quick first, phase one due diligence decision.

Jill:
Uhuh.

Steve:
Check it out. Parcelfact.com.

Jill:
Exactly. Okay. "Can someone with Land Academy experience, give me some advice on PATLive? I'm new to Land Academy and have the ability to answer my own calls from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM central standard time. I've been in sales for 40 plus years, so answering the phone is the easy part for me. However, if I'm on the phone, it will go to a vendor voicemail, which I want to avoid. I'm starting with a five to 6,000 unit mailer month and I'm going to wrap up to 10,000 plus units a month as the business income grows. My budget's tight, so I'm trying to get a price range on what your average spend is for a 10,000 unit mailer. Thanks in advance for your help."

Steve:
I think you're setting yourself up for serious success here. If you're going to answer the phone between seven and seven, it's 12 hours a day. I think that's a great start. I really would highly recommend, Jill, this is more your area than mine, to have yourself with an account with PATLive or whatever, so that if you do miss calls, which nobody wants; but it happens, especially in the beginning part of a mailer, then-

Jill:
They could roll over to PATLive. Or for whatever reason, you're not available every single day from seven to seven, you could just flip a switch and have them go to PATLive.

Steve:
No, I think you thought this out perfectly well. I love your five to 6,000 mailers a month and ramping up to 10,000. You're going to be successful.

Jill:
And taking the initial calls, you're just going to learn so much about this and sellers and develop your own script and tweak what you want PATLive to do for you and your business. I think it's awesome.

Steve:
Yeah.

Jill:
Don't change a thing. I know it might be a bit in the beginning, but just do it. And there's always waves when the mail hits; you know it. There's a couple crazy days, that's fine. And then it starts to trickle off. You're like, "ah, you know what? I can handle this." You'll be - you could do it because you're a professional - Sid, you could handle it.

Steve:
Yeah. Yes. Answer the phone. Seven hours a day is huge.

Jill:
Ten -

Steve:
What do you think -

Jill:
12. Yeah.

Steve:
What do you think [inaudible 00:03:41], he's asking at the end here, for 10,000 units.

Jill:
Oh,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I Love Everything about Your Land But the Price (LA 1867)
Transcript:

Steve:
Video - three, two. Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the still amazingly nice weather, sweet Detroit, Michigan. Why did I just call it Sweet Detroit, Michigan? If you have not been downtown lately, Detroit, let me tell you, it's changed and it's awesome.

Steve:
Really is.

Jill:
Fancy restaurants and walking down the street, having a good time and shopping and yeah.

Steve:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about - I'm quoting her now. "I love everything about the land deal, except the price." Happens all the time. If you buy and sell a lot of property, you know this happens.

Jill:
Yep.

Steve:
If you're still in the beginning stages of your career here, get ready for it.

Jill:
Yep.

Steve:
Deal's awesome, too expensive.

Jill:
Yep. And as a side note for yesterday, the Happiness Lab is still existing, so that was kind of funny. Clearly Jack does not listen to that.

Steve:
No. Nor have I been invited to be on the show.

Jill:
No, no, that's okay.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land investors, one of our members of the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope you know that we have a site now and we've had it for several years called parcelfact.com. It allows you to look up an assessor's parcel number and find the property and all the things that we think as land investors, you need to know about to make a real quick first, phase one due diligence decision.

Jill:
Uhuh.

Steve:
Check it out. Parcelfact.com.

Jill:
Exactly. Okay. "Can someone with Land Academy experience, give me some advice on PATLive? I'm new to Land Academy and have the ability to answer my own calls from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM central standard time. I've been in sales for 40 plus years, so answering the phone is the easy part for me. However, if I'm on the phone, it will go to a vendor voicemail, which I want to avoid. I'm starting with a five to 6,000 unit mailer month and I'm going to wrap up to 10,000 plus units a month as the business income grows. My budget's tight, so I'm trying to get a price range on what your average spend is for a 10,000 unit mailer. Thanks in advance for your help."

Steve:
I think you're setting yourself up for serious success here. If you're going to answer the phone between seven and seven, it's 12 hours a day. I think that's a great start. I really would highly recommend, Jill, this is more your area than mine, to have yourself with an account with PATLive or whatever, so that if you do miss calls, which nobody wants; but it happens, especially in the beginning part of a mailer, then-

Jill:
They could roll over to PATLive. Or for whatever reason, you're not available every single day from seven to seven, you could just flip a switch and have them go to PATLive.

Steve:
No, I think you thought this out perfectly well. I love your five to 6,000 mailers a month and ramping up to 10,000. You're going to be successful.

Jill:
And taking the initial calls, you're just going to learn so much about this and sellers and develop your own script and tweak what you want PATLive to do for you and your business. I think it's awesome.

Steve:
Yeah.

Jill:
Don't change a thing. I know it might be a bit in the beginning, but just do it. And there's always waves when the mail hits; you know it. There's a couple crazy days, that's fine. And then it starts to trickle off. You're like, "ah, you know what? I can handle this." You'll be - you could do it because you're a professional - Sid, you could handle it.

Steve:
Yeah. Yes. Answer the phone. Seven hours a day is huge.

Jill:
Ten -

Steve:
What do you think -

Jill:
12. Yeah.

Steve:
What do you think [inaudible 00:03:41], he's asking at the end here, for 10,000 units.

Jill:
Oh,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/07/jill-friday-i-love-everything-about-your-land-but-the-price-la-1867/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6-Q60tb1-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b45a24f0-93a9-4731-bdc6-bb3cda90a1c0.mp3" length="18793987" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why I&amp;#8217;m Never Satisfied in Business (LA 1866)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why I&amp;#8217;m Never Satisfied in Business (LA 1866)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why I'm Never Satisfied in Business (LA 1866)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Coming to you from Steven's hometown.

Steven Jack Butala:
Detroit, Michigan.

Jill DeWit:
Yup.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I are on a huge road trip, two month, maybe three month road trip. For about three or four weeks into it, we're in Detroit, coming off of our niece's wedding. Today's topic, well, it's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about why I'm never satisfied in business and why I think it's actually pretty healthy.

Jill DeWit:
Interesting.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on a Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Why? It actually really works. It helps us develop content that you might want to hear.

Jill DeWit:
I love it. That's funny. Okay. It's not funny, I love it. Anyway, Mike wrote, "My land agent has offered to pay for my mailers in order to give him the leads of properties I pass on. Anyone had that presented to them before?" I actually think that's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the worst idea I've ever heard.

Jill DeWit:
Why? Well yeah, now you're in bed with the guy and he's going to weigh in on all the stuff and whose phone number goes on and....

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going.

Jill DeWit:
...continue, and then so on and so on and so on. Hey, that's my deal. I did all the work, yeah, but I paid for the mail and we didn't get the yield out of it for.

Steven Jack Butala:
I paid for the mail and you bought this property without me. I paid for this mail. You bought this property without me. You made $38,000 and didn't get me involved in this deal. I could have sold that for $68,000. I'm never going to be a partner again. Screw you. That's how that ends.

Jill DeWit:
Okay! All right. Thank you very much.

Steven Jack Butala:
And that's me trying to really put a lid on it.

Jill DeWit:
Aw.

Steven Jack Butala:
All these side deals that you do in these handshake deals almost never work. If you're going to get in bed with somebody, get in bed with him like Jill and I, and be their partner.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks. Or do a deal together. My favorite thing, yeah, this, I get it. So it gets the leads. I mean, I got to say kudos to the guy for thinking of this, because he knows that those properties are gonna pass on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Why doesn't he just do his own mailer?

Jill DeWit:
Well, you know what's funny about that? That comes up over and over and over again with a lot of the buyers that I deal with, because they're going to buy the property and then do something with it. I'm like, you know you realize you're paying me as a middle man for you to now go sell this on terms or whatever you're going to do. You could have done this. They're like, "Yeah, but I don't want to."

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
No, they don't want it and that's okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
They just want it spoonfed.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I'm happy with that. And trust me too, by the way, it's been a while, but I would had several real estate agents in the past that we were doing [inaudible 00:02:59] were really big, doing some house academy stuff and they knew that I bought land, right? And so when they would get any kind of a land deal, they'd just call me and say, "Hey, this guy wants to sell it and I don't want to sell it for him, but I know you buy it. Here you go." I'm like, "Hold on a moment, why aren't you buying this?" Like, "No, I'm just not a land person too." They just would pass things off because it's not their thing. They don't get it, and that's fine. I appreciate them picking what they do and owning it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic: this is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about wh...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why I'm Never Satisfied in Business (LA 1866)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Coming to you from Steven's hometown.

Steven Jack Butala:
Detroit, Michigan.

Jill DeWit:
Yup.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I are on a huge road trip, two month, maybe three month road trip. For about three or four weeks into it, we're in Detroit, coming off of our niece's wedding. Today's topic, well, it's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about why I'm never satisfied in business and why I think it's actually pretty healthy.

Jill DeWit:
Interesting.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on a Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Why? It actually really works. It helps us develop content that you might want to hear.

Jill DeWit:
I love it. That's funny. Okay. It's not funny, I love it. Anyway, Mike wrote, "My land agent has offered to pay for my mailers in order to give him the leads of properties I pass on. Anyone had that presented to them before?" I actually think that's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the worst idea I've ever heard.

Jill DeWit:
Why? Well yeah, now you're in bed with the guy and he's going to weigh in on all the stuff and whose phone number goes on and....

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going.

Jill DeWit:
...continue, and then so on and so on and so on. Hey, that's my deal. I did all the work, yeah, but I paid for the mail and we didn't get the yield out of it for.

Steven Jack Butala:
I paid for the mail and you bought this property without me. I paid for this mail. You bought this property without me. You made $38,000 and didn't get me involved in this deal. I could have sold that for $68,000. I'm never going to be a partner again. Screw you. That's how that ends.

Jill DeWit:
Okay! All right. Thank you very much.

Steven Jack Butala:
And that's me trying to really put a lid on it.

Jill DeWit:
Aw.

Steven Jack Butala:
All these side deals that you do in these handshake deals almost never work. If you're going to get in bed with somebody, get in bed with him like Jill and I, and be their partner.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks. Or do a deal together. My favorite thing, yeah, this, I get it. So it gets the leads. I mean, I got to say kudos to the guy for thinking of this, because he knows that those properties are gonna pass on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Why doesn't he just do his own mailer?

Jill DeWit:
Well, you know what's funny about that? That comes up over and over and over again with a lot of the buyers that I deal with, because they're going to buy the property and then do something with it. I'm like, you know you realize you're paying me as a middle man for you to now go sell this on terms or whatever you're going to do. You could have done this. They're like, "Yeah, but I don't want to."

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
No, they don't want it and that's okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
They just want it spoonfed.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I'm happy with that. And trust me too, by the way, it's been a while, but I would had several real estate agents in the past that we were doing [inaudible 00:02:59] were really big, doing some house academy stuff and they knew that I bought land, right? And so when they would get any kind of a land deal, they'd just call me and say, "Hey, this guy wants to sell it and I don't want to sell it for him, but I know you buy it. Here you go." I'm like, "Hold on a moment, why aren't you buying this?" Like, "No, I'm just not a land person too." They just would pass things off because it's not their thing. They don't get it, and that's fine. I appreciate them picking what they do and owning it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic: this is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about wh...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/06/jack-thursday-why-im-never-satisfied-in-business-la-1866/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">A_Lt-oBRM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f32671f8-3b14-4f1c-b533-3155a48cf07d.mp3" length="13769988" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Buy Land the Right and Wrong Way (LA 1865)</title><itunes:title>How to Buy Land the Right and Wrong Way (LA 1865)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Buy Land the Right and Wrong Way (LA 1865)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from the coolest city right now, I think, where we are sitting in just north of Detroit. I'm having a ball.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
This has been so much fun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolute opposite of what I thought was going to happen.

Jill DeWit:
Let me tell you what I accidentally did, and then we'll start this show. I didn't realize until the other day that I've accidentally put you back in 1980... fill in the blank. So 1985 or four or something.

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably '83, but yes.

Jill DeWit:
'83. Okay. Here's what I've done. We are sitting in Steven's hometown having multiple fun evenings of dinner and shenanigans with all is high school buddies driving around in a version of his original high school Jeep. The only thing that's different is the color. Yours was red, this is silver. This is cracking me up.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're having a blast.

Jill DeWit:
And then I wonder, why is he behaving like a 17 year old? Gee. So you have to think about that one.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what the difference is, you. It's because you're here. We're having a blast.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'm keeping the wheels on the bus.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. Well, thanks for that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the right way to buy land and the wrong way. The root of this episode came from several conversations that Jill's been having with people who are being interviewed for-

Jill DeWit:
Interviewing us.

Steven Jack Butala:
... for Career Path.

Jill DeWit:
Well, yeah, and even people that are thinking about coming to Land Academy and learning what they're doing. It's interesting. And then all it does is make me say, "Oh, you're going to love this, and I'll tell you more in a minute."

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our investors on a land...

Jill DeWit:
How you doing there?

Steven Jack Butala:
How many times have I said this?

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can't say it right. One of our members on the Land Investors online community, it's free. Last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to get their offer campaigns in the mail, so we decided to launch a product called Concierge Data using the exact same employees that we've been using to do our mailers. It's called Concierge Data. They'll help you get your campaign in the mail. Whether you've done a hundred campaigns or zero, we're all set up for it. Take a look at offers2owners.com and give them a shout.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. All right. Aaron wrote, "I've got a $17,000 cash offer, no contingencies, nine day close, along with proof that this guy has $35,000 in his bank account last week for a five acre property on an Indian reservation, which also happens to be near some pretty nice non-reservation lakes. The same five acres not on the reservation would be worth $40,000. This one's a $17,000 offer.
"I get an email that the buyer's asking me to sign a cancellation agreement because he found out through one of the neighbors that one of the other neighbors is a drug dealer. Are they actually a drug dealer? Who knows? Maybe. The first neighbor just might not want someone to buy the property, which is true.
"Would you, A, sign it and elicit ASAP, B, spend $100 to get an attorney to write them a letter explaining how I agreed to buy it, but that I'll let them off the hook, but I'm keeping $1,000 earnest money, three, engage my small town attorney and try to make him buy it or, D, something else? My inclination is number one, A, but it pisses me off how this has happened. Plus now everyone's going to wonder why it went back on the market."]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Buy Land the Right and Wrong Way (LA 1865)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from the coolest city right now, I think, where we are sitting in just north of Detroit. I'm having a ball.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
This has been so much fun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolute opposite of what I thought was going to happen.

Jill DeWit:
Let me tell you what I accidentally did, and then we'll start this show. I didn't realize until the other day that I've accidentally put you back in 1980... fill in the blank. So 1985 or four or something.

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably '83, but yes.

Jill DeWit:
'83. Okay. Here's what I've done. We are sitting in Steven's hometown having multiple fun evenings of dinner and shenanigans with all is high school buddies driving around in a version of his original high school Jeep. The only thing that's different is the color. Yours was red, this is silver. This is cracking me up.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're having a blast.

Jill DeWit:
And then I wonder, why is he behaving like a 17 year old? Gee. So you have to think about that one.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what the difference is, you. It's because you're here. We're having a blast.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'm keeping the wheels on the bus.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. Well, thanks for that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the right way to buy land and the wrong way. The root of this episode came from several conversations that Jill's been having with people who are being interviewed for-

Jill DeWit:
Interviewing us.

Steven Jack Butala:
... for Career Path.

Jill DeWit:
Well, yeah, and even people that are thinking about coming to Land Academy and learning what they're doing. It's interesting. And then all it does is make me say, "Oh, you're going to love this, and I'll tell you more in a minute."

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our investors on a land...

Jill DeWit:
How you doing there?

Steven Jack Butala:
How many times have I said this?

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can't say it right. One of our members on the Land Investors online community, it's free. Last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to get their offer campaigns in the mail, so we decided to launch a product called Concierge Data using the exact same employees that we've been using to do our mailers. It's called Concierge Data. They'll help you get your campaign in the mail. Whether you've done a hundred campaigns or zero, we're all set up for it. Take a look at offers2owners.com and give them a shout.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. All right. Aaron wrote, "I've got a $17,000 cash offer, no contingencies, nine day close, along with proof that this guy has $35,000 in his bank account last week for a five acre property on an Indian reservation, which also happens to be near some pretty nice non-reservation lakes. The same five acres not on the reservation would be worth $40,000. This one's a $17,000 offer.
"I get an email that the buyer's asking me to sign a cancellation agreement because he found out through one of the neighbors that one of the other neighbors is a drug dealer. Are they actually a drug dealer? Who knows? Maybe. The first neighbor just might not want someone to buy the property, which is true.
"Would you, A, sign it and elicit ASAP, B, spend $100 to get an attorney to write them a letter explaining how I agreed to buy it, but that I'll let them off the hook, but I'm keeping $1,000 earnest money, three, engage my small town attorney and try to make him buy it or, D, something else? My inclination is number one, A, but it pisses me off how this has happened. Plus now everyone's going to wonder why it went back on the market."]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/05/how-to-buy-land-the-right-and-wrong-way-la-1865/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QF_W4Xxaa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/394eefe0-0a54-4d71-bb66-d40307aa09c5.mp3" length="13561743" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Real Estate Lessons Learned From Detroit&amp;#8217;s Apparent Comeback (LA 1864)</title><itunes:title>Real Estate Lessons Learned From Detroit&amp;#8217;s Apparent Comeback (LA 1864)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Real Estate Lessons Learned From Detroit's Apparent Comeback (LA 1864)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome motor city, Detroit. Technically, I'm not really in Detroit right now. We're a little bit Do North.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do North.

Jill DeWit:
... of Detroit, right along Lake St. Clair.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Good, you're getting it.

Jill DeWit:
Thank very much. I'm getting it. Learning my way around a little bit and it's amazing. And boy, do you people here in Detroit drive fast?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is someone from Los Angeles.

Jill DeWit:
I thought we drove nuts in LA. I was like, "I got to up my game to keep up with you all." It's impressive.

Steven Jack Butala:
I forgot. But yeah, it's always been like that.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Man, you guys drive fast. And man, do you have a lot of cool cars around. It's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the real estate lessons we've learned in the short time that we've been here from Detroit's apparent comeback.

Jill DeWit:
It's amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have to tell you that we've been in the Detroit area for two days and my opinion has done a 180 degree turn.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've been knocking on Detroit and knocking Detroit down on this show since 2015 and it's over. I'm so impressed by what we saw over the last few days to the point where we will be attending the Lions game. One of my buddies is a nicest thing ever.

Jill DeWit:
Well, yeah, when this airs, we will have gone to the Lions game two days ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I was going to explain that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
So this airs on Tuesday, but we will see this Sunday prior to Lion's game and I hope they win. But while you're listening to this, you will know.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. And Jill gets to sit across and stare at Pete Carroll.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because they're playing Seattle.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Anyway, to the point where when I lived here when I was a kid, it was very, very unusual or difficult for a lot of reasons to go downtown to a baseball game, and the football stadium wasn't even located here. It was located in way northern suburb. So, I can't wait. We were down there for dinner last night. I can't wait to go back there again. It's so completely redone. And in the show we're going to talk about why and the people that we went to dinner with explained it to us and it's a great story.
And what we can take from it is how to create equity in real estate, which we do, but with every land transaction we do.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members in the landinvestors.com, online community's free, and I hope you know that we have a full blown commercial printing company to help you get offers to owners out in the mail. In fact, let's call Offers the number two owners.com. We process between 500,000 and a million offers a month, and to get you, and if you're a member or not a member of Atlantic Academy to get your offers in front of offersowners.com.

Jill DeWit:
Megan Mote. "Hey guys, quick question. We received a signed purchase agreement back and after further investigation we decided we do not want it all together. We reached out to the buyer and said, "We're not interested at this time," and they replied, "Then why send a purchase agreement in the first place then?" Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reply to that? I tried searching the groups for this topic [inaudible 00:03:23] I can find it if this has been spoken about already, please help me in the right direction. Thanks so much." You know what I would do?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nothing.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Real Estate Lessons Learned From Detroit's Apparent Comeback (LA 1864)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome motor city, Detroit. Technically, I'm not really in Detroit right now. We're a little bit Do North.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do North.

Jill DeWit:
... of Detroit, right along Lake St. Clair.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Good, you're getting it.

Jill DeWit:
Thank very much. I'm getting it. Learning my way around a little bit and it's amazing. And boy, do you people here in Detroit drive fast?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is someone from Los Angeles.

Jill DeWit:
I thought we drove nuts in LA. I was like, "I got to up my game to keep up with you all." It's impressive.

Steven Jack Butala:
I forgot. But yeah, it's always been like that.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Man, you guys drive fast. And man, do you have a lot of cool cars around. It's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the real estate lessons we've learned in the short time that we've been here from Detroit's apparent comeback.

Jill DeWit:
It's amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have to tell you that we've been in the Detroit area for two days and my opinion has done a 180 degree turn.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've been knocking on Detroit and knocking Detroit down on this show since 2015 and it's over. I'm so impressed by what we saw over the last few days to the point where we will be attending the Lions game. One of my buddies is a nicest thing ever.

Jill DeWit:
Well, yeah, when this airs, we will have gone to the Lions game two days ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I was going to explain that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
So this airs on Tuesday, but we will see this Sunday prior to Lion's game and I hope they win. But while you're listening to this, you will know.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. And Jill gets to sit across and stare at Pete Carroll.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because they're playing Seattle.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Anyway, to the point where when I lived here when I was a kid, it was very, very unusual or difficult for a lot of reasons to go downtown to a baseball game, and the football stadium wasn't even located here. It was located in way northern suburb. So, I can't wait. We were down there for dinner last night. I can't wait to go back there again. It's so completely redone. And in the show we're going to talk about why and the people that we went to dinner with explained it to us and it's a great story.
And what we can take from it is how to create equity in real estate, which we do, but with every land transaction we do.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members in the landinvestors.com, online community's free, and I hope you know that we have a full blown commercial printing company to help you get offers to owners out in the mail. In fact, let's call Offers the number two owners.com. We process between 500,000 and a million offers a month, and to get you, and if you're a member or not a member of Atlantic Academy to get your offers in front of offersowners.com.

Jill DeWit:
Megan Mote. "Hey guys, quick question. We received a signed purchase agreement back and after further investigation we decided we do not want it all together. We reached out to the buyer and said, "We're not interested at this time," and they replied, "Then why send a purchase agreement in the first place then?" Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reply to that? I tried searching the groups for this topic [inaudible 00:03:23] I can find it if this has been spoken about already, please help me in the right direction. Thanks so much." You know what I would do?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nothing.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/04/real-estate-lessons-learned-from-detroits-apparent-comeback-la-1864/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">FYuEAxtnx</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7deb1b8c-888d-45b8-8a42-361da8ed532d.mp3" length="11925559" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investing From the Road: Update Number 3 (LA 1863)</title><itunes:title>Land Investing From the Road: Update Number 3 (LA 1863)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Investing From the Road: Update Number 3 (LA 1863)
Transcript:

Speaker 1:
Steven, Jill here.

Speaker 2:
Hello.

Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Speaker 2:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from Hall, the MotorCity from Detroit.

Speaker 1:
Today Jill and I talk about land investing from the road and this is update number three. We started in Arizona, we worked our way across the country. Spent way too much time because we were having a blast in Colorado. Didn't spend too much time, but had a blast in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin.

Speaker 2:
So last week when we were recording, we were coming to you from Traverse City, Michigan. As you can see, we didn't make it that far. We have a lot of family to see and we're actually having a good time. You know what? We have a lot of family to see and the weather has been cooperative. And those of you who know Michigan, especially know the northern parts, it's so pretty with your lakes. It's just awesome. My favorite's been Harbor Springs now. Now I moved, I keep changing my favorite places.

Speaker 1:
There's a huge, huge gap between the sale prices for houses and sale prices for land, which is great for us.

Speaker 2:
It's true.

Speaker 1:
So the whole time that we've been doing this, Jill and I have been researching land, land values, all the way, every time we get in a car. So I've come up personally with a bunch of places I want to send mail throughout.

Speaker 2:
Yeah. Isn't that interesting? So wait, let me just go... I want to continue that thought for just a minute. We're on the north west side of Lake-

Speaker 1:
St. Clair.

Speaker 2:
St. Clair, okay. And I've noticed homes around here. You can get a home for $200 000 to $300,000 and then there's lots for $200 000 to $300,000. So you're right, these numbers being all over the map are good for us.

Speaker 1:
It is great for us. Where we're sitting is not a place you want to buy land at all. But there have been places on the way here where you got 5, 6, 7 and mostly upstate Michigan, we call it up north here, $800,000 houses. And then lots are on the MLS for $20,000 in the same vicinity. So those are great places to send mail.

Speaker 2:
Well the Michigan started to come out there for a second.

Speaker 1:
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2:
Yeah. I like it.

Speaker 1:
I'm not happy about it.

Speaker 2:
It's good.

Speaker 1:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope by now Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a one on one class called Career Path. So it's for people who, this is already your career or you want it to be career called Career Path. I think Jill, you got a class coming up, right?

Speaker 2:
And by the way, October 12th, as this launches we are 10 days out. I may still have slots for recording, I do. As of, when this is releasing, I'm not sure. But if this is something that you really think about, please schedule a call with me and you could actually schedule a call with me. Just go to landacademy.com/careerpath, scroll down and there's a spot to click on and schedule a call and I'll call you. If you think, "Ah, shoot. You know what Jill? I think this is the direction we're going. I think I'm ready for it or I just don't want to wait that long to get ramped up. I got this. How fast can I get to your level?" That's who Career Path is for and I will happily have a chat with you and even Jack too.

Speaker 1:
Or, "Haha, we passed you guys a long time ago, but we could use your advice."

Speaker 2:
Oh, not usually that, but that's okay. Anyway, just to click on that, schedule a call and I'll have a chat with you and we'll figure it out. So, thank you. All right, so back to the question Kim wrote, "I have a purchase agreement signed and there are three owners. The seller I'm talking has stated he has talked with ma...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Investing From the Road: Update Number 3 (LA 1863)
Transcript:

Speaker 1:
Steven, Jill here.

Speaker 2:
Hello.

Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Speaker 2:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from Hall, the MotorCity from Detroit.

Speaker 1:
Today Jill and I talk about land investing from the road and this is update number three. We started in Arizona, we worked our way across the country. Spent way too much time because we were having a blast in Colorado. Didn't spend too much time, but had a blast in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin.

Speaker 2:
So last week when we were recording, we were coming to you from Traverse City, Michigan. As you can see, we didn't make it that far. We have a lot of family to see and we're actually having a good time. You know what? We have a lot of family to see and the weather has been cooperative. And those of you who know Michigan, especially know the northern parts, it's so pretty with your lakes. It's just awesome. My favorite's been Harbor Springs now. Now I moved, I keep changing my favorite places.

Speaker 1:
There's a huge, huge gap between the sale prices for houses and sale prices for land, which is great for us.

Speaker 2:
It's true.

Speaker 1:
So the whole time that we've been doing this, Jill and I have been researching land, land values, all the way, every time we get in a car. So I've come up personally with a bunch of places I want to send mail throughout.

Speaker 2:
Yeah. Isn't that interesting? So wait, let me just go... I want to continue that thought for just a minute. We're on the north west side of Lake-

Speaker 1:
St. Clair.

Speaker 2:
St. Clair, okay. And I've noticed homes around here. You can get a home for $200 000 to $300,000 and then there's lots for $200 000 to $300,000. So you're right, these numbers being all over the map are good for us.

Speaker 1:
It is great for us. Where we're sitting is not a place you want to buy land at all. But there have been places on the way here where you got 5, 6, 7 and mostly upstate Michigan, we call it up north here, $800,000 houses. And then lots are on the MLS for $20,000 in the same vicinity. So those are great places to send mail.

Speaker 2:
Well the Michigan started to come out there for a second.

Speaker 1:
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2:
Yeah. I like it.

Speaker 1:
I'm not happy about it.

Speaker 2:
It's good.

Speaker 1:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope by now Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a one on one class called Career Path. So it's for people who, this is already your career or you want it to be career called Career Path. I think Jill, you got a class coming up, right?

Speaker 2:
And by the way, October 12th, as this launches we are 10 days out. I may still have slots for recording, I do. As of, when this is releasing, I'm not sure. But if this is something that you really think about, please schedule a call with me and you could actually schedule a call with me. Just go to landacademy.com/careerpath, scroll down and there's a spot to click on and schedule a call and I'll call you. If you think, "Ah, shoot. You know what Jill? I think this is the direction we're going. I think I'm ready for it or I just don't want to wait that long to get ramped up. I got this. How fast can I get to your level?" That's who Career Path is for and I will happily have a chat with you and even Jack too.

Speaker 1:
Or, "Haha, we passed you guys a long time ago, but we could use your advice."

Speaker 2:
Oh, not usually that, but that's okay. Anyway, just to click on that, schedule a call and I'll have a chat with you and we'll figure it out. So, thank you. All right, so back to the question Kim wrote, "I have a purchase agreement signed and there are three owners. The seller I'm talking has stated he has talked with ma...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/10/03/land-investing-from-the-road-update-number-3-la-1863/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">oBNS7PA1K</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1d658591-20b3-4a56-aa7b-4de6299d44a7.mp3" length="18174157" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; After 30 days We are Getting Land Deals Done From the Road  (LA 1862)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; After 30 days We are Getting Land Deals Done From the Road  (LA 1862)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - After 30 days We are Getting Land Deals Done From the Road (LA 1862)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Three, two... Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit broadcasting from one of the largest football rivalry states in the country. As this airs, it is Friday, September 30th, I happen to know that Michigan State will play Maryland tomorrow and U of M will play Iowa. And in case you're not sure, the big rivalry game between the two Michigan, Michigan and Michigan State, will happen on October 29th this year. So just getting that out of the way. Boy, have I learned, there's a big difference whether you wear green, or blue and gold around here, green and white, or blue and gold. And we wear green and white, and I've bought more green and white.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've earned it, by the way. A lot of people wear those colors, they don't know anything. I don't understand that. People I've met, "Oh, I'm a Michigan fan." Really? Why'd you go there? Oh no, I'm just a Michigan fan, diehard Michigan fan.

Jill K DeWit:
Anyway, it's been fun. Southern California wasn't as much into it as... Oh, no. Not like here.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think they [inaudible 00:01:35]

Jill K DeWit:
USC, UCLA.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sports are not their integral part of the world there. Not just Michigan, everyone is Green Bays up here, all over the Midwest.

Jill K DeWit:
You don't see it like you do. Even in Arizona with U of A, ASU, you see it, but not as prevalent as here.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have a lot to say about this. I'm not going to say anything. Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about, well, after 30 days of on the road, how it's going, getting land deals done.

Jill K DeWit:
I can tell.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And hope you know by now, we own and operate this website called parcelfact, F-A-C-T, .com in response to back in the day us having a difficult time finding property without a post office address, 123 Main Street. All we had was state in the county that it was in and an assessor's parcel number. Well, we built a site around that information and now within seconds, while you're on the phone with the seller, you can get the information that you need about where these properties are quickly.

Jill K DeWit:
It's amazing. You can just pop it in. And this is what I do all the time. I have parcelfact.com open on my computer, I have it on one screen, and my email on another screen, a call comes up from a seller, put in state county APN because that's all there is, and I can make sure I'm talking to the right person. I can physically see the property. With one button, I can drop it into Google Earth Pro, drop a man down on the ground, even get real good visuals and check out slope and all kinds of amazing... We have flood maps on ParcelFact, lots of different views. And I get all the tax information, sale information, legal zoning, dream it up, it's all right there. It's amazing.
Matt wrote neighbor letters, question mark, I have an in inexpensive property from a kill the deal offer. I think I can get it for 19,000. I know neighbor mailers are a standard practice and I think they're a fantastic way to spread local word of mouth. I'm going to send 10 to 20 of the closest owners for sure, but then how far out do I go? Should I use the data tree map view to draw a polygon and mail them within a set area? Should I use a data tree map view and then double click and select likely buyers, instead of drawing a circle, and then click through them all and see? Should I just mail the closest of 20 and then maybe pockets on the way to town? Are 100 too many or are they too few? Is there an obvious answer that I'm missing?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - After 30 days We are Getting Land Deals Done From the Road (LA 1862)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Three, two... Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit broadcasting from one of the largest football rivalry states in the country. As this airs, it is Friday, September 30th, I happen to know that Michigan State will play Maryland tomorrow and U of M will play Iowa. And in case you're not sure, the big rivalry game between the two Michigan, Michigan and Michigan State, will happen on October 29th this year. So just getting that out of the way. Boy, have I learned, there's a big difference whether you wear green, or blue and gold around here, green and white, or blue and gold. And we wear green and white, and I've bought more green and white.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've earned it, by the way. A lot of people wear those colors, they don't know anything. I don't understand that. People I've met, "Oh, I'm a Michigan fan." Really? Why'd you go there? Oh no, I'm just a Michigan fan, diehard Michigan fan.

Jill K DeWit:
Anyway, it's been fun. Southern California wasn't as much into it as... Oh, no. Not like here.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think they [inaudible 00:01:35]

Jill K DeWit:
USC, UCLA.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sports are not their integral part of the world there. Not just Michigan, everyone is Green Bays up here, all over the Midwest.

Jill K DeWit:
You don't see it like you do. Even in Arizona with U of A, ASU, you see it, but not as prevalent as here.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have a lot to say about this. I'm not going to say anything. Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about, well, after 30 days of on the road, how it's going, getting land deals done.

Jill K DeWit:
I can tell.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And hope you know by now, we own and operate this website called parcelfact, F-A-C-T, .com in response to back in the day us having a difficult time finding property without a post office address, 123 Main Street. All we had was state in the county that it was in and an assessor's parcel number. Well, we built a site around that information and now within seconds, while you're on the phone with the seller, you can get the information that you need about where these properties are quickly.

Jill K DeWit:
It's amazing. You can just pop it in. And this is what I do all the time. I have parcelfact.com open on my computer, I have it on one screen, and my email on another screen, a call comes up from a seller, put in state county APN because that's all there is, and I can make sure I'm talking to the right person. I can physically see the property. With one button, I can drop it into Google Earth Pro, drop a man down on the ground, even get real good visuals and check out slope and all kinds of amazing... We have flood maps on ParcelFact, lots of different views. And I get all the tax information, sale information, legal zoning, dream it up, it's all right there. It's amazing.
Matt wrote neighbor letters, question mark, I have an in inexpensive property from a kill the deal offer. I think I can get it for 19,000. I know neighbor mailers are a standard practice and I think they're a fantastic way to spread local word of mouth. I'm going to send 10 to 20 of the closest owners for sure, but then how far out do I go? Should I use the data tree map view to draw a polygon and mail them within a set area? Should I use a data tree map view and then double click and select likely buyers, instead of drawing a circle, and then click through them all and see? Should I just mail the closest of 20 and then maybe pockets on the way to town? Are 100 too many or are they too few? Is there an obvious answer that I'm missing?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/30/jill-friday-after-30-days-we-are-getting-land-deals-done-from-the-road-la-1862/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">MItEoFt_y</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/caf4bc82-933c-4686-9def-50e4d59d5c77.mp3" length="17966975" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Fourth Quarter Decision Making Time (LA 1861)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Fourth Quarter Decision Making Time (LA 1861)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Fourth Quarter Decision Making Time (LA 1861)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:
Camera moment.

Steven Jack Butala:
And we video in three, two. Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the beautiful, scenic land of M22.

Steven Jack Butala:
Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, wasn't that pretty? We did a lot of M22 the other day.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll explain it in a second.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk to you about how it is now the fourth quarter, and you have to make some decisions about how you want the rest of your financial year to go.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds like a football moment.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a road called M22, the state road Michigan 22. And it goes around... If Michigan were a mitten, it goes around this finger right here, your pinky finger around here. Through... But there's a big traverse bay here. And Jill and I drove it. I grew up in Michigan, Southeastern Michigan. I never knew this stuff was up here.

Jill K DeWit:
Beautiful.

Steven Jack Butala:
What an amazing drive.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, we have seen the dunes. Yes, we had lunch in Fishtown. Yes, we thought, "We should buy something here." Only because, as we're rolling through, it's like 75 degrees. We hit... As Jack calls it, a chamber of commerce worthy day. That's the day that we did M22.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not January M22. So yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
January M22, you would do on a snowmobile.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. No, that would be fun too, actually. I did see the snowmobile signs as we're rolling around. Oh, just gorgeous.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's cool, is that somebody took the concept of N22, the sign.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
The road sign. And now they have all these products with M22 on it. They have a directory of things to go to people. Buy dry suits, and actually, while it's snowing, literally surf. The surfs that... on certain points on the M22, there's great surfing. And they also have little local bars or restaurants all over the place, so. I just thought that was just brilliant, brilliant marketing. To take some kind of little local secret and just get it out there. Before we get into it, let's take a question. Posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Not joking. It'd be great. Because it helps us develop better content, when I know what you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. Steven wrote-

Steven Jack Butala:
This is lengthy.

Jill K DeWit:
... Okay. "Hello everyone. I've been out of the loop on here and have a lot to catch up on." I'm sure he is talking about discord. "There's always a ton of gold in these chats."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
"I usually pop in here when I have questions about my business. So I ghost whenever things are going smoothly."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's just like the typical Land Academy member.

Jill K DeWit:
That's totally, yeah,

Steven Jack Butala:
"You guys... Oh, wait a second. I just closed a deal."

Jill K DeWit:
Right? "Discord is where I find out about all the questions I don't even know I need to ask. So here's the question I do have though. Last year, around this time, I sent out a lot of mail and set the closing date just before and after Thanksgiving. I had a decent response, but getting any through escrow after Thanksgiving was ridiculously slow. Surely it's because of the lack of staff at title and escrow, coupled with all the people still trying to 1031, take losses, et cetera. Before the new year. I still need to do $40,000 to make my goal for 2022." I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Fourth Quarter Decision Making Time (LA 1861)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:
Camera moment.

Steven Jack Butala:
And we video in three, two. Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the beautiful, scenic land of M22.

Steven Jack Butala:
Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, wasn't that pretty? We did a lot of M22 the other day.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll explain it in a second.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk to you about how it is now the fourth quarter, and you have to make some decisions about how you want the rest of your financial year to go.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds like a football moment.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a road called M22, the state road Michigan 22. And it goes around... If Michigan were a mitten, it goes around this finger right here, your pinky finger around here. Through... But there's a big traverse bay here. And Jill and I drove it. I grew up in Michigan, Southeastern Michigan. I never knew this stuff was up here.

Jill K DeWit:
Beautiful.

Steven Jack Butala:
What an amazing drive.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, we have seen the dunes. Yes, we had lunch in Fishtown. Yes, we thought, "We should buy something here." Only because, as we're rolling through, it's like 75 degrees. We hit... As Jack calls it, a chamber of commerce worthy day. That's the day that we did M22.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not January M22. So yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
January M22, you would do on a snowmobile.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. No, that would be fun too, actually. I did see the snowmobile signs as we're rolling around. Oh, just gorgeous.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's cool, is that somebody took the concept of N22, the sign.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
The road sign. And now they have all these products with M22 on it. They have a directory of things to go to people. Buy dry suits, and actually, while it's snowing, literally surf. The surfs that... on certain points on the M22, there's great surfing. And they also have little local bars or restaurants all over the place, so. I just thought that was just brilliant, brilliant marketing. To take some kind of little local secret and just get it out there. Before we get into it, let's take a question. Posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Not joking. It'd be great. Because it helps us develop better content, when I know what you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. Steven wrote-

Steven Jack Butala:
This is lengthy.

Jill K DeWit:
... Okay. "Hello everyone. I've been out of the loop on here and have a lot to catch up on." I'm sure he is talking about discord. "There's always a ton of gold in these chats."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
"I usually pop in here when I have questions about my business. So I ghost whenever things are going smoothly."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's just like the typical Land Academy member.

Jill K DeWit:
That's totally, yeah,

Steven Jack Butala:
"You guys... Oh, wait a second. I just closed a deal."

Jill K DeWit:
Right? "Discord is where I find out about all the questions I don't even know I need to ask. So here's the question I do have though. Last year, around this time, I sent out a lot of mail and set the closing date just before and after Thanksgiving. I had a decent response, but getting any through escrow after Thanksgiving was ridiculously slow. Surely it's because of the lack of staff at title and escrow, coupled with all the people still trying to 1031, take losses, et cetera. Before the new year. I still need to do $40,000 to make my goal for 2022." I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/29/jack-thursday-fourth-quarter-decision-making-time-la-1861/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pQOf4q8cd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/858be06a-d08e-4784-a694-5d79c107c957.mp3" length="12117731" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Difference Between County Unincorporated and Township Land (LA 1860)</title><itunes:title>Difference Between County Unincorporated and Township Land (LA 1860)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Difference Between County Unincorporated and Township Land (LA 1860)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment advice. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of fishing. I should say, not the fishing from the land of fishing. We'll look behind me. There's so much fishing going on here and I never knew what smelt was. Isn't that funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Until come here I didn't. Yeah. I'm like, I thought smelt was well, something smelt. I didn't know that was a fish.

Steven Jack Butala:
People think that's how you use the word.

Jill K DeWit:
I know that's not how.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
No. Yeah. Like what the heck is smelt? How do you eat that? I'm like, oh, it's a fish. So anyway. Yeah. And you're loving it. I'm loving it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've been fishing since I got here. This is Silver Lake right behind us in Northern Michigan, just outside of Traverse City. And we are in our RV in arguably one of the best spots in this RV park that we're in. And I many, many times just walked out there and through the line in. I went to a simple store, got a old Shakespeare, not old, but a new Shakespeare rod, whole thing cost 25, $30. Got some pretty good lures. And I've been pulling fish out ever since to the point where I was about to start cleaning them and eating them and I'm like, why? This is just too much work. This is more fun.

Jill K DeWit:
When I can go somewhere else and they'll serve it up for me all beautifully. And I love that. I'm probably going to have white fish tacos again for dinner tonight.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Because I love them.

Steven Jack Butala:
Totally. I'm right there with you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
I plan on eating white fish till it's like,

Jill K DeWit:
Till I'm sick of it. Till we leave.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
And then it'll work out perfect. Then we're going to eat it until we can't get it anymore. And then it's going to be fine. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the difference between county unincorporated land and township land. Everywhere we go Jill and I, especially here because my sister's a very successful almost local celebrity, like real estate agent. So we find property that's for sale. Whether it's a sign on the road, maybe it's on the MLS. We go look at it. We start asking questions. Sometimes you can answer them, sometimes you can't and this is a result of one of those conversations. And I'll talk all about it. Before we get into it though let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to getting their blind offer campaigns underway. Hey, it's sometimes it's complicated. It is for most people. It's complicated if your brand new.
And so we created a product called concierge data, where we take instruction for you about where you want to send out offers. We put together the entire mailer, get the retail pricing component complete for you. And then we ask you at the very end to price it. It's a very, very, very popular service that we created. And it's helping a lot of people who I think otherwise would not have gotten their mail campaign off the ground. And get their career started. So check it out at offers to owners and just type in concierge data.

Jill K DeWit:
I just was reading this question ahead a little bit. It's good. Eric wrote, so I signed up yesterday and I just binge watched, oh my goodness, Land Academy 3.0 and 2.0. This might seem like a dumb question, but how important is naming and niching your land business? I'm in Charleston and I want to niche in the surrounding counties and all along the coast.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Difference Between County Unincorporated and Township Land (LA 1860)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment advice. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of fishing. I should say, not the fishing from the land of fishing. We'll look behind me. There's so much fishing going on here and I never knew what smelt was. Isn't that funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Until come here I didn't. Yeah. I'm like, I thought smelt was well, something smelt. I didn't know that was a fish.

Steven Jack Butala:
People think that's how you use the word.

Jill K DeWit:
I know that's not how.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
No. Yeah. Like what the heck is smelt? How do you eat that? I'm like, oh, it's a fish. So anyway. Yeah. And you're loving it. I'm loving it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've been fishing since I got here. This is Silver Lake right behind us in Northern Michigan, just outside of Traverse City. And we are in our RV in arguably one of the best spots in this RV park that we're in. And I many, many times just walked out there and through the line in. I went to a simple store, got a old Shakespeare, not old, but a new Shakespeare rod, whole thing cost 25, $30. Got some pretty good lures. And I've been pulling fish out ever since to the point where I was about to start cleaning them and eating them and I'm like, why? This is just too much work. This is more fun.

Jill K DeWit:
When I can go somewhere else and they'll serve it up for me all beautifully. And I love that. I'm probably going to have white fish tacos again for dinner tonight.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Because I love them.

Steven Jack Butala:
Totally. I'm right there with you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
I plan on eating white fish till it's like,

Jill K DeWit:
Till I'm sick of it. Till we leave.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
And then it'll work out perfect. Then we're going to eat it until we can't get it anymore. And then it's going to be fine. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the difference between county unincorporated land and township land. Everywhere we go Jill and I, especially here because my sister's a very successful almost local celebrity, like real estate agent. So we find property that's for sale. Whether it's a sign on the road, maybe it's on the MLS. We go look at it. We start asking questions. Sometimes you can answer them, sometimes you can't and this is a result of one of those conversations. And I'll talk all about it. Before we get into it though let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help to getting their blind offer campaigns underway. Hey, it's sometimes it's complicated. It is for most people. It's complicated if your brand new.
And so we created a product called concierge data, where we take instruction for you about where you want to send out offers. We put together the entire mailer, get the retail pricing component complete for you. And then we ask you at the very end to price it. It's a very, very, very popular service that we created. And it's helping a lot of people who I think otherwise would not have gotten their mail campaign off the ground. And get their career started. So check it out at offers to owners and just type in concierge data.

Jill K DeWit:
I just was reading this question ahead a little bit. It's good. Eric wrote, so I signed up yesterday and I just binge watched, oh my goodness, Land Academy 3.0 and 2.0. This might seem like a dumb question, but how important is naming and niching your land business? I'm in Charleston and I want to niche in the surrounding counties and all along the coast.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/28/difference-between-county-unincorporated-and-township-land-la-1860/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zfMRmVE8q</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/efb77333-a56f-4f50-a02b-812336c400d4.mp3" length="15757594" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy as a Legacy Business (LA 1859)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy as a Legacy Business (LA 1859)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy as a Legacy Business (LA 1859)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Apple Centric, awesome Michigan. How's that? How many apples are in a bushel? You know it's funny, your sister-in-law, your sister, my sister-in-law brought up picking up a bushel of apples the other day and I'm like, that sounds cool. I want that too, but I don't know if I can fit it here. How many apples are in a bushel? Is that like one big basket?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm just as much now from the west as you are.

Jill K DeWit:
Have you ever had a bushel of apples?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think you should buy a bushel of apples unless you're going to make moonshine.

Jill K DeWit:
Or pie.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or what else?

Jill K DeWit:
Pie. Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Moonshine because it... Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Apple sauce?

Steven Jack Butala:
The answer's yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe, oh, I'm going to get some apple cherry fill in the blank. Wouldn't that be delicious?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's big! Bushel of apples is big.

Jill K DeWit:
I think it's like a big bucket of apples. I know you guys are all laughing at us right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's special. It's a bushel, like a wooden woven...

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I thought. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Bigger than a bucket.

Jill K DeWit:
That's going to be cool. I love it here. Thank you Michigan. You guys know how to...

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you Northern Michigan.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. Northern Michigan, I love your Fall weather. The leaves are starting to turn. We couldn't have picked a better time to be here. We're having a ball.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about Land Academy as a legacy business.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I'd like to let you know, and hopefully you already know, that Jill and I have a full-blown commercial printing company that goes along with Land Academy, called offers2owners. Offers and number two owners. It was born out of our frustration from using other people's printing companies to send out offers. They just didn't get it. They didn't understand mail merges and a bunch of other stuff. Go to offers2owners.com. I know for sure we have a promo going when this airs, until the end of the month. So you get 10% off.

Jill K DeWit:
Sweet. I think it's like MAIL10. It's on the website. You'll find it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. The promo code I think is MAIL10. Just ask them. They'll tell you.

Jill K DeWit:
Mike wrote: "Hey, regarding easements, I have a 35 acre track and a contract in East Texas, with a quarter mile easement to it. The easement has never been used and is directly across three neighboring wooded properties. The pricing is great, but the easement would take serious money to turn it into real physical access. Has anyone gone through with deals like this? [inaudible 00:02:40] with access around turning $80,000, whereas I'm thinking I could sell now for around $180,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
So Mike you're in a great situation and I'll directly answer your question and then I'll take a couple steps back. Hell yes, we've done deals like this, and we do deals like this. An easement is a right to cross somebody else's property to get to yours. Easements are all over the place. They're super prevalent. Chances are you cross over all kinds of properties to get to your own and don't even know it all the time. So now this is very common where luckily you're in a great situation. That's why we say access, which is one of the six A's in Land Academy. Access is when you go through your phase one due diligence, you want to check the six A's and I'm not going to go through them no...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy as a Legacy Business (LA 1859)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Apple Centric, awesome Michigan. How's that? How many apples are in a bushel? You know it's funny, your sister-in-law, your sister, my sister-in-law brought up picking up a bushel of apples the other day and I'm like, that sounds cool. I want that too, but I don't know if I can fit it here. How many apples are in a bushel? Is that like one big basket?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm just as much now from the west as you are.

Jill K DeWit:
Have you ever had a bushel of apples?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think you should buy a bushel of apples unless you're going to make moonshine.

Jill K DeWit:
Or pie.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or what else?

Jill K DeWit:
Pie. Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Moonshine because it... Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Apple sauce?

Steven Jack Butala:
The answer's yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe, oh, I'm going to get some apple cherry fill in the blank. Wouldn't that be delicious?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's big! Bushel of apples is big.

Jill K DeWit:
I think it's like a big bucket of apples. I know you guys are all laughing at us right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's special. It's a bushel, like a wooden woven...

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I thought. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Bigger than a bucket.

Jill K DeWit:
That's going to be cool. I love it here. Thank you Michigan. You guys know how to...

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you Northern Michigan.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. Northern Michigan, I love your Fall weather. The leaves are starting to turn. We couldn't have picked a better time to be here. We're having a ball.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about Land Academy as a legacy business.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I'd like to let you know, and hopefully you already know, that Jill and I have a full-blown commercial printing company that goes along with Land Academy, called offers2owners. Offers and number two owners. It was born out of our frustration from using other people's printing companies to send out offers. They just didn't get it. They didn't understand mail merges and a bunch of other stuff. Go to offers2owners.com. I know for sure we have a promo going when this airs, until the end of the month. So you get 10% off.

Jill K DeWit:
Sweet. I think it's like MAIL10. It's on the website. You'll find it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. The promo code I think is MAIL10. Just ask them. They'll tell you.

Jill K DeWit:
Mike wrote: "Hey, regarding easements, I have a 35 acre track and a contract in East Texas, with a quarter mile easement to it. The easement has never been used and is directly across three neighboring wooded properties. The pricing is great, but the easement would take serious money to turn it into real physical access. Has anyone gone through with deals like this? [inaudible 00:02:40] with access around turning $80,000, whereas I'm thinking I could sell now for around $180,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
So Mike you're in a great situation and I'll directly answer your question and then I'll take a couple steps back. Hell yes, we've done deals like this, and we do deals like this. An easement is a right to cross somebody else's property to get to yours. Easements are all over the place. They're super prevalent. Chances are you cross over all kinds of properties to get to your own and don't even know it all the time. So now this is very common where luckily you're in a great situation. That's why we say access, which is one of the six A's in Land Academy. Access is when you go through your phase one due diligence, you want to check the six A's and I'm not going to go through them no...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/27/land-academy-as-a-legacy-business-la-1859/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HiJwibBKQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3c88cb1e-77da-4ef3-a12b-87a7e0b1ca99.mp3" length="13959272" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>In-Person vs Online Trolling for Counties to send blind offers to Buy Land (LA 1858)</title><itunes:title>In-Person vs Online Trolling for Counties to send blind offers to Buy Land (LA 1858)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[In-Person vs Online Trolling for Counties to send blind offers to Buy Land (LA 1858)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the cherry capital of the world.
I have to say, I love it. I love cherries. I love cherries so much that over my shoulder here, let me just show you. I even picked up some cherry flavored whiskey from the Grand Traverse Distillery, and boy is it delicious. We are actually coming to you from Traverse City, Michigan right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, if you don't already know from last week we've been on the road for at least two weeks, maybe a little bit more. Our destination-

Jill K DeWit:
Shucks, three tomorrow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our destination was our niece's wedding here in Traverse City. We've got that behind us and apparently everybody else does too, because you know how weddings are, although we did have a blast and we're going to continue traveling, buying and selling, or taking a look at real estate. Jill just signed a deal today. We had a notary come over.

Jill K DeWit:
Here to the rig.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're effectively, seriously full-time testing doing this from the road and it's working out great.
Today, Jill and I talk about in-person versus online trolling for counties to figure out where to send blind offers to send mail.
The entire time that we're out here, I'm like, "Wow, this is a fantastic county or zip code, potentially, to check it out." Make sure it passes all the red, green, yellow tests to see if we should send land here, so we'll talk about that in just a few minutes here.
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know that Jill and I instruct a handful of people every quarter on a 10 week session called Career Path. I think the next one is starting in October.

Jill K DeWit:
October 12th, it's coming up fast. If you're interested, I still do have slots. Go to landacademy.com/careerpath, and read all about it and then send my team questions if you have them at support@landacademy.com, and we will fill you in.
Kevin wrote, "Hello. I'm not sure about the concept of title insurance."

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, you're not alone.

Jill K DeWit:
What did you say?
Oh, I didn't know. I thought you said, "Oy." I'm like where did oy come from?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, Kevin, you're not alone. Jill's going to explain.

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, you're not alone, okay.
Am I left or right? I'm going to have to find out right now. Am I left or right? I'm left. Sorry. Okay, cool.
Number one, when buying properties, should you always get title insurance and why? Number two, when selling properties, why would some buyers not want title insurance? You want to go first?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I'll go first and try to make it simple. Title insurance ensures theoretically any errors in the chain of title, and the chain of title is quite simply all the chain of people that have owned it since it was homesteaded, let's say in the 1800s, and so maybe 10 people have owned it since its inception, maybe one or two people have owned it because it's stayed in the family or it's stayed in some type of trust. That title insurance is supposed to ensure that chain of title.
To directly answer your question, should you always get it? No, I don't think so. When should you not? The vast majority of time you should get it. When you should not get it is when you're buying a property for $500 or a thousand dollars that's really in the desert. You're going to go sell it on eBay or online or really just sell it for a thousand dollars more to somebody who's going to kind of just own it, maybe not use it, just say they own a piece of California, for example. The cost of getting title insurance and going ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[In-Person vs Online Trolling for Counties to send blind offers to Buy Land (LA 1858)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the cherry capital of the world.
I have to say, I love it. I love cherries. I love cherries so much that over my shoulder here, let me just show you. I even picked up some cherry flavored whiskey from the Grand Traverse Distillery, and boy is it delicious. We are actually coming to you from Traverse City, Michigan right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, if you don't already know from last week we've been on the road for at least two weeks, maybe a little bit more. Our destination-

Jill K DeWit:
Shucks, three tomorrow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our destination was our niece's wedding here in Traverse City. We've got that behind us and apparently everybody else does too, because you know how weddings are, although we did have a blast and we're going to continue traveling, buying and selling, or taking a look at real estate. Jill just signed a deal today. We had a notary come over.

Jill K DeWit:
Here to the rig.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're effectively, seriously full-time testing doing this from the road and it's working out great.
Today, Jill and I talk about in-person versus online trolling for counties to figure out where to send blind offers to send mail.
The entire time that we're out here, I'm like, "Wow, this is a fantastic county or zip code, potentially, to check it out." Make sure it passes all the red, green, yellow tests to see if we should send land here, so we'll talk about that in just a few minutes here.
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know that Jill and I instruct a handful of people every quarter on a 10 week session called Career Path. I think the next one is starting in October.

Jill K DeWit:
October 12th, it's coming up fast. If you're interested, I still do have slots. Go to landacademy.com/careerpath, and read all about it and then send my team questions if you have them at support@landacademy.com, and we will fill you in.
Kevin wrote, "Hello. I'm not sure about the concept of title insurance."

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, you're not alone.

Jill K DeWit:
What did you say?
Oh, I didn't know. I thought you said, "Oy." I'm like where did oy come from?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, Kevin, you're not alone. Jill's going to explain.

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, you're not alone, okay.
Am I left or right? I'm going to have to find out right now. Am I left or right? I'm left. Sorry. Okay, cool.
Number one, when buying properties, should you always get title insurance and why? Number two, when selling properties, why would some buyers not want title insurance? You want to go first?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I'll go first and try to make it simple. Title insurance ensures theoretically any errors in the chain of title, and the chain of title is quite simply all the chain of people that have owned it since it was homesteaded, let's say in the 1800s, and so maybe 10 people have owned it since its inception, maybe one or two people have owned it because it's stayed in the family or it's stayed in some type of trust. That title insurance is supposed to ensure that chain of title.
To directly answer your question, should you always get it? No, I don't think so. When should you not? The vast majority of time you should get it. When you should not get it is when you're buying a property for $500 or a thousand dollars that's really in the desert. You're going to go sell it on eBay or online or really just sell it for a thousand dollars more to somebody who's going to kind of just own it, maybe not use it, just say they own a piece of California, for example. The cost of getting title insurance and going ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/26/in-person-vs-online-trolling-for-counties-to-send-blind-offers-to-buy-land-la-1858/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">g7V3DJYn1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/37b6f32d-941a-4a50-8413-3ab5be6f349e.mp3" length="14794734" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Pricing Like a Seven-Year-Old (LA 1856)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Pricing Like a Seven-Year-Old (LA 1856)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Pricing Like a Seven-Year-Old (LA 1856)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the loyal sports fans. We have the Brewers, we have the Packers, and we have the Bucks. You think I'm kidding?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, we're not kidding.

Jill DeWit:
We have, in the days that we have been here, seen some amazing, awesome, loyal, crazy fans, in a good way crazy.

Steven Jack Butala:
And some real estate too.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, that too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Some great real estate.

Jill DeWit:
Do you think they picked the green because everything else is so green?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I do.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's from Southern California where everything's brown.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So she's getting a good taste of Fall green and some colors changing.

Jill DeWit:
These are what trees are supposed to look like.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. This is what nature looks like Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't know that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not in a desert.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry. That painted wall with the cow on it, isn't that the same thing?

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's still Friday. She's going to talk about pricing like a seven year old.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I want to tell you about a time back in the day when it was impossible to find land that didn't have a post office address, like 123 Main Street. People don't assign properties an address until they want to do something with them. So all you have is an assessor's parcel number and a state and the county that it's in. Well, it was very hard to find property. We solved it. We wrote, we commissioned parcelfact.com. So where you can just type in the state, the county, the APN, right when you're on the phone with the seller and find out a lot about the property. Enough to know anyway, really quickly whether or not you want the deal to continue or stop right there.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. parcelfact.com. We're proud of it.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. All right, back to the question.
Mark wrote, "My partner and I are looking at mailer pricing. We are using concierge data to scrub and send the mailer. We're using many counties next to each other to get enough properties to do the mailer. The prices per acre very considerably on the different counties. Any thoughts on how to price?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely. At the end of concierge data, you'll get the entire mailer file back in Excel. Just like we teach, it's nothing out of the ordinary at all. Just like we teach in chapters three and four of the of Land Academy 3.0. And you have to assign a pricing scenario, usually a percentage of resale, 25%, 30% or whatever number you choose. And it can vary widely from county to county, state to state and certainly zip code to zip code.
So, what we do is we enable a concept called testing for reason, which is not my concept at all, it's actually an accounting concept where you test for reasons. So what we do, just like on the Thursday call, you have to ask yourself this question, "If this mailer came back priced just like this, would I buy it?" That's testing for reason. And if so, at 25%, if you're saying, "Heck yes, I would absolutely buy it." At 30%, "Yeah I still would buy it." At 40%, "I'm not so sure." Then maybe 30%, so I should price the mailer. And I go over this in great detail all the time on a Thursday, we have a weekly Thursday webinar call where everybody in the whole group gets together, throws a bunch of deals at Jill and I and we say, "Yeah, you should absolutely do this deal," or "Well wait a minute."

Jill DeWit:
And here's why,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Pricing Like a Seven-Year-Old (LA 1856)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the loyal sports fans. We have the Brewers, we have the Packers, and we have the Bucks. You think I'm kidding?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, we're not kidding.

Jill DeWit:
We have, in the days that we have been here, seen some amazing, awesome, loyal, crazy fans, in a good way crazy.

Steven Jack Butala:
And some real estate too.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, that too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Some great real estate.

Jill DeWit:
Do you think they picked the green because everything else is so green?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I do.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's from Southern California where everything's brown.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So she's getting a good taste of Fall green and some colors changing.

Jill DeWit:
These are what trees are supposed to look like.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. This is what nature looks like Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't know that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not in a desert.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry. That painted wall with the cow on it, isn't that the same thing?

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's still Friday. She's going to talk about pricing like a seven year old.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I want to tell you about a time back in the day when it was impossible to find land that didn't have a post office address, like 123 Main Street. People don't assign properties an address until they want to do something with them. So all you have is an assessor's parcel number and a state and the county that it's in. Well, it was very hard to find property. We solved it. We wrote, we commissioned parcelfact.com. So where you can just type in the state, the county, the APN, right when you're on the phone with the seller and find out a lot about the property. Enough to know anyway, really quickly whether or not you want the deal to continue or stop right there.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. parcelfact.com. We're proud of it.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. All right, back to the question.
Mark wrote, "My partner and I are looking at mailer pricing. We are using concierge data to scrub and send the mailer. We're using many counties next to each other to get enough properties to do the mailer. The prices per acre very considerably on the different counties. Any thoughts on how to price?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely. At the end of concierge data, you'll get the entire mailer file back in Excel. Just like we teach, it's nothing out of the ordinary at all. Just like we teach in chapters three and four of the of Land Academy 3.0. And you have to assign a pricing scenario, usually a percentage of resale, 25%, 30% or whatever number you choose. And it can vary widely from county to county, state to state and certainly zip code to zip code.
So, what we do is we enable a concept called testing for reason, which is not my concept at all, it's actually an accounting concept where you test for reasons. So what we do, just like on the Thursday call, you have to ask yourself this question, "If this mailer came back priced just like this, would I buy it?" That's testing for reason. And if so, at 25%, if you're saying, "Heck yes, I would absolutely buy it." At 30%, "Yeah I still would buy it." At 40%, "I'm not so sure." Then maybe 30%, so I should price the mailer. And I go over this in great detail all the time on a Thursday, we have a weekly Thursday webinar call where everybody in the whole group gets together, throws a bunch of deals at Jill and I and we say, "Yeah, you should absolutely do this deal," or "Well wait a minute."

Jill DeWit:
And here's why,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/23/jill-friday-pricing-like-a-seven-year-old-la-1856/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bGwNI26Aa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/759c3c03-462a-4457-9c47-5535c45d059c.mp3" length="12852407" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; All the Decisions You Make Add Up (LA 1855)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; All the Decisions You Make Add Up (LA 1855)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - All the Decisions You Make Add Up (LA 1855)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the valley of the cheese curds. I first-

Steven Jack Butala:
Burned Wisconsin.

Jill DeWit:
I first learned about cheese curds in Seattle. Now why Seattle has good cheese curds? I don't know, maybe a lot of people from cheese areas like Wisconsin have relocated to Seattle. If you know The 5 Point Cafe, that's the first time I experienced them. And then I have to say here in Wisconsin, now I found some even better cheese curds. So sorry, Seattle. They rock here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Maybe it's because the weather's the same.

Jill DeWit:
That's it. Wisconsin people can move to Seattle because they can handle it. That actually makes sense.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a personal note. I don't know why you need to deep fried cheese. It's already good enough.

Jill DeWit:
It's really good. I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
It really kind of wrecks the taste.

Jill DeWit:
I know, but you know what? And then it's breaded and there's maybe beer in there a little bit? I don't know. There's just-

Steven Jack Butala:
They're not bad.

Jill DeWit:
They're super good. And you know what's great? When you get good ones, you know they're good ones. They're not all tater tot shaped. You know they're real. And so thank you. I love them.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, all the decisions you make, add up. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. It actually helps us create content that's similar to what you like.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Will wrote, "Has anyone funded a deal as a JV? Anyone that has..." Excuse me. "... funded a deal as a joint venture, were you listed on the deed? And is anyone willing to share a sample or template of the agreement you used?" I will.

Steven Jack Butala:
It sounds out too well.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's on landfunding.com. And it's on landinvestors.com. So if you want to go and see my sweet little EC two page agreement... And that's just a starting place. That's kind of what we use. I mean, it really is what we use. But if you want to change it up like, "Can we do this? Can we do that? Can I change this? Can I change that? I'm going to put in some money and then I'm going to do this. And then you put in money, you do that. And here's the percentages now because of this." It's all negotiable.

Steven Jack Butala:
A contract is an agreement between two people and the content of that agreement and the provisions and all of that stuff is what you both decide on and sign and date. That's it. If you've ever taken a law class or basic law class, they'll teach you that. Or if you've ever spoken with a good attorney, usually with the drink in hand they'll tell you that. Why-

Jill DeWit:
Is that what makes him a good attorney?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes. In my mind.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
What gets confusing about this, especially in real estate is because we are so brainwashed by the National Association of Realtors that... And the state departments of real estate where we are, whatever state you're doing deals in. And real estate agents have no idea. They just do stuff that the person in the cubicle that sits next to them does-

Jill DeWit:
Told them to do.

Steven Jack Butala:
... or their broker. So you end up that way with a two inch thick document that allows you, air quotes, to buy a piece of real estate. And none of that's necessary. And so contracts for joint ventures... People who do joint ventures like us are a little bit more intelligent about it. And so we know that a one or two page contract that spells out what's going to...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - All the Decisions You Make Add Up (LA 1855)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the valley of the cheese curds. I first-

Steven Jack Butala:
Burned Wisconsin.

Jill DeWit:
I first learned about cheese curds in Seattle. Now why Seattle has good cheese curds? I don't know, maybe a lot of people from cheese areas like Wisconsin have relocated to Seattle. If you know The 5 Point Cafe, that's the first time I experienced them. And then I have to say here in Wisconsin, now I found some even better cheese curds. So sorry, Seattle. They rock here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Maybe it's because the weather's the same.

Jill DeWit:
That's it. Wisconsin people can move to Seattle because they can handle it. That actually makes sense.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a personal note. I don't know why you need to deep fried cheese. It's already good enough.

Jill DeWit:
It's really good. I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
It really kind of wrecks the taste.

Jill DeWit:
I know, but you know what? And then it's breaded and there's maybe beer in there a little bit? I don't know. There's just-

Steven Jack Butala:
They're not bad.

Jill DeWit:
They're super good. And you know what's great? When you get good ones, you know they're good ones. They're not all tater tot shaped. You know they're real. And so thank you. I love them.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, all the decisions you make, add up. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. It actually helps us create content that's similar to what you like.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Will wrote, "Has anyone funded a deal as a JV? Anyone that has..." Excuse me. "... funded a deal as a joint venture, were you listed on the deed? And is anyone willing to share a sample or template of the agreement you used?" I will.

Steven Jack Butala:
It sounds out too well.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's on landfunding.com. And it's on landinvestors.com. So if you want to go and see my sweet little EC two page agreement... And that's just a starting place. That's kind of what we use. I mean, it really is what we use. But if you want to change it up like, "Can we do this? Can we do that? Can I change this? Can I change that? I'm going to put in some money and then I'm going to do this. And then you put in money, you do that. And here's the percentages now because of this." It's all negotiable.

Steven Jack Butala:
A contract is an agreement between two people and the content of that agreement and the provisions and all of that stuff is what you both decide on and sign and date. That's it. If you've ever taken a law class or basic law class, they'll teach you that. Or if you've ever spoken with a good attorney, usually with the drink in hand they'll tell you that. Why-

Jill DeWit:
Is that what makes him a good attorney?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes. In my mind.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
What gets confusing about this, especially in real estate is because we are so brainwashed by the National Association of Realtors that... And the state departments of real estate where we are, whatever state you're doing deals in. And real estate agents have no idea. They just do stuff that the person in the cubicle that sits next to them does-

Jill DeWit:
Told them to do.

Steven Jack Butala:
... or their broker. So you end up that way with a two inch thick document that allows you, air quotes, to buy a piece of real estate. And none of that's necessary. And so contracts for joint ventures... People who do joint ventures like us are a little bit more intelligent about it. And so we know that a one or two page contract that spells out what's going to...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/22/jack-thursday-all-the-decisions-you-make-add-up-la-1855/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3TzVw25Tn</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4445d7db-e9f3-4221-8856-99018e987906.mp3" length="9759198" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack&amp;#8217;s Career Path Alumni Advice (LA 1854)</title><itunes:title>Jack&amp;#8217;s Career Path Alumni Advice (LA 1854)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack's Career Path Alumni Advice (LA 1854)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Beer.

Steven Butala:
Oh yeah. Milwaukee's close.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Didn't think about that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, exactly.

Steven Butala:
We're going to test that tonight.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, we had something night. What was the Amber? The Shocks?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. What was that?

Jill DeWit:
I can't remember the name of that Amber Beer, but it was delicious. There's a... I'm going to cycle through a few of them tonight too.

Steven Butala:
Yeah,

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to get to know.

Steven Butala:
We'll give you a report.

Jill DeWit:
The good. All I keep hearing is good Wisconsin Beer. I know about the other good stuff you have.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
So cool.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, well, I'm going to talk about Jack's career path alumni advice, because I was asked to.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, by whom?

Steven Butala:
By somebody. Well, on the first Tuesday of every month.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
We have a career path alumni.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's somebody this time asking-

Jill DeWit:
The call.

Steven Butala:
... Hey, what's the advice you'd give us?

Jill DeWit:
What's your top thing? And that was good and I'm glad you're bringing that up. So...

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online investorscommunity@landinvestors.com. It's free. And I want to tell you about Concierge Data. Last year, several people came to us and said, "We don't like doing mailers. We just want to be on the phone and do deals. We're deal makers help us." So we developed a product based on how we send our own mail out called Concierge Data. If you go to offers to owners.com, that's our mailing company and ask about career, about Concierge Data, they will tell you exactly how we will do your mailer for you and take it right to the bitter end with the exception of pricing it. We'll do the whole thing for you. It works. Tons and tons of people use it. It got so overused a couple months ago, we had to shut it down, but it's back.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
We had to restaff it and we hired a bunch of people and it's working out great now.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. It got bogged down. We fixed it. All right. Aaron wrote. Okay, equity planner type question. Maybe Jack has an idea about this. How many properties would you need to have on the market at any given time to have a very high chance of closing that month? I've reached out many of you, and of course everyone will feel differently based on what areas they target, et cetera. But what do you think? Do I need 10 properties on the market at that time to be confident? You'll see some income in a month. Maybe you feel like you need 20 or just five. Any thoughts?

Steven Butala:
So this is a sales funnel question and the only way that you can ever quantify a number like this two days ago we did. This is all subjective. Some people need to have 40 properties in the pipeline to feel great. Some people need 10. Some people don't think about it and they still do a lot of deals. So it becomes a sales funnel scenario at the top of the funnel. Our is the largest number. You send out 10,000 thousand mailers, you're going to get 90, a hundred, 200 phone calls back. You're going to get 10, 20, 30 viable transactions. And depending on who you are, you're going to choose from those transactions how many deals to do. And I can tell you, if you do the exact same thing over and over and over again, you're going to get a different result. It's just how it is. So this is very, very, very subjective and I can't give a number.
I can tell you what I think and I would love for you to tell us what you ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack's Career Path Alumni Advice (LA 1854)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Beer.

Steven Butala:
Oh yeah. Milwaukee's close.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Didn't think about that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, exactly.

Steven Butala:
We're going to test that tonight.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, we had something night. What was the Amber? The Shocks?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. What was that?

Jill DeWit:
I can't remember the name of that Amber Beer, but it was delicious. There's a... I'm going to cycle through a few of them tonight too.

Steven Butala:
Yeah,

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to get to know.

Steven Butala:
We'll give you a report.

Jill DeWit:
The good. All I keep hearing is good Wisconsin Beer. I know about the other good stuff you have.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
So cool.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, well, I'm going to talk about Jack's career path alumni advice, because I was asked to.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, by whom?

Steven Butala:
By somebody. Well, on the first Tuesday of every month.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
We have a career path alumni.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's somebody this time asking-

Jill DeWit:
The call.

Steven Butala:
... Hey, what's the advice you'd give us?

Jill DeWit:
What's your top thing? And that was good and I'm glad you're bringing that up. So...

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online investorscommunity@landinvestors.com. It's free. And I want to tell you about Concierge Data. Last year, several people came to us and said, "We don't like doing mailers. We just want to be on the phone and do deals. We're deal makers help us." So we developed a product based on how we send our own mail out called Concierge Data. If you go to offers to owners.com, that's our mailing company and ask about career, about Concierge Data, they will tell you exactly how we will do your mailer for you and take it right to the bitter end with the exception of pricing it. We'll do the whole thing for you. It works. Tons and tons of people use it. It got so overused a couple months ago, we had to shut it down, but it's back.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
We had to restaff it and we hired a bunch of people and it's working out great now.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. It got bogged down. We fixed it. All right. Aaron wrote. Okay, equity planner type question. Maybe Jack has an idea about this. How many properties would you need to have on the market at any given time to have a very high chance of closing that month? I've reached out many of you, and of course everyone will feel differently based on what areas they target, et cetera. But what do you think? Do I need 10 properties on the market at that time to be confident? You'll see some income in a month. Maybe you feel like you need 20 or just five. Any thoughts?

Steven Butala:
So this is a sales funnel question and the only way that you can ever quantify a number like this two days ago we did. This is all subjective. Some people need to have 40 properties in the pipeline to feel great. Some people need 10. Some people don't think about it and they still do a lot of deals. So it becomes a sales funnel scenario at the top of the funnel. Our is the largest number. You send out 10,000 thousand mailers, you're going to get 90, a hundred, 200 phone calls back. You're going to get 10, 20, 30 viable transactions. And depending on who you are, you're going to choose from those transactions how many deals to do. And I can tell you, if you do the exact same thing over and over and over again, you're going to get a different result. It's just how it is. So this is very, very, very subjective and I can't give a number.
I can tell you what I think and I would love for you to tell us what you ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/21/jacks-career-path-alumni-advice-la-1854/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YV5KQzX_3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cd3632b2-c187-477b-bc26-3f3bf6ae9675.mp3" length="11195608" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Learning How to Run a Business (LA 1853)</title><itunes:title>Learning How to Run a Business (LA 1853)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learning How to Run a Business (LA 1853)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the cheese.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're in Wisconsin today.

Jill DeWit:
Yes we are. You know what? And I'm looking for that chocolate cheese. I've had it. I know of it. I don't know where to find it but I'm on a mission.

Steven Jack Butala:
If anybody knows where to get the chocolate cheese, we'll be here for a while. Please let us know or staff know or put it in there.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
YouTube or anyway, you can get to us.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Please tell me the home of the chocolate cheese. Because it's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I are going to talk about learning how to run a business. As I said yesterday, an integral part of what we do here. It takes up at least 50% of the time of what we talk about during career path. From people who have been running businesses their entire professional life. And people who are brand new. I always learn something new and make those changes based on what goes on in career path. So there's a lot of career path talk right now because we're starting to back up. The next session is in October and we just had the career path alumni call, which we have once every-

Jill DeWit:
Month.

Steven Jack Butala:
Once every month. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now we have a full blown printing company to send your offers to owners.com. It's called offers to owners. The number two, we send out between 500,008 or 900,000 mailers a month on behalf of members and non land academy members.

Jill DeWit:
And ourselves.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And they do our mail.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Completely born out of our frustration, Jill and I of having to deal with commercial printing companies that didn't understand mail urges or what we're doing or how we're doing this.

Jill DeWit:
Our urgency, or why we're doing it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Trying to sell us color printing. When we know we don't need it.

Jill DeWit:
Stuff like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Things like that.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Matt wrote, “Hello, all I'm closing on my first piece of land and selling it retail value. Looking for advice on the best way to go about selling it. Should I get a real estate agent? Is there an inspection process I should go through before buying it? Soil test. See if something's available? Where is the best place to list it on the MLS?” Is that more of the question there? Okay, “So I'm buying it for $7,000 and I think it's going to retail between 25 and $30,000. I often use flat fee listing companies when selling houses because I haven't sold land yet. So I was considering an agent as I'm not exactly sure what information I need to market it appropriately.” You want me to go first?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So yeah, if you are not sure and you've not experienced with this then I think getting an agent is stellar.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
You can do flat rate MLS postings, just like you did in the past. There's companies like... Can't think of the one that we used to use out there. But now I use Broker Direct, MLS.com. Because they cover all over the country and they're a great service to help you put it up there. So the great thing about those companies, if you do flat rate listing service, you're going through a title or going through a real estate agent, I should say, but they're not taking a commission. You're just paying them a fee to use them to get on the MLS. They're going to send you the forms you fill them out. They're going to say how many pictures you want? What order you want?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learning How to Run a Business (LA 1853)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the cheese.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're in Wisconsin today.

Jill DeWit:
Yes we are. You know what? And I'm looking for that chocolate cheese. I've had it. I know of it. I don't know where to find it but I'm on a mission.

Steven Jack Butala:
If anybody knows where to get the chocolate cheese, we'll be here for a while. Please let us know or staff know or put it in there.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
YouTube or anyway, you can get to us.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Please tell me the home of the chocolate cheese. Because it's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I are going to talk about learning how to run a business. As I said yesterday, an integral part of what we do here. It takes up at least 50% of the time of what we talk about during career path. From people who have been running businesses their entire professional life. And people who are brand new. I always learn something new and make those changes based on what goes on in career path. So there's a lot of career path talk right now because we're starting to back up. The next session is in October and we just had the career path alumni call, which we have once every-

Jill DeWit:
Month.

Steven Jack Butala:
Once every month. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now we have a full blown printing company to send your offers to owners.com. It's called offers to owners. The number two, we send out between 500,008 or 900,000 mailers a month on behalf of members and non land academy members.

Jill DeWit:
And ourselves.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And they do our mail.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Completely born out of our frustration, Jill and I of having to deal with commercial printing companies that didn't understand mail urges or what we're doing or how we're doing this.

Jill DeWit:
Our urgency, or why we're doing it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Trying to sell us color printing. When we know we don't need it.

Jill DeWit:
Stuff like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Things like that.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Matt wrote, “Hello, all I'm closing on my first piece of land and selling it retail value. Looking for advice on the best way to go about selling it. Should I get a real estate agent? Is there an inspection process I should go through before buying it? Soil test. See if something's available? Where is the best place to list it on the MLS?” Is that more of the question there? Okay, “So I'm buying it for $7,000 and I think it's going to retail between 25 and $30,000. I often use flat fee listing companies when selling houses because I haven't sold land yet. So I was considering an agent as I'm not exactly sure what information I need to market it appropriately.” You want me to go first?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So yeah, if you are not sure and you've not experienced with this then I think getting an agent is stellar.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
You can do flat rate MLS postings, just like you did in the past. There's companies like... Can't think of the one that we used to use out there. But now I use Broker Direct, MLS.com. Because they cover all over the country and they're a great service to help you put it up there. So the great thing about those companies, if you do flat rate listing service, you're going through a title or going through a real estate agent, I should say, but they're not taking a commission. You're just paying them a fee to use them to get on the MLS. They're going to send you the forms you fill them out. They're going to say how many pictures you want? What order you want?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/20/learning-how-to-run-a-business-la-1853/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iopwhLeHw</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cc9aeb67-b179-482d-a32d-f9f0134050c6.mp3" length="15917066" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Career Path Alumni Call Topic: Mailer Yield is Subjective (LA 1852)</title><itunes:title>Career Path Alumni Call Topic: Mailer Yield is Subjective (LA 1852)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Career Path Alumni Call Topic: Mailer Yield is Subjective (LA 1852)
Transcript:

Speaker 1:
Steven Jill here.

Speaker 2:
Hello.

Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Speaker 2:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Rain. If you're watching this and you are looking over my shoulder like, "I see a lot of green." Yeah, that's a lot of green. And it's wet green. We are literally sitting... As you can see, it's not as glamorous. I may or may not be in an RV dinette. Yes, that's exactly where I'm sitting. Highly encourage you to go on YouTube and you'll get a kick out of this. And, "Jill, why is your hair frizzy?" Oh, because it's big hair day here in the Valley of the Rain. It's a-

Speaker 1:
Our final child is officially in college, and the same week we left, Jill and I left in our RV and are driving across the country. We're in Madison, Wisconsin today. We were in Nebraska for the last couple of days before that, in Colorado for an entire week. Tomorrow will be in Michigan and we've got a wedding to go to in Northern Michigan. And then, who knows?

Speaker 2:
I got to tell you, this has been a blast. We've talked about this a lot. If you worry about, is there enough land out there? Take a drive across the country just once. I don't care where you go, what state you cross, just get out of your little bubble and drive around a little bit. You're going to go, "Oh yeah. There's a whole lot of land out here." There's also a whole lot of corn out here. We've found all the corn.

Speaker 1:
And beans.

Speaker 2:
And beans.

Speaker 1:
And-

Speaker 2:
Soybeans. Yup.

Speaker 1:
We obviously spent a couple of days in the heartland. Nicest people you ever want to meet.

Speaker 2:
Oh, we're having so much fun.

Speaker 1:
Yeah, absolutely a blast. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
I find myself saying things like, "I had no idea Iowa was so cool", and "I had no idea that..." Yes, we did watch the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings game. This is what's so cool, we got to see Iowa and Iowa State play, in Iowa, in a bar. And then the very next day, that was on a Saturday night, and the next day on Sunday night, we watched in Wisconsin, at Green Bay-

Speaker 1:
In Madison, Wisconsin.

Speaker 2:
In Madison Wisconsin.

Speaker 1:
Close to Green Bay.

Speaker 2:
Here. Yeah, we watched the game, the Green Bay and the Vikings game. Not going to talk about how that all went.

Speaker 1:
Yeah. We're the wrong

Speaker 2:
Those who live here where we're sitting, we won't bring that up. But anyway, it was fun and cool to say that I'm here and I get to be here with everybody watching I'm going to have such a blast.

Speaker 1:
The point is, we're in an RV doing our job's pretty effectively.

Speaker 2:
Yeah.

Speaker 1:
All the land academy roles we have, and buying and selling land. So if we can do it, you can do it.

Speaker 2:
You can do anything. You really can.

Speaker 1:
If we only had to buy and sell land, we would work like half a day a week.

Speaker 2:
Once a week. That's it. Four hours, that's all I need

Speaker 1:
Today. Jill and I talk about career path alumni topic: how mailer yield is subjective the first Tuesday of every month. Everybody who has been through our career path program, and I think Jill's got another one start in October, we all get together and kind of have a mastermind group and this topic came up, and it was so... it hit me so square in the face in a good way that I want to talk about it today, because I think it's really going to help everybody.

Speaker 2:
Thank you.

Speaker 1:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free

Speaker 2:
And can I say about this? Can I give this little-

Speaker 1:
Sure. Oh sure. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:
So before you launch into Career Path, let me talk about career path for just a second. We are T minus 30 days.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Career Path Alumni Call Topic: Mailer Yield is Subjective (LA 1852)
Transcript:

Speaker 1:
Steven Jill here.

Speaker 2:
Hello.

Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Speaker 2:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Rain. If you're watching this and you are looking over my shoulder like, "I see a lot of green." Yeah, that's a lot of green. And it's wet green. We are literally sitting... As you can see, it's not as glamorous. I may or may not be in an RV dinette. Yes, that's exactly where I'm sitting. Highly encourage you to go on YouTube and you'll get a kick out of this. And, "Jill, why is your hair frizzy?" Oh, because it's big hair day here in the Valley of the Rain. It's a-

Speaker 1:
Our final child is officially in college, and the same week we left, Jill and I left in our RV and are driving across the country. We're in Madison, Wisconsin today. We were in Nebraska for the last couple of days before that, in Colorado for an entire week. Tomorrow will be in Michigan and we've got a wedding to go to in Northern Michigan. And then, who knows?

Speaker 2:
I got to tell you, this has been a blast. We've talked about this a lot. If you worry about, is there enough land out there? Take a drive across the country just once. I don't care where you go, what state you cross, just get out of your little bubble and drive around a little bit. You're going to go, "Oh yeah. There's a whole lot of land out here." There's also a whole lot of corn out here. We've found all the corn.

Speaker 1:
And beans.

Speaker 2:
And beans.

Speaker 1:
And-

Speaker 2:
Soybeans. Yup.

Speaker 1:
We obviously spent a couple of days in the heartland. Nicest people you ever want to meet.

Speaker 2:
Oh, we're having so much fun.

Speaker 1:
Yeah, absolutely a blast. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
I find myself saying things like, "I had no idea Iowa was so cool", and "I had no idea that..." Yes, we did watch the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings game. This is what's so cool, we got to see Iowa and Iowa State play, in Iowa, in a bar. And then the very next day, that was on a Saturday night, and the next day on Sunday night, we watched in Wisconsin, at Green Bay-

Speaker 1:
In Madison, Wisconsin.

Speaker 2:
In Madison Wisconsin.

Speaker 1:
Close to Green Bay.

Speaker 2:
Here. Yeah, we watched the game, the Green Bay and the Vikings game. Not going to talk about how that all went.

Speaker 1:
Yeah. We're the wrong

Speaker 2:
Those who live here where we're sitting, we won't bring that up. But anyway, it was fun and cool to say that I'm here and I get to be here with everybody watching I'm going to have such a blast.

Speaker 1:
The point is, we're in an RV doing our job's pretty effectively.

Speaker 2:
Yeah.

Speaker 1:
All the land academy roles we have, and buying and selling land. So if we can do it, you can do it.

Speaker 2:
You can do anything. You really can.

Speaker 1:
If we only had to buy and sell land, we would work like half a day a week.

Speaker 2:
Once a week. That's it. Four hours, that's all I need

Speaker 1:
Today. Jill and I talk about career path alumni topic: how mailer yield is subjective the first Tuesday of every month. Everybody who has been through our career path program, and I think Jill's got another one start in October, we all get together and kind of have a mastermind group and this topic came up, and it was so... it hit me so square in the face in a good way that I want to talk about it today, because I think it's really going to help everybody.

Speaker 2:
Thank you.

Speaker 1:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free

Speaker 2:
And can I say about this? Can I give this little-

Speaker 1:
Sure. Oh sure. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:
So before you launch into Career Path, let me talk about career path for just a second. We are T minus 30 days.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/19/career-path-alumni-call-topic-mailer-yield-is-subjective-la-1852/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">GWDXlxr_M</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/20541eb0-7480-4455-96e3-c522495d91b5.mp3" length="14980542" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Talk to a Seller (ReAir LA 1682)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Talk to a Seller (ReAir LA 1682)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Talk to a Seller (ReAir LA 1682)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to talk to a seller. Sounds trite and silly, especially to a data person like me, because people like me ... How to talk to a seller? This is how you talk to your seller.

Steven Jack Butala:
"Hello."

Jill K DeWit:
"What do you got?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"I'd like to sell ... Yes. I got your letter, and wondering if it's legit. Yeah. Come on. You're talking too slow. Let's go."

Jill K DeWit:
"Hurry it up."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you talk to sellers.

Jill K DeWit:
"I sent out 3,000 offers today. Hurry up, ma'am. Hurry it up. Come on, lady. Get to the point."

Steven Jack Butala:
"You want to sell or not? Going to the bar. I'm on my way to the bar. Want to sell or not?"

Jill K DeWit:
"Just sign it and send it in, would you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you do it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. What's so funny?

Jill K DeWit:
It's just really funny. There's a reason why we don't let you talk on the phone. It's totally true.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait. Truth time. Our phone ring in our office, back when we had an office, and I get excited. I'm like, "Let me answer." Steven's like, "Get me away. Is it still ringing? Why am I hearing ringing?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's my exit.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven's like, "See ya."

Steven Jack Butala:
You've clearly forgotten to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel, but please do so now. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. You would also sneak over and go ... Close my office door. Here they go again.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have 30 minutes of peace. Jill's talking to a seller.

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. [inaudible 00:01:47] I was sharing yield data with another member here. I can't remember who. We figured out that his yield was so far off because he was using an employee to handle the incoming calls.

Steven Jack Butala:
Ding, ding.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm set up differently from him in a lot of ways, but I still worry that handing off my least favorite part of this could ruin it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Jack and Jill talk a lot about the benefits of doing this as a partnership, but I'm not looking to give away half of the pie.

Steven Jack Butala:
I did.

Jill K DeWit:
I would only consider having the Jill work done by a paid employee or a VA. That's okay too.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all you.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Honestly, I got pure luck with Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, we didn't have to make this a partnership. You chose to do that. There's probably people ... There's lots of people out there that would ... The way it worked out, yes, we are partners in every way you can imagine. "Mommy, what does Miss Jill mean by that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"Mommy, I want a partner."

Jill K DeWit:
"Can I have one like Miss Jill?" Anyway. Oh no.

Steven Jack Butala:
The kids are in the back seat. Jill's imitating them. She doesn't talk like that at random.

Jill K DeWit:
Could you imagine? No. That's true. All right.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. Yeah. I would not go into this with that intent myself. If I didn't know you ... Let's back up. I'm this person. I'm not that good on the phone. I need someone that's good on the phone. Or I'm doing it, and I'm okay on the phone, but I could be better on the phone, and it's something I don't like to do. I would be searching and finding someone.

Steven Jack Butala:
So would I.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Talk to a Seller (ReAir LA 1682)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to talk to a seller. Sounds trite and silly, especially to a data person like me, because people like me ... How to talk to a seller? This is how you talk to your seller.

Steven Jack Butala:
"Hello."

Jill K DeWit:
"What do you got?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"I'd like to sell ... Yes. I got your letter, and wondering if it's legit. Yeah. Come on. You're talking too slow. Let's go."

Jill K DeWit:
"Hurry it up."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you talk to sellers.

Jill K DeWit:
"I sent out 3,000 offers today. Hurry up, ma'am. Hurry it up. Come on, lady. Get to the point."

Steven Jack Butala:
"You want to sell or not? Going to the bar. I'm on my way to the bar. Want to sell or not?"

Jill K DeWit:
"Just sign it and send it in, would you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you do it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. What's so funny?

Jill K DeWit:
It's just really funny. There's a reason why we don't let you talk on the phone. It's totally true.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait. Truth time. Our phone ring in our office, back when we had an office, and I get excited. I'm like, "Let me answer." Steven's like, "Get me away. Is it still ringing? Why am I hearing ringing?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's my exit.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven's like, "See ya."

Steven Jack Butala:
You've clearly forgotten to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel, but please do so now. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. You would also sneak over and go ... Close my office door. Here they go again.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have 30 minutes of peace. Jill's talking to a seller.

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. [inaudible 00:01:47] I was sharing yield data with another member here. I can't remember who. We figured out that his yield was so far off because he was using an employee to handle the incoming calls.

Steven Jack Butala:
Ding, ding.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm set up differently from him in a lot of ways, but I still worry that handing off my least favorite part of this could ruin it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Jack and Jill talk a lot about the benefits of doing this as a partnership, but I'm not looking to give away half of the pie.

Steven Jack Butala:
I did.

Jill K DeWit:
I would only consider having the Jill work done by a paid employee or a VA. That's okay too.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all you.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Honestly, I got pure luck with Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, we didn't have to make this a partnership. You chose to do that. There's probably people ... There's lots of people out there that would ... The way it worked out, yes, we are partners in every way you can imagine. "Mommy, what does Miss Jill mean by that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"Mommy, I want a partner."

Jill K DeWit:
"Can I have one like Miss Jill?" Anyway. Oh no.

Steven Jack Butala:
The kids are in the back seat. Jill's imitating them. She doesn't talk like that at random.

Jill K DeWit:
Could you imagine? No. That's true. All right.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. Yeah. I would not go into this with that intent myself. If I didn't know you ... Let's back up. I'm this person. I'm not that good on the phone. I need someone that's good on the phone. Or I'm doing it, and I'm okay on the phone, but I could be better on the phone, and it's something I don't like to do. I would be searching and finding someone.

Steven Jack Butala:
So would I.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/16/jill-friday-how-to-talk-to-a-seller-reair-la-1682/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Xy1uaEyQv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/08059039-0531-45d5-b72e-19858f617bea.mp3" length="19641024" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (ReAir LA 1686)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (ReAir LA 1686)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (ReAir LA 1686)
Transcript:

Steven Jack :
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack :
Welcome to the land academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven, Jack [inaudible 00:00:08]

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWitt and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about land deal flow, machine consistency. This whole episode is about one basic concept and I'll phrase it as a question. Is it better to buy [crosstalk 00:00:28].

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Jack :
Better to buy a piece of real estate and decide what to do with it every single time, or is it better to buy the same type of real estate over and over and over again and do exact same thing? The same process, the same people are involved over and over and over again. I bet you can guess which one I think is better. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote. "Hey guys, I am currently scraping data from Zillow for my next mailer, and I noticed that in Zillow, many of the listings don't show the acreage anymore. You have to click in the listing to find out. So because of that, when I scrape the acreage is not spit out, I need manually go into each listing to find out. Does anybody know of a workaround when scraping?"

Steven Jack :
There's two. And inconsistent data in Zillow is fairly common. And here's why. Some of the places in the country Zillow collects data from the MLS. Some of the places they have to be manually input by whoever's listing the property. There's two types of people that list the property, real estate agents, who don't usually don't know their ass from their elbow, or people like us, but it's mostly the ass from the elbow kind. And scraping data from Zillow can go great sometimes because sometimes they implement anti scraping software. Sometimes they don't. So it very much varies from area to area. Don't get discouraged, the sure fire away to fix this is to get a virtual assistant overseas, to manually input some of that data. It is not expensive at all. Usually wait if you order it, you'll get it back overnight because they're working, their day is our night. I've done it both ways for years, years and years, we manually order data mining from the Philippines in our case. And now we scrape. But the truth is if I can't get good data, when I scraped to price and mailer, I moved to a different area to send mail.

Jill K DeWit:
Peaches and cream. What's, peaches and rainbows [crosstalk 00:02:57].

Steven Jack :
This show it's been on since 2015, every day.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Yeah. You'd think I would not be shocked.

Steven Jack :
Even real estate agents have reached out to me. And said I don't like your attitude. I don't think your description of the average real estate agent is accurate. Zero, zero.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. [crosstalk 00:03:20]. Because they're not listening to this. Because they know.

Steven Jack :
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
All right.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday, by the way. So I get to say what I want.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack :
I'm going to talk about land deal, flow machine consistency. This is why you're listening. Jill and I have struggled with this. So for years and years and years, I bought and sold real estate through one venue, eBay for years, 10,000 plus deals. And then around 2011, Jill and I joined forces and we did it a little bit differently and I have to say, we make a lot more money together than we did separately, but it was a totally a different type of company. We would buy property the conventional way, the way we buy property now. Sending out mailers a lot of times back then I went to tax sales, but we would buy it the same way every single time, process it,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (ReAir LA 1686)
Transcript:

Steven Jack :
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack :
Welcome to the land academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven, Jack [inaudible 00:00:08]

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWitt and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about land deal flow, machine consistency. This whole episode is about one basic concept and I'll phrase it as a question. Is it better to buy [crosstalk 00:00:28].

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Jack :
Better to buy a piece of real estate and decide what to do with it every single time, or is it better to buy the same type of real estate over and over and over again and do exact same thing? The same process, the same people are involved over and over and over again. I bet you can guess which one I think is better. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote. "Hey guys, I am currently scraping data from Zillow for my next mailer, and I noticed that in Zillow, many of the listings don't show the acreage anymore. You have to click in the listing to find out. So because of that, when I scrape the acreage is not spit out, I need manually go into each listing to find out. Does anybody know of a workaround when scraping?"

Steven Jack :
There's two. And inconsistent data in Zillow is fairly common. And here's why. Some of the places in the country Zillow collects data from the MLS. Some of the places they have to be manually input by whoever's listing the property. There's two types of people that list the property, real estate agents, who don't usually don't know their ass from their elbow, or people like us, but it's mostly the ass from the elbow kind. And scraping data from Zillow can go great sometimes because sometimes they implement anti scraping software. Sometimes they don't. So it very much varies from area to area. Don't get discouraged, the sure fire away to fix this is to get a virtual assistant overseas, to manually input some of that data. It is not expensive at all. Usually wait if you order it, you'll get it back overnight because they're working, their day is our night. I've done it both ways for years, years and years, we manually order data mining from the Philippines in our case. And now we scrape. But the truth is if I can't get good data, when I scraped to price and mailer, I moved to a different area to send mail.

Jill K DeWit:
Peaches and cream. What's, peaches and rainbows [crosstalk 00:02:57].

Steven Jack :
This show it's been on since 2015, every day.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Yeah. You'd think I would not be shocked.

Steven Jack :
Even real estate agents have reached out to me. And said I don't like your attitude. I don't think your description of the average real estate agent is accurate. Zero, zero.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. [crosstalk 00:03:20]. Because they're not listening to this. Because they know.

Steven Jack :
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
All right.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday, by the way. So I get to say what I want.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack :
I'm going to talk about land deal, flow machine consistency. This is why you're listening. Jill and I have struggled with this. So for years and years and years, I bought and sold real estate through one venue, eBay for years, 10,000 plus deals. And then around 2011, Jill and I joined forces and we did it a little bit differently and I have to say, we make a lot more money together than we did separately, but it was a totally a different type of company. We would buy property the conventional way, the way we buy property now. Sending out mailers a lot of times back then I went to tax sales, but we would buy it the same way every single time, process it,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/15/jack-thursday-land-deal-flow-machine-consistency-reair-la-1686/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wnMuAIwtZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5124d508-5ec6-4ff0-ac3b-485eb2b0f0fe.mp3" length="10852250" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (ReAir LA 1679)</title><itunes:title>How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (ReAir LA 1679)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (ReAir LA 1679)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to buy your first parcel of land, the ever present question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. People watch, they hear us, they see us. They're like, "I can do this. Okay. What do I do? Ready, I'm here. I showed up. What do I do? Is there a list somewhere? Do I just pick from them?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going. This is great.

Jill K DeWit:
Do I just, I don't know, go online and pick one that looks good to me and just call the person, just call the agent? Is that the best way? And they just handle it all. I just write a check.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you a hint, and we're going to obviously cover this all in just a few minutes here. The secret to buying your first piece of land is in our ebook. If you haven't downloaded our ebook, even if you're a long time Land Academy member, it's like 10 or 15 pages, I think. It's just blow through a read, but it tells you how to get your first land deal done fast. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Hope the holiday preps are going well for everyone." So this is obviously from a couple weeks ago. "A question I'm curious about. When listing with a flat fee MLS service, do you provide for the buyer's agent commission?" I have lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you do. It's perfect. I'm going to zip it here. You go for it.

Jill K DeWit:
"I have had some horrible experiences with unprofessional realtors. The problems have been with the poor quality of the listings they prepare."

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. And in parentheses he wrote, "Why don't you use the pictures I gave you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional realtors is a-

Jill K DeWit:
I know, we could talk for a whole nother month.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a redundant sentence, unprofessional realtors. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
"Use the pictures I gave you, the ignorance of marketing outside the MLS." I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
And out and out laziness.

Jill K DeWit:
"And the out and out laziness. If you get an offer on my property, forward it the same day, not the next week. I could go on and on. I like the flat fee"-

Steven Jack Butala:
I wish you would.

Jill K DeWit:
"I like the flat fee because I can control the listing details. I've been offering buyer's agents the full 3%. No problem paying that if they bring a buyer. Do you guys think it makes any difference on the sales end to give the realtors their cut on the flat fee listing?" Okay. So here's what-

Steven Jack Butala:
I like fat fee listing. I like your way better.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So Steven's talking about companies like Broker Direct MLS, and we've had other local companies that we've used. So what the heck are we talking about? Well, there are a number of places, brokers that say, "Hey, look for a flat rate fee, I'll put it on the MLS for you. You're doing the work. I'm not getting commission, but you can use my licensure and everything. This is all legal and legit. And through me, by paying me, I don't have to get a commission. I'll just take a flat rate. I'll put it on the MLS for you."

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a tech company.

Jill K DeWit:
And some of them, they might help you with the work. I'm sure there are people out there that do that. Most of the ones I work with, and this is the way I like it anyway, they just say, "Here's the paperwork. Fill it out how you see fit,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (ReAir LA 1679)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to buy your first parcel of land, the ever present question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. People watch, they hear us, they see us. They're like, "I can do this. Okay. What do I do? Ready, I'm here. I showed up. What do I do? Is there a list somewhere? Do I just pick from them?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going. This is great.

Jill K DeWit:
Do I just, I don't know, go online and pick one that looks good to me and just call the person, just call the agent? Is that the best way? And they just handle it all. I just write a check.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you a hint, and we're going to obviously cover this all in just a few minutes here. The secret to buying your first piece of land is in our ebook. If you haven't downloaded our ebook, even if you're a long time Land Academy member, it's like 10 or 15 pages, I think. It's just blow through a read, but it tells you how to get your first land deal done fast. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Hope the holiday preps are going well for everyone." So this is obviously from a couple weeks ago. "A question I'm curious about. When listing with a flat fee MLS service, do you provide for the buyer's agent commission?" I have lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you do. It's perfect. I'm going to zip it here. You go for it.

Jill K DeWit:
"I have had some horrible experiences with unprofessional realtors. The problems have been with the poor quality of the listings they prepare."

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. And in parentheses he wrote, "Why don't you use the pictures I gave you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional realtors is a-

Jill K DeWit:
I know, we could talk for a whole nother month.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a redundant sentence, unprofessional realtors. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
"Use the pictures I gave you, the ignorance of marketing outside the MLS." I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
And out and out laziness.

Jill K DeWit:
"And the out and out laziness. If you get an offer on my property, forward it the same day, not the next week. I could go on and on. I like the flat fee"-

Steven Jack Butala:
I wish you would.

Jill K DeWit:
"I like the flat fee because I can control the listing details. I've been offering buyer's agents the full 3%. No problem paying that if they bring a buyer. Do you guys think it makes any difference on the sales end to give the realtors their cut on the flat fee listing?" Okay. So here's what-

Steven Jack Butala:
I like fat fee listing. I like your way better.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So Steven's talking about companies like Broker Direct MLS, and we've had other local companies that we've used. So what the heck are we talking about? Well, there are a number of places, brokers that say, "Hey, look for a flat rate fee, I'll put it on the MLS for you. You're doing the work. I'm not getting commission, but you can use my licensure and everything. This is all legal and legit. And through me, by paying me, I don't have to get a commission. I'll just take a flat rate. I'll put it on the MLS for you."

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a tech company.

Jill K DeWit:
And some of them, they might help you with the work. I'm sure there are people out there that do that. Most of the ones I work with, and this is the way I like it anyway, they just say, "Here's the paperwork. Fill it out how you see fit,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/14/how-to-buy-your-first-parcel-of-land-reair-la-1679/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">vKJn7kbpl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1b0946d6-0df8-44d8-9272-559af3040334.mp3" length="18113180" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (ReAir LA 1529)</title><itunes:title>How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (ReAir LA 1529)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (ReAir LA 1529)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to schedule your days successfully.

Jill DeWit:
All right, brain, go for it.

S Jack Butala:
Full disclosure, this is one of my favorite topics, and here's why. Not because I love to live in my calendar, but I love to make money. And this is the only way I know how to actually run a crew and make money and sleep at night, quite honestly.

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were going to say, I love to make fun of Jill.

S Jack Butala:
No, I don't want to ... Jill's amazingly good at this. She doesn't realize it, but we'll make fun of her in a minute.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of am. I mean, I do, on the big stuff. Maybe the little stuff, I kind of slack on, but remember I have my reasons why. We've talked about that.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "I just joined Land Academy a couple months ago. Honestly, I have stuck with my mailing procedure. Oh, I stuck with my mailing procedure instead of starting from scratch with Offers 2 Owners." I'm curious what her old procedure was. I hope it wasn't handwriting letters with the family at dining room.

S Jack Butala:
You'll see. There's a reason this made it into-

Jill DeWit:
Oh, it's coming? Okay, good. I'm excited to see what this is. Okay, Sandy. Here we go. "Unfortunately, I received an email today that states I have to send my mailers first class." Oh, that's funny.

S Jack Butala:
But it's hilarious.

Jill DeWit:
Here come the questions. "Number one, is it standard practice to send first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Not at all.

Jill DeWit:
"Number two, does O2O require that offers be sent first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Heck no.

Jill DeWit:
"Number three, how many people send first class versus standard?"

S Jack Butala:
Very, very few, if that.

Jill DeWit:
"Four, other than the obvious price difference, has anyone tested to see if there are any other differences, ie. performance, ease of mailing, et cetera? Thanks so much for any help you can give, Sandy." Sorry.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80, this matters.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think it matters.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80 and you're receiving a letter. I don't even look at how it's stamped ever. I mean, none of us do.

Jill DeWit:
No. No, we don't.

S Jack Butala:
First class is something that happened like in World War II and, I'm not exaggerating. No. And it goes on, everybody had some stuff to say about this, me included actually on ... And if you want to see it all-

Jill DeWit:
Was she licking stamps?

S Jack Butala:
... it's either he or she, we don't know. And no, they were using click to mail. And so Click2Mail, it's not even a competitor, but it's another way you can send mail for twice as much money, and it's very popular with non-members of Land Academy and everybody changes over. And even Sandy now goes on to say at the bottom of the string. It was too long for me to include in this.

Jill DeWit:
It said, so I get it? I hear ya?

S Jack Butala:
So Click2Mail went into this whole thing about, they sent it to all their people saying, "If you're sending these, this and this, and here's the regulations from the Post Office," and they cited it all.

Jill DeWit:
How sneaky. That's sneaky, making you think you have to do that.

S Jack Butala:
Our other members just jumped right in and took screenshots of how this is all fiction.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

S Jack Butala:
So look, I don't want to blow my own horn here, but I am for a second, our horn. O2O rocks. O2O is set up to do this.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (ReAir LA 1529)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to schedule your days successfully.

Jill DeWit:
All right, brain, go for it.

S Jack Butala:
Full disclosure, this is one of my favorite topics, and here's why. Not because I love to live in my calendar, but I love to make money. And this is the only way I know how to actually run a crew and make money and sleep at night, quite honestly.

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were going to say, I love to make fun of Jill.

S Jack Butala:
No, I don't want to ... Jill's amazingly good at this. She doesn't realize it, but we'll make fun of her in a minute.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of am. I mean, I do, on the big stuff. Maybe the little stuff, I kind of slack on, but remember I have my reasons why. We've talked about that.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "I just joined Land Academy a couple months ago. Honestly, I have stuck with my mailing procedure. Oh, I stuck with my mailing procedure instead of starting from scratch with Offers 2 Owners." I'm curious what her old procedure was. I hope it wasn't handwriting letters with the family at dining room.

S Jack Butala:
You'll see. There's a reason this made it into-

Jill DeWit:
Oh, it's coming? Okay, good. I'm excited to see what this is. Okay, Sandy. Here we go. "Unfortunately, I received an email today that states I have to send my mailers first class." Oh, that's funny.

S Jack Butala:
But it's hilarious.

Jill DeWit:
Here come the questions. "Number one, is it standard practice to send first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Not at all.

Jill DeWit:
"Number two, does O2O require that offers be sent first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Heck no.

Jill DeWit:
"Number three, how many people send first class versus standard?"

S Jack Butala:
Very, very few, if that.

Jill DeWit:
"Four, other than the obvious price difference, has anyone tested to see if there are any other differences, ie. performance, ease of mailing, et cetera? Thanks so much for any help you can give, Sandy." Sorry.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80, this matters.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think it matters.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80 and you're receiving a letter. I don't even look at how it's stamped ever. I mean, none of us do.

Jill DeWit:
No. No, we don't.

S Jack Butala:
First class is something that happened like in World War II and, I'm not exaggerating. No. And it goes on, everybody had some stuff to say about this, me included actually on ... And if you want to see it all-

Jill DeWit:
Was she licking stamps?

S Jack Butala:
... it's either he or she, we don't know. And no, they were using click to mail. And so Click2Mail, it's not even a competitor, but it's another way you can send mail for twice as much money, and it's very popular with non-members of Land Academy and everybody changes over. And even Sandy now goes on to say at the bottom of the string. It was too long for me to include in this.

Jill DeWit:
It said, so I get it? I hear ya?

S Jack Butala:
So Click2Mail went into this whole thing about, they sent it to all their people saying, "If you're sending these, this and this, and here's the regulations from the Post Office," and they cited it all.

Jill DeWit:
How sneaky. That's sneaky, making you think you have to do that.

S Jack Butala:
Our other members just jumped right in and took screenshots of how this is all fiction.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

S Jack Butala:
So look, I don't want to blow my own horn here, but I am for a second, our horn. O2O rocks. O2O is set up to do this.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/13/how-to-schedule-your-days-successfully-reair-la-1529/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">V0w_ovzkt</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6b31d2af-bad4-4641-999c-b53aa7c3ccff.mp3" length="18520502" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (ReAir LA 1453)</title><itunes:title>How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (ReAir LA 1453)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (ReAir LA 1453)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Happy Friday. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how many offers should you really be sending a month. And yesterday we agreed that-

Jill DeWit:
We'll do three levels, whether you're brand new, whether you're intermediate or just an average in this business and then your advanced/pro, what you should be sending. And like I said, we separately wrote down our numbers and we'll share them with you in a few minutes.

Steven Butala:
But before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, join us on Discord. I really mean that. If you're a Land Academy member already, this Discord thing was one of the best things that ever happened to this group. It's just real-time advice. Hey, should I be buying this property or not? Hey, I need a lawyer in Atlanta. It's pretty cool stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Austin wrote, "Hello. After reading a recent post, I came across an affidavit of disclosure. I looked it up and it looks like Arizona may require this document when transacting land. For my Arizona transactions so far, I've conveyed the property to my buyers with a special warranty deed and an affidavit of property value. Am I doing the right thing or do I need to include this additional document to be above board? Thanks, Austin."

Steven Butala:
You're doing every single thing right. For Arizona, it just happens to be called an affidavit of property value. There's a lot of other ... By the way, this is all you need to buy property, two documents, the deed, and let's just call it an addendum because it's called different stuff in different states. It's called a P-Corp in Colorado. What do they call it in California?

Jill DeWit:
I can't remember.

Steven Butala:
The reason for this document is so that the assessor and the treasurer get a copy of it. Actually, I'm sorry. One goes to the recorder, the deed, and the affidavit never gets recorded. It gets walked over or sent to the assessor to notify the assessor that a transaction happened and so that it gets reassessed, most of the time, for the next year's tax rates, which gets communicated to the treasurer.

Jill DeWit:
Based on what you paid for the property.

Steven Butala:
Right. In some states, they don't do it at all. They used to not do it in New Mexico. I haven't done a deal there in a while, which was just slam that stuff out. You could do a deed in five seconds. But they require something now. Today's topic ... Oh, you want to answer this?

Jill DeWit:
No, no, we're good. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Usually I just sit and listen to you.

Jill DeWit:
I'll be over here. Just let me know if you need anything.

Steven Butala:
Today's topics, how many offers should you really be sending per month? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
This is your inventory. This is why you are in business. This I would argue is the number one thing. You can't buy any property to sell any property to make any money if you don't have any deals coming in, and you don't have any deals coming in if you don't send out any mail. So this is crucial. And I see people often make mistakes and it's one easy little fix. They're sending too little. You can't send 100 a week. You can't hand-write them. Actually today, by the time this airs it'll be last week, I'm going to talk on Clubhouse about the difference between the number of deals that we get sending direct mail versus driving for dollars, even pre COVID. Let's just say pre COVID, you can go knock on anybody's door, introduce yourself, hand them a card. And you're trying ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (ReAir LA 1453)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Happy Friday. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how many offers should you really be sending a month. And yesterday we agreed that-

Jill DeWit:
We'll do three levels, whether you're brand new, whether you're intermediate or just an average in this business and then your advanced/pro, what you should be sending. And like I said, we separately wrote down our numbers and we'll share them with you in a few minutes.

Steven Butala:
But before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, join us on Discord. I really mean that. If you're a Land Academy member already, this Discord thing was one of the best things that ever happened to this group. It's just real-time advice. Hey, should I be buying this property or not? Hey, I need a lawyer in Atlanta. It's pretty cool stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Austin wrote, "Hello. After reading a recent post, I came across an affidavit of disclosure. I looked it up and it looks like Arizona may require this document when transacting land. For my Arizona transactions so far, I've conveyed the property to my buyers with a special warranty deed and an affidavit of property value. Am I doing the right thing or do I need to include this additional document to be above board? Thanks, Austin."

Steven Butala:
You're doing every single thing right. For Arizona, it just happens to be called an affidavit of property value. There's a lot of other ... By the way, this is all you need to buy property, two documents, the deed, and let's just call it an addendum because it's called different stuff in different states. It's called a P-Corp in Colorado. What do they call it in California?

Jill DeWit:
I can't remember.

Steven Butala:
The reason for this document is so that the assessor and the treasurer get a copy of it. Actually, I'm sorry. One goes to the recorder, the deed, and the affidavit never gets recorded. It gets walked over or sent to the assessor to notify the assessor that a transaction happened and so that it gets reassessed, most of the time, for the next year's tax rates, which gets communicated to the treasurer.

Jill DeWit:
Based on what you paid for the property.

Steven Butala:
Right. In some states, they don't do it at all. They used to not do it in New Mexico. I haven't done a deal there in a while, which was just slam that stuff out. You could do a deed in five seconds. But they require something now. Today's topic ... Oh, you want to answer this?

Jill DeWit:
No, no, we're good. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Usually I just sit and listen to you.

Jill DeWit:
I'll be over here. Just let me know if you need anything.

Steven Butala:
Today's topics, how many offers should you really be sending per month? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
This is your inventory. This is why you are in business. This I would argue is the number one thing. You can't buy any property to sell any property to make any money if you don't have any deals coming in, and you don't have any deals coming in if you don't send out any mail. So this is crucial. And I see people often make mistakes and it's one easy little fix. They're sending too little. You can't send 100 a week. You can't hand-write them. Actually today, by the time this airs it'll be last week, I'm going to talk on Clubhouse about the difference between the number of deals that we get sending direct mail versus driving for dollars, even pre COVID. Let's just say pre COVID, you can go knock on anybody's door, introduce yourself, hand them a card. And you're trying ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/12/how-many-offers-should-you-really-be-sending-per-month-reair-la-1453/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-C71UzXcH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/687a1d0f-246a-42c4-8511-06a8af5427e1.mp3" length="10928008" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Get a Land Deal Done with a Mediocre Partner (LA 1847)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Get a Land Deal Done with a Mediocre Partner (LA 1847)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Get a Land Deal Done with a Mediocre Partner (LA 1847)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about how to get a land deal done with a mediocre partner.

Jill K DeWit:
And I don't mean Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you did, I would sit and listen. Maybe we can fix it and maybe we can't, probably not.

Jill K DeWit:
What? Wait, let's just hold. Let's take a little time out for a second. Let me think, I'm going to try to think of one way that I'm mediocre and you try to think of one way that you think you're mediocre and we're going to present them and then we'll see if we agree or not, okay? So let me think about this here. It's kind of hard for me to come up with one. Just kidding. Totally kidding. Mediocre. Okay. I think I know one, I think because I'm bored of it, I'm so bored that I've gotten mediocre. I can make a sandwich, but outside of that, if I put my heart into meal, I'll make a good meal. But I think...

Steven Jack Butala:
I never thought about that.

Jill K DeWit:
Most of my meals are probably mediocre. I don't care.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're a mediocre cook, you're right.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Because I don't care anymore. I did. But wait a minute on Thanksgiving, I'll pull out all the stops. [inaudible 00:01:27] See, I know what's possible.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can do it.

Jill K DeWit:
I choose to be mediocre.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the truth of it. I'm a mediocre eater. So it all works out great.

Jill K DeWit:
That works out. So what's your thing that you think?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm probably a mediocre handyman.

Jill K DeWit:
I would agree with that. You're so good at data, baby, stick to data. I'm sorry. I was going to build you up here, but I have to agree with that one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Isn't it funny when you just self describe anything. Everyone can handle it, but if someone walks up to you and says, you know what, I've been meaning to tell, you're a mediocre handyman. It's like, "what? What are you talking about? I changed the light bulb three weeks ago and it went great."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
The truth is I can't change light bulbs in our house because no one can reach them and I'm not going to go buy a ladder. And we have to go call somebody.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, exactly.
We have a couple of handymen on retainer.

Steven Jack Butala:
Even if I bought a ladder, it would be a four story ladder, so I'm just not going to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
And Jill's accepted that.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah, I'm fine with that. Because you were so good at data, baby, and research and a lot of other things. We'll leave it at that. All right, thank you. I had to get that out of the way. I thought that that was important. We needed to share. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That could have gone way different. What if we just announced to the world that we were all mediocre at things that really matter in an interpersonal relationship.

Jill K DeWit:
I'll [inaudible 00:03:22], no we won't share anymore. Let's move on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this, jill and I created parcelfact.com. You can find any property in the country, just about any property by using the state, the county and the assessor's parcel number, which all properties have, because that's how counties send out real estate taxes. Check out parcelfact.com. We spent a ton of time,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Get a Land Deal Done with a Mediocre Partner (LA 1847)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about how to get a land deal done with a mediocre partner.

Jill K DeWit:
And I don't mean Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you did, I would sit and listen. Maybe we can fix it and maybe we can't, probably not.

Jill K DeWit:
What? Wait, let's just hold. Let's take a little time out for a second. Let me think, I'm going to try to think of one way that I'm mediocre and you try to think of one way that you think you're mediocre and we're going to present them and then we'll see if we agree or not, okay? So let me think about this here. It's kind of hard for me to come up with one. Just kidding. Totally kidding. Mediocre. Okay. I think I know one, I think because I'm bored of it, I'm so bored that I've gotten mediocre. I can make a sandwich, but outside of that, if I put my heart into meal, I'll make a good meal. But I think...

Steven Jack Butala:
I never thought about that.

Jill K DeWit:
Most of my meals are probably mediocre. I don't care.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're a mediocre cook, you're right.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Because I don't care anymore. I did. But wait a minute on Thanksgiving, I'll pull out all the stops. [inaudible 00:01:27] See, I know what's possible.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can do it.

Jill K DeWit:
I choose to be mediocre.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the truth of it. I'm a mediocre eater. So it all works out great.

Jill K DeWit:
That works out. So what's your thing that you think?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm probably a mediocre handyman.

Jill K DeWit:
I would agree with that. You're so good at data, baby, stick to data. I'm sorry. I was going to build you up here, but I have to agree with that one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Isn't it funny when you just self describe anything. Everyone can handle it, but if someone walks up to you and says, you know what, I've been meaning to tell, you're a mediocre handyman. It's like, "what? What are you talking about? I changed the light bulb three weeks ago and it went great."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
The truth is I can't change light bulbs in our house because no one can reach them and I'm not going to go buy a ladder. And we have to go call somebody.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, exactly.
We have a couple of handymen on retainer.

Steven Jack Butala:
Even if I bought a ladder, it would be a four story ladder, so I'm just not going to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
And Jill's accepted that.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah, I'm fine with that. Because you were so good at data, baby, and research and a lot of other things. We'll leave it at that. All right, thank you. I had to get that out of the way. I thought that that was important. We needed to share. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That could have gone way different. What if we just announced to the world that we were all mediocre at things that really matter in an interpersonal relationship.

Jill K DeWit:
I'll [inaudible 00:03:22], no we won't share anymore. Let's move on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this, jill and I created parcelfact.com. You can find any property in the country, just about any property by using the state, the county and the assessor's parcel number, which all properties have, because that's how counties send out real estate taxes. Check out parcelfact.com. We spent a ton of time,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/09/jill-friday-how-to-get-a-land-deal-done-with-a-mediocre-partner-la-1847/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iTb46HbxK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c1b89ab8-54e1-446e-99b8-f5bcd583b3d8.mp3" length="17461603" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why I Killed Several Land Deals My Partners Already Approved (LA 1846)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why I Killed Several Land Deals My Partners Already Approved (LA 1846)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why I Killed Several Land Deals My Partners Already Approved (LA 1846)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about, in detail, why I killed, recently killed, several land deals my partners already proved.

Jill K DeWit:
This is fun.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think this is-

Jill K DeWit:
I get to sit back and let you... Because I kind of saw it in air table, kind of watched it happen, which is really nice.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is going to be informative, I think.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. This is cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Anthony wrote, "Infill lot advice from a builder," I read this the other day. This was really cool. "I recently had a conversation with a builder who took a chunk of lots off my books. It was a good talk. I asked him about the metrics he uses to decide where to build. The answers were eye-opening. He won't touch any area where new construction fetches under $400,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, that's the truth.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. "Though lumber costs have fallen from recent highs, he still budgets," this is more than I even thought right now, "he budgets 150 to $175,000 a square foot. I was shocked at all the fees and hurdles on new construction. My takeaways, number one, due to the high costs of new construction for infill lots, make sure the markets you mail have a medium home price of over $400,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's... One second before you run into number two. That's been the case for a long time.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That number keeps moving, but it's been the case, because you need to make money.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the antithesis of affordable housing. All you read about in the news, in real estate news, is, "Why the hell..." And all these articles are written by little tiny journalists that are maybe still in middle school, "We need more affordable housing." Well, great. Here's the reason we don't have it, because of this post. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "Number two, I will limit my infill offers with an eye towards an expected sale price of no more than 15% of the estimated new home price." So think about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's been that way for-

Jill K DeWit:
So $400,000, you'd go back... You could go back like 20%.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Buy for 20, sell for-

Steven Jack Butala:
40.

Jill K DeWit:
Or buy for 40, you could even sell for 80 maybe. But now, he's saying go even lower than that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I agree with that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Totally. "Number three, since all these costs and the hurdles on new SFR construction, the demand for cheaper options will only increase going forward." So true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cheap land.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. "I will be giving priority to mobile home zoned lots. I know there's a deep reservoir of knowledge on this subject here. So what do you guys think?" I didn't get to see what everybody else weighed in on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And a lot of people had a lot of stuff to say, including me. This guy's been in our group for quite some time. He's very, very bright. And these are the types of people, fortunately, that Land Academy attracts. I do a whole module on Land Academy Mobile Home Land, and actually developing or dropping mobile homes on land in our Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
And you're going to add more about subdividing a c...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why I Killed Several Land Deals My Partners Already Approved (LA 1846)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about, in detail, why I killed, recently killed, several land deals my partners already proved.

Jill K DeWit:
This is fun.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think this is-

Jill K DeWit:
I get to sit back and let you... Because I kind of saw it in air table, kind of watched it happen, which is really nice.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is going to be informative, I think.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. This is cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Anthony wrote, "Infill lot advice from a builder," I read this the other day. This was really cool. "I recently had a conversation with a builder who took a chunk of lots off my books. It was a good talk. I asked him about the metrics he uses to decide where to build. The answers were eye-opening. He won't touch any area where new construction fetches under $400,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, that's the truth.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. "Though lumber costs have fallen from recent highs, he still budgets," this is more than I even thought right now, "he budgets 150 to $175,000 a square foot. I was shocked at all the fees and hurdles on new construction. My takeaways, number one, due to the high costs of new construction for infill lots, make sure the markets you mail have a medium home price of over $400,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's... One second before you run into number two. That's been the case for a long time.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That number keeps moving, but it's been the case, because you need to make money.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the antithesis of affordable housing. All you read about in the news, in real estate news, is, "Why the hell..." And all these articles are written by little tiny journalists that are maybe still in middle school, "We need more affordable housing." Well, great. Here's the reason we don't have it, because of this post. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "Number two, I will limit my infill offers with an eye towards an expected sale price of no more than 15% of the estimated new home price." So think about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's been that way for-

Jill K DeWit:
So $400,000, you'd go back... You could go back like 20%.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Buy for 20, sell for-

Steven Jack Butala:
40.

Jill K DeWit:
Or buy for 40, you could even sell for 80 maybe. But now, he's saying go even lower than that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I agree with that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Totally. "Number three, since all these costs and the hurdles on new SFR construction, the demand for cheaper options will only increase going forward." So true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cheap land.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. "I will be giving priority to mobile home zoned lots. I know there's a deep reservoir of knowledge on this subject here. So what do you guys think?" I didn't get to see what everybody else weighed in on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And a lot of people had a lot of stuff to say, including me. This guy's been in our group for quite some time. He's very, very bright. And these are the types of people, fortunately, that Land Academy attracts. I do a whole module on Land Academy Mobile Home Land, and actually developing or dropping mobile homes on land in our Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
And you're going to add more about subdividing a c...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/08/jack-thursday-why-i-killed-several-land-deals-my-partners-already-approved-la-1846/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">GEGN45OWL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/431d3c26-873c-45f0-a2f1-7af88121ba24.mp3" length="10000788" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Role of Research in Land Investing (LA 1845)</title><itunes:title>The Role of Research in Land Investing (LA 1845)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Role of Research in Land Investing (LA 1845)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Real Estate Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the role of research in land investing and it's not a minor role. Like I said yesterday, we just are in the information age, literally. And there's not a topic I've ever couldn't find any content or reviews on on the internet about anything to make a really well informed decision.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me give you some truth here about Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's do the show first.

Jill K DeWit:
No, no, no. This ties into this. Give me just a second here. One of the lovely things about our relationship, the ying and the yang.

Steven Jack Butala:
One of the lovely things.

Jill K DeWit:
Lovely. No, it is actually. This is a good thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not one of the horrific things.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I'll talk about that later. So the lovely things is you are research nut. You dig in and research like no one I've ever known. And want to know what's great about that is I hate research. Can't stand it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. Oh, no. No, I

Steven Jack Butala:
How could you hate research?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, because I'm not because I'd rather be off doing something fun. I don't want to sit and make sure I'm doing the, pick the right one. I'm like, yeah, pick it. Let's just go. Let's have some fun. No, but you're like, no, we need to look at this. I need to think about that. I need to check this and weigh against that. I need to pull these reports and I need to make sure. So this is all ending in a positive. It may not still like it, but what's great is no matter what it is when you finally come to me with something and say, "I think we should pull the trigger. I think this is a good idea." I don't have to worry about it. Because I know you put in 10 to 20 times more research than I would've.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's necessary. Probably 10 to 20 times more. But then I know.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. And welcome to land academy. That's like buying property. So I, trust me. I adopt it there and there I do it. I do it quicker. Well, not necessarily. We're both really fast about it, but I know what to look for to pick a property and if I'm not sure about it, if needs more research or something, we're going to find out. I'm not going to make a knee jerk decision. So thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm in a lifelong professional and interpersonal relationship with a salesperson. Think about that.

Jill K DeWit:
What was that all for?

Steven Jack Butala:
Send me a note. Send me an empathetic or sympathetic note.

Jill K DeWit:
What? What was that for?

Steven Jack Butala:
She wants to have fun. She doesn't really care if there's any math or money involved.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
Her answer to all money questions is if it costs more, then I'll just sell-

Jill K DeWit:
Must be better.

Steven Jack Butala:
Then I'll just sell more.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that too. That's right. No problem.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would much rather have this much larger diamond and next month I'll just sell three times as much and it'll be fine. And the problem with that is she has a long history of accomplishing that.

Jill K DeWit:
It works. [inaudible 00:03:06].

Steven Jack Butala:
So now I'm in this impossible position where I just pretty much can't ever say no because every time I've ever done it, she just proves me wrong. This is a show.

Jill K DeWit:
You're welcome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, just a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community it's free. Last year, a ton of land academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns off to a goo...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Role of Research in Land Investing (LA 1845)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Real Estate Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the role of research in land investing and it's not a minor role. Like I said yesterday, we just are in the information age, literally. And there's not a topic I've ever couldn't find any content or reviews on on the internet about anything to make a really well informed decision.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me give you some truth here about Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's do the show first.

Jill K DeWit:
No, no, no. This ties into this. Give me just a second here. One of the lovely things about our relationship, the ying and the yang.

Steven Jack Butala:
One of the lovely things.

Jill K DeWit:
Lovely. No, it is actually. This is a good thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not one of the horrific things.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I'll talk about that later. So the lovely things is you are research nut. You dig in and research like no one I've ever known. And want to know what's great about that is I hate research. Can't stand it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. Oh, no. No, I

Steven Jack Butala:
How could you hate research?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, because I'm not because I'd rather be off doing something fun. I don't want to sit and make sure I'm doing the, pick the right one. I'm like, yeah, pick it. Let's just go. Let's have some fun. No, but you're like, no, we need to look at this. I need to think about that. I need to check this and weigh against that. I need to pull these reports and I need to make sure. So this is all ending in a positive. It may not still like it, but what's great is no matter what it is when you finally come to me with something and say, "I think we should pull the trigger. I think this is a good idea." I don't have to worry about it. Because I know you put in 10 to 20 times more research than I would've.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's necessary. Probably 10 to 20 times more. But then I know.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. And welcome to land academy. That's like buying property. So I, trust me. I adopt it there and there I do it. I do it quicker. Well, not necessarily. We're both really fast about it, but I know what to look for to pick a property and if I'm not sure about it, if needs more research or something, we're going to find out. I'm not going to make a knee jerk decision. So thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm in a lifelong professional and interpersonal relationship with a salesperson. Think about that.

Jill K DeWit:
What was that all for?

Steven Jack Butala:
Send me a note. Send me an empathetic or sympathetic note.

Jill K DeWit:
What? What was that for?

Steven Jack Butala:
She wants to have fun. She doesn't really care if there's any math or money involved.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
Her answer to all money questions is if it costs more, then I'll just sell-

Jill K DeWit:
Must be better.

Steven Jack Butala:
Then I'll just sell more.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that too. That's right. No problem.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would much rather have this much larger diamond and next month I'll just sell three times as much and it'll be fine. And the problem with that is she has a long history of accomplishing that.

Jill K DeWit:
It works. [inaudible 00:03:06].

Steven Jack Butala:
So now I'm in this impossible position where I just pretty much can't ever say no because every time I've ever done it, she just proves me wrong. This is a show.

Jill K DeWit:
You're welcome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, just a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community it's free. Last year, a ton of land academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns off to a goo...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/07/the-role-of-research-in-land-investing-la-1845/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">G8CB2JX9-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/14e2a8bc-9fc0-4eeb-8f46-e8d19641a718.mp3" length="17326182" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Many Blind Offers You Send is Tied Directly to Your Success (LA 1844)</title><itunes:title>How Many Blind Offers You Send is Tied Directly to Your Success (LA 1844)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Many Blind Offers You Send is Tied Directly to Your Success (LA 1844)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt. Broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
This week we're broadcasting from the valley of the sun. But by the time you listen to this, we are deep into the center of the country in an RV.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, I'm going to have to change it every time we record. I'm going to come up with a cute saying as to wherever we are, fill in the blank, it might be brought broadcasting from the center of the rust belt.

Steven Jack Butala:
Rust belt cracks you up. Rust belt's been... Jill just learned the word rust belt.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know what's funny? Do you know what it is? I actually used soup to nuts in a sentence the other day and I didn't know soup to nuts for a while too. That's old school for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
People from Southern California are a very interesting bunch. Today Jill and I talk about how many blind offers you need to send and how it's tied directly to your success. Before we get into it, let's take a good question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope by now, Jill and I own and operate, successfully, a full blown commercial printing company to help you get offers in the mail. Offers2owners.com

Jill K DeWit:
Oh two. Oh, look. How cute is that? I have a cheer. O and the two and O.

Steven Jack Butala:
A cheer. What's going to happen in this episode?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my God. You think I'm like drunk or something?

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Oh, but we send between 500,000 and a million offers a month. Check it out at offers2owners.com. Wow. Geez, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
What? All right. Kevin wrote, "Oftentimes on the Thursday call while doing due diligence, Jack and Jill click around on the neighbor scoop and say, "I would call X, be at a builder or a neighbor et cetera." My question is, well, how do you introduce yourself? Since they won't have much to gain from answering your questions, how do you navigate the situation?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me back up and describe the situation and Jill's going to answer that. If you get to a point where you've got a property that comes back, it comes back signed or you've renegotiated the situation, and you don't know whether you're going to buy or not, you're making that final decision. So you present it on the Thursday webinar call that we have for all of our members and our answer is, you know what? I'm not sure either. It looks like a great piece of property. It looks like there's access over here and the numbers support the acquisition so you can sell it for twice as much. But it'd be great to get an opinion from somebody who's local. Why don't you call a local builder, the gas station owner next door, or a local real estate agent and ask them their opinion of what they think the value is.

Jill K DeWit:
Or even not even that, it's like, I can't tell if this meets that. I can't tell if the road stops here. I can't tell how close it is to fill in the blank. I can't tell how deep it is. So in the past, I had a situation, here's a real example of this exact thing. We had an island and I couldn't tell, based on the maps, when we look at the different dates on it, there could be access certain times of the year right? As the water levels go up, go down. I think there's a bridge over here. I can't tell there's a bridge over here. So I was like, "I'm going to call somebody and figure out, can I even get over there without a boat?" So I did, I picked up the phone and started calling and it was good because there was a lumber company across the way.
This is a true story. So I dropped a little man on Google Earth Pro, you know what I'm talking about.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Many Blind Offers You Send is Tied Directly to Your Success (LA 1844)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt. Broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
This week we're broadcasting from the valley of the sun. But by the time you listen to this, we are deep into the center of the country in an RV.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, I'm going to have to change it every time we record. I'm going to come up with a cute saying as to wherever we are, fill in the blank, it might be brought broadcasting from the center of the rust belt.

Steven Jack Butala:
Rust belt cracks you up. Rust belt's been... Jill just learned the word rust belt.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know what's funny? Do you know what it is? I actually used soup to nuts in a sentence the other day and I didn't know soup to nuts for a while too. That's old school for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
People from Southern California are a very interesting bunch. Today Jill and I talk about how many blind offers you need to send and how it's tied directly to your success. Before we get into it, let's take a good question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope by now, Jill and I own and operate, successfully, a full blown commercial printing company to help you get offers in the mail. Offers2owners.com

Jill K DeWit:
Oh two. Oh, look. How cute is that? I have a cheer. O and the two and O.

Steven Jack Butala:
A cheer. What's going to happen in this episode?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my God. You think I'm like drunk or something?

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Oh, but we send between 500,000 and a million offers a month. Check it out at offers2owners.com. Wow. Geez, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
What? All right. Kevin wrote, "Oftentimes on the Thursday call while doing due diligence, Jack and Jill click around on the neighbor scoop and say, "I would call X, be at a builder or a neighbor et cetera." My question is, well, how do you introduce yourself? Since they won't have much to gain from answering your questions, how do you navigate the situation?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me back up and describe the situation and Jill's going to answer that. If you get to a point where you've got a property that comes back, it comes back signed or you've renegotiated the situation, and you don't know whether you're going to buy or not, you're making that final decision. So you present it on the Thursday webinar call that we have for all of our members and our answer is, you know what? I'm not sure either. It looks like a great piece of property. It looks like there's access over here and the numbers support the acquisition so you can sell it for twice as much. But it'd be great to get an opinion from somebody who's local. Why don't you call a local builder, the gas station owner next door, or a local real estate agent and ask them their opinion of what they think the value is.

Jill K DeWit:
Or even not even that, it's like, I can't tell if this meets that. I can't tell if the road stops here. I can't tell how close it is to fill in the blank. I can't tell how deep it is. So in the past, I had a situation, here's a real example of this exact thing. We had an island and I couldn't tell, based on the maps, when we look at the different dates on it, there could be access certain times of the year right? As the water levels go up, go down. I think there's a bridge over here. I can't tell there's a bridge over here. So I was like, "I'm going to call somebody and figure out, can I even get over there without a boat?" So I did, I picked up the phone and started calling and it was good because there was a lumber company across the way.
This is a true story. So I dropped a little man on Google Earth Pro, you know what I'm talking about.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/06/how-many-blind-offers-you-send-is-tied-directly-to-your-success-la-1844/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8jNiGuMlX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/38196b9c-51a6-4021-ba3a-1e3021cc0b60.mp3" length="12339608" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Land Investment is Misunderstood (LA 1843)</title><itunes:title>Why Land Investment is Misunderstood (LA 1843)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Land Investment is Misunderstood (LA 1843)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun, for a few more minutes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why land investment is so misunderstood among real estate professionals, seasoned real estate professionals.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. I think it's the greatest thing ever. When I talk to people... maybe they're commercial brokers, fill in the blank, and I talk about what I do and their eyes gloss over. They're like, "Yeah, that can't possibly work." I'm like, "Okay, see ya."

Steven Jack Butala:
I can tell [inaudible 00:00:41]

Jill K DeWit:
Not my competition. Awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've been in real estate my entire life. I started in commercial real estate. I can tell you very clearly why this is, but we'll do it in a second here.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm so excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
... that Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, check it out. LandAcademy.com/CareerPath.

Jill K DeWit:
We are filling up right now. Career Path five starts October 13th, just a reminder. If you are thinking about this, do definitely send a note to our team. Did you say the email address? Support@LandAcademy.com. Sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, go ahead. This is filling up faster than any of the career paths that we've done.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Word's getting out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's what it is. It's catching on.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what it is? Word's getting out. If there's anybody in our land space that does it, what we do, they charge 50, 80, a hundred thousand dollars, if they even do it. We undercharge. I'm just going to say that.
Things are going to change at the end of this year, but we'll get to that. That's a whole nother thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's absolutely right.

Jill K DeWit:
Peter wrote, "For those of you who have experience with six-digit deals, here's a newbie question."

Steven Jack Butala:
Here, one second, before you read this. I went into... before pre-producing all these shows today, the five that we record today, into Discord, to look for questions, as I always do.

Jill K DeWit:
Of course.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because there's a lot of new people, there's a lot of new questions, a lot of fresh new content. So if you join last week, during Jill's promo, at the time this airs, welcome.

Jill K DeWit:
Yay. Yay.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're happy you're here. It's great to see new people's perspective.

Jill K DeWit:
Fresh stuff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Usually, people join because they've been listening to our podcast for a while, and so you have these pent up questions. I love to see it all just coming out in our-

Jill K DeWit:
Brain dump.

Steven Jack Butala:
... environments. Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Call it a brain dump.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, anyway.

Jill K DeWit:
Good. Okay. So Peter wrote, "Newbie question. My understanding with these bigger deals, is you're not necessarily trying to double your money." Oh, hold on Peter. Oh, wait.
"I heard Steven and Jill mention that at some point, they would be happy to buy something a hundred thousand, they could sell for 150. So let's say we're talking about a property with a market value of $300,000. What would be a solid acquisition price, $200,000? Does the percentage you would be willing to acquire the property for change, if you wish to get deal funding? Maybe you prefer greater margins if you're working with someone else's money.
I have a few leads from prospects or from propertie...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Land Investment is Misunderstood (LA 1843)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun, for a few more minutes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why land investment is so misunderstood among real estate professionals, seasoned real estate professionals.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. I think it's the greatest thing ever. When I talk to people... maybe they're commercial brokers, fill in the blank, and I talk about what I do and their eyes gloss over. They're like, "Yeah, that can't possibly work." I'm like, "Okay, see ya."

Steven Jack Butala:
I can tell [inaudible 00:00:41]

Jill K DeWit:
Not my competition. Awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've been in real estate my entire life. I started in commercial real estate. I can tell you very clearly why this is, but we'll do it in a second here.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm so excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
... that Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, check it out. LandAcademy.com/CareerPath.

Jill K DeWit:
We are filling up right now. Career Path five starts October 13th, just a reminder. If you are thinking about this, do definitely send a note to our team. Did you say the email address? Support@LandAcademy.com. Sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, go ahead. This is filling up faster than any of the career paths that we've done.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Word's getting out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's what it is. It's catching on.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what it is? Word's getting out. If there's anybody in our land space that does it, what we do, they charge 50, 80, a hundred thousand dollars, if they even do it. We undercharge. I'm just going to say that.
Things are going to change at the end of this year, but we'll get to that. That's a whole nother thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's absolutely right.

Jill K DeWit:
Peter wrote, "For those of you who have experience with six-digit deals, here's a newbie question."

Steven Jack Butala:
Here, one second, before you read this. I went into... before pre-producing all these shows today, the five that we record today, into Discord, to look for questions, as I always do.

Jill K DeWit:
Of course.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because there's a lot of new people, there's a lot of new questions, a lot of fresh new content. So if you join last week, during Jill's promo, at the time this airs, welcome.

Jill K DeWit:
Yay. Yay.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're happy you're here. It's great to see new people's perspective.

Jill K DeWit:
Fresh stuff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Usually, people join because they've been listening to our podcast for a while, and so you have these pent up questions. I love to see it all just coming out in our-

Jill K DeWit:
Brain dump.

Steven Jack Butala:
... environments. Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Call it a brain dump.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, anyway.

Jill K DeWit:
Good. Okay. So Peter wrote, "Newbie question. My understanding with these bigger deals, is you're not necessarily trying to double your money." Oh, hold on Peter. Oh, wait.
"I heard Steven and Jill mention that at some point, they would be happy to buy something a hundred thousand, they could sell for 150. So let's say we're talking about a property with a market value of $300,000. What would be a solid acquisition price, $200,000? Does the percentage you would be willing to acquire the property for change, if you wish to get deal funding? Maybe you prefer greater margins if you're working with someone else's money.
I have a few leads from prospects or from propertie...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/05/why-land-investment-is-misunderstood-la-1843/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aKlUbuHavv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/77915063-c839-4fdb-9bc9-bedd86acedd6.mp3" length="16014716" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Our Land Academy Community Provides 24/7 Support (LA 1842)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Our Land Academy Community Provides 24/7 Support (LA 1842)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Our Land Academy Community Provides 24/7 Support (LA 1842)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I. Well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about our land academy community and how it provides 24-7 support.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take the question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Hey, check out parcelfact.com. We spend a lot of time and money consolidating Parcel Fact and Neighbor Scoop into one great product. It's cheaper. It works better and...

Jill K DeWit:
Mobile friendly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, mobile friendly and by leaps and bounds it's the best product out there for exactly what we do, which is we're on the phone with the seller. I need to find this property and see if I want to take it to the next step.

Jill K DeWit:
State, county, APN. I'm looking at it and that's all I need for my due diligence. It's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Corey wrote hoping to get some advice on what to do. My wife and I are getting ready to send off our first mailer. She'll be listed on the offer since she's going to be primarily handling the phone calls. After Googling her name, the top results are new stories and pictures from 2020. Oh my gosh. That she just happens to have the same name.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
About a woman con artist and scam artists who shares my wife's name. Does anyone have any suggestions about what we should do? We thought about using her middle name and I wouldn't have thought of this by the way. This is brilliant that you did. I didn't think about Googling that ahead time

Steven Jack Butala:
Have you ever googled your name?

Jill K DeWit:
I've Googled myself. And you know it's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're not a felon.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I'm definitely not a felon. And I'm not that Dutch woman. A long time ago, there was a woman in Holland because of the last name, DeWitt. And I got her, she's so pushed down on the list now. And she's probably on page 23 of Google. I don't know what it is, but she got pushed way down. So funny anyway. But does anyone have any suggestions about what to do, we thought about using her middle name? I wasn't sure if what other issues could this cause. We created a LinkedIn to associate her name with the business, but it gets buried amongst the other articles. Oh man, this...

Steven Jack Butala:
There's another Steve Butala out there.

Jill K DeWit:
Good thing to check it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before I answer this, there's another Steve Butala out there he's like a PhD in physics or something like that. And he is a professor, and we talked to each other one time. We're only two that I know, his middle initial is the same as mine too.

Jill K DeWit:
We've had bank stuff screwed up by that.

Steven Jack Butala:
He makes me look good. He's like crazy intelligent. My answer is not going to be, you're not going to like it.

Jill K DeWit:
What's your answer?

Steven Jack Butala:
Change the name on the mailer. You don't need anybody, not even one single person Googling this and seeing the word scam. You just don't need it. Or put your name on it, or I like the middle name idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Put both of your names on it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or maybe both their names or...

Jill K DeWit:
Because then no matter who answers the phone. You're both listed

Steven Jack Butala:
Honest. This is, I don't know what your comfort level is with this, but considering consider creating another name for your wife. Where it's not Jill Dewitt. What did you have an alias like Jill Beach or something like that?

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Our Land Academy Community Provides 24/7 Support (LA 1842)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I. Well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about our land academy community and how it provides 24-7 support.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take the question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Hey, check out parcelfact.com. We spend a lot of time and money consolidating Parcel Fact and Neighbor Scoop into one great product. It's cheaper. It works better and...

Jill K DeWit:
Mobile friendly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, mobile friendly and by leaps and bounds it's the best product out there for exactly what we do, which is we're on the phone with the seller. I need to find this property and see if I want to take it to the next step.

Jill K DeWit:
State, county, APN. I'm looking at it and that's all I need for my due diligence. It's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Corey wrote hoping to get some advice on what to do. My wife and I are getting ready to send off our first mailer. She'll be listed on the offer since she's going to be primarily handling the phone calls. After Googling her name, the top results are new stories and pictures from 2020. Oh my gosh. That she just happens to have the same name.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
About a woman con artist and scam artists who shares my wife's name. Does anyone have any suggestions about what we should do? We thought about using her middle name and I wouldn't have thought of this by the way. This is brilliant that you did. I didn't think about Googling that ahead time

Steven Jack Butala:
Have you ever googled your name?

Jill K DeWit:
I've Googled myself. And you know it's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're not a felon.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I'm definitely not a felon. And I'm not that Dutch woman. A long time ago, there was a woman in Holland because of the last name, DeWitt. And I got her, she's so pushed down on the list now. And she's probably on page 23 of Google. I don't know what it is, but she got pushed way down. So funny anyway. But does anyone have any suggestions about what to do, we thought about using her middle name? I wasn't sure if what other issues could this cause. We created a LinkedIn to associate her name with the business, but it gets buried amongst the other articles. Oh man, this...

Steven Jack Butala:
There's another Steve Butala out there.

Jill K DeWit:
Good thing to check it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before I answer this, there's another Steve Butala out there he's like a PhD in physics or something like that. And he is a professor, and we talked to each other one time. We're only two that I know, his middle initial is the same as mine too.

Jill K DeWit:
We've had bank stuff screwed up by that.

Steven Jack Butala:
He makes me look good. He's like crazy intelligent. My answer is not going to be, you're not going to like it.

Jill K DeWit:
What's your answer?

Steven Jack Butala:
Change the name on the mailer. You don't need anybody, not even one single person Googling this and seeing the word scam. You just don't need it. Or put your name on it, or I like the middle name idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Put both of your names on it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or maybe both their names or...

Jill K DeWit:
Because then no matter who answers the phone. You're both listed

Steven Jack Butala:
Honest. This is, I don't know what your comfort level is with this, but considering consider creating another name for your wife. Where it's not Jill Dewitt. What did you have an alias like Jill Beach or something like that?

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/02/jill-friday-our-land-academy-community-provides-24-7-support-la-1842/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HjCqeqMH0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b85f6b8e-7b1d-4a1f-aba5-c0d4db655ade.mp3" length="10525597" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Put Your Head Down and Do It (LA 1841)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Put Your Head Down and Do It (LA 1841)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Put Your Head Down and Do It (LA 1841)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about putting your head down and just doing it.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds like a Jill Friday topic. You think I'm kidding?

Steven Jack Butala:
Does it?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sometimes we trade off. I don't know what Jill Friday is tomorrow, but I think it's a little bit less spiritual.

Jill K DeWit:
I already forgot. Yeah. I want to hear you. I want to hear the inspirational Jack come out.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all have stuff we have started and not finished, or we've all started stuff. And it's like, yeah, this is a mistake.

Jill K DeWit:
I lose interest, I don't like it. It gets harder.

Steven Jack Butala:
So if you deconstruct that, I'm going to get into this in a lot of detail. If you deconstruct it and find out why, it's really just about one thing. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote,
"I have a 10 acre forested property under contract, which has a cabin on it. The forest zoning does not allow any structures. I do see the county sent a letter of non-compliance from 10 years ago, informing them that they needed to remove the structures. It looks like they removed all the structures but the cabin. It's pretty nice and surrounded by logging company land and has physical and legal access. My question is this, knowing the cabin's not in compliance with the zoning would this cause issues if I sell through a broker? I'm assuming, yes, that I'd be better off selling myself off the market and not attract any attention from some overzealous compliance officer at the county. Just want to know if anyone else has dealt with this."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a ask for permission or ask for forgiveness kind of question. And I can safely say that Jill and I are on the same page about this.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
We ask for forgiveness.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would post it. I would say there's a cabin here. Unfortunately, now you know it's out of compliance. So you really ethically should disclose this, which is fine. Not sure I would disclose it to the real estate agent, but I would before the property, whoever buys it, I would say you would have to disclose it in escrow or whatever. Maybe you want to disclose it right up front. Hey, there's great cabin here, but it needs to be moved.

Jill K DeWit:
It's going to be in the pictures.

Steven Jack Butala:
And honestly, if you are a legal compliance type of person, one second, Jill, you're probably going to have to move this, but go for it.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's a thought. What if you make a phone call to the county, find out the cost and the time and the process, one phone call and see how much it is to change the zoning, to allow the cabin. And you could put that in your posting, like, hey FYI, I'm not doing it, but I found out it takes six months, a thousand dollars and you have to do this and this. And then you have a good chance of getting it rezoned so you can keep the cabin.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, Jill's right. You have a lot of options here, which is good. It's always good to have more options than less. And this is a huge attribute versus just buying a piece of regular land, I think. Maybe it's a shed, maybe you call the county and say, I know you have this housing, primary residence or residence compliance thing with this, but we're just using that as a shed.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. No one's living there.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Put Your Head Down and Do It (LA 1841)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about putting your head down and just doing it.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds like a Jill Friday topic. You think I'm kidding?

Steven Jack Butala:
Does it?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sometimes we trade off. I don't know what Jill Friday is tomorrow, but I think it's a little bit less spiritual.

Jill K DeWit:
I already forgot. Yeah. I want to hear you. I want to hear the inspirational Jack come out.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all have stuff we have started and not finished, or we've all started stuff. And it's like, yeah, this is a mistake.

Jill K DeWit:
I lose interest, I don't like it. It gets harder.

Steven Jack Butala:
So if you deconstruct that, I'm going to get into this in a lot of detail. If you deconstruct it and find out why, it's really just about one thing. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote,
"I have a 10 acre forested property under contract, which has a cabin on it. The forest zoning does not allow any structures. I do see the county sent a letter of non-compliance from 10 years ago, informing them that they needed to remove the structures. It looks like they removed all the structures but the cabin. It's pretty nice and surrounded by logging company land and has physical and legal access. My question is this, knowing the cabin's not in compliance with the zoning would this cause issues if I sell through a broker? I'm assuming, yes, that I'd be better off selling myself off the market and not attract any attention from some overzealous compliance officer at the county. Just want to know if anyone else has dealt with this."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a ask for permission or ask for forgiveness kind of question. And I can safely say that Jill and I are on the same page about this.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
We ask for forgiveness.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would post it. I would say there's a cabin here. Unfortunately, now you know it's out of compliance. So you really ethically should disclose this, which is fine. Not sure I would disclose it to the real estate agent, but I would before the property, whoever buys it, I would say you would have to disclose it in escrow or whatever. Maybe you want to disclose it right up front. Hey, there's great cabin here, but it needs to be moved.

Jill K DeWit:
It's going to be in the pictures.

Steven Jack Butala:
And honestly, if you are a legal compliance type of person, one second, Jill, you're probably going to have to move this, but go for it.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's a thought. What if you make a phone call to the county, find out the cost and the time and the process, one phone call and see how much it is to change the zoning, to allow the cabin. And you could put that in your posting, like, hey FYI, I'm not doing it, but I found out it takes six months, a thousand dollars and you have to do this and this. And then you have a good chance of getting it rezoned so you can keep the cabin.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, Jill's right. You have a lot of options here, which is good. It's always good to have more options than less. And this is a huge attribute versus just buying a piece of regular land, I think. Maybe it's a shed, maybe you call the county and say, I know you have this housing, primary residence or residence compliance thing with this, but we're just using that as a shed.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. No one's living there.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/09/01/jack-thursday-put-your-head-down-and-do-it-la-1841/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fJQ9aAw8B</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3d4aabc6-f3b6-40e4-8aa0-7ad01dc02908.mp3" length="15039763" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>We Review About Twenty Properties for Every One Property We Buy (LA 1840)</title><itunes:title>We Review About Twenty Properties for Every One Property We Buy (LA 1840)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[We Review About Twenty Properties for Every One Property We Buy (LA 1840)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how we review about 20 properties for every one or two properties that we actually buy. This is pretty important. This isn't going to be the longest episode, but if you're one of those people who are like, "Geez, I really wish they would just get to the point and stop horsing around," This is that episode.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. Let me start with this, too, by the way. I would love to say today is the last day, so you know of the awesome, awesome biggest so far in 2022 savings to join Land Academy. And not only have I got a nice chunk off, it's $1,250 off, check it out, but also, joining through midnight tonight, you also get to be... not only the savings, you are put into a drawing for a 10 acre property in Oklahoma. The details are on our website. So go to landacademy.com. And by the way, if you have any questions, always just send a note to support@landacademy.com and my team will get back to you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Shannon wrote, "So how do we handle buying land from disgruntled family members who just want to get away from the family who owns everything surrounding it?" That's hilarious. I feel like I'm in an episode of Bloodline. Somebody wrote that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Mm-hmm.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay. Got that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's left over from...

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Okay. So... That's kind of funny. I wouldn't care. Here's the thing, if there's no access and they're going to withhold access, that's the only problem I would see.

Steven Jack Butala:
This leads directly into what this topic is today.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me back... Can I finish the sentence?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Finish my thought here. So, properties surrounded by the whatevers and they just want to get out of it. If there's, which there can be... there has to be at some point access most... pretty much everywhere, you can't withhold access, right? They think they can, but they can't. But the whole point of this is, sure they hate the family members and they want to get away from them, but you know what? The new person coming in doesn't have that animosity with the family members. It doesn't mean that it's going to be a bad situation. So I honestly don't have a problem with this. I don't see a problem with this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So how does this come about? Actually, this is very common, not this problem, but to see multiple family members living in one area where the root of that is agricultural property and municipalities... Municipalities have always been in favor of taking a large piece of property and minor splitting it or splitting chunks off and giving it to the kids, let's say, so it-

Jill K DeWit:
Mom and dad might have set out to do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Farmers have been doing it since farming's began. I'm going to give the back 40 to my daughter, I'm going to give this 40 acre over here to my son, they're both married to other people, they're going to farm it and we're going to be over here if they need us. And so what ends up happening is they get letters from us and everybody else in our group and sometimes it's, you know.

Jill K DeWit:
And you know what I would do, too, I'd be reaching out to the other family members at the same time, by the way, as you're buying it and you're an escrow, "Hey, do you want to sell too? I'm buying Bobby Joe's, do you, Sally Sue, want to sell yours too?"

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[We Review About Twenty Properties for Every One Property We Buy (LA 1840)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how we review about 20 properties for every one or two properties that we actually buy. This is pretty important. This isn't going to be the longest episode, but if you're one of those people who are like, "Geez, I really wish they would just get to the point and stop horsing around," This is that episode.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. Let me start with this, too, by the way. I would love to say today is the last day, so you know of the awesome, awesome biggest so far in 2022 savings to join Land Academy. And not only have I got a nice chunk off, it's $1,250 off, check it out, but also, joining through midnight tonight, you also get to be... not only the savings, you are put into a drawing for a 10 acre property in Oklahoma. The details are on our website. So go to landacademy.com. And by the way, if you have any questions, always just send a note to support@landacademy.com and my team will get back to you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Shannon wrote, "So how do we handle buying land from disgruntled family members who just want to get away from the family who owns everything surrounding it?" That's hilarious. I feel like I'm in an episode of Bloodline. Somebody wrote that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Mm-hmm.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay. Got that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's left over from...

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Okay. So... That's kind of funny. I wouldn't care. Here's the thing, if there's no access and they're going to withhold access, that's the only problem I would see.

Steven Jack Butala:
This leads directly into what this topic is today.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me back... Can I finish the sentence?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Finish my thought here. So, properties surrounded by the whatevers and they just want to get out of it. If there's, which there can be... there has to be at some point access most... pretty much everywhere, you can't withhold access, right? They think they can, but they can't. But the whole point of this is, sure they hate the family members and they want to get away from them, but you know what? The new person coming in doesn't have that animosity with the family members. It doesn't mean that it's going to be a bad situation. So I honestly don't have a problem with this. I don't see a problem with this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So how does this come about? Actually, this is very common, not this problem, but to see multiple family members living in one area where the root of that is agricultural property and municipalities... Municipalities have always been in favor of taking a large piece of property and minor splitting it or splitting chunks off and giving it to the kids, let's say, so it-

Jill K DeWit:
Mom and dad might have set out to do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Farmers have been doing it since farming's began. I'm going to give the back 40 to my daughter, I'm going to give this 40 acre over here to my son, they're both married to other people, they're going to farm it and we're going to be over here if they need us. And so what ends up happening is they get letters from us and everybody else in our group and sometimes it's, you know.

Jill K DeWit:
And you know what I would do, too, I'd be reaching out to the other family members at the same time, by the way, as you're buying it and you're an escrow, "Hey, do you want to sell too? I'm buying Bobby Joe's, do you, Sally Sue, want to sell yours too?"

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/31/we-review-about-twenty-properties-for-every-one-property-we-buy-la-1840/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lOKTDvPF_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1131b827-c3cf-4a72-9e82-9db2a7f47ed1.mp3" length="11852311" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Your Land Business Compares to Other Small Businesses (LA 1839)</title><itunes:title>How Your Land Business Compares to Other Small Businesses (LA 1839)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Your Land Business Compares to Other Small Businesses (LA 1839)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how your land business compares to other types of small businesses. And believe me, it's almost all good news, especially the way we have it set up now with the Land Academy membership group and funding and all of that stuff. So I'll go through the list here in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com community, online community. It's free. We have, Jill and I started quite some time ago, several years ago, a full blown commercial printing company to help you get your offers to owners. In fact, that's what it's called offers2owners.com. We send out between 600,000 and a million offers on behalf of members and non-members.

Jill K DeWit:
Every month.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every single month.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out, offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Now back to the question, which is coming on the teleprompter. Charlie responds. Okay, so this is a response to something else?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, Charlie just-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can't believe everything you read on the teleprompter.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Charlie's got a question.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Charlie wrote this question. "Anybody ever had an old communications tower on their land? I'm looking at one that has a tower. It appears to be in good shape, but is not currently being used. How would you go about advertising that you have spots for lease on your tower? Or maybe that's not how it works at all?"

Steven Jack Butala:
So when people are new in this business, they have, and we picked up all of these real estate habits our whole lives, and then all of a sudden we're a Land Academy member buying and selling land and we can't help it but to apply all this stuff that we've picked up along the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This, in my opinion, is a massive attribute. And so many people think that they need to clear the land and make it presentable and change it somehow. Or if there's structures on it or an antenna, that it's bad. The fact is, and everybody piped in on Discord about this, this is a ham radio operator's dream. And I would try to market this property to them.
A lot of years ago, Jill and I accidentally bought a property, because we didn't have all the tools that we are available to us now like Google Earth, that was on the side of a mountain. It was literally and some rock climbers bought it so that they could rock climb on their own land.

Jill K DeWit:
That's one of the things I always say, I want to stress is, whatever the property, I try to turn everything into a positive. You just have to accurately convey what's really going on in the property. Whether it's a serious slope or no slope at all. It's flat, grassy, perfect for fill in the blank. Or own your own rock climbing cliff kind of thing. Whatever it is, do it. Don't advertise is as, "Oh, you can build anywhere," when it's a rock climbing cliff, because you can't build on the side of that. You know what I mean? Unless you hang one of those tents on the side, but we're not even going to go there.
Because if you don't properly convey what it is, you're going to have a refund on your hands or unhappy buyers kind of thing. But this is a good example. It's a positive for somebody. Every little thing is a positive for somebody. Even a falling down, it's funny we talk about this often, a falling down mobile home, that's a positive for people.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Your Land Business Compares to Other Small Businesses (LA 1839)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how your land business compares to other types of small businesses. And believe me, it's almost all good news, especially the way we have it set up now with the Land Academy membership group and funding and all of that stuff. So I'll go through the list here in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com community, online community. It's free. We have, Jill and I started quite some time ago, several years ago, a full blown commercial printing company to help you get your offers to owners. In fact, that's what it's called offers2owners.com. We send out between 600,000 and a million offers on behalf of members and non-members.

Jill K DeWit:
Every month.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every single month.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out, offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Now back to the question, which is coming on the teleprompter. Charlie responds. Okay, so this is a response to something else?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, Charlie just-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can't believe everything you read on the teleprompter.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Charlie's got a question.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Charlie wrote this question. "Anybody ever had an old communications tower on their land? I'm looking at one that has a tower. It appears to be in good shape, but is not currently being used. How would you go about advertising that you have spots for lease on your tower? Or maybe that's not how it works at all?"

Steven Jack Butala:
So when people are new in this business, they have, and we picked up all of these real estate habits our whole lives, and then all of a sudden we're a Land Academy member buying and selling land and we can't help it but to apply all this stuff that we've picked up along the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This, in my opinion, is a massive attribute. And so many people think that they need to clear the land and make it presentable and change it somehow. Or if there's structures on it or an antenna, that it's bad. The fact is, and everybody piped in on Discord about this, this is a ham radio operator's dream. And I would try to market this property to them.
A lot of years ago, Jill and I accidentally bought a property, because we didn't have all the tools that we are available to us now like Google Earth, that was on the side of a mountain. It was literally and some rock climbers bought it so that they could rock climb on their own land.

Jill K DeWit:
That's one of the things I always say, I want to stress is, whatever the property, I try to turn everything into a positive. You just have to accurately convey what's really going on in the property. Whether it's a serious slope or no slope at all. It's flat, grassy, perfect for fill in the blank. Or own your own rock climbing cliff kind of thing. Whatever it is, do it. Don't advertise is as, "Oh, you can build anywhere," when it's a rock climbing cliff, because you can't build on the side of that. You know what I mean? Unless you hang one of those tents on the side, but we're not even going to go there.
Because if you don't properly convey what it is, you're going to have a refund on your hands or unhappy buyers kind of thing. But this is a good example. It's a positive for somebody. Every little thing is a positive for somebody. Even a falling down, it's funny we talk about this often, a falling down mobile home, that's a positive for people.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/30/how-your-land-business-compares-to-other-small-businesses-la-1839/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0vei9GQSL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/263c56ad-d946-4e4d-9db7-3b84db1d7866.mp3" length="13457215" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Current Changes We Have Made in Our Land Business (LA 1838)</title><itunes:title>Current Changes We Have Made in Our Land Business (LA 1838)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Current Changes We Have Made in Our Land Business (LA 1838)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining Land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I, talk about the current changes that we've implemented in our Land business.

Jill K DeWit:
This year.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this year. Our hope is that you may consider making these changes too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.
This is a continuation, or a reprise, I should say, of the live YouTube Facebook talk that I gave last week, last Wednesday, which was awesome by the way. I had so much fun. It was me sharing the things that we've been doing differently this year, because my whole point is, if I'm doing it, you should be doing it too. That's what we're going to talk about today.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now that Jill and I teach a class, an advanced class, called career path. For a small group of people, it goes about 10 sessions, two or three times a year. If this is your career, or you want it to be, check it out. Land academy forward slash career path.

Jill K DeWit:
It's our top level version of coaching. Everybody wants to have that real personal coaching experience. That's what this is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So cool. Mitchell and Heidi wrote, one of the reasons we started this Land journey was to raise money, to buy and hold vacation property in other countries we like to visit. We like to own our own CR... I don't know what that is. Yucatan will probably be the first. There are possibly... Excuse me. There are absolutely risks, but one could argue the risks like that are growing everywhere, even here and having diversified foreign holdings, especially if they can give you access to multiple passports, are a good idea. A Mexican passport for instance, was the best one to have during the height of COVID, and had access to something like 186 countries, when a US passport wouldn't be allowed entry anywhere.
That's very interesting. I haven't thought about it for something like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
This prompted me. I'll say it in a second. Go ahead, and finish it here.

Jill K DeWit:
We think there'll be some opportunities in the next few years, but this whole fourth turning thing seems to have some legs. Perhaps if governments fall, who knows what happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love the way that you're thinking out of the box here. I really respect it. Honestly, this prompted me. This question prompted me. This is in Discord. One of our new members. To look into getting a dual passport situation in Mexico for Jill and I. I actually have started down the path of doing that. Do I ever want to own any Mexican real estate? Absolutely not. This is my opinion, and this is why you post things in Discord to get other people's opinions. I think this is a crazy risky endeavor. I think it's something that could be a really cool hobby.

Jill K DeWit:
Owning a property?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not the passport part?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, the passport's a great idea. Brilliant idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Not the hobby part? The whole property part.

Steven Jack Butala:
Owning real estate in other countries immediately exposes you to a different legal system that I'm not familiar with. I'm pretty familiar with the American legal system, and there's a lot of recourse within that system if something goes wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you are wronged somehow. Owning foreign real estate, I think might be a great idea. Once you have a massive American land machine, like we do, and then you can go off, and do this maybe for yourself, or have a couple of rentals.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Current Changes We Have Made in Our Land Business (LA 1838)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining Land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I, talk about the current changes that we've implemented in our Land business.

Jill K DeWit:
This year.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this year. Our hope is that you may consider making these changes too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.
This is a continuation, or a reprise, I should say, of the live YouTube Facebook talk that I gave last week, last Wednesday, which was awesome by the way. I had so much fun. It was me sharing the things that we've been doing differently this year, because my whole point is, if I'm doing it, you should be doing it too. That's what we're going to talk about today.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now that Jill and I teach a class, an advanced class, called career path. For a small group of people, it goes about 10 sessions, two or three times a year. If this is your career, or you want it to be, check it out. Land academy forward slash career path.

Jill K DeWit:
It's our top level version of coaching. Everybody wants to have that real personal coaching experience. That's what this is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So cool. Mitchell and Heidi wrote, one of the reasons we started this Land journey was to raise money, to buy and hold vacation property in other countries we like to visit. We like to own our own CR... I don't know what that is. Yucatan will probably be the first. There are possibly... Excuse me. There are absolutely risks, but one could argue the risks like that are growing everywhere, even here and having diversified foreign holdings, especially if they can give you access to multiple passports, are a good idea. A Mexican passport for instance, was the best one to have during the height of COVID, and had access to something like 186 countries, when a US passport wouldn't be allowed entry anywhere.
That's very interesting. I haven't thought about it for something like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
This prompted me. I'll say it in a second. Go ahead, and finish it here.

Jill K DeWit:
We think there'll be some opportunities in the next few years, but this whole fourth turning thing seems to have some legs. Perhaps if governments fall, who knows what happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love the way that you're thinking out of the box here. I really respect it. Honestly, this prompted me. This question prompted me. This is in Discord. One of our new members. To look into getting a dual passport situation in Mexico for Jill and I. I actually have started down the path of doing that. Do I ever want to own any Mexican real estate? Absolutely not. This is my opinion, and this is why you post things in Discord to get other people's opinions. I think this is a crazy risky endeavor. I think it's something that could be a really cool hobby.

Jill K DeWit:
Owning a property?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not the passport part?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, the passport's a great idea. Brilliant idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Not the hobby part? The whole property part.

Steven Jack Butala:
Owning real estate in other countries immediately exposes you to a different legal system that I'm not familiar with. I'm pretty familiar with the American legal system, and there's a lot of recourse within that system if something goes wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you are wronged somehow. Owning foreign real estate, I think might be a great idea. Once you have a massive American land machine, like we do, and then you can go off, and do this maybe for yourself, or have a couple of rentals.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/29/current-changes-we-have-made-in-our-land-business-la-1838/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">eOZSR-gtw</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3f81836c-74fd-428c-ae78-502ed46c59a3.mp3" length="16790025" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Going up is Difficult Coming Down is a Joy (LA 1837)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Going up is Difficult Coming Down is a Joy (LA 1837)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Going up is Difficult Coming Down is a Joy (LA 1837)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jil DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about how going up is difficult, but coming down can be a joy.

Jill K DeWit:
And I stole this from you. You mentioned this as part of this series in-

Steven Jack Butala:
Health and wellness.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, health and wellness.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like yesterday.

Jill K DeWit:
That was couple weeks ago, our own little family mantra. Like, "Okay. Here's what we're focusing on now, everybody health and wellness." When I say everybody it's the two of us here. And so you've been taking it seriously.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
And I really appreciate that, including going to the doctors and things like that. Really focusing on it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Catching up on all that stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm really glad.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now, we have revamped, fresh for 2022, parcelfact.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Yah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Used to be called neighborscoop.com. We rolled two sites, took the best of two sites that we've had, and made them one, parcelfact.com. F-A-C-T. And check it out, because it's the easiest way to do Phase 1 due diligence on land. You can do it right when you're on the phone with the seller and see if you want to buy the property or not.

Jill K DeWit:
It's amazing. There's a day pass, go check it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or you can join us on a Thursday call, as a guest on a Thursday webinar, where we use ParcelFact all throughout that, the webinar, to review people's transactions in our group.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Scott wrote, "Okay. Can someone explain to me why there even exists an affidavit of seller's gain? Why on earth? Why would I want to tell the buyer how much money I made?" I wonder what state this is.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree with you, Scott?

Jill K DeWit:
What state is this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Every state, or most states, have an affidavit that goes behind a deed that says, "I sold this property for X to somebody."

Jill K DeWit:
It doesn't say what I bought it for though.

Steven Jack Butala:
It doesn't say what I bought it for. Why? The deed goes to the recorder when it gets sent into the county, and it gets recorded in the new person's name and the buyer's name. And that affidavit goes to the assessor. And the assessor makes a choice, "I'm going to reassess this property based on this new value." And probably the taxes on the property are going to go up, that's why.
But I agree with you, Scott. It's a lot of extra paper. It's extra stuff to do. And I think it should be on the assessor to see which properties have sold and then assess them that way. I don't think [inaudible 00:02:39]-

Jill K DeWit:
This is a lazy thing is what you're doing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Because hello, dear assessor. You can pull the last paperwork and see what the affidavit of property value was two months ago when I bought it. And then you see the new one when I'm selling it, and do the math.

Steven Jack Butala:
And what if, as buyers, because that's what we do here, we buy property inexpensively, very, very often for less than what the seller paid years ago. Does our tax rate go down? Nope.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah. Hey, by the way, I got something to share with you that's kind of interesting before we jump into the topic, because it's happening right now today. We have a property listed with a Whitetail property guy. It's a deal funding property, and the buyer who buys ... He has an oil and gas company,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Going up is Difficult Coming Down is a Joy (LA 1837)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jil DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about how going up is difficult, but coming down can be a joy.

Jill K DeWit:
And I stole this from you. You mentioned this as part of this series in-

Steven Jack Butala:
Health and wellness.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, health and wellness.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like yesterday.

Jill K DeWit:
That was couple weeks ago, our own little family mantra. Like, "Okay. Here's what we're focusing on now, everybody health and wellness." When I say everybody it's the two of us here. And so you've been taking it seriously.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
And I really appreciate that, including going to the doctors and things like that. Really focusing on it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Catching up on all that stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm really glad.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now, we have revamped, fresh for 2022, parcelfact.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Yah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Used to be called neighborscoop.com. We rolled two sites, took the best of two sites that we've had, and made them one, parcelfact.com. F-A-C-T. And check it out, because it's the easiest way to do Phase 1 due diligence on land. You can do it right when you're on the phone with the seller and see if you want to buy the property or not.

Jill K DeWit:
It's amazing. There's a day pass, go check it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or you can join us on a Thursday call, as a guest on a Thursday webinar, where we use ParcelFact all throughout that, the webinar, to review people's transactions in our group.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Scott wrote, "Okay. Can someone explain to me why there even exists an affidavit of seller's gain? Why on earth? Why would I want to tell the buyer how much money I made?" I wonder what state this is.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree with you, Scott?

Jill K DeWit:
What state is this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Every state, or most states, have an affidavit that goes behind a deed that says, "I sold this property for X to somebody."

Jill K DeWit:
It doesn't say what I bought it for though.

Steven Jack Butala:
It doesn't say what I bought it for. Why? The deed goes to the recorder when it gets sent into the county, and it gets recorded in the new person's name and the buyer's name. And that affidavit goes to the assessor. And the assessor makes a choice, "I'm going to reassess this property based on this new value." And probably the taxes on the property are going to go up, that's why.
But I agree with you, Scott. It's a lot of extra paper. It's extra stuff to do. And I think it should be on the assessor to see which properties have sold and then assess them that way. I don't think [inaudible 00:02:39]-

Jill K DeWit:
This is a lazy thing is what you're doing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Because hello, dear assessor. You can pull the last paperwork and see what the affidavit of property value was two months ago when I bought it. And then you see the new one when I'm selling it, and do the math.

Steven Jack Butala:
And what if, as buyers, because that's what we do here, we buy property inexpensively, very, very often for less than what the seller paid years ago. Does our tax rate go down? Nope.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah. Hey, by the way, I got something to share with you that's kind of interesting before we jump into the topic, because it's happening right now today. We have a property listed with a Whitetail property guy. It's a deal funding property, and the buyer who buys ... He has an oil and gas company,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/26/jill-friday-going-up-is-difficult-coming-down-is-a-joy-la-1837/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gRCmm70B6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5d45edf3-34d3-475e-8c30-3e14ef809ed2.mp3" length="12050258" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Your Attitude is the Only Thing You Can Control (LA 1836)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Your Attitude is the Only Thing You Can Control (LA 1836)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Your Attitude is the Only Thing You Can Control (LA 1836)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how your attitude is really in the end the only thing that you can control. I've been researching-

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know why that makes me giggle, but it kind of does.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm now at the point in my life right now where everything's pretty good. The money's good. I think we have a forever house. Our last child is just about, is this week, actually, tomorrow being dropped off at college.

Jill K DeWit:
On his head.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've gone into what I call-

Jill K DeWit:
I would slow down and push him out.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've gone into what I call a health and wellness mode. I've been researching why people live a long time and if they do. There's all kinds of documentaries and stuff all about this. I've came across this topic and wanted to talk about it on Jack Thursday.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I know this is serious and I appreciate that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. If you go to YouTube, we have all kinds of stuff on there in addition to this show.

Jill K DeWit:
Including my live broadcaster from yesterday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
You can check that out if you missed it. Charlie wrote, "Dropping off some wisdom here like always. Back to that paid for rental house. What's the reason you're parking your money in real estate versus a bank where it would be more liquid if you needed it? I know the start is a tax question, but money sitting idle in a bank account isn't taxable either, right?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. This is in response to a long string about where to put your money in discord among our members. Have you ever driven down the street in a subdivision? Maybe you live there or it's a subdivision close by and you see a piece of vacant land that's totally buildable. And, there's no for sale sign on it, and it's never been built on. It's been vacant for as long as you can remember, as long as you've lived there. Here's what that's all about. And, this is what a paid for rental house is all about too, which Jill and I have both of these types of investments.
Number one, that property's going up in value way the hell more than any bank account that you're going to have. If you had a hundred grand in the bank, it's going to be worth $105,000 in a few years. If you have a vacant piece of property in a pretty solid area, it's going to be worth a lot more than $105,000. That's so number one, it's a pure appreciation for doing nothing. Number two, you can lend against it. If you need money on a rental house or a piece of property, you can lend against it really, really easily with the stroke of a pen. It is liquid.
And, number three, and I think this is the most important point. We have three children. We own assets with each of them. Jill might owns an asset or two and it's in joint tenants with each of our children and me too. Why? Because if I pass away that property immediately becomes, the owner is one of our children, whoever's involved in it. Not multiple children, for a lot of reasons, which Jill and I separately-

Jill K DeWit:
That's the last thing we want to do is-

Steven Jack Butala:
So they can't fight.

Jill K DeWit:
Invoke a family squabble.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a non-taxable event. I buy piece of property, and I deed it to myself as a joint tenant with one of our kids. I pass away.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Your Attitude is the Only Thing You Can Control (LA 1836)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how your attitude is really in the end the only thing that you can control. I've been researching-

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know why that makes me giggle, but it kind of does.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm now at the point in my life right now where everything's pretty good. The money's good. I think we have a forever house. Our last child is just about, is this week, actually, tomorrow being dropped off at college.

Jill K DeWit:
On his head.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've gone into what I call-

Jill K DeWit:
I would slow down and push him out.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've gone into what I call a health and wellness mode. I've been researching why people live a long time and if they do. There's all kinds of documentaries and stuff all about this. I've came across this topic and wanted to talk about it on Jack Thursday.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I know this is serious and I appreciate that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. If you go to YouTube, we have all kinds of stuff on there in addition to this show.

Jill K DeWit:
Including my live broadcaster from yesterday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
You can check that out if you missed it. Charlie wrote, "Dropping off some wisdom here like always. Back to that paid for rental house. What's the reason you're parking your money in real estate versus a bank where it would be more liquid if you needed it? I know the start is a tax question, but money sitting idle in a bank account isn't taxable either, right?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. This is in response to a long string about where to put your money in discord among our members. Have you ever driven down the street in a subdivision? Maybe you live there or it's a subdivision close by and you see a piece of vacant land that's totally buildable. And, there's no for sale sign on it, and it's never been built on. It's been vacant for as long as you can remember, as long as you've lived there. Here's what that's all about. And, this is what a paid for rental house is all about too, which Jill and I have both of these types of investments.
Number one, that property's going up in value way the hell more than any bank account that you're going to have. If you had a hundred grand in the bank, it's going to be worth $105,000 in a few years. If you have a vacant piece of property in a pretty solid area, it's going to be worth a lot more than $105,000. That's so number one, it's a pure appreciation for doing nothing. Number two, you can lend against it. If you need money on a rental house or a piece of property, you can lend against it really, really easily with the stroke of a pen. It is liquid.
And, number three, and I think this is the most important point. We have three children. We own assets with each of them. Jill might owns an asset or two and it's in joint tenants with each of our children and me too. Why? Because if I pass away that property immediately becomes, the owner is one of our children, whoever's involved in it. Not multiple children, for a lot of reasons, which Jill and I separately-

Jill K DeWit:
That's the last thing we want to do is-

Steven Jack Butala:
So they can't fight.

Jill K DeWit:
Invoke a family squabble.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a non-taxable event. I buy piece of property, and I deed it to myself as a joint tenant with one of our kids. I pass away.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/25/jack-thursday-your-attitude-is-the-only-thing-you-can-control-la-1836/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SuWphUH-E</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7b7075e4-2534-4466-bea5-7d3cf602c38c.mp3" length="10268410" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jason Roberts Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1835)</title><itunes:title>Jason Roberts Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1835)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jason Roberts Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1835)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jason Roberts Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1835)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/24/jason-roberts-land-academy-member-interview-la-1835/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">R0jUukrzu</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a63f743a-e7ee-45fb-af9a-f52f18fac1d6.mp3" length="32956946" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>33:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Re-Entering the Work Force with Land Academy (LA 1834)</title><itunes:title>Re-Entering the Work Force with Land Academy (LA 1834)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Re-Entering the Work Force with Land Academy (LA 1834)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land, investment talk, I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about reentering the workforce with Land Academy.

Jill K DeWit:
I have some good examples of this. It's really cool that people have found this as a niche for them. Having been away from work for maybe it's COVID reasons, maybe it's family reasons, maybe somebody got sick reasons, maybe laid off reasons, who knows. There's all kinds of reasons.

Steven Jack Butala:
Child raising.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, child raising reasons that people like say, "Okay, I need to start bringing in some money. I'm online looking for stuff." While they're looking for jobs, maybe they're looking for this and we pop up. And so I have some great examples to share about people that have successfully jumped in Land Academy. And this is their life now and they're doing really well.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before Jill gets into this topic because it's clearly the Jill show today.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Hopefully by now, you know that we have a full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners. Jill and I set it up a lot of years ago out of frustration, for our use of other commercial printing comedies and they just didn't understand mail merges. They just did not understand us, so we solved it by starting our own. We send out between 700,000 and a million offers a month on behalf of mostly members.

Jill K DeWit:
Check out offers, the number two owners.com. And I want to add a little thing here. Don't forget, tomorrow's a big day. Tomorrow, Wednesday August 24th at 2:00 PM Pacific Time, you can find me live on Facebook and YouTube. So go check out the Land Academy Facebook page or the Land Academy YouTube channel. And you can find me there, hope to see you. Steven wrote, "Anyone ever have a seller not want to sell because of the tax burden? The offer price is around $60,000. Any creative work around?

Steven Jack Butala:
So there's a lot of people that responded to this in discord. There's lots of ways to work around this and this should not be a reason for a seller to not sell the product.

Jill K DeWit:
Like I can't sell it because I'm going to pay all these taxes?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
It's going to mess me up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, there's a ten thirty one exchange option. There's selling it on terms to you option. And if they go sell it on terms and you know it's worth a hundred grand, you resell it and just pay it off at that time. You could co-sell this property, so you could go to this seller and say, "I'm going to sell. Who resell this anyway? Let's do a deal for 60,000 bucks when I sell the property for a 100 or 90 or whatever the number is, what do you say, I kick in about 10,000 bucks on top of that $60,000?"

Jill K DeWit:
To pay for you this tax?

Steven Jack Butala:
To pay for your tax liability.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Re-Entering the Work Force with Land Academy (LA 1834)
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Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land, investment talk, I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about reentering the workforce with Land Academy.

Jill K DeWit:
I have some good examples of this. It's really cool that people have found this as a niche for them. Having been away from work for maybe it's COVID reasons, maybe it's family reasons, maybe somebody got sick reasons, maybe laid off reasons, who knows. There's all kinds of reasons.

Steven Jack Butala:
Child raising.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, child raising reasons that people like say, "Okay, I need to start bringing in some money. I'm online looking for stuff." While they're looking for jobs, maybe they're looking for this and we pop up. And so I have some great examples to share about people that have successfully jumped in Land Academy. And this is their life now and they're doing really well.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before Jill gets into this topic because it's clearly the Jill show today.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Hopefully by now, you know that we have a full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners. Jill and I set it up a lot of years ago out of frustration, for our use of other commercial printing comedies and they just didn't understand mail merges. They just did not understand us, so we solved it by starting our own. We send out between 700,000 and a million offers a month on behalf of mostly members.

Jill K DeWit:
Check out offers, the number two owners.com. And I want to add a little thing here. Don't forget, tomorrow's a big day. Tomorrow, Wednesday August 24th at 2:00 PM Pacific Time, you can find me live on Facebook and YouTube. So go check out the Land Academy Facebook page or the Land Academy YouTube channel. And you can find me there, hope to see you. Steven wrote, "Anyone ever have a seller not want to sell because of the tax burden? The offer price is around $60,000. Any creative work around?

Steven Jack Butala:
So there's a lot of people that responded to this in discord. There's lots of ways to work around this and this should not be a reason for a seller to not sell the product.

Jill K DeWit:
Like I can't sell it because I'm going to pay all these taxes?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
It's going to mess me up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, there's a ten thirty one exchange option. There's selling it on terms to you option. And if they go sell it on terms and you know it's worth a hundred grand, you resell it and just pay it off at that time. You could co-sell this property, so you could go to this seller and say, "I'm going to sell. Who resell this anyway? Let's do a deal for 60,000 bucks when I sell the property for a 100 or 90 or whatever the number is, what do you say, I kick in about 10,000 bucks on top of that $60,000?"

Jill K DeWit:
To pay for you this tax?

Steven Jack Butala:
To pay for your tax liability.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/23/re-entering-the-work-force-with-land-academy-la-1834/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">l0oXHdBwg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:45:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1a51297a-210a-4b09-9de7-e078ff106ea2.mp3" length="10973580" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Your Contribution to Land Academy is Not Based on How Many Deals You&amp;#8217;ve Completed (LA 1833)</title><itunes:title>Your Contribution to Land Academy is Not Based on How Many Deals You&amp;#8217;ve Completed (LA 1833)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Your Contribution to Land Academy is Not Based on How Many Deals You've Completed (LA 1833)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about your contribution, how your contribution to Land Academy, it's not really based on how many deals you've completed.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny? People think like, oh, oh, I really can't weigh in on this or I don't think you want my opinion or no, you don't want me on the podcast yet because I've only done X number of deals and it might even be 40, kind of thing. But we're going to talk more about it. No, we want to hear about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Later this week, we're interviewing a career path graduate.

Jill K DeWit:
Who's not done a lot of deals.

Steven Jack Butala:
For an alumni, he's done zero. He's bought a lot and they are in the process of selling and closing on the deals, but he's still bringing a ton.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. There's still some great value there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know, he's owned, there's all kinds of other great stuff, like he's owned. You'll see on Wednesday, he's...

Jill K DeWit:
And we'll talk about it in the show here.

Steven Jack Butala:
He's owned a business for 30 years.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
All that experience being poured into his land career.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And Jill has a good announcement for a live webinar that she's doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Here's what I want you to know today. It's Monday. Okay. Two days from now, Wednesday, August 24th, 2022, 2:00 Pacific Time, you can catch me live on Facebook and YouTube. It's going to be called Catching up with Land Academy. And it's all about changes we've made this year in 2022 and why it's a great time to start your land investing career.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've made a ton.

Jill K DeWit:
So if you're not a member or even if you are a member and you want to just show up and give me some love, you're going to want to be there. And I have a special announcement coming that day. That, hmm, let's just say, if you're not a member, this is for you, really for you. So I'll have some great stuff I'm giving away.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're constantly making improvements, but this year in particular, we've made a lot of improvements to :and Academy itself.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because in response to this new economic environment we're in and how we're going to buy and how we're buying property really very, very inexpensively. We always buy it inexpensively, but now's a great time to get some huge margins.

Jill K DeWit:
2022 changes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. And things we've noticed. Also, where is it again? I'm going to tell you. So Wednesday 8/24, two days from now, 2:00 Pacific Time. Go to the Land Academy Facebook page or Land Academy Facebook page or YouTube channel. I have to say that right.
Okay. Scott wrote, "Here's a question that has been bouncing around in my head for a while. If you get a purchase agreement back on a really good deal and due diligence is good, does anyone in the group have them sign a different contract with a deposit or to make the contract ironclad? Or does everyone just move forward with the purchase agreement, which has no consideration included? So it's unenforceable and they can bail if they get a better one."
I'm going to argue that even if you take, even if you do some money down, it's still unenforceable and they can bail, because that has happened. So I move forward with the standard agreement. That's what we do.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Your Contribution to Land Academy is Not Based on How Many Deals You've Completed (LA 1833)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about your contribution, how your contribution to Land Academy, it's not really based on how many deals you've completed.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny? People think like, oh, oh, I really can't weigh in on this or I don't think you want my opinion or no, you don't want me on the podcast yet because I've only done X number of deals and it might even be 40, kind of thing. But we're going to talk more about it. No, we want to hear about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Later this week, we're interviewing a career path graduate.

Jill K DeWit:
Who's not done a lot of deals.

Steven Jack Butala:
For an alumni, he's done zero. He's bought a lot and they are in the process of selling and closing on the deals, but he's still bringing a ton.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. There's still some great value there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know, he's owned, there's all kinds of other great stuff, like he's owned. You'll see on Wednesday, he's...

Jill K DeWit:
And we'll talk about it in the show here.

Steven Jack Butala:
He's owned a business for 30 years.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
All that experience being poured into his land career.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And Jill has a good announcement for a live webinar that she's doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Here's what I want you to know today. It's Monday. Okay. Two days from now, Wednesday, August 24th, 2022, 2:00 Pacific Time, you can catch me live on Facebook and YouTube. It's going to be called Catching up with Land Academy. And it's all about changes we've made this year in 2022 and why it's a great time to start your land investing career.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've made a ton.

Jill K DeWit:
So if you're not a member or even if you are a member and you want to just show up and give me some love, you're going to want to be there. And I have a special announcement coming that day. That, hmm, let's just say, if you're not a member, this is for you, really for you. So I'll have some great stuff I'm giving away.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're constantly making improvements, but this year in particular, we've made a lot of improvements to :and Academy itself.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because in response to this new economic environment we're in and how we're going to buy and how we're buying property really very, very inexpensively. We always buy it inexpensively, but now's a great time to get some huge margins.

Jill K DeWit:
2022 changes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. And things we've noticed. Also, where is it again? I'm going to tell you. So Wednesday 8/24, two days from now, 2:00 Pacific Time. Go to the Land Academy Facebook page or Land Academy Facebook page or YouTube channel. I have to say that right.
Okay. Scott wrote, "Here's a question that has been bouncing around in my head for a while. If you get a purchase agreement back on a really good deal and due diligence is good, does anyone in the group have them sign a different contract with a deposit or to make the contract ironclad? Or does everyone just move forward with the purchase agreement, which has no consideration included? So it's unenforceable and they can bail if they get a better one."
I'm going to argue that even if you take, even if you do some money down, it's still unenforceable and they can bail, because that has happened. So I move forward with the standard agreement. That's what we do.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/22/your-contribution-to-land-academy-is-not-based-on-how-many-deals-youve-completed-la-1833/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dfw24r-hX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f9e57bc5-f4c2-40d3-9881-9fc6307ff64a.mp3" length="9477869" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; It&amp;#8217;s Too Easy to Get Excited about a Deal and Miss Red Flags (LA 1832)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; It&amp;#8217;s Too Easy to Get Excited about a Deal and Miss Red Flags (LA 1832)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - It's Too Easy to Get Excited about a Deal and Miss Red Flags (LA 1832)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
... Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday, she's going to talk about, it's too easy to get excited about a deal, and miss the red flags.

Jill K DeWit:
Kind of like dating, "He asked me out, I'm so excited. We went out to dinner, he didn't open a door for me, he ordered before I got there. He-"

Steven Jack Butala:
"He asked me for money."

Jill K DeWit:
"Asked me for money." That's so true. That's awesome. But the point is, "I gave him a hotbox, it's what he needed, he asked me on a second date, isn't this great? What do you mean there's a problem?"

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a guy version of this.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true, this is a true story. A dear friend of ours, I'm sure she does not listen to this, so I'm safe sharing this, we're not going to say names.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of course not.

Jill K DeWit:
Did multiple blind dates in a day, I don't know what she was doing, but she had two or three coffee dates in one day, and she was telling about the guy in the middle, that by the time she got there, he was sitting down, drinking his own coffee, never once offered to buy her a cup of coffee. She finally took it upon herself to say, "I'm going to go get a cup of coffee." And she, because she's the sweet thing, she just said, "Would you like another cup of coffee?" To which he said, "Yeah, sure." So she went and got her own coffee and brought him back to coffee, what does that say about that guy? And yes, that was the last time they communicated. She did not miss that as a red flag, and that's a huge red flag, it was funny, anyway.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what happens to guys?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, bring it.

Steven Jack Butala:
They, for whatever reason, starts to date a girl, and all their guy friends are like, "Dude, listen-"

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
"That girl's a mess, she treats you like crap." And his response is, "What are you talking about? We always have fun." And they're just blinded by the whole thing, and so fast forward 30 to 60 days later-

Jill K DeWit:
I thought you said years.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it could be years.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just a fire ball disaster-

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it's all blown up, and he's like, "Yeah, you guys were right." I've been on both sides of that. I've been the victim of it, and the person saying, "Dude..."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, "You've got to see what we're seeing."

Steven Jack Butala:
All of this, it happens with real estate deals-

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
And new people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I have to tell you about parcelfact.com, without making this complicated, go to parcelfact.com F-AC-T, and it's new and improved, we recently took two sites that we own, put them together, and made one great, amazing site.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a day pass too, by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Check it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it all out, it's pretty amazing.

Jill K DeWit:
Interesting. Do I know this person?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a little shout out to me in here. Okay. So Erin wrote, "Hey, Jill DeWit, and all my phone answering people, dare I say, I am enjoying speaking with potential sellers, at least the people who reach out to us are all pretty pleasant. A good chunk of the people calling me just want to know that there's a real, not corporate person on the other side of the phone, and I enjoy talking to these people.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - It's Too Easy to Get Excited about a Deal and Miss Red Flags (LA 1832)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
... Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday, she's going to talk about, it's too easy to get excited about a deal, and miss the red flags.

Jill K DeWit:
Kind of like dating, "He asked me out, I'm so excited. We went out to dinner, he didn't open a door for me, he ordered before I got there. He-"

Steven Jack Butala:
"He asked me for money."

Jill K DeWit:
"Asked me for money." That's so true. That's awesome. But the point is, "I gave him a hotbox, it's what he needed, he asked me on a second date, isn't this great? What do you mean there's a problem?"

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a guy version of this.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true, this is a true story. A dear friend of ours, I'm sure she does not listen to this, so I'm safe sharing this, we're not going to say names.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of course not.

Jill K DeWit:
Did multiple blind dates in a day, I don't know what she was doing, but she had two or three coffee dates in one day, and she was telling about the guy in the middle, that by the time she got there, he was sitting down, drinking his own coffee, never once offered to buy her a cup of coffee. She finally took it upon herself to say, "I'm going to go get a cup of coffee." And she, because she's the sweet thing, she just said, "Would you like another cup of coffee?" To which he said, "Yeah, sure." So she went and got her own coffee and brought him back to coffee, what does that say about that guy? And yes, that was the last time they communicated. She did not miss that as a red flag, and that's a huge red flag, it was funny, anyway.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what happens to guys?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, bring it.

Steven Jack Butala:
They, for whatever reason, starts to date a girl, and all their guy friends are like, "Dude, listen-"

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
"That girl's a mess, she treats you like crap." And his response is, "What are you talking about? We always have fun." And they're just blinded by the whole thing, and so fast forward 30 to 60 days later-

Jill K DeWit:
I thought you said years.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it could be years.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just a fire ball disaster-

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it's all blown up, and he's like, "Yeah, you guys were right." I've been on both sides of that. I've been the victim of it, and the person saying, "Dude..."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, "You've got to see what we're seeing."

Steven Jack Butala:
All of this, it happens with real estate deals-

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
And new people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I have to tell you about parcelfact.com, without making this complicated, go to parcelfact.com F-AC-T, and it's new and improved, we recently took two sites that we own, put them together, and made one great, amazing site.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a day pass too, by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Check it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it all out, it's pretty amazing.

Jill K DeWit:
Interesting. Do I know this person?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a little shout out to me in here. Okay. So Erin wrote, "Hey, Jill DeWit, and all my phone answering people, dare I say, I am enjoying speaking with potential sellers, at least the people who reach out to us are all pretty pleasant. A good chunk of the people calling me just want to know that there's a real, not corporate person on the other side of the phone, and I enjoy talking to these people.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/19/jill-friday-its-too-easy-to-get-excited-about-a-deal-and-miss-red-flags-la-1832/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">XcSsI3yXp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0004fad6-3255-4ccf-ad8c-3d9f4e2e1db1.mp3" length="16823796" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 5 Things Your Father Never Told You About Real Estate (LA 1831)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 5 Things Your Father Never Told You About Real Estate (LA 1831)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 5 Things Your Father Never Told You About Real Estate (LA 1831)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to, and it turns out Jill is also, talk about five things that your father never told you about real estate. Might not be your dad's fault. Maybe times have changed. Those guys never had the data access that we have. So, we're going to talk. There's a lot of things that have changed. I think my dad would've done very, very well in this new information type environment, where you don't have to guess. You have a lot of resources to make the decisions. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny? My dad might not have done very well with the data. I have to say that, as you said that about your dad. Knowing my dad, my dad wasn't a data guy. Guess who his data entry person was? Me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, really?

Jill K DeWit:
Me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, that makes sense, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Me. When he got a program early on, I think I was in high school at the time. I want to say early in high school, he got a program to input his flight log, he was a pilot, and put his hours and keep track of it there. I would convert it from the flight. I'm the one that would sit and put in the computer for him. So, yeah. It's kind of funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is going to be a long, interesting, very telling, hopefully funny episode.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Christian wrote, "I'm buying some farmland that is currently growing soybeans. The seller lives out of state and gets pushed a check once a year from the person farming, for a percentage of the crop sales. Seller says there's no written lease agreement. Does anyone know if there's anything I should be aware of when buying farmland that is being actively farmed? My plan is to let the farmer harvest the soybeans, and then tell him the property is going to be listed for sale. Anything I should include in the purchase agreement? Thanks."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, I have so much to say about this. This could be the greatest situation ever, or it could be a nightmare. Just like a marriage can be the greatest thing ever without a prenup, or it could be a huge nightmare, depending on how it ends, and how it all goes. Or who you're with. So, the general... Here's a conventional-

Jill K DeWit:
No comment.

Steven Jack Butala:
A conventional way to do this is, you either would have a land lease or you would have an option agreement, a revenue sharing option agreement. All in writing with notaries and all that stuff that lawyers have looked over.

Jill K DeWit:
You should have been an attorney by the way, you would make a great attorney.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know, but I would be mad every day.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's true. I'm glad you're not an attorney.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. I can't imagine being a lawyer and just dealing with everybody's anger all day.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
Instead of all we deal with is successes here.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
In our entire life, happy stuff happens.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, in a perfect world, you've got this agreement and here's why I say this, not because I'm not going to get paid or any of that. Farmland and most real estate that is income generating, is valued on that income stream. So, you would value, if you've been doing this for five years, you would apply a capitalization rate, which doesn't happen as often in farmland as it does, let's say,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 5 Things Your Father Never Told You About Real Estate (LA 1831)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to, and it turns out Jill is also, talk about five things that your father never told you about real estate. Might not be your dad's fault. Maybe times have changed. Those guys never had the data access that we have. So, we're going to talk. There's a lot of things that have changed. I think my dad would've done very, very well in this new information type environment, where you don't have to guess. You have a lot of resources to make the decisions. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny? My dad might not have done very well with the data. I have to say that, as you said that about your dad. Knowing my dad, my dad wasn't a data guy. Guess who his data entry person was? Me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, really?

Jill K DeWit:
Me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, that makes sense, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Me. When he got a program early on, I think I was in high school at the time. I want to say early in high school, he got a program to input his flight log, he was a pilot, and put his hours and keep track of it there. I would convert it from the flight. I'm the one that would sit and put in the computer for him. So, yeah. It's kind of funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is going to be a long, interesting, very telling, hopefully funny episode.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Christian wrote, "I'm buying some farmland that is currently growing soybeans. The seller lives out of state and gets pushed a check once a year from the person farming, for a percentage of the crop sales. Seller says there's no written lease agreement. Does anyone know if there's anything I should be aware of when buying farmland that is being actively farmed? My plan is to let the farmer harvest the soybeans, and then tell him the property is going to be listed for sale. Anything I should include in the purchase agreement? Thanks."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, I have so much to say about this. This could be the greatest situation ever, or it could be a nightmare. Just like a marriage can be the greatest thing ever without a prenup, or it could be a huge nightmare, depending on how it ends, and how it all goes. Or who you're with. So, the general... Here's a conventional-

Jill K DeWit:
No comment.

Steven Jack Butala:
A conventional way to do this is, you either would have a land lease or you would have an option agreement, a revenue sharing option agreement. All in writing with notaries and all that stuff that lawyers have looked over.

Jill K DeWit:
You should have been an attorney by the way, you would make a great attorney.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know, but I would be mad every day.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's true. I'm glad you're not an attorney.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly. I can't imagine being a lawyer and just dealing with everybody's anger all day.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
Instead of all we deal with is successes here.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
In our entire life, happy stuff happens.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, in a perfect world, you've got this agreement and here's why I say this, not because I'm not going to get paid or any of that. Farmland and most real estate that is income generating, is valued on that income stream. So, you would value, if you've been doing this for five years, you would apply a capitalization rate, which doesn't happen as often in farmland as it does, let's say,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/18/jack-thursday-5-things-your-father-never-told-you-about-real-estate-la-1831/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8n-c6t74m</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7badb9c5-f188-46e4-a372-94ce7e16a439.mp3" length="17776774" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Jill and I take on Other Partners for Specific Deals (LA 1830)</title><itunes:title>How Jill and I take on Other Partners for Specific Deals (LA 1830)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Jill and I take on Other Partners for Specific Deals (LA 1830)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how she and I take on other partners for very specific deals and real specific reasons.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not just Jill and I anymore.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a huge network. One of the big advantages for us and for you, if you're a Land Academy member, is other members in the community and we didn't start this as a money-making venture.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
We started it to get other partners for ourselves, and what we found out over the years of getting partners, maybe for funding, maybe for a bunch of other stuff, it worked out great. There are very serious little micro experts in our group about all kinds of different things, and when we run across these scenarios in our own mailers, we contact them and we do the deal together. I'll get into it in detail in a minute.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now that Jill and I have a company called offers the number two owners.com. It's a full-blown commercial printing company. We literally send out a million or so mailers on behalf of our members and other people in the industry to send out blind offers to owners. We were very frustrated with other commercial real estate, commercial printing companies, and-

Jill K DeWit:
They didn't get us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
They didn't get us and they wouldn't do a mail merge. So, we solved it.

Steven Jack Butala:
We get you. We know what you want and need.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Offers the number two owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Everything we do, everything we create, is because you asked and we needed to, so here we are. Michael wrote, "Has anyone had a funding partner instruct the listing agent to not speak to you ..." What?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this is pretty funny.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I got to read this again. "Has anyone had a funding partner instruct the listing agent to not speak with you about the transaction and tell the title agency to not provide you with a settlement statement listing in your share of the proceeds?" What the heck? "This seems a bit odd, but this is my first transaction with a funding partner so some feedback would be helpful. Thanks." Oh, you know what, Michael? Don't do a deal with this person again.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean, let's take a couple of steps back.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm a little pissed, but okay. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This sends up a lot of red flags for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a lot of different ways to do a deal with somebody. The traditional way that we do it is this. Someone brings a deal to us. We love the deal and we love the person who brings it to us.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
We write a check for most or all of it and then they go do the deal and they let us know when it's done and they send us a check. We split the money, whether it's 50-50, 60-40, or whatever.

Jill K DeWit:
We're all involved together. We even have like Mike off. This was me. I'm the funding partner. I'd be making you look over the hood one before it gets to me so you make sure it's right.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, this ends up a red flag to me about the personality type who's a control freak and needs to, "Well, it's my money. I'm going to do the deal. Thanks. And you're going to get your money at the end. I'll let you know how much." That's just a formula for mistrust and all of the basic stuff that you need in a good relationship...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Jill and I take on Other Partners for Specific Deals (LA 1830)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how she and I take on other partners for very specific deals and real specific reasons.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not just Jill and I anymore.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a huge network. One of the big advantages for us and for you, if you're a Land Academy member, is other members in the community and we didn't start this as a money-making venture.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
We started it to get other partners for ourselves, and what we found out over the years of getting partners, maybe for funding, maybe for a bunch of other stuff, it worked out great. There are very serious little micro experts in our group about all kinds of different things, and when we run across these scenarios in our own mailers, we contact them and we do the deal together. I'll get into it in detail in a minute.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now that Jill and I have a company called offers the number two owners.com. It's a full-blown commercial printing company. We literally send out a million or so mailers on behalf of our members and other people in the industry to send out blind offers to owners. We were very frustrated with other commercial real estate, commercial printing companies, and-

Jill K DeWit:
They didn't get us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
They didn't get us and they wouldn't do a mail merge. So, we solved it.

Steven Jack Butala:
We get you. We know what you want and need.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Offers the number two owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Everything we do, everything we create, is because you asked and we needed to, so here we are. Michael wrote, "Has anyone had a funding partner instruct the listing agent to not speak to you ..." What?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this is pretty funny.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I got to read this again. "Has anyone had a funding partner instruct the listing agent to not speak with you about the transaction and tell the title agency to not provide you with a settlement statement listing in your share of the proceeds?" What the heck? "This seems a bit odd, but this is my first transaction with a funding partner so some feedback would be helpful. Thanks." Oh, you know what, Michael? Don't do a deal with this person again.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean, let's take a couple of steps back.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm a little pissed, but okay. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This sends up a lot of red flags for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a lot of different ways to do a deal with somebody. The traditional way that we do it is this. Someone brings a deal to us. We love the deal and we love the person who brings it to us.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
We write a check for most or all of it and then they go do the deal and they let us know when it's done and they send us a check. We split the money, whether it's 50-50, 60-40, or whatever.

Jill K DeWit:
We're all involved together. We even have like Mike off. This was me. I'm the funding partner. I'd be making you look over the hood one before it gets to me so you make sure it's right.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, this ends up a red flag to me about the personality type who's a control freak and needs to, "Well, it's my money. I'm going to do the deal. Thanks. And you're going to get your money at the end. I'll let you know how much." That's just a formula for mistrust and all of the basic stuff that you need in a good relationship...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/17/how-jill-and-i-take-on-other-partners-for-specific-deals-la-1830/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fXM0znrNM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d2941ece-76dc-4b1b-8df4-9999cd2c733f.mp3" length="12907914" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Turning a Hateful Mailer Response into a Seven Digit Deal (LA 1829)</title><itunes:title>Turning a Hateful Mailer Response into a Seven Digit Deal (LA 1829)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Turning a Hateful Mailer Response into a Seven Digit Deal (LA 1829)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about turning a hateful mailer response into a seven digit real estate deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Which happens all the time, by the way. Isn't that kind of funny? You know what it's interesting? It really depends on how you look at these. We are doing some deals with a certain... I know we're going to talk about later this week, too. We have many partners out there, not just our partners, but we partner with other people and do deals with them, usually through deal funding, but sometimes other ways. But the point is, this other individual thinks like we think, where he's like, "I'm not afraid of hate. What's so bad?" He's like, "We call it the hate. It's not that big of a deal." It's really how you look at it. It was not a hell, yes response. That's kind of an it. It was a no way response. And then we turn it around.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the typical anatomy of responses that you get to a mailer. So you send out 10,000 units, you do all your homework, you price it right, do the stuff that we teach in Land Academy 3.0, you send a mailer out, and you wait two weeks for the mail to hit, between one and two weeks. And you start to get, in the beginning, some pretty angry people that immediately open the envelope, they're real unhappy with the price or some version of it, and they call, which I don't understand, but they call and tell you about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Right as they're walking. You can tell they're literally walking with the letter in their hand back from their mailbox. It's the funniest thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
And then as the mailer progresses... So that's the first week. As the mailer progresses, there's a little bit of a quiet period where some people call back and say, "Yeah, I actually really do want to sell my property to you. Maybe for a different price, but we're in the ballpark." And then the third and final phase of the reception of the mailer is back to the sender, which is us, "Yeah. I think I'm just going to... What do I do next? I do want to sell my property. I talked to my husband or I talked to my wife and that's it. I'm ready to go." So you get all that angry stuff up front, then there's some mediocre negotiation. And then at the end you just buy a bunch of real estate. Most of the time, if you do everything right. Jill has a real specific case study on this episode where she's going to take us step by step through what happened with this particular seller and now we're doing the deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you can now log onto parcelfact.com and see all the improvements that we made in combining two separate sites that we had, where you can do phase one due diligence. It's all now in a nifty little package. And honestly, I don't have to manage two sites anymore. I only have to manage one great one.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Parcelfact.com.

Jill K DeWit:
I like to say the test worked.

Steven Jack Butala:
We did a split test and decided they're better together.

Jill K DeWit:
We did a split test and we picked the best one. Exactly. It's great. Aaron wrote, "I'm double closing on a rural 10 acre property in blank state. Is there any reason I should pay for title insurance? It's a simultaneous close, so I won't own it for any period of time. And the end buyer will be getting title insurance." I'm guessing at a later date. "I figured I could save a few bucks, but not sure if that may expose me to something. For example,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Turning a Hateful Mailer Response into a Seven Digit Deal (LA 1829)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about turning a hateful mailer response into a seven digit real estate deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Which happens all the time, by the way. Isn't that kind of funny? You know what it's interesting? It really depends on how you look at these. We are doing some deals with a certain... I know we're going to talk about later this week, too. We have many partners out there, not just our partners, but we partner with other people and do deals with them, usually through deal funding, but sometimes other ways. But the point is, this other individual thinks like we think, where he's like, "I'm not afraid of hate. What's so bad?" He's like, "We call it the hate. It's not that big of a deal." It's really how you look at it. It was not a hell, yes response. That's kind of an it. It was a no way response. And then we turn it around.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the typical anatomy of responses that you get to a mailer. So you send out 10,000 units, you do all your homework, you price it right, do the stuff that we teach in Land Academy 3.0, you send a mailer out, and you wait two weeks for the mail to hit, between one and two weeks. And you start to get, in the beginning, some pretty angry people that immediately open the envelope, they're real unhappy with the price or some version of it, and they call, which I don't understand, but they call and tell you about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Right as they're walking. You can tell they're literally walking with the letter in their hand back from their mailbox. It's the funniest thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
And then as the mailer progresses... So that's the first week. As the mailer progresses, there's a little bit of a quiet period where some people call back and say, "Yeah, I actually really do want to sell my property to you. Maybe for a different price, but we're in the ballpark." And then the third and final phase of the reception of the mailer is back to the sender, which is us, "Yeah. I think I'm just going to... What do I do next? I do want to sell my property. I talked to my husband or I talked to my wife and that's it. I'm ready to go." So you get all that angry stuff up front, then there's some mediocre negotiation. And then at the end you just buy a bunch of real estate. Most of the time, if you do everything right. Jill has a real specific case study on this episode where she's going to take us step by step through what happened with this particular seller and now we're doing the deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you can now log onto parcelfact.com and see all the improvements that we made in combining two separate sites that we had, where you can do phase one due diligence. It's all now in a nifty little package. And honestly, I don't have to manage two sites anymore. I only have to manage one great one.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Parcelfact.com.

Jill K DeWit:
I like to say the test worked.

Steven Jack Butala:
We did a split test and decided they're better together.

Jill K DeWit:
We did a split test and we picked the best one. Exactly. It's great. Aaron wrote, "I'm double closing on a rural 10 acre property in blank state. Is there any reason I should pay for title insurance? It's a simultaneous close, so I won't own it for any period of time. And the end buyer will be getting title insurance." I'm guessing at a later date. "I figured I could save a few bucks, but not sure if that may expose me to something. For example,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/16/turning-a-hateful-mailer-response-into-a-seven-digit-deal-la-1829/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SIuUFQ6kM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/78f40389-ab7c-4049-a212-b0c803942fd9.mp3" length="20074789" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>You Already Know Flipping Land Works So Let&amp;#8217;s Talk about the Right Way to Do It (LA 1828)</title><itunes:title>You Already Know Flipping Land Works So Let&amp;#8217;s Talk about the Right Way to Do It (LA 1828)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[You Already Know Flipping Land Works So Let's Talk about the Right Way to Do It (LA 1828)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how you already know flipping land works. So, let's actually really talk about the right way to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
I have something to say. I'm going to share more about this in a minute. I was on a clubhouse chat today, I was just a fly on the wall listening. There were like 130 people in there, and it's people talking about wholesaling houses. And I've never heard people work so hard. I'm going to share more about the conversation. But I was just like, here's the deal I would've busted in and said and dropped a little nugget like there's an easier way to do this, and there's a lot less work. Because what we do with land works for houses, but I didn't have half hour because every time I've done this, it results in who are you and what are you talking about? And how do we do this? And it needs a half hour and I didn't have enough hour. So, that's why I didn't go there. But I will share more in a minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Similarly, there has never been more bad advice on the internet about buying and selling land than there is now.

Jill K DeWit:
That's really funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
But we're going to dispel all the bad stuff here in the next half hour. Before we get into it let's take a question put by one of our land investors on our online community called landinvestors.com it's free and Jill has some stuff to say ParcelFact.

Jill K DeWit:
So, I wanted to tell you today's the day in case you didn't notice when you log into NeighborScoop, it's going to look like a different logo. And it's going to say ParcelFact. Yes. Why? Because they are merging. So, it's happening right now today. If it hasn't already popped up, you'll see it next time you log in. It's awesome. We started with, or excuse me, we started with ParcelFact, which was our beta test of finding property for us with a state and accounting and APN and all kinds of other awesome information and maps and overlays and FEMA, flood zone overlays, all kinds of wonderful things. And now, then we came out with a second product, made it better called it NeighborScoop. We've decided that two is not always better than one. We really only need one. So, when you log in, don't worry it's just one big product NeighborScoop and ParcelFact are now combined. And it's just ParcelFact.

Steven Jack Butala:
Big, long takeaway here. We took two great sites that did some stuff differently, made them one, combined the two members of each and now it's called ParcelFact and it's the best and easiest way to do what we do for a living, check to see if the property stage one due diligence. See if we should get it done.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Look at this. Barb from career path wrote first big success story. Just got our bank wire of 75,347 acquisition was $25,000. Is there more to it or is that it?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, that's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I couldn't tell, I'm just...

Steven Jack Butala:
She was and a lot of people Barbara's, very vocal in our group and we all love her. She's funny as heck. And I'm glad to see that she's doing really well.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, that pays for all of career path, about five years of Land Academy, all kinds of things who knows.

Steven Jack Butala:
All the mail.

Jill K DeWit:
What she's doing with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
One deal.

Jill K DeWit:
But yay. Hopefully she's going to pour that into our property, knowing Barb she is. That's awesome. Yay. That's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic. You already know flipping land works, so let's talk about the right way to do it. This is the meat of the show. I know you have notes.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[You Already Know Flipping Land Works So Let's Talk about the Right Way to Do It (LA 1828)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how you already know flipping land works. So, let's actually really talk about the right way to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
I have something to say. I'm going to share more about this in a minute. I was on a clubhouse chat today, I was just a fly on the wall listening. There were like 130 people in there, and it's people talking about wholesaling houses. And I've never heard people work so hard. I'm going to share more about the conversation. But I was just like, here's the deal I would've busted in and said and dropped a little nugget like there's an easier way to do this, and there's a lot less work. Because what we do with land works for houses, but I didn't have half hour because every time I've done this, it results in who are you and what are you talking about? And how do we do this? And it needs a half hour and I didn't have enough hour. So, that's why I didn't go there. But I will share more in a minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Similarly, there has never been more bad advice on the internet about buying and selling land than there is now.

Jill K DeWit:
That's really funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
But we're going to dispel all the bad stuff here in the next half hour. Before we get into it let's take a question put by one of our land investors on our online community called landinvestors.com it's free and Jill has some stuff to say ParcelFact.

Jill K DeWit:
So, I wanted to tell you today's the day in case you didn't notice when you log into NeighborScoop, it's going to look like a different logo. And it's going to say ParcelFact. Yes. Why? Because they are merging. So, it's happening right now today. If it hasn't already popped up, you'll see it next time you log in. It's awesome. We started with, or excuse me, we started with ParcelFact, which was our beta test of finding property for us with a state and accounting and APN and all kinds of other awesome information and maps and overlays and FEMA, flood zone overlays, all kinds of wonderful things. And now, then we came out with a second product, made it better called it NeighborScoop. We've decided that two is not always better than one. We really only need one. So, when you log in, don't worry it's just one big product NeighborScoop and ParcelFact are now combined. And it's just ParcelFact.

Steven Jack Butala:
Big, long takeaway here. We took two great sites that did some stuff differently, made them one, combined the two members of each and now it's called ParcelFact and it's the best and easiest way to do what we do for a living, check to see if the property stage one due diligence. See if we should get it done.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Look at this. Barb from career path wrote first big success story. Just got our bank wire of 75,347 acquisition was $25,000. Is there more to it or is that it?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, that's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I couldn't tell, I'm just...

Steven Jack Butala:
She was and a lot of people Barbara's, very vocal in our group and we all love her. She's funny as heck. And I'm glad to see that she's doing really well.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, that pays for all of career path, about five years of Land Academy, all kinds of things who knows.

Steven Jack Butala:
All the mail.

Jill K DeWit:
What she's doing with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
One deal.

Jill K DeWit:
But yay. Hopefully she's going to pour that into our property, knowing Barb she is. That's awesome. Yay. That's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic. You already know flipping land works, so let's talk about the right way to do it. This is the meat of the show. I know you have notes.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/15/you-already-know-flipping-land-works-so-lets-talk-about-the-right-way-to-do-it-la-1828/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ZoFHpCydh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/adc6fdf9-775d-4a56-981a-51a9cca6b7bc.mp3" length="14003972" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What to Do If You Are Not a Data Person (LA 1827)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What to Do If You Are Not a Data Person (LA 1827)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What to Do If You Are Not a Data Person (LA 1827)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about what to do if you're not a data person.

Jill K DeWit:
Like me

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Are we going to skip all that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, let's just skip all that. Rolling. Rolling. Rolling. Rolling. Teleprompter. Rolling. Rolling. Rolling. Here we go.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is good. You're going to like this.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. Dave wrote, "For the new people here, a little cautionary tale for you on the importance of follow up. I received a purchase agreement back from a seller, where the only thing they did was write, add another $10,000, and we got a deal. My original offer was $59,000 in change. I did a very basic bit of research, but couldn't find enough info to make me confident in the viability of the steel. On top of that, the seller didn't leave any contact info at all. I made a note in my serum to make an effort to either skip trace the owner, to give him a call, or to just send another offer for $10,000 more, just to get it signed so I could move forward with real due diligence and have my land agent go check it out.
Unfortunately, I got too busy with other leads, and before I knew it, two months had gone by. I just pulled it up to see if any new comps were available and wouldn't you know it, but this specific property, shoot, had just been listed four days ago for $150,000. My failure to follow up in a timely manner just cost me $80,000, because he could have bought it for 60 or seven days emails and sold it for 150 listed here. To be fair, just because it's listed for 150, doesn't mean it will sell for that. But still, don't let this happen to you. Answer your phones, call people back as soon as you possibly can, follow up. If you're doing enough volume, hire that transaction coordinator, don't let deals slip through your fingers. And for the record, I'm usually much better about follow up, this one just slipped through the cracks, but it was a doozy."

Steven Jack Butala:
Usually when they slip through the cracks, you don't know it.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's been deals, Jill, and I have passed up, especially in deal funding where somebody else funds it and then everyone makes a million dollars.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I'm like, well, good for you. They're like, because it's often like you didn't get back to me in enough time. I'm like, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
I feel your pain, man. It's just part of this.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? Keep going. You got this.

Steven Jack Butala:
The other thing too, what happens actually more often for us it's like, we just don't like that type of property, so we're not going to do the deal. It got in the mailer, it's that type of property, we're not going to do it, somebody else does it, makes 300 grand. Today's Jill Friday, what to do if you're not a data person. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
This came to me from our new customer management person. He's like, a lot of people think they're Jills. They say they're a Jill, they want to be a Jill, that's their forte. They can tell, but they don't what to do about the data part of it. They're freaked out by the data part of it. They don't understand the data part of it. They're overwhelmed by the data part of it. So, what do you do? And that happens often clearly, right? So, I could do it, not like you. I'll never be as good as you. It's very rare that you are good at both. And I mean,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What to Do If You Are Not a Data Person (LA 1827)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about what to do if you're not a data person.

Jill K DeWit:
Like me

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Are we going to skip all that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, let's just skip all that. Rolling. Rolling. Rolling. Rolling. Teleprompter. Rolling. Rolling. Rolling. Here we go.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is good. You're going to like this.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. Dave wrote, "For the new people here, a little cautionary tale for you on the importance of follow up. I received a purchase agreement back from a seller, where the only thing they did was write, add another $10,000, and we got a deal. My original offer was $59,000 in change. I did a very basic bit of research, but couldn't find enough info to make me confident in the viability of the steel. On top of that, the seller didn't leave any contact info at all. I made a note in my serum to make an effort to either skip trace the owner, to give him a call, or to just send another offer for $10,000 more, just to get it signed so I could move forward with real due diligence and have my land agent go check it out.
Unfortunately, I got too busy with other leads, and before I knew it, two months had gone by. I just pulled it up to see if any new comps were available and wouldn't you know it, but this specific property, shoot, had just been listed four days ago for $150,000. My failure to follow up in a timely manner just cost me $80,000, because he could have bought it for 60 or seven days emails and sold it for 150 listed here. To be fair, just because it's listed for 150, doesn't mean it will sell for that. But still, don't let this happen to you. Answer your phones, call people back as soon as you possibly can, follow up. If you're doing enough volume, hire that transaction coordinator, don't let deals slip through your fingers. And for the record, I'm usually much better about follow up, this one just slipped through the cracks, but it was a doozy."

Steven Jack Butala:
Usually when they slip through the cracks, you don't know it.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's been deals, Jill, and I have passed up, especially in deal funding where somebody else funds it and then everyone makes a million dollars.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I'm like, well, good for you. They're like, because it's often like you didn't get back to me in enough time. I'm like, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
I feel your pain, man. It's just part of this.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? Keep going. You got this.

Steven Jack Butala:
The other thing too, what happens actually more often for us it's like, we just don't like that type of property, so we're not going to do the deal. It got in the mailer, it's that type of property, we're not going to do it, somebody else does it, makes 300 grand. Today's Jill Friday, what to do if you're not a data person. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
This came to me from our new customer management person. He's like, a lot of people think they're Jills. They say they're a Jill, they want to be a Jill, that's their forte. They can tell, but they don't what to do about the data part of it. They're freaked out by the data part of it. They don't understand the data part of it. They're overwhelmed by the data part of it. So, what do you do? And that happens often clearly, right? So, I could do it, not like you. I'll never be as good as you. It's very rare that you are good at both. And I mean,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/12/jill-friday-what-to-do-if-you-are-not-a-data-person-la-1827/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pHNmtmgbT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c0cbfcee-9103-4f7d-90aa-62a0ddcf2881.mp3" length="9978290" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Where to Start in Real Estate (LA 1826)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Where to Start in Real Estate (LA 1826)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Where to Start in Real Estate (LA 1826)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about where to start in real estate. And honestly, where not to start. Why?

Jill K DeWit:
It's going to be more about where not to start.

Steven Jack Butala:
Why do I know about where not to start in real estate? Because that's where I started.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Oh yeah. We can tell you all this ... You know what? I swear, this is why you're here and listening, I hope. And I know for many of you, this is why you're in Land Academy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Besides the fact that you have-

Jill K DeWit:
I'd rather pay you guys and not do it, and hear all about the stuff that you failed on and what got you here today. It's so much faster and cheaper for me to just join and go with what you got figured out. Ding, ding. Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
That and the fact that you have real low standards and we appreciate that.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, silly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Daniel wrote, "Hey, everybody. I'm getting very close to finishing my first mailer and I am very excited about it. I'm hitting a little bit of a wall though when calculating my offer price per ..."

Steven Jack Butala:
Acre, just say.

Jill K DeWit:
Acre?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's supposed to be PPA, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it. I'm going, "What is PPE?" Oh my God. Okay, price per acre. "After using web scraping software and plugging my numbers into the equations," or, "plugging the numbers into my equations, the results are a bit wild. Upon further inspection it seems that the reason is because the MLS in this area is responsible for less than 40% of all the listings here for land on Zillow, and they're not accurately representing the listings."

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to my world.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true. "For example, 0.002 acres is going for 30,000, while another seven acres is listed for $1,000, and so on. Nearly all of them are mislabeled." Sorry. This happens. "And without elaboration in the descriptions." Yeah, yeah. "Does anyone know a way to efficiently circumvent this dud data? For what it's worth, I have both WebHarvy and Octoparse as my web scrubbing apps. Sorry for the wall of text." That's so funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Daniel, you are going to be amazingly successful in your real estate career.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I put this on Jack Thursday for a reason. This is absolutely the norm for scraping data, the way that we teach it, and coming up with the offer prices. What you're experiencing, it's not the exception, it's the norm. You scrape all the active and sold properties in a zip code. And what you're stalling for is a retail price per acre, from which you can submit offers to all the owners in the area at a much discounted price.
So if everything's $1,000 an acre, you solve for this. What you're processing is $1,000 an acre. Then you're going to write offers for $250 an acre and few people are going to sign them, and you're going to buy the properties and sell it for $1,000 an acre, hopefully, or some number like that. That's the overview.
But follow me here, let's just do a little bit of math. In his 0.002 acre example for $30,000, that price per acre is crazy, astronomical. It's going to throw your data off. Us data people call that an exception. And so if you think of it as a bell curve, the stuff that's on each side of that bell, you got to get rid of it. And we teach this in the program,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Where to Start in Real Estate (LA 1826)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about where to start in real estate. And honestly, where not to start. Why?

Jill K DeWit:
It's going to be more about where not to start.

Steven Jack Butala:
Why do I know about where not to start in real estate? Because that's where I started.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Oh yeah. We can tell you all this ... You know what? I swear, this is why you're here and listening, I hope. And I know for many of you, this is why you're in Land Academy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Besides the fact that you have-

Jill K DeWit:
I'd rather pay you guys and not do it, and hear all about the stuff that you failed on and what got you here today. It's so much faster and cheaper for me to just join and go with what you got figured out. Ding, ding. Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
That and the fact that you have real low standards and we appreciate that.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, silly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Daniel wrote, "Hey, everybody. I'm getting very close to finishing my first mailer and I am very excited about it. I'm hitting a little bit of a wall though when calculating my offer price per ..."

Steven Jack Butala:
Acre, just say.

Jill K DeWit:
Acre?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's supposed to be PPA, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it. I'm going, "What is PPE?" Oh my God. Okay, price per acre. "After using web scraping software and plugging my numbers into the equations," or, "plugging the numbers into my equations, the results are a bit wild. Upon further inspection it seems that the reason is because the MLS in this area is responsible for less than 40% of all the listings here for land on Zillow, and they're not accurately representing the listings."

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to my world.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true. "For example, 0.002 acres is going for 30,000, while another seven acres is listed for $1,000, and so on. Nearly all of them are mislabeled." Sorry. This happens. "And without elaboration in the descriptions." Yeah, yeah. "Does anyone know a way to efficiently circumvent this dud data? For what it's worth, I have both WebHarvy and Octoparse as my web scrubbing apps. Sorry for the wall of text." That's so funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Daniel, you are going to be amazingly successful in your real estate career.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I put this on Jack Thursday for a reason. This is absolutely the norm for scraping data, the way that we teach it, and coming up with the offer prices. What you're experiencing, it's not the exception, it's the norm. You scrape all the active and sold properties in a zip code. And what you're stalling for is a retail price per acre, from which you can submit offers to all the owners in the area at a much discounted price.
So if everything's $1,000 an acre, you solve for this. What you're processing is $1,000 an acre. Then you're going to write offers for $250 an acre and few people are going to sign them, and you're going to buy the properties and sell it for $1,000 an acre, hopefully, or some number like that. That's the overview.
But follow me here, let's just do a little bit of math. In his 0.002 acre example for $30,000, that price per acre is crazy, astronomical. It's going to throw your data off. Us data people call that an exception. And so if you think of it as a bell curve, the stuff that's on each side of that bell, you got to get rid of it. And we teach this in the program,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/11/jack-thursday-where-to-start-in-real-estate-la-1826/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">X8cvwqD82</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/966a1023-ee05-4685-804e-bf46f8f3a6be.mp3" length="15836373" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Definition of Equitable Title in Real Estate (LA 1825)</title><itunes:title>Definition of Equitable Title in Real Estate (LA 1825)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Definition of Equitable Title in Real Estate (LA 1825)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun. What's so funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's funny.

Jill K DeWit:
We should change it. I'll do you on the next one. Want to practice right now? I'm Jill Dewitt.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
Broadcasting?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, [inaudible 00:00:31].

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't how to say it.

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to let you imitate me.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, no. I don't want to imitate you today.

Jill K DeWit:
Not today.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can't do it on the fly.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, great.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can only do it when you're not expecting it in the form of making fun of you.

Jill K DeWit:
And this is fine too. I can take it. I told Corbin, I'm like, "Bring it. I had an older brother and my dad picking on me my whole life,, I can take it."

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you can. Today, Jill and I talk about the definition of equitable title in real estate. It seems that there's some confusion and I completely understand why. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of members came to Joe and I frustrated about getting their first offer campaign out, or just frustrated in general with how long it takes to price mailers and do mailers in general, so we came up with a new product called Cod Concierge Data, where we do the mailer for you. We take the entire mailer out of your life and do it for you, except for the pricing, and we show you how to price [inaudible 00:01:49]

Jill K DeWit:
You pick the county, you pick the size, you pick what you want to do, and just say, "I need that data. I'll be over here."

Steven Jack Butala:
We have products and tools in the Land Academy environment for just about every issue that you come across in this buying and selling of land and land investment environment, short of actually doing the deal for you, which people, believe it or not, have asked us to do exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just give you some money? Call me when it's doubled.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's 10,000, let me know when it's 20. Someone said that to me.

Jill K DeWit:
Happens all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:
With a straight face.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just give you some money?

Steven Jack Butala:
In social environment?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm like, "No, I don't need your money and I'm not going to do all that work. I'm doing it with my money. I'm fine." Michael wrote, "I have a property under contract. I got funding in place. I have a closing attorney to do all the due diligence required to close." Interesting. "The attorney mailed the closing documents to the seller and then the seller refused to sign before the scheduled closing." Huh? "He basically said he wants more money before signing any closing documents. Has anyone in this group experienced situation like this? What do you all do when a seller refuses to sign a closing at the last minute?"
Gosh, you know what? Sorry you had to experience that guy. That's why on Monday we said we don't want you to be that guy. Congratulations. Now you got the opposite of it. You got the seller saying, "No, I know I'd sell for 10. I meant 20." Excuse me, I've done all this work, this other person's done all this work. I have this lined up, that lined up, I may have already paid for pictures and got videos done and now you want more money. You know what? It doesn't happen really often.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a symptom of a personality disorder. If you've done this for any amount of time at all, this has happened to you. I don't know if I can count on two hands how many times this ha...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Definition of Equitable Title in Real Estate (LA 1825)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun. What's so funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's funny.

Jill K DeWit:
We should change it. I'll do you on the next one. Want to practice right now? I'm Jill Dewitt.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
Broadcasting?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, [inaudible 00:00:31].

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't how to say it.

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to let you imitate me.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, no. I don't want to imitate you today.

Jill K DeWit:
Not today.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can't do it on the fly.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, great.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can only do it when you're not expecting it in the form of making fun of you.

Jill K DeWit:
And this is fine too. I can take it. I told Corbin, I'm like, "Bring it. I had an older brother and my dad picking on me my whole life,, I can take it."

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you can. Today, Jill and I talk about the definition of equitable title in real estate. It seems that there's some confusion and I completely understand why. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of members came to Joe and I frustrated about getting their first offer campaign out, or just frustrated in general with how long it takes to price mailers and do mailers in general, so we came up with a new product called Cod Concierge Data, where we do the mailer for you. We take the entire mailer out of your life and do it for you, except for the pricing, and we show you how to price [inaudible 00:01:49]

Jill K DeWit:
You pick the county, you pick the size, you pick what you want to do, and just say, "I need that data. I'll be over here."

Steven Jack Butala:
We have products and tools in the Land Academy environment for just about every issue that you come across in this buying and selling of land and land investment environment, short of actually doing the deal for you, which people, believe it or not, have asked us to do exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just give you some money? Call me when it's doubled.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's 10,000, let me know when it's 20. Someone said that to me.

Jill K DeWit:
Happens all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:
With a straight face.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just give you some money?

Steven Jack Butala:
In social environment?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm like, "No, I don't need your money and I'm not going to do all that work. I'm doing it with my money. I'm fine." Michael wrote, "I have a property under contract. I got funding in place. I have a closing attorney to do all the due diligence required to close." Interesting. "The attorney mailed the closing documents to the seller and then the seller refused to sign before the scheduled closing." Huh? "He basically said he wants more money before signing any closing documents. Has anyone in this group experienced situation like this? What do you all do when a seller refuses to sign a closing at the last minute?"
Gosh, you know what? Sorry you had to experience that guy. That's why on Monday we said we don't want you to be that guy. Congratulations. Now you got the opposite of it. You got the seller saying, "No, I know I'd sell for 10. I meant 20." Excuse me, I've done all this work, this other person's done all this work. I have this lined up, that lined up, I may have already paid for pictures and got videos done and now you want more money. You know what? It doesn't happen really often.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a symptom of a personality disorder. If you've done this for any amount of time at all, this has happened to you. I don't know if I can count on two hands how many times this ha...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/10/definition-of-equitable-title-in-real-estate-la-1825/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aa0r-4W-d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/24375238-e29f-4124-8809-58b5028a8c9b.mp3" length="15025480" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Hire a Great Transaction Coordinator (LA 1824)</title><itunes:title>How to Hire a Great Transaction Coordinator (LA 1824)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Hire a Great Transaction Coordinator (LA 1824)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill's going to talk about how to hire a great transaction coordinator. All week this week, we're answering questions or doing topics on frequent customer service requests from our staff.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now we have a full blown commercial printing company to get your offers out to owners. It's called offers2owners.com, the number two. Jill and I set this company up several years ago out of pure frustration with dealing with regular commercial printing companies not understanding mail merges and how our business works. So we decided to do it ourselves.

Jill K DeWit:
Take matters into our own hands.

Steven Jack Butala:
Fast forward to today, we do between 700,000 and a million offers a month for other people to buy land and houses and other stuff. Check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Ty wrote, "Got my first check today. Net, 79,000 bucks." Nice job. "I've had a lot of challenges this year, both in and out of Land Academy. Glad to get my first deal completed, under my belt, and glad it was significant enough to make it all worth it."

Steven Jack Butala:
So as you can imagine, congratulations, by the way. As you can imagine, this Discord, everybody in the group was really-

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really supportive of this.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that great?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a subsection in Discord called success stories.

Jill K DeWit:
Success.

Steven Jack Butala:
And that this was posted in there. Hey, if you want to check out Discord, go to landinvestors.com. We embedded it. You can't play with it, but you can just look, you can-

Jill K DeWit:
Look around.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can view only and check out, you'll see this question. Actually all the questions come from there.

Jill K DeWit:
So does it take you right into Discord, you can click around? Or is it just that window, what pops up in the window?

Steven Jack Butala:
You can click around on the stuff that the general people can click around on, the general Land Academy members.

Jill K DeWit:
So you have filtered content that they can see and stuff they can't see?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Like for Career Path and all that, you can't see it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I just curious.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you can click through, but you just can't ask any questions or add anything.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Noted.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, how to hire a great transaction coordinator. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. The first thing about hiring a great transaction coordinator is not, "I'm going to steal Jill's." That's not-

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That is not how you do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our entire staff gets a lot of job offers

Jill K DeWit:
Had that happen all the time. I used to get job offers when I was first working with you and doing deals. That, and I got wedding proposals, but anyway, marriage proposals.

Steven Jack Butala:
Did you get one of those recently?

Jill K DeWit:
Not yet, not recently, no.

Steven Jack Butala:
Did you get one this year yet?

Jill K DeWit:
No, no. You know what's kind of funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't get any of those.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't wear rings at the gym.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, geez.

Jill K DeWit:
Side note. And I don't share personal stuff that much. I'll talk about traveling or things like that, but I don't say who I'm with or what we're doing.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Hire a Great Transaction Coordinator (LA 1824)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill's going to talk about how to hire a great transaction coordinator. All week this week, we're answering questions or doing topics on frequent customer service requests from our staff.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now we have a full blown commercial printing company to get your offers out to owners. It's called offers2owners.com, the number two. Jill and I set this company up several years ago out of pure frustration with dealing with regular commercial printing companies not understanding mail merges and how our business works. So we decided to do it ourselves.

Jill K DeWit:
Take matters into our own hands.

Steven Jack Butala:
Fast forward to today, we do between 700,000 and a million offers a month for other people to buy land and houses and other stuff. Check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Ty wrote, "Got my first check today. Net, 79,000 bucks." Nice job. "I've had a lot of challenges this year, both in and out of Land Academy. Glad to get my first deal completed, under my belt, and glad it was significant enough to make it all worth it."

Steven Jack Butala:
So as you can imagine, congratulations, by the way. As you can imagine, this Discord, everybody in the group was really-

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really supportive of this.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that great?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a subsection in Discord called success stories.

Jill K DeWit:
Success.

Steven Jack Butala:
And that this was posted in there. Hey, if you want to check out Discord, go to landinvestors.com. We embedded it. You can't play with it, but you can just look, you can-

Jill K DeWit:
Look around.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can view only and check out, you'll see this question. Actually all the questions come from there.

Jill K DeWit:
So does it take you right into Discord, you can click around? Or is it just that window, what pops up in the window?

Steven Jack Butala:
You can click around on the stuff that the general people can click around on, the general Land Academy members.

Jill K DeWit:
So you have filtered content that they can see and stuff they can't see?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Like for Career Path and all that, you can't see it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I just curious.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you can click through, but you just can't ask any questions or add anything.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Noted.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, how to hire a great transaction coordinator. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. The first thing about hiring a great transaction coordinator is not, "I'm going to steal Jill's." That's not-

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That is not how you do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our entire staff gets a lot of job offers

Jill K DeWit:
Had that happen all the time. I used to get job offers when I was first working with you and doing deals. That, and I got wedding proposals, but anyway, marriage proposals.

Steven Jack Butala:
Did you get one of those recently?

Jill K DeWit:
Not yet, not recently, no.

Steven Jack Butala:
Did you get one this year yet?

Jill K DeWit:
No, no. You know what's kind of funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't get any of those.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't wear rings at the gym.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, geez.

Jill K DeWit:
Side note. And I don't share personal stuff that much. I'll talk about traveling or things like that, but I don't say who I'm with or what we're doing.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/09/how-to-hire-a-great-transaction-coordinator-la-1824/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2pZidcbFo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e35340e3-37bd-4d26-b964-3b440f124b66.mp3" length="19569033" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Tools Explained (LA 1823)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Tools Explained (LA 1823)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Tools Explained (LA 1823)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, this time broadcasting from The Valley of this Sun. I got to say something funny about that. I was informed yesterday by our staff. I think there's a little contest that they kind of mimic me. They go, like, "Valley of the Sun," or "Sunny Southern California."

Steven Jack Butala:
Ah, jeez. So they make fun of us?

Jill K DeWit:
A few people, oh yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
As they should.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Someone came over and said, "You know, Cody's really good at imitating you." I said, "Yeah, I bet he is."

Steven Jack Butala:
Imitating you?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, he's got it down.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cody's all right. Super guy.

Jill K DeWit:
So if he's listening to this, Cody, yeah, we get it. Bring it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, those poor guys have to post-produce all this audio and video.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, and hear it all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:
So they hear this, all of it.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, and one of our guys the other day, bless his heart, he's new with us. And I kind of razzed him yesterday about something, and then I don't know if he was ready for it. I'm like, "Sorry." I'm like, "I hope that's okay." I can take it, so give it back, whatever you got, give it back. So I'm-

Steven Jack Butala:
Did he?

Jill K DeWit:
Not yet. I'm sure he's saving it up. He was probably like, "What just happened?" I was only teasing him about something. Anyways, funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I've been asked to inform you that it's Monday.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's Monday, and we have rereleased Concierge Data-

Jill K DeWit:
What?

Steven Jack Butala:
... which allows you, as a member or a non-member, it allows you to put your order in and we'll do your mailer for you.

Jill K DeWit:
I thought that was on the down low.

Steven Jack Butala:
They asked me to talk about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I still thought we were like ... Is it open for new customers right now? We're catching up.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a little late now, so yeah. Contact support at offers2owners.com, and ask them, and they might say "Yes," but it might take a couple of days.

Jill K DeWit:
And that would be your opportunity to say, "Well, Jack said ..."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, throw me under the bus. Just like, apparently, our employees do.

Jill K DeWit:
That's great. There we go. That's awesome.
Erin wrote, "General question. Anyone have an opinion one way or another? If you want to, or need to, lower your offer price for a parcel, would you negotiate all the way down to the price you want before going into contract?" Huh? I'm a little confused on this. Let me read more and we'll see if we figure it out. "Anyone having success getting one price drop before escrow and then asking for another one while in ..." oh, now it's making sense ... "while in escrow." Oh, I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you do. That's why I put it in here, because this is right up your alley.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-huh. "Maybe the seller will cancel the deal after a second drop, or maybe they will never enter into the deal if you go in for the full price cut." Chicken and egg problem? Okay.
Here's the deal. This person is asking a question like, "Okay, I sent out the offer. We agreed on a price. It's not the price I really, really want, but I agreed on it. Now we're going to go into escrow, and I'm thinking that maybe partway through here, I'm going to throw it out to them, like, 'You know what? I know I said 10,000. I really mean eight, and now because we're in escrow,'" you know?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Tools Explained (LA 1823)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, this time broadcasting from The Valley of this Sun. I got to say something funny about that. I was informed yesterday by our staff. I think there's a little contest that they kind of mimic me. They go, like, "Valley of the Sun," or "Sunny Southern California."

Steven Jack Butala:
Ah, jeez. So they make fun of us?

Jill K DeWit:
A few people, oh yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
As they should.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Someone came over and said, "You know, Cody's really good at imitating you." I said, "Yeah, I bet he is."

Steven Jack Butala:
Imitating you?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, he's got it down.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cody's all right. Super guy.

Jill K DeWit:
So if he's listening to this, Cody, yeah, we get it. Bring it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, those poor guys have to post-produce all this audio and video.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, and hear it all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:
So they hear this, all of it.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, and one of our guys the other day, bless his heart, he's new with us. And I kind of razzed him yesterday about something, and then I don't know if he was ready for it. I'm like, "Sorry." I'm like, "I hope that's okay." I can take it, so give it back, whatever you got, give it back. So I'm-

Steven Jack Butala:
Did he?

Jill K DeWit:
Not yet. I'm sure he's saving it up. He was probably like, "What just happened?" I was only teasing him about something. Anyways, funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I've been asked to inform you that it's Monday.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's Monday, and we have rereleased Concierge Data-

Jill K DeWit:
What?

Steven Jack Butala:
... which allows you, as a member or a non-member, it allows you to put your order in and we'll do your mailer for you.

Jill K DeWit:
I thought that was on the down low.

Steven Jack Butala:
They asked me to talk about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I still thought we were like ... Is it open for new customers right now? We're catching up.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a little late now, so yeah. Contact support at offers2owners.com, and ask them, and they might say "Yes," but it might take a couple of days.

Jill K DeWit:
And that would be your opportunity to say, "Well, Jack said ..."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, throw me under the bus. Just like, apparently, our employees do.

Jill K DeWit:
That's great. There we go. That's awesome.
Erin wrote, "General question. Anyone have an opinion one way or another? If you want to, or need to, lower your offer price for a parcel, would you negotiate all the way down to the price you want before going into contract?" Huh? I'm a little confused on this. Let me read more and we'll see if we figure it out. "Anyone having success getting one price drop before escrow and then asking for another one while in ..." oh, now it's making sense ... "while in escrow." Oh, I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you do. That's why I put it in here, because this is right up your alley.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-huh. "Maybe the seller will cancel the deal after a second drop, or maybe they will never enter into the deal if you go in for the full price cut." Chicken and egg problem? Okay.
Here's the deal. This person is asking a question like, "Okay, I sent out the offer. We agreed on a price. It's not the price I really, really want, but I agreed on it. Now we're going to go into escrow, and I'm thinking that maybe partway through here, I'm going to throw it out to them, like, 'You know what? I know I said 10,000. I really mean eight, and now because we're in escrow,'" you know?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/08/land-academy-tools-explained-la-1823/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">edFxOfXjB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/75ee7a5a-8ba4-4a27-8d67-0eaae4af8d7c.mp3" length="18320134" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Top Five Millionaire Habits (LA 1822)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Top Five Millionaire Habits (LA 1822)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Top Five Millionaire Habits (LA 1822)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about her top five millionaire habits. I am just as eager to listen to this as you are. We haven't talked about it at all. Before getting into it-

Jill K DeWit:
I know you're going to have some good stuff to add and share and stuff.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know by now, well, you probably don't know this, but back in the day, it was impossible to find land on a map, on the internet without a mailing address, we solved that by putting all 150 million plus properties and all their associated information, like ownership and everything else in a database. So you can look it up by APN and it's called neighborscoop.com. Check it out, neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Or parcelfact.com, because the two will be one soon.

Steven Butala:
Soon.

Jill K DeWit:
So now you know. So Greg wrote, "I was wondering if there's a process to follow when self-closing on a sale, I bought with title insurance and then I closed with title company, but the buyer wanted a quick transaction. But if the buyer wants a quick transaction, would there be any potential issues of doing a self close as there are no real estate agents involved in the transaction? And how do you usually go about collecting the payment, wire transfer from bank to bank, and so on?" So Greg is obviously not a member because-

Steven Butala:
Greg's a member, he's just a brand new.

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry. I apologize, Greg. So you have this set your fingertips inside the education, but just in case, I'll cover it right now anyway. That's totally fine, here's the deal, you bought with title insurance, you went through a title company and now you own it, now you have a buyer who's really anxious to start using it. They're going to only need title insurance if they're going to build on it, that's really it, it's really personal preference. Let me say this, you can absolutely buy and sell property by yourselves, like you buy and sell a car on Craigslist without an agent, without a title company, and without title insurance. This used to be my main way of doing things anyways.

Steven Butala:
That's right. This is our business model for decades.

Jill K DeWit:
I would buy with title insurance and I would sell to them and say, "No, here's the title insurance policy, you have it, so you know everything's cool up until the day I own it. And now you're buying it for me, and it's two weeks later, nothing's happened." So they would feel great. I'm like, "If you want to go through Escrow, we can, if you don't, we don't have to." "No, why would I do that? You're right, it saves us each money, saves about $1,200 on the deal, so this is great." If they were going to build on it or they were going to do something to the property that might involve a lender, then they're going to need title insurance down the road. They can still get title insurance, by the way down the road. It doesn't have to be done at that time.
And then how do I go about doing it? You know how we talk about DeedPerfect in making our own deeds, you can make your own deed and have it notarized it to you. You're the only one that needs to sign it, because you're the owner. And you could either send it into recording, do an online recording is the easiest, by the way, for the seller or for the buyer, or you could send the deed to the buyer with all the instructions. I like to arm them with what they need to do, where to mail it, how much the check needs to be, and so on, mail it into the county and get it recorded and they could do it the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Top Five Millionaire Habits (LA 1822)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about her top five millionaire habits. I am just as eager to listen to this as you are. We haven't talked about it at all. Before getting into it-

Jill K DeWit:
I know you're going to have some good stuff to add and share and stuff.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know by now, well, you probably don't know this, but back in the day, it was impossible to find land on a map, on the internet without a mailing address, we solved that by putting all 150 million plus properties and all their associated information, like ownership and everything else in a database. So you can look it up by APN and it's called neighborscoop.com. Check it out, neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Or parcelfact.com, because the two will be one soon.

Steven Butala:
Soon.

Jill K DeWit:
So now you know. So Greg wrote, "I was wondering if there's a process to follow when self-closing on a sale, I bought with title insurance and then I closed with title company, but the buyer wanted a quick transaction. But if the buyer wants a quick transaction, would there be any potential issues of doing a self close as there are no real estate agents involved in the transaction? And how do you usually go about collecting the payment, wire transfer from bank to bank, and so on?" So Greg is obviously not a member because-

Steven Butala:
Greg's a member, he's just a brand new.

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry. I apologize, Greg. So you have this set your fingertips inside the education, but just in case, I'll cover it right now anyway. That's totally fine, here's the deal, you bought with title insurance, you went through a title company and now you own it, now you have a buyer who's really anxious to start using it. They're going to only need title insurance if they're going to build on it, that's really it, it's really personal preference. Let me say this, you can absolutely buy and sell property by yourselves, like you buy and sell a car on Craigslist without an agent, without a title company, and without title insurance. This used to be my main way of doing things anyways.

Steven Butala:
That's right. This is our business model for decades.

Jill K DeWit:
I would buy with title insurance and I would sell to them and say, "No, here's the title insurance policy, you have it, so you know everything's cool up until the day I own it. And now you're buying it for me, and it's two weeks later, nothing's happened." So they would feel great. I'm like, "If you want to go through Escrow, we can, if you don't, we don't have to." "No, why would I do that? You're right, it saves us each money, saves about $1,200 on the deal, so this is great." If they were going to build on it or they were going to do something to the property that might involve a lender, then they're going to need title insurance down the road. They can still get title insurance, by the way down the road. It doesn't have to be done at that time.
And then how do I go about doing it? You know how we talk about DeedPerfect in making our own deeds, you can make your own deed and have it notarized it to you. You're the only one that needs to sign it, because you're the owner. And you could either send it into recording, do an online recording is the easiest, by the way, for the seller or for the buyer, or you could send the deed to the buyer with all the instructions. I like to arm them with what they need to do, where to mail it, how much the check needs to be, and so on, mail it into the county and get it recorded and they could do it the...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/05/jill-friday-top-five-millionaire-habits-la-1822/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f2t2AKkRZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/11953ad0-46cc-40a8-bf11-90cd7d734fb7.mp3" length="21765204" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How to Get a Girl Like Jill (LA 1821)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How to Get a Girl Like Jill (LA 1821)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How to Get a Girl Like Jill (LA 1821)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven James Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven James Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how to get a girl like Jill. There's a lot of different ways this one can go today.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, there are.

Steven James Butala:
I've pretty seriously piqued Jill's interest in this topic. And so I'll wait to fill her in and you after the question.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, at least even the way you word it is okay. It's not like how to get by with a girl like Jill, just how to get through life.

Steven James Butala:
How to get over a girl like Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
How to get over [inaudible 00:00:42]... That's right. Yeah. Depending how this goes. This is good. This perfect. Depending how today goes, tomorrow may or may not be how to get over a girl like Jill. I love it. Yep. She's gone. That's awesome.

Steven James Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Josiah wrote, "I have a good buddy who is a general contractor in Florida. He occasionally builds affordable housing. His cost to build a bread and butter basic SFR he buys, after he buys a lot. And then even before he breaks ground is about 80,000 bucks." Wow. "On impact fees and permits." Sheesh. So even if he gets a lot for free, he can barely get out of profit. My goodness. So Kevin wrote on, went on to write, "You know what? I had to pass on five acres inside a Missouri city property because the starter homes in the area would not support building anything but starter homes on small lots. I talked to builder and explained that even, who explained that even if I gave him the land, he couldn't build a home there and make a profit without getting some grant money. So I said, 'If this five acres was up in here, you could build with plenty of margin, like $300,000 and up. And he said, oh yeah, it's just with that certain area.'"
We do that too. Sometimes when we're on our Thursday calls and we're looking at deals, "What'd you do this deal?" And we're like... You'll notice sometimes there's areas that you just can't find comps, right? There's not a lot for sale, not a lot sold recently. And often for, I see it as a sign of celebration, but before I do that, I go, "Let's just see what the houses are going for. And if the houses are going for a million, then it is a sign of celebration. But if the houses are going for $85,000, it's not a sign of celebration," or less, sometimes even less. So this is what everybody's talking about here. There's times. And there's just areas that man, the way things are going right now, you can't build a house for what it's selling for.

Steven James Butala:
This is in the rant section of Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven James Butala:
These two members are-

Jill K DeWit:
Makes sense.

Steven James Butala:
... long time advanced members, both of them.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
I am... I've never in my entire career, in my 30+ year professional career in real estate, heard the noise called affordable housing. And I think it's... This is Jack Thursday, by the way. So I get to talk about stuff I want.

Jill K DeWit:
Don't you every day?

Steven James Butala:
No. It's the Land Academy Show.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. You do.

Steven James Butala:
It's not the Jack Show.

Jill K DeWit:
Even off camera, I think you're doing just fine.

Steven James Butala:
I have never heard anything like of... It's just too... I can't afford to live there.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's true.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How to Get a Girl Like Jill (LA 1821)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven James Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven James Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how to get a girl like Jill. There's a lot of different ways this one can go today.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, there are.

Steven James Butala:
I've pretty seriously piqued Jill's interest in this topic. And so I'll wait to fill her in and you after the question.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, at least even the way you word it is okay. It's not like how to get by with a girl like Jill, just how to get through life.

Steven James Butala:
How to get over a girl like Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
How to get over [inaudible 00:00:42]... That's right. Yeah. Depending how this goes. This is good. This perfect. Depending how today goes, tomorrow may or may not be how to get over a girl like Jill. I love it. Yep. She's gone. That's awesome.

Steven James Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Josiah wrote, "I have a good buddy who is a general contractor in Florida. He occasionally builds affordable housing. His cost to build a bread and butter basic SFR he buys, after he buys a lot. And then even before he breaks ground is about 80,000 bucks." Wow. "On impact fees and permits." Sheesh. So even if he gets a lot for free, he can barely get out of profit. My goodness. So Kevin wrote on, went on to write, "You know what? I had to pass on five acres inside a Missouri city property because the starter homes in the area would not support building anything but starter homes on small lots. I talked to builder and explained that even, who explained that even if I gave him the land, he couldn't build a home there and make a profit without getting some grant money. So I said, 'If this five acres was up in here, you could build with plenty of margin, like $300,000 and up. And he said, oh yeah, it's just with that certain area.'"
We do that too. Sometimes when we're on our Thursday calls and we're looking at deals, "What'd you do this deal?" And we're like... You'll notice sometimes there's areas that you just can't find comps, right? There's not a lot for sale, not a lot sold recently. And often for, I see it as a sign of celebration, but before I do that, I go, "Let's just see what the houses are going for. And if the houses are going for a million, then it is a sign of celebration. But if the houses are going for $85,000, it's not a sign of celebration," or less, sometimes even less. So this is what everybody's talking about here. There's times. And there's just areas that man, the way things are going right now, you can't build a house for what it's selling for.

Steven James Butala:
This is in the rant section of Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven James Butala:
These two members are-

Jill K DeWit:
Makes sense.

Steven James Butala:
... long time advanced members, both of them.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
I am... I've never in my entire career, in my 30+ year professional career in real estate, heard the noise called affordable housing. And I think it's... This is Jack Thursday, by the way. So I get to talk about stuff I want.

Jill K DeWit:
Don't you every day?

Steven James Butala:
No. It's the Land Academy Show.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. You do.

Steven James Butala:
It's not the Jack Show.

Jill K DeWit:
Even off camera, I think you're doing just fine.

Steven James Butala:
I have never heard anything like of... It's just too... I can't afford to live there.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's true.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/04/jack-thursday-how-to-get-a-girl-like-jill-la-1821/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nkP2AT78G</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ec9efb23-014a-4ae7-8dea-45d966a680e6.mp3" length="15481932" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Now is the Time to Buy Land (LA 1820)</title><itunes:title>Now is the Time to Buy Land (LA 1820)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Now is the Time to Buy Land (LA 1820)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello. What was that?

Steven James Butala:
I don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
We're all good to see the top of your head?

Steven James Butala:
Our producer asks us to pose for a still shot at the beginning of every video. That becomes what they use on YouTube as the title shot. The tile.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven James Butala:
We have resorted to doing really ridiculous stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
What was that?

Steven James Butala:
I don't know. Just take a look at my hair.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven James Butala:
What was that?

Jill K DeWit:
I was clearly deep in thought.

Steven James Butala:
Oh, deep in thought about why I was doing what I was doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Now that's why I was deep in thought.

Steven James Butala:
Stephen and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. He's Stephen Jack Butala and I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California

Steven James Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, now's the time to buy land. "Oh my God, Jack. You say that all the time."

Jill K DeWit:
Really? Are you sure? Now. All the other 423 times we said it, we didn't mean it as much as we-

Steven James Butala:
819 times.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, this time we mean it. Now we really mean it.

Steven James Butala:
It's actually a little bit more intelligent. We'll get to that in a second. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I frustrated with sending their blind offer campaigns that they've created to commercial printer X so Jill and I...

Jill K DeWit:
It was the data part of it. The pricing and the data.

Steven James Butala:
Real frustrated. They were looking, "Can't you just do our mailer please," so we are doing your mailer now. We call it concierge data. We bring you right to the five yard line. We do everything except price the entire mailer. If you're familiar with our process, we get comparison values and all kinds of cool stuff to help you get your mailer out. Well, we get it out for you actually. We do everything except price it for you.

Jill K DeWit:
We tell you what everything's going for in the area and what they sold for in the area. Then you go, "Okay, I want to do X percent of that."

Steven James Butala:
That's right.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go.

Steven James Butala:
Go to checkitallout@offerstothenumbertwoowner.com

Jill K DeWit:
Drew wrote, "Just curious, how does one accumulate a network of buyers?" This is to a certain person. You can certainly market it. Is this his response right here?

Steven James Butala:
No, it's a conversation between two people that I took an excerpt from.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. This is Drew. Is this chip?

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
In quotes? That's what I needed to know. Drew asked a guy named Chip this, "How do you accumulate a network of buyers?" Chip said, "You can certainly market it, but I don't put them on the MLS. I have a network of buyers for this property type, so I just package it up and send it to them. I usually meet them in person and sell it. Now, I happen to know that they're bigger, larger dollar amounts. I know we've talked to Chip when he is like, "I'm getting on a plane tomorrow to go meet somebody to walk X. We can't really walk it because it's big, but check out this property together," fill in the blank.

Steven James Butala:
Land Academy's great for this. That works for networking. Putting a community of buyers together works if they all have the same taste for product type. If they all want infill lots because they're our home builders then great. You can put together a small local database of that type of buyer very, very quickly. If they only want commercial property within three or four zip codes,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Now is the Time to Buy Land (LA 1820)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello. What was that?

Steven James Butala:
I don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
We're all good to see the top of your head?

Steven James Butala:
Our producer asks us to pose for a still shot at the beginning of every video. That becomes what they use on YouTube as the title shot. The tile.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven James Butala:
We have resorted to doing really ridiculous stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
What was that?

Steven James Butala:
I don't know. Just take a look at my hair.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven James Butala:
What was that?

Jill K DeWit:
I was clearly deep in thought.

Steven James Butala:
Oh, deep in thought about why I was doing what I was doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Now that's why I was deep in thought.

Steven James Butala:
Stephen and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. He's Stephen Jack Butala and I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California

Steven James Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, now's the time to buy land. "Oh my God, Jack. You say that all the time."

Jill K DeWit:
Really? Are you sure? Now. All the other 423 times we said it, we didn't mean it as much as we-

Steven James Butala:
819 times.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, this time we mean it. Now we really mean it.

Steven James Butala:
It's actually a little bit more intelligent. We'll get to that in a second. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I frustrated with sending their blind offer campaigns that they've created to commercial printer X so Jill and I...

Jill K DeWit:
It was the data part of it. The pricing and the data.

Steven James Butala:
Real frustrated. They were looking, "Can't you just do our mailer please," so we are doing your mailer now. We call it concierge data. We bring you right to the five yard line. We do everything except price the entire mailer. If you're familiar with our process, we get comparison values and all kinds of cool stuff to help you get your mailer out. Well, we get it out for you actually. We do everything except price it for you.

Jill K DeWit:
We tell you what everything's going for in the area and what they sold for in the area. Then you go, "Okay, I want to do X percent of that."

Steven James Butala:
That's right.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go.

Steven James Butala:
Go to checkitallout@offerstothenumbertwoowner.com

Jill K DeWit:
Drew wrote, "Just curious, how does one accumulate a network of buyers?" This is to a certain person. You can certainly market it. Is this his response right here?

Steven James Butala:
No, it's a conversation between two people that I took an excerpt from.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. This is Drew. Is this chip?

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
In quotes? That's what I needed to know. Drew asked a guy named Chip this, "How do you accumulate a network of buyers?" Chip said, "You can certainly market it, but I don't put them on the MLS. I have a network of buyers for this property type, so I just package it up and send it to them. I usually meet them in person and sell it. Now, I happen to know that they're bigger, larger dollar amounts. I know we've talked to Chip when he is like, "I'm getting on a plane tomorrow to go meet somebody to walk X. We can't really walk it because it's big, but check out this property together," fill in the blank.

Steven James Butala:
Land Academy's great for this. That works for networking. Putting a community of buyers together works if they all have the same taste for product type. If they all want infill lots because they're our home builders then great. You can put together a small local database of that type of buyer very, very quickly. If they only want commercial property within three or four zip codes,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/03/now-is-the-time-to-buy-land-la-1820/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">siIUK4X_t</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8334ac84-e003-4fca-8142-155676a638e2.mp3" length="11573738" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy is a Performance Based Eco System (LA 1819)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy is a Performance Based Eco System (LA 1819)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy is a Performance Based Eco System (LA 1819)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven James Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.`

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California

Steven James Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how Land Academy is a performance-based ecosystem, I'm happy to report. When we started Land Academy in 2015 or launched it, I should say, I thought I knew all kinds of stuff. Well, it turns out I was wrong about everything and what's new about that. We started it to help a handful of people learn how we buy and sell land successfully to create a tiny little investment group where we could all do deals together. Well, mission accomplished there. The group got a lot bigger than we thought. I think there's about 480 members right now total. And we both have agreed to not allow the group to get larger than 500 people. So at times, Jill will close enrollment. I think you did last two months ago for quite some time for an entire month.

Jill K DeWit:
It's open right now.

Steven James Butala:
My 480 number is probably not right. It's probably closer to 500, but yeah, it's open right now. So it was all mission accomplished there. We found some great partners. We have got literally lifelong business partners now, but what we found throughout this, let's call it a little journey that I created for better, for worse, we've got this little performance-based ecosystem going on, where we're all communicating with each other.
And so when I watch this group grow, while this is kind of the show. Before I get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now you know we have a full-blown operational printing company called offerstoowners.com. And Jill and I set this company up a few years ago for ourselves because we were real frustrated about the level of misunderstanding from regular commercial printing companies that we were experiencing when we sent out our own mail campaigns. And so we were frustrated, we started our own, and now we do between 700,000 and a million letters on behalf of our members and non-members every single month. So check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
It's pretty cool.

Steven James Butala:
Support offerstoowners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
By the way, we are seven years this month.

Steven James Butala:
Oh, it is this month!

Jill K DeWit:
Seven years this month that was since we launched Land Academy. Oh, been a little while.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah. Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
Been a bit.

Steven James Butala:
It's actually eight years from the incubator stage, but seven years live.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I'm saying, seven years since we launched. And no one asks anymore, "So who are you guys? What's your track record? And does this really work?" We don't have to answer those questions anymore.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Which is really kind of nice. Now we answer, "Hey, my friend's doing your thing and I want to get in."

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I get in?

Steven James Butala:
It's not, "Does this work?"

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
That's what happened for a year.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
I got tired of that.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, but we got it.

Steven James Butala:
I was in a bad mood for a couple years, actually.

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny. So there's actually a question here. I'm going to get to it. Steve wrote, "Went to contract today on my first section." Timeout, in case you did. Oh, he wrote it in here, a square mile, a whole square mile, 640 acres. He's buying it for $226,000, listing it for $499,000. I'm the JB funder and with a revenue share it's ranch land. Best use is as is. Unfathomable. That's awesome.

Steven James Butala:
So Steve's very, very experienced investor in our group and a very a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy is a Performance Based Eco System (LA 1819)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven James Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.`

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California

Steven James Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how Land Academy is a performance-based ecosystem, I'm happy to report. When we started Land Academy in 2015 or launched it, I should say, I thought I knew all kinds of stuff. Well, it turns out I was wrong about everything and what's new about that. We started it to help a handful of people learn how we buy and sell land successfully to create a tiny little investment group where we could all do deals together. Well, mission accomplished there. The group got a lot bigger than we thought. I think there's about 480 members right now total. And we both have agreed to not allow the group to get larger than 500 people. So at times, Jill will close enrollment. I think you did last two months ago for quite some time for an entire month.

Jill K DeWit:
It's open right now.

Steven James Butala:
My 480 number is probably not right. It's probably closer to 500, but yeah, it's open right now. So it was all mission accomplished there. We found some great partners. We have got literally lifelong business partners now, but what we found throughout this, let's call it a little journey that I created for better, for worse, we've got this little performance-based ecosystem going on, where we're all communicating with each other.
And so when I watch this group grow, while this is kind of the show. Before I get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now you know we have a full-blown operational printing company called offerstoowners.com. And Jill and I set this company up a few years ago for ourselves because we were real frustrated about the level of misunderstanding from regular commercial printing companies that we were experiencing when we sent out our own mail campaigns. And so we were frustrated, we started our own, and now we do between 700,000 and a million letters on behalf of our members and non-members every single month. So check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
It's pretty cool.

Steven James Butala:
Support offerstoowners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
By the way, we are seven years this month.

Steven James Butala:
Oh, it is this month!

Jill K DeWit:
Seven years this month that was since we launched Land Academy. Oh, been a little while.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah. Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
Been a bit.

Steven James Butala:
It's actually eight years from the incubator stage, but seven years live.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I'm saying, seven years since we launched. And no one asks anymore, "So who are you guys? What's your track record? And does this really work?" We don't have to answer those questions anymore.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Which is really kind of nice. Now we answer, "Hey, my friend's doing your thing and I want to get in."

Steven James Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I get in?

Steven James Butala:
It's not, "Does this work?"

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
That's what happened for a year.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
I got tired of that.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, but we got it.

Steven James Butala:
I was in a bad mood for a couple years, actually.

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny. So there's actually a question here. I'm going to get to it. Steve wrote, "Went to contract today on my first section." Timeout, in case you did. Oh, he wrote it in here, a square mile, a whole square mile, 640 acres. He's buying it for $226,000, listing it for $499,000. I'm the JB funder and with a revenue share it's ranch land. Best use is as is. Unfathomable. That's awesome.

Steven James Butala:
So Steve's very, very experienced investor in our group and a very a...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/02/land-academy-is-a-performance-based-eco-system-la-1819/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">V_VThuBBg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4930583d-9921-440f-a5f1-0efaf563c53d.mp3" length="14222890" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>This is Your Company not a Side Hustle (LA 1818)</title><itunes:title>This is Your Company not a Side Hustle (LA 1818)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[This is Your Company not a Side Hustle (LA 1818)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven James Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven James Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about how this is your company, not your side hustle. I love this topic. Jill and I were talking about it earlier, because we are really, for some reason in 2022 here attracting people that want to make a massive change in their life and make a bunch of dough.

Jill K DeWit:
The right people.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah. Instead of let's see what happens and I'm not sure. I just kind of want to make extra money on the side.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. I mean, I'm not going to be that serious about it, because I've got this going on, which I understand.

Steven James Butala:
I do too, and I love this level of commitment.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
This topic came out of a total different conversation Jill and I were having just in life about commitment and follow through.

Jill K DeWit:
Welcome to my world.

Steven James Butala:
What would you rather be talking about?

Jill K DeWit:
Where we're going for dinner tonight? That's what I'd rather be talking about, not commitment.

Steven James Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now Jill and I instruct a class, a 10 unit, 10 week class called Career Path, which is very specifically for the topic we're talking about today. If you want this to be your career, not necessarily your side hustle, this might be for you. Please check out support@landacademy.com and ask them all kinds of questions.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Nicholas wrote, "Question. I'm in the process of pulling a list from DataTree. When I'm messing with the filters, there's a change in the numbers. When I change the living area square foot and the assessed improvement, the assessed improvement gives me a smaller number than the living area. Do I keep both filters on or just one?"

Steven James Butala:
Nicholas, I know you're new, and I put this question in here for the benefit, obviously, of everyone. I can tell by this type of question you're going to do very, very well at this. This is a very extremely intelligent question for a new person and I will explain. I'll answer your question. In DataTree, which is owned by First American Title, they were all nice enough to write an amazing piece of software that gives us really organized access to an assessor's data base. That's what we're looking at. There are 3,200-

Jill K DeWit:
3,144-

Steven James Butala:
3,100-

Jill K DeWit:
Roughly, approximately-

Steven James Butala:
3,124-

Jill K DeWit:
Counting some parishes.

Steven James Butala:
Townships, like Jill said, counties and in Louisiana parishes that generate their own little database to make sure that they can have control over and they can effectively tap property tax areas, property in their jurisdiction. And so during the course of that, if you can imagine, most assessors are elected. And so they have a time and then they leave, and then another one gets elected, and so they go in and so... Each assessor manages that data based on how important it is to them, or how important it is to their board of supervisors.

Jill K DeWit:
And there's no... What am I trying to say? Lists of qualifications I think they have to have going into it, like I have a PhD in tax history.

Steven James Butala:
I mean, or-

Jill K DeWit:
Pretty sure that I wish they would, but I'm pretty sure they don't.

Steven James Butala:
Do you look good in a cowboy hat seems to be one of the criteria for assessors, which I kind of respect. There should be, in my opinion, maybe, can you pass an eighth grade math test?

Jill K DeWit:
That would be nice.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[This is Your Company not a Side Hustle (LA 1818)
Transcript:

Steven James Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven James Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven James Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about how this is your company, not your side hustle. I love this topic. Jill and I were talking about it earlier, because we are really, for some reason in 2022 here attracting people that want to make a massive change in their life and make a bunch of dough.

Jill K DeWit:
The right people.

Steven James Butala:
Yeah. Instead of let's see what happens and I'm not sure. I just kind of want to make extra money on the side.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. I mean, I'm not going to be that serious about it, because I've got this going on, which I understand.

Steven James Butala:
I do too, and I love this level of commitment.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven James Butala:
This topic came out of a total different conversation Jill and I were having just in life about commitment and follow through.

Jill K DeWit:
Welcome to my world.

Steven James Butala:
What would you rather be talking about?

Jill K DeWit:
Where we're going for dinner tonight? That's what I'd rather be talking about, not commitment.

Steven James Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now Jill and I instruct a class, a 10 unit, 10 week class called Career Path, which is very specifically for the topic we're talking about today. If you want this to be your career, not necessarily your side hustle, this might be for you. Please check out support@landacademy.com and ask them all kinds of questions.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Nicholas wrote, "Question. I'm in the process of pulling a list from DataTree. When I'm messing with the filters, there's a change in the numbers. When I change the living area square foot and the assessed improvement, the assessed improvement gives me a smaller number than the living area. Do I keep both filters on or just one?"

Steven James Butala:
Nicholas, I know you're new, and I put this question in here for the benefit, obviously, of everyone. I can tell by this type of question you're going to do very, very well at this. This is a very extremely intelligent question for a new person and I will explain. I'll answer your question. In DataTree, which is owned by First American Title, they were all nice enough to write an amazing piece of software that gives us really organized access to an assessor's data base. That's what we're looking at. There are 3,200-

Jill K DeWit:
3,144-

Steven James Butala:
3,100-

Jill K DeWit:
Roughly, approximately-

Steven James Butala:
3,124-

Jill K DeWit:
Counting some parishes.

Steven James Butala:
Townships, like Jill said, counties and in Louisiana parishes that generate their own little database to make sure that they can have control over and they can effectively tap property tax areas, property in their jurisdiction. And so during the course of that, if you can imagine, most assessors are elected. And so they have a time and then they leave, and then another one gets elected, and so they go in and so... Each assessor manages that data based on how important it is to them, or how important it is to their board of supervisors.

Jill K DeWit:
And there's no... What am I trying to say? Lists of qualifications I think they have to have going into it, like I have a PhD in tax history.

Steven James Butala:
I mean, or-

Jill K DeWit:
Pretty sure that I wish they would, but I'm pretty sure they don't.

Steven James Butala:
Do you look good in a cowboy hat seems to be one of the criteria for assessors, which I kind of respect. There should be, in my opinion, maybe, can you pass an eighth grade math test?

Jill K DeWit:
That would be nice.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/08/01/this-is-your-company-not-a-side-hustle-la-1818/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cCCZWXuYo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1f27c83b-0ec5-4651-833a-c6ebb3afb8dd.mp3" length="15298554" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Mailer Excitement (LA 1817)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Mailer Excitement (LA 1817)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Mailer Excitement (LA 1817)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about her mailer excitement.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). I love this. Like Jack was sharing yesterday, a big one went out. We, I divided it up with another person and I have PATLive on standby, should any of us throw in the towel. But I like to take the first wave of it. It's all part of the excitement and learning, and I'll tell you more here in just a minute

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown database of all, and I mean, all 150 million parcels of real estate in this country, when I say all, I mean like 99.5%, you get the data that you need right at your fingertips to make good, fast acquisition decisions. It's called neighborscoop.com. Check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. Ooh, this. Okay. This is a long one. Is this just kind of a comment?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a comment.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. All right. And that's where it ends right here. Okay, good. Thank you. Evan wrote, oh, if you're looking for a Jill to help take your business to the next level, I can help. There's a subset of investors that excel at picking areas, pricing, mailer, and reviewing properties. However, they can lack the time skillset and/or interest to answer the phone and truly work their deals. This can create a major bottleneck that limits growth of their business. I have partnered with a handful of investors that fit this criteria and we're seeing great results since teaming up.
Huh.
Since quitting my WT last month, I can even take on some more people. So here's what I do. I will field the incoming calls. Hey, I've got 10 years of corporate sales. I know how to quickly connect with the seller assure them, If they're skeptical, I can nail down a price and see if they're willing to sell. I get deals done based on the guidance my partners provide. I know how to negotiate and do whatever's necessary to get that signed purchase agreement and know how to close a deal. A deal doesn't count unless it closes.
That's true.
I communicate with him throughout the whole process to keep it from falling apart.
This is, this is great. So I'm sure, so he is offering his stuff in our closed-

Steven Jack Butala:
Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
In our closed member community, by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
So the-

Jill K DeWit:
So don't miss out on any more deals.
This is kind of cute.
And just send me a note.

Steven Jack Butala:
There are multiple people that responded-

Jill K DeWit:
I bet.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who's already partners with where it's really working. So my point is, just like yesterday, there's always a solution.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you are a data person like me and you've got some money laying around, or even if you don't and you need a partner, this person may or may not be for you, but they, you can outsource their entire, that entire part of your business and split the profit.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Go ahead and dive into the show, because I'm going to tie these together. Today's topic, jill Friday, mailer excitement. Sorry. That's where I was going. This is the meat of the show. So finding an Evan, the point I wanted to just dive into the show here and tie this in here is not that easy.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree.

Jill K DeWit:
So that's-

Steven Jack Butala:
That's why I put it in here.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It's not that easy.

Steven Jack Butala:
I totally agree.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's way easier to find a Jack than a Joe.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Mailer Excitement (LA 1817)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about her mailer excitement.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). I love this. Like Jack was sharing yesterday, a big one went out. We, I divided it up with another person and I have PATLive on standby, should any of us throw in the towel. But I like to take the first wave of it. It's all part of the excitement and learning, and I'll tell you more here in just a minute

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown database of all, and I mean, all 150 million parcels of real estate in this country, when I say all, I mean like 99.5%, you get the data that you need right at your fingertips to make good, fast acquisition decisions. It's called neighborscoop.com. Check it out.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. Ooh, this. Okay. This is a long one. Is this just kind of a comment?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a comment.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. All right. And that's where it ends right here. Okay, good. Thank you. Evan wrote, oh, if you're looking for a Jill to help take your business to the next level, I can help. There's a subset of investors that excel at picking areas, pricing, mailer, and reviewing properties. However, they can lack the time skillset and/or interest to answer the phone and truly work their deals. This can create a major bottleneck that limits growth of their business. I have partnered with a handful of investors that fit this criteria and we're seeing great results since teaming up.
Huh.
Since quitting my WT last month, I can even take on some more people. So here's what I do. I will field the incoming calls. Hey, I've got 10 years of corporate sales. I know how to quickly connect with the seller assure them, If they're skeptical, I can nail down a price and see if they're willing to sell. I get deals done based on the guidance my partners provide. I know how to negotiate and do whatever's necessary to get that signed purchase agreement and know how to close a deal. A deal doesn't count unless it closes.
That's true.
I communicate with him throughout the whole process to keep it from falling apart.
This is, this is great. So I'm sure, so he is offering his stuff in our closed-

Steven Jack Butala:
Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
In our closed member community, by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
So the-

Jill K DeWit:
So don't miss out on any more deals.
This is kind of cute.
And just send me a note.

Steven Jack Butala:
There are multiple people that responded-

Jill K DeWit:
I bet.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who's already partners with where it's really working. So my point is, just like yesterday, there's always a solution.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you are a data person like me and you've got some money laying around, or even if you don't and you need a partner, this person may or may not be for you, but they, you can outsource their entire, that entire part of your business and split the profit.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Go ahead and dive into the show, because I'm going to tie these together. Today's topic, jill Friday, mailer excitement. Sorry. That's where I was going. This is the meat of the show. So finding an Evan, the point I wanted to just dive into the show here and tie this in here is not that easy.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree.

Jill K DeWit:
So that's-

Steven Jack Butala:
That's why I put it in here.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It's not that easy.

Steven Jack Butala:
I totally agree.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's way easier to find a Jack than a Joe.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/29/jill-friday-mailer-excitement-la-1817/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ZKP50_DPj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/89dec13f-32f7-43ee-ac33-a86b64fa0175.mp3" length="12211103" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; There&amp;#8217;s Always a Solution (LA 1816)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; There&amp;#8217;s Always a Solution (LA 1816)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - There's Always a Solution (LA 1816)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining with land investment talk, I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how there's always a solution.

Jill K DeWit:
Is there?

Steven Jack Butala:
Always. I'm a huge proponent for this.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. Does it mean I'm going to like the solution?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Could be incredibly painful.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it. Think I heard that-

Steven Jack Butala:
You might have to check your pride at the door and all kinds of other stuff at the door. You might be defeated, you might have to turn your entire life around, but there's always a solution.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Charlie wrote, "What is everybody doing to create recurring income from their land other than just buying and selling? Leasing and owner financing are the first few that come to my mind, but I'm sure there are others. And who do you lease to?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Owner financing is a very, very popular option here. We have tons of people in our group who buy property for five grand, sell it for $200 down, $200 a month, and the sale price is $20,000. This has been going on forever. That's very popular. Jill and I used to do it, we don't do it any longer. We feel like we're better at selling it for cash, or we're just better acquisitions people versus babysitters.
That's one way. That's by leaps and bounds the most popular way. If you have commercial property in an urban area, leasing property if it's zoned correctly to construction crews or for RV storage, that's very popular and extremely profitable. In fact, mobile home parks are based on this model where you just lease the land. The owner would put their own mobile home on that park, pay two or three or $400 a month for a pad lease and everybody's happy.
It's incredibly affordable for the owner and incredibly profitable for the park owner. That's a great option. There's two, the reason I put this in here, two new ones that popped up recently. One is buying a piece of rural land, making sure that it's very usable, and then VRBO-ing it out as campground land for $30 or $40 a night. It's very popular as long as the use, again, the zoning's correct.
To my knowledge in most places, especially if it's county land, there's no reason that would be restricted in any way. And so if you have an RV, you go park it out there for a certain number of nights as long as it's compliant, or if you just take a truck out there with a tent, make a fire, as long as it's all compliant.
That's very, very, very profitable. You can buy in certain places, even in Los Angeles County, you can buy property for $4,000 or $5,000 and start renting it out for $30 or $40 a night.

Jill K DeWit:
What's the second one?

Steven Jack Butala:
And the second one is... Why? Am I going too slow?

Jill K DeWit:
No, just curious. I was impatient.

Steven Jack Butala:
The second one is putting up some type of structure like a yurt, this is all over Discord right now, where you take that VRBO land rental model and make it just a little bit more attractive. A couple years ago, it was Airstreams. Make a little Airstream community again as long as it's compliant, and then rent those out.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, there's always a solution, this is why you're listening. I was watching a reality show that many of you maybe have seen, or not seen. I find it fascinating,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - There's Always a Solution (LA 1816)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining with land investment talk, I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how there's always a solution.

Jill K DeWit:
Is there?

Steven Jack Butala:
Always. I'm a huge proponent for this.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. Does it mean I'm going to like the solution?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Could be incredibly painful.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it. Think I heard that-

Steven Jack Butala:
You might have to check your pride at the door and all kinds of other stuff at the door. You might be defeated, you might have to turn your entire life around, but there's always a solution.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Charlie wrote, "What is everybody doing to create recurring income from their land other than just buying and selling? Leasing and owner financing are the first few that come to my mind, but I'm sure there are others. And who do you lease to?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Owner financing is a very, very popular option here. We have tons of people in our group who buy property for five grand, sell it for $200 down, $200 a month, and the sale price is $20,000. This has been going on forever. That's very popular. Jill and I used to do it, we don't do it any longer. We feel like we're better at selling it for cash, or we're just better acquisitions people versus babysitters.
That's one way. That's by leaps and bounds the most popular way. If you have commercial property in an urban area, leasing property if it's zoned correctly to construction crews or for RV storage, that's very popular and extremely profitable. In fact, mobile home parks are based on this model where you just lease the land. The owner would put their own mobile home on that park, pay two or three or $400 a month for a pad lease and everybody's happy.
It's incredibly affordable for the owner and incredibly profitable for the park owner. That's a great option. There's two, the reason I put this in here, two new ones that popped up recently. One is buying a piece of rural land, making sure that it's very usable, and then VRBO-ing it out as campground land for $30 or $40 a night. It's very popular as long as the use, again, the zoning's correct.
To my knowledge in most places, especially if it's county land, there's no reason that would be restricted in any way. And so if you have an RV, you go park it out there for a certain number of nights as long as it's compliant, or if you just take a truck out there with a tent, make a fire, as long as it's all compliant.
That's very, very, very profitable. You can buy in certain places, even in Los Angeles County, you can buy property for $4,000 or $5,000 and start renting it out for $30 or $40 a night.

Jill K DeWit:
What's the second one?

Steven Jack Butala:
And the second one is... Why? Am I going too slow?

Jill K DeWit:
No, just curious. I was impatient.

Steven Jack Butala:
The second one is putting up some type of structure like a yurt, this is all over Discord right now, where you take that VRBO land rental model and make it just a little bit more attractive. A couple years ago, it was Airstreams. Make a little Airstream community again as long as it's compliant, and then rent those out.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, there's always a solution, this is why you're listening. I was watching a reality show that many of you maybe have seen, or not seen. I find it fascinating,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/28/jack-thursday-theres-always-a-solution-la-1816/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">N6zEPCwJV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5dbb4c18-22b5-4958-86c7-6688cd7fe48e.mp3" length="11974475" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Deal Case Study &amp;#8211; Buy for 25K and Sell for 51K a Year Later (LA 1815)</title><itunes:title>Land Deal Case Study &amp;#8211; Buy for 25K and Sell for 51K a Year Later (LA 1815)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Deal Case Study - Buy for 25K and Sell for 51K a Year Later (LA 1815)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here. Welcome.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill talks about a land deal case study. She did a whole land deal case study.

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, do I have some notes here for you.

Steven Jack Butala:
We bought a property for $25,000, sold it for about $51,000, but it took a year and we're in great detail... See about why.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of the members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I need to tell you that we, Jill and I, released a program about a year ago called "Concierge Data", where you can completely and totally outsource your mail campaign. If you're sending out a ton of letters already, this is for you. This will remove a lot of time consuming data manipulation and all of that. Or if you're brand new and you quite simply want to get that first mailer out and you're having trouble, go to offers2owners.com and ask them about concierge data. They'll help you out for sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you very much. Tammy wrote: "Hi. I must have been listening to your old podcast that played again during the holidays about the next live event. I thought there's one in October, but I haven't seen anything. Does anyone know if one's coming up?" Why do we put this in here? Because we keep going back and forth on this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I wanted to know because I'm kind of putting you on the spot to see if we're going to have a live event.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. We kind of accidentally did.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cause I'd like to know.

Jill K DeWit:
We had a post career path session for...

Steven Jack Butala:
I want to know if we're going to have one too.

Jill K DeWit:
Eight people came out to hang out with us and just have an evening and go to dinner. That was really fun. And most of them did it on their dime and I really appreciate that. And we did feel the love and happy. We got to see you and talk with you and have dinner with you and have a drink with you and laugh with you. That was really cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
We don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
So yeah, I don't know, Tammy, I go back and forth. It just takes so much. It's so involved and I got to do it right. We've been thinking about doing it for just career path only. When you finish your career path, you get added to the advanced group and that group really knows what they're doing. And we really have some great, high level discussions. Right now we're thinking if we do one, it'll be early 2023, before we do it. And we will do it probably for that group.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's what I think too.

Jill K DeWit:
That's our latest.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, Jill's going to talk about her land deal case study, where she buys property for 25 grand, sells it for $51,000, but a year later.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
And this is just a deep dive. This is not that I'm picking on anybody. It's not like this sucked. These are just the facts, man. I want to tell you how some of these deals can go. So you're like, "God, what did I do wrong?" You know what? It happens. It happens all the time. So many things can happen and you got to roll with it. By the way, you can't get hung up on this. So I'm going to go through the calendar here. I'm going to give you my real numbers and information as best I can. And you're going to get the picture of this whole thing. And then at the end I will open it up to Q&A from Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's code for sip it while I talk.

Jill K DeWit:
Right? Exactly. So,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Deal Case Study - Buy for 25K and Sell for 51K a Year Later (LA 1815)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here. Welcome.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill talks about a land deal case study. She did a whole land deal case study.

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, do I have some notes here for you.

Steven Jack Butala:
We bought a property for $25,000, sold it for about $51,000, but it took a year and we're in great detail... See about why.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of the members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I need to tell you that we, Jill and I, released a program about a year ago called "Concierge Data", where you can completely and totally outsource your mail campaign. If you're sending out a ton of letters already, this is for you. This will remove a lot of time consuming data manipulation and all of that. Or if you're brand new and you quite simply want to get that first mailer out and you're having trouble, go to offers2owners.com and ask them about concierge data. They'll help you out for sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you very much. Tammy wrote: "Hi. I must have been listening to your old podcast that played again during the holidays about the next live event. I thought there's one in October, but I haven't seen anything. Does anyone know if one's coming up?" Why do we put this in here? Because we keep going back and forth on this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I wanted to know because I'm kind of putting you on the spot to see if we're going to have a live event.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. We kind of accidentally did.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cause I'd like to know.

Jill K DeWit:
We had a post career path session for...

Steven Jack Butala:
I want to know if we're going to have one too.

Jill K DeWit:
Eight people came out to hang out with us and just have an evening and go to dinner. That was really fun. And most of them did it on their dime and I really appreciate that. And we did feel the love and happy. We got to see you and talk with you and have dinner with you and have a drink with you and laugh with you. That was really cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
We don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
So yeah, I don't know, Tammy, I go back and forth. It just takes so much. It's so involved and I got to do it right. We've been thinking about doing it for just career path only. When you finish your career path, you get added to the advanced group and that group really knows what they're doing. And we really have some great, high level discussions. Right now we're thinking if we do one, it'll be early 2023, before we do it. And we will do it probably for that group.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's what I think too.

Jill K DeWit:
That's our latest.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, Jill's going to talk about her land deal case study, where she buys property for 25 grand, sells it for $51,000, but a year later.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
And this is just a deep dive. This is not that I'm picking on anybody. It's not like this sucked. These are just the facts, man. I want to tell you how some of these deals can go. So you're like, "God, what did I do wrong?" You know what? It happens. It happens all the time. So many things can happen and you got to roll with it. By the way, you can't get hung up on this. So I'm going to go through the calendar here. I'm going to give you my real numbers and information as best I can. And you're going to get the picture of this whole thing. And then at the end I will open it up to Q&A from Jack.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's code for sip it while I talk.

Jill K DeWit:
Right? Exactly. So,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/27/land-deal-case-study-buy-for-25k-and-sell-for-51k-a-year-later-la-1815/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ZR2IFoDTi</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2fc38d1a-03dd-4efc-95c7-58642f82ebe9.mp3" length="14657814" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Reality of Pricing a Land Blind Offer Campaign (LA 1814)</title><itunes:title>The Reality of Pricing a Land Blind Offer Campaign (LA 1814)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Reality of Pricing a Land Blind Offer Campaign (LA 1814)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
and I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California still.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today I talk about the reality of pricing a land blind offer campaign. Pricing, pricing, pricing.

Jill K DeWit:
Geez, God, I just can't get away from it. Why are we always talking about pricing?

Steven Jack Butala:
Look, this is really timely for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Man.

Steven Jack Butala:
I feel compelled. Jill's going to do her nails during this entire episode.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
I feel compelled to happily report that I very successfully completed, not only completed about a 12,000-unit mailer very recently and got it to O2O on schedule, but as a result ... Well, I'll get into it in a second.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
But a lot of really, really cool little micro changes happened throughout that process that's allowing me and the business partner that Jill and I have taken on to a bunch of these real estate deals ...

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, this latest mailer?

Steven Jack Butala:
... To very effectively not just complete this mailer, but to really, we put a whole system in place to get to really never stop mailing out offers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, we do that now and then, we shake it up. We'll bring in other people, try to divide up the work. It doesn't always go that way, but we sure try.

Steven Jack Butala:
What does that mean?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, no, because we bring other people and sometimes I end up doing the work. And you'll hear about it tomorrow in the case study. It's not about you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I just mentioned offers to owners, but I hope you know by now, Jill and I have a full-blown commercial printing company that's completely dedicated to facilitating your offer campaigns. So we get it printed and in the mail, the entire deal start to finish. It's called offers2owners.com. You simply need to go to support@offers2owners.com and take a look around and see if it's for you. We send out between 700,000 and 1 million offers a month. So it's really worked out as a product for our members and non-members too, people in the business.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just add a little note on that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Because you just recently did a new order for ourselves, and they're constantly getting better. And it was kind of fun for you to show me, "Look at our company."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
"This thing's looking really good. Look how on if they are and how professional. I'm like, "This is awesome."

Steven Jack Butala:
The person that runs that operation, his name's Aaron Belt. We've been working with him for years now. And he's, like we talked about yesterday, he's got that personality type where we just all understand each other. He's making constant improvements, to the point now where he doesn't tell us any more.

Jill K DeWit:
We're just surprised, we're like, "Wow."

Steven Jack Butala:
Or just checks with us. There's a few parameters that we have about the number of promotions that we ... But outside of that, boy, he just is an order machine.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm. Michael wrote, "Hi, friends. There are many folks here who unexpectedly had a large number of buyers bid on a recent purchase." I wonder what that was. "When this occurs, do you actively focus on the same area and remail the same list but with much higher offer amounts, knowing that there are buyers actively looking in the area?" Buyers who bid on a recent purchase.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you understand the question?

Jill K DeWit:
No.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Reality of Pricing a Land Blind Offer Campaign (LA 1814)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
and I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California still.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today I talk about the reality of pricing a land blind offer campaign. Pricing, pricing, pricing.

Jill K DeWit:
Geez, God, I just can't get away from it. Why are we always talking about pricing?

Steven Jack Butala:
Look, this is really timely for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Man.

Steven Jack Butala:
I feel compelled. Jill's going to do her nails during this entire episode.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
I feel compelled to happily report that I very successfully completed, not only completed about a 12,000-unit mailer very recently and got it to O2O on schedule, but as a result ... Well, I'll get into it in a second.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
But a lot of really, really cool little micro changes happened throughout that process that's allowing me and the business partner that Jill and I have taken on to a bunch of these real estate deals ...

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, this latest mailer?

Steven Jack Butala:
... To very effectively not just complete this mailer, but to really, we put a whole system in place to get to really never stop mailing out offers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, we do that now and then, we shake it up. We'll bring in other people, try to divide up the work. It doesn't always go that way, but we sure try.

Steven Jack Butala:
What does that mean?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, no, because we bring other people and sometimes I end up doing the work. And you'll hear about it tomorrow in the case study. It's not about you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I just mentioned offers to owners, but I hope you know by now, Jill and I have a full-blown commercial printing company that's completely dedicated to facilitating your offer campaigns. So we get it printed and in the mail, the entire deal start to finish. It's called offers2owners.com. You simply need to go to support@offers2owners.com and take a look around and see if it's for you. We send out between 700,000 and 1 million offers a month. So it's really worked out as a product for our members and non-members too, people in the business.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I just add a little note on that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Because you just recently did a new order for ourselves, and they're constantly getting better. And it was kind of fun for you to show me, "Look at our company."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
"This thing's looking really good. Look how on if they are and how professional. I'm like, "This is awesome."

Steven Jack Butala:
The person that runs that operation, his name's Aaron Belt. We've been working with him for years now. And he's, like we talked about yesterday, he's got that personality type where we just all understand each other. He's making constant improvements, to the point now where he doesn't tell us any more.

Jill K DeWit:
We're just surprised, we're like, "Wow."

Steven Jack Butala:
Or just checks with us. There's a few parameters that we have about the number of promotions that we ... But outside of that, boy, he just is an order machine.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm. Michael wrote, "Hi, friends. There are many folks here who unexpectedly had a large number of buyers bid on a recent purchase." I wonder what that was. "When this occurs, do you actively focus on the same area and remail the same list but with much higher offer amounts, knowing that there are buyers actively looking in the area?" Buyers who bid on a recent purchase.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you understand the question?

Jill K DeWit:
No.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/26/the-reality-of-pricing-a-land-blind-offer-campaign-la-1814/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3FD7TjiwW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4c4c2aa1-f595-4d68-996f-6924bc4bbb2b.mp3" length="15851160" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why the Right Land Partner is Essential (LA 1813)</title><itunes:title>Why the Right Land Partner is Essential (LA 1813)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why the Right Land Partner is Essential (LA 1813)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven. Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land, Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why the right partner, the right land partner is essential.

Jill K DeWit:
Not like this.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a topic we've covered in the past, but this is a little bit different because Jill's experiencing both sides of this. I think with deal funding...

Jill K DeWit:
Why you think I'm not the right partner?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not with this.

Jill K DeWit:
Both sides of this. Sometimes you don't get the right partner, Jill and sometimes you're not the right partner, Jill, because that could happen too. We could talk about that, and I got to make a note about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know that Jill and I personally instruct. I advanced type, instructional session ...

Jill K DeWit:
... Intimate Group.

Steven Jack Butala:
Called career path. It's for people who have made this their career, buying and selling land or people that want to make it their career. Check it out at support@landacademy.com it's called career path and I think the next one starts in October.

Jill K DeWit:
It does. And actually you can sign up now just so you know, if you go to yeah, Did you say? Oh, you said the support one. I'll give you one little hint too. Go to landacademy/careerpath and you'll find out more there. Oh thank you. Tammy wrote, I found a county that I like that has a site zip code for 99% of the 2000 properties. Wow. All those 2000 properties, half of a side street address with a street number and the other half just has a street name. Should I be concerned that this is not rural enough? Because there are situs zips attached to most of the whole data set. I did spot check and it does look like there's no buildings.

Steven Jack Butala:
No Tammy, this is a very intelligent question. I know you're brand new. I see in Discord a lot and I appreciate your participation and you really are asking the right questions. There's a pretty, pretty stiff learning curve to some of this, if you don't follow the program. And so to answer your question directly, the situs address or non situs address, you know, in a mailer, in a data, any given data set a property has a mailing address where the ...

Jill K DeWit:
... Tax.

Steven Jack Butala:
tax bill goes to or a situs address, which is where the property's actually located. Well, a vast majority of many, many, many properties, vast majority of properties that we deal in, don't have a 123 main street post office address. They just have a situs address, which might be main way. It might be just blank. The assessor doesn't really care as long as they know which property it is and how to assess it so that they can apply the right tax amount. They don't care exactly where it is. So the fact that what this tells is you chose a relatively urban county, but it doesn't matter. As long as it passes the red, green, yellow test and you follow step by step, everything that we teach in chapter four and chapter five of Land Academy 3.0, you're going to do great. And that's ...

Jill K DeWit:
... Funny, like I'm concerned, this is going too easy. You know, I can, I can totally relate to that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, even your result here is that you have really good data.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because mostly time the question's, the other way. It's like, I can't find these properties at all. What do I do? And there's a huge solution for that called geocode.io that we explain all of that and the actual education.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why the Right Land Partner is Essential (LA 1813)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven. Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land, Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why the right partner, the right land partner is essential.

Jill K DeWit:
Not like this.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a topic we've covered in the past, but this is a little bit different because Jill's experiencing both sides of this. I think with deal funding...

Jill K DeWit:
Why you think I'm not the right partner?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not with this.

Jill K DeWit:
Both sides of this. Sometimes you don't get the right partner, Jill and sometimes you're not the right partner, Jill, because that could happen too. We could talk about that, and I got to make a note about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know that Jill and I personally instruct. I advanced type, instructional session ...

Jill K DeWit:
... Intimate Group.

Steven Jack Butala:
Called career path. It's for people who have made this their career, buying and selling land or people that want to make it their career. Check it out at support@landacademy.com it's called career path and I think the next one starts in October.

Jill K DeWit:
It does. And actually you can sign up now just so you know, if you go to yeah, Did you say? Oh, you said the support one. I'll give you one little hint too. Go to landacademy/careerpath and you'll find out more there. Oh thank you. Tammy wrote, I found a county that I like that has a site zip code for 99% of the 2000 properties. Wow. All those 2000 properties, half of a side street address with a street number and the other half just has a street name. Should I be concerned that this is not rural enough? Because there are situs zips attached to most of the whole data set. I did spot check and it does look like there's no buildings.

Steven Jack Butala:
No Tammy, this is a very intelligent question. I know you're brand new. I see in Discord a lot and I appreciate your participation and you really are asking the right questions. There's a pretty, pretty stiff learning curve to some of this, if you don't follow the program. And so to answer your question directly, the situs address or non situs address, you know, in a mailer, in a data, any given data set a property has a mailing address where the ...

Jill K DeWit:
... Tax.

Steven Jack Butala:
tax bill goes to or a situs address, which is where the property's actually located. Well, a vast majority of many, many, many properties, vast majority of properties that we deal in, don't have a 123 main street post office address. They just have a situs address, which might be main way. It might be just blank. The assessor doesn't really care as long as they know which property it is and how to assess it so that they can apply the right tax amount. They don't care exactly where it is. So the fact that what this tells is you chose a relatively urban county, but it doesn't matter. As long as it passes the red, green, yellow test and you follow step by step, everything that we teach in chapter four and chapter five of Land Academy 3.0, you're going to do great. And that's ...

Jill K DeWit:
... Funny, like I'm concerned, this is going too easy. You know, I can, I can totally relate to that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, even your result here is that you have really good data.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because mostly time the question's, the other way. It's like, I can't find these properties at all. What do I do? And there's a huge solution for that called geocode.io that we explain all of that and the actual education.

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Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about how to manage your team and your business from the road, just like we're doing right now.

Jill DeWit:
And I hope you interact and have some points too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of course.

Jill DeWit:
I'm sure you do.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and I help you. I'm going to tell a real brief story here. Back in the day, it was really, really difficult to find property that didn't have a post office address, like 123 Main Street. All we had was the state, the county and the assessor's parcel number. And so we just had to make do with it and figure it out.
Jill and I, about two years ago, developed a product called Neighbor Scoop/Parcel Fact. They're both one and the same. We're about to convert those together so it's just Parcel Fact. It's where, while you're on the phone with the seller, type in the state, the county, the assessor's parcel number and make a quick decision or get all the facts so that you can intelligently talk about the property with the seller on the other end of the line. You send out 10, 20, 30,000 mailers. You can't keep that stuff straight, and so this tool is custom designed to be able to interface with sellers in real time. Check it out at NeighborScoopd.com or ParcelFact, F-A-C-T, .com.

Jill DeWit:
Kalu and Joey wrote, "We have a 50 acre property we have under contract at $115,000. The seller signed and returned back the offer. It has some issues, like nine utility easements, fire damage in the back, and a difficult slope at the entryway, likely unbuildable." Why are we still looking at this? I'm not sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know, let's just go through it.

Jill DeWit:
But how many red flags do we need? "The broker's opinion came back at $175,000 for a wholesale, fast turnaround, and maybe upwards towards $250,000 if we wait six months. We thought the numbers were a little tight. We're buying for 115, right? We went back to the seller and to verbally negotiate and he wouldn't give a new number considering all these factors. And then he asked us for a number, which I said, 'It would need to be in the high sixties or so.' And he said, 'Well, let me have a realtor or two go out.' And several days later, now he wants 225. What do you guys think I should do you?"
You know what? I'll be truthful. Here's the story. They got the software, 115, they dig in a little bit, has all these problems, right? They reach out to the brokers. I'm just reiterating and making it hopefully easier to understand. On the low side, sell for 175, on the high side for 250, if you hang in there for a bit. This is still questionable because of all these issues that concern me, honestly. They go back to the broker and say, "All right, unless..." This is a very good real example. We say, "We're either going to walk right now or..."
We talk about this all the time on Thursday. You're going to go back to this guy, go back to your seller, and give him a number that you feel really good at. This is what Kalu and Joey said. All right, obviously we felt good at 60. They went back and said, "It's 60, 69, whatever. Somewhere in the sixties, we can do it." The seller unfortunately said, "Well, wait a minute. Let me get another opinion." Right? That's what happened. And so the seller called some brokers. And now they're want to hang out with their 225 number, because probably the guy says, "I can wait six months to get 225."
What do you do? Do I go back and try to change something? Well, wait, we have 175 signed.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Manage Your Team & Business from the Road (LA 1812)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about how to manage your team and your business from the road, just like we're doing right now.

Jill DeWit:
And I hope you interact and have some points too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of course.

Jill DeWit:
I'm sure you do.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and I help you. I'm going to tell a real brief story here. Back in the day, it was really, really difficult to find property that didn't have a post office address, like 123 Main Street. All we had was the state, the county and the assessor's parcel number. And so we just had to make do with it and figure it out.
Jill and I, about two years ago, developed a product called Neighbor Scoop/Parcel Fact. They're both one and the same. We're about to convert those together so it's just Parcel Fact. It's where, while you're on the phone with the seller, type in the state, the county, the assessor's parcel number and make a quick decision or get all the facts so that you can intelligently talk about the property with the seller on the other end of the line. You send out 10, 20, 30,000 mailers. You can't keep that stuff straight, and so this tool is custom designed to be able to interface with sellers in real time. Check it out at NeighborScoopd.com or ParcelFact, F-A-C-T, .com.

Jill DeWit:
Kalu and Joey wrote, "We have a 50 acre property we have under contract at $115,000. The seller signed and returned back the offer. It has some issues, like nine utility easements, fire damage in the back, and a difficult slope at the entryway, likely unbuildable." Why are we still looking at this? I'm not sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know, let's just go through it.

Jill DeWit:
But how many red flags do we need? "The broker's opinion came back at $175,000 for a wholesale, fast turnaround, and maybe upwards towards $250,000 if we wait six months. We thought the numbers were a little tight. We're buying for 115, right? We went back to the seller and to verbally negotiate and he wouldn't give a new number considering all these factors. And then he asked us for a number, which I said, 'It would need to be in the high sixties or so.' And he said, 'Well, let me have a realtor or two go out.' And several days later, now he wants 225. What do you guys think I should do you?"
You know what? I'll be truthful. Here's the story. They got the software, 115, they dig in a little bit, has all these problems, right? They reach out to the brokers. I'm just reiterating and making it hopefully easier to understand. On the low side, sell for 175, on the high side for 250, if you hang in there for a bit. This is still questionable because of all these issues that concern me, honestly. They go back to the broker and say, "All right, unless..." This is a very good real example. We say, "We're either going to walk right now or..."
We talk about this all the time on Thursday. You're going to go back to this guy, go back to your seller, and give him a number that you feel really good at. This is what Kalu and Joey said. All right, obviously we felt good at 60. They went back and said, "It's 60, 69, whatever. Somewhere in the sixties, we can do it." The seller unfortunately said, "Well, wait a minute. Let me get another opinion." Right? That's what happened. And so the seller called some brokers. And now they're want to hang out with their 225 number, because probably the guy says, "I can wait six months to get 225."
What do you do? Do I go back and try to change something? Well, wait, we have 175 signed.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/22/jill-friday-how-to-manage-your-team-business-from-the-road-la-1812/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gg5OiT7bI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/01ee3952-1a23-40a4-9e3b-15f07dc33bda.mp3" length="19015637" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy Member Avatar (LA 1811)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy Member Avatar (LA 1811)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Academy Member Avatar (LA 1811)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Cheers.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the Land Academy member avatar. Who's the typical person who joins this group? Where do they come from? What's their background? This topic came from a recent conversation that I had with somebody, who with very serious authority, believed that they knew who my customer was to which I really laughed pretty hard in their face. I'll explain the whole thing.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Do you want my water? You just a little tickle in your throat.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'm good.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
And please, don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
I was just being nice. Derek wrote, "Hello, everyone. I'm very new here and not really computer savvy, but willing to learn to make this my career. I have reviewed Land Academy 3.0 and 1.0, and when trying to pull the zip code data from Redfin or Realtor, I'm not getting all the data I need for the red, yellow, green test. Does anyone have an alternative to those two to pull the data? For better clarity, when I'm on Realtor, I was only able to find one zip code that I needed. And when I was on Redfin, I found all three zip codes, but not much data attached."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very good question, as a new person, and I'm sure you're going to do great. And it's a very logical question. Here's the thing, not all counties are equal. And so every county and parish, I think there's 1,344 in the entire country, or is it 3,144?

Jill DeWit:
3,144. Roughly. Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Have a way of doing things. And they're not all the same. They all have an assessor. They all have an assessor who collects data.

Jill DeWit:
Who's a real person.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who's a person who collects data on each one of the properties. This is a finite number of properties in their county. And they report that data to companies like data aggregators, like data tree. And that's it. So there's a finite amount of data. You have access to it. It's probably 99.8% of the counties contribute to data trees. So there's a ton of data in there. The universe of it is about 150 million records. There's 150 million properties in the entire country. It's not this big huge number. It's not a universe or an infinity. It's a finite number.
And so when doing the red, green, yellow test, what you're looking for is properties that have been sold recently or properties that are for sale, or however you choose to see that. We choose to look at both.
And very often a county that you may be interested in selling property and buying and selling land in just doesn't have any data. It's so rural that there's no sales comparison values and nothing's for sale.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:03:08].

Steven Jack Butala:
Or there's three or four. And so, as you can imagine, people who collect data for a living in real estate and aggregate it are really, really interested in reselling that data for profit and the more urban the area, the more people are interested in buying the data or using the data for all kinds of reasons, contracting reasons, you name it. How we use it, oil and gas, all of that. So the rural counties, which are places we love to buy land, at times get overlooked.
So you have a couple choices here, Derek, and boy, I'll tell you, there's about 50 people in discord that answered you.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, good. That's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so you already have the answer,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Academy Member Avatar (LA 1811)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Cheers.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the Land Academy member avatar. Who's the typical person who joins this group? Where do they come from? What's their background? This topic came from a recent conversation that I had with somebody, who with very serious authority, believed that they knew who my customer was to which I really laughed pretty hard in their face. I'll explain the whole thing.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Do you want my water? You just a little tickle in your throat.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'm good.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
And please, don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
I was just being nice. Derek wrote, "Hello, everyone. I'm very new here and not really computer savvy, but willing to learn to make this my career. I have reviewed Land Academy 3.0 and 1.0, and when trying to pull the zip code data from Redfin or Realtor, I'm not getting all the data I need for the red, yellow, green test. Does anyone have an alternative to those two to pull the data? For better clarity, when I'm on Realtor, I was only able to find one zip code that I needed. And when I was on Redfin, I found all three zip codes, but not much data attached."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very good question, as a new person, and I'm sure you're going to do great. And it's a very logical question. Here's the thing, not all counties are equal. And so every county and parish, I think there's 1,344 in the entire country, or is it 3,144?

Jill DeWit:
3,144. Roughly. Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Have a way of doing things. And they're not all the same. They all have an assessor. They all have an assessor who collects data.

Jill DeWit:
Who's a real person.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who's a person who collects data on each one of the properties. This is a finite number of properties in their county. And they report that data to companies like data aggregators, like data tree. And that's it. So there's a finite amount of data. You have access to it. It's probably 99.8% of the counties contribute to data trees. So there's a ton of data in there. The universe of it is about 150 million records. There's 150 million properties in the entire country. It's not this big huge number. It's not a universe or an infinity. It's a finite number.
And so when doing the red, green, yellow test, what you're looking for is properties that have been sold recently or properties that are for sale, or however you choose to see that. We choose to look at both.
And very often a county that you may be interested in selling property and buying and selling land in just doesn't have any data. It's so rural that there's no sales comparison values and nothing's for sale.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:03:08].

Steven Jack Butala:
Or there's three or four. And so, as you can imagine, people who collect data for a living in real estate and aggregate it are really, really interested in reselling that data for profit and the more urban the area, the more people are interested in buying the data or using the data for all kinds of reasons, contracting reasons, you name it. How we use it, oil and gas, all of that. So the rural counties, which are places we love to buy land, at times get overlooked.
So you have a couple choices here, Derek, and boy, I'll tell you, there's about 50 people in discord that answered you.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, good. That's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so you already have the answer,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/21/jack-thursday-land-academy-member-avatar-la-1811/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3Hy56ImQr</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c43125be-7d8d-42ce-bd6c-e3673f49f768.mp3" length="10185039" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>2022-2023 Real Estate Market and What it Means for Land Investing (LA 1810)</title><itunes:title>2022-2023 Real Estate Market and What it Means for Land Investing (LA 1810)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[2022-2023 Real Estate Market and What it Means for Land Investing (LA 1810)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. I'm going to talk about, and Jill's probably going to listen the 2022 and 23 real estate market and what it means for land investors like us.

Jill DeWit:
Hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's a hint. It's awesome.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
Interest rates are going up.

Jill DeWit:
I hope you're going to let me share. Am I going to get to talk today? Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
God, when do you not talk?

Jill DeWit:
Am I just going to be someone on your arm again?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh geez. Yeah. Yep. My trophy partner, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, that's right. Hey, watch it buddy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and please make sure you check us out on discord, if you're a member. If you need help outsourcing your mail operation, meaning you know, your blind offer campaigns. Check us out at offers 2 owners, offers the number two owners.com and click around for product we released called concierge data. It allows people who are brand new to help... We'll help you get that first mailer out or if you've been sending 50, 80,000 mailers out a month, like we do sometimes allows you to outsource it there. It's a great product. It's getting used widely to the point where we had to shut its down recently, because we couldn't fill the orders. So by the time this airs, it should be back open or if not very soon after that.

Jill DeWit:
Sweet.

Steven Jack Butala:
Staffing.

Jill DeWit:
Erin wrote, "Is there a reliable way to check out whether a subdivision has an HOA with covenants?" I've never known HOA that didn't have some covenants, but there we go. Anyway. "Sometimes it is easy when they have a website. Are they recorded? For the lot I'm looking at now in a new area, I pulled the recorded plot, but all I could find related to the, is a subdivision name." There we go. "So far I see no evidence of an HOA, but it isn't a big subdivision. So what do I do?"

Steven Jack Butala:
This comes up. May I?

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
No, that's fine. No, no go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you do?

Jill DeWit:
So here's what I do. This does come up because you're not sure. Usually if there's a name like Shady Acres. All right. Shady Acres lot 23. All right. I might need to look into that just to make sure versus just the legal description and no thing like that, like lot, block, unit kind of thing. Even those could be, but usually you'll have a little indication. It's something you always want to check no matter what anyway. So how I check is there's three ways. I do my own Google digging. My Google search for Shady Acres HOA, POA, homeowner association, property owner association. See if everything pops up. Okay. Nothing there. Okay, good. This is good news. Then I go to phase two, which is... This takes a few minutes by the way.
Phase two is I'm going to go out and look for property for sale or sold in that area and see if there was an HOA like, "Oh look, here's a property in the same subdivision that sold 18 months ago," I'm going to be looking at the comp anyway, cause I'm checking it out and then I'm going to go through the description and see, "Oh look, it was an agent." And I'll look through and see, is there an HOA or POA the box? There's some information in there. Often that's where I find it, by the way is doing a little recon to somebody else's posting and then I've got it like, "Okay, noted. There it is." And then the third one, it's always an easy one too.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[2022-2023 Real Estate Market and What it Means for Land Investing (LA 1810)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. I'm going to talk about, and Jill's probably going to listen the 2022 and 23 real estate market and what it means for land investors like us.

Jill DeWit:
Hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's a hint. It's awesome.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
Interest rates are going up.

Jill DeWit:
I hope you're going to let me share. Am I going to get to talk today? Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
God, when do you not talk?

Jill DeWit:
Am I just going to be someone on your arm again?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh geez. Yeah. Yep. My trophy partner, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, that's right. Hey, watch it buddy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and please make sure you check us out on discord, if you're a member. If you need help outsourcing your mail operation, meaning you know, your blind offer campaigns. Check us out at offers 2 owners, offers the number two owners.com and click around for product we released called concierge data. It allows people who are brand new to help... We'll help you get that first mailer out or if you've been sending 50, 80,000 mailers out a month, like we do sometimes allows you to outsource it there. It's a great product. It's getting used widely to the point where we had to shut its down recently, because we couldn't fill the orders. So by the time this airs, it should be back open or if not very soon after that.

Jill DeWit:
Sweet.

Steven Jack Butala:
Staffing.

Jill DeWit:
Erin wrote, "Is there a reliable way to check out whether a subdivision has an HOA with covenants?" I've never known HOA that didn't have some covenants, but there we go. Anyway. "Sometimes it is easy when they have a website. Are they recorded? For the lot I'm looking at now in a new area, I pulled the recorded plot, but all I could find related to the, is a subdivision name." There we go. "So far I see no evidence of an HOA, but it isn't a big subdivision. So what do I do?"

Steven Jack Butala:
This comes up. May I?

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
No, that's fine. No, no go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you do?

Jill DeWit:
So here's what I do. This does come up because you're not sure. Usually if there's a name like Shady Acres. All right. Shady Acres lot 23. All right. I might need to look into that just to make sure versus just the legal description and no thing like that, like lot, block, unit kind of thing. Even those could be, but usually you'll have a little indication. It's something you always want to check no matter what anyway. So how I check is there's three ways. I do my own Google digging. My Google search for Shady Acres HOA, POA, homeowner association, property owner association. See if everything pops up. Okay. Nothing there. Okay, good. This is good news. Then I go to phase two, which is... This takes a few minutes by the way.
Phase two is I'm going to go out and look for property for sale or sold in that area and see if there was an HOA like, "Oh look, here's a property in the same subdivision that sold 18 months ago," I'm going to be looking at the comp anyway, cause I'm checking it out and then I'm going to go through the description and see, "Oh look, it was an agent." And I'll look through and see, is there an HOA or POA the box? There's some information in there. Often that's where I find it, by the way is doing a little recon to somebody else's posting and then I've got it like, "Okay, noted. There it is." And then the third one, it's always an easy one too.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/20/2022-2023-real-estate-market-and-what-it-means-for-land-investing-la-1810/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Zh8GU5qUh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d562f293-8941-4982-b696-374a93c2907f.mp3" length="13290003" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>People Who Can&amp;#8217;t Say Yes (LA 1809)</title><itunes:title>People Who Can&amp;#8217;t Say Yes (LA 1809)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[People Who Can't Say Yes (LA 1809)
Transcript: 

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about people who can't say yes. As I said yesterday... Because Jill and I are on vacation in California, we are successfully beating the heat from summer in Phoenix. And so, I got a chance to watch the Dr. Phil show. Oh my God, Jack, that's ridiculous that you would spend your free time like that. Yes, you're correct. And he interweaves... He did a show about the great resignation, and he had some people on, of all different ages and in completely different career types, tell great stories about it. About their experience with the great resignation and starting their own companies, and going from 50,000 to $500,000 a year.
And then he had some people on there that were not successful with it, or as successful with it, and so they're looking for advice. And him, one of the things he said is, "I try to not stick around... I won't listen or hang around with people who can't say yes. There's just [inaudible 00:01:11]." So that's what this show's about. Before we get into it, let's take a question on how it translates into talking to sellers.
Let's take a question posed by our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know by, now we have a full blown commercial printing company. And I mean full blown, called offer2owners.com, where we print and mail your blind offers to real estate owners for houses, apartment buildings, land, all of it. We send out almost a million units a month now. It all started because Jill and I are really frustrated-

Jill DeWit:
It started with us.

Steven Jack Butala:
It started with us. We were frustrated using a commercial printing company that just didn't understand our business and how we mail merge things. Contact support@offers2owners.com, and check it all out.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. James D wrote, "I just wanted to say I had my first consultation call with Kevin Farrell yesterday, and it was very helpful to me. Highly suggest it if you have some questions whatsoever." Love it. That's awesome. So we have a lot of tools and resources here within Land Academy. You have discord, you have landinvestors.com, you have our Thursday member call, you have... Oh my gosh, how many programs? We have a bundle of four or five educational programs, I can't remember what it is. But there's lots of content. Sometimes there's too much content, you have to sift through it. I don't think there's such a thing as too much content as I say that, but anyway.
Sometimes there's some other questions that maybe you're just not getting it. You have it, but it's not quite sinking in. So one of the other resources that we have is, we do have consulting opportunities, and Kevin Farrell is our guy. And you can just go on landacademy.com, and under tools I want to say, there's a menu item that you could schedule a consulting call with Kevin.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's what we're working on. And Jill doesn't know about it. We're working on a calendar, so that you as a potential member, or a member, can see when all this stuff goes down. Kevin has iced out nicely, very nicely... Kevin just started out as a regular member, and he's just shining. Continued to shine, did a presentation at the live event. And so now he's star consultant. In Discord, everybody that does a consulting half hour with him comes back and says what James said here.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. What's this calendar you're working on?

Steven Jack Butala:
At some point very soon you will be able to click on calendar, on the land academy.com's website, and you will see when the Thursday calls are airing, when there's a Clubhouse episode that Jill does. She has a little show on Clubhouse.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[People Who Can't Say Yes (LA 1809)
Transcript: 

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about people who can't say yes. As I said yesterday... Because Jill and I are on vacation in California, we are successfully beating the heat from summer in Phoenix. And so, I got a chance to watch the Dr. Phil show. Oh my God, Jack, that's ridiculous that you would spend your free time like that. Yes, you're correct. And he interweaves... He did a show about the great resignation, and he had some people on, of all different ages and in completely different career types, tell great stories about it. About their experience with the great resignation and starting their own companies, and going from 50,000 to $500,000 a year.
And then he had some people on there that were not successful with it, or as successful with it, and so they're looking for advice. And him, one of the things he said is, "I try to not stick around... I won't listen or hang around with people who can't say yes. There's just [inaudible 00:01:11]." So that's what this show's about. Before we get into it, let's take a question on how it translates into talking to sellers.
Let's take a question posed by our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know by, now we have a full blown commercial printing company. And I mean full blown, called offer2owners.com, where we print and mail your blind offers to real estate owners for houses, apartment buildings, land, all of it. We send out almost a million units a month now. It all started because Jill and I are really frustrated-

Jill DeWit:
It started with us.

Steven Jack Butala:
It started with us. We were frustrated using a commercial printing company that just didn't understand our business and how we mail merge things. Contact support@offers2owners.com, and check it all out.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. James D wrote, "I just wanted to say I had my first consultation call with Kevin Farrell yesterday, and it was very helpful to me. Highly suggest it if you have some questions whatsoever." Love it. That's awesome. So we have a lot of tools and resources here within Land Academy. You have discord, you have landinvestors.com, you have our Thursday member call, you have... Oh my gosh, how many programs? We have a bundle of four or five educational programs, I can't remember what it is. But there's lots of content. Sometimes there's too much content, you have to sift through it. I don't think there's such a thing as too much content as I say that, but anyway.
Sometimes there's some other questions that maybe you're just not getting it. You have it, but it's not quite sinking in. So one of the other resources that we have is, we do have consulting opportunities, and Kevin Farrell is our guy. And you can just go on landacademy.com, and under tools I want to say, there's a menu item that you could schedule a consulting call with Kevin.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's what we're working on. And Jill doesn't know about it. We're working on a calendar, so that you as a potential member, or a member, can see when all this stuff goes down. Kevin has iced out nicely, very nicely... Kevin just started out as a regular member, and he's just shining. Continued to shine, did a presentation at the live event. And so now he's star consultant. In Discord, everybody that does a consulting half hour with him comes back and says what James said here.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. What's this calendar you're working on?

Steven Jack Butala:
At some point very soon you will be able to click on calendar, on the land academy.com's website, and you will see when the Thursday calls are airing, when there's a Clubhouse episode that Jill does. She has a little show on Clubhouse.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/19/people-who-cant-say-yes-la-1809/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">OLR4IL7eP</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7d14c220-1e36-47a6-8505-1e2da90e051c.mp3" length="15820383" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Kind of Person or Investor are You (LA 1808)</title><itunes:title>What Kind of Person or Investor are You (LA 1808)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[What Kind of Person or Investor are You (LA 1808)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what kind of investor or what kind of person are you and maybe what's...

Jill DeWit:
What kind of person are you? That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's most conducive for being a land investor?

Jill DeWit:
Got it. Do you believe in karma?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Because there's part of that I do believe I get more deals because of that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill DeWit:
And we'll talk about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're a member, please make sure you get yourself involved into Discord. It's become a huge tool. I also hope you know by now that Jill and I personally teach a class called Career Path for people who want land investing to be their career, whether you're brand new or you're doing 25 deals a month, we get all kinds. Our next class, I think, is in October.

Jill DeWit:
Career Path Five is coming in third quarter of this year and I am literally working on the emails and things like that. So this month they will go out. But if you want to find out more, just go to landacademy.com/careerpath and you will find it there. Megan wrote, "There's a seller with 6.8 acres in Oklahoma. He's willing to sell, but he doesn't have mineral rights on the property." Sorry, Brock. There we go. "And it has four oil wells on the property. Any feedback regarding what to do with the situation is appreciated. Is it always a no go for land with oil wells? Or is there something I'm unaware of? Thanks." So member Chip piped in here, and it's obviously a good one because Jack included it today. So I'm going to read this and then I'm positive Jack's going to have some stuff to say, because Jack often has stuff to say. Chip wrote...

Steven Jack Butala:
For better or for worse.

Jill DeWit:
Too often Jack has stuff to say, we'll get to that in a minute. Okay. Chip wrote, "I have several deals currently with oil wells on the property. Now, depending on the state, there's usually a surface rights waivers," excuse me, "that allows use of the land. And the minerals do not convey with the purchase. That's kind of normal. The pads can be sizable. So I want to determine how much usable land is actually available. Also, I have one in contract to close now in which the oil company is requiring to do a topographical survey prior to them releasing the surface rights. This is the first time that I encountered this and it seems like a BS fee that they're charging. It's a three week process and it's $50,000 bucks to survey around the four oil wells on this 217 acre track. My buyer is still moving forward." How interesting is that? So that's a good example. All right. Four oil wells on over 200 acres. I'm pretty sure there's some usable land there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, the whole point is Megan's a relatively newer... She reeled a property in with oil. It's an oil situation, its got oil wells. Chip's been doing this. He goes on to say way beyond what we posted here in discord. You know that this is his mission in life. And he did this before he joined Land Academy and he is now utilizing Land Academy as a way to get more properties, which he's obviously doing. And so $50,000 bucks is chump change for him, I'm sure.

Jill DeWit:
On a 200,000 acre or 200 acre.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, he's got all kinds of properties like this that he's leasing to oil companies. So my point is, if you don't know about it. I don't know much about this, I would go into Discord and ask these questions too. So this is how Land Academy works.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[What Kind of Person or Investor are You (LA 1808)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what kind of investor or what kind of person are you and maybe what's...

Jill DeWit:
What kind of person are you? That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's most conducive for being a land investor?

Jill DeWit:
Got it. Do you believe in karma?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Because there's part of that I do believe I get more deals because of that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill DeWit:
And we'll talk about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're a member, please make sure you get yourself involved into Discord. It's become a huge tool. I also hope you know by now that Jill and I personally teach a class called Career Path for people who want land investing to be their career, whether you're brand new or you're doing 25 deals a month, we get all kinds. Our next class, I think, is in October.

Jill DeWit:
Career Path Five is coming in third quarter of this year and I am literally working on the emails and things like that. So this month they will go out. But if you want to find out more, just go to landacademy.com/careerpath and you will find it there. Megan wrote, "There's a seller with 6.8 acres in Oklahoma. He's willing to sell, but he doesn't have mineral rights on the property." Sorry, Brock. There we go. "And it has four oil wells on the property. Any feedback regarding what to do with the situation is appreciated. Is it always a no go for land with oil wells? Or is there something I'm unaware of? Thanks." So member Chip piped in here, and it's obviously a good one because Jack included it today. So I'm going to read this and then I'm positive Jack's going to have some stuff to say, because Jack often has stuff to say. Chip wrote...

Steven Jack Butala:
For better or for worse.

Jill DeWit:
Too often Jack has stuff to say, we'll get to that in a minute. Okay. Chip wrote, "I have several deals currently with oil wells on the property. Now, depending on the state, there's usually a surface rights waivers," excuse me, "that allows use of the land. And the minerals do not convey with the purchase. That's kind of normal. The pads can be sizable. So I want to determine how much usable land is actually available. Also, I have one in contract to close now in which the oil company is requiring to do a topographical survey prior to them releasing the surface rights. This is the first time that I encountered this and it seems like a BS fee that they're charging. It's a three week process and it's $50,000 bucks to survey around the four oil wells on this 217 acre track. My buyer is still moving forward." How interesting is that? So that's a good example. All right. Four oil wells on over 200 acres. I'm pretty sure there's some usable land there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, the whole point is Megan's a relatively newer... She reeled a property in with oil. It's an oil situation, its got oil wells. Chip's been doing this. He goes on to say way beyond what we posted here in discord. You know that this is his mission in life. And he did this before he joined Land Academy and he is now utilizing Land Academy as a way to get more properties, which he's obviously doing. And so $50,000 bucks is chump change for him, I'm sure.

Jill DeWit:
On a 200,000 acre or 200 acre.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, he's got all kinds of properties like this that he's leasing to oil companies. So my point is, if you don't know about it. I don't know much about this, I would go into Discord and ask these questions too. So this is how Land Academy works.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/18/what-kind-of-person-or-investor-are-you-la-1808/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1bHGWDtZM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d15f665a-8512-4027-a63f-c5ccc5b5f18d.mp3" length="13420699" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Duck You (LA 1807)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Duck You (LA 1807)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Duck You (LA 1807)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I, well, it's still Friday, and she has created a topic called duck you.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be good.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is some classic stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
I have a good story to share with you here in a minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, I got to tell you this, we struggled with finding land. None of these properties that we buy, most of them have a physical address, like 12 Mid 3 Main Street. Fast forward to today, we took that massive database of 150 million properties, took all the attributes and aspects of the data set that we think are important to make decisions and made them available on a website called Parcel Fact and/or Neighbor Scoop. All you have to do is type in the state, the county, and the assessor's parcel number. It pops right up actually so fast that if you're on the phone with the seller you can pretty much make a decision about whether or not you want to buy the property at that moment.

Jill K DeWit:
It's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Neighborscoop.com, Parcelfact, F A C T, .com.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, I had a tangle of title issues on a property I've been working on since before I knew about Land Academy. I would've skipped it otherwise. So far, First American has been the easiest and most knowledgeable. The other title companies didn't know what to do from my situation, but First American did, and I got a lost instrument bond. No problem. That's pretty cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's my point in putting this in here. It's not necessarily a question. He's just informing everybody that's had a good experience with the title company. A lot of what we see in discord and in landinvestors.com is negative stuff. I can't believe this title company's taken so long. I'm getting treated poorly. Well, this guy goes out and does something about it. Title company number one didn't get it. Title company number two didn't get it. He found somebody at First American that helped him and solved it because I'm sure this particular agent wanted to get the deal done. Please don't become a victim of some silly rogue title person.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. That says can't be done. Pick up the phone and call.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's something that can always can be done.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a lot of them they'll say can't be done.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Call somebody else.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's code for, I don't want to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not can't be done.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about duck you. This is the meat of the show. I hope I don't get in trouble for this.

Jill K DeWit:
It can't be done is not to be confused with can't say no. That's a whole different thing. We'll go there another time. Okay. These are the notes that I got on July 6th. This is awesome. This came to me through my transaction coordinator in Airtable, from the manager of the property. I funded the deal from the broker that we have selling it. This broker's trying to get creative here to sell this property. Here's what he wrote. The agent sent these ideas about ways to make the property sell. Just got word from a bulldozer guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just hold on a second. Can I set this up a little different?

Jill K DeWit:
Why?

Steven Jack Butala:
We bought a partnership to a piece of property in deal funding, and it's not selling as fast as we think it should, or that the manager thinks that it should.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Duck You (LA 1807)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I, well, it's still Friday, and she has created a topic called duck you.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be good.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is some classic stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
I have a good story to share with you here in a minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, I got to tell you this, we struggled with finding land. None of these properties that we buy, most of them have a physical address, like 12 Mid 3 Main Street. Fast forward to today, we took that massive database of 150 million properties, took all the attributes and aspects of the data set that we think are important to make decisions and made them available on a website called Parcel Fact and/or Neighbor Scoop. All you have to do is type in the state, the county, and the assessor's parcel number. It pops right up actually so fast that if you're on the phone with the seller you can pretty much make a decision about whether or not you want to buy the property at that moment.

Jill K DeWit:
It's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check it out. Neighborscoop.com, Parcelfact, F A C T, .com.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, I had a tangle of title issues on a property I've been working on since before I knew about Land Academy. I would've skipped it otherwise. So far, First American has been the easiest and most knowledgeable. The other title companies didn't know what to do from my situation, but First American did, and I got a lost instrument bond. No problem. That's pretty cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's my point in putting this in here. It's not necessarily a question. He's just informing everybody that's had a good experience with the title company. A lot of what we see in discord and in landinvestors.com is negative stuff. I can't believe this title company's taken so long. I'm getting treated poorly. Well, this guy goes out and does something about it. Title company number one didn't get it. Title company number two didn't get it. He found somebody at First American that helped him and solved it because I'm sure this particular agent wanted to get the deal done. Please don't become a victim of some silly rogue title person.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. That says can't be done. Pick up the phone and call.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's something that can always can be done.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a lot of them they'll say can't be done.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Call somebody else.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's code for, I don't want to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not can't be done.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about duck you. This is the meat of the show. I hope I don't get in trouble for this.

Jill K DeWit:
It can't be done is not to be confused with can't say no. That's a whole different thing. We'll go there another time. Okay. These are the notes that I got on July 6th. This is awesome. This came to me through my transaction coordinator in Airtable, from the manager of the property. I funded the deal from the broker that we have selling it. This broker's trying to get creative here to sell this property. Here's what he wrote. The agent sent these ideas about ways to make the property sell. Just got word from a bulldozer guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just hold on a second. Can I set this up a little different?

Jill K DeWit:
Why?

Steven Jack Butala:
We bought a partnership to a piece of property in deal funding, and it's not selling as fast as we think it should, or that the manager thinks that it should.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/15/jill-friday-duck-you-la-1807/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">IvyvOGCGG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/69ef7677-cffb-48e5-a634-3cf804509520.mp3" length="13661838" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Concierge Data Plus Explained (LA 1806)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Concierge Data Plus Explained (LA 1806)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Concierge Data Plus Explained (LA 1806)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about, by request, Concierge Data Plus, and I'm going to explain it, and really get to the bottom of what it is, what it isn't, who loves it, who probably should be using it, and should not be using it. The components that we... I put this whole product together. It's basically a mirror image of chapter four in the formal education. But we do it for you with some new caveats. So it's actually an incredible product for the right prison.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I'm just thinking, sunny southern California. I wish you could tell from our background, but you really can't.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
It's really kind of interesting. It made me think of the old days. If you've been with us for a while, you'll remember like, oh I don't know, six years ago, we used to-

Steven Jack Butala:
Before COVID.

Jill K DeWit:
Way before that. But we used to take the camera out on the pier.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Remember that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
And try to film in like remote locations. And that was the funniest thing, because there's wind blowing and all kinds of distractions going on. That was hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
I like to rate myself on-

Jill K DeWit:
All on battery power.

Steven Jack Butala:
Rate myself on a scale of one to 10 about how good I am at certain stuff. And that's a 1.5

Jill K DeWit:
That was fun, though. I wish I could go look and find those old podcasts. Like literally seeing those waves crashing. I'm sure it's hard to hear us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh I'm sure you can't hear at all.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, we're on the pier and oh, that was good.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to talk about this since you brought it up. It's funny. It's the biggest beginner's mistake in filming anything is having this great, bright background back-lit, and then you can't see our faces.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
In a cool place that's really loud. And then you can't hear us.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Then Jill and I went on a Hollywood tour once and we walked into a sound stage, a vacant sound stage. This was a lot of years ago, and during the same time. And if you've ever been on a sound stage, it's a massive building. As large as you can imagine. A Walmart-sized building that's got all this padding all over the floor in the ceiling, and you can hear a pin drop in there. And it's black. So the light bulb went off in my head. I'm like, "Well, you need a closed set for everything." You need to control the audio and the light and everything, instead of-

Jill K DeWit:
And now we just do half and half because-

Steven Jack Butala:
... being on a subway.

Jill K DeWit:
... that's who we are. We're kind of half and half people. Half yeah, half professional, half whatever. This is us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. It's 10% professional and 90% whatever.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, exactly. All right. Did you already read the thingy? No.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. It tells us what shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Unlike Monday's show, which was unsubscribed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Okay, so Dania wrote, "Hey newbies or newbs, does anyone have access to the Land Academy mailer template?" Everybody does.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, you're going to have to [crosstalk 00:03:23]-

Jill K DeWit:
That may or may not be on Offerstoowners.com.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Concierge Data Plus Explained (LA 1806)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about, by request, Concierge Data Plus, and I'm going to explain it, and really get to the bottom of what it is, what it isn't, who loves it, who probably should be using it, and should not be using it. The components that we... I put this whole product together. It's basically a mirror image of chapter four in the formal education. But we do it for you with some new caveats. So it's actually an incredible product for the right prison.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I'm just thinking, sunny southern California. I wish you could tell from our background, but you really can't.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
It's really kind of interesting. It made me think of the old days. If you've been with us for a while, you'll remember like, oh I don't know, six years ago, we used to-

Steven Jack Butala:
Before COVID.

Jill K DeWit:
Way before that. But we used to take the camera out on the pier.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Remember that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
And try to film in like remote locations. And that was the funniest thing, because there's wind blowing and all kinds of distractions going on. That was hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
I like to rate myself on-

Jill K DeWit:
All on battery power.

Steven Jack Butala:
Rate myself on a scale of one to 10 about how good I am at certain stuff. And that's a 1.5

Jill K DeWit:
That was fun, though. I wish I could go look and find those old podcasts. Like literally seeing those waves crashing. I'm sure it's hard to hear us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh I'm sure you can't hear at all.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, we're on the pier and oh, that was good.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to talk about this since you brought it up. It's funny. It's the biggest beginner's mistake in filming anything is having this great, bright background back-lit, and then you can't see our faces.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
In a cool place that's really loud. And then you can't hear us.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Then Jill and I went on a Hollywood tour once and we walked into a sound stage, a vacant sound stage. This was a lot of years ago, and during the same time. And if you've ever been on a sound stage, it's a massive building. As large as you can imagine. A Walmart-sized building that's got all this padding all over the floor in the ceiling, and you can hear a pin drop in there. And it's black. So the light bulb went off in my head. I'm like, "Well, you need a closed set for everything." You need to control the audio and the light and everything, instead of-

Jill K DeWit:
And now we just do half and half because-

Steven Jack Butala:
... being on a subway.

Jill K DeWit:
... that's who we are. We're kind of half and half people. Half yeah, half professional, half whatever. This is us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. It's 10% professional and 90% whatever.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, exactly. All right. Did you already read the thingy? No.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. It tells us what shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Unlike Monday's show, which was unsubscribed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Okay, so Dania wrote, "Hey newbies or newbs, does anyone have access to the Land Academy mailer template?" Everybody does.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, you're going to have to [crosstalk 00:03:23]-

Jill K DeWit:
That may or may not be on Offerstoowners.com.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/14/jack-thursday-concierge-data-plus-explained-la-1806/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">poQtWlhgM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/49f92c87-684b-4c4b-8b6b-edff9cd0cc8c.mp3" length="12523504" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Member Austin Sakai Interview (LA 1805)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Member Austin Sakai Interview (LA 1805)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Austin Sakai Interview (LA 1805)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

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https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Austin Sakai Interview (LA 1805)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/13/land-academy-member-austin-sakai-interview-la-1805/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">V8if_nWA8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d551587c-a9a8-49c3-9811-47c360a4f2c6.mp3" length="25871527" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Biggest Roadblocks to Success in Land Investment (LA 1804)</title><itunes:title>3 Biggest Roadblocks to Success in Land Investment (LA 1804)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[3 Biggest Roadblocks to Success in Land Investment (LA 1804)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill K DeWit. Broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Haven't said that in a while.

Steven Jack Butala:
It just rolls of the tongue, doesn't it?

Jill K DeWit:
It does. Actually, I still have to think about it. I'm used to the valley of the sun now, but we'll get it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the three biggest roadblocks to success in land investment as I think the members see it, not necessarily how I see it.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to pause and note, if you're watching this, you see a different background, we're not our usual thing and we're certainly not at the beach where you're used to see the bikes going by behind us. So we are in a sweet Airbnb for the whole month of July, so that's what's going on.

Steven Jack Butala:
The audio video production will suffer because of that, but I think our attitudes are a lot better.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. Good point.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before I get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers, the number two, owners.com. Jill and I set it up a bunch of years ago out of our own frustration of trying to get our own mailers out with a regular non-specialized commercial printing company. If you'd like more information, it's the cheapest to best places to send a mailer. Trust me, check out support@offers, the number two, owners.com or just go to the website.

Jill K DeWit:
Jaylen wrote, "I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. Is there anyone in here that's working with commercial vacant land. I'm getting ready to send in a mailer and I have a couple questions about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm just going to basically talk about it. I know, Jaylen, a lot of people piped in. Here's how I handle commercial vacant land. We keep it in our mailers. If I decide to send a zip code, a mailer out to a zip code, I certainly keep in every land type that's in there at all, commercial, industrial, there's all, most of the places we send mailers, different types of commercial property. So there's two schools of thought here. You have to figure out which one's best for you. If you just look up commercial real estate or segregated out, segregate commercial property from everything else, let's say, we just talked about this in the advanced call a couple days ago, what you're going to find is very small numbers. So you might have a really populated county or zip code, and you're going to I just want to look at commercial property and you're going to see that it's the numbers are 5% of the actual number of properties in the entire data set.
So number one, that can be an advantage or a disadvantage. The advantage is this, small numbers like that, you can price it individually, you can apply a lot of methodology to pricing, but it's generally doable by hand. So I can look at every single property and price it and say, "Oh yeah, it's worth $250,000, I'm going to offer 25% of that." Go to the next one. "It's worth $350,000, I'm going to offer 25% of that." And on and on and on. There's a lot more data on commercial vacant land than there is on just regular, rural vacant land. The bad news is you're now about to send out a 500 unit mailer, what do you think about that?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, this sucks. I need more phone calls than that. So do it times 10, please.

Steven Jack Butala:
The best of both worlds is find about 10 places, 10 zip codes, or 20 zip codes to send a commercial real estate mailer, spend some time pricing it, and whoever's going to answer your phone, well, in your case it's probably going to be you because I know you'...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[3 Biggest Roadblocks to Success in Land Investment (LA 1804)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill K DeWit. Broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Haven't said that in a while.

Steven Jack Butala:
It just rolls of the tongue, doesn't it?

Jill K DeWit:
It does. Actually, I still have to think about it. I'm used to the valley of the sun now, but we'll get it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the three biggest roadblocks to success in land investment as I think the members see it, not necessarily how I see it.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to pause and note, if you're watching this, you see a different background, we're not our usual thing and we're certainly not at the beach where you're used to see the bikes going by behind us. So we are in a sweet Airbnb for the whole month of July, so that's what's going on.

Steven Jack Butala:
The audio video production will suffer because of that, but I think our attitudes are a lot better.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. Good point.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before I get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers, the number two, owners.com. Jill and I set it up a bunch of years ago out of our own frustration of trying to get our own mailers out with a regular non-specialized commercial printing company. If you'd like more information, it's the cheapest to best places to send a mailer. Trust me, check out support@offers, the number two, owners.com or just go to the website.

Jill K DeWit:
Jaylen wrote, "I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. Is there anyone in here that's working with commercial vacant land. I'm getting ready to send in a mailer and I have a couple questions about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm just going to basically talk about it. I know, Jaylen, a lot of people piped in. Here's how I handle commercial vacant land. We keep it in our mailers. If I decide to send a zip code, a mailer out to a zip code, I certainly keep in every land type that's in there at all, commercial, industrial, there's all, most of the places we send mailers, different types of commercial property. So there's two schools of thought here. You have to figure out which one's best for you. If you just look up commercial real estate or segregated out, segregate commercial property from everything else, let's say, we just talked about this in the advanced call a couple days ago, what you're going to find is very small numbers. So you might have a really populated county or zip code, and you're going to I just want to look at commercial property and you're going to see that it's the numbers are 5% of the actual number of properties in the entire data set.
So number one, that can be an advantage or a disadvantage. The advantage is this, small numbers like that, you can price it individually, you can apply a lot of methodology to pricing, but it's generally doable by hand. So I can look at every single property and price it and say, "Oh yeah, it's worth $250,000, I'm going to offer 25% of that." Go to the next one. "It's worth $350,000, I'm going to offer 25% of that." And on and on and on. There's a lot more data on commercial vacant land than there is on just regular, rural vacant land. The bad news is you're now about to send out a 500 unit mailer, what do you think about that?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, this sucks. I need more phone calls than that. So do it times 10, please.

Steven Jack Butala:
The best of both worlds is find about 10 places, 10 zip codes, or 20 zip codes to send a commercial real estate mailer, spend some time pricing it, and whoever's going to answer your phone, well, in your case it's probably going to be you because I know you'...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/12/3-biggest-roadblocks-to-success-in-land-investment-la-1804/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cS7qF8E_n</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b6063fb5-94f0-4fad-9efa-6bbbcca33f5b.mp3" length="13664562" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Unsubscribe in a Conversation (LA 1803)</title><itunes:title>How to Unsubscribe in a Conversation (LA 1803)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Unsubscribe in a Conversation (LA 1803)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Again.

Jill K DeWit:
We're back here right now, haha.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to unsubscribe in a conversation, usually with the buyer or a seller.

Jill K DeWit:
Right? Or maybe your partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is-

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe who you're sitting next to.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a concept that we came up with when we were having a lot of fun with some friends from out of town. It's interesting.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know by now, Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, check out support landacademy.com and see if this level of involvement of this craziness that we do is for you.

Jill K DeWit:
It's craziness. It's craziness that pays the bills, and puts us in Southern California right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's true.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. First let's take a question. Did we do that? Oh, we did. Sorry. Parker wrote, "I started pulling data for Texas to begin mailing that state. And I'm getting quite a few parcels that have homes on him. Kickass, sorry. Below this is shown by the circle, which is a separate APN from the land." All right. So we have an image here. "Anyone familiar with Texas and knows how to scrub this data out? Or is this something you just accept as part of the Texas parcel scheme, and who cares, mail it all?" I'm going with mail it all.

Steven Jack Butala:
No way.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. Haha.

Steven Jack Butala:
No. I mean, so between the two of us-

Jill K DeWit:
Accidentally.

Steven Jack Butala:
Guess who doesn't do the mailers?

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I do just answer the phone when it rings. Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is not Texas-specific. In fact, every single mailer that you do long before you pull the data, you need to look at the preview and see if it's what you want. Really take a good look at it. By the way, when you're doing this, it doesn't charge you anything. And so when you get that data set all ready to go, that's when you want to hit the export button, because that's when you're going to get charged. So pulling data off of DataTree first of all is a thousand times easier than RealQuest. It's a huge, massive improvement from the way that we used to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it allows you to preview this and actually see, what's in that data set that you pull and preview. Those are the people that are going to get mail. And so you got to make sure. There's a lot of questions that Jill and I answer all the time where the questions are like this. "All the properties I'm getting back from this mail are wetlands."
And my first response, my first mental response, not verbal, is well, you sent them offers that they responded to you. And so if you don't want wetlands buying wetlands, and some people love it for hunting. But if it's not you, then you need to make sure before you download the data that the property's not wet. So there's a big component to previewing the data before you download it. And it might very well be that the county or the zip code or whatever data set you thought that passed the red, green, yellow test, and you're all happy with yourself. It might be that that data, it just didn't come out the way you wanted it in the preview so you move on, move to a different zip code.

Jill K DeWit:
So what you're saying is what you're not saying.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Unsubscribe in a Conversation (LA 1803)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Again.

Jill K DeWit:
We're back here right now, haha.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to unsubscribe in a conversation, usually with the buyer or a seller.

Jill K DeWit:
Right? Or maybe your partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is-

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe who you're sitting next to.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a concept that we came up with when we were having a lot of fun with some friends from out of town. It's interesting.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know by now, Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, check out support landacademy.com and see if this level of involvement of this craziness that we do is for you.

Jill K DeWit:
It's craziness. It's craziness that pays the bills, and puts us in Southern California right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's true.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. First let's take a question. Did we do that? Oh, we did. Sorry. Parker wrote, "I started pulling data for Texas to begin mailing that state. And I'm getting quite a few parcels that have homes on him. Kickass, sorry. Below this is shown by the circle, which is a separate APN from the land." All right. So we have an image here. "Anyone familiar with Texas and knows how to scrub this data out? Or is this something you just accept as part of the Texas parcel scheme, and who cares, mail it all?" I'm going with mail it all.

Steven Jack Butala:
No way.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. Haha.

Steven Jack Butala:
No. I mean, so between the two of us-

Jill K DeWit:
Accidentally.

Steven Jack Butala:
Guess who doesn't do the mailers?

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I do just answer the phone when it rings. Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is not Texas-specific. In fact, every single mailer that you do long before you pull the data, you need to look at the preview and see if it's what you want. Really take a good look at it. By the way, when you're doing this, it doesn't charge you anything. And so when you get that data set all ready to go, that's when you want to hit the export button, because that's when you're going to get charged. So pulling data off of DataTree first of all is a thousand times easier than RealQuest. It's a huge, massive improvement from the way that we used to do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it allows you to preview this and actually see, what's in that data set that you pull and preview. Those are the people that are going to get mail. And so you got to make sure. There's a lot of questions that Jill and I answer all the time where the questions are like this. "All the properties I'm getting back from this mail are wetlands."
And my first response, my first mental response, not verbal, is well, you sent them offers that they responded to you. And so if you don't want wetlands buying wetlands, and some people love it for hunting. But if it's not you, then you need to make sure before you download the data that the property's not wet. So there's a big component to previewing the data before you download it. And it might very well be that the county or the zip code or whatever data set you thought that passed the red, green, yellow test, and you're all happy with yourself. It might be that that data, it just didn't come out the way you wanted it in the preview so you move on, move to a different zip code.

Jill K DeWit:
So what you're saying is what you're not saying.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/11/how-to-unsubscribe-in-a-conversation-la-1803/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aLN3e8aN2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/79101eca-c4d6-4b8b-ba11-c00c4ae99c4a.mp3" length="12333590" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What I Wish Everyone Knew About Getting Deals Done (LA 1797)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What I Wish Everyone Knew About Getting Deals Done (LA 1797)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What I Wish Everyone Knew About Getting Deals Done (LA 1797)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about what she wishes everyone knew about getting deals done.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. I have a couple things that I can really take a step back and go, "Man, why is the planet not doing this? Why is everyone in Land Academy? Why is everyone in this? What is everybody ... Why are you not doing this?" I don't care what you're doing. You want to get deals done? There's some universal things that I wish everybody understood.

Steven Jack Butala:
First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.
Back in the day it was nearly impossible to find these rural properties without a postal address. All we had to go on was the state it was in, the county it was in, and the assessor's parcel number.
Well, Jill and I developed a tool since then called NeighborScoop, where we make it real easy to input those three things and immediately find all we need to know about making a first tier purchase decision or a nix decision on buying a property. Check out neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Evan W. wrote, "I'm excited to share that I officially joined the quitters club." Yay. "After nearly 10 years in sales for Corporate America, I grew sick and tired of the politics and realize how little control I had over my future. Joining Land Academy is by far the best decision I have made professionally."

Steven Jack Butala:
Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
"This community has been priceless." This is so nice. "I have learned so much from the discussions and have been inspired by the success that so many of us are experiencing. Thank you @stevenjackbutala and @jilldewit, for your open-handed approach. My family is entering such a wonderful season because of you and this gift you have given us."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's so nice.

Jill K DeWit:
"I'm also incredibly grateful for the investors in this group that I have partnered with. You have trusted me to be the frontline of your business and allowed me to do what I do best, connect with sellers, negotiate what appropriate, and ultimately get deals done."
"More than anything, I'm so thankful for my wife's help and support in making this transition. I would not have made this jump without her belief in me and the steadiness she brings to my life." This is amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a Academy Award speech.

Jill K DeWit:
It is. "I hope this post encourages everyone who is looking to leave their W-2. The two biggest catalysts for me were getting consistent in sending out the mail and leveraging my skillset and partnerships with other investors. I look forward to learning so much more from this group and contributing when I can. Cheers to all our success." Aww.

Steven Jack Butala:
Congratulations. That's fantastic. Boy.

Jill K DeWit:
Evan, that's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is why we're here.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
I never get tired of hearing that. Thank you.

Jill K DeWit:
That's awesome, thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
And congratulations, that's amazing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Yay.

Steven Jack Butala:
God, I remember when I quit my job.

Jill K DeWit:
Remember when we quit? Yeah, exactly. You know what's funny, I don't remember my first deal at all. I know you do and I know a lot of you do, and I don't know why. I just, I don't remember my first deal, but I do remember quitting. I know what that felt like.
Today is Jill Friday. What I wish everyone knew about getting deals done. This is the meat of the show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hey, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So here's the deal. I'm going to try to make this easy.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What I Wish Everyone Knew About Getting Deals Done (LA 1797)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday and she's going to talk about what she wishes everyone knew about getting deals done.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. I have a couple things that I can really take a step back and go, "Man, why is the planet not doing this? Why is everyone in Land Academy? Why is everyone in this? What is everybody ... Why are you not doing this?" I don't care what you're doing. You want to get deals done? There's some universal things that I wish everybody understood.

Steven Jack Butala:
First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.
Back in the day it was nearly impossible to find these rural properties without a postal address. All we had to go on was the state it was in, the county it was in, and the assessor's parcel number.
Well, Jill and I developed a tool since then called NeighborScoop, where we make it real easy to input those three things and immediately find all we need to know about making a first tier purchase decision or a nix decision on buying a property. Check out neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Evan W. wrote, "I'm excited to share that I officially joined the quitters club." Yay. "After nearly 10 years in sales for Corporate America, I grew sick and tired of the politics and realize how little control I had over my future. Joining Land Academy is by far the best decision I have made professionally."

Steven Jack Butala:
Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
"This community has been priceless." This is so nice. "I have learned so much from the discussions and have been inspired by the success that so many of us are experiencing. Thank you @stevenjackbutala and @jilldewit, for your open-handed approach. My family is entering such a wonderful season because of you and this gift you have given us."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's so nice.

Jill K DeWit:
"I'm also incredibly grateful for the investors in this group that I have partnered with. You have trusted me to be the frontline of your business and allowed me to do what I do best, connect with sellers, negotiate what appropriate, and ultimately get deals done."
"More than anything, I'm so thankful for my wife's help and support in making this transition. I would not have made this jump without her belief in me and the steadiness she brings to my life." This is amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a Academy Award speech.

Jill K DeWit:
It is. "I hope this post encourages everyone who is looking to leave their W-2. The two biggest catalysts for me were getting consistent in sending out the mail and leveraging my skillset and partnerships with other investors. I look forward to learning so much more from this group and contributing when I can. Cheers to all our success." Aww.

Steven Jack Butala:
Congratulations. That's fantastic. Boy.

Jill K DeWit:
Evan, that's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is why we're here.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
I never get tired of hearing that. Thank you.

Jill K DeWit:
That's awesome, thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
And congratulations, that's amazing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Yay.

Steven Jack Butala:
God, I remember when I quit my job.

Jill K DeWit:
Remember when we quit? Yeah, exactly. You know what's funny, I don't remember my first deal at all. I know you do and I know a lot of you do, and I don't know why. I just, I don't remember my first deal, but I do remember quitting. I know what that felt like.
Today is Jill Friday. What I wish everyone knew about getting deals done. This is the meat of the show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hey, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So here's the deal. I'm going to try to make this easy.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/08/jill-friday-what-i-wish-everyone-knew-about-getting-deals-done-la-1797/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BzL6qG0EI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cfcd08e8-858b-4fa6-927b-2ea7eea44d40.mp3" length="13586155" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; My Concept of Revenue Justification (LA 1796)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; My Concept of Revenue Justification (LA 1796)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - My Concept of Revenue Justification (LA 1796)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about my concept of revenue justification.

Jill K DeWit:
Huh?

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
I have my own concept of revenue justification.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you make a billion dollars top line revenue and your profit margin's 3%, would you rather have a billion dollar company that makes 3% or a $10 million company that throws off 40%? That's what this show about.

Jill K DeWit:
I know what I'd like.

Steven Jack Butala:
And there's different... Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
And there's different reasons why one might be better for you. And one might be better for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds like an airline versus us.

Steven Jack Butala:
You said it.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a huge pros and cons of both, but really this, you know what the show's about? Running your personal life with revenue justification.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Some people don't grasp it. Some people that I'm sitting with don't really fully understand in their personal life revenue justification.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I understand it. Maybe I abuse it in my personal life.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the real topic. Jill gets it. She just doesn't do it. You know?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's pound wise and penny foolish. That's what revenue justification is.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land investors on our online community at landinvestors.com. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Evan B wrote, "Okay. I've sent out 10,000 units. And I think my mailer's a dud." This is hilarious. So Erin wrote back already. "Hey, at Evan B, I'll tell you that I also sent out 5,000 units all at once. And I thought I would at least have $200,000 in my bank of mine now. The first two weeks are just people wasting their time saying don't mail me. I got my first deal under contract in like six weeks after the mailer. Then like two weeks after that, I got assigned off in the mail and now and then I still get a call."
So from all the interviews I've watched so far, many listen in the car or the gym ,before bed, etcetera. Seems like there comes a point of terminal velocity from sending out five to 10,000 offers per month for six months or more.
At that point, you'll have something like 50, 60, maybe soon to be a 100,000 offers out there, out on the street, as I say, and that at some point, all the random calls that come eight weeks after your mail drops start to come in waves. And they're big enough and frequent enough that you can really get great deals instead of trying to make a lot of okay-ish deals work.
This is so sweet. So Evan B wrote back. "Yeah, I understand. I think I'm goofing up somewhere. This is my fourth mailer and I've struck out each time." So Erin said, this is a whole conversation. "Well, start doing a diagnostic check of everything then. Number one, did you make sure that your properties passed the red, yellow, green test."

Steven Jack Butala:
Ding, ding.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what Jill said earlier this week.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Number two, did you offer two over percentage based on the hotness of the market? Three, are your phone number and email on your mailer correct? That has happened too, by the way. And then I'm going to add number four. Are you flipping answering the phone and building a relationship with these people in 30 seconds, finding out whether or not they want to sell and what their number is?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - My Concept of Revenue Justification (LA 1796)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about my concept of revenue justification.

Jill K DeWit:
Huh?

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
I have my own concept of revenue justification.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you make a billion dollars top line revenue and your profit margin's 3%, would you rather have a billion dollar company that makes 3% or a $10 million company that throws off 40%? That's what this show about.

Jill K DeWit:
I know what I'd like.

Steven Jack Butala:
And there's different... Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
And there's different reasons why one might be better for you. And one might be better for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds like an airline versus us.

Steven Jack Butala:
You said it.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a huge pros and cons of both, but really this, you know what the show's about? Running your personal life with revenue justification.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Some people don't grasp it. Some people that I'm sitting with don't really fully understand in their personal life revenue justification.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I understand it. Maybe I abuse it in my personal life.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the real topic. Jill gets it. She just doesn't do it. You know?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's pound wise and penny foolish. That's what revenue justification is.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land investors on our online community at landinvestors.com. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Evan B wrote, "Okay. I've sent out 10,000 units. And I think my mailer's a dud." This is hilarious. So Erin wrote back already. "Hey, at Evan B, I'll tell you that I also sent out 5,000 units all at once. And I thought I would at least have $200,000 in my bank of mine now. The first two weeks are just people wasting their time saying don't mail me. I got my first deal under contract in like six weeks after the mailer. Then like two weeks after that, I got assigned off in the mail and now and then I still get a call."
So from all the interviews I've watched so far, many listen in the car or the gym ,before bed, etcetera. Seems like there comes a point of terminal velocity from sending out five to 10,000 offers per month for six months or more.
At that point, you'll have something like 50, 60, maybe soon to be a 100,000 offers out there, out on the street, as I say, and that at some point, all the random calls that come eight weeks after your mail drops start to come in waves. And they're big enough and frequent enough that you can really get great deals instead of trying to make a lot of okay-ish deals work.
This is so sweet. So Evan B wrote back. "Yeah, I understand. I think I'm goofing up somewhere. This is my fourth mailer and I've struck out each time." So Erin said, this is a whole conversation. "Well, start doing a diagnostic check of everything then. Number one, did you make sure that your properties passed the red, yellow, green test."

Steven Jack Butala:
Ding, ding.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what Jill said earlier this week.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Number two, did you offer two over percentage based on the hotness of the market? Three, are your phone number and email on your mailer correct? That has happened too, by the way. And then I'm going to add number four. Are you flipping answering the phone and building a relationship with these people in 30 seconds, finding out whether or not they want to sell and what their number is?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/07/jack-thursday-my-concept-of-revenue-justification-la-1796/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BB5Qth2Ah</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5e84eefb-6ccc-4606-b63c-cea907f124a4.mp3" length="12380663" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Working Full Time, Parenting Small Kids AND Killing It with Land Academy Member Nathan Cheung (LA 1795)</title><itunes:title>Working Full Time, Parenting Small Kids AND Killing It with Land Academy Member Nathan Cheung (LA 1795)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Working Full Time, Parenting Small Kids AND Killing It with Land Academy Member Nathan Cheung (LA 1795)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have Nathan Cheung, current Career Path member. I've got a ton of questions for him. First and foremost, how are you finding Career Path, and what led you to the point of making the decision to join us?

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah, well, first I just want to say thanks for having me on. I've been listening to the podcast for a long time, probably since 2019. When I first listened to it, I probably started with episode 100, or something, and just rolled all the way back. I had a really long commute.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow.

Nathan Cheung:
So, a little surreal to be talking live, but just-

Jill K DeWit:
Outside of Career Path.

Nathan Cheung:
Yep. Yep. That's right, outside of Career Path. I think I'm the fourth cohort of Career Path. I was really interested in joining one, two and three, but I actually work full time. I've got two young kids, so I think before, it was on Wednesdays or Thursdays, so that was... It was going to be hard to explain to my boss what I was doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Why are you taking these four hour lunch breaks every Wednesday? I don't know.

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah. But as soon as you guys offered it for Saturday, I just jumped all over it. I asked my wife, almost sheepishly, "Hey, there's... Land Academy is doing Career Path on Saturday." To my surprise, she didn't even flinch. She just said, "Do it. Go for it." She watches the kids while I do it. I hide out. They don't even know I'm around. It's been awesome. Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Good.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you do in real life? What's your [inaudible 00:06:23] job?

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah, so my background, I'm actually a pharmacist.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Nathan Cheung:
So no real background in real estate or entrepreneurship, but caught the bug a few years ago. Long story short, I'm here now. I'm still working full time, but kind of... I'm really doing both.

Steven Jack Butala:
We interviewed Dan Smart, who was... He's a pharmacist with his wife. I don't know if it aired yet. If it didn't, it's going to air next week.

Jill K DeWit:
Brainy people travel in our group. That's the whole underlying theme here. I'm going to say, it's definitely because of you. It's not because of me. I don't think I draw in the brainy people. So, that's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a really good friend, he's from Iowa. He's retired and he is got... He created from the ground up, this very successful contracting business that specializes in grain elevators for farming. He told this joke recently to us, and we were all on the floor about checking out a pharmacist with a couple of packages of bacon and his cholesterol medicine, over here. I'm sure you've seen it all.

Nathan Cheung:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
That's good. Okay, so 2019 you found us. Do you remember when you joined Land Academy?

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah, middle of 2019.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Nathan Cheung:
I didn't really know what I was doing yet, still kind of getting my first couple deals under my belt. Actually went to the live event, the last one in Hermosa Beach, so that was, that was huge for me, just kind of hearing what the other members did. I remember specifically, I want to say Matt Rogers, kind of hearing him speak, hearing some of the other advanced members talking, just thinking, "Wow, this is possible." It seemed really far away from me at the time, but realizing that it was possible, I think that kind of helped catapult me a little bit. It's like each step of another mental barrier to level up, and to level up, and to level up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Someone told me a really long time ago that if you're a real entrepreneur,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working Full Time, Parenting Small Kids AND Killing It with Land Academy Member Nathan Cheung (LA 1795)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have Nathan Cheung, current Career Path member. I've got a ton of questions for him. First and foremost, how are you finding Career Path, and what led you to the point of making the decision to join us?

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah, well, first I just want to say thanks for having me on. I've been listening to the podcast for a long time, probably since 2019. When I first listened to it, I probably started with episode 100, or something, and just rolled all the way back. I had a really long commute.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow.

Nathan Cheung:
So, a little surreal to be talking live, but just-

Jill K DeWit:
Outside of Career Path.

Nathan Cheung:
Yep. Yep. That's right, outside of Career Path. I think I'm the fourth cohort of Career Path. I was really interested in joining one, two and three, but I actually work full time. I've got two young kids, so I think before, it was on Wednesdays or Thursdays, so that was... It was going to be hard to explain to my boss what I was doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Why are you taking these four hour lunch breaks every Wednesday? I don't know.

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah. But as soon as you guys offered it for Saturday, I just jumped all over it. I asked my wife, almost sheepishly, "Hey, there's... Land Academy is doing Career Path on Saturday." To my surprise, she didn't even flinch. She just said, "Do it. Go for it." She watches the kids while I do it. I hide out. They don't even know I'm around. It's been awesome. Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Good.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you do in real life? What's your [inaudible 00:06:23] job?

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah, so my background, I'm actually a pharmacist.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Nathan Cheung:
So no real background in real estate or entrepreneurship, but caught the bug a few years ago. Long story short, I'm here now. I'm still working full time, but kind of... I'm really doing both.

Steven Jack Butala:
We interviewed Dan Smart, who was... He's a pharmacist with his wife. I don't know if it aired yet. If it didn't, it's going to air next week.

Jill K DeWit:
Brainy people travel in our group. That's the whole underlying theme here. I'm going to say, it's definitely because of you. It's not because of me. I don't think I draw in the brainy people. So, that's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a really good friend, he's from Iowa. He's retired and he is got... He created from the ground up, this very successful contracting business that specializes in grain elevators for farming. He told this joke recently to us, and we were all on the floor about checking out a pharmacist with a couple of packages of bacon and his cholesterol medicine, over here. I'm sure you've seen it all.

Nathan Cheung:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
That's good. Okay, so 2019 you found us. Do you remember when you joined Land Academy?

Nathan Cheung:
Yeah, middle of 2019.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Nathan Cheung:
I didn't really know what I was doing yet, still kind of getting my first couple deals under my belt. Actually went to the live event, the last one in Hermosa Beach, so that was, that was huge for me, just kind of hearing what the other members did. I remember specifically, I want to say Matt Rogers, kind of hearing him speak, hearing some of the other advanced members talking, just thinking, "Wow, this is possible." It seemed really far away from me at the time, but realizing that it was possible, I think that kind of helped catapult me a little bit. It's like each step of another mental barrier to level up, and to level up, and to level up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Someone told me a really long time ago that if you're a real entrepreneur,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/06/working-full-time-parenting-small-kids-and-killing-it-with-land-academy-member-nathan-cheung-la-1795/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BP2h3ZaAx</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7851285c-5461-4a8c-98bc-b42d3e269e66.mp3" length="25908967" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Topics from the Advanced Member Discord Channel (LA 1794)</title><itunes:title>3 Topics from the Advanced Member Discord Channel (LA 1794)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[3 Topics from the Advanced Member Discord Channel (LA 1794)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of this sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about three topics from the Advanced Member Discord channel.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, let's back up.

Steven Jack Butala:
How do you get to be an advanced member?

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck are we talking about? All right, so within Land Academy, we have an elite group of people who are doing deals like us. Volume wise, dollar amount wise, we're kind of all doing similar things, or they're pretty darn close and they're trying to get to our level. So we, a long time ago, handpicked people. We could tell... We would go back and look at who's sending the mail out, and who's sending the volume of mail, basically through our company. We could tell, and know two of them, and we would hand pick people and ask them.
Since then, now everyone comes from Career Path. We do have some grandfathered in people that were handpicked, and even those people though have already gone through Career Path, anyway. They're like, "I need Career Path, to make it even better." So, that's where they come from. Then we have our own monthly meeting, we have our own Discord channel, because we're talking about some really high level stuff, and we're going to share a little bit of that today.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's right. Career Path graduates are the advanced members. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of the members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now, Jill and I started and successfully operate a full blown commercial printing company to get your offers in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. We set it up several years ago out of our own frustration with a regular commercial printing industry. Fast forward to today. We do between 700,000 and a million offers a month on behalf of our members and non-members. I should add, if you're sending out more than about 5000 letters a month, it's more efficient cost wise for you to be become Land Academy member.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Contact support@landacademy.com or if you're trying to get a mailer done, support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So Dan S wrote: "Okay, here's my summer intern update. So the computer science kid decided to work minimum wage at a sports retail shop instead of learning data and pricing." Yeah, that happens. "The mechanical engineer student is about to be onboarded to do data." That's good. "Land is not sexy, so I guess it takes a certain type of person." That's hilarious. I think land is sexy. I'm going to argue land's sexy, but I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think land's sexy, but it's awesome.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, you're right.

Steven Jack Butala:
... and profitable.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you know what? Land's pretty to stand on. Your bank balance is sexy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well said. What's a sexy business, anyway? I'm not sure you want to be in that.

Jill K DeWit:
What is a sexy business? I guess fashion?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yacht brokerage?

Jill K DeWit:
That's sexy.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know if it's profitable.

Jill K DeWit:
That'd be a lot of work though.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't want to do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
You got to deal with personalities that are... They think they're better than everyone. I just think... I don't know. I think sexy and money making are separate. You make a lot of money, and then do sexy stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know where it gets confusing? It's those shows on TV where they're all hot blondes. There's 20 hot blondes, supermodels that work in a real estate office in L.A. I'm not kidding.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[3 Topics from the Advanced Member Discord Channel (LA 1794)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of this sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about three topics from the Advanced Member Discord channel.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, let's back up.

Steven Jack Butala:
How do you get to be an advanced member?

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck are we talking about? All right, so within Land Academy, we have an elite group of people who are doing deals like us. Volume wise, dollar amount wise, we're kind of all doing similar things, or they're pretty darn close and they're trying to get to our level. So we, a long time ago, handpicked people. We could tell... We would go back and look at who's sending the mail out, and who's sending the volume of mail, basically through our company. We could tell, and know two of them, and we would hand pick people and ask them.
Since then, now everyone comes from Career Path. We do have some grandfathered in people that were handpicked, and even those people though have already gone through Career Path, anyway. They're like, "I need Career Path, to make it even better." So, that's where they come from. Then we have our own monthly meeting, we have our own Discord channel, because we're talking about some really high level stuff, and we're going to share a little bit of that today.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's right. Career Path graduates are the advanced members. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of the members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now, Jill and I started and successfully operate a full blown commercial printing company to get your offers in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. We set it up several years ago out of our own frustration with a regular commercial printing industry. Fast forward to today. We do between 700,000 and a million offers a month on behalf of our members and non-members. I should add, if you're sending out more than about 5000 letters a month, it's more efficient cost wise for you to be become Land Academy member.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Contact support@landacademy.com or if you're trying to get a mailer done, support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So Dan S wrote: "Okay, here's my summer intern update. So the computer science kid decided to work minimum wage at a sports retail shop instead of learning data and pricing." Yeah, that happens. "The mechanical engineer student is about to be onboarded to do data." That's good. "Land is not sexy, so I guess it takes a certain type of person." That's hilarious. I think land is sexy. I'm going to argue land's sexy, but I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think land's sexy, but it's awesome.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, you're right.

Steven Jack Butala:
... and profitable.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you know what? Land's pretty to stand on. Your bank balance is sexy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well said. What's a sexy business, anyway? I'm not sure you want to be in that.

Jill K DeWit:
What is a sexy business? I guess fashion?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yacht brokerage?

Jill K DeWit:
That's sexy.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know if it's profitable.

Jill K DeWit:
That'd be a lot of work though.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't want to do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
You got to deal with personalities that are... They think they're better than everyone. I just think... I don't know. I think sexy and money making are separate. You make a lot of money, and then do sexy stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know where it gets confusing? It's those shows on TV where they're all hot blondes. There's 20 hot blondes, supermodels that work in a real estate office in L.A. I'm not kidding.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/05/3-topics-from-the-advanced-member-discord-channel-la-1794/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">13jSgPh0S</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/93a1e21d-67f0-4da9-83b8-5def7157e221.mp3" length="11237009" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>5 Ways Land Academy Members are Over Pricing Mailers (LA 1793)</title><itunes:title>5 Ways Land Academy Members are Over Pricing Mailers (LA 1793)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[5 Ways Land Academy Members are Over Pricing Mailers (LA 1793)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill K DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder how many people fast forward all through that right there.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. You notice my hat? I'm like already in vacation mode.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are talking about five ways, Land Academy members are overpricing mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
So here's [inaudible 00:00:27].

Steven Jack Butala:
Last week was our vacation by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, we're back. Well, no, [inaudible 00:00:32] I'm still traveling.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're still in Santa Barbara, we're in Santa Barbara now.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I don't know what [inaudible 00:00:40] don't ask me. [inaudible 00:00:41]

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Jill just the talent. She's like, [inaudible 00:00:44].

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's one of those people that [inaudible 00:00:46].

Jill K DeWit:
I wish I could [inaudible 00:00:47].

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:00:47] Has her name in the back of the chair.

Jill K DeWit:
That would be nice to just sit down and they do my hair and my makeup. Clearly I do my own hair and my own makeup. I don't get that perk.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before, we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. And I should say, please listen to this. We are phasing out Real Quest for our community, the Land Academy community. I have a little, I get misty every time I talk about this, because Real Quest is honestly the reason that I started this whole entire company and it's just become obsolete in the contract that they're asking us to sign in this next renewal period is an absolute outrage and [inaudible 00:01:26]

Jill K DeWit:
Not even the money. It's the [inaudible 00:01:28]

Steven Jack Butala:
The real reason is that DataTree's so much better.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody loves DataTree, me included. I haven't logged onto Real Quest in over a year and a half. I just looked.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that funny, me too. I don't even go there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I personally instruct a handful of Land Academy members or non-members in a live class called Career Path. If you want this to be your career or it is your career, please take a look at Career Path and let us know, support@landacademy.com

Jill K DeWit:
Hold please. Leonard wrote answering Evan B's question. Interesting. I guess we're going to figure this out as I go through it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes we are.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "It's hard to assess why particular campaign worked or not. There's a certain degree of chance. You obviously improve your odds with more mail and also diversifying areas. We don't know where you are mailing or your pricing. Hotter markets tend to have a lower response in my experience."

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
"But you can make a big margin, if you get something."

Steven Jack Butala:
If you hit one there.

Jill K DeWit:
"Maybe you need to consider more rural areas, which you might get a deal easier, albeit this might make the sales potentially slower. I've had differences in mailers and I've just replicated the exact same pricing in comparable areas. And then it didn't work. So when I started almost three years ago, we sent out three mailers, 4,000 units. And before we got three lots from our last 200 unit mailer. What I would do is look up like 50 of your offers and do a, would you do this deal analysis, this ties into today. And then maybe even book a call with Kevin before you send your next mailer. Keep in mind the mailers only part of it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[5 Ways Land Academy Members are Over Pricing Mailers (LA 1793)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill K DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder how many people fast forward all through that right there.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. You notice my hat? I'm like already in vacation mode.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are talking about five ways, Land Academy members are overpricing mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
So here's [inaudible 00:00:27].

Steven Jack Butala:
Last week was our vacation by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, we're back. Well, no, [inaudible 00:00:32] I'm still traveling.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're still in Santa Barbara, we're in Santa Barbara now.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I don't know what [inaudible 00:00:40] don't ask me. [inaudible 00:00:41]

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Jill just the talent. She's like, [inaudible 00:00:44].

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's one of those people that [inaudible 00:00:46].

Jill K DeWit:
I wish I could [inaudible 00:00:47].

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:00:47] Has her name in the back of the chair.

Jill K DeWit:
That would be nice to just sit down and they do my hair and my makeup. Clearly I do my own hair and my own makeup. I don't get that perk.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before, we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. And I should say, please listen to this. We are phasing out Real Quest for our community, the Land Academy community. I have a little, I get misty every time I talk about this, because Real Quest is honestly the reason that I started this whole entire company and it's just become obsolete in the contract that they're asking us to sign in this next renewal period is an absolute outrage and [inaudible 00:01:26]

Jill K DeWit:
Not even the money. It's the [inaudible 00:01:28]

Steven Jack Butala:
The real reason is that DataTree's so much better.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody loves DataTree, me included. I haven't logged onto Real Quest in over a year and a half. I just looked.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that funny, me too. I don't even go there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I personally instruct a handful of Land Academy members or non-members in a live class called Career Path. If you want this to be your career or it is your career, please take a look at Career Path and let us know, support@landacademy.com

Jill K DeWit:
Hold please. Leonard wrote answering Evan B's question. Interesting. I guess we're going to figure this out as I go through it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes we are.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "It's hard to assess why particular campaign worked or not. There's a certain degree of chance. You obviously improve your odds with more mail and also diversifying areas. We don't know where you are mailing or your pricing. Hotter markets tend to have a lower response in my experience."

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
"But you can make a big margin, if you get something."

Steven Jack Butala:
If you hit one there.

Jill K DeWit:
"Maybe you need to consider more rural areas, which you might get a deal easier, albeit this might make the sales potentially slower. I've had differences in mailers and I've just replicated the exact same pricing in comparable areas. And then it didn't work. So when I started almost three years ago, we sent out three mailers, 4,000 units. And before we got three lots from our last 200 unit mailer. What I would do is look up like 50 of your offers and do a, would you do this deal analysis, this ties into today. And then maybe even book a call with Kevin before you send your next mailer. Keep in mind the mailers only part of it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/04/5-ways-land-academy-members-are-over-pricing-mailers-la-1793/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">WkRlxZpVk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c17cbffa-9e40-4a11-a66e-7077660227eb.mp3" length="20794289" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Stay Motivated by Jill (ReAir LA 934)</title><itunes:title>How to Stay Motivated by Jill (ReAir LA 934)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Stay Motivated by Jill (ReAir LA 934)
Transcript:


Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I’m Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about how to stay motivated, by Jill.

Jill DeWit:                            You know what’s funny about this today? I’m not feeling very motivated.

Steven Butala:                   What?

Jill DeWit:                            We’ve been traveling. It’s been busy.

Steven Butala:                   I have never seen you not motivated.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, thank you.

Steven Butala:                   I’ve never seen you not with a ball of energy unless you’re like dead asleep.

Jill DeWit:                            Well, you know why? Here’s the truth. I am internally, right now, a little bit … I’ve had a lot going on. I’ve been traveling. I’ve been a little sick, I will share, so I’m not my best. But you know what? I rally. I guess that’s what today’s about. I’m going to help other people. I get it. I know it and there’s lots of days I feel like poop, but I’m here anyway.

Steven Butala:                   Man, you hide it well.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Well, and I can help you. Hey, wait. Before we get into it too, by the way, I want to say one quick thing since I’m just apparently taking over the show and it’s kind of about me today anyway …

Steven Butala:                   Staying motivated is not what I’m going to talk about today. It’s perfect.

Jill DeWit:                            Uh oh. You’re going to talk about ways that you try to mess with me?

Steven Butala:                   I’m going to talk about taking on a partner who’s really motivated if that’s not what you are.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh. I got it.

Steven Butala:                   Then I don’t have to stay motivated.

Jill DeWit:                            Got it.

Steven Butala:                   I can stay in a dark hole and do data stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            Yes you can. But here’s what I want to share real quick because this is super, super, super important for everyone listening. From now until Friday, you can save 10% on your entire order through Offers To Owners.

Steven Butala:                   Oh.

Jill DeWit:                            Right?

Steven Butala:                   That’s brilliant.

Jill DeWit:                            I’m reading this verbatim from my team and they are awesome. If you’ve been waiting to send mail, this is your chance. If you know us, by the way, you know what we’re all about. Sending out mail, getting offers in the mail to get there first and get these properties cheap. If you’ve already sent mail, this is still your chance. The coupon code is available to everyone, so it’s not just new people. It’s members as well. Visit OffersToOwners.Com and use the code MarchMail, so altogether, MarchMail, at checkout. More details are on the site. Thank you for that public service announcement.

Steven Butala:                   What made you guys decide to give everybody a break? I know it too well because I look at the numbers, you know? They go up every month.

Jill DeWit:                            You know, honestly …

Steven Butala:                   This whole company’s a nonprofit entity, you know what? I have to express some concern once in awhile.

Jill DeWit:                            That’s true. 10% off of what? I know. Well, I have to be honest with you, Steven, our team right now is taking over some departments by design. They just actually now just hand me things and say, “Read this. This is what we’re doing right now.” I think it’s the greatest thing ever.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Stay Motivated by Jill (ReAir LA 934)
Transcript:


Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I’m Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about how to stay motivated, by Jill.

Jill DeWit:                            You know what’s funny about this today? I’m not feeling very motivated.

Steven Butala:                   What?

Jill DeWit:                            We’ve been traveling. It’s been busy.

Steven Butala:                   I have never seen you not motivated.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, thank you.

Steven Butala:                   I’ve never seen you not with a ball of energy unless you’re like dead asleep.

Jill DeWit:                            Well, you know why? Here’s the truth. I am internally, right now, a little bit … I’ve had a lot going on. I’ve been traveling. I’ve been a little sick, I will share, so I’m not my best. But you know what? I rally. I guess that’s what today’s about. I’m going to help other people. I get it. I know it and there’s lots of days I feel like poop, but I’m here anyway.

Steven Butala:                   Man, you hide it well.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Well, and I can help you. Hey, wait. Before we get into it too, by the way, I want to say one quick thing since I’m just apparently taking over the show and it’s kind of about me today anyway …

Steven Butala:                   Staying motivated is not what I’m going to talk about today. It’s perfect.

Jill DeWit:                            Uh oh. You’re going to talk about ways that you try to mess with me?

Steven Butala:                   I’m going to talk about taking on a partner who’s really motivated if that’s not what you are.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh. I got it.

Steven Butala:                   Then I don’t have to stay motivated.

Jill DeWit:                            Got it.

Steven Butala:                   I can stay in a dark hole and do data stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            Yes you can. But here’s what I want to share real quick because this is super, super, super important for everyone listening. From now until Friday, you can save 10% on your entire order through Offers To Owners.

Steven Butala:                   Oh.

Jill DeWit:                            Right?

Steven Butala:                   That’s brilliant.

Jill DeWit:                            I’m reading this verbatim from my team and they are awesome. If you’ve been waiting to send mail, this is your chance. If you know us, by the way, you know what we’re all about. Sending out mail, getting offers in the mail to get there first and get these properties cheap. If you’ve already sent mail, this is still your chance. The coupon code is available to everyone, so it’s not just new people. It’s members as well. Visit OffersToOwners.Com and use the code MarchMail, so altogether, MarchMail, at checkout. More details are on the site. Thank you for that public service announcement.

Steven Butala:                   What made you guys decide to give everybody a break? I know it too well because I look at the numbers, you know? They go up every month.

Jill DeWit:                            You know, honestly …

Steven Butala:                   This whole company’s a nonprofit entity, you know what? I have to express some concern once in awhile.

Jill DeWit:                            That’s true. 10% off of what? I know. Well, I have to be honest with you, Steven, our team right now is taking over some departments by design. They just actually now just hand me things and say, “Read this. This is what we’re doing right now.” I think it’s the greatest thing ever.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/07/01/how-to-stay-motivated-by-jill-la-1384-replay-934-2/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">VucKosJVL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/beda4812-f29e-40ac-99ee-56ec631c75ad.mp3" length="24342392" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Leave Your Land Alone (ReAir LA 785)</title><itunes:title>Leave Your Land Alone (ReAir LA 785)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Leave Your Land Alone (ReAir LA 785)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   ... Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hi.

Steven Butala:                   Sorry, hi, Steve & Jill. Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about leaving your land alone. We've been talking about her all week.

Jill DeWit:                            There's a lot of things I'd like to ... just leave it alone. I feel like I say it a lot.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, why do we as people have to mess with stuff, you know?

Jill DeWit:                            That's true, and get our hands all up in everything. Leave it alone.

Steven Butala:                   I bet that's been going on since the beginning of time.

Jill DeWit:                            I'm sure it has.

Steven Butala:                   I more than anybody love the concept of messing with stuff to improve it, or constantly moving forward, or you know-

Jill DeWit:                            It's true.

Steven Butala:                   For me it's all data driving. Finding better ways to analyze data to make decisions and stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            That's true.

Steven Butala:                   But actually physically changing a property, like a contractor does or a developer does, and I understand all that, too. The world needs people like that, for sure.

Jill DeWit:                            There's a ton-

Steven Butala:                   I'm just not one of those people and I think if you're gonna maximize money, you know, for us at this level, there's no better way for us to maximize money than what we do.

Jill DeWit:                            I agree.

Steven Butala:                   You know-

Jill DeWit:                            I was gonna say, the whole point to me about leaving it alone is you already won, so why mess with it? You bought it at the right price, that's when you know. You should buy these assets knowing that if I do nothing, it's just gonna be fine.

Steven Butala:                   We're all in the business of creating equity, right? You know what, before we get into it, lets take a question from one of the members in the Land Ambassadors online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:                            Brandon asks, "In our last mailer campaign, I suppose some properties zoned for multi-family were included and someone just signed an offer and sent it back-"

Steven Butala:                   Good.

Jill DeWit:                            "... to buy their multi-family zoned vacant land in a city for 8 grand."

Steven Butala:                   That's what we're in the business here for.

Jill DeWit:                            What?

Steven Butala:                   I love how this is going.

Jill DeWit:                            "The property across the street, also vacant, is asking $50,000. The market in this area is fairly hot and we've sold property in this subdivision before, but not multi-family.”

Steven Butala:                   This is good stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            "However, the town is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against the city or department of water resources over the prohibition of drilling new wells. I'm quite certain, though, based on city planning maps, that this property has access to public water lines. I've called the water company several times in the past, but they're never helpful with vacant land.” No kidding.

Jill DeWit:                            “They won't tell me if they service a particular area. Only if they service an address that already has a house on it. So my question is, is this a run to the bank situation?”

Steven Butala:                   Yes.

Jill DeWit:                            "Or are there troubles buying mul...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Leave Your Land Alone (ReAir LA 785)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   ... Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hi.

Steven Butala:                   Sorry, hi, Steve & Jill. Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about leaving your land alone. We've been talking about her all week.

Jill DeWit:                            There's a lot of things I'd like to ... just leave it alone. I feel like I say it a lot.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, why do we as people have to mess with stuff, you know?

Jill DeWit:                            That's true, and get our hands all up in everything. Leave it alone.

Steven Butala:                   I bet that's been going on since the beginning of time.

Jill DeWit:                            I'm sure it has.

Steven Butala:                   I more than anybody love the concept of messing with stuff to improve it, or constantly moving forward, or you know-

Jill DeWit:                            It's true.

Steven Butala:                   For me it's all data driving. Finding better ways to analyze data to make decisions and stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            That's true.

Steven Butala:                   But actually physically changing a property, like a contractor does or a developer does, and I understand all that, too. The world needs people like that, for sure.

Jill DeWit:                            There's a ton-

Steven Butala:                   I'm just not one of those people and I think if you're gonna maximize money, you know, for us at this level, there's no better way for us to maximize money than what we do.

Jill DeWit:                            I agree.

Steven Butala:                   You know-

Jill DeWit:                            I was gonna say, the whole point to me about leaving it alone is you already won, so why mess with it? You bought it at the right price, that's when you know. You should buy these assets knowing that if I do nothing, it's just gonna be fine.

Steven Butala:                   We're all in the business of creating equity, right? You know what, before we get into it, lets take a question from one of the members in the Land Ambassadors online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:                            Brandon asks, "In our last mailer campaign, I suppose some properties zoned for multi-family were included and someone just signed an offer and sent it back-"

Steven Butala:                   Good.

Jill DeWit:                            "... to buy their multi-family zoned vacant land in a city for 8 grand."

Steven Butala:                   That's what we're in the business here for.

Jill DeWit:                            What?

Steven Butala:                   I love how this is going.

Jill DeWit:                            "The property across the street, also vacant, is asking $50,000. The market in this area is fairly hot and we've sold property in this subdivision before, but not multi-family.”

Steven Butala:                   This is good stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            "However, the town is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against the city or department of water resources over the prohibition of drilling new wells. I'm quite certain, though, based on city planning maps, that this property has access to public water lines. I've called the water company several times in the past, but they're never helpful with vacant land.” No kidding.

Jill DeWit:                            “They won't tell me if they service a particular area. Only if they service an address that already has a house on it. So my question is, is this a run to the bank situation?”

Steven Butala:                   Yes.

Jill DeWit:                            "Or are there troubles buying mul...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/30/leave-your-land-alone-reair-la-785/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">CF5l2NUCl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e8e996fd-35c5-4bd8-bd29-b231a3ddc3b1.mp3" length="18016959" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (ReAir LA 996)</title><itunes:title>Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (ReAir LA 996)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (ReAir LA 996)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk with member Andy Barnhart, who shares his Land Academy success stories. But, before we get into it I have a simple question. Andy, you're sitting right there in that seat. How did you get there? Tell us your story and tell us how you chose Land Academy, and if it's working for you.

Andy Barnhart:                  Yeah, hello. I'll go way back to when I was a child and my dad was a farmer, a dairy farmer. He would try to grow his operation and buy more land, so he would show me plat maps when I was... So, I was looking at plat maps when I was eight years old. He's like, "Oh, we own this 80 acres, and I'm going to buy this 80, and I'd love to have-" he always wanted a section of land. That was his goal. I knew what a section was, and a quarter and a half section at a young age. After college, I got a job-

Steven Butala:                   I have to explain to everybody what a section is. A section is a square mile, and it's 640 acres. A half section is 320, and a quarter section is half of that.

Jill DeWit:                            160.

Steven Butala:                   160, and on, and on, and on.

Andy Barnhart:                  Yep.

Steven Butala:                   Anyway, go ahead. So, you're in college.

Andy Barnhart:                  So yeah, I got through college and I got my first job as an Auditor with the US Department of Agriculture with the Dairy Division. I went right in on my first day, and I had learned Excel and everything in college, and thought I was a whiz kid. Then I get into the government organization that I was hired with, and literally some older guys didn't even have a computer on their desk. They refused to work with a computer. All the programs were written in Lotus 123. So, it was like stepping back in time 30 years.

Andy Barnhart:                  I was there 10 years, and we converted everything to Excel and all the reports and everything. So, I was very comfortable with... I had the agriculture background, I have Excel background, I have an auditing background. Then yeah, I bought the realtor courses and took all of the courses to become a realtor. I thought that's something I'm interested in, and then got to the end. I did all of the education and got to the end, and I think at that time is when I found your podcast. You guys were, as you are today, dealing with realtors and [inaudible 00:03:22].

Andy Barnhart:                  You guys have never shied away from talking trash on realtors, so it made me think, "Well, do I really want to be a realtor?" So, I never went to take the test, and then that's when I bought the programs in 2016. Yeah, that's how I got here. I'm in my third year, and yeah still-

Steven Butala:                   Is it working? Have you done a bunch of deals? I guess, you're on the show so hopefully some of it's working.

Andy Barnhart:                  Yeah, yeah I didn't start out of the gate with a bang. I was skeptical, and I took it really slow. I wrote down my numbers. The first year, 2017, I did 19 deals, and I still had some other jobs going on, some part-time things. The revenue that year was $62,000.00-

Steven Butala:                   Awesome.

Andy Barnhart:                  And then so last year- and I was still doing this all on my own. I did last year 184 deals completed, and then the revenue was $343,000.00. Yeah, I was like, "Yeah, this is-"

Jill DeWit:                            I'm in.

Andy Barnhart:                  I'm in. I'm not a skeptic anymore.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (ReAir LA 996)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk with member Andy Barnhart, who shares his Land Academy success stories. But, before we get into it I have a simple question. Andy, you're sitting right there in that seat. How did you get there? Tell us your story and tell us how you chose Land Academy, and if it's working for you.

Andy Barnhart:                  Yeah, hello. I'll go way back to when I was a child and my dad was a farmer, a dairy farmer. He would try to grow his operation and buy more land, so he would show me plat maps when I was... So, I was looking at plat maps when I was eight years old. He's like, "Oh, we own this 80 acres, and I'm going to buy this 80, and I'd love to have-" he always wanted a section of land. That was his goal. I knew what a section was, and a quarter and a half section at a young age. After college, I got a job-

Steven Butala:                   I have to explain to everybody what a section is. A section is a square mile, and it's 640 acres. A half section is 320, and a quarter section is half of that.

Jill DeWit:                            160.

Steven Butala:                   160, and on, and on, and on.

Andy Barnhart:                  Yep.

Steven Butala:                   Anyway, go ahead. So, you're in college.

Andy Barnhart:                  So yeah, I got through college and I got my first job as an Auditor with the US Department of Agriculture with the Dairy Division. I went right in on my first day, and I had learned Excel and everything in college, and thought I was a whiz kid. Then I get into the government organization that I was hired with, and literally some older guys didn't even have a computer on their desk. They refused to work with a computer. All the programs were written in Lotus 123. So, it was like stepping back in time 30 years.

Andy Barnhart:                  I was there 10 years, and we converted everything to Excel and all the reports and everything. So, I was very comfortable with... I had the agriculture background, I have Excel background, I have an auditing background. Then yeah, I bought the realtor courses and took all of the courses to become a realtor. I thought that's something I'm interested in, and then got to the end. I did all of the education and got to the end, and I think at that time is when I found your podcast. You guys were, as you are today, dealing with realtors and [inaudible 00:03:22].

Andy Barnhart:                  You guys have never shied away from talking trash on realtors, so it made me think, "Well, do I really want to be a realtor?" So, I never went to take the test, and then that's when I bought the programs in 2016. Yeah, that's how I got here. I'm in my third year, and yeah still-

Steven Butala:                   Is it working? Have you done a bunch of deals? I guess, you're on the show so hopefully some of it's working.

Andy Barnhart:                  Yeah, yeah I didn't start out of the gate with a bang. I was skeptical, and I took it really slow. I wrote down my numbers. The first year, 2017, I did 19 deals, and I still had some other jobs going on, some part-time things. The revenue that year was $62,000.00-

Steven Butala:                   Awesome.

Andy Barnhart:                  And then so last year- and I was still doing this all on my own. I did last year 184 deals completed, and then the revenue was $343,000.00. Yeah, I was like, "Yeah, this is-"

Jill DeWit:                            I'm in.

Andy Barnhart:                  I'm in. I'm not a skeptic anymore.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/29/member-andy-barnhart-shares-land-academy-success-stories-reair-la-996/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">EqlgHCgZy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ce41b916-0afb-4b23-bd4b-7ccb8cc96ff6.mp3" length="28600445" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Best Time to Start In Real Estate Investing (ReAir CFFL 445)</title><itunes:title>Best Time to Start In Real Estate Investing (ReAir CFFL 445)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Best Time to Start In Real Estate Investing (ReAir CFFL 445)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

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https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Best Time to Start In Real Estate Investing (ReAir CFFL 445)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/28/best-time-to-start-in-real-estate-investing-reair-cffl-445/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-lavEh7hj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/54aaafbb-49a8-4d8c-a4a5-e26bebb9a727.mp3" length="14488672" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Removing Risk from Your REI Career (ReAir CFFL 0207)</title><itunes:title>Removing Risk from Your REI Career (ReAir CFFL 0207)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Removing Risk from Your REI Career (ReAir CFFL 0207)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:                         Jack Butala for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land show. In this episode, Jill and I talk about removing risk from your REI career. Great show today, Jill. Before we start, let's hear some funny stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            It's interesting that I am still surprised by the things that come out of your blog sometimes, Jack. What were you checking for titles today?

Jack Butala:                         What?

Jill DeWit:                            I'm not sure those will pass the ...

Jack Butala:                         My gosh.

Jill DeWit:                            Who's in charge of when you write a blog and you title ... Is there an FCC? Who's in charge of that kind of thing? I happen to,

Jack Butala:                         You mean the boredom-

Jill DeWit:                            ... catch you.

Jack Butala:                         The boredom factor?

Jill DeWit:                            No, no, no, no. I caught the ... I was lucky enough to sit in on your marketing meeting today. You guys are running through some title checker thing which I thought was really cool. I was just a little surprised by how far south you two took it looking for titles is what I'm trying to say.

Jack Butala:                         What did you hear?

Jill DeWit:                            I heard things like strippers. I heard things like how horrible it is to be Italian.

Jack Butala:                         It's not horrible to be Italian. It's great to be Italian.

Jill DeWit:                            No, wait. Not horrible, but what was the word? Shucks, I forgot what the terminology was.

Jack Butala:                         Italian people, at times, communicate through yelling. I'm softening it for the show.

Jill DeWit:                            You were working on something like a blog title and print titles. That's what I caught. I was just like ... I can't believe I'm still surprised by what you guys come up with.

Jack Butala:                         I'm having trouble being Italian. That was one of them.

Jill DeWit:                            There you go. It was really funny. All good.

Jack Butala:                         Yeah, that is some funny stuff that we heard today.

Jill DeWit:                            Yes.

Jack Butala:                         Boy, if I knew that was the topic, I would have some [insane 00:01:40] one-liners. Anyway, let's take a question-

Jill DeWit:                            That's why you don't know what's coming until I get to say that.

Jack Butala:                         Let's take a question posted by one of our members on successplant.com, our free online community.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Kyle says, "I'm just getting started in pulling my first list from Agent Pro. For property type, do I select agricultural/rural or residential vacant land?" Do you want to back up?

Jack Butala:                         Can you take a crack at answering that?

Jill DeWit:                            Well, I would like to back up and ask, if you would, Jack, explain what he's trying to do here for people that might be just joining in.

Jack Butala:                         Yeah. There's lots of places to go get data. Most of them are ... Well, some of them are very credible. What you want to make sure about any data that you pull is a couple of things. One that it's fresh because properties get bought and sold all the time. If you have a database or a list ... If you're not accessing a database, chances are you have a list. A list can be old. It could be 20 years old, two years old, one year old. We don't know. It could be from yesterday. You want fresh data. The best way to do that is to access the database.

Jack Butala:                         Number two, you want that database for all product types, not just land,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Removing Risk from Your REI Career (ReAir CFFL 0207)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:                         Jack Butala for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land show. In this episode, Jill and I talk about removing risk from your REI career. Great show today, Jill. Before we start, let's hear some funny stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            It's interesting that I am still surprised by the things that come out of your blog sometimes, Jack. What were you checking for titles today?

Jack Butala:                         What?

Jill DeWit:                            I'm not sure those will pass the ...

Jack Butala:                         My gosh.

Jill DeWit:                            Who's in charge of when you write a blog and you title ... Is there an FCC? Who's in charge of that kind of thing? I happen to,

Jack Butala:                         You mean the boredom-

Jill DeWit:                            ... catch you.

Jack Butala:                         The boredom factor?

Jill DeWit:                            No, no, no, no. I caught the ... I was lucky enough to sit in on your marketing meeting today. You guys are running through some title checker thing which I thought was really cool. I was just a little surprised by how far south you two took it looking for titles is what I'm trying to say.

Jack Butala:                         What did you hear?

Jill DeWit:                            I heard things like strippers. I heard things like how horrible it is to be Italian.

Jack Butala:                         It's not horrible to be Italian. It's great to be Italian.

Jill DeWit:                            No, wait. Not horrible, but what was the word? Shucks, I forgot what the terminology was.

Jack Butala:                         Italian people, at times, communicate through yelling. I'm softening it for the show.

Jill DeWit:                            You were working on something like a blog title and print titles. That's what I caught. I was just like ... I can't believe I'm still surprised by what you guys come up with.

Jack Butala:                         I'm having trouble being Italian. That was one of them.

Jill DeWit:                            There you go. It was really funny. All good.

Jack Butala:                         Yeah, that is some funny stuff that we heard today.

Jill DeWit:                            Yes.

Jack Butala:                         Boy, if I knew that was the topic, I would have some [insane 00:01:40] one-liners. Anyway, let's take a question-

Jill DeWit:                            That's why you don't know what's coming until I get to say that.

Jack Butala:                         Let's take a question posted by one of our members on successplant.com, our free online community.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Kyle says, "I'm just getting started in pulling my first list from Agent Pro. For property type, do I select agricultural/rural or residential vacant land?" Do you want to back up?

Jack Butala:                         Can you take a crack at answering that?

Jill DeWit:                            Well, I would like to back up and ask, if you would, Jack, explain what he's trying to do here for people that might be just joining in.

Jack Butala:                         Yeah. There's lots of places to go get data. Most of them are ... Well, some of them are very credible. What you want to make sure about any data that you pull is a couple of things. One that it's fresh because properties get bought and sold all the time. If you have a database or a list ... If you're not accessing a database, chances are you have a list. A list can be old. It could be 20 years old, two years old, one year old. We don't know. It could be from yesterday. You want fresh data. The best way to do that is to access the database.

Jack Butala:                         Number two, you want that database for all product types, not just land,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/27/removing-risk-from-your-rei-career-reair-cffl-0207/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hllNtkSJT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fab4cdc8-a898-4d6f-8310-d76663d2f94b.mp3" length="22489536" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; 8 Hours a Day on the Phone (LA 1792)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; 8 Hours a Day on the Phone (LA 1792)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - 8 Hours a Day on the Phone (LA 1792)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about eight hours a day on the phone.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? For some people that is horror, right? Some people are like, "Oh, please don't make me do that. I'll do anything. I'll flip burgers."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's me.

Jill K DeWit:
"Don't make me be on the phone." And you know what? For other people, eight hours isn't enough, I'd spend 10.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Herbert wrote... is it Herber or Herbert?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably Herber.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. We're going to go with Herbert. Herbert wrote-

Steven Jack Butala:
Whoever did the script makes a lot of mistakes, don't they?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I tell you. There's lots of little holes here. Thank goodness we're professional, we can piece this together.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what I was thinking in the podcast, you know movie credits?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's like, key grip director, all of that, so if I ever do credits, this is what it's going to say, "Written by Stephen Jack Butala. Produced by Stephen Jack Butala. Starring Stephen Jack Butala, and sort of Jill Dewit.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Produced by... And on and on and on, it's just me. All of it. Post-production, Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
Mistakes by Steven Jack Butala.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, mistakes by... Imperfections and terribleness, Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven Jack Butala. Here we go, okay, Herbert wrote, "Hey, have any of you guys helped a seller pay for their probate costs if they couldn't afford it to get the deal done, assuming the numbers make sense? If so, how'd you go about it?" I'd be open to this.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a great idea.

Jill K DeWit:
I would totally be open to this. I'm trying to think...

Steven Jack Butala:
Before Jill launches why with the story, here's why. Because the next person, if you say no, they're not going to go do a probate themselves.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
The next person that buys it, or next person that says, "Hey, I want to buy your property." They're going to have to go through it anyway. Somebody's got to do it, or the asset's going to go back to the taxing authority.

Jill K DeWit:
No one will get it. Then nobody's happy, and now we're back to negative attention.

Steven Jack Butala:
You like that, don't you?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm going to use this all day now.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're right. We didn't talk about it. Children are packed full of negative attention.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh God! Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
They don't get what they want, they'll do anything, they'll take a bowl of spaghetti and throw it at the door.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny about that? Back to the negative attention show, we didn't even cover this part. How many people come to you? We had a person reach out to you personally in discord, not that they wanted, then come to my team, still not get there, then they get to me and I'm like, "This is stupid, you're pitting mom and dad against each other. Don't do that." By the way, don't be that negative attention guy. Thank you. Now I'm done.

Steven Jack Butala:
Vast majority of the people in Land Academy who come to us already being successful at something else in their life, whether it's a business, and they sold it, or they're a successful mechanical engineer for aerospace company or whatever, we just never hear from them, and then they join career path and it's like, "Oh yeah,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - 8 Hours a Day on the Phone (LA 1792)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about eight hours a day on the phone.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? For some people that is horror, right? Some people are like, "Oh, please don't make me do that. I'll do anything. I'll flip burgers."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's me.

Jill K DeWit:
"Don't make me be on the phone." And you know what? For other people, eight hours isn't enough, I'd spend 10.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
Herbert wrote... is it Herber or Herbert?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably Herber.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. We're going to go with Herbert. Herbert wrote-

Steven Jack Butala:
Whoever did the script makes a lot of mistakes, don't they?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I tell you. There's lots of little holes here. Thank goodness we're professional, we can piece this together.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what I was thinking in the podcast, you know movie credits?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's like, key grip director, all of that, so if I ever do credits, this is what it's going to say, "Written by Stephen Jack Butala. Produced by Stephen Jack Butala. Starring Stephen Jack Butala, and sort of Jill Dewit.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Produced by... And on and on and on, it's just me. All of it. Post-production, Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
Mistakes by Steven Jack Butala.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, mistakes by... Imperfections and terribleness, Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven Jack Butala. Here we go, okay, Herbert wrote, "Hey, have any of you guys helped a seller pay for their probate costs if they couldn't afford it to get the deal done, assuming the numbers make sense? If so, how'd you go about it?" I'd be open to this.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a great idea.

Jill K DeWit:
I would totally be open to this. I'm trying to think...

Steven Jack Butala:
Before Jill launches why with the story, here's why. Because the next person, if you say no, they're not going to go do a probate themselves.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
The next person that buys it, or next person that says, "Hey, I want to buy your property." They're going to have to go through it anyway. Somebody's got to do it, or the asset's going to go back to the taxing authority.

Jill K DeWit:
No one will get it. Then nobody's happy, and now we're back to negative attention.

Steven Jack Butala:
You like that, don't you?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm going to use this all day now.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're right. We didn't talk about it. Children are packed full of negative attention.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh God! Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
They don't get what they want, they'll do anything, they'll take a bowl of spaghetti and throw it at the door.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny about that? Back to the negative attention show, we didn't even cover this part. How many people come to you? We had a person reach out to you personally in discord, not that they wanted, then come to my team, still not get there, then they get to me and I'm like, "This is stupid, you're pitting mom and dad against each other. Don't do that." By the way, don't be that negative attention guy. Thank you. Now I'm done.

Steven Jack Butala:
Vast majority of the people in Land Academy who come to us already being successful at something else in their life, whether it's a business, and they sold it, or they're a successful mechanical engineer for aerospace company or whatever, we just never hear from them, and then they join career path and it's like, "Oh yeah,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/24/jill-friday-8-hours-a-day-on-the-phone-la-1792/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">OQukYcNBZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8e7a5a18-af6e-42f7-80e9-b42bbbb37531.mp3" length="14128045" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Negative Attention (LA 1791)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Negative Attention (LA 1791)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Negative Attention (LA 1791)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about negative attention.

Jill K DeWit:
She won't be-

Steven Jack Butala:
Just, right before the show, she's like, "What is this?"

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm like, "Are you going to call somebody out?" And he's, "Kind of." I'm like, "Well, hold on a moment." He's, "No, I won't make it too obvious."

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll disguise it.

Jill K DeWit:
And I said, like yeah, what did I say? "Disguise it in the form of an insult."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's no disguise at all though.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Academy.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "What does surveyed with boundary and building envelope mean?".

Steven Jack Butala:
This is an excellent, excellent question. This is what I would call a master's degree, maybe even a PhD level question, and I think it's great. When you get a survey for a property or regular survey without the boundary or the envelope, what they're doing, what the surveyor is doing, is looking at the bond, the perimeter of the property. And so, we've all driven by people with survey equipment and there's, and then they put stakes in...

Jill K DeWit:
The tripod.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, exactly. There's usually two people involved. One person's finding for it, and finding for it. And so, there's, and there's a lot of education, formal education that goes involved. The surveys have to go through formal education.

Jill K DeWit:
The school, right? Yeah. They have to...

Steven Jack Butala:
And a whole apprenticeship, and the whole thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so, vast majority of surveys are just boundary surveys, are perimeter surveys, where here's the corner, here's the corner, here's the corner, here's the corner.

Jill K DeWit:
This is you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And your neighbors.

Jill K DeWit:
In here.

Steven Jack Butala:
And a lot. We all talk about lot lines, because we all have neighbors, and it's like 'that guy's on my lot.' So a perimeter survey, our regular boundary survey, will tell, will show that's either the case or not the case. We've just been through several surveys because we do minor splits.
This is a special kind of awesome survey, and if you Google it, I would encourage you to Google it. What you'll see is that regular perimeter boundary survey, and then inside of it, you'll see another shape with boundaries in it. And that is because the survey went and did the research at the county to find out what setbacks are, and what the, where you can put a structure. And it's very, very, very helpful. It's way beyond just the perimeter, because then it shows you, 'yeah, I can put a house or a building in this area', and this is, then the wheels start to turn about use and everything else, so. It doesn't cost that much more, and I would usually, if you're going to have to do surveys, or you're in the habit of doing surveys, I would ask for this in the future.

Jill K DeWit:
Hope you're not in the habit of doing surveys.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill doesn't like surveys.

Jill K DeWit:
Hate them. Only if I have to.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're time-consuming and costly.

Jill K DeWit:
Cost.

Steven Jack Butala:
But.

Jill K DeWit:
And usually not necessary.

Steven Jack Butala:
When you minor split property, it's a, it's essential.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. That makes sense.

Steven Jack Butala:
This isn't,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Negative Attention (LA 1791)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about negative attention.

Jill K DeWit:
She won't be-

Steven Jack Butala:
Just, right before the show, she's like, "What is this?"

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm like, "Are you going to call somebody out?" And he's, "Kind of." I'm like, "Well, hold on a moment." He's, "No, I won't make it too obvious."

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll disguise it.

Jill K DeWit:
And I said, like yeah, what did I say? "Disguise it in the form of an insult."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's no disguise at all though.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Academy.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "What does surveyed with boundary and building envelope mean?".

Steven Jack Butala:
This is an excellent, excellent question. This is what I would call a master's degree, maybe even a PhD level question, and I think it's great. When you get a survey for a property or regular survey without the boundary or the envelope, what they're doing, what the surveyor is doing, is looking at the bond, the perimeter of the property. And so, we've all driven by people with survey equipment and there's, and then they put stakes in...

Jill K DeWit:
The tripod.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, exactly. There's usually two people involved. One person's finding for it, and finding for it. And so, there's, and there's a lot of education, formal education that goes involved. The surveys have to go through formal education.

Jill K DeWit:
The school, right? Yeah. They have to...

Steven Jack Butala:
And a whole apprenticeship, and the whole thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so, vast majority of surveys are just boundary surveys, are perimeter surveys, where here's the corner, here's the corner, here's the corner, here's the corner.

Jill K DeWit:
This is you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And your neighbors.

Jill K DeWit:
In here.

Steven Jack Butala:
And a lot. We all talk about lot lines, because we all have neighbors, and it's like 'that guy's on my lot.' So a perimeter survey, our regular boundary survey, will tell, will show that's either the case or not the case. We've just been through several surveys because we do minor splits.
This is a special kind of awesome survey, and if you Google it, I would encourage you to Google it. What you'll see is that regular perimeter boundary survey, and then inside of it, you'll see another shape with boundaries in it. And that is because the survey went and did the research at the county to find out what setbacks are, and what the, where you can put a structure. And it's very, very, very helpful. It's way beyond just the perimeter, because then it shows you, 'yeah, I can put a house or a building in this area', and this is, then the wheels start to turn about use and everything else, so. It doesn't cost that much more, and I would usually, if you're going to have to do surveys, or you're in the habit of doing surveys, I would ask for this in the future.

Jill K DeWit:
Hope you're not in the habit of doing surveys.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill doesn't like surveys.

Jill K DeWit:
Hate them. Only if I have to.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're time-consuming and costly.

Jill K DeWit:
Cost.

Steven Jack Butala:
But.

Jill K DeWit:
And usually not necessary.

Steven Jack Butala:
When you minor split property, it's a, it's essential.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. That makes sense.

Steven Jack Butala:
This isn't,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/23/jack-thursday-negative-attention-la-1791/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">L50ks32Jh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/64f33675-8c5b-4afa-99e7-2bfba2f53eea.mp3" length="9792949" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Member Casey Jewett Interview (LA 1790)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Member Casey Jewett Interview (LA 1790)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Casey Jewett Interview (LA 1790)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have member, Casey Jewett, who just informed us he's been a member for a year. But for some reason, I thought you were a member for a really long time. It doesn't matter.

Jill K DeWit:
That's good.

Casey:
Time flies.

Jill K DeWit:
You are involved and that's what's important. So thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you said yes, that's what's important. You said yes to my assistant, Gabriel and thank you for being on the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Casey:
Of course, of course. It's hard to say no to you guys.

Jill K DeWit:
Aw, thank you very much.

Steven Jack Butala:
So how's Land Academy working out for you?

Casey:
It's well. Initially it's like drinking from a fire hose. There's just a lot of information, a lot of moving parts, you have to take it all in stride and take small steps as you move forward because there's going to be a lot that hits you, and a lot that continues, things that you maybe thought you knew that you don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's how I would describe the Land Academy for myself.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. What did you do before this? There's a certain mindset we pick up on people that get it and then some that don't get it. So what's your background?

Casey:
In college, my internship was actually as a real estate agent. So I got into real estate in 2005 initially in that regard. It just so happened that where I went to school they had a new internship and it was at one of the real estate agencies. I was like, "Cool, I can do that." My grandfather was an agent many, many years ago. I was like, "I'll give it a shot. See what's going on here," and so I became a realtor. They paid for my classes to take, get my license and kind of moved through that. I've been in real estate a long time. I've never done land, it's just not something that I had ever thought of. I have bought and sold hotels, residential real estate, mobile homes, mobile home parks, all kinds of things. I've been in the real estate realm for quite a while. 2008 happened, market went down, I actually decided I was going to become a fireman. So funny I said drinking from a fire hose, funny enough.

Jill K DeWit:
Love it.

Casey:
I spent five years as a fireman, but I also was still doing real estate on the side, just not as much as I was. Fast forward... I don't know, that was 2008... fast forward 10 years, I started getting more heavily involved in real estate, became a licensed agent again working as a realtor on the daily. Saw a book, started reading the book, got interested in land, took a little while to kind of do something. I was just finagling around on YouTube one night, found you all. I don't even remember if it was a podcast or what, but it was on YouTube, started watching some videos. And it wasn't not even a month, it was probably a couple of weeks that Career Path came out. I was like, "I'm doing this. I don't know what all it involves but I'm going to do it." That was, like I said, just over a year ago that've I've been calling it doing it full time. My wife allowed me to-

Steven Jack Butala:
Did you start as a commercial real estate agent. Did you seek that out?

Casey:
I didn't seek it out, no, just kind of started doing. In all reality I-

Steven Jack Butala:
What was the first deal you did? Did you sell a house first or was it commercial?

Casey:
Yeah, mainly I sold homes. And very similar to land, everything that I've done I've actually purchased and sold. For all of my investing stuff, I bought and then sold. So like hotel, bought and then sold it. Mobile homes, mobile home park, same thing, as opposed to listing it. Everything I've done as far as a real estate agent has been residen...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Casey Jewett Interview (LA 1790)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have member, Casey Jewett, who just informed us he's been a member for a year. But for some reason, I thought you were a member for a really long time. It doesn't matter.

Jill K DeWit:
That's good.

Casey:
Time flies.

Jill K DeWit:
You are involved and that's what's important. So thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you said yes, that's what's important. You said yes to my assistant, Gabriel and thank you for being on the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Casey:
Of course, of course. It's hard to say no to you guys.

Jill K DeWit:
Aw, thank you very much.

Steven Jack Butala:
So how's Land Academy working out for you?

Casey:
It's well. Initially it's like drinking from a fire hose. There's just a lot of information, a lot of moving parts, you have to take it all in stride and take small steps as you move forward because there's going to be a lot that hits you, and a lot that continues, things that you maybe thought you knew that you don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's how I would describe the Land Academy for myself.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. What did you do before this? There's a certain mindset we pick up on people that get it and then some that don't get it. So what's your background?

Casey:
In college, my internship was actually as a real estate agent. So I got into real estate in 2005 initially in that regard. It just so happened that where I went to school they had a new internship and it was at one of the real estate agencies. I was like, "Cool, I can do that." My grandfather was an agent many, many years ago. I was like, "I'll give it a shot. See what's going on here," and so I became a realtor. They paid for my classes to take, get my license and kind of moved through that. I've been in real estate a long time. I've never done land, it's just not something that I had ever thought of. I have bought and sold hotels, residential real estate, mobile homes, mobile home parks, all kinds of things. I've been in the real estate realm for quite a while. 2008 happened, market went down, I actually decided I was going to become a fireman. So funny I said drinking from a fire hose, funny enough.

Jill K DeWit:
Love it.

Casey:
I spent five years as a fireman, but I also was still doing real estate on the side, just not as much as I was. Fast forward... I don't know, that was 2008... fast forward 10 years, I started getting more heavily involved in real estate, became a licensed agent again working as a realtor on the daily. Saw a book, started reading the book, got interested in land, took a little while to kind of do something. I was just finagling around on YouTube one night, found you all. I don't even remember if it was a podcast or what, but it was on YouTube, started watching some videos. And it wasn't not even a month, it was probably a couple of weeks that Career Path came out. I was like, "I'm doing this. I don't know what all it involves but I'm going to do it." That was, like I said, just over a year ago that've I've been calling it doing it full time. My wife allowed me to-

Steven Jack Butala:
Did you start as a commercial real estate agent. Did you seek that out?

Casey:
I didn't seek it out, no, just kind of started doing. In all reality I-

Steven Jack Butala:
What was the first deal you did? Did you sell a house first or was it commercial?

Casey:
Yeah, mainly I sold homes. And very similar to land, everything that I've done I've actually purchased and sold. For all of my investing stuff, I bought and then sold. So like hotel, bought and then sold it. Mobile homes, mobile home park, same thing, as opposed to listing it. Everything I've done as far as a real estate agent has been residen...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/22/land-academy-member-casey-jewett-interview-la-1790/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sVxsV2473</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5ea27fff-ed7a-4899-ba77-8eec411a247b.mp3" length="26780183" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Investors Discord Noob Channel Gives you Confidence (LA 1789)</title><itunes:title>Land Investors Discord Noob Channel Gives you Confidence (LA 1789)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Investors Discord Noob Channel Gives you Confidence (LA 1789)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, lovingly looking at my partner, bright and broadcasting from the belly of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic is land investors, Discord Newbie channel Gives You Confidence.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Let's let me, you want me to give the backstory now or give the backstory in a minute?

Steven Jack Butala:
Now.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So like where did you guys come up with this one? Okay. So here's the deal. I was having a conversation with someone in our community and they're, they're saying I'm struggling. I'm like, what's going on? Like, well, I sent out $15,000. I spent $15,000 in data and mail and all that stuff and I haven't done a deal. So I'm thinking about buying one from you guys or some in our community. I'm like, hold on a moment. I'm like, I'm sure there's a deal there. You cannot spend that much money and work that hard at this and not get a deal out of it. And then I uncovered that. Yeah. I'm probably not following up on these people like I should.
When they come in, I'm like, well, it's not too late. I told the story of these. It was brothers or cousins a while back,

Steven Jack Butala:
Brothers.

Jill K DeWit:
Brothers that we had done a consulting call with. This is like two or so years ago, maybe three years ago at the beach. And they were, they were saying, oh, our first mailer a flop. And you and I both said, let's look at it. And we went, we went through their mailer and I said, well, what's wrong with that one? And like, all the people that had called back, they had a list of like 20. So we looked them up and like, what's wrong with that one? And what's wrong with that one? What's wrong with that one? They're like, oh, they kicked all these deals to the curb. So we're like, why don't you call these people back and get this going again and do something.
And they did. And it worked and it was great. So I told this story to this woman. I said, you've got some gold right there. I'm sure you do. You just need to reach out to these people and revive this conversation and make it happen. Re-look at these again. And by the way, two things, one good point is now maybe enough time has passed. They're even worth more, which is not bad. So if you can still revive them from close to your original offer, the property's probably worth more, because that's the way things have been going right now. Yay. You won even more and they've had more time too, to stare at this and wish it was sold and all that good stuff. So they're going to love to hear from you, but the backstory comes to, you know what? I think you need to hang out a little bit more with your peers. And if you hang out with your peers in Discord, you're going to soak up some knowledge and probably confidence.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have a lot to say before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And Jill and I started it operates very successfully. A full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners, offers the number two owners.com to get your mailers out. Yep. If you can't stand the thought of doing a mailer, we have a product for you. Yep. It's called concierge data. We do your entire mailer. We give it to you. You price it at the end,

Jill K DeWit:
Pull the data.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, we got the whole thing. It's an amazingly popular service. So popular last week we had to shut it down.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. We were backed up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cause we couldn't back. Keep up with the orders. So it's not just a printing company. We actually do the mailers for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.
Check it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're hiring. We're hiring to keep up with the demand, by the way,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Investors Discord Noob Channel Gives you Confidence (LA 1789)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, lovingly looking at my partner, bright and broadcasting from the belly of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic is land investors, Discord Newbie channel Gives You Confidence.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Let's let me, you want me to give the backstory now or give the backstory in a minute?

Steven Jack Butala:
Now.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So like where did you guys come up with this one? Okay. So here's the deal. I was having a conversation with someone in our community and they're, they're saying I'm struggling. I'm like, what's going on? Like, well, I sent out $15,000. I spent $15,000 in data and mail and all that stuff and I haven't done a deal. So I'm thinking about buying one from you guys or some in our community. I'm like, hold on a moment. I'm like, I'm sure there's a deal there. You cannot spend that much money and work that hard at this and not get a deal out of it. And then I uncovered that. Yeah. I'm probably not following up on these people like I should.
When they come in, I'm like, well, it's not too late. I told the story of these. It was brothers or cousins a while back,

Steven Jack Butala:
Brothers.

Jill K DeWit:
Brothers that we had done a consulting call with. This is like two or so years ago, maybe three years ago at the beach. And they were, they were saying, oh, our first mailer a flop. And you and I both said, let's look at it. And we went, we went through their mailer and I said, well, what's wrong with that one? And like, all the people that had called back, they had a list of like 20. So we looked them up and like, what's wrong with that one? And what's wrong with that one? What's wrong with that one? They're like, oh, they kicked all these deals to the curb. So we're like, why don't you call these people back and get this going again and do something.
And they did. And it worked and it was great. So I told this story to this woman. I said, you've got some gold right there. I'm sure you do. You just need to reach out to these people and revive this conversation and make it happen. Re-look at these again. And by the way, two things, one good point is now maybe enough time has passed. They're even worth more, which is not bad. So if you can still revive them from close to your original offer, the property's probably worth more, because that's the way things have been going right now. Yay. You won even more and they've had more time too, to stare at this and wish it was sold and all that good stuff. So they're going to love to hear from you, but the backstory comes to, you know what? I think you need to hang out a little bit more with your peers. And if you hang out with your peers in Discord, you're going to soak up some knowledge and probably confidence.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have a lot to say before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And Jill and I started it operates very successfully. A full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners, offers the number two owners.com to get your mailers out. Yep. If you can't stand the thought of doing a mailer, we have a product for you. Yep. It's called concierge data. We do your entire mailer. We give it to you. You price it at the end,

Jill K DeWit:
Pull the data.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, we got the whole thing. It's an amazingly popular service. So popular last week we had to shut it down.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. We were backed up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Cause we couldn't back. Keep up with the orders. So it's not just a printing company. We actually do the mailers for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.
Check it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're hiring. We're hiring to keep up with the demand, by the way,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/21/land-investors-discord-noob-channel-gives-you-confidence-la-1789/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6AmParSZr</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/48a663cf-7ae4-4c92-b2a3-ab31d39a2bfa.mp3" length="15911839" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Stories of Great Land Brokers (LA 1788)</title><itunes:title>Stories of Great Land Brokers (LA 1788)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Stories of Great Land Brokers (LA 1788)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about stories of great land brokers. Jill and I were talking a couple of days ago about the deals that we're doing, like we always do. And she was telling me these stories about all these-

Jill K DeWit:
What a difference.

Steven Jack Butala:
... these great brokers that she's finding.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, wait a minute. Because of not great brokers, the great ones stand out. Let's be clear here.

Steven Jack Butala:
So we bash real estate agents all the time on this show with the... It's kind of a hobby of mine.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
But this show is not about that. This show is about good ones, because there are a lot of good ones out there.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope by now you know Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, live on Zoom, called Career Path. It's 10 weeks, and if this is your career, or you want it to be, check it out. Call us, or email us I should say, at support@landacademy.com, and see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Aston wrote, "Hi, I have an interested seller for my first mailer, which is an infill lot. The guy inherited it from his mom, who also left her home and another property to him, his sister and his brother, who is in prison. Does anyone have an experience trying to get signatures from someone in prison?" I've not had that one. "If the numbers make sense, is this something that I should pursue, or a lost cause? Thoughts?" Well I wouldn't drop it yet.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not a lost cause at all.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there's a way.

Steven Jack Butala:
In fact, I'm sure this is a benefit to you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
People in prison sign stuff all the time.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there's a way that you can request the documents. They probably have a notary on staff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely. Plus, people in prisons have lawyers, so-

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't have any personal experience with this. This is quite the topic in Discord. Everybody kind of just said the same thing I just said. People sign documents all the time.

Jill K DeWit:
Most people, I bet if you're in prison, let's just say it, and you know you might have some legal things that need to get taken care of while you're in prison, you probably have an attorney or somebody already lined up, and you already have a power of attorney to that person, and then they can do all the stuff for you. So it's probably in place. But I have not had to do that yet. Nor do I plan to learn about it from the other side.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, stories of great land brokers. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So this started because, you walked in my office the other day and I said, "Check out this conversation with Jan and I that's happening inside of Airtable."

Steven Jack Butala:
Who's Jan?

Jill K DeWit:
Jan is my transaction [crosstalk 00:02:53].

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh.

Jill K DeWit:
So this is really how we communicate. We don't even communicate as much like via Skype or Teams or chatting like that, or texting. Pretty much all of our communication, and not even email, it's in Airtable. Airtable is... it's like Excel on steroids. It's a great place to keep track of all your transactions. How we move our properties through the system. Everything that we do. Properties come in, it goes into our Airtable base, and it gets assigned to a person. And then there's a task. It might be,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Stories of Great Land Brokers (LA 1788)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about stories of great land brokers. Jill and I were talking a couple of days ago about the deals that we're doing, like we always do. And she was telling me these stories about all these-

Jill K DeWit:
What a difference.

Steven Jack Butala:
... these great brokers that she's finding.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, wait a minute. Because of not great brokers, the great ones stand out. Let's be clear here.

Steven Jack Butala:
So we bash real estate agents all the time on this show with the... It's kind of a hobby of mine.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
But this show is not about that. This show is about good ones, because there are a lot of good ones out there.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope by now you know Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, live on Zoom, called Career Path. It's 10 weeks, and if this is your career, or you want it to be, check it out. Call us, or email us I should say, at support@landacademy.com, and see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Aston wrote, "Hi, I have an interested seller for my first mailer, which is an infill lot. The guy inherited it from his mom, who also left her home and another property to him, his sister and his brother, who is in prison. Does anyone have an experience trying to get signatures from someone in prison?" I've not had that one. "If the numbers make sense, is this something that I should pursue, or a lost cause? Thoughts?" Well I wouldn't drop it yet.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not a lost cause at all.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there's a way.

Steven Jack Butala:
In fact, I'm sure this is a benefit to you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
People in prison sign stuff all the time.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there's a way that you can request the documents. They probably have a notary on staff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely. Plus, people in prisons have lawyers, so-

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't have any personal experience with this. This is quite the topic in Discord. Everybody kind of just said the same thing I just said. People sign documents all the time.

Jill K DeWit:
Most people, I bet if you're in prison, let's just say it, and you know you might have some legal things that need to get taken care of while you're in prison, you probably have an attorney or somebody already lined up, and you already have a power of attorney to that person, and then they can do all the stuff for you. So it's probably in place. But I have not had to do that yet. Nor do I plan to learn about it from the other side.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, stories of great land brokers. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So this started because, you walked in my office the other day and I said, "Check out this conversation with Jan and I that's happening inside of Airtable."

Steven Jack Butala:
Who's Jan?

Jill K DeWit:
Jan is my transaction [crosstalk 00:02:53].

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh.

Jill K DeWit:
So this is really how we communicate. We don't even communicate as much like via Skype or Teams or chatting like that, or texting. Pretty much all of our communication, and not even email, it's in Airtable. Airtable is... it's like Excel on steroids. It's a great place to keep track of all your transactions. How we move our properties through the system. Everything that we do. Properties come in, it goes into our Airtable base, and it gets assigned to a person. And then there's a task. It might be,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/20/stories-of-great-land-brokers-la-1788/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pcE9Jqwte</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c9309ec3-ceaa-4680-a4dc-971c10ad1333.mp3" length="13673450" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Reverse Bucket List (LA 1787)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Reverse Bucket List (LA 1787)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Reverse Bucket List (LA 1787)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about her concept of a reverse bucket list.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it though. Oh...

Jill K DeWit:
It's okay. No, go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Tell us what a reverse bucket list is.

Jill K DeWit:
No, we'll just save it. I'll dive right in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And I got to tell you, back in the day, it was impossible to find real estate on the internet without a mailing address.

Jill K DeWit:
It still is impossible.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's very difficult now.

Jill K DeWit:
But we solved it.

Steven Jack Butala:
We developed a tool called NeighborScoop.com, where all you do is you put in... It's custom for how we need to find real estate and the facts that we need to know in less than 15 seconds to decide whether or not we're going to maybe take a crack at buying it. It's called NeighborScoop.com, and all you got to do is type in state, county, and the assessor's parcel number and it pops right up.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I was materially personally involved in developing that site and I'm pretty proud of it.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. Luke wrote, "Hey, all. I have a few properties that a seller has told me they're willing to sell. Trouble is I'm having a hard time deciding what I think they will retail for. I find the comps to be sporadic."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
"$170,000 for a half acre on this side of the road, $50,000 for 15 acres one mile west. You get the picture. Comps are not painting a clear view. What do you suggest I do in this case? I feel bad calling a realtor when I don't even have a signed contract. Even if I did have a signed deal, it would not likely be a solid price. It would need to be renegotiated. How can I get a better sense of what it's worth? And do I try and kill the deal?"

Steven Jack Butala:
No. No, you don't try to kill it.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait. Hold on one moment. Let me explain the try to kill the deal thing. Trying to kill the deal is trying to get the deal, but at a price that's so great you will buy it and feel great about it because you can't lose, so I understand with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill came up with concept. Jill personally came up with this concept quite some time ago. She calls it, trying to kill your own deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
What she means is you're trying to get it for such a stupidly low price. First of all, you don't like the piece of property that much.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so you sent an offer for 30,000. They said, "I'll take 35." You look up the deal. It's like, you know what? This is probably worth 5,000 bucks.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to try to kill my own deal.

Jill K DeWit:
You're going to come in with a number.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to go back in.

Jill K DeWit:
That's just so crazy low that... All right, everything about it's fine. It's just the price. That's the one thing that's doing it. And then maybe this, but you know what? If I can get it for five or eight, then I know it'll solve all those issues and I cannot lose. That's trying to kill your own deal. You come back and go, "Look, I don't mean to insult you. I know I said 30. You said 35." I looked it up and I'm like, "I hate to tell you this, but because of this, this and this, it's not even worth that. It's not even worth my original 30. Hey, the best I can do is eight. If that works for you, great.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Reverse Bucket List (LA 1787)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about her concept of a reverse bucket list.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it though. Oh...

Jill K DeWit:
It's okay. No, go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Tell us what a reverse bucket list is.

Jill K DeWit:
No, we'll just save it. I'll dive right in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And I got to tell you, back in the day, it was impossible to find real estate on the internet without a mailing address.

Jill K DeWit:
It still is impossible.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's very difficult now.

Jill K DeWit:
But we solved it.

Steven Jack Butala:
We developed a tool called NeighborScoop.com, where all you do is you put in... It's custom for how we need to find real estate and the facts that we need to know in less than 15 seconds to decide whether or not we're going to maybe take a crack at buying it. It's called NeighborScoop.com, and all you got to do is type in state, county, and the assessor's parcel number and it pops right up.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I was materially personally involved in developing that site and I'm pretty proud of it.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. Luke wrote, "Hey, all. I have a few properties that a seller has told me they're willing to sell. Trouble is I'm having a hard time deciding what I think they will retail for. I find the comps to be sporadic."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
"$170,000 for a half acre on this side of the road, $50,000 for 15 acres one mile west. You get the picture. Comps are not painting a clear view. What do you suggest I do in this case? I feel bad calling a realtor when I don't even have a signed contract. Even if I did have a signed deal, it would not likely be a solid price. It would need to be renegotiated. How can I get a better sense of what it's worth? And do I try and kill the deal?"

Steven Jack Butala:
No. No, you don't try to kill it.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait. Hold on one moment. Let me explain the try to kill the deal thing. Trying to kill the deal is trying to get the deal, but at a price that's so great you will buy it and feel great about it because you can't lose, so I understand with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill came up with concept. Jill personally came up with this concept quite some time ago. She calls it, trying to kill your own deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
What she means is you're trying to get it for such a stupidly low price. First of all, you don't like the piece of property that much.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so you sent an offer for 30,000. They said, "I'll take 35." You look up the deal. It's like, you know what? This is probably worth 5,000 bucks.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to try to kill my own deal.

Jill K DeWit:
You're going to come in with a number.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to go back in.

Jill K DeWit:
That's just so crazy low that... All right, everything about it's fine. It's just the price. That's the one thing that's doing it. And then maybe this, but you know what? If I can get it for five or eight, then I know it'll solve all those issues and I cannot lose. That's trying to kill your own deal. You come back and go, "Look, I don't mean to insult you. I know I said 30. You said 35." I looked it up and I'm like, "I hate to tell you this, but because of this, this and this, it's not even worth that. It's not even worth my original 30. Hey, the best I can do is eight. If that works for you, great.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/17/jill-friday-reverse-bucket-list-la-1787/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BVI7IQYUn</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b5a46e0f-63a1-47cb-a8a3-33bae3691f5b.mp3" length="19547427" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; The Concept of Respect (LA 1786)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; The Concept of Respect (LA 1786)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - The Concept of Respect (LA 1786)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land, Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday.

Jill K DeWit:
And we're going to talk about the concept of respect. I wrote it down, so I thought I'd help there. And this is kind of your thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm really curious. So when we sit down and do the topics, sometimes I'm involved with them and sometimes I'm not involved in the topics each week because things happen throughout the week. He goes, "that's going to be a show. That's going to be a show". So then I don't even know what's coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
We were talking. There was a string on Discord about legal stuff. Get this, you don't probably even know this. Somebody sent a mailer out. I don't want to freak everybody out, but stuff like this happens once in a while. And they sent a mailer out to everybody, let's just say in Tennessee, who owns real estate. And as you know, as we all know, we don't send letters to the actual, the piece of dirt, nobody lives there. There's not a mailbox. There's not even a mailing address in most cases. So we send it to where the tax bills get sent. And somebody happened to live in Iowa, who is very, very, very familiar with the Iowa law. And so they blew a gasket and called the Iowa attorney general. And it was all fine. This happens once in a while, every month-

Jill K DeWit:
There's always one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every month. I've talked to a lot of attorney generals over my career because it turns out some people don't really believe in how we value property, which I understand. And so there's a law in Iowa that prevents out-of-state LLCs, out-of-state entities that are not individuals like Jill Dewitt. It prevents them from buying farmland and it's in response to, I'm grossly oversimplifying this because it just, I am. It's in response to federal laws that have been going on for a while. There's huge, huge tax advantages for businesses to offset the regular ordinary gains, taxable gains, by owning farmland and leasing it out and getting tax credits.

Jill K DeWit:
In Iowa.

Steven Jack Butala:
In Iowa.

Jill K DeWit:
Nevermind the property's not in Iowa.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Keep going.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so, there's a happy ending to this story. It was all fine, but this person, they freaked out.

Jill K DeWit:
He got bullied in schools is what happened.

Steven Jack Butala:
Freaked out. The attorney general from California called me one time, woke me up. I'm sitting there shaking. What did I do? This is a lot, lot of years ago, right. When I started all this and he was fortunately, and I told this story on Discord, I typed the whole thing out. Fortunately, he was about the nicest guy there ever was. He said, look I know you didn't do anything wrong. I am obligated to follow up. I got to build a file. I got to open the file. And I got to close the file. And I have to show that I responded to this complaint. He said, "This is the last time you're going to hear from me". I wouldn't have slept for months if this guy, you know, "This is the last time you're going to hear from me, just-"

Jill K DeWit:
"Humor me".

Steven Jack Butala:
"Just humor me-"

Jill K DeWit:
"Knock it off."

Steven Jack Butala:
"And just mind your manners." He didn't tell me not to send a mailer again. So this person in Discord copied and pasted- oh my gosh, this is a whole, we didn't even do the thing yet. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
You are just so darn excited.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - The Concept of Respect (LA 1786)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show Entertaining Land, Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday.

Jill K DeWit:
And we're going to talk about the concept of respect. I wrote it down, so I thought I'd help there. And this is kind of your thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm really curious. So when we sit down and do the topics, sometimes I'm involved with them and sometimes I'm not involved in the topics each week because things happen throughout the week. He goes, "that's going to be a show. That's going to be a show". So then I don't even know what's coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
We were talking. There was a string on Discord about legal stuff. Get this, you don't probably even know this. Somebody sent a mailer out. I don't want to freak everybody out, but stuff like this happens once in a while. And they sent a mailer out to everybody, let's just say in Tennessee, who owns real estate. And as you know, as we all know, we don't send letters to the actual, the piece of dirt, nobody lives there. There's not a mailbox. There's not even a mailing address in most cases. So we send it to where the tax bills get sent. And somebody happened to live in Iowa, who is very, very, very familiar with the Iowa law. And so they blew a gasket and called the Iowa attorney general. And it was all fine. This happens once in a while, every month-

Jill K DeWit:
There's always one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every month. I've talked to a lot of attorney generals over my career because it turns out some people don't really believe in how we value property, which I understand. And so there's a law in Iowa that prevents out-of-state LLCs, out-of-state entities that are not individuals like Jill Dewitt. It prevents them from buying farmland and it's in response to, I'm grossly oversimplifying this because it just, I am. It's in response to federal laws that have been going on for a while. There's huge, huge tax advantages for businesses to offset the regular ordinary gains, taxable gains, by owning farmland and leasing it out and getting tax credits.

Jill K DeWit:
In Iowa.

Steven Jack Butala:
In Iowa.

Jill K DeWit:
Nevermind the property's not in Iowa.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Keep going.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so, there's a happy ending to this story. It was all fine, but this person, they freaked out.

Jill K DeWit:
He got bullied in schools is what happened.

Steven Jack Butala:
Freaked out. The attorney general from California called me one time, woke me up. I'm sitting there shaking. What did I do? This is a lot, lot of years ago, right. When I started all this and he was fortunately, and I told this story on Discord, I typed the whole thing out. Fortunately, he was about the nicest guy there ever was. He said, look I know you didn't do anything wrong. I am obligated to follow up. I got to build a file. I got to open the file. And I got to close the file. And I have to show that I responded to this complaint. He said, "This is the last time you're going to hear from me". I wouldn't have slept for months if this guy, you know, "This is the last time you're going to hear from me, just-"

Jill K DeWit:
"Humor me".

Steven Jack Butala:
"Just humor me-"

Jill K DeWit:
"Knock it off."

Steven Jack Butala:
"And just mind your manners." He didn't tell me not to send a mailer again. So this person in Discord copied and pasted- oh my gosh, this is a whole, we didn't even do the thing yet. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
You are just so darn excited.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/16/jack-thursday-the-concept-of-respect-la-1786/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">DPCD6bhj2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/acc41f48-e34a-403b-9c7d-04677233c5c1.mp3" length="15966152" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Member Laurie Phillips Interviews Jack and Jill (LA 1785)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Member Laurie Phillips Interviews Jack and Jill (LA 1785)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Laurie Phillips Interviews Jack and Jill (LA 1785)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today once again, Laurie Phillips joins us in a reverse role. She's actually going to interview Jill and I, and hopefully ask some questions or discuss some topics that Jill and I have forgotten to cover because we're so neck deep into this whole business.

Jill K DeWit:
This is Laurie's show today. This is what this is. Laurie gets to lead this show and ask whatever she wants. I'm so excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too. Hi Laurie.

Laurie:
Great. Well, thank you for inviting me to be back on. I know we spend a lot of time together on our Thursday calls and in career path and the advanced member calls, but I've really never had the opportunity to sit down and just kind of grill you on some of these things and get your opinion. I'm sure you'll have one. So to get started, I have been a business consultant for most of my life and very, very early on I was taught that when you interview people, you start out with a really easy question to kind of warm them up. So here's my question for you to get started. Have you ever lived on railroad tracks?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you want some details on that?

Laurie:
Well, I do want details and then I'll tell you why I'm asking.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a great question.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm a little nervous right now. I just got to say, I realized, whoa, it's different being on the other side.

Laurie:
Yeah, Jill's going to learn something. Go ahead, Steve.

Steven Jack Butala:
The freight rail went straight through the middle of Michigan State's Campus where I graduated and I had a dorm for... It was less than a year because I couldn't take it because of this exact topic. So I lived... it was right out of a movie, right on the tracks. In fact, one of our extracurricular activities, as you can imagine, was to have a bunch of beers and then go out and stand as close to the train flying by as you possibly can. And if you've never done that, you need to do that in your life.

Jill K DeWit:
Nice.

Laurie:
Okay.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, my gosh. I've never lived next to railroad tracks, but I had my own version. In Tustin, I lived right next to the five, literally, our backyard, a wall, freeway. So I did a version of that and because it's Southern California, it never stopped. So you just got used to that hum of the cars.

Steven Jack Butala:
To this day, I can't stand to be anywhere near an interstate.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably because of the train scathing.

Jill K DeWit:
That's all we could afford. That was with my roommate and I, when we first moved out, that's what we could afford.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can we ask you the same thing? The same question?

Jill K DeWit:
No. It's Laurie's show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, we can't? Okay.

Laurie:
Actually, I'll answer it and I'll tell you why. When I was in college, starving student, my friend and I rented a place that was right on the tracks, literally 50 feet from the tracks and the train came through late at night, probably two or three in the morning. And the first week it was like someone hit you with a defib because you just went, ah, when train came by. And after a week you didn't even notice it, didn't even hear it. But when visitors would come and stay with us, they had that experience and it was always kind of funny. But the reason I'm asking is we will frequently look at property that's on a train track on our Thursday calls. And I wondered what your thoughts were about whether that really has much effect whether the property's going to sell at a good price.

Jill K DeWit:
It weighs in a little bit,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Laurie Phillips Interviews Jack and Jill (LA 1785)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today once again, Laurie Phillips joins us in a reverse role. She's actually going to interview Jill and I, and hopefully ask some questions or discuss some topics that Jill and I have forgotten to cover because we're so neck deep into this whole business.

Jill K DeWit:
This is Laurie's show today. This is what this is. Laurie gets to lead this show and ask whatever she wants. I'm so excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too. Hi Laurie.

Laurie:
Great. Well, thank you for inviting me to be back on. I know we spend a lot of time together on our Thursday calls and in career path and the advanced member calls, but I've really never had the opportunity to sit down and just kind of grill you on some of these things and get your opinion. I'm sure you'll have one. So to get started, I have been a business consultant for most of my life and very, very early on I was taught that when you interview people, you start out with a really easy question to kind of warm them up. So here's my question for you to get started. Have you ever lived on railroad tracks?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you want some details on that?

Laurie:
Well, I do want details and then I'll tell you why I'm asking.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a great question.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm a little nervous right now. I just got to say, I realized, whoa, it's different being on the other side.

Laurie:
Yeah, Jill's going to learn something. Go ahead, Steve.

Steven Jack Butala:
The freight rail went straight through the middle of Michigan State's Campus where I graduated and I had a dorm for... It was less than a year because I couldn't take it because of this exact topic. So I lived... it was right out of a movie, right on the tracks. In fact, one of our extracurricular activities, as you can imagine, was to have a bunch of beers and then go out and stand as close to the train flying by as you possibly can. And if you've never done that, you need to do that in your life.

Jill K DeWit:
Nice.

Laurie:
Okay.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, my gosh. I've never lived next to railroad tracks, but I had my own version. In Tustin, I lived right next to the five, literally, our backyard, a wall, freeway. So I did a version of that and because it's Southern California, it never stopped. So you just got used to that hum of the cars.

Steven Jack Butala:
To this day, I can't stand to be anywhere near an interstate.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably because of the train scathing.

Jill K DeWit:
That's all we could afford. That was with my roommate and I, when we first moved out, that's what we could afford.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can we ask you the same thing? The same question?

Jill K DeWit:
No. It's Laurie's show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, we can't? Okay.

Laurie:
Actually, I'll answer it and I'll tell you why. When I was in college, starving student, my friend and I rented a place that was right on the tracks, literally 50 feet from the tracks and the train came through late at night, probably two or three in the morning. And the first week it was like someone hit you with a defib because you just went, ah, when train came by. And after a week you didn't even notice it, didn't even hear it. But when visitors would come and stay with us, they had that experience and it was always kind of funny. But the reason I'm asking is we will frequently look at property that's on a train track on our Thursday calls. And I wondered what your thoughts were about whether that really has much effect whether the property's going to sell at a good price.

Jill K DeWit:
It weighs in a little bit,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/15/land-academy-member-laurie-phillips-interviews-jack-and-jill-la-1785/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2OysJmFM2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/213320b5-ccab-41cd-b3b9-4d7802459fbf.mp3" length="53712758" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>55:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>So Much Land Investing Success on Discord (LA 1784)</title><itunes:title>So Much Land Investing Success on Discord (LA 1784)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[So Much Land Investing Success on Discord (LA 1784)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how much there's just so much land investing success being reported on our little discord community for Land Academy. Before we really, you can get a peak at it. If you're not a Land Academy member, just go to landinvestors.com. Right on the front page, there's a view only and just scroll around, take a look at-

Jill K DeWit:
The conversations.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can see what we're talking about with each other and how and why it's such a really, really effective tool.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now, you know that Jill and I have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers2owners.com. We only send out offers to owners to buy real estate, whether it's houses or land or whatever. We don't print catalogs. We don't take on any type of orders in any way for any of that stuff. And it's very successful. We send out between half a million and 8 or 900,000 letters for customers every month.

Jill K DeWit:
Steve H wrote, I was waiting for this-

Steven Jack Butala:
Teleprompter.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep, was waiting for it to catch up with me. I didn't have a brain fart or whatever that is.

Steven Jack Butala:
What?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. Like people say you're brain freezes. They say that, so, okay. So, this is obviously something I figured was going to tie into today's show. So Steve H wrote, I just broke a million bucks in partnership. I'm guessing partnerships deals.

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve H is a funder.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
He doesn't send his own mailers out. He's been in our group for about a year.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. [inaudible 00:02:00].

Steven Jack Butala:
Real actively discord. And he's just recently broke a million bucks. He's placed a million dollars of his own money.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
For other people to-

Jill K DeWit:
Get their deals funded.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what people don't realize. There's a healthy group of folks like Steve in our community that are not here to do it, to send their own mail and answer their own phone and get their own deals up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
They're here to fund people's deals and make money.

Steven Jack Butala:
But it's all in discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, the value too for him is he knows how smart these people are. He's here for a reason. He could be out on the street funding other people's deals, but he doesn't know what they know. He doesn't know what the background is, where they were trained, how they found the deal, the mechanics, all of that, which is so valuable. I too-

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me get this out of the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, so much land investing success on discord. This is why you're listening. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Is that just killing you? Just killing you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I have a lot to say too.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. No, I was just going to say though, and I do that too. I have to tell you, I do fund other people's deals, but it's not that often because you know what? Most of the other people's deals that are not Land Academy members that make it to me, there's problems. They bought them wrong. There's an agent involved. They don't know what they're doing. I'm just like, "Nope, nope, nope, nope and nope."

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a disproportionate number of people in our group who have other companies. And Steve's one of them.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[So Much Land Investing Success on Discord (LA 1784)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how much there's just so much land investing success being reported on our little discord community for Land Academy. Before we really, you can get a peak at it. If you're not a Land Academy member, just go to landinvestors.com. Right on the front page, there's a view only and just scroll around, take a look at-

Jill K DeWit:
The conversations.

Steven Jack Butala:
You can see what we're talking about with each other and how and why it's such a really, really effective tool.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now, you know that Jill and I have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers2owners.com. We only send out offers to owners to buy real estate, whether it's houses or land or whatever. We don't print catalogs. We don't take on any type of orders in any way for any of that stuff. And it's very successful. We send out between half a million and 8 or 900,000 letters for customers every month.

Jill K DeWit:
Steve H wrote, I was waiting for this-

Steven Jack Butala:
Teleprompter.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep, was waiting for it to catch up with me. I didn't have a brain fart or whatever that is.

Steven Jack Butala:
What?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. Like people say you're brain freezes. They say that, so, okay. So, this is obviously something I figured was going to tie into today's show. So Steve H wrote, I just broke a million bucks in partnership. I'm guessing partnerships deals.

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve H is a funder.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
He doesn't send his own mailers out. He's been in our group for about a year.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. [inaudible 00:02:00].

Steven Jack Butala:
Real actively discord. And he's just recently broke a million bucks. He's placed a million dollars of his own money.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
For other people to-

Jill K DeWit:
Get their deals funded.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what people don't realize. There's a healthy group of folks like Steve in our community that are not here to do it, to send their own mail and answer their own phone and get their own deals up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
They're here to fund people's deals and make money.

Steven Jack Butala:
But it's all in discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, the value too for him is he knows how smart these people are. He's here for a reason. He could be out on the street funding other people's deals, but he doesn't know what they know. He doesn't know what the background is, where they were trained, how they found the deal, the mechanics, all of that, which is so valuable. I too-

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me get this out of the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, so much land investing success on discord. This is why you're listening. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Is that just killing you? Just killing you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I have a lot to say too.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. No, I was just going to say though, and I do that too. I have to tell you, I do fund other people's deals, but it's not that often because you know what? Most of the other people's deals that are not Land Academy members that make it to me, there's problems. They bought them wrong. There's an agent involved. They don't know what they're doing. I'm just like, "Nope, nope, nope, nope and nope."

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a disproportionate number of people in our group who have other companies. And Steve's one of them.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/14/so-much-land-investing-success-on-discord-la-1784/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fuzEiLAuL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/42718ede-a08a-440a-917e-1466f934589b.mp3" length="12486918" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Accountability in Your Land Investing Adventure (LA 1783)</title><itunes:title>Accountability in Your Land Investing Adventure (LA 1783)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Accountability in Your Land Investing Adventure (LA 1783)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about accountability in your land investing adventure. This has been... I belong to a group. The way that a lot of Land Academy members are members of Land Academy, I'm a member of a mobile home park group. And accountability was a real hot topic this week because, and the guys that run this mobile home group are 10 times more cranky than I am and they're... Well, I'll get into it in the show.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now that Jill and I run a small crew, every quarter, consulting slash, what would you call it? Class. It's a masterclass,

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Called Career Path. If this is your career, or you want it to be, let us know. Support@landacademy.com.

Jill K DeWit:
David N wrote, "I just sent my first mailer out. I was wondering if on future mailers, I should include a picture of my wife and I, plus our dogs, just to add a little more personal touch to it. Makes it look a little more personal, and less like junk mail. What are your thoughts?"
Not a fan of that, but definitely on your website. That's what I personally think.

Steven Jack Butala:
David got obliterated on Discord on this.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh no. Did everybody say the same thing, like "Don't do that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
The reason I put this in here is not to make fun of you, David, at all. Because I think it's great that you're questioning everything, and you should, all the way through this. But please do me a favor and everybody else a favor, and stick to exactly what goes on in Land Academy 3.0. Just do what Jill and I say to the letter, make a bunch of money, and then start to make it your own.
People in Career Path, this is what they've done. They did it our way for a year, made a bunch of money, proved the concept to themselves and their spouses and whoever else. And then they said, "You know, I'd really just like to do info lots." Or, "I'd just like to do ranches." Or, "I'd just like to buy and sell recreation property, and I'd like to only do it over here." Or, "I'd like to send."
We have got a person in our advanced group. I love this. And I think it's nuts. I would never do it, but I'm probably going to do it now, just because he said it. He downloaded a dataset, a long time ago. It was a huge dataset, 50, 60, 70,000 records. And he just keeps mailing the same area over and over and over again with the same dataset. And for years he's been doing it.

Jill K DeWit:
He's just picking up, and he's been hanging on for two years in that area.

Steven Jack Butala:
And he just keeps buying property on the same dataset.

Jill K DeWit:
'Cause every time you just pick up more. No one remembers that you're the one that sent the letter the last time, for him. And you skip, because you're just hitting those people. It's the situation now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Am I recommending that you do that? Absolutely not.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
He did it because, he did it our way for a while, it worked great, and then he made it his own.

Jill K DeWit:
You and I said that, remember a long time ago when we were doing LA county. I'm like, "We could hang out in LA county and probably retire with property in LA."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Just keep working the area, changing it up a little bit, doing a little bit this zip code, that zip code, this size, that size. That could be what he's doing, too. He could be going, "I did all the five to tens. Now I do the ten to twenties. Now I'm doing the twenties and above.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Accountability in Your Land Investing Adventure (LA 1783)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about accountability in your land investing adventure. This has been... I belong to a group. The way that a lot of Land Academy members are members of Land Academy, I'm a member of a mobile home park group. And accountability was a real hot topic this week because, and the guys that run this mobile home group are 10 times more cranky than I am and they're... Well, I'll get into it in the show.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know by now that Jill and I run a small crew, every quarter, consulting slash, what would you call it? Class. It's a masterclass,

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Called Career Path. If this is your career, or you want it to be, let us know. Support@landacademy.com.

Jill K DeWit:
David N wrote, "I just sent my first mailer out. I was wondering if on future mailers, I should include a picture of my wife and I, plus our dogs, just to add a little more personal touch to it. Makes it look a little more personal, and less like junk mail. What are your thoughts?"
Not a fan of that, but definitely on your website. That's what I personally think.

Steven Jack Butala:
David got obliterated on Discord on this.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh no. Did everybody say the same thing, like "Don't do that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
The reason I put this in here is not to make fun of you, David, at all. Because I think it's great that you're questioning everything, and you should, all the way through this. But please do me a favor and everybody else a favor, and stick to exactly what goes on in Land Academy 3.0. Just do what Jill and I say to the letter, make a bunch of money, and then start to make it your own.
People in Career Path, this is what they've done. They did it our way for a year, made a bunch of money, proved the concept to themselves and their spouses and whoever else. And then they said, "You know, I'd really just like to do info lots." Or, "I'd just like to do ranches." Or, "I'd just like to buy and sell recreation property, and I'd like to only do it over here." Or, "I'd like to send."
We have got a person in our advanced group. I love this. And I think it's nuts. I would never do it, but I'm probably going to do it now, just because he said it. He downloaded a dataset, a long time ago. It was a huge dataset, 50, 60, 70,000 records. And he just keeps mailing the same area over and over and over again with the same dataset. And for years he's been doing it.

Jill K DeWit:
He's just picking up, and he's been hanging on for two years in that area.

Steven Jack Butala:
And he just keeps buying property on the same dataset.

Jill K DeWit:
'Cause every time you just pick up more. No one remembers that you're the one that sent the letter the last time, for him. And you skip, because you're just hitting those people. It's the situation now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Am I recommending that you do that? Absolutely not.

Jill K DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
He did it because, he did it our way for a while, it worked great, and then he made it his own.

Jill K DeWit:
You and I said that, remember a long time ago when we were doing LA county. I'm like, "We could hang out in LA county and probably retire with property in LA."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Just keep working the area, changing it up a little bit, doing a little bit this zip code, that zip code, this size, that size. That could be what he's doing, too. He could be going, "I did all the five to tens. Now I do the ten to twenties. Now I'm doing the twenties and above.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/13/accountability-in-your-land-investing-adventure-la-1783/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">AfvsGHb7w</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2ec3d44d-4900-43e7-b588-ec4178fe1d8c.mp3" length="14793895" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Confidently Make Land Decisions with Limited Information (LA 1782)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Confidently Make Land Decisions with Limited Information (LA 1782)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Confidently Make Land Decisions with Limited Information (LA 1782)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to confidently make land decisions with limited information.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
When have you ever heard somebody said, "I've done all the research. I'm very comfortable-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I know everything.

Steven Butala:
... and confident that I'm ready to have a baby."

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
Never.

Jill K DeWit:
Wouldn't that be hilarious?

Steven Butala:
No one's ever said that sentence in the history of-

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
... humans.

Jill K DeWit:
That's very true. Oh, that's a weird example to bring up.

Steven Butala:
Well, it's the same thing, and I know it's Jill Friday. It's obviously your topic, but you just, you never have all the information. Never. And I ... I'll save it for the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Check out neighborscoop.com. The teleprompter doesn't work correctly, or maybe it's user error.

Jill K DeWit:
You're fine. Don't even worry about it.

Steven Butala:
Check out neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
What he is trying to say is, if you're a land investor like us, you don't have a street address. Because you're dealing with vacant land, and they haven't signed it yet. How do I find these dumb things? NeighborScoop. So, go check out neighborscoop.com.

Steven Butala:
Thank you, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a bunch of videos on there. You can see how it works. And let me tell you, I don't know how I got by without it. And every single person in my world, it's on their computer all day long, because I can pop in state, county, APN, and I have everything I need. So, it's awesome.

Steven Butala:
This is Luke talking about mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Luke wrote, "We're up to around 8,000 to 10,000 units a month of mail going out now. But as Steve and Jill said in their last video, so much of the work is outsourced. We pick the county and we scrub the data. We outsource the pricing, but we try to verify it by cherry-picking and running a real-life scenario to see if it pans out."

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill K DeWit:
What do we call that? We call that ...

Steven Butala:
Testing for reason.

Jill K DeWit:
That's it. Yep. "This is a day-or-so project with our team member, and he's very easy to work with. We schedule about four to six counties in advance, and currently, keeping the title examiners on task is our biggest ask." Well, that's for sure. "Not the closing attorney or title companies specifically. Other than that, getting back to sellers with properties we don't want is our biggest time suck, and with no added value involved. This will soon be outsourced as well. When you send this amount of mail or more, the sheer amount of trash properties coming back starts to pile up."

Steven Butala:
That's for sure.

Jill K DeWit:
I feel bad. It's kind of funny. It's not necessarily ... It's just that. It's like your criteria changes. You're like, "I don't need to buy that. I don't want to buy that. I have 20 spectacular properties. I don't need to worry about those."
"Everything else is easy and worth doing, since it directly correlates to our private margin. Agent conversations, pre-and-post closings at the attorney's office, seller conversations, picking the counties, working with our team all are immensely quick, easy, and profitable. Zillow also adds to the suck fest." This is awesome. "When we list our own deals, since they now aren't as easy to work with when the property doesn't have an a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Confidently Make Land Decisions with Limited Information (LA 1782)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to confidently make land decisions with limited information.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
When have you ever heard somebody said, "I've done all the research. I'm very comfortable-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I know everything.

Steven Butala:
... and confident that I'm ready to have a baby."

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
Never.

Jill K DeWit:
Wouldn't that be hilarious?

Steven Butala:
No one's ever said that sentence in the history of-

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
... humans.

Jill K DeWit:
That's very true. Oh, that's a weird example to bring up.

Steven Butala:
Well, it's the same thing, and I know it's Jill Friday. It's obviously your topic, but you just, you never have all the information. Never. And I ... I'll save it for the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Check out neighborscoop.com. The teleprompter doesn't work correctly, or maybe it's user error.

Jill K DeWit:
You're fine. Don't even worry about it.

Steven Butala:
Check out neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
What he is trying to say is, if you're a land investor like us, you don't have a street address. Because you're dealing with vacant land, and they haven't signed it yet. How do I find these dumb things? NeighborScoop. So, go check out neighborscoop.com.

Steven Butala:
Thank you, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a bunch of videos on there. You can see how it works. And let me tell you, I don't know how I got by without it. And every single person in my world, it's on their computer all day long, because I can pop in state, county, APN, and I have everything I need. So, it's awesome.

Steven Butala:
This is Luke talking about mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Luke wrote, "We're up to around 8,000 to 10,000 units a month of mail going out now. But as Steve and Jill said in their last video, so much of the work is outsourced. We pick the county and we scrub the data. We outsource the pricing, but we try to verify it by cherry-picking and running a real-life scenario to see if it pans out."

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill K DeWit:
What do we call that? We call that ...

Steven Butala:
Testing for reason.

Jill K DeWit:
That's it. Yep. "This is a day-or-so project with our team member, and he's very easy to work with. We schedule about four to six counties in advance, and currently, keeping the title examiners on task is our biggest ask." Well, that's for sure. "Not the closing attorney or title companies specifically. Other than that, getting back to sellers with properties we don't want is our biggest time suck, and with no added value involved. This will soon be outsourced as well. When you send this amount of mail or more, the sheer amount of trash properties coming back starts to pile up."

Steven Butala:
That's for sure.

Jill K DeWit:
I feel bad. It's kind of funny. It's not necessarily ... It's just that. It's like your criteria changes. You're like, "I don't need to buy that. I don't want to buy that. I have 20 spectacular properties. I don't need to worry about those."
"Everything else is easy and worth doing, since it directly correlates to our private margin. Agent conversations, pre-and-post closings at the attorney's office, seller conversations, picking the counties, working with our team all are immensely quick, easy, and profitable. Zillow also adds to the suck fest." This is awesome. "When we list our own deals, since they now aren't as easy to work with when the property doesn't have an a...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/10/jill-friday-how-to-confidently-make-land-decisions-with-limited-information-la-1782/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">abM22ADUv</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a5ecefa3-4a4a-4fe2-a7fd-373d569093f2.mp3" length="13289536" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; All it Takes is One Deal (LA 1781)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; All it Takes is One Deal (LA 1781)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - All it Takes is One Deal (LA 1781)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know what that was.

Steven Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
What was that?

Steven Butala:
I don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
You're like smelling my neck?

Steven Butala:
No, I don't know. Our producer's told us we're supposed to pose every-

Jill K DeWit:
They're going say what the hell is that?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about how it only just takes one deal.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'd love to know what you mean. Like one deal that gets started, one deal that make your career, one deal to get people out the door? I don't know.

Steven Butala:
When I was a young person with Ferraris in my eyes, a young professional person, all I saw was just, "I want to be rich. I want to be rich. I want to be rich." And that's not the furthest thing that you should be telling yourself. What you should be telling yourself is, "I just got to get that first deal done. One single deal."

Jill K DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Butala:
Focus on that deal. And then when you're on deal number 32, focus on that one deal. That's what this is about. It just takes one deal, and then the next deal. But don't worry about the next deal.

Jill K DeWit:
I like it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it-

Jill K DeWit:
Now, we're going to leave the show.

Steven Butala:
I know. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members. Everybody's like, "Thank God. They're not going to do the show."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's it. Bye.

Steven Butala:
On landinvestors.com, online community is free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. And comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Greg wrote, "Update. I have a question for anyone that wants to answer LOL. I know Steve stresses the importance of having a schedule. And I was curious about those who are sending out a lot of mail per month. How much mail are you sending per month, and how many hours would you say you work per week?
Also, do you find there's a certain way of doing things that make things easier like Steven talked about getting all the mailers done once per month and just scheduling them out for the rest of the month? Also, which aspect of the business do you feel absorbs most of your time, picking counties, pricing, due diligence, finding brokers, and getting price opinions, et cetera?
Thank you. I'm just curious to see what other people's experiences have been, and see how I can become more efficient with my time or how I can improve." Really?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. What's most time consuming you think?

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Well, let me think. Answering the phones, but then I don't even have to do that much. Somebody else does it. So if I was doing it myself, it would be the inbound calls

Steven Butala:
Combined, and I hear people in career paths say this all the time. Combined, I think we spend about four hours a week.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Anything beyond that is kind of a hobby/habit that I have. Because I troll for new markets all the time, or I'll troll within markets that we're already successful in and see trends. And so do I spend more than four hours a week combined doing that? Yeah. But it's because-

Jill K DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
...I have an unhealthy-

Jill K DeWit:
You should be doing that. You're always ahead.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That's important. That's so important.

Steven Butala:
Finding an agent, you only have to do that once or twice per market. Closing a deal, you shouldn't do that at all. You should have somebody else do that on the buy on the south side.
Doing a mailer, you shouldn't do that at all.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - All it Takes is One Deal (LA 1781)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know what that was.

Steven Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
What was that?

Steven Butala:
I don't know.

Jill K DeWit:
You're like smelling my neck?

Steven Butala:
No, I don't know. Our producer's told us we're supposed to pose every-

Jill K DeWit:
They're going say what the hell is that?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about how it only just takes one deal.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'd love to know what you mean. Like one deal that gets started, one deal that make your career, one deal to get people out the door? I don't know.

Steven Butala:
When I was a young person with Ferraris in my eyes, a young professional person, all I saw was just, "I want to be rich. I want to be rich. I want to be rich." And that's not the furthest thing that you should be telling yourself. What you should be telling yourself is, "I just got to get that first deal done. One single deal."

Jill K DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Butala:
Focus on that deal. And then when you're on deal number 32, focus on that one deal. That's what this is about. It just takes one deal, and then the next deal. But don't worry about the next deal.

Jill K DeWit:
I like it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it-

Jill K DeWit:
Now, we're going to leave the show.

Steven Butala:
I know. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members. Everybody's like, "Thank God. They're not going to do the show."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That's it. Bye.

Steven Butala:
On landinvestors.com, online community is free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. And comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Greg wrote, "Update. I have a question for anyone that wants to answer LOL. I know Steve stresses the importance of having a schedule. And I was curious about those who are sending out a lot of mail per month. How much mail are you sending per month, and how many hours would you say you work per week?
Also, do you find there's a certain way of doing things that make things easier like Steven talked about getting all the mailers done once per month and just scheduling them out for the rest of the month? Also, which aspect of the business do you feel absorbs most of your time, picking counties, pricing, due diligence, finding brokers, and getting price opinions, et cetera?
Thank you. I'm just curious to see what other people's experiences have been, and see how I can become more efficient with my time or how I can improve." Really?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. What's most time consuming you think?

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Well, let me think. Answering the phones, but then I don't even have to do that much. Somebody else does it. So if I was doing it myself, it would be the inbound calls

Steven Butala:
Combined, and I hear people in career paths say this all the time. Combined, I think we spend about four hours a week.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Anything beyond that is kind of a hobby/habit that I have. Because I troll for new markets all the time, or I'll troll within markets that we're already successful in and see trends. And so do I spend more than four hours a week combined doing that? Yeah. But it's because-

Jill K DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
...I have an unhealthy-

Jill K DeWit:
You should be doing that. You're always ahead.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That's important. That's so important.

Steven Butala:
Finding an agent, you only have to do that once or twice per market. Closing a deal, you shouldn't do that at all. You should have somebody else do that on the buy on the south side.
Doing a mailer, you shouldn't do that at all.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/09/jack-thursday-all-it-takes-is-one-deal-la-1781/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">25UQdnMok</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d4c83ba8-c7cc-4d63-a7f3-1db488d5790b.mp3" length="10714640" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Member Dan Smart Interview (LA 1780)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Member Dan Smart Interview (LA 1780)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Dan Smart Interview (LA 1780)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve, and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk with, or interview Dan Smart. He's in Washington State, Land Academy member for a while now, and former career path. I think you were career path too. A couple, about last time...

Daniel Smart:
Yeah, Career Path Three.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the show, Dan. We've never interviewed before, and I'm looking forward to hearing what you like, and don't like about Land Academy. Let's start there. What do you like, and not like about Land Academy?

Daniel Smart:
Well, there's mostly like. I mean, there's not a whole lot I don't like. So, I started about a year ago, year and a half ago. It's just very personal, and very... I mean, we have our, the way that we do land, but there's so many niches. There's so many directions you can go, and that's just very exciting.

Jill K DeWit:
How did you find us?

Daniel Smart:
You know, it was kind of a roundabout way. So, it was right after COVID, and everything. I was a pharmacist prior to this, Clinical Pharmacist, and you know, healthcare just got hammered. Healthcare workers got hammered. I was a contractor for the Navy, and had a lot of vacation, had my own office. But then, the contracts renewed, and they took away most of the vacation. They started decreasing pay, and it wasn't going to be sustainable.

Daniel Smart:
So like, "Okay, what are we going to do? Real estate, you know, rentals." So, we were looking into that, and we almost threw our money away with that. We were looking crazy places, even Detroit to buy rentals. I was almost ready to fly, and meet some guys to invest with. They lived in Detroit, and then COVID hit, and gosh, we couldn't fly anywhere.

Daniel Smart:
So, just listening to more interviews, and then I saw, I don't remember. I think it was a Luke Smith interview about land. And, I was like, "Oh, that sounds more my style. No people, no houses." And, he mentioned Land Academy at some point in one interview. And, I had been looking at other things, and I had actually sent out a mailer, based on free education from another program. And, it was based on assessed value.

Daniel Smart:
So, I was sending offers for 300 bucks for a $80,000 parcel. And, that was going nowhere, but I was like, "This makes sense, I just got to find the right way to do it." And then, by God's grace, your name came up, and I was like, "Well, let's look into this, and watch the podcast, these are just regular people. They're not trying to be flashy, or impress me. It's just, this is what we do, check it out."

Daniel Smart:
And, it filled in all the gaps. And so then, I was, okay, let's do this. Forget the doctorate. I found this on YouTube, and so we're going to do it. So, yeah. We started, the first one we did was, we made quite a bit. So, after that, it was just like, "Yeah, we can do this."

Steven Butala:
Well, I'll tell you what a stroke of luck that COVID, and this Detroit thing happened all at the same time for you. Because, I would've done a free consulting call, to talk you out of that.

Daniel Smart:
Yeah. Well, it's completely out of my... I'm not a contractor. I don't know. I wear a white coat, and I talk to diabetes patients all day, but I know like, "Okay, people make money in real estate."

Daniel Smart:
What I'm doing isn't working. Lord, what are we supposed to do? And, it's just like, God's grace, that everything lined up, and we found you, and it all worked out great.

Jill K DeWit:
That's so sweet.

Steven Butala:
We're having some drainage plumbing issues, in our primary residence right now. And, it's taken a strange twist, but it'll all be fine. But, the entire process I'm thinking,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Dan Smart Interview (LA 1780)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve, and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk with, or interview Dan Smart. He's in Washington State, Land Academy member for a while now, and former career path. I think you were career path too. A couple, about last time...

Daniel Smart:
Yeah, Career Path Three.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the show, Dan. We've never interviewed before, and I'm looking forward to hearing what you like, and don't like about Land Academy. Let's start there. What do you like, and not like about Land Academy?

Daniel Smart:
Well, there's mostly like. I mean, there's not a whole lot I don't like. So, I started about a year ago, year and a half ago. It's just very personal, and very... I mean, we have our, the way that we do land, but there's so many niches. There's so many directions you can go, and that's just very exciting.

Jill K DeWit:
How did you find us?

Daniel Smart:
You know, it was kind of a roundabout way. So, it was right after COVID, and everything. I was a pharmacist prior to this, Clinical Pharmacist, and you know, healthcare just got hammered. Healthcare workers got hammered. I was a contractor for the Navy, and had a lot of vacation, had my own office. But then, the contracts renewed, and they took away most of the vacation. They started decreasing pay, and it wasn't going to be sustainable.

Daniel Smart:
So like, "Okay, what are we going to do? Real estate, you know, rentals." So, we were looking into that, and we almost threw our money away with that. We were looking crazy places, even Detroit to buy rentals. I was almost ready to fly, and meet some guys to invest with. They lived in Detroit, and then COVID hit, and gosh, we couldn't fly anywhere.

Daniel Smart:
So, just listening to more interviews, and then I saw, I don't remember. I think it was a Luke Smith interview about land. And, I was like, "Oh, that sounds more my style. No people, no houses." And, he mentioned Land Academy at some point in one interview. And, I had been looking at other things, and I had actually sent out a mailer, based on free education from another program. And, it was based on assessed value.

Daniel Smart:
So, I was sending offers for 300 bucks for a $80,000 parcel. And, that was going nowhere, but I was like, "This makes sense, I just got to find the right way to do it." And then, by God's grace, your name came up, and I was like, "Well, let's look into this, and watch the podcast, these are just regular people. They're not trying to be flashy, or impress me. It's just, this is what we do, check it out."

Daniel Smart:
And, it filled in all the gaps. And so then, I was, okay, let's do this. Forget the doctorate. I found this on YouTube, and so we're going to do it. So, yeah. We started, the first one we did was, we made quite a bit. So, after that, it was just like, "Yeah, we can do this."

Steven Butala:
Well, I'll tell you what a stroke of luck that COVID, and this Detroit thing happened all at the same time for you. Because, I would've done a free consulting call, to talk you out of that.

Daniel Smart:
Yeah. Well, it's completely out of my... I'm not a contractor. I don't know. I wear a white coat, and I talk to diabetes patients all day, but I know like, "Okay, people make money in real estate."

Daniel Smart:
What I'm doing isn't working. Lord, what are we supposed to do? And, it's just like, God's grace, that everything lined up, and we found you, and it all worked out great.

Jill K DeWit:
That's so sweet.

Steven Butala:
We're having some drainage plumbing issues, in our primary residence right now. And, it's taken a strange twist, but it'll all be fine. But, the entire process I'm thinking,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/08/land-academy-member-dan-smart-interview-la-1780/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">XjHgZIIkq</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f08b0c1b-af89-4243-9715-b0dbc9695a91.mp3" length="26076311" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Working with Your Spouse in Your Land Business (LA 1779)</title><itunes:title>Working with Your Spouse in Your Land Business (LA 1779)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Working with Your Spouse in Your Land Business (LA 1779)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about working with your spouse in your land business, or really at all.

Jill K DeWit:
Had I known how much fun and how easy that would be, I would've done it... Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
Here's good news. If you can work with your spouse, then you can get through anything-

Jill K DeWit:
That's very free true.

Steven Butala:
... with your spouse.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. That's true. You're golden.

Steven Butala:
Before I get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.
And I would like you to know we have a full blown, operational, commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. It's the same company that Jill and I used to send out our offers. We just made it available to everybody because we were sick and tired of dealing with commercial printing companies that didn't really understand our business.
Go to offers2owners.com. We send out 8 or 900,000 offers a month, so...

Jill K DeWit:
As a group, it's awesome.

Steven Butala:
We know by now-

Jill K DeWit:
We got this.

Steven Butala:
We know what we're doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It's like everything.

Steven Butala:
Wasn't that way always.

Jill K DeWit:
No. Jay wrote, "Hey everyone, I've been going through the education, and I really like infill lots, specifically waterfront properties. I have a few ideas in my home state, New York, but I'm exploring other markets to the south like Florida and North Carolina. Is there anyone here I can talk to about waterfront properties? As I build my criteria, I believe less is more. I like to do three to five deals a month at about, net 80 to $100,000 per deal. Is this possible with waterfront properties?"
And I see one of our members here, already responded and he has this to say. Steven wrote, "I've been at this for a year and I've made most of my money from infill lots. I targeted lots that have a mobile on them or have had one in the past. If you see a lot of new construction on Zillow, lots will move fast. Set-"

Steven Butala:
That's great. I love this.

Jill K DeWit:
... the filters on Zillow to show houses that were built 2020 to now." This is a good little tip. You're right.
"And then Skiptrace those builders." This is brilliant.
"They will be your infill buyers." And they'll tell you all the nuances of what they're looking for.

Steven Butala:
Jay, I can tell you right now.

Jill K DeWit:
That's great.

Steven Butala:
We've had a lot of members come and go. We maintain around 500 members. That's where Jill's comfortable. And I totally agree. And I can tell you with confidence that you are going to do great. You've thought this through, you have a target acquisition criteria, you already said, "I want to make about 2 to $300,000 a month." All very accomplishable.
And the first step to doing all that stuff is exactly what you're doing, writing it down, understanding it for yourself, and then asking this community if it's realistic and, "How do I go about doing that?" And that was just one person's comment there, me included, there are a lot of comments and discord, basically reiterating what I just said.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, working with your spouse, in your land business. This is why you're listening. I can-

Jill K DeWit:
Here's what I think is cool, if you don't mind me...

Steven Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
... jumping in first?
I'm sure because of you and I, we clearly attract two different things. Well more than two, but for today's show, I'm talking about two that are so interesting that I love. We attract other couples. Some start out doing this together.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working with Your Spouse in Your Land Business (LA 1779)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about working with your spouse in your land business, or really at all.

Jill K DeWit:
Had I known how much fun and how easy that would be, I would've done it... Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
Here's good news. If you can work with your spouse, then you can get through anything-

Jill K DeWit:
That's very free true.

Steven Butala:
... with your spouse.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. That's true. You're golden.

Steven Butala:
Before I get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.
And I would like you to know we have a full blown, operational, commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. It's the same company that Jill and I used to send out our offers. We just made it available to everybody because we were sick and tired of dealing with commercial printing companies that didn't really understand our business.
Go to offers2owners.com. We send out 8 or 900,000 offers a month, so...

Jill K DeWit:
As a group, it's awesome.

Steven Butala:
We know by now-

Jill K DeWit:
We got this.

Steven Butala:
We know what we're doing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It's like everything.

Steven Butala:
Wasn't that way always.

Jill K DeWit:
No. Jay wrote, "Hey everyone, I've been going through the education, and I really like infill lots, specifically waterfront properties. I have a few ideas in my home state, New York, but I'm exploring other markets to the south like Florida and North Carolina. Is there anyone here I can talk to about waterfront properties? As I build my criteria, I believe less is more. I like to do three to five deals a month at about, net 80 to $100,000 per deal. Is this possible with waterfront properties?"
And I see one of our members here, already responded and he has this to say. Steven wrote, "I've been at this for a year and I've made most of my money from infill lots. I targeted lots that have a mobile on them or have had one in the past. If you see a lot of new construction on Zillow, lots will move fast. Set-"

Steven Butala:
That's great. I love this.

Jill K DeWit:
... the filters on Zillow to show houses that were built 2020 to now." This is a good little tip. You're right.
"And then Skiptrace those builders." This is brilliant.
"They will be your infill buyers." And they'll tell you all the nuances of what they're looking for.

Steven Butala:
Jay, I can tell you right now.

Jill K DeWit:
That's great.

Steven Butala:
We've had a lot of members come and go. We maintain around 500 members. That's where Jill's comfortable. And I totally agree. And I can tell you with confidence that you are going to do great. You've thought this through, you have a target acquisition criteria, you already said, "I want to make about 2 to $300,000 a month." All very accomplishable.
And the first step to doing all that stuff is exactly what you're doing, writing it down, understanding it for yourself, and then asking this community if it's realistic and, "How do I go about doing that?" And that was just one person's comment there, me included, there are a lot of comments and discord, basically reiterating what I just said.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, working with your spouse, in your land business. This is why you're listening. I can-

Jill K DeWit:
Here's what I think is cool, if you don't mind me...

Steven Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
... jumping in first?
I'm sure because of you and I, we clearly attract two different things. Well more than two, but for today's show, I'm talking about two that are so interesting that I love. We attract other couples. Some start out doing this together.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/07/working-with-your-spouse-in-your-land-business-la-1779/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JI4dSbZMi</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e06d8289-365a-4e98-8d02-e0b331efd7d8.mp3" length="17511512" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Manage Lawyers and Accountants in Your Land Business (LA 1778)</title><itunes:title>How to Manage Lawyers and Accountants in Your Land Business (LA 1778)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Manage Lawyers and Accountants in Your Land Business (LA 1778)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to manage lawyers, and accountants, and other professionals in your land business. Like many, many topics this thing came up-

Jill K DeWit:
Where did this come from?

Steven Butala:
Because of Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
But, why would you possibly come up with this?

Steven Butala:
So what happened-

Jill K DeWit:
This is not fun. Let's talk about taxes or something, like no one gets excited about that.

Steven Butala:
Well-

Jill K DeWit:
You're talking about lawyers and accountants.

Steven Butala:
People need to know. I don't like lawyers and accountants either. I'm am a recovering accountant.

Jill K DeWit:
I know that's I'm like-

Steven Butala:
This is the last thing I want to talk about today.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I was going to say. I'm like, why are we doing this today? Why are we subjecting a, are we going to talk about raising young children after this?

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, I don't talk about that either, having a baby.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. Here we go.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com, online community is free. And I hope you know by now, Jill and I instruct, every quarter or so, a session called career path. If this is your career buying and selling land, or you want it to be, let us know, maybe you might be a good candidate for a career path.

Jill K DeWit:
It's a 10 week intense, taught by us program. That is really for, like he said, for you, if you really want to hit this home and make this big, that's what this is, so cool.

Steven Butala:
There's a big, long string in Discord that started with a guy named Graham who sent a bunch of letters out.

Jill K DeWit:
Is it H. Graham?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it.

Steven Butala:
Sent a bunch of letters out to a state, like we always do, a county, and there were a bunch of several people or one, let's just say one person that lived in Iowa but owned property in different state. And it sparked a big issue because Iowa is a non, I'll tell you about it in a minute. Anyway, it sparked a long session in Discord about how to deal with lawyers. And it, we have lawyers in our group, and it just, it was funny to see what happened.

Jill K DeWit:
Some people get well to upset. I understand getting, there's a time to get upset about things when there's malicious intent or something like that.

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
But then there's-

Steven Butala:
That's what I said in Discord, actually.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. When there's not-

Steven Butala:
That's good.

Jill K DeWit:
That malicious intent, cause I've learned that phrase from you, when there's not malicious intent. And it was an, just an accident. You're not taking anything from somebody he's just like throw my letter away. I don't know why people get all upset about that.

Steven Butala:
When I started buying and selling land, I went to meet with a lawyer long, long time ago in the mid-nineties, early nineties, and said, can I get in trouble for this? And so we sat down and I said, can I buy and sell land? Well, not really.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's funny.

Steven Butala:
And so I asked all these questions, what do I need to do? Nope, nope. His answer was no to everything's. At the end I said some version of this, "So, should I get out of bed tomorrow morning"? And he looked at me and said, "There's a lot of risk in that".

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
And so, this is Josiah. It's not-

Jill K DeWit:
His commentary.

Steven Butala:
Necessarily a question, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Manage Lawyers and Accountants in Your Land Business (LA 1778)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to manage lawyers, and accountants, and other professionals in your land business. Like many, many topics this thing came up-

Jill K DeWit:
Where did this come from?

Steven Butala:
Because of Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
But, why would you possibly come up with this?

Steven Butala:
So what happened-

Jill K DeWit:
This is not fun. Let's talk about taxes or something, like no one gets excited about that.

Steven Butala:
Well-

Jill K DeWit:
You're talking about lawyers and accountants.

Steven Butala:
People need to know. I don't like lawyers and accountants either. I'm am a recovering accountant.

Jill K DeWit:
I know that's I'm like-

Steven Butala:
This is the last thing I want to talk about today.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I was going to say. I'm like, why are we doing this today? Why are we subjecting a, are we going to talk about raising young children after this?

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, I don't talk about that either, having a baby.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good. Here we go.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com, online community is free. And I hope you know by now, Jill and I instruct, every quarter or so, a session called career path. If this is your career buying and selling land, or you want it to be, let us know, maybe you might be a good candidate for a career path.

Jill K DeWit:
It's a 10 week intense, taught by us program. That is really for, like he said, for you, if you really want to hit this home and make this big, that's what this is, so cool.

Steven Butala:
There's a big, long string in Discord that started with a guy named Graham who sent a bunch of letters out.

Jill K DeWit:
Is it H. Graham?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it.

Steven Butala:
Sent a bunch of letters out to a state, like we always do, a county, and there were a bunch of several people or one, let's just say one person that lived in Iowa but owned property in different state. And it sparked a big issue because Iowa is a non, I'll tell you about it in a minute. Anyway, it sparked a long session in Discord about how to deal with lawyers. And it, we have lawyers in our group, and it just, it was funny to see what happened.

Jill K DeWit:
Some people get well to upset. I understand getting, there's a time to get upset about things when there's malicious intent or something like that.

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
But then there's-

Steven Butala:
That's what I said in Discord, actually.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. When there's not-

Steven Butala:
That's good.

Jill K DeWit:
That malicious intent, cause I've learned that phrase from you, when there's not malicious intent. And it was an, just an accident. You're not taking anything from somebody he's just like throw my letter away. I don't know why people get all upset about that.

Steven Butala:
When I started buying and selling land, I went to meet with a lawyer long, long time ago in the mid-nineties, early nineties, and said, can I get in trouble for this? And so we sat down and I said, can I buy and sell land? Well, not really.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's funny.

Steven Butala:
And so I asked all these questions, what do I need to do? Nope, nope. His answer was no to everything's. At the end I said some version of this, "So, should I get out of bed tomorrow morning"? And he looked at me and said, "There's a lot of risk in that".

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
And so, this is Josiah. It's not-

Jill K DeWit:
His commentary.

Steven Butala:
Necessarily a question, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/06/how-to-manage-lawyers-and-accountants-in-your-land-business-la-1778/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5JQUoSJ10</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/31cabd12-f7fd-4762-843c-502aef69a508.mp3" length="12515337" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Wing It on the Phone with Sellers (LA 1777)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Wing It on the Phone with Sellers (LA 1777)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Wing It on the Phone with Sellers (LA 1777)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt.

Steven Jack Butala:
Broadcasting.

Jill DeWit:
From the valley.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of the sun. Today, Jill and I talked about, well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to wing it on the phone with sellers.

Jill DeWit:
Like we're winging it here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who doesn't wing it?

Jill DeWit:
Every day, every podcast, we wing it by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean, does everybody go into every conversation or every task that they do in their life and really know what the outcome's going to be?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no guarantees. You can't plan stuff out. As much as we all think we have control over stuff, we don't. We have very little control over anything. Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you don't already know about it, please check out neighborscoop.com. It's the fastest, easiest, cheapest way to find a piece of property without a U.S. post office mailing address, like 123 Main Street. The properties we deal with don't have addresses. They have assessor's parcel numbers. You just put that in, pops right up.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's magic.

Jill DeWit:
It is like magic. Helena wrote, "Has anyone had success following up on a mail or via email? We sent out our first mailer and we received three responses from people who were not interested in selling. It's been about a week so far. My partner suggested that we follow up using email and see if they received our offer. Would they be interested in selling? Does this technique help?" I haven't done that, but I'm not opposed to that. The only thing you got to be careful of is the spam laws. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not if they called you.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm saying no, the people that did reach out. But if you skip trace everybody somehow and get their email addresses, because you're not getting that off your data. I'm telling you that you got the address, but you could skip trace and get emails and phone numbers and you got to just be a bit careful. But the people who did email me, if there's a hint, here's what I really do though. If someone emails me back and there's a hint, like you must be out of your mind. If you think we're going to sell for this price. Good luck. Okay. I didn't hear we're not going to sell. All I heard is not that price. So I will email those people back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's Indian name is Can't Say No.

Jill DeWit:
Right? I'm like, I didn't hear a no, there was no real "no". So I'm like, what is your price? But I will email those people back. I don't think that's nuts. Would I spend a lot of time skip tracing email? I don't think I would. Because you know what too? A, there's the laws that could come back to bite you. And B, all of our emails are getting so good nowadays, how much is going into spam. It's probably a big time and money waste.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a very nice and polite way to answer that. I'm going to counterbalance that.

Jill DeWit:
Hi, I'm Yin, meet Yang.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the worst idea I've ever freaking had, ever. Here's why people email, because they don't want to talk on the phone. Take this from me. That's why people text. I text you all the time. I don't talk to her on the phone that much. Because I don't want to.

Jill DeWit:
I call him, he doesn't call me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's why. Because I don't want any emotion. There's no emotion in an email or there's no emotion in text. You just get stuff done.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, there's emotion there. People pick up on emotion.

Steven Jack Butala:
Calling people on the phone, is an integral,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Wing It on the Phone with Sellers (LA 1777)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt.

Steven Jack Butala:
Broadcasting.

Jill DeWit:
From the valley.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of the sun. Today, Jill and I talked about, well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to wing it on the phone with sellers.

Jill DeWit:
Like we're winging it here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who doesn't wing it?

Jill DeWit:
Every day, every podcast, we wing it by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
I mean, does everybody go into every conversation or every task that they do in their life and really know what the outcome's going to be?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no guarantees. You can't plan stuff out. As much as we all think we have control over stuff, we don't. We have very little control over anything. Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you don't already know about it, please check out neighborscoop.com. It's the fastest, easiest, cheapest way to find a piece of property without a U.S. post office mailing address, like 123 Main Street. The properties we deal with don't have addresses. They have assessor's parcel numbers. You just put that in, pops right up.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's magic.

Jill DeWit:
It is like magic. Helena wrote, "Has anyone had success following up on a mail or via email? We sent out our first mailer and we received three responses from people who were not interested in selling. It's been about a week so far. My partner suggested that we follow up using email and see if they received our offer. Would they be interested in selling? Does this technique help?" I haven't done that, but I'm not opposed to that. The only thing you got to be careful of is the spam laws. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not if they called you.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm saying no, the people that did reach out. But if you skip trace everybody somehow and get their email addresses, because you're not getting that off your data. I'm telling you that you got the address, but you could skip trace and get emails and phone numbers and you got to just be a bit careful. But the people who did email me, if there's a hint, here's what I really do though. If someone emails me back and there's a hint, like you must be out of your mind. If you think we're going to sell for this price. Good luck. Okay. I didn't hear we're not going to sell. All I heard is not that price. So I will email those people back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's Indian name is Can't Say No.

Jill DeWit:
Right? I'm like, I didn't hear a no, there was no real "no". So I'm like, what is your price? But I will email those people back. I don't think that's nuts. Would I spend a lot of time skip tracing email? I don't think I would. Because you know what too? A, there's the laws that could come back to bite you. And B, all of our emails are getting so good nowadays, how much is going into spam. It's probably a big time and money waste.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a very nice and polite way to answer that. I'm going to counterbalance that.

Jill DeWit:
Hi, I'm Yin, meet Yang.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the worst idea I've ever freaking had, ever. Here's why people email, because they don't want to talk on the phone. Take this from me. That's why people text. I text you all the time. I don't talk to her on the phone that much. Because I don't want to.

Jill DeWit:
I call him, he doesn't call me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's why. Because I don't want any emotion. There's no emotion in an email or there's no emotion in text. You just get stuff done.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, there's emotion there. People pick up on emotion.

Steven Jack Butala:
Calling people on the phone, is an integral,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/03/jill-friday-how-to-wing-it-on-the-phone-with-sellers-la-1777/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_-Xy8HkES</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/16424c0f-4ad4-49f2-b2aa-da0a3daa368d.mp3" length="14655217" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Starting Your Day Off with a Small Success (LA 1776)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Starting Your Day Off with a Small Success (LA 1776)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Starting Your Day Off with a Small Success (LA 1776)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about starting your day with tiny little successes. I read an article, well I'll save it for the show. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and check us out on discord. If you're a member, there's tons of amazing information being exchanged there. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Michael wrote update semicolon, or colon. Excuse me, update colon. I have completed my second mail campaign. My first mail campaign was 3,500 units and yielded one deal. My second campaign was 3,700 pieces of mail and has yielded one viable deal so far. I'm worrying about putting together my third campaign.

Steven Jack Butala:
Working.

Jill DeWit:
What I'm wondering.

Steven Jack Butala:
Working, he's now working.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'm working. I'm putting together my third campaign, but I'm wondering if these results are typical.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, I use a funding partner. So I basically just recovered mailing costs after deal splits. How much are you guys mailing to make this business work? I want to add one thing, getting a deal right out of the gate is perfect. I think that's really good. Especially being brand new. As you get going, you're going to get more deals and A. And B as you get going mailer number one, you're going to get calls from that six months from now, nine months from now. So it's out there now, there's going to be more coming back from it. My only concerns are answer the phone and look at them really look at them make sure you're not kicking, sometimes people kick too much to the curb, go.

Steven Jack Butala:
I need proof of concept for everything I do, and you just achieved proof of concept for yourself. It works. You bought some property, you sold it. You recovered your costs. You've found a funding partner. You got yourself all set up, all the stuff that's involved in setting up a business. You're past all that. It's time to start doing bigger deals. You can do it, and if you're just recovering mail costs, you're probably buying for 1000 selling for 3000 and then splitting the difference. So how about you buy for 30,000 now you're using a funding partner anyway. Buy for 30 and sell for 90.

Jill DeWit:
You're going to triple your costs in one deal that cost you the whole year.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's an interestingly worded because there's this yielded a lot of response in discord. And everybody starting with Kevin Farrell, the monitor said, congratulations, you're doing it.

Jill DeWit:
Right, yeah. What's the problem?

Steven Jack Butala:
So yeah, don't try to find something wrong. Just start doing bigger deals, maybe larger mailers.

Jill DeWit:
Keep going.

Steven Jack Butala:
Obviously where you're sending mail may not be the place to buy for 30 and sell for 90. So look for another place. Check out chapter three in Land Academy 3.0 and see how we troll for new markets.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about starting off your day with a small success. This is why you're listening. I came across an article. I think it was in Fords, Fortune, Forbes, possibly Entrepreneur Magazine on the internet. And I sign up for all this stuff. Because we talk on the Thursday call about what's going on in the market. And so there's an article in there about how they interviewed somebody interviewed extremely successful people like Elon Musk, and really crazy multi-billionaires and they all said every single day,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Starting Your Day Off with a Small Success (LA 1776)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about starting your day with tiny little successes. I read an article, well I'll save it for the show. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and check us out on discord. If you're a member, there's tons of amazing information being exchanged there. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Michael wrote update semicolon, or colon. Excuse me, update colon. I have completed my second mail campaign. My first mail campaign was 3,500 units and yielded one deal. My second campaign was 3,700 pieces of mail and has yielded one viable deal so far. I'm worrying about putting together my third campaign.

Steven Jack Butala:
Working.

Jill DeWit:
What I'm wondering.

Steven Jack Butala:
Working, he's now working.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'm working. I'm putting together my third campaign, but I'm wondering if these results are typical.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, I use a funding partner. So I basically just recovered mailing costs after deal splits. How much are you guys mailing to make this business work? I want to add one thing, getting a deal right out of the gate is perfect. I think that's really good. Especially being brand new. As you get going, you're going to get more deals and A. And B as you get going mailer number one, you're going to get calls from that six months from now, nine months from now. So it's out there now, there's going to be more coming back from it. My only concerns are answer the phone and look at them really look at them make sure you're not kicking, sometimes people kick too much to the curb, go.

Steven Jack Butala:
I need proof of concept for everything I do, and you just achieved proof of concept for yourself. It works. You bought some property, you sold it. You recovered your costs. You've found a funding partner. You got yourself all set up, all the stuff that's involved in setting up a business. You're past all that. It's time to start doing bigger deals. You can do it, and if you're just recovering mail costs, you're probably buying for 1000 selling for 3000 and then splitting the difference. So how about you buy for 30,000 now you're using a funding partner anyway. Buy for 30 and sell for 90.

Jill DeWit:
You're going to triple your costs in one deal that cost you the whole year.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's an interestingly worded because there's this yielded a lot of response in discord. And everybody starting with Kevin Farrell, the monitor said, congratulations, you're doing it.

Jill DeWit:
Right, yeah. What's the problem?

Steven Jack Butala:
So yeah, don't try to find something wrong. Just start doing bigger deals, maybe larger mailers.

Jill DeWit:
Keep going.

Steven Jack Butala:
Obviously where you're sending mail may not be the place to buy for 30 and sell for 90. So look for another place. Check out chapter three in Land Academy 3.0 and see how we troll for new markets.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about starting off your day with a small success. This is why you're listening. I came across an article. I think it was in Fords, Fortune, Forbes, possibly Entrepreneur Magazine on the internet. And I sign up for all this stuff. Because we talk on the Thursday call about what's going on in the market. And so there's an article in there about how they interviewed somebody interviewed extremely successful people like Elon Musk, and really crazy multi-billionaires and they all said every single day,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/02/jack-thursday-starting-your-day-off-with-a-small-success-la-1776/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sjDj9H8UQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/45d87dc4-cda1-4d73-bf3e-29e81c4aef1b.mp3" length="9030873" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Member Luke Smith Buys a Vacant Church Riddled with Drama (LA 1775)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Member Luke Smith Buys a Vacant Church Riddled with Drama (LA 1775)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Luke Smith Buys a Vacant Church Riddled with Drama (LA 1775)
Transcript:

Luke Smith:
Hi, guys.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, how are are you?

Steven Jack Butala:
Hi, Luke.

Luke Smith:
Hey. It's my...

Steven Jack Butala:
Here we go.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's just jump right in. I'll start it, Luke, and we'll just... We're pros, both of us. Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have Luke Smith, and not just an interview with Land Academy member, Luke Smith, but Luke's specifically here to tell us a story about buying a church.

Jill DeWit:
It looks like a fireside story based on where Luke is sitting. The only thing we need now is a pipe.

Steven Jack Butala:
And a beard.

Jill DeWit:
And a fire behind you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hi, Luke, how are you?

Luke Smith:
Hey. Yeah, why not buy a church, right?

Jill DeWit:
We got to hear this. Okay, wait. So how did you... Was this in Discord?

Steven Jack Butala:
It was in Discord. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So, did you just drop some nuggets in there and people started asking questions? Or do you just tell the whole story, I'm just catching it?

Steven Jack Butala:
It was a rant. It was in the rant section, I think.

Luke Smith:
I was heated. I was heated because I just got off the phone with the sheriff, right? And I've had a lot of sheriffs call me, and my favorite sheriff call is like, "Luke, the road's blocked because there's a bunch of people here. They say they're looking at your property that's for sale and there's no for sale sign and they're blocking the road. And you made a video on TikTok and nobody sells land on TikTok, you idiot. This has to be a scam." That's my classic sheriff call. My sheriff's call, neighbors are pissed because of some TikTok video I made, right? But this one, I sold a property on TikTok earlier this week, 240 grand on TikTok.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Wow.

Luke Smith:
Yeah, baby.

Jill DeWit:
That's crazy.

Luke Smith:
I got multiple buyers, too. I got more buyers after I signed the first one. Like mom forwarded-

Jill DeWit:
Was it the house next door?

Luke Smith:
... to daughter a video. Like, hell, yeah. Sorry. I'm off on a different angle here. So-

Jill DeWit:
Great.

Luke Smith:
... I was heated because of the sheriff call and he just did not make sense. He did not make sense. And I get into these different phone calls, lawyers call, and people are always haggling over something, and I feel like I'm at the short end of the stick because I don't know any better. And I started taking law classes. I'm not going for a degree or anything, but like property law and contract law. I've got all the books and all the audio lessons, and I ride my bike to the notary, listening to contract law and property law. I can quote cases on down the line. And this sheriff is telling me that this church that I sold is not on the deed and these guys that I sold the property to, they went to the church and they broke into the church and the sheriff showed up and they're inside the church, and they said it's their church.
I'm like, "Yeah, it's their church. What's the big deal?" And the sheriff says, "Well, it's not. I've had them in prison. I've had them in jail all weekend, waiting to get in touch with you." And I'm like, "Oh, man, these poor guys." And like, "Who's the victim? What's the problem?" Nobody owns the church. It's vacant. It's been empty forever. I tried to sell it to the pastor I found online and there's no contact. It's all closed and done. I had multiple people. I marketed the thing on YouTube. I marketed on TikTok. Lots of people got into it on TikTok. And they went and checked out the church. They researched the church. They looked at it, local people from the local town and people from...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Member Luke Smith Buys a Vacant Church Riddled with Drama (LA 1775)
Transcript:

Luke Smith:
Hi, guys.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, how are are you?

Steven Jack Butala:
Hi, Luke.

Luke Smith:
Hey. It's my...

Steven Jack Butala:
Here we go.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's just jump right in. I'll start it, Luke, and we'll just... We're pros, both of us. Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have Luke Smith, and not just an interview with Land Academy member, Luke Smith, but Luke's specifically here to tell us a story about buying a church.

Jill DeWit:
It looks like a fireside story based on where Luke is sitting. The only thing we need now is a pipe.

Steven Jack Butala:
And a beard.

Jill DeWit:
And a fire behind you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hi, Luke, how are you?

Luke Smith:
Hey. Yeah, why not buy a church, right?

Jill DeWit:
We got to hear this. Okay, wait. So how did you... Was this in Discord?

Steven Jack Butala:
It was in Discord. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So, did you just drop some nuggets in there and people started asking questions? Or do you just tell the whole story, I'm just catching it?

Steven Jack Butala:
It was a rant. It was in the rant section, I think.

Luke Smith:
I was heated. I was heated because I just got off the phone with the sheriff, right? And I've had a lot of sheriffs call me, and my favorite sheriff call is like, "Luke, the road's blocked because there's a bunch of people here. They say they're looking at your property that's for sale and there's no for sale sign and they're blocking the road. And you made a video on TikTok and nobody sells land on TikTok, you idiot. This has to be a scam." That's my classic sheriff call. My sheriff's call, neighbors are pissed because of some TikTok video I made, right? But this one, I sold a property on TikTok earlier this week, 240 grand on TikTok.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Wow.

Luke Smith:
Yeah, baby.

Jill DeWit:
That's crazy.

Luke Smith:
I got multiple buyers, too. I got more buyers after I signed the first one. Like mom forwarded-

Jill DeWit:
Was it the house next door?

Luke Smith:
... to daughter a video. Like, hell, yeah. Sorry. I'm off on a different angle here. So-

Jill DeWit:
Great.

Luke Smith:
... I was heated because of the sheriff call and he just did not make sense. He did not make sense. And I get into these different phone calls, lawyers call, and people are always haggling over something, and I feel like I'm at the short end of the stick because I don't know any better. And I started taking law classes. I'm not going for a degree or anything, but like property law and contract law. I've got all the books and all the audio lessons, and I ride my bike to the notary, listening to contract law and property law. I can quote cases on down the line. And this sheriff is telling me that this church that I sold is not on the deed and these guys that I sold the property to, they went to the church and they broke into the church and the sheriff showed up and they're inside the church, and they said it's their church.
I'm like, "Yeah, it's their church. What's the big deal?" And the sheriff says, "Well, it's not. I've had them in prison. I've had them in jail all weekend, waiting to get in touch with you." And I'm like, "Oh, man, these poor guys." And like, "Who's the victim? What's the problem?" Nobody owns the church. It's vacant. It's been empty forever. I tried to sell it to the pastor I found online and there's no contact. It's all closed and done. I had multiple people. I marketed the thing on YouTube. I marketed on TikTok. Lots of people got into it on TikTok. And they went and checked out the church. They researched the church. They looked at it, local people from the local town and people from...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/06/01/land-academy-member-luke-smith-buys-a-vacant-church-riddled-with-drama-la-1775/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ysF3dv472</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4c24a0d2-7b21-4177-894e-a554ed951188.mp3" length="27585677" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>28:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>One Percent Difference Rule and Compound Interest in Your Land Business (LA 1774)</title><itunes:title>One Percent Difference Rule and Compound Interest in Your Land Business (LA 1774)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[One Percent Difference Rule and Compound Interest in Your Land Business (LA 1774)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about, really, it's kind of my topic as Jill informed me just now, the 1% difference rule in compound interest and how it's associated with your land business. I think it's associated with everything, but that's just me.

Jill DeWit:
Do you prefer pink nail polish or red? Because that's what I'm going to work on right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's wearer's choice.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. That's how this is going to go right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown commercial printing company dedicated to sending offers to owners. In fact, that's what it's called offers, the number two, owners.com. Check it out. Get your mailers out. We do eight or 900,000 units a month now.

Jill DeWit:
Victor wrote, "After closing a land purchase, what am I supposed to receive from the title company? I closed on four properties for the first time about three weeks ago. Yay. Three in one state, and one in another. And I've not received anything from the title company. No title insurance papers or deed. Is this a typical routine?" No. They're coming. It does take a while.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all you, by the way.

Jill DeWit:
You're not nuts, Victor. And yeah, they're coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
Isn't it fun to just pay all that money and then get nothing?

Jill DeWit:
And then just nothing. Oh, I know. So here's how it really goes. So did he say he bought? Is this bought or sold?

Steven Jack Butala:
Bought.

Jill DeWit:
Bought. Okay. So you bought the properties. You sent the money in. You saw all the closing documents, because you signed everything on the purchase side. And now you're like, "Well, the check cleared. What am I going to get back?" It's coming. So a good title agent will send you back a copy of everything and then they'll follow up with hard copies. But some title agents will just follow up with the hard copies, that's what's coming in the mail. Either way, I do trust them when they say it's, "Hey, we're recorded. I'm good with that. I'm running with it." And you could check with the county if you needed to just before you run with it. But it's common. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's a laziness or COVID, or COVID induced laziness or the new COVID schedule we have nowadays. I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Title agents in general are drunk with power.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're going to tell you how it goes, tell you what to sign, where to sign. And they're playing off of the fact that they think you don't know what you're doing, which is not the case with our group. We all know what they're doing. And we're very lucky that Jill has a transaction coordinator who's 30 years in the industry as a title manager, title agent, title supervisor, and all of it. She's seen it all. So you can't slip anything by her. But when Jo closes a deal, she hasn't done it herself. She hasn't done it recently. She's on the phone on every single deal saying, "I'm not going to sign this. There's no lead-based paint. This doesn't apply because it's a real piece of freaking land."

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I don't need to put a mask on because of COVID when we show the property. So there's all kinds of stuff that goes on.

Jill DeWit:
And three states over.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I promise I'll wear a mask when I call you. What? What? It's almost like that.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[One Percent Difference Rule and Compound Interest in Your Land Business (LA 1774)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about, really, it's kind of my topic as Jill informed me just now, the 1% difference rule in compound interest and how it's associated with your land business. I think it's associated with everything, but that's just me.

Jill DeWit:
Do you prefer pink nail polish or red? Because that's what I'm going to work on right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's wearer's choice.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. That's how this is going to go right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown commercial printing company dedicated to sending offers to owners. In fact, that's what it's called offers, the number two, owners.com. Check it out. Get your mailers out. We do eight or 900,000 units a month now.

Jill DeWit:
Victor wrote, "After closing a land purchase, what am I supposed to receive from the title company? I closed on four properties for the first time about three weeks ago. Yay. Three in one state, and one in another. And I've not received anything from the title company. No title insurance papers or deed. Is this a typical routine?" No. They're coming. It does take a while.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all you, by the way.

Jill DeWit:
You're not nuts, Victor. And yeah, they're coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
Isn't it fun to just pay all that money and then get nothing?

Jill DeWit:
And then just nothing. Oh, I know. So here's how it really goes. So did he say he bought? Is this bought or sold?

Steven Jack Butala:
Bought.

Jill DeWit:
Bought. Okay. So you bought the properties. You sent the money in. You saw all the closing documents, because you signed everything on the purchase side. And now you're like, "Well, the check cleared. What am I going to get back?" It's coming. So a good title agent will send you back a copy of everything and then they'll follow up with hard copies. But some title agents will just follow up with the hard copies, that's what's coming in the mail. Either way, I do trust them when they say it's, "Hey, we're recorded. I'm good with that. I'm running with it." And you could check with the county if you needed to just before you run with it. But it's common. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's a laziness or COVID, or COVID induced laziness or the new COVID schedule we have nowadays. I don't know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Title agents in general are drunk with power.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're going to tell you how it goes, tell you what to sign, where to sign. And they're playing off of the fact that they think you don't know what you're doing, which is not the case with our group. We all know what they're doing. And we're very lucky that Jill has a transaction coordinator who's 30 years in the industry as a title manager, title agent, title supervisor, and all of it. She's seen it all. So you can't slip anything by her. But when Jo closes a deal, she hasn't done it herself. She hasn't done it recently. She's on the phone on every single deal saying, "I'm not going to sign this. There's no lead-based paint. This doesn't apply because it's a real piece of freaking land."

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I don't need to put a mask on because of COVID when we show the property. So there's all kinds of stuff that goes on.

Jill DeWit:
And three states over.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I promise I'll wear a mask when I call you. What? What? It's almost like that.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/31/one-percent-difference-rule-and-compound-interest-in-your-land-business-la-1774/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7I82sA7hQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bb8ce01e-defe-4113-bfb5-8e79bceb2223.mp3" length="10281331" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A Day in the Life of a Land Investor (LA 1773)</title><itunes:title>A Day in the Life of a Land Investor (LA 1773)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[A Day in the Life of a Land Investor (LA 1773)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm over here choking.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's having a little episode.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry. I took a big swig of coffee as we started, and that was a little too big. Anyway, I'm Jill DeWit, and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about a day in the life of a successful land investor.

Jill DeWit:
It doesn't say, "successful." It says, "land investor," I thought we were going to go both ways.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, all right. Yeah. Let's go both ways.

Jill DeWit:
Come on. Let's not just assume it's all peaches and cream.

Steven Jack Butala:
This show, this episode is a long time coming. People have said to me, my whole career, long before even Land Academy, "Hey, could I shadow you? What do you do all day?" I'll tell you, it would be the most boring day of your life.

Jill DeWit:
Great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now, that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, live over the Zoom. Anyway, called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be, give us a call. Or, better yet, contact us at support@landacademy.com to find out if this is for you.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to tell you right now, the next one starts in October.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, good.

Jill DeWit:
It's a 10 week program, starts in October. Just so you can plan for that, and we are about to open up enrollment for it soon. Kevin wrote, "I had a great call with a Fran and Martha yesterday. At the end of the call, they asked if I had the day off next Monday, and they could schedule another call with me. On Memorial Day, which is today as [inaudible 00:01:49]. I laughed and said, "Yeah. Heck, I have every day off," so if you're looking for someone to talk to about your land business, you can sign up at the link below. We'll have a great time, and it will help you with your land business. How cute is that? That's on our website, on Land Academy. You can schedule a call with one of our moderators, Kevin Ferrell.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Kevin's been with us for a long time.

Jill DeWit:
Everybody loves talking to him.

Steven Jack Butala:
He does a consulting call for any Land Academy member who wants it, and I've never heard anyone say anything negative about it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you've gone through the program, you're active in discord, but you really want the icing on the cake, Kevin will really, really help you. Today's happy, a day in the life of a land investor. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Here's what I would like to say about being a land investor. Of all of the jobs that I do, from not just here at Land Academy and being a mom, and a partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
Uh-oh.

Jill DeWit:
I'm totally kidding. I mean I'm totally being serious here. I've got to tell you. No offense.

Steven Jack Butala:
None taken.

Jill DeWit:
But, being a land investor is the easiest, and the most fun for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree with that.

Jill DeWit:
I've got to tell you. Of every single thing I do in my life. From home renovations. You name it. This is the easiest for me, and it's fun for me. I love it. Even if I'm doing it all by myself, 100% by myself, and a lot of people who start out are. I get that. You're like, "I've got to get some money coming in. I've got to figure this out. I'm going to learn all the jobs, and I'll go from there." Yeah. That's how you should do it.
Even if I was a one-man show, because I was. There was a time. Especially when you were writing and doing Land Academ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[A Day in the Life of a Land Investor (LA 1773)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm over here choking.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's having a little episode.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry. I took a big swig of coffee as we started, and that was a little too big. Anyway, I'm Jill DeWit, and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about a day in the life of a successful land investor.

Jill DeWit:
It doesn't say, "successful." It says, "land investor," I thought we were going to go both ways.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, all right. Yeah. Let's go both ways.

Jill DeWit:
Come on. Let's not just assume it's all peaches and cream.

Steven Jack Butala:
This show, this episode is a long time coming. People have said to me, my whole career, long before even Land Academy, "Hey, could I shadow you? What do you do all day?" I'll tell you, it would be the most boring day of your life.

Jill DeWit:
Great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now, that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, live over the Zoom. Anyway, called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be, give us a call. Or, better yet, contact us at support@landacademy.com to find out if this is for you.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to tell you right now, the next one starts in October.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, good.

Jill DeWit:
It's a 10 week program, starts in October. Just so you can plan for that, and we are about to open up enrollment for it soon. Kevin wrote, "I had a great call with a Fran and Martha yesterday. At the end of the call, they asked if I had the day off next Monday, and they could schedule another call with me. On Memorial Day, which is today as [inaudible 00:01:49]. I laughed and said, "Yeah. Heck, I have every day off," so if you're looking for someone to talk to about your land business, you can sign up at the link below. We'll have a great time, and it will help you with your land business. How cute is that? That's on our website, on Land Academy. You can schedule a call with one of our moderators, Kevin Ferrell.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Kevin's been with us for a long time.

Jill DeWit:
Everybody loves talking to him.

Steven Jack Butala:
He does a consulting call for any Land Academy member who wants it, and I've never heard anyone say anything negative about it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you've gone through the program, you're active in discord, but you really want the icing on the cake, Kevin will really, really help you. Today's happy, a day in the life of a land investor. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Here's what I would like to say about being a land investor. Of all of the jobs that I do, from not just here at Land Academy and being a mom, and a partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
Uh-oh.

Jill DeWit:
I'm totally kidding. I mean I'm totally being serious here. I've got to tell you. No offense.

Steven Jack Butala:
None taken.

Jill DeWit:
But, being a land investor is the easiest, and the most fun for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree with that.

Jill DeWit:
I've got to tell you. Of every single thing I do in my life. From home renovations. You name it. This is the easiest for me, and it's fun for me. I love it. Even if I'm doing it all by myself, 100% by myself, and a lot of people who start out are. I get that. You're like, "I've got to get some money coming in. I've got to figure this out. I'm going to learn all the jobs, and I'll go from there." Yeah. That's how you should do it.
Even if I was a one-man show, because I was. There was a time. Especially when you were writing and doing Land Academ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/30/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-land-investor-la-1773/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8OooUQKwy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8118434c-4ae1-43d1-9cdf-c5f75676ac7f.mp3" length="12959099" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Real Relationship You Need to Establish with Your Seller (LA 1772)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Real Relationship You Need to Establish with Your Seller (LA 1772)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Real Relationship You Need to Establish with Your Seller (LA 1772)
Transcript:

Jack: Steven Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven [inaudible]

Jill : And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Jack: Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the relationship you need to establish with your seller to get a deal done.

Jill : Thank you.

Jack: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community it's free. I'll tell you what, back in the day, it was impossible to find a piece of real estate that has yet to be assigned a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this, we have created and enabled a live database so you can look it up by APN or assessor parcels number. It is called neighbor scoop and soon to be parcelfact.com. Check us out neighborsgroup.com or parcelfact.com. You can find property in seconds.

Jill : I would open up my computer all day long. It's the best thing ever. How we ever got by without it? I don't know. Aaron wrote "Hi all. So my first mailer is slowly starting to yield some phone calls that aren't hate. I want to ask the group, the script you guys have on the first time call. I know Jill has questions, has a questions list for new calls, but I'm talking a bit more about building some rapport with the seller. Like I have been getting asked, what do you do? Or why do you want the property? Or what are you going to do with the property? This is what I'm telling people so far. I'm a convenience buyer." That's good. I like that. "I provide liquidity to landowners who would like to sell their land relatively quickly. The average age of market for land in America is 235 days." Well, I didn't know that.

Jack: This is a great speech.

Jill : This is really cool. "So, basically two thirds of a year, or you can sell it to me. I do some quick due diligence and I can get you a fast, close price. So, I'd like to possibly send assemble more properties like yours and sell them all to one investor who wants the acreage. Or I may develop the property myself, make a subdivision who knows? Can I get some other ideas on what you all do? Is your intro on the call?"

Jack: I'm going to interject. This is pretty good. Well, this is your, the topic.

Jill : I know you want to just jump in?

Jack: Today's topic, It's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the real relationship you need to establish with your seller to get a deal done. This is the meat of the show.

Jill : This is a perfect little intro because I have a checklist when you answer the phone of the questions to ask them. But some people are having other people ask, answer the phone and they don't have time to do a whole little checklist. Just get the beef, the juice there. And you don't have a lot of time when these people call in to win them over. So, that's the first thing. People are concerned about this, because it's a big deal. It is a big deal. You spend so much time pricing these offers getting them out there in these people's hands. These sellers, these owners, they don't even know their sellers yet, they're owners. They open up your letter and they call you back. First thing we want to do is calm them down, find out if they want to sell, get the property info, see if our number works or what is their number.
That's the gist of it. It's easy to write a script I'm actually working on and I have written script and I have shared those within land academy and it's always tweaking a little bit. I love people. The best thing you can do is take my script and tweak it for whatever makes sense to you. I think that's great. Don't worry too much if it's not you answering the phone, some people have the luxury of their wife, like on Wednesday with the [inaudible], she can answer the phone. I know other people that do it. We did. I answered the phone and then it, but there's times that you have to remove yourse...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Real Relationship You Need to Establish with Your Seller (LA 1772)
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Jack: Steven Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven [inaudible]

Jill : And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Jack: Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the relationship you need to establish with your seller to get a deal done.

Jill : Thank you.

Jack: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community it's free. I'll tell you what, back in the day, it was impossible to find a piece of real estate that has yet to be assigned a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. To solve this, we have created and enabled a live database so you can look it up by APN or assessor parcels number. It is called neighbor scoop and soon to be parcelfact.com. Check us out neighborsgroup.com or parcelfact.com. You can find property in seconds.

Jill : I would open up my computer all day long. It's the best thing ever. How we ever got by without it? I don't know. Aaron wrote "Hi all. So my first mailer is slowly starting to yield some phone calls that aren't hate. I want to ask the group, the script you guys have on the first time call. I know Jill has questions, has a questions list for new calls, but I'm talking a bit more about building some rapport with the seller. Like I have been getting asked, what do you do? Or why do you want the property? Or what are you going to do with the property? This is what I'm telling people so far. I'm a convenience buyer." That's good. I like that. "I provide liquidity to landowners who would like to sell their land relatively quickly. The average age of market for land in America is 235 days." Well, I didn't know that.

Jack: This is a great speech.

Jill : This is really cool. "So, basically two thirds of a year, or you can sell it to me. I do some quick due diligence and I can get you a fast, close price. So, I'd like to possibly send assemble more properties like yours and sell them all to one investor who wants the acreage. Or I may develop the property myself, make a subdivision who knows? Can I get some other ideas on what you all do? Is your intro on the call?"

Jack: I'm going to interject. This is pretty good. Well, this is your, the topic.

Jill : I know you want to just jump in?

Jack: Today's topic, It's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the real relationship you need to establish with your seller to get a deal done. This is the meat of the show.

Jill : This is a perfect little intro because I have a checklist when you answer the phone of the questions to ask them. But some people are having other people ask, answer the phone and they don't have time to do a whole little checklist. Just get the beef, the juice there. And you don't have a lot of time when these people call in to win them over. So, that's the first thing. People are concerned about this, because it's a big deal. It is a big deal. You spend so much time pricing these offers getting them out there in these people's hands. These sellers, these owners, they don't even know their sellers yet, they're owners. They open up your letter and they call you back. First thing we want to do is calm them down, find out if they want to sell, get the property info, see if our number works or what is their number.
That's the gist of it. It's easy to write a script I'm actually working on and I have written script and I have shared those within land academy and it's always tweaking a little bit. I love people. The best thing you can do is take my script and tweak it for whatever makes sense to you. I think that's great. Don't worry too much if it's not you answering the phone, some people have the luxury of their wife, like on Wednesday with the [inaudible], she can answer the phone. I know other people that do it. We did. I answered the phone and then it, but there's times that you have to remove yourse...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/27/jill-friday-real-relationship-you-need-to-establish-with-your-seller-la-1772/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QaTTPLYlL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5999fe76-17f2-44c9-8028-ae87d80384ff.mp3" length="15118443" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Chasing Zero (LA 1771)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Chasing Zero (LA 1771)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Chasing Zero (LA 1771)
Transcript:

Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steve: Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about this concept I created quite some time ago that just doesn't seem to die. It's sung to some people called Chasing Zero.

Jill: I'm excited. I love it. This comes up often. I'm trying to think of, probably because of career path, it comes up in career path. You talk about it and we've done a few shows on this. This whole topic and this description intrigues people, myself included. So, I'm glad we're doing another show on this today.

Steve: Good, Jill. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill: Josh wrote, "Hi all, new guy here with a quick question. Got my first mailer and I'm getting some responses. Tried to bring my wife into the operation/discussion, but she's having a hard time wrapping her head around the vacant land, then I mentioned houses. Her interest peaked quite a bit and she's been looking at the House Academy public website. Curious of your thoughts on House Academy training business model, and if any other newbies are doing both, or houses exclusively. Likewise, any thoughts as to why the House Academy podcast and overall focus from Jack and Jill has waned a bit? Market? Just making that model less appealing? Feel free to PM me if that's easier." Oh, I love it. This is good.

Steve: This is a very popular topic on discord.

Jill: Yep.

Steve: There is a lot of responses to this.

Jill: I bet.

Steve: I love buying and selling houses.

Jill: Me too.

Steve: Right now it is the most competitive I've ever seen it in my entire career.

Jill: And I don't want to play.

Steve: If you talk to any homeowner, especially in those target areas, with mid range, two, three, four hundred thousand dollars, buy it for 300, sell it for 400 without any real renovation, they'll tell you that they get two or three offers a week.

Jill: Right.

Steve: And very frustrated. They'll tell you in a very slam it down on the desk frustrated way. We don't care to run with that, so much competition. We could make it work. We've done it. When the market ... and everybody said this on discord.

Jill: Isn't that funny?

Steve: I'm reiterating it. When a market chills out a little we'll get back into it.

Jill: It seems counterintuitive, but you're like, "Wait a minute. Why would you want now to buy houses and jump in the pool when it's so hot because everything sells so fast?" But, Steven's right, because of the whole way that we operate everything is buying it right. If I'm in a bidding war with somebody else, I'm not buying it right. It's just too nutty. I like it to be slowed down a little bit, not as much competition, I can get some smoking deals, mark it up very effectively, and then sell it and move on.

Steve: Here's the truth.

Jill: But I like houses, too.

Steve: Here's the truth time. If somebody put a gun to my head and said, "You're going to buy and sell houses now." I would sit down. I would run data like I run it now with some changes, and then I would look at the pretty rural markets that are pretty solidly served by useful internet service providers so you can get a good connection, because everybody seems to be ... more and more people are working from home and moving out into outlying areas. So I could choose the right rural markets and buy and sell houses all day long.

Jill: Correct.

Steve: The fact is, and if I had a nickel for every Land Academy member that came to Jill and I and said, "Wow, thank you. I'm so much out of the house business now. It's so much easier and more profitable to buy and sell land.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Chasing Zero (LA 1771)
Transcript:

Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steve: Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about this concept I created quite some time ago that just doesn't seem to die. It's sung to some people called Chasing Zero.

Jill: I'm excited. I love it. This comes up often. I'm trying to think of, probably because of career path, it comes up in career path. You talk about it and we've done a few shows on this. This whole topic and this description intrigues people, myself included. So, I'm glad we're doing another show on this today.

Steve: Good, Jill. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill: Josh wrote, "Hi all, new guy here with a quick question. Got my first mailer and I'm getting some responses. Tried to bring my wife into the operation/discussion, but she's having a hard time wrapping her head around the vacant land, then I mentioned houses. Her interest peaked quite a bit and she's been looking at the House Academy public website. Curious of your thoughts on House Academy training business model, and if any other newbies are doing both, or houses exclusively. Likewise, any thoughts as to why the House Academy podcast and overall focus from Jack and Jill has waned a bit? Market? Just making that model less appealing? Feel free to PM me if that's easier." Oh, I love it. This is good.

Steve: This is a very popular topic on discord.

Jill: Yep.

Steve: There is a lot of responses to this.

Jill: I bet.

Steve: I love buying and selling houses.

Jill: Me too.

Steve: Right now it is the most competitive I've ever seen it in my entire career.

Jill: And I don't want to play.

Steve: If you talk to any homeowner, especially in those target areas, with mid range, two, three, four hundred thousand dollars, buy it for 300, sell it for 400 without any real renovation, they'll tell you that they get two or three offers a week.

Jill: Right.

Steve: And very frustrated. They'll tell you in a very slam it down on the desk frustrated way. We don't care to run with that, so much competition. We could make it work. We've done it. When the market ... and everybody said this on discord.

Jill: Isn't that funny?

Steve: I'm reiterating it. When a market chills out a little we'll get back into it.

Jill: It seems counterintuitive, but you're like, "Wait a minute. Why would you want now to buy houses and jump in the pool when it's so hot because everything sells so fast?" But, Steven's right, because of the whole way that we operate everything is buying it right. If I'm in a bidding war with somebody else, I'm not buying it right. It's just too nutty. I like it to be slowed down a little bit, not as much competition, I can get some smoking deals, mark it up very effectively, and then sell it and move on.

Steve: Here's the truth.

Jill: But I like houses, too.

Steve: Here's the truth time. If somebody put a gun to my head and said, "You're going to buy and sell houses now." I would sit down. I would run data like I run it now with some changes, and then I would look at the pretty rural markets that are pretty solidly served by useful internet service providers so you can get a good connection, because everybody seems to be ... more and more people are working from home and moving out into outlying areas. So I could choose the right rural markets and buy and sell houses all day long.

Jill: Correct.

Steve: The fact is, and if I had a nickel for every Land Academy member that came to Jill and I and said, "Wow, thank you. I'm so much out of the house business now. It's so much easier and more profitable to buy and sell land.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/26/jack-thursday-chasing-zero-la-1771/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zSd8TpftH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7f7cb60b-b1b0-4faf-b93f-27249c5bb184.mp3" length="13519690" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Dan and Emily VanderVen Land Academy Members Interview (LA 1770)</title><itunes:title>Dan and Emily VanderVen Land Academy Members Interview (LA 1770)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Dan and Emily VanderVen Land Academy Members Interview (LA 1770)
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If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dan and Emily VanderVen Land Academy Members Interview (LA 1770)
Transcript:

If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/25/dan-and-emily-vanderven-land-academy-members-interview-la-1770/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">370Y-ijJR</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/db98deff-b8d5-4ea6-98d6-1f8332d639b9.mp3" length="36640883" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>38:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Money Works in Your Land Business (LA 1769)</title><itunes:title>How Money Works in Your Land Business (LA 1769)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Money Works in Your Land Business (LA 1769)
Transcript:

Jill DeWit: Hello.

Steven Jack But...: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack But...: Today, Jill and I talk about how money works in your land business, and really just how money works at all.

Jill DeWit: Did you write this for me?

Steven Jack But...: No.

Jill DeWit: Okay.

Steven Jack But...: No.

Jill DeWit: I got to ask. Okay, let me back up here. One of us is an accountant and one of us isn't. You guess. Who do you think it is?

Steven Jack But...: Yeah, who do you like more? Jill or me? The other one's the accountant.

Jill DeWit: Yeah. That's why I thought you wrote this for me. I thought this was your subtle way of, "Babe, we got to talk."

Steven Jack But...: No.

Jill DeWit: "And your money habits suck." Because I wrote down...

Steven Jack But...: That is the exact opposite.

Jill DeWit: I have to say, I have, in my lifetime, I have changed dramatically on how I look at, view, manage and budget, and I'm very proud of that.

Steven Jack But...: I have never had a life partner or a business partner who manages money better than you.

Jill DeWit: Thank you. Really? Seriously?

Steven Jack But...: Yeah.

Jill DeWit: That's...

Steven Jack But...: That's an absolute.

Jill DeWit: I didn't know that.

Steven Jack But...: I would never, in a twisted way, write a topic that we need to talk about and then just talk to the whole world about it and then have you try to...

Jill DeWit: I'm sure...

Steven Jack But...: ... teach you a lesson.

Jill DeWit: Are you sure we haven't done... I think we've done that before. I'm pretty sure if we go back over the decade, not decade, but the years of podcast, there's probably a few hidden messages in there. Anyway, I'm excited because I wrote down the three things that I think...

Steven Jack But...: Good.

Jill DeWit: ... you need to, how you manage your money in your own personal land business. I'm excited to hear what you think. And then, I know you're going to set us all straight.

Steven Jack But...: I'm going to give you my opinion.

Jill DeWit: I know.

Steven Jack But...: And then you and everyone listening to this, the six or seven other people that are listening to this, cannot decide whether or not I'm full of it or not.

Jill DeWit: No, I know you're right, but I'm just... I want to see how close I am. But I think I'm going to be not far off, but this is my perception, but I'm not going to use the right terms obviously, because I'm not an accountant and I don't care about the right terms.

Steven Jack But...: We're going to start off with your stuff right after this.

Jill DeWit: Okay, cool.

Steven Jack But...: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now, we have full blown operational commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this up a bunch of years ago out of pure blind frustration with sending our own mail campaigns out and using commercial printing companies that don't understand our business.

Jill DeWit: Correct.

Steven Jack But...: We decided a few years ago to make it available to everybody.

Jill DeWit: Yeah.

Steven Jack But...: Go to offers2owners.com and see if... If you're sending out mail, see how it fits in your world.

Jill DeWit: It can hook you up.

Steven Jack But...: I'll tell you, last month, we did almost 900,000 offers.

Jill DeWit: Cool. All right. Mike F wrote, "This is from the other member who is communicating with a broker."

Steven Jack But...: This is a...

Jill DeWit: This is part of an ongoing conversation.

Steven Jack But...: This is a written communication...

Jill DeWit: Okay.

Steven Jack But...: ... from a broker to a Land Academy member about doing a real estate deal.

Jill DeWit: Okay,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Money Works in Your Land Business (LA 1769)
Transcript:

Jill DeWit: Hello.

Steven Jack But...: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack But...: Today, Jill and I talk about how money works in your land business, and really just how money works at all.

Jill DeWit: Did you write this for me?

Steven Jack But...: No.

Jill DeWit: Okay.

Steven Jack But...: No.

Jill DeWit: I got to ask. Okay, let me back up here. One of us is an accountant and one of us isn't. You guess. Who do you think it is?

Steven Jack But...: Yeah, who do you like more? Jill or me? The other one's the accountant.

Jill DeWit: Yeah. That's why I thought you wrote this for me. I thought this was your subtle way of, "Babe, we got to talk."

Steven Jack But...: No.

Jill DeWit: "And your money habits suck." Because I wrote down...

Steven Jack But...: That is the exact opposite.

Jill DeWit: I have to say, I have, in my lifetime, I have changed dramatically on how I look at, view, manage and budget, and I'm very proud of that.

Steven Jack But...: I have never had a life partner or a business partner who manages money better than you.

Jill DeWit: Thank you. Really? Seriously?

Steven Jack But...: Yeah.

Jill DeWit: That's...

Steven Jack But...: That's an absolute.

Jill DeWit: I didn't know that.

Steven Jack But...: I would never, in a twisted way, write a topic that we need to talk about and then just talk to the whole world about it and then have you try to...

Jill DeWit: I'm sure...

Steven Jack But...: ... teach you a lesson.

Jill DeWit: Are you sure we haven't done... I think we've done that before. I'm pretty sure if we go back over the decade, not decade, but the years of podcast, there's probably a few hidden messages in there. Anyway, I'm excited because I wrote down the three things that I think...

Steven Jack But...: Good.

Jill DeWit: ... you need to, how you manage your money in your own personal land business. I'm excited to hear what you think. And then, I know you're going to set us all straight.

Steven Jack But...: I'm going to give you my opinion.

Jill DeWit: I know.

Steven Jack But...: And then you and everyone listening to this, the six or seven other people that are listening to this, cannot decide whether or not I'm full of it or not.

Jill DeWit: No, I know you're right, but I'm just... I want to see how close I am. But I think I'm going to be not far off, but this is my perception, but I'm not going to use the right terms obviously, because I'm not an accountant and I don't care about the right terms.

Steven Jack But...: We're going to start off with your stuff right after this.

Jill DeWit: Okay, cool.

Steven Jack But...: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now, we have full blown operational commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this up a bunch of years ago out of pure blind frustration with sending our own mail campaigns out and using commercial printing companies that don't understand our business.

Jill DeWit: Correct.

Steven Jack But...: We decided a few years ago to make it available to everybody.

Jill DeWit: Yeah.

Steven Jack But...: Go to offers2owners.com and see if... If you're sending out mail, see how it fits in your world.

Jill DeWit: It can hook you up.

Steven Jack But...: I'll tell you, last month, we did almost 900,000 offers.

Jill DeWit: Cool. All right. Mike F wrote, "This is from the other member who is communicating with a broker."

Steven Jack But...: This is a...

Jill DeWit: This is part of an ongoing conversation.

Steven Jack But...: This is a written communication...

Jill DeWit: Okay.

Steven Jack But...: ... from a broker to a Land Academy member about doing a real estate deal.

Jill DeWit: Okay,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/24/how-money-works-in-your-land-business-la-1769/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bAh2Mqqcy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2edf3541-7ce5-45fb-b51b-1d042e25b760.mp3" length="20247576" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>5 Ways to Seriously Increase Your Land Value (LA 1768)</title><itunes:title>5 Ways to Seriously Increase Your Land Value (LA 1768)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[5 Ways to Seriously Increase Your Land Value (LA 1768)
Transcript:



Steven Jack But...: Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit: Hello.

Steven Jack But...: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack But...: Today, Jill and I talk about five ways to seriously increase land value.

Jill DeWit: This will be cool.

Steven Jack But...: I say this with confidence - they are not what you think.

Jill DeWit: This is you bought it, you own it, and now, because you bought it right, you already are going to make money anyway. Because if you do what we tell you to do, what we show you to do, and follow us, you're going to make money anyway. But there's things you could do to make even more money and increase not only your sales, I think, but also the speed in which you sell things. I love this. This is all you.

Steven Jack But...: Why are we here? We're here to make money on land. We're here to create a healthy spread between acquisition price and sales price, so these are ways that you can seriously increase that value.

Jill DeWit: Before we get into this, I have a pet peeve that I just wanted to share with the planet.

Steven Jack But...: Did I snore or something like that?

Jill DeWit: No, it's not you.

Steven Jack But...: First time ever it's not me.

Jill DeWit: That's hilarious. There's times it's you, but there's a healthy time that it's not you, so don't say that. This is pertinent because you either are like us or probably want to do this to have your own company.

Steven Jack But...: Or you're disgusted by us, and if that's the case, which I understand, this might not be the show for you.

Jill DeWit: My pet peeve is about people who shoot from the hip, and they say, "Oh yeah, I know how to do that," and they had never done it before in their life.

Steven Jack But...: Do you have an example?

Jill DeWit: Yeah. Here's my example - we're having pool work done, which involved draining our pool. The worker showed up there hooking up the stuff, and he's like, "Well, I'm going to leave now," and I'm like, "Why am I hearing gurgling?" I'm literally standing in my entryway, hearing like a ghost gurgling throughout my home, and I'm like, "That can't be right." We're walking around the house, and he immediately says, "Unplug the pump. We got to unplug the pump," and I'm like, "Yeah."
Anyway, now it's unfolded. And I stood there in my driveway before we started the process, asked a couple questions about his experience. He's explaining something, I'm like, "Sounds like you really know what you're doing. Make me feel better, you've probably done this..."
He was like, "Oh yeah, I've done a hundred of these," just like this. I'm like, "Oh, good. Okay." No, apparently not. A, I don't know why people do that, that's a whole separate show, and B, don't do this in your own business.

Steven Jack But...: That's the takeaway here.

Jill DeWit: I tell people when you answer the phone is you're getting to learn about properties. Don't pretend you know. Be honest and say, "You know what? Excellent question. I'm not sure what's possible with this. I'll get to the bottom of it," or, "Here's who you call." Either I'll call the county and find out, or, "Here's the number to the county and here's who you ask, and they'll be able to tell you and answer all your questions."

Steven Jack But...: That's why we have tools like Discord and Land Investors and all that.

Jill DeWit: And the show, to help you with this stuff.

Steven Jack But...: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now that Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, shoot us an email at support@landacademy.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[5 Ways to Seriously Increase Your Land Value (LA 1768)
Transcript:



Steven Jack But...: Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit: Hello.

Steven Jack But...: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack But...: Today, Jill and I talk about five ways to seriously increase land value.

Jill DeWit: This will be cool.

Steven Jack But...: I say this with confidence - they are not what you think.

Jill DeWit: This is you bought it, you own it, and now, because you bought it right, you already are going to make money anyway. Because if you do what we tell you to do, what we show you to do, and follow us, you're going to make money anyway. But there's things you could do to make even more money and increase not only your sales, I think, but also the speed in which you sell things. I love this. This is all you.

Steven Jack But...: Why are we here? We're here to make money on land. We're here to create a healthy spread between acquisition price and sales price, so these are ways that you can seriously increase that value.

Jill DeWit: Before we get into this, I have a pet peeve that I just wanted to share with the planet.

Steven Jack But...: Did I snore or something like that?

Jill DeWit: No, it's not you.

Steven Jack But...: First time ever it's not me.

Jill DeWit: That's hilarious. There's times it's you, but there's a healthy time that it's not you, so don't say that. This is pertinent because you either are like us or probably want to do this to have your own company.

Steven Jack But...: Or you're disgusted by us, and if that's the case, which I understand, this might not be the show for you.

Jill DeWit: My pet peeve is about people who shoot from the hip, and they say, "Oh yeah, I know how to do that," and they had never done it before in their life.

Steven Jack But...: Do you have an example?

Jill DeWit: Yeah. Here's my example - we're having pool work done, which involved draining our pool. The worker showed up there hooking up the stuff, and he's like, "Well, I'm going to leave now," and I'm like, "Why am I hearing gurgling?" I'm literally standing in my entryway, hearing like a ghost gurgling throughout my home, and I'm like, "That can't be right." We're walking around the house, and he immediately says, "Unplug the pump. We got to unplug the pump," and I'm like, "Yeah."
Anyway, now it's unfolded. And I stood there in my driveway before we started the process, asked a couple questions about his experience. He's explaining something, I'm like, "Sounds like you really know what you're doing. Make me feel better, you've probably done this..."
He was like, "Oh yeah, I've done a hundred of these," just like this. I'm like, "Oh, good. Okay." No, apparently not. A, I don't know why people do that, that's a whole separate show, and B, don't do this in your own business.

Steven Jack But...: That's the takeaway here.

Jill DeWit: I tell people when you answer the phone is you're getting to learn about properties. Don't pretend you know. Be honest and say, "You know what? Excellent question. I'm not sure what's possible with this. I'll get to the bottom of it," or, "Here's who you call." Either I'll call the county and find out, or, "Here's the number to the county and here's who you ask, and they'll be able to tell you and answer all your questions."

Steven Jack But...: That's why we have tools like Discord and Land Investors and all that.

Jill DeWit: And the show, to help you with this stuff.

Steven Jack But...: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I hope you know by now that Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, shoot us an email at support@landacademy.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/23/5-ways-to-seriously-increase-your-land-value-la-1768/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YJtJieo9R</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d8ceb19a-7587-4d9c-929b-cb6cec1b9520.mp3" length="16948211" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Lucky Career Path Millionaires (LA 1767)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Lucky Career Path Millionaires (LA 1767)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Lucky Career Path Millionaires (LA 1767)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here-

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about lucky career path millionaires.

Jill DeWit:
That was funny when that came up, it was good.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all realized that we're lucky. We're not talented, we're not dedicated or consistent, we're just lucky.

Jill DeWit:
That's it. That's all this is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by somebody on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I'm going to tell you that back in the day, it was almost impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. So Jill and I solved this through technology and launched an entire website based on it called neighborscoop.com. If you are having a tough time finding property, check us out @neighborscoop.com.

Jill DeWit:
Yuri wrote, is it a red flag for a seller to be motivated to sell after just purchasing, not inheriting, their land only a few years ago? My offer price is only slightly higher than what they paid and local broker told me I'll get two to three times that when I sell it. It seems like a good deal, but I don't want to get too excited and overlook something.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think so, especially if it's a nice big chunk of property that there's lots of places to do stuff with then all it tells me is something happened. I think I know where Yuri's going, I'm going to finish my thought. But I do get ... because you're looking at me like, hurry it up.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'm not.

Jill DeWit:
Is that okay?

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't hurry it up, I don't.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, but I do get it. But on the flip side, if someone bought this six months ago with the intent of building a cabin, it's 0.4 acres and I'm looking at the train going, how are they going to do this? And all of a sudden they want to get rid of it. And at any price, I'm like, shucks, that could be a red flag that they may have bought it, thought they could build on it or do something with it and they found out they can't do what they felt they wanted to do. And I need to make sure and check that out. So I think that's where Yuri's going.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every time Jill and I have done a real estate deal, which are almost always involve primary residents, there comes a point in the deal where we have to talk to the seller. And this is an absolute rule, it's a deal breaking issue for most real estate agents because they don't want you to talk to the seller and find out the truth.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a luxury to do the deals that we do because we get to talk to the seller. We talk to the seller from day one and we talk to them at the end. There's no real estate broker or anybody involved to screw up the deal. So it's opposite of what real estate agents think. We're the buyer, we're not going to screw the deal up. Or if we do screw the deal up, it needed to be screwed up. Talk to your seller-

Jill DeWit:
There was something wrong.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Which is, then you shouldn't buy. Talk to your seller, ask him, you just bought this in June-

Jill DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Jack Butala:
... What's going on?

Jill DeWit:
Why are you selling?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, we changed our minds. We thought we were going to move there but my son went to school over here instead of over here. And that's nine times out of 10, is that you're correct. Or really if you're sensing, use your senses here that, there's going to cost $82,000 to get the sewer connected, which just happened to us by the way and we killed the deal as we found out. That will actually come out most of the time in your regular due diligence scenario.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Lucky Career Path Millionaires (LA 1767)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here-

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about lucky career path millionaires.

Jill DeWit:
That was funny when that came up, it was good.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all realized that we're lucky. We're not talented, we're not dedicated or consistent, we're just lucky.

Jill DeWit:
That's it. That's all this is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by somebody on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And I'm going to tell you that back in the day, it was almost impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. So Jill and I solved this through technology and launched an entire website based on it called neighborscoop.com. If you are having a tough time finding property, check us out @neighborscoop.com.

Jill DeWit:
Yuri wrote, is it a red flag for a seller to be motivated to sell after just purchasing, not inheriting, their land only a few years ago? My offer price is only slightly higher than what they paid and local broker told me I'll get two to three times that when I sell it. It seems like a good deal, but I don't want to get too excited and overlook something.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think so, especially if it's a nice big chunk of property that there's lots of places to do stuff with then all it tells me is something happened. I think I know where Yuri's going, I'm going to finish my thought. But I do get ... because you're looking at me like, hurry it up.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'm not.

Jill DeWit:
Is that okay?

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't hurry it up, I don't.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, but I do get it. But on the flip side, if someone bought this six months ago with the intent of building a cabin, it's 0.4 acres and I'm looking at the train going, how are they going to do this? And all of a sudden they want to get rid of it. And at any price, I'm like, shucks, that could be a red flag that they may have bought it, thought they could build on it or do something with it and they found out they can't do what they felt they wanted to do. And I need to make sure and check that out. So I think that's where Yuri's going.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every time Jill and I have done a real estate deal, which are almost always involve primary residents, there comes a point in the deal where we have to talk to the seller. And this is an absolute rule, it's a deal breaking issue for most real estate agents because they don't want you to talk to the seller and find out the truth.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a luxury to do the deals that we do because we get to talk to the seller. We talk to the seller from day one and we talk to them at the end. There's no real estate broker or anybody involved to screw up the deal. So it's opposite of what real estate agents think. We're the buyer, we're not going to screw the deal up. Or if we do screw the deal up, it needed to be screwed up. Talk to your seller-

Jill DeWit:
There was something wrong.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Which is, then you shouldn't buy. Talk to your seller, ask him, you just bought this in June-

Jill DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Jack Butala:
... What's going on?

Jill DeWit:
Why are you selling?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, we changed our minds. We thought we were going to move there but my son went to school over here instead of over here. And that's nine times out of 10, is that you're correct. Or really if you're sensing, use your senses here that, there's going to cost $82,000 to get the sewer connected, which just happened to us by the way and we killed the deal as we found out. That will actually come out most of the time in your regular due diligence scenario.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/20/jill-friday-lucky-career-path-millionaires-la-1767/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">eHbxVj0zK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1e180b6a-d9fe-4c0f-b23d-e240fc069857.mp3" length="15211448" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How Most Decisions Come Down to One Number (LA 1766)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How Most Decisions Come Down to One Number (LA 1766)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How Most Decisions Come Down to One Number (LA 1766)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how most decisions come down to one single number. I have to say, if numbers are not part of how you make decisions, and you're really making decisions based on how you feel, you're in for it.

Jill DeWit:
I can't wait to hear more of this [inaudible 00:00:36]

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landininvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like. It actually helps us produce better content.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, "If you're new, your first year is most likely going through some of the growing pains of answering some of these questions for yourself."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is very long, and this is okay, and it's very ... It's not a question.

Jill DeWit:
I can talk.

Steven Jack Butala:
John is a ... Let me set this up a little bit.

Jill DeWit:
You don't like how I'm reading it.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I love how you read it.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just really long and I don't want you to burn through it. This is a long ... It's not a question, what John did here, because there are a lot of questions. He decided, thank you, and this is why I put it in the show, to share his experience after a few years of sending mail successfully, and the things that he learned his first year that he's sharing with about, you know, get over it.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. I kind of gathered that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, good.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So he says, "If you're new, you're going to go through some growing pains and answering some questions for yourself. You're going to make some mistakes. You're going to have some mailers that don't go as planned and deals that fall through, et cetera. You're looking to weather those storms and make mistakes so you can come out of the first year knowing what you need to accomplish in order to succeed. If you have a budget for 30,000 mailers, to see if this works, I know it's tempting to jump in with both feet and send out a bunch of mail, but I would suggest spacing that out over a year so you're learning the cycle of this business. Mail goes out, hate wave and missed price offers come in a week, and then the core of the campaign happens over the next couple months, and then offers trickle in indefinitely. Rinse and repeat. It's not foolproof, but understanding where you are in the response window for your mailer campaign is important, because over time you'll get a sense of what type of seller responds at different stages.

Jill DeWit:
"And more importantly, if a campaign deviates too far from the norm, it's good to reflect on where you're targeting your pricing. If every time you send out 3,000 letters in California, you're going to get about X hate, y no-deal leads, and then Z actual deals. And one campaign goes completely flat or turns into an ATM, you'll have that knowledge of previous campaigns to say, 'Let me pause and dig into what happened with this one.' If you send out 30,000 offers all at once and nothing for another six months, it's really hard to get a feel for what's happened and what can be improved on. I partner with various members on campaigns, and another thing I notice is a batch of mail going out is like a birthday or a lotto ticket or spring training."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's how I feel about it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "That excitement for what could come, starting from a clean slate, puts wind in people's sails, versus trying to circle back on a previous mailer and looking to salvage it or...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How Most Decisions Come Down to One Number (LA 1766)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how most decisions come down to one single number. I have to say, if numbers are not part of how you make decisions, and you're really making decisions based on how you feel, you're in for it.

Jill DeWit:
I can't wait to hear more of this [inaudible 00:00:36]

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landininvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like. It actually helps us produce better content.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, "If you're new, your first year is most likely going through some of the growing pains of answering some of these questions for yourself."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is very long, and this is okay, and it's very ... It's not a question.

Jill DeWit:
I can talk.

Steven Jack Butala:
John is a ... Let me set this up a little bit.

Jill DeWit:
You don't like how I'm reading it.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I love how you read it.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just really long and I don't want you to burn through it. This is a long ... It's not a question, what John did here, because there are a lot of questions. He decided, thank you, and this is why I put it in the show, to share his experience after a few years of sending mail successfully, and the things that he learned his first year that he's sharing with about, you know, get over it.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. I kind of gathered that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, good.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So he says, "If you're new, you're going to go through some growing pains and answering some questions for yourself. You're going to make some mistakes. You're going to have some mailers that don't go as planned and deals that fall through, et cetera. You're looking to weather those storms and make mistakes so you can come out of the first year knowing what you need to accomplish in order to succeed. If you have a budget for 30,000 mailers, to see if this works, I know it's tempting to jump in with both feet and send out a bunch of mail, but I would suggest spacing that out over a year so you're learning the cycle of this business. Mail goes out, hate wave and missed price offers come in a week, and then the core of the campaign happens over the next couple months, and then offers trickle in indefinitely. Rinse and repeat. It's not foolproof, but understanding where you are in the response window for your mailer campaign is important, because over time you'll get a sense of what type of seller responds at different stages.

Jill DeWit:
"And more importantly, if a campaign deviates too far from the norm, it's good to reflect on where you're targeting your pricing. If every time you send out 3,000 letters in California, you're going to get about X hate, y no-deal leads, and then Z actual deals. And one campaign goes completely flat or turns into an ATM, you'll have that knowledge of previous campaigns to say, 'Let me pause and dig into what happened with this one.' If you send out 30,000 offers all at once and nothing for another six months, it's really hard to get a feel for what's happened and what can be improved on. I partner with various members on campaigns, and another thing I notice is a batch of mail going out is like a birthday or a lotto ticket or spring training."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's how I feel about it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "That excitement for what could come, starting from a clean slate, puts wind in people's sails, versus trying to circle back on a previous mailer and looking to salvage it or...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/19/jack-thursday-how-most-decisions-come-down-to-one-number-la-1766/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yXx5iMwAU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/aa297987-e619-4e3b-90c0-4399ed5a2b3a.mp3" length="13391432" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hard Working Land Academy Members Steven and AJ Holbrook Interview (LA 1765)</title><itunes:title>Hard Working Land Academy Members Steven and AJ Holbrook Interview (LA 1765)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Hard Working Land Academy Members Steven and AJ Holbrook Interview (LA 1765)
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If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/18/hard-working-land-academy-members-steven-and-aj-holbrook-interview-la-1765/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yYWrCx1Gf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3dd1bc50-7a4b-4d61-bed0-5eaa3e5e8470.mp3" length="30458406" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>31:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How a Double Mailer Works and Why (LA 1764)</title><itunes:title>How a Double Mailer Works and Why (LA 1764)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How a Double Mailer Works and Why (LA 1764)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how a double mailer works and why. What the hell is a double mailer, Jill?
Jill DeWit:I know. Are you going to explain it?
Steven Jack Butala:Sure.
Jill DeWit:Okay, good.
Steven Jack Butala:This happened by accident. Here's what a double mailer is. We had a guy call us on clubhouse, who was a long time member, pretty successful actually, and said, "I just sent out a mailer in an area and found out after I sent it out that somebody right before me mailed the same thing." And we talked about it and he got all kinds of deals about out of it. And the first guy who sent the mail out didn't. So now, he does it on purpose. He sends out the mail first... This is a double mailer, sends out the mail for himself and then waits about a month and sends it out again and does a bunch of deals.
Jill DeWit:There you go. Now we had the show.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know this by now. We have a full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners. Jill and I set this company up several years ago, because we were frustrated about outsourcing our mail to other commercial printing companies that didn't understand our business. So that's a couple years ago. So last month, we actually sent out about 800,000 offers on behalf of our customers and members. So if you think this is for you, check out offers2owners.com.
Jill DeWit:Afrain and Martha wrote when doing your search in data tree, do you all exclude corporate owners? I've been excluding corporate owners, do not mail and HOA and all my mailers, but I wonder if I'm missing good deals because of it.
Steven Jack Butala:So this is a theme in these questions for this week. This isn't the first or this is not the last question that pertains to this topic and I'm going to answer it emphatically like this.
Jill DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:This is the worst idea ever.
Jill DeWit:Yep. I was going to say.
Steven Jack Butala:In Land Academy 3.0, which is the most recent education product that Jill and I put together for members, we have a list of very, very specific list of things that you should exclude in your mailer. And they are owners. For example, if a property is owned by the United States of America in your data set, I think you're wasting your time and money by sending them mail.
Jill DeWit:Yeah, those should not get mail.
Steven Jack Butala:If you're sending an offer to the county of X, wherever you're mailing it, they're not going to respond. They're not actually even able, even if they wanted to sell you property. It's government property. So there's a whole list of things like that. Railroads and cemeteries and hospitals, they're not going to respond. I think it's a waste of 50 cents.
Jill DeWit:However...
Steven Jack Butala:I can't name the number of properties that we purchase from companies. All of our properties are-
Jill DeWit:Those should stay in.
Steven Jack Butala:All of our properties are owned by companies, the companies that we own and we sell property all the time.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. HOA should stay in.
Steven Jack Butala:All of that.
Jill DeWit:So yeah. So the basing is everyone go look at the list like Jack's saying and take those out, just the obvious ones. But yeah, if you've taken out any corporate owner, are you taking out trust too? Gosh. How many properties, like maybe your personal residence is in a trust as it should be, kind of thing. If you take out corporate owners, you're missing me, all my properties that I own. That's the way of the world nowadays.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How a Double Mailer Works and Why (LA 1764)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how a double mailer works and why. What the hell is a double mailer, Jill?
Jill DeWit:I know. Are you going to explain it?
Steven Jack Butala:Sure.
Jill DeWit:Okay, good.
Steven Jack Butala:This happened by accident. Here's what a double mailer is. We had a guy call us on clubhouse, who was a long time member, pretty successful actually, and said, "I just sent out a mailer in an area and found out after I sent it out that somebody right before me mailed the same thing." And we talked about it and he got all kinds of deals about out of it. And the first guy who sent the mail out didn't. So now, he does it on purpose. He sends out the mail first... This is a double mailer, sends out the mail for himself and then waits about a month and sends it out again and does a bunch of deals.
Jill DeWit:There you go. Now we had the show.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know this by now. We have a full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners. Jill and I set this company up several years ago, because we were frustrated about outsourcing our mail to other commercial printing companies that didn't understand our business. So that's a couple years ago. So last month, we actually sent out about 800,000 offers on behalf of our customers and members. So if you think this is for you, check out offers2owners.com.
Jill DeWit:Afrain and Martha wrote when doing your search in data tree, do you all exclude corporate owners? I've been excluding corporate owners, do not mail and HOA and all my mailers, but I wonder if I'm missing good deals because of it.
Steven Jack Butala:So this is a theme in these questions for this week. This isn't the first or this is not the last question that pertains to this topic and I'm going to answer it emphatically like this.
Jill DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:This is the worst idea ever.
Jill DeWit:Yep. I was going to say.
Steven Jack Butala:In Land Academy 3.0, which is the most recent education product that Jill and I put together for members, we have a list of very, very specific list of things that you should exclude in your mailer. And they are owners. For example, if a property is owned by the United States of America in your data set, I think you're wasting your time and money by sending them mail.
Jill DeWit:Yeah, those should not get mail.
Steven Jack Butala:If you're sending an offer to the county of X, wherever you're mailing it, they're not going to respond. They're not actually even able, even if they wanted to sell you property. It's government property. So there's a whole list of things like that. Railroads and cemeteries and hospitals, they're not going to respond. I think it's a waste of 50 cents.
Jill DeWit:However...
Steven Jack Butala:I can't name the number of properties that we purchase from companies. All of our properties are-
Jill DeWit:Those should stay in.
Steven Jack Butala:All of our properties are owned by companies, the companies that we own and we sell property all the time.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. HOA should stay in.
Steven Jack Butala:All of that.
Jill DeWit:So yeah. So the basing is everyone go look at the list like Jack's saying and take those out, just the obvious ones. But yeah, if you've taken out any corporate owner, are you taking out trust too? Gosh. How many properties, like maybe your personal residence is in a trust as it should be, kind of thing. If you take out corporate owners, you're missing me, all my properties that I own. That's the way of the world nowadays.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/17/how-a-double-mailer-works-and-why-la-1764/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">llLeymRHQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/07a2c85e-68b5-4c22-b41e-4ade3a621d6e.mp3" length="12196792" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>There are Uncovered Deals in Your Existing Mailer (LA 1763)</title><itunes:title>There are Uncovered Deals in Your Existing Mailer (LA 1763)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[There are Uncovered Deals in Your Existing Mailer (LA 1763)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about how there are uncovered deals in your existing mailer right now.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. It happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every once in a while, Jill and I talk to somebody or it gets back to us and somebody says some version of this. "Yeah, I sent the mailer out and it just didn't work."

Jill DeWit:
Right. I actually got an email that got to me. There's an individual, let's just say the name rhymes with clue, who has got very close to our transaction coordinator because he's submitted several deals. And the ones that he submitted that were not-

Steven Jack Butala:
I know who you're talking about.

Jill DeWit:
They were not accepted. They're all valid reasons. I wrote back, "Hey, this location stinks. There's no access." There's really good positive things. But then there's some that are good. So we have one right now that we funded-

Steven Jack Butala:
Is this the show?

Jill DeWit:
I guess I should hold it.

Steven Jack Butala:
"I guess I should hold it." Yeah, hold it, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, let us know. Please email support@landacademy.com. See if this level of involvement is for you.

Jill DeWit:
It's called Career Path.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, career path.

Jill DeWit:
Did you say it? I don't know if you did.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good. Sorry. Victor wrote, "To those who have done minor improvements on a property, like underbrush clearing or minor tree trimming, did you ever see any difference in the amount of time it took to sell?" I don't.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very intelligent question and it's probably rooted in experience. In fact, I know in your case, Victor, it is because 20 people responded to this in Discord, and ultimately I responded too, and so did Kevin. And the answer is no.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you have this deal. I know it's a great deal, and you go all the way down and there's a river back there and it's beautiful and all that. And I know it's your first deal. Congratulations, by the way. I'm sure you're going to do great. But in this case, I know a real estate agent came to you and said, "Look, this property's great, but you can't get back to the river. And if you can clear some of this stuff I might be able to sell it faster for more money."

Steven Jack Butala:
And so this taps into a bigger thing for me as a business owner and as a real estate deal maker, and that's the real reason I included this question in this episode. Throughout your entire career people will come to you and say, and have this notion ... I'm going through it right now with an employee and they're not going to be with us for much longer. "If you just do this one more thing for me. Please, do this one more thing, then I can get my stuff done."

Steven Jack Butala:
In this case, the real estate agent saying, "Yes, but if you can just do this one more thing, can you just clear this?" And trust me, it will not end there. That's a personality issue. And I'm sure that many of you listening have had personal relationships like that, where the person in your relationship comes to you every once in a while and says, "Yeah, I like this thing about you over here, but you really need to work on this thing over here for me, because it's just not working for me.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[There are Uncovered Deals in Your Existing Mailer (LA 1763)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about how there are uncovered deals in your existing mailer right now.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. It happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every once in a while, Jill and I talk to somebody or it gets back to us and somebody says some version of this. "Yeah, I sent the mailer out and it just didn't work."

Jill DeWit:
Right. I actually got an email that got to me. There's an individual, let's just say the name rhymes with clue, who has got very close to our transaction coordinator because he's submitted several deals. And the ones that he submitted that were not-

Steven Jack Butala:
I know who you're talking about.

Jill DeWit:
They were not accepted. They're all valid reasons. I wrote back, "Hey, this location stinks. There's no access." There's really good positive things. But then there's some that are good. So we have one right now that we funded-

Steven Jack Butala:
Is this the show?

Jill DeWit:
I guess I should hold it.

Steven Jack Butala:
"I guess I should hold it." Yeah, hold it, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope by now you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, let us know. Please email support@landacademy.com. See if this level of involvement is for you.

Jill DeWit:
It's called Career Path.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, career path.

Jill DeWit:
Did you say it? I don't know if you did.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good. Sorry. Victor wrote, "To those who have done minor improvements on a property, like underbrush clearing or minor tree trimming, did you ever see any difference in the amount of time it took to sell?" I don't.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very intelligent question and it's probably rooted in experience. In fact, I know in your case, Victor, it is because 20 people responded to this in Discord, and ultimately I responded too, and so did Kevin. And the answer is no.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you have this deal. I know it's a great deal, and you go all the way down and there's a river back there and it's beautiful and all that. And I know it's your first deal. Congratulations, by the way. I'm sure you're going to do great. But in this case, I know a real estate agent came to you and said, "Look, this property's great, but you can't get back to the river. And if you can clear some of this stuff I might be able to sell it faster for more money."

Steven Jack Butala:
And so this taps into a bigger thing for me as a business owner and as a real estate deal maker, and that's the real reason I included this question in this episode. Throughout your entire career people will come to you and say, and have this notion ... I'm going through it right now with an employee and they're not going to be with us for much longer. "If you just do this one more thing for me. Please, do this one more thing, then I can get my stuff done."

Steven Jack Butala:
In this case, the real estate agent saying, "Yes, but if you can just do this one more thing, can you just clear this?" And trust me, it will not end there. That's a personality issue. And I'm sure that many of you listening have had personal relationships like that, where the person in your relationship comes to you every once in a while and says, "Yeah, I like this thing about you over here, but you really need to work on this thing over here for me, because it's just not working for me.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/16/there-are-uncovered-deals-in-your-existing-mailer-la-1763/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fV7BoaSmp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/67f21a6d-5f60-47f1-a62b-20f79adfc50c.mp3" length="20172135" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How Long do Land Academy Members Stay in the Group (LA 1762)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How Long do Land Academy Members Stay in the Group (LA 1762)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How Long do Land Academy Members Stay in the Group (LA 1762)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill's Friday. She's going to talk about how long do Land Academy members actually stay in the group?

Jill K DeWit:
I have some stats. I know you like stats.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. I got to tell you, back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. Well, eventually Jill and I put together a website called neighborscoop.com that allows you to find property that doesn't have an address, which is really almost all the property that we purchase by just using the state and the county that it's in and the assessor's parcel number. It's called neighborscoop.com. Check it out. If you need more information, you can always email support@landacademy.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Jeff wrote, "This is my third try giving away good deals with some money in them."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is what goes on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Why is this? This is funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a thing on discord right now, giving away deals that people don't want to do. Just giving them away.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Finding them and giving them away. All right. [inaudible 00:01:16] takers on this one, it's three strikes and that means they kicked me out of this group. Not sure if that's funny. No, I've an info lot on Shreveport for $2,200. It's corn lot. Private message me for details, assignment fees just 20% of the profit after you sell.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of the profit after you sell so it's no risk to whoever takes over this deal. Why would somebody give away a perfectly good transaction, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Because they don't want to do it or they don't know how to do it, or they just not good at it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or it's not in their acquisition criteria. If a deal came in from a way past mailer for 2200 bucks and we knew we could sell it for eight pretty quickly, we would not do the deal. Why? Because that's not in our acquisition criteria anymore. We're buy for 30 to 50 and sell for 90 to 150. That's what we do.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have limited amount of resources, just like everybody. There's only so much time Jill can spend on the phone and her staff and the whole thing. Is it crazy profitable when you look at the margin? Yep. We're just not going to do it. That's what's going on here. This is one of the things that happens in discord often. I'm going to bring this up now. I just approved right before we sat down to record this, a sneak peek at discord, the tech thing is done.

Jill K DeWit:
Is that good? Good. I can't wait to see it. Got something on my eyes, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you go to landinvestors.com and just go to the front page. You can horse around, read and read only fashion with what's going on that minute in discord. It's pretty amazing.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think you will be amazed at the conversations that we're all having as Land Academy members, which is fitting for today's topic. Today's topic is Jill Friday. How long do Land Academy's members actually stay in the group? This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
I went back and looked at some numbers and it's pretty much what I thought. They join land academy. They get started. They're doing data, doing mail, whatever. How long do they stick with this? Well, some of them I'm going to say the number is right around 20% are here for a year. They give it a year. What happens after a year? Two things. One is, I find out this is not for them or life happens and more often than not life happens...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How Long do Land Academy Members Stay in the Group (LA 1762)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill's Friday. She's going to talk about how long do Land Academy members actually stay in the group?

Jill K DeWit:
I have some stats. I know you like stats.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. I got to tell you, back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, like 123 Main Street. Well, eventually Jill and I put together a website called neighborscoop.com that allows you to find property that doesn't have an address, which is really almost all the property that we purchase by just using the state and the county that it's in and the assessor's parcel number. It's called neighborscoop.com. Check it out. If you need more information, you can always email support@landacademy.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Jeff wrote, "This is my third try giving away good deals with some money in them."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is what goes on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Why is this? This is funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a thing on discord right now, giving away deals that people don't want to do. Just giving them away.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Finding them and giving them away. All right. [inaudible 00:01:16] takers on this one, it's three strikes and that means they kicked me out of this group. Not sure if that's funny. No, I've an info lot on Shreveport for $2,200. It's corn lot. Private message me for details, assignment fees just 20% of the profit after you sell.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of the profit after you sell so it's no risk to whoever takes over this deal. Why would somebody give away a perfectly good transaction, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Because they don't want to do it or they don't know how to do it, or they just not good at it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or it's not in their acquisition criteria. If a deal came in from a way past mailer for 2200 bucks and we knew we could sell it for eight pretty quickly, we would not do the deal. Why? Because that's not in our acquisition criteria anymore. We're buy for 30 to 50 and sell for 90 to 150. That's what we do.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have limited amount of resources, just like everybody. There's only so much time Jill can spend on the phone and her staff and the whole thing. Is it crazy profitable when you look at the margin? Yep. We're just not going to do it. That's what's going on here. This is one of the things that happens in discord often. I'm going to bring this up now. I just approved right before we sat down to record this, a sneak peek at discord, the tech thing is done.

Jill K DeWit:
Is that good? Good. I can't wait to see it. Got something on my eyes, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you go to landinvestors.com and just go to the front page. You can horse around, read and read only fashion with what's going on that minute in discord. It's pretty amazing.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think you will be amazed at the conversations that we're all having as Land Academy members, which is fitting for today's topic. Today's topic is Jill Friday. How long do Land Academy's members actually stay in the group? This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
I went back and looked at some numbers and it's pretty much what I thought. They join land academy. They get started. They're doing data, doing mail, whatever. How long do they stick with this? Well, some of them I'm going to say the number is right around 20% are here for a year. They give it a year. What happens after a year? Two things. One is, I find out this is not for them or life happens and more often than not life happens...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/13/jill-friday-how-long-do-land-academy-members-stay-in-the-group-la-1762/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BqGiEnsLg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e838a332-e7b3-4271-8460-8099365a4397.mp3" length="12090737" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 5 Things I Refuse to Spend Money On (LA 1761)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 5 Things I Refuse to Spend Money On (LA 1761)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 5 Things I Refuse to Spend Money On (LA 1761)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about five things I refuse to spend money on. I should have called it, refuse to spend too much money on. Some of these are really unavoidable.

Jill K DeWit:
I got some that are just automatic, I can think of.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dave wrote, "I've got the VP of Business Development for a large senior living community asking me to birddog suitable land for them. Anyone ever indulge something like this by actually sending a mailer in an area with buying criteria that might be different than what you would normally do otherwise? The risk seems pretty obvious, but the upside could be pretty big. I'm thinking. What do you all think?"

Steven Jack Butala:
I started my career on this very thing, in the very early '90s, buying and selling long-term care facilities and associated companies, and land even, to people who already own long term care companies. So I responded to this person in great length in Discord, and I said, "Yeah, I would do it. However, here's a few things that I learned that you really need to do before you get too excited about it."

Steven Jack Butala:
If it's a nonprofit group, we've done this, Jill and I have done this for people, apartment owners, in Los Angeles with mild success. And I only say mild because mild, not extreme success, because Jill and I got really frustrated with the amount of time that. Just know that it's a client. When you're buying property on behalf of yourself, you can make a decision really quickly.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
When you're buying property on behalf of anyone else, especially if it's an organization and there's multiple people making a decision.

Jill K DeWit:
They've got to love all over it and feel it and I can't take it.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, mild success, But if you're really, really young and you're super ambitious, you can get a mailer out. I'll tell you what's great about senior living or any specific use type property like this, maybe properties for subdivisions. These people live and die by these acquisitions so they have to make a decision. So you got that going for you. Number two, they're very specifically zoned. So you can do a mailer, in an entire state, if you've got real good data, assessor data, for that specific zoning, like people who want trailer parks. That's specifically zoned. RV parks, very specific zoning. Self storage and on and on and on. So when you find a client that's on a real aggressive acquisition schedule, it's not hard to put those things together.

Steven Jack Butala:
If they're for-profit group, you need to find out who's making the decision and you need to sign a contract that says, "You're going to pay me 2% of whatever you buy, whatever I send you. And I'm not going to represent you in this transaction in any manner, because I'm not a licensed real estate agent."

Steven Jack Butala:
If it's a nonprofit group, and I did the majority of work myself long time ago for nonprofits, you really need to put a suit on and go to the next board meeting and find out, take their pulse about how thirsty they are for doing acquisitions. Because nonprofits all say they are. They want to expand and do better and spread their mission and the whole thing. But when it comes to reality, the vast majority of the time is that they just don't have the [foreign language 00:03:26] to do what a for profit company does...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 5 Things I Refuse to Spend Money On (LA 1761)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about five things I refuse to spend money on. I should have called it, refuse to spend too much money on. Some of these are really unavoidable.

Jill K DeWit:
I got some that are just automatic, I can think of.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dave wrote, "I've got the VP of Business Development for a large senior living community asking me to birddog suitable land for them. Anyone ever indulge something like this by actually sending a mailer in an area with buying criteria that might be different than what you would normally do otherwise? The risk seems pretty obvious, but the upside could be pretty big. I'm thinking. What do you all think?"

Steven Jack Butala:
I started my career on this very thing, in the very early '90s, buying and selling long-term care facilities and associated companies, and land even, to people who already own long term care companies. So I responded to this person in great length in Discord, and I said, "Yeah, I would do it. However, here's a few things that I learned that you really need to do before you get too excited about it."

Steven Jack Butala:
If it's a nonprofit group, we've done this, Jill and I have done this for people, apartment owners, in Los Angeles with mild success. And I only say mild because mild, not extreme success, because Jill and I got really frustrated with the amount of time that. Just know that it's a client. When you're buying property on behalf of yourself, you can make a decision really quickly.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
When you're buying property on behalf of anyone else, especially if it's an organization and there's multiple people making a decision.

Jill K DeWit:
They've got to love all over it and feel it and I can't take it.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, mild success, But if you're really, really young and you're super ambitious, you can get a mailer out. I'll tell you what's great about senior living or any specific use type property like this, maybe properties for subdivisions. These people live and die by these acquisitions so they have to make a decision. So you got that going for you. Number two, they're very specifically zoned. So you can do a mailer, in an entire state, if you've got real good data, assessor data, for that specific zoning, like people who want trailer parks. That's specifically zoned. RV parks, very specific zoning. Self storage and on and on and on. So when you find a client that's on a real aggressive acquisition schedule, it's not hard to put those things together.

Steven Jack Butala:
If they're for-profit group, you need to find out who's making the decision and you need to sign a contract that says, "You're going to pay me 2% of whatever you buy, whatever I send you. And I'm not going to represent you in this transaction in any manner, because I'm not a licensed real estate agent."

Steven Jack Butala:
If it's a nonprofit group, and I did the majority of work myself long time ago for nonprofits, you really need to put a suit on and go to the next board meeting and find out, take their pulse about how thirsty they are for doing acquisitions. Because nonprofits all say they are. They want to expand and do better and spread their mission and the whole thing. But when it comes to reality, the vast majority of the time is that they just don't have the [foreign language 00:03:26] to do what a for profit company does...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/12/jack-thursday-5-things-i-refuse-to-spend-money-on-la-1761/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ntseCr9Ed</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/20eeefc4-3410-4877-a920-98742ec94e7e.mp3" length="13608308" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:53</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Blind Offer Mailer Campaign Competition in 2022 (LA 1760)</title><itunes:title>Blind Offer Mailer Campaign Competition in 2022 (LA 1760)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Blind Offer Mailer Campaign Competition in 2022 (LA 1760)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about blind offer mailer campaign competition in 2022.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I guess that's it. We're done. Just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm so sorry, but you're not the only person sending mail out. It used to be like that. I used to be one of two people that sent out mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. I do know that.

Steven Jack Butala:
We used to talk to each other all the time, me and Steve Seal.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm. That's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Steven Jack Butala:
Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I, needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns in the mail.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I took a look at it. We took a look at how we personally send out mail, why it's so efficient. And we realized that we had some staff that rock at doing mailers effectively and getting them out, right to the point where then I would go in and price it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, we made that available to the public, well to Land Academy members. We're calling it Concierge Data Plus.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a year later. Hundreds of members are outsourcing their entire mail process with this product.

Steven Jack Butala:
Whether you're brand new and you don't want to go through, it's good, it'll work for you. Or if you're five, 10 years into this and you're sick and tired of doing mailers yourself, you can outsource it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a good product for you. Check out Support@LandAcademy.com or offers the number two, owners.com. See if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Aiden wrote, "If anyone in the group doesn't like the sales aspect of this business, we need to chat. My partner and I joined the group last summer and have been able to close approximately 65 deals since last July.

Jill K DeWit:
We partner with another member of the group, for the data and the mailing aspects and our team handles inbound leads, due diligence, sales, transaction coordination, acquisitions, and dispositions. We all feel like we've built a pretty decent system, and we have a great team in place.

Jill K DeWit:
We're currently sending out 30,000 mailers a month and have a bandwidth to handle more inbound calls, analyze more deals and get more contracts. If anyone here is potentially interested in partnering up, we're looking to do the data, mailing, preliminary due diligence and the sales aspect of business and partner up with someone who's more interested in experience in the second half of the process. I'm located in..." Do you want me to even say?

Steven Jack Butala:
It doesn't matter. Sure. It's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
"East coast state. We would like to partner with someone who is also in east coast states," although it's sprinkled around the country. So, it doesn't really matter.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
"And then send me a message, if you're interested." This is cool. This is clearly in Discord, probably in the Partners Wanted section in there. That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
On Monday we talked about, this is not the place to save time or money. These guys are not doing either. They're not saving time or money because it's their full-time job. So, let's do some math.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're sending out 30,000 mailers. That costs about $15,000 a month. Oh my God, Jack, $15,000 a month. Where there's a will, there's a way. $175,000 a year, but they did 65 deals.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
So our average probably group-wide,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Blind Offer Mailer Campaign Competition in 2022 (LA 1760)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about blind offer mailer campaign competition in 2022.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I guess that's it. We're done. Just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm so sorry, but you're not the only person sending mail out. It used to be like that. I used to be one of two people that sent out mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. I do know that.

Steven Jack Butala:
We used to talk to each other all the time, me and Steve Seal.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm. That's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Steven Jack Butala:
Last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I, needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns in the mail.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I took a look at it. We took a look at how we personally send out mail, why it's so efficient. And we realized that we had some staff that rock at doing mailers effectively and getting them out, right to the point where then I would go in and price it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, we made that available to the public, well to Land Academy members. We're calling it Concierge Data Plus.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a year later. Hundreds of members are outsourcing their entire mail process with this product.

Steven Jack Butala:
Whether you're brand new and you don't want to go through, it's good, it'll work for you. Or if you're five, 10 years into this and you're sick and tired of doing mailers yourself, you can outsource it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a good product for you. Check out Support@LandAcademy.com or offers the number two, owners.com. See if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Aiden wrote, "If anyone in the group doesn't like the sales aspect of this business, we need to chat. My partner and I joined the group last summer and have been able to close approximately 65 deals since last July.

Jill K DeWit:
We partner with another member of the group, for the data and the mailing aspects and our team handles inbound leads, due diligence, sales, transaction coordination, acquisitions, and dispositions. We all feel like we've built a pretty decent system, and we have a great team in place.

Jill K DeWit:
We're currently sending out 30,000 mailers a month and have a bandwidth to handle more inbound calls, analyze more deals and get more contracts. If anyone here is potentially interested in partnering up, we're looking to do the data, mailing, preliminary due diligence and the sales aspect of business and partner up with someone who's more interested in experience in the second half of the process. I'm located in..." Do you want me to even say?

Steven Jack Butala:
It doesn't matter. Sure. It's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
"East coast state. We would like to partner with someone who is also in east coast states," although it's sprinkled around the country. So, it doesn't really matter.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
"And then send me a message, if you're interested." This is cool. This is clearly in Discord, probably in the Partners Wanted section in there. That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
On Monday we talked about, this is not the place to save time or money. These guys are not doing either. They're not saving time or money because it's their full-time job. So, let's do some math.

Steven Jack Butala:
They're sending out 30,000 mailers. That costs about $15,000 a month. Oh my God, Jack, $15,000 a month. Where there's a will, there's a way. $175,000 a year, but they did 65 deals.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:
So our average probably group-wide,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/11/blind-offer-mailer-campaign-competition-in-2022-la-1760/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lfZeVHN06</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c04a0081-6dde-42e2-8cdc-4819b098aeed.mp3" length="17838055" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>James Beckman Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1759)</title><itunes:title>James Beckman Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1759)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[James Beckman Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1759)
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If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

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I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

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Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Stevie, Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how land investment, the environment, is not the place to try to save time and money.

Jill K DeWit:
Or even specifically, getting it going. Please don't... There's things you can't skimp on. I know we're going to go through a list. I'll ask you. It'll be fun. We'll make a list of things that you can skimp on and you cannot skimp on, like how much you spend on a sandwich. Skimp on that. How much you spend on mail, don't skimp on that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Buy a used car. Don't buy a new one. Even if it's one or two years old. We all know this, and we're all entrepreneurs here. Our whole listening base, I'm sure, is some version of an entrepreneur, and everybody loves to save money. You know where you save money in this environment? When you buy a piece of property.

Jill K DeWit:
Not everybody loves to save money, by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, really? You think it's just me?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm not even going to tell you how much I just spent on concert tickets. Let me tell you real quick.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. I got us tickets for... If you're listening, I'd love to know if you know who this is. Rufus Du Sol. I personally love, love, love Rufus Du Sol, and I just got us tickets to go see them in Santa Barbara, general admission. Just no seats, on the floor, on the front. You ready? $400 each.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh my gosh. It'll be worth it, though.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I'm like, "I don't care."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a good break for us, too, just to go out there.

Jill K DeWit:
Ah, yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care about saving money about stuff like that, either.

Jill K DeWit:
See? See? That's the thing. Not going to save money on that. Will I save money on how I get there? Sure. Or where I stay? Yeah. But on the show, on the event? Heck no. That's an event.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, I have a bunch to say about this. Let's do the commercial first. I think the gist of it is, if you're saving money, if you're being frivolous about how personally comfortable you are, that's silly.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. [inaudible 00:02:09] hear more about that. Okay. Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I'm hoping that you know by now that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be, let us know. Check out support@landacademy.com and see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That reminds me, Career Path number five is scheduled for October. It'll be the week after this event, so apparently, this concert will be our kickoff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, that's why you just...

Jill K DeWit:
I just thought of it.

Steven Jack Butala:
It fit into your schedule.

Jill K DeWit:
No. Oh, no. I would have moved the schedule to go see Rufus Du Sol there. Don't even think about that. You know what's funny? It's either the next night, or it's not long after that, they're playing the Hollywood Bowl. Can you believe that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Rufus Du Sol's playing the Hollywood Bowl?

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
You did the right thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, of course.

Steven Jack Butala:
Santa Barbara's way better than Hollywood Bowl.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Okay. Enough about our little personal lives. I'm sure you're like, "Get on with it." Okay. This is so cool. Josiah wrote... What would he call himself? Josie the...

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Investment is Not the Place to Save Time or Money (LA 1758)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Stevie, Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how land investment, the environment, is not the place to try to save time and money.

Jill K DeWit:
Or even specifically, getting it going. Please don't... There's things you can't skimp on. I know we're going to go through a list. I'll ask you. It'll be fun. We'll make a list of things that you can skimp on and you cannot skimp on, like how much you spend on a sandwich. Skimp on that. How much you spend on mail, don't skimp on that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Buy a used car. Don't buy a new one. Even if it's one or two years old. We all know this, and we're all entrepreneurs here. Our whole listening base, I'm sure, is some version of an entrepreneur, and everybody loves to save money. You know where you save money in this environment? When you buy a piece of property.

Jill K DeWit:
Not everybody loves to save money, by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, really? You think it's just me?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm not even going to tell you how much I just spent on concert tickets. Let me tell you real quick.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. I got us tickets for... If you're listening, I'd love to know if you know who this is. Rufus Du Sol. I personally love, love, love Rufus Du Sol, and I just got us tickets to go see them in Santa Barbara, general admission. Just no seats, on the floor, on the front. You ready? $400 each.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh my gosh. It'll be worth it, though.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I'm like, "I don't care."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a good break for us, too, just to go out there.

Jill K DeWit:
Ah, yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care about saving money about stuff like that, either.

Jill K DeWit:
See? See? That's the thing. Not going to save money on that. Will I save money on how I get there? Sure. Or where I stay? Yeah. But on the show, on the event? Heck no. That's an event.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, I have a bunch to say about this. Let's do the commercial first. I think the gist of it is, if you're saving money, if you're being frivolous about how personally comfortable you are, that's silly.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. [inaudible 00:02:09] hear more about that. Okay. Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I'm hoping that you know by now that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be, let us know. Check out support@landacademy.com and see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That reminds me, Career Path number five is scheduled for October. It'll be the week after this event, so apparently, this concert will be our kickoff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, that's why you just...

Jill K DeWit:
I just thought of it.

Steven Jack Butala:
It fit into your schedule.

Jill K DeWit:
No. Oh, no. I would have moved the schedule to go see Rufus Du Sol there. Don't even think about that. You know what's funny? It's either the next night, or it's not long after that, they're playing the Hollywood Bowl. Can you believe that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Rufus Du Sol's playing the Hollywood Bowl?

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
You did the right thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, of course.

Steven Jack Butala:
Santa Barbara's way better than Hollywood Bowl.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Okay. Enough about our little personal lives. I'm sure you're like, "Get on with it." Okay. This is so cool. Josiah wrote... What would he call himself? Josie the...

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/09/land-investment-is-not-the-place-to-save-time-or-money-la-1758/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">88XjVWSFF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8950a896-273a-4bd5-8240-a7ca2926fc85.mp3" length="17395796" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How Fast and Accurate We Help People Buy and Sell Land (LA 1757)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How Fast and Accurate We Help People Buy and Sell Land (LA 1757)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How Fast and Accurate We Help People Buy and Sell Land (LA 1757)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, she's going to talk about how fast and accurate we help people buy and sell land.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me tell you what this means. It's about experience. We, because of who we are and the years of, gosh, what did you say? 25 for you and pushing 15 for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's almost 30.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, of experience doing land deals. I, we both and I learned from you, so I've got that behind me. We can pretty quickly assess a property and tell you if it's a good deal, not a good deal, things to do, what to do. You can't get that. That's not a six month endeavor, like, oh, I got this.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not just, [crosstalk 00:00:53].

Jill K DeWit:
I nailed one county, I got this, I can help the planet.No.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it's not just us. We have a.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just a massive library of [crosstalk 00:01:00].

Jill K DeWit:
Of our...

Steven Jack Butala:
Transactions that we've reviewed.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
On behalf of our members and [crosstalk 00:01:04].

Jill K DeWit:
So you can.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a live Discord channel where all of our members are conversing with each other and doing deals with each other, from a funding standpoint and all of that. So it's not Land Academy is, we downplay it, probably too much. The Land Academy group of investors is quite amazing, it's not just Jill and I.

Jill K DeWit:
Right, but I'm going to talk about that a little bit more

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is most of the properties that Jill and I deal with, or that all land investors deal with. To solve this, we used to access this very crude database that I created, where you just post the APN, the assessor's partial number and the state and county where the property is, was, and or is and it would locate the property relatively quickly, which would set off a chain of events. And a half hour later, you would know where the property is and all the pertinent statistics that were involved. Well, that got to be pretty old. So we re-created it and web enabled it into a company called neighborscoop.com. So that can happen in seconds now instead of hours or days, so I get used to.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my goodness.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check this out @neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
It's one of those massive time savers that I can't believe how we used to get by without it. It's amazing. All right. So Greg wrote, I apologize if this post is somewhat long, but I just wanted to say, I wanted to thank Stephen and Jill so much for starting this whole thing and teaching all of us how to do this when they could have kept this all to themselves. Thank you guys so much for everything you've done for everyone here. Thank God without faith and prayer, none of this would be possible and thank everyone here who provides feedback and helps teach us newbies the ropes.

Jill K DeWit:
Starting out, it's easy to doubt your next move or fear the outcome of making an inexperienced decision that may cost you and y'all don't have to share your thoughts or provide any feedback. So I appreciate everyone who takes the time to respond and help out. This is truly changing my family's life forever and giving me the opportunity to provide a better life for them. I never been able to, God bless everyone here. I saw that you showed me that. That was so nice.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How Fast and Accurate We Help People Buy and Sell Land (LA 1757)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, she's going to talk about how fast and accurate we help people buy and sell land.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me tell you what this means. It's about experience. We, because of who we are and the years of, gosh, what did you say? 25 for you and pushing 15 for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's almost 30.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, of experience doing land deals. I, we both and I learned from you, so I've got that behind me. We can pretty quickly assess a property and tell you if it's a good deal, not a good deal, things to do, what to do. You can't get that. That's not a six month endeavor, like, oh, I got this.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not just, [crosstalk 00:00:53].

Jill K DeWit:
I nailed one county, I got this, I can help the planet.No.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it's not just us. We have a.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just a massive library of [crosstalk 00:01:00].

Jill K DeWit:
Of our...

Steven Jack Butala:
Transactions that we've reviewed.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
On behalf of our members and [crosstalk 00:01:04].

Jill K DeWit:
So you can.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have a live Discord channel where all of our members are conversing with each other and doing deals with each other, from a funding standpoint and all of that. So it's not Land Academy is, we downplay it, probably too much. The Land Academy group of investors is quite amazing, it's not just Jill and I.

Jill K DeWit:
Right, but I'm going to talk about that a little bit more

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is most of the properties that Jill and I deal with, or that all land investors deal with. To solve this, we used to access this very crude database that I created, where you just post the APN, the assessor's partial number and the state and county where the property is, was, and or is and it would locate the property relatively quickly, which would set off a chain of events. And a half hour later, you would know where the property is and all the pertinent statistics that were involved. Well, that got to be pretty old. So we re-created it and web enabled it into a company called neighborscoop.com. So that can happen in seconds now instead of hours or days, so I get used to.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my goodness.

Steven Jack Butala:
Check this out @neighborscoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
It's one of those massive time savers that I can't believe how we used to get by without it. It's amazing. All right. So Greg wrote, I apologize if this post is somewhat long, but I just wanted to say, I wanted to thank Stephen and Jill so much for starting this whole thing and teaching all of us how to do this when they could have kept this all to themselves. Thank you guys so much for everything you've done for everyone here. Thank God without faith and prayer, none of this would be possible and thank everyone here who provides feedback and helps teach us newbies the ropes.

Jill K DeWit:
Starting out, it's easy to doubt your next move or fear the outcome of making an inexperienced decision that may cost you and y'all don't have to share your thoughts or provide any feedback. So I appreciate everyone who takes the time to respond and help out. This is truly changing my family's life forever and giving me the opportunity to provide a better life for them. I never been able to, God bless everyone here. I saw that you showed me that. That was so nice.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/06/jill-friday-how-fast-and-accurate-we-help-people-buy-and-sell-land-la-1757/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">C3U5dt4ae</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/02477702-d3d7-4d85-ad22-a86a415c9aea.mp3" length="12232594" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Minimum Value Product or MVP Land Investing (LA 1756)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Minimum Value Product or MVP Land Investing (LA 1756)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Minimum Value Product or MVP Land Investing (LA 1756)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about, "Why is land investing like pulling teeth?" This is a direct quote from Herbert Graham, a career path, now advanced member who we had pleasure of meeting with one time, because there was a brief live event in Phoenix that we were invited to. And we didn't host it but we were invited to it. And recently he said he was having trouble with an escrow agent and he said, "Why is getting a deal closed, like pulling teeth?" Which inspired me to talk about, why is this whole thing like pulling teeth? Because it can be.

Jill K DeWit:
Sometimes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Sometimes Jill says little things like sometimes and reminds me of my childhood.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on this show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
What does that mean?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just funny. Sometimes you just, it's funny. That's how I know I love you, like some of this stuff to do that's quirky.

Jill K DeWit:
Doesn't sound like it, sound like-

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's a compliment.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Now I know how you traumatize, it sounds like I'm traumatizing you on reminding me of your childhood and I don't want that.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's all positive. It's like quite the opposite. It's all positive.

Jill K DeWit:
Matthew wrote, this is more of a success of my mindset shift. I came in hoping I can make this work. That's changed. Here's why last month I brought in $25,000 of profit from a flip. Now I'm in the process of purchasing another two parcels. I already have a funder, one parcels, larger, one smaller, but buy one for 117,000, one realtor put the total combined value at 280,000, wait, buy one parcels larger one small buy for 117,000. Sounds like buying both for that. I'm thinking, one realtor put the total combined value of the two at 280,000 and another realtor put the total combining value at 325,000. We're doubling, we're tripling our number. Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's way more than that-

Jill K DeWit:
I'd be happy with either. The mindset shift is incredible now, that I've personally seen incredibly profitable properties come in, I received my usual two week paycheck and I'm very appreciative of it, but I wasn't as excited as I used to be.

Jill K DeWit:
And not even as close as to as much as I'm making in land. Now I know I can do this business. Oh, I see. You know, I just talked to somebody about this recently too, that the shift in adding a zero and not being afraid to go for these bigger deals. And then once you do a couple of them you're like, huh, and the numbers you throw around are like, let's see what's that? 80, $90,000. Sure. Where do you want me to wire the money when, before you'd be like, holy, oh my gosh. I mean even $8,000. That was a lot. And then you jump ahead and ahead and ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
The takeaway that I took from this is that, we all can have personal anecdotes or experiences like this, where one month you look at something and say, there's no way I can do that. Not because I don't think I've had talent or not. I just don't want to put the energy into it. I know I can do it, but I don't want to figure it out. And for whatever reason a month goes by and it's like, I'm doing this and it's not as hard as I thought and I'm actually going to make a business out of it. So we all have things like that. For some kids it's like,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Minimum Value Product or MVP Land Investing (LA 1756)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about, "Why is land investing like pulling teeth?" This is a direct quote from Herbert Graham, a career path, now advanced member who we had pleasure of meeting with one time, because there was a brief live event in Phoenix that we were invited to. And we didn't host it but we were invited to it. And recently he said he was having trouble with an escrow agent and he said, "Why is getting a deal closed, like pulling teeth?" Which inspired me to talk about, why is this whole thing like pulling teeth? Because it can be.

Jill K DeWit:
Sometimes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Sometimes Jill says little things like sometimes and reminds me of my childhood.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on this show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
What does that mean?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just funny. Sometimes you just, it's funny. That's how I know I love you, like some of this stuff to do that's quirky.

Jill K DeWit:
Doesn't sound like it, sound like-

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's a compliment.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Now I know how you traumatize, it sounds like I'm traumatizing you on reminding me of your childhood and I don't want that.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's all positive. It's like quite the opposite. It's all positive.

Jill K DeWit:
Matthew wrote, this is more of a success of my mindset shift. I came in hoping I can make this work. That's changed. Here's why last month I brought in $25,000 of profit from a flip. Now I'm in the process of purchasing another two parcels. I already have a funder, one parcels, larger, one smaller, but buy one for 117,000, one realtor put the total combined value at 280,000, wait, buy one parcels larger one small buy for 117,000. Sounds like buying both for that. I'm thinking, one realtor put the total combined value of the two at 280,000 and another realtor put the total combining value at 325,000. We're doubling, we're tripling our number. Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's way more than that-

Jill K DeWit:
I'd be happy with either. The mindset shift is incredible now, that I've personally seen incredibly profitable properties come in, I received my usual two week paycheck and I'm very appreciative of it, but I wasn't as excited as I used to be.

Jill K DeWit:
And not even as close as to as much as I'm making in land. Now I know I can do this business. Oh, I see. You know, I just talked to somebody about this recently too, that the shift in adding a zero and not being afraid to go for these bigger deals. And then once you do a couple of them you're like, huh, and the numbers you throw around are like, let's see what's that? 80, $90,000. Sure. Where do you want me to wire the money when, before you'd be like, holy, oh my gosh. I mean even $8,000. That was a lot. And then you jump ahead and ahead and ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
The takeaway that I took from this is that, we all can have personal anecdotes or experiences like this, where one month you look at something and say, there's no way I can do that. Not because I don't think I've had talent or not. I just don't want to put the energy into it. I know I can do it, but I don't want to figure it out. And for whatever reason a month goes by and it's like, I'm doing this and it's not as hard as I thought and I'm actually going to make a business out of it. So we all have things like that. For some kids it's like,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/05/jack-thursday-minimum-value-product-or-mvp-land-investing-la-1756/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QwoDYL0aT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/83ad2cbb-c388-4784-9c01-e998f1654d12.mp3" length="14033573" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Coaching Real Estate Agents about Our Land Business (LA 1755)</title><itunes:title>Coaching Real Estate Agents about Our Land Business (LA 1755)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Coaching Real Estate Agents about Our Land Business (LA 1755)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about coaching real estate agents about our land business.

Jill K DeWit:
How about coaching real estate agents about the land business?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm not real excited to talking about real estate agents. I'm not really excited about talking about coaching real estate agents and teaching them about our land business, because almost none of them understand it. But Jill is. Jill told me she's really excited to talk about this today.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. We'll get there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I'll tell you last year, a ton of land academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting blind offer campaigns in the mail. In a very short, descriptive way, Jill and I made a company out of it. We made a service out of it for land academy members called Concierge Data. If you go to offers2owners.com, ask them about outsourcing your entire mail process because that's what it's set up for. That's what I do. Concierge Data.

Jill K DeWit:
You give them your order. You tell them the property size, and you give them the zip codes or the county. And they pull the data. They do the scrubbing all under your direction, but they do the work.

Steven Jack Butala:
Same exact people that I have do my mailers and have done long before that whole entity had a name.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Exactly. Steven wrote, we have a seller that wants the purchase of the property to be contingent on us installing a fence around it. Who flipping cares if he's selling it?

Steven Jack Butala:
I love your reaction to this.

Jill K DeWit:
It's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because this imploded on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck? Well, I'll sell it to you, but you got to pay for a fence. What?

Steven Jack Butala:
And why do you need fence if you're selling it?

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, anyway, go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. The property would require about one mile of fencing, and it's not a cheap endeavor. Of course not. Has anyone had to sell or make a strange request like this? Nope. Is this something that can be written in and dealt with through escrow and can be done after the close on the deal? I don't want to spend money on installing a fence just to have the sellers back out. Yeah, this is the weirdest thing on the planet. He could put in a deed restriction or something, but that doesn't make any sense. What? He must live next door, and say I want a line.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what everybody said online.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. He's got to live next door. And I want everyone to know this is my dance area. This is your dance area.

Steven Jack Butala:
The only logical reason. And I'm not saying logic applies here. It might just be...

Jill K DeWit:
No logic applies.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just be wackos. Is that they don't want to pay for... They have an adjacent property, and they don't want to pay for a fence.

Jill K DeWit:
That's got to be it.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what I would think.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the only way.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would never do this by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the biggest red flag ever. I would just say no. And if you're neighbors and you want to split the cost, now we can talk about that. But this just doesn't... The person's either messing with you or they don't understand.

Jill K DeWit:
A mile fence. That's a lot. Oh, my. Could you imagine? How long would that take? That's a long time.

Steven Jack Butala:
It depends.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Coaching Real Estate Agents about Our Land Business (LA 1755)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about coaching real estate agents about our land business.

Jill K DeWit:
How about coaching real estate agents about the land business?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm not real excited to talking about real estate agents. I'm not really excited about talking about coaching real estate agents and teaching them about our land business, because almost none of them understand it. But Jill is. Jill told me she's really excited to talk about this today.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. We'll get there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And I'll tell you last year, a ton of land academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting blind offer campaigns in the mail. In a very short, descriptive way, Jill and I made a company out of it. We made a service out of it for land academy members called Concierge Data. If you go to offers2owners.com, ask them about outsourcing your entire mail process because that's what it's set up for. That's what I do. Concierge Data.

Jill K DeWit:
You give them your order. You tell them the property size, and you give them the zip codes or the county. And they pull the data. They do the scrubbing all under your direction, but they do the work.

Steven Jack Butala:
Same exact people that I have do my mailers and have done long before that whole entity had a name.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Exactly. Steven wrote, we have a seller that wants the purchase of the property to be contingent on us installing a fence around it. Who flipping cares if he's selling it?

Steven Jack Butala:
I love your reaction to this.

Jill K DeWit:
It's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because this imploded on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck? Well, I'll sell it to you, but you got to pay for a fence. What?

Steven Jack Butala:
And why do you need fence if you're selling it?

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, anyway, go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. The property would require about one mile of fencing, and it's not a cheap endeavor. Of course not. Has anyone had to sell or make a strange request like this? Nope. Is this something that can be written in and dealt with through escrow and can be done after the close on the deal? I don't want to spend money on installing a fence just to have the sellers back out. Yeah, this is the weirdest thing on the planet. He could put in a deed restriction or something, but that doesn't make any sense. What? He must live next door, and say I want a line.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what everybody said online.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. He's got to live next door. And I want everyone to know this is my dance area. This is your dance area.

Steven Jack Butala:
The only logical reason. And I'm not saying logic applies here. It might just be...

Jill K DeWit:
No logic applies.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just be wackos. Is that they don't want to pay for... They have an adjacent property, and they don't want to pay for a fence.

Jill K DeWit:
That's got to be it.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what I would think.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the only way.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would never do this by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the biggest red flag ever. I would just say no. And if you're neighbors and you want to split the cost, now we can talk about that. But this just doesn't... The person's either messing with you or they don't understand.

Jill K DeWit:
A mile fence. That's a lot. Oh, my. Could you imagine? How long would that take? That's a long time.

Steven Jack Butala:
It depends.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/04/coaching-real-estate-agents-about-our-land-business-la-1755/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-tEhxMWm6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9b2ee799-3366-4b09-89f4-b2ffe71acb1d.mp3" length="15578270" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Accurate Mailer Pricing in this Hot 2022 Real Estate Market (LA 1754)</title><itunes:title>Accurate Mailer Pricing in this Hot 2022 Real Estate Market (LA 1754)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Accurate Mailer Pricing in this Hot 2022 Real Estate Market (LA 1754)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
... Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I are going to talk about accurate mailer pricing in this hot 2022 real estate market.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
There seems to be, as there always are, Jill and I used to joke, and we still joke in Career Path, all questions lead to pricing, or answering your phone. In fact, there's Career Path, you don't need to go, price correctly and answer your phone.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go. By the way, you know how I know that this is all confused and screwy right now, because I have people sending me offers that are just too high.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So we need to clarify a few things here, [inaudible 00:00:51] I hope we do.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I'd like you to know, we have a full-blown commercial printing company Jill and I own called offers2owners.com. And we set it up a lot of years ago, because we were unsatisfied with using products like Click2Mail, they just don't really understand our very specific mailer campaign operations. So that was then, and now we do between 700 and 900 and offers, we get those in the mail every single month on behalf of our members, and non-members. Go to support@offers2owners.com, and check it all out.

Jill K DeWit:
JD wrote, "Just curious what everyone's thoughts are on the following, does a buy for 25 to 35% of cost, and sell for 75 to 85% of market value, flipped 30 days or less, work for higher price land also?" I love this.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a great concise question. JD was part of Career Path the last time, and I know what market he's in, and yeah, of course it does. I can't stress this enough, this is the moment of the podcast that you should really pay attention to, if there is one.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
In fact, this is the moment of the whole week, [crosstalk 00:02:12] save you some time.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Common sense applies here. If you look at a piece of property, and you can watch Jill do this multiple times on the Thursday call, if you say to yourself, "Oh, I'm buying this. The real estate's great, it's got all the six A's, the price is amazing." I can tell you right now, at the purchase price that it's been accepted on the mailer of $30,000, and there's immediate comps in the area for 100 to $200,000, or whatever the numbers end up being, we're buying it. So how do you arrive to that point? How do you actually arrive to just being confident enough, and comfortable enough to say, like we all do on the call, Laurie and Brandon, and you and I that, "Yeah, I'm buying it and there's no doubt about it. Let's open escrow."

Jill K DeWit:
I know-

Steven Jack Butala:
Experience.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, they were going to say the same thing. Good, yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
How do you get experience if you're brand new? By watching the library of content that Jill and I have put together, thousands of hours, literally thousands of hours of us reviewing people's deals.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good exercise, you know what I would do? I would watch the Thursday calls. They're all recorded for you, our members, and I would go through, as we're doing the, Would You Do These Deals? I would pause it on the video, and then kind of guess what I think my answer would be, and then let us, you and I, weigh in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
How we do it is, people submit, they put in the state county APN, purchase price that's accepted, what they think they could sell it for, and then any details,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Accurate Mailer Pricing in this Hot 2022 Real Estate Market (LA 1754)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
... Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I are going to talk about accurate mailer pricing in this hot 2022 real estate market.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
There seems to be, as there always are, Jill and I used to joke, and we still joke in Career Path, all questions lead to pricing, or answering your phone. In fact, there's Career Path, you don't need to go, price correctly and answer your phone.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go. By the way, you know how I know that this is all confused and screwy right now, because I have people sending me offers that are just too high.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
So we need to clarify a few things here, [inaudible 00:00:51] I hope we do.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I'd like you to know, we have a full-blown commercial printing company Jill and I own called offers2owners.com. And we set it up a lot of years ago, because we were unsatisfied with using products like Click2Mail, they just don't really understand our very specific mailer campaign operations. So that was then, and now we do between 700 and 900 and offers, we get those in the mail every single month on behalf of our members, and non-members. Go to support@offers2owners.com, and check it all out.

Jill K DeWit:
JD wrote, "Just curious what everyone's thoughts are on the following, does a buy for 25 to 35% of cost, and sell for 75 to 85% of market value, flipped 30 days or less, work for higher price land also?" I love this.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a great concise question. JD was part of Career Path the last time, and I know what market he's in, and yeah, of course it does. I can't stress this enough, this is the moment of the podcast that you should really pay attention to, if there is one.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
In fact, this is the moment of the whole week, [crosstalk 00:02:12] save you some time.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Common sense applies here. If you look at a piece of property, and you can watch Jill do this multiple times on the Thursday call, if you say to yourself, "Oh, I'm buying this. The real estate's great, it's got all the six A's, the price is amazing." I can tell you right now, at the purchase price that it's been accepted on the mailer of $30,000, and there's immediate comps in the area for 100 to $200,000, or whatever the numbers end up being, we're buying it. So how do you arrive to that point? How do you actually arrive to just being confident enough, and comfortable enough to say, like we all do on the call, Laurie and Brandon, and you and I that, "Yeah, I'm buying it and there's no doubt about it. Let's open escrow."

Jill K DeWit:
I know-

Steven Jack Butala:
Experience.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, they were going to say the same thing. Good, yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
How do you get experience if you're brand new? By watching the library of content that Jill and I have put together, thousands of hours, literally thousands of hours of us reviewing people's deals.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good exercise, you know what I would do? I would watch the Thursday calls. They're all recorded for you, our members, and I would go through, as we're doing the, Would You Do These Deals? I would pause it on the video, and then kind of guess what I think my answer would be, and then let us, you and I, weigh in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
How we do it is, people submit, they put in the state county APN, purchase price that's accepted, what they think they could sell it for, and then any details,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/03/accurate-mailer-pricing-in-this-hot-2022-real-estate-market-la-1754/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qvJcJdnaR</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7faec680-58a7-4a97-92cc-cc42bd4da00c.mp3" length="13841534" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>If I Were a Land Academy Member (LA 1753)</title><itunes:title>If I Were a Land Academy Member (LA 1753)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[If I Were a Land Academy Member (LA 1753)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, what if we were Land Academy members? What if I was Land Academy member? How would I...

Jill K DeWit:
Approach this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
What would I focus on?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill took a lot of notes and it's usually a much better show when she does, so...

Jill K DeWit:
Well, thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
We'll get to that in a second.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path? Hey, if this is your career, or you want it to be, check it all out. Please go to support@landacademy.com or just landacademy.com and do a little bit of self-research.

Jill K DeWit:
Career Path #4 is going on right now and we are having a ball. Okay, Dave wrote: "Hi all, my husband and I are brand new to Land Academy and getting systems set up. I had a call with..."

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead and say it.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know, is that...

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll talk about it in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
REI Conversion.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Is it Seth?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
No, that's not Seth. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'll-

Jill K DeWit:
It's funny. Everybody takes everybody's words and they put a spin on it, because they think, "Oh, it must be Seth." No, it's not Seth. Okay, good. He mentions soon to have a website with them and, "We'll be required to have a membership to their CRM, which is Pebble, as well. I think it's a great value, but it seemed like a big commitment just to get our initial website set up and our business started. I'd love your feedback from you on if there are other suggestions for an inexpensive web developers, just to get our business website set up, or if the entire package is worth it as a starter." So he's trolling our people?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, there's no trolling.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
He uses the Land Academy name on there. My point in putting this question in here today is this... And Jill didn't read this question until just now. So I'm actually pretty, fairly researched on it this morning. There are a lot of people popping up in this space that are in their early 20s that are good at doing websites. And I'm not so sure they're good at doing... Good at buying and selling land. In fact, I am sure they're not good at selling land... Buying and selling land.

Jill K DeWit:
That's okay. If they're good at websites. That's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right. There's a ton... Like, everything. There's a ton of places to go to get websites done and whatever tools that are needed, which we... Jill and I instruct all the time and talk about in all of our education, but there's a lot of places to go that are popping up now that are land specific to get these tools. Like most people, I got this question out of Discord. A lot of people had a lot of stuff to say, and I'm going to essentially repeat what just about... well, everybody said, "This is silly."

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to say they all Upworked and [Fiverr 00:02:50] and...

Steven Jack Butala:
These tools are... Well, there's just no easy button to this. If there was, and it worked, and it was relatively flawless, Jill and I would create it, and we would release it to everybody. The best way to buy and sell land is by learning. And spending a tremendous time, amount of time on research.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[If I Were a Land Academy Member (LA 1753)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, what if we were Land Academy members? What if I was Land Academy member? How would I...

Jill K DeWit:
Approach this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
What would I focus on?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill took a lot of notes and it's usually a much better show when she does, so...

Jill K DeWit:
Well, thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
We'll get to that in a second.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path? Hey, if this is your career, or you want it to be, check it all out. Please go to support@landacademy.com or just landacademy.com and do a little bit of self-research.

Jill K DeWit:
Career Path #4 is going on right now and we are having a ball. Okay, Dave wrote: "Hi all, my husband and I are brand new to Land Academy and getting systems set up. I had a call with..."

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead and say it.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know, is that...

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll talk about it in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
REI Conversion.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Is it Seth?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
No, that's not Seth. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'll-

Jill K DeWit:
It's funny. Everybody takes everybody's words and they put a spin on it, because they think, "Oh, it must be Seth." No, it's not Seth. Okay, good. He mentions soon to have a website with them and, "We'll be required to have a membership to their CRM, which is Pebble, as well. I think it's a great value, but it seemed like a big commitment just to get our initial website set up and our business started. I'd love your feedback from you on if there are other suggestions for an inexpensive web developers, just to get our business website set up, or if the entire package is worth it as a starter." So he's trolling our people?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, there's no trolling.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
He uses the Land Academy name on there. My point in putting this question in here today is this... And Jill didn't read this question until just now. So I'm actually pretty, fairly researched on it this morning. There are a lot of people popping up in this space that are in their early 20s that are good at doing websites. And I'm not so sure they're good at doing... Good at buying and selling land. In fact, I am sure they're not good at selling land... Buying and selling land.

Jill K DeWit:
That's okay. If they're good at websites. That's good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right. There's a ton... Like, everything. There's a ton of places to go to get websites done and whatever tools that are needed, which we... Jill and I instruct all the time and talk about in all of our education, but there's a lot of places to go that are popping up now that are land specific to get these tools. Like most people, I got this question out of Discord. A lot of people had a lot of stuff to say, and I'm going to essentially repeat what just about... well, everybody said, "This is silly."

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to say they all Upworked and [Fiverr 00:02:50] and...

Steven Jack Butala:
These tools are... Well, there's just no easy button to this. If there was, and it worked, and it was relatively flawless, Jill and I would create it, and we would release it to everybody. The best way to buy and sell land is by learning. And spending a tremendous time, amount of time on research.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/05/02/if-i-were-a-land-academy-member-la-1753/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">mSzwvyHUK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0348aa86-55b6-4067-8976-0455b6426723.mp3" length="15844230" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Pick a Great Land Business Partner (LA 1752)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Pick a Great Land Business Partner (LA 1752)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Pick a Great Land Business Partner (LA 1752)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to pick a great land business partner. I can't wait to hear this show.

Jill K DeWit:
This comes up all the time. Everyone ask me, "How did you get so darn lucky?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, I thought you were going to say, "How do you put up with that?"

Jill K DeWit:
"Your life looks like a dream."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh my gosh. No one says that. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'll tell, you back in the day, it was almost impossible to find land without our actual mailing address. So we developed a product called neighborscoop.com, where all you do is put in the state, county and APM, and up pops the parcel. You can complete what we call a [inaudible 00:01:02] due diligence in seconds, instead of weeks, like it used to. Check it out atneighborscoop.com, or give us a email at support@landacademy.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. This is the right question here, not this one. Okay, okay. So Martin wrote, this is hilarious. "You two are great. How can I get my wife interested in working with me?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, geez. Martin says this?

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, Martin.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
The cards are stacked against you.

Jill K DeWit:
This-

Steven Jack Butala:
How do you get your wife interested in anything, is the real question.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. You know what's funny? I hear this often from men, "My wife kind of gets it." Usually it's just trying to get your wife on board. It's people I'm talking to that are thinking about joining Career Path or thinking about joining Land Academy. And sometimes they get to me and I'm just answering questions, and one of it's like, "Gosh." And I will ask, "By the way, is your significant other on the same page?"

Jill K DeWit:
Because, look, men, you all know, or look men or women, doesn't matter who you are, if your partner is not on the same page it's probably not going to work. If they're adamantly against you doing something like this, they're not going to be supportive.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, don't do it then.

Jill K DeWit:
And you shouldn't.

Steven Jack Butala:
My favorite is, "I bought this from my wife," meaning Land Academy. And she said, "What the hell is this?"

Jill K DeWit:
Right. "I'm not doing this."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And the guy says, "Here I am 14 deals later and I quit my job."

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. It's funny. I do know that there are many couples that listen to our show, not even I think in the land space, but for the comic relief. I get that. I know what it is, it's like, "Hey, we're not that bad, babe."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, yeah. "Boy, they make me feel better about myself."

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. "Do you imagine if we worked together? Woo, sheesh. Dodged that bullet."

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me get this out of the way. Today's Jill Friday, how to pick a great land business partner. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, we're going to dive in and cover it all at one time. All right. And I understand, you can't push it. You really can't. If they're interested, they are. If not, at least I would share ... To kind of answer Martin's question, offer to get them involved, share with what you're doing, show them the bank account when it's growing. And if they weren't involved initially and they see the bank account growing, they'll probably be supportive after that.

Jill K DeWit:
That used to be a thing a long time ago. I remember a guy years ago said,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Pick a Great Land Business Partner (LA 1752)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to pick a great land business partner. I can't wait to hear this show.

Jill K DeWit:
This comes up all the time. Everyone ask me, "How did you get so darn lucky?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, I thought you were going to say, "How do you put up with that?"

Jill K DeWit:
"Your life looks like a dream."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh my gosh. No one says that. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'll tell, you back in the day, it was almost impossible to find land without our actual mailing address. So we developed a product called neighborscoop.com, where all you do is put in the state, county and APM, and up pops the parcel. You can complete what we call a [inaudible 00:01:02] due diligence in seconds, instead of weeks, like it used to. Check it out atneighborscoop.com, or give us a email at support@landacademy.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. This is the right question here, not this one. Okay, okay. So Martin wrote, this is hilarious. "You two are great. How can I get my wife interested in working with me?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, geez. Martin says this?

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, Martin.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
The cards are stacked against you.

Jill K DeWit:
This-

Steven Jack Butala:
How do you get your wife interested in anything, is the real question.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. You know what's funny? I hear this often from men, "My wife kind of gets it." Usually it's just trying to get your wife on board. It's people I'm talking to that are thinking about joining Career Path or thinking about joining Land Academy. And sometimes they get to me and I'm just answering questions, and one of it's like, "Gosh." And I will ask, "By the way, is your significant other on the same page?"

Jill K DeWit:
Because, look, men, you all know, or look men or women, doesn't matter who you are, if your partner is not on the same page it's probably not going to work. If they're adamantly against you doing something like this, they're not going to be supportive.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, don't do it then.

Jill K DeWit:
And you shouldn't.

Steven Jack Butala:
My favorite is, "I bought this from my wife," meaning Land Academy. And she said, "What the hell is this?"

Jill K DeWit:
Right. "I'm not doing this."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And the guy says, "Here I am 14 deals later and I quit my job."

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. It's funny. I do know that there are many couples that listen to our show, not even I think in the land space, but for the comic relief. I get that. I know what it is, it's like, "Hey, we're not that bad, babe."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, yeah. "Boy, they make me feel better about myself."

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. "Do you imagine if we worked together? Woo, sheesh. Dodged that bullet."

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me get this out of the way. Today's Jill Friday, how to pick a great land business partner. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, we're going to dive in and cover it all at one time. All right. And I understand, you can't push it. You really can't. If they're interested, they are. If not, at least I would share ... To kind of answer Martin's question, offer to get them involved, share with what you're doing, show them the bank account when it's growing. And if they weren't involved initially and they see the bank account growing, they'll probably be supportive after that.

Jill K DeWit:
That used to be a thing a long time ago. I remember a guy years ago said,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/29/jill-friday-how-to-pick-a-great-land-business-partner-la-1752/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ajyNvtLCU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6f7617aa-5fbd-447e-8c5b-9110a778f1b9.mp3" length="12892903" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why is Land Investing Like Pulling Teeth (LA 1751)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why is Land Investing Like Pulling Teeth (LA 1751)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why is Land Investing Like Pulling Teeth (LA 1751)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about, "Why is land investing like pulling teeth?" This is a direct quote from Herbert Graham, a career path, now advanced member who we had pleasure of meeting with one time, because there was a brief live event in Phoenix that we were invited to. And we didn't host it but we were invited to it. And recently he said he was having trouble with an escrow agent and he said, "Why is getting a deal closed, like pulling teeth?" Which inspired me to talk about, why is this whole thing like pulling teeth? Because it can be.

Jill K DeWit:
Sometimes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Sometimes Jill says little things like sometimes and reminds me of my childhood.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on this show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
What does that mean?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just funny. Sometimes you just, it's funny. That's how I know I love you, like some of this stuff to do that's quirky.

Jill K DeWit:
Doesn't sound like it, sound like-

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's a compliment.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Now I know how you traumatize, it sounds like I'm traumatizing you on reminding me of your childhood and I don't want that.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's all positive. It's like quite the opposite. It's all positive.

Jill K DeWit:
Matthew wrote, this is more of a success of my mindset shift. I came in hoping I can make this work. That's changed. Here's why last month I brought in $25,000 of profit from a flip. Now I'm in the process of purchasing another two parcels. I already have a funder, one parcels, larger, one smaller, but buy one for 117,000, one realtor put the total combined value at 280,000, wait, buy one parcels larger one small buy for 117,000. Sounds like buying both for that. I'm thinking, one realtor put the total combined value of the two at 280,000 and another realtor put the total combining value at 325,000. We're doubling, we're tripling our number. Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's way more than that-

Jill K DeWit:
I'd be happy with either. The mindset shift is incredible now, that I've personally seen incredibly profitable properties come in, I received my usual two week paycheck and I'm very appreciative of it, but I wasn't as excited as I used to be.

Jill K DeWit:
And not even as close as to as much as I'm making in land. Now I know I can do this business. Oh, I see. You know, I just talked to somebody about this recently too, that the shift in adding a zero and not being afraid to go for these bigger deals. And then once you do a couple of them you're like, huh, and the numbers you throw around are like, let's see what's that? 80, $90,000. Sure. Where do you want me to wire the money when, before you'd be like, holy, oh my gosh. I mean even $8,000. That was a lot. And then you jump ahead and ahead and ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
The takeaway that I took from this is that, we all can have personal anecdotes or experiences like this, where one month you look at something and say, there's no way I can do that. Not because I don't think I've had talent or not. I just don't want to put the energy into it. I know I can do it, but I don't want to figure it out. And for whatever reason a month goes by and it's like, I'm doing this and it's not as hard as I thought and I'm actually going to make a business out of it. So we all have things like that. For some kids it's like,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why is Land Investing Like Pulling Teeth (LA 1751)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about, "Why is land investing like pulling teeth?" This is a direct quote from Herbert Graham, a career path, now advanced member who we had pleasure of meeting with one time, because there was a brief live event in Phoenix that we were invited to. And we didn't host it but we were invited to it. And recently he said he was having trouble with an escrow agent and he said, "Why is getting a deal closed, like pulling teeth?" Which inspired me to talk about, why is this whole thing like pulling teeth? Because it can be.

Jill K DeWit:
Sometimes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Sometimes Jill says little things like sometimes and reminds me of my childhood.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on this show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
What does that mean?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just funny. Sometimes you just, it's funny. That's how I know I love you, like some of this stuff to do that's quirky.

Jill K DeWit:
Doesn't sound like it, sound like-

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's a compliment.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Now I know how you traumatize, it sounds like I'm traumatizing you on reminding me of your childhood and I don't want that.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's all positive. It's like quite the opposite. It's all positive.

Jill K DeWit:
Matthew wrote, this is more of a success of my mindset shift. I came in hoping I can make this work. That's changed. Here's why last month I brought in $25,000 of profit from a flip. Now I'm in the process of purchasing another two parcels. I already have a funder, one parcels, larger, one smaller, but buy one for 117,000, one realtor put the total combined value at 280,000, wait, buy one parcels larger one small buy for 117,000. Sounds like buying both for that. I'm thinking, one realtor put the total combined value of the two at 280,000 and another realtor put the total combining value at 325,000. We're doubling, we're tripling our number. Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's way more than that-

Jill K DeWit:
I'd be happy with either. The mindset shift is incredible now, that I've personally seen incredibly profitable properties come in, I received my usual two week paycheck and I'm very appreciative of it, but I wasn't as excited as I used to be.

Jill K DeWit:
And not even as close as to as much as I'm making in land. Now I know I can do this business. Oh, I see. You know, I just talked to somebody about this recently too, that the shift in adding a zero and not being afraid to go for these bigger deals. And then once you do a couple of them you're like, huh, and the numbers you throw around are like, let's see what's that? 80, $90,000. Sure. Where do you want me to wire the money when, before you'd be like, holy, oh my gosh. I mean even $8,000. That was a lot. And then you jump ahead and ahead and ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
The takeaway that I took from this is that, we all can have personal anecdotes or experiences like this, where one month you look at something and say, there's no way I can do that. Not because I don't think I've had talent or not. I just don't want to put the energy into it. I know I can do it, but I don't want to figure it out. And for whatever reason a month goes by and it's like, I'm doing this and it's not as hard as I thought and I'm actually going to make a business out of it. So we all have things like that. For some kids it's like,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/28/jack-thursday-why-is-land-investing-like-pulling-teeth-la-1751/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">KVaKlenHV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6cf4b4a3-f879-430a-92f3-71055c9aff89.mp3" length="10476138" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Overcome buying Land You Never Visit (LA 1750)</title><itunes:title>How to Overcome buying Land You Never Visit (LA 1750)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Overcome buying Land You Never Visit (LA 1750)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to overcome buying land that you've never seen in person. I'm going to start with a little anecdote, if it's okay with you.

Jill K DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I are car people, and we're always looking for some car that's been in our soul forever, this is how I like to describe it, separately. This not something that we ever had or developed together. I think since we were little kids, we're car people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so, as you know, like anything online, these are rare cars. When they come up and they're the color you want, and they we have the engine you want and all that stuff, you got to make a decision quick. And it's never my first choice to buy a car, especially without seeing it. So recently, I bought an old Corvette that's been on my list for quite some time, and I took delivery on it, and I had this thought, if I saw this car in person, I would've paid to twice as much as I actually paid.

Steven Jack Butala:
Patted myself on the back, but when in reality, I didn't do anything. It was just luck. Jill had the same experience with the Supra car recently when we took delivery on it. I tried to find a scratch on that car, and whoever owned that just babied it. So, the opposite is true with an old Volkswagen bus I bought. I did go to see that, luckily, and we ended up buying it for half of what the person was asking because it was just too banged up. And so the same applies to land. I can tell you that every single piece of land that I have ever gone to see, I would've paid more for.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yep. I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't want to steal your thunder. I don't know what you're going to talk... This is Jill's show today.

Jill K DeWit:
I've got-

Steven Jack Butala:
I want to hear this too.

Jill K DeWit:
We'll talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I got to tell you, last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I, needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns in the mail. Getting the mail out is a tough thing for some people, and I get it. It was tough for me the first few times I did it, too. So I took a look at how we were personally sending mail out, with our key employees, and who does the stuff for me personally in our mailers, and we decided to create a product called Concierge Data Plus. It's a year later, and hundreds of members are using it. Go to the offers2owners, the number two, owners.com, click on Concierge Data, and see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Ross wrote, "I just sold a property for $49,000 that was in a flood plain, and I made $30,800 on it after commissions and fees. Nearly didn't buy it because of the flood plain, and ended up price dropping the original offer down $20,000, to a purchase price of $12,500, and was willing to walk away if the seller didn't like this offer."

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this.

Jill K DeWit:
"Only after that did I contact a land agent that I have a great relationship with on the ground in that area, and they said the area was hotter than I thought, and that the flood plain would lower the sale price, but it would still sell fast, regardless. Didn't even know what I had, and that blind confidence allowed for the biggest price drop I've accomplished to date".

Steven Jack Butala:
On the buy side.

Jill K DeWit:
On the buy side, the purchase price. Yep. "Got lucky with that one. Full price offer within days of listing it, watch out for the hidden gems.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Overcome buying Land You Never Visit (LA 1750)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to overcome buying land that you've never seen in person. I'm going to start with a little anecdote, if it's okay with you.

Jill K DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I are car people, and we're always looking for some car that's been in our soul forever, this is how I like to describe it, separately. This not something that we ever had or developed together. I think since we were little kids, we're car people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so, as you know, like anything online, these are rare cars. When they come up and they're the color you want, and they we have the engine you want and all that stuff, you got to make a decision quick. And it's never my first choice to buy a car, especially without seeing it. So recently, I bought an old Corvette that's been on my list for quite some time, and I took delivery on it, and I had this thought, if I saw this car in person, I would've paid to twice as much as I actually paid.

Steven Jack Butala:
Patted myself on the back, but when in reality, I didn't do anything. It was just luck. Jill had the same experience with the Supra car recently when we took delivery on it. I tried to find a scratch on that car, and whoever owned that just babied it. So, the opposite is true with an old Volkswagen bus I bought. I did go to see that, luckily, and we ended up buying it for half of what the person was asking because it was just too banged up. And so the same applies to land. I can tell you that every single piece of land that I have ever gone to see, I would've paid more for.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yep. I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't want to steal your thunder. I don't know what you're going to talk... This is Jill's show today.

Jill K DeWit:
I've got-

Steven Jack Butala:
I want to hear this too.

Jill K DeWit:
We'll talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and I got to tell you, last year, a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I, needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns in the mail. Getting the mail out is a tough thing for some people, and I get it. It was tough for me the first few times I did it, too. So I took a look at how we were personally sending mail out, with our key employees, and who does the stuff for me personally in our mailers, and we decided to create a product called Concierge Data Plus. It's a year later, and hundreds of members are using it. Go to the offers2owners, the number two, owners.com, click on Concierge Data, and see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Ross wrote, "I just sold a property for $49,000 that was in a flood plain, and I made $30,800 on it after commissions and fees. Nearly didn't buy it because of the flood plain, and ended up price dropping the original offer down $20,000, to a purchase price of $12,500, and was willing to walk away if the seller didn't like this offer."

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this.

Jill K DeWit:
"Only after that did I contact a land agent that I have a great relationship with on the ground in that area, and they said the area was hotter than I thought, and that the flood plain would lower the sale price, but it would still sell fast, regardless. Didn't even know what I had, and that blind confidence allowed for the biggest price drop I've accomplished to date".

Steven Jack Butala:
On the buy side.

Jill K DeWit:
On the buy side, the purchase price. Yep. "Got lucky with that one. Full price offer within days of listing it, watch out for the hidden gems.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/27/how-to-overcome-buying-land-you-never-visit-la-1750/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SHB8zuhGS</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ab3c173b-044c-435b-b5ed-ebd5161d73d8.mp3" length="16037041" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Handle Multiple Land Buyers at Once (LA 1749)</title><itunes:title>How to Handle Multiple Land Buyers at Once (LA 1749)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Handle Multiple Land Buyers at Once (LA 1749)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to handle multiple land buyers at once.

Jill K DeWit:
This is coming up more and more right now, and I love this. I was watching-

Steven Jack Butala:
A good problem to have.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. Several conversations in our closed environments on Discord and Landinvestors.com where people are going, "What do I do? I got this guy, and then I got this other guy. And I don't know how to juggle all this." So we can help you with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And did you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this up a lot of years ago. We've always had it for ourselves, but we set it up for the public to address this specific and customized needs. So, if you need to get offers out to owners to buy real state, this is the only dedicated place that I know of on the internet to get this done. We do about 700,000 offers a month. Email support@offers2owners.com and see if it works for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. G-throat, "What do you do when you get..." Oh, we're just going to talk about it right now and then I'm going to answer it in the thing. So this is one of the questions that prompted this today. So Geeth said, "What do you do when you have two people wanting to buy your land after you've sent out purchase agreement to a different person 24 hours ago? The other two contacted me within an hour of each other and had wanted a PA sent to them now. I haven't received the PA from the first lady yet. She said she was having transportation issues and would do it tomorrow. Her purchase agreement has a hard number on it and has a hard date for the funds to be posted in escrow by. It's also worth noting that there's a place for me to sign on the document after she signs, and then I sent it off to the office who's closing it. Do I wait until tomorrow and see if the potential buyer sends it back and just tell them the two people it's pending? How could I better prepare for these situations in the future? Do you do backup offers on pending but accepting offers?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Before Jill answers, I'm going to just paraphrase this. This person Geeth in our group inadvertently and unwillingly set off a bidding war for his property, for his land. And he is asking what we do, if it happens often and what do we do?

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. So you need to have you... I hate... This is a tough situation.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this situation.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I love this situation, but you're like, you don't want to be a jerk to the first person, but there's a little bit of an element of she might fall through, this little old lady, and you don't want to lose these two people that are hot and excited and ready to go. So we could take... You know how real estate agents say, "Now accepting backup offers"? You could do a version of that and let people know that you're in number two position or number three position honestly and truthfully and say, "I'm giving this person," and I would call and set hard deadlines for the lady. If you don't know how to do this, walk over to your next door neighbor's house, help them take a picture of it with your signature and whatever some money we could get this done in 12 hours. I've walked people through this, not kidding, if they really, really want it. And, if they don't want it, just say, "Look, I've got two other people. I need to know now. And it's okay. We don't have time to waste. What do you..." Sometimes you give me this look like,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Handle Multiple Land Buyers at Once (LA 1749)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to handle multiple land buyers at once.

Jill K DeWit:
This is coming up more and more right now, and I love this. I was watching-

Steven Jack Butala:
A good problem to have.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. Several conversations in our closed environments on Discord and Landinvestors.com where people are going, "What do I do? I got this guy, and then I got this other guy. And I don't know how to juggle all this." So we can help you with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And did you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this up a lot of years ago. We've always had it for ourselves, but we set it up for the public to address this specific and customized needs. So, if you need to get offers out to owners to buy real state, this is the only dedicated place that I know of on the internet to get this done. We do about 700,000 offers a month. Email support@offers2owners.com and see if it works for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. G-throat, "What do you do when you get..." Oh, we're just going to talk about it right now and then I'm going to answer it in the thing. So this is one of the questions that prompted this today. So Geeth said, "What do you do when you have two people wanting to buy your land after you've sent out purchase agreement to a different person 24 hours ago? The other two contacted me within an hour of each other and had wanted a PA sent to them now. I haven't received the PA from the first lady yet. She said she was having transportation issues and would do it tomorrow. Her purchase agreement has a hard number on it and has a hard date for the funds to be posted in escrow by. It's also worth noting that there's a place for me to sign on the document after she signs, and then I sent it off to the office who's closing it. Do I wait until tomorrow and see if the potential buyer sends it back and just tell them the two people it's pending? How could I better prepare for these situations in the future? Do you do backup offers on pending but accepting offers?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Before Jill answers, I'm going to just paraphrase this. This person Geeth in our group inadvertently and unwillingly set off a bidding war for his property, for his land. And he is asking what we do, if it happens often and what do we do?

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. So you need to have you... I hate... This is a tough situation.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this situation.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I love this situation, but you're like, you don't want to be a jerk to the first person, but there's a little bit of an element of she might fall through, this little old lady, and you don't want to lose these two people that are hot and excited and ready to go. So we could take... You know how real estate agents say, "Now accepting backup offers"? You could do a version of that and let people know that you're in number two position or number three position honestly and truthfully and say, "I'm giving this person," and I would call and set hard deadlines for the lady. If you don't know how to do this, walk over to your next door neighbor's house, help them take a picture of it with your signature and whatever some money we could get this done in 12 hours. I've walked people through this, not kidding, if they really, really want it. And, if they don't want it, just say, "Look, I've got two other people. I need to know now. And it's okay. We don't have time to waste. What do you..." Sometimes you give me this look like,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/26/how-to-handle-multiple-land-buyers-at-once-la-1749/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QYMF1vThy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/701868e8-5d60-454b-96f9-bb19063ca537.mp3" length="15214935" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Using Real Estate News to Forecast Your Land Investing Choices in 2022 (LA 1748)</title><itunes:title>Using Real Estate News to Forecast Your Land Investing Choices in 2022 (LA 1748)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Using Real Estate News to Forecast Your Land Investing Choices in 2022 (LA 1748)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about using real estate news to forecast your land investing choices.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. This, I like this because, and I'm glad we're talking about this because we all are reading "oh my gosh, it's slowing down. Interest rates are 5%. We haven't seen that since 2000 and whatever", everybody's panicking now it's going to be changing. What do we do? What do we do? And so everybody there's always a fire somehow. Happy to talk about it. And I want to talk about too, what pieces of that do we pick out and use for our purposes? And when do we just go, well, whatever,

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care who you are or where you come from. If you don't agree with this statement, something's wrong. The news is a mess.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh gosh.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care.

Jill K DeWit:
They like it that way.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care. Yeah. It's all shock value. I don't care where you come from. Right, left, up down doesn't matter. We have now more than ever, I tell our kids this all the time, you kids have a massive responsibility in your generation to cipher through all the gunk that's out there. Way more than, and Joe and I ever had to. We had three or four television stations, a bunch of radio stations and old school parents telling us and just it's we didn't have any choices and I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm just saying it's a lot harder now.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you think we're swinging back, I do.

Steven Jack Butala:
I hope so.

Jill K DeWit:
I think we're swinging back where everybody was someone of their phones and this and that, no one communicated. And now I honestly think that there's a little bit of a pushback and swinging back a little bit where I'm going to pick up the phone or I'm going to get on my bike.

Steven Jack Butala:
Look, there's some really...

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to get on my bike and ride over to see and see who's home.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm a lot to say about this and it is very, in my opinion, very easily decipherable. And it's real easy to find the good real truth in news and statistics and economics and all of that really easily. And I'll talk all about it here in a few, few minutes, every single week on Thursday at two o'clock Pacific time, we have a map closed membership call for land academy members. There's several hundred people on there every week. And I start the call off by talking about exactly what we're going to talk about today, right? Hey, let's look at the market and is it good for us or bad for us or what's coming? The good news is that if you pay attention, if I don't know, four or five things she'll talk about, you can see into the future. It's not like the stock market.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community, it's free. And I hope you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing land academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling your land is your career, or you want it to be give us a call or actually email us at support@landacademy.com and find out if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Dave wrote, is anyone out there having their deal funders ask them to assign the contract to them. The funder prior to closing on the buy side, one of my funders I've done multiple deals with is asking for this now. I like this person and trust them as much as you could trust someone you haven't met, but it makes me nervous signing over all legal interest in this property with only a TIC agreement,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Using Real Estate News to Forecast Your Land Investing Choices in 2022 (LA 1748)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about using real estate news to forecast your land investing choices.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. This, I like this because, and I'm glad we're talking about this because we all are reading "oh my gosh, it's slowing down. Interest rates are 5%. We haven't seen that since 2000 and whatever", everybody's panicking now it's going to be changing. What do we do? What do we do? And so everybody there's always a fire somehow. Happy to talk about it. And I want to talk about too, what pieces of that do we pick out and use for our purposes? And when do we just go, well, whatever,

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care who you are or where you come from. If you don't agree with this statement, something's wrong. The news is a mess.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh gosh.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care.

Jill K DeWit:
They like it that way.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care. Yeah. It's all shock value. I don't care where you come from. Right, left, up down doesn't matter. We have now more than ever, I tell our kids this all the time, you kids have a massive responsibility in your generation to cipher through all the gunk that's out there. Way more than, and Joe and I ever had to. We had three or four television stations, a bunch of radio stations and old school parents telling us and just it's we didn't have any choices and I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm just saying it's a lot harder now.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you think we're swinging back, I do.

Steven Jack Butala:
I hope so.

Jill K DeWit:
I think we're swinging back where everybody was someone of their phones and this and that, no one communicated. And now I honestly think that there's a little bit of a pushback and swinging back a little bit where I'm going to pick up the phone or I'm going to get on my bike.

Steven Jack Butala:
Look, there's some really...

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to get on my bike and ride over to see and see who's home.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm a lot to say about this and it is very, in my opinion, very easily decipherable. And it's real easy to find the good real truth in news and statistics and economics and all of that really easily. And I'll talk all about it here in a few, few minutes, every single week on Thursday at two o'clock Pacific time, we have a map closed membership call for land academy members. There's several hundred people on there every week. And I start the call off by talking about exactly what we're going to talk about today, right? Hey, let's look at the market and is it good for us or bad for us or what's coming? The good news is that if you pay attention, if I don't know, four or five things she'll talk about, you can see into the future. It's not like the stock market.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community, it's free. And I hope you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing land academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling your land is your career, or you want it to be give us a call or actually email us at support@landacademy.com and find out if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Dave wrote, is anyone out there having their deal funders ask them to assign the contract to them. The funder prior to closing on the buy side, one of my funders I've done multiple deals with is asking for this now. I like this person and trust them as much as you could trust someone you haven't met, but it makes me nervous signing over all legal interest in this property with only a TIC agreement,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/25/using-real-estate-news-to-forecast-your-land-investing-choices-in-2022-la-1748/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jWJd2uqWU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6995d745-8720-493a-b57e-a30319ff7c7a.mp3" length="20498766" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; When Have You Made Enough Money in Your Land Business (LA 1747)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; When Have You Made Enough Money in Your Land Business (LA 1747)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - When Have You Made Enough Money in Your Land Business (LA 1747)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I... Well, it's still Friday. And she's going to talk about...

Jill K DeWit:
When have you made enough money in your land business?

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. When's enough, enough? That's what we're going to talk about.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this topic. I have a lot to say, I know it's still Friday, but I'll zip it as instructed and talk with-

Jill K DeWit:
Because we may have different decisions. We have different philosophies here, and I will... We are going to share them both.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our landinvestors.com online community participants. It's free. I'll tell you back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is most of the properties that we actually are involved in. So to solve this, Jill and I put together over about a year, an APN driven assessors personal database so that you can find properties just with the APN within seconds. And so like all of our products, we built a shabby rickety products for our own use and then polished it all up and web enabled it so that everyone can use it. It's called NeighborScoop.com. Check us out at NeighborScoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
[Chase R oute 00:01:23]. How many times is someone allowed? Oh, I answered this. This is good.

Steven Jack Butala:
You did?

Jill K DeWit:
I did. How many times has someone allowed a role in career path? And I wrote back, I said, awesome question Chase. Because we have had past, we're only on career path number four, and we already have people from career path one, two, and three, wanting to go through it again. So we came up with a half price program. And if you want to know about that, just send a note to supportatlanticacademy.com. Cause it's a hidden link. Because you have to be a former career path member. So we don't have it published on the website, but you just reach out and we'll get you the link and then you could do it again. Because we've changes, we did career path one at the end of...

Jill K DeWit:
What did we do? Oh, we started it in 2021. We did career path one, two and three. We took the fourth quarter off and now we just... Wait, one and two. I have to think about this. Three was here in 2022. That's right. And now we're on number four. My main point is, in the, I don't know, eight, nine months since we started career path, we've already made some changes. And so that's why people are like, wait a minute. Now you're talking about this and now you brought in this person. Now you added these office hours and now you're doing that and do this. I'd like to go through it again and you're not nuts.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you it's real different. Just this is what number five coming up, number four?

Jill K DeWit:
This is number four. We're on number four.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, it's pretty different. We keep in adding and improving stuff based on the previous course.

Jill K DeWit:
It's wonderful.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's still Friday. And we're going to talk about when have you made enough money in your land business? This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
This topic came up initially, because I was thinking about the people in our community. We have people in our community that do one deal a month and we have people in our community that do a deal a week and more than that, multiple a week. It's all over the map too as far as their comfort zones and the size of the properties. And when I say... And the dollar amounts. That's really what I mean, size. It's like, are they more than $10,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - When Have You Made Enough Money in Your Land Business (LA 1747)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I... Well, it's still Friday. And she's going to talk about...

Jill K DeWit:
When have you made enough money in your land business?

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. When's enough, enough? That's what we're going to talk about.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this topic. I have a lot to say, I know it's still Friday, but I'll zip it as instructed and talk with-

Jill K DeWit:
Because we may have different decisions. We have different philosophies here, and I will... We are going to share them both.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our landinvestors.com online community participants. It's free. I'll tell you back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is most of the properties that we actually are involved in. So to solve this, Jill and I put together over about a year, an APN driven assessors personal database so that you can find properties just with the APN within seconds. And so like all of our products, we built a shabby rickety products for our own use and then polished it all up and web enabled it so that everyone can use it. It's called NeighborScoop.com. Check us out at NeighborScoop.com.

Jill K DeWit:
[Chase R oute 00:01:23]. How many times is someone allowed? Oh, I answered this. This is good.

Steven Jack Butala:
You did?

Jill K DeWit:
I did. How many times has someone allowed a role in career path? And I wrote back, I said, awesome question Chase. Because we have had past, we're only on career path number four, and we already have people from career path one, two, and three, wanting to go through it again. So we came up with a half price program. And if you want to know about that, just send a note to supportatlanticacademy.com. Cause it's a hidden link. Because you have to be a former career path member. So we don't have it published on the website, but you just reach out and we'll get you the link and then you could do it again. Because we've changes, we did career path one at the end of...

Jill K DeWit:
What did we do? Oh, we started it in 2021. We did career path one, two and three. We took the fourth quarter off and now we just... Wait, one and two. I have to think about this. Three was here in 2022. That's right. And now we're on number four. My main point is, in the, I don't know, eight, nine months since we started career path, we've already made some changes. And so that's why people are like, wait a minute. Now you're talking about this and now you brought in this person. Now you added these office hours and now you're doing that and do this. I'd like to go through it again and you're not nuts.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you it's real different. Just this is what number five coming up, number four?

Jill K DeWit:
This is number four. We're on number four.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, it's pretty different. We keep in adding and improving stuff based on the previous course.

Jill K DeWit:
It's wonderful.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's still Friday. And we're going to talk about when have you made enough money in your land business? This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
This topic came up initially, because I was thinking about the people in our community. We have people in our community that do one deal a month and we have people in our community that do a deal a week and more than that, multiple a week. It's all over the map too as far as their comfort zones and the size of the properties. And when I say... And the dollar amounts. That's really what I mean, size. It's like, are they more than $10,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/22/jill-friday-when-have-you-made-enough-money-in-your-land-business-la-1747/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8hoSCfmKu</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fc4ddc67-ce81-48aa-9543-358396063fc6.mp3" length="13506952" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Life is a One Way Trip so Live Consciously (LA 1746)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Life is a One Way Trip so Live Consciously (LA 1746)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Life is a One Way Trip so Live Consciously (LA 1746)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how life is a one way trip so you need to be real conscious about what you do in my opinion.

Jill K DeWit:
It's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Bear in mind, this is Jack Thursday. There are some people on the internet, I've noticed, that this is what they think about this show. Oh my God, really? I thought this was supposed to be a show about buying and selling land. I thought I was going to tune into this show and you were going to have a show like, "This is how you send out mail." Like Ferris Bueller's math teacher, and you send mail out. That's not what this is. This is a podcast. If you want to know how to send out mail, you should join our club or ask other people in the club if the education is worth it and all that. And trust me, it is.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm confused too, then, because that's not what I thought this was.

Steven Jack Butala:
If Jill and I did a show about how to send out-

Jill K DeWit:
Wait.

Steven Jack Butala:
Mail on how to buy property real inexpensively and then resell it for a lot more, it would be like 20 shows and that's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I have a little side note. Hold on a moment. If I'm not sitting here and you sit down and do your own podcast, brand new right now, about anything you want to talk about, what would it be?

Steven Jack Butala:
This topic.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what Jack Thursday is.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I'll tell you right now, Jill and I do exit interviews for people who choose to leave the group. None of them, none of them, not one person that I'm aware of has ever said, "This system of selling, sending blind offers out and then answering your phone and putting a deal together, running through some due diligence and reselling it, that doesn't work." Not a single person's ever said that. What they say is, "I couldn't get organized enough. Some stuff changed in my life." It's all life stuff. It's driven us. We don't just sit around and talk about what we want to talk about. Most of the time we respond to what our members are asking for and many, many members, way more members ask for, "How should I deal with this thing that's going on over here?" They don't ask for clarification on what kind of offer to send out or what should be in the offer.

Jill K DeWit:
I get you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
This is the question I accidentally started to answer that I also saw in Discord from Monday. Drew wrote, "Is it a hindrance or a benefit having a real estate license? Now that I'm telling people what I do at gatherings and out and about, is it worth getting my state real estate license even if we see way better margins as our normal way of doing business? What about the occasional warm leads to list?" Oh, this is actually very different than what I read, so no. "What about the occasional warm leads to list a property as an agent? What's the deeper worry? Anything non agents versus agents can benefit or hinder as being a Land Academy..." He used the word wholesaler, but I don't use that word anymore.

Steven Jack Butala:
We don't use it.

Jill K DeWit:
Because it's not-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's got a different meaning.

Jill K DeWit:
It does. It took a life of its own on. And then the way people think wholesale is not what we do. Wholesale to me is how I price it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Life is a One Way Trip so Live Consciously (LA 1746)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how life is a one way trip so you need to be real conscious about what you do in my opinion.

Jill K DeWit:
It's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Bear in mind, this is Jack Thursday. There are some people on the internet, I've noticed, that this is what they think about this show. Oh my God, really? I thought this was supposed to be a show about buying and selling land. I thought I was going to tune into this show and you were going to have a show like, "This is how you send out mail." Like Ferris Bueller's math teacher, and you send mail out. That's not what this is. This is a podcast. If you want to know how to send out mail, you should join our club or ask other people in the club if the education is worth it and all that. And trust me, it is.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm confused too, then, because that's not what I thought this was.

Steven Jack Butala:
If Jill and I did a show about how to send out-

Jill K DeWit:
Wait.

Steven Jack Butala:
Mail on how to buy property real inexpensively and then resell it for a lot more, it would be like 20 shows and that's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I have a little side note. Hold on a moment. If I'm not sitting here and you sit down and do your own podcast, brand new right now, about anything you want to talk about, what would it be?

Steven Jack Butala:
This topic.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what Jack Thursday is.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I'll tell you right now, Jill and I do exit interviews for people who choose to leave the group. None of them, none of them, not one person that I'm aware of has ever said, "This system of selling, sending blind offers out and then answering your phone and putting a deal together, running through some due diligence and reselling it, that doesn't work." Not a single person's ever said that. What they say is, "I couldn't get organized enough. Some stuff changed in my life." It's all life stuff. It's driven us. We don't just sit around and talk about what we want to talk about. Most of the time we respond to what our members are asking for and many, many members, way more members ask for, "How should I deal with this thing that's going on over here?" They don't ask for clarification on what kind of offer to send out or what should be in the offer.

Jill K DeWit:
I get you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
This is the question I accidentally started to answer that I also saw in Discord from Monday. Drew wrote, "Is it a hindrance or a benefit having a real estate license? Now that I'm telling people what I do at gatherings and out and about, is it worth getting my state real estate license even if we see way better margins as our normal way of doing business? What about the occasional warm leads to list?" Oh, this is actually very different than what I read, so no. "What about the occasional warm leads to list a property as an agent? What's the deeper worry? Anything non agents versus agents can benefit or hinder as being a Land Academy..." He used the word wholesaler, but I don't use that word anymore.

Steven Jack Butala:
We don't use it.

Jill K DeWit:
Because it's not-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's got a different meaning.

Jill K DeWit:
It does. It took a life of its own on. And then the way people think wholesale is not what we do. Wholesale to me is how I price it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/21/jack-thursday-life-is-a-one-way-trip-so-live-consciously-la-1746/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Wto71YCRZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/613924f2-2bb6-4530-80d7-24fcd1009395.mp3" length="14130112" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Luke Smith Land Academy Member Extraordinaire Interview (LA 1745)</title><itunes:title>Luke Smith Land Academy Member Extraordinaire Interview (LA 1745)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Luke Smith Land Academy Member Extraordinaire Interview (LA 1745)
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If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

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https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

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https://parcelfact.com

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https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/20/luke-smith-land-academy-member-extraordinaire-interview-la-1745/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3dtTbxUmE</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e713f19d-c183-41ba-9870-67ab39ee8a61.mp3" length="40730372" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>42:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Not to Accept a Low Ball Offer Too Soon (LA 1744)</title><itunes:title>Why Not to Accept a Low Ball Offer Too Soon (LA 1744)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Not to Accept a Low Ball Offer Too Soon (LA 1744)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why not to accept a low ball offer too soon when you're selling your property. Boy, if I had a nickel. This whole business, or this whole episode, came from during this uptick in pricing and hot market hotness that we're all experiencing right now, Jill and I sold a bunch of properties too low and too fast. And so we're going to talk about a little bit about that and how to gauge where you should price your property these days versus, let's say, maybe, a couple years ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers2Owners.com. Jill and I set out a lot of years ago to rectify poor perform in the industry. We set up our own company and a few years ago, we set that up for you. You can either call (800) 725-8816 or you can email support@offers2owners.com and see what they have to offer if you're sending out blind offers to real estate owners.

Jill K DeWit:
Just like we do. All right, here's our question. Greg wrote, "Hey, do you guys ever use a non broker/agent for boots on the ground in your due diligence phase? I've got a timber guy that hit me up from an area mail who wants to be my boots on the ground. We're on the same page but I'm trying to see how we can come up with a contract test agreement for compensation, make sure I don't get cut out of the deals I have him look at. I appreciate any suggestions if y'all have any experience with this." Oh, that does worry me a little bit.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have real bad taste in my mouth about this whole thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What this person's asking is, I sent a mailer out to a bunch of owners and I'm getting responses back. And we're doing the Land Academy thing. Timber guy called me back, probably because he got one of your letters, or he is talking to a landowner and said, "Hey, how about I just go bird dog these properties for you? And the ones that we buy together, you pay me?" What he's really saying is how about you shove me the great deals that you got and I can steal them from you?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what I think.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I wouldn't do this.

Steven Jack Butala:
The boots on the ground that we've had with great success are we have a personal former relationship with them.

Jill K DeWit:
Or they're Land Academy people.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or they're Land Academy members. And that's what I was going to say. Find a Land Academy. Often, very, very often on a Thursday call, when we look at people's deals to give them our opinion about whether or not they should buy them, there's other people in the group that'll chime in and say...

Jill K DeWit:
"I'm right by there."

Steven Jack Butala:
"I live 20 minutes from there. I'm happy to go take a look at it for you."

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what [crosstalk 00:02:52]-

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm sorry. I got some red flags.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
I wouldn't do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, Jill's going to talk about why not to accept low ball offers too soon. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
We haven't had this in a while. When I say while, I mean, weeks. It hasn't been that long, but it pops up every now and then that someone says, "Shucks, I wish I wouldn't have taken that offer. They came in so fast. I was so excited. It sounded great. Hey, I doubled my money, even though it wasn't what I listed it for. It was a good offer,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Not to Accept a Low Ball Offer Too Soon (LA 1744)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why not to accept a low ball offer too soon when you're selling your property. Boy, if I had a nickel. This whole business, or this whole episode, came from during this uptick in pricing and hot market hotness that we're all experiencing right now, Jill and I sold a bunch of properties too low and too fast. And so we're going to talk about a little bit about that and how to gauge where you should price your property these days versus, let's say, maybe, a couple years ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And I hope you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called Offers2Owners.com. Jill and I set out a lot of years ago to rectify poor perform in the industry. We set up our own company and a few years ago, we set that up for you. You can either call (800) 725-8816 or you can email support@offers2owners.com and see what they have to offer if you're sending out blind offers to real estate owners.

Jill K DeWit:
Just like we do. All right, here's our question. Greg wrote, "Hey, do you guys ever use a non broker/agent for boots on the ground in your due diligence phase? I've got a timber guy that hit me up from an area mail who wants to be my boots on the ground. We're on the same page but I'm trying to see how we can come up with a contract test agreement for compensation, make sure I don't get cut out of the deals I have him look at. I appreciate any suggestions if y'all have any experience with this." Oh, that does worry me a little bit.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have real bad taste in my mouth about this whole thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What this person's asking is, I sent a mailer out to a bunch of owners and I'm getting responses back. And we're doing the Land Academy thing. Timber guy called me back, probably because he got one of your letters, or he is talking to a landowner and said, "Hey, how about I just go bird dog these properties for you? And the ones that we buy together, you pay me?" What he's really saying is how about you shove me the great deals that you got and I can steal them from you?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what I think.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I wouldn't do this.

Steven Jack Butala:
The boots on the ground that we've had with great success are we have a personal former relationship with them.

Jill K DeWit:
Or they're Land Academy people.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or they're Land Academy members. And that's what I was going to say. Find a Land Academy. Often, very, very often on a Thursday call, when we look at people's deals to give them our opinion about whether or not they should buy them, there's other people in the group that'll chime in and say...

Jill K DeWit:
"I'm right by there."

Steven Jack Butala:
"I live 20 minutes from there. I'm happy to go take a look at it for you."

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what [crosstalk 00:02:52]-

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm sorry. I got some red flags.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
I wouldn't do that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, Jill's going to talk about why not to accept low ball offers too soon. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
We haven't had this in a while. When I say while, I mean, weeks. It hasn't been that long, but it pops up every now and then that someone says, "Shucks, I wish I wouldn't have taken that offer. They came in so fast. I was so excited. It sounded great. Hey, I doubled my money, even though it wasn't what I listed it for. It was a good offer,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/19/why-not-to-accept-a-low-ball-offer-too-soon-la-1744/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">r2sI_qFLC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0019b5d9-d33a-45c6-a505-6dc9648f132a.mp3" length="13556748" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Train Your Real Estate Agent to Post Property (LA 1743)</title><itunes:title>How to Train Your Real Estate Agent to Post Property (LA 1743)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Train Your Real Estate Agent to Post Property (LA 1743)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven, Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to train your real estate agent to post property. What?

Jill K DeWit:
You know, what's funny? Why do they change too? Have you ever had a, here's what happens to me? I go on the internet. I'm looking in areas to find good agents that are clearly selling property similar to mine. I can look at their postings. I can look at the closed transactions. I can see what they've done. I see good descriptions. I see good photos. I'm like, great. That's a person that I want. And they start off well. This is a normal how it goes. So I start off great, and then somewhere around deal number three, number four, when I stop looking at their postings, they get crappy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just like a marriage.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, why do you do that? I think ...

Steven Jack Butala:
Why do real estate agents consistently do a worse job over a better job? I don't get it, but there's very few exceptions.

Jill K DeWit:
I got to tell you, truth time here. Today's not the right day to be bringing up marriage stuff like that. It's really going to come back to bite you right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, a hint taken by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class call career path, usually between 10 and 20 people? If you're buying and selling land and it's your career, or you want it to be, career path might be for you. Call this number (833) 522-5545, or email us as always at support@landacademy to see if this level of involvement is for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. I want to talk about that for just a second, can we?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure, sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Because this is wait, this is Monday and it starts on Saturday. This is the first time we've ever done a Saturday session, and I'm already telling everyone, this is the last Saturday session. There were a lot of people that wanted it. I moved it from Wednesdays to Saturdays and I thought there were more people that were going to jump on the Saturday schedule. And I think there's some people that don't realize it's a Saturday schedule too. So if you have some time commitments, you need a Saturday and you think you're going to hold out for me to do another Saturday, you might be holding out for a while. That's kind of the point I want to get across.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you think that Saturday is harder for people to ice out then Wednesday?

Jill K DeWit:
For some reason, I think.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because it would be for me. It is for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that kind of funny? I think people would rather skip work. I'm not kidding. And ditch work for five or so hours every Saturday or, excuse me, every Wednesday then they do on Saturdays.

Steven Jack Butala:
So let's be super clear, because we're throwing all these days of the week out. It's on Saturday.

Jill K DeWit:
It's on Saturday this time. So it starts April 23rd and it goes for 10 weeks on Saturday. So we had a number of people that asked for Saturday because of their commitments. So we said, okay, we'll do one as a test and we will continue this as a test. And I know the people that jumped on right now, because they jumped on the very first day. They're like, "We need this Saturday. Thank you for doing this. We've been waiting for it." So if that's you, this is it. This is a time. This is career path for Saturdays only, and we are happy to help you. Thank you very much. And how do you learn about this too, by the way? Just go to landacademy.com/careerpath.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Train Your Real Estate Agent to Post Property (LA 1743)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven, Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to train your real estate agent to post property. What?

Jill K DeWit:
You know, what's funny? Why do they change too? Have you ever had a, here's what happens to me? I go on the internet. I'm looking in areas to find good agents that are clearly selling property similar to mine. I can look at their postings. I can look at the closed transactions. I can see what they've done. I see good descriptions. I see good photos. I'm like, great. That's a person that I want. And they start off well. This is a normal how it goes. So I start off great, and then somewhere around deal number three, number four, when I stop looking at their postings, they get crappy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just like a marriage.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, why do you do that? I think ...

Steven Jack Butala:
Why do real estate agents consistently do a worse job over a better job? I don't get it, but there's very few exceptions.

Jill K DeWit:
I got to tell you, truth time here. Today's not the right day to be bringing up marriage stuff like that. It's really going to come back to bite you right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, a hint taken by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class call career path, usually between 10 and 20 people? If you're buying and selling land and it's your career, or you want it to be, career path might be for you. Call this number (833) 522-5545, or email us as always at support@landacademy to see if this level of involvement is for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. I want to talk about that for just a second, can we?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure, sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Because this is wait, this is Monday and it starts on Saturday. This is the first time we've ever done a Saturday session, and I'm already telling everyone, this is the last Saturday session. There were a lot of people that wanted it. I moved it from Wednesdays to Saturdays and I thought there were more people that were going to jump on the Saturday schedule. And I think there's some people that don't realize it's a Saturday schedule too. So if you have some time commitments, you need a Saturday and you think you're going to hold out for me to do another Saturday, you might be holding out for a while. That's kind of the point I want to get across.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you think that Saturday is harder for people to ice out then Wednesday?

Jill K DeWit:
For some reason, I think.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because it would be for me. It is for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that kind of funny? I think people would rather skip work. I'm not kidding. And ditch work for five or so hours every Saturday or, excuse me, every Wednesday then they do on Saturdays.

Steven Jack Butala:
So let's be super clear, because we're throwing all these days of the week out. It's on Saturday.

Jill K DeWit:
It's on Saturday this time. So it starts April 23rd and it goes for 10 weeks on Saturday. So we had a number of people that asked for Saturday because of their commitments. So we said, okay, we'll do one as a test and we will continue this as a test. And I know the people that jumped on right now, because they jumped on the very first day. They're like, "We need this Saturday. Thank you for doing this. We've been waiting for it." So if that's you, this is it. This is a time. This is career path for Saturdays only, and we are happy to help you. Thank you very much. And how do you learn about this too, by the way? Just go to landacademy.com/careerpath.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/18/how-to-train-your-real-estate-agent-to-post-property-la-1743/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">oSmWaaX15</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/301dad7d-d3af-48fa-a312-fe21853fef49.mp3" length="19775216" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Why AirTable is Imperative when Buying and Selling Land (LA 1742)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Why AirTable is Imperative when Buying and Selling Land (LA 1742)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Why AirTable is Imperative when Buying and Selling Land (LA 1742)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I, well, it's Jill Friday. Today she's going to talk about why Air Table is imperative when buying and selling land. Before you get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is almost all of the property that we buy. To solve this, we now access a live database by assessor's parcel number, APN, to find property instead of its actual address, like 123 Main Street. Like all of our products, we've developed it for our own use and then released it to the public on a website. In this case, we call it neighborscoop.com. It's incredibly easy to use, almost all of our members use it to find property very, very quickly. In fact, fast enough while you're on the phone with the seller to see if you want to buy it. Contact support@landacademy.com to see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
David wrote, can anyone give me any advice on setting up my website as it pertains to land acquisitions for a new land company with no land. I'm a beginning Land Academy member. Anyone know of a web developer with you have used that I could work with. I'm sure that that was all over Discord with a bunch of people sharing tips, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
It was slammed. By setting up a website, the real reason you want to set up a website very quickly is because, when you send a mailer out, you're going to have your website on there. The first thing that people are going to do, just check you out on the internet to see if you're for real. You want a great website all set up, maybe one or two pages at most. Nothing complicated that says, I'm Jack. This is my girl, Jill, here's our dog, here's a new car we just bought. We're real people, just like you. Call us. We'll buy your property.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Real, simple stuff and really inexpensive.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you for not bringing up the color palette. I thought since it's Jill Friday, you want to talk about the color palette.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about why Air Table's imperative when buying and selling land. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's the scoop. We are aggressively hiring right now because, yep, we're growing again. It just happens and not just Land Academy, but land business growing our numbers are... I just can't keep up. We're building it and, this is a little side note. If you are in the Scottsdale Arizona area and you want to work for us, send a note to support@landacademy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Seriously.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm not kidding. All right, got that out of the way. But the point is, we've been meeting with our team, our hiring team right now and talking about what we want and the right kind of people and who is successful working with us. One of the common themes is how much... We have realized a direct correlation to our successful staff members, if they are organized and they have a great system. So it's not just everything that we do every day, but also our land business.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me bring this down to what this show is right here. So much of my, and our success in just our day to day buying and selling in land, is in a direct relationship to how organized we are. The only way we could do that is having a system. We use Air Table, but there's Jura. There's all kinds of great things out there. But having that system, where six people can log in at the same time and only focus on what specific task is needed of them,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Why AirTable is Imperative when Buying and Selling Land (LA 1742)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I, well, it's Jill Friday. Today she's going to talk about why Air Table is imperative when buying and selling land. Before you get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is almost all of the property that we buy. To solve this, we now access a live database by assessor's parcel number, APN, to find property instead of its actual address, like 123 Main Street. Like all of our products, we've developed it for our own use and then released it to the public on a website. In this case, we call it neighborscoop.com. It's incredibly easy to use, almost all of our members use it to find property very, very quickly. In fact, fast enough while you're on the phone with the seller to see if you want to buy it. Contact support@landacademy.com to see if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
David wrote, can anyone give me any advice on setting up my website as it pertains to land acquisitions for a new land company with no land. I'm a beginning Land Academy member. Anyone know of a web developer with you have used that I could work with. I'm sure that that was all over Discord with a bunch of people sharing tips, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
It was slammed. By setting up a website, the real reason you want to set up a website very quickly is because, when you send a mailer out, you're going to have your website on there. The first thing that people are going to do, just check you out on the internet to see if you're for real. You want a great website all set up, maybe one or two pages at most. Nothing complicated that says, I'm Jack. This is my girl, Jill, here's our dog, here's a new car we just bought. We're real people, just like you. Call us. We'll buy your property.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Real, simple stuff and really inexpensive.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you for not bringing up the color palette. I thought since it's Jill Friday, you want to talk about the color palette.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about why Air Table's imperative when buying and selling land. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's the scoop. We are aggressively hiring right now because, yep, we're growing again. It just happens and not just Land Academy, but land business growing our numbers are... I just can't keep up. We're building it and, this is a little side note. If you are in the Scottsdale Arizona area and you want to work for us, send a note to support@landacademy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Seriously.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm not kidding. All right, got that out of the way. But the point is, we've been meeting with our team, our hiring team right now and talking about what we want and the right kind of people and who is successful working with us. One of the common themes is how much... We have realized a direct correlation to our successful staff members, if they are organized and they have a great system. So it's not just everything that we do every day, but also our land business.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me bring this down to what this show is right here. So much of my, and our success in just our day to day buying and selling in land, is in a direct relationship to how organized we are. The only way we could do that is having a system. We use Air Table, but there's Jura. There's all kinds of great things out there. But having that system, where six people can log in at the same time and only focus on what specific task is needed of them,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/15/jill-friday-why-airtable-is-imperative-when-buying-and-selling-land-la-1742-2/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wqlv0CpQu</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4c0304a7-425d-4a8b-accc-a2f010b72d20.mp3" length="12317799" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Beating the Odds at Getting Rich (LA 1741)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Beating the Odds at Getting Rich (LA 1741)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Beating the Odds at Getting Rich (LA 1741)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about beating the odds at getting rich. I found a very, very interesting summary of millionaires and billionaires and percentages and what really is going on out there in the world about getting wealthy in this country.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Drew wrote, "Hello all, and Steven Jack Butala, sorry in advance if I'm missing something, I'm rewatching Land Academy 3.0 and it seems like I'm having trouble determining what Jack says are the percentages of each. I'm not finding what the range is. So what's the range in categories and what's the percentage range for the red, yellow and green for days on market, new list of soul and parcels on the market? This is our red, yellow, green test. Does the Excel file that you made for this lesson auto-populate or do we have to mainly make the adjustments ourselves to determine what is accurate for red, yellow and green?

Steven Jack Butala:
Land Academy 3 this is a very good question, which is why I put it on Jack Thursday instead of Jill Friday.

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck? None of my stuff's intelligent. Thanks very much.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill comes at this from a different way, which is [crosstalk 00:01:40]

Jill K DeWit:
My questions tomorrow's going to be what color should I pick my website background? Thanks a lot.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I just come toward this edit from a different angle. What do we teach in the Land Academy 3.0 program is you need to find a place to send mail. It works everywhere, but why not make it easy on yourself and go through this process I call trolling to see where there's properties that fit your acquisition criteria and all that. And when you find some places that make sense, or you think it makes sense to send mail, test it. And that's what Drew's asking about, this red, green, yellow test that you're asking about, or that you're telling us to use, where on a red, green, yellow test I look at maybe five adjacent zip codes. Maybe let's say, just for example, in West Dallas, which is a hot market, and I pit them against each other and see who's got the best days on market.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's several statistics in there, how much property's been listed, how much property's been sold in the last month. So you're not shooting blind, you're doing this. So what Drew is asking is how do I know what is all green and I should send mail there? What's all yellow or what's red where I shouldn't send mail and which percentages work? And my answer is, and everybody answered in Discord the same way I'm about to answer, it's all relative. You can't take a look at Alaska, let's say, and a couple of zip codes outside of Anchorage and apply the same percentages for red, green, yellow that you can in West Dallas, it's apples to oranges. You can apply those types of apples to apples comparisons if they're all in the same market. And so he's asking me what are the percentages? What makes it green? If it's 30 days or less days on market, then I send a mail? No, it's not like that. It's all relative.

Steven Jack Butala:
What happens in Alaska is relative to Alaska and maybe specifically Anchorage. And what happens in Dallas is those five zip codes are going to tell you where to send mail in Dallas. Oh my God, Jack, can you make this more complicated? This is not a easy button.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Beating the Odds at Getting Rich (LA 1741)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about beating the odds at getting rich. I found a very, very interesting summary of millionaires and billionaires and percentages and what really is going on out there in the world about getting wealthy in this country.

Jill K DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Drew wrote, "Hello all, and Steven Jack Butala, sorry in advance if I'm missing something, I'm rewatching Land Academy 3.0 and it seems like I'm having trouble determining what Jack says are the percentages of each. I'm not finding what the range is. So what's the range in categories and what's the percentage range for the red, yellow and green for days on market, new list of soul and parcels on the market? This is our red, yellow, green test. Does the Excel file that you made for this lesson auto-populate or do we have to mainly make the adjustments ourselves to determine what is accurate for red, yellow and green?

Steven Jack Butala:
Land Academy 3 this is a very good question, which is why I put it on Jack Thursday instead of Jill Friday.

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck? None of my stuff's intelligent. Thanks very much.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill comes at this from a different way, which is [crosstalk 00:01:40]

Jill K DeWit:
My questions tomorrow's going to be what color should I pick my website background? Thanks a lot.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I just come toward this edit from a different angle. What do we teach in the Land Academy 3.0 program is you need to find a place to send mail. It works everywhere, but why not make it easy on yourself and go through this process I call trolling to see where there's properties that fit your acquisition criteria and all that. And when you find some places that make sense, or you think it makes sense to send mail, test it. And that's what Drew's asking about, this red, green, yellow test that you're asking about, or that you're telling us to use, where on a red, green, yellow test I look at maybe five adjacent zip codes. Maybe let's say, just for example, in West Dallas, which is a hot market, and I pit them against each other and see who's got the best days on market.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's several statistics in there, how much property's been listed, how much property's been sold in the last month. So you're not shooting blind, you're doing this. So what Drew is asking is how do I know what is all green and I should send mail there? What's all yellow or what's red where I shouldn't send mail and which percentages work? And my answer is, and everybody answered in Discord the same way I'm about to answer, it's all relative. You can't take a look at Alaska, let's say, and a couple of zip codes outside of Anchorage and apply the same percentages for red, green, yellow that you can in West Dallas, it's apples to oranges. You can apply those types of apples to apples comparisons if they're all in the same market. And so he's asking me what are the percentages? What makes it green? If it's 30 days or less days on market, then I send a mail? No, it's not like that. It's all relative.

Steven Jack Butala:
What happens in Alaska is relative to Alaska and maybe specifically Anchorage. And what happens in Dallas is those five zip codes are going to tell you where to send mail in Dallas. Oh my God, Jack, can you make this more complicated? This is not a easy button.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/14/jack-thursday-beating-the-odds-at-getting-rich-la-1741/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2FOaucBIB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b1607e42-21e4-49be-8129-499523388d35.mp3" length="14480745" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Discord Walk Through Wednesday (HA 1740)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Discord Walk Through Wednesday (HA 1740)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Land Academy Discord Walk Through Wednesday (HA 1740)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about... well, we're going to do a Land Academy Discord walkthrough. If you dig it, we're going to do it every Wednesday.
Jill K DeWit:Well, I want to explain what Discord is. We started Land Academy... I'll try to make this brief, not like once upon a time. There was Adam and there was Eve. I'm not going to go there. So once upon a time, we started Land Academy. And then from the first month we launched, our people said, our community said, "We need to talk. We want to communicate with you, with each other. How can we ask questions and just get stuff?" So we said, "Oh, okay. We're going to make this an online community." And we did. When I say we, I mean, Steven, so Jack. So Jack did. Bless his heart, and it's been phenomenal for years. It's landinvestors.com.
Jill K DeWit:Then we got the bright idea too. And we have a public facing view where anybody can join up and sign up and please do and use it. And then we have a hidden view, which is for members where there's more in depth than we talk about deals and really get personal and share stuff that we don't want the planet to see, APNs, phone numbers, numbers, all that stuff. So then we took it a step further. We wanted a little more robust, exciting, fast, quick, easy on our phone, on the fly 24/7 environment. And somebody in our staff, gamers obviously... This is a gaming community. It's called Discord. So we said, "Well, we could use Discord too. It's pretty darn cool." So we use Discord now in addition to our regular environment, but so much is happening on Discord. And it's closed that you can't see it.
Steven Jack Butala:It's exploded.
Jill K DeWit:And so we want to show you a little bit now what it is. So it's cool. Yeah, so if you haven't heard a Discord, don't worry. If you're not playing Call of Duty, you might not know Discord.
Steven Jack Butala:I mean, you should leave the gaming out of it. But if you're young and you know about Discord as a gaming... What this is it's a channel for people to talk about whatever they're into. And it was designed for gamers, but we're obviously into buying and selling land. And it turns out, it works great for that.
Jill K DeWit:We love it.
Steven Jack Butala:It's very quick. It's very online.
Jill K DeWit:There's not a learning curve by the way, just so you're like, "Oh, I can't figure that out."
Steven Jack Butala:I mean, it's designed to do this and you'll see this in a second. I join Land Academy. I'm going through Land Academy 3.0, which we just launched. And I got a question about chapter three, or about this exact one specific thing. And I need some advice from other members. I'm going to stop what I'm doing, go onto Discord, keyword search it, find out what's going on in all these strings as I'll show you in a second, and I get my answer. And I don't get it from anybody like a customer service person that Jill and I hired or us ourselves. Although, I do answer a ton of questions in there. I get it from somebody who's my peer, who's just went through it six months ago and had the same question and they answered it for themselves or found another member to answer it. So stick a question real quick, and then I'll dive right in. Jill's excited. I can tell because-
Jill K DeWit:I am.
Steven Jack Butala:Because she went off the teleprompter here.
Jill K DeWit:I know. So Luke wrote, "So what's the general consensus on discounting a property value based on easements for access instead of road frontage? So I have 44 acres of prime hunting land/ag land, but the only access is via two easements by the neighbors to the north and the Southeast.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Land Academy Discord Walk Through Wednesday (HA 1740)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about... well, we're going to do a Land Academy Discord walkthrough. If you dig it, we're going to do it every Wednesday.
Jill K DeWit:Well, I want to explain what Discord is. We started Land Academy... I'll try to make this brief, not like once upon a time. There was Adam and there was Eve. I'm not going to go there. So once upon a time, we started Land Academy. And then from the first month we launched, our people said, our community said, "We need to talk. We want to communicate with you, with each other. How can we ask questions and just get stuff?" So we said, "Oh, okay. We're going to make this an online community." And we did. When I say we, I mean, Steven, so Jack. So Jack did. Bless his heart, and it's been phenomenal for years. It's landinvestors.com.
Jill K DeWit:Then we got the bright idea too. And we have a public facing view where anybody can join up and sign up and please do and use it. And then we have a hidden view, which is for members where there's more in depth than we talk about deals and really get personal and share stuff that we don't want the planet to see, APNs, phone numbers, numbers, all that stuff. So then we took it a step further. We wanted a little more robust, exciting, fast, quick, easy on our phone, on the fly 24/7 environment. And somebody in our staff, gamers obviously... This is a gaming community. It's called Discord. So we said, "Well, we could use Discord too. It's pretty darn cool." So we use Discord now in addition to our regular environment, but so much is happening on Discord. And it's closed that you can't see it.
Steven Jack Butala:It's exploded.
Jill K DeWit:And so we want to show you a little bit now what it is. So it's cool. Yeah, so if you haven't heard a Discord, don't worry. If you're not playing Call of Duty, you might not know Discord.
Steven Jack Butala:I mean, you should leave the gaming out of it. But if you're young and you know about Discord as a gaming... What this is it's a channel for people to talk about whatever they're into. And it was designed for gamers, but we're obviously into buying and selling land. And it turns out, it works great for that.
Jill K DeWit:We love it.
Steven Jack Butala:It's very quick. It's very online.
Jill K DeWit:There's not a learning curve by the way, just so you're like, "Oh, I can't figure that out."
Steven Jack Butala:I mean, it's designed to do this and you'll see this in a second. I join Land Academy. I'm going through Land Academy 3.0, which we just launched. And I got a question about chapter three, or about this exact one specific thing. And I need some advice from other members. I'm going to stop what I'm doing, go onto Discord, keyword search it, find out what's going on in all these strings as I'll show you in a second, and I get my answer. And I don't get it from anybody like a customer service person that Jill and I hired or us ourselves. Although, I do answer a ton of questions in there. I get it from somebody who's my peer, who's just went through it six months ago and had the same question and they answered it for themselves or found another member to answer it. So stick a question real quick, and then I'll dive right in. Jill's excited. I can tell because-
Jill K DeWit:I am.
Steven Jack Butala:Because she went off the teleprompter here.
Jill K DeWit:I know. So Luke wrote, "So what's the general consensus on discounting a property value based on easements for access instead of road frontage? So I have 44 acres of prime hunting land/ag land, but the only access is via two easements by the neighbors to the north and the Southeast.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/13/land-academy-discord-walk-through-wednesday-ha-1740/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">be74708eQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5fe5972a-8676-4825-9abd-c2589262bfaa.mp3" length="16967659" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why It Makes Sense to Make Your Hobby a Business (LA 1739)</title><itunes:title>Why It Makes Sense to Make Your Hobby a Business (LA 1739)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why It Makes Sense to Make Your Hobby a Business (LA 1739)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the valley of this sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I talk about why it makes sense to make your hobby a business sometimes.

Jill K DeWit:
My latest hobby collecting cars, what's yours? Kind of the same.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, here's what I'm going to talk about. If your hobby is price is no object, I want to collect statues and I will pay top dollar then making your hobby a business is a super bad idea. If your hobby is to try to get stuff cheap, it's obviously our hobby like land. Then maybe you can make a business out of it, which we're in the process of doing and I'll describe it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And also people don't know this. We have a full, Jill and I own and op rate a full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners. Over the years, jill and I internally developed a system to send blind offers to owners, tens of thousands in the mail sometimes through direct mail. And we found out the through, after we started Land Academy that our members wanted this product. So we launched it. Probably several years ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we mail between 700 and 800,000 offers a month on our members' behalf and I would just want you to know about it. Contact support at offers2owners.com there and just check it all out. It's pretty straightforward and simple.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks. Mark wrote, "Just read this great article. I had a question. When I'm buying a land property, I will buy with tile insurance. Then when I'm selling with a title company, I'm also purchasing tile insurance for the buyer, like $5,000 plus the purchase price. Will you ..." I can't read the whole question here.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So I didn't know, this Aaron, his name is used a lot. I didn't know if you liked all his questions or if it was a typo. So that's why I didn't say Aaron. Sorry. I made it. But if it really is Aaron, I believe you. So this article is-

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me explain this, how this works. When you go to buy a piece of-

Jill K DeWit:
I know what he's saying. Oh, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me super, super clarify this, because this is a popular question especially with my people. When you go to buy-

Jill K DeWit:
Am I doing double work?

Steven Jack Butala:
When you go to buy a piece of property, whether it's your house or a piece of land, you go through the escrow process. And when you look at the closing statement, one of you, the buyer or the seller is going to pay for stuff. Or sometimes it gets combined. When you buy a piece of property, the person before you, the seller pays for your title insurance policy. When you go to sell it, because now you are the seller, you pay for the title insurance policy for the next person. Don't ask me why. This is just how it is. And it's a very small amount of money on vacant land, usually two or $300, but it varies around the country. So it looks like you're paying for it twice. What you're really doing is paying for the next guy when you sell it.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? Sometimes I have to, no offense, I have to interject here. Because sometimes we have to pay closing costs and we pay the title insurance.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's correct.

Jill K DeWit:
That's where he's going with that. Like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you guys advocating this, which is, I think of the question, when I buy it, I told the guy, "Here's a deal net to you is ..."

Steven Jack Butala:
10,000.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. And I'll pay all the costs. And so I make sure that guy,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why It Makes Sense to Make Your Hobby a Business (LA 1739)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the valley of this sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I talk about why it makes sense to make your hobby a business sometimes.

Jill K DeWit:
My latest hobby collecting cars, what's yours? Kind of the same.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, here's what I'm going to talk about. If your hobby is price is no object, I want to collect statues and I will pay top dollar then making your hobby a business is a super bad idea. If your hobby is to try to get stuff cheap, it's obviously our hobby like land. Then maybe you can make a business out of it, which we're in the process of doing and I'll describe it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And also people don't know this. We have a full, Jill and I own and op rate a full blown commercial printing company called Offers 2 Owners. Over the years, jill and I internally developed a system to send blind offers to owners, tens of thousands in the mail sometimes through direct mail. And we found out the through, after we started Land Academy that our members wanted this product. So we launched it. Probably several years ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we mail between 700 and 800,000 offers a month on our members' behalf and I would just want you to know about it. Contact support at offers2owners.com there and just check it all out. It's pretty straightforward and simple.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks. Mark wrote, "Just read this great article. I had a question. When I'm buying a land property, I will buy with tile insurance. Then when I'm selling with a title company, I'm also purchasing tile insurance for the buyer, like $5,000 plus the purchase price. Will you ..." I can't read the whole question here.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So I didn't know, this Aaron, his name is used a lot. I didn't know if you liked all his questions or if it was a typo. So that's why I didn't say Aaron. Sorry. I made it. But if it really is Aaron, I believe you. So this article is-

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me explain this, how this works. When you go to buy a piece of-

Jill K DeWit:
I know what he's saying. Oh, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me super, super clarify this, because this is a popular question especially with my people. When you go to buy-

Jill K DeWit:
Am I doing double work?

Steven Jack Butala:
When you go to buy a piece of property, whether it's your house or a piece of land, you go through the escrow process. And when you look at the closing statement, one of you, the buyer or the seller is going to pay for stuff. Or sometimes it gets combined. When you buy a piece of property, the person before you, the seller pays for your title insurance policy. When you go to sell it, because now you are the seller, you pay for the title insurance policy for the next person. Don't ask me why. This is just how it is. And it's a very small amount of money on vacant land, usually two or $300, but it varies around the country. So it looks like you're paying for it twice. What you're really doing is paying for the next guy when you sell it.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what? Sometimes I have to, no offense, I have to interject here. Because sometimes we have to pay closing costs and we pay the title insurance.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's correct.

Jill K DeWit:
That's where he's going with that. Like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you guys advocating this, which is, I think of the question, when I buy it, I told the guy, "Here's a deal net to you is ..."

Steven Jack Butala:
10,000.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. And I'll pay all the costs. And so I make sure that guy,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/12/why-it-makes-sense-to-make-your-hobby-a-business-la-1739/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_Xm-NiA7F</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7cd4aeea-1ac1-40a4-868f-c4486bc4aedc.mp3" length="15108061" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Real Estate Becomes Distressed (LA 1738)</title><itunes:title>How Real Estate Becomes Distressed (LA 1738)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Real Estate Becomes Distressed (LA 1738)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how real estate becomes distressed.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, I'm a little stressed.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're distressed?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry. Is it distressed? I heard stressed. I am a little stressed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who knows where sayings come from. This word distressed is really, it's a popular thing. It's been popular for a while. To throw real estate into this category of everything's great over here, oh no, this is distressed. We'll talk about that in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Thank you. You're going to clear it all up for us?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes. Yes, I am.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
As complicated topics go, this is a zero.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the least-

Jill K DeWit:
I don't need to take notes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope. This is the most simple thing you'll ever hear.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
In fact, it's one of the reasons that we buy and sell land instead of apartment buildings. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path? If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be your career, this might be for you. Call us or email us at support@landacademy and see what your real level of involvement is in all this, and we'll help you.

Jill K DeWit:
I want to add too, because by the time this airs, I may still have a few seats. I'm looking at the calendar right now. The class starts April 23rd. So this is Q2 2022. This is Career Path session four, and it's amazing. I just sent out an email earlier to a closed group because I realized that they were not real sure about Career Path, what it really was. So it's not just for someone new and just doing land, by the way. We talk about everything. There's guys in there that have REITs and manage REITs. There's guys in there that own mobile home parks and storage facilities.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or subdividers.

Jill K DeWit:
Right, or just doing large commercial deals or, hey, even own house flipping franchises. So this is a professional room, where you have the opportunity to get to know those people. If that's you, this is for you. If that's not you and you want that to be you, this is for you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. There's always four or five or eight people. We only do this once a quarter for a handful of people, like I said. It's usually between 15 and 20 people, and about five or eight of them are brand new or they've only done a couple of deals. So, we separate-

Jill K DeWit:
But they come from other professional experience or they wouldn't be in. So, no offense. It's a screened environment too. We make sure that you're a good fit.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I mean, it's for people who want this to be their career and you're sure of that.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. Jessica wrote, "What kind of value do existing mobile homes," excuse me, "do existing utilities to a mobile home add"-

Steven Jack Butala:
No, you can say ... She says crappy, it's appropriate.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Let me back up. "What kind of value do existing utilities to a crappy mobile home add to a parcel? Is there a number value you assign to it versus a parcel that has never been built on or does it simply make it easier to sell?" Do you want to add.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very, very popular question on Discord, tons of responses. And by the way, tomorrow I'm going to screen share live.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Real Estate Becomes Distressed (LA 1738)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how real estate becomes distressed.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, I'm a little stressed.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're distressed?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry. Is it distressed? I heard stressed. I am a little stressed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Who knows where sayings come from. This word distressed is really, it's a popular thing. It's been popular for a while. To throw real estate into this category of everything's great over here, oh no, this is distressed. We'll talk about that in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Thank you. You're going to clear it all up for us?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes. Yes, I am.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
As complicated topics go, this is a zero.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the least-

Jill K DeWit:
I don't need to take notes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Nope. This is the most simple thing you'll ever hear.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
In fact, it's one of the reasons that we buy and sell land instead of apartment buildings. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path? If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be your career, this might be for you. Call us or email us at support@landacademy and see what your real level of involvement is in all this, and we'll help you.

Jill K DeWit:
I want to add too, because by the time this airs, I may still have a few seats. I'm looking at the calendar right now. The class starts April 23rd. So this is Q2 2022. This is Career Path session four, and it's amazing. I just sent out an email earlier to a closed group because I realized that they were not real sure about Career Path, what it really was. So it's not just for someone new and just doing land, by the way. We talk about everything. There's guys in there that have REITs and manage REITs. There's guys in there that own mobile home parks and storage facilities.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or subdividers.

Jill K DeWit:
Right, or just doing large commercial deals or, hey, even own house flipping franchises. So this is a professional room, where you have the opportunity to get to know those people. If that's you, this is for you. If that's not you and you want that to be you, this is for you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. There's always four or five or eight people. We only do this once a quarter for a handful of people, like I said. It's usually between 15 and 20 people, and about five or eight of them are brand new or they've only done a couple of deals. So, we separate-

Jill K DeWit:
But they come from other professional experience or they wouldn't be in. So, no offense. It's a screened environment too. We make sure that you're a good fit.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I mean, it's for people who want this to be their career and you're sure of that.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. Jessica wrote, "What kind of value do existing mobile homes," excuse me, "do existing utilities to a mobile home add"-

Steven Jack Butala:
No, you can say ... She says crappy, it's appropriate.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Let me back up. "What kind of value do existing utilities to a crappy mobile home add to a parcel? Is there a number value you assign to it versus a parcel that has never been built on or does it simply make it easier to sell?" Do you want to add.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very, very popular question on Discord, tons of responses. And by the way, tomorrow I'm going to screen share live.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/11/how-real-estate-becomes-distressed-la-1738/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zR9OJfpf7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0b4b44f9-2576-4a22-b18c-47e23a2939d1.mp3" length="12246804" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How Much Land Research is Appropriate  (LA 1737)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How Much Land Research is Appropriate  (LA 1737)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How Much Land Research is Appropriate (LA 1737)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:

Steve and Jill here.

Steven Jack Butala:

Hello.

Jill K DeWit:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Steven Jack Butala:

And I'm Jill Dewitt. Happy Friday. Broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Jill K DeWit:

Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how much land research is appropriate.

Steven Jack Butala:

This came up because of a phone call, a phone call I had the other day with a really nice gentleman, who was doing a lot of research in what I think is not the right areas, and not enough research in the areas he should be thinking about and wanting to get into land investing, like what we're doing. That's what I want to cover today.

Jill K DeWit:

Are you going to tell us about his story?

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay. Before we get into it-

Steven Jack Butala:

Nope. That's it.

Jill K DeWit:

That's the end of the show. I talked to a guy and he was.[crosstalk 00:00:45]

Steven Jack Butala:

I had a great call, it was awesome. It was great.

Jill K DeWit:

Talked to a guy and he was working on the wrong stuff.

Steven Jack Butala:

I got so much out of it. And so, anyway, that's all I wanted share. No.

Jill K DeWit:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is almost all the properties that we deal with. To solve this, we can now access a product that I developed, access all properties by assessor's parcel number, even if they don't have a mailing address. Like all of our products, we developed it for our own use and then released it to the public on a website when we cleaned it all up. In this case, we call it neighborscoop.com. If you want to find out more about this, go to neighborscoop.com or email us at support@landacademy.com.

Steven Jack Butala:

Greg wrote, "I have a deal which would possibly include four parcels and three different neighbors who all want to sell." This is hilarious. Apparently it's a very tight community. "Does anyone know if I'd be able to include all of them on one purchase agreement and close as one, or whether it'd be better off with separate purchase agreements for each owner? Also, one owner was wondering if he may be able to have the other neighbors' quitclaim deed their properties over to him, so I can directly purchase all four properties from him under one transaction. I'm not sure if that would be complicated or drag things out even longer, though." I wouldn't do that. I'd have four different things and going on.

Jill K DeWit:

You're breaking the chain of title, so let's take a couple steps back. This is a huge opportunity.

Steven Jack Butala:

Good question.

Jill K DeWit:

This is a great opportunity to buy four properties. Four properties are better than one. As long as you're very confident that all of these properties are super profitable and that they can support the costs to close these properties correctly.

Steven Jack Butala:

Are you saying that because all four of them want to sell, that sends up a red flag?

Jill K DeWit:

Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:

Thank you, because I was just now thinking about that too. Good observation. What's going on in that area that they all want out?

Jill K DeWit:

Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:

That's a little weird.

Jill K DeWit:

But you know, hey, it's happened to us where it's like, wow, these four, we got them for a great price. Again, listen to the show last Wednesday with Brandon where he's, buy for 8,000, sell for 120 times two. Two properties next to each other. Let's just assume that's, that's one of these deals. I would separately close.

Steven Jack Butala:

I'd get title policy through four separate transactions.

Jill K DeWit:

I would do for four purchase agreements,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How Much Land Research is Appropriate (LA 1737)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:

Steve and Jill here.

Steven Jack Butala:

Hello.

Jill K DeWit:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Steven Jack Butala:

And I'm Jill Dewitt. Happy Friday. Broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Jill K DeWit:

Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how much land research is appropriate.

Steven Jack Butala:

This came up because of a phone call, a phone call I had the other day with a really nice gentleman, who was doing a lot of research in what I think is not the right areas, and not enough research in the areas he should be thinking about and wanting to get into land investing, like what we're doing. That's what I want to cover today.

Jill K DeWit:

Are you going to tell us about his story?

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay. Before we get into it-

Steven Jack Butala:

Nope. That's it.

Jill K DeWit:

That's the end of the show. I talked to a guy and he was.[crosstalk 00:00:45]

Steven Jack Butala:

I had a great call, it was awesome. It was great.

Jill K DeWit:

Talked to a guy and he was working on the wrong stuff.

Steven Jack Butala:

I got so much out of it. And so, anyway, that's all I wanted share. No.

Jill K DeWit:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address, which is almost all the properties that we deal with. To solve this, we can now access a product that I developed, access all properties by assessor's parcel number, even if they don't have a mailing address. Like all of our products, we developed it for our own use and then released it to the public on a website when we cleaned it all up. In this case, we call it neighborscoop.com. If you want to find out more about this, go to neighborscoop.com or email us at support@landacademy.com.

Steven Jack Butala:

Greg wrote, "I have a deal which would possibly include four parcels and three different neighbors who all want to sell." This is hilarious. Apparently it's a very tight community. "Does anyone know if I'd be able to include all of them on one purchase agreement and close as one, or whether it'd be better off with separate purchase agreements for each owner? Also, one owner was wondering if he may be able to have the other neighbors' quitclaim deed their properties over to him, so I can directly purchase all four properties from him under one transaction. I'm not sure if that would be complicated or drag things out even longer, though." I wouldn't do that. I'd have four different things and going on.

Jill K DeWit:

You're breaking the chain of title, so let's take a couple steps back. This is a huge opportunity.

Steven Jack Butala:

Good question.

Jill K DeWit:

This is a great opportunity to buy four properties. Four properties are better than one. As long as you're very confident that all of these properties are super profitable and that they can support the costs to close these properties correctly.

Steven Jack Butala:

Are you saying that because all four of them want to sell, that sends up a red flag?

Jill K DeWit:

Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:

Thank you, because I was just now thinking about that too. Good observation. What's going on in that area that they all want out?

Jill K DeWit:

Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:

That's a little weird.

Jill K DeWit:

But you know, hey, it's happened to us where it's like, wow, these four, we got them for a great price. Again, listen to the show last Wednesday with Brandon where he's, buy for 8,000, sell for 120 times two. Two properties next to each other. Let's just assume that's, that's one of these deals. I would separately close.

Steven Jack Butala:

I'd get title policy through four separate transactions.

Jill K DeWit:

I would do for four purchase agreements,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/08/jill-friday-how-much-land-research-is-appropriate-la-1737/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kRNYa2ckg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ad967ca9-a657-4b11-ab51-2bf28ef66489.mp3" length="14624762" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211;  Land Investing Rules to Live By (LA 1736)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211;  Land Investing Rules to Live By (LA 1736)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Investing Rules to Live By (LA 1736)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about land investing rules to live by. It's the same rules that I live by to get deals done, and have been for many, many, many years. Jill, not so much. Jill's got her own rules. She kind of just wakes up each day and see what's-

Jill K DeWit:

Well, what's that word? R. What starts with an R? What was that word?

Steven Jack Butala:

Rules.

Jill K DeWit:

Oh, I'm not familiar with that word. Please explain.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill has to have feelings, and I have to have discipline.

Jill K DeWit:

Rules were meant to be talked about after I figure out how I want things to go.

Steven Jack Butala:

All kidding aside, people come to us every once in a while and say, "How the hell can you work with your spouse?"

Jill K DeWit:

Yeah. I ask myself that all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:

And to which I say, Jill and I have the same goal. Way out there, we have a goal together. It's the same goal. And how I get there is completely different than how she chooses to get there on a minute by minute, moment by moment, day by day basis. And that's what this show is like. I have rules and I have a way to get stuff done, and she has whole different way of how she works. She's works later in the evening, I work in the morning, and that's just the beginning. There's some very, very different stuff. And we just, most of the time, not all the time, stay out of each other's way.

Jill K DeWit:

Let me tell you how Jack sees me.

Steven Jack Butala:

Right now is not going to be one of those times that we stay out of each other's way. Watch.

Jill K DeWit:

This is how Jack sees me. For those of you who are over 40 ish. You know exactly what I'm talking about. There's a cartoon called Family Circle, and they would draw these pictures and this cartoon in the paper, and you'd see how the kid got from point A to point B, and he would be over the rock, and under this, and picking up that, and swinging on this, and taking apart that, and then eventually would get there. That's how Jack sees me.

Steven Jack Butala:

That's true.

Jill K DeWit:

I know.

Steven Jack Butala:

It's true. And I'll tell you what, we have goals every month for all this, and she hits or exceeds her goals every single month. And very often does it in the last two days of the month.

Jill K DeWit:

That's the way I like it.

Steven Jack Butala:

I know.

Jill K DeWit:

I like to make you sweat.

Steven Jack Butala:

It gives me a heart attack every single month.

Jill K DeWit:

Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:

Mike wrote, "Anyone with mobile home experience? I have a property where the seller is living on site and wants to make me an offer. That includes her 22 year old mobile home. She wants to move to a smaller lot and a newer mobile home. So do you increase your offer for a mobile home this old? It's being lived in, so I know there's value to the water, septic, and electricity." I love these. These are my favorite kind of deals that come along.

Steven Jack Butala:

I love these deals. Love them. You know what this is? Bucket two property. So you sent out a bunch of mail. We talked about this two days ago on the show.

Jill K DeWit:

Basket three for Team Jill.

Steven Jack Butala:

You know what, just set out to confuse people.

Jill K DeWit:

I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:

This is a big,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Investing Rules to Live By (LA 1736)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about land investing rules to live by. It's the same rules that I live by to get deals done, and have been for many, many, many years. Jill, not so much. Jill's got her own rules. She kind of just wakes up each day and see what's-

Jill K DeWit:

Well, what's that word? R. What starts with an R? What was that word?

Steven Jack Butala:

Rules.

Jill K DeWit:

Oh, I'm not familiar with that word. Please explain.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill has to have feelings, and I have to have discipline.

Jill K DeWit:

Rules were meant to be talked about after I figure out how I want things to go.

Steven Jack Butala:

All kidding aside, people come to us every once in a while and say, "How the hell can you work with your spouse?"

Jill K DeWit:

Yeah. I ask myself that all the time.

Steven Jack Butala:

And to which I say, Jill and I have the same goal. Way out there, we have a goal together. It's the same goal. And how I get there is completely different than how she chooses to get there on a minute by minute, moment by moment, day by day basis. And that's what this show is like. I have rules and I have a way to get stuff done, and she has whole different way of how she works. She's works later in the evening, I work in the morning, and that's just the beginning. There's some very, very different stuff. And we just, most of the time, not all the time, stay out of each other's way.

Jill K DeWit:

Let me tell you how Jack sees me.

Steven Jack Butala:

Right now is not going to be one of those times that we stay out of each other's way. Watch.

Jill K DeWit:

This is how Jack sees me. For those of you who are over 40 ish. You know exactly what I'm talking about. There's a cartoon called Family Circle, and they would draw these pictures and this cartoon in the paper, and you'd see how the kid got from point A to point B, and he would be over the rock, and under this, and picking up that, and swinging on this, and taking apart that, and then eventually would get there. That's how Jack sees me.

Steven Jack Butala:

That's true.

Jill K DeWit:

I know.

Steven Jack Butala:

It's true. And I'll tell you what, we have goals every month for all this, and she hits or exceeds her goals every single month. And very often does it in the last two days of the month.

Jill K DeWit:

That's the way I like it.

Steven Jack Butala:

I know.

Jill K DeWit:

I like to make you sweat.

Steven Jack Butala:

It gives me a heart attack every single month.

Jill K DeWit:

Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:

Mike wrote, "Anyone with mobile home experience? I have a property where the seller is living on site and wants to make me an offer. That includes her 22 year old mobile home. She wants to move to a smaller lot and a newer mobile home. So do you increase your offer for a mobile home this old? It's being lived in, so I know there's value to the water, septic, and electricity." I love these. These are my favorite kind of deals that come along.

Steven Jack Butala:

I love these deals. Love them. You know what this is? Bucket two property. So you sent out a bunch of mail. We talked about this two days ago on the show.

Jill K DeWit:

Basket three for Team Jill.

Steven Jack Butala:

You know what, just set out to confuse people.

Jill K DeWit:

I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:

This is a big,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/07/jack-thursday-land-investing-rules-to-live-by-la-1736/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3mLBMLLvV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6152f94d-f453-42f7-9b2d-926860f0e9c1.mp3" length="14899865" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Brandon Koon Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1735)</title><itunes:title>Brandon Koon Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1735)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Brandon Koon Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1735)
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And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/06/brandon-koon-land-academy-member-interview-la-1735/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nU9e0OXHP</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1e5dfbf2-1e9e-4e27-aa7b-d11ae880b04c.mp3" length="29059952" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>29:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Types of Land Investment Deal Buckets (LA 1734)</title><itunes:title>3 Types of Land Investment Deal Buckets (LA 1734)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[3 Types of Land Investment Deal Buckets (LA 1734)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today Jill and I talk about the three types of land investment deal buckets that we kind of live by.

Jill K DeWit:

Yep. I think it's interesting that ... These change by the way. You're one, two, and three different kind of buckets that you're working with, and properties, and prices. It's going to change and evolve.

If you know us, you've learned that over the years if, and heaven forbid you've been watching us and following us for the seven years we've been doing this. But we-

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah that's [crosstalk 00:00:38]

Jill K DeWit:

- are getting really good at eating our words. We at one time were going to do a whole separate podcast on poor broker agent bashing, and now we love them. So when you hear us talk about these buckets, know there's an ebb and a flow, and things change. And there's no wrong way.

Steven Jack Butala:

I named them buckets for a reason, and we'll get into it in detail here in a minute. The buckets themselves, the holder, never change. The stuff that goes inside changes.

Jill K DeWit:

I thought becoming a parent and eating my words there was enough. But oh no, there's age and experience eating of words that goes on. I'm sure that when we're 80 I'm going to go, "Oh we are so wrong," and we're going to be eating our words again.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah. It's not the opposite actually, it's like the older we get the more I don't think I'm smart. I get like not-

Jill K DeWit:

You get stupid again?

Steven Jack Butala:

- I get less intelligent and less knowledgeable about ... I think most people get older and they get real set in their ways, and say "this is it." For some reason, I'm going the other way.

Jill K DeWit:

That's true. That's very true.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our Land Investor members on our online community. It's free. Did you know that we have a full blown, operational commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago to specifically mail out our blind offer campaigns. We started sharing it with our members -

Jill K DeWit:

And the public.

Steven Jack Butala:

- and some non-members, yeah, a couple years ago. Today we mail out between 700,000 and 800,000 offers a month on their behalf. Give them a call, 800-725-8816, or support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:

It's offers, and the number two, and then owners.com.

Erin wrote, "How do you know if a property's an infill lot?"

Steven Jack Butala:

Here's how. It's actually quite simple. It's a very good, simple question. An infill lot has properties ... You know what an infill lot is going to be used for. How do you know that? Because the stuff that's around it or adjacent to it, hopefully adjacent to it, is developed that way. And it's almost always houses.

It might be, in some cases, a strip mall. But it's an infill lot, and not a piece of real vacant land. Or we don't know exactly how it's going to be developed because it's really far out from any type of urban center. If it's within an urban center or close to it, and there's houses all around it, you know it's going to be used to build another house. That's an infill lot, it's being infilled.

Jill K DeWit:

Like it's in a subdivision.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah, it's a great example. 98 percent of them are in subdivisions. An incomplete subdivision and there's a lot that needs to have a house on it just like next door.

Jill K DeWit:

Mm-hmm (affirmative), thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:

Real easy to value. Real easy to sell. You sell it to the person who ... The developers who built all the other houses aro...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[3 Types of Land Investment Deal Buckets (LA 1734)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today Jill and I talk about the three types of land investment deal buckets that we kind of live by.

Jill K DeWit:

Yep. I think it's interesting that ... These change by the way. You're one, two, and three different kind of buckets that you're working with, and properties, and prices. It's going to change and evolve.

If you know us, you've learned that over the years if, and heaven forbid you've been watching us and following us for the seven years we've been doing this. But we-

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah that's [crosstalk 00:00:38]

Jill K DeWit:

- are getting really good at eating our words. We at one time were going to do a whole separate podcast on poor broker agent bashing, and now we love them. So when you hear us talk about these buckets, know there's an ebb and a flow, and things change. And there's no wrong way.

Steven Jack Butala:

I named them buckets for a reason, and we'll get into it in detail here in a minute. The buckets themselves, the holder, never change. The stuff that goes inside changes.

Jill K DeWit:

I thought becoming a parent and eating my words there was enough. But oh no, there's age and experience eating of words that goes on. I'm sure that when we're 80 I'm going to go, "Oh we are so wrong," and we're going to be eating our words again.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah. It's not the opposite actually, it's like the older we get the more I don't think I'm smart. I get like not-

Jill K DeWit:

You get stupid again?

Steven Jack Butala:

- I get less intelligent and less knowledgeable about ... I think most people get older and they get real set in their ways, and say "this is it." For some reason, I'm going the other way.

Jill K DeWit:

That's true. That's very true.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our Land Investor members on our online community. It's free. Did you know that we have a full blown, operational commercial printing company called offers2owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago to specifically mail out our blind offer campaigns. We started sharing it with our members -

Jill K DeWit:

And the public.

Steven Jack Butala:

- and some non-members, yeah, a couple years ago. Today we mail out between 700,000 and 800,000 offers a month on their behalf. Give them a call, 800-725-8816, or support@offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:

It's offers, and the number two, and then owners.com.

Erin wrote, "How do you know if a property's an infill lot?"

Steven Jack Butala:

Here's how. It's actually quite simple. It's a very good, simple question. An infill lot has properties ... You know what an infill lot is going to be used for. How do you know that? Because the stuff that's around it or adjacent to it, hopefully adjacent to it, is developed that way. And it's almost always houses.

It might be, in some cases, a strip mall. But it's an infill lot, and not a piece of real vacant land. Or we don't know exactly how it's going to be developed because it's really far out from any type of urban center. If it's within an urban center or close to it, and there's houses all around it, you know it's going to be used to build another house. That's an infill lot, it's being infilled.

Jill K DeWit:

Like it's in a subdivision.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah, it's a great example. 98 percent of them are in subdivisions. An incomplete subdivision and there's a lot that needs to have a house on it just like next door.

Jill K DeWit:

Mm-hmm (affirmative), thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:

Real easy to value. Real easy to sell. You sell it to the person who ... The developers who built all the other houses aro...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/05/3-types-of-land-investment-deal-buckets-la-1734/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BJ95sXf_j</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2022 22:41:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d600c7ac-bd1c-455b-aa37-f91ad7a7b8f7.mp3" length="18267125" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Six Steps to Getting Your First Land Deal Complete (LA 1733)</title><itunes:title>Six Steps to Getting Your First Land Deal Complete (LA 1733)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Six Steps to Getting Your First Land Deal Complete (LA 1733)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steven Jack Butala here.

Jill K DeWit:

And Jill DeWit here.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. Oh, I already said it. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

That's okay. And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today, Jill and I are talk about the six steps to getting your first land deal complete. Super popular question. We just got done, Jill and I, wrapping up the most recent Career Path, I guess it was Career Path number three.

Jill K DeWit:

Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:

And we always follow this format throughout Career Path and we leave no detail out. So I figured we'd just do a short summary here about how to get a deal done.

Jill K DeWit:

That's great. Can I pause for a second and just let everybody know, since you mentioned Career Path, that Career Path number four is open. And by the time this airs, I believe I'm still going to have some seats. So if you are interested, go check out landacademy/careerpath, and you'll find out all the details there about what it is, what we're talking about. It's basically, Land Academy is like a self-study program. This is the opposite of that. If you want to really talk to us and dive in and have discussions and ask questions throughout the whole process and then find out what we're working on right now today, that's Career Path.

Steven Jack Butala:

Well, if you want this to be your career, then Career Path, buying, selling land is your career, then you should consider Career Path. Whether you're brand new or you've done 180 deals.

Jill K DeWit:

And you retired from something else.

Steven Jack Butala:

Sure.

Jill K DeWit:

Or done, you know, there's everything in there. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community is free. And did you know that Jill and I personally.

Jill K DeWit:

We just answered that.

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh, you're fast.

Jill K DeWit:

You can skip that part. Hey, by the way, I want to apologize real quick here. Before I read this question, I may not sound like myself.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill's been working. This month, for some reason, we have bought and sold a ton of property. And Jill's been on the phone-

Jill K DeWit:

For some reason.

Steven Jack Butala:

Selling.

Jill K DeWit:

How about, I'm doing a good job. What do you mean for whatever reason?

Steven Jack Butala:

Well, because Land Academy works. And we sent a lot of mail out and we're buying and selling property. That's what I mean.

Jill K DeWit:

For some reason, that's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:

Michael asks.

Jill K DeWit:

All right. Michael wrote, do you send mail to properties in a flood plain or do you exclude flood plain properties in DataTree?

Steven Jack Butala:

Great question. You cannot exclude properties that are in a flood plain in DataTree or any other assessor data set. Here's the deal. Here's a real big picture question here. The issue is assessors collect data about properties that's important to them so that they can report that data to a treasurer who assigns a property tax amount. And for whatever reason, for better or for worse, properties that are in flood plains, don't matter to them. And so we can't capture a data set. In the future, we might capture a data set on that, but you can't exclude or include that for some reason. You know, some of the things that are really important to assessors are, is there a structure on it? Is it improved? Is it a vacant piece of property or does it have a house on it or does it have an office building on it or a hospital? So those are the way that they assess taxes.

Jill K DeWit:

I have-

Steven Jack Butala:

You don't have to raise your hand. I don't know when, that's just hilarious.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Six Steps to Getting Your First Land Deal Complete (LA 1733)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steven Jack Butala here.

Jill K DeWit:

And Jill DeWit here.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. Oh, I already said it. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

That's okay. And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today, Jill and I are talk about the six steps to getting your first land deal complete. Super popular question. We just got done, Jill and I, wrapping up the most recent Career Path, I guess it was Career Path number three.

Jill K DeWit:

Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:

And we always follow this format throughout Career Path and we leave no detail out. So I figured we'd just do a short summary here about how to get a deal done.

Jill K DeWit:

That's great. Can I pause for a second and just let everybody know, since you mentioned Career Path, that Career Path number four is open. And by the time this airs, I believe I'm still going to have some seats. So if you are interested, go check out landacademy/careerpath, and you'll find out all the details there about what it is, what we're talking about. It's basically, Land Academy is like a self-study program. This is the opposite of that. If you want to really talk to us and dive in and have discussions and ask questions throughout the whole process and then find out what we're working on right now today, that's Career Path.

Steven Jack Butala:

Well, if you want this to be your career, then Career Path, buying, selling land is your career, then you should consider Career Path. Whether you're brand new or you've done 180 deals.

Jill K DeWit:

And you retired from something else.

Steven Jack Butala:

Sure.

Jill K DeWit:

Or done, you know, there's everything in there. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community is free. And did you know that Jill and I personally.

Jill K DeWit:

We just answered that.

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh, you're fast.

Jill K DeWit:

You can skip that part. Hey, by the way, I want to apologize real quick here. Before I read this question, I may not sound like myself.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill's been working. This month, for some reason, we have bought and sold a ton of property. And Jill's been on the phone-

Jill K DeWit:

For some reason.

Steven Jack Butala:

Selling.

Jill K DeWit:

How about, I'm doing a good job. What do you mean for whatever reason?

Steven Jack Butala:

Well, because Land Academy works. And we sent a lot of mail out and we're buying and selling property. That's what I mean.

Jill K DeWit:

For some reason, that's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:

Michael asks.

Jill K DeWit:

All right. Michael wrote, do you send mail to properties in a flood plain or do you exclude flood plain properties in DataTree?

Steven Jack Butala:

Great question. You cannot exclude properties that are in a flood plain in DataTree or any other assessor data set. Here's the deal. Here's a real big picture question here. The issue is assessors collect data about properties that's important to them so that they can report that data to a treasurer who assigns a property tax amount. And for whatever reason, for better or for worse, properties that are in flood plains, don't matter to them. And so we can't capture a data set. In the future, we might capture a data set on that, but you can't exclude or include that for some reason. You know, some of the things that are really important to assessors are, is there a structure on it? Is it improved? Is it a vacant piece of property or does it have a house on it or does it have an office building on it or a hospital? So those are the way that they assess taxes.

Jill K DeWit:

I have-

Steven Jack Butala:

You don't have to raise your hand. I don't know when, that's just hilarious.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/04/six-steps-to-getting-your-first-land-deal-complete-la-1733/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fo2wC5W8_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 23:31:30 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fff45d71-12f9-4448-ab71-93310e9634da.mp3" length="17572775" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Smart People Understand the Land Investment Business Model (LA 1732) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Why Smart People Understand the Land Investment Business Model (LA 1732) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Smart People Understand the Land Investment Business Model (LA 1732) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why smart people understand the land and business model, and maybe why some un-smart people don't.

Jill DeWit:
Un-smart... Smart-less.

Steven Butala:
Like all these topics, there's something going on below the surface. I know what it is. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote, "I'm buying blocks of lots out West, but the acres and the dimensions on the plat map don't seem to match up with ParcelFact, and Parlay 2.0 specifically. One dimension of lots is 165 feet on the plat, while as best I can measure, is 145 feet, according to both ParcelFact and Parlay 2.0. The total acres the County references seems to match the online data, shorter domain dimension, lower acreage, but not on the original plat. Which is more likely to be correct? That's a you, all day long.

Steven Butala:
You ever see the Rain Man?

Jill DeWit:
I have. Dustin Hoffman? Tom Cruise?

Steven Butala:
And how chronic his OCD was? We love Greg, and I don't know Greg, but I love Greg's question here, but I'll tell you, these are satellite images that are lined up with manual GPS coordinates that are coming from a database. Imagine GPS coordinates and a corner point of a piece of property that's not a square, it's all kind of a polygon with 22 points. That data set's literally got 22 data points for each of the, not the corners, but the edges, even. Multiply that, times 150 million properties in the country, then, technically think about the image, this is 10 feet off for Greg, the image is coming from space.

Jill DeWit:
Can I add, throw in there the curvature of the earth.

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Which is reality. Thank you.

Steven Butala:
The image is coming from space, and not just one satellite. Very often the satellite images are overlapping each other and they're not perfect. So, what's going on with this question is, it's not perfect, and it's never going to be perfect. If you want a perfect survey, you have to order one, and the guys come out with the orange coats on and devices, and they tell you exactly what your lot dimensions are. And even then, there's a plus or minus margin of error. You can't overlay.

Steven Butala:
I'm extremely confident that the ParcelFact dataset from which you see the data on your screen, and the Parlay dataset are identical. How it's getting presented, we use S-Ray. Jill and I own ParcelFact. Parlay is another, I know those guys and they're great guys, and they have a great product. They're also the makers of LandGlide. The products are all coming from the same dataset, and while our presentations are different, the data behind them are the same.

Steven Butala:
Here's my big picture point. Who cares? It's a few feet off. You understand the boundaries. If you're going to build a road, you need a survey. If you're going to build a house, you need a survey. If you're going to get financing, you're going to need an in-person survey. I'm not knocking you, Greg, at all. In fact, I bet you a dollar you're either an engineer or an accountant. I'm an accountant, so I can say this stuff. Accountants and engineers are in a different planet. It's like the Rain Man. If the light says, "Don't walk," and you're in the middle of the street, you stop walking. But in the real world, that's a great way to die.

Steven Butala:
Is this 20 feet to stop you from buying this property?

Jill DeWit:
That's hilarious. Do you know what's funny though?You brought up a good point that even the guys that go out there, they're doing the best that they can.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Smart People Understand the Land Investment Business Model (LA 1732) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why smart people understand the land and business model, and maybe why some un-smart people don't.

Jill DeWit:
Un-smart... Smart-less.

Steven Butala:
Like all these topics, there's something going on below the surface. I know what it is. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote, "I'm buying blocks of lots out West, but the acres and the dimensions on the plat map don't seem to match up with ParcelFact, and Parlay 2.0 specifically. One dimension of lots is 165 feet on the plat, while as best I can measure, is 145 feet, according to both ParcelFact and Parlay 2.0. The total acres the County references seems to match the online data, shorter domain dimension, lower acreage, but not on the original plat. Which is more likely to be correct? That's a you, all day long.

Steven Butala:
You ever see the Rain Man?

Jill DeWit:
I have. Dustin Hoffman? Tom Cruise?

Steven Butala:
And how chronic his OCD was? We love Greg, and I don't know Greg, but I love Greg's question here, but I'll tell you, these are satellite images that are lined up with manual GPS coordinates that are coming from a database. Imagine GPS coordinates and a corner point of a piece of property that's not a square, it's all kind of a polygon with 22 points. That data set's literally got 22 data points for each of the, not the corners, but the edges, even. Multiply that, times 150 million properties in the country, then, technically think about the image, this is 10 feet off for Greg, the image is coming from space.

Jill DeWit:
Can I add, throw in there the curvature of the earth.

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Which is reality. Thank you.

Steven Butala:
The image is coming from space, and not just one satellite. Very often the satellite images are overlapping each other and they're not perfect. So, what's going on with this question is, it's not perfect, and it's never going to be perfect. If you want a perfect survey, you have to order one, and the guys come out with the orange coats on and devices, and they tell you exactly what your lot dimensions are. And even then, there's a plus or minus margin of error. You can't overlay.

Steven Butala:
I'm extremely confident that the ParcelFact dataset from which you see the data on your screen, and the Parlay dataset are identical. How it's getting presented, we use S-Ray. Jill and I own ParcelFact. Parlay is another, I know those guys and they're great guys, and they have a great product. They're also the makers of LandGlide. The products are all coming from the same dataset, and while our presentations are different, the data behind them are the same.

Steven Butala:
Here's my big picture point. Who cares? It's a few feet off. You understand the boundaries. If you're going to build a road, you need a survey. If you're going to build a house, you need a survey. If you're going to get financing, you're going to need an in-person survey. I'm not knocking you, Greg, at all. In fact, I bet you a dollar you're either an engineer or an accountant. I'm an accountant, so I can say this stuff. Accountants and engineers are in a different planet. It's like the Rain Man. If the light says, "Don't walk," and you're in the middle of the street, you stop walking. But in the real world, that's a great way to die.

Steven Butala:
Is this 20 feet to stop you from buying this property?

Jill DeWit:
That's hilarious. Do you know what's funny though?You brought up a good point that even the guys that go out there, they're doing the best that they can.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/04/01/why-smart-people-understand-the-land-investment-business-model-la-1732-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fIOxqibpA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:48:54 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/af2a0715-064a-427a-8fdb-a830ed0e271f.mp3" length="16790369" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Chasing False Due Diligence (LA 1731) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Chasing False Due Diligence (LA 1731) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Chasing False Due Diligence (LA 1731) RERUN
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about chasing false due diligence. And right at the end of the show yesterday, I asked Jill to tell us a story about how this episode came about. Can you please repeat it?

Jill DeWit:
Yes. So we have a new member in Land Academy. First deal came in, they loved it, submitted to me for deal funding. I looked at it, I didn't love it. Specially-

Jack Butala:
Loved the asset, not the price.

Jill DeWit:
Not the price. It's like, I wasn't in love with it. And don't be afraid to do this. I just sent an email out yesterday, by the way, to a seller. They got our offer in the mail. Instead of calling, they decided to email me and I said, "All right." And she's like, "Hey, it's my grandma's property. We like the offer," dah, dah, dah. And I had to write her back and said, "Look, I like it. I don't love it. So my original price is going to be the end price." So, that's where we are.

Jack Butala:
The old grandmother's property story.

Jill DeWit:
It is? No, and I believe her. I'm sure it's true.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. Me, too. It's hard to get a really great price out of your grandmother. You just don't want to do that.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I'm not even sure of the original price I loved. So what I wrote back was, "I like it. I like it. I don't love it." I said, "The best I would do and the highest offer is my original offer. Let me know what you guys think," and then walk away. So you have to get to that point, so, where we are.

Jill DeWit:
So back to what you asked me about this person. They're trying to make this deal happen and they've submitted it a couple times and I keep saying, "Shucks." Originally, I said I would, I think their offer was 30. And I said, "You know what? I'd give them five," kind of thing. That would the best I would do. And then they wrote back, and they're like, "But Jill," and then I said, "I marked it canceled." Not going to happen because 30 and five are very different.

Jill DeWit:
So then they came back and said, "But we found these other comps and we feel really good about it." And I looked at the comps and I said, "Well, maybe 10." And then I kept reading. I said, " [inaudible 00:02:17], I would consider 10,000." And they said, "Well, we got them down to 20,000. They won't go below that." I said, "Well, then the deal's done. As far as I'm concerned done. They're either going to accept 10,000, really I like five or that's it. I'm not going to come up to their 20,000."

Jill DeWit:
And the thing is, and what this episode is about is going to be more about how to not get into this predicament of trying to chase a deal and why it happens.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. And again, I have, like I said, yesterday, I have like 10 questions for you because I have personal experience with this. When I started, I had issues with pricing and not necessarily pricing a mailer, but just pricing like in letting go of a deal. And I think there's a lot of reasons and they're all the reasons that I couldn't let go of deals were all in my head. And I still find myself doing it on big, high price, personal investments for us. And we'll talk about it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Douglas, it looks like, who is new to the group not yet a member wrote, "Recently, my partner and I were contacted by a Land Academy lender."

Jack Butala:
What is that? I put this in here for a reason.

Jill DeWit:
We don't have Land Academy lenders.

Jack Butala:
I couldn't agree more.

Jill DeWit:
I'm very curious. I hope somebody said who's Land Academy lender. That's really funny.

Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Chasing False Due Diligence (LA 1731) RERUN
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about chasing false due diligence. And right at the end of the show yesterday, I asked Jill to tell us a story about how this episode came about. Can you please repeat it?

Jill DeWit:
Yes. So we have a new member in Land Academy. First deal came in, they loved it, submitted to me for deal funding. I looked at it, I didn't love it. Specially-

Jack Butala:
Loved the asset, not the price.

Jill DeWit:
Not the price. It's like, I wasn't in love with it. And don't be afraid to do this. I just sent an email out yesterday, by the way, to a seller. They got our offer in the mail. Instead of calling, they decided to email me and I said, "All right." And she's like, "Hey, it's my grandma's property. We like the offer," dah, dah, dah. And I had to write her back and said, "Look, I like it. I don't love it. So my original price is going to be the end price." So, that's where we are.

Jack Butala:
The old grandmother's property story.

Jill DeWit:
It is? No, and I believe her. I'm sure it's true.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. Me, too. It's hard to get a really great price out of your grandmother. You just don't want to do that.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I'm not even sure of the original price I loved. So what I wrote back was, "I like it. I like it. I don't love it." I said, "The best I would do and the highest offer is my original offer. Let me know what you guys think," and then walk away. So you have to get to that point, so, where we are.

Jill DeWit:
So back to what you asked me about this person. They're trying to make this deal happen and they've submitted it a couple times and I keep saying, "Shucks." Originally, I said I would, I think their offer was 30. And I said, "You know what? I'd give them five," kind of thing. That would the best I would do. And then they wrote back, and they're like, "But Jill," and then I said, "I marked it canceled." Not going to happen because 30 and five are very different.

Jill DeWit:
So then they came back and said, "But we found these other comps and we feel really good about it." And I looked at the comps and I said, "Well, maybe 10." And then I kept reading. I said, " [inaudible 00:02:17], I would consider 10,000." And they said, "Well, we got them down to 20,000. They won't go below that." I said, "Well, then the deal's done. As far as I'm concerned done. They're either going to accept 10,000, really I like five or that's it. I'm not going to come up to their 20,000."

Jill DeWit:
And the thing is, and what this episode is about is going to be more about how to not get into this predicament of trying to chase a deal and why it happens.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. And again, I have, like I said, yesterday, I have like 10 questions for you because I have personal experience with this. When I started, I had issues with pricing and not necessarily pricing a mailer, but just pricing like in letting go of a deal. And I think there's a lot of reasons and they're all the reasons that I couldn't let go of deals were all in my head. And I still find myself doing it on big, high price, personal investments for us. And we'll talk about it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Douglas, it looks like, who is new to the group not yet a member wrote, "Recently, my partner and I were contacted by a Land Academy lender."

Jack Butala:
What is that? I put this in here for a reason.

Jill DeWit:
We don't have Land Academy lenders.

Jack Butala:
I couldn't agree more.

Jill DeWit:
I'm very curious. I hope somebody said who's Land Academy lender. That's really funny.

Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/31/chasing-false-due-diligence-la-1731-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">q4Sx7Ipuj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:27:30 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6ac8fdf2-9be5-4d95-be0d-456e09d10a2a.mp3" length="28321036" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1730) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1730) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1730) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
When will we be back in California to do this?

Jill DeWitt:
I don't know.

Steven Butala:
In the middle of May.

Jill DeWitt:
Maybe. You'll be there and I'm going to go back for a couple of days in a week or so I think.

Steven Butala:
Oh, I didn't know that.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah. It's on the calendar.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how Land Academy career path, it's not just for pros. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
You know what I should've said is I'll be back when it warms up.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
It's been cold there, like not even 60. I'm like, no, I'm good. Ross wrote, "Hi everyone. I'm interested in possibly not selling a land property with seller financing, but actually buying one from a seller. My intent is to sell it though and, of course, when I sell it I want to write it into the contract that the seller will make whole once I-"

Steven Butala:
Will be made whole.

Jill DeWitt:
"I'll make him whole once I sell it, just like a traditional montage would be."

Steven Butala:
Mortgage.

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, okay.

Steven Butala:
It's okay. it's not you.

Jill DeWitt:
All right.

Steven Butala:
It's a puzzle.

Jill DeWitt:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
This question is written in puzzle format.

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, good. You're going to help put this all together. Thank you. "In order to be legal, I understand that my name needs to be on the title in order for me to market it for sale. Otherwise I'm marketing property that I don't legally own. So I'm not sure how, what kind of contract or deed instrument I should use in this situation. For example, I buy this hundred thousand dollar property from you, but you have to provide owner financing. I pay you $3,000 per month in monthly payments and when selling the property, the next buyer you'll be made whole at that point. Is this possible? Anyone would have a contract that could see or use or hire someone to write me the contract in the legal way? Thank you for all you do."

Steven Butala:
So what you're, if you do this and there's a contract in the Land Academy program, the first one, to do this. So it's in there. I don't recommend doing this at all. I think you're getting yourself into a mess, but if you want to do it, I understand. You're not breaking the law at all, in my opinion, you're not representing someone else in the sale of their property because what you're doing when you sign this is creating equitable interest in a property. And so if you buy the property on a contract, you own it. You just have a lien, there's a lien on it, just like you do with a mortgage. So if you go buy a house and Bank of America provides a mortgage for you, you will move in, paint it, do whatever you're going to do to it, clean it up, renovate it. If something goes sideways and you stop making payments, the bank comes and gets it. It's the same situation here. So I don't believe that there's any legal issues here with this at all.

Steven Butala:
You own the property. There's a lien on it. You have equitable interest. The real problem here is there's just a lot of stuff that can go wrong. Let's say you don't, if you don't sell the property, you're going to stop paying. So there's some huge financial concerns that I have. But if this is the way you want to start, knock yourself out.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah, I'm not a fan. If it's that good, here's the bottom line, if it's that good, somebody will fund it, like us.

Steven Butala:
If it's a great deal.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1730) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
When will we be back in California to do this?

Jill DeWitt:
I don't know.

Steven Butala:
In the middle of May.

Jill DeWitt:
Maybe. You'll be there and I'm going to go back for a couple of days in a week or so I think.

Steven Butala:
Oh, I didn't know that.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah. It's on the calendar.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how Land Academy career path, it's not just for pros. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
You know what I should've said is I'll be back when it warms up.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
It's been cold there, like not even 60. I'm like, no, I'm good. Ross wrote, "Hi everyone. I'm interested in possibly not selling a land property with seller financing, but actually buying one from a seller. My intent is to sell it though and, of course, when I sell it I want to write it into the contract that the seller will make whole once I-"

Steven Butala:
Will be made whole.

Jill DeWitt:
"I'll make him whole once I sell it, just like a traditional montage would be."

Steven Butala:
Mortgage.

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, okay.

Steven Butala:
It's okay. it's not you.

Jill DeWitt:
All right.

Steven Butala:
It's a puzzle.

Jill DeWitt:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
This question is written in puzzle format.

Jill DeWitt:
Oh, good. You're going to help put this all together. Thank you. "In order to be legal, I understand that my name needs to be on the title in order for me to market it for sale. Otherwise I'm marketing property that I don't legally own. So I'm not sure how, what kind of contract or deed instrument I should use in this situation. For example, I buy this hundred thousand dollar property from you, but you have to provide owner financing. I pay you $3,000 per month in monthly payments and when selling the property, the next buyer you'll be made whole at that point. Is this possible? Anyone would have a contract that could see or use or hire someone to write me the contract in the legal way? Thank you for all you do."

Steven Butala:
So what you're, if you do this and there's a contract in the Land Academy program, the first one, to do this. So it's in there. I don't recommend doing this at all. I think you're getting yourself into a mess, but if you want to do it, I understand. You're not breaking the law at all, in my opinion, you're not representing someone else in the sale of their property because what you're doing when you sign this is creating equitable interest in a property. And so if you buy the property on a contract, you own it. You just have a lien, there's a lien on it, just like you do with a mortgage. So if you go buy a house and Bank of America provides a mortgage for you, you will move in, paint it, do whatever you're going to do to it, clean it up, renovate it. If something goes sideways and you stop making payments, the bank comes and gets it. It's the same situation here. So I don't believe that there's any legal issues here with this at all.

Steven Butala:
You own the property. There's a lien on it. You have equitable interest. The real problem here is there's just a lot of stuff that can go wrong. Let's say you don't, if you don't sell the property, you're going to stop paying. So there's some huge financial concerns that I have. But if this is the way you want to start, knock yourself out.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah, I'm not a fan. If it's that good, here's the bottom line, if it's that good, somebody will fund it, like us.

Steven Butala:
If it's a great deal.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/30/land-academy-career-path-is-not-just-for-pros-la-1730-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zt6VykhDB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:27:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5bd00c85-08b7-4f81-a043-e4fe4d187079.mp3" length="15353988" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Membership vs Owning a Franchise (LA 1729) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Membership vs Owning a Franchise (LA 1729) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Membership vs Owning a Franchise (LA 1729) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about Land Academy membership versus owning a franchise couldn't be more different.

Jill DeWit:
But sounds like, well, hey, wait a minute though, well, Land Academy to be an investor, right? So it's really kind of about being an investor versus this business... What business do you want to be in? You want to be an investor, which is what we teach you how to do and set you up for, versus owning a franchise, which is kind of, they teach you how to run, let's just say it's Cold Stone Creamery. You even go to Cold Stone school, and then you have your business. But there's a lot of different things going on.

Steven Butala:
We teach you how to get free, and autonomous, and independent, and happy and done. We don't have our hooks in you forever, like, let's say, Cold Stone.

Jill DeWit:
Well, we'll talk about that because I made a list and you're tying into my list. I'm trying to just state the facts, man.

Steven Butala:
I'm not talking about you.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I just, I'm not a huge franchise fan.

Jill DeWit:
No kidding.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
I'm here to tell you, truth time, there's one and only one franchise this person likes to go to, and it's Wendy's.

Steven Butala:
Just because I want to eat for free?

Jill DeWit:
No, just the chilies. No, not because you want to eat for free, I'm here... it's truth time. You're like, "I don't like that, I don't like... " You don't like the franchise, anything, but you're like, "I do like Wendy's Chili." How's that? Okay.

Steven Butala:
Let's see. If you had a franchise, it would be a Zales Jewelry or something.

Jill DeWit:
No. What would my franchise be? Oh, Nordstrom.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, that's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it's not a franchise-

Steven Butala:
I know, I know. Neither is Zales-

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah-

Steven Butala:
... I'm just joking around.

Jill DeWit:
I don't know what my... Maybe subway? No. I have to think about that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Herbert asks, "Hello. I know this isn't our typical vacant land leasing, single family convo, but I would like some help clarifying some things, and figured what better place to gain information about this topic than from our super knowledgeable and amazing group here at Land Investors?"

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Herbert, are you trying to get brownie points? Because you're winning. It's working.

Jill DeWit:
All right. I'm pretty new to real estate in general, never owning a home before. So I'd like your advice on the process slash plan of action for acquiring a four unit, multi-family property to serve as a primary residence. I plan to purchase the four units by using an either FHA or FHA 203(k) loan to renovate, and then live here in Miami, Florida.

Jill DeWit:
My questions are, number one. Am I correct to assume that our direct mail approach to acquiring real estate is also the best way to acquire my first multi-family deal for a primary residence?

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
What are some of the differences in the approach that I should be aware of?

Jill DeWit:
Number two. Will House Academy teach me how to acquire multi-families as well as single families?

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Steven. Ready. Go.

Steven Butala:
Yes, but I have to tell you, I think you're on the wrong path here.

Jill DeWit:
Ah, uh-oh. Well, like you said, Herbert, you really want to pick the brain from the knowledgeable, amazing group here at Land Investors. And one was going to really pick apart your thing, and I'm sure he's right.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Membership vs Owning a Franchise (LA 1729) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about Land Academy membership versus owning a franchise couldn't be more different.

Jill DeWit:
But sounds like, well, hey, wait a minute though, well, Land Academy to be an investor, right? So it's really kind of about being an investor versus this business... What business do you want to be in? You want to be an investor, which is what we teach you how to do and set you up for, versus owning a franchise, which is kind of, they teach you how to run, let's just say it's Cold Stone Creamery. You even go to Cold Stone school, and then you have your business. But there's a lot of different things going on.

Steven Butala:
We teach you how to get free, and autonomous, and independent, and happy and done. We don't have our hooks in you forever, like, let's say, Cold Stone.

Jill DeWit:
Well, we'll talk about that because I made a list and you're tying into my list. I'm trying to just state the facts, man.

Steven Butala:
I'm not talking about you.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I just, I'm not a huge franchise fan.

Jill DeWit:
No kidding.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
I'm here to tell you, truth time, there's one and only one franchise this person likes to go to, and it's Wendy's.

Steven Butala:
Just because I want to eat for free?

Jill DeWit:
No, just the chilies. No, not because you want to eat for free, I'm here... it's truth time. You're like, "I don't like that, I don't like... " You don't like the franchise, anything, but you're like, "I do like Wendy's Chili." How's that? Okay.

Steven Butala:
Let's see. If you had a franchise, it would be a Zales Jewelry or something.

Jill DeWit:
No. What would my franchise be? Oh, Nordstrom.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, that's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it's not a franchise-

Steven Butala:
I know, I know. Neither is Zales-

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah-

Steven Butala:
... I'm just joking around.

Jill DeWit:
I don't know what my... Maybe subway? No. I have to think about that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Herbert asks, "Hello. I know this isn't our typical vacant land leasing, single family convo, but I would like some help clarifying some things, and figured what better place to gain information about this topic than from our super knowledgeable and amazing group here at Land Investors?"

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Herbert, are you trying to get brownie points? Because you're winning. It's working.

Jill DeWit:
All right. I'm pretty new to real estate in general, never owning a home before. So I'd like your advice on the process slash plan of action for acquiring a four unit, multi-family property to serve as a primary residence. I plan to purchase the four units by using an either FHA or FHA 203(k) loan to renovate, and then live here in Miami, Florida.

Jill DeWit:
My questions are, number one. Am I correct to assume that our direct mail approach to acquiring real estate is also the best way to acquire my first multi-family deal for a primary residence?

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
What are some of the differences in the approach that I should be aware of?

Jill DeWit:
Number two. Will House Academy teach me how to acquire multi-families as well as single families?

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Steven. Ready. Go.

Steven Butala:
Yes, but I have to tell you, I think you're on the wrong path here.

Jill DeWit:
Ah, uh-oh. Well, like you said, Herbert, you really want to pick the brain from the knowledgeable, amazing group here at Land Investors. And one was going to really pick apart your thing, and I'm sure he's right.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/29/land-academy-membership-vs-owning-a-franchise-la-1729-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7DlfXrsGX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:45:33 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/24b7f4e3-5036-493c-9a6a-362cc4beeb95.mp3" length="23365383" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Barb Avery Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1728)</title><itunes:title>Barb Avery Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1728)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Barb Avery Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1728)
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If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

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I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/28/barb-avery-land-academy-member-interview-la-1728/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7APKi5D8Y</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 22:04:02 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ee9ebef7-42b7-4e1d-8601-8c76134bb38c.mp3" length="46348344" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>47:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Investing Like a Girl (LA 1727)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Investing Like a Girl (LA 1727)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Investing Like a Girl (LA 1727)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of this Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about investing like a girl.

Jill K DeWit:
You came up with this topic. Are you picking my brain here? You want to know what I've been reading and what I think about?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a book on Jill's desk by Warren Buffett.

Jill K DeWit:
It's by a girl who works for Motley Crew or Motley Fool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Crew?

Jill K DeWit:
A brilliant woman who works for Motley Crew, I mean, Motley Fool. She wrote a book, and it's called Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl and Why You Should Too.

Steven Jack Butala:
I see.

Jill K DeWit:
It's not written by Warren Buffett, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, me and the whole world think it's [crosstalk 00:00:46].

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, you got all excited thinking Warren Buffett wrote a book.

Steven Jack Butala:
No. This is actually even better. I'd rather hear from advice ... I think that's great. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Steven Jack Butala:
Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address like 123 Main Street. The reality is nearly all properties that have never been built on, which is what we buy and sell, don't have a post office address yet. They have an assessor's parcel number. Well, there is no database for that. Jill and I set out and now have 150 million up-to-date unit assessors parcel look-up database and spatial environment where you can look this up and find any property just in seconds. Like all these products, we've been using this for years. We just had never made it pretty enough to present to the public, but we have now. It's called neighborscoop.com. Go to neighborscoop.com for more information and check it all out. See if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote, "I just got an email from a mailer I sent a year ago, asked if I was still interested in buying. This was someone I had needed to reduce the original offer on, and they initially needed more. They had bought the 40 acres in 2007 for $50,000, and I had reduced my offer from 19,000 to 13,000 due to massive back taxes. They wanted to recoup more of their losses. Well, the property taxes for this year are about due and the assessed value took a hit from last year. So they are now ready to sell. Hooray. That would be the 12th great deal from a mailer of about 900 units." Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Geez, listen to that.

Jill K DeWit:
Holy moly.

Steven Jack Butala:
This guy's in Career Path too, in this Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. This one is a base hit, base hit. I think it's more than that. Okay. All in for 19,000 and sell within a week comfortably for 30. I got it. I may push the price up a bit on this one.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would too.

Jill K DeWit:
It's not a huge profit percent-wise, but I've sold six exactly like it after buying five to $15,000 range and then selling between 25 and $29,000 range. It will be just so easy because I still have people lined up from missing out on the last couple that were a few parcels over. This is great.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a direct result of Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
That's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'm not selling anything. I'm just saying this is what we talk about in Career Path all the time.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's true. You can't really gauge these mailers sometimes, because you might not get calls for ... You get three now. You could buy a couple deals. And then a few months go by and you get another call and another letter. And more time goes by, another call, another letter.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Investing Like a Girl (LA 1727)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of this Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about investing like a girl.

Jill K DeWit:
You came up with this topic. Are you picking my brain here? You want to know what I've been reading and what I think about?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a book on Jill's desk by Warren Buffett.

Jill K DeWit:
It's by a girl who works for Motley Crew or Motley Fool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Crew?

Jill K DeWit:
A brilliant woman who works for Motley Crew, I mean, Motley Fool. She wrote a book, and it's called Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl and Why You Should Too.

Steven Jack Butala:
I see.

Jill K DeWit:
It's not written by Warren Buffett, sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, me and the whole world think it's [crosstalk 00:00:46].

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, you got all excited thinking Warren Buffett wrote a book.

Steven Jack Butala:
No. This is actually even better. I'd rather hear from advice ... I think that's great. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Steven Jack Butala:
Back in the day, it was nearly impossible to find land without a mailing address like 123 Main Street. The reality is nearly all properties that have never been built on, which is what we buy and sell, don't have a post office address yet. They have an assessor's parcel number. Well, there is no database for that. Jill and I set out and now have 150 million up-to-date unit assessors parcel look-up database and spatial environment where you can look this up and find any property just in seconds. Like all these products, we've been using this for years. We just had never made it pretty enough to present to the public, but we have now. It's called neighborscoop.com. Go to neighborscoop.com for more information and check it all out. See if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote, "I just got an email from a mailer I sent a year ago, asked if I was still interested in buying. This was someone I had needed to reduce the original offer on, and they initially needed more. They had bought the 40 acres in 2007 for $50,000, and I had reduced my offer from 19,000 to 13,000 due to massive back taxes. They wanted to recoup more of their losses. Well, the property taxes for this year are about due and the assessed value took a hit from last year. So they are now ready to sell. Hooray. That would be the 12th great deal from a mailer of about 900 units." Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Geez, listen to that.

Jill K DeWit:
Holy moly.

Steven Jack Butala:
This guy's in Career Path too, in this Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. This one is a base hit, base hit. I think it's more than that. Okay. All in for 19,000 and sell within a week comfortably for 30. I got it. I may push the price up a bit on this one.

Steven Jack Butala:
I would too.

Jill K DeWit:
It's not a huge profit percent-wise, but I've sold six exactly like it after buying five to $15,000 range and then selling between 25 and $29,000 range. It will be just so easy because I still have people lined up from missing out on the last couple that were a few parcels over. This is great.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a direct result of Career Path.

Jill K DeWit:
That's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'm not selling anything. I'm just saying this is what we talk about in Career Path all the time.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's true. You can't really gauge these mailers sometimes, because you might not get calls for ... You get three now. You could buy a couple deals. And then a few months go by and you get another call and another letter. And more time goes by, another call, another letter.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/25/jill-friday-investing-like-a-girl-la-1727/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lrU8nCEcF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:04:28 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cee9399c-2064-429b-9a81-fa2fc8e3df5d.mp3" length="16810781" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Is it Okay to Bend Rules to Succeed (LA 1726)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Is it Okay to Bend Rules to Succeed (LA 1726)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Is it Okay to Bend Rules to Succeed (LA 1726)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about when it's okay to bend the rules to succeed. I have several examples professionally and socially. You're either going to love the show or hate it. Like all Land Academy episodes.

Jill K DeWit:
If you know me, I've never bend the rules.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's middle name.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm a rule follower.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's middle name is-

Jill K DeWit:
[inaudible 00:00:34].

Steven Jack Butala:
There's several, I'll save it for the show. Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote, "Does anyone have any banking relationships for a lender who would lend on a subdivide?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Dan, I'm going to answer your question, but think the bigger question is, does anybody have any banking relationships to help me succeed in the land business? And the answer is emphatically, no. And if they did, and they were in discord saying I'm an asset manager or a lender for a bank, we have tons of money to lend. I would kick them out of our group, you don't believe. I mean it, Jill thinks it's funny, but I'm not exaggerating.

Jill K DeWit:
All right, that's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't believe philosophically this is me. And clearly maybe not Jill. I don't believe that all these sayings that we've all heard a million times, other people's money and use other people's money. Hahaha, I got somebody to give me money and there's people in our group that are like that. On the other end of that. There's people in every group that are like that. I don't think debt is okay. I just don't, debt.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think it's okay in your personal life to really, to any degree with very few exceptions. And one of them is a primary resident's first position mortgage when rates are really low and the market's doing what it's doing right now. I think that's probably okay. But tertiary debt, which is what I think you're talking about here is a bad idea. That's not to say, "Well great Jack, thanks a lot. So, but I don't have any money." That's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait till you do.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a massive difference between, no. There's a massive difference between debt and equity financing. I love equity financing, Jill and I provide equity financing all the time. "Oh Jack, it's so expensive. That's terrible." Yep, it is. Equity financing is way more expensive than debt financing. The consequences of defaulting on debt financing will destroy your life for 10 years. The consequences of defaulting on equity financing. When you have a partner with somebody like Jill and I, or many people that are in Land Academy, usually amount to one or two or three phone calls where the person that provided the equity financing. And we've done this many times. We say, "You know what? This deal didn't work out the way we thought."

Jill K DeWit:
We say, congratulations you're out of the deal.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Tell you what, why don't you throw us the figurative keys and we'll take it from here. And when we do sell it, because we lent you all the money to do it. When we sell it, you're not going to make anything. So I want you to put-

Jill K DeWit:
Not take it back.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'll tell you what pal, why don't you send out another mailer and you're going to do great. And then it ends right there. Debt, if you want to spend some fun, if you want to blow a couple hours in your lif...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Is it Okay to Bend Rules to Succeed (LA 1726)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about when it's okay to bend the rules to succeed. I have several examples professionally and socially. You're either going to love the show or hate it. Like all Land Academy episodes.

Jill K DeWit:
If you know me, I've never bend the rules.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's middle name.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm a rule follower.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's middle name is-

Jill K DeWit:
[inaudible 00:00:34].

Steven Jack Butala:
There's several, I'll save it for the show. Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote, "Does anyone have any banking relationships for a lender who would lend on a subdivide?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Dan, I'm going to answer your question, but think the bigger question is, does anybody have any banking relationships to help me succeed in the land business? And the answer is emphatically, no. And if they did, and they were in discord saying I'm an asset manager or a lender for a bank, we have tons of money to lend. I would kick them out of our group, you don't believe. I mean it, Jill thinks it's funny, but I'm not exaggerating.

Jill K DeWit:
All right, that's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't believe philosophically this is me. And clearly maybe not Jill. I don't believe that all these sayings that we've all heard a million times, other people's money and use other people's money. Hahaha, I got somebody to give me money and there's people in our group that are like that. On the other end of that. There's people in every group that are like that. I don't think debt is okay. I just don't, debt.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't think it's okay in your personal life to really, to any degree with very few exceptions. And one of them is a primary resident's first position mortgage when rates are really low and the market's doing what it's doing right now. I think that's probably okay. But tertiary debt, which is what I think you're talking about here is a bad idea. That's not to say, "Well great Jack, thanks a lot. So, but I don't have any money." That's okay.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait till you do.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a massive difference between, no. There's a massive difference between debt and equity financing. I love equity financing, Jill and I provide equity financing all the time. "Oh Jack, it's so expensive. That's terrible." Yep, it is. Equity financing is way more expensive than debt financing. The consequences of defaulting on debt financing will destroy your life for 10 years. The consequences of defaulting on equity financing. When you have a partner with somebody like Jill and I, or many people that are in Land Academy, usually amount to one or two or three phone calls where the person that provided the equity financing. And we've done this many times. We say, "You know what? This deal didn't work out the way we thought."

Jill K DeWit:
We say, congratulations you're out of the deal.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Tell you what, why don't you throw us the figurative keys and we'll take it from here. And when we do sell it, because we lent you all the money to do it. When we sell it, you're not going to make anything. So I want you to put-

Jill K DeWit:
Not take it back.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I'll tell you what pal, why don't you send out another mailer and you're going to do great. And then it ends right there. Debt, if you want to spend some fun, if you want to blow a couple hours in your lif...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/24/jack-thursday-is-it-okay-to-bend-rules-to-succeed-la-1726/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">xd3dNXu0q</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:52:55 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cfa19508-4b0d-4e9e-974e-3265399704bd.mp3" length="19115134" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Circumstances That Tell Us it&amp;#8217;s Okay to Flip a House (LA 1725)</title><itunes:title>3 Circumstances That Tell Us it&amp;#8217;s Okay to Flip a House (LA 1725)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[3 Circumstances That Tell Us it's Okay to Flip a House (LA 1725)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm in Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the three circumstances that tell us it's okay to flip a house.

Jill K DeWit:
There's probably 30, but we broke it down to three.

Steven Jack Butala:
What are you guys talking about? What are you talking about? Why are you talking about houses, Jack? I thought you buy and sell land. We don't advertise it, but Jill and I also have a company called House Academy. You can check it out on houseacademy.com. It's got regular members who buy and sell houses, usually alongside their land operation.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it's not something that we're really, really focused on right now. Actually that's the content of this episode, because there's a lot of competition. The market's super, super hot. And we would rather be over here, making tons of money buying and selling land right now. But that doesn't mean you can't do it, it's not profitable.

Jill K DeWit:
House's Academy is alive and well. We just had to check out the other day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, just saw that.

Jill K DeWit:
We saw people joining us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't want you to think that this is a bad thing that we're not invested in it, we're not doing it, because we are.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
And we're going to tell you, so for people who are thinking about House Academy and doing ... And we'll explain here in a few minutes who is a candidate for House Academy and why people come to us.

Jill K DeWit:
And then we'll talk about what we're doing now in this environment, because it was really important. And I want you guys to know that you are important to us and we are doing it with you, but we're being strategic. And that's what today's shows about.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. And last year a ton of land academy members came to Jill and I, needing extra help to get their blind offer campaigns into the mail and off the ground.

Steven Jack Butala:
I took a look at how we personally are sending out mail with our key employees, and ultimately made those exact same people available to Land Academy members to get the mail out. And we gave it a name, it's called Concierge Data.

Steven Jack Butala:
So it's a year later, and hundreds of our members are outsourcing their entire mail process with this product. Some of those members are people that have been doing mail themselves for years and they're tired of it. They're outsourcing it. And some of those members are brand new and are not fully ... It's stopping them from getting into the business. And they're in both cases and everything in between, using Concierge Data to get the mail out. Check us out at offers, the number two, owners.com and give them a call.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Hi, I'm brand new to this course. I just bought it today. I was wondering, number one, should I set up an LLC in my home state? Number two, should I get an email forwarding service, slash virtual business address? Number three, should I get a local number or an 800 type number?" Well, good news is, that thing you just got today, watch it.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's that?

Jill K DeWit:
Because it's in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's that thing that he got today?

Jill K DeWit:
He just said, "I just joined Land Academy. I just got the education today." I'm like, "Congratulations. Watch it." Because all three questions are answered. They're in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, Jill's exactly right.

Jill K DeWit:
No, it's really good, I'm trying to say.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[3 Circumstances That Tell Us it's Okay to Flip a House (LA 1725)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm in Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the three circumstances that tell us it's okay to flip a house.

Jill K DeWit:
There's probably 30, but we broke it down to three.

Steven Jack Butala:
What are you guys talking about? What are you talking about? Why are you talking about houses, Jack? I thought you buy and sell land. We don't advertise it, but Jill and I also have a company called House Academy. You can check it out on houseacademy.com. It's got regular members who buy and sell houses, usually alongside their land operation.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it's not something that we're really, really focused on right now. Actually that's the content of this episode, because there's a lot of competition. The market's super, super hot. And we would rather be over here, making tons of money buying and selling land right now. But that doesn't mean you can't do it, it's not profitable.

Jill K DeWit:
House's Academy is alive and well. We just had to check out the other day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, just saw that.

Jill K DeWit:
We saw people joining us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't want you to think that this is a bad thing that we're not invested in it, we're not doing it, because we are.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
And we're going to tell you, so for people who are thinking about House Academy and doing ... And we'll explain here in a few minutes who is a candidate for House Academy and why people come to us.

Jill K DeWit:
And then we'll talk about what we're doing now in this environment, because it was really important. And I want you guys to know that you are important to us and we are doing it with you, but we're being strategic. And that's what today's shows about.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. And last year a ton of land academy members came to Jill and I, needing extra help to get their blind offer campaigns into the mail and off the ground.

Steven Jack Butala:
I took a look at how we personally are sending out mail with our key employees, and ultimately made those exact same people available to Land Academy members to get the mail out. And we gave it a name, it's called Concierge Data.

Steven Jack Butala:
So it's a year later, and hundreds of our members are outsourcing their entire mail process with this product. Some of those members are people that have been doing mail themselves for years and they're tired of it. They're outsourcing it. And some of those members are brand new and are not fully ... It's stopping them from getting into the business. And they're in both cases and everything in between, using Concierge Data to get the mail out. Check us out at offers, the number two, owners.com and give them a call.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Hi, I'm brand new to this course. I just bought it today. I was wondering, number one, should I set up an LLC in my home state? Number two, should I get an email forwarding service, slash virtual business address? Number three, should I get a local number or an 800 type number?" Well, good news is, that thing you just got today, watch it.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's that?

Jill K DeWit:
Because it's in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's that thing that he got today?

Jill K DeWit:
He just said, "I just joined Land Academy. I just got the education today." I'm like, "Congratulations. Watch it." Because all three questions are answered. They're in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, Jill's exactly right.

Jill K DeWit:
No, it's really good, I'm trying to say.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/23/3-circumstances-that-tell-us-its-okay-to-flip-a-house-la-1725/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wmXduX2uY</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:47:41 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3298df58-24d3-46c3-85e9-f56603d0903a.mp3" length="16928186" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Josiah Ronco Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1724)</title><itunes:title>Josiah Ronco Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1724)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Josiah Ronco Land Academy Member Interview (LA 1724)
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If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

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I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/22/josiah-ronco-land-academy-member-interview-la-1724/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0ehLT_2jM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:44:42 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d5a64449-2325-4a0d-9e47-cfc7adcbd738.mp3" length="33456735" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>34:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Split Land Parcels Toward Huge Financial Success (LA 1723)</title><itunes:title>How to Split Land Parcels Toward Huge Financial Success (LA 1723)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Split Land Parcels Toward Huge Financial Success (LA 1723)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to split land parcels toward huge financial success.

Jill K DeWit:
This sounds like a lot at first.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is a lot.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I like to divide the whole land business and the education process into high school and college. And so splitting property is your last year of a master's degree and your first year of a PhD.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, that's kind of funny. And a lot of people come to us with an associate's degree or they're wrapping up their associate's, or they're thinking about their associate's and they're like, "I want to do this." Hold on everybody.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm glad you bring that up because, and I'll tell you why they do that. Because for the same reason I originally said, "This is what I'm going to do, split property." It's that whole bottle case theory. You buy a case of beer for 12 bucks or $24. There's 24 bottles in there, and you sell it for $3 each. It's not hard to do the math that you can make $50.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
$50 net on a case of beer. So it's the same thing with land. You buy 40 acres for $10,000. You split it all up into one acre parcels. This is all theory. And now you've got 40 properties you can sell for $5,000 each. That's the intrigue.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
Show me where to start, Jack. That's what they're saying. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing land academy members in a live class called Career Path? We do this every quarter. If you're buying, selling land and you think it's your career, or you think you want it to be, give us a call.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to add, we are open right now and enrolling for session number four, and it starts April 23rd. We are doing it now on Saturdays. I'm so excited. Go to landacademy.com/careerpath and you'll find all the details there.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is not a commercial in any stretch. But I will tell you, one person a day is signing up for this. I expect that, what do we have? Typically 20 people.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm making it a commercial because it's good. Why do you always say that?

Steven Jack Butala:
I hate commercials.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I hate selling and all that stuff. That's not what this is.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're here to instruct everyone how to buy and sell land.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, but we need to inform you.

Steven Jack Butala:
To a huge amount of success, so.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go. All right, Greg wrote, "I was wondering for those of you that send out neighbor letters first, how much time do you usually wait after sending the letters to list with a broker if you think you're not getting any interest from the neighbors?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm getting ready to close, and I guess I should get a drone video first. Send neighbor letters, post on Facebook, et cetera. And then the last step would be to list with the broker if none of that seems to get much interest. Or maybe I have it all wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Also, when you do commit to list with a broker, you owe them commission no matter where the lead comes from. Right?" Okay. So first things first, I'm just jumping in here.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll comment at the end if it's necessary because I know where you're going to go with this.

Jill K DeWit:
I love where you're going with this. A lot of properties are fit into this model. And I love the neighbor letter, get the drones, get the pictures,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Split Land Parcels Toward Huge Financial Success (LA 1723)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to split land parcels toward huge financial success.

Jill K DeWit:
This sounds like a lot at first.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is a lot.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I like to divide the whole land business and the education process into high school and college. And so splitting property is your last year of a master's degree and your first year of a PhD.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, that's kind of funny. And a lot of people come to us with an associate's degree or they're wrapping up their associate's, or they're thinking about their associate's and they're like, "I want to do this." Hold on everybody.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm glad you bring that up because, and I'll tell you why they do that. Because for the same reason I originally said, "This is what I'm going to do, split property." It's that whole bottle case theory. You buy a case of beer for 12 bucks or $24. There's 24 bottles in there, and you sell it for $3 each. It's not hard to do the math that you can make $50.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
$50 net on a case of beer. So it's the same thing with land. You buy 40 acres for $10,000. You split it all up into one acre parcels. This is all theory. And now you've got 40 properties you can sell for $5,000 each. That's the intrigue.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
Show me where to start, Jack. That's what they're saying. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing land academy members in a live class called Career Path? We do this every quarter. If you're buying, selling land and you think it's your career, or you think you want it to be, give us a call.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to add, we are open right now and enrolling for session number four, and it starts April 23rd. We are doing it now on Saturdays. I'm so excited. Go to landacademy.com/careerpath and you'll find all the details there.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is not a commercial in any stretch. But I will tell you, one person a day is signing up for this. I expect that, what do we have? Typically 20 people.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm making it a commercial because it's good. Why do you always say that?

Steven Jack Butala:
I hate commercials.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I hate selling and all that stuff. That's not what this is.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
We're here to instruct everyone how to buy and sell land.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, but we need to inform you.

Steven Jack Butala:
To a huge amount of success, so.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go. All right, Greg wrote, "I was wondering for those of you that send out neighbor letters first, how much time do you usually wait after sending the letters to list with a broker if you think you're not getting any interest from the neighbors?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm getting ready to close, and I guess I should get a drone video first. Send neighbor letters, post on Facebook, et cetera. And then the last step would be to list with the broker if none of that seems to get much interest. Or maybe I have it all wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Also, when you do commit to list with a broker, you owe them commission no matter where the lead comes from. Right?" Okay. So first things first, I'm just jumping in here.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll comment at the end if it's necessary because I know where you're going to go with this.

Jill K DeWit:
I love where you're going with this. A lot of properties are fit into this model. And I love the neighbor letter, get the drones, get the pictures,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/21/how-to-split-land-parcels-toward-huge-financial-success-la-1723/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ksiWLizGM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 22:07:39 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/be160b89-766e-4556-a864-06e8426343ee.mp3" length="20873556" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Deadlines Deliverables and Communication (LA 1721)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Deadlines Deliverables and Communication (LA 1721)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Deadlines Deliverables and Communication (LA 1721)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about deadlines, deliverables, and communication. Yes, there is a possibility that Jill's going to be bored out of her skull.

Jill K DeWit:
Because I've already had this team meeting. I've had to sit in it several times. I have it down.

Steven Jack Butala:
All kidding aside, I just developed this thing recently, because we were having trouble getting stuff done in the education companies, like we call it around the office. Not so much the land companies, we've got that licked. Mostly because the people who have been working in the land companies under Jill's direction, they just understand each other really well. But, our education companies are getting bigger and we're hiring more staff and we needed a better way. And we built this deadlines, deliverables and communication thing after Jill's model. She didn't have a cute little label for it, and maybe I don't either. I don't know. But we built it off of what she's been doing with her land transaction coordinators and people that work there and it's working great.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. I appreciate the compliment.

Steven Jack Butala:
The goal is to never talk to your employees and never have them talk to you. And that's what this accomplishes.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the whole point here. That's what he paid attention to. Like, wait a minute. I'm like, "No, Jan, I go weeks. We don't, I feel bad, we don't talk." We have to like every two weeks we kind of sit down like, "How are you? Check in. You got 10 minutes?" "Sure." And we catch up real quick, but all of our communication is all online and we don't miss anything.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land... Our members on the landinvestors.com online community is free. And don't for forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Chuck wrote, "Does anyone have a LinkedIn profile in which they have info about their land investing company and their current job on it? I love to see how much you lay out. I don't know much about designing it."

Jill K DeWit:
I do.

Steven Jack Butala:
I do too. Everyone does. I think LinkedIn, is it LinkedIn? Yeah. LinkedIn is a great place to put, just to lay it all out. Everything. Yep. I graduated from college or I didn't graduate from college. This is a formal education I have. I'm still in college. Doesn't matter. This is the 21st Century now. Nobody cares about that stuff really anymore. Unless you're, you know,...

Jill K DeWit:
A doctor, attorney maybe...

Steven Jack Butala:
A doctor, a lawyer, and you're going to work for a high price firm and that whole old school kind of concept. That's all kind of gone. I say, just throw it all out there. Say, you know, "I live with my two dogs and my favorite person on a boat and wherever..." It just makes you that much more interesting. "Yeah. I've got this job over here. Sometimes I moonlight over here and I buy and sell land with Land Academy."

Jill K DeWit:
Perfect.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think I, you get my instant respect if you just, if you got a lot of stuff going on,

Jill K DeWit:
I agree.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about deadlines, deliverables, and communication. This is why you're listening, or maybe not. Jill has a system set up and she's going to explain it to us in great detail in a second here, because I modeled my education company system after her land system. It took her two years to do it,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Deadlines Deliverables and Communication (LA 1721)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about deadlines, deliverables, and communication. Yes, there is a possibility that Jill's going to be bored out of her skull.

Jill K DeWit:
Because I've already had this team meeting. I've had to sit in it several times. I have it down.

Steven Jack Butala:
All kidding aside, I just developed this thing recently, because we were having trouble getting stuff done in the education companies, like we call it around the office. Not so much the land companies, we've got that licked. Mostly because the people who have been working in the land companies under Jill's direction, they just understand each other really well. But, our education companies are getting bigger and we're hiring more staff and we needed a better way. And we built this deadlines, deliverables and communication thing after Jill's model. She didn't have a cute little label for it, and maybe I don't either. I don't know. But we built it off of what she's been doing with her land transaction coordinators and people that work there and it's working great.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. I appreciate the compliment.

Steven Jack Butala:
The goal is to never talk to your employees and never have them talk to you. And that's what this accomplishes.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the whole point here. That's what he paid attention to. Like, wait a minute. I'm like, "No, Jan, I go weeks. We don't, I feel bad, we don't talk." We have to like every two weeks we kind of sit down like, "How are you? Check in. You got 10 minutes?" "Sure." And we catch up real quick, but all of our communication is all online and we don't miss anything.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land... Our members on the landinvestors.com online community is free. And don't for forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Chuck wrote, "Does anyone have a LinkedIn profile in which they have info about their land investing company and their current job on it? I love to see how much you lay out. I don't know much about designing it."

Jill K DeWit:
I do.

Steven Jack Butala:
I do too. Everyone does. I think LinkedIn, is it LinkedIn? Yeah. LinkedIn is a great place to put, just to lay it all out. Everything. Yep. I graduated from college or I didn't graduate from college. This is a formal education I have. I'm still in college. Doesn't matter. This is the 21st Century now. Nobody cares about that stuff really anymore. Unless you're, you know,...

Jill K DeWit:
A doctor, attorney maybe...

Steven Jack Butala:
A doctor, a lawyer, and you're going to work for a high price firm and that whole old school kind of concept. That's all kind of gone. I say, just throw it all out there. Say, you know, "I live with my two dogs and my favorite person on a boat and wherever..." It just makes you that much more interesting. "Yeah. I've got this job over here. Sometimes I moonlight over here and I buy and sell land with Land Academy."

Jill K DeWit:
Perfect.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think I, you get my instant respect if you just, if you got a lot of stuff going on,

Jill K DeWit:
I agree.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about deadlines, deliverables, and communication. This is why you're listening, or maybe not. Jill has a system set up and she's going to explain it to us in great detail in a second here, because I modeled my education company system after her land system. It took her two years to do it,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/17/jack-thursday-deadlines-deliverables-and-communication-la-1721/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">NBTgOPYCh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:59:39 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7780532f-14e5-47a0-8107-e7e3c88ac573.mp3" length="14785475" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Recovering HGTV House Flippers Make Great Land Academy Land Flippers (LA 1720)</title><itunes:title>Recovering HGTV House Flippers Make Great Land Academy Land Flippers (LA 1720)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Recovering HGTV House Flippers Make Great Land Academy Land Flippers (LA 1720)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The House Academy Show. It must be Wednesday, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about recovering HGTV House Flippers and how they make great Land Academy, land flippers.

Jill K DeWit:
I love this. You know what's funny, I was watching HGTV last night, as a matter of fact. You know what?

Steven Jack Butala:
Does it get better or worse, that channel?

Jill K DeWit:
It's great. Because you know what? It is so fun, it's so entertaining, and I'm not doing it. And it was funny because we were talking about one the other day too. Like, "That doesn't even sound real." I'm like, "You know I question it." I'm sure some of it's-

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
... probably not exactly-

Steven Jack Butala:
None of it's real.

Jill K DeWit:
... accurate or real, but again, it is entertaining.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody told me in there, when we lived in Los Angeles, somebody from Hollywood said, "You know, reality TV is a style. It doesn't mean it's real."

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:01:00].

Jill K DeWit:
That's actually really funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
The sit the way that some people film westerns, some people film reality TV.

Jill K DeWit:
Does the name start with a B?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't remember who said that.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I will say this that, the numbers that they flash on the screen about, "Oh, we bought this house, especially in Indiana, we bought this house for $5,000. The city was going to tear it down and we scraped it and put a new house up for $38,000." How is that possible? There's no stretch of, there's no way those numbers can be right. You can't put a new mobile home on a piece of property, I know this from recent experience, for less than 150,000 bucks. So, how you build a new house for 30,000 is just a crack up.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. I've got to tell you, last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns in the mail. So, I took a look at how we personally send out mail with our key employees and ultimately, made the same people available to Land Academy members to get their mail out. We call it concierge data. It's the exact same service I use with the same people that I've trained over the years to do our mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
Our staff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our staff. A year later, hundreds of our members now are outsourcing their entire mail process with this product. Check out offers2owners.com and take a look at concierge data. See if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Erin wrote... Okay, I'm still running my red, yellow ring tests. I found out what appears to be some promising zip codes and decided to look at 12 months of past data. They look great in the last month but not so great for several months last year. See example. I saw that, what was there a minute ago. So, how much weight do you give to historical performance versus the last month or two?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is brilliant. A brilliant question. Do you look at just very recent data or the last two or three months? Or do you take a look at it a year back. Because this is kind of the experience that you're having here, Erin, has flipped from my experience. Usually the most recent months, at least where we're sending mail, are the best. They have the lowest days on market, the highest number of properties sold, and the lowest number of properties that are for sale. And all the ratios that were the red, green,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Recovering HGTV House Flippers Make Great Land Academy Land Flippers (LA 1720)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The House Academy Show. It must be Wednesday, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about recovering HGTV House Flippers and how they make great Land Academy, land flippers.

Jill K DeWit:
I love this. You know what's funny, I was watching HGTV last night, as a matter of fact. You know what?

Steven Jack Butala:
Does it get better or worse, that channel?

Jill K DeWit:
It's great. Because you know what? It is so fun, it's so entertaining, and I'm not doing it. And it was funny because we were talking about one the other day too. Like, "That doesn't even sound real." I'm like, "You know I question it." I'm sure some of it's-

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
... probably not exactly-

Steven Jack Butala:
None of it's real.

Jill K DeWit:
... accurate or real, but again, it is entertaining.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody told me in there, when we lived in Los Angeles, somebody from Hollywood said, "You know, reality TV is a style. It doesn't mean it's real."

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:01:00].

Jill K DeWit:
That's actually really funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
The sit the way that some people film westerns, some people film reality TV.

Jill K DeWit:
Does the name start with a B?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't remember who said that.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I will say this that, the numbers that they flash on the screen about, "Oh, we bought this house, especially in Indiana, we bought this house for $5,000. The city was going to tear it down and we scraped it and put a new house up for $38,000." How is that possible? There's no stretch of, there's no way those numbers can be right. You can't put a new mobile home on a piece of property, I know this from recent experience, for less than 150,000 bucks. So, how you build a new house for 30,000 is just a crack up.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. I've got to tell you, last year a ton of Land Academy members came to Jill and I needing extra help getting their blind offer campaigns in the mail. So, I took a look at how we personally send out mail with our key employees and ultimately, made the same people available to Land Academy members to get their mail out. We call it concierge data. It's the exact same service I use with the same people that I've trained over the years to do our mailers.

Jill K DeWit:
Our staff.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our staff. A year later, hundreds of our members now are outsourcing their entire mail process with this product. Check out offers2owners.com and take a look at concierge data. See if it's for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Erin wrote... Okay, I'm still running my red, yellow ring tests. I found out what appears to be some promising zip codes and decided to look at 12 months of past data. They look great in the last month but not so great for several months last year. See example. I saw that, what was there a minute ago. So, how much weight do you give to historical performance versus the last month or two?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is brilliant. A brilliant question. Do you look at just very recent data or the last two or three months? Or do you take a look at it a year back. Because this is kind of the experience that you're having here, Erin, has flipped from my experience. Usually the most recent months, at least where we're sending mail, are the best. They have the lowest days on market, the highest number of properties sold, and the lowest number of properties that are for sale. And all the ratios that were the red, green,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/16/recovering-hgtv-house-flippers-make-great-land-academy-land-flippers-la-1720/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pzZVKaLbs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:58:01 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4ff0c0f8-0d64-4c37-a890-1c9f62f5cabd.mp3" length="17301180" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Sending Blind Land Offers within a Price Range Backfires (LA 1719)</title><itunes:title>Why Sending Blind Land Offers within a Price Range Backfires (LA 1719)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Sending Blind Land Offers within a Price Range Backfires (LA 1719)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why sending blind land offers within a price range, backfires.

Jill K DeWit:
I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill said earlier, or yesterday I should say, that we own a ton of real estate all over the country at any given time, and she's never received...

Jill K DeWit:
Not one of these.

Steven Jack Butala:
Never received a range offer. What I mean by this is instead of sending an offer for, this is what we teach in Land Academy and very successfully implement, Jill and I together and have for decades. Is, "Hey, we want a buy your property that's located in this area, that we know you own for $16,832.28." We don't send an offer range like, "Well, we think your property's worth between $14,000 and $22,000 and call us back and we'll talk about it together."

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. Did you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called offer2owners.com? Jill and I set this company up several years ago, specifically, to mail out our blind offer campaigns and then we've ultimately started sharing it with our Land Academy members and some non-members only a couple years ago. Last month, I just checked, we mailed out about 700,000 offers that month on our member's behalf. Give us a call or go to offers2owners.com and see if it's real.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Jill K DeWit:
I am waiting for it to scroll up. Okay. Erin wrote, "Until recently, I have mostly avoided no access situations and used the title company to confirm access when it is questionable. Interestingly, I had one deal where one title company wouldn't ensure access, but the other one in town would. I guess the first title company just had a claim or two for a similar situation." Kind of funny. So one of our moderators, I already have one of their answers. So I'm going to answer this. I'll read this before we answer. So Kevin, one of our moderators wrote, "I have had a title company insurer with no access, but they had a disclaimer that said they would not govern any issues resulting from not having access. Also, I'm closing on a few right now that have a legal easement, but no rotor path. I purchased these and had a surveyor go out and mark the easement so that my buyers can clearly see that they do have a legal easement.

Jill K DeWit:
I avoid those with no access and even avoid deals or accesses through the neighboring parcel on a friendly verbal arrangement, since it's that part is not usually transferable. So now I sell all parcels with agents and then I need to have at least legal access for them to be able to show it by law." So he is taking it to a step further. Oh, one more thing. This is really lengthy. "I purchased a property from a guy who buys tax liens. Somehow he gets the deed. This property had no access, so he's sued for access. Cost him some money, it took about a year. Then I came long and made a good offer. I sent my surveyor out there to locate and mark the new easement through the neighbor property. That neighbor did not answer any attempt to contact during the suit or the easement."

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
"The suit for the easement, they may be uncooperative. So I work with an agent in the area who knows the neighbor and he went out there am fair warning that the surveyor will be working on the property next week." That was very nice. "I would not have done this deal without the connection with the agent to help with the neighbor.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Sending Blind Land Offers within a Price Range Backfires (LA 1719)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why sending blind land offers within a price range, backfires.

Jill K DeWit:
I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill said earlier, or yesterday I should say, that we own a ton of real estate all over the country at any given time, and she's never received...

Jill K DeWit:
Not one of these.

Steven Jack Butala:
Never received a range offer. What I mean by this is instead of sending an offer for, this is what we teach in Land Academy and very successfully implement, Jill and I together and have for decades. Is, "Hey, we want a buy your property that's located in this area, that we know you own for $16,832.28." We don't send an offer range like, "Well, we think your property's worth between $14,000 and $22,000 and call us back and we'll talk about it together."

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. Did you know that we have a full blown operational commercial printing company called offer2owners.com? Jill and I set this company up several years ago, specifically, to mail out our blind offer campaigns and then we've ultimately started sharing it with our Land Academy members and some non-members only a couple years ago. Last month, I just checked, we mailed out about 700,000 offers that month on our member's behalf. Give us a call or go to offers2owners.com and see if it's real.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool.

Jill K DeWit:
I am waiting for it to scroll up. Okay. Erin wrote, "Until recently, I have mostly avoided no access situations and used the title company to confirm access when it is questionable. Interestingly, I had one deal where one title company wouldn't ensure access, but the other one in town would. I guess the first title company just had a claim or two for a similar situation." Kind of funny. So one of our moderators, I already have one of their answers. So I'm going to answer this. I'll read this before we answer. So Kevin, one of our moderators wrote, "I have had a title company insurer with no access, but they had a disclaimer that said they would not govern any issues resulting from not having access. Also, I'm closing on a few right now that have a legal easement, but no rotor path. I purchased these and had a surveyor go out and mark the easement so that my buyers can clearly see that they do have a legal easement.

Jill K DeWit:
I avoid those with no access and even avoid deals or accesses through the neighboring parcel on a friendly verbal arrangement, since it's that part is not usually transferable. So now I sell all parcels with agents and then I need to have at least legal access for them to be able to show it by law." So he is taking it to a step further. Oh, one more thing. This is really lengthy. "I purchased a property from a guy who buys tax liens. Somehow he gets the deed. This property had no access, so he's sued for access. Cost him some money, it took about a year. Then I came long and made a good offer. I sent my surveyor out there to locate and mark the new easement through the neighbor property. That neighbor did not answer any attempt to contact during the suit or the easement."

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
"The suit for the easement, they may be uncooperative. So I work with an agent in the area who knows the neighbor and he went out there am fair warning that the surveyor will be working on the property next week." That was very nice. "I would not have done this deal without the connection with the agent to help with the neighbor.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/15/why-sending-blind-land-offers-within-a-price-range-backfires-la-1719/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">L0m-41_Kz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:40:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4bc7de44-48f2-46c9-948c-baa462794353.mp3" length="17697247" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Three Mandatory Tasks to Complete Every Day in Your Land Life (LA 1718)</title><itunes:title>Three Mandatory Tasks to Complete Every Day in Your Land Life (LA 1718)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Three Mandatory Tasks to Complete Every Day in Your Land Life (LA 1718)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about three mandatory tasks to complete every day in your land life. I think they're going to be kind of surprised about some of this stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. I'm excited. I know you put this together and you have some thoughts on this. I'm just going to let you run with it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path? If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be your career, this may be for you. Check us out on the internet at LandAcademy.com and give us a call.

Jill K DeWit:
I would also like to add a little follow-up announcement that we are doing a live all about Career Path tomorrow because we have some great changes that we're making to it. This is actually session number four that is starting in April. So, tomorrow's the big announcement. Check out YouTube or Facebook live under the Land Academy pages at four o'clock Pacific time, eight o'clock Eastern time. So, that's Tuesday, March 15th, four o'clock Pacific time, 8:00 PM Eastern time. Go to Land Academy on YouTube or Facebook and you could see us live and ask us all kinds of questions about Career Path. And we're going to fill you in with some exciting new things that we're doing this time. Thank you. And back to the show. Okay. So, Casey wrote "$16.53 cents net profit. Be careful of HOA properties, as mentioned a lot." Aw, yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have to tell you this. So, Casey's been with us for a while and I don't like all this rah-rah peaches and cream. So, Casey has a little story here about a property where he basically broke even and I think the world needs to hear it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. So, here's the story. "I bought this lot a year ago, assuming values were around $3,000, as was all the information that I could find. That included MLS access, which I have. After buying for $750, which I bought a second lot for $100 in the same HOA and sold a few weeks as the price was too good to pass up, I learned that the HOA had a board of property for sale at $1,500 or less. Thankfully, I was able to find a buyer this weekend who loved it. After all the fees I made a whopping $16.53 cents. I'm happy this one was a net positive and no matter how small, it's off my plate, but the point is watch out for those HOA properties."

Jill K DeWit:
That's one of the reasons why we kind of like... Unfortunately, initially I have a negative feeling about HOA stuff because of this and it may not be that bad. Some of the HOA rules are not that bad. Maybe just some nice, common sense, like let's not trash the place up, and I don't disagree with that. But some have really hefty transfer fees every single time and the way we do it, we buy the property, we own it, and then we try and sell it. So, I'm paying those transfer fees twice and they can be a couple thousand dollars each time. I've been hit with that. So, you got to really budget for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. This is still the land of the free and the home of the brave and HOAs kind of throw a wrench in all that with their fees and their rules and all of that. So, we're rural vacant land people. It just goes against what land represents.

Jill K DeWit:
It kind of does. Isn't that funny? I know. Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
That cowboy type freedom.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you think Yellowstone has an HOA? Could you imagine? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That back 40 over there,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Three Mandatory Tasks to Complete Every Day in Your Land Life (LA 1718)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about three mandatory tasks to complete every day in your land life. I think they're going to be kind of surprised about some of this stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. I'm excited. I know you put this together and you have some thoughts on this. I'm just going to let you run with it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and did you know that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path? If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be your career, this may be for you. Check us out on the internet at LandAcademy.com and give us a call.

Jill K DeWit:
I would also like to add a little follow-up announcement that we are doing a live all about Career Path tomorrow because we have some great changes that we're making to it. This is actually session number four that is starting in April. So, tomorrow's the big announcement. Check out YouTube or Facebook live under the Land Academy pages at four o'clock Pacific time, eight o'clock Eastern time. So, that's Tuesday, March 15th, four o'clock Pacific time, 8:00 PM Eastern time. Go to Land Academy on YouTube or Facebook and you could see us live and ask us all kinds of questions about Career Path. And we're going to fill you in with some exciting new things that we're doing this time. Thank you. And back to the show. Okay. So, Casey wrote "$16.53 cents net profit. Be careful of HOA properties, as mentioned a lot." Aw, yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have to tell you this. So, Casey's been with us for a while and I don't like all this rah-rah peaches and cream. So, Casey has a little story here about a property where he basically broke even and I think the world needs to hear it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. So, here's the story. "I bought this lot a year ago, assuming values were around $3,000, as was all the information that I could find. That included MLS access, which I have. After buying for $750, which I bought a second lot for $100 in the same HOA and sold a few weeks as the price was too good to pass up, I learned that the HOA had a board of property for sale at $1,500 or less. Thankfully, I was able to find a buyer this weekend who loved it. After all the fees I made a whopping $16.53 cents. I'm happy this one was a net positive and no matter how small, it's off my plate, but the point is watch out for those HOA properties."

Jill K DeWit:
That's one of the reasons why we kind of like... Unfortunately, initially I have a negative feeling about HOA stuff because of this and it may not be that bad. Some of the HOA rules are not that bad. Maybe just some nice, common sense, like let's not trash the place up, and I don't disagree with that. But some have really hefty transfer fees every single time and the way we do it, we buy the property, we own it, and then we try and sell it. So, I'm paying those transfer fees twice and they can be a couple thousand dollars each time. I've been hit with that. So, you got to really budget for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. This is still the land of the free and the home of the brave and HOAs kind of throw a wrench in all that with their fees and their rules and all of that. So, we're rural vacant land people. It just goes against what land represents.

Jill K DeWit:
It kind of does. Isn't that funny? I know. Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
That cowboy type freedom.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you think Yellowstone has an HOA? Could you imagine? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That back 40 over there,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/14/three-mandatory-tasks-to-complete-every-day-in-your-land-life-la-1718/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Oa0TX_PWs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:38:41 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/62a3051a-bc02-4b18-9bde-bd97b27867e0.mp3" length="15872884" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Inconsistency in Sending Mailers Equals Inconsistent Income (LA 1717) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Inconsistency in Sending Mailers Equals Inconsistent Income (LA 1717) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Inconsistency in Sending Mailers Equals Inconsistent Income (LA 1717) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how inconsistency in sending mailers equals inconsistent income.

Jill DeWit:
That's a mouthful.

Steven Butala:
Seems simple.

Jill DeWit:
Say that three times fast.

Steven Butala:
It seems simple. I can easily do it and bore the heck out of everyone. It seems like a simple concept-

Jill DeWit:
Saying it three times fast?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. It's a very, very simple concept, but it's hard. It's harder to do, we're finding from our members and even with us, once in a while, in our land buying and selling effort, harder to do than it seems. You know why? Because you run into issues.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think it's hard, I think it's discipline.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's really all it is and this-

Steven Butala:
You know what? That's exactly right. Discipline's hard.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, that's true.

Steven Butala:
Well said. [crosstalk 00:00:55]

Jill DeWit:
Who was the last person you disciplined? And please don't say me.

Steven Butala:
Geez.

Jill DeWit:
Give me your last discipline moment.

Steven Butala:
You know what? I hate the concept of discipline. I always have.

Jill DeWit:
I suck at it.

Steven Butala:
It's the thing about being a parent that I just... I never have gotten my head around it and never will.

Jill DeWit:
I know. Someone said that once a long time ago and I believe it to be true, the hardest thing about parenting is parenting. I would have easily been one of those parents that just went to bed at whatever time I was tired and let the kids just figure it out. Like, I'll fall asleep when they're tired. No, we got to do bedtime, we got to get them... That's a lot of work. That's not what this show is about, but anyway.

Steven Butala:
It's a lot of stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It kind of ties in to-

Steven Butala:
It totally ties in.

Jill DeWit:
...to this too. And I know we'll talk more about it.

Steven Butala:
We just recorded a show, actually, with a couple of guys, and it aired yesterday, or I guess, by the time this series, last week. And we really ended up talking about this topic. The stuff that it takes to do well, anything in life, is all the same. It's discipline, and a schedule, and staying on a schedule.

Steven Butala:
We used to say stay motivated a lot. I don't think that comes up that much any longer, because I think being motivated at this is pretty easy. I just think it's sticking to a schedule. It's all some version of that.

Jill DeWit:
I hear you.

Steven Butala:
Why don't you stick to a schedule? Because stuff goes on.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. I hear you.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Skylar wrote, "Hi Jack and Jill. I found out about your live event the day before and I could not attend." You must have saw my note here, too. "I've been, however, listening to your podcast every single day. Please, would you consider this live event again? I'm a beginner, by the way, and I would really like to do what Jack says in the podcast." And then this member is just killing it. That was your note?

Steven Butala:
This member is just killing it? No, they wrote that about themselves.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's funny. Well, I wrote... It's funny you say this, I'm getting out my calendar right now so I can look it up. So I responded to the person and said, "Yes, because here's the whole deal, it's all about our live event." And it's cool to get together-

Steven Butala:
The reason I included this question is-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, tell me.

Steven Butala:
...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Inconsistency in Sending Mailers Equals Inconsistent Income (LA 1717) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how inconsistency in sending mailers equals inconsistent income.

Jill DeWit:
That's a mouthful.

Steven Butala:
Seems simple.

Jill DeWit:
Say that three times fast.

Steven Butala:
It seems simple. I can easily do it and bore the heck out of everyone. It seems like a simple concept-

Jill DeWit:
Saying it three times fast?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. It's a very, very simple concept, but it's hard. It's harder to do, we're finding from our members and even with us, once in a while, in our land buying and selling effort, harder to do than it seems. You know why? Because you run into issues.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think it's hard, I think it's discipline.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's really all it is and this-

Steven Butala:
You know what? That's exactly right. Discipline's hard.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, that's true.

Steven Butala:
Well said. [crosstalk 00:00:55]

Jill DeWit:
Who was the last person you disciplined? And please don't say me.

Steven Butala:
Geez.

Jill DeWit:
Give me your last discipline moment.

Steven Butala:
You know what? I hate the concept of discipline. I always have.

Jill DeWit:
I suck at it.

Steven Butala:
It's the thing about being a parent that I just... I never have gotten my head around it and never will.

Jill DeWit:
I know. Someone said that once a long time ago and I believe it to be true, the hardest thing about parenting is parenting. I would have easily been one of those parents that just went to bed at whatever time I was tired and let the kids just figure it out. Like, I'll fall asleep when they're tired. No, we got to do bedtime, we got to get them... That's a lot of work. That's not what this show is about, but anyway.

Steven Butala:
It's a lot of stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It kind of ties in to-

Steven Butala:
It totally ties in.

Jill DeWit:
...to this too. And I know we'll talk more about it.

Steven Butala:
We just recorded a show, actually, with a couple of guys, and it aired yesterday, or I guess, by the time this series, last week. And we really ended up talking about this topic. The stuff that it takes to do well, anything in life, is all the same. It's discipline, and a schedule, and staying on a schedule.

Steven Butala:
We used to say stay motivated a lot. I don't think that comes up that much any longer, because I think being motivated at this is pretty easy. I just think it's sticking to a schedule. It's all some version of that.

Jill DeWit:
I hear you.

Steven Butala:
Why don't you stick to a schedule? Because stuff goes on.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. I hear you.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Skylar wrote, "Hi Jack and Jill. I found out about your live event the day before and I could not attend." You must have saw my note here, too. "I've been, however, listening to your podcast every single day. Please, would you consider this live event again? I'm a beginner, by the way, and I would really like to do what Jack says in the podcast." And then this member is just killing it. That was your note?

Steven Butala:
This member is just killing it? No, they wrote that about themselves.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's funny. Well, I wrote... It's funny you say this, I'm getting out my calendar right now so I can look it up. So I responded to the person and said, "Yes, because here's the whole deal, it's all about our live event." And it's cool to get together-

Steven Butala:
The reason I included this question is-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, tell me.

Steven Butala:
...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/11/inconsistency-in-sending-mailers-equals-inconsistent-income-la-1717-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">STqgmy3Lo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 23:08:27 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e190e2bb-1434-4163-8e0b-bddcc3a39750.mp3" length="23524211" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>People are Getting Rich (LA 1716) RERUN</title><itunes:title>People are Getting Rich (LA 1716) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[People are Getting Rich (LA 1716) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Monday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how people are getting rich. This whole title, and show, and episode came up because Jill had a consulting call with a couple of people, and they're getting rich. They're in our group, getting rich, and they want to know how to get, I guess-

Jill DeWit:
Richer.

Steven Butala:
Better.

Jill DeWit:
It's so funny. It was just like, I hung up the phone ... Or, wasn't on the phone. It was a Zoom call. I got off the call, and I'm like, "Holy cow." It's just a sweet couple in our group about to quit their jobs. Those are good jobs, by the way. I'm like, "Do they even realize what just happened?" Then what we were talking about is what's possible. That's what's ... They're ready for it. They're like, "Yep, we get you." They weren't even shocked, as we talked. I know we'll share more about this.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, we'll get into it in the episode, because we haven't talked about it at all, except for the title. I want to know what they said and what their situation is, and how they got there, and all of that.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
[Pete 00:01:23] wrote, "Hi, all. I'm new to Land Academy and loving it all. I just approved my first batch of 10,000 units of mail, 10,000 mailers, with offers to owners. I can't wait until the activity starts."

Steven Butala:
Yikes.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I wonder if Pete's going to send it out all at once, been there, done that, or he's going to sparse it out. I'm guessing he's going to sparse it out, but we'll see.

Jill DeWit:
"In my opinion," here we go, "I'd rather send a large quantity of mail and be a little picky instead of moving forward with marginal deals that will take longer to sell. I'm hoping to get on this schedule, this amount of mailers per week as a base, and then build up from there. Am I setting myself up to be overwhelmed, or is this a level that I can manage as long as I delegate as much as possible? I'm planning to use PATLive, and I've got a couple assistants already that work for me for other businesses."

Steven Butala:
Oh, okay.

Jill DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
Here we go. He's got other businesses.

Jill DeWit:
"It should be pretty easy for me to get them up to speed on some of the other tasks."

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
"Is there anyone out there that sends 100,000 mailers a month? From the response rates I've heard just reading here, this type of volume could be really lucrative as long as you can turn your system into a well-oiled machine." This ties into what we talked about yesterday. "If any pros out there have some advice or tips on anything, I'm all ears."

Jill DeWit:
You want to go first?

Steven Butala:
No, you go first.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. This ties into ... It was last week, actually, the call that I had with this couple that we're going to talk about today, and just what's possible.

Jill DeWit:
To answer Pete's question, see what you can do. I personally ... We talked about this in the last couple weeks, those people that are go-for-it people that just jump off the cliff, there's people that, "I'm going to stand over here and watch you guys," and there's some that can't get out of the car. Pete's clearly a "jump off the cliff", and he's a "run off the cliff" person.

Steven Butala:
Just like Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I'll figure it out. You're either going to sink or swim. You're going to figure it out. It sounds like Pete has other companies and things going on. This is not nuts for him. I think it's great.

Steven Butala:
I do too.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[People are Getting Rich (LA 1716) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Monday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how people are getting rich. This whole title, and show, and episode came up because Jill had a consulting call with a couple of people, and they're getting rich. They're in our group, getting rich, and they want to know how to get, I guess-

Jill DeWit:
Richer.

Steven Butala:
Better.

Jill DeWit:
It's so funny. It was just like, I hung up the phone ... Or, wasn't on the phone. It was a Zoom call. I got off the call, and I'm like, "Holy cow." It's just a sweet couple in our group about to quit their jobs. Those are good jobs, by the way. I'm like, "Do they even realize what just happened?" Then what we were talking about is what's possible. That's what's ... They're ready for it. They're like, "Yep, we get you." They weren't even shocked, as we talked. I know we'll share more about this.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, we'll get into it in the episode, because we haven't talked about it at all, except for the title. I want to know what they said and what their situation is, and how they got there, and all of that.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
[Pete 00:01:23] wrote, "Hi, all. I'm new to Land Academy and loving it all. I just approved my first batch of 10,000 units of mail, 10,000 mailers, with offers to owners. I can't wait until the activity starts."

Steven Butala:
Yikes.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I wonder if Pete's going to send it out all at once, been there, done that, or he's going to sparse it out. I'm guessing he's going to sparse it out, but we'll see.

Jill DeWit:
"In my opinion," here we go, "I'd rather send a large quantity of mail and be a little picky instead of moving forward with marginal deals that will take longer to sell. I'm hoping to get on this schedule, this amount of mailers per week as a base, and then build up from there. Am I setting myself up to be overwhelmed, or is this a level that I can manage as long as I delegate as much as possible? I'm planning to use PATLive, and I've got a couple assistants already that work for me for other businesses."

Steven Butala:
Oh, okay.

Jill DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
Here we go. He's got other businesses.

Jill DeWit:
"It should be pretty easy for me to get them up to speed on some of the other tasks."

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
"Is there anyone out there that sends 100,000 mailers a month? From the response rates I've heard just reading here, this type of volume could be really lucrative as long as you can turn your system into a well-oiled machine." This ties into what we talked about yesterday. "If any pros out there have some advice or tips on anything, I'm all ears."

Jill DeWit:
You want to go first?

Steven Butala:
No, you go first.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. This ties into ... It was last week, actually, the call that I had with this couple that we're going to talk about today, and just what's possible.

Jill DeWit:
To answer Pete's question, see what you can do. I personally ... We talked about this in the last couple weeks, those people that are go-for-it people that just jump off the cliff, there's people that, "I'm going to stand over here and watch you guys," and there's some that can't get out of the car. Pete's clearly a "jump off the cliff", and he's a "run off the cliff" person.

Steven Butala:
Just like Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I'll figure it out. You're either going to sink or swim. You're going to figure it out. It sounds like Pete has other companies and things going on. This is not nuts for him. I think it's great.

Steven Butala:
I do too.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/10/people-are-getting-rich-la-1716-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dX-LAJI8T</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:05:23 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/432d9137-0e10-4c2d-9cd3-1a162267aa87.mp3" length="22610566" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Interview with Land Academy Member Tiffany Carter (LA 1715) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Interview with Land Academy Member Tiffany Carter (LA 1715) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Interview with Land Academy Member Tiffany Carter (LA 1715) RERUN
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https://houseacademy.com
I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.
And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Interview with Land Academy Member Tiffany Carter (LA 1715) RERUN
Transcript:
If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.
The BuWit Family of Companies include:
https://BuWit.com
https://offers2owners.com
https://landinvestors.com
https://landacademy.com
https://landpin.com
https://parcelfact.com
https://countywise.com
https://deedperfect.com
https://ownersdata.com
https://houseacademy.com
I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.
And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/09/interview-with-land-academy-member-tiffany-carter-la-1715-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a-aTeh56z</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:02:24 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d8207845-3df6-48b4-a610-4497f7d451b7.mp3" length="44379662" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>46:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pushing Past What&amp;#8217;s Holding You Back (LA 1714)</title><itunes:title>Pushing Past What&amp;#8217;s Holding You Back (LA 1714)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Pushing Past What's Holding You Back (LA 1714)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about pushing past what's holding you back. This is a direct result of a conversation that Jill had with her... Well, you described where you got this topic [crosstalk 00:00:24].

Jill DeWit:
It's the Land Academy ladies group. This is actually an upcoming topic that we're going to talk about. I think it's next week in our meeting. So, what it is, is if you don't know, I'll tell you. You can get in on this. For all the women, whether you're the primary person in your company or your secondary in your company, it's you and your husband or you and your brother or you and your sister, or you and your friend, whatever it is, it's for the women of Land Academy, we call Land Academy ladies. We have a weekly, closed zoom call where we get together. Guys are not allowed, sorry. And we talk about things that are unique to us. And this was one of the things that we talked about this week, and we're going to cover more in depth next week.

Steven Butala:
Awesome. How did it go? It was the first time, right?

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh, it was awesome. So much fun. And we had people there from Sydney, Australia. We had Hawaii, we had all over the U.S., you name it. And it was just a really... And we had all different backgrounds and all different ages and some with little kids and some way retired, almost. And this is just another thing they're doing. It was great.

Steven Butala:
That's great.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's always coming up with something new Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It was really fun.

Jill DeWit:
I was inspired.

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Jill DeWit:
What's so funny... That's the whole thing. I kind of... This came about because people were asking about it and I wanted to do it. And then I walked away with like, wow, I can't wait to do that again. I'm inspired. And I had an aha moment. It was awesome.

Steven Butala:
Good. Before we get into it today, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I'm going to read the question today. We're going to answer the questions as we go, because this is a very, very, very positive, very good, realistic experience, I think, for what happens, even now with us today, when we buy land.

Steven Butala:
Thomas asks, "I would like to know some strategies that others are using. I sent my second mailer in October. A couple of weeks, went by with no responses, so I sent another one out in November to a different county in the same state, when my lack of patience bit me."

Steven Butala:
Every single time this happens to us.

Jill DeWit:
It does. Even to us.

Steven Butala:
"I began getting several calls and sign agreements for my second mailer. I have one purchase in title right now, and another behind that one and possibly a third. I have had a massive response on my third mailer, where I can't even keep up with the calls, emails, and sign agreements. Many I pass over because of the lack of the five A's."

Jill DeWit:
Yay.

Steven Butala:
"I have several deals lined up with my third mailer. Many sellers are in no rush, but I don't want to put them off. I can't handle the volume. What are some of you doing to delay purchases without seeming like a 'novice'", in quotes, "which I am."

Jill DeWit:
I think this is so great. Well, first, I want to say, thank you, Thomas, for picking up on the five A's or used to be four, and now there's five, because I added, alive, because that often comes up.

Steven Butala:
We should say what the five A's are.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. They are access, attributes, acreage, affordability, and alive. So,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Pushing Past What's Holding You Back (LA 1714)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about pushing past what's holding you back. This is a direct result of a conversation that Jill had with her... Well, you described where you got this topic [crosstalk 00:00:24].

Jill DeWit:
It's the Land Academy ladies group. This is actually an upcoming topic that we're going to talk about. I think it's next week in our meeting. So, what it is, is if you don't know, I'll tell you. You can get in on this. For all the women, whether you're the primary person in your company or your secondary in your company, it's you and your husband or you and your brother or you and your sister, or you and your friend, whatever it is, it's for the women of Land Academy, we call Land Academy ladies. We have a weekly, closed zoom call where we get together. Guys are not allowed, sorry. And we talk about things that are unique to us. And this was one of the things that we talked about this week, and we're going to cover more in depth next week.

Steven Butala:
Awesome. How did it go? It was the first time, right?

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh, it was awesome. So much fun. And we had people there from Sydney, Australia. We had Hawaii, we had all over the U.S., you name it. And it was just a really... And we had all different backgrounds and all different ages and some with little kids and some way retired, almost. And this is just another thing they're doing. It was great.

Steven Butala:
That's great.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's always coming up with something new Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It was really fun.

Jill DeWit:
I was inspired.

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Jill DeWit:
What's so funny... That's the whole thing. I kind of... This came about because people were asking about it and I wanted to do it. And then I walked away with like, wow, I can't wait to do that again. I'm inspired. And I had an aha moment. It was awesome.

Steven Butala:
Good. Before we get into it today, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I'm going to read the question today. We're going to answer the questions as we go, because this is a very, very, very positive, very good, realistic experience, I think, for what happens, even now with us today, when we buy land.

Steven Butala:
Thomas asks, "I would like to know some strategies that others are using. I sent my second mailer in October. A couple of weeks, went by with no responses, so I sent another one out in November to a different county in the same state, when my lack of patience bit me."

Steven Butala:
Every single time this happens to us.

Jill DeWit:
It does. Even to us.

Steven Butala:
"I began getting several calls and sign agreements for my second mailer. I have one purchase in title right now, and another behind that one and possibly a third. I have had a massive response on my third mailer, where I can't even keep up with the calls, emails, and sign agreements. Many I pass over because of the lack of the five A's."

Jill DeWit:
Yay.

Steven Butala:
"I have several deals lined up with my third mailer. Many sellers are in no rush, but I don't want to put them off. I can't handle the volume. What are some of you doing to delay purchases without seeming like a 'novice'", in quotes, "which I am."

Jill DeWit:
I think this is so great. Well, first, I want to say, thank you, Thomas, for picking up on the five A's or used to be four, and now there's five, because I added, alive, because that often comes up.

Steven Butala:
We should say what the five A's are.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. They are access, attributes, acreage, affordability, and alive. So,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/08/pushing-past-whats-holding-you-back-la-1714/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8zaWxkB_P</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:54:36 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5f454d56-b02a-46d7-8e9b-115a1a4d6c43.mp3" length="28113543" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Send More Mail with Land Academy Members Tom Debicki and Patrycja Zak (LA 1713) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Send More Mail with Land Academy Members Tom Debicki and Patrycja Zak (LA 1713) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Send More Mail with Land Academy Members Tom Debicki and Patrycja Zak (LA 1713) RERUN
If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

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https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Send More Mail with Land Academy Members Tom Debicki and Patrycja Zak (LA 1713) RERUN
If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/07/send-more-mail-with-land-academy-members-tom-debicki-and-patrycja-zak-la-1713-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">m_ennxxS-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:50:39 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3a8e4e46-1534-4652-a98f-9194fa2969a6.mp3" length="35870477" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>35:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Female Land Investors Unite (LA 1712)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Female Land Investors Unite (LA 1712)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Female Land Investors Unite (LA 1712)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala...

Jill K DeWit:
... and I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk... It's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about female land investors unite.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That should be a patch. We need to make that a thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Someone wrote... I know it's not this name because I keep seeing the same name repeated.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is. There's multiple.

Jill K DeWit:
The one before was of Luke, but yeah. Okay. Maybe this is Erin. If it's not Erin, I apologize. You know who you are. On mailer...

Steven Jack Butala:
Are you questioning my podcast production value?

Jill K DeWit:
Nope. Nope. Nope. Not today. Thanks for asking. That was good, though. "On mailer yield, my mind asked the same analytical guide question. I've been doing one deal per a thousand letters. Target, 10 to $30,000 in profit lately, in an area I know really well. And I've been getting really, really fine-grain on the pricing." Good job.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it works.

Jill K DeWit:
"I've logged a 5,000 unit mailer at a new area and ended up with no deals, although I bet there was one in there with the right phone work. And just another variation, I lobbed 1.3 thousand unit mailer with really low pricing and did one nice deal." It depends. If you think you sent out a bunch of mail, you will both make some money and collect data to answer your own question.

Steven Jack Butala:
I put this question in here because this is Land Academy. What this person is describing is the same experience that Jill and I got on our last mailer, and it's the same experience I've gotten for 25 years. Sometimes, you hit it, and sometimes... We've honestly never been skunked, but largely because Jill, on her end, can... She and her team do things on her end that creates transactions for us out of mail that maybe I sent out that might be substandard, but it's never perfect. You can do this for 30 years. It's not going to be perfect, but it's very, very profitable, and very predictable.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. Female land investors unite. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
I was thinking about this when we were sitting down picking topics this week, and I love how many women I am seeing pop up in Land Academy. I see when there's a checkout and there's a woman's name. I see them in career path. In every session of career path, we have had a healthy, healthy showing of solo and partnered female investors, and it's great. I love it. I am so excited, and I wanted to just talk about it and let you... Every time you take a breath, I'm like, "He's holding back on something." Nope. Okay. I wanted to talk about it for a few minutes and just let you know that, if you weren't sure, you can do this, and I'm going to tell you some of the reasons why. I know that we can definitely... There's things we do better.

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry, but I got to say it. There's things that we do better. For example, who do you want to talk on the phone with when the mail comes out? Do you want Jack to the phone, or do you want me to answer the phone? It's just as simple as that. I'm totally serious. And, even if Jack put on as nicest... We talked about the happiest and the friendliest states. If Jack put on his, "I'm living in Utah," hat, so, "I'm the friend, I'm happy, and I'm going to talk like I'm from Tennessee or Minnesota, and so I'm the friendliest state,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Female Land Investors Unite (LA 1712)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala...

Jill K DeWit:
... and I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk... It's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about female land investors unite.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. That should be a patch. We need to make that a thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Someone wrote... I know it's not this name because I keep seeing the same name repeated.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is. There's multiple.

Jill K DeWit:
The one before was of Luke, but yeah. Okay. Maybe this is Erin. If it's not Erin, I apologize. You know who you are. On mailer...

Steven Jack Butala:
Are you questioning my podcast production value?

Jill K DeWit:
Nope. Nope. Nope. Not today. Thanks for asking. That was good, though. "On mailer yield, my mind asked the same analytical guide question. I've been doing one deal per a thousand letters. Target, 10 to $30,000 in profit lately, in an area I know really well. And I've been getting really, really fine-grain on the pricing." Good job.

Steven Jack Butala:
And it works.

Jill K DeWit:
"I've logged a 5,000 unit mailer at a new area and ended up with no deals, although I bet there was one in there with the right phone work. And just another variation, I lobbed 1.3 thousand unit mailer with really low pricing and did one nice deal." It depends. If you think you sent out a bunch of mail, you will both make some money and collect data to answer your own question.

Steven Jack Butala:
I put this question in here because this is Land Academy. What this person is describing is the same experience that Jill and I got on our last mailer, and it's the same experience I've gotten for 25 years. Sometimes, you hit it, and sometimes... We've honestly never been skunked, but largely because Jill, on her end, can... She and her team do things on her end that creates transactions for us out of mail that maybe I sent out that might be substandard, but it's never perfect. You can do this for 30 years. It's not going to be perfect, but it's very, very profitable, and very predictable.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. Female land investors unite. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
I was thinking about this when we were sitting down picking topics this week, and I love how many women I am seeing pop up in Land Academy. I see when there's a checkout and there's a woman's name. I see them in career path. In every session of career path, we have had a healthy, healthy showing of solo and partnered female investors, and it's great. I love it. I am so excited, and I wanted to just talk about it and let you... Every time you take a breath, I'm like, "He's holding back on something." Nope. Okay. I wanted to talk about it for a few minutes and just let you know that, if you weren't sure, you can do this, and I'm going to tell you some of the reasons why. I know that we can definitely... There's things we do better.

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry, but I got to say it. There's things that we do better. For example, who do you want to talk on the phone with when the mail comes out? Do you want Jack to the phone, or do you want me to answer the phone? It's just as simple as that. I'm totally serious. And, even if Jack put on as nicest... We talked about the happiest and the friendliest states. If Jack put on his, "I'm living in Utah," hat, so, "I'm the friend, I'm happy, and I'm going to talk like I'm from Tennessee or Minnesota, and so I'm the friendliest state,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/04/jill-friday-female-land-investors-unite-la-1712/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Q5QfADWNI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6b3bd110-1b52-4ba0-9407-8178bb5c49d4.mp3" length="13638177" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Numbers (LA 1711)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Numbers (LA 1711)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Numbers (LA 1711)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And this episode is called numbers. And I'm going to surprise, surprise, share my thoughts on why everything starts and ends with the numbers in business.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. Hey, before we do that, can we do our fun thing?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So we mentioned yesterday, we were talking about from the question that [crosstalk 00:00:36].

Steven Jack Butala:
We're the nicest people in the country.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, hold, please. Yeah, Aaron wrote, and we launched into this question about like it was picking an address and picking area code for you to have as your home base for your mailer in your company. So we're thinking one of my ideas was what if you just researched and picked where the nicest people are in the country, and you use that as your place to have your phone number and everything tied to because everybody knows that you're so nice. What's funny is I guess two of the top three, I'm pretty proud of myself. So do you want to share?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, you did. Well, this comes from a survey. This is 2022, where big seven travel. We have no affiliation in any way, asked 1.5 million of their social media followers to vote by state where the friendliest, nicest people are. And the results are.

Jill K DeWit:
Let's do the top three. Number one, this one, I didn't guess. Minnesota. That's number one. I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can tell you with personal experience. There are a lot of people from Minnesota that are snowbirds here in Phoenix right now.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
They are the nicest people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Number two and number three, I guessed, I got Tennessee, and I was thinking there's probably someone we don't even hear about like South Carolina by golly; they're number three. Here's what's funnier.

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going down the list.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know what the meanest are? Oh, you want to keep going?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, there's meanest.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I wrote, oh wait. I've worked ahead on my project.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to reel down the list.

Jill K DeWit:
Can you do the nicest? And then I'm going to add mine.

Steven Jack Butala:
Number four is Texas, number five, Wyoming. Number six, Indiana, a little bit of surprise there. Number seven, Colorado, no surprise. Number eight, Kansas. Number nine, Oklahoma, no surprises here at all. Number 10 Hawaii, which was very surprising.

Jill K DeWit:
Now let me add my research because this is funnier. This is what it said are the meanest people in the country? Number one is; New Mexico.

Steven Jack Butala:
What? Really?

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's strange.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. And number two is; Arkansas. Okay. Then wait.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not right.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what this says. I'm not kidding. And it said even like New Mexico, even though they may have friendly names of their towns are not that nice. And then this is even better. I wrote down the happiest and the unhappiest. This is a different study. They used 31 metrics. It was like a medical group, like a hospital that did this one on the happiest and the unhappiest. And they used 31 metrics, including unemployment and suicide rates. Not kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jeez.

Jill K DeWit:
I know it's kind of scary. So the happiest state in the country is, do you know?

Steven Jack Butala:
I have cheated. I looked at it, so I do know.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, Utah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I'm surprised that Utah didn't come up on this list.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of the friendliest.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Numbers (LA 1711)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And this episode is called numbers. And I'm going to surprise, surprise, share my thoughts on why everything starts and ends with the numbers in business.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. Hey, before we do that, can we do our fun thing?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So we mentioned yesterday, we were talking about from the question that [crosstalk 00:00:36].

Steven Jack Butala:
We're the nicest people in the country.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, hold, please. Yeah, Aaron wrote, and we launched into this question about like it was picking an address and picking area code for you to have as your home base for your mailer in your company. So we're thinking one of my ideas was what if you just researched and picked where the nicest people are in the country, and you use that as your place to have your phone number and everything tied to because everybody knows that you're so nice. What's funny is I guess two of the top three, I'm pretty proud of myself. So do you want to share?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, you did. Well, this comes from a survey. This is 2022, where big seven travel. We have no affiliation in any way, asked 1.5 million of their social media followers to vote by state where the friendliest, nicest people are. And the results are.

Jill K DeWit:
Let's do the top three. Number one, this one, I didn't guess. Minnesota. That's number one. I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can tell you with personal experience. There are a lot of people from Minnesota that are snowbirds here in Phoenix right now.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
They are the nicest people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Number two and number three, I guessed, I got Tennessee, and I was thinking there's probably someone we don't even hear about like South Carolina by golly; they're number three. Here's what's funnier.

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going down the list.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know what the meanest are? Oh, you want to keep going?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, there's meanest.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I wrote, oh wait. I've worked ahead on my project.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm going to reel down the list.

Jill K DeWit:
Can you do the nicest? And then I'm going to add mine.

Steven Jack Butala:
Number four is Texas, number five, Wyoming. Number six, Indiana, a little bit of surprise there. Number seven, Colorado, no surprise. Number eight, Kansas. Number nine, Oklahoma, no surprises here at all. Number 10 Hawaii, which was very surprising.

Jill K DeWit:
Now let me add my research because this is funnier. This is what it said are the meanest people in the country? Number one is; New Mexico.

Steven Jack Butala:
What? Really?

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's strange.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. And number two is; Arkansas. Okay. Then wait.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not right.

Jill K DeWit:
That's what this says. I'm not kidding. And it said even like New Mexico, even though they may have friendly names of their towns are not that nice. And then this is even better. I wrote down the happiest and the unhappiest. This is a different study. They used 31 metrics. It was like a medical group, like a hospital that did this one on the happiest and the unhappiest. And they used 31 metrics, including unemployment and suicide rates. Not kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jeez.

Jill K DeWit:
I know it's kind of scary. So the happiest state in the country is, do you know?

Steven Jack Butala:
I have cheated. I looked at it, so I do know.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, Utah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I'm surprised that Utah didn't come up on this list.

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of the friendliest.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/03/jack-thursday-numbers-la-1711/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Td9AwT2Qp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6363f740-6892-46f9-8642-4472387b38a2.mp3" length="15706159" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Extraordinary Deal Funding Volume (LA 1710)</title><itunes:title>Extraordinary Deal Funding Volume (LA 1710)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Extraordinary Deal Funding Volume (LA 1710)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to The House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the extraordinary deal funding volume we're experiencing.
Jill K DeWit:It's so good.
Steven Jack Butala:I, for years and years said, "We've created Land Academy and House Academy to create business partners for ourselves." Well, it's happening.
Jill K DeWit:Well, you know what's so funny? We didn't plan for everybody... The way it worked and doing deals together and having more money and helping people with our money was, we thought about, but the fact that other people are helping other people with their own money, I never thought about.
Steven Jack Butala:This is one big legal syndication that we have going on here. I've never said a sentence like this in my life and never thought it was possible. Jill and I could get anything funded, any deal of any size. If we believed in the real estate deal and sent out mega crazy mailers, which we're doing this year, and we will run out of money at some point that we've allocated to buy land, we'll very easily get funding on the rest. And that goes for you too.
Steven Jack Butala:As a Land Academy member, you have access to tens of millions of dollars or more if the deal's good. I'm really proud of that. It's a serious accomplishment. It was one of the things that I tried to set out to do with this right from the beginning. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Erin wrote, "Anyone have a suggestion for this one? I need a mailbox to get back offers, but I'm not sure what to do since I may move in the next six months from the West coast to the East coast. If I set up one on the West coast, then I guess I could forward the mail to the East coast, but it seems very inefficient and would create a lag in responding to potential deals. Any ideas on how to better do this? Piggybacking on my last question, how about a phone number? Should I try and get a local area code number for Texas, let's say if I'm after Texas land, if no one cares what area they're calling back as long as you have the money?" I'll read this one response. Is it one response in here?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:Just one.
Jill K DeWit:And then I'll add to it. Member Leonard already wrote in to help Erin here, and it says, "Hi. What I typically do is keep the phone number to the same area as my mailing address. We have used local area numbers and I don't think it makes a considerable difference. It does help if you're calling local realtors to have a local number. Don't overcomplicate it for yourself. We use," this is what I was thinking anyway, "www.virtualpostmail.com, and they email us a scanned copy of any letter." This is the best. That's what I was going to say. "Our phone system is open phone and it's $10 per number per month. Keep your business address forever." There you go.
Steven Jack Butala:This response is-
Jill K DeWit:Perfect.
Steven Jack Butala:- from a father and son team in Ireland.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. [crosstalk 00:03:16].
Steven Jack Butala:If anybody has figured this out, it's somebody from a different country and got a time zone that's what, seven or eight hours different?
Jill K DeWit:Yep. There you go. I can't do it any better, but I was going to mention, thank you, Leonard, for putting in there the name of the company. I couldn't think of the name of the one, but I knew they existed, where you have a physical mailing address where your mail will go. They open it, they scan it,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Extraordinary Deal Funding Volume (LA 1710)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to The House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the extraordinary deal funding volume we're experiencing.
Jill K DeWit:It's so good.
Steven Jack Butala:I, for years and years said, "We've created Land Academy and House Academy to create business partners for ourselves." Well, it's happening.
Jill K DeWit:Well, you know what's so funny? We didn't plan for everybody... The way it worked and doing deals together and having more money and helping people with our money was, we thought about, but the fact that other people are helping other people with their own money, I never thought about.
Steven Jack Butala:This is one big legal syndication that we have going on here. I've never said a sentence like this in my life and never thought it was possible. Jill and I could get anything funded, any deal of any size. If we believed in the real estate deal and sent out mega crazy mailers, which we're doing this year, and we will run out of money at some point that we've allocated to buy land, we'll very easily get funding on the rest. And that goes for you too.
Steven Jack Butala:As a Land Academy member, you have access to tens of millions of dollars or more if the deal's good. I'm really proud of that. It's a serious accomplishment. It was one of the things that I tried to set out to do with this right from the beginning. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Erin wrote, "Anyone have a suggestion for this one? I need a mailbox to get back offers, but I'm not sure what to do since I may move in the next six months from the West coast to the East coast. If I set up one on the West coast, then I guess I could forward the mail to the East coast, but it seems very inefficient and would create a lag in responding to potential deals. Any ideas on how to better do this? Piggybacking on my last question, how about a phone number? Should I try and get a local area code number for Texas, let's say if I'm after Texas land, if no one cares what area they're calling back as long as you have the money?" I'll read this one response. Is it one response in here?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:Just one.
Jill K DeWit:And then I'll add to it. Member Leonard already wrote in to help Erin here, and it says, "Hi. What I typically do is keep the phone number to the same area as my mailing address. We have used local area numbers and I don't think it makes a considerable difference. It does help if you're calling local realtors to have a local number. Don't overcomplicate it for yourself. We use," this is what I was thinking anyway, "www.virtualpostmail.com, and they email us a scanned copy of any letter." This is the best. That's what I was going to say. "Our phone system is open phone and it's $10 per number per month. Keep your business address forever." There you go.
Steven Jack Butala:This response is-
Jill K DeWit:Perfect.
Steven Jack Butala:- from a father and son team in Ireland.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. [crosstalk 00:03:16].
Steven Jack Butala:If anybody has figured this out, it's somebody from a different country and got a time zone that's what, seven or eight hours different?
Jill K DeWit:Yep. There you go. I can't do it any better, but I was going to mention, thank you, Leonard, for putting in there the name of the company. I couldn't think of the name of the one, but I knew they existed, where you have a physical mailing address where your mail will go. They open it, they scan it,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/02/extraordinary-deal-funding-volume-la-1710/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TjPeywU9K</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/733f60f9-4725-4599-a20f-5728b6f36e64.mp3" length="16527055" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How many Land Academy Members are There Really (LA 1709)</title><itunes:title>How many Land Academy Members are There Really (LA 1709)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How many Land Academy Members are There Really (LA 1709)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, how many Land Academy members are there really?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, there's got to be like five million of you guys, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
We asked this question to our Career Path people. We said, "You know what? Just type in-"

Jill K DeWit:
What you think.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I ... Hold it. We have Career Path, we're in the middle of Career Path right now. "Please type in how many members you think there are, and then how many members you think are active." And we got crazy responses.

Jill K DeWit:
We'll share.

Steven Jack Butala:
We'll clear it up here in a second.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Luke wrote, "With all this talk of the IRS." I guess it is the beginning of the year and it's tax time, that's true. "With all this talk of the IRS, taxes and our business model, I think Steve and Jill should nail down a CPA to have on a Thursday night call or one of the newbie calls. I'm sure we'd all learn a ton and have a general idea of what to take to our own CPAs. Just a thought."

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, I wish we could.

Steven Jack Butala:
How many times-

Jill K DeWit:
We tried to nail down our guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's my question to Jill, this is unrehearsed. How many times have we contacted lawyers and accountants to be part of our group and help educate us and, "Give you a free time slot. Join us on the Thursday call, join us on the podcast. Maybe, I know it's crazy, maybe you offer your services to a closed group of people that have the same interest."

Jill K DeWit:
"And maybe you can charge for it, and maybe build your business."

Steven Jack Butala:
And here's their answers, across the board, "Nope, nope, nope. We have enough clients. Thanks, no. No."

Jill K DeWit:
It's shocking.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just the answers have been from all different types of lawyers and accountants-

Jill K DeWit:
Shocking.

Steven Jack Butala:
... and CPAs. Across the board, no.

Jill K DeWit:
Shocking. Yeah, it's hard. I get it. I'm with you, Luke. It's hard to find a CPA who connects with you. We were talking to one of our ... Speaking of Career Path, we were talking to one of our moderators and helpers in Career Path. And his accountant is more on the ball a bit than our guy. And we're doing fine with our guy, thank goodness I have Jack here to make sure our guys stays ahead of the game.

Jill K DeWit:
But Brandon's guy's even better than that. I'm like, "I want your guy," but I know the answer. They're going to be like, "Nope." They're happy. So when you find an accountant-

Steven Jack Butala:
Or if you are one.

Jill K DeWit:
... or an attorney, and you guys connect and they understand your business, I mean really understand your business. Don't have you getting an LLC and filing tax return on all 50 states.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a pet peeve of mine. If you're listening to this right now and your accountant says, "You need to have an LLC and do taxes in all 50 states," you need to interview another accountant. And here's the point.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's not give advice here, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
No, but here's my point. Let me finish my thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Accountants and attorneys all take things ... They all read things differently. So my point ... Even down to how you're going to pay your employees. Some people say you should pay them this way, W-2,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How many Land Academy Members are There Really (LA 1709)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, how many Land Academy members are there really?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, there's got to be like five million of you guys, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
We asked this question to our Career Path people. We said, "You know what? Just type in-"

Jill K DeWit:
What you think.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I ... Hold it. We have Career Path, we're in the middle of Career Path right now. "Please type in how many members you think there are, and then how many members you think are active." And we got crazy responses.

Jill K DeWit:
We'll share.

Steven Jack Butala:
We'll clear it up here in a second.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Luke wrote, "With all this talk of the IRS." I guess it is the beginning of the year and it's tax time, that's true. "With all this talk of the IRS, taxes and our business model, I think Steve and Jill should nail down a CPA to have on a Thursday night call or one of the newbie calls. I'm sure we'd all learn a ton and have a general idea of what to take to our own CPAs. Just a thought."

Jill K DeWit:
Boy, I wish we could.

Steven Jack Butala:
How many times-

Jill K DeWit:
We tried to nail down our guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's my question to Jill, this is unrehearsed. How many times have we contacted lawyers and accountants to be part of our group and help educate us and, "Give you a free time slot. Join us on the Thursday call, join us on the podcast. Maybe, I know it's crazy, maybe you offer your services to a closed group of people that have the same interest."

Jill K DeWit:
"And maybe you can charge for it, and maybe build your business."

Steven Jack Butala:
And here's their answers, across the board, "Nope, nope, nope. We have enough clients. Thanks, no. No."

Jill K DeWit:
It's shocking.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just the answers have been from all different types of lawyers and accountants-

Jill K DeWit:
Shocking.

Steven Jack Butala:
... and CPAs. Across the board, no.

Jill K DeWit:
Shocking. Yeah, it's hard. I get it. I'm with you, Luke. It's hard to find a CPA who connects with you. We were talking to one of our ... Speaking of Career Path, we were talking to one of our moderators and helpers in Career Path. And his accountant is more on the ball a bit than our guy. And we're doing fine with our guy, thank goodness I have Jack here to make sure our guys stays ahead of the game.

Jill K DeWit:
But Brandon's guy's even better than that. I'm like, "I want your guy," but I know the answer. They're going to be like, "Nope." They're happy. So when you find an accountant-

Steven Jack Butala:
Or if you are one.

Jill K DeWit:
... or an attorney, and you guys connect and they understand your business, I mean really understand your business. Don't have you getting an LLC and filing tax return on all 50 states.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a pet peeve of mine. If you're listening to this right now and your accountant says, "You need to have an LLC and do taxes in all 50 states," you need to interview another accountant. And here's the point.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's not give advice here, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
No, but here's my point. Let me finish my thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Accountants and attorneys all take things ... They all read things differently. So my point ... Even down to how you're going to pay your employees. Some people say you should pay them this way, W-2,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/03/01/how-many-land-academy-members-are-there-really-la-1709/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TPfr8n0Ij</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/173b14bc-e30c-4559-85cf-5a95463e0297.mp3" length="13436865" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Evolving with Land Academy (LA 1708)</title><itunes:title>Evolving with Land Academy (LA 1708)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Evolving with Land Academy (LA 1708)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack patella.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about evolving with Land Academy.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's so much new stuff that constantly happens in real-time here. Land Academy evolves at the same speed that the internet involves evolves.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, evolves revolves.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Would you like a drink of my water?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'm going to... While you read this question, I'll handle it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Just checking. Here's [falls 00:00:50]. Heard a little tickle there. Troy wrote, "Has there been any discussion here on Russia and Ukraine? If a war happens, and the effects on land sales, could sales increase or decrease? I personally think sales will stay steady." You know, I never thought of tying them together.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, Jill, you don't have to worry your pretty little head about such things. That's my job.

Jill K DeWit:
That's perfect. Okay. Troy, why? What are you talking about? What do you mean about, "What's going on with Russian Ukraine?" That's what I should have said. Is something wrong?

Steven Jack Butala:
Every once in a while, I have to go into discord. This Russian came from discord and I have to address some of these political things, because this is not the place for politics. And so that was my immediate reaction to this, but it found its way onto the show. So I think it's a very, very good point. And what the, really the question is, what happens to land purchases and sales or what happens to land market-

Jill K DeWit:
If we go to war.

Steven Jack Butala:
When there's a recession, when some stuff in happens. Is it like the stock market? And the answer is no.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good question.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What would ultimately end up happening, if we find ourselves in a recession, which I don't personally think is going to happen for economic reasons, anytime soon. For political reasons, like this, nobody knows, nobody knows what's going to happen next. I know that there are more, and more, and more, especially in this country, people that standing on the sidelines, waiting for stuff to happen and then buying everything cheaper.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Specifically with the stock market. And I know that happens last. It happened with us last time with land. So you want to make sure that you're not overpaying for real estate, but that goes... That's any time. So, no. Do I think this is going to have any real negative effect? There's a possibility it might affect things short-term, but I doubt it. It's not like the stock market. When those things happen, you buy for lower and you sell for lower. And when it recovers, like we're in a total real estate bull market right now, you buy for a little bit higher and sell for a little bit higher.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you for the visual. Oh, is that supposed to be me? That's supposed to be you, isn't it?

Steven Jack Butala:
Hold on.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm having computer malfunctions.

Jill K DeWit:
Has our script kind of goofed up? I can help.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic: Evolving with Land Academy. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I looked at the script and it was rolling by so fast. I'm like, "Am I missing something? Am I supposed to be talking?" Oh my goodness. All right. Here's what's going on.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Evolving with Land Academy (LA 1708)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack patella.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about evolving with Land Academy.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's so much new stuff that constantly happens in real-time here. Land Academy evolves at the same speed that the internet involves evolves.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, evolves revolves.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Would you like a drink of my water?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I'm going to... While you read this question, I'll handle it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Just checking. Here's [falls 00:00:50]. Heard a little tickle there. Troy wrote, "Has there been any discussion here on Russia and Ukraine? If a war happens, and the effects on land sales, could sales increase or decrease? I personally think sales will stay steady." You know, I never thought of tying them together.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, Jill, you don't have to worry your pretty little head about such things. That's my job.

Jill K DeWit:
That's perfect. Okay. Troy, why? What are you talking about? What do you mean about, "What's going on with Russian Ukraine?" That's what I should have said. Is something wrong?

Steven Jack Butala:
Every once in a while, I have to go into discord. This Russian came from discord and I have to address some of these political things, because this is not the place for politics. And so that was my immediate reaction to this, but it found its way onto the show. So I think it's a very, very good point. And what the, really the question is, what happens to land purchases and sales or what happens to land market-

Jill K DeWit:
If we go to war.

Steven Jack Butala:
When there's a recession, when some stuff in happens. Is it like the stock market? And the answer is no.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good question.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What would ultimately end up happening, if we find ourselves in a recession, which I don't personally think is going to happen for economic reasons, anytime soon. For political reasons, like this, nobody knows, nobody knows what's going to happen next. I know that there are more, and more, and more, especially in this country, people that standing on the sidelines, waiting for stuff to happen and then buying everything cheaper.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Specifically with the stock market. And I know that happens last. It happened with us last time with land. So you want to make sure that you're not overpaying for real estate, but that goes... That's any time. So, no. Do I think this is going to have any real negative effect? There's a possibility it might affect things short-term, but I doubt it. It's not like the stock market. When those things happen, you buy for lower and you sell for lower. And when it recovers, like we're in a total real estate bull market right now, you buy for a little bit higher and sell for a little bit higher.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you for the visual. Oh, is that supposed to be me? That's supposed to be you, isn't it?

Steven Jack Butala:
Hold on.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm having computer malfunctions.

Jill K DeWit:
Has our script kind of goofed up? I can help.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic: Evolving with Land Academy. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I looked at the script and it was rolling by so fast. I'm like, "Am I missing something? Am I supposed to be talking?" Oh my goodness. All right. Here's what's going on.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/28/evolving-with-land-academy-la-1708/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">M23wP1h83</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/605baa27-d677-4b2f-953b-e8b54dca8568.mp3" length="15029483" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; A Little Kindness Goes Along Way (LA 1707)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; A Little Kindness Goes Along Way (LA 1707)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - A Little Kindness Goes Along Way (LA 1707)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how a little kindness goes a long way.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy. Isn't that the truth?

Steven Jack Butala:
Why is it so funny?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm just laughing. No, this is not directed at poor Jack here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure, it is.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure he might get something out of this. I don't know. Just saying. It's funny, this is not what the show is about. I mean, it is kind of, but we have different management styles. This is not about your employees. But it kind of could be. But Jack and I have different ways of coaching and motivating and mentoring our staff and this could apply there.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm very kind, right at the beginning.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all are.

Jill K DeWit:
You start off great. That's the best part. You start off great and then the person's going, "What just happened?" Myself included.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question. We're going to roast Steve today, posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Erin... Is this the same Erin or a different Erin? Oh, it's the same Erin?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know. I'm not sure if it's the same person.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Erin wrote, "It is clear now from the many videos I've watched that the biggest thing is to..." All caps, I love this. "SEND OUT MAIL. It solves all problems. More deals, better selection to choose from, more money, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, I get it. But does anyone have a good metric on the number of mail pieces on average it takes to get one closed deal?" We have all this. Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
"Like 2,000 mailers on average will lead to one closed deal because I'm trying to work backwards. I like to have three good deals per month on my desk. How much mail will that take on average?" That's in the Equity Planner. Isn't it?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. It's all in there. 2,000 is a really good number. 2,000 mailers is a... Per closed, make money, deal is great. If you want an insurance policy, let's do some math real quick, because this is a Jill show and I want her to get to it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's just say it costs 50 cents a mailer to send out. So you send out 2,000, you spend a $1,000. If your target net equity per deal is $30,000, you spend a 1,000 bucks to make 30. Nobody's going to argue with that, no one. Let's say you want to buy the best deals ever. You want to remove all the risk from anything that you're doing here entirely. So you send out 6,000 and you pick the best one. Now you spent $3,000 to make $30,000. You see where I'm going with this?

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm(affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
You want to make super share, because you've got pricing and you get it and you've got somebody to answer your phone, whether it's yourself or somebody like Jill or however you're manipulating. And all the answers to all this are in the Land Academy program. You send out 10,000 units, you spend $5,000 to make 30. It still works.

Jill K DeWit:
We got it. Do you want me to read what Lori wrote here today?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Lori, one of our moderators, this is very sweet, responded with this. "This is like asking how much for one entree. It depends on the quality of the restaurant. Is it a good zip code? How popular it is. Is it obvious that many people are mailing there? Your budget.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - A Little Kindness Goes Along Way (LA 1707)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how a little kindness goes a long way.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy. Isn't that the truth?

Steven Jack Butala:
Why is it so funny?

Jill K DeWit:
I'm just laughing. No, this is not directed at poor Jack here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure, it is.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure he might get something out of this. I don't know. Just saying. It's funny, this is not what the show is about. I mean, it is kind of, but we have different management styles. This is not about your employees. But it kind of could be. But Jack and I have different ways of coaching and motivating and mentoring our staff and this could apply there.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm very kind, right at the beginning.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
We all are.

Jill K DeWit:
You start off great. That's the best part. You start off great and then the person's going, "What just happened?" Myself included.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question. We're going to roast Steve today, posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Erin... Is this the same Erin or a different Erin? Oh, it's the same Erin?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know. I'm not sure if it's the same person.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Erin wrote, "It is clear now from the many videos I've watched that the biggest thing is to..." All caps, I love this. "SEND OUT MAIL. It solves all problems. More deals, better selection to choose from, more money, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, I get it. But does anyone have a good metric on the number of mail pieces on average it takes to get one closed deal?" We have all this. Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
"Like 2,000 mailers on average will lead to one closed deal because I'm trying to work backwards. I like to have three good deals per month on my desk. How much mail will that take on average?" That's in the Equity Planner. Isn't it?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. It's all in there. 2,000 is a really good number. 2,000 mailers is a... Per closed, make money, deal is great. If you want an insurance policy, let's do some math real quick, because this is a Jill show and I want her to get to it.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's just say it costs 50 cents a mailer to send out. So you send out 2,000, you spend a $1,000. If your target net equity per deal is $30,000, you spend a 1,000 bucks to make 30. Nobody's going to argue with that, no one. Let's say you want to buy the best deals ever. You want to remove all the risk from anything that you're doing here entirely. So you send out 6,000 and you pick the best one. Now you spent $3,000 to make $30,000. You see where I'm going with this?

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm(affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
You want to make super share, because you've got pricing and you get it and you've got somebody to answer your phone, whether it's yourself or somebody like Jill or however you're manipulating. And all the answers to all this are in the Land Academy program. You send out 10,000 units, you spend $5,000 to make 30. It still works.

Jill K DeWit:
We got it. Do you want me to read what Lori wrote here today?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Lori, one of our moderators, this is very sweet, responded with this. "This is like asking how much for one entree. It depends on the quality of the restaurant. Is it a good zip code? How popular it is. Is it obvious that many people are mailing there? Your budget.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/25/jill-friday-a-little-kindness-goes-along-way-la-1707/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">faCGWeKlI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 22:50:20 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b8fea0a5-5852-4ae7-9823-e9260808d6e5.mp3" length="14933931" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Just Do it then fail and succeed and fail again (LA 1706)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Just Do it then fail and succeed and fail again (LA 1706)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Just Do it then fail and succeed and fail again (LA 1706)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining, land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and my show today is called, Just do it, then fail, then succeed, and then fail again.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm just going to let you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's my take on the whole Nike slogan, "Just Do It." Well, it's a little bit more complicated than that in land investing. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
[Aaron 00:00:40] wrote, "If you mailed an area at a price per acre of let's say, 30%." I'm guessing, 30% of-

Steven Jack Butala:
Retail.

Jill K DeWit:
Retail. Okay, got it. "And you get a certain response, then you like the county, and want to do more, and you would even mail the same people at 40, 45% of price per acre. But you remind yourself that sometimes Jill and Steven have said that sometimes they get responses from people two, three, six months later, sometimes longer." That's true. "Are you shooting yourself on the foot by remailing people who might have responded to you in a month or so later? In that case, would it be better to have a set time to wait before remailing maybe, three months?" I know what my answer is-

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
... I don't know about your answer.

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. My answer is, you find an area you're doing well, right? You did all the one to five acres, or five to 10 acres, or whatever your mailer was, and instead of hitting those people again, I would do all the 10 to 20, 20 to 40, 40 above. By the time you work through all those, you've given these people more time, and then you may have moved on, and your stuff's still out there. So we are not remailing like you think we're remailing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is exactly what the show is about, just do it. Here's what... For everybody out there, who's a Land Academy member, and has questions like this, and I'm not picking on Aaron at all, I'm not, it's because this is a good question, and I can tell he is going to do well, very, very well, and it's well thought out. This is not the type of business model where you spend nine months asking 1000 questions, and eventually getting a reasonable, satisfactory number on every tiny, little thing that possibly could happen when you send a mailer out, "30%, 35%, is it 40%? Is it 20%? I don't know. Should I remail it? I don't know." I mean, on and on and on. Real... This is what you need to do. I'm going to cut to the... You know what? This is Jack Thursday. The show is called, just do it, then fail, and then succeed, and fail again. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
When you're done, I have a follow-up to Aaron.

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So my last follow-up to Aaron is, the point of the mailer is uncovering who wants to sell, because you might send them an offer at $30,000, but you end up buying at 35 or 40 anyway, because they come back and counter you, and you say, "You know what? It's worth it, I'll do it." So sometimes that works out. And that's my final, I will be quiet now.

Steven Jack Butala:
At the time of when this airs, I believe Land Academy 3.0 will at some point [inaudible 00:03:26] will be launched [crosstalk 00:03:28].

Jill K DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:03:28] I know, it's coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
Soon.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
What I want you to do, is watch Land Academy 3.0 as many times as you need to. Jill and I spent a ton of time updating the program.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Just Do it then fail and succeed and fail again (LA 1706)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining, land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and my show today is called, Just do it, then fail, then succeed, and then fail again.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm just going to let you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's my take on the whole Nike slogan, "Just Do It." Well, it's a little bit more complicated than that in land investing. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
[Aaron 00:00:40] wrote, "If you mailed an area at a price per acre of let's say, 30%." I'm guessing, 30% of-

Steven Jack Butala:
Retail.

Jill K DeWit:
Retail. Okay, got it. "And you get a certain response, then you like the county, and want to do more, and you would even mail the same people at 40, 45% of price per acre. But you remind yourself that sometimes Jill and Steven have said that sometimes they get responses from people two, three, six months later, sometimes longer." That's true. "Are you shooting yourself on the foot by remailing people who might have responded to you in a month or so later? In that case, would it be better to have a set time to wait before remailing maybe, three months?" I know what my answer is-

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
... I don't know about your answer.

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. My answer is, you find an area you're doing well, right? You did all the one to five acres, or five to 10 acres, or whatever your mailer was, and instead of hitting those people again, I would do all the 10 to 20, 20 to 40, 40 above. By the time you work through all those, you've given these people more time, and then you may have moved on, and your stuff's still out there. So we are not remailing like you think we're remailing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is exactly what the show is about, just do it. Here's what... For everybody out there, who's a Land Academy member, and has questions like this, and I'm not picking on Aaron at all, I'm not, it's because this is a good question, and I can tell he is going to do well, very, very well, and it's well thought out. This is not the type of business model where you spend nine months asking 1000 questions, and eventually getting a reasonable, satisfactory number on every tiny, little thing that possibly could happen when you send a mailer out, "30%, 35%, is it 40%? Is it 20%? I don't know. Should I remail it? I don't know." I mean, on and on and on. Real... This is what you need to do. I'm going to cut to the... You know what? This is Jack Thursday. The show is called, just do it, then fail, and then succeed, and fail again. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
When you're done, I have a follow-up to Aaron.

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So my last follow-up to Aaron is, the point of the mailer is uncovering who wants to sell, because you might send them an offer at $30,000, but you end up buying at 35 or 40 anyway, because they come back and counter you, and you say, "You know what? It's worth it, I'll do it." So sometimes that works out. And that's my final, I will be quiet now.

Steven Jack Butala:
At the time of when this airs, I believe Land Academy 3.0 will at some point [inaudible 00:03:26] will be launched [crosstalk 00:03:28].

Jill K DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:03:28] I know, it's coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
Soon.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
What I want you to do, is watch Land Academy 3.0 as many times as you need to. Jill and I spent a ton of time updating the program.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/24/jack-thursday-just-do-it-then-fail-and-succeed-and-fail-again-la-1706/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">VqRr5ciC1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 23:02:53 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/08bdb4ab-aecc-4f59-a472-bd1e2625ccdc.mp3" length="9619921" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>07:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Has Your Real Estate Agent Been Around the Block (LA 1705)</title><itunes:title>Has Your Real Estate Agent Been Around the Block (LA 1705)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Has Your Real Estate Agent Been Around the Block (LA 1705)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show?
Jill K DeWit:House Academy show.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, sorry. House Academy Show.
Jill K DeWit:That's okay. That's why you have me.
Steven Jack Butala:Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about, has your real estate agent been around the block? Do they have experience? Do they have experience in land? Have they ever done a deal?
Jill K DeWit:It's houses. We're going to talk about everything.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, yeah, we're going to talk about everything. Have they done more than 10 deals in the last month?
Jill K DeWit:Mm-hmm (affirmative). Or a year? Seriously, even 10 deals a year analysis, I'll take that. We'll talk more.
Steven Jack Butala:Not me. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Dan wrote, "Okay. I sent a mailer to a few counties in Maine a while back. I may not do that again because it's a literal checkerboard of what shows up in NeighborScoop and what doesn't, and there are tons of decommissioned roads that make it look like there's access, but not anymore. Anyways, I picked up a 13-acre wooded property on a county road with mobiles on adjacent parcels. It has a gas pipeline running across it and I figured I could sell it for around $20,000, no problem. Got it for seven. Fantastic, right? I called a local broker and she said with the current market and demand, she would have zero problems selling it for $52,000. We'll see how it goes, but that would definitely make it worth the headache, with headaches with the area."
Jill K DeWit:Isn't that great? I'm with you, Dan. Well, a couple things. Number one, wow, how I love it when that happens. You're like, "I don't even realize what I bought," and you're like, "Woohoo, home run," and two, you're like, "Now I'm eating my words. I don't care if I got this one deal out of that whole mailer that paid for it."
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Sure.
Jill K DeWit:All the struggle, all the aggravation, that's just fine.
Steven Jack Butala:$40,000 that.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah, I'm totally cool with that, and that's the right attitude. We've had that sometimes. We've had states or different things that were like, "Oh, I didn't realize." And now you know too, you need to add that to your list of your due diligence when you're picking an area, make sure it's in NeighborScoop. That's the little things you don't know until you're into it sometimes, like, "Oh, I can't find anything," or, "Shoot, good luck getting the county on the phone because they're only open two days a week from noon to 2:00," or something crazy like that. Or the county's not computerized. This is even really hard kind of thing. They don't even know where the properties are. That still goes on, by the way. So, good job.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Well, this happens a lot. You know, people send out their first mailer, they get a little antsy, like, "Oh my gosh, is this going to work?" Honestly, I get a little antsy every single time to the day. I'm concerned if the mailer works, and it always does. All it takes is one deal to cover all the costs of the whole thing, so congratulations.
Jill K DeWit:You know what too, Dan? Some people would say, "Oh, it was a fail."
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:This is the right attitude. I want everyone to hear, too. This is not a failed mailer. Some people would say, "I only got one deal and I made $40,000. It failed." Please listen to yourself.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, I'd go back. I'd send it out again.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Has Your Real Estate Agent Been Around the Block (LA 1705)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show?
Jill K DeWit:House Academy show.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, sorry. House Academy Show.
Jill K DeWit:That's okay. That's why you have me.
Steven Jack Butala:Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about, has your real estate agent been around the block? Do they have experience? Do they have experience in land? Have they ever done a deal?
Jill K DeWit:It's houses. We're going to talk about everything.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, yeah, we're going to talk about everything. Have they done more than 10 deals in the last month?
Jill K DeWit:Mm-hmm (affirmative). Or a year? Seriously, even 10 deals a year analysis, I'll take that. We'll talk more.
Steven Jack Butala:Not me. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Dan wrote, "Okay. I sent a mailer to a few counties in Maine a while back. I may not do that again because it's a literal checkerboard of what shows up in NeighborScoop and what doesn't, and there are tons of decommissioned roads that make it look like there's access, but not anymore. Anyways, I picked up a 13-acre wooded property on a county road with mobiles on adjacent parcels. It has a gas pipeline running across it and I figured I could sell it for around $20,000, no problem. Got it for seven. Fantastic, right? I called a local broker and she said with the current market and demand, she would have zero problems selling it for $52,000. We'll see how it goes, but that would definitely make it worth the headache, with headaches with the area."
Jill K DeWit:Isn't that great? I'm with you, Dan. Well, a couple things. Number one, wow, how I love it when that happens. You're like, "I don't even realize what I bought," and you're like, "Woohoo, home run," and two, you're like, "Now I'm eating my words. I don't care if I got this one deal out of that whole mailer that paid for it."
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Sure.
Jill K DeWit:All the struggle, all the aggravation, that's just fine.
Steven Jack Butala:$40,000 that.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah, I'm totally cool with that, and that's the right attitude. We've had that sometimes. We've had states or different things that were like, "Oh, I didn't realize." And now you know too, you need to add that to your list of your due diligence when you're picking an area, make sure it's in NeighborScoop. That's the little things you don't know until you're into it sometimes, like, "Oh, I can't find anything," or, "Shoot, good luck getting the county on the phone because they're only open two days a week from noon to 2:00," or something crazy like that. Or the county's not computerized. This is even really hard kind of thing. They don't even know where the properties are. That still goes on, by the way. So, good job.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Well, this happens a lot. You know, people send out their first mailer, they get a little antsy, like, "Oh my gosh, is this going to work?" Honestly, I get a little antsy every single time to the day. I'm concerned if the mailer works, and it always does. All it takes is one deal to cover all the costs of the whole thing, so congratulations.
Jill K DeWit:You know what too, Dan? Some people would say, "Oh, it was a fail."
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:This is the right attitude. I want everyone to hear, too. This is not a failed mailer. Some people would say, "I only got one deal and I made $40,000. It failed." Please listen to yourself.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, I'd go back. I'd send it out again.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/23/has-your-real-estate-agent-been-around-the-block-la-1705/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cMEXbBbg_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:52:27 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/009c22a8-63c1-4919-8939-9710849cd254.mp3" length="21636769" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Buyer Management in this Hot Market (LA 1704)</title><itunes:title>Buyer Management in this Hot Market (LA 1704)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Buyer Management in this Hot Market (LA 1704)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about buyer management and this super hot market we're all experiencing.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't it great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Greatest real estate market I've ever seen my entire life.

Jill K DeWit:
Who was I talking to? I can't remember who I was talking to the other day, but I was just like we all need to take a step back and just think about what's going on right now and how great this is. I was going to say this at the end, but lately the longer I have a property in inventory, the more the price goes up and I'm watching this too.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a property behind us. It's a spec home, and every six months they raise it $500,000. Instead of lowering it, they're raising it.

Jill K DeWit:
We've done that. We've had some properties that we priced a while back and then an offer comes in. And we countered it. Not only our full asking price but we went, "You know what, we actually priced it too low." So we countered with something else. And they're like, "What?" And they walk, and that's fine. They're like, "You know what, we're going to reset this with the agent." [inaudible 00:01:19] like, "All right." We're like, "This [inaudible 00:01:21] right now that we doubled." That's the price it commands. We'll talk about it more, don't be too fast here.

Steven Jack Butala:
When I was in public accounting in the late '90s at KPMG, I was working under a partner and our specialization was healthcare. But there were other partners that were in the same office building and their specialization was Y2K readiness. We all thought that computers are going to go haywire and all of that. Those guys retired and the amount of consulting that they delivered between 1997 and 2000 to get huge systems ready. We're in a situation now where if you wanted to, you can.

Jill K DeWit:
You go nuts in retire.

Steven Jack Butala:
A return of $20 million a year for the next few years can just be done. Or whatever your magic numbers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah you don't need that much.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Where would you retire with those numbers by the way? If you want to retire in Paris, then you need that money. If you want to retire in Mexico like we are talking about, you don't need nearly that much money.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:41] retire in Mexico at our age, honestly if you wanted to on a million bucks.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. And have a great life.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Austin wrote, "Just listed a property on the MLS on Friday with my broker, buying for $13,500 and selling for $38,000. I have two parcels in title right now, will probably be three next week. Land wheel turns."

Steven Jack Butala:
Austin is... he was reporting that in the subsection on Discord of Success. Success stories and he's also in our career path right now.

Jill K DeWit:
He's working him through the system.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
And the great thing is with that a broker, the broker's doing the work and Austin can focus on getting more of them. That's perfect.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, " How do you manage your buyer in this market of total hotness." This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to say once... I don't know if it's once a week, but a few times a month, I get a call because whether it's a deal funding or whether it's a deal that we have. But the message gets to me like this, "Hi Jill,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Buyer Management in this Hot Market (LA 1704)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about buyer management and this super hot market we're all experiencing.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't it great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Greatest real estate market I've ever seen my entire life.

Jill K DeWit:
Who was I talking to? I can't remember who I was talking to the other day, but I was just like we all need to take a step back and just think about what's going on right now and how great this is. I was going to say this at the end, but lately the longer I have a property in inventory, the more the price goes up and I'm watching this too.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a property behind us. It's a spec home, and every six months they raise it $500,000. Instead of lowering it, they're raising it.

Jill K DeWit:
We've done that. We've had some properties that we priced a while back and then an offer comes in. And we countered it. Not only our full asking price but we went, "You know what, we actually priced it too low." So we countered with something else. And they're like, "What?" And they walk, and that's fine. They're like, "You know what, we're going to reset this with the agent." [inaudible 00:01:19] like, "All right." We're like, "This [inaudible 00:01:21] right now that we doubled." That's the price it commands. We'll talk about it more, don't be too fast here.

Steven Jack Butala:
When I was in public accounting in the late '90s at KPMG, I was working under a partner and our specialization was healthcare. But there were other partners that were in the same office building and their specialization was Y2K readiness. We all thought that computers are going to go haywire and all of that. Those guys retired and the amount of consulting that they delivered between 1997 and 2000 to get huge systems ready. We're in a situation now where if you wanted to, you can.

Jill K DeWit:
You go nuts in retire.

Steven Jack Butala:
A return of $20 million a year for the next few years can just be done. Or whatever your magic numbers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah you don't need that much.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Where would you retire with those numbers by the way? If you want to retire in Paris, then you need that money. If you want to retire in Mexico like we are talking about, you don't need nearly that much money.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:41] retire in Mexico at our age, honestly if you wanted to on a million bucks.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. And have a great life.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Austin wrote, "Just listed a property on the MLS on Friday with my broker, buying for $13,500 and selling for $38,000. I have two parcels in title right now, will probably be three next week. Land wheel turns."

Steven Jack Butala:
Austin is... he was reporting that in the subsection on Discord of Success. Success stories and he's also in our career path right now.

Jill K DeWit:
He's working him through the system.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
And the great thing is with that a broker, the broker's doing the work and Austin can focus on getting more of them. That's perfect.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, " How do you manage your buyer in this market of total hotness." This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to say once... I don't know if it's once a week, but a few times a month, I get a call because whether it's a deal funding or whether it's a deal that we have. But the message gets to me like this, "Hi Jill,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/22/buyer-management-in-this-hot-market-la-1704/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UK_WjAa2c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:31:41 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b1c48ff8-b1e3-43cc-9884-691ffa16e797.mp3" length="15123893" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Undoing preconceived Real Estate Habits and Notions (LA 1703)</title><itunes:title>Undoing preconceived Real Estate Habits and Notions (LA 1703)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Undoing preconceived Real Estate Habits and Notions (LA 1703)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about undoing preconceived real estate habits and notions.

Jill K DeWit:
This makes me think of this clubhouse talk, this room I was in earlier today. It was a real estate group, and it was multifamily apartments and things like that they were talking about. The conversation part of the way through, like halfway through shifted to not talking about that at all, the nuts and bolts, but talking about the mindset of a person coming into this environment. It was so interesting to me because that part doesn't change, and the whole point of what this person was saying was, why do you not trust someone who has experience? Usually a mentor doesn't say, "Hey, you want me to mentor you?" Usually, you go to them and say, "Will you please mentor me?"

Jill K DeWit:
And you're doing that because you recognize that they have experience, and they've made a lot of mistakes, and by not trusting them, and... hold on a moment, this all relates, trusting their experience and their way of doing things and getting out of your own head is nuts because that mentor is going to probably shave years off your learning curve. That's what this whole topic is for me today, and I really want to dive into this that, why people have a hard time dropping their habits and things. When someone's right there saying, "I've got 16,000 reasons why I do it this way."

Steven Jack Butala:
This, what you're saying specifically, in this topic, absolutely baffles me.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And Jill and I talk about this often. Not often, once a week, usually when we're prepping for a show like this, or when something strange happens in the Land Academy Group, or there's a slew of questions in Discord, or when we have the opportunity in a real positive way, to get immediate and direct feedback, audio and video feedback, on career path. And we're on, what? We're in the middle of career path right now. So, we're on module 5 of 10. It's just shocking to me that how, I don't know if it's generational, I don't know what it is, but it just shocks me that people's minds, we're saying the same thing, just aren't open to listening to somebody that's got decades of experience. I've been fighting it.

Jill K DeWit:
We're going to talk about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah, this is the start of the show. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Sarah wrote...

Steven Jack Butala:
By the way, if you don't like this, which I completely understand, don't subscribe. We take pride.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Please subscribe or not subscribe, however you see fit. And if you need to hit the off button, we understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our subscribers, we take pride in the fact that our subscribers are into it, and we actually, when we communicate with our subscribers, not just on YouTube, everywhere, they respond really well.

Jill K DeWit:
There we go. Sarah wrote, "I have someone who wants to sell a property with some liens on it, but she doesn't know how much they are." I can relate to that. Who does know exactly?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a perfect question for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Could you imagine? I know exactly what I owe. Really? Okay. "With the resources that we have here, is there a way to check for liens? I've only closed for attorneys, so I don't know how to do my own title search."

Steven Jack Butala:
You just answered your question. No, yeah, is there a super easy,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Undoing preconceived Real Estate Habits and Notions (LA 1703)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about undoing preconceived real estate habits and notions.

Jill K DeWit:
This makes me think of this clubhouse talk, this room I was in earlier today. It was a real estate group, and it was multifamily apartments and things like that they were talking about. The conversation part of the way through, like halfway through shifted to not talking about that at all, the nuts and bolts, but talking about the mindset of a person coming into this environment. It was so interesting to me because that part doesn't change, and the whole point of what this person was saying was, why do you not trust someone who has experience? Usually a mentor doesn't say, "Hey, you want me to mentor you?" Usually, you go to them and say, "Will you please mentor me?"

Jill K DeWit:
And you're doing that because you recognize that they have experience, and they've made a lot of mistakes, and by not trusting them, and... hold on a moment, this all relates, trusting their experience and their way of doing things and getting out of your own head is nuts because that mentor is going to probably shave years off your learning curve. That's what this whole topic is for me today, and I really want to dive into this that, why people have a hard time dropping their habits and things. When someone's right there saying, "I've got 16,000 reasons why I do it this way."

Steven Jack Butala:
This, what you're saying specifically, in this topic, absolutely baffles me.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And Jill and I talk about this often. Not often, once a week, usually when we're prepping for a show like this, or when something strange happens in the Land Academy Group, or there's a slew of questions in Discord, or when we have the opportunity in a real positive way, to get immediate and direct feedback, audio and video feedback, on career path. And we're on, what? We're in the middle of career path right now. So, we're on module 5 of 10. It's just shocking to me that how, I don't know if it's generational, I don't know what it is, but it just shocks me that people's minds, we're saying the same thing, just aren't open to listening to somebody that's got decades of experience. I've been fighting it.

Jill K DeWit:
We're going to talk about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh yeah, this is the start of the show. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Sarah wrote...

Steven Jack Butala:
By the way, if you don't like this, which I completely understand, don't subscribe. We take pride.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Please subscribe or not subscribe, however you see fit. And if you need to hit the off button, we understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our subscribers, we take pride in the fact that our subscribers are into it, and we actually, when we communicate with our subscribers, not just on YouTube, everywhere, they respond really well.

Jill K DeWit:
There we go. Sarah wrote, "I have someone who wants to sell a property with some liens on it, but she doesn't know how much they are." I can relate to that. Who does know exactly?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a perfect question for you.

Jill K DeWit:
Could you imagine? I know exactly what I owe. Really? Okay. "With the resources that we have here, is there a way to check for liens? I've only closed for attorneys, so I don't know how to do my own title search."

Steven Jack Butala:
You just answered your question. No, yeah, is there a super easy,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/21/undoing-preconceived-real-estate-habits-and-notions-la-1703/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ah5PEpjfU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:55:24 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/338f2cf7-3927-4fea-92a8-ed02375dad88.mp3" length="21730740" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Get Over the First Deal Jitters (LA 1702)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Get Over the First Deal Jitters (LA 1702)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Get Over the First Deal Jitters (LA 1702)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to get over the first deal jitters.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a thing. I understand. I always tell you, if you want to wake up tomorrow and be an investor, you can. Just wake up, you're an investor today.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. This is what I'm going to do. Making some changes. This is it. And then it's like, "Oh crap. I told everybody."

Steven Jack Butala:
Now you have to do it. Now I have to be one. Now I have to be one.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my gosh. I sent out all these letters. Now they're going to come back. Holy moly. I'm pretending to be an investor. I'm going to fail. No, no. You got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're going to be fine.

Jill K DeWit:
You will be fine.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because you have a massive group here that was where you're sitting right some time ago.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. And I'm going to tell you, I got three things that I'm going to tell you right now that are really going to help you and calm this all down.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. I bet that I'm not one of those things that's going to be calming.

Jill K DeWit:
No, that's why this is Jill Friday. Yeah. Yeah. Get a partner like this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Putupwithapartner.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh boy. Ian wrote, "I sent out a 2,400 unit mailer last Monday, and I have another 1400 letters going out today. This is awesome. I thought they were really good zip codes with good numbers, and I just wanted to things moving. Yesterday, I listened to a podcast where Jill talks about talking to sellers. And one of the examples I used was a member of Career Path who had good deals coming back, but he just wasn't picking up the phone enough to get the deals. So now, since I work a lot, I'm worried that I'm going to be negatively impacted by the calls from these mailers going straight to voicemail."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. "Jill has mentioned in the past how you want to wait until you have some experience to go with something like PATLive, but I'm wondering if I should set up PATLive? I have enough money saved up, and I think I'm really more worried about missing phone calls, and thus, mail being wasted than I am paying for pat live. Any insight?" Yeah. I'd rather have the phones being answered.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
You're right. I really want a live body on the other end.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I love that you're this concerned about it.

Jill K DeWit:
And you planned for it and you could afford it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
So you're right. Because the voicemail, it's not effective. It's not as good as that. And I'm not... And I want you to call everybody back, by the way. Any missed calls, call them back, every one. But yeah, I think you're right. Good. You're exactly right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to get over your first deal jitters. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Yeah. This kind of came up a little bit from Career Path, because we have some newer people in there, and a little bit from the session that we did, that first session that we did. Those of you listening know who you are. That was really fun. We budgeted an hour to answer some newbie questions with a really small group. There were 20-something people in that room. And it went a little over two hours because we wanted to get through all your que...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Get Over the First Deal Jitters (LA 1702)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to get over the first deal jitters.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a thing. I understand. I always tell you, if you want to wake up tomorrow and be an investor, you can. Just wake up, you're an investor today.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. This is what I'm going to do. Making some changes. This is it. And then it's like, "Oh crap. I told everybody."

Steven Jack Butala:
Now you have to do it. Now I have to be one. Now I have to be one.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my gosh. I sent out all these letters. Now they're going to come back. Holy moly. I'm pretending to be an investor. I'm going to fail. No, no. You got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're going to be fine.

Jill K DeWit:
You will be fine.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because you have a massive group here that was where you're sitting right some time ago.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. And I'm going to tell you, I got three things that I'm going to tell you right now that are really going to help you and calm this all down.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. I bet that I'm not one of those things that's going to be calming.

Jill K DeWit:
No, that's why this is Jill Friday. Yeah. Yeah. Get a partner like this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Putupwithapartner.com.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh boy. Ian wrote, "I sent out a 2,400 unit mailer last Monday, and I have another 1400 letters going out today. This is awesome. I thought they were really good zip codes with good numbers, and I just wanted to things moving. Yesterday, I listened to a podcast where Jill talks about talking to sellers. And one of the examples I used was a member of Career Path who had good deals coming back, but he just wasn't picking up the phone enough to get the deals. So now, since I work a lot, I'm worried that I'm going to be negatively impacted by the calls from these mailers going straight to voicemail."

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. "Jill has mentioned in the past how you want to wait until you have some experience to go with something like PATLive, but I'm wondering if I should set up PATLive? I have enough money saved up, and I think I'm really more worried about missing phone calls, and thus, mail being wasted than I am paying for pat live. Any insight?" Yeah. I'd rather have the phones being answered.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
You're right. I really want a live body on the other end.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I love that you're this concerned about it.

Jill K DeWit:
And you planned for it and you could afford it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
So you're right. Because the voicemail, it's not effective. It's not as good as that. And I'm not... And I want you to call everybody back, by the way. Any missed calls, call them back, every one. But yeah, I think you're right. Good. You're exactly right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to get over your first deal jitters. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Yeah. This kind of came up a little bit from Career Path, because we have some newer people in there, and a little bit from the session that we did, that first session that we did. Those of you listening know who you are. That was really fun. We budgeted an hour to answer some newbie questions with a really small group. There were 20-something people in that room. And it went a little over two hours because we wanted to get through all your que...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/18/jill-friday-how-to-get-over-the-first-deal-jitters-la-1702/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">knr39kR5x</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:04:57 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/89c763db-2f62-4e03-ad60-5ee6f7b37825.mp3" length="17221211" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Concept of Deal Flow (LA 1701)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Concept of Deal Flow (LA 1701)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Concept of Deal Flow (LA 1701)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for The Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the concept of deal flow. Grossly, taken advantage of, not taken advantage of, taken for granted in this group and in our Land Academy group, because Jill and I are doing our jobs and we're teaching everybody. Instructing everyone to create an amazing amount of deal flow that's controllable and manageable. I'll talk about it in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Is there a problem?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's a great thing ever.

Jill K DeWit:
Are we in trouble?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just the greatest thing ever and I'll talk about it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Edgar wrote, "I got the chance to meet Lori Phillips over the weekend in person, while she was on a trip down to Florida. We met at a nearby diner for coffee," this is funny, "and maybe a big breakfast for me. It was surreal because she is just as one would expect and really genuine person who wants the best for you. We talked for hours about a variety of topics. Although I'm sure she had millions of other things to do, she made me feel like I was her top priority that day."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what you get out of being a Land Academy member, is access to people like Lori.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). That's it, that's all there is?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to-

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks for sharing Edgar.

Steven Jack Butala:
... talk about concept of deal flow.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah and thanks for doing that, Lori, by the way. That was so cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is why you're listening, I want you to clear your mind for a minute and think from a philosophical or academic standpoint about why people are successful at anything. In my opinion... my goodness.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me cover for you.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, my goodness. People are successful in my opinion, because they have choices and when you are in a business where you have control over which deals you do and which deals you don't do at the level where we do, because we have so much self-generated deal flow, that's truly amazing. In all the companies and businesses that I've ever been involved in and responsible for bringing in new business, like in accounting bringing in new clients. You're sitting in front of 22 choices of new clients and you get to pick the best two or three, the ones that you think you're going to be able to make the most money with and get along with the most, they've all succeeded. When you don't have deal flow opportunities, it's very hard. When I started out in real estate, I wish somebody would've sat me down and said, deal flow is the whole key.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're a real estate agent and you have 14 opportunities to list 14 opportunities to list properties that day, you're going to smash it out of the park in your career and it's your responsibility to generate those opportunities, not anyone's else's. Well, we make that easy through these mailers. If you send out 25,000 mailers and you do it correctly, like we teach, you're going to buy up to 50 properties at least 10. If you're making $10 or $20,000 per property, now you're making a quarter of a million on a mailer, all because of deal flow. This gets overlooked in this group. Jill and I get hundreds of questions all the time in different formats, the Thursday call hourly on discord,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Concept of Deal Flow (LA 1701)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for The Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the concept of deal flow. Grossly, taken advantage of, not taken advantage of, taken for granted in this group and in our Land Academy group, because Jill and I are doing our jobs and we're teaching everybody. Instructing everyone to create an amazing amount of deal flow that's controllable and manageable. I'll talk about it in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Is there a problem?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's a great thing ever.

Jill K DeWit:
Are we in trouble?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just the greatest thing ever and I'll talk about it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Edgar wrote, "I got the chance to meet Lori Phillips over the weekend in person, while she was on a trip down to Florida. We met at a nearby diner for coffee," this is funny, "and maybe a big breakfast for me. It was surreal because she is just as one would expect and really genuine person who wants the best for you. We talked for hours about a variety of topics. Although I'm sure she had millions of other things to do, she made me feel like I was her top priority that day."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what you get out of being a Land Academy member, is access to people like Lori.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). That's it, that's all there is?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to-

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks for sharing Edgar.

Steven Jack Butala:
... talk about concept of deal flow.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah and thanks for doing that, Lori, by the way. That was so cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is why you're listening, I want you to clear your mind for a minute and think from a philosophical or academic standpoint about why people are successful at anything. In my opinion... my goodness.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me cover for you.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, my goodness. People are successful in my opinion, because they have choices and when you are in a business where you have control over which deals you do and which deals you don't do at the level where we do, because we have so much self-generated deal flow, that's truly amazing. In all the companies and businesses that I've ever been involved in and responsible for bringing in new business, like in accounting bringing in new clients. You're sitting in front of 22 choices of new clients and you get to pick the best two or three, the ones that you think you're going to be able to make the most money with and get along with the most, they've all succeeded. When you don't have deal flow opportunities, it's very hard. When I started out in real estate, I wish somebody would've sat me down and said, deal flow is the whole key.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're a real estate agent and you have 14 opportunities to list 14 opportunities to list properties that day, you're going to smash it out of the park in your career and it's your responsibility to generate those opportunities, not anyone's else's. Well, we make that easy through these mailers. If you send out 25,000 mailers and you do it correctly, like we teach, you're going to buy up to 50 properties at least 10. If you're making $10 or $20,000 per property, now you're making a quarter of a million on a mailer, all because of deal flow. This gets overlooked in this group. Jill and I get hundreds of questions all the time in different formats, the Thursday call hourly on discord,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/17/jack-thursday-concept-of-deal-flow-la-1701/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YWUfBGffz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:02:16 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/800c0737-9693-45b5-9848-8273710ccb2a.mp3" length="12335591" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Due Diligence for Off Grid SFRs (LA 1700)</title><itunes:title>Due Diligence for Off Grid SFRs (LA 1700)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Due Diligence for Off Grid SFRs (LA 1700)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Sorry, the House Academy Show, this Wednesday, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, jill and I talk about due diligence for off grid houses or SFRs.
Jill K DeWit:This came up because of the one we went and looked at?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Okay, cool. So we're going to tell you all about that. We drove, gosh, an hour and a half each way to check out a really cool property.
Steven Jack Butala:Full blown real ranch. Jill'll tell you all about it.
Jill K DeWit:Let me remind you, we drove an hour and a half each way. Am I going to do that every weekend, maybe not. And then it was a good least half hour from civilization.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Easy. So in the end we didn't buy it. It was for personal use, but is it really ever for personal use? If somebody offers more, you always sell it.
Jill K DeWit:Right.
Steven Jack Butala:It's a lot of work. We'll explain it. But it was off grid.
Jill K DeWit:It was cool.
Steven Jack Butala:It was an interesting due diligence process.
Jill K DeWit:Really cool.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you liked.
Jill K DeWit:Erin and wrote, "Hi everyone. After receiving a signed purchase agreement, how often do you try to reduce the price? I got back to signed PAs today. I offered 12,500 and would probably sell for 20 to 24,000. And the other one I offered 7,000 and would probably sell for 12 to 15,000, not including title and agent costs. If they sell at the low end, each deal is a little skinny. At the same time, I have cash sitting around, and I'd like to keep it moving. A 30 to 50% return in a couple of months would be pretty awesome in any other context."
Jill K DeWit:You want to go first?
Steven Jack Butala:No.
Jill K DeWit:All right. I hate to be that guy. So I'm assuming you came in higher, obviously than you intended to on these offers or maybe you didn't come in higher, maybe now that you've looked at the properties, you realize, oh, because it's in this area or because the access is this situation or it doesn't have the attributes I thought it did, something like that means that your sales price is lower than what you were originally expecting. So there's a couple ways to look at this. There's a lot of ways to look at this, but first of all, I don't want you to go, if you have to adjust a sales price for something like that, I get it. But you don't want to be that guy and try to do that on every deal. You're going to be miserable with this, by the way, always talking to people down, it's harder to take away money than it is to add money.
Jill K DeWit:We always try to come in lower and then add to it when we find out some great things about the property. So you could go back to the seller and point out because I thought it had X and it doesn't, look, we have physical access, we don't have legal access. It's going to cost some money to obtain that. Or X solution, whatever it is, you could do that and try. I'm even wondering, these numbers to me are not bad anyway.
Jill K DeWit:You are holding back. You're sitting on your hands. Please, please share.
Steven Jack Butala:Negotiation, like marriage is too prevalent. There's too much negotiation going on-
Jill K DeWit:That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
Steven Jack Butala:On this planet. And it's all because it's been ingrained in our heads, especially with this personality type, real estate personality type, to try to get it cheaper. When in reality,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Due Diligence for Off Grid SFRs (LA 1700)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Sorry, the House Academy Show, this Wednesday, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, jill and I talk about due diligence for off grid houses or SFRs.
Jill K DeWit:This came up because of the one we went and looked at?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Okay, cool. So we're going to tell you all about that. We drove, gosh, an hour and a half each way to check out a really cool property.
Steven Jack Butala:Full blown real ranch. Jill'll tell you all about it.
Jill K DeWit:Let me remind you, we drove an hour and a half each way. Am I going to do that every weekend, maybe not. And then it was a good least half hour from civilization.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Easy. So in the end we didn't buy it. It was for personal use, but is it really ever for personal use? If somebody offers more, you always sell it.
Jill K DeWit:Right.
Steven Jack Butala:It's a lot of work. We'll explain it. But it was off grid.
Jill K DeWit:It was cool.
Steven Jack Butala:It was an interesting due diligence process.
Jill K DeWit:Really cool.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you liked.
Jill K DeWit:Erin and wrote, "Hi everyone. After receiving a signed purchase agreement, how often do you try to reduce the price? I got back to signed PAs today. I offered 12,500 and would probably sell for 20 to 24,000. And the other one I offered 7,000 and would probably sell for 12 to 15,000, not including title and agent costs. If they sell at the low end, each deal is a little skinny. At the same time, I have cash sitting around, and I'd like to keep it moving. A 30 to 50% return in a couple of months would be pretty awesome in any other context."
Jill K DeWit:You want to go first?
Steven Jack Butala:No.
Jill K DeWit:All right. I hate to be that guy. So I'm assuming you came in higher, obviously than you intended to on these offers or maybe you didn't come in higher, maybe now that you've looked at the properties, you realize, oh, because it's in this area or because the access is this situation or it doesn't have the attributes I thought it did, something like that means that your sales price is lower than what you were originally expecting. So there's a couple ways to look at this. There's a lot of ways to look at this, but first of all, I don't want you to go, if you have to adjust a sales price for something like that, I get it. But you don't want to be that guy and try to do that on every deal. You're going to be miserable with this, by the way, always talking to people down, it's harder to take away money than it is to add money.
Jill K DeWit:We always try to come in lower and then add to it when we find out some great things about the property. So you could go back to the seller and point out because I thought it had X and it doesn't, look, we have physical access, we don't have legal access. It's going to cost some money to obtain that. Or X solution, whatever it is, you could do that and try. I'm even wondering, these numbers to me are not bad anyway.
Jill K DeWit:You are holding back. You're sitting on your hands. Please, please share.
Steven Jack Butala:Negotiation, like marriage is too prevalent. There's too much negotiation going on-
Jill K DeWit:That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
Steven Jack Butala:On this planet. And it's all because it's been ingrained in our heads, especially with this personality type, real estate personality type, to try to get it cheaper. When in reality,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/16/due-diligence-for-off-grid-sfrs-la-1700/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">eUAVIJNRd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:31:16 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d88d1168-5080-41da-8216-ee895e08e77d.mp3" length="30091588" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Role of Your Telephone in Your Land Business (LA 1699)</title><itunes:title>Role of Your Telephone in Your Land Business (LA 1699)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Role of Your Telephone in Your Land Business (LA 1699)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steph and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about the role of your telephone in the land business. Well, really, Jill's going to talk about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, exactly. That's how it's going to go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "Do you have a business line of credit? If so, where? And are you pleased with the service?" Well, this is interesting. Was this in discord?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. It was a very popular topic and heavily responded to by other members.

Jill K DeWit:
Does anyone?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah,

Jill K DeWit:
Really?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. A lot of people.

Jill K DeWit:
Ah.

Steven Jack Butala:
And different types of line of credit. So there's lines of credit, there's house, regular mortgage, second mortgages and all kinds of stuff. And everybody had a lot of positive stuff to say, which is why ...

Jill K DeWit:
I don't have ...

Steven Jack Butala:
Which I brought it up here.

Jill K DeWit:
We don't.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is why I brought this up because Jill and I don't believe in debt.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Whenever we need to get something done, which is every single day, we use equity. And so do I have a business line of credit? No. Could we go get a multimillion dollar line of credit against ...

Jill K DeWit:
Anything?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably just our credit scores.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
It'd be tertiary debt, just like unsecured debt, like a credit card. We choose not to do that for a lot of reasons. Mostly because both of us collectively and individual have been burned, extending too much credit, whether it's asset based or not and having things go south and then having to mop that up. And this is in the way distant past for both of us.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me know and I can share.

Steven Jack Butala:
So what I think you need to do, it's cheap as hell right now. You can get a line of credit for just 1% or 2%. So if you're crazy confident in what's going to happen in your career, that might be a good idea. It's a personal preference, but I vote no.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's my personal preference. We never have done this. So back in the day when we were huh, getting this going again, like I had acquisition funds, right? I had like a balance of our money that was set aside to buy land. And then when I was out of the acquisition funds, guess what I had to do? Hurry up and sell something so I could have the money to reinvest in something else. It just kept going and it would build up. It was great. So that's my first choice. Like you just said, I'm just not a fan of this at all.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
If you have $10,000, then you buy stuff up to $10,000. And you need to hurry up and sell it. If you do it right next, in 30 days, you have $20,000. And in 30 more days, you have $40,000. You hurry up and move this money through.

Jill K DeWit:
Now, if you need something more than that, or you don't even have $10,000, then I would use a partner. Bring in a partner where you're doing the deal together. You're not borrowing the money. It's like you're partnering on the deal. And it all goes sideways, that person gets a deal. You don't owe them anything. You're just like, well, shoot.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's equity.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't get part of this. It's the, yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's also way more expensive.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Role of Your Telephone in Your Land Business (LA 1699)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steph and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about the role of your telephone in the land business. Well, really, Jill's going to talk about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, exactly. That's how it's going to go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "Do you have a business line of credit? If so, where? And are you pleased with the service?" Well, this is interesting. Was this in discord?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. It was a very popular topic and heavily responded to by other members.

Jill K DeWit:
Does anyone?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah,

Jill K DeWit:
Really?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. A lot of people.

Jill K DeWit:
Ah.

Steven Jack Butala:
And different types of line of credit. So there's lines of credit, there's house, regular mortgage, second mortgages and all kinds of stuff. And everybody had a lot of positive stuff to say, which is why ...

Jill K DeWit:
I don't have ...

Steven Jack Butala:
Which I brought it up here.

Jill K DeWit:
We don't.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is why I brought this up because Jill and I don't believe in debt.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Whenever we need to get something done, which is every single day, we use equity. And so do I have a business line of credit? No. Could we go get a multimillion dollar line of credit against ...

Jill K DeWit:
Anything?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably just our credit scores.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
It'd be tertiary debt, just like unsecured debt, like a credit card. We choose not to do that for a lot of reasons. Mostly because both of us collectively and individual have been burned, extending too much credit, whether it's asset based or not and having things go south and then having to mop that up. And this is in the way distant past for both of us.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me know and I can share.

Steven Jack Butala:
So what I think you need to do, it's cheap as hell right now. You can get a line of credit for just 1% or 2%. So if you're crazy confident in what's going to happen in your career, that might be a good idea. It's a personal preference, but I vote no.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's my personal preference. We never have done this. So back in the day when we were huh, getting this going again, like I had acquisition funds, right? I had like a balance of our money that was set aside to buy land. And then when I was out of the acquisition funds, guess what I had to do? Hurry up and sell something so I could have the money to reinvest in something else. It just kept going and it would build up. It was great. So that's my first choice. Like you just said, I'm just not a fan of this at all.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
If you have $10,000, then you buy stuff up to $10,000. And you need to hurry up and sell it. If you do it right next, in 30 days, you have $20,000. And in 30 more days, you have $40,000. You hurry up and move this money through.

Jill K DeWit:
Now, if you need something more than that, or you don't even have $10,000, then I would use a partner. Bring in a partner where you're doing the deal together. You're not borrowing the money. It's like you're partnering on the deal. And it all goes sideways, that person gets a deal. You don't owe them anything. You're just like, well, shoot.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's equity.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't get part of this. It's the, yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's also way more expensive.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/15/role-of-your-telephone-in-your-land-business-la-1699/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">q-F5On6x6</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:06:38 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ee5bb890-654c-4fcd-a47c-49f453a06d6c.mp3" length="20969145" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Building a Land Work Flow Process like Machine Events (LA 1698)</title><itunes:title>Building a Land Work Flow Process like Machine Events (LA 1698)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Building a Land Work Flow Process like Machine Events (LA 1698)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Monday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show "Entertaining Land," investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I, aside from Jill looking like a hippie, are going to talk a little bit about building a land flow.

Jill K DeWit:
What are you talking about?

Steven Jack Butala:
Building a land workflow process, like machining events.

Jill K DeWit:
Why do you think I look like a hippy? Because of my necklace?

Steven Jack Butala:
You got a little hippy thing going on. And it's good.

Jill K DeWit:
Well yeah. By the way, this is Laguna Beach sand in here. And by the way, did you know that there's a fire? Did you see the news today?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
As we're recording this it's Thursday, it's four days before this is going to air and there's a big fire in Laguna Beach right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
In Laguna Beach itself?

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. And it's real close to the homes, so the firefighters, a wall of them standing between homes, it's in the little canyon and it's sitting in the winds and that's what's happening, it's blowing at the wrong, you know...

Steven Jack Butala:
Every single year.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, that's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every year this happens.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true. I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's still terrible.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, it's scary, but I'll take my hippy...

Steven Jack Butala:
That's an outstanding way to change the conversation almost immediately.

Jill K DeWit:
Wearing my Laguna Beach sand.

Steven Jack Butala:
It took an eighth of a second for us to not talk about real estate.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, thank you. Now you know. Welcome to my world.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like

Jill K DeWit:
Kim wrote... "Does anyone know if there's an easy way to search days on market for agents? I'm one by one-ing my way through Zillow and LandWatch at the moment, researching listing and brokers to engage. But I keep thinking there's an API or Excel download that I could be accessing. I'm attempting to weigh sales price versus days on market for these agents." Interesting. "This approach seems to make sense when choosing who I contact, let me know if you look for other characteristics as well in a listing agent." Oh, I have a few! "I don't want this to take forever, but right now I'm new to this piece of the process and wanting to make a little sense out of who I should engage."

Steven Jack Butala:
Kim, this is an extremely intelligent question. And Jill's got a lot to say, but before she says it, I want you to stop this notion of tying a real estate agent, the best real estate agent out there, maximizes your price. So I think that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get a download to see who's getting the most price per acre, and then you're going to contact that agent and they might be your agent. Jill's going to dispel that for you right now.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. So Kim you're clearly like Jack, and it's all data driven. And I do understand that, but here's my first tip to finding an agent. Do they answer the phone?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep, call them.

Jill K DeWit:
That's number one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill calls him at like six in the morning sometimes to trick him.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't do that!

Steven Jack Butala:
Two or three days ago, you did that.

Jill K DeWit:
It was 8:00 and it wasn't a trick! Okay, wait a minute. It was between 7:00 and 8:00. It wasn't 6:00, but it was like 7:30 in the morning. Yes, it was early, but we were getting ready to go on the road an...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Building a Land Work Flow Process like Machine Events (LA 1698)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Monday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show "Entertaining Land," investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I, aside from Jill looking like a hippie, are going to talk a little bit about building a land flow.

Jill K DeWit:
What are you talking about?

Steven Jack Butala:
Building a land workflow process, like machining events.

Jill K DeWit:
Why do you think I look like a hippy? Because of my necklace?

Steven Jack Butala:
You got a little hippy thing going on. And it's good.

Jill K DeWit:
Well yeah. By the way, this is Laguna Beach sand in here. And by the way, did you know that there's a fire? Did you see the news today?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
As we're recording this it's Thursday, it's four days before this is going to air and there's a big fire in Laguna Beach right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
In Laguna Beach itself?

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. And it's real close to the homes, so the firefighters, a wall of them standing between homes, it's in the little canyon and it's sitting in the winds and that's what's happening, it's blowing at the wrong, you know...

Steven Jack Butala:
Every single year.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, that's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every year this happens.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true. I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's still terrible.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, it's scary, but I'll take my hippy...

Steven Jack Butala:
That's an outstanding way to change the conversation almost immediately.

Jill K DeWit:
Wearing my Laguna Beach sand.

Steven Jack Butala:
It took an eighth of a second for us to not talk about real estate.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, thank you. Now you know. Welcome to my world.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like

Jill K DeWit:
Kim wrote... "Does anyone know if there's an easy way to search days on market for agents? I'm one by one-ing my way through Zillow and LandWatch at the moment, researching listing and brokers to engage. But I keep thinking there's an API or Excel download that I could be accessing. I'm attempting to weigh sales price versus days on market for these agents." Interesting. "This approach seems to make sense when choosing who I contact, let me know if you look for other characteristics as well in a listing agent." Oh, I have a few! "I don't want this to take forever, but right now I'm new to this piece of the process and wanting to make a little sense out of who I should engage."

Steven Jack Butala:
Kim, this is an extremely intelligent question. And Jill's got a lot to say, but before she says it, I want you to stop this notion of tying a real estate agent, the best real estate agent out there, maximizes your price. So I think that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get a download to see who's getting the most price per acre, and then you're going to contact that agent and they might be your agent. Jill's going to dispel that for you right now.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally. So Kim you're clearly like Jack, and it's all data driven. And I do understand that, but here's my first tip to finding an agent. Do they answer the phone?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep, call them.

Jill K DeWit:
That's number one.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill calls him at like six in the morning sometimes to trick him.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't do that!

Steven Jack Butala:
Two or three days ago, you did that.

Jill K DeWit:
It was 8:00 and it wasn't a trick! Okay, wait a minute. It was between 7:00 and 8:00. It wasn't 6:00, but it was like 7:30 in the morning. Yes, it was early, but we were getting ready to go on the road an...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/14/building-a-land-work-flow-process-like-machine-events-la-1698/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8kf-PDTuK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:10:06 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9ad4d443-31d8-45ad-8413-baaaab4732a2.mp3" length="13743256" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Short Cuts (LA 1697)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Short Cuts (LA 1697)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Short Cuts (LA 1697)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today it's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about shortcuts.

Jill K DeWit:
How do you think I feel about shortcuts?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm pretty confident that you're not a big fan.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope, Nope. Not a fan. I'm going to give you ... we got to talk. This is brutal truth week, right? Sorry. I have a tickle in my throat. So I'm going to talk about first of all, when it's not okay, and then I'm going to talk about when it is okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a massive difference between shortcuts and laziness.

Jill K DeWit:
That's usually what it is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because laziness ... I've driven by laziness at times. And I'll tell you when I catch myself being lazy, the first thing I do is find somebody else to do this stuff, because I obviously don't want to do it. That doesn't mean I can't get it done. If I'm taking a shortcut, I'm just trying not to do it all together.

Jill K DeWit:
We're going to talk about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
That concerns me a lot.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Plus, well, it's Jill Friday.

Jill K DeWit:
We're going to talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's going to talk and I'm going to listen.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "How do you come up with a price when there's nothing else for sale or sold in the area on Zillow, Redfin or Realtor? Do you keep zooming out or do you have another method? Or just give up?"

Steven Jack Butala:
You just give up.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a shortcut day. Yeah. Yeah. Who cares? Move on to where you do have some data. Give up. Shortcut. Now wait, you asked somebody else to do it for you. How sad.

Steven Jack Butala:
Nobody's ... We're not making fun of you, Sandy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Wait or copy someone. Here's a even better idea. Just copy somebody else.

Steven Jack Butala:
We don't give up on anything.

Jill K DeWit:
This is awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Giving up is not even a discussion.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, there's other ways.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's always data.

Jill K DeWit:
You got to dig.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
You got to get in there Sandy. You can give me any zip code, any area and I'm going to come up with some numbers. I'll find them.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree.

Jill K DeWit:
And if I can't find really good numbers, I can at least get a gauge in the area. For example: what if it's somewhere that I'm really having a hard time pricing land, but I can get house prices and house prices are either starting at $4 million on the beach, because I'm trying to [buy 00:02:45] I got to cut a good idea how that's going to go there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Or I can buy a house for $4,000. I got a good idea how the line prices are going to go there. And so in both of those extremes, I at least know that I don't want to play in that pool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's all kinds of alternative ways to find data. And I know we're poking fun and stuff, but this is a real issue. Lack of data in certain real estate markets in a lot of real estate markets, especially if they're rural is a, is an issue. So there's a couple ways to go on this and all kidding aside, you can move on, and if you're brand new, I would move on. If you're brand new, this is senior in high school stuff. This is not, I've just started doing this. Housing values are a really smoking great indic...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Short Cuts (LA 1697)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today it's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about shortcuts.

Jill K DeWit:
How do you think I feel about shortcuts?

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm pretty confident that you're not a big fan.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope, Nope. Not a fan. I'm going to give you ... we got to talk. This is brutal truth week, right? Sorry. I have a tickle in my throat. So I'm going to talk about first of all, when it's not okay, and then I'm going to talk about when it is okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a massive difference between shortcuts and laziness.

Jill K DeWit:
That's usually what it is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because laziness ... I've driven by laziness at times. And I'll tell you when I catch myself being lazy, the first thing I do is find somebody else to do this stuff, because I obviously don't want to do it. That doesn't mean I can't get it done. If I'm taking a shortcut, I'm just trying not to do it all together.

Jill K DeWit:
We're going to talk about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
That concerns me a lot.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Plus, well, it's Jill Friday.

Jill K DeWit:
We're going to talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's going to talk and I'm going to listen.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "How do you come up with a price when there's nothing else for sale or sold in the area on Zillow, Redfin or Realtor? Do you keep zooming out or do you have another method? Or just give up?"

Steven Jack Butala:
You just give up.

Jill K DeWit:
This is a shortcut day. Yeah. Yeah. Who cares? Move on to where you do have some data. Give up. Shortcut. Now wait, you asked somebody else to do it for you. How sad.

Steven Jack Butala:
Nobody's ... We're not making fun of you, Sandy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Wait or copy someone. Here's a even better idea. Just copy somebody else.

Steven Jack Butala:
We don't give up on anything.

Jill K DeWit:
This is awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:
Giving up is not even a discussion.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, there's other ways.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's always data.

Jill K DeWit:
You got to dig.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
You got to get in there Sandy. You can give me any zip code, any area and I'm going to come up with some numbers. I'll find them.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree.

Jill K DeWit:
And if I can't find really good numbers, I can at least get a gauge in the area. For example: what if it's somewhere that I'm really having a hard time pricing land, but I can get house prices and house prices are either starting at $4 million on the beach, because I'm trying to [buy 00:02:45] I got to cut a good idea how that's going to go there.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Or I can buy a house for $4,000. I got a good idea how the line prices are going to go there. And so in both of those extremes, I at least know that I don't want to play in that pool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's all kinds of alternative ways to find data. And I know we're poking fun and stuff, but this is a real issue. Lack of data in certain real estate markets in a lot of real estate markets, especially if they're rural is a, is an issue. So there's a couple ways to go on this and all kidding aside, you can move on, and if you're brand new, I would move on. If you're brand new, this is senior in high school stuff. This is not, I've just started doing this. Housing values are a really smoking great indic...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/11/jill-friday-short-cuts-la-1697/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d8KY-0ZDJ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:57:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bb2ac625-dbaf-412c-8702-1d5fa3f1da2a.mp3" length="20913268" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; The Honest Truth about Business Ownership (LA 1696)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; The Honest Truth about Business Ownership (LA 1696)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - The Honest Truth about Business Ownership (LA 1696)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about the honest truth about business ownership.

Jill K DeWit:
How honest you going to be?

Steven Jack Butala:
Brutally honest. It's brutal honesty week.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. Maybe we should call the brutal honest truth.

Steven Jack Butala:
I should have. I don't know about putting brutal in a title though.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. I don't know someone might be searching for that. I'm sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm sure. I'm sure there are people searching for all kinds of stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Tell me the good, bad and the ugly. I need to know. Well, that's why we're here. Again we're here to save you. Boy, do I wish I had us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's a prelude. Probably 80% of owning a business sucks. The 20% that's awesome.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like getting rich?

Jill K DeWit:
It outweighs that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Is worth it. And the 80% that's awful? You can outsource,

Jill K DeWit:
You know what though? You're talking about the 20%, the good part. I love. I'll never go back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh gosh. There's no way.

Jill K DeWit:
And I knew that. I knew that right away. I'm like, oh man. I knew that I was destined to do something like this with you. I knew.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you did.

Jill K DeWit:
Every day, I got up and, yes, back in the day, I'm telling you how old I am because I actually had to punch a time clock. I really had to take a card off a wall back in the day and clock in and then clock out. I just knew that this is stupid. I shouldn't be doing this. I'm not this person. And I'm very happy where we are. I know we'll talk more about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too, Jill. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community that's free. Please don't forget to subscribe. Seriously. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Carl and Samantha, hello, wrote, "When looking at the red, yellow, green test, I was comparing the last three months, month over month, to establish a baseline and understand if the area was showing a downward or an upward trend." Love this. "I know every market is different. So looking at one month wasn't giving me enough of a story to make a decision." Brilliant.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a slice of brilliance, Jill's right. In the red, green, yellow test we provide what I think is an infrastructure to test a zip code about whether or not you should send mail there and whether or not it's going to work for buy for 30 and sell for 60, but it's a basic concept. The question that they're asking, and these people are in Career Path right now, what they're really asking is, "Doesn't it make sense to look at some more stuff just to make sure?" And the answer is, "Hell yes. Absolutely, it does." Whatever makes sense to you beyond that structure. That's what Career Path is. It's taken this to the way next level and making it your own.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so month over month statistics or year over year statistics, what they're talking about specifically is are there more properties selling this month versus last month? Or less properties or there more properties selling this year over last year? Year over year, month over month, it's in every statistic in all kinds of real estate. So if there are more properties selling, and there are not more properties listed, this is the kind of stuff we talk about in Career Path and in Land Academy itself all the time, that's a good place to send mail,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - The Honest Truth about Business Ownership (LA 1696)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about the honest truth about business ownership.

Jill K DeWit:
How honest you going to be?

Steven Jack Butala:
Brutally honest. It's brutal honesty week.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. Maybe we should call the brutal honest truth.

Steven Jack Butala:
I should have. I don't know about putting brutal in a title though.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true. I don't know someone might be searching for that. I'm sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm sure. I'm sure there are people searching for all kinds of stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Tell me the good, bad and the ugly. I need to know. Well, that's why we're here. Again we're here to save you. Boy, do I wish I had us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's a prelude. Probably 80% of owning a business sucks. The 20% that's awesome.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like getting rich?

Jill K DeWit:
It outweighs that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Is worth it. And the 80% that's awful? You can outsource,

Jill K DeWit:
You know what though? You're talking about the 20%, the good part. I love. I'll never go back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh gosh. There's no way.

Jill K DeWit:
And I knew that. I knew that right away. I'm like, oh man. I knew that I was destined to do something like this with you. I knew.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you did.

Jill K DeWit:
Every day, I got up and, yes, back in the day, I'm telling you how old I am because I actually had to punch a time clock. I really had to take a card off a wall back in the day and clock in and then clock out. I just knew that this is stupid. I shouldn't be doing this. I'm not this person. And I'm very happy where we are. I know we'll talk more about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too, Jill. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community that's free. Please don't forget to subscribe. Seriously. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Carl and Samantha, hello, wrote, "When looking at the red, yellow, green test, I was comparing the last three months, month over month, to establish a baseline and understand if the area was showing a downward or an upward trend." Love this. "I know every market is different. So looking at one month wasn't giving me enough of a story to make a decision." Brilliant.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a slice of brilliance, Jill's right. In the red, green, yellow test we provide what I think is an infrastructure to test a zip code about whether or not you should send mail there and whether or not it's going to work for buy for 30 and sell for 60, but it's a basic concept. The question that they're asking, and these people are in Career Path right now, what they're really asking is, "Doesn't it make sense to look at some more stuff just to make sure?" And the answer is, "Hell yes. Absolutely, it does." Whatever makes sense to you beyond that structure. That's what Career Path is. It's taken this to the way next level and making it your own.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so month over month statistics or year over year statistics, what they're talking about specifically is are there more properties selling this month versus last month? Or less properties or there more properties selling this year over last year? Year over year, month over month, it's in every statistic in all kinds of real estate. So if there are more properties selling, and there are not more properties listed, this is the kind of stuff we talk about in Career Path and in Land Academy itself all the time, that's a good place to send mail,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/10/jack-thursday-the-honest-truth-about-business-ownership-la-1696/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">guT0XglIV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f55b93a3-31d0-421c-b0c1-2310f299f9f6.mp3" length="16363228" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Real Difference Between a Land and House Flip (LA 1695)</title><itunes:title>Real Difference Between a Land and House Flip (LA 1695)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Real Difference Between a Land and House Flip (LA 1695)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the real difference between a house and a land flip. Basic structure, basic mechanical, send out blind offers, receive them, choose the ones you want, close the deal. There's a lot of stuff in the middle.
Jill K DeWit:It's different. We're going to share this with you. It's different.
Steven Jack Butala:There's a lot of stuff in the middle.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm sure you can tell by my sigh which side I'm on. So there's Beth Dutton in me that just loves land.
Steven Jack Butala:Once a week, a new Land Academy member reaches out to me. I'll put it in terms you can understand, and then we'll get into the details. Once a week, maybe once every other week, a Land Academy member reaches out to me and says, "That's it? I just got done with this land deal. We bought it for 10, sold it for 25. The whole thing took 35 days. And I think I talked to somebody three times. That's all you do?" And I can tell before they even say anything, that they're former house flippers.
Jill K DeWit:Oh, gosh.
Steven Jack Butala:That's why?
Jill K DeWit:That's true. Oh, that's funny. Okay. Now I get it.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Corley wrote, "I was wondering if anyone has any advice for building credibility, other than social media presence. I just got off the phone with a seller and they wanted to know where they could learn more about my company other than my website and social media. I haven't done any deals, so I really don't know what direction to point them in. I haven't set up a LLC yet, but I'm waiting to get a few deals under my belt." I think what you've got is perfect. What are you going to do, say, "Call the Better Business Bureau. I have an A plus"? I don't do that anymore. Uh, oh, you have something to say.
Steven Jack Butala:Watch this. Watch this. Listen or watcher, watch this. Jill, why should I sell my land to you?
Jill K DeWit:Oh my. Okay. I wasn't ready for that. That's good. What are your concerns?
Steven Jack Butala:I just want to know it's real. I actually do want to sell my land and I'm pretty sure the price works out, if it works out for you. I want to know that the deal's going to go okay and you have some kind of credibility. Is this a scan?
Jill K DeWit:No, that's why we're going to do through escrow too. I'm going to make sure it all goes smooth. We're going to have an escrow agent closing the deal, if that's the case, whatever it is. Yeah. Then otherwise I just do refer them back to me. Look me up. Google me. Please Google me if you're not sure. Actually I do that now all the time for all kinds of things. We might be doing an Airbnb and I'll say, "Google me," and they go, "Okay, I see who you are. I see that you're real." And it's totally fine.
Steven Jack Butala:If you're going to own your own business, you are, like it or not, in the business of selling yourself for now and forever. If you own a convenience store and you run it, and you're standing behind the counter and running it, you better get to know everybody in the neighborhood, so they subconsciously start to choose you for light grocery shopping. That's it. So know, this business model and Land Academy itself attracts a disproportionate number of Jacks, not Jills. There's a technical solution for everything. Well, if I just price it perfectly, like we talked about yesterday, if I price this mailer perfectly,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Real Difference Between a Land and House Flip (LA 1695)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the real difference between a house and a land flip. Basic structure, basic mechanical, send out blind offers, receive them, choose the ones you want, close the deal. There's a lot of stuff in the middle.
Jill K DeWit:It's different. We're going to share this with you. It's different.
Steven Jack Butala:There's a lot of stuff in the middle.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm sure you can tell by my sigh which side I'm on. So there's Beth Dutton in me that just loves land.
Steven Jack Butala:Once a week, a new Land Academy member reaches out to me. I'll put it in terms you can understand, and then we'll get into the details. Once a week, maybe once every other week, a Land Academy member reaches out to me and says, "That's it? I just got done with this land deal. We bought it for 10, sold it for 25. The whole thing took 35 days. And I think I talked to somebody three times. That's all you do?" And I can tell before they even say anything, that they're former house flippers.
Jill K DeWit:Oh, gosh.
Steven Jack Butala:That's why?
Jill K DeWit:That's true. Oh, that's funny. Okay. Now I get it.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Corley wrote, "I was wondering if anyone has any advice for building credibility, other than social media presence. I just got off the phone with a seller and they wanted to know where they could learn more about my company other than my website and social media. I haven't done any deals, so I really don't know what direction to point them in. I haven't set up a LLC yet, but I'm waiting to get a few deals under my belt." I think what you've got is perfect. What are you going to do, say, "Call the Better Business Bureau. I have an A plus"? I don't do that anymore. Uh, oh, you have something to say.
Steven Jack Butala:Watch this. Watch this. Listen or watcher, watch this. Jill, why should I sell my land to you?
Jill K DeWit:Oh my. Okay. I wasn't ready for that. That's good. What are your concerns?
Steven Jack Butala:I just want to know it's real. I actually do want to sell my land and I'm pretty sure the price works out, if it works out for you. I want to know that the deal's going to go okay and you have some kind of credibility. Is this a scan?
Jill K DeWit:No, that's why we're going to do through escrow too. I'm going to make sure it all goes smooth. We're going to have an escrow agent closing the deal, if that's the case, whatever it is. Yeah. Then otherwise I just do refer them back to me. Look me up. Google me. Please Google me if you're not sure. Actually I do that now all the time for all kinds of things. We might be doing an Airbnb and I'll say, "Google me," and they go, "Okay, I see who you are. I see that you're real." And it's totally fine.
Steven Jack Butala:If you're going to own your own business, you are, like it or not, in the business of selling yourself for now and forever. If you own a convenience store and you run it, and you're standing behind the counter and running it, you better get to know everybody in the neighborhood, so they subconsciously start to choose you for light grocery shopping. That's it. So know, this business model and Land Academy itself attracts a disproportionate number of Jacks, not Jills. There's a technical solution for everything. Well, if I just price it perfectly, like we talked about yesterday, if I price this mailer perfectly,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/09/real-difference-between-a-land-and-house-flip-la-1695/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">DAm0uF9AI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:57:53 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fd00e2c6-f70e-4101-8623-5693395aba3c.mp3" length="23391136" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Critical Success Points in Every Land Deal (LA 1694)</title><itunes:title>3 Critical Success Points in Every Land Deal (LA 1694)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[3 Critical Success Points in Every Land Deal (LA 1694)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the three critical success points in every land deal. If you can envision a flow chart, a chart of all little events that happen starting from when you find an area that you want to send mail to all the way to when you get that check in your hand or that wire transfer on the sale, there's all these little points in between, but there's three of them that I think are imperative and critical. And we'll talk about that.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I was thinking something funny-

Steven Jack Butala:
What's your interest level in land today, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, first of all, I notice have an earring and that's kind of falling out. So I want to fix that.

Steven Jack Butala:
You should do a whole show about...

Jill K DeWit:
I've got that taken care of.

Steven Jack Butala:
How interested is Jill in this really?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my goodness. I feel so bad. I was really trying to hang in there yesterday when we were doing some... It's career path and we were, you were in a deep discussion and it's just your side of the sheet. And it's data stuff that like the back of your hand.

Jill K DeWit:
And everybody's leaning in and drooling and I'm like, "Stay awake, stay awake, stay awake." So funny. I'm like, "Don't zone out. They can probably see that." As I'm trying to. So that's not happening here, but my mind goes other places. I'll be honest.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's see if this will wake Jill up.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on this shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Kim wrote, is there a dollar amount for a sale? Would it make sense to involve an agent? Oh, I like this question. This is kind of a, my question. Thank you for doing this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure. Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
We're buying a property for $8,500 and based on comps, expect to sell it for a minimum of $25,000, maybe up to $40,000. Hey, nice numbers, Kim. This is where I would like the experience of a local agent, but I'm curious your thoughts. We plan to self close, but would need tile insurance, et cetera, on the sell side. All right, this is shaping up great. This is an awesome deal. I love these kind of a numbers-

Steven Jack Butala:
She's interested now.

Jill K DeWit:
Shucks. You could do 20 these a month. Think about that. And with the person that you hired from the show yesterday that we talked about and no, I think those are great numbers. So that's a good number. I think 25 to 40,000 number. I have brokers that will get involved and they are interested.

Jill K DeWit:
But what they will do is like, the good ones we'll have this conversation with you go look, all right, here's the deal though. I'm happy to take the deal down, but I need a minimum of X, maybe it's $4,000 or something like that because my cost costs, I have assistance. I have to get the photographs. I have a team. So if I can make a minimum of X, I'm happy to do it because my percentage would leave me with negative $10.

Jill K DeWit:
That's not going to work by the time I'm done. And I'm totally good with that. And you may need to offer that and maybe you found someone great, but they're worried about it. Commission wise, the percentage is so small. You could say, look, what is a minimum flat dollar amount that you would be interested in, that you could get?

Jill K DeWit:
And I think that's wonderful, the sweet spot, I have a relationship with these guys. So now that I bring them whatever size and they're good with it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[3 Critical Success Points in Every Land Deal (LA 1694)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the three critical success points in every land deal. If you can envision a flow chart, a chart of all little events that happen starting from when you find an area that you want to send mail to all the way to when you get that check in your hand or that wire transfer on the sale, there's all these little points in between, but there's three of them that I think are imperative and critical. And we'll talk about that.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I was thinking something funny-

Steven Jack Butala:
What's your interest level in land today, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, first of all, I notice have an earring and that's kind of falling out. So I want to fix that.

Steven Jack Butala:
You should do a whole show about...

Jill K DeWit:
I've got that taken care of.

Steven Jack Butala:
How interested is Jill in this really?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my goodness. I feel so bad. I was really trying to hang in there yesterday when we were doing some... It's career path and we were, you were in a deep discussion and it's just your side of the sheet. And it's data stuff that like the back of your hand.

Jill K DeWit:
And everybody's leaning in and drooling and I'm like, "Stay awake, stay awake, stay awake." So funny. I'm like, "Don't zone out. They can probably see that." As I'm trying to. So that's not happening here, but my mind goes other places. I'll be honest.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's see if this will wake Jill up.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on this shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Kim wrote, is there a dollar amount for a sale? Would it make sense to involve an agent? Oh, I like this question. This is kind of a, my question. Thank you for doing this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure. Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
We're buying a property for $8,500 and based on comps, expect to sell it for a minimum of $25,000, maybe up to $40,000. Hey, nice numbers, Kim. This is where I would like the experience of a local agent, but I'm curious your thoughts. We plan to self close, but would need tile insurance, et cetera, on the sell side. All right, this is shaping up great. This is an awesome deal. I love these kind of a numbers-

Steven Jack Butala:
She's interested now.

Jill K DeWit:
Shucks. You could do 20 these a month. Think about that. And with the person that you hired from the show yesterday that we talked about and no, I think those are great numbers. So that's a good number. I think 25 to 40,000 number. I have brokers that will get involved and they are interested.

Jill K DeWit:
But what they will do is like, the good ones we'll have this conversation with you go look, all right, here's the deal though. I'm happy to take the deal down, but I need a minimum of X, maybe it's $4,000 or something like that because my cost costs, I have assistance. I have to get the photographs. I have a team. So if I can make a minimum of X, I'm happy to do it because my percentage would leave me with negative $10.

Jill K DeWit:
That's not going to work by the time I'm done. And I'm totally good with that. And you may need to offer that and maybe you found someone great, but they're worried about it. Commission wise, the percentage is so small. You could say, look, what is a minimum flat dollar amount that you would be interested in, that you could get?

Jill K DeWit:
And I think that's wonderful, the sweet spot, I have a relationship with these guys. So now that I bring them whatever size and they're good with it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/08/3-critical-success-points-in-every-land-deal-la-1694/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">KFiSJxJsY</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:02:15 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ce6c1c72-236c-4689-afa7-5d1f56fa6931.mp3" length="17477810" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Outsourcing to Scale Your Land Business (LA 1693)</title><itunes:title>Outsourcing to Scale Your Land Business (LA 1693)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Outsourcing to Scale Your Land Business (LA 1693)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about outsourcing to scale your land business. Every 10-

Jill K DeWit:
This-

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
The topic for me is, kids, we need to talk.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every 10 weeks we teach a course called Career Path. We're about the third week, third let's say module, third week in the 10 week class.

Jill K DeWit:
Where we are now.

Steven Jack Butala:
And every time we teach this, there becomes a theme. And last Career Path was pricing, and this Career Path is scaling up. And the only way to do that is through outsourcing, so I wanted to share some of the highlights with everybody on this, because it's incredibly important, and we're all here to make money.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sometimes we forget that.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that funny, where I've got to pause on that. That's a good note. We were joking about that the other day, because everybody was talking about hiring. We're going to talk more about that, but they were talking about hiring and how do you motivate them, do you pay them per transaction or whatever. And we were kind of saying, you would be shocked and amazed how many people at that level, like a transaction coordinator position, they're not there for the money. They're not there to get bonuses when they close something. They're there to make sure they have a steady paycheck. And it's so amazing, you need to ask people by the way what they want. Usually they want flexibility, consistency, I know I'm going to get a check, that kind of thing. But we both chimed in and said that's not how we are.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no. No, every-

Jill K DeWit:
The owners are not that way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Totally off topic already, but I ask everybody before we hire them, what are you motivated by? Not a single person in my entire career, hundreds and hundreds of people, have said, "I'm motivated by money."

Jill K DeWit:
Except for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which is my only motivation. Except Jill, which is now why we're here in front of you after all these years later.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I never wanted to hire you anyway.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, [crosstalk 00:02:12].

Steven Jack Butala:
And we're kind of in this together.

Jill K DeWit:
Just kind of, I fell into it backwards.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Luke wrote, "I'm assuming that most, not all, parcels from county to county labeled NEC are unusable in some way. Not much on the interwebs from my initial search, but after getting a signed contract back with one of these designations, I discovered it was mostly wetlands and in the FEMA flood zone. Just curious to everyone's experience with the properties they have that have these zoning labels."

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, so Luke, I'm not picking on you here, but we need to make some definitions. There's two designations that these data aggregators, national data aggregators, put properties in to make them different from each other. One is land use, and one is zoning. They're very, very different. And some counties, most counties, don't use both. They just use one. NEC is short for something not yet classified. I'm not sure what the E is, but that just means we don't know what to do with it yet. It's another way of saying it's really rural. It doesn't mean it's bad.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Outsourcing to Scale Your Land Business (LA 1693)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about outsourcing to scale your land business. Every 10-

Jill K DeWit:
This-

Steven Jack Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
The topic for me is, kids, we need to talk.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every 10 weeks we teach a course called Career Path. We're about the third week, third let's say module, third week in the 10 week class.

Jill K DeWit:
Where we are now.

Steven Jack Butala:
And every time we teach this, there becomes a theme. And last Career Path was pricing, and this Career Path is scaling up. And the only way to do that is through outsourcing, so I wanted to share some of the highlights with everybody on this, because it's incredibly important, and we're all here to make money.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Sometimes we forget that.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that funny, where I've got to pause on that. That's a good note. We were joking about that the other day, because everybody was talking about hiring. We're going to talk more about that, but they were talking about hiring and how do you motivate them, do you pay them per transaction or whatever. And we were kind of saying, you would be shocked and amazed how many people at that level, like a transaction coordinator position, they're not there for the money. They're not there to get bonuses when they close something. They're there to make sure they have a steady paycheck. And it's so amazing, you need to ask people by the way what they want. Usually they want flexibility, consistency, I know I'm going to get a check, that kind of thing. But we both chimed in and said that's not how we are.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no. No, every-

Jill K DeWit:
The owners are not that way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Totally off topic already, but I ask everybody before we hire them, what are you motivated by? Not a single person in my entire career, hundreds and hundreds of people, have said, "I'm motivated by money."

Jill K DeWit:
Except for me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which is my only motivation. Except Jill, which is now why we're here in front of you after all these years later.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I never wanted to hire you anyway.

Jill K DeWit:
I know, [crosstalk 00:02:12].

Steven Jack Butala:
And we're kind of in this together.

Jill K DeWit:
Just kind of, I fell into it backwards.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Luke wrote, "I'm assuming that most, not all, parcels from county to county labeled NEC are unusable in some way. Not much on the interwebs from my initial search, but after getting a signed contract back with one of these designations, I discovered it was mostly wetlands and in the FEMA flood zone. Just curious to everyone's experience with the properties they have that have these zoning labels."

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay, so Luke, I'm not picking on you here, but we need to make some definitions. There's two designations that these data aggregators, national data aggregators, put properties in to make them different from each other. One is land use, and one is zoning. They're very, very different. And some counties, most counties, don't use both. They just use one. NEC is short for something not yet classified. I'm not sure what the E is, but that just means we don't know what to do with it yet. It's another way of saying it's really rural. It doesn't mean it's bad.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/07/outsourcing-to-scale-your-land-business-la-1693/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">B2Z7jr9nZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 23:02:04 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d00cec60-04d4-4e21-a59e-72b2669ef1c5.mp3" length="17004489" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Land Love Language (LA 1692)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Land Love Language (LA 1692)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Land Love Language (LA 1692)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, well, it's Jill Friday. Jill's going to talk about land love language.

Jill K DeWit:
This came up a couple weeks ago. I realized, "What's your land love language?" Because we look at things differently and I say we meaning him and I, so I'm sure that's probably going on in your world. First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. You want to read it?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Kyle wrote-

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know where you're going with this.

Jill K DeWit:
You could just sit back this show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's on a mission today.

Jill K DeWit:
I am. Kyle wrote, "So I've been doing a lot of red, yellow, green testing in the past 48 hours."

Steven Jack Butala:
Good.

Jill K DeWit:
"Hundreds of rows. Is it weird that 80 to 90% of all of them are passing as green for infill lots? I'm just worried that I'm doing something wrong."

Steven Jack Butala:
No, in fact the opposite. I think you're doing something very, very right.

Jill K DeWit:
Like you picked the right areas out of the gate?

Steven Jack Butala:
I think you did everything. You followed the program. I think-

Jill K DeWit:
If you are in doubt.

Steven Jack Butala:
... probably, you trolled for the correct areas. I think you tested and retested and tested the zip codes that you found against each other and then you priced it correctly, because 80 to 90% of what's coming out is a go. And so that's what these fail-safe stopgap measures that I put in place for all this stuff, they're working for you. So step-by-step you're doing this, at any point when you go back and test it, if you're coming up with 20 or 30% are green, then you go back and go back and choose different areas, or choose different pricing, or trace your steps back so that you don't send out a bad mailer. That's what these steps are all for.

Jill K DeWit:
So he's got hundreds of zip codes that are working for him. So there's going to be a way, Kyle, that you could... You picked the hottest. Even though they're green, they're hitting your green criteria, whatever that is, like days on market less than 30 and this percentage and that percentage. You know what I'm talking about. So I would pick the hottest ones first, obviously. And then my question to you, Steven, is how long is this data going to be fresh? Can I use the same? So he's got hundreds of rows. He's not going to send out 900,000 units of mail this month. So he's going to stretch it out. How many months is this data good for?

Steven Jack Butala:
Six.

Jill K DeWit:
Six months. Okay, good. So you can use this and divide it up, pick your hottest ones and hopefully have six months worth of mailers ready to go, which, in my world, I think that's awesome. I think that'd be great.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you, I mean, when this happens to me, and it doesn't happen that often where it's 80 to 90%, that's really pretty strong, I would just send it all out.

Jill K DeWit:
But again, unless it's you don't have the staff to handle that much mail. You don't want to-

Steven Jack Butala:
I would-

Jill K DeWit:
You want to be able to handle the calls.

Steven Jack Butala:
... comfortably send out 25,000 units at a time.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you think that's too many?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It depends on who's taking the calls now. I do.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I don't take the calls. I just send the mail out.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. But, see, you have us. This is my point.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Land Love Language (LA 1692)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, well, it's Jill Friday. Jill's going to talk about land love language.

Jill K DeWit:
This came up a couple weeks ago. I realized, "What's your land love language?" Because we look at things differently and I say we meaning him and I, so I'm sure that's probably going on in your world. First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. You want to read it?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Kyle wrote-

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know where you're going with this.

Jill K DeWit:
You could just sit back this show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's on a mission today.

Jill K DeWit:
I am. Kyle wrote, "So I've been doing a lot of red, yellow, green testing in the past 48 hours."

Steven Jack Butala:
Good.

Jill K DeWit:
"Hundreds of rows. Is it weird that 80 to 90% of all of them are passing as green for infill lots? I'm just worried that I'm doing something wrong."

Steven Jack Butala:
No, in fact the opposite. I think you're doing something very, very right.

Jill K DeWit:
Like you picked the right areas out of the gate?

Steven Jack Butala:
I think you did everything. You followed the program. I think-

Jill K DeWit:
If you are in doubt.

Steven Jack Butala:
... probably, you trolled for the correct areas. I think you tested and retested and tested the zip codes that you found against each other and then you priced it correctly, because 80 to 90% of what's coming out is a go. And so that's what these fail-safe stopgap measures that I put in place for all this stuff, they're working for you. So step-by-step you're doing this, at any point when you go back and test it, if you're coming up with 20 or 30% are green, then you go back and go back and choose different areas, or choose different pricing, or trace your steps back so that you don't send out a bad mailer. That's what these steps are all for.

Jill K DeWit:
So he's got hundreds of zip codes that are working for him. So there's going to be a way, Kyle, that you could... You picked the hottest. Even though they're green, they're hitting your green criteria, whatever that is, like days on market less than 30 and this percentage and that percentage. You know what I'm talking about. So I would pick the hottest ones first, obviously. And then my question to you, Steven, is how long is this data going to be fresh? Can I use the same? So he's got hundreds of rows. He's not going to send out 900,000 units of mail this month. So he's going to stretch it out. How many months is this data good for?

Steven Jack Butala:
Six.

Jill K DeWit:
Six months. Okay, good. So you can use this and divide it up, pick your hottest ones and hopefully have six months worth of mailers ready to go, which, in my world, I think that's awesome. I think that'd be great.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you, I mean, when this happens to me, and it doesn't happen that often where it's 80 to 90%, that's really pretty strong, I would just send it all out.

Jill K DeWit:
But again, unless it's you don't have the staff to handle that much mail. You don't want to-

Steven Jack Butala:
I would-

Jill K DeWit:
You want to be able to handle the calls.

Steven Jack Butala:
... comfortably send out 25,000 units at a time.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you think that's too many?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It depends on who's taking the calls now. I do.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I don't take the calls. I just send the mail out.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. But, see, you have us. This is my point.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/04/jill-friday-land-love-language-la-1692/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">mbpULfQL3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 22:47:28 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/40cf6c0b-961c-4066-9414-882fc72ccc62.mp3" length="15778258" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How to Host a Successful Podcast (LA 1691)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How to Host a Successful Podcast (LA 1691)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How to Host a Successful Podcast (LA 1691)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how to host a successful podcast.

Jill K DeWit:
Is this one?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is one.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
As I mentioned yesterday, we have 100,000 unique downloads a month now on this show, and Jill and I've been doing it since 2015. That's what? 1700 or 1800 episodes.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Pretty much daily. Used to be seven days a week, we went to five days a week a lot of years ago. And it turns out it worked. It turns out that people actually like it, so most people.

Jill K DeWit:
Most people. Well, at least 100,000 of you.

Steven Jack Butala:
For several months in a row, we've hit 100,000, so I can safely say it's probably reasonably successful.

Jill K DeWit:
I would concur.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Corley wrote, "If your data has several records where the site address matches the mailing address, but there are not actually any structures or houses showing up on the property in Neighbor Scoop, do you still mail to these owners if they live on an adjacent parcel, and think that they may be interested in selling?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Emphatically yes. Scrubbing the mailers, look, so we talked about this a little bit yesterday, and these are good questions. They're good, reasonably unique questions from people who want to know if they're making a mistake. And this is what Discord's for. So but I'll tell you, this whole business of scrubbing mailers down, here, let's do the math real quick. You do a 2500 unit mailer, it's going to cost you about $1000, maybe a little bit more with data and mail and using offers to owners and all of that. If you scrub out 200 because you're doing things like this, scrubbing out let's say 200 units out of the 2500 unit mailer, you're going to save yourself about $100. But what if the property that you're mailing in the 2500 unit mailer is the one that is that you've going to buy and sell?

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
So this whole business of micro scrubbing all these types of things, like duplicate owners. There's four or five of them that always come up, and my answer's always no.

Jill K DeWit:
It's interesting. People assume that this little thing is going to make a difference in their mailer yield. And instead, they might be hurting themselves.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what's happening, you're hurting yourself.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the thing. Spread a wider net, and just see what comes back is always better. And I can't even tell you how many times where I've bought properties that the people, they're in a money pickle. And it's this exact situation, where they live on the ranch next door, and they're selling the back 40 because they need the money, and they're not using it. It's just sitting there. And they can still enjoy it and look at it anyway, you just don't have to own it. And so you're going to miss that opportunity.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've had many people have come up to me in person and send me notes, whether it's in Career Path or wherever else, and say, "All I did was follow the program exactly what you said to do. What you and Jill said to do, I did it." Every single step, it took all ... I can save you a lot of stress and a lot of concern. Just mechanically like a robot, follow the Land Academy program. In the very beginning,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How to Host a Successful Podcast (LA 1691)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how to host a successful podcast.

Jill K DeWit:
Is this one?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is one.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
As I mentioned yesterday, we have 100,000 unique downloads a month now on this show, and Jill and I've been doing it since 2015. That's what? 1700 or 1800 episodes.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Pretty much daily. Used to be seven days a week, we went to five days a week a lot of years ago. And it turns out it worked. It turns out that people actually like it, so most people.

Jill K DeWit:
Most people. Well, at least 100,000 of you.

Steven Jack Butala:
For several months in a row, we've hit 100,000, so I can safely say it's probably reasonably successful.

Jill K DeWit:
I would concur.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Corley wrote, "If your data has several records where the site address matches the mailing address, but there are not actually any structures or houses showing up on the property in Neighbor Scoop, do you still mail to these owners if they live on an adjacent parcel, and think that they may be interested in selling?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Emphatically yes. Scrubbing the mailers, look, so we talked about this a little bit yesterday, and these are good questions. They're good, reasonably unique questions from people who want to know if they're making a mistake. And this is what Discord's for. So but I'll tell you, this whole business of scrubbing mailers down, here, let's do the math real quick. You do a 2500 unit mailer, it's going to cost you about $1000, maybe a little bit more with data and mail and using offers to owners and all of that. If you scrub out 200 because you're doing things like this, scrubbing out let's say 200 units out of the 2500 unit mailer, you're going to save yourself about $100. But what if the property that you're mailing in the 2500 unit mailer is the one that is that you've going to buy and sell?

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
So this whole business of micro scrubbing all these types of things, like duplicate owners. There's four or five of them that always come up, and my answer's always no.

Jill K DeWit:
It's interesting. People assume that this little thing is going to make a difference in their mailer yield. And instead, they might be hurting themselves.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's what's happening, you're hurting yourself.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the thing. Spread a wider net, and just see what comes back is always better. And I can't even tell you how many times where I've bought properties that the people, they're in a money pickle. And it's this exact situation, where they live on the ranch next door, and they're selling the back 40 because they need the money, and they're not using it. It's just sitting there. And they can still enjoy it and look at it anyway, you just don't have to own it. And so you're going to miss that opportunity.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've had many people have come up to me in person and send me notes, whether it's in Career Path or wherever else, and say, "All I did was follow the program exactly what you said to do. What you and Jill said to do, I did it." Every single step, it took all ... I can save you a lot of stress and a lot of concern. Just mechanically like a robot, follow the Land Academy program. In the very beginning,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/03/jack-thursday-how-to-host-a-successful-podcast-la-1691/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sMboi3yaD</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 23:17:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2420185b-04d5-4a94-b5c7-5683b4a5d772.mp3" length="15395043" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Best Place to Buy Houses Right Now (LA 1690)</title><itunes:title>Best Place to Buy Houses Right Now (LA 1690)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Best Place to Buy Houses Right Now (LA 1690)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the best place to buy houses right now. What is right now, Jill? February 1st, 2022.
Jill K DeWit:What is today? Wait, what is today? Well, today is two, two, two, two, two.
Steven Jack Butala:No, tomorrow.
Jill K DeWit:I know. Hold please.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, well, we're recording it.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah, it's a little early.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Is it early? Okay. I understand. Yeah. As we record this on 02/01/22, this show is airing on 02/02/22. How cool is that?
Steven Jack Butala:I don't know. Things like that amaze you.
Jill K DeWit:I don't think I'm alone. Last time I checked by the way, silly.
Steven Jack Butala:You know what amazes me?
Jill K DeWit:What?
Steven Jack Butala:Revenue. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the show as you like.
Jill K DeWit:It's not me that amazes you, it's just revenue.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, you're amazing. I don't need to.
Jill K DeWit:Oh, thanks.
Steven Jack Butala:That's redundant.
Jill K DeWit:Me wearing a dress made of spread sheets. Would that impress you?
Steven Jack Butala:Sure.
Jill K DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:Sure. Let me think about that.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. Awesome. All right. Michael wrote, I got a call from a seller that accepted my offer, and then he provided the following information, and he had the following question. He said that the land is designated as a flood detention area, and what would I use the property for? Does the flood detention area kill the deal?
Steven Jack Butala:Yes.
Jill K DeWit:How would you address the seller in regards to your potential use of the property. Thank you for letting me know. Have a nice day. I mean, is it like a dam now? Oh, here we go. Is there more to it?
Steven Jack Butala:Yes.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. Oh, there's more to this point. Hold please, and I received a signed purchase agreement by email in a PDF format. Do I need to have the seller also mail me a copy of the purchase agreement with a wet signature on it? Or is the PDF version sufficient to complete the transaction? Well, I'm still wondering if we're going to complete the transaction at all.
Steven Jack Butala:Let's decide.
Jill K DeWit:Let's see if we need to get all hung up on this PDF thing for a moment, which is not a hangup. Go ahead.
Steven Jack Butala:We've all seen flood detention areas. They're way different than waterways or FEMA flood zones or any of that. A flood detention area, and they're not everywhere. They're only in certain parts of the country. For some reason, you never see them in Arizona, or if you do see them in Arizona, they're master planned so that there's a soccer field there.
Steven Jack Butala:But a lot of times in pre-planned industrial parks, you'll be driving down the street and an industrial park, there's buildings everywhere, semis all over the place, loading and unloading. Then there's a vacant piece of property with a fence around it that you can look way down into. It's way sub, it's not on the level of the streets or anything, it's way lower. That's because it's a designated retention, water retention area for flooding.
Steven Jack Butala:Again, you only see this in certain parts of the country. Honestly, I don't know why. I probably should look this up and find out why some places you see it, some places you don't. You see it in California a lot.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:You don't see it in Arizona almost ever,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Best Place to Buy Houses Right Now (LA 1690)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the best place to buy houses right now. What is right now, Jill? February 1st, 2022.
Jill K DeWit:What is today? Wait, what is today? Well, today is two, two, two, two, two.
Steven Jack Butala:No, tomorrow.
Jill K DeWit:I know. Hold please.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, well, we're recording it.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah, it's a little early.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Is it early? Okay. I understand. Yeah. As we record this on 02/01/22, this show is airing on 02/02/22. How cool is that?
Steven Jack Butala:I don't know. Things like that amaze you.
Jill K DeWit:I don't think I'm alone. Last time I checked by the way, silly.
Steven Jack Butala:You know what amazes me?
Jill K DeWit:What?
Steven Jack Butala:Revenue. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the show as you like.
Jill K DeWit:It's not me that amazes you, it's just revenue.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, you're amazing. I don't need to.
Jill K DeWit:Oh, thanks.
Steven Jack Butala:That's redundant.
Jill K DeWit:Me wearing a dress made of spread sheets. Would that impress you?
Steven Jack Butala:Sure.
Jill K DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:Sure. Let me think about that.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. Awesome. All right. Michael wrote, I got a call from a seller that accepted my offer, and then he provided the following information, and he had the following question. He said that the land is designated as a flood detention area, and what would I use the property for? Does the flood detention area kill the deal?
Steven Jack Butala:Yes.
Jill K DeWit:How would you address the seller in regards to your potential use of the property. Thank you for letting me know. Have a nice day. I mean, is it like a dam now? Oh, here we go. Is there more to it?
Steven Jack Butala:Yes.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. Oh, there's more to this point. Hold please, and I received a signed purchase agreement by email in a PDF format. Do I need to have the seller also mail me a copy of the purchase agreement with a wet signature on it? Or is the PDF version sufficient to complete the transaction? Well, I'm still wondering if we're going to complete the transaction at all.
Steven Jack Butala:Let's decide.
Jill K DeWit:Let's see if we need to get all hung up on this PDF thing for a moment, which is not a hangup. Go ahead.
Steven Jack Butala:We've all seen flood detention areas. They're way different than waterways or FEMA flood zones or any of that. A flood detention area, and they're not everywhere. They're only in certain parts of the country. For some reason, you never see them in Arizona, or if you do see them in Arizona, they're master planned so that there's a soccer field there.
Steven Jack Butala:But a lot of times in pre-planned industrial parks, you'll be driving down the street and an industrial park, there's buildings everywhere, semis all over the place, loading and unloading. Then there's a vacant piece of property with a fence around it that you can look way down into. It's way sub, it's not on the level of the streets or anything, it's way lower. That's because it's a designated retention, water retention area for flooding.
Steven Jack Butala:Again, you only see this in certain parts of the country. Honestly, I don't know why. I probably should look this up and find out why some places you see it, some places you don't. You see it in California a lot.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:You don't see it in Arizona almost ever,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/02/best-place-to-buy-houses-right-now-la-1690/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">mXQRC_Gt8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:15:52 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bfc3ee22-976f-469c-92ac-1da3ccfe352c.mp3" length="19888251" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>3 Types of Land Transactions We Do (LA 1689)</title><itunes:title>3 Types of Land Transactions We Do (LA 1689)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[3 Types of Land Transactions We Do (LA 1689)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are going to talk about the three types of land transactions that we do. This is something new that Jill and I just came up with in this current career path that we're instructing. It seems to be getting really, really good response and I think you should consider doing three types also.

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to pause and talk about for a second... It's kind of funny, this sounds like... Do you have IT issues too? Does your website go down at random times and you just need help and can't find a good person? Well, you are not alone. We're meeting with an IT person today, and we were just talking about... I'm like, "I wonder if anybody else has these same issues we do?" The whole problem about IT is not IT. It's the contracts and the way people go about it, how much money everybody wants up front, and how the projects never seem to end.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thanks for just blowing this whole thing, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm so sorry. I just thought that was interesting to hear and understand and share.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right before we turned the camera on for this show, we were talking about what's going to happen today, and I have to meet with a new tech person, who's extremely intelligent and a super good guy. But just that industry has gotten to a point where it's just no fun at all.

Jill K DeWit:
It's weird.

Steven Jack Butala:
Contracts are real thick, like contracts always get thicker, not thinner.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It costs $25,000.00 to do a website now, bare minimum. It used to cost like $700.00. It's just all liquid pain.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't it funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's so painful to get a website done.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know you're right? I remember years ago going to this company that was going to build us a site, and they quoted $25,000.00 back then and I about fell out of my chair. We obviously didn't do it. We did it ourselves.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right.

Jill K DeWit:
Clearly we did it ourselves back then. If you remember Landacademy.org, that was us. Hey, but we did it and we got here and now we're like... "If it was only $25,000.00 I'd be fine with that."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not so much.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's more fun to do a podcast times 10 than it is to deal with any IT issues.

Jill K DeWit:
Very true. I'm glad we're here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before get into it, thanks for letting us rant. Let's take a question, posted by one our members, on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe to The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Lance wrote, "How do you price mailers for land in really hot markets?"

Steven Jack Butala:
This is totally on topic for what we're about to talk about today. You price them higher. We're going to talk about the three types of deals that Jill and I do. It didn't come to me, these types of deals, in an organized way. We just sort of organically started doing different types of deals to respond to the market. And so, Lance, I'll answer your question here in a second. Today's topic, there are three types of land transactions that we currently do. This is why you're listening. For some reason we started calling them buckets. Transaction number one is buy for X and double your money, then sell it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This could be in desert squares. We call it a bread-and-butter type land transaction. For us, the prices kept creeping up, so we would start... I mean, a typical deal for me before Jill and I joined forces was buy for $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 and sell for four, five or eight,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[3 Types of Land Transactions We Do (LA 1689)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are going to talk about the three types of land transactions that we do. This is something new that Jill and I just came up with in this current career path that we're instructing. It seems to be getting really, really good response and I think you should consider doing three types also.

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to pause and talk about for a second... It's kind of funny, this sounds like... Do you have IT issues too? Does your website go down at random times and you just need help and can't find a good person? Well, you are not alone. We're meeting with an IT person today, and we were just talking about... I'm like, "I wonder if anybody else has these same issues we do?" The whole problem about IT is not IT. It's the contracts and the way people go about it, how much money everybody wants up front, and how the projects never seem to end.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thanks for just blowing this whole thing, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm so sorry. I just thought that was interesting to hear and understand and share.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right before we turned the camera on for this show, we were talking about what's going to happen today, and I have to meet with a new tech person, who's extremely intelligent and a super good guy. But just that industry has gotten to a point where it's just no fun at all.

Jill K DeWit:
It's weird.

Steven Jack Butala:
Contracts are real thick, like contracts always get thicker, not thinner.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It costs $25,000.00 to do a website now, bare minimum. It used to cost like $700.00. It's just all liquid pain.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't it funny?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's so painful to get a website done.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you know you're right? I remember years ago going to this company that was going to build us a site, and they quoted $25,000.00 back then and I about fell out of my chair. We obviously didn't do it. We did it ourselves.

Steven Jack Butala:
Right.

Jill K DeWit:
Clearly we did it ourselves back then. If you remember Landacademy.org, that was us. Hey, but we did it and we got here and now we're like... "If it was only $25,000.00 I'd be fine with that."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not so much.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's more fun to do a podcast times 10 than it is to deal with any IT issues.

Jill K DeWit:
Very true. I'm glad we're here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before get into it, thanks for letting us rant. Let's take a question, posted by one our members, on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe to The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Lance wrote, "How do you price mailers for land in really hot markets?"

Steven Jack Butala:
This is totally on topic for what we're about to talk about today. You price them higher. We're going to talk about the three types of deals that Jill and I do. It didn't come to me, these types of deals, in an organized way. We just sort of organically started doing different types of deals to respond to the market. And so, Lance, I'll answer your question here in a second. Today's topic, there are three types of land transactions that we currently do. This is why you're listening. For some reason we started calling them buckets. Transaction number one is buy for X and double your money, then sell it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This could be in desert squares. We call it a bread-and-butter type land transaction. For us, the prices kept creeping up, so we would start... I mean, a typical deal for me before Jill and I joined forces was buy for $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 and sell for four, five or eight,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/02/01/3-types-of-land-transactions-we-do-la-1689/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4dwEol7h2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:32:04 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/67a2fb61-11f0-4788-91c8-1ba6af35d80a.mp3" length="10706404" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Going Broke Land Investing or Not (LA1688) RERUN</title><itunes:title>Going Broke Land Investing or Not (LA1688) RERUN</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Going Broke Land Investing or Not (LA1688) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about going broke land investing or not, hopefully not. This came up because somebody directly emailed me and asked me, "Am I going to go broke doing this?" And I said, "I don't know. Are you?" I mean, I can tell you... That's what this episode is about. I can tell you exactly how to go broke or how not to go broke, hopefully. And what it takes like in your soul, and in your skillset, and in your attitude, and everything. Jill has got a lot of notes too, because I think a lot of it... Jill talks to a lot more, "I'm thinking about joining, but I'm not sure yet," people.

Jill DeWit:
And this is one of their big concerns.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
And I tell them, here's exactly what you do then, and you won't go broke.

Steven Butala:
Excellent. I'm going to enjoy the show, just like you are, listener. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Mike wrote, "I've seen a lot of talk and varying opinions on this. When would you remail the same acreage," and he put in bold, "Same acreage in a county you've mailed before. Would it depend on days on market and activity in the county, since some places will have a quicker turnover and change of ownership. Remailing after two months, I guess you'd piss off a lot of people, and it would be too soon to get a significantly different response or change of ownership. There must be a sweet spot. Any thoughts?"

Steven Butala:
So this question is not addressed in our formal education program, so it comes up. In fact, it comes up every single live event. It just comes up a lot. And it's a great question. And God, I hate when people answer questions like this, but I'm going to answer it like this. It's up to you. But I can tell you what we do, and I can tell you what other people do, and both are successful. We never ever remail the same acreage county, maybe in our lifetime.

Steven Butala:
What we do is, if we mail a county in, let's say, it doesn't matter, Minnesota, some specific county in Minnesota, I usually mail between five and 10 acres to begin with, or some number like that, depending on how the number check comes out. There's 5,000 properties in one county in Minnesota that are between one and five acres that don't have any improvements on them. Okay, bang. I'm going to mail it. If we have success, then we'd mail five to 10 acres. If we have success with that, then we mail 10 to 20 acres or whatever.

Steven Butala:
I cannot think of a single time in my entire career where I went back two months later because I had a bunch of success and remailed the same thing. So every time I get questions like this, this is what I ask myself. Why would you do that? And I bet you a dollar the answer is this. Because I don't want to buy any more data. I don't want to spend any more money.

Jill DeWit:
That's what you think is going on? Oh, that's interesting. Got it.

Steven Butala:
I already scrubbed all this data. It's already all in place. I'm happy with it. I got a good response on it. I'm just going to do it again. I want to skip that whole part of my life and just send it back to O2O, or maybe just call O2O and say, "Hey, can you just mail the same thing again?"

Jill DeWit:
I've heard people doing this when they thought they priced it so wrong, and they want to come back with a new price, and they want to hit the same area. I can kind of wrap my head around that one. Maybe you came in and you offered too little, you offered $100 an acre, and you realize, "Oops, I should have been offering $500 an acre." Something like that. And you're like,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Going Broke Land Investing or Not (LA1688) RERUN
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about going broke land investing or not, hopefully not. This came up because somebody directly emailed me and asked me, "Am I going to go broke doing this?" And I said, "I don't know. Are you?" I mean, I can tell you... That's what this episode is about. I can tell you exactly how to go broke or how not to go broke, hopefully. And what it takes like in your soul, and in your skillset, and in your attitude, and everything. Jill has got a lot of notes too, because I think a lot of it... Jill talks to a lot more, "I'm thinking about joining, but I'm not sure yet," people.

Jill DeWit:
And this is one of their big concerns.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
And I tell them, here's exactly what you do then, and you won't go broke.

Steven Butala:
Excellent. I'm going to enjoy the show, just like you are, listener. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Mike wrote, "I've seen a lot of talk and varying opinions on this. When would you remail the same acreage," and he put in bold, "Same acreage in a county you've mailed before. Would it depend on days on market and activity in the county, since some places will have a quicker turnover and change of ownership. Remailing after two months, I guess you'd piss off a lot of people, and it would be too soon to get a significantly different response or change of ownership. There must be a sweet spot. Any thoughts?"

Steven Butala:
So this question is not addressed in our formal education program, so it comes up. In fact, it comes up every single live event. It just comes up a lot. And it's a great question. And God, I hate when people answer questions like this, but I'm going to answer it like this. It's up to you. But I can tell you what we do, and I can tell you what other people do, and both are successful. We never ever remail the same acreage county, maybe in our lifetime.

Steven Butala:
What we do is, if we mail a county in, let's say, it doesn't matter, Minnesota, some specific county in Minnesota, I usually mail between five and 10 acres to begin with, or some number like that, depending on how the number check comes out. There's 5,000 properties in one county in Minnesota that are between one and five acres that don't have any improvements on them. Okay, bang. I'm going to mail it. If we have success, then we'd mail five to 10 acres. If we have success with that, then we mail 10 to 20 acres or whatever.

Steven Butala:
I cannot think of a single time in my entire career where I went back two months later because I had a bunch of success and remailed the same thing. So every time I get questions like this, this is what I ask myself. Why would you do that? And I bet you a dollar the answer is this. Because I don't want to buy any more data. I don't want to spend any more money.

Jill DeWit:
That's what you think is going on? Oh, that's interesting. Got it.

Steven Butala:
I already scrubbed all this data. It's already all in place. I'm happy with it. I got a good response on it. I'm just going to do it again. I want to skip that whole part of my life and just send it back to O2O, or maybe just call O2O and say, "Hey, can you just mail the same thing again?"

Jill DeWit:
I've heard people doing this when they thought they priced it so wrong, and they want to come back with a new price, and they want to hit the same area. I can kind of wrap my head around that one. Maybe you came in and you offered too little, you offered $100 an acre, and you realize, "Oops, I should have been offering $500 an acre." Something like that. And you're like,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/31/going-broke-land-investing-or-not-la1688-rerun/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9x8hpb-bh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:10:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/23819138-1dca-435e-8778-bb4bb7657077.mp3" length="13149026" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Your Goals are Your Goals Alone (LA 1687)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Your Goals are Your Goals Alone (LA 1687)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Your Goals are Your Goals Alone (LA 1687)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi, happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about how your goals are your goals alone.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, they are.

Steven Jack Butala:
What does that really mean?

Jill K DeWit:
It's not 2022. What are your goals? Let's all talk about it. Let's set some goals together, shall we folks? No, it's not that. No, it means that, with us, we have very different goals. I'll share something, like your goals, you have financial goals that are very different than my financial goals, and I support you in your financial goals. I have been happy and done and at the level I wanted to be as of a couple years ago and...

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, two houses ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
I didn't know that, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Two houses ago, I thought, "We've arrived." It was the greatest thing. And I was just so happy and it was a sweet little house, very little house, but it was just, in the location and the right neighbors. And we didn't have to sweat anymore. I think it was just getting over that hurdle is what it was for me. That's what I thought. I just needed to sleep well and not worry about things. But you have different goals and I'm happy to support you and continue down this path and keep up. And so we together now we up our goals kind of thing. You're like, "I think we can do X. What do you think?" I'm like, "Yep. I'm in." I always going to say yep, but it's just interesting that even we have different things that we want. And we'll talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
John wrote, "I just got a letter from a guy who does custom lists. Is this a good or a bad source of data?" It's funny, I had this happen to me too recently. I got a mailer from a random person in Florida and it was really like, "Whatever you need, I can get it for you kind of thing." And they listed all these different examples on here. And I'm like, "How do I know this guy's good. And how do I know where he gets his information from? And I wish you hadn't have done this." He's like, "This is great for all kinds of lines of businesses, including MLM." I'm like, "Oh, it's like." MLM to me just gives me such a bad feeling.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder if you received this question or inquiry on a fax machine, because that's how old this concept is.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody like me or anybody out there more and more, there's tons of people that can pull data. Just like we all do.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
All the time off a data tree or wherever put together a custom list and send it to you. The hell is that.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's ridiculous. That is the old... That's like 1993.

Jill K DeWit:
How do I know the guys pulling what I want to pull.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That makes me think of too. Remember we used to go back, this used to be the way before we figured out all the other great places that aggregated, but you go to the county and you could go to the county and say, "I need to get a list of all this and this."-

Steven Jack Butala:
Tax role.

Jill K DeWit:
And you're trusting that this person cares and they sit down and spend the time-

Steven Jack Butala:
And that they know about computers-

Jill K DeWit:
And they download it and give it to you in the right-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's silly.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Your Goals are Your Goals Alone (LA 1687)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi, happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about how your goals are your goals alone.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, they are.

Steven Jack Butala:
What does that really mean?

Jill K DeWit:
It's not 2022. What are your goals? Let's all talk about it. Let's set some goals together, shall we folks? No, it's not that. No, it means that, with us, we have very different goals. I'll share something, like your goals, you have financial goals that are very different than my financial goals, and I support you in your financial goals. I have been happy and done and at the level I wanted to be as of a couple years ago and...

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, two houses ago.

Steven Jack Butala:
I didn't know that, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Two houses ago, I thought, "We've arrived." It was the greatest thing. And I was just so happy and it was a sweet little house, very little house, but it was just, in the location and the right neighbors. And we didn't have to sweat anymore. I think it was just getting over that hurdle is what it was for me. That's what I thought. I just needed to sleep well and not worry about things. But you have different goals and I'm happy to support you and continue down this path and keep up. And so we together now we up our goals kind of thing. You're like, "I think we can do X. What do you think?" I'm like, "Yep. I'm in." I always going to say yep, but it's just interesting that even we have different things that we want. And we'll talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
John wrote, "I just got a letter from a guy who does custom lists. Is this a good or a bad source of data?" It's funny, I had this happen to me too recently. I got a mailer from a random person in Florida and it was really like, "Whatever you need, I can get it for you kind of thing." And they listed all these different examples on here. And I'm like, "How do I know this guy's good. And how do I know where he gets his information from? And I wish you hadn't have done this." He's like, "This is great for all kinds of lines of businesses, including MLM." I'm like, "Oh, it's like." MLM to me just gives me such a bad feeling.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder if you received this question or inquiry on a fax machine, because that's how old this concept is.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody like me or anybody out there more and more, there's tons of people that can pull data. Just like we all do.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
All the time off a data tree or wherever put together a custom list and send it to you. The hell is that.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's ridiculous. That is the old... That's like 1993.

Jill K DeWit:
How do I know the guys pulling what I want to pull.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That makes me think of too. Remember we used to go back, this used to be the way before we figured out all the other great places that aggregated, but you go to the county and you could go to the county and say, "I need to get a list of all this and this."-

Steven Jack Butala:
Tax role.

Jill K DeWit:
And you're trusting that this person cares and they sit down and spend the time-

Steven Jack Butala:
And that they know about computers-

Jill K DeWit:
And they download it and give it to you in the right-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's silly.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/28/jill-friday-your-goals-are-your-goals-alone-la-1687/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">o834zTnpQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:46:24 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a8b2a2e6-4b86-4cea-b8e6-e49b0dd3bbd6.mp3" length="16214605" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (LA 1686)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (LA 1686)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (LA 1686)
Transcript:

Steven Jack :
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack :
Welcome to the land academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven, Jack [inaudible 00:00:08]

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWitt and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about land deal flow, machine consistency. This whole episode is about one basic concept and I'll phrase it as a question. Is it better to buy [crosstalk 00:00:28].

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Jack :
Better to buy a piece of real estate and decide what to do with it every single time, or is it better to buy the same type of real estate over and over and over again and do exact same thing? The same process, the same people are involved over and over and over again. I bet you can guess which one I think is better. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote. "Hey guys, I am currently scraping data from Zillow for my next mailer, and I noticed that in Zillow, many of the listings don't show the acreage anymore. You have to click in the listing to find out. So because of that, when I scrape the acreage is not spit out, I need manually go into each listing to find out. Does anybody know of a workaround when scraping?"

Steven Jack :
There's two. And inconsistent data in Zillow is fairly common. And here's why. Some of the places in the country Zillow collects data from the MLS. Some of the places they have to be manually input by whoever's listing the property. There's two types of people that list the property, real estate agents, who don't usually don't know their ass from their elbow, or people like us, but it's mostly the ass from the elbow kind. And scraping data from Zillow can go great sometimes because sometimes they implement anti scraping software. Sometimes they don't. So it very much varies from area to area. Don't get discouraged, the sure fire away to fix this is to get a virtual assistant overseas, to manually input some of that data. It is not expensive at all. Usually wait if you order it, you'll get it back overnight because they're working, their day is our night. I've done it both ways for years, years and years, we manually order data mining from the Philippines in our case. And now we scrape. But the truth is if I can't get good data, when I scraped to price and mailer, I moved to a different area to send mail.

Jill K DeWit:
Peaches and cream. What's, peaches and rainbows [crosstalk 00:02:57].

Steven Jack :
This show it's been on since 2015, every day.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Yeah. You'd think I would not be shocked.

Steven Jack :
Even real estate agents have reached out to me. And said I don't like your attitude. I don't think your description of the average real estate agent is accurate. Zero, zero.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. [crosstalk 00:03:20]. Because they're not listening to this. Because they know.

Steven Jack :
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
All right.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday, by the way. So I get to say what I want.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack :
I'm going to talk about land deal, flow machine consistency. This is why you're listening. Jill and I have struggled with this. So for years and years and years, I bought and sold real estate through one venue, eBay for years, 10,000 plus deals. And then around 2011, Jill and I joined forces and we did it a little bit differently and I have to say, we make a lot more money together than we did separately, but it was a totally a different type of company. We would buy property the conventional way, the way we buy property now. Sending out mailers a lot of times back then I went to tax sales, but we would buy it the same way every single time, process it,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (LA 1686)
Transcript:

Steven Jack :
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack :
Welcome to the land academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven, Jack [inaudible 00:00:08]

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWitt and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about land deal flow, machine consistency. This whole episode is about one basic concept and I'll phrase it as a question. Is it better to buy [crosstalk 00:00:28].

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Jack :
Better to buy a piece of real estate and decide what to do with it every single time, or is it better to buy the same type of real estate over and over and over again and do exact same thing? The same process, the same people are involved over and over and over again. I bet you can guess which one I think is better. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote. "Hey guys, I am currently scraping data from Zillow for my next mailer, and I noticed that in Zillow, many of the listings don't show the acreage anymore. You have to click in the listing to find out. So because of that, when I scrape the acreage is not spit out, I need manually go into each listing to find out. Does anybody know of a workaround when scraping?"

Steven Jack :
There's two. And inconsistent data in Zillow is fairly common. And here's why. Some of the places in the country Zillow collects data from the MLS. Some of the places they have to be manually input by whoever's listing the property. There's two types of people that list the property, real estate agents, who don't usually don't know their ass from their elbow, or people like us, but it's mostly the ass from the elbow kind. And scraping data from Zillow can go great sometimes because sometimes they implement anti scraping software. Sometimes they don't. So it very much varies from area to area. Don't get discouraged, the sure fire away to fix this is to get a virtual assistant overseas, to manually input some of that data. It is not expensive at all. Usually wait if you order it, you'll get it back overnight because they're working, their day is our night. I've done it both ways for years, years and years, we manually order data mining from the Philippines in our case. And now we scrape. But the truth is if I can't get good data, when I scraped to price and mailer, I moved to a different area to send mail.

Jill K DeWit:
Peaches and cream. What's, peaches and rainbows [crosstalk 00:02:57].

Steven Jack :
This show it's been on since 2015, every day.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Yeah. You'd think I would not be shocked.

Steven Jack :
Even real estate agents have reached out to me. And said I don't like your attitude. I don't think your description of the average real estate agent is accurate. Zero, zero.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. [crosstalk 00:03:20]. Because they're not listening to this. Because they know.

Steven Jack :
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
All right.

Steven Jack :
Today's Jack Thursday, by the way. So I get to say what I want.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Jack :
I'm going to talk about land deal, flow machine consistency. This is why you're listening. Jill and I have struggled with this. So for years and years and years, I bought and sold real estate through one venue, eBay for years, 10,000 plus deals. And then around 2011, Jill and I joined forces and we did it a little bit differently and I have to say, we make a lot more money together than we did separately, but it was a totally a different type of company. We would buy property the conventional way, the way we buy property now. Sending out mailers a lot of times back then I went to tax sales, but we would buy it the same way every single time, process it,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/27/jack-thursday-land-deal-flow-machine-consistency-la-1686/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aE-iWqziy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:56:01 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d0fb4f16-2c23-4ab1-8964-c9aa6e9e8aa4.mp3" length="10852250" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Record Low SFR Inventory (LA 1685)</title><itunes:title>Record Low SFR Inventory (LA 1685)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Record Low SFR Inventory (LA 1685)
Transcript:
Steve Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Good day.
Steve Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steve Butala:Today, jill and I talk about record low single family residential inventory. Record low housing availability.
Jill K DeWit:Since we are sitting in the Valley of the Sun, the Phoenix Metro area, let's just say, it's been nuts. COVID nuts. There was a lot of sales, a lot of transactions, a lot of stuff, available things, just moving hands. And then I've noticed very recently and we're through the holidays, so we're past all that. There's just not a lot of inventory. And the days on market are still like record low. So I want to talk to you about this, because I'm like, and I have a list of questions that I would like to hear your answer, and I'm sure you would like to hear his answer on.
Steve Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Luke wrote, "Any tips for building an online presence? I was staunchly anti-social media for years."
Steve Butala:Me too.
Jill K DeWit:"And now it's coming back to bite me when sellers search me on Google and find very little information about me."
Steve Butala:Yeah. Same with me.
Jill K DeWit:I have a buying. Well, it doesn't, they find Janelle.
Steve Butala:Yeah, we're past it.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. "I have a buying website, LinkedIn and a few other socials, but most haven't been indexed by Google yet. So it doesn't show up in the search results. Also, if anyone wants to add me on LinkedIn, by all means." That's cute. I get a lot of LinkedIn stuff like that and I'm pretty much, like sure, let's connect. Yeah.
Steve Butala:Here's how you solve this permanently. And I didn't like this either in 2011 ish. I was just never, I didn't, I had no usernames on any of this stuff at all. And I forced myself because I realized, I was one of the last people to get a cell phone, by the way. That's where I was mentally and still am in a lot of ways. But you have to make this mental shift and hopefully this will really help between using Facebook to talk to your graduating high school class, which is how I was using it in the beginning, and it was the most annoying, like I don't want to ... I don't care.
Jill K DeWit:Like who had a baby.
Steve Butala:Yeah, I don't. I mean, I had a blast with all of my friends in high school, but that's over. So I don't need to know. And some people do. And that's what social media really is for. Even these kids now, I watch how our kids use it and it's very much like that times eight. And so that's why they call it social media, not business media.
Steve Butala:If you use, you have to make this mental change, social media for your company and inform people about where you are traveling to look at land or whatever you're doing that day, that might be interesting in a couple of sentences or one picture about buying and selling land, you're going to knock it out of the park. You're going to, one entry, is what you need across to all those platforms every day.
Steve Butala:And you put it in your calendar. Maybe it's at 5:00 at the end of the day and you've taken a picture of yourself or maybe whatever content you think is meaningful and hopefully unique, then you will do incredibly well. But you have to start somewhere and five years from now, it's going to be five years from now anyway. So if you have all those entries in there, you're going to get indexed and everybody's going to get it.
Jill K DeWit:So that's a mom thing, five years from now. Or I don't know if it's a mom thing, that I feel like it's like one of those few sentences that I g...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Record Low SFR Inventory (LA 1685)
Transcript:
Steve Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Good day.
Steve Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steve Butala:Today, jill and I talk about record low single family residential inventory. Record low housing availability.
Jill K DeWit:Since we are sitting in the Valley of the Sun, the Phoenix Metro area, let's just say, it's been nuts. COVID nuts. There was a lot of sales, a lot of transactions, a lot of stuff, available things, just moving hands. And then I've noticed very recently and we're through the holidays, so we're past all that. There's just not a lot of inventory. And the days on market are still like record low. So I want to talk to you about this, because I'm like, and I have a list of questions that I would like to hear your answer, and I'm sure you would like to hear his answer on.
Steve Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Luke wrote, "Any tips for building an online presence? I was staunchly anti-social media for years."
Steve Butala:Me too.
Jill K DeWit:"And now it's coming back to bite me when sellers search me on Google and find very little information about me."
Steve Butala:Yeah. Same with me.
Jill K DeWit:I have a buying. Well, it doesn't, they find Janelle.
Steve Butala:Yeah, we're past it.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. "I have a buying website, LinkedIn and a few other socials, but most haven't been indexed by Google yet. So it doesn't show up in the search results. Also, if anyone wants to add me on LinkedIn, by all means." That's cute. I get a lot of LinkedIn stuff like that and I'm pretty much, like sure, let's connect. Yeah.
Steve Butala:Here's how you solve this permanently. And I didn't like this either in 2011 ish. I was just never, I didn't, I had no usernames on any of this stuff at all. And I forced myself because I realized, I was one of the last people to get a cell phone, by the way. That's where I was mentally and still am in a lot of ways. But you have to make this mental shift and hopefully this will really help between using Facebook to talk to your graduating high school class, which is how I was using it in the beginning, and it was the most annoying, like I don't want to ... I don't care.
Jill K DeWit:Like who had a baby.
Steve Butala:Yeah, I don't. I mean, I had a blast with all of my friends in high school, but that's over. So I don't need to know. And some people do. And that's what social media really is for. Even these kids now, I watch how our kids use it and it's very much like that times eight. And so that's why they call it social media, not business media.
Steve Butala:If you use, you have to make this mental change, social media for your company and inform people about where you are traveling to look at land or whatever you're doing that day, that might be interesting in a couple of sentences or one picture about buying and selling land, you're going to knock it out of the park. You're going to, one entry, is what you need across to all those platforms every day.
Steve Butala:And you put it in your calendar. Maybe it's at 5:00 at the end of the day and you've taken a picture of yourself or maybe whatever content you think is meaningful and hopefully unique, then you will do incredibly well. But you have to start somewhere and five years from now, it's going to be five years from now anyway. So if you have all those entries in there, you're going to get indexed and everybody's going to get it.
Jill K DeWit:So that's a mom thing, five years from now. Or I don't know if it's a mom thing, that I feel like it's like one of those few sentences that I g...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/26/record-low-sfr-inventory-la-1685/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kP4LYGqOe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:58:41 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d1597bae-3c7f-47fe-a779-509bc4ecf718.mp3" length="26073132" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Solution to All Land Business Bottlenecks (LA 1684)</title><itunes:title>The Solution to All Land Business Bottlenecks (LA 1684)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Solution to All Land Business Bottlenecks (LA 1684)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the solution to all land business bottlenecks, and I would even venture to say all bottlenecks.

Jill K DeWit:
This is kind of like struggling week.

Steven Butala:
Struggling week?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. Because we talked yesterday about burnout. Today, we're talking about bottlenecks. I don't want to make it ... It's not bad week. It's not struggling week, but it's the beginning of the year. I hope you, like us, are taking a look around everything that you're doing and making sure going into 2022, am I doing it right? Am I motivated? Am I excited? Is my team excited? The goals and the things that we have forecast for this year, are we going to hit them? Are we all on the same page? And then you go, all right, what could be holding us back? What could be our bottlenecks? I want to talk about that.

Steven Butala:
Do you ever listen to a podcast or listen to someone speak or even read a book where everything's just, you can do this?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
This is how you ... You're great. You are a perfect person.

Jill K DeWit:
Jack Smiley, and everyone, and by golly, I like you.

Steven Butala:
Every single person that joins the Land Academy is successful and they smile all the way through and it's so easy. None of that's true. That's why. That's why we have a real podcast about real issues that deal ... We just are in the beginning of teaching this first year's Career Path, and everybody went around the table last week and talked about how successful they are. And then with this really negative tone in their voice, yeah, well, I only did $800,000 last year and netted 500,000 and that's not going to work for me. I'm not joking.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that funny? I know, yeah.

Steven Butala:
I'm not exaggerating at all.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true. That's why I'm giggling.

Steven Butala:
So that's my point. My point is we all know this works. Let's all take a minute and pat each other on the back, if that's what we need to do, Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
I didn't say that.

Steven Butala:
But the fact is-

Jill K DeWit:
I did not say that at all.

Steven Butala:
... we're either going to improve tomorrow or we're not. So I don't care where you are in your business, if you're just starting or if you're not knocking it out of the park, I think improving tomorrow's in everyone's best interest, especially your own.

Jill K DeWit:
How about improve right this minute?

Steven Butala:
I see this very different than motivating employees. None of our employees listen to this, I'm sure. I'm sure they've had it.

Jill K DeWit:
But there's real bottlenecks and then there's in your head bottlenecks. That's how I see it.

Steven Butala:
But I'm really addressing not bottlenecks the topics of the show this week, because you're saying they're all negative and I just don't think they are.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, we're starting off a little bit-

Steven Butala:
I think they need to be addressed. This stuff needs to be addressed.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I understand.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, for sure, really get into it, because I think that's how this episode is going with Jill, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dave wrote, "Getting my mailers ready is by far the largest speed bump in my process. Looking to be much more efficient with my time this year. Having said that, I'd really love to hear from anyone who has used the concierge data service with O2O, Offers2Owners.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Solution to All Land Business Bottlenecks (LA 1684)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the solution to all land business bottlenecks, and I would even venture to say all bottlenecks.

Jill K DeWit:
This is kind of like struggling week.

Steven Butala:
Struggling week?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. Because we talked yesterday about burnout. Today, we're talking about bottlenecks. I don't want to make it ... It's not bad week. It's not struggling week, but it's the beginning of the year. I hope you, like us, are taking a look around everything that you're doing and making sure going into 2022, am I doing it right? Am I motivated? Am I excited? Is my team excited? The goals and the things that we have forecast for this year, are we going to hit them? Are we all on the same page? And then you go, all right, what could be holding us back? What could be our bottlenecks? I want to talk about that.

Steven Butala:
Do you ever listen to a podcast or listen to someone speak or even read a book where everything's just, you can do this?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
This is how you ... You're great. You are a perfect person.

Jill K DeWit:
Jack Smiley, and everyone, and by golly, I like you.

Steven Butala:
Every single person that joins the Land Academy is successful and they smile all the way through and it's so easy. None of that's true. That's why. That's why we have a real podcast about real issues that deal ... We just are in the beginning of teaching this first year's Career Path, and everybody went around the table last week and talked about how successful they are. And then with this really negative tone in their voice, yeah, well, I only did $800,000 last year and netted 500,000 and that's not going to work for me. I'm not joking.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that funny? I know, yeah.

Steven Butala:
I'm not exaggerating at all.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true. That's why I'm giggling.

Steven Butala:
So that's my point. My point is we all know this works. Let's all take a minute and pat each other on the back, if that's what we need to do, Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
I didn't say that.

Steven Butala:
But the fact is-

Jill K DeWit:
I did not say that at all.

Steven Butala:
... we're either going to improve tomorrow or we're not. So I don't care where you are in your business, if you're just starting or if you're not knocking it out of the park, I think improving tomorrow's in everyone's best interest, especially your own.

Jill K DeWit:
How about improve right this minute?

Steven Butala:
I see this very different than motivating employees. None of our employees listen to this, I'm sure. I'm sure they've had it.

Jill K DeWit:
But there's real bottlenecks and then there's in your head bottlenecks. That's how I see it.

Steven Butala:
But I'm really addressing not bottlenecks the topics of the show this week, because you're saying they're all negative and I just don't think they are.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, we're starting off a little bit-

Steven Butala:
I think they need to be addressed. This stuff needs to be addressed.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I understand.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, for sure, really get into it, because I think that's how this episode is going with Jill, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dave wrote, "Getting my mailers ready is by far the largest speed bump in my process. Looking to be much more efficient with my time this year. Having said that, I'd really love to hear from anyone who has used the concierge data service with O2O, Offers2Owners.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/25/the-solution-to-all-land-business-bottlenecks-la-1684/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TezSgHlRi</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:08:42 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f164b9a4-54bc-495c-8ac1-35ebdc208fb7.mp3" length="16389167" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Managing Land Business Burnout (LA 1683)</title><itunes:title>Managing Land Business Burnout (LA 1683)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Managing Land Business Burnout (LA 1683)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of this Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I talk about managing land business burnout.

Jill K DeWit:
It's a thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I are neck-deep in Career Path right now, and we're coming up with a lot of good topics, because these are some of the things ... A lot of these topics this week, probably for next several weeks, are legitimate Career Path discussions.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, and even our discussions.

Steven Jack Butala:
On this topic, yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. We're just going to share it and air it right here with you.

Steven Jack Butala:
A little bit burned out, jill?

Jill K DeWit:
One of us does get burned out. And shockingly, not usually me, but we'll talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Aah, this is how this is going to go.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question, hosted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Kyle wrote, "Hey, I just joined yesterday, hitting the ground running. I started on Land Academy 1.0, but I'm a little confused. Should I be starting with Land Academy 2.0? Is that the most up to date? It was just confusing because one says Infill Lots and one says Vacant Land." I get it, it is a little confusing. Kyle, you are not alone.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the deal. We've really explained this in multiple areas and I'm glad you're asking here, because we'll explain it here too. It's a lot like Microsoft Windows. We're on Microsoft Windows 10 now, Windows 10. It's not often that, or ever, that I'll go back to Windows 3.1 and learn from it.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny, my dad used to do that. He hated updates. He didn't understand it and he would just struggle through. We're like, "Why are you doing that, dad?" And he would still be on the 3.0 version when we're all on 8.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Well, back then-

Jill K DeWit:
So don't be that guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Back then, since we're going to talk about computers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Back then, once you got the new version of Windows you needed to get new computer parts-

Jill K DeWit:
And [crosstalk 00:02:23] bought that.

Steven Jack Butala:
... because the hardware couldn't hit handle it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that's just not the case at all now, almost always. But anyway, back to this, start with the most recent. There are die-hard people on Discord in Land Academy that love the Cash Flow From Land program from-

Jill K DeWit:
2015.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And Kevin Farrell's one of them, Kevin, our famous moderator in Discord. So he always tells everyone, "Don't do anything except go back to that. Follow it step-by-step." We had people in Career Path that just brought that up.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
"I just followed the step-by-step program and Cash Flow From Land program," which was our first one.

Jill K DeWit:
Not how I got here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Today.

Steven Jack Butala:
So 3.0, they're all kind of the same. They have extra stuff in them that I think is really helpful as we have gone through these years. But 3.0 will probably be out by the time this airs, or close to it. And so if I was brand new, I would start with that.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the new thing. It is coming out probably in a couple weeks, honestly. But so one point, the Cash Flow From Land is our original program. 1.0 was an updated version with some different things and tips and tricks that we've learned since then.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Managing Land Business Burnout (LA 1683)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of this Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I talk about managing land business burnout.

Jill K DeWit:
It's a thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I are neck-deep in Career Path right now, and we're coming up with a lot of good topics, because these are some of the things ... A lot of these topics this week, probably for next several weeks, are legitimate Career Path discussions.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, and even our discussions.

Steven Jack Butala:
On this topic, yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. We're just going to share it and air it right here with you.

Steven Jack Butala:
A little bit burned out, jill?

Jill K DeWit:
One of us does get burned out. And shockingly, not usually me, but we'll talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Aah, this is how this is going to go.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question, hosted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Kyle wrote, "Hey, I just joined yesterday, hitting the ground running. I started on Land Academy 1.0, but I'm a little confused. Should I be starting with Land Academy 2.0? Is that the most up to date? It was just confusing because one says Infill Lots and one says Vacant Land." I get it, it is a little confusing. Kyle, you are not alone.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the deal. We've really explained this in multiple areas and I'm glad you're asking here, because we'll explain it here too. It's a lot like Microsoft Windows. We're on Microsoft Windows 10 now, Windows 10. It's not often that, or ever, that I'll go back to Windows 3.1 and learn from it.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what's funny, my dad used to do that. He hated updates. He didn't understand it and he would just struggle through. We're like, "Why are you doing that, dad?" And he would still be on the 3.0 version when we're all on 8.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Well, back then-

Jill K DeWit:
So don't be that guy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Back then, since we're going to talk about computers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Back then, once you got the new version of Windows you needed to get new computer parts-

Jill K DeWit:
And [crosstalk 00:02:23] bought that.

Steven Jack Butala:
... because the hardware couldn't hit handle it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that's just not the case at all now, almost always. But anyway, back to this, start with the most recent. There are die-hard people on Discord in Land Academy that love the Cash Flow From Land program from-

Jill K DeWit:
2015.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And Kevin Farrell's one of them, Kevin, our famous moderator in Discord. So he always tells everyone, "Don't do anything except go back to that. Follow it step-by-step." We had people in Career Path that just brought that up.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
"I just followed the step-by-step program and Cash Flow From Land program," which was our first one.

Jill K DeWit:
Not how I got here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Today.

Steven Jack Butala:
So 3.0, they're all kind of the same. They have extra stuff in them that I think is really helpful as we have gone through these years. But 3.0 will probably be out by the time this airs, or close to it. And so if I was brand new, I would start with that.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the new thing. It is coming out probably in a couple weeks, honestly. But so one point, the Cash Flow From Land is our original program. 1.0 was an updated version with some different things and tips and tricks that we've learned since then.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/24/managing-land-business-burnout-la-1683/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zTi0N2IhG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:52:42 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b67c1bd4-a2b6-4581-bd9f-f8aa67d5d813.mp3" length="17591436" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Talk to a Seller (LA 1682)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Talk to a Seller (LA 1682)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Talk to a Seller (LA 1682)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to talk to a seller. Sounds trite and silly, especially to a data person like me, because people like me ... How to talk to a seller? This is how you talk to your seller.

Steven Jack Butala:
"Hello."

Jill K DeWit:
"What do you got?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"I'd like to sell ... Yes. I got your letter, and wondering if it's legit. Yeah. Come on. You're talking too slow. Let's go."

Jill K DeWit:
"Hurry it up."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you talk to sellers.

Jill K DeWit:
"I sent out 3,000 offers today. Hurry up, ma'am. Hurry it up. Come on, lady. Get to the point."

Steven Jack Butala:
"You want to sell or not? Going to the bar. I'm on my way to the bar. Want to sell or not?"

Jill K DeWit:
"Just sign it and send it in, would you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you do it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. What's so funny?

Jill K DeWit:
It's just really funny. There's a reason why we don't let you talk on the phone. It's totally true.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait. Truth time. Our phone ring in our office, back when we had an office, and I get excited. I'm like, "Let me answer." Steven's like, "Get me away. Is it still ringing? Why am I hearing ringing?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's my exit.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven's like, "See ya."

Steven Jack Butala:
You've clearly forgotten to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel, but please do so now. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. You would also sneak over and go ... Close my office door. Here they go again.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have 30 minutes of peace. Jill's talking to a seller.

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. [inaudible 00:01:47] I was sharing yield data with another member here. I can't remember who. We figured out that his yield was so far off because he was using an employee to handle the incoming calls.

Steven Jack Butala:
Ding, ding.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm set up differently from him in a lot of ways, but I still worry that handing off my least favorite part of this could ruin it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Jack and Jill talk a lot about the benefits of doing this as a partnership, but I'm not looking to give away half of the pie.

Steven Jack Butala:
I did.

Jill K DeWit:
I would only consider having the Jill work done by a paid employee or a VA. That's okay too.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all you.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Honestly, I got pure luck with Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, we didn't have to make this a partnership. You chose to do that. There's probably people ... There's lots of people out there that would ... The way it worked out, yes, we are partners in every way you can imagine. "Mommy, what does Miss Jill mean by that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"Mommy, I want a partner."

Jill K DeWit:
"Can I have one like Miss Jill?" Anyway. Oh no.

Steven Jack Butala:
The kids are in the back seat. Jill's imitating them. She doesn't talk like that at random.

Jill K DeWit:
Could you imagine? No. That's true. All right.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. Yeah. I would not go into this with that intent myself. If I didn't know you ... Let's back up. I'm this person. I'm not that good on the phone. I need someone that's good on the phone. Or I'm doing it, and I'm okay on the phone, but I could be better on the phone, and it's something I don't like to do. I would be searching and finding someone.

Steven Jack Butala:
So would I.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Talk to a Seller (LA 1682)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to talk to a seller. Sounds trite and silly, especially to a data person like me, because people like me ... How to talk to a seller? This is how you talk to your seller.

Steven Jack Butala:
"Hello."

Jill K DeWit:
"What do you got?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"I'd like to sell ... Yes. I got your letter, and wondering if it's legit. Yeah. Come on. You're talking too slow. Let's go."

Jill K DeWit:
"Hurry it up."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you talk to sellers.

Jill K DeWit:
"I sent out 3,000 offers today. Hurry up, ma'am. Hurry it up. Come on, lady. Get to the point."

Steven Jack Butala:
"You want to sell or not? Going to the bar. I'm on my way to the bar. Want to sell or not?"

Jill K DeWit:
"Just sign it and send it in, would you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's not how you do it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. What's so funny?

Jill K DeWit:
It's just really funny. There's a reason why we don't let you talk on the phone. It's totally true.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait. Truth time. Our phone ring in our office, back when we had an office, and I get excited. I'm like, "Let me answer." Steven's like, "Get me away. Is it still ringing? Why am I hearing ringing?"

Steven Jack Butala:
That's my exit.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven's like, "See ya."

Steven Jack Butala:
You've clearly forgotten to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel, but please do so now. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. You would also sneak over and go ... Close my office door. Here they go again.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have 30 minutes of peace. Jill's talking to a seller.

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. [inaudible 00:01:47] I was sharing yield data with another member here. I can't remember who. We figured out that his yield was so far off because he was using an employee to handle the incoming calls.

Steven Jack Butala:
Ding, ding.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm set up differently from him in a lot of ways, but I still worry that handing off my least favorite part of this could ruin it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Jack and Jill talk a lot about the benefits of doing this as a partnership, but I'm not looking to give away half of the pie.

Steven Jack Butala:
I did.

Jill K DeWit:
I would only consider having the Jill work done by a paid employee or a VA. That's okay too.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all you.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Honestly, I got pure luck with Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, we didn't have to make this a partnership. You chose to do that. There's probably people ... There's lots of people out there that would ... The way it worked out, yes, we are partners in every way you can imagine. "Mommy, what does Miss Jill mean by that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
"Mommy, I want a partner."

Jill K DeWit:
"Can I have one like Miss Jill?" Anyway. Oh no.

Steven Jack Butala:
The kids are in the back seat. Jill's imitating them. She doesn't talk like that at random.

Jill K DeWit:
Could you imagine? No. That's true. All right.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand. Yeah. I would not go into this with that intent myself. If I didn't know you ... Let's back up. I'm this person. I'm not that good on the phone. I need someone that's good on the phone. Or I'm doing it, and I'm okay on the phone, but I could be better on the phone, and it's something I don't like to do. I would be searching and finding someone.

Steven Jack Butala:
So would I.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/21/jill-friday-how-to-talk-to-a-seller-la-1682/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gXqXeH_IL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:00:52 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d2cfdc89-7b1d-4b6a-8835-9701bc7e3a95.mp3" length="19641024" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Tranche Your Land Deals (LA 1681)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Tranche Your Land Deals (LA 1681)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Tranche Your Land Deals (LA 1681)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about traunching your land deals. Jill thinks for some reason, this is some highfalutin concept, but I'm not sure. I don't think I agree. It's pretty simple, actually. Buy a bunch of property.

Jill K DeWit:
I wonder how many people are Googling this exact phrase right now. What do I want to do this week? I want to traunch my land deals. This is good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Traunching is used. It's a French word. Meaning-

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Separate and gather, or it's not just separate.

Jill K DeWit:
I always thought it was more, I thought it was grouping them together more than that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's a little bit. The American use of the word, especially in finance, is a little bit different than the strict translation. I researched all this before I went [crosstalk 00:00:53]

Jill K DeWit:
Well, good, because like you're making me need to do the research. That's the whole point. If we have a show that I got to actually, excuse me, I need to Google this for a moment. [crosstalk 00:01:01] Make sure I'm right.

Steven Jack Butala:
You've heard people in the stock market or in finance markets traunching their portfolio and you know-

Jill K DeWit:
Bundling them up, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That's how I think of it like-

Steven Jack Butala:
Buying and selling in traunches, which means not just taking a certain asset and selling it. It means bundling it up, putting the good with the bad. We heard the word traunch a lot in 2010 where they were taking home loans.

Jill K DeWit:
Houses.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. AAA rated home loans and bundling them with non-performing C minus loans.

Jill K DeWit:
Putting a few crappy ones in with the good ones and just kind of sliding them under the rug that way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Well not under the rug, but here's a portfolio. Take it or leave it. There's some golden here and there's some terrible stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like every garage sale. Let's say.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you for not associating it with dating.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh my God. You could buy-

Jill K DeWit:
Or marriage.

Steven Jack Butala:
Buy partners in traunches. I think that's a felony.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, oh my gosh. Wow. I didn't think we were going there, but it is Jack Thursday. He can do whatever he wants.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's what's going on right now for some of you, "Mommy." This is from the back seat, "Mommy. What did Mr. Jack mean when he said that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
I hope that's not true.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Somewhere.

Steven Jack Butala:
Poor kids.

Jill K DeWit:
Somewhere in the minivan, this woman is quickly turning off our show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Poor children have to... All you children. I'm sorry.

Jill K DeWit:
Who are stuck listening to this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Your parents make you listen to this.

Jill K DeWit:
This is their nap time. Fall asleep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you everyone because you put my kid to sleep every afternoon at three o'clock like clockwork. That's awesome. Better than Dr. Seuss. All right. Peter wrote, "I am slowly scaling up my land business and would love to hear about the anatomy of bigger deals. I presume we all start small, usually under $10,000 purchase, and then we, or 20 to $30,000.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Tranche Your Land Deals (LA 1681)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about traunching your land deals. Jill thinks for some reason, this is some highfalutin concept, but I'm not sure. I don't think I agree. It's pretty simple, actually. Buy a bunch of property.

Jill K DeWit:
I wonder how many people are Googling this exact phrase right now. What do I want to do this week? I want to traunch my land deals. This is good.

Steven Jack Butala:
Traunching is used. It's a French word. Meaning-

Jill K DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Separate and gather, or it's not just separate.

Jill K DeWit:
I always thought it was more, I thought it was grouping them together more than that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's a little bit. The American use of the word, especially in finance, is a little bit different than the strict translation. I researched all this before I went [crosstalk 00:00:53]

Jill K DeWit:
Well, good, because like you're making me need to do the research. That's the whole point. If we have a show that I got to actually, excuse me, I need to Google this for a moment. [crosstalk 00:01:01] Make sure I'm right.

Steven Jack Butala:
You've heard people in the stock market or in finance markets traunching their portfolio and you know-

Jill K DeWit:
Bundling them up, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
That's how I think of it like-

Steven Jack Butala:
Buying and selling in traunches, which means not just taking a certain asset and selling it. It means bundling it up, putting the good with the bad. We heard the word traunch a lot in 2010 where they were taking home loans.

Jill K DeWit:
Houses.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. AAA rated home loans and bundling them with non-performing C minus loans.

Jill K DeWit:
Putting a few crappy ones in with the good ones and just kind of sliding them under the rug that way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Well not under the rug, but here's a portfolio. Take it or leave it. There's some golden here and there's some terrible stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like every garage sale. Let's say.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you for not associating it with dating.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh my God. You could buy-

Jill K DeWit:
Or marriage.

Steven Jack Butala:
Buy partners in traunches. I think that's a felony.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, oh my gosh. Wow. I didn't think we were going there, but it is Jack Thursday. He can do whatever he wants.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Here's what's going on right now for some of you, "Mommy." This is from the back seat, "Mommy. What did Mr. Jack mean when he said that?"

Steven Jack Butala:
I hope that's not true.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Somewhere.

Steven Jack Butala:
Poor kids.

Jill K DeWit:
Somewhere in the minivan, this woman is quickly turning off our show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Poor children have to... All you children. I'm sorry.

Jill K DeWit:
Who are stuck listening to this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Your parents make you listen to this.

Jill K DeWit:
This is their nap time. Fall asleep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you everyone because you put my kid to sleep every afternoon at three o'clock like clockwork. That's awesome. Better than Dr. Seuss. All right. Peter wrote, "I am slowly scaling up my land business and would love to hear about the anatomy of bigger deals. I presume we all start small, usually under $10,000 purchase, and then we, or 20 to $30,000.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/20/jack-thursday-tranche-your-land-deals-la-1681/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BkrhDDh5a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:05:51 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/917fbc3a-8f67-43cb-ac92-16422d61fea1.mp3" length="14215762" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>House Deals Made as Easy as Land Deals (LA 1680)</title><itunes:title>House Deals Made as Easy as Land Deals (LA 1680)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





House Deals Made as Easy as Land Deals (LA 1680)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, jill and I talk about house deals, made as easy as land deals. Is there really, such a thing?
Jill K DeWit:Yep. You know what's funny? I'll share one story with you now. And then I have another story for in a minute. Well, first of all, happy Career Path Day, for those of you who are with us and joining us in Career Path, today is day one day. One of the rest of your life.
Steven Jack Butala:Jeez, that's cheesy.
Jill K DeWit:I know, isn't it.
Steven Jack Butala:Something's probably cheesy.
Jill K DeWit:It's stupid. I know.
Steven Jack Butala:Who else walked up to me and said, you are cheesy. Some people have said a lot of stuff to me.
Jill K DeWit:I'll do it.
Steven Jack Butala:A lot of crazy stuff to me, but not you're cheesy and fake and this doesn't work.
Jill K DeWit:Well, I never say you're fake, but sometimes I say goofy. I do. I did call Aaron a goofball the other day. So anyway, it was funny, because this whole show is, house deals made as easy as land deals. So last week, and I was talking to one of the attendees who's in Career Path with us, starting today. He was talking about how, two or three years ago, I think that they were three years in now. He's adding land to his portfolio, but they were doing all houses. Started year one doing one house, year two was six houses. And then year three was 145 houses. Well, here's what the difference was. And the money was so much better. But year one, they were doing it all wrong. They were doing the renovations themselves.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:And they got one done. Year two, he and his partner got six done, because again, they're doing renovations. And then they realized, why are we doing this. Year three, they transitioned to what we're about to talk about today. And they're like, "I'm not doing any renovations. I'm buying it, selling it quickly, and moving on", kind of thing. And that's how they went from six to 145. He's like, "And this year we want to do 250 or something like that." And it's a small crew, but they've got it.
Steven Jack Butala:Yep.
Jill K DeWit:It's good.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe, seriously. Subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Luke wrote, "If I have a signed purchase agreement and the owner gets a better offer in the mail for other land buyer. Do I have any recourse?" I think we covered this question last week.
Steven Jack Butala:I think we did too.
Jill K DeWit:So I'm just wondering, this is funny. So let me think of a different question that I can sub in here-
Steven Jack Butala:About houses.
Jill K DeWit:Real quick, that can solve our little typo.
Steven Jack Butala:God, whoever produces this podcast really needs to-
Jill K DeWit:Get their act together.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Geez.
Jill K DeWit:Wonder who that is.
Steven Jack Butala:Come on, podcast producer.
Jill K DeWit:All right. Here's a house question for you. I'm going to say, Jill asks, "What would be a fair dollar amount that I should expect to get on a house flip. I understand the way you guys do it. You buy houses, you mark it up. You sell it to another investor. What dollar amount makes sense to you?
Steven Jack Butala:Between 50 and $100,000, if you're funding it yourself. Here's an example. Buy in a market that, where, it all done, it's $600,000 let's say, five to $600,000. You're buying a house for 200, because it needs a lot of work. You buy it for 200, 250, sell it for 300, 350.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





House Deals Made as Easy as Land Deals (LA 1680)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, jill and I talk about house deals, made as easy as land deals. Is there really, such a thing?
Jill K DeWit:Yep. You know what's funny? I'll share one story with you now. And then I have another story for in a minute. Well, first of all, happy Career Path Day, for those of you who are with us and joining us in Career Path, today is day one day. One of the rest of your life.
Steven Jack Butala:Jeez, that's cheesy.
Jill K DeWit:I know, isn't it.
Steven Jack Butala:Something's probably cheesy.
Jill K DeWit:It's stupid. I know.
Steven Jack Butala:Who else walked up to me and said, you are cheesy. Some people have said a lot of stuff to me.
Jill K DeWit:I'll do it.
Steven Jack Butala:A lot of crazy stuff to me, but not you're cheesy and fake and this doesn't work.
Jill K DeWit:Well, I never say you're fake, but sometimes I say goofy. I do. I did call Aaron a goofball the other day. So anyway, it was funny, because this whole show is, house deals made as easy as land deals. So last week, and I was talking to one of the attendees who's in Career Path with us, starting today. He was talking about how, two or three years ago, I think that they were three years in now. He's adding land to his portfolio, but they were doing all houses. Started year one doing one house, year two was six houses. And then year three was 145 houses. Well, here's what the difference was. And the money was so much better. But year one, they were doing it all wrong. They were doing the renovations themselves.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:And they got one done. Year two, he and his partner got six done, because again, they're doing renovations. And then they realized, why are we doing this. Year three, they transitioned to what we're about to talk about today. And they're like, "I'm not doing any renovations. I'm buying it, selling it quickly, and moving on", kind of thing. And that's how they went from six to 145. He's like, "And this year we want to do 250 or something like that." And it's a small crew, but they've got it.
Steven Jack Butala:Yep.
Jill K DeWit:It's good.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe, seriously. Subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Luke wrote, "If I have a signed purchase agreement and the owner gets a better offer in the mail for other land buyer. Do I have any recourse?" I think we covered this question last week.
Steven Jack Butala:I think we did too.
Jill K DeWit:So I'm just wondering, this is funny. So let me think of a different question that I can sub in here-
Steven Jack Butala:About houses.
Jill K DeWit:Real quick, that can solve our little typo.
Steven Jack Butala:God, whoever produces this podcast really needs to-
Jill K DeWit:Get their act together.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Geez.
Jill K DeWit:Wonder who that is.
Steven Jack Butala:Come on, podcast producer.
Jill K DeWit:All right. Here's a house question for you. I'm going to say, Jill asks, "What would be a fair dollar amount that I should expect to get on a house flip. I understand the way you guys do it. You buy houses, you mark it up. You sell it to another investor. What dollar amount makes sense to you?
Steven Jack Butala:Between 50 and $100,000, if you're funding it yourself. Here's an example. Buy in a market that, where, it all done, it's $600,000 let's say, five to $600,000. You're buying a house for 200, because it needs a lot of work. You buy it for 200, 250, sell it for 300, 350.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/19/house-deals-made-as-easy-as-land-deals-la-1680/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">GSPIadRsI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:59:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/008f2899-352c-4d19-a8e6-20fb891e6737.mp3" length="21441053" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (LA 1679)</title><itunes:title>How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (LA 1679)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (LA 1679)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to buy your first parcel of land, the ever present question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. People watch, they hear us, they see us. They're like, "I can do this. Okay. What do I do? Ready, I'm here. I showed up. What do I do? Is there a list somewhere? Do I just pick from them?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going. This is great.

Jill K DeWit:
Do I just, I don't know, go online and pick one that looks good to me and just call the person, just call the agent? Is that the best way? And they just handle it all. I just write a check.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you a hint, and we're going to obviously cover this all in just a few minutes here. The secret to buying your first piece of land is in our ebook. If you haven't downloaded our ebook, even if you're a long time Land Academy member, it's like 10 or 15 pages, I think. It's just blow through a read, but it tells you how to get your first land deal done fast. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Hope the holiday preps are going well for everyone." So this is obviously from a couple weeks ago. "A question I'm curious about. When listing with a flat fee MLS service, do you provide for the buyer's agent commission?" I have lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you do. It's perfect. I'm going to zip it here. You go for it.

Jill K DeWit:
"I have had some horrible experiences with unprofessional realtors. The problems have been with the poor quality of the listings they prepare."

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. And in parentheses he wrote, "Why don't you use the pictures I gave you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional realtors is a-

Jill K DeWit:
I know, we could talk for a whole nother month.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a redundant sentence, unprofessional realtors. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
"Use the pictures I gave you, the ignorance of marketing outside the MLS." I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
And out and out laziness.

Jill K DeWit:
"And the out and out laziness. If you get an offer on my property, forward it the same day, not the next week. I could go on and on. I like the flat fee"-

Steven Jack Butala:
I wish you would.

Jill K DeWit:
"I like the flat fee because I can control the listing details. I've been offering buyer's agents the full 3%. No problem paying that if they bring a buyer. Do you guys think it makes any difference on the sales end to give the realtors their cut on the flat fee listing?" Okay. So here's what-

Steven Jack Butala:
I like fat fee listing. I like your way better.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So Steven's talking about companies like Broker Direct MLS, and we've had other local companies that we've used. So what the heck are we talking about? Well, there are a number of places, brokers that say, "Hey, look for a flat rate fee, I'll put it on the MLS for you. You're doing the work. I'm not getting commission, but you can use my licensure and everything. This is all legal and legit. And through me, by paying me, I don't have to get a commission. I'll just take a flat rate. I'll put it on the MLS for you."

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a tech company.

Jill K DeWit:
And some of them, they might help you with the work. I'm sure there are people out there that do that. Most of the ones I work with, and this is the way I like it anyway, they just say, "Here's the paperwork. Fill it out how you see fit,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Buy Your First Parcel of Land (LA 1679)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to buy your first parcel of land, the ever present question.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. People watch, they hear us, they see us. They're like, "I can do this. Okay. What do I do? Ready, I'm here. I showed up. What do I do? Is there a list somewhere? Do I just pick from them?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Keep going. This is great.

Jill K DeWit:
Do I just, I don't know, go online and pick one that looks good to me and just call the person, just call the agent? Is that the best way? And they just handle it all. I just write a check.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll tell you a hint, and we're going to obviously cover this all in just a few minutes here. The secret to buying your first piece of land is in our ebook. If you haven't downloaded our ebook, even if you're a long time Land Academy member, it's like 10 or 15 pages, I think. It's just blow through a read, but it tells you how to get your first land deal done fast. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Hope the holiday preps are going well for everyone." So this is obviously from a couple weeks ago. "A question I'm curious about. When listing with a flat fee MLS service, do you provide for the buyer's agent commission?" I have lot to say about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know you do. It's perfect. I'm going to zip it here. You go for it.

Jill K DeWit:
"I have had some horrible experiences with unprofessional realtors. The problems have been with the poor quality of the listings they prepare."

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. And in parentheses he wrote, "Why don't you use the pictures I gave you?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Unprofessional realtors is a-

Jill K DeWit:
I know, we could talk for a whole nother month.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a redundant sentence, unprofessional realtors. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
"Use the pictures I gave you, the ignorance of marketing outside the MLS." I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
And out and out laziness.

Jill K DeWit:
"And the out and out laziness. If you get an offer on my property, forward it the same day, not the next week. I could go on and on. I like the flat fee"-

Steven Jack Butala:
I wish you would.

Jill K DeWit:
"I like the flat fee because I can control the listing details. I've been offering buyer's agents the full 3%. No problem paying that if they bring a buyer. Do you guys think it makes any difference on the sales end to give the realtors their cut on the flat fee listing?" Okay. So here's what-

Steven Jack Butala:
I like fat fee listing. I like your way better.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. So Steven's talking about companies like Broker Direct MLS, and we've had other local companies that we've used. So what the heck are we talking about? Well, there are a number of places, brokers that say, "Hey, look for a flat rate fee, I'll put it on the MLS for you. You're doing the work. I'm not getting commission, but you can use my licensure and everything. This is all legal and legit. And through me, by paying me, I don't have to get a commission. I'll just take a flat rate. I'll put it on the MLS for you."

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a tech company.

Jill K DeWit:
And some of them, they might help you with the work. I'm sure there are people out there that do that. Most of the ones I work with, and this is the way I like it anyway, they just say, "Here's the paperwork. Fill it out how you see fit,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/18/how-to-buy-your-first-parcel-of-land-la-1679/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">l1GS_AWhT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:08:53 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b9b996e6-c007-403b-bd81-9d4f471e5408.mp3" length="18113180" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Are You Smart Enough for Land Academy (LA 1678)</title><itunes:title>Are You Smart Enough for Land Academy (LA 1678)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Are You Smart Enough for Land Academy (LA 1678)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about are you smart enough for Land Academy? Who came up with this topic?

Jill K DeWit:
I know. Did somebody put that in Discord?

Steven Jack Butala:
No. And all kidding aside, this comes up every once in a while it comes up about, excuse me, geez. It comes up at the live event. It's come up and it just comes up in general. It's not so much, I decided to be really straight about it in the title.

Jill K DeWit:
Which we always are straight. So we'll talk about that. I have some notes here and there's always exceptions, but we want to talk about it with you, because we want for the right, well, how about this? You're all the right people. We want you to know, we either want to calm down your fears and or we want to be really honest with you and let you know what you're getting into.

Steven Jack Butala:
I titled this intentionally, but it could be titled, are you interested enough in doing this?

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good way of saying it.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's really what I think is happening.

Jill K DeWit:
That's brilliant.

Steven Jack Butala:
But people don't, they don't say it that way about themselves. Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Andy wrote, "If I have a signed purchase agreement and the owner gets a better offer letter in the mail from another land buyer, do I have any recourse? Just so weird that the week we were going to close, another offer letter would hit. They're wanting to take the higher offer, which is four times my offer price. Has this happened to anyone?" That's really not cool by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not cool at all.

Jill K DeWit:
By the seller, that is.

Steven Jack Butala:
This sparked a lot of interest in Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I bet. What were the general responses?

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's answer the question first. The answer, it's the same how we're going to answer all of it. Your question is, do you have any recourse? Probably not. You might, but it's not worth it. It's generally not worth it to go down that path. My big comment is, do they really have an offer? Do they?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Or are they changing their price last minute on you?

Steven Jack Butala:
Are they having second thoughts about the price?

Jill K DeWit:
Or selling?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a lot of stuff going on.

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe they changed their mind and they could say that, that's true. That's a very, very good point.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've heard you on the phone many times in this situation and you know what she says, "You should take the offer."

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I do. I'm like, "So let's just go through, let's walk through the process. Shall we? You just got this offer in. You and I are going to close on Tuesday and you're going to get $18,000. And you're saying you got an offer for 40. Well, is there really? Let's just see. They haven't done any their due diligence. They haven't vetted this. You haven't even talked to them yet. Do we know that it's legit? Do we know they have the money? Do they know they're standing by? And after they do their due diligence, are they still going to want to pay that money? I'm sitting here right now. We are all done. You're about to get a check, a wire into your bank on Tuesday. Do you want to stop that and take the chance and or do you want a sure thing? We're done." And usually they go, "Oh yeah, hadn't thought about that."

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Are You Smart Enough for Land Academy (LA 1678)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about are you smart enough for Land Academy? Who came up with this topic?

Jill K DeWit:
I know. Did somebody put that in Discord?

Steven Jack Butala:
No. And all kidding aside, this comes up every once in a while it comes up about, excuse me, geez. It comes up at the live event. It's come up and it just comes up in general. It's not so much, I decided to be really straight about it in the title.

Jill K DeWit:
Which we always are straight. So we'll talk about that. I have some notes here and there's always exceptions, but we want to talk about it with you, because we want for the right, well, how about this? You're all the right people. We want you to know, we either want to calm down your fears and or we want to be really honest with you and let you know what you're getting into.

Steven Jack Butala:
I titled this intentionally, but it could be titled, are you interested enough in doing this?

Jill K DeWit:
That's a good way of saying it.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's really what I think is happening.

Jill K DeWit:
That's brilliant.

Steven Jack Butala:
But people don't, they don't say it that way about themselves. Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Andy wrote, "If I have a signed purchase agreement and the owner gets a better offer letter in the mail from another land buyer, do I have any recourse? Just so weird that the week we were going to close, another offer letter would hit. They're wanting to take the higher offer, which is four times my offer price. Has this happened to anyone?" That's really not cool by the way.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not cool at all.

Jill K DeWit:
By the seller, that is.

Steven Jack Butala:
This sparked a lot of interest in Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I bet. What were the general responses?

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's answer the question first. The answer, it's the same how we're going to answer all of it. Your question is, do you have any recourse? Probably not. You might, but it's not worth it. It's generally not worth it to go down that path. My big comment is, do they really have an offer? Do they?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Or are they changing their price last minute on you?

Steven Jack Butala:
Are they having second thoughts about the price?

Jill K DeWit:
Or selling?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a lot of stuff going on.

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe they changed their mind and they could say that, that's true. That's a very, very good point.

Steven Jack Butala:
I've heard you on the phone many times in this situation and you know what she says, "You should take the offer."

Jill K DeWit:
That's what I do. I'm like, "So let's just go through, let's walk through the process. Shall we? You just got this offer in. You and I are going to close on Tuesday and you're going to get $18,000. And you're saying you got an offer for 40. Well, is there really? Let's just see. They haven't done any their due diligence. They haven't vetted this. You haven't even talked to them yet. Do we know that it's legit? Do we know they have the money? Do they know they're standing by? And after they do their due diligence, are they still going to want to pay that money? I'm sitting here right now. We are all done. You're about to get a check, a wire into your bank on Tuesday. Do you want to stop that and take the chance and or do you want a sure thing? We're done." And usually they go, "Oh yeah, hadn't thought about that."

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/17/are-you-smart-enough-for-land-academy-la-1678/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1HWNV8UpO</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:57:30 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8cfcdf53-bcc7-4fef-a0d3-d0cd1a7399ff.mp3" length="18562639" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Enthusiasm (LA 1677)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Enthusiasm (LA 1677)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Enthusiasm (LA 1677)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining, land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I... Well, it's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about enthusiasm. One of my most favorite attributes about you. I mean it.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I thought you were going to say one of your most valued attributes, yours. I'm just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't understand. What do you mean?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you have enthusiasm. How about this, on a scale of one to 10, how do you rank yourself as, enthusiastic about life?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably, six.

Jill K DeWit:
Child raising?

Steven Jack Butala:
Two, keep going.

Jill K DeWit:
Having fun on the weekend?

Steven Jack Butala:
10.

Jill K DeWit:
Riding your bike around town?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nine.

Jill K DeWit:
Taking the RV out?

Steven Jack Butala:
10.

Jill K DeWit:
Hiring and training staff?

Steven Jack Butala:
One. It's a little impromptu game.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait. Taking me to dinner?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nine.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, taking me to a Mexican restaurant?

Steven Jack Butala:
Seven.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. You get where I'm going here. We're going to talk about that, because I just threw out a bunch of different things. I have three main things I want to talk about, for you to be aware of, your enthusiasm in your life. That's one of them, and we'll talk more.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So Troy wrote... Did you just get questions from the same two people all week? Because all I could see, is the same names.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, is it Troy again?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. There's a Troy, there's Luke twice, Troy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Maybe I did the names wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm like, okay... Do you just have favorites?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, somebody that's just active. There's active people in discord and there's not.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, all right. So-

Steven Jack Butala:
Or I did it wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Or, that too. Troy wrote, "My $80,000 dream buck, picture." There's a picture, there?

Steven Jack Butala:
A picture of a buck that he got with a bow.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh wow. And then he said, "I bought land for $80,000, arrow to buck, three days before closing." Oh wow. "And then sold it for $210,000 cash. Thank you, Land Academy, for making dreams come true." So he bought the land, was without loving and using it while he was selling it, and then gave it up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. He tripled his money.

Jill K DeWit:
Aw. And got his dream buck.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's January.

Jill K DeWit:
That's pretty cool, actually.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, that could be his whole year. He could be done. Completely done.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I can live off that.

Steven Jack Butala:
$150 grand. Absolutely.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
So could I.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about enthusiasm. This is the meat of this show.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm trying to remember why this came up. Why did this come up? Do you remember?

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I think enthusiasm... Here's why, I think. The message that I think this show is about is, that you send a bunch of mail out and, let's just assume that you do it correctly, which most people do. Especially if you use concierge data, you send the mail out, and then people are calling back. And Jill genuinely, honestly has enthusiasm for answering the phone and talking to these sellers. Even if, they're angry.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Enthusiasm (LA 1677)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining, land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I... Well, it's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about enthusiasm. One of my most favorite attributes about you. I mean it.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I thought you were going to say one of your most valued attributes, yours. I'm just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't understand. What do you mean?

Jill K DeWit:
Well, you have enthusiasm. How about this, on a scale of one to 10, how do you rank yourself as, enthusiastic about life?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably, six.

Jill K DeWit:
Child raising?

Steven Jack Butala:
Two, keep going.

Jill K DeWit:
Having fun on the weekend?

Steven Jack Butala:
10.

Jill K DeWit:
Riding your bike around town?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nine.

Jill K DeWit:
Taking the RV out?

Steven Jack Butala:
10.

Jill K DeWit:
Hiring and training staff?

Steven Jack Butala:
One. It's a little impromptu game.

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait. Taking me to dinner?

Steven Jack Butala:
Nine.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, taking me to a Mexican restaurant?

Steven Jack Butala:
Seven.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. You get where I'm going here. We're going to talk about that, because I just threw out a bunch of different things. I have three main things I want to talk about, for you to be aware of, your enthusiasm in your life. That's one of them, and we'll talk more.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So Troy wrote... Did you just get questions from the same two people all week? Because all I could see, is the same names.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, is it Troy again?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. There's a Troy, there's Luke twice, Troy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Maybe I did the names wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm like, okay... Do you just have favorites?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, somebody that's just active. There's active people in discord and there's not.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, all right. So-

Steven Jack Butala:
Or I did it wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Or, that too. Troy wrote, "My $80,000 dream buck, picture." There's a picture, there?

Steven Jack Butala:
A picture of a buck that he got with a bow.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh wow. And then he said, "I bought land for $80,000, arrow to buck, three days before closing." Oh wow. "And then sold it for $210,000 cash. Thank you, Land Academy, for making dreams come true." So he bought the land, was without loving and using it while he was selling it, and then gave it up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. He tripled his money.

Jill K DeWit:
Aw. And got his dream buck.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's January.

Jill K DeWit:
That's pretty cool, actually.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, that could be his whole year. He could be done. Completely done.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I can live off that.

Steven Jack Butala:
$150 grand. Absolutely.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
So could I.

Jill K DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about enthusiasm. This is the meat of this show.

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm trying to remember why this came up. Why did this come up? Do you remember?

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I think enthusiasm... Here's why, I think. The message that I think this show is about is, that you send a bunch of mail out and, let's just assume that you do it correctly, which most people do. Especially if you use concierge data, you send the mail out, and then people are calling back. And Jill genuinely, honestly has enthusiasm for answering the phone and talking to these sellers. Even if, they're angry.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/14/jill-friday-enthusiasm-la-1677/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cpkUGnet7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:51:09 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f225125d-9991-4eff-a709-ea3e919f404b.mp3" length="25832629" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Welcome to Your Comeback (LA 1676)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Welcome to Your Comeback (LA 1676)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Welcome to Your Comeback (LA 1676)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about, welcome to your comeback.

Jill K DeWit:
I like this. I love that title.

Steven Jack Butala:
This came from two sources. So Jill and I went to a Christmas party recently with some people that we've known for a lot of years. And they're real good personal friends of ours. And the host walked up to me and said, "Amazing comeback." Because when we met, he said that to me personally. He said that to me because we all met each other during the great recession in real estate... The real estate depression in 2010 when Jill and I basically had nothing.

Steven Jack Butala:
We had to sell our house. We had to move into a house that we had bought from a bank that was much smaller. And fortunately, we had a bunch of land that was paid for like we do now, like hopefully many Land Academy members there have accumulated land where we pay cash for it, and sold it. And that's what kept us alive through that period before we could start really doing acquisitions and sales again like we were used to.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that really brought a lot of memories, like we did come back. We didn't-

Jill K DeWit:
Big come back.

Steven Jack Butala:
So I know there's a lot of people out there, things change in their lives. That's what this show's going to about. You can come back.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land-investors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Troy wrote, "Anyone here having experience with RS-10 zoning in mixed commercial slash residential growing cities? I'm looking at 18 acres I can buy for $63,000. And the broker says I could sell it for $150,000 on the low end. And even at a real quick sale of $125,000. My experience is in rural areas and would like another set of eyes on it if possible. Has a few cons, but no real deal breakers that I can see. I can PM more details. Thanks. Would consider partnering as well." So how'd that go?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, it's a smash hit. So my whole point, and it's Jack Thursday so I can do what I want here... My whole point is-

Jill K DeWit:
Every day you can do what you want. Why is today different?

Steven Jack Butala:
My point in putting this in here is that Discord is an amazing tool, and this is how it was intended to be used. I've got this great deal. It's a little bit out of my comfort zone. Hey, other Land Academy members, if you have a bunch of dough... Love to do the deal with you. Our 10 has means residential 10,000 square feet. So if you take 18 acres and divide that by 10,000 square feet minus 10% for roads and stuff, that's an amazing property from a financial standpoint. Put in the right hands of a person who's going to develop it, which is not us. Buy for 60, sell for 150 is for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that's what Discord's for. That's what Land Academy's for.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. Welcome to your comeback. I don't care where you are in your life. I don't care. I don't care if you're in your 50s, and you lost a dream job that you thought you were going to retire with, which happens to way more people than we know about. You can come back. It's not hard.

Steven Jack Butala:
You just have to get your head together and really want it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I professionally, got put to our knees in 2010. We were happily making tons and tons of money. We had a yacht, buying and selling land and selling it on eBay and on the internet.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Welcome to Your Comeback (LA 1676)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about, welcome to your comeback.

Jill K DeWit:
I like this. I love that title.

Steven Jack Butala:
This came from two sources. So Jill and I went to a Christmas party recently with some people that we've known for a lot of years. And they're real good personal friends of ours. And the host walked up to me and said, "Amazing comeback." Because when we met, he said that to me personally. He said that to me because we all met each other during the great recession in real estate... The real estate depression in 2010 when Jill and I basically had nothing.

Steven Jack Butala:
We had to sell our house. We had to move into a house that we had bought from a bank that was much smaller. And fortunately, we had a bunch of land that was paid for like we do now, like hopefully many Land Academy members there have accumulated land where we pay cash for it, and sold it. And that's what kept us alive through that period before we could start really doing acquisitions and sales again like we were used to.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that really brought a lot of memories, like we did come back. We didn't-

Jill K DeWit:
Big come back.

Steven Jack Butala:
So I know there's a lot of people out there, things change in their lives. That's what this show's going to about. You can come back.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land-investors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Troy wrote, "Anyone here having experience with RS-10 zoning in mixed commercial slash residential growing cities? I'm looking at 18 acres I can buy for $63,000. And the broker says I could sell it for $150,000 on the low end. And even at a real quick sale of $125,000. My experience is in rural areas and would like another set of eyes on it if possible. Has a few cons, but no real deal breakers that I can see. I can PM more details. Thanks. Would consider partnering as well." So how'd that go?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, it's a smash hit. So my whole point, and it's Jack Thursday so I can do what I want here... My whole point is-

Jill K DeWit:
Every day you can do what you want. Why is today different?

Steven Jack Butala:
My point in putting this in here is that Discord is an amazing tool, and this is how it was intended to be used. I've got this great deal. It's a little bit out of my comfort zone. Hey, other Land Academy members, if you have a bunch of dough... Love to do the deal with you. Our 10 has means residential 10,000 square feet. So if you take 18 acres and divide that by 10,000 square feet minus 10% for roads and stuff, that's an amazing property from a financial standpoint. Put in the right hands of a person who's going to develop it, which is not us. Buy for 60, sell for 150 is for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So that's what Discord's for. That's what Land Academy's for.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. Welcome to your comeback. I don't care where you are in your life. I don't care. I don't care if you're in your 50s, and you lost a dream job that you thought you were going to retire with, which happens to way more people than we know about. You can come back. It's not hard.

Steven Jack Butala:
You just have to get your head together and really want it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I professionally, got put to our knees in 2010. We were happily making tons and tons of money. We had a yacht, buying and selling land and selling it on eBay and on the internet.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/13/jack-thursday-welcome-to-your-comeback-la-1676/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7zjJ27R16</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:08:39 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b8134f36-838f-47a1-823b-71d16b7e92fa.mp3" length="14924813" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Renovation Nightmares (HA 1675)</title><itunes:title>Renovation Nightmares (HA 1675)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Renovation Nightmares (HA 1675)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about renovation nightmares.
Jill K DeWit:Is this not a show? This should be a show.
Steven Jack Butala:I think it might be.
Jill K DeWit:If not, it should be.
Steven Jack Butala:You mean just like a title on HGTV?
Jill K DeWit:It should be. That would be cool. Speaking of which, I have one of my notes here is the first thing I was going to share is when we have done renovations, it does give you nightmares. That's a real thing.
Steven Jack Butala:I'm going to really press [crosstalk 00:00:40].
Jill K DeWit:Documented.
Steven Jack Butala:When we get into the topic here, I'm going to give you a mathematical example of all the things you can do with an asset that really make you money, a real estate asset, and all the things that are setting yourself up to fail. It's basically a roulette situation when you renovate a house.
Jill K DeWit:Understood.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take good question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Understood. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Where does that come from? Do you feel like you're in the military when we do this show?
Jill K DeWit:Sometimes.
Steven Jack Butala:Where do you rank?
Jill K DeWit:Yes, sir.
Steven Jack Butala:Do you rank higher or lower than me?
Jill K DeWit:Oh, I'm way lower. Pretty far down there.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, that's strangely attractive. I don't know why. Something's wrong with me.
Jill K DeWit:Yes. Yes, sir. All right. Luke wrote, "Responding to tire kickers on Facebook is exhausting. I've developed a system that works well for selling houses with owner financing on Facebook. It could be used for land as well. So it goes like this. Ad goes up on the marketplace. Regardless of who responds via Messenger or what questions they ask, I respond with a couple paragraphs about the price, address and what the house needs, if work is needed, and then instruct them to drive to the house and call the number on the sign in the yard. When they call me at that number, I know they follow the instructions and are sitting in front of the house. Then I get them inside. Most won't even do this step and they aren't serious buyers anyway. So it doesn't matter if I piss them off." That's good.
Steven Jack Butala:This is brilliant.
Jill K DeWit:I saw this.
Steven Jack Butala:Here's why. There's an old rule in sales. Not that I should really be talking about sales at all, because that's just Jill's thing. But if you want to vet people, ask them to do something. It's a legal thing too. It's customer service more than anything.
Jill K DeWit:We do it for hiring. Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:With customer service, if someone just calls livid about whatever you're selling or why they're your customer and why they're upset, your response can be, "I really understand that you're upset. Please do this, this and this, and we will rectify the problem for you." And virtually nobody does any of that stuff.
Jill K DeWit:I do.
Steven Jack Butala:As a customer?
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Oh, I'll do both.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, that's because if you get mad, there's a real reason.
Jill K DeWit:That's true.
Steven Jack Butala:So I think this is brilliant. Go to the house, sit in front of there, call me on the number and I'll get you inside, and we'll talk about ... So probably that avoids probably 90% of the garbage. So I think this is brilliant, obviously because I put it on the show.
Jill K DeWit:That's awesome.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, renovation nightmares.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Renovation Nightmares (HA 1675)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about renovation nightmares.
Jill K DeWit:Is this not a show? This should be a show.
Steven Jack Butala:I think it might be.
Jill K DeWit:If not, it should be.
Steven Jack Butala:You mean just like a title on HGTV?
Jill K DeWit:It should be. That would be cool. Speaking of which, I have one of my notes here is the first thing I was going to share is when we have done renovations, it does give you nightmares. That's a real thing.
Steven Jack Butala:I'm going to really press [crosstalk 00:00:40].
Jill K DeWit:Documented.
Steven Jack Butala:When we get into the topic here, I'm going to give you a mathematical example of all the things you can do with an asset that really make you money, a real estate asset, and all the things that are setting yourself up to fail. It's basically a roulette situation when you renovate a house.
Jill K DeWit:Understood.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take good question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Understood. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Where does that come from? Do you feel like you're in the military when we do this show?
Jill K DeWit:Sometimes.
Steven Jack Butala:Where do you rank?
Jill K DeWit:Yes, sir.
Steven Jack Butala:Do you rank higher or lower than me?
Jill K DeWit:Oh, I'm way lower. Pretty far down there.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, that's strangely attractive. I don't know why. Something's wrong with me.
Jill K DeWit:Yes. Yes, sir. All right. Luke wrote, "Responding to tire kickers on Facebook is exhausting. I've developed a system that works well for selling houses with owner financing on Facebook. It could be used for land as well. So it goes like this. Ad goes up on the marketplace. Regardless of who responds via Messenger or what questions they ask, I respond with a couple paragraphs about the price, address and what the house needs, if work is needed, and then instruct them to drive to the house and call the number on the sign in the yard. When they call me at that number, I know they follow the instructions and are sitting in front of the house. Then I get them inside. Most won't even do this step and they aren't serious buyers anyway. So it doesn't matter if I piss them off." That's good.
Steven Jack Butala:This is brilliant.
Jill K DeWit:I saw this.
Steven Jack Butala:Here's why. There's an old rule in sales. Not that I should really be talking about sales at all, because that's just Jill's thing. But if you want to vet people, ask them to do something. It's a legal thing too. It's customer service more than anything.
Jill K DeWit:We do it for hiring. Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:With customer service, if someone just calls livid about whatever you're selling or why they're your customer and why they're upset, your response can be, "I really understand that you're upset. Please do this, this and this, and we will rectify the problem for you." And virtually nobody does any of that stuff.
Jill K DeWit:I do.
Steven Jack Butala:As a customer?
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Oh, I'll do both.
Steven Jack Butala:Well, that's because if you get mad, there's a real reason.
Jill K DeWit:That's true.
Steven Jack Butala:So I think this is brilliant. Go to the house, sit in front of there, call me on the number and I'll get you inside, and we'll talk about ... So probably that avoids probably 90% of the garbage. So I think this is brilliant, obviously because I put it on the show.
Jill K DeWit:That's awesome.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, renovation nightmares.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/12/renovation-nightmares-ha-1675/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QvDBgclEC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 23:08:06 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ed6efaa8-5496-4448-bcd0-044baf5b5118.mp3" length="27631182" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Everyone I know is Killing it in the Land Business (LA 1674)</title><itunes:title>Everyone I know is Killing it in the Land Business (LA 1674)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Everyone I know is Killing it in the Land Business (LA 1674)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how everyone I know is killing it in the land business. This topic came from-

Jill K DeWit:
A quote.

Steven Jack Butala:
A talk that Jill attended I think-

Jill K DeWit:
I was on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Clubhouse.

Jill K DeWit:
I jumped. I now and then just have some free time and I'm trolling Clubhouse. If I find a real estate-based or women in business community that sounds interesting, I'll just jump in the room. This was a real estate one and they were talking about getting financing, financing for deals. I'm like, "All right, let's hear how you guys go about it," and it was comical. That's a whole other show.

Jill K DeWit:
Anyway, I do not agree with the first hit up all your friends and family. That's not what we do. Anyway, this was a quote. I jumped in and I gave some advice on how we do it. Three people jumped in after me and said, "Hi, Jill. We're so happy to talk to you." They said, "Oh my gosh, everyone that we know that does land is killing it right now." Then, I'm going to go on in the media show here and tell you how the rest of the conversation went.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members. I can't wait by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this kind of stuff. It's so funny to see people in social media spouting off all this stuff that they know nothing about-

Jill K DeWit:
It was good though.

Steven Jack Butala:
By one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Thank you at." Do you want me to say that?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, just thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
"Thank you other investor for working with me on my first funded deal." That's awesome. "You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen. This is a great way to start the year. This was a double lot like an infill lot with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and knew what his criteria was."

Jill K DeWit:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but a checked back with them every five weeks to see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. That was all it was. So when you provided me one and told me about the availability on some site," who knows what that is?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill, you're really interested in the site. Let me start it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to share and not share.

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven says, "Thank you, funder, for working with me on my first funded deal. You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen for me. This is a great way to start my year. This was a double lot infill with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and I knew what his criteria was and that he was capable of closing."

Steven Jack Butala:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but checked back with them every five weeks," which is something Joe would do, "To see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. So thank you, funder, again for providing me one and it made them obviously feel comfortable to the point where they closed. I followed up with them."

Steven Jack Butala:
"I had to followup with them repeatedly every step of the way, signing the purchase agreement,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Everyone I know is Killing it in the Land Business (LA 1674)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how everyone I know is killing it in the land business. This topic came from-

Jill K DeWit:
A quote.

Steven Jack Butala:
A talk that Jill attended I think-

Jill K DeWit:
I was on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Clubhouse.

Jill K DeWit:
I jumped. I now and then just have some free time and I'm trolling Clubhouse. If I find a real estate-based or women in business community that sounds interesting, I'll just jump in the room. This was a real estate one and they were talking about getting financing, financing for deals. I'm like, "All right, let's hear how you guys go about it," and it was comical. That's a whole other show.

Jill K DeWit:
Anyway, I do not agree with the first hit up all your friends and family. That's not what we do. Anyway, this was a quote. I jumped in and I gave some advice on how we do it. Three people jumped in after me and said, "Hi, Jill. We're so happy to talk to you." They said, "Oh my gosh, everyone that we know that does land is killing it right now." Then, I'm going to go on in the media show here and tell you how the rest of the conversation went.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members. I can't wait by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love this kind of stuff. It's so funny to see people in social media spouting off all this stuff that they know nothing about-

Jill K DeWit:
It was good though.

Steven Jack Butala:
By one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Thank you at." Do you want me to say that?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, just thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Thank you investor.

Jill K DeWit:
"Thank you other investor for working with me on my first funded deal." That's awesome. "You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen. This is a great way to start the year. This was a double lot like an infill lot with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and knew what his criteria was."

Jill K DeWit:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but a checked back with them every five weeks to see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. That was all it was. So when you provided me one and told me about the availability on some site," who knows what that is?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill, you're really interested in the site. Let me start it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to share and not share.

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven says, "Thank you, funder, for working with me on my first funded deal. You were very cool and collected and helpful. You really did make this happen for me. This is a great way to start my year. This was a double lot infill with a double close. I had assigned a property to this buyer in the past and I knew what his criteria was and that he was capable of closing."

Steven Jack Butala:
"The deal came from my first mailer and I had written off the seller as a tire kicker, but checked back with them every five weeks," which is something Joe would do, "To see if they were interested. They wanted a more formal looking purchase agreement. So thank you, funder, again for providing me one and it made them obviously feel comfortable to the point where they closed. I followed up with them."

Steven Jack Butala:
"I had to followup with them repeatedly every step of the way, signing the purchase agreement,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/11/everyone-i-know-is-killing-it-in-the-land-business-la-1674/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">XZ8NW4w17</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:05:54 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6898905f-692f-4ac4-b651-74efe2119379.mp3" length="13994808" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Truth about Taking on New Employees (LA 1673)</title><itunes:title>Truth about Taking on New Employees (LA 1673)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Truth about Taking on New Employees (LA 1673)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the truth about taking on new employees.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a requested topic by one of our really active members. And it's very timely because we just took on a new employee and it's actually going really well. That's not always how it goes.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Luke wrote, "Do you pull out any recently bought properties from your list?" So in the mailer I'm about to send, I noticed some I've just sold in the past three years and the buyer paid at least three times what we're offering. And this is good because you have a couple comments that you added in here. So one of them is... Is it just one comment or more than one?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, just one.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So another person chimed in and said, "Oh, here's what I think." So Aaron comments, "Results will vary. But a few months ago I bought five acres from a guy who bought only two years ago with his now ex-wife. They just wanted out and to split the proceeds and go separate ways. They got back almost what they paid for it. And that was a buy for 12,000 and sell for $39,000 for me. I wouldn't scrub too hard." I believe that too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't scrub too hard. Here's the math on scrubbing too hard. You're going to sit down and do a mailer, or you're going to have Concierge Data do it. You're going to spend the money and the time and the energy, you're going to do the red, green, yellow test and all of that. And then at the very end or very close to the end, right before you price it, are you going to go in and take out 25% of the mailer, which is just a tiny little cost when you look at the actual cost and the time. It's hundreds of dollars on a multi thousand unit mailer. Hundreds of dollars that you're trying to save for what? That could be the diamond in the whole mailer, just like just what happened here. So I've been saying this for years, years and years, don't scrub the data too hard. Just send it.

Jill K DeWit:
I agree. And you never know what happens. Like we talk about this often. It could have been a transfer. Maybe dad just passed on and the attorney put it in the kid's name. And three months later, your kid gets your letter. And you wouldn't have known what the situation when the kid is so ecstatic, that you reached out to buy it, because he was trying to figure out what to do with it. You can't assume.

Steven Jack Butala:
So please... Jill and I have been saying this for years, what you're buying is a situation. In this case, Aaron bought unfortunately a divorce liquidation situation and he bought for 12 and sold for 40. And so you can't tie that, in the data, you can't know what that is. You have to just blanket it out and see.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's so funny. It's like the whole back tax thing. If you're not sure about it, try it and watch. We've been doing this now for, golly, decades combined. You decades, me a decade, in this business and by taking stuff out, you never know what you're missing. That's the main thing. And like you said, just let it rip and see what happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
This whole business of decades thing makes me think.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh oh. Are you feeling old? I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, not at all. It's not that. I never feel old. That's not it. It depends on where you are in your life.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Truth about Taking on New Employees (LA 1673)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the truth about taking on new employees.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a requested topic by one of our really active members. And it's very timely because we just took on a new employee and it's actually going really well. That's not always how it goes.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Luke wrote, "Do you pull out any recently bought properties from your list?" So in the mailer I'm about to send, I noticed some I've just sold in the past three years and the buyer paid at least three times what we're offering. And this is good because you have a couple comments that you added in here. So one of them is... Is it just one comment or more than one?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, just one.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So another person chimed in and said, "Oh, here's what I think." So Aaron comments, "Results will vary. But a few months ago I bought five acres from a guy who bought only two years ago with his now ex-wife. They just wanted out and to split the proceeds and go separate ways. They got back almost what they paid for it. And that was a buy for 12,000 and sell for $39,000 for me. I wouldn't scrub too hard." I believe that too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't scrub too hard. Here's the math on scrubbing too hard. You're going to sit down and do a mailer, or you're going to have Concierge Data do it. You're going to spend the money and the time and the energy, you're going to do the red, green, yellow test and all of that. And then at the very end or very close to the end, right before you price it, are you going to go in and take out 25% of the mailer, which is just a tiny little cost when you look at the actual cost and the time. It's hundreds of dollars on a multi thousand unit mailer. Hundreds of dollars that you're trying to save for what? That could be the diamond in the whole mailer, just like just what happened here. So I've been saying this for years, years and years, don't scrub the data too hard. Just send it.

Jill K DeWit:
I agree. And you never know what happens. Like we talk about this often. It could have been a transfer. Maybe dad just passed on and the attorney put it in the kid's name. And three months later, your kid gets your letter. And you wouldn't have known what the situation when the kid is so ecstatic, that you reached out to buy it, because he was trying to figure out what to do with it. You can't assume.

Steven Jack Butala:
So please... Jill and I have been saying this for years, what you're buying is a situation. In this case, Aaron bought unfortunately a divorce liquidation situation and he bought for 12 and sold for 40. And so you can't tie that, in the data, you can't know what that is. You have to just blanket it out and see.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's so funny. It's like the whole back tax thing. If you're not sure about it, try it and watch. We've been doing this now for, golly, decades combined. You decades, me a decade, in this business and by taking stuff out, you never know what you're missing. That's the main thing. And like you said, just let it rip and see what happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
This whole business of decades thing makes me think.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh oh. Are you feeling old? I'm sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, not at all. It's not that. I never feel old. That's not it. It depends on where you are in your life.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/10/truth-about-taking-on-new-employees-la-1673/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7n_pRXaD_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:24:21 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e1f56699-7d22-420f-80e3-e0ec23530564.mp3" length="17892686" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Waking Up Tomorrow a Land Investor (LA 1672)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Waking Up Tomorrow a Land Investor (LA 1672)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Waking Up Tomorrow a Land Investor (LA 1672)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about waking up tomorrow, a land investor.

Jill K DeWit:
So this topic came up, we were talking about how many people... Well, first of all, it's very interesting when you think about all the people that we have in Land Academy and the professions that they come from.

Jill K DeWit:
And some are really established careers; pilots, engineers, finance positions. What were you going to add? But for some reason either they wanted to do this to supplement their income or pay for something else, or they just wanted to do something different.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've been doing this for how many years? People join Land Academy. It's not that hard to figure out. People join Land Academy primarily because they want to make a change.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
And maybe they're looking at different types of ways to make money on the side, or different types of ways to make money from your desk, that are pretty low risk. But I'll tell you that we have a really good group of people. If you ask these pilots, corporate politics suck. And so I swear corporate politics is our greatest recruiting tool there ever was.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care how smart you are, how great you are or what your job is, ask anyone; the number one thing they hate about it is their boss or the politics in the office, or the craft that they have, the paperwork they have to fill out. So it's really interesting if you have little kids, or even kids that are teenagers, when they're thinking about going to college and doing something as a career.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just heartbreaking to have to break it to them that it's really probably 30 or 40% of what you're actually going to do. And the other 50% or so is dealing with people's crap at work.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
On that positive note. All right. This is Jill Friday two, I'm wrecking the show already.

Jill K DeWit:
Talk about motivating. God, wait. Everybody right now is in their car going, "Ah, that just hurts." Just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.commonlinecommunity. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Johannes wrote, "Hi there, I'm looking for a partner, primarily a Jill, i.e, someone who calls back leads, et cetera, but also someone to strategize with. My philosophy; focusing on raw vacant land, but on the higher end, working together with a deal funding partner and on the sell side with agents.

Jill K DeWit:
I could invest a couple thousand per month in mailing. Looking forward to hearing from people who might be interested. If you're interested, please contact me at [blah 00:02:56], this is my email address. No day was this in Discord or...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, land investors. I wasn't sure where you polled. Sometimes we poll things and there's a lot of communication in landinvestors.com and then there's within, which is the plan A. And then within our Land Academy community, both places, there and Discord. So this is great. I'm sure they got some feedback.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, yeah, tons.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure they got [inaudible 00:03:19] that said, 'Yeah, I don't really..." Because there's people that come to us saying... scraping together the mailer parts a little bit right now. And they like to do the talking part and they strategize. So I'm sure [inaudible 00:03:30]-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's like,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Waking Up Tomorrow a Land Investor (LA 1672)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about waking up tomorrow, a land investor.

Jill K DeWit:
So this topic came up, we were talking about how many people... Well, first of all, it's very interesting when you think about all the people that we have in Land Academy and the professions that they come from.

Jill K DeWit:
And some are really established careers; pilots, engineers, finance positions. What were you going to add? But for some reason either they wanted to do this to supplement their income or pay for something else, or they just wanted to do something different.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've been doing this for how many years? People join Land Academy. It's not that hard to figure out. People join Land Academy primarily because they want to make a change.

Jill K DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
And maybe they're looking at different types of ways to make money on the side, or different types of ways to make money from your desk, that are pretty low risk. But I'll tell you that we have a really good group of people. If you ask these pilots, corporate politics suck. And so I swear corporate politics is our greatest recruiting tool there ever was.

Jill K DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't care how smart you are, how great you are or what your job is, ask anyone; the number one thing they hate about it is their boss or the politics in the office, or the craft that they have, the paperwork they have to fill out. So it's really interesting if you have little kids, or even kids that are teenagers, when they're thinking about going to college and doing something as a career.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just heartbreaking to have to break it to them that it's really probably 30 or 40% of what you're actually going to do. And the other 50% or so is dealing with people's crap at work.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
On that positive note. All right. This is Jill Friday two, I'm wrecking the show already.

Jill K DeWit:
Talk about motivating. God, wait. Everybody right now is in their car going, "Ah, that just hurts." Just kidding.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.commonlinecommunity. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Johannes wrote, "Hi there, I'm looking for a partner, primarily a Jill, i.e, someone who calls back leads, et cetera, but also someone to strategize with. My philosophy; focusing on raw vacant land, but on the higher end, working together with a deal funding partner and on the sell side with agents.

Jill K DeWit:
I could invest a couple thousand per month in mailing. Looking forward to hearing from people who might be interested. If you're interested, please contact me at [blah 00:02:56], this is my email address. No day was this in Discord or...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, land investors. I wasn't sure where you polled. Sometimes we poll things and there's a lot of communication in landinvestors.com and then there's within, which is the plan A. And then within our Land Academy community, both places, there and Discord. So this is great. I'm sure they got some feedback.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, yeah, tons.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure they got [inaudible 00:03:19] that said, 'Yeah, I don't really..." Because there's people that come to us saying... scraping together the mailer parts a little bit right now. And they like to do the talking part and they strategize. So I'm sure [inaudible 00:03:30]-

Steven Jack Butala:
It's like,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/07/jill-friday-waking-up-tomorrow-a-land-investor-la-1672/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">n-DXVSDO5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:52:59 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0afc2d5c-5af7-4a62-8642-0cb71ea453a9.mp3" length="19008776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 2022 Land Budgeting and Goals Made Simple (LA 1671)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 2022 Land Budgeting and Goals Made Simple (LA 1671)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 2022 Land Budgeting and Goals Made Simple (LA 1671)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about 2022 land budgeting and goals made simple.

Jill K DeWit:
Did you see my nail polish? Because I put it right around here. I figure this is the perfect opportunity to touch up my nails, and I don't know where I left it. Sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
It really is simple, and it's not as boring as you think.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good. Oh, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
But it's necessary.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What were you just saying on... We were recording another show, and you said, "People just do this stuff, they put flooring in the garage."

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, because it's on sale.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no real plan.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. No, I'm like, "This is the paint. We should buy extra of this, or extra of that." Hold on, everyone.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Just buy what you're going to use.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Before I forget, I have to say this little... I didn't want to interrupt you, because you launched into that, which is beautiful. But I wanted to say this one little thing, because you'll love this, why don't you let the stores be your storage area? That's it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I think if you do all the math, and I'm sure there's been studies. If you only buy what you're going to use, even if it's more expensive, you end up saving a ton of money.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Love it. Okay. So Jessica wrote, "Happy New Year, everyone. I'm currently thinking about my goals for 2022. I would love to hear what kinds of goals you set, like your deal count, profit for deal, et cetera. And then what specific goals you hope to hit?" That's-

Steven Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill K DeWit:
... awesome. What did everybody say?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well-

Jill K DeWit:
Was it all over the place?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure. No, it wasn't all over the place.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
There was some really good... [inaudible 00:01:55] got involved. There's some really good, really direct answers to this. And I'm going to try to be real direct today too about it.

Jill K DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I think people get flustered about this, and I don't think that's necessary at all. It really just takes finding some quiet time, a pad of paper and a pen, and giving yourself about a half hour to an hour, and you're going to find out how your 2022 is going to go. I really believe it's that simple. So I'll tell you how I do it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, 2022 land budgeting and goals made simple. This is why you're listening. For me, it starts with a plan. So a lot of you have decided to join Land Academy because you want to buy and sell land. That's the beginning of your plan. I don't budget anything unless I have a basic plan first.

Steven Jack Butala:
And for me, and this is like a truth time deal, I'll take a blank spreadsheet, a blank Excel sheet, and I'll start taking notes. "I want to buy and sell land because I know it's profitable. I'm going to find a group, get some education, get a bunch of free education. And then if I think it's a good idea, maybe try to buy and sell some property myself. Realize that it works." So this is my me jotting down my thoughts, kind of stream of consciousness thoughts in a spreadsheet to see if it works or if it's something viabl...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 2022 Land Budgeting and Goals Made Simple (LA 1671)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about 2022 land budgeting and goals made simple.

Jill K DeWit:
Did you see my nail polish? Because I put it right around here. I figure this is the perfect opportunity to touch up my nails, and I don't know where I left it. Sorry.

Steven Jack Butala:
It really is simple, and it's not as boring as you think.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, good. Oh, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
But it's necessary.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
What were you just saying on... We were recording another show, and you said, "People just do this stuff, they put flooring in the garage."

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, because it's on sale.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no real plan.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. No, I'm like, "This is the paint. We should buy extra of this, or extra of that." Hold on, everyone.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Just buy what you're going to use.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Before I forget, I have to say this little... I didn't want to interrupt you, because you launched into that, which is beautiful. But I wanted to say this one little thing, because you'll love this, why don't you let the stores be your storage area? That's it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I think if you do all the math, and I'm sure there's been studies. If you only buy what you're going to use, even if it's more expensive, you end up saving a ton of money.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Love it. Okay. So Jessica wrote, "Happy New Year, everyone. I'm currently thinking about my goals for 2022. I would love to hear what kinds of goals you set, like your deal count, profit for deal, et cetera. And then what specific goals you hope to hit?" That's-

Steven Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill K DeWit:
... awesome. What did everybody say?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well-

Jill K DeWit:
Was it all over the place?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure. No, it wasn't all over the place.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
There was some really good... [inaudible 00:01:55] got involved. There's some really good, really direct answers to this. And I'm going to try to be real direct today too about it.

Jill K DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I think people get flustered about this, and I don't think that's necessary at all. It really just takes finding some quiet time, a pad of paper and a pen, and giving yourself about a half hour to an hour, and you're going to find out how your 2022 is going to go. I really believe it's that simple. So I'll tell you how I do it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, 2022 land budgeting and goals made simple. This is why you're listening. For me, it starts with a plan. So a lot of you have decided to join Land Academy because you want to buy and sell land. That's the beginning of your plan. I don't budget anything unless I have a basic plan first.

Steven Jack Butala:
And for me, and this is like a truth time deal, I'll take a blank spreadsheet, a blank Excel sheet, and I'll start taking notes. "I want to buy and sell land because I know it's profitable. I'm going to find a group, get some education, get a bunch of free education. And then if I think it's a good idea, maybe try to buy and sell some property myself. Realize that it works." So this is my me jotting down my thoughts, kind of stream of consciousness thoughts in a spreadsheet to see if it works or if it's something viabl...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/06/jack-thursday-2022-land-budgeting-and-goals-made-simple-la-1671/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0szMO2KtQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 23:05:47 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c87ced5d-00dc-47f7-bfce-e6868750cdaf.mp3" length="15299612" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>5 Things That are a Waste of Time Flipping Houses (HA 1670)</title><itunes:title>5 Things That are a Waste of Time Flipping Houses (HA 1670)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





5 Things That are a Waste of Time Flipping Houses (HA 1670)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the land... I'm sorry. Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from The Valley Of The Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about five things that are a waste of time when flipping houses.
Jill K DeWit:I'm excited.
Steven Jack Butala:Me too.
Jill K DeWit:So we each wrote down our top five, and then I want to do... You want to do yours that way too? I'm doing the order like the Dave Letterman top five lists and countdown.
Steven Jack Butala:Sure.
Jill K DeWit:Okay, good. This is going to be fun.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:I wonder where we are on our YouTube channel, by the way. I kind of stopped looking in the last week.
Steven Jack Butala:We hit goal.
Jill K DeWit:Oh, yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:We hit 10,000 subscribers.
Jill K DeWit:That's awesome. Yay. Luke wrote, "One of the counties I'm researching has a large recreational lake and has a lot of gated communities." I'm assuming is in an HOA. "Should I avoid this county or continue the research?" Let me go back. Large recreational lake. Lot of gated communities. I would avoid the county but I would search outside of that area.
Steven Jack Butala:This is a popular topic. A lot of people had a lot of things to say. Most of the comments in Discord are the same as mine. Yes, you should avoid it.
Jill K DeWit:Hey, if it's 90%, maybe that's it. Doing your research, if it is a lot of HOAs, because that will be hard to uncover and dig out. You're not wrong. When you pull the data, it's not always accurate about HOA or not HOA. So it would be easier just to put one county over.
Steven Jack Butala:I included this on the House Academy Show for a reason because it's the same with houses. HOAs [crosstalk 00:01:49].
Jill K DeWit:[inaudible 00:01:49] deals.
Steven Jack Butala:It's harder to see a variant. Number one, it's harder to see a variance in HOA community from pricing standpoint. It's real easy to see and get away with a real good price variance on the buy side versus the sell side, in a non-HOA, non master plan community. You can see one house that was built next to another house built at the same time, completely different style, different square footage. So you can justify buying one for 200 and selling the next one for 400.
Jill K DeWit:I understand.
Steven Jack Butala:So in a master plan, HOA community, the same for land, it's all pretty much cookie cutter. Everything's priced the same.
Jill K DeWit:I understand.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic. Five things that we think are a waste of time when flipping houses. This is the meat of the show.
Jill K DeWit:All right. I don't care who goes first.
Steven Jack Butala:I would love for you to go first.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. Here's my personal top five list of waste of time things, when you're flipping houses. Number five, spending days slash weeks on a home equity line of credit or credit cards calls trying to borrow money.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:People do that.
Steven Jack Butala:Boy that didn't make my list, but that's true.
Jill K DeWit:That's a waste of time. Don't start the process by "I need to put some money together. Let's see if we can take out of line of credit." Hold on a moment, everybody. That's not what you should be spending your time on. And I'm glad you like that. Number four, pre-purchasing windows, doors, or carpet or paint since they're on sale in January.
Steven Jack Butala:What? This is a Jill joke show.
Jill K DeWit:This is kind of funny,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





5 Things That are a Waste of Time Flipping Houses (HA 1670)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the land... I'm sorry. Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from The Valley Of The Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about five things that are a waste of time when flipping houses.
Jill K DeWit:I'm excited.
Steven Jack Butala:Me too.
Jill K DeWit:So we each wrote down our top five, and then I want to do... You want to do yours that way too? I'm doing the order like the Dave Letterman top five lists and countdown.
Steven Jack Butala:Sure.
Jill K DeWit:Okay, good. This is going to be fun.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:I wonder where we are on our YouTube channel, by the way. I kind of stopped looking in the last week.
Steven Jack Butala:We hit goal.
Jill K DeWit:Oh, yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:We hit 10,000 subscribers.
Jill K DeWit:That's awesome. Yay. Luke wrote, "One of the counties I'm researching has a large recreational lake and has a lot of gated communities." I'm assuming is in an HOA. "Should I avoid this county or continue the research?" Let me go back. Large recreational lake. Lot of gated communities. I would avoid the county but I would search outside of that area.
Steven Jack Butala:This is a popular topic. A lot of people had a lot of things to say. Most of the comments in Discord are the same as mine. Yes, you should avoid it.
Jill K DeWit:Hey, if it's 90%, maybe that's it. Doing your research, if it is a lot of HOAs, because that will be hard to uncover and dig out. You're not wrong. When you pull the data, it's not always accurate about HOA or not HOA. So it would be easier just to put one county over.
Steven Jack Butala:I included this on the House Academy Show for a reason because it's the same with houses. HOAs [crosstalk 00:01:49].
Jill K DeWit:[inaudible 00:01:49] deals.
Steven Jack Butala:It's harder to see a variant. Number one, it's harder to see a variance in HOA community from pricing standpoint. It's real easy to see and get away with a real good price variance on the buy side versus the sell side, in a non-HOA, non master plan community. You can see one house that was built next to another house built at the same time, completely different style, different square footage. So you can justify buying one for 200 and selling the next one for 400.
Jill K DeWit:I understand.
Steven Jack Butala:So in a master plan, HOA community, the same for land, it's all pretty much cookie cutter. Everything's priced the same.
Jill K DeWit:I understand.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic. Five things that we think are a waste of time when flipping houses. This is the meat of the show.
Jill K DeWit:All right. I don't care who goes first.
Steven Jack Butala:I would love for you to go first.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. Here's my personal top five list of waste of time things, when you're flipping houses. Number five, spending days slash weeks on a home equity line of credit or credit cards calls trying to borrow money.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:People do that.
Steven Jack Butala:Boy that didn't make my list, but that's true.
Jill K DeWit:That's a waste of time. Don't start the process by "I need to put some money together. Let's see if we can take out of line of credit." Hold on a moment, everybody. That's not what you should be spending your time on. And I'm glad you like that. Number four, pre-purchasing windows, doors, or carpet or paint since they're on sale in January.
Steven Jack Butala:What? This is a Jill joke show.
Jill K DeWit:This is kind of funny,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/05/5-things-that-are-a-waste-of-time-flipping-houses-ha-1670/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2wBHIv_Dz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:58:52 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/df995765-897f-41ae-b3ef-e9fef540a6e7.mp3" length="21850445" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Work Smarter in Your Land Business (LA 1669)</title><itunes:title>How to Work Smarter in Your Land Business (LA 1669)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Work Smarter in Your Land Business (LA 1669)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to work smarter in your land business.

Jill K DeWit:
You would think we'd be doing this every day.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have... Yeah, this is a whole string in Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I'll tell you one way we don't work smarter is like right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you mean?

Jill K DeWit:
Like, it's Tuesday and we're recording for Tuesday. We kind of never do that. Talk about cutting it close. That's not very smart.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I were just talking about it. We are still reeling from the holidays and reeling from 2021.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm. It was a good year.

Steven Jack Butala:
We moved states. We had a great year, great year financially and socially. We moved. I don't have to file a California tax return this year.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
So it's all positive. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Zola wrote, "Seeking advice. I have an agreed price to buy a piece of land in Virginia. And I already have a buyer, which is a neighbor. I want to transfer the property directly to the neighbor and not take possession to avoid closing fees. I'm thinking of using a transferable contract. Any advice? Or better yet, a purchase agreement template."

Steven Jack Butala:
What would you do?

Jill K DeWit:
I hate this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So do I.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't like this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm right there with you, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
This just gives me such a bad feeling.

Steven Jack Butala:
I totally agree.

Jill K DeWit:
It's like a wholesaler's... That's what it's... Not to pick on you, Zola. It's just, I'm not comfortable with it. I always feel like if I believe in the deal, I'm not going to take an assignment or a fee, but that's kind of what you're doing. I would buy it. So I wouldn't even, as far as the purchase agreement template, you could just... There's so many out there you just copy or just add on there or assignees kind of thing, as far as who's going to take ownership. And if you're going to go through title, I mean, you can go through title. Everybody's going to see what it's purchased for. And everybody's going to see your chunk of money in the middle of what you're taking out of it. And then everybody's going to see what the new guy's buying. And it might not leave them with a good feeling.

Steven Jack Butala:
One of our jobs here at Land Academy is to undo bad advice that we've all received in real estate and in real estate investment. This is bad. This is not a good idea. There's a... The concept of assigning contracts and wholesaling has become abused and has now a stigma, a negative stigma. So here's what you do. It's going to cost you maybe $1,500 to $2,000 to close this deal and buy it. And that's it. Buy the property and then resell it immediately. Have a hold-open binder with the escrow agent and resell it for whatever the numbers are to the new buyer, the neighbor. If you don't have the money, this is what [crosstalk 00:03:02].

Jill K DeWit:
... deal funding.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is what Land Academy is for. Just posted. Thank you, Zola, for putting this in Discord. That's the best thing. I'm glad you did this. Somebody will step up and help you-

Jill K DeWit:
They'll fund it.

Steven Jack Butala:
... fund the deal. Take a small percentage, in this case, because you already have it sold. Maybe 10 or 10% ish.

Jill K DeWit:
That's easy.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Work Smarter in Your Land Business (LA 1669)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to work smarter in your land business.

Jill K DeWit:
You would think we'd be doing this every day.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have... Yeah, this is a whole string in Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I'll tell you one way we don't work smarter is like right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you mean?

Jill K DeWit:
Like, it's Tuesday and we're recording for Tuesday. We kind of never do that. Talk about cutting it close. That's not very smart.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I were just talking about it. We are still reeling from the holidays and reeling from 2021.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm. It was a good year.

Steven Jack Butala:
We moved states. We had a great year, great year financially and socially. We moved. I don't have to file a California tax return this year.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
So it's all positive. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Zola wrote, "Seeking advice. I have an agreed price to buy a piece of land in Virginia. And I already have a buyer, which is a neighbor. I want to transfer the property directly to the neighbor and not take possession to avoid closing fees. I'm thinking of using a transferable contract. Any advice? Or better yet, a purchase agreement template."

Steven Jack Butala:
What would you do?

Jill K DeWit:
I hate this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So do I.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't like this.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'm right there with you, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
This just gives me such a bad feeling.

Steven Jack Butala:
I totally agree.

Jill K DeWit:
It's like a wholesaler's... That's what it's... Not to pick on you, Zola. It's just, I'm not comfortable with it. I always feel like if I believe in the deal, I'm not going to take an assignment or a fee, but that's kind of what you're doing. I would buy it. So I wouldn't even, as far as the purchase agreement template, you could just... There's so many out there you just copy or just add on there or assignees kind of thing, as far as who's going to take ownership. And if you're going to go through title, I mean, you can go through title. Everybody's going to see what it's purchased for. And everybody's going to see your chunk of money in the middle of what you're taking out of it. And then everybody's going to see what the new guy's buying. And it might not leave them with a good feeling.

Steven Jack Butala:
One of our jobs here at Land Academy is to undo bad advice that we've all received in real estate and in real estate investment. This is bad. This is not a good idea. There's a... The concept of assigning contracts and wholesaling has become abused and has now a stigma, a negative stigma. So here's what you do. It's going to cost you maybe $1,500 to $2,000 to close this deal and buy it. And that's it. Buy the property and then resell it immediately. Have a hold-open binder with the escrow agent and resell it for whatever the numbers are to the new buyer, the neighbor. If you don't have the money, this is what [crosstalk 00:03:02].

Jill K DeWit:
... deal funding.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is what Land Academy is for. Just posted. Thank you, Zola, for putting this in Discord. That's the best thing. I'm glad you did this. Somebody will step up and help you-

Jill K DeWit:
They'll fund it.

Steven Jack Butala:
... fund the deal. Take a small percentage, in this case, because you already have it sold. Maybe 10 or 10% ish.

Jill K DeWit:
That's easy.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/04/how-to-work-smarter-in-your-land-business-la-1669/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JdOIGODnO</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:25:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/67e17ae4-2d70-4720-8e2b-3d21163fad37.mp3" length="15967965" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Blast From The Past: What&amp;#8217;s Possible Land Side Hustle Math (LA 1668)</title><itunes:title>Blast From The Past: What&amp;#8217;s Possible Land Side Hustle Math (LA 1668)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Blast From The Past: What's Possible Land Side Hustle Math (LA 1668)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
And welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala ...

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about what's possible in your land side hustle, specifically the math.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
Like these shows.

Jill DeWit:
You didn't tell him it was going to be math class today. I did not prepare for that.

Steven Butala:
There's going to be some math in this. Not going to be math, it's just going to be ... You don't have to do any math, you just have to listen to the-

Jill DeWit:
All right. Good thing I have a notepad and a pen.

Steven Butala:
Listen to the good and the bed and the ugly about what's possible and what's not possible. I'll tell you, here's a hint though, it all starts with getting a mailer out.

Jill DeWit:
You want to know something realistically? I loved math in school.

Steven Butala:
I know you did.

Jill DeWit:
Did you like math?

Steven Butala:
Did I like math?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Did you know that about me?

Steven Butala:
Yes, I did.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. How did you know that?

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you Jill, you're a pilot and you have that natural ... I don't think we ever sat down and said, "Hey, how'd you feel about math in high school?" How boring would that be if we did that?

Jill DeWit:
I did like math. My favorite teachers were my math teachers. Math and physics, I loved those. What was your favorite subject?

Steven Butala:
Math, physics. I liked home economics a lot, because-

Jill DeWit:
Is that where the girls were?

Steven Butala:
Yes

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
You know what? I liked all. There's not a class that I didn't like.

Jill DeWit:
I'm trying to think. You know what was one of my least favorite classes? That I did it, and I went through the whole thing and I was even president of the club at the end, it's a French club.

Steven Butala:
Oh, you know what? I don't like languages either.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. That was hard.

Steven Butala:
I can get through Spanish, because it was a requirement. I like it now. I like speaking it or trying to speak it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, you're good at it.

Steven Butala:
I think I'm great at it after two beers, but ...

Jill DeWit:
You are.

Steven Butala:
But I think I'm great at a lot of things after two beers.

Jill DeWit:
Don't ask me to speak French.

Steven Butala:
No, I don't even ... I can't count to 10 in French.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
Herbert S, "Hello all, I'm seeking information/guidance on what I should do with the first deal that I have here. I bought this lot with a very old dilapidated double-wide fixed mobile home on the property that has been there for more than 30 years. According to Steve and Jill, this is normally a good thing, but I've been having troubles trying to sell it because I purchased it without having title to the mobile home and many of the buyers calling in would like to have that, which is understandable. We purchased this lot in an attorney state and did not have any problem buying it without the title. Has anyone dealt with this kind of situation in the past? What would you say are my options?"

Steven Butala:
Yes, so let's take two steps back. Herbert, you're in a great situation. There are two components to buying a mobile home on a piece of land. The land real estate deal, like we're all very used to, and then the personal property aspect of buying a mobile home, which is in most of the states, maybe all states, the exact same as buying a car. It has a ... You go to the DMV, it's all ... I think Texas might be different. There's one state, in fact, it might be California.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Blast From The Past: What's Possible Land Side Hustle Math (LA 1668)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
And welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala ...

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about what's possible in your land side hustle, specifically the math.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
Like these shows.

Jill DeWit:
You didn't tell him it was going to be math class today. I did not prepare for that.

Steven Butala:
There's going to be some math in this. Not going to be math, it's just going to be ... You don't have to do any math, you just have to listen to the-

Jill DeWit:
All right. Good thing I have a notepad and a pen.

Steven Butala:
Listen to the good and the bed and the ugly about what's possible and what's not possible. I'll tell you, here's a hint though, it all starts with getting a mailer out.

Jill DeWit:
You want to know something realistically? I loved math in school.

Steven Butala:
I know you did.

Jill DeWit:
Did you like math?

Steven Butala:
Did I like math?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Did you know that about me?

Steven Butala:
Yes, I did.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. How did you know that?

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you Jill, you're a pilot and you have that natural ... I don't think we ever sat down and said, "Hey, how'd you feel about math in high school?" How boring would that be if we did that?

Jill DeWit:
I did like math. My favorite teachers were my math teachers. Math and physics, I loved those. What was your favorite subject?

Steven Butala:
Math, physics. I liked home economics a lot, because-

Jill DeWit:
Is that where the girls were?

Steven Butala:
Yes

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
You know what? I liked all. There's not a class that I didn't like.

Jill DeWit:
I'm trying to think. You know what was one of my least favorite classes? That I did it, and I went through the whole thing and I was even president of the club at the end, it's a French club.

Steven Butala:
Oh, you know what? I don't like languages either.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. That was hard.

Steven Butala:
I can get through Spanish, because it was a requirement. I like it now. I like speaking it or trying to speak it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, you're good at it.

Steven Butala:
I think I'm great at it after two beers, but ...

Jill DeWit:
You are.

Steven Butala:
But I think I'm great at a lot of things after two beers.

Jill DeWit:
Don't ask me to speak French.

Steven Butala:
No, I don't even ... I can't count to 10 in French.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
Herbert S, "Hello all, I'm seeking information/guidance on what I should do with the first deal that I have here. I bought this lot with a very old dilapidated double-wide fixed mobile home on the property that has been there for more than 30 years. According to Steve and Jill, this is normally a good thing, but I've been having troubles trying to sell it because I purchased it without having title to the mobile home and many of the buyers calling in would like to have that, which is understandable. We purchased this lot in an attorney state and did not have any problem buying it without the title. Has anyone dealt with this kind of situation in the past? What would you say are my options?"

Steven Butala:
Yes, so let's take two steps back. Herbert, you're in a great situation. There are two components to buying a mobile home on a piece of land. The land real estate deal, like we're all very used to, and then the personal property aspect of buying a mobile home, which is in most of the states, maybe all states, the exact same as buying a car. It has a ... You go to the DMV, it's all ... I think Texas might be different. There's one state, in fact, it might be California.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2022/01/03/blast-from-the-past-whats-possible-land-side-hustle-math-la-1668/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YpS30cX6j</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 23:03:42 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d67c8a37-c9eb-494c-8299-a630b12f1762.mp3" length="5687631" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>05:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; New Years Land Investors Resolutions (LA 1667)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; New Years Land Investors Resolutions (LA 1667)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - New Years Land Investors Resolutions (LA 1667)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun on New Year's Eve. Yay!

Steven Jack Butala:
I can't believe it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yay!

Steven Jack Butala:
We've been doing this show, this is show number 1,600-

Jill K DeWit:
And 67.

Steven Jack Butala:
Amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I, well, it's still Friday. She's going to talk about New Year's land investor's resolutions.

Jill K DeWit:
1667. That sounds like a year. Like, "I wonder what happened in 1667?" You know? It's kind of funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Cool. I have some good notes. I came up with a cute little... Don't read my notes. All good. Get with a cute little saying that I'm going to share too about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "How do you find someone to put a for sale sign on the street for you? In my workflow, the photographer is long gone and he lives a long way from the property, anyway. Suggestions on how to find someone local, especially in a little town that doesn't have a Craigslist nearby."

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny, that would be my first thought. There are some companies out there though, like WeGoLook, does that still exist?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a lot of people who had a lot of things to say about this. Yeah, WeGoLook said-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
One other persons said they have, which I know you use all the time is, the Nextdoor app.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's true, Nextdoor. Oh, that's a good one, you can put in the zip code and see who's there. You need to have them take a picture. You know what it looks like now as you can ask them to take a picture of it and send it back to you with their sign on there.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know, I would even... You could call a church, offer somebody 50 bucks.

Steven Jack Butala:
20, I was going to say.

Jill K DeWit:
Whoever the janitor is at the church or something like that, who you can get on the phone and to say, "Hey, I know this sounds..."

Jill K DeWit:
I might even call Home Depot and say, "Hey, you know one of those signs on a stick, I'll pay you 50 bucks if you go buy it for me and put it and send me a picture."

Steven Jack Butala:
Any of that.

Jill K DeWit:
Be like, "All right-"

Steven Jack Butala:
At the student-

Jill K DeWit:
"That's kind of weird, but okay."

Steven Jack Butala:
And then again, The Drone, the best person to have them is pay a The Drone person who is going to do the drone shots.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
$20 more.

Jill K DeWit:
And then, you know here's a nice thing is, was this Jessica, I think?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
This is the only time that you'll forget this. You only have to do it this one time because from now on you'll remember every time to have the photographer do it ahead of time. So that's the positive thing here.

Steven Jack Butala:
But you got to put one on there at all costs.

Jill K DeWit:
It does help, especially if there's a traffic area.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, it really does make a difference. Don't put a price on there. Never put a price because A, it changes and B, you want them to call you. So just seems to be a for sale investor special and your phone number. That's really all you need, when the little red sign on a stick doesn't need to be a fancy broker billboard.

Steven Jack Butala:
The less fancy it is, the better.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - New Years Land Investors Resolutions (LA 1667)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun on New Year's Eve. Yay!

Steven Jack Butala:
I can't believe it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yay!

Steven Jack Butala:
We've been doing this show, this is show number 1,600-

Jill K DeWit:
And 67.

Steven Jack Butala:
Amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I, well, it's still Friday. She's going to talk about New Year's land investor's resolutions.

Jill K DeWit:
1667. That sounds like a year. Like, "I wonder what happened in 1667?" You know? It's kind of funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Cool. I have some good notes. I came up with a cute little... Don't read my notes. All good. Get with a cute little saying that I'm going to share too about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "How do you find someone to put a for sale sign on the street for you? In my workflow, the photographer is long gone and he lives a long way from the property, anyway. Suggestions on how to find someone local, especially in a little town that doesn't have a Craigslist nearby."

Jill K DeWit:
That's funny, that would be my first thought. There are some companies out there though, like WeGoLook, does that still exist?

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a lot of people who had a lot of things to say about this. Yeah, WeGoLook said-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good.

Steven Jack Butala:
One other persons said they have, which I know you use all the time is, the Nextdoor app.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that's true, Nextdoor. Oh, that's a good one, you can put in the zip code and see who's there. You need to have them take a picture. You know what it looks like now as you can ask them to take a picture of it and send it back to you with their sign on there.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know, I would even... You could call a church, offer somebody 50 bucks.

Steven Jack Butala:
20, I was going to say.

Jill K DeWit:
Whoever the janitor is at the church or something like that, who you can get on the phone and to say, "Hey, I know this sounds..."

Jill K DeWit:
I might even call Home Depot and say, "Hey, you know one of those signs on a stick, I'll pay you 50 bucks if you go buy it for me and put it and send me a picture."

Steven Jack Butala:
Any of that.

Jill K DeWit:
Be like, "All right-"

Steven Jack Butala:
At the student-

Jill K DeWit:
"That's kind of weird, but okay."

Steven Jack Butala:
And then again, The Drone, the best person to have them is pay a The Drone person who is going to do the drone shots.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
$20 more.

Jill K DeWit:
And then, you know here's a nice thing is, was this Jessica, I think?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
This is the only time that you'll forget this. You only have to do it this one time because from now on you'll remember every time to have the photographer do it ahead of time. So that's the positive thing here.

Steven Jack Butala:
But you got to put one on there at all costs.

Jill K DeWit:
It does help, especially if there's a traffic area.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
You know, it really does make a difference. Don't put a price on there. Never put a price because A, it changes and B, you want them to call you. So just seems to be a for sale investor special and your phone number. That's really all you need, when the little red sign on a stick doesn't need to be a fancy broker billboard.

Steven Jack Butala:
The less fancy it is, the better.

Jill K DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/31/jill-friday-new-years-land-investors-resolutions-la-1667/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gbUoZ2vy1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c998a8c9-b92d-4e44-85d7-191eca28256e.mp3" length="15424976" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; We are Zip Code Lucky (LA 1666)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; We are Zip Code Lucky (LA 1666)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - We are Zip Code Lucky (LA 1666)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how we are all, or nearly all of us are very ZIP code lucky. The way that we send out mailers is very ZIP code-based now and there's tons and tons and tons of information that's broken down by the census and all kinds of other organizations that's free out there about what's going on in any given ZIP code. And the way that it's all organized and orchestrated, you can compare it. There's tons of amazing tools online, especially now because 2020 passed, which is every 10 years they do a census so we got real good, fresh data. Well, I'll get into it in a minute here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community that It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you'd like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote, "I am comfortable sending mail with a little higher percentage of listings on LandWatch and Land and Farm, like two to five percent, if the days on market are low and/or I know the area very well. There's one county with 13% listings on LandWatch that I killed it in. It's very rural and I know the area very well. My sales prices are low because I bought super low and now I have a few people that email or call every few weeks to see if I have anything else there. I would not mail a county with a high percent of listings if I didn't that special knowledge of the area or the days of market were not ridiculously low. I also try to diversify a bit, meaning I will stick to the red, yellow, green test on three or four mailers. And then I diverge a slight bit on one of four in a niche area. At least this is what my personal comfort level is for the properties that are 10 to 60 acres of rural land that I target."

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. Perfect. I've got nothing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is crossing over the line into being a professional land investor. When you're starting to do things that make sense to you and you're going off of the exact Land Academy education, the way that we orchestrate all these mailers and all that. And you're going off into your own thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
But I will tell you personally every mailer I do, I do some wacky stuff like this. And I only send in markets that I really know well and I know what's going to happen. So I think this is fantastic and I put this question or statement on Jack Thursday for a reason, because I think it's really-

Jill K DeWit:
Brilliant?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
You're doing it right.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's approaching brilliance, yep. Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how we are all very ZIP code lucky. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to just sit back and chill here.

Steven Jack Butala:
So during the red, green, yellow test, which can be ZIP code-based or county-based or really any geography that you delineate, but I always use ZIP codes. I think most people do. I look at what's going on from a days on market standpoint, how many properties are listed for sale versus the universe of properties there. We've got all these matrix or measurement spectrums that either make it red or yellow or green. What's not in there and what I've been staring at for years and done nothing about until recently is all the other stuff that's going on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which led me to even further thinking, "If you spend a lot of time in a really nasty ZIP code and you can find out which ones are nasty because the census data shows it where the incomes are really low and crime is really high.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - We are Zip Code Lucky (LA 1666)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how we are all, or nearly all of us are very ZIP code lucky. The way that we send out mailers is very ZIP code-based now and there's tons and tons and tons of information that's broken down by the census and all kinds of other organizations that's free out there about what's going on in any given ZIP code. And the way that it's all organized and orchestrated, you can compare it. There's tons of amazing tools online, especially now because 2020 passed, which is every 10 years they do a census so we got real good, fresh data. Well, I'll get into it in a minute here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community that It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you'd like.

Jill K DeWit:
Dan wrote, "I am comfortable sending mail with a little higher percentage of listings on LandWatch and Land and Farm, like two to five percent, if the days on market are low and/or I know the area very well. There's one county with 13% listings on LandWatch that I killed it in. It's very rural and I know the area very well. My sales prices are low because I bought super low and now I have a few people that email or call every few weeks to see if I have anything else there. I would not mail a county with a high percent of listings if I didn't that special knowledge of the area or the days of market were not ridiculously low. I also try to diversify a bit, meaning I will stick to the red, yellow, green test on three or four mailers. And then I diverge a slight bit on one of four in a niche area. At least this is what my personal comfort level is for the properties that are 10 to 60 acres of rural land that I target."

Jill K DeWit:
I love it. Perfect. I've got nothing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is crossing over the line into being a professional land investor. When you're starting to do things that make sense to you and you're going off of the exact Land Academy education, the way that we orchestrate all these mailers and all that. And you're going off into your own thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
But I will tell you personally every mailer I do, I do some wacky stuff like this. And I only send in markets that I really know well and I know what's going to happen. So I think this is fantastic and I put this question or statement on Jack Thursday for a reason, because I think it's really-

Jill K DeWit:
Brilliant?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
You're doing it right.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's approaching brilliance, yep. Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how we are all very ZIP code lucky. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to just sit back and chill here.

Steven Jack Butala:
So during the red, green, yellow test, which can be ZIP code-based or county-based or really any geography that you delineate, but I always use ZIP codes. I think most people do. I look at what's going on from a days on market standpoint, how many properties are listed for sale versus the universe of properties there. We've got all these matrix or measurement spectrums that either make it red or yellow or green. What's not in there and what I've been staring at for years and done nothing about until recently is all the other stuff that's going on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which led me to even further thinking, "If you spend a lot of time in a really nasty ZIP code and you can find out which ones are nasty because the census data shows it where the incomes are really low and crime is really high.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/30/jack-thursday-we-are-zip-code-lucky-la-1666/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lZQlCL8Fc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:08:33 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4c9da92e-8409-4206-905b-78aa3b5cbb79.mp3" length="12785457" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>At Some Point the Sales Price is Just Too High (HA 1665)</title><itunes:title>At Some Point the Sales Price is Just Too High (HA 1665)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





At Some Point the Sales Price is Just Too High (HA 1665)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how, at some point, the sales price of a house is just too high.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Every Wednesday, we shake it up here. We're doing house academy, because we've been looking at numbers, I'm sure you have, too. It's hard not to walk around and just know what's going on in real estate. You go to the grocery store, you see signs, you know there's stuff happening.
Steven Jack Butala:This was prompted because there are some communities in the metropolitan area of Phoenix and really all over the country that are experiencing five to 10% purchase price, sale price growth in a community, a month. So at some point, it cannot just continue to go up because the pool of buyers will evaporate.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Kim wrote, "Hi, I'm in the process of purchasing a piece of land, but the seller's deed from 2002 has two properties on the deed. One is their acreage with their house and the other is a parcel I want to purchase. This is a small $1,500 purchase, and I'm hoping to avoid to pay any title agent work outside of the tools we use. Am I safe to purchase this land only and create a deed for the smaller tract? But then the first deed remains in effect for their house. Will my new deed supersede the 2002 deed that remain in effect for the house?" That's kind of a repeat there.
Jill K DeWit:You know what? The answer is yes. Here's what's so funny. People don't know that you can buy from somebody five pieces of property on one deed. It has to be the same grantor, grantee, you know what I'm trying to say. Let me back up. It's coming out all jumbled. Let me-
Steven Jack Butala:I can answer it.
Jill K DeWit:Well, no, I want to answer it. I want to say. The answer is yes.
Steven Jack Butala:In a very positive way.
Jill K DeWit:You just make a new deed-
Steven Jack Butala:You answered-
Jill K DeWit:... with only the legal description of the one that you're buying on it, and that's all that you need to do. You don't have to recreate a new deed, too, by the way, for the other one. There's no reason that they have to do two new deeds. The other deed is there for the one property that they still own, so that is correct.
Jill K DeWit:When we buy properties, I love it. My favorite scenario is when I buy multiple properties from one person in the same county. I can buy 20, depending on what the county will record at one time. Sometimes they have a limit like 10 or 15 or something. They'll say, all right, we can't have more than this many on one deed.
Steven Jack Butala:Really?
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Sometimes they do have limits.
Steven Jack Butala:I've never heard of that.
Jill K DeWit:Mm-hmm (affirmative). They do. Because it's cheaper and easier, too. So if I have the same seller, everything's all in the same name, I'm buying 10 properties from them, it's one deed, it's one recording fee. And it all happens at the same time. And then when I go to sell them, I just then just sell each one individually just like normal
Steven Jack Butala:In a great way, you answered your own question here, the-
Jill K DeWit:I did.
Steven Jack Butala:Yep.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah, you were right.
Steven Jack Butala:Yep, you were right. Today's topic, at some point the sales price is just too high on some of these houses. This is the meat of the show. This is all interconnected. There's a lot of things that are at play when somebody buys...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





At Some Point the Sales Price is Just Too High (HA 1665)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how, at some point, the sales price of a house is just too high.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Every Wednesday, we shake it up here. We're doing house academy, because we've been looking at numbers, I'm sure you have, too. It's hard not to walk around and just know what's going on in real estate. You go to the grocery store, you see signs, you know there's stuff happening.
Steven Jack Butala:This was prompted because there are some communities in the metropolitan area of Phoenix and really all over the country that are experiencing five to 10% purchase price, sale price growth in a community, a month. So at some point, it cannot just continue to go up because the pool of buyers will evaporate.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Kim wrote, "Hi, I'm in the process of purchasing a piece of land, but the seller's deed from 2002 has two properties on the deed. One is their acreage with their house and the other is a parcel I want to purchase. This is a small $1,500 purchase, and I'm hoping to avoid to pay any title agent work outside of the tools we use. Am I safe to purchase this land only and create a deed for the smaller tract? But then the first deed remains in effect for their house. Will my new deed supersede the 2002 deed that remain in effect for the house?" That's kind of a repeat there.
Jill K DeWit:You know what? The answer is yes. Here's what's so funny. People don't know that you can buy from somebody five pieces of property on one deed. It has to be the same grantor, grantee, you know what I'm trying to say. Let me back up. It's coming out all jumbled. Let me-
Steven Jack Butala:I can answer it.
Jill K DeWit:Well, no, I want to answer it. I want to say. The answer is yes.
Steven Jack Butala:In a very positive way.
Jill K DeWit:You just make a new deed-
Steven Jack Butala:You answered-
Jill K DeWit:... with only the legal description of the one that you're buying on it, and that's all that you need to do. You don't have to recreate a new deed, too, by the way, for the other one. There's no reason that they have to do two new deeds. The other deed is there for the one property that they still own, so that is correct.
Jill K DeWit:When we buy properties, I love it. My favorite scenario is when I buy multiple properties from one person in the same county. I can buy 20, depending on what the county will record at one time. Sometimes they have a limit like 10 or 15 or something. They'll say, all right, we can't have more than this many on one deed.
Steven Jack Butala:Really?
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. Sometimes they do have limits.
Steven Jack Butala:I've never heard of that.
Jill K DeWit:Mm-hmm (affirmative). They do. Because it's cheaper and easier, too. So if I have the same seller, everything's all in the same name, I'm buying 10 properties from them, it's one deed, it's one recording fee. And it all happens at the same time. And then when I go to sell them, I just then just sell each one individually just like normal
Steven Jack Butala:In a great way, you answered your own question here, the-
Jill K DeWit:I did.
Steven Jack Butala:Yep.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah, you were right.
Steven Jack Butala:Yep, you were right. Today's topic, at some point the sales price is just too high on some of these houses. This is the meat of the show. This is all interconnected. There's a lot of things that are at play when somebody buys...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/29/at-some-point-the-sales-price-is-just-too-high-ha-1665/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iKjIzyWZ-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:06:17 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c93a9a2d-ec56-4633-a0ea-c21b592e5c6f.mp3" length="13885576" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>I Have 10 Thousand Dollars What Should I Invest In (LA 1664)</title><itunes:title>I Have 10 Thousand Dollars What Should I Invest In (LA 1664)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[I Have 10 Thousand Dollars What Should I Invest In (LA 1664)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, well, I have $10,000. What should I invest in?

Jill K DeWit:
This is so funny. So here's where this came from. We're sitting here thinking about out what's going on at the end of the year. We want this last week to be really valuable, some good information for you to ponder. And there's a lot of people on Facebook that have this exact thing. Like, Hey, I've got some money saved up. It's the end of the year. Going into 2022, what should I do? So I wrote down some real answers and some of them are like, what the heck? It's funny. So I will share those, and we'll talk about what we think you should do if you're in this situation.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
We forgot to look that up. We don't know where we are right now, do we? Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can look it up while we're-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it. All right. While I'm talking?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
You're good. Peter wrote, I got a call back on a piece of property that is largely in a flood zone, and some of it is in a regulated flood zone. The original offer price was $8,000 for three acres. And I was thinking about turning around with a revised offer of $1,000. What are the major considerations you all keep in mind when repricing an offer due to flood issues? Thanks for any thoughts.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is very, very, very common and not so specific to the flood issues, but stuff comes up.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
A deal comes back. You look it up. Usually on NeighborScoop. There's some flaws. Hopefully they're not fatal flaws like access.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so you go back to the seller with a revised offer. In my opinion, Jill's the one who does this, so she'll tell you the way she does it, but this is all how it's handled. And so if you just say all this property sucks, and I know we talked about 8,000, but I'm going to you a thousand because there's flood zone issues. That's not going to work. But if you make a little video, a screen video of you rolling through Google Earth, a screenshot video and narrating why and how the property, where it sits and why the flood issues have dramatically reduced the usability of the property when you price it at 8,000, they're going to take you seriously. And here's why, because whoever buys the property's going to have the same issues. So you're just kicking the can down the road.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to have to disagree.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, really? After all that?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't need no stinking video.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
No I don't. You know what? So here's-

Steven Jack Butala:
Throw Jack under the bus week actually.

Jill K DeWit:
No it's not. There's plenty times, Buddy, when you go, "Nope, this is what you do." This is my turn. Because you know what really, I am dealing. I'm on the front line a little more in this scenario. Not that you're not, and you haven't done this for decades, but.

Jill K DeWit:
So here's how it goes now. Number one, do you even really want it? So here's my thing. Is my buyer's pool going to be so darn small, and I'm going to be running around trying to make $3,000 off of my $1,000 when I can just move on. So there's really got to be some other redeeming quality for me to even care. If my 8,000 is now 1,000, now I'm scratching my head going,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[I Have 10 Thousand Dollars What Should I Invest In (LA 1664)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, well, I have $10,000. What should I invest in?

Jill K DeWit:
This is so funny. So here's where this came from. We're sitting here thinking about out what's going on at the end of the year. We want this last week to be really valuable, some good information for you to ponder. And there's a lot of people on Facebook that have this exact thing. Like, Hey, I've got some money saved up. It's the end of the year. Going into 2022, what should I do? So I wrote down some real answers and some of them are like, what the heck? It's funny. So I will share those, and we'll talk about what we think you should do if you're in this situation.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
We forgot to look that up. We don't know where we are right now, do we? Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I can look it up while we're-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it. All right. While I'm talking?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill K DeWit:
You're good. Peter wrote, I got a call back on a piece of property that is largely in a flood zone, and some of it is in a regulated flood zone. The original offer price was $8,000 for three acres. And I was thinking about turning around with a revised offer of $1,000. What are the major considerations you all keep in mind when repricing an offer due to flood issues? Thanks for any thoughts.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is very, very, very common and not so specific to the flood issues, but stuff comes up.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
A deal comes back. You look it up. Usually on NeighborScoop. There's some flaws. Hopefully they're not fatal flaws like access.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so you go back to the seller with a revised offer. In my opinion, Jill's the one who does this, so she'll tell you the way she does it, but this is all how it's handled. And so if you just say all this property sucks, and I know we talked about 8,000, but I'm going to you a thousand because there's flood zone issues. That's not going to work. But if you make a little video, a screen video of you rolling through Google Earth, a screenshot video and narrating why and how the property, where it sits and why the flood issues have dramatically reduced the usability of the property when you price it at 8,000, they're going to take you seriously. And here's why, because whoever buys the property's going to have the same issues. So you're just kicking the can down the road.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to have to disagree.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, really? After all that?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't need no stinking video.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really?

Jill K DeWit:
No I don't. You know what? So here's-

Steven Jack Butala:
Throw Jack under the bus week actually.

Jill K DeWit:
No it's not. There's plenty times, Buddy, when you go, "Nope, this is what you do." This is my turn. Because you know what really, I am dealing. I'm on the front line a little more in this scenario. Not that you're not, and you haven't done this for decades, but.

Jill K DeWit:
So here's how it goes now. Number one, do you even really want it? So here's my thing. Is my buyer's pool going to be so darn small, and I'm going to be running around trying to make $3,000 off of my $1,000 when I can just move on. So there's really got to be some other redeeming quality for me to even care. If my 8,000 is now 1,000, now I'm scratching my head going,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/28/i-have-10-thousand-dollars-what-should-i-invest-in-la-1664/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iPtu5F-2B</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 23:03:19 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d9f3849c-7492-47b5-929f-e4bf4dc86f6b.mp3" length="18161007" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Taking Action (LA 1663)</title><itunes:title>Taking Action (LA 1663)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Taking Action (LA 1663)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about taking action.

Jill K DeWit:
That's it?

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it. So the new year's is coming up and nothing happens on its own. And I got to thinking nothing happens, forget about land for a second, nothing happens unless we take action. We're talk about that in just a minute here. But before we do, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com.

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to ask you about your Christmas first. You just jump right in there. Do you know you have a co-host over here? What the heck? Oh, I'm sorry Jill, are you there?

Steven Jack Butala:
I had what I call an amazing Jill Christmas.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
What's a Jill Christmas?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill Christmas is, well, I kind of meld the whole Thanksgiving and Christmas thing all together, so we had amazing food. It's was a Jill Christmas. All decorated. Everything's decorated. We had presents. The fire was on. It's right out of a postcard.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. All right. So you had a good Christmas.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I had a great one. How about you?

Jill K DeWit:
I had a great Christmas too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Was it a six out of 10 or an eight out 10?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, it was an eight out of 10. You know why? Because it's just so nice. Things have calmed down a little bit. Those of you who know us, we've changed states. We've made some changes and I can't tell you what a difference it is. I'm not picking on anybody. I'm going to only share the positive because that's me.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll bring in the negative if it's necessary.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh good. No, but I have been every day shocked and amazed at nice people. Even Christmas Eve running in the grocery store because you forgot something. And it was like, "Oh no, no, you only have three things. You go ahead of me in line." Oh we're back. At least we're here back. And it's been very, very nice.

Steven Jack Butala:
Since you brought it up, it's just been a crazy year.

Jill K DeWit:
It has been another crazy year.

Steven Jack Butala:
These last two or three months have been very, very nice.

Jill K DeWit:
Crazy, and it better not be the new norm.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Moving across state lines and getting all new stuff again. Getting all new insurance and all new... I don't need to do that ever again.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. And how much did you do and how much did I do? Well, we won't go there on that part, on the insurance part.

Steven Jack Butala:
I did a lot of the man stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
You did the man stuff. I did the phone call stuff. That's very, very true. Okay. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
So I think I'm, I hope I say this right, [Basim 00:02:54] wrote, I have a funding partner for a deal and I have informed him that I intended to sell using a realtor. Since the property will be in the investor's name, they need to sign the agreement with the realtor. Can anyone provide an example of a partnership agreement that covers this scenario?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It's in our go to offer... Wait, deal funding. I had to think about that. So in our deal funding stuff, you can find it on Land Academy, also in Land Investors, also on landfunding.com. I think it's all there too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
And that's exactly how we do it, and that's the right way to do it. So if I'm putting up 100% of the money, which I'm often doing. If I'm not, then we're going to, we're going to,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Taking Action (LA 1663)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about taking action.

Jill K DeWit:
That's it?

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it. So the new year's is coming up and nothing happens on its own. And I got to thinking nothing happens, forget about land for a second, nothing happens unless we take action. We're talk about that in just a minute here. But before we do, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com.

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to ask you about your Christmas first. You just jump right in there. Do you know you have a co-host over here? What the heck? Oh, I'm sorry Jill, are you there?

Steven Jack Butala:
I had what I call an amazing Jill Christmas.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
What's a Jill Christmas?

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill Christmas is, well, I kind of meld the whole Thanksgiving and Christmas thing all together, so we had amazing food. It's was a Jill Christmas. All decorated. Everything's decorated. We had presents. The fire was on. It's right out of a postcard.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. All right. So you had a good Christmas.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I had a great one. How about you?

Jill K DeWit:
I had a great Christmas too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Was it a six out of 10 or an eight out 10?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, it was an eight out of 10. You know why? Because it's just so nice. Things have calmed down a little bit. Those of you who know us, we've changed states. We've made some changes and I can't tell you what a difference it is. I'm not picking on anybody. I'm going to only share the positive because that's me.

Steven Jack Butala:
I'll bring in the negative if it's necessary.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh good. No, but I have been every day shocked and amazed at nice people. Even Christmas Eve running in the grocery store because you forgot something. And it was like, "Oh no, no, you only have three things. You go ahead of me in line." Oh we're back. At least we're here back. And it's been very, very nice.

Steven Jack Butala:
Since you brought it up, it's just been a crazy year.

Jill K DeWit:
It has been another crazy year.

Steven Jack Butala:
These last two or three months have been very, very nice.

Jill K DeWit:
Crazy, and it better not be the new norm.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Moving across state lines and getting all new stuff again. Getting all new insurance and all new... I don't need to do that ever again.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. And how much did you do and how much did I do? Well, we won't go there on that part, on the insurance part.

Steven Jack Butala:
I did a lot of the man stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
You did the man stuff. I did the phone call stuff. That's very, very true. Okay. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
So I think I'm, I hope I say this right, [Basim 00:02:54] wrote, I have a funding partner for a deal and I have informed him that I intended to sell using a realtor. Since the property will be in the investor's name, they need to sign the agreement with the realtor. Can anyone provide an example of a partnership agreement that covers this scenario?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It's in our go to offer... Wait, deal funding. I had to think about that. So in our deal funding stuff, you can find it on Land Academy, also in Land Investors, also on landfunding.com. I think it's all there too.

Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
And that's exactly how we do it, and that's the right way to do it. So if I'm putting up 100% of the money, which I'm often doing. If I'm not, then we're going to, we're going to,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/27/taking-action-la-1663/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">diNGsxSy8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2021 22:50:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/27a1ff80-fb3d-4a5e-9ad9-ef8975806540.mp3" length="16449950" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Jillifying Year End Land Deals (LA 1662)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Jillifying Year End Land Deals (LA 1662)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Jillifying Year End Land Deals (LA 1662)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about identifying...

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to talk about-

Steven Jack Butala:
She going to talk about Jillification.

Jill DeWit:
Yep, Jillifying it over the holidays. We got this. It may not be written down, but I remembered, because I have that kind of an amazing memory.

Steven Jack Butala:
Someone did the script wrong.

Jill DeWit:
Like an elephant.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Am I remembering that right? What the heck is going on over here?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know.

Jill DeWit:
It's just like, you know what?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's right before Christmas is what's going on.

Jill DeWit:
It's Christmas Eve. This is airing on Christmas Eve. So am I remembering the elephant right? Does the elephant have a good memory or is that just a saying?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I don't know if they do or not, but it is a saying.

Jill DeWit:
I've never actually sat down and talked to an elephant.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what I learned?

Jill DeWit:
Tell me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Recently, that elephants can find groundwater. They have a sense, like a sense of smell for finding groundwater.

Jill DeWit:
That's flipping cool. I did not know that.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so during a drought, they'll dig. Altogether, they'll dig and get down to the water and survive.

Jill DeWit:
That is so darn cool. Yeah, so it's Christmas Eve. So yeah, I like that you're sporting your Merry Christmas hat. And I'm wearing my Jillify hat for today. So back to the show. Matt wrote, "Can you still get a deal done at the end of the year?" And then [Lori 00:01:39], one of our cool people in Land Academy answered this. And then I'm going to talk more about it too.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a good little story.

Jill DeWit:
So Lori says, "Oh, it happens." That was his question, then we're just reading one of the responses, and then we'll talk about it. She says, "I had a seven day close on my first house I put under contract on Christmas Eve day, and it closed on New Year's Eve. That title company said it couldn't be done. There were too many forms to get filled up by too many people. And yes, it was back then, by the way." She's like, not to tell you the year, or how old my children are, or how old I am. She said, "This was before email, but still exactly the same as New York is today." That's funny. "So I talked them into letting me deliver the forms and purpose. And I told everyone I was a courier for the title company, and I had to-"

Steven Jack Butala:
Isn't that great?

Jill DeWit:
"I had to wait, and get the form filled out."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is something you would do.

Jill DeWit:
I would do the same thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just get it done, man.

Jill DeWit:
This is brilliant. I'm a courier. I'll wait [inaudible 00:02:32] in here. That's awesome. And they said it was one of their easiest closings ever. That's it. That's perfect. That's Jillifying it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is perfectly on topic today.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Good one. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic is... Well, it's Jill Friday, Jillifying year-end land deals. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So that is one of them. Actually, that's B. So I have three points to make here, and it's going to tie into this question, which is awesome. So end of year, are we even working? Do people buy things?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Jillifying Year End Land Deals (LA 1662)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about identifying...

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to talk about-

Steven Jack Butala:
She going to talk about Jillification.

Jill DeWit:
Yep, Jillifying it over the holidays. We got this. It may not be written down, but I remembered, because I have that kind of an amazing memory.

Steven Jack Butala:
Someone did the script wrong.

Jill DeWit:
Like an elephant.

Steven Jack Butala:
I wonder. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Am I remembering that right? What the heck is going on over here?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know.

Jill DeWit:
It's just like, you know what?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's right before Christmas is what's going on.

Jill DeWit:
It's Christmas Eve. This is airing on Christmas Eve. So am I remembering the elephant right? Does the elephant have a good memory or is that just a saying?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I don't know if they do or not, but it is a saying.

Jill DeWit:
I've never actually sat down and talked to an elephant.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what I learned?

Jill DeWit:
Tell me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Recently, that elephants can find groundwater. They have a sense, like a sense of smell for finding groundwater.

Jill DeWit:
That's flipping cool. I did not know that.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so during a drought, they'll dig. Altogether, they'll dig and get down to the water and survive.

Jill DeWit:
That is so darn cool. Yeah, so it's Christmas Eve. So yeah, I like that you're sporting your Merry Christmas hat. And I'm wearing my Jillify hat for today. So back to the show. Matt wrote, "Can you still get a deal done at the end of the year?" And then [Lori 00:01:39], one of our cool people in Land Academy answered this. And then I'm going to talk more about it too.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a good little story.

Jill DeWit:
So Lori says, "Oh, it happens." That was his question, then we're just reading one of the responses, and then we'll talk about it. She says, "I had a seven day close on my first house I put under contract on Christmas Eve day, and it closed on New Year's Eve. That title company said it couldn't be done. There were too many forms to get filled up by too many people. And yes, it was back then, by the way." She's like, not to tell you the year, or how old my children are, or how old I am. She said, "This was before email, but still exactly the same as New York is today." That's funny. "So I talked them into letting me deliver the forms and purpose. And I told everyone I was a courier for the title company, and I had to-"

Steven Jack Butala:
Isn't that great?

Jill DeWit:
"I had to wait, and get the form filled out."

Steven Jack Butala:
This is something you would do.

Jill DeWit:
I would do the same thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Just get it done, man.

Jill DeWit:
This is brilliant. I'm a courier. I'll wait [inaudible 00:02:32] in here. That's awesome. And they said it was one of their easiest closings ever. That's it. That's perfect. That's Jillifying it.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is perfectly on topic today.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Good one. Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic is... Well, it's Jill Friday, Jillifying year-end land deals. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So that is one of them. Actually, that's B. So I have three points to make here, and it's going to tie into this question, which is awesome. So end of year, are we even working? Do people buy things?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/24/jill-friday-jillifying-year-end-land-deals-la-1662/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">uOXon6YtT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/47aa156c-4e00-4b90-8f9a-f0d50edf77ed.mp3" length="14238764" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Less Frequent but Bigger Land Deals (LA 1661)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Less Frequent but Bigger Land Deals (LA 1661)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Less Frequent but Bigger Land Deals (LA 1661)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about my personal 2022 goals, which are less frequent, but bigger land deals.

Jill DeWit:
I want to hear about some of your other goals.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like try to be a better husband?

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no. Let's see here, find a new hair stylist, because I failed at that one. So you're...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, if you are watching this, you can see.

Jill DeWit:
I got to share this. I walked into a local bar the other day and the sweet, sweet bartender says to me, "Jill, wow. Did you cut your own bangs?" I said, "You know, it might look like that, but no, I did not."

Steven Jack Butala:
When someone says, "Do you cut your own hair?" That's not a compliment.

Jill DeWit:
That's a bad sign. Did you do that yourself? Oh darn. Nope. No, it sure looks like it, but no, I did not slaughter my own hair. So that's one of our things for next year. You know, that's one of the hardest things I have... I wanted dry cleaning. I got house cleaners. I got land... Well landscapers came to the house, so we got a couple wins there.

Steven Jack Butala:
We had a lot of wins.

Jill DeWit:
A lot of wins.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can't win it all though.

Jill DeWit:
We have yet to figure out our trash service, we failed on that one and we failed on the personal hair and all that stuff, we've got to figure that out. I won on a dentist. Don't have a doctor. It's funny, but hey, it's part of moving. It's all right. It's all good.

Steven Jack Butala:
We live in a town that doesn't believe in charging taxes for anything. And they also don't believe in providing any services.

Jill DeWit:
Street lights, and sidewalks.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no streetlights.

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no sanitation or anything. You have to hire everything out independently. There's literally no sewer systems.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everything's on septic.

Jill DeWit:
It's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
But it's real cheap to live here.

Jill DeWit:
It's great. Yeah. I wouldn't call it cheap, but once you get past the water and the electric and the gas bill.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Ian wrote: If we're looking for infill lots, and there's a lot of lots owned by an HOA, and that HOA looks to be sparsely developed, like maybe 20, 25% of the lots are developed. That's not a good candidate for what we're looking for. Right? In Land Academy 2.0, infill lots, the example Steven shows looks to be lots with houses built all around them.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me cut to the chase.

Jill DeWit:
Please do.

Steven Jack Butala:
The best case scenario for infill lots. You bought the last lot available in the entire subdivision. Everything else is built on. This country is packed full of failed subdivisions or there's lots of different words for them. Paper subdivisions or where it's 20% developed, and then there're just tons and tons and tons of properties that are for sale, vacant land properties in a sub. When there's an HOA, well, that's just adding fuel to the problem, fire to the... Pouring fuel on a fire.

Jill DeWit:
Making fun of my "going down the rabbit trail"? Now you're doing it. "Pouring fuel on the problem." [inaudible 00:03:51] How about fire?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you want to stay out of those HOA driven paper subdivisions,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Less Frequent but Bigger Land Deals (LA 1661)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about my personal 2022 goals, which are less frequent, but bigger land deals.

Jill DeWit:
I want to hear about some of your other goals.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like try to be a better husband?

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no. Let's see here, find a new hair stylist, because I failed at that one. So you're...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, if you are watching this, you can see.

Jill DeWit:
I got to share this. I walked into a local bar the other day and the sweet, sweet bartender says to me, "Jill, wow. Did you cut your own bangs?" I said, "You know, it might look like that, but no, I did not."

Steven Jack Butala:
When someone says, "Do you cut your own hair?" That's not a compliment.

Jill DeWit:
That's a bad sign. Did you do that yourself? Oh darn. Nope. No, it sure looks like it, but no, I did not slaughter my own hair. So that's one of our things for next year. You know, that's one of the hardest things I have... I wanted dry cleaning. I got house cleaners. I got land... Well landscapers came to the house, so we got a couple wins there.

Steven Jack Butala:
We had a lot of wins.

Jill DeWit:
A lot of wins.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can't win it all though.

Jill DeWit:
We have yet to figure out our trash service, we failed on that one and we failed on the personal hair and all that stuff, we've got to figure that out. I won on a dentist. Don't have a doctor. It's funny, but hey, it's part of moving. It's all right. It's all good.

Steven Jack Butala:
We live in a town that doesn't believe in charging taxes for anything. And they also don't believe in providing any services.

Jill DeWit:
Street lights, and sidewalks.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no streetlights.

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's no sanitation or anything. You have to hire everything out independently. There's literally no sewer systems.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everything's on septic.

Jill DeWit:
It's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
But it's real cheap to live here.

Jill DeWit:
It's great. Yeah. I wouldn't call it cheap, but once you get past the water and the electric and the gas bill.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Ian wrote: If we're looking for infill lots, and there's a lot of lots owned by an HOA, and that HOA looks to be sparsely developed, like maybe 20, 25% of the lots are developed. That's not a good candidate for what we're looking for. Right? In Land Academy 2.0, infill lots, the example Steven shows looks to be lots with houses built all around them.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let me cut to the chase.

Jill DeWit:
Please do.

Steven Jack Butala:
The best case scenario for infill lots. You bought the last lot available in the entire subdivision. Everything else is built on. This country is packed full of failed subdivisions or there's lots of different words for them. Paper subdivisions or where it's 20% developed, and then there're just tons and tons and tons of properties that are for sale, vacant land properties in a sub. When there's an HOA, well, that's just adding fuel to the problem, fire to the... Pouring fuel on a fire.

Jill DeWit:
Making fun of my "going down the rabbit trail"? Now you're doing it. "Pouring fuel on the problem." [inaudible 00:03:51] How about fire?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you want to stay out of those HOA driven paper subdivisions,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/23/jack-thursday-less-frequent-but-bigger-land-deals-la-1661/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">V_z0GQmbG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:51:43 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/919d8267-01c7-4af6-b493-8cb4a21ed996.mp3" length="12790089" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>SFR vs Multitenant Investments (LA 1660)</title><itunes:title>SFR vs Multitenant Investments (LA 1660)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





SFR vs Multitenant Investments (LA 1660)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I, we're going to talk about houses versus-
Jill DeWit:It's really the House Academy Show.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, yeah. It's the House Academy Show today.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:Houses versus apartment buildings. The name of the show is SFRs versus multi-tenant investments.
Jill DeWit:Mm-hmm (affirmative). Before we get into it, I have a question. Do you use all your luggage for hauling things other than clothing? Because that's what seems to happen to all of our luggage. I had to hold on, physically hold back my one good rollaboard because he wanted to fill it up with stuff.
Steven Jack Butala:Ammunition's really heavy, and the easiest thing to haul it around in that I found is suitcases.
Jill DeWit:The very nice Travelpro luggage that I have. And he tries to take them all. I'm like, "You can have them all, but you got to leave me one." I am not going to travel on a trip and have my clothes, have gun powder on my clothing when I unpack my suitcase.
Steven Jack Butala:It turns out men and women are real different.
Jill DeWit:Yep, exactly.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on our Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Amy wrote, "Has anyone run into an issue with Redfin not having matches for zip codes in a county? Doing the Red Yellow Green Test. I wasn't sure if there's an alternative. I'm new to this." This is you.
Steven Jack Butala:People, especially really young people, believe that the internet sometimes is like a God-given right, like utility companies, like you turn the tap and the water comes out. It's a public service.
Jill DeWit:This should work. I just spent $1,200 on the 13 Pro, and I don't have 5G at this moment.
Steven Jack Butala:The internet is a collection of independent businesses, like Land Academy or LandStay, and we're here to make money. And so Redfin's no different. Redfin chooses who they do business with based on where a lot of real estate deals go down.
Jill DeWit:Like where the money is.
Steven Jack Butala:Which are cities. They're in bigger cities. The bigger the city, the bigger the real estate deals. We're in volume of real estate deals. Redfin has made a strategic decision, and I don't disagree with them at all, that they're just not going to have contracts with certain MLSs that are rural because they don't care. And that's fine.
Jill DeWit:They can do that.
Steven Jack Butala:Realtor.com is run by the National Association of Realtors and they have 100% coverage of the entire country. Zillow, 100% coverage from what I can see. Redfin has just got, I don't know, it's probably 60 or 70%, but it turns out we buy and sell rural vacant land a lot. So Redfin is not... Although they have the greatest data there ever was, they don't have 100% coverage. I don't know how else to say it.
Jill DeWit:No, that was fine. That was good.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, SFR versus multi-tenant investments. This is the meat of the show. Here's the deal with commercial real estate. Here's how you make money in commercial real estate.
Jill DeWit:Okay, I'm going to settle in now.
Steven Jack Butala:You buy a piece of property. I don't care if it's an apartment building, a skyscraper, a trailer park. Doesn't matter. It's got tenants, and they pay every month, and you go about your merry way. It's a terrible return on investment if you line it up against any company, like a manufacturing company or a company like Land Academy. It's just not a good...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





SFR vs Multitenant Investments (LA 1660)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I, we're going to talk about houses versus-
Jill DeWit:It's really the House Academy Show.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, yeah. It's the House Academy Show today.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:Houses versus apartment buildings. The name of the show is SFRs versus multi-tenant investments.
Jill DeWit:Mm-hmm (affirmative). Before we get into it, I have a question. Do you use all your luggage for hauling things other than clothing? Because that's what seems to happen to all of our luggage. I had to hold on, physically hold back my one good rollaboard because he wanted to fill it up with stuff.
Steven Jack Butala:Ammunition's really heavy, and the easiest thing to haul it around in that I found is suitcases.
Jill DeWit:The very nice Travelpro luggage that I have. And he tries to take them all. I'm like, "You can have them all, but you got to leave me one." I am not going to travel on a trip and have my clothes, have gun powder on my clothing when I unpack my suitcase.
Steven Jack Butala:It turns out men and women are real different.
Jill DeWit:Yep, exactly.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on our Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Amy wrote, "Has anyone run into an issue with Redfin not having matches for zip codes in a county? Doing the Red Yellow Green Test. I wasn't sure if there's an alternative. I'm new to this." This is you.
Steven Jack Butala:People, especially really young people, believe that the internet sometimes is like a God-given right, like utility companies, like you turn the tap and the water comes out. It's a public service.
Jill DeWit:This should work. I just spent $1,200 on the 13 Pro, and I don't have 5G at this moment.
Steven Jack Butala:The internet is a collection of independent businesses, like Land Academy or LandStay, and we're here to make money. And so Redfin's no different. Redfin chooses who they do business with based on where a lot of real estate deals go down.
Jill DeWit:Like where the money is.
Steven Jack Butala:Which are cities. They're in bigger cities. The bigger the city, the bigger the real estate deals. We're in volume of real estate deals. Redfin has made a strategic decision, and I don't disagree with them at all, that they're just not going to have contracts with certain MLSs that are rural because they don't care. And that's fine.
Jill DeWit:They can do that.
Steven Jack Butala:Realtor.com is run by the National Association of Realtors and they have 100% coverage of the entire country. Zillow, 100% coverage from what I can see. Redfin has just got, I don't know, it's probably 60 or 70%, but it turns out we buy and sell rural vacant land a lot. So Redfin is not... Although they have the greatest data there ever was, they don't have 100% coverage. I don't know how else to say it.
Jill DeWit:No, that was fine. That was good.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, SFR versus multi-tenant investments. This is the meat of the show. Here's the deal with commercial real estate. Here's how you make money in commercial real estate.
Jill DeWit:Okay, I'm going to settle in now.
Steven Jack Butala:You buy a piece of property. I don't care if it's an apartment building, a skyscraper, a trailer park. Doesn't matter. It's got tenants, and they pay every month, and you go about your merry way. It's a terrible return on investment if you line it up against any company, like a manufacturing company or a company like Land Academy. It's just not a good...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/22/sfr-vs-multitenant-investments-la-1660/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5zRD6oFsf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:49:59 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9ad63026-1e78-49f2-86df-4d66999db056.mp3" length="19663387" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Only You Know the Meaning of Time Well Spent (LA 1659)</title><itunes:title>Only You Know the Meaning of Time Well Spent (LA 1659)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Only You Know the Meaning of Time Well Spent (LA 1659)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Hello. Welcome to Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about only you, know the meaning of time well spent.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, if you don't recognize us. Yes, we did both get haircuts.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's is better.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Well, no, I didn't mean yep. Sorry. I didn't mean it like that. I didn't know that's what you were going to say. I had yep already coming out. So yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
We just moved back to Arizona from California and we got to find new people to do our stuff and...

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah. That's a process.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you say? You know every guy's gone through this. It's like, "Yep. I can see it in the mirror. It's all going to hell. I'm watching it unfold".

Jill DeWit:
I'm in the chair and I'm trapped. It's like you can't...

Steven Jack Butala:
Women ever go through this?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, that does happen. It does. You're like, "And I'm trapped, it's not like I can get up and walk out right now. I'm wearing a robe", kind of thing. It's just not going to work. Yeah. I've had massages like that where I'm like, "Crap, this person's beating me up. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid to say anything".

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I've had the opposite. I've had the opposite. It's like, this is a 13 year old girl. She couldn't massage a...

Jill DeWit:
Raccoon?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. A raccoon.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Again, I'm not drinking.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're so dirty.

Jill DeWit:
Not drinking. It may sound like it, but I'm not drinking. Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
But Jill's hair, I've been saying this for a long time, Jill with age, she gets prettier and more elegant. And I just get fatter and more angry.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors online community, it's free. And by the way, don't forget to subscribe on our YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like. Michael wrote, "I've come across a county where I can't figure out how to filter out parcels with improvements in DataTree. And I thought I'd check with the community". How do you filter out improvements in DataTree? There are a couple different ways, you want to explain this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's a real deal. Here's the sad, terrible truth about data, all data. There's exceptions, and so the vast majority of it goes great, but there's always exceptions. And DataTree is no different than RealQuest or TitlePro or any other data aggregator. DataTree does not create this data, they just aggregate it. And so the majority of what we use in DataTree comes from the assessor. And the LA County assessor does a darn good job at data, but rural county X, in let's say, Arkansas, it's not that important to them. It's not good or bad. It's just how it is. And so if you can't get the data that you need to send out a mailer in the format that you need it, go to another county. This happens to me all the time. And I've been millions and millions and millions of mail merges and data that we've utilized over the years, Jill and I. And to this day, we just get bad data sometimes.

Jill DeWit:
What if you're dead set on the zip code? Could I download a couple lines of the data, follow me on here? I can download it and I can see all the columns all the way across and I can maybe figure out, "Oh, they don't use these use improvement percentage, but I see they fill in doors or some kind of structure". I can figure out something that they use. Is that a possibility?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is before I sat down to record this, I looked at a data set that I ordered from Concierge Data. It's 45 units,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Only You Know the Meaning of Time Well Spent (LA 1659)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Hello. Welcome to Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about only you, know the meaning of time well spent.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, if you don't recognize us. Yes, we did both get haircuts.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's is better.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Well, no, I didn't mean yep. Sorry. I didn't mean it like that. I didn't know that's what you were going to say. I had yep already coming out. So yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
We just moved back to Arizona from California and we got to find new people to do our stuff and...

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah. That's a process.

Steven Jack Butala:
What do you say? You know every guy's gone through this. It's like, "Yep. I can see it in the mirror. It's all going to hell. I'm watching it unfold".

Jill DeWit:
I'm in the chair and I'm trapped. It's like you can't...

Steven Jack Butala:
Women ever go through this?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, that does happen. It does. You're like, "And I'm trapped, it's not like I can get up and walk out right now. I'm wearing a robe", kind of thing. It's just not going to work. Yeah. I've had massages like that where I'm like, "Crap, this person's beating me up. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid to say anything".

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, I've had the opposite. I've had the opposite. It's like, this is a 13 year old girl. She couldn't massage a...

Jill DeWit:
Raccoon?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. A raccoon.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Again, I'm not drinking.

Steven Jack Butala:
You're so dirty.

Jill DeWit:
Not drinking. It may sound like it, but I'm not drinking. Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
But Jill's hair, I've been saying this for a long time, Jill with age, she gets prettier and more elegant. And I just get fatter and more angry.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors online community, it's free. And by the way, don't forget to subscribe on our YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like. Michael wrote, "I've come across a county where I can't figure out how to filter out parcels with improvements in DataTree. And I thought I'd check with the community". How do you filter out improvements in DataTree? There are a couple different ways, you want to explain this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's a real deal. Here's the sad, terrible truth about data, all data. There's exceptions, and so the vast majority of it goes great, but there's always exceptions. And DataTree is no different than RealQuest or TitlePro or any other data aggregator. DataTree does not create this data, they just aggregate it. And so the majority of what we use in DataTree comes from the assessor. And the LA County assessor does a darn good job at data, but rural county X, in let's say, Arkansas, it's not that important to them. It's not good or bad. It's just how it is. And so if you can't get the data that you need to send out a mailer in the format that you need it, go to another county. This happens to me all the time. And I've been millions and millions and millions of mail merges and data that we've utilized over the years, Jill and I. And to this day, we just get bad data sometimes.

Jill DeWit:
What if you're dead set on the zip code? Could I download a couple lines of the data, follow me on here? I can download it and I can see all the columns all the way across and I can maybe figure out, "Oh, they don't use these use improvement percentage, but I see they fill in doors or some kind of structure". I can figure out something that they use. Is that a possibility?

Steven Jack Butala:
This is before I sat down to record this, I looked at a data set that I ordered from Concierge Data. It's 45 units,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/21/only-you-know-the-meaning-of-time-well-spent-la-1659/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">D9jVepzfT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:11:17 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e511a09c-5276-4496-a8dc-7c6140fd840a.mp3" length="15483329" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Taking Land Acquisition Orders from a Single Buyer (LA 1658)</title><itunes:title>Taking Land Acquisition Orders from a Single Buyer (LA 1658)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Taking Land Acquisition Orders from a Single Buyer (LA 1658)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about taking land acquisition orders from a single buyer.
Jill DeWit:Oh my gosh. This is so funny because I think we have different opinions on this. I think, we started to talk about this for just a few seconds before we sat down, and turned everything on and he's like, "Why is this bad?" I'm like, "Where do I start?" So, hold on. I have a lot to say about this.
Steven Jack Butala:I made a career out of taking acquisition orders for commercial property when I started out.
Jill DeWit:And this is a tad different. So I'm going to share that with you. But before we do that, first I want to say, thank you very much, the gift basket on the shelf behind me is from Alex Peak. Did I say [inaudible 00:00:55] or should I say... [Alex Plow 00:00:56]. Thank you very, very much. We got your gift basket, and we super appreciate it. Haven't really cracked into it yet. I thought I just put it on the shelf for today, and then I'm going to crack into it later.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Peter wrote, "anybody have experience incorporating their kids into their planned business. I have two girls, age 13 and nine, who both have demonstrated a lot of interest, which is super exciting to me. I know they are young, but they are both motivated and hardworking. They started a couple of side hustles." They're 13 and nine. This is awesome.
Steven Jack Butala:I did that at that edge too.
Jill DeWit:"Over the last year. And now it looks like they want to edge into the world of land investing. Any thoughts?" I got to say, what was so fun is we had our, our dear Tony in the last career path had his daughter. She's 16, I think?
Steven Jack Butala:15.
Jill DeWit:15, Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:Probably 16 now.
Jill DeWit:Probably 16. Anyway, his daughter in it with him showing up on the calls, the timing worked out great. She was obviously home for school and jumped in this with dad. And by the way, she dug this up for dad. So I believe this to be true. She, and dad were talking about dad was retiring from one career, looking for a different career and something they could do together and teach her. And she found us and found Land and brought this to her dad. And now they were in career path. So I think it's great.
Steven Jack Butala:We have three children, Jill and I, and two of them do very well.
Jill DeWit:They're in it.
Steven Jack Butala:I've always said to all three kids. "I really love two of you."
Jill DeWit:Exactly. It changes all the time. You know what's so funny, though? Is that they either they don't get it now, they might get it later. So number one, and number three were in the business. Number two, wasn't so interested. We thought now number three could care less. And number one and number two are in it. So we're hoping that number three will someday like it, maybe not. And that's okay, but if they've got an interest, go for it. I love it.
Steven Jack Butala:Here's my real answer to this. Kids need to, all kids, I think, need to have a terrible, terrible job. When they're young, they need to fail and get a boss who's awful and just see the real world and what it's like. And then they'll come back into something like this and really understand that. Maybe appreciate its value. Yeah. Our number three is 18. He's got a terrible restaurant job right now, and they work him to the bone. He gets paid pretty well, but, and it's opening his eyes about what goes on in life,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Taking Land Acquisition Orders from a Single Buyer (LA 1658)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about taking land acquisition orders from a single buyer.
Jill DeWit:Oh my gosh. This is so funny because I think we have different opinions on this. I think, we started to talk about this for just a few seconds before we sat down, and turned everything on and he's like, "Why is this bad?" I'm like, "Where do I start?" So, hold on. I have a lot to say about this.
Steven Jack Butala:I made a career out of taking acquisition orders for commercial property when I started out.
Jill DeWit:And this is a tad different. So I'm going to share that with you. But before we do that, first I want to say, thank you very much, the gift basket on the shelf behind me is from Alex Peak. Did I say [inaudible 00:00:55] or should I say... [Alex Plow 00:00:56]. Thank you very, very much. We got your gift basket, and we super appreciate it. Haven't really cracked into it yet. I thought I just put it on the shelf for today, and then I'm going to crack into it later.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Peter wrote, "anybody have experience incorporating their kids into their planned business. I have two girls, age 13 and nine, who both have demonstrated a lot of interest, which is super exciting to me. I know they are young, but they are both motivated and hardworking. They started a couple of side hustles." They're 13 and nine. This is awesome.
Steven Jack Butala:I did that at that edge too.
Jill DeWit:"Over the last year. And now it looks like they want to edge into the world of land investing. Any thoughts?" I got to say, what was so fun is we had our, our dear Tony in the last career path had his daughter. She's 16, I think?
Steven Jack Butala:15.
Jill DeWit:15, Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:Probably 16 now.
Jill DeWit:Probably 16. Anyway, his daughter in it with him showing up on the calls, the timing worked out great. She was obviously home for school and jumped in this with dad. And by the way, she dug this up for dad. So I believe this to be true. She, and dad were talking about dad was retiring from one career, looking for a different career and something they could do together and teach her. And she found us and found Land and brought this to her dad. And now they were in career path. So I think it's great.
Steven Jack Butala:We have three children, Jill and I, and two of them do very well.
Jill DeWit:They're in it.
Steven Jack Butala:I've always said to all three kids. "I really love two of you."
Jill DeWit:Exactly. It changes all the time. You know what's so funny, though? Is that they either they don't get it now, they might get it later. So number one, and number three were in the business. Number two, wasn't so interested. We thought now number three could care less. And number one and number two are in it. So we're hoping that number three will someday like it, maybe not. And that's okay, but if they've got an interest, go for it. I love it.
Steven Jack Butala:Here's my real answer to this. Kids need to, all kids, I think, need to have a terrible, terrible job. When they're young, they need to fail and get a boss who's awful and just see the real world and what it's like. And then they'll come back into something like this and really understand that. Maybe appreciate its value. Yeah. Our number three is 18. He's got a terrible restaurant job right now, and they work him to the bone. He gets paid pretty well, but, and it's opening his eyes about what goes on in life,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/20/taking-land-acquisition-orders-from-a-single-buyer-la-1658/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Tiv7bHDE7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:02:41 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/39456cc9-bd1e-4e79-8af5-eb05687e9509.mp3" length="15059528" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Quitting Like Prince Harry (LA 1657)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Quitting Like Prince Harry (LA 1657)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Quitting Like Prince Harry (LA 1657)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about quitting like Prince Harry.

Jill K DeWit:
It's so funny. So as I started to say, I was reading an article on my phone the other day and I just had this disgusted look on my face. And this one says, "What? What's going on? What's got you so mad." I'm like, "You got to hear this one." And it's Prince Harry promoting quitting. And I'll tell you more because I have the article pulled up here. We went into a long discussion on... And you've heard him say this before, I'm going to quote you, "When is that okay?" So, we're going to talk about when is that okay and then in these situations, it's not okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube Channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "I just called a small city hall about a property and the mayor answered the phone." This is awesome. This sounds like our office sometimes. I'm like, "Let me answer the phone. Let me answer the phone." They're like, "Is this Jill?" "Yeah." He had a great conversation about a lot I just got a contract on. It's residential but they really want more business. The four lane road it's on gets 11,000-

Steven Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill K DeWit:
... traffic cars.

Steven Jack Butala:
Traffic count per day.

Jill K DeWit:
Per day. It's pretty good, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
That's great.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a new Dollar General three lots away.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh man.

Jill K DeWit:
I know nothing about commercial.

Steven Jack Butala:
Geeze.

Jill K DeWit:
Does anyone have any insight as to how to go about making the most of such an opportunity?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
That's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have some insight.

Jill K DeWit:
I hope you have a [inaudible 00:02:06]. Per the mayor, "This is a great spot." Per Mayor Joe, "This is where you want to be."

Steven Jack Butala:
As long as you're buying it right, and I mean really buying it right like we do here at Land Academy then I'll... Call us Jessica, but I'm sure-

Jill K DeWit:
You got people.

Steven Jack Butala:
... But I'll tell-

Jill K DeWit:
You know-

Steven Jack Butala:
I know how this goes in discord.

Jill K DeWit:
You got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody's already-

Jill K DeWit:
You don't need us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Call us just if you need us. That's what I mean.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm sure you don't.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday, quitting like Prince Harry. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So, it's Jill Friday. And so I promise this is not just British tabloid stuff, you're going to see the value here, but it started with that and just makes me crack up. So the whole article was, it popped up in my thing, and it's it says this was December 6th. It says, "Prince Harry encourages people to quit their job if it doesn't bring joy," what?

Steven Jack Butala:
Because he's qualified to do that.

Jill K DeWit:
What, what, it's just hilarious that you should work at jobs that you enjoy and that leaving a miserable career is really good for one's mental health. And this is an interview he's doing with Fast Company magazine. So this is all high level stuff. But I'm like, wonder if I was the one doing the interview. I'd be like, are you kidding me? This is hilarious. And, by the way, it talks about him, who he quit his own job as a senior member of the British Royal family. And that job resignations during the pandemic aren't a...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Quitting Like Prince Harry (LA 1657)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about quitting like Prince Harry.

Jill K DeWit:
It's so funny. So as I started to say, I was reading an article on my phone the other day and I just had this disgusted look on my face. And this one says, "What? What's going on? What's got you so mad." I'm like, "You got to hear this one." And it's Prince Harry promoting quitting. And I'll tell you more because I have the article pulled up here. We went into a long discussion on... And you've heard him say this before, I'm going to quote you, "When is that okay?" So, we're going to talk about when is that okay and then in these situations, it's not okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube Channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "I just called a small city hall about a property and the mayor answered the phone." This is awesome. This sounds like our office sometimes. I'm like, "Let me answer the phone. Let me answer the phone." They're like, "Is this Jill?" "Yeah." He had a great conversation about a lot I just got a contract on. It's residential but they really want more business. The four lane road it's on gets 11,000-

Steven Jack Butala:
Excellent.

Jill K DeWit:
... traffic cars.

Steven Jack Butala:
Traffic count per day.

Jill K DeWit:
Per day. It's pretty good, right?

Steven Jack Butala:
That's great.

Jill K DeWit:
There's a new Dollar General three lots away.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh man.

Jill K DeWit:
I know nothing about commercial.

Steven Jack Butala:
Geeze.

Jill K DeWit:
Does anyone have any insight as to how to go about making the most of such an opportunity?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
That's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have some insight.

Jill K DeWit:
I hope you have a [inaudible 00:02:06]. Per the mayor, "This is a great spot." Per Mayor Joe, "This is where you want to be."

Steven Jack Butala:
As long as you're buying it right, and I mean really buying it right like we do here at Land Academy then I'll... Call us Jessica, but I'm sure-

Jill K DeWit:
You got people.

Steven Jack Butala:
... But I'll tell-

Jill K DeWit:
You know-

Steven Jack Butala:
I know how this goes in discord.

Jill K DeWit:
You got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody's already-

Jill K DeWit:
You don't need us.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Call us just if you need us. That's what I mean.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm sure you don't.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday, quitting like Prince Harry. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So, it's Jill Friday. And so I promise this is not just British tabloid stuff, you're going to see the value here, but it started with that and just makes me crack up. So the whole article was, it popped up in my thing, and it's it says this was December 6th. It says, "Prince Harry encourages people to quit their job if it doesn't bring joy," what?

Steven Jack Butala:
Because he's qualified to do that.

Jill K DeWit:
What, what, it's just hilarious that you should work at jobs that you enjoy and that leaving a miserable career is really good for one's mental health. And this is an interview he's doing with Fast Company magazine. So this is all high level stuff. But I'm like, wonder if I was the one doing the interview. I'd be like, are you kidding me? This is hilarious. And, by the way, it talks about him, who he quit his own job as a senior member of the British Royal family. And that job resignations during the pandemic aren't a...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/17/jill-friday-quitting-like-prince-harry-la-1657/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ivquKJq4l</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:03:20 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f48000d8-6008-4359-9689-58e8317abdd7.mp3" length="13760115" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy Word Association Test (LA 1656)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy Word Association Test (LA 1656)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Academy Word Association Test (LA 1656)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about this little game that I devised called land academy word association test.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I ask what the outcome is supposed to be of this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, okay. I mean, since you brought it up, you should take this question real quick and then I'll get all into it. But here's a little prelude.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
If I say customer, and you say no. If I say, not you necessarily, Jill, because you won't. But if I say, I don't know, 10 or 15 of these words, like customer $50,000 a month. Ranch land. Nope, nope, nope, nope .

Jill K DeWit:
Is this to help you decide if you're a land person or not?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Ah, Change. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Ferrari.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
Calendar.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know? Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Tony wrote. I have a signed agreement from an individual who bought a property on a Sheriff's Tax resale deed in Texas. What issues could I come across if I buy this?

Steven Jack Butala:
All right, this is a very common thing. Full disclosure. I've done thousands and thousands and thousands of transactions like this with almost no incident at all, but like everything, you just need to know the facts. So what happens is people stop paying their taxes or they die or both. This is property taxes now. This is not income tax. These are property taxes, and they're associated with the land, not the person. Income taxes are associated with a person. Debt on property is associated with a person in the form of a personal guarantee. So this gets very misunderstood. If Jill has a piece of property, she's owned it for 10 years. She stopped paying taxes a lot of years ago. I purchase it from her, and she says, great. Here's the deed. Congratulations. Thanks for the check. Good luck.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I inherit the taxes that our associated with that property stay with the property. So now she's done, and she wipes her hands on the whole thing. Now it's my job to make good on the property taxes as a new owner. So what happened here is somebody stopped paying the taxes altogether. There was no purchaser sale. It went all the way back to the taxing authority, according to state statutes, sometimes local statutes, but mostly state. And the sheriff in Texas literally stood on the court steps. Maybe the sheriff themselves did it, or maybe they hired a company. Sometime lawyers do it in Texas. And they sold the property. Well, Tony here's buying it from somebody who bought it at that sale. And he's wondering what the problem is. So here's the issue. It all comes down to chain of title. In the eyes of the chain of title, this property has a break in the chain of title. And meaning that it didn't convey over its life with the title insurance policy, a title insurance policy, a title insurance policy.

Jill K DeWit:
Because they had to take it back, like forcefully take it back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Got foreclosed on is what happened for property taxes, tax lien. So now he's buying the property, and he wants to, as much as he can, Tony here wants to, as much as he can.

Jill K DeWit:
Protect himself.

Steven Jack Butala:
Market the property with marketable title. That's the whole key here.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Academy Word Association Test (LA 1656)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about this little game that I devised called land academy word association test.

Jill K DeWit:
Can I ask what the outcome is supposed to be of this?

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, okay. I mean, since you brought it up, you should take this question real quick and then I'll get all into it. But here's a little prelude.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
If I say customer, and you say no. If I say, not you necessarily, Jill, because you won't. But if I say, I don't know, 10 or 15 of these words, like customer $50,000 a month. Ranch land. Nope, nope, nope, nope .

Jill K DeWit:
Is this to help you decide if you're a land person or not?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Ah, Change. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Ferrari.

Jill K DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
Calendar.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know? Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Tony wrote. I have a signed agreement from an individual who bought a property on a Sheriff's Tax resale deed in Texas. What issues could I come across if I buy this?

Steven Jack Butala:
All right, this is a very common thing. Full disclosure. I've done thousands and thousands and thousands of transactions like this with almost no incident at all, but like everything, you just need to know the facts. So what happens is people stop paying their taxes or they die or both. This is property taxes now. This is not income tax. These are property taxes, and they're associated with the land, not the person. Income taxes are associated with a person. Debt on property is associated with a person in the form of a personal guarantee. So this gets very misunderstood. If Jill has a piece of property, she's owned it for 10 years. She stopped paying taxes a lot of years ago. I purchase it from her, and she says, great. Here's the deed. Congratulations. Thanks for the check. Good luck.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I inherit the taxes that our associated with that property stay with the property. So now she's done, and she wipes her hands on the whole thing. Now it's my job to make good on the property taxes as a new owner. So what happened here is somebody stopped paying the taxes altogether. There was no purchaser sale. It went all the way back to the taxing authority, according to state statutes, sometimes local statutes, but mostly state. And the sheriff in Texas literally stood on the court steps. Maybe the sheriff themselves did it, or maybe they hired a company. Sometime lawyers do it in Texas. And they sold the property. Well, Tony here's buying it from somebody who bought it at that sale. And he's wondering what the problem is. So here's the issue. It all comes down to chain of title. In the eyes of the chain of title, this property has a break in the chain of title. And meaning that it didn't convey over its life with the title insurance policy, a title insurance policy, a title insurance policy.

Jill K DeWit:
Because they had to take it back, like forcefully take it back.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Got foreclosed on is what happened for property taxes, tax lien. So now he's buying the property, and he wants to, as much as he can, Tony here wants to, as much as he can.

Jill K DeWit:
Protect himself.

Steven Jack Butala:
Market the property with marketable title. That's the whole key here.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/16/jack-thursday-land-academy-word-association-test-la-1656/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5k2xbaCIC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:19:58 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e5faef98-d674-46b8-9ad2-d27bcd1656b7.mp3" length="18829933" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What to Do When Your Buyer Needs Financing (LA 1655)</title><itunes:title>What to Do When Your Buyer Needs Financing (LA 1655)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





What to Do When Your Buyer Needs Financing (LA 1655)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land and House Academy Show today, Entertaining Real Estate Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today. Jill and I talk about what to do when your buyer needs financing. Of all time, since we've been doing this, since 2014, '15, this has been, consistently been at least a top 10 question, maybe top five.
Jill K DeWit:It comes up often because people fall in love with your property and they go, "Oh, I don't have the money."
Steven Jack Butala:What I brought, I wanted to make this an episode today because it's really different for houses and for land. Very, very, very different financing animals for a bunch of reasons. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com Online Community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Greg wrote, "Nobody has any money or credit and everybody wants a land contract." This is why I won't want to do ... I don't want to do land contracts. Number one, I can earn way more money over the course of the contract by buying and selling more properties with cash up front.
Jill K DeWit:Two, I have to deal with this person for years and who knows what will happen. Three, I have to deal with the neighbors for years. You're driving down my road. There is a homeless encampment on the property, et cetera. Dream it up. Four, liability? What if someone busts a leg or gets shot in a pistol fight? Where are these properties? Am I liable for that risk for the next three years? In my-
Steven Jack Butala:Opinion.
Jill K DeWit:... opinion, land contracts are only good when nothing else is possible, like no buyers.
Steven Jack Butala:Which never happens.
Jill K DeWit:Right. Tell me why you love land contracts and what I'm doing wrong with them. Liability clause, litigation clause. Should we just jump into the show because it all ties in?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, what to do when a buyer needs financing. This is the meat of this show.
Jill K DeWit:I have a lot of notes, but do you want to go first or do you want me to?
Steven Jack Butala:Oh no. I would love for you to.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. So I put a plus. I have a minus and then I have pluses. So your buyer needs financing, whether it's land or a house, the first instinct is, oh, seller financing. They always like, they ask that too. Will you carry back on a house? And sometimes it's a good solution, but most of the time, it's not my first choice. It's never my first choice. Let's just say that. I will be open to it. This is the House Academy Show so I'm going to talk about that first.
Jill K DeWit:I would be open to it if it was a 30 day, 60 day, 90 day thing. We can see on paper what's coming down the pike. I am cashing in my retirement. Here's everything. We all know it's coming. Can you carry me just until this happens? And here's how it's going to play out. Those would be really the only situations I'd be open to.
Jill K DeWit:But what's interesting, there's a lot of people that like this. They like them because they're note people. They want to buy them and have a note and sell the note and that's their thing. That's not who I am. I'm an investor. I'm not a note person. And I want to get my money and move on and do more properties. So before I talk about other solutions, you want to talk about seller financing?
Steven Jack Butala:Here you have two options when you buy a piece of property correctly, the Land Academy way. Let's say you buy a piece of property for $10,000 and you know it's worth $20,000. You can buy the property for $10,000 and then put it on the market,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





What to Do When Your Buyer Needs Financing (LA 1655)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land and House Academy Show today, Entertaining Real Estate Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today. Jill and I talk about what to do when your buyer needs financing. Of all time, since we've been doing this, since 2014, '15, this has been, consistently been at least a top 10 question, maybe top five.
Jill K DeWit:It comes up often because people fall in love with your property and they go, "Oh, I don't have the money."
Steven Jack Butala:What I brought, I wanted to make this an episode today because it's really different for houses and for land. Very, very, very different financing animals for a bunch of reasons. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com Online Community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:Greg wrote, "Nobody has any money or credit and everybody wants a land contract." This is why I won't want to do ... I don't want to do land contracts. Number one, I can earn way more money over the course of the contract by buying and selling more properties with cash up front.
Jill K DeWit:Two, I have to deal with this person for years and who knows what will happen. Three, I have to deal with the neighbors for years. You're driving down my road. There is a homeless encampment on the property, et cetera. Dream it up. Four, liability? What if someone busts a leg or gets shot in a pistol fight? Where are these properties? Am I liable for that risk for the next three years? In my-
Steven Jack Butala:Opinion.
Jill K DeWit:... opinion, land contracts are only good when nothing else is possible, like no buyers.
Steven Jack Butala:Which never happens.
Jill K DeWit:Right. Tell me why you love land contracts and what I'm doing wrong with them. Liability clause, litigation clause. Should we just jump into the show because it all ties in?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, what to do when a buyer needs financing. This is the meat of this show.
Jill K DeWit:I have a lot of notes, but do you want to go first or do you want me to?
Steven Jack Butala:Oh no. I would love for you to.
Jill K DeWit:Okay. So I put a plus. I have a minus and then I have pluses. So your buyer needs financing, whether it's land or a house, the first instinct is, oh, seller financing. They always like, they ask that too. Will you carry back on a house? And sometimes it's a good solution, but most of the time, it's not my first choice. It's never my first choice. Let's just say that. I will be open to it. This is the House Academy Show so I'm going to talk about that first.
Jill K DeWit:I would be open to it if it was a 30 day, 60 day, 90 day thing. We can see on paper what's coming down the pike. I am cashing in my retirement. Here's everything. We all know it's coming. Can you carry me just until this happens? And here's how it's going to play out. Those would be really the only situations I'd be open to.
Jill K DeWit:But what's interesting, there's a lot of people that like this. They like them because they're note people. They want to buy them and have a note and sell the note and that's their thing. That's not who I am. I'm an investor. I'm not a note person. And I want to get my money and move on and do more properties. So before I talk about other solutions, you want to talk about seller financing?
Steven Jack Butala:Here you have two options when you buy a piece of property correctly, the Land Academy way. Let's say you buy a piece of property for $10,000 and you know it's worth $20,000. You can buy the property for $10,000 and then put it on the market,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/15/what-to-do-when-your-buyer-needs-financing-la-1655/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">oOAgAUtDJ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:02:04 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8ae841b1-71c1-4dcb-bb3d-e09b8a49cefe.mp3" length="21248548" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Career Path Starts Next Month in January (LA 1654)</title><itunes:title>Career Path Starts Next Month in January (LA 1654)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Career Path Starts Next Month in January (LA 1654)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
And welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how career path starts, next month in January. And I've just been told that this has the possibility of being inspirational.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. I hope all our shows are, in some way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Waiting for it, waiting for the teleprompter. Mitchell says, my second mailer is working. We have three good sellers who reach out to us, I would like to reach out to a local land agent and get his opinion on them. Do I need these tied up prior to speaking with said agent or is it okay to probe them, as I'm working with the seller? Oh, I would have them tied up. I want them to be that good. And you know what? Because things could go wrong. You don't know said agent and they don't know you. And so, I'll tell you what I personally do, Mitchell, I personally say, even though I only have a signed purchase agreement, I'm very vague about it with the agents, as far as how long I am in the process, because they don't know, I could have been in escrow for three weeks and it's still going to take three more weeks to close, kind of thing, they don't know that.

Jill K DeWit:
But I do say, I'm getting ready to close on this deal, can you look at it please? And that tells them it's tied up, it leaves them with that impression and they usually don't do anything more than that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Those are exactly right. So, it's all about the conversation you have with that agent. And the agent could be, 65 years old or they could be 22 years old, it's not that they... it's the tone and how you handle it. So, there's no real secret way that a real estate agent can call the county clerk or anyone at the county and get inside information. So, when you go on the website, let's say, you actually buy the property, then you call the agent. It's not going to show up anywhere on the website, like realtor.com or Zillow, as an ownership record, for quite some time. Sometimes years, sometimes it's months. I used to really worry about somebody going around the backend, for me, and it's never happened to me, thank God, and I don't really, really expect it. It's not a real concern but Jill's right, if they're good deals, if they're good deals, there's no reason, especially if they're in the same county, just tie them all up with an escrow agent, get an escrow- [crosstalk 00:02:42]

Jill K DeWit:
Or you can just have a signed purchase agreement. [crosstalk 00:02:43]

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. You have to have a- [crosstalk 00:02:44]

Jill K DeWit:
And it depends on how it is- [crosstalk 00:02:44].

Steven Jack Butala:
You have to have a PA.

Jill K DeWit:
Even just a signed purchase agreement, Mitchell, is enough for you to double check your work and not go that far. Because, honestly, I would prefer you do it this way than, you don't want to open escrow on 10 of them and buy one because now this escrow agent is tired of you, because they started the process on 10 and you only do one. So, you want to move forward when you're really feeling good about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Feel great about the price, you go for it. That's why we have, would you do the deal section in Discord, so you can get everybody's opinion. And chances are, somebody in Discord or on the Thursday member call, chances are, somebody will really have a good local knowledge of what the deals looks like and whether or not you're going to make any money. Today's topic,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Career Path Starts Next Month in January (LA 1654)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
And welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how career path starts, next month in January. And I've just been told that this has the possibility of being inspirational.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. I hope all our shows are, in some way.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Waiting for it, waiting for the teleprompter. Mitchell says, my second mailer is working. We have three good sellers who reach out to us, I would like to reach out to a local land agent and get his opinion on them. Do I need these tied up prior to speaking with said agent or is it okay to probe them, as I'm working with the seller? Oh, I would have them tied up. I want them to be that good. And you know what? Because things could go wrong. You don't know said agent and they don't know you. And so, I'll tell you what I personally do, Mitchell, I personally say, even though I only have a signed purchase agreement, I'm very vague about it with the agents, as far as how long I am in the process, because they don't know, I could have been in escrow for three weeks and it's still going to take three more weeks to close, kind of thing, they don't know that.

Jill K DeWit:
But I do say, I'm getting ready to close on this deal, can you look at it please? And that tells them it's tied up, it leaves them with that impression and they usually don't do anything more than that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Those are exactly right. So, it's all about the conversation you have with that agent. And the agent could be, 65 years old or they could be 22 years old, it's not that they... it's the tone and how you handle it. So, there's no real secret way that a real estate agent can call the county clerk or anyone at the county and get inside information. So, when you go on the website, let's say, you actually buy the property, then you call the agent. It's not going to show up anywhere on the website, like realtor.com or Zillow, as an ownership record, for quite some time. Sometimes years, sometimes it's months. I used to really worry about somebody going around the backend, for me, and it's never happened to me, thank God, and I don't really, really expect it. It's not a real concern but Jill's right, if they're good deals, if they're good deals, there's no reason, especially if they're in the same county, just tie them all up with an escrow agent, get an escrow- [crosstalk 00:02:42]

Jill K DeWit:
Or you can just have a signed purchase agreement. [crosstalk 00:02:43]

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. You have to have a- [crosstalk 00:02:44]

Jill K DeWit:
And it depends on how it is- [crosstalk 00:02:44].

Steven Jack Butala:
You have to have a PA.

Jill K DeWit:
Even just a signed purchase agreement, Mitchell, is enough for you to double check your work and not go that far. Because, honestly, I would prefer you do it this way than, you don't want to open escrow on 10 of them and buy one because now this escrow agent is tired of you, because they started the process on 10 and you only do one. So, you want to move forward when you're really feeling good about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Feel great about the price, you go for it. That's why we have, would you do the deal section in Discord, so you can get everybody's opinion. And chances are, somebody in Discord or on the Thursday member call, chances are, somebody will really have a good local knowledge of what the deals looks like and whether or not you're going to make any money. Today's topic,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/14/career-path-starts-next-month-in-january-la-1654/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aXlxevxqn</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:57:04 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/18ba3fe1-633a-4b24-a0f2-4577a3be51bc.mp3" length="18889110" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How One Land Academy Member Nets $75,000 per Month (LA 1653)</title><itunes:title>How One Land Academy Member Nets $75,000 per Month (LA 1653)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How One Land Academy Member Nets $75,000 per Month (LA 1653)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Speaker 2:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show: Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Speaker 2:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from not so sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how one Land Academy member nets 75000 bucks a month.

Speaker 2:
You know, I would first like to start with what we just talked about 30 seconds before we rolled. It's a blustery day. You don't like the sweatshirt look?

Steven Butala:
Oh, Jill, you don't have to explain. You of all people do not have to explain one thing to like anybody on this planet-

Speaker 2:
I like my little-

Steven Butala:
Least of all-

Speaker 2:
Cozy sweatshirt.

Steven Butala:
Me.

Speaker 2:
Well, here's the thing [crosstalk 00:00:40]

Steven Butala:
I was just asking you about what it's all about.

Speaker 2:
Well, I'm wearing a sweatshirt because it's a cold day, and I like to be all comfy in a sweatshirt, however, you could still say I have a butt and a waist because I'm wearing the right jeans, I hope.

Steven Butala:
You have a butt and a waist?

Speaker 2:
Yes. You can still see it. That's the thing if you wear ... What's really bad is if you wear a long sweatshirt, or a long sweater, and then like no one can see anything. You're like a big ball of fluff, and then like little legs stick out like leggings. That I don't like that look, and I won't do that look.

Steven Butala:
Like you just lose all shape?

Speaker 2:
Yes.

Steven Butala:
These are things that men have ... It's never crossed a man's mind.

Speaker 2:
Cinder block on sticks don't want that look. Anyway.

Steven Butala:
Oh my gosh. How we veer so far from land so quickly.

Speaker 2:
Well, you know.

Steven Butala:
Anyway. This topic today, very briefly, this is a real story, we're not going to use any names or locations or any of that stuff, about a member that we have who was actually at the live event, and a pretty lengthy presentation about-

Speaker 2:
Oh, great. Now, you're narrowing it down.

Steven Butala:
His business model. And the reason that I'm bringing it up today is because no ones forgotten it. It's constantly this undertone of-

Speaker 2:
True.

Steven Butala:
"Well, I want to be like X. I need to do more like X. Member X has all this figured out." So, I want to kind of get into this, and figure out if it's actually a unicorn, what's real about it, what's unreal about it. I mean, and I'll tell you it's 80% positive, and we'll talk about the positive and negatives, but we still have to do deals. It's not like you're choosing to do ... I'll describe his business model in great detail.

Speaker 2:
I'm sure you will.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Speaker 2:
Aroldo ... I can never pronounce this name, I'm sorry.

Steven Butala:
You got it.

Speaker 2:
Aroldo asks, "For our first mailer should we keep the letter exactly as the download on Offers2Owners? I think it's all great especially for the sentence that says, 'We are partners with landstay.com who have been in business for 20 plus years, and have successfully completed 10s of thousands of purchases like this one.' I think that would help us with credibility. My gut just tells me to keep it simple and to just send it as it is to make it easy on myself. Any thoughts?"

Speaker 2:
Look at that. Well, I see one of our members on here already weighed in. Member and moderator Kevin said, "Aroldo leave it the way it is until you know enough to change for some reason. In three years I've only made a couple of very minor changes."

Speaker 2:
There you go. There's something to be said with aligning yourself. Well, A: Transparency. Number one, you never want to say it's you if it's not really you, and if you really are aligned with us,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How One Land Academy Member Nets $75,000 per Month (LA 1653)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Speaker 2:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show: Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Speaker 2:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from not so sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how one Land Academy member nets 75000 bucks a month.

Speaker 2:
You know, I would first like to start with what we just talked about 30 seconds before we rolled. It's a blustery day. You don't like the sweatshirt look?

Steven Butala:
Oh, Jill, you don't have to explain. You of all people do not have to explain one thing to like anybody on this planet-

Speaker 2:
I like my little-

Steven Butala:
Least of all-

Speaker 2:
Cozy sweatshirt.

Steven Butala:
Me.

Speaker 2:
Well, here's the thing [crosstalk 00:00:40]

Steven Butala:
I was just asking you about what it's all about.

Speaker 2:
Well, I'm wearing a sweatshirt because it's a cold day, and I like to be all comfy in a sweatshirt, however, you could still say I have a butt and a waist because I'm wearing the right jeans, I hope.

Steven Butala:
You have a butt and a waist?

Speaker 2:
Yes. You can still see it. That's the thing if you wear ... What's really bad is if you wear a long sweatshirt, or a long sweater, and then like no one can see anything. You're like a big ball of fluff, and then like little legs stick out like leggings. That I don't like that look, and I won't do that look.

Steven Butala:
Like you just lose all shape?

Speaker 2:
Yes.

Steven Butala:
These are things that men have ... It's never crossed a man's mind.

Speaker 2:
Cinder block on sticks don't want that look. Anyway.

Steven Butala:
Oh my gosh. How we veer so far from land so quickly.

Speaker 2:
Well, you know.

Steven Butala:
Anyway. This topic today, very briefly, this is a real story, we're not going to use any names or locations or any of that stuff, about a member that we have who was actually at the live event, and a pretty lengthy presentation about-

Speaker 2:
Oh, great. Now, you're narrowing it down.

Steven Butala:
His business model. And the reason that I'm bringing it up today is because no ones forgotten it. It's constantly this undertone of-

Speaker 2:
True.

Steven Butala:
"Well, I want to be like X. I need to do more like X. Member X has all this figured out." So, I want to kind of get into this, and figure out if it's actually a unicorn, what's real about it, what's unreal about it. I mean, and I'll tell you it's 80% positive, and we'll talk about the positive and negatives, but we still have to do deals. It's not like you're choosing to do ... I'll describe his business model in great detail.

Speaker 2:
I'm sure you will.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Speaker 2:
Aroldo ... I can never pronounce this name, I'm sorry.

Steven Butala:
You got it.

Speaker 2:
Aroldo asks, "For our first mailer should we keep the letter exactly as the download on Offers2Owners? I think it's all great especially for the sentence that says, 'We are partners with landstay.com who have been in business for 20 plus years, and have successfully completed 10s of thousands of purchases like this one.' I think that would help us with credibility. My gut just tells me to keep it simple and to just send it as it is to make it easy on myself. Any thoughts?"

Speaker 2:
Look at that. Well, I see one of our members on here already weighed in. Member and moderator Kevin said, "Aroldo leave it the way it is until you know enough to change for some reason. In three years I've only made a couple of very minor changes."

Speaker 2:
There you go. There's something to be said with aligning yourself. Well, A: Transparency. Number one, you never want to say it's you if it's not really you, and if you really are aligned with us,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/13/how-one-land-academy-member-nets-75000-per-month-la-1653/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">a7IGk0jvi</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:04:08 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1413681b-3a64-447d-9858-0e69b1511d92.mp3" length="11080644" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Identifying with vs Emulating Rich People (LA 1652)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Identifying with vs Emulating Rich People (LA 1652)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Identifying with vs Emulating Rich People (LA 1652)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and ... Well, it's Jill Friday, and Jill's going to talk about identifying with versus emulate rich people.

Jill DeWit:
Do you want me tell you where this came from now?

Steven Jack Butala:
I would love to.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So here's how this topic came about. I'm laying in bed, on my tablet, like most nights. And I'm just looking and I'm just looking at news articles and I jump into different things, and then I'm in Facebook and I'm like, "Here we go again. Grant Cardone got another airplane." I'm like, "How many times are we going to see this?" I'm like, "He went from the Rolls Royce, now he's kind of off that."

Steven Jack Butala:
[crosstalk 00:00:48].

Jill DeWit:
It was a lot of that for a little while, the Phantom. And the lights in the ceiling, we all saw that, and driving around and ... Okay, whatever. Now we moved on to ... Apparently I think he got a new airplane, he upped his airplane. And I'm like, "How?" And there's a picture of him and his wife and everything in there. And I'm just like, "Who does that sing to, because it doesn't sing to me."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it turns me off too.

Jill DeWit:
That's kind of where I am. And if you notice about us, you don't really see us. We're not doing that. And I don't have a Bentley or Rolls Royce. And even if I did, I think I would attract the wrong people.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
I would not want to do that. There's stuff to have fun and share and things, but then there's times you're just like ... It's just, like I said, it sends the wrong message.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's take a question.

Jill DeWit:
We'll talk about it. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree with everything you're saying, times 80.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Daniel wrote, "Thanks so kindly for your expertise and especially the call I had with you last year, Kevin Farrell." Oh, this is for Kevin. "The confidence I have gained with you as a mentor has led to a profit of around $90,000 in one month." Oh my gosh. This must be Kevin's reply.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, this is all one thing.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, the same thing. And he put, "Thanks so kindly. As you can imagine, it was a Thanksgiving for the record books, a 2225% return. God bless you and your family, my friend." Aww.

Steven Jack Butala:
That was a good little Friday motivational ad for you.

Jill DeWit:
Holy moly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every time I make a bunch of money in one month, I multiply times 12 and see if it's going to be a good year. And honestly-

Jill DeWit:
It sets the stage.

Steven Jack Butala:
... that next month becomes my thing.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Now I got to keep doing that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I know I can do it. I got to do it again. Aww, that's so ... And Kevin's awesome, that's wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about identifying with versus emulating rich people. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Even with our friends, we don't walk around talking about it. "You know how much money I made last month?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
"Do you know how much money I made on this deal? Do you know how much money this did or that did," or something like that? I don't do that. We don't do that.

Jill DeWit:
And he's dropping a number,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Identifying with vs Emulating Rich People (LA 1652)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and ... Well, it's Jill Friday, and Jill's going to talk about identifying with versus emulate rich people.

Jill DeWit:
Do you want me tell you where this came from now?

Steven Jack Butala:
I would love to.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So here's how this topic came about. I'm laying in bed, on my tablet, like most nights. And I'm just looking and I'm just looking at news articles and I jump into different things, and then I'm in Facebook and I'm like, "Here we go again. Grant Cardone got another airplane." I'm like, "How many times are we going to see this?" I'm like, "He went from the Rolls Royce, now he's kind of off that."

Steven Jack Butala:
[crosstalk 00:00:48].

Jill DeWit:
It was a lot of that for a little while, the Phantom. And the lights in the ceiling, we all saw that, and driving around and ... Okay, whatever. Now we moved on to ... Apparently I think he got a new airplane, he upped his airplane. And I'm like, "How?" And there's a picture of him and his wife and everything in there. And I'm just like, "Who does that sing to, because it doesn't sing to me."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, it turns me off too.

Jill DeWit:
That's kind of where I am. And if you notice about us, you don't really see us. We're not doing that. And I don't have a Bentley or Rolls Royce. And even if I did, I think I would attract the wrong people.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
I would not want to do that. There's stuff to have fun and share and things, but then there's times you're just like ... It's just, like I said, it sends the wrong message.

Steven Jack Butala:
Let's take a question.

Jill DeWit:
We'll talk about it. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
I agree with everything you're saying, times 80.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Daniel wrote, "Thanks so kindly for your expertise and especially the call I had with you last year, Kevin Farrell." Oh, this is for Kevin. "The confidence I have gained with you as a mentor has led to a profit of around $90,000 in one month." Oh my gosh. This must be Kevin's reply.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, this is all one thing.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, the same thing. And he put, "Thanks so kindly. As you can imagine, it was a Thanksgiving for the record books, a 2225% return. God bless you and your family, my friend." Aww.

Steven Jack Butala:
That was a good little Friday motivational ad for you.

Jill DeWit:
Holy moly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Every time I make a bunch of money in one month, I multiply times 12 and see if it's going to be a good year. And honestly-

Jill DeWit:
It sets the stage.

Steven Jack Butala:
... that next month becomes my thing.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Now I got to keep doing that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I know I can do it. I got to do it again. Aww, that's so ... And Kevin's awesome, that's wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about identifying with versus emulating rich people. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Even with our friends, we don't walk around talking about it. "You know how much money I made last month?"

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
"Do you know how much money I made on this deal? Do you know how much money this did or that did," or something like that? I don't do that. We don't do that.

Jill DeWit:
And he's dropping a number,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/10/jill-friday-identifying-with-vs-emulating-rich-people-la-1652/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">0xQKnMBrj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:52:06 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9c943046-53d4-4dc4-a952-733aeb64a5a7.mp3" length="14732429" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Breaking My Own Rules Equals Personal Growth (LA 1651)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Breaking My Own Rules Equals Personal Growth (LA 1651)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Breaking My Own Rules Equals Personal Growth (LA 1651)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how I break my own rules constantly, but it actually equals personal growth.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay when you do it. It's not okay when I break your rules.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know how when you're watching, yeah. If anybody's going to break my rules, it's me.

Jill DeWit:
That's right. That's the only one.

Steven Jack Butala:
The same thing happens if I try to break your rules.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Number three and I know that. Don't do that to dad.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know how you, absolutely. You fast forward through whatever you're watching on Netflix, or Amazon, or Hulu, no matter how short it is-

Jill DeWit:
Like people do to this show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I wonder if they listen to it at times four.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Then they can detect when we say land.

Jill DeWit:
And then tune in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like, not yet.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all being fast-forwarded through.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the trigger, if you're fast forwarding. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by [crosstalk 00:01:09].

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's a trigger? Oh, got it. Slow down now. Oh, my gosh. All right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I had somebody email me two years ago and they said, "Look, I know what you're trying to do here, and the only real value to any of this is the question that you answer. So, can you please edit all that down, and the whole show can just be-"

Jill DeWit:
The question.

Steven Jack Butala:
"100 questions in a row, and save me a lot of time?" And I said, "Sure, absolutely. I'm happy to do that. I'll let you know on Thursday."

Jill DeWit:
That was not visible on iTunes, so we could still keep our rating.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like. People say, people want stuff free. Did you ever notice since the internet kicked in, because we're old enough to know a time before the internet-

Jill DeWit:
Uh-oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Where nobody expected stuff for free?

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody expects everything to just be free.

Jill DeWit:
I know. You're not wrong. Charlie wrote, "Does my bookkeeper need knowledge of the land business to be a good fit for us? I'm just looking for something that's cost effective for my relatively small number of transactions. I talked to Anderson Business Advisors, but I don't think my one to two properties per month warrants $170 minimum per month in bookkeeping. Maybe I'm wrong." Such a great question.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a great question, Charlie.

Jill DeWit:
Especially, end of year here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, you're 100% right on everything you said. I actually have some experience in this. Here's what you want to do. And this is a whole module in Land Academy 3.0, which is coming out in January, about your business, setting up your business correctly. I realized that we never really-

Jill DeWit:
Talked about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
In the formal education.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is what I want you to do. I want you to make sure you have another bank account that's separate, and I want you to put some money in there from your personal bank account. Let's say $30,000, $40,000, or whatever number you're comfortable with. And all the revenue and expenses that you incur in your business, I don't care if it's building a website, or getting a phone number, or all the other things that are necessary to send a mailer out,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Breaking My Own Rules Equals Personal Growth (LA 1651)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how I break my own rules constantly, but it actually equals personal growth.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay when you do it. It's not okay when I break your rules.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know how when you're watching, yeah. If anybody's going to break my rules, it's me.

Jill DeWit:
That's right. That's the only one.

Steven Jack Butala:
The same thing happens if I try to break your rules.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Number three and I know that. Don't do that to dad.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know how you, absolutely. You fast forward through whatever you're watching on Netflix, or Amazon, or Hulu, no matter how short it is-

Jill DeWit:
Like people do to this show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I wonder if they listen to it at times four.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Then they can detect when we say land.

Jill DeWit:
And then tune in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Like, not yet.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is all being fast-forwarded through.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the trigger, if you're fast forwarding. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by [crosstalk 00:01:09].

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's a trigger? Oh, got it. Slow down now. Oh, my gosh. All right.

Steven Jack Butala:
I had somebody email me two years ago and they said, "Look, I know what you're trying to do here, and the only real value to any of this is the question that you answer. So, can you please edit all that down, and the whole show can just be-"

Jill DeWit:
The question.

Steven Jack Butala:
"100 questions in a row, and save me a lot of time?" And I said, "Sure, absolutely. I'm happy to do that. I'll let you know on Thursday."

Jill DeWit:
That was not visible on iTunes, so we could still keep our rating.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like. People say, people want stuff free. Did you ever notice since the internet kicked in, because we're old enough to know a time before the internet-

Jill DeWit:
Uh-oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Where nobody expected stuff for free?

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody expects everything to just be free.

Jill DeWit:
I know. You're not wrong. Charlie wrote, "Does my bookkeeper need knowledge of the land business to be a good fit for us? I'm just looking for something that's cost effective for my relatively small number of transactions. I talked to Anderson Business Advisors, but I don't think my one to two properties per month warrants $170 minimum per month in bookkeeping. Maybe I'm wrong." Such a great question.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a great question, Charlie.

Jill DeWit:
Especially, end of year here.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, you're 100% right on everything you said. I actually have some experience in this. Here's what you want to do. And this is a whole module in Land Academy 3.0, which is coming out in January, about your business, setting up your business correctly. I realized that we never really-

Jill DeWit:
Talked about it.

Steven Jack Butala:
In the formal education.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is what I want you to do. I want you to make sure you have another bank account that's separate, and I want you to put some money in there from your personal bank account. Let's say $30,000, $40,000, or whatever number you're comfortable with. And all the revenue and expenses that you incur in your business, I don't care if it's building a website, or getting a phone number, or all the other things that are necessary to send a mailer out,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/09/jack-thursday-breaking-my-own-rules-equals-personal-growth-la-1651/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zzM4QXgMS</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 22:58:09 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/03380f84-5cd6-49a3-badb-00c5680a2957.mp3" length="15913937" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>We Now Use Real Estate Agents or Fixed Price MLS on Every Deal (HA 1650)</title><itunes:title>We Now Use Real Estate Agents or Fixed Price MLS on Every Deal (HA 1650)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





We Now Use Real Estate Agents or Fixed Price MLS on Every Deal (HA 1650)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. I'm sorry, the House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit. And we're putting up with his allergies again. Broadcasting from the valley of sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how we now use real estate agents or fixed price MLS on every deal.
Jill DeWit:I'm going to do that every time. There's something oh, sorry. Allergies.
Steven Jack Butala:Nobody knows what you mean now though.
Jill DeWit:Well, if you listened Monday and Tuesday, you do.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill DeWit:Okay. So you have to go back and listen. It's funny.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Amy T wrote, "Just starting out in Land Academy and in the process of watching all the wonderful videos. Would the more experienced members suggest starting out with an inexpensive land and make some mistakes before moving to infill lots?" What did they say?
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, I want you to answer please.
Jill DeWit:Oh, what do I think?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. What would you do? If you're brand new? You're into it, she's into it. What do you do? You buy little properties and just see what happens or do you buy bigger properties and kind of go for it?
Jill DeWit:Comfort zone. I think it's your comfort zone. Because some people walk into, this is how I roll, I'm going to walk in saying, "Oh, I got this. Good, bad or otherwise, I'm going to make it happen." My head might be a little too big in some situations but I walk in with a lot of confidence in a lot of situations, most and say, "All right, what's the fastest way for me to take what I know right now and make some real money?" So if that's my attitude, I'm going to go right away, start following the steps and I'm going to mail out and go for some bigger properties, knowing that doesn't matter how much money I have, because there's plenty of people on this group that is going to fund it. I'm going to find a rocking deal. I'm going to use somebody else's money. I'm going to make 50 grand on my first deal and split it with the guy and now I got 25, then I'm going to do it again and again. Now I got a hundred thousand. I'm going to go, "All right. Now, what do I want to do? How do I want to do this? Do I want to fund somebody else?" That's how I want to go.
Jill DeWit:But not everyone has that confidence. They're like, "I don't know. I'm nervous. I do want to make sure I like it. I do want to make sure that this is for me, because there's a lot of moving parts. I like your idea, the way you guys did it. I've got $10,000 set aside. I'm going to buy 10 $1,000 properties. I'm going to double those and then I'm going to get all the kinks out and now I'm going to go do what that guy did or what Jill did kind of thing, whatever." So I don't think there's a wrong way, it's just whatever you're comfortable with.
Steven Jack Butala:I've never in my life accomplished anything worthwhile within my comfort zone. I'm going through this right now, because I'm recording Land Academy 3.0 for release in January and I'm breezing through it, quite honestly. And here's why, because when we did the first one, the Cashflow from Land Program in 2015, we had a very, very low budget. If you watch it, you can see that. And I had to-
Jill DeWit:I'm sorry.
Steven Jack Butala:I had to at my age.
Jill DeWit:I'm so sorry. No, it was not recorded on our cell phones.
Steven Jack Butala:Not that this is real high budget, but.
Jill DeWit:This is true. Yeah. What's changed?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





We Now Use Real Estate Agents or Fixed Price MLS on Every Deal (HA 1650)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. I'm sorry, the House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit. And we're putting up with his allergies again. Broadcasting from the valley of sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how we now use real estate agents or fixed price MLS on every deal.
Jill DeWit:I'm going to do that every time. There's something oh, sorry. Allergies.
Steven Jack Butala:Nobody knows what you mean now though.
Jill DeWit:Well, if you listened Monday and Tuesday, you do.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill DeWit:Okay. So you have to go back and listen. It's funny.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Amy T wrote, "Just starting out in Land Academy and in the process of watching all the wonderful videos. Would the more experienced members suggest starting out with an inexpensive land and make some mistakes before moving to infill lots?" What did they say?
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, I want you to answer please.
Jill DeWit:Oh, what do I think?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. What would you do? If you're brand new? You're into it, she's into it. What do you do? You buy little properties and just see what happens or do you buy bigger properties and kind of go for it?
Jill DeWit:Comfort zone. I think it's your comfort zone. Because some people walk into, this is how I roll, I'm going to walk in saying, "Oh, I got this. Good, bad or otherwise, I'm going to make it happen." My head might be a little too big in some situations but I walk in with a lot of confidence in a lot of situations, most and say, "All right, what's the fastest way for me to take what I know right now and make some real money?" So if that's my attitude, I'm going to go right away, start following the steps and I'm going to mail out and go for some bigger properties, knowing that doesn't matter how much money I have, because there's plenty of people on this group that is going to fund it. I'm going to find a rocking deal. I'm going to use somebody else's money. I'm going to make 50 grand on my first deal and split it with the guy and now I got 25, then I'm going to do it again and again. Now I got a hundred thousand. I'm going to go, "All right. Now, what do I want to do? How do I want to do this? Do I want to fund somebody else?" That's how I want to go.
Jill DeWit:But not everyone has that confidence. They're like, "I don't know. I'm nervous. I do want to make sure I like it. I do want to make sure that this is for me, because there's a lot of moving parts. I like your idea, the way you guys did it. I've got $10,000 set aside. I'm going to buy 10 $1,000 properties. I'm going to double those and then I'm going to get all the kinks out and now I'm going to go do what that guy did or what Jill did kind of thing, whatever." So I don't think there's a wrong way, it's just whatever you're comfortable with.
Steven Jack Butala:I've never in my life accomplished anything worthwhile within my comfort zone. I'm going through this right now, because I'm recording Land Academy 3.0 for release in January and I'm breezing through it, quite honestly. And here's why, because when we did the first one, the Cashflow from Land Program in 2015, we had a very, very low budget. If you watch it, you can see that. And I had to-
Jill DeWit:I'm sorry.
Steven Jack Butala:I had to at my age.
Jill DeWit:I'm so sorry. No, it was not recorded on our cell phones.
Steven Jack Butala:Not that this is real high budget, but.
Jill DeWit:This is true. Yeah. What's changed?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/08/we-now-use-real-estate-agents-or-fixed-price-mls-on-every-deal-ha-1650/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">g1MAGxP6W</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:51:43 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7fd5492a-9ef7-4d99-a4b9-1c67399741af.mp3" length="21515039" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>We Now Price above 60 percent (LA 1649)</title><itunes:title>We Now Price above 60 percent (LA 1649)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[We Now Price above 60 percent (LA 1649)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how we now price a lot of our mailers above 60%.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to say, I noticed the other day you were showing me our podcast numbers and how well they're doing and how many people were gaining. And I took a step back and I thought, I wonder why? And it made me think about all the children that are using this at night to fall asleep.

Steven Jack Butala:
I almost spit my coffee all over your face.

Jill DeWit:
All the parents of those children who are turning us on to lull their children to sleep. You're welcome.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a conversation that Jill and I had right before we just threw the microphones on. We had a house full of people for Thanksgiving for several days. And so we watched them work and all the stuff we did.

Jill DeWit:
One of them worked.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Let's be honest.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so he's watching this regular biweekly webinar that this guy holds about investing in stocks. I wish I knew his name, and I was so impressed. I'm like, God, this guy really knows his stuff. He's a former CPA for a big three accounting firm. He's got gray hair, he's got allergies, and he wasn't really [crosstalk 00:01:24] no sidekick. And his allergies, he's just, hold on. He's like, hold on a second. Then he would go off the screen and come back. And it was clear he just blew his brains out.

Jill DeWit:
Totally serious?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
He muted and then you had to wait there for a minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I asked the guy that was staying with him, so I'm like, what's that? He's like, oh, yeah, he has allergies regularly. So whatever, and it was all business. It was all about the stock market. I think the stock market's going to do this. I think this sector, and this is why with graphs and the screenshots. And I'm like, you know what? People that want to buy and sell land are not getting that from this show.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I'm like, we've mellowed so far this week. He's like, well, then, maybe we should be. I'm like, oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's why this show works, because if I did a show, it would be like that guy's show and six people would watch it. If Jill did a show, it would be like the Bugs Bunny show.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. It would be like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
So there's something in between. And I don't know if that's good. I don't know if ... I don't know [crosstalk 00:02:29] Yeah. Let us know. Based on the people that join Land Academy, I think we're attracting the right people.

Jill DeWit:
Right. They are very smart. They suffer through me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. They listen to a whole 20 in show and get three sentences of valuable information.

Jill DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
If you need to say excuse me and clear your throat or anything, go right ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It really angers you, doesn't it?

Jill DeWit:
No, no. Apparently, it's okay because that guy does it. That's what I think is so funny. All right. Tony wrote, "Looking to get estimated selling price per acre in Blank County, Texas. They do not have many properties for sale and have a few signed purchase agreements. Most of the properties are between six and 12 acres. Any support or experience for selling in this county ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[We Now Price above 60 percent (LA 1649)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how we now price a lot of our mailers above 60%.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to say, I noticed the other day you were showing me our podcast numbers and how well they're doing and how many people were gaining. And I took a step back and I thought, I wonder why? And it made me think about all the children that are using this at night to fall asleep.

Steven Jack Butala:
I almost spit my coffee all over your face.

Jill DeWit:
All the parents of those children who are turning us on to lull their children to sleep. You're welcome.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's a conversation that Jill and I had right before we just threw the microphones on. We had a house full of people for Thanksgiving for several days. And so we watched them work and all the stuff we did.

Jill DeWit:
One of them worked.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Let's be honest.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so he's watching this regular biweekly webinar that this guy holds about investing in stocks. I wish I knew his name, and I was so impressed. I'm like, God, this guy really knows his stuff. He's a former CPA for a big three accounting firm. He's got gray hair, he's got allergies, and he wasn't really [crosstalk 00:01:24] no sidekick. And his allergies, he's just, hold on. He's like, hold on a second. Then he would go off the screen and come back. And it was clear he just blew his brains out.

Jill DeWit:
Totally serious?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
He muted and then you had to wait there for a minute.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
And I asked the guy that was staying with him, so I'm like, what's that? He's like, oh, yeah, he has allergies regularly. So whatever, and it was all business. It was all about the stock market. I think the stock market's going to do this. I think this sector, and this is why with graphs and the screenshots. And I'm like, you know what? People that want to buy and sell land are not getting that from this show.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I'm like, we've mellowed so far this week. He's like, well, then, maybe we should be. I'm like, oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's why this show works, because if I did a show, it would be like that guy's show and six people would watch it. If Jill did a show, it would be like the Bugs Bunny show.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. It would be like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
So there's something in between. And I don't know if that's good. I don't know if ... I don't know [crosstalk 00:02:29] Yeah. Let us know. Based on the people that join Land Academy, I think we're attracting the right people.

Jill DeWit:
Right. They are very smart. They suffer through me.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. They listen to a whole 20 in show and get three sentences of valuable information.

Jill DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
If you need to say excuse me and clear your throat or anything, go right ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
I know.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
It really angers you, doesn't it?

Jill DeWit:
No, no. Apparently, it's okay because that guy does it. That's what I think is so funny. All right. Tony wrote, "Looking to get estimated selling price per acre in Blank County, Texas. They do not have many properties for sale and have a few signed purchase agreements. Most of the properties are between six and 12 acres. Any support or experience for selling in this county ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/07/we-now-price-above-60-percent-la-1649/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">63fain8ri</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:03:14 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ee1dae31-1b01-4dd1-a2da-b4cc42cf133e.mp3" length="19894772" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>We Now Site Visit on Our Own Properties (LA 1648)</title><itunes:title>We Now Site Visit on Our Own Properties (LA 1648)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[We Now Site Visit on Our Own Properties (LA 1648)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, we now visit all of our properties.

Jill DeWit:
The ones we can get to. Wait, wait, I want to call this AK... What'd you call this week?

Steven Jack Butala:
I called it breaking our own rules.

Jill DeWit:
I call it eating our words week.

Steven Jack Butala:
This week we're going to talk all about how really, what we're talking about is how our business model has evolved.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
But yeah, I mean, stuff that we talked about on the show like a thousand episodes ago. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't listen to that. This is better.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny. We started land academy seven years ago now. I don't even... Going on seven years, I think, ago. But you started this business model in the nineties.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
So, there's been several changes over the decades-

Steven Jack Butala:
Lot of changes last week.

Jill DeWit:
... that we've been in this business. Exactly. Just like parenting, I got used to saying, "Not my kid," and then of course, it's my kid. I'm now saying that to you. "Oh, we don't do that," and I'm saying, "Yeah, now we do."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our staff is famous for saying, "Three weeks of ago you guys said we were supposed to do this, this, this and this."

Jill DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that was three weeks ago.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. That changed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
[Yuri 00:01:42] wrote, "Got an accepted offer for a really weird parcel. It's 4.5 acres. It's a 4.5 acre island in the middle of a river. I was wondering if anyone had any experience dealing with properties like this." These are great. I have. Yeah. We have. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
A lot of people, including me, had a lot to say on discord about this. And I said, "I love these types of properties," but here's the thing. They're almost never buildable.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
They have no access. All the things that we say... Again, this falls under all the stuff we... We say, "Never buy property that doesn't have access," and all of that. Yeah. This is never buildable. It's not going to be buildable, that it doesn't have access, but it's so unique that people love these types of-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love to fish, and for five grand, I'd pick up a property like this just to say, "I own it." As long as the taxes aren't too small.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Maybe I use it two or three times-

Jill DeWit:
A year.

Steven Jack Butala:
... a year. And maybe I print the plat map up, frame it, put it in my office, and say, "I own an island."

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the thing with these properties. They have to be crazy cheap, and you need to really disclose that, as my research shows, no access, super cool property, no access or boat access only, you're never going to develop on it.

Jill DeWit:
And half of it floods-

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
... twice a year.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
You know, something like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Completely. All the way over. Right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This case, this property was in Missouri, and it freezes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Honestly, if the river freezes over, it's one of those situations,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[We Now Site Visit on Our Own Properties (LA 1648)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, we now visit all of our properties.

Jill DeWit:
The ones we can get to. Wait, wait, I want to call this AK... What'd you call this week?

Steven Jack Butala:
I called it breaking our own rules.

Jill DeWit:
I call it eating our words week.

Steven Jack Butala:
This week we're going to talk all about how really, what we're talking about is how our business model has evolved.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
But yeah, I mean, stuff that we talked about on the show like a thousand episodes ago. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Don't listen to that. This is better.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny. We started land academy seven years ago now. I don't even... Going on seven years, I think, ago. But you started this business model in the nineties.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
So, there's been several changes over the decades-

Steven Jack Butala:
Lot of changes last week.

Jill DeWit:
... that we've been in this business. Exactly. Just like parenting, I got used to saying, "Not my kid," and then of course, it's my kid. I'm now saying that to you. "Oh, we don't do that," and I'm saying, "Yeah, now we do."

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our staff is famous for saying, "Three weeks of ago you guys said we were supposed to do this, this, this and this."

Jill DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that was three weeks ago.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. That changed.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
[Yuri 00:01:42] wrote, "Got an accepted offer for a really weird parcel. It's 4.5 acres. It's a 4.5 acre island in the middle of a river. I was wondering if anyone had any experience dealing with properties like this." These are great. I have. Yeah. We have. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
A lot of people, including me, had a lot to say on discord about this. And I said, "I love these types of properties," but here's the thing. They're almost never buildable.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
They have no access. All the things that we say... Again, this falls under all the stuff we... We say, "Never buy property that doesn't have access," and all of that. Yeah. This is never buildable. It's not going to be buildable, that it doesn't have access, but it's so unique that people love these types of-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
I love to fish, and for five grand, I'd pick up a property like this just to say, "I own it." As long as the taxes aren't too small.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Maybe I use it two or three times-

Jill DeWit:
A year.

Steven Jack Butala:
... a year. And maybe I print the plat map up, frame it, put it in my office, and say, "I own an island."

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's the thing with these properties. They have to be crazy cheap, and you need to really disclose that, as my research shows, no access, super cool property, no access or boat access only, you're never going to develop on it.

Jill DeWit:
And half of it floods-

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
... twice a year.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
You know, something like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Completely. All the way over. Right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
This case, this property was in Missouri, and it freezes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. There you go.

Steven Jack Butala:
Honestly, if the river freezes over, it's one of those situations,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/06/we-now-site-visit-on-our-own-properties-la-1648/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qPnXCIq6g</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:59:29 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/288e8ace-ea3c-4960-9d44-26e9a1794bd4.mp3" length="13300328" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Doing Deals During the Holidays (LA 1647)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Doing Deals During the Holidays (LA 1647)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Doing Deals During the Holidays (LA 1647)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Stephen and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about doing deals during the holidays.

Jill Dewitt:
My favorite time of year and I will tell you why. I have four things for you to know, and number four is the best, and that's all I'm going to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm not going to tell you now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill Dewitt:
Yu rewrote. Does anyone have a good system in place for handling people who want to be taken off the mailing list in quotes. Between multiple people emailing me and calling me asking me to be removed, without even telling me who they are most of the time, it's difficult to keep track of them at all. I was thinking about digging my offer there with more clear instructions. Thoughts?

Steven Jack Butala:
May I?

Jill Dewitt:
I'm sure we're going to say the same thing. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, number one, it's great that they don't leave a message about who they are and here's why; we haven't talked about this in a really long time and it's something that's very important. The way that this mail merge is done or the way how we do mail merge and how I teach doing this mail merge, which is the mailer itself, is the culmination of me failing at it for 20 years. This is the one thing that works now. I failed and failed and failed and honed in and changed things and did stuff and made changes over here and the result is what we use now, which is why one of the reasons it's successful.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's one of the reasons it's so successful is because most people think you sent out one letter, it doesn't look like it's a chain letter or a form letter, or any of that, the way that it's all put together, most people. They say, "Hey, I got your letter...

Jill Dewitt:
"I got your letter".

Steven Jack Butala:
Go pound sand take me off your list", because they think you just sent it to them, because everybody thinks that they have the greatest property there ever was. The people that are providing the hate here. The fact is they don't and the fact is we don't care. It's just a numbers game for us.

Jill Dewitt:
Correct. Do you need to keep track of them? No.

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill Dewitt:
Do you need to really go through your thing and put a line out through there?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill Dewitt:
No. Are you going to mail him again?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill Dewitt:
Probably not. Or even if you do, who cares? I'm not going to, by the way, if I do mail them again, it's going to be a ways down the road because I'm not going to immediately six months or six weeks hit him again. I'm moving on to a different area. I'm moving on to a different size. I'm moving on to something else. I'm not going to keep track. I don't care about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of all the things you to do in this business, there's a lot of moving parts to it and it can and is extremely profitable once you get all the parts moving together. This is not something you ever need to worry about ever again.

Jill Dewitt:
Totally. You know what? And here's what you do, Yuri on the phone, You don't even say, "whatever", with these people, you do let them think that you are when you talk to them and they say, "I need to be off your list". "I am so sorry. Got it. What's your name? Okay. You know what? I just took care of it. You won't get anything else from me". And then you hang up and then they feel good.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Doing Deals During the Holidays (LA 1647)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Stephen and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about doing deals during the holidays.

Jill Dewitt:
My favorite time of year and I will tell you why. I have four things for you to know, and number four is the best, and that's all I'm going to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm not going to tell you now.

Steven Jack Butala:
Posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com, online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill Dewitt:
Yu rewrote. Does anyone have a good system in place for handling people who want to be taken off the mailing list in quotes. Between multiple people emailing me and calling me asking me to be removed, without even telling me who they are most of the time, it's difficult to keep track of them at all. I was thinking about digging my offer there with more clear instructions. Thoughts?

Steven Jack Butala:
May I?

Jill Dewitt:
I'm sure we're going to say the same thing. Go for it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, number one, it's great that they don't leave a message about who they are and here's why; we haven't talked about this in a really long time and it's something that's very important. The way that this mail merge is done or the way how we do mail merge and how I teach doing this mail merge, which is the mailer itself, is the culmination of me failing at it for 20 years. This is the one thing that works now. I failed and failed and failed and honed in and changed things and did stuff and made changes over here and the result is what we use now, which is why one of the reasons it's successful.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's one of the reasons it's so successful is because most people think you sent out one letter, it doesn't look like it's a chain letter or a form letter, or any of that, the way that it's all put together, most people. They say, "Hey, I got your letter...

Jill Dewitt:
"I got your letter".

Steven Jack Butala:
Go pound sand take me off your list", because they think you just sent it to them, because everybody thinks that they have the greatest property there ever was. The people that are providing the hate here. The fact is they don't and the fact is we don't care. It's just a numbers game for us.

Jill Dewitt:
Correct. Do you need to keep track of them? No.

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill Dewitt:
Do you need to really go through your thing and put a line out through there?

Steven Jack Butala:
No.

Jill Dewitt:
No. Are you going to mail him again?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill Dewitt:
Probably not. Or even if you do, who cares? I'm not going to, by the way, if I do mail them again, it's going to be a ways down the road because I'm not going to immediately six months or six weeks hit him again. I'm moving on to a different area. I'm moving on to a different size. I'm moving on to something else. I'm not going to keep track. I don't care about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Of all the things you to do in this business, there's a lot of moving parts to it and it can and is extremely profitable once you get all the parts moving together. This is not something you ever need to worry about ever again.

Jill Dewitt:
Totally. You know what? And here's what you do, Yuri on the phone, You don't even say, "whatever", with these people, you do let them think that you are when you talk to them and they say, "I need to be off your list". "I am so sorry. Got it. What's your name? Okay. You know what? I just took care of it. You won't get anything else from me". And then you hang up and then they feel good.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/03/jill-friday-doing-deals-during-the-holidays-la-1647/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">P2U5hxByi</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 22:57:19 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7972b164-599e-4159-9575-2e08e80eb50e.mp3" length="13482958" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Your Land Investing Niche Chooses You Not the Other Way Around (LA 1646)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Your Land Investing Niche Chooses You Not the Other Way Around (LA 1646)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Your Land Investing Niche Chooses You Not the Other Way Around (LA 1646)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
... Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining, land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about your land investing niche that actually chooses you, not the other way around. This is not the first time we've discussed this on the show, I guess as is with most things, since we're on episode 1,646.

Jill DeWit:
There might be some duplicates in here.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some overlap.

Jill DeWit:
But you know what, though? I would argue there's a reason they come up, because we've figure out something new. I'm sure on show 646 we had different things to say about niche than we do 1,646, and know that's not a typo.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very common theme that you hear in business all the time, about how the business that you ultimately are involved in, or choose... You think we make all these choices, and honestly, there's a lot of things that just chooses us-

Jill DeWit:
Like women?

Steven Jack Butala:
Like Jill chose me.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. I was just going to say that. Let's see, let's think about, what are a few things that you don't get to choose? You don't get to choose your children.

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, that's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
And you don't get to choose your parents. And you don't get to choose your siblings, I wish I did.

Steven Jack Butala:
But you can choose your friends, which is why you spend the most time with them.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. You can choose where you live. What you drive. You can choose how you look. You can choose your hair color. Wait, what do you have?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know, we'll figure it out as we go here.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, good. That's [inaudible 00:01:54].

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question post about one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comments on the shows you liked.

Jill DeWit:
Anthony wrote, one topic I would like to hear about is what people get... Oh, please. We're having a little, what's the word I'm talking about?

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:20].

Jill DeWit:
Technical error. Okay. One topic I'd like to hear about is how people get wrecked in the land business. Oh, this is hilarious. Especially if you could add a cautionary tale. My take is that staying away from too much leverage is probably the key to not getting wrecked. I like the term wrecked.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:41].

Jill DeWit:
I never use that. It's tempting to finance a purchase or two with credit when your acquisition budget is maxed out. Property values go up and down, most of the time they go up, but if you are over leveraged during a downturn, that debt could be working against you on a leveraged basis. Not saying that we will see a downturn soon, in fact, I see the opposite, with inflation as a dominant narrative ATM, but it's prudent to know where the risks lie.

Steven Jack Butala:
So I've been communicating with Anthony about this, and other things in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Wrecked?

Steven Jack Butala:
I have a lot to say about this.

Jill DeWit:
This is good, go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because Jill and I were just about flat broke in 2009-ish.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which is about the time we met-ish. Prior to that, I had a yacht, and so we really, really, got wrecked by that downturn, and the only reason that we made it out of it, and I say this in every time we do a live event, multiple friends who were in the same business, not necessarily land, but somehow in real estate, in Phoenix at the time, either ended up dead, or filing bankruptcy, or both. And so,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Your Land Investing Niche Chooses You Not the Other Way Around (LA 1646)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
... Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining, land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about your land investing niche that actually chooses you, not the other way around. This is not the first time we've discussed this on the show, I guess as is with most things, since we're on episode 1,646.

Jill DeWit:
There might be some duplicates in here.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some overlap.

Jill DeWit:
But you know what, though? I would argue there's a reason they come up, because we've figure out something new. I'm sure on show 646 we had different things to say about niche than we do 1,646, and know that's not a typo.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a very common theme that you hear in business all the time, about how the business that you ultimately are involved in, or choose... You think we make all these choices, and honestly, there's a lot of things that just chooses us-

Jill DeWit:
Like women?

Steven Jack Butala:
Like Jill chose me.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. I was just going to say that. Let's see, let's think about, what are a few things that you don't get to choose? You don't get to choose your children.

Steven Jack Butala:
Boy, that's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
And you don't get to choose your parents. And you don't get to choose your siblings, I wish I did.

Steven Jack Butala:
But you can choose your friends, which is why you spend the most time with them.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. You can choose where you live. What you drive. You can choose how you look. You can choose your hair color. Wait, what do you have?

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know, we'll figure it out as we go here.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, good. That's [inaudible 00:01:54].

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question post about one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comments on the shows you liked.

Jill DeWit:
Anthony wrote, one topic I would like to hear about is what people get... Oh, please. We're having a little, what's the word I'm talking about?

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:20].

Jill DeWit:
Technical error. Okay. One topic I'd like to hear about is how people get wrecked in the land business. Oh, this is hilarious. Especially if you could add a cautionary tale. My take is that staying away from too much leverage is probably the key to not getting wrecked. I like the term wrecked.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:41].

Jill DeWit:
I never use that. It's tempting to finance a purchase or two with credit when your acquisition budget is maxed out. Property values go up and down, most of the time they go up, but if you are over leveraged during a downturn, that debt could be working against you on a leveraged basis. Not saying that we will see a downturn soon, in fact, I see the opposite, with inflation as a dominant narrative ATM, but it's prudent to know where the risks lie.

Steven Jack Butala:
So I've been communicating with Anthony about this, and other things in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Wrecked?

Steven Jack Butala:
I have a lot to say about this.

Jill DeWit:
This is good, go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because Jill and I were just about flat broke in 2009-ish.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which is about the time we met-ish. Prior to that, I had a yacht, and so we really, really, got wrecked by that downturn, and the only reason that we made it out of it, and I say this in every time we do a live event, multiple friends who were in the same business, not necessarily land, but somehow in real estate, in Phoenix at the time, either ended up dead, or filing bankruptcy, or both. And so,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/02/jack-thursday-your-land-investing-niche-chooses-you-not-the-other-way-around-la-1646/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1JMtO-U0D</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:01:16 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8cd7a502-298f-4026-9335-7dce8318f6fc.mp3" length="18072788" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Affordable Housing vs. Affordable Cadillac Escalades (HA 1645)</title><itunes:title>Affordable Housing vs. Affordable Cadillac Escalades (HA 1645)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Affordable Housing vs. Affordable Cadillac Escalades (HA 1645)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steven and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about affordable housing versus affordable Cadillac Escalades.
Jill DeWit:Do you know before we start, I would like to follow up with something from yesterday, because I'm sure you are dying to know. I checked on Milli Vanilli, and let me tell you what happened here. In case you weren't sure, they were German-French R&B band from Munich founded in 1988. So what all happened everyone? Well, here it is. In July of 1989, they were doing fantastic by the way. I liked them, who didn't like them?
Steven Jack Butala:Me.
Jill DeWit:Okay well. But it was fun, easy to dance to, good music, right? Well, what happened was, they were on stage during an MTV concert and there was something wrong during the audio course. And they found out that they were lip syncing is how it all went down. And I will have to say too, one of them is still with us. One passed on and they actually performed in July of 2021 at some kind of a festival. And if you really want to know how it all panned out, the one, I will tell you, the net worth of the one who is still with us. I don't know his name here. But anyway, the one that's still with us. Oh, Fab Morvan. His net worth is, ready for this, everyone? And you decide if this worked out. $250,000. Not a million. $250,000.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh my gosh.
Jill DeWit:I know, bless his heart.
Steven Jack Butala:I don't know how they know that, but.
Jill DeWit:I know. He lives in France. Well, it's expensive in France. So anyway.
Steven Jack Butala:I don't usually say stuff like this, but we have cars worth more than that.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. Anyway, that's the update from yesterday. I thought that was funny.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Charlie wrote, "I was told today the buyer and seller can use different title companies for the same transaction. Is this right? It came up because I want to use a title company that I bought the property with. But the seller requested a different one." Excuse me. "Anyone ever done this? I guess they're saying, do the title work with their escrow company and use mine for escrow slash closing." I wouldn't do this. Okay. So here's the scoop. Can I cover this?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill DeWit:Alright.
Steven Jack Butala:Because, in all my years-
Jill DeWit:[crosstalk 00:03:00].
Steven Jack Butala:All my years I've never heard of this. It's not like real estate agency.
Jill DeWit:No, you don't. This is not how it goes. You're going to be paying double. If you're hiring. Because if you think you're using their title company for all the work and then your title company's doing something else. They're just acting as your transaction coordinator or doing double. Usually they're just going to go, "What?". They're going to go, "Why are you talking to me?".
Steven Jack Butala:I think the answer to this is no.
Jill DeWit:Right. [crosstalk 00:03:24]
Steven Jack Butala:So everything else that Jill says after this is just information. In a good way. Not in a bad way. She's explaining why. But let's answer the question.
Jill DeWit:No.
Steven Jack Butala:No you don't ever really have two escrow and title companies.
Jill DeWit:No, but let me clarify something, because I think this is where this gets confusing. What I do is I'm going to buy a property with tile insurance. And if I can get a hold open clause or carryover policy,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Affordable Housing vs. Affordable Cadillac Escalades (HA 1645)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steven and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about affordable housing versus affordable Cadillac Escalades.
Jill DeWit:Do you know before we start, I would like to follow up with something from yesterday, because I'm sure you are dying to know. I checked on Milli Vanilli, and let me tell you what happened here. In case you weren't sure, they were German-French R&B band from Munich founded in 1988. So what all happened everyone? Well, here it is. In July of 1989, they were doing fantastic by the way. I liked them, who didn't like them?
Steven Jack Butala:Me.
Jill DeWit:Okay well. But it was fun, easy to dance to, good music, right? Well, what happened was, they were on stage during an MTV concert and there was something wrong during the audio course. And they found out that they were lip syncing is how it all went down. And I will have to say too, one of them is still with us. One passed on and they actually performed in July of 2021 at some kind of a festival. And if you really want to know how it all panned out, the one, I will tell you, the net worth of the one who is still with us. I don't know his name here. But anyway, the one that's still with us. Oh, Fab Morvan. His net worth is, ready for this, everyone? And you decide if this worked out. $250,000. Not a million. $250,000.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh my gosh.
Jill DeWit:I know, bless his heart.
Steven Jack Butala:I don't know how they know that, but.
Jill DeWit:I know. He lives in France. Well, it's expensive in France. So anyway.
Steven Jack Butala:I don't usually say stuff like this, but we have cars worth more than that.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. Anyway, that's the update from yesterday. I thought that was funny.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Charlie wrote, "I was told today the buyer and seller can use different title companies for the same transaction. Is this right? It came up because I want to use a title company that I bought the property with. But the seller requested a different one." Excuse me. "Anyone ever done this? I guess they're saying, do the title work with their escrow company and use mine for escrow slash closing." I wouldn't do this. Okay. So here's the scoop. Can I cover this?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah.
Jill DeWit:Alright.
Steven Jack Butala:Because, in all my years-
Jill DeWit:[crosstalk 00:03:00].
Steven Jack Butala:All my years I've never heard of this. It's not like real estate agency.
Jill DeWit:No, you don't. This is not how it goes. You're going to be paying double. If you're hiring. Because if you think you're using their title company for all the work and then your title company's doing something else. They're just acting as your transaction coordinator or doing double. Usually they're just going to go, "What?". They're going to go, "Why are you talking to me?".
Steven Jack Butala:I think the answer to this is no.
Jill DeWit:Right. [crosstalk 00:03:24]
Steven Jack Butala:So everything else that Jill says after this is just information. In a good way. Not in a bad way. She's explaining why. But let's answer the question.
Jill DeWit:No.
Steven Jack Butala:No you don't ever really have two escrow and title companies.
Jill DeWit:No, but let me clarify something, because I think this is where this gets confusing. What I do is I'm going to buy a property with tile insurance. And if I can get a hold open clause or carryover policy,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/12/01/affordable-housing-vs-affordable-cadillac-escalades-ha-1645/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">CeaNKADRk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 22:35:51 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6c814849-ea22-49ee-b2ce-49b226c88998.mp3" length="21072241" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rational Growth and Cash Flow in the Land Business (LA 1644)</title><itunes:title>Rational Growth and Cash Flow in the Land Business (LA 1644)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Rational Growth and Cash Flow in the Land Business (LA 1644)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about rational growth and cashflow in your land business.

Jill DeWit:
What if I don't want rational? I think I want through the roof growth.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, that's one of the reasons you're the girl for me.

Jill DeWit:
There's nothing rational about anything that I do, is there?Actually, that's a whole nother show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yesterday, we answered a question from a person who said, "I just sent out a thousand mailers. I got five calls back after about two weeks." And you can go back and listen to the question, and the first 10, five calls or whatever were from people that-

Jill DeWit:
Not interested.

Steven Jack Butala:
... We call it the hate. Just get me off the list. So this person, for whatever reason, that is within their comfort zone to send out a thousand mailers.

Jill DeWit:
Our comfort zone is 20,000.

Steven Jack Butala:
20 to 80.

Jill DeWit:
I know. At a time. He just lets them rip, by the way. I don't even know they're coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
Would I do that my first week in the business? No.

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, that's what we're going to talk about here. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy Channel on YouTube and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Luke wrote, "I think it's going to be interesting to start a poll for everyone's average deal timeline from start to finish, meaning from the seller's signature to the end of the buyer's wire hitting the bank. Seems it's been longer with the corona backing up everyone, combined with forbearance ending, to jumpstart more investors buying homes." Is this home related or land related or anything related?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's land. And I know ... This is Luke, right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Which Luke is it?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not the Luke you know.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Got it. All right. So, it's funny because I still have it all over the place. I have deals still where I put a sign in the ground and you go out and take pictures, and you have your photographer. If you're not doing this, please do this. You're in the process of buying the property. So while you're buying the property, you're already getting the photographer out there. So A, you get eyes on it by the way. Get your drone stuff done and you have everything ready to go. So when you own it, man, you can start marketing it right away. So one of the things that we also do too is put a stupid sign in the ground, as silly as this is. And I get calls and I'll sell property with a sign on the ground. I never even get to post a property for sale. So it's kind of all over the map.

Steven Jack Butala:
So let's apply some deconstructive logic here. Jill covered the sales part, as she always does.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. That's all I know. I'm sorry. This is all I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
In every deal, there's constants and variables. So let's very quickly take a look at the variables. Variables are all about you. Well, I'm going to assume you bought it for a great price, because that's what we do here, in a great area that has been vetted through the red, green, yellow test and the whole darn thing. So, you know it's going to sell quickly, and it is. So now you've taken out all the stress of 100% of it. Here's the constants.

Jill DeWit:
Constant. That's a tough word.

Steven Jack Butala:
The constants, S-T-A-N-T-S, I think. The issue is freaking title agent. That's the problem. Because we've had title agents ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Rational Growth and Cash Flow in the Land Business (LA 1644)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about rational growth and cashflow in your land business.

Jill DeWit:
What if I don't want rational? I think I want through the roof growth.

Steven Jack Butala:
Well, that's one of the reasons you're the girl for me.

Jill DeWit:
There's nothing rational about anything that I do, is there?Actually, that's a whole nother show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yesterday, we answered a question from a person who said, "I just sent out a thousand mailers. I got five calls back after about two weeks." And you can go back and listen to the question, and the first 10, five calls or whatever were from people that-

Jill DeWit:
Not interested.

Steven Jack Butala:
... We call it the hate. Just get me off the list. So this person, for whatever reason, that is within their comfort zone to send out a thousand mailers.

Jill DeWit:
Our comfort zone is 20,000.

Steven Jack Butala:
20 to 80.

Jill DeWit:
I know. At a time. He just lets them rip, by the way. I don't even know they're coming.

Steven Jack Butala:
Would I do that my first week in the business? No.

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, that's what we're going to talk about here. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy Channel on YouTube and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Luke wrote, "I think it's going to be interesting to start a poll for everyone's average deal timeline from start to finish, meaning from the seller's signature to the end of the buyer's wire hitting the bank. Seems it's been longer with the corona backing up everyone, combined with forbearance ending, to jumpstart more investors buying homes." Is this home related or land related or anything related?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's land. And I know ... This is Luke, right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Which Luke is it?

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not the Luke you know.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Got it. All right. So, it's funny because I still have it all over the place. I have deals still where I put a sign in the ground and you go out and take pictures, and you have your photographer. If you're not doing this, please do this. You're in the process of buying the property. So while you're buying the property, you're already getting the photographer out there. So A, you get eyes on it by the way. Get your drone stuff done and you have everything ready to go. So when you own it, man, you can start marketing it right away. So one of the things that we also do too is put a stupid sign in the ground, as silly as this is. And I get calls and I'll sell property with a sign on the ground. I never even get to post a property for sale. So it's kind of all over the map.

Steven Jack Butala:
So let's apply some deconstructive logic here. Jill covered the sales part, as she always does.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. That's all I know. I'm sorry. This is all I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
In every deal, there's constants and variables. So let's very quickly take a look at the variables. Variables are all about you. Well, I'm going to assume you bought it for a great price, because that's what we do here, in a great area that has been vetted through the red, green, yellow test and the whole darn thing. So, you know it's going to sell quickly, and it is. So now you've taken out all the stress of 100% of it. Here's the constants.

Jill DeWit:
Constant. That's a tough word.

Steven Jack Butala:
The constants, S-T-A-N-T-S, I think. The issue is freaking title agent. That's the problem. Because we've had title agents ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/30/rational-growth-and-cash-flow-in-the-land-business-la-1644/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ObdADxO-r</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:53:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/20d1af40-1159-415c-a501-04742c2f9eae.mp3" length="20356000" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Career Path and Mobile Homes (LA 1643)</title><itunes:title>Career Path and Mobile Homes (LA 1643)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Career Path and Mobile Homes (LA 1643)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are going to talk about Career Path, a new product that we launched last year, or I guess in 2021.

Jill DeWitt:
This year.

Steven Jack Butala:
That we're going to pretty dramatically expand in 2022 in mobile homes.

Jill DeWitt:
Yep.

Jill DeWitt:
I would like to note, we are committed with a capital C. If you are picking up on a little like, oh, I don't know a hoarseness or raspiness to my voice. No, I have not taken up smoking. I've never smoked and I won't go there, but we're coming off the holiday weekend and I'll tell you right now, it's early for us. We are here recording way off our normal schedule because of the holiday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Still people in our house actually.

Jill DeWitt:
Are sleeping and they're sleeping. We're not, and here we are.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you are already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
Scott wrote just a question of curiosity. I have sent out almost a thousand mailers so far and received five calls all from people who want to be taken off my list, LOL. How many times on average does your phone ring from about a thousand mailers? Just curious about the averages since it seems to be right at the edge of my first mailer being received.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
I don't want to be overwhelmed in the calls while I'm still working through, during the day, or leave too many to go to voicemail. Just curious, what kind of average on phone calls I may get and have to deal with. Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
So a lot of people commented on this and it's a very popular question. It's not one of my favorite questions because it's on Jill's side of the whole thing, but everybody.

Jill DeWitt:
Because you don't like the phone.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody kind of agreed, that it's about 2% is what you can expect. You're going to get a 2% response and for every 1500 mailers that you send out, if you do it correctly. Choose county correctly and do it all the way that it's all in the content of the education program, you should get anywhere between and five transactions for every 1500. You might just get one great one.

Jill DeWitt:
Meaning buy it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, buy it.

Jill DeWitt:
Pull the trigger, buy it. So I'll take, so what is 2%? I'll take, I don't know, 40 calls, I'm going to say maybe calls, letters, things like that. People reaching back out and maybe even more with the hate, to be honest with you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Two percent is 20 per thousand.

Jill DeWitt:
Okay. So I almost say I get a little bit better average than that by the time we ripped it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because you're chill.

Jill DeWitt:
Well I know, but I'm answering the phone too. So like my team we make sure we get those calls. That's pretty good. The first wave too Scott, don't worry about it. The first wave is always people that are kind of mad at you, take me off your list, I'm not interested. Because the next batch is the ones that they've been thinking about it. They get at it, they put it on the fridge, it's on the counter, it's on their desk. They're like, okay, they open up your letter. They take it seriously. They're like, I need to look at this and I need to talk to my wife or whatever it is before I make a decision.

Jill DeWitt:
And then a couple days, or maybe a week or even a month, they're going to either sign it and send it back or they're going to call you, and you're going to go from there. I do like you to send out a little bit more. I want,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Career Path and Mobile Homes (LA 1643)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Good day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I are going to talk about Career Path, a new product that we launched last year, or I guess in 2021.

Jill DeWitt:
This year.

Steven Jack Butala:
That we're going to pretty dramatically expand in 2022 in mobile homes.

Jill DeWitt:
Yep.

Jill DeWitt:
I would like to note, we are committed with a capital C. If you are picking up on a little like, oh, I don't know a hoarseness or raspiness to my voice. No, I have not taken up smoking. I've never smoked and I won't go there, but we're coming off the holiday weekend and I'll tell you right now, it's early for us. We are here recording way off our normal schedule because of the holiday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Still people in our house actually.

Jill DeWitt:
Are sleeping and they're sleeping. We're not, and here we are.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you are already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
Scott wrote just a question of curiosity. I have sent out almost a thousand mailers so far and received five calls all from people who want to be taken off my list, LOL. How many times on average does your phone ring from about a thousand mailers? Just curious about the averages since it seems to be right at the edge of my first mailer being received.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
I don't want to be overwhelmed in the calls while I'm still working through, during the day, or leave too many to go to voicemail. Just curious, what kind of average on phone calls I may get and have to deal with. Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
So a lot of people commented on this and it's a very popular question. It's not one of my favorite questions because it's on Jill's side of the whole thing, but everybody.

Jill DeWitt:
Because you don't like the phone.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody kind of agreed, that it's about 2% is what you can expect. You're going to get a 2% response and for every 1500 mailers that you send out, if you do it correctly. Choose county correctly and do it all the way that it's all in the content of the education program, you should get anywhere between and five transactions for every 1500. You might just get one great one.

Jill DeWitt:
Meaning buy it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, buy it.

Jill DeWitt:
Pull the trigger, buy it. So I'll take, so what is 2%? I'll take, I don't know, 40 calls, I'm going to say maybe calls, letters, things like that. People reaching back out and maybe even more with the hate, to be honest with you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Two percent is 20 per thousand.

Jill DeWitt:
Okay. So I almost say I get a little bit better average than that by the time we ripped it out.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because you're chill.

Jill DeWitt:
Well I know, but I'm answering the phone too. So like my team we make sure we get those calls. That's pretty good. The first wave too Scott, don't worry about it. The first wave is always people that are kind of mad at you, take me off your list, I'm not interested. Because the next batch is the ones that they've been thinking about it. They get at it, they put it on the fridge, it's on the counter, it's on their desk. They're like, okay, they open up your letter. They take it seriously. They're like, I need to look at this and I need to talk to my wife or whatever it is before I make a decision.

Jill DeWitt:
And then a couple days, or maybe a week or even a month, they're going to either sign it and send it back or they're going to call you, and you're going to go from there. I do like you to send out a little bit more. I want,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/29/career-path-and-mobile-homes-la-1643/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YEhYhPIf8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:50:25 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0ee161c7-e47d-4a3e-a8f5-f67fb477ccb0.mp3" length="14820953" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What Jill Learns from Her CEO Club (LA 1642)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What Jill Learns from Her CEO Club (LA 1642)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What Jill Learns from Her CEO Club (LA 1642)
Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steven and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I... Well, it's Jill Friday. And Jill talks about what she's learns, learns in a future tense, in her CEO club.
Jill DeWit:Okay. We're going to talk about our November meeting, basically.
Steven Butala:I hope you're stuffed full of turkey.
Jill DeWit:I know, that's it. I hope you're shopping. I hope you are enjoying-
Steven Butala:Not shopping.
Jill DeWit:Well, hold on a moment. I hope you're enjoying Black Friday deals from the comfort of your couch. And watching football, and eating leftovers, and shopping on your computer. And it all arrives on time.
Steven Butala:You know the Detroit Lions play on Thanksgiving?
Jill DeWit:Thanksgiving. As do the Cowboys.
Steven Butala:And the Lions lose. The Cowboys are so dope.
Jill DeWit:And not lose to the Cowboys.
Steven Butala:Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Erin wrote, "Short update on my first deal. Sure seems like it will be a success story. Closing on Friday at $13,800. I paid no attention to the legal description until I got my [inaudible 00:01:28] commitment back. Found out it's five lots on one PID." What's a PID?
Steven Butala:The five lots on... it's his-
Jill DeWit:Parcel ID or something?
Steven Butala:Yeah, yeah. It's the [crosstalk 00:01:41]
Jill DeWit:Okay. Just for tax purposes? Okay go it. "Can be split back into five lots for $175 bucks. And no wetlands or site evaluations needed. This is phenomenal. Neighboring lots sold for $19,900 last March. Thinking I'll make as much gross on selling the five lots as I do with my two in one year. And this is my first deal on my second neighbor."
Steven Butala:It's outstanding.
Jill DeWit:I love it. So you didn't... How sweet is this? Your seller didn't know. They would've told you, "You didn't know." [inaudible 00:02:18]. I'm closing. I'm like, holy moly. I'm actually buying five, I'm not buying one. This is great.
Steven Butala:I had a similar story. I don't want to take the wind out of anybody's sail and I'm not trying to up the story here.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. Don't take it away from Erin. Just kidding.
Steven Butala:No, I'm telling you when these things happen. And you're starting to really exceed your regular job. And I'm not telling you to quit your job at all. But I'm saying-
Jill DeWit:Talk about breathing.
Steven Butala:Wait a year. And make sure you like it, and you can and continue it. But when you're starting to do single deals that exceed your whole salary for the year, it's time to think about leaving.
Jill DeWit:Isn't that amazing? I just think about how well you're going to sleep now. Going, I just put, okay, great... No, it's so hard though because I've been in this situation. You realize your land business is now doing better than your day job. It's really hard to walk into the office with a smile on your face. Especially, when you're like every conversation, "oh, I want to tell them to shove it right now." You think I'm kidding?
Steven Butala:No I'm too.
Jill DeWit:Because I can afford to.
Steven Butala:I lived it. Really.
Jill DeWit:Yeah, I know. You know, what's so funny. So this is my truth time too. When I did leave, it was like I hung in there. Right. And everybody knew there was something going on. So when I finally sat my boss down and said, "I got to go." They're like, "I knew it." And then three people on the way out the door, are like, "Can I come with you? Can I work for you?" It was the sweetest thing. I'm like, "Sit tight. If I have a place for you,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What Jill Learns from Her CEO Club (LA 1642)
Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steven and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I... Well, it's Jill Friday. And Jill talks about what she's learns, learns in a future tense, in her CEO club.
Jill DeWit:Okay. We're going to talk about our November meeting, basically.
Steven Butala:I hope you're stuffed full of turkey.
Jill DeWit:I know, that's it. I hope you're shopping. I hope you are enjoying-
Steven Butala:Not shopping.
Jill DeWit:Well, hold on a moment. I hope you're enjoying Black Friday deals from the comfort of your couch. And watching football, and eating leftovers, and shopping on your computer. And it all arrives on time.
Steven Butala:You know the Detroit Lions play on Thanksgiving?
Jill DeWit:Thanksgiving. As do the Cowboys.
Steven Butala:And the Lions lose. The Cowboys are so dope.
Jill DeWit:And not lose to the Cowboys.
Steven Butala:Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Erin wrote, "Short update on my first deal. Sure seems like it will be a success story. Closing on Friday at $13,800. I paid no attention to the legal description until I got my [inaudible 00:01:28] commitment back. Found out it's five lots on one PID." What's a PID?
Steven Butala:The five lots on... it's his-
Jill DeWit:Parcel ID or something?
Steven Butala:Yeah, yeah. It's the [crosstalk 00:01:41]
Jill DeWit:Okay. Just for tax purposes? Okay go it. "Can be split back into five lots for $175 bucks. And no wetlands or site evaluations needed. This is phenomenal. Neighboring lots sold for $19,900 last March. Thinking I'll make as much gross on selling the five lots as I do with my two in one year. And this is my first deal on my second neighbor."
Steven Butala:It's outstanding.
Jill DeWit:I love it. So you didn't... How sweet is this? Your seller didn't know. They would've told you, "You didn't know." [inaudible 00:02:18]. I'm closing. I'm like, holy moly. I'm actually buying five, I'm not buying one. This is great.
Steven Butala:I had a similar story. I don't want to take the wind out of anybody's sail and I'm not trying to up the story here.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. Don't take it away from Erin. Just kidding.
Steven Butala:No, I'm telling you when these things happen. And you're starting to really exceed your regular job. And I'm not telling you to quit your job at all. But I'm saying-
Jill DeWit:Talk about breathing.
Steven Butala:Wait a year. And make sure you like it, and you can and continue it. But when you're starting to do single deals that exceed your whole salary for the year, it's time to think about leaving.
Jill DeWit:Isn't that amazing? I just think about how well you're going to sleep now. Going, I just put, okay, great... No, it's so hard though because I've been in this situation. You realize your land business is now doing better than your day job. It's really hard to walk into the office with a smile on your face. Especially, when you're like every conversation, "oh, I want to tell them to shove it right now." You think I'm kidding?
Steven Butala:No I'm too.
Jill DeWit:Because I can afford to.
Steven Butala:I lived it. Really.
Jill DeWit:Yeah, I know. You know, what's so funny. So this is my truth time too. When I did leave, it was like I hung in there. Right. And everybody knew there was something going on. So when I finally sat my boss down and said, "I got to go." They're like, "I knew it." And then three people on the way out the door, are like, "Can I come with you? Can I work for you?" It was the sweetest thing. I'm like, "Sit tight. If I have a place for you,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/26/jill-friday-what-jill-learns-from-her-ceo-club-la-1642/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_55IN_dIj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 01:06:39 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1a7d613c-ed54-40ca-95fe-e3b24153bc7a.mp3" length="16055954" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Challenges of the Times We Live In (LA 1641)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Challenges of the Times We Live In (LA 1641)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Challenges of the Times We Live In (LA 1641)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steven, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Thanksgiving.

Steven Butala:
Oh my gosh. I hadn't thought about that.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show and welcome to Thanksgiving. If you're listening to this, shouldn't you be doing something else right now?

Jill DeWit:
You are sick of your family. Aren't you?

Steven Butala:
You're obtaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun and hosting a big meal.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about the challenges of the times we live in, Thanksgiving style.

Jill DeWit:
This is the biggest one I've ever done.

Steven Butala:
Shouldn't you guys have something better to do than recording a show and talking to us on Thanksgiving. Ah, we recorded that way weeks earlier.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
Right Jill?

Jill DeWit:
But I'll post something. I'll do some stuff on social media today. So you can see our little bash in our event. This is the biggest bird we have almost 26 pound bird. It's awesome.

Steven Butala:
That's one of two.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
She's got a, Jill's a pilot. So she's got -

Jill DeWit:
Backup.

Steven Butala:
Redundancy.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I do. Yeah. There are backups.

Steven Butala:
There's two of everything in case one fails.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote. So listing on eBay question here, when I'm listing land for sale on eBay, what is the best day of the week and time of day for the auction to end? This is awesome.

Steven Butala:
Here's my actual response. This is a question in discord. I'm going to, this is what I typed in. I'm going to read it to you and then Jill's going to make fun of it.

Jill DeWit:
You have decades of, you have a lot of, years of experience.

Steven Butala:
It said, hello, eBayers. Yeah. If you post or schedule a $1, no reserve 30 day auction on any Friday, any given Friday, it'll close on 30 days later on a Sunday. For a point of reference, we posted about at about 6:00 PM Eastern time or scheduled it. So it would close at that same time on a Sunday, 30 days later. With a decade long strategy, we sold about $20 million of property at an overall 60% gross margin. It took a staff of about eight people working full time and all that's associated with that, the expense and the drama. You can imagine. As a simple reference point now, and I'm going to make the, this is the point of the show. Fast forward to this year as a simple reference point, we'll generate about $2 million net, that's net, not gross this year, buying and selling land with a part-time staff of two, 10 and 90 nines, happily working at home.

Steven Butala:
I'm not bragging here at all, but all of us in this land academy environment have all the tools, including all the money you would ever need and all the relationships to make millions of dollars a year with very little effort and risk and commitment.

Jill DeWit:
I hope Justice you saw that post and read that, because that ties into what we were talking about last week on clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
I spent decade -

Jill DeWit:
That's really cool.

Steven Butala:
We always had food on the table, Jill and I. I've always had food on the table, but we spent collectively and individually a lot of time failing at real estate and other stuff in life, so you don't have to. It's Thanksgiving, so that's what I want. I want to send that, convey that I hope you're as thankful whether you're Land Academy member or not, for everything, how this works. Today's Jack's Thursday. I'm going to talk about the challenges of the times that ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Challenges of the Times We Live In (LA 1641)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steven, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Thanksgiving.

Steven Butala:
Oh my gosh. I hadn't thought about that.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show and welcome to Thanksgiving. If you're listening to this, shouldn't you be doing something else right now?

Jill DeWit:
You are sick of your family. Aren't you?

Steven Butala:
You're obtaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun and hosting a big meal.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about the challenges of the times we live in, Thanksgiving style.

Jill DeWit:
This is the biggest one I've ever done.

Steven Butala:
Shouldn't you guys have something better to do than recording a show and talking to us on Thanksgiving. Ah, we recorded that way weeks earlier.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
Right Jill?

Jill DeWit:
But I'll post something. I'll do some stuff on social media today. So you can see our little bash in our event. This is the biggest bird we have almost 26 pound bird. It's awesome.

Steven Butala:
That's one of two.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
She's got a, Jill's a pilot. So she's got -

Jill DeWit:
Backup.

Steven Butala:
Redundancy.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I do. Yeah. There are backups.

Steven Butala:
There's two of everything in case one fails.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote. So listing on eBay question here, when I'm listing land for sale on eBay, what is the best day of the week and time of day for the auction to end? This is awesome.

Steven Butala:
Here's my actual response. This is a question in discord. I'm going to, this is what I typed in. I'm going to read it to you and then Jill's going to make fun of it.

Jill DeWit:
You have decades of, you have a lot of, years of experience.

Steven Butala:
It said, hello, eBayers. Yeah. If you post or schedule a $1, no reserve 30 day auction on any Friday, any given Friday, it'll close on 30 days later on a Sunday. For a point of reference, we posted about at about 6:00 PM Eastern time or scheduled it. So it would close at that same time on a Sunday, 30 days later. With a decade long strategy, we sold about $20 million of property at an overall 60% gross margin. It took a staff of about eight people working full time and all that's associated with that, the expense and the drama. You can imagine. As a simple reference point now, and I'm going to make the, this is the point of the show. Fast forward to this year as a simple reference point, we'll generate about $2 million net, that's net, not gross this year, buying and selling land with a part-time staff of two, 10 and 90 nines, happily working at home.

Steven Butala:
I'm not bragging here at all, but all of us in this land academy environment have all the tools, including all the money you would ever need and all the relationships to make millions of dollars a year with very little effort and risk and commitment.

Jill DeWit:
I hope Justice you saw that post and read that, because that ties into what we were talking about last week on clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
I spent decade -

Jill DeWit:
That's really cool.

Steven Butala:
We always had food on the table, Jill and I. I've always had food on the table, but we spent collectively and individually a lot of time failing at real estate and other stuff in life, so you don't have to. It's Thanksgiving, so that's what I want. I want to send that, convey that I hope you're as thankful whether you're Land Academy member or not, for everything, how this works. Today's Jack's Thursday. I'm going to talk about the challenges of the times that ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/25/jack-thursday-challenges-of-the-times-we-live-in-la-1641/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">t40RowkfU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:21:48 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/14743170-38da-473f-8467-8cd5da58c9eb.mp3" length="11780644" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Failed Anatomy of a Spec Home Deal (HA 1640)</title><itunes:title>Failed Anatomy of a Spec Home Deal (HA 1640)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Failed Anatomy of a Spec Home Deal (HA 1640)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I guess this is the house academy show. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the failed anatomy of a spec home deal.

Jill DeWit:
So this is interesting, because now where we are with housing, right? People are talking about housing shortages. People are talking about getting things rezoned, so you could have more homes, like LA county, have more homes on a lot to make it for, so there's more places where people to live, right, and affordable. And it's interesting. And there's a lot of building going on. Not just renovating now since COVID and people are home, but a lot of people are moving and choosing to buy land. Yay! Happy for us. And put houses on there. And it's just mind boggling to me, some of these, I think very risky decisions that they're making. Especially, it's one thing to buy your own piece of dirt and hire your own architect. And it's your own money. You're not going to sell it. You're buying it to build for you and you're going to move in. That makes sense to me.

Steven Butala:
Jill's emotional about this topic. Let's take a question first. And then we'll get into the show.

Jill DeWit:
Save it. [crosstalk 00:01:25]

Steven Butala:
Let's take it. Question posted by, members on LandInvestors.com. Online community is free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Host wrote, how would you price a mailer if the sold comps are 50% low than the for sale comps? So, sold is $40,000, for sale right now is $80,000. And each data set consists of approximately 200 comps. Well, first of all, I'd be high fiving myself because this is going up. It's becoming more expensive area. Is there more to it or is at the end?

Steven Butala:
That's it?

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it. So, what do you want to say?

Steven Butala:
There is brilliance and simplicity. And this is an absolute brilliant question from somebody in Discord that I have never heard of. I think they're new, and they're clearly smart. What they're saying is, I pull the data set and what we teach is you got to look at everything that's for sale, you got to look at thing that's sold, and this person's saying, there's 50% variance in this stuff. All the sold comps say they're 40,000. All for sales comps say they're 80,000. One of the moderators came in Kevin and said, first thing I check for is an error in data. Meaning, you might be the error Host, but I don't think that. It's what Jill said. Jill's initial thought was, hey, the market's going up so fast.

Jill DeWit:
It could be.

Steven Butala:
So that's one... No matter what, we can all agree this is a data exception. This is not usually what happens. So it fascinates me innately. Data exceptions fascinate me, not the normal stuff. We all know the normal stuff. So, maybe it's a hotness, market hotness thing like Joe says. Maybe it's a data exception like Kevin, our moderator says. Or maybe, you just do what I say all the time and follow the program. You take the $40,000, you take the $80,000, you average them out. That's 60,000, and you offer 10 or 20% of 60, 10% of 60,000 is six. So if you offer between six and $12,000 and you're right or wrong, at between 40 and $80,000 on the sale side, you win

Jill DeWit:
That's easy. I would make sure too, that they sold $40,000 comps, one thing I forgot to add. I go in and toggle and back and forth and play with the... When was that? Because if all your sold comps and it's going back to the beginning of time, that's not good. But it's the last 12 months, now I'm feeling good. And everything for sale, because it really could be going up. Some areas it is this nuts.

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Failed Anatomy of a Spec Home Deal (HA 1640)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I guess this is the house academy show. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the failed anatomy of a spec home deal.

Jill DeWit:
So this is interesting, because now where we are with housing, right? People are talking about housing shortages. People are talking about getting things rezoned, so you could have more homes, like LA county, have more homes on a lot to make it for, so there's more places where people to live, right, and affordable. And it's interesting. And there's a lot of building going on. Not just renovating now since COVID and people are home, but a lot of people are moving and choosing to buy land. Yay! Happy for us. And put houses on there. And it's just mind boggling to me, some of these, I think very risky decisions that they're making. Especially, it's one thing to buy your own piece of dirt and hire your own architect. And it's your own money. You're not going to sell it. You're buying it to build for you and you're going to move in. That makes sense to me.

Steven Butala:
Jill's emotional about this topic. Let's take a question first. And then we'll get into the show.

Jill DeWit:
Save it. [crosstalk 00:01:25]

Steven Butala:
Let's take it. Question posted by, members on LandInvestors.com. Online community is free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Host wrote, how would you price a mailer if the sold comps are 50% low than the for sale comps? So, sold is $40,000, for sale right now is $80,000. And each data set consists of approximately 200 comps. Well, first of all, I'd be high fiving myself because this is going up. It's becoming more expensive area. Is there more to it or is at the end?

Steven Butala:
That's it?

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it. So, what do you want to say?

Steven Butala:
There is brilliance and simplicity. And this is an absolute brilliant question from somebody in Discord that I have never heard of. I think they're new, and they're clearly smart. What they're saying is, I pull the data set and what we teach is you got to look at everything that's for sale, you got to look at thing that's sold, and this person's saying, there's 50% variance in this stuff. All the sold comps say they're 40,000. All for sales comps say they're 80,000. One of the moderators came in Kevin and said, first thing I check for is an error in data. Meaning, you might be the error Host, but I don't think that. It's what Jill said. Jill's initial thought was, hey, the market's going up so fast.

Jill DeWit:
It could be.

Steven Butala:
So that's one... No matter what, we can all agree this is a data exception. This is not usually what happens. So it fascinates me innately. Data exceptions fascinate me, not the normal stuff. We all know the normal stuff. So, maybe it's a hotness, market hotness thing like Joe says. Maybe it's a data exception like Kevin, our moderator says. Or maybe, you just do what I say all the time and follow the program. You take the $40,000, you take the $80,000, you average them out. That's 60,000, and you offer 10 or 20% of 60, 10% of 60,000 is six. So if you offer between six and $12,000 and you're right or wrong, at between 40 and $80,000 on the sale side, you win

Jill DeWit:
That's easy. I would make sure too, that they sold $40,000 comps, one thing I forgot to add. I go in and toggle and back and forth and play with the... When was that? Because if all your sold comps and it's going back to the beginning of time, that's not good. But it's the last 12 months, now I'm feeling good. And everything for sale, because it really could be going up. Some areas it is this nuts.

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Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how Land Academy is shifting into third gear for 2022.

Jill DeWit:
You just brought this up on Clubhouse last week.

Steven Butala:
I have. I have this thing about there are stages in everything. Usually four stages. Three or four stages in everything. So Land Academy is getting into stage three. Which, stage three of everything is the most exciting for me. It's like, "Yeah, we know what works!" I'll explain it all, but stage four is where it all works and you're just eating bonbons and hanging out. It's not that fun.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, I was going to thank everyone who suffered through yesterday's show. It was kind of a hodge podge of topics. I think it was funny though. I just wanted to get that out of there.

Steven Butala:
Oh yesterday's podcast?

Jill DeWit:
We were all over the place. It's kind of like, "Who are these people?"

Steven Butala:
You know, if your girl's like mine, the holiday season is here. So everything is a distraction from that. See, Jill's whole life right now is about Thanksgiving. By the time this airs, Thanksgiving might even be on.

Jill DeWit:
It will be Tuesday.

Steven Butala:
And then it's about Christmas after that. And then it's about New Year's. We have a tremendous amount of decorations for all of these holidays. It really starts with Halloween. So working for Jill is no fun.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
Because it gets in the way of decorating and getting turkeys and stuff.

Jill DeWit:
You don't work for me. You don't work for me.

Steven Butala:
I didn't say that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven Butala:
I said, working for Jill is a real distraction against what she wants to spend time on, which is the holidays.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't understand the way you worded that, but I think I know where you're going.

Steven Butala:
It's a backwards compliment. So really Jill sitting here just doing the show is getting in the way of what she wants to do for Thanksgiving.

Jill DeWit:
Oh! I'm like, where are you going with this.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm.

Jill DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Butala:
That started yesterday with the podcast. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like.

Jill DeWit:
Nick wrote, "I got a 50 acre ... Are we going to use this word?

Steven Butala:
Fifty acre access list.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. Parcel for 42,000. He used the word that started with an L for those of you who are listening and I just hate that word. We both do. Before acquiring, we spoke with property owners around it until we came across a nice lady who was willing to give us an easement for next to nothing. Now we're under contract to sell. What did we buy for again?

Steven Butala:
Fifty.

Jill DeWit:
Fifty thousand.

Steven Butala:
Forty two.

Jill DeWit:
Now we're under contract to sell for $210,000.

Steven Butala:
Buy for 42, sell for 210.

Jill DeWit:
Because he made a call and found a nice lady who would give access.

Steven Butala:
Because they got on the phone, ran down Joe's checklist for when you buy a property. Talk to the neighbors. And they made $158,000. More than that.

Jill DeWit:
Ding ding.

Steven Butala:
One-hundred and seventy.

Jill DeWit:
Beautiful. Is there any more to it?

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. That was awesome. So there was really no question.

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
That was just a statement.

Steven Butala:
This whole week is really a celebration of, because it's Thanksgiving.

Jill DeWit:
Good.

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Shifts into Third Gear for 2022 (LA 1639)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how Land Academy is shifting into third gear for 2022.

Jill DeWit:
You just brought this up on Clubhouse last week.

Steven Butala:
I have. I have this thing about there are stages in everything. Usually four stages. Three or four stages in everything. So Land Academy is getting into stage three. Which, stage three of everything is the most exciting for me. It's like, "Yeah, we know what works!" I'll explain it all, but stage four is where it all works and you're just eating bonbons and hanging out. It's not that fun.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, I was going to thank everyone who suffered through yesterday's show. It was kind of a hodge podge of topics. I think it was funny though. I just wanted to get that out of there.

Steven Butala:
Oh yesterday's podcast?

Jill DeWit:
We were all over the place. It's kind of like, "Who are these people?"

Steven Butala:
You know, if your girl's like mine, the holiday season is here. So everything is a distraction from that. See, Jill's whole life right now is about Thanksgiving. By the time this airs, Thanksgiving might even be on.

Jill DeWit:
It will be Tuesday.

Steven Butala:
And then it's about Christmas after that. And then it's about New Year's. We have a tremendous amount of decorations for all of these holidays. It really starts with Halloween. So working for Jill is no fun.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
Because it gets in the way of decorating and getting turkeys and stuff.

Jill DeWit:
You don't work for me. You don't work for me.

Steven Butala:
I didn't say that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven Butala:
I said, working for Jill is a real distraction against what she wants to spend time on, which is the holidays.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't understand the way you worded that, but I think I know where you're going.

Steven Butala:
It's a backwards compliment. So really Jill sitting here just doing the show is getting in the way of what she wants to do for Thanksgiving.

Jill DeWit:
Oh! I'm like, where are you going with this.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm.

Jill DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Butala:
That started yesterday with the podcast. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the show as you like.

Jill DeWit:
Nick wrote, "I got a 50 acre ... Are we going to use this word?

Steven Butala:
Fifty acre access list.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. Parcel for 42,000. He used the word that started with an L for those of you who are listening and I just hate that word. We both do. Before acquiring, we spoke with property owners around it until we came across a nice lady who was willing to give us an easement for next to nothing. Now we're under contract to sell. What did we buy for again?

Steven Butala:
Fifty.

Jill DeWit:
Fifty thousand.

Steven Butala:
Forty two.

Jill DeWit:
Now we're under contract to sell for $210,000.

Steven Butala:
Buy for 42, sell for 210.

Jill DeWit:
Because he made a call and found a nice lady who would give access.

Steven Butala:
Because they got on the phone, ran down Joe's checklist for when you buy a property. Talk to the neighbors. And they made $158,000. More than that.

Jill DeWit:
Ding ding.

Steven Butala:
One-hundred and seventy.

Jill DeWit:
Beautiful. Is there any more to it?

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. That was awesome. So there was really no question.

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
That was just a statement.

Steven Butala:
This whole week is really a celebration of, because it's Thanksgiving.

Jill DeWit:
Good.

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Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what to do when you can't stay on your own schedule.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, for a minute. I was like, "I'm going to be just like the listeners right now. I don't know what this topic is about." And then I remember what we were talking about earlier. I'm like, "Okay, I got it." This came out of your intensive, right?

Steven Butala:
Came out of a discussion that you and I had earlier-

Jill DeWit:
Oh shit.

Steven Butala:
...about writing topics for the podcast this week.

Jill DeWit:
Well, there is that.

Steven Butala:
And it was your idea.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. Which came out of the intensive which wrapped up last week and I got to be a guest, if you will, on your last session, and that was very fun.

Steven Butala:
Yup.

Jill DeWit:
It was really cool.

Steven Butala:
Totally.

Jill DeWit:
Different groups. It was really interesting, I got to jump in on yours and you jumped in at the end of mine and we all talked about very different things. So it was cool. Awesome.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community it's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote, "Bought this 1.29 acre lot up in the mountains of Eastern blank for $2,259 back in February. Last week, we're going to a nearby city from Pennsylvania and after ignoring this property for most of a year-

Steven Butala:
Been there.

Jill DeWit:
We just, right?

Steven Butala:
Ignoring this, because he bought it, but-

Jill DeWit:
You forget.

Steven Butala:
He just didn't get around to sell it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Story in my life.

Jill DeWit:
Now you're know, Greg, you see how easy it is to forget, what, "Oh yeah. I still own that. Oh yeah." Okay. So anyway, we decided to stop by and take some pictures, do a drone video, dash cam video, and then put up a sign. It was a beautiful sunny day and I got some great colorful shots from both the ground and from the drone.

Steven Butala:
And so it's cool. He put all this in there.

Jill DeWit:
This is it.

Steven Butala:
He put the content in there, like the shot, you know-

Jill DeWit:
The pictures?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
It was really cool.

Jill DeWit:
After four hours or about four hours after we left, we got a call from a neighbor who had seen our sign and wanted to know our price. We hadn't quite settled on a price. So I told him somewhere around $16,000. He said, "I'm just curious" and local Tennessee folks wouldn't pay that much. But if you could get people from Florida to pay that, if not more. This seemed like an unusual but interesting opinion of the market value of the land in this area. So then, the next morning, this is so good. I get, "What did you pay?" You paid 2259, or something like that, right?

Steven Butala:
Let's see.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Wow, I have good memory 2259 and he said it's only around 16. So then the next morning I got a call from another neighbor who was out for her morning walk and saw our sign. She said she lived very close by and was looking for land for her daughter and daughter's husband, both of who live in Florida and want to move to this state.

Jill DeWit:
Given the opinion that I got from the local guy, I said that the price is $20,000. She thought about it for a minute and then said, "Yes." We now have signed purchase agreement and title company working on this. When all is said and done, we will make about $16,000 profit off our 2259 purchase. Although I was really looking forward to working on the listin...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[What to Do When you Can't Stay on Your Own Schedule (LA 1638)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what to do when you can't stay on your own schedule.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, for a minute. I was like, "I'm going to be just like the listeners right now. I don't know what this topic is about." And then I remember what we were talking about earlier. I'm like, "Okay, I got it." This came out of your intensive, right?

Steven Butala:
Came out of a discussion that you and I had earlier-

Jill DeWit:
Oh shit.

Steven Butala:
...about writing topics for the podcast this week.

Jill DeWit:
Well, there is that.

Steven Butala:
And it was your idea.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. Which came out of the intensive which wrapped up last week and I got to be a guest, if you will, on your last session, and that was very fun.

Steven Butala:
Yup.

Jill DeWit:
It was really cool.

Steven Butala:
Totally.

Jill DeWit:
Different groups. It was really interesting, I got to jump in on yours and you jumped in at the end of mine and we all talked about very different things. So it was cool. Awesome.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community it's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote, "Bought this 1.29 acre lot up in the mountains of Eastern blank for $2,259 back in February. Last week, we're going to a nearby city from Pennsylvania and after ignoring this property for most of a year-

Steven Butala:
Been there.

Jill DeWit:
We just, right?

Steven Butala:
Ignoring this, because he bought it, but-

Jill DeWit:
You forget.

Steven Butala:
He just didn't get around to sell it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Story in my life.

Jill DeWit:
Now you're know, Greg, you see how easy it is to forget, what, "Oh yeah. I still own that. Oh yeah." Okay. So anyway, we decided to stop by and take some pictures, do a drone video, dash cam video, and then put up a sign. It was a beautiful sunny day and I got some great colorful shots from both the ground and from the drone.

Steven Butala:
And so it's cool. He put all this in there.

Jill DeWit:
This is it.

Steven Butala:
He put the content in there, like the shot, you know-

Jill DeWit:
The pictures?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
It was really cool.

Jill DeWit:
After four hours or about four hours after we left, we got a call from a neighbor who had seen our sign and wanted to know our price. We hadn't quite settled on a price. So I told him somewhere around $16,000. He said, "I'm just curious" and local Tennessee folks wouldn't pay that much. But if you could get people from Florida to pay that, if not more. This seemed like an unusual but interesting opinion of the market value of the land in this area. So then, the next morning, this is so good. I get, "What did you pay?" You paid 2259, or something like that, right?

Steven Butala:
Let's see.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Wow, I have good memory 2259 and he said it's only around 16. So then the next morning I got a call from another neighbor who was out for her morning walk and saw our sign. She said she lived very close by and was looking for land for her daughter and daughter's husband, both of who live in Florida and want to move to this state.

Jill DeWit:
Given the opinion that I got from the local guy, I said that the price is $20,000. She thought about it for a minute and then said, "Yes." We now have signed purchase agreement and title company working on this. When all is said and done, we will make about $16,000 profit off our 2259 purchase. Although I was really looking forward to working on the listin...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/22/what-to-do-when-you-cant-stay-on-your-own-schedule-la-1638/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">-AjQghn1p</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:47:11 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/68538f08-0c24-4492-8973-dfdc04591e2e.mp3" length="18323182" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Sound Like a Professional Investor (LA 1637)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Sound Like a Professional Investor (LA 1637)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Sound Like a Professional Investor (LA 1637)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to tell us how to sound like a professional investor. I'm as excited and interested as this as you are.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, is free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Erin wrote, "What are some good ways to recover from a mailer that was priced too high?"

Steven Butala:
I figure this is right up your alley.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. This is hard. I know it, it's hard to get used to. It's so much easier to come in low and add money than it is to come in high and take away money. But I've done it. And so I was just taught. This is part... I believe is into the topic today. This is all because of the intensive training that I'm doing. We're week two of three right now. By the time this airs it will be over. And it's just how I get deals done. Whether it's the buy side, the sell side, all of that. And what do you do with you come too high with these people. First of all, I want you to take a step back and, and double check your math because maybe there's something to it that you're missing because it could be zone something special.

Jill DeWit:
It could be in a very unique area. There could be some special attribute. So I never assume when people call in and say, "I like everything, but the price." When they say exactly like that. I will never assume that I'm wrong. I got to get some more information first. So I nicely say, "I may have goofed. Tell me what's going on." And then I ask a lot of questions. So say you've done that they came in... This is the opposite though. You price it too high. They love you by the way. Re roll back again. What's the exact question?

Steven Butala:
How do you recover from a mailer that's priced too high?

Jill DeWit:
Priced too high. Okay. So, and by the way, this is the funniest situation, because... Can you do that for me for a second? It's funny for me because everybody calls you back and they love you. That's usually how you know you did it. Like, "Oh no, I sent out a thousand offers and I got a thousand phone calls. Oops. I may have offered too much." All right. So, but anyway, you need to take all the information in and do it just like you would normally take all the calls down, take all the inbound information, go back, do your due diligence, pick the 10 best ones. Right? And then you got to re figure, what is the right price. And then you need to go back to them and tell them, "I goofed and here's why."

Jill DeWit:
And it's not hard to come up... I mean, I will point out something that would make the property worth more and say, "I thought it was closer to town." I give them some reasons why not that I meant to buy it cheaper. I will never say that, but I will give them some reasons that shocks. "I hate to say this. I know I priced it at 10,000. I meant two. Here's the reason why I did not realize this was this far from X. I did not realize that the access needed a Y. I did not realize that you owed that much on back taxes." So you can come up with other things to do that... Don't do it on all of them. Still pick your best ones and then go back in and give them some reasons. And then let them respond.

Steven Butala:
Every property's got flaws. Every property's got attributes. Great stuff about it. No two properties are exactly the same.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
Point out the flaws, whatever they are and say, "Yeah, I offer you 10,000 bucks, but here's the deal,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Sound Like a Professional Investor (LA 1637)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to tell us how to sound like a professional investor. I'm as excited and interested as this as you are.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, is free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Erin wrote, "What are some good ways to recover from a mailer that was priced too high?"

Steven Butala:
I figure this is right up your alley.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. This is hard. I know it, it's hard to get used to. It's so much easier to come in low and add money than it is to come in high and take away money. But I've done it. And so I was just taught. This is part... I believe is into the topic today. This is all because of the intensive training that I'm doing. We're week two of three right now. By the time this airs it will be over. And it's just how I get deals done. Whether it's the buy side, the sell side, all of that. And what do you do with you come too high with these people. First of all, I want you to take a step back and, and double check your math because maybe there's something to it that you're missing because it could be zone something special.

Jill DeWit:
It could be in a very unique area. There could be some special attribute. So I never assume when people call in and say, "I like everything, but the price." When they say exactly like that. I will never assume that I'm wrong. I got to get some more information first. So I nicely say, "I may have goofed. Tell me what's going on." And then I ask a lot of questions. So say you've done that they came in... This is the opposite though. You price it too high. They love you by the way. Re roll back again. What's the exact question?

Steven Butala:
How do you recover from a mailer that's priced too high?

Jill DeWit:
Priced too high. Okay. So, and by the way, this is the funniest situation, because... Can you do that for me for a second? It's funny for me because everybody calls you back and they love you. That's usually how you know you did it. Like, "Oh no, I sent out a thousand offers and I got a thousand phone calls. Oops. I may have offered too much." All right. So, but anyway, you need to take all the information in and do it just like you would normally take all the calls down, take all the inbound information, go back, do your due diligence, pick the 10 best ones. Right? And then you got to re figure, what is the right price. And then you need to go back to them and tell them, "I goofed and here's why."

Jill DeWit:
And it's not hard to come up... I mean, I will point out something that would make the property worth more and say, "I thought it was closer to town." I give them some reasons why not that I meant to buy it cheaper. I will never say that, but I will give them some reasons that shocks. "I hate to say this. I know I priced it at 10,000. I meant two. Here's the reason why I did not realize this was this far from X. I did not realize that the access needed a Y. I did not realize that you owed that much on back taxes." So you can come up with other things to do that... Don't do it on all of them. Still pick your best ones and then go back in and give them some reasons. And then let them respond.

Steven Butala:
Every property's got flaws. Every property's got attributes. Great stuff about it. No two properties are exactly the same.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
Point out the flaws, whatever they are and say, "Yeah, I offer you 10,000 bucks, but here's the deal,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/19/jill-friday-how-to-sound-like-a-professional-investor-la-1637/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">MRI4koKOe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 23:06:07 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f9157405-9490-4758-b2e4-d69e8e822b2e.mp3" length="14172777" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Fishing for Land (LA 1636)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Fishing for Land (LA 1636)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Fishing for Land (LA 1636)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about fishing for land.

Jill DeWit:
I like this.

Steven Butala:
There's a lot of things about fishing.

Jill DeWit:
There's a lot of talk about fishing right now with you.

Steven Butala:
Well, I'm getting older and you know, this is what I told my bartender recently, I need a hobby.

Jill DeWit:
Like you have one bartender.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. One of the bartenders. I know, I know who's familiar with all my flaws.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Butala:
And well, anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well finish the sentence.

Steven Butala:
Oh, I just need a hobby and I've always loved fishing. I grew up doing it. I grew up in Michigan, sometimes in Northern Michigan, and there's just nothing but fishing there. And we had a blast, lot of memories about that. And when you have children and jobs and things start things like Land Academy, there's just, you're pressed for time. And I'm getting to be the age where I need to start enjoying things a little bit more. There's enough money coming, buying and selling land all the time. We've got some good staff, Jill slowing down a little bit and you know I think bout fishing.

Jill DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Buckley wrote: "My first mailer was 1900 units. I received over 10 responses with solid interest in selling. However, not a single one has a solid state or county maintained road access." That's okay. Hold on a moment. "Is it common to have so few replies with road access in a mailer this size, not sure if it's simply due the county I mailed or what plugging away, making the most of what I can though. Any thoughts are helpful." Well, what if it's a dirt road and it's still public and it's not like it's paved, but there's access.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes you can read my mind.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, it doesn't have to be paved and plowed. It's not going to be that great. And depending on the area, this is rural. Let me back up here. This is rural vacant land everyone. Most of the time it is a dirt road. I'm happy with that.

Steven Butala:
Sorry Jill, get in there. Go. I mean it.

Jill DeWit:
Seriously, do you want an exit? Do you want your own exit sign with an arrow and a turnout or would you prefer a signal?

Steven Butala:
How about cut in sewers and roads. No here's the thing..

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. A big sign that says power right here. There's a blow thing sticking up out of the ground. Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
We're not in the business of alienating Land Academy members.

Jill DeWit:
No, no, I'm teasing you.

Steven Butala:
But and I want to point out too, there's a lot of questions and comments and successes. I can choose from hundreds and hundreds of entries in discord when we do the show. I'm here to tell you, I'm not always picking the peaches and cream. Oh my God I made a million dollars on this deal kind of comments. So this is a valid comment. It's a valid concern from somebody who sent out a mailer, got a positive response and got a bunch of people that wanted to sell at his price. 10.

Jill DeWit:
This is all good news.

Steven Butala:
So that's good, good, good and good.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. [crosstalk 00:03:19].

Steven Butala:
Actually it's great, right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
What your question is that is this well, one of the five A's is access and it doesn't appear to me that this rural vacant land has access. So I'm going to tell you little story,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Fishing for Land (LA 1636)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about fishing for land.

Jill DeWit:
I like this.

Steven Butala:
There's a lot of things about fishing.

Jill DeWit:
There's a lot of talk about fishing right now with you.

Steven Butala:
Well, I'm getting older and you know, this is what I told my bartender recently, I need a hobby.

Jill DeWit:
Like you have one bartender.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. One of the bartenders. I know, I know who's familiar with all my flaws.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Butala:
And well, anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well finish the sentence.

Steven Butala:
Oh, I just need a hobby and I've always loved fishing. I grew up doing it. I grew up in Michigan, sometimes in Northern Michigan, and there's just nothing but fishing there. And we had a blast, lot of memories about that. And when you have children and jobs and things start things like Land Academy, there's just, you're pressed for time. And I'm getting to be the age where I need to start enjoying things a little bit more. There's enough money coming, buying and selling land all the time. We've got some good staff, Jill slowing down a little bit and you know I think bout fishing.

Jill DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the land academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Buckley wrote: "My first mailer was 1900 units. I received over 10 responses with solid interest in selling. However, not a single one has a solid state or county maintained road access." That's okay. Hold on a moment. "Is it common to have so few replies with road access in a mailer this size, not sure if it's simply due the county I mailed or what plugging away, making the most of what I can though. Any thoughts are helpful." Well, what if it's a dirt road and it's still public and it's not like it's paved, but there's access.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes you can read my mind.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, it doesn't have to be paved and plowed. It's not going to be that great. And depending on the area, this is rural. Let me back up here. This is rural vacant land everyone. Most of the time it is a dirt road. I'm happy with that.

Steven Butala:
Sorry Jill, get in there. Go. I mean it.

Jill DeWit:
Seriously, do you want an exit? Do you want your own exit sign with an arrow and a turnout or would you prefer a signal?

Steven Butala:
How about cut in sewers and roads. No here's the thing..

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. A big sign that says power right here. There's a blow thing sticking up out of the ground. Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
We're not in the business of alienating Land Academy members.

Jill DeWit:
No, no, I'm teasing you.

Steven Butala:
But and I want to point out too, there's a lot of questions and comments and successes. I can choose from hundreds and hundreds of entries in discord when we do the show. I'm here to tell you, I'm not always picking the peaches and cream. Oh my God I made a million dollars on this deal kind of comments. So this is a valid comment. It's a valid concern from somebody who sent out a mailer, got a positive response and got a bunch of people that wanted to sell at his price. 10.

Jill DeWit:
This is all good news.

Steven Butala:
So that's good, good, good and good.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. [crosstalk 00:03:19].

Steven Butala:
Actually it's great, right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
What your question is that is this well, one of the five A's is access and it doesn't appear to me that this rural vacant land has access. So I'm going to tell you little story,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/18/jack-thursday-fishing-for-land-la-1636/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gOucAf9he</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:58:29 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/da78d5df-8a2b-401a-8643-8cdd3c786b4a.mp3" length="14289132" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why We Have Not Missed the Housing Boom (LA 1635)</title><itunes:title>Why We Have Not Missed the Housing Boom (LA 1635)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Why We Have Not Missed the Housing Boom (LA 1635)
Transcript:
Steven:Steve and Jill here.
Jill:Hello.
Steven:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill:There was a long pause there. I'm Jill DeWit and we are broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven:Today, Jill and I talk about why we've not missed the housing boom at all.
Jill:Personally or all of us?
Steven:All of us.
Jill:Good.
Steven:This all comes from... Jill and I have children between the ages of, let's say 26, 27 and 18, and all of them and all of their friends have all throughout their entire... Let's call it late teens, early twenties have said, "Well, you guys are the generation or two generations before us. And thanks for wrecking everything."
Jill:"You guys are the last homeowners," like, "Hold on a moment."
Steven:To which I say, "I said the same thing to my parents," to which my parents have said, "That's what I said to my parents." Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you... Oh, please don't forget to subscribe, I should say, on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill:David wrote, "Could someone give me some insight? I'm closing on my first deal. It's a 9.37 acre parcel. And in 20 days, there's not a ton of comps in the immediate area, and I was originally thinking about trying to sell it for around 30 to $40,000. But I've been doing a deep dive on research and looking at active listings. I noticed two neighboring parcels at 1.4 and 1.3 acres sold at 10,000 an acre, but it took four to six months. I'm very tempted to list it for $79,900. Even 70% of 10,000 acre at 65,000 and some change I would be thrilled with. I don't want to get crazy and list"... Oh, "I don't want to get crazy and list too high"-
Steven:That was my fault.
Jill:"And have to sit and/or not sell. Am I getting too excited with the neighboring properties? I'm licensed. I'm probably going to list it myself. So, if I can get the buyers and save some money... But I'm tempted to consider using a local realtor. The MLS might be different than the local one, and I might assume a local realtor who's any good would have a better handle on the prices." Is that the end of it?
Steven:Yeah.
Jill:So, do you want to go first?
Steven:Congratulations. This is working for you. I'm really, really glad. I mean it, you're going to get through this first deal. It's going to be a lot easier. You're going to look back on it and say, "Wow, I learned a lot and I can't wait for the second one." Just like your first marriage. So...
Jill:Why do you do...?
Steven:I do it to annoy you.
Jill:Just poking me all day long. Does this happen to you? Poke, poke, poke.
Steven:It didn't bother you. If you just sailed right through it and didn't listen to anything I said, I'd never do it again.
Jill:Because clearly you don't want to get a rise out of me.
Steven:Here's a couple technical things, and a lot of people in our group in Discord commented the same way. Price per acre on small properties... We take a one acre property and it's priced at $10,000. So, it sells for 10,000 and apply that to even an adjoining property that's 10 acres or 40 acres... You can't use that same number. [crosstalk 00:03:27] The higher the acreage number... If it's 40 acres versus one acre, the price per acre's going to be lower. It's called the bottle case theory. When you buy a single bottle of Coca-Cola and then look at the case price, it's always cheaper to buy it by the case. It's just a pure economics thing. That's why people who subdivide property for a living make hoards and hoards of money. If you take a 40 acre property and buy it for four grand and, theoretically, divide it into 40 properties and sell it for a thousand dollars each, now you...
Jill:Buy four, sold it for 40.
Steven:I'm grossly oversimplifying it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Why We Have Not Missed the Housing Boom (LA 1635)
Transcript:
Steven:Steve and Jill here.
Jill:Hello.
Steven:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill:There was a long pause there. I'm Jill DeWit and we are broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven:Today, Jill and I talk about why we've not missed the housing boom at all.
Jill:Personally or all of us?
Steven:All of us.
Jill:Good.
Steven:This all comes from... Jill and I have children between the ages of, let's say 26, 27 and 18, and all of them and all of their friends have all throughout their entire... Let's call it late teens, early twenties have said, "Well, you guys are the generation or two generations before us. And thanks for wrecking everything."
Jill:"You guys are the last homeowners," like, "Hold on a moment."
Steven:To which I say, "I said the same thing to my parents," to which my parents have said, "That's what I said to my parents." Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you... Oh, please don't forget to subscribe, I should say, on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill:David wrote, "Could someone give me some insight? I'm closing on my first deal. It's a 9.37 acre parcel. And in 20 days, there's not a ton of comps in the immediate area, and I was originally thinking about trying to sell it for around 30 to $40,000. But I've been doing a deep dive on research and looking at active listings. I noticed two neighboring parcels at 1.4 and 1.3 acres sold at 10,000 an acre, but it took four to six months. I'm very tempted to list it for $79,900. Even 70% of 10,000 acre at 65,000 and some change I would be thrilled with. I don't want to get crazy and list"... Oh, "I don't want to get crazy and list too high"-
Steven:That was my fault.
Jill:"And have to sit and/or not sell. Am I getting too excited with the neighboring properties? I'm licensed. I'm probably going to list it myself. So, if I can get the buyers and save some money... But I'm tempted to consider using a local realtor. The MLS might be different than the local one, and I might assume a local realtor who's any good would have a better handle on the prices." Is that the end of it?
Steven:Yeah.
Jill:So, do you want to go first?
Steven:Congratulations. This is working for you. I'm really, really glad. I mean it, you're going to get through this first deal. It's going to be a lot easier. You're going to look back on it and say, "Wow, I learned a lot and I can't wait for the second one." Just like your first marriage. So...
Jill:Why do you do...?
Steven:I do it to annoy you.
Jill:Just poking me all day long. Does this happen to you? Poke, poke, poke.
Steven:It didn't bother you. If you just sailed right through it and didn't listen to anything I said, I'd never do it again.
Jill:Because clearly you don't want to get a rise out of me.
Steven:Here's a couple technical things, and a lot of people in our group in Discord commented the same way. Price per acre on small properties... We take a one acre property and it's priced at $10,000. So, it sells for 10,000 and apply that to even an adjoining property that's 10 acres or 40 acres... You can't use that same number. [crosstalk 00:03:27] The higher the acreage number... If it's 40 acres versus one acre, the price per acre's going to be lower. It's called the bottle case theory. When you buy a single bottle of Coca-Cola and then look at the case price, it's always cheaper to buy it by the case. It's just a pure economics thing. That's why people who subdivide property for a living make hoards and hoards of money. If you take a 40 acre property and buy it for four grand and, theoretically, divide it into 40 properties and sell it for a thousand dollars each, now you...
Jill:Buy four, sold it for 40.
Steven:I'm grossly oversimplifying it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/17/why-we-have-not-missed-the-housing-boom-la-1635/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QTaWWOEhe</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:43:18 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6566b364-cbc8-4236-b8e9-7e4661819ad8.mp3" length="26061401" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:28</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Introducing Land Academy Garage Sale (LA 1634)</title><itunes:title>Introducing Land Academy Garage Sale (LA 1634)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Introducing Land Academy Garage Sale (LA 1634)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what we're going to introduce: the Land Academy garage sale.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Butala:
So do I and it was a smash hit. A lot of stuff we do, a lot of these [sub 00:00:20] and products that we do just don't catch on. We are in beta right here on this thing, and it really, really works. It's our way of internally auctioning off property that... Every land investor has a bunch of stuff, a bunch of [pieces 00:00:37] of property laying around that, for whatever reason, are accumulating taxes, they haven't gotten sold. They just fell through the cracks. I have properties since 25 years ago that we still have. And so, it's a $1 no-reserve of auction. We're just auctioning it off internally within the land academy group [crosstalk 00:00:56]

Jill DeWit:
We have long written it off, and our loss is your gain.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. And it's a blast. People are stealing property, and we're happy with it.

Jill DeWit:
We'll explain more in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Jake wrote, "This might be a fairly obvious 'do not do this', but does anybody know about the legality of using pictures of another lot that is essentially the same in every aspect as yours, from the internet to help market your own property online?" Well, I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
Well-

Steven Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
Because we have personally taken for... As Land Academy member, you may or may not know this, you have access to a library of photos in several areas that we took, and made available to you when we launched the original cashflow from land program. We gave these photos, we took them. You took them. And back then, you or our engineering people, took these photos. And so they're ours. It's not like it's proprietary, we stole them or anything. No. They're ours, and we have given permission freely to use them.

Jill DeWit:
So the point, though, is we want to make sure you say... you have to properly say that these are of the area because it doesn't happen so much anymore. But sometimes you have properties in a, say a subdivision or certain area, maybe you own four or five 10. I don't know. You don't need to send the same guy out there 10 times. But you can, especially now with Google maps and Google earth and things, people can really look in and see that property really with detail. And back then we couldn't. So I have no trouble with this as long as you're not stealing it, A. Don't do that. Like you're not getting it off Canva or something like that. And then B, you let them know that maybe you took the... "This is a lot next door I visited last week. You can see it over here." You may or may not... You don't agree with me?

Steven Butala:
No. I just waiting, actually.

Jill DeWit:
I can't tell you're if agreeing or not. So anyway, you just properly say it's of area.

Steven Butala:
I would say I agree with you Jill, and now and forever.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Yeah, I'm sure you would. I said, "Don't worry about that. You know what toes you're stepping on. If you think there's any legal issue, then definitely don't do it." But if someone says, "Sure, use this. It's fine" in the email or whatever, yeah. Go.

Steven Butala:
I have one word for you. And if you're a note taker or you're actually listening to the show, or if you're cooking dinner and you're listening to it, please listen to this.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Introducing Land Academy Garage Sale (LA 1634)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what we're going to introduce: the Land Academy garage sale.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Butala:
So do I and it was a smash hit. A lot of stuff we do, a lot of these [sub 00:00:20] and products that we do just don't catch on. We are in beta right here on this thing, and it really, really works. It's our way of internally auctioning off property that... Every land investor has a bunch of stuff, a bunch of [pieces 00:00:37] of property laying around that, for whatever reason, are accumulating taxes, they haven't gotten sold. They just fell through the cracks. I have properties since 25 years ago that we still have. And so, it's a $1 no-reserve of auction. We're just auctioning it off internally within the land academy group [crosstalk 00:00:56]

Jill DeWit:
We have long written it off, and our loss is your gain.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. And it's a blast. People are stealing property, and we're happy with it.

Jill DeWit:
We'll explain more in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Jake wrote, "This might be a fairly obvious 'do not do this', but does anybody know about the legality of using pictures of another lot that is essentially the same in every aspect as yours, from the internet to help market your own property online?" Well, I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
Well-

Steven Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
Because we have personally taken for... As Land Academy member, you may or may not know this, you have access to a library of photos in several areas that we took, and made available to you when we launched the original cashflow from land program. We gave these photos, we took them. You took them. And back then, you or our engineering people, took these photos. And so they're ours. It's not like it's proprietary, we stole them or anything. No. They're ours, and we have given permission freely to use them.

Jill DeWit:
So the point, though, is we want to make sure you say... you have to properly say that these are of the area because it doesn't happen so much anymore. But sometimes you have properties in a, say a subdivision or certain area, maybe you own four or five 10. I don't know. You don't need to send the same guy out there 10 times. But you can, especially now with Google maps and Google earth and things, people can really look in and see that property really with detail. And back then we couldn't. So I have no trouble with this as long as you're not stealing it, A. Don't do that. Like you're not getting it off Canva or something like that. And then B, you let them know that maybe you took the... "This is a lot next door I visited last week. You can see it over here." You may or may not... You don't agree with me?

Steven Butala:
No. I just waiting, actually.

Jill DeWit:
I can't tell you're if agreeing or not. So anyway, you just properly say it's of area.

Steven Butala:
I would say I agree with you Jill, and now and forever.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Yeah, I'm sure you would. I said, "Don't worry about that. You know what toes you're stepping on. If you think there's any legal issue, then definitely don't do it." But if someone says, "Sure, use this. It's fine" in the email or whatever, yeah. Go.

Steven Butala:
I have one word for you. And if you're a note taker or you're actually listening to the show, or if you're cooking dinner and you're listening to it, please listen to this.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/16/introducing-land-academy-garage-sale-la-1634/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">NCwPWfr4c</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:57:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/399e0a1e-627c-4576-a9f5-25e9596205aa.mp3" length="16621265" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When is it Time to Seek Professional Help (LA 1633)</title><itunes:title>When is it Time to Seek Professional Help (LA 1633)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[When is it Time to Seek Professional Help (LA 1633)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about when is it time to seek professional help?

Jill DeWit:
No, we don't mean marriage counseling, or whatever issues that you're having.

Steven Butala:
Are you sure? I disagree. There's no way we can do this episode without addressing this stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. Got it. That's not where I was going, though.

Steven Butala:
Every week Jill and I sit down, usually pretty briefly and say, "All right. Let's come up with five topics," and so first thing I do is I go into Discord and see what's on everybody's mind and try to make this some semblance of intelligent. That's not what Jill does. She goes off and she's like, "This is what people need. We need to-"

Jill DeWit:
And this is my topic. You can [crosstalk 00:00:53].

Steven Butala:
I know. This is Jill's topic. That's my point.

Jill DeWit:
It's clearly mine.

Steven Butala:
It started out, what she really meant was this.

Jill DeWit:
We'll get to it.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. It's-

Steven Butala:
I can-

Jill DeWit:
We'll get to you in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, maybe we need help. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "Kevin, I appreciate you simplifying problems such as pricing and picking the county and help me get past analysis paralysis. I'm finally closing on three deals and will continue to seek your safe consult to get me past stock points."

Jill DeWit:
Kevin wrote, "I've been watching your discussions here and you are looking good. Keep up the good work." I like this little blip, because it does tie into today and what I'm talking about. Pro help means someone beyond you.

Steven Butala:
Kevin Farrell is one of our moderators. He is the Discord moderator. He's presented at our live events. He's truly doing this to give back and help everybody and do deals with everybody. He's coming at this from his heart.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
He's just a great guy. I can't say enough good stuff, and his advice is correct.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic?

Jill DeWit:
I'm waiting for the topic [crosstalk 00:02:17]

Steven Butala:
When is it time to seek professional help? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So here's what I'm talking about. And it's not necessarily someone that's beyond you, so that's not really correct. Maybe it's someone who's doing something totally different that you want to learn from.

Steven Butala:
Maybe it's Kevin.

Jill DeWit:
I happened to, just the other day, I jumped on somebody else's Clubhouse chat. It was the funniest thing. Halfway into this guy's chat, it was on mobile homes and mobile home parks. So I'm like, "Okay, I want to hear what this guy's saying," so I jumped in the room and there was nobody else on stage. It was just kind of him talking. I think he answered some questions early on in the call. But at that point it was just him. He said something to me that, of course, struck a chord, so I raised my hand.

Jill DeWit:
If you're in Clubhouse, you know what I mean. You raise your hand and you get invited on stage. So for the second half hour, it was just this guy and I talking, and everybody else is listening.

Steven Butala:
Darn, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
It was so funny because we had a great conversation. I think what it was, I [inaudible 00:03:16].

Steven Butala:
You co-hosted his show. There's a little bit of cheating going on here.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of did, and he really thanked me. It was so funny. He's like,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[When is it Time to Seek Professional Help (LA 1633)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about when is it time to seek professional help?

Jill DeWit:
No, we don't mean marriage counseling, or whatever issues that you're having.

Steven Butala:
Are you sure? I disagree. There's no way we can do this episode without addressing this stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. Got it. That's not where I was going, though.

Steven Butala:
Every week Jill and I sit down, usually pretty briefly and say, "All right. Let's come up with five topics," and so first thing I do is I go into Discord and see what's on everybody's mind and try to make this some semblance of intelligent. That's not what Jill does. She goes off and she's like, "This is what people need. We need to-"

Jill DeWit:
And this is my topic. You can [crosstalk 00:00:53].

Steven Butala:
I know. This is Jill's topic. That's my point.

Jill DeWit:
It's clearly mine.

Steven Butala:
It started out, what she really meant was this.

Jill DeWit:
We'll get to it.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. It's-

Steven Butala:
I can-

Jill DeWit:
We'll get to you in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, maybe we need help. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "Kevin, I appreciate you simplifying problems such as pricing and picking the county and help me get past analysis paralysis. I'm finally closing on three deals and will continue to seek your safe consult to get me past stock points."

Jill DeWit:
Kevin wrote, "I've been watching your discussions here and you are looking good. Keep up the good work." I like this little blip, because it does tie into today and what I'm talking about. Pro help means someone beyond you.

Steven Butala:
Kevin Farrell is one of our moderators. He is the Discord moderator. He's presented at our live events. He's truly doing this to give back and help everybody and do deals with everybody. He's coming at this from his heart.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
He's just a great guy. I can't say enough good stuff, and his advice is correct.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic?

Jill DeWit:
I'm waiting for the topic [crosstalk 00:02:17]

Steven Butala:
When is it time to seek professional help? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So here's what I'm talking about. And it's not necessarily someone that's beyond you, so that's not really correct. Maybe it's someone who's doing something totally different that you want to learn from.

Steven Butala:
Maybe it's Kevin.

Jill DeWit:
I happened to, just the other day, I jumped on somebody else's Clubhouse chat. It was the funniest thing. Halfway into this guy's chat, it was on mobile homes and mobile home parks. So I'm like, "Okay, I want to hear what this guy's saying," so I jumped in the room and there was nobody else on stage. It was just kind of him talking. I think he answered some questions early on in the call. But at that point it was just him. He said something to me that, of course, struck a chord, so I raised my hand.

Jill DeWit:
If you're in Clubhouse, you know what I mean. You raise your hand and you get invited on stage. So for the second half hour, it was just this guy and I talking, and everybody else is listening.

Steven Butala:
Darn, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
It was so funny because we had a great conversation. I think what it was, I [inaudible 00:03:16].

Steven Butala:
You co-hosted his show. There's a little bit of cheating going on here.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of did, and he really thanked me. It was so funny. He's like,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/15/when-is-it-time-to-seek-professional-help-la-1633/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SewOx2UdK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:00:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f44f7680-e36a-4d98-97e5-0f53f1249424.mp3" length="15396329" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; It&amp;#8217;s about Connecting with People, Not What You Know (LA 1632)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; It&amp;#8217;s about Connecting with People, Not What You Know (LA 1632)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - It's about Connecting with People, Not What You Know (LA 1632)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how it's all about connecting with people and not really as much about what you know.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. So you've heard Jack this week talk about these intensive trainings, and his is Get Your Mailer Out. I'm doing one too. And mine, it's really called, How Jill Gets Deals Done. And I'm really trying to have everyone take a step back and think about ways and how, and techniques and words and listening to connect with people, because you're going to get more deals out of it. You mentioned that, I don't remember what day it was, we were talking. It was a data heavy day and you were mentioning, "This is all great. You want to improve your mailer yield? Do what Jill does." And that's what this is about today. Thank You.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Buckley wrote, "Evening all, hope everyone is well. I'm reviewing emails from a mailer or the PATLive recorded calls. If the seller states they're not interested in selling, is it still worthwhile in following up and asking why or just leaving it be and moving on? The sales part of me moves towards ..." This is good, by the way. "The sale is in the follow up, but being my first mailer, I'm trying to put good energy into what is deserving and worth the time. Day job consumes a lot of my time, so I'm trying to put focus on where it's needed. Thanks guys."

Jill K DeWit:
So this is good, because this is actually stuff that we talked about. I've already, at the time of recording, I've got through week one of the session. And week one was a lot of theory and concepts and all that. And my first goal is you answer your own phones, because you can form that connection right away, find out what you need to find out, Buckley, and you'll know yourself. But you're just getting a message from a service. So what I'm talking to everyone about is, you got to, based on the feedback that you get, you need to see. Maybe you could tweak your questions with PATLive or whatever service you're using to find out, is it a price reason. Is the reason you're not wanting to sell because of price? That's easy. And then you know you need to call them back.

Jill K DeWit:
So, whether or not you are able to answer the phone, that's okay, but you still need to connect with them the first time that you do talk to them, and it probably is going to be in the follow up. So I tell people whether it's a voicemail ... My goal is not to have these scenarios, but sometimes life happens. You get a voicemail maybe, you get an email maybe, you get something in the mail back maybe. Any indication that there might be something there, I do reach out, just to find out for myself. It's too easy to bust out those phone calls, set up some time, "Thursday afternoon when I get home from work, that's the time I bust out these calls," just to see if there's some juice there, and then you'll know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can I ask questions?

Jill K DeWit:
Absolutely.

Steven Jack Butala:
What if you don't like talking on the phone? You loathe it.

Jill K DeWit:
You need to get over that, and that's what this is about too. I'm really trying to help people. I think people who think that they're loathe it's because I think that they're not good at it.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I don't think so at all. I think people loathe it because they loathe it, because I'm one of those people.

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - It's about Connecting with People, Not What You Know (LA 1632)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how it's all about connecting with people and not really as much about what you know.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. So you've heard Jack this week talk about these intensive trainings, and his is Get Your Mailer Out. I'm doing one too. And mine, it's really called, How Jill Gets Deals Done. And I'm really trying to have everyone take a step back and think about ways and how, and techniques and words and listening to connect with people, because you're going to get more deals out of it. You mentioned that, I don't remember what day it was, we were talking. It was a data heavy day and you were mentioning, "This is all great. You want to improve your mailer yield? Do what Jill does." And that's what this is about today. Thank You.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Buckley wrote, "Evening all, hope everyone is well. I'm reviewing emails from a mailer or the PATLive recorded calls. If the seller states they're not interested in selling, is it still worthwhile in following up and asking why or just leaving it be and moving on? The sales part of me moves towards ..." This is good, by the way. "The sale is in the follow up, but being my first mailer, I'm trying to put good energy into what is deserving and worth the time. Day job consumes a lot of my time, so I'm trying to put focus on where it's needed. Thanks guys."

Jill K DeWit:
So this is good, because this is actually stuff that we talked about. I've already, at the time of recording, I've got through week one of the session. And week one was a lot of theory and concepts and all that. And my first goal is you answer your own phones, because you can form that connection right away, find out what you need to find out, Buckley, and you'll know yourself. But you're just getting a message from a service. So what I'm talking to everyone about is, you got to, based on the feedback that you get, you need to see. Maybe you could tweak your questions with PATLive or whatever service you're using to find out, is it a price reason. Is the reason you're not wanting to sell because of price? That's easy. And then you know you need to call them back.

Jill K DeWit:
So, whether or not you are able to answer the phone, that's okay, but you still need to connect with them the first time that you do talk to them, and it probably is going to be in the follow up. So I tell people whether it's a voicemail ... My goal is not to have these scenarios, but sometimes life happens. You get a voicemail maybe, you get an email maybe, you get something in the mail back maybe. Any indication that there might be something there, I do reach out, just to find out for myself. It's too easy to bust out those phone calls, set up some time, "Thursday afternoon when I get home from work, that's the time I bust out these calls," just to see if there's some juice there, and then you'll know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can I ask questions?

Jill K DeWit:
Absolutely.

Steven Jack Butala:
What if you don't like talking on the phone? You loathe it.

Jill K DeWit:
You need to get over that, and that's what this is about too. I'm really trying to help people. I think people who think that they're loathe it's because I think that they're not good at it.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, I don't think so at all. I think people loathe it because they loathe it, because I'm one of those people.

Jill K DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/12/jill-friday-its-about-connecting-with-people-not-what-you-know-la-1632/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">v53fDLGSa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:05:20 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a7b8d147-198c-4678-ad59-4b62c7fd7b94.mp3" length="15617924" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Get to Know Your Zip Code (LA 1631)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Get to Know Your Zip Code (LA 1631)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Get to Know Your Zip Code (LA 1631)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about getting to know your zip code. And I can promise you this, this has nothing to do with the real estate, mailers, data. It has to do with your zip code and your life.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm thinking of all the times you use that phrase. "Jill, get to know your equipment. Jill, get to know your staff. Jill, get to know your job description."

Steven Jack Butala:
Get to know your life partner.

Jill K DeWit:
Get to know your life partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
Your job description?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. "Jill, get to know how an oven works."

Steven Jack Butala:
What?

Jill K DeWit:
No, I know how that is. They were like ... You use that phrase, that's one of-

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay.

Jill K DeWit:
Your phrases.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hold on. Let's put the breaks on this. Between the two of us, trust me on this, between the two of us, one of us is a pilot, one of us isn't. One of us is extremely technical and applies a checklist to everything. So when I say, "Get to know," fill in the blank, it's a joke.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because really it's like, I need to get to know the oven, not you.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, thank you. I appreciate that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Do you ever look at demographics when choosing a place to send mail?"

Steven Jack Butala:
The answer is very directly, I used to and I don't anymore. And because the red, green, yellow test and the tests that I run smoke all that stuff out. What Aaron's really asking is, is it better to buy properties in affluent areas or-

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
... better to buy properties in Rust Belt, deteriorated inner cities. And the answer is, I don't care about any of that at all. What I care about is a red, green, yellow test, and whether or not days on market fit in my parameters. Whether or not how many properties are listed this month versus sold are in my favor. As an investor, I care about just the statistics that will lead to a real successful mailer.

Steven Jack Butala:
But invariably, there are innate problems with buying properties on both ends of the bell curve. In really affluent areas and in really rundown areas, both of those markets have undesirable characteristics for an investor. I want to be in the middle of everything when it comes to buying and selling land, or slightly to the ... It doesn't matter which way, the numbers all come out to show us where to send mail.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. Get to know-

Jill K DeWit:
I concur. Jack, correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, get to know your zip code. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that's funny, people ... Hold, please. People just dream up stuff. It comes back to some other days that we talked about this this week, people are dreaming up writing the algorithm and all this stuff. There's some secret. I'm sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure-

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some secret.

Jill K DeWit:
... that if I spend a month on this and do nothing, but try every little thing, maybe demographic, maybe it's money, maybe it's age, maybe it's education, maybe it's the weather in the area. How many snowbirds come in, I don't know. Maybe there's some secret sauce that no one else has got and I'm going to be the one to find ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Get to Know Your Zip Code (LA 1631)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about getting to know your zip code. And I can promise you this, this has nothing to do with the real estate, mailers, data. It has to do with your zip code and your life.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm thinking of all the times you use that phrase. "Jill, get to know your equipment. Jill, get to know your staff. Jill, get to know your job description."

Steven Jack Butala:
Get to know your life partner.

Jill K DeWit:
Get to know your life partner.

Steven Jack Butala:
Your job description?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't know. "Jill, get to know how an oven works."

Steven Jack Butala:
What?

Jill K DeWit:
No, I know how that is. They were like ... You use that phrase, that's one of-

Steven Jack Butala:
Okay.

Jill K DeWit:
Your phrases.

Steven Jack Butala:
Hold on. Let's put the breaks on this. Between the two of us, trust me on this, between the two of us, one of us is a pilot, one of us isn't. One of us is extremely technical and applies a checklist to everything. So when I say, "Get to know," fill in the blank, it's a joke.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because really it's like, I need to get to know the oven, not you.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, thank you. I appreciate that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Do you ever look at demographics when choosing a place to send mail?"

Steven Jack Butala:
The answer is very directly, I used to and I don't anymore. And because the red, green, yellow test and the tests that I run smoke all that stuff out. What Aaron's really asking is, is it better to buy properties in affluent areas or-

Jill K DeWit:
I was going to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
... better to buy properties in Rust Belt, deteriorated inner cities. And the answer is, I don't care about any of that at all. What I care about is a red, green, yellow test, and whether or not days on market fit in my parameters. Whether or not how many properties are listed this month versus sold are in my favor. As an investor, I care about just the statistics that will lead to a real successful mailer.

Steven Jack Butala:
But invariably, there are innate problems with buying properties on both ends of the bell curve. In really affluent areas and in really rundown areas, both of those markets have undesirable characteristics for an investor. I want to be in the middle of everything when it comes to buying and selling land, or slightly to the ... It doesn't matter which way, the numbers all come out to show us where to send mail.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. Get to know-

Jill K DeWit:
I concur. Jack, correct.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, get to know your zip code. This is why you're listening.

Jill K DeWit:
Isn't that's funny, people ... Hold, please. People just dream up stuff. It comes back to some other days that we talked about this this week, people are dreaming up writing the algorithm and all this stuff. There's some secret. I'm sure.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's it, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure-

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some secret.

Jill K DeWit:
... that if I spend a month on this and do nothing, but try every little thing, maybe demographic, maybe it's money, maybe it's age, maybe it's education, maybe it's the weather in the area. How many snowbirds come in, I don't know. Maybe there's some secret sauce that no one else has got and I'm going to be the one to find ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/11/jack-thursday-get-to-know-your-zip-code-la-1631/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">MMLAar5UI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:55:12 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/71e1e9f8-755d-466d-af35-fce53b44a0f3.mp3" length="18410138" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Zillow&amp;#8217;s Buying Spree Gone Wrong (LA 1630)</title><itunes:title>Zillow&amp;#8217;s Buying Spree Gone Wrong (LA 1630)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Zillow's Buying Spree Gone Wrong (LA 1630)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about Zillow's buying spree and how it's gone wrong.
Jill K DeWit:I feel bad.
Steven Jack Butala:I don't.
Jill K DeWit:I know.
Steven Jack Butala:I feel great.
Jill K DeWit:I know. It's true, but somebody's head's going to roll.
Steven Jack Butala:Zillow is pretty much a household word. It's a place to go look at what's for sale for all real estate types. It's a place to go get data. It's a place to post properties. If you buy, like us, buy and sell land. And it's been around for a while. I'll give all the stats here in the regular show, but they started in 2005. And as a tech company, are a huge example of success. And recently they decided to go buy a bunch of houses under the guise of, well, we have all the data, we're going to make better decisions and it totally backfired. And I've been on record saying that they're what's called an iBuyer, which is a... It accounts for 1% of all the acquisitions for SFRs in the country, which sounds like a lot, but it's not. I'll get into the numbers in a minute here.
Jill K DeWit:I have numbers too.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, good.
Jill K DeWit:Just don't think that I can't come up with numbers.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:David wrote, hi, Jack. After Career Path, I've done six land deals that I probably would've walked away from if I didn't go through Career Path. So I want to say, thanks for that. I still haven't sent mail for land yet because my house flipping business has essentially doubled in volume. I range about 13 deals per month over the last four months. It's a lot.
Steven Jack Butala:So, I remember David during Career Path.
Jill K DeWit:That's a lot, that's great.
Steven Jack Butala:He's a franchisee of a very popular home company that advertises on 800 Number, where if you want to sell your house you can get an offer. And so what he's saying here is, Career Path really helped him with being a franchisee for this company. Just gets me thinking.
Jill K DeWit:So, just hadn't had the capacity to add another asset class yet. I actually went through the process of putting together and pricing mailer with concierge data and offers to owner. But my team's a bit overwhelmed right now. So, I'm holding off until they catch their breath. I've heard through the podcast that you and Jill have started doing a little more with House Academy. Right now, we're aiming to start that in the first quarter, after I'm completely out of X company.
Jill K DeWit:I actually think it would be a little easier to lift to add the land/house [inaudible 00:02:46] process to what we're doing in the flipping business. Now in a perfect world, my business would never rehab a house again, kudos to that. With that being said, are you still doing consulting calls? And where could we cover some of that? Or are you planning any additional training, like the intensives that you're doing or Career Path, that focus on houses? If some definitely interested, hope Paul as well. Thanks, David.
Steven Jack Butala:Next year, we're doing all that. We're releasing multiple Career Path scenarios because everybody wants it. And we will focus on houses with one of them. For sure.
Jill K DeWit:I agree.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, Zillow's buying spree and how it's gone wrong. This is the meat of the show. Around 2005, Zillow was created by private investors. They raised up a bunch of capital through a company call...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Zillow's Buying Spree Gone Wrong (LA 1630)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about Zillow's buying spree and how it's gone wrong.
Jill K DeWit:I feel bad.
Steven Jack Butala:I don't.
Jill K DeWit:I know.
Steven Jack Butala:I feel great.
Jill K DeWit:I know. It's true, but somebody's head's going to roll.
Steven Jack Butala:Zillow is pretty much a household word. It's a place to go look at what's for sale for all real estate types. It's a place to go get data. It's a place to post properties. If you buy, like us, buy and sell land. And it's been around for a while. I'll give all the stats here in the regular show, but they started in 2005. And as a tech company, are a huge example of success. And recently they decided to go buy a bunch of houses under the guise of, well, we have all the data, we're going to make better decisions and it totally backfired. And I've been on record saying that they're what's called an iBuyer, which is a... It accounts for 1% of all the acquisitions for SFRs in the country, which sounds like a lot, but it's not. I'll get into the numbers in a minute here.
Jill K DeWit:I have numbers too.
Steven Jack Butala:Oh, good.
Jill K DeWit:Just don't think that I can't come up with numbers.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:David wrote, hi, Jack. After Career Path, I've done six land deals that I probably would've walked away from if I didn't go through Career Path. So I want to say, thanks for that. I still haven't sent mail for land yet because my house flipping business has essentially doubled in volume. I range about 13 deals per month over the last four months. It's a lot.
Steven Jack Butala:So, I remember David during Career Path.
Jill K DeWit:That's a lot, that's great.
Steven Jack Butala:He's a franchisee of a very popular home company that advertises on 800 Number, where if you want to sell your house you can get an offer. And so what he's saying here is, Career Path really helped him with being a franchisee for this company. Just gets me thinking.
Jill K DeWit:So, just hadn't had the capacity to add another asset class yet. I actually went through the process of putting together and pricing mailer with concierge data and offers to owner. But my team's a bit overwhelmed right now. So, I'm holding off until they catch their breath. I've heard through the podcast that you and Jill have started doing a little more with House Academy. Right now, we're aiming to start that in the first quarter, after I'm completely out of X company.
Jill K DeWit:I actually think it would be a little easier to lift to add the land/house [inaudible 00:02:46] process to what we're doing in the flipping business. Now in a perfect world, my business would never rehab a house again, kudos to that. With that being said, are you still doing consulting calls? And where could we cover some of that? Or are you planning any additional training, like the intensives that you're doing or Career Path, that focus on houses? If some definitely interested, hope Paul as well. Thanks, David.
Steven Jack Butala:Next year, we're doing all that. We're releasing multiple Career Path scenarios because everybody wants it. And we will focus on houses with one of them. For sure.
Jill K DeWit:I agree.
Steven Jack Butala:Today's topic, Zillow's buying spree and how it's gone wrong. This is the meat of the show. Around 2005, Zillow was created by private investors. They raised up a bunch of capital through a company call...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/10/zillows-buying-spree-gone-wrong-la-1630/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">57IdtcXRt</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 22:48:49 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/24b82642-9c84-42bb-95ef-12ac78908be5.mp3" length="22465262" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Improving Mailer Yield is Fiction (LA 1629)</title><itunes:title>Improving Mailer Yield is Fiction (LA 1629)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Improving Mailer Yield is Fiction (LA 1629)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about improving your mailer yield and how it's fiction.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds very technical.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. It sounds technical.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, this is more of a chill topic than anything else. And at the end of this, there's just a massive compliment for you. And I'm not trying to get anything from you, but it's true.

Jill K DeWit:
Are you sure?

Steven Jack Butala:
We'll see what happens. There might be-

Jill K DeWit:
If you were trying to get some ... Let's just talk for just a moment here. Let's pause. Time out. If you were trying to get something from me, what would it be?

Steven Jack Butala:
Smiles.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. That's not what-

Steven Jack Butala:
I work for smiles.

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck? That's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you ever see people like walking around Manhattan with the sign that says-

Jill K DeWit:
You're kidding me.

Steven Jack Butala:
... "Hug me," or, "I work for smile"?

Jill K DeWit:
I've never seen that.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's the fastest way to get murdered.

Jill K DeWit:
Are you serious? People do that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not anymore, probably.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, probably not. They're probably in a hazmat suit.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. Not for hugs. Oh my goodness. I'm trying to think, what would I be working for? You know what? Hey, truth time. Okay. I smile all the time. This is a fact.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, you do.

Jill K DeWit:
That's easy. So, you're not being totally upfront here, but-

Steven Jack Butala:
Didn't take long to get off topic, but here we go. This is the conversation Jill and I had in the car on the way back in the RV, looking at some real estate recently. What's your love language? what are the five love languages? Do you have this memorized?

Jill K DeWit:
Touch, acts of service.

Steven Jack Butala:
Acts of service.

Jill K DeWit:
You think I'm kidding? Words of affirmation. You guys know what I'm talking about. Affirmation. And then God, I can't remember the other ones.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's five.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Touching, compliments.

Jill K DeWit:
But that's affirmation.

Steven Jack Butala:
Doing stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Acts of service. That's acts of service.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which is doing stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I can't remember-

Steven Jack Butala:
There's other ones, two other ones. It doesn't matter.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I don't remember.

Steven Jack Butala:
We both very quickly realized it's all acts of service for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, but they're different acts of service. I can't believe we're doing this. This is really truths time. My acts of service is like thank you for clearing the table. I didn't have to say anything, and I just turned to around and you took care of the table and the dishes. I'm like, that's awesome. Or even just lining up dinner and I don't have to think about it. Thanks. Your version of acts of service, or doing something as you call it, is showing up to this podcast on time.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or starting a company without me knowing, and then it turn around and makes all kinds of money. That's a great act. You're the girl for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or buying a piece of real estate that generates a ridiculous return and a whole thing, I didn't even know about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. It's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, yeah. But it's not touch or anything like that. I mean, all those things happen, but for both of us.

Jill K DeWit:
Affection, like I like it,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Improving Mailer Yield is Fiction (LA 1629)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about improving your mailer yield and how it's fiction.

Jill K DeWit:
Sounds very technical.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's not.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. It sounds technical.

Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, this is more of a chill topic than anything else. And at the end of this, there's just a massive compliment for you. And I'm not trying to get anything from you, but it's true.

Jill K DeWit:
Are you sure?

Steven Jack Butala:
We'll see what happens. There might be-

Jill K DeWit:
If you were trying to get some ... Let's just talk for just a moment here. Let's pause. Time out. If you were trying to get something from me, what would it be?

Steven Jack Butala:
Smiles.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh. That's not what-

Steven Jack Butala:
I work for smiles.

Jill K DeWit:
What the heck? That's hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
Do you ever see people like walking around Manhattan with the sign that says-

Jill K DeWit:
You're kidding me.

Steven Jack Butala:
... "Hug me," or, "I work for smile"?

Jill K DeWit:
I've never seen that.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's the fastest way to get murdered.

Jill K DeWit:
Are you serious? People do that?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Not anymore, probably.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, probably not. They're probably in a hazmat suit.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. Not for hugs. Oh my goodness. I'm trying to think, what would I be working for? You know what? Hey, truth time. Okay. I smile all the time. This is a fact.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, you do.

Jill K DeWit:
That's easy. So, you're not being totally upfront here, but-

Steven Jack Butala:
Didn't take long to get off topic, but here we go. This is the conversation Jill and I had in the car on the way back in the RV, looking at some real estate recently. What's your love language? what are the five love languages? Do you have this memorized?

Jill K DeWit:
Touch, acts of service.

Steven Jack Butala:
Acts of service.

Jill K DeWit:
You think I'm kidding? Words of affirmation. You guys know what I'm talking about. Affirmation. And then God, I can't remember the other ones.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's five.

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
Touching, compliments.

Jill K DeWit:
But that's affirmation.

Steven Jack Butala:
Doing stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Acts of service. That's acts of service.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which is doing stuff.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I can't remember-

Steven Jack Butala:
There's other ones, two other ones. It doesn't matter.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I don't remember.

Steven Jack Butala:
We both very quickly realized it's all acts of service for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, but they're different acts of service. I can't believe we're doing this. This is really truths time. My acts of service is like thank you for clearing the table. I didn't have to say anything, and I just turned to around and you took care of the table and the dishes. I'm like, that's awesome. Or even just lining up dinner and I don't have to think about it. Thanks. Your version of acts of service, or doing something as you call it, is showing up to this podcast on time.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or starting a company without me knowing, and then it turn around and makes all kinds of money. That's a great act. You're the girl for me.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven Jack Butala:
Or buying a piece of real estate that generates a ridiculous return and a whole thing, I didn't even know about it.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. It's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, yeah. But it's not touch or anything like that. I mean, all those things happen, but for both of us.

Jill K DeWit:
Affection, like I like it,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/09/improving-mailer-yield-is-fiction-la-1629/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PU_c3rBVl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:45:43 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d01050e3-e30c-4eb3-8567-66a3dfb86651.mp3" length="18137118" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Who Exactly are You Doing Business With (LA 1628)</title><itunes:title>Who Exactly are You Doing Business With (LA 1628)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Who Exactly are You Doing Business With (LA 1628)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about who exactly are you doing business with?

Jill K DeWit:
I know who I'm doing business with. Do you?

Steven Jack Butala:
I know who my partners are.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Very much who my partner, singular, is.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I honestly ... After this whole incident went down in Discord, which I'll explain in a second here.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Got me thinking, you know what? I actually, we have all these members, I have no idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-oh. I'm a little worried.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
James wrote, okay. This in quotes [crosstalk 00:00:55]

Steven Jack Butala:
This is in the rant section of discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "I was on the phone today for over an hour and a half trying to cancel contract with an agent for two parcels of land that I have listed with him. The longest periods of silence was over 12 minutes." Are you kidding me? I've never had these...

Steven Jack Butala:
This sparked a...

Jill K DeWit:
This is hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Very valuable discussion, I think, in discord, obviously worth an episode.

Jill K DeWit:
This is hilarious. Okay.

Jill K DeWit:
"As I waited for him to be the first to respond at the end of it, he wouldn't agree to cancel the contract. We will try again tomorrow night. The total commission to him for both parcels would be $9,000 when he is actually able to sell them. There is a large perspective gap between us. I want to take less time and I'm happy with less profit. And he wants to take as much time as needed and maximize his end. Very, very frustrating. And one of hours of my life spent on something I didn't want to. However, I learned a lot. So it may ultimately be worth it and learning the lesson of who not to list with is priceless. Thank you for reading really just needed a sympathetic and understanding audience. Now to go meditate." This is funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Since when does a freaking real estate agent have anything to say about how much you list your property for? This goes on.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
In this scope of this episode. And believe me, I got involved and told stories and I'm going to tell my story here in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a non-exclusive agreement. So it's not an exclusive contract. Okay? So if, if the meaning, which is very unusual, meaning the agent has to bring the buyer, so to get paid, to get paid, right? So if he goes, if land academy member goes up and sells a property by somebody, he generates, he doesn't have to get paid.

Jill K DeWit:
That's amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is just an example of there's just a lot of people you need to know who you're doing business with before you start signing stuff and he didn't do anything wrong. I've been in this situation before too. Again, I'm going to tell a story.

Jill K DeWit:
Sometimes you don't know, people can, don't say I had a whole marriage like this...

Steven Jack Butala:
That didn't cross my mind until now.

Jill K DeWit:
I've been waiting for you to say...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah get to know who you're married to.

Jill K DeWit:
But some people go into it and lead you to believe that there's something that they're not. And when there's a ring on the finger or the paper signed, maybe then the truth comes out.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Who Exactly are You Doing Business With (LA 1628)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about who exactly are you doing business with?

Jill K DeWit:
I know who I'm doing business with. Do you?

Steven Jack Butala:
I know who my partners are.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Very much who my partner, singular, is.

Jill K DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I honestly ... After this whole incident went down in Discord, which I'll explain in a second here.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Got me thinking, you know what? I actually, we have all these members, I have no idea.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-oh. I'm a little worried.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
James wrote, okay. This in quotes [crosstalk 00:00:55]

Steven Jack Butala:
This is in the rant section of discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "I was on the phone today for over an hour and a half trying to cancel contract with an agent for two parcels of land that I have listed with him. The longest periods of silence was over 12 minutes." Are you kidding me? I've never had these...

Steven Jack Butala:
This sparked a...

Jill K DeWit:
This is hilarious.

Steven Jack Butala:
... Very valuable discussion, I think, in discord, obviously worth an episode.

Jill K DeWit:
This is hilarious. Okay.

Jill K DeWit:
"As I waited for him to be the first to respond at the end of it, he wouldn't agree to cancel the contract. We will try again tomorrow night. The total commission to him for both parcels would be $9,000 when he is actually able to sell them. There is a large perspective gap between us. I want to take less time and I'm happy with less profit. And he wants to take as much time as needed and maximize his end. Very, very frustrating. And one of hours of my life spent on something I didn't want to. However, I learned a lot. So it may ultimately be worth it and learning the lesson of who not to list with is priceless. Thank you for reading really just needed a sympathetic and understanding audience. Now to go meditate." This is funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Since when does a freaking real estate agent have anything to say about how much you list your property for? This goes on.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Jack Butala:
In this scope of this episode. And believe me, I got involved and told stories and I'm going to tell my story here in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a non-exclusive agreement. So it's not an exclusive contract. Okay? So if, if the meaning, which is very unusual, meaning the agent has to bring the buyer, so to get paid, to get paid, right? So if he goes, if land academy member goes up and sells a property by somebody, he generates, he doesn't have to get paid.

Jill K DeWit:
That's amazing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is just an example of there's just a lot of people you need to know who you're doing business with before you start signing stuff and he didn't do anything wrong. I've been in this situation before too. Again, I'm going to tell a story.

Jill K DeWit:
Sometimes you don't know, people can, don't say I had a whole marriage like this...

Steven Jack Butala:
That didn't cross my mind until now.

Jill K DeWit:
I've been waiting for you to say...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah get to know who you're married to.

Jill K DeWit:
But some people go into it and lead you to believe that there's something that they're not. And when there's a ring on the finger or the paper signed, maybe then the truth comes out.

Steven Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/08/who-exactly-are-you-doing-business-with-la-1628/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">poDWC4U9K</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:44:19 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/94d20834-b310-4a27-af0d-80ed579736be.mp3" length="15315126" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Land Academy is a Support Group (LA 1626)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Land Academy is a Support Group (LA 1626)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Land Academy is a Support Group (LA 1626)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about our Land Academy and how it's a support group.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, do you want to give a little prelude on what you're going to talk about?

Jill DeWit:
Nah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Results of the first mailer. Now that the recension date has passed ... Now that I paid for all the mail, the education, the data, subscriptions, and a good chunk of change on top of that." So let me back up and just, I want to explain this real quick here. So Steven said, okay, I joined Land Academy. I paid for the education, data, however many months of subscription for the data, all the mail I just sent. I sent out all these offers. And then we have a date, usually it's like 90 days that, it's either 60 or 90 days, that we suggest to have on there as an expiration date that the offer is valid for. Is it ready?

Steven Jack Butala:
On the actual offer that we send out to each person, there's a date that says-

Jill DeWit:
Right, that's valid for.

Steven Jack Butala:
... it's valid for X date, and it all expires after that date.

Jill DeWit:
Right. So Steven is saying, the reason is he's saying it like this too, it's hard to track how well your mailer does because there's so many things that come in after that date. Even though we say it's expired, someone calls me up, I'm still going to talk to them. I still might buy it, even for years past that. It's just a call to action. So Steven said, all right, no matter what, in this first time period, 60, 90 days, whatever he used. Oh my gosh, it already paid for all the mail, all the education, all the data, everything, and I've got money leftover. So this is like, congratulations, it's perfect.

Jill DeWit:
He goes on to say, "I had someone call after the offer expired, and that is currently in escrow, as well as another property, which was offered by a seller after I closed on a different property of his. He has a third property for me after this one. This is already a life-changing experience. Thank you, Steven and Jill." Oh, congratulations, and thank you for sharing that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's endless. It's endless, the number of ... We've sent millions of offers out and it's just endless what goes on.

Jill DeWit:
I'm so happy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how Land Academy is a support group. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So, it's interesting how this all came to be. So we, way back when, starting Land Academy, it was just us in an education program, answering as many questions as we could pretty much via email or maybe in social media posts and things like that. We quickly realized it's better to help more than one at one time, and we created an online community. It was landinvestors.com, which is still there, and alive and well. Still online stuff. We're still in social media things. And then it morphed into our weekly calls, morphed into Discord. And it's just so much interaction. And where we are right now today, is everybody's helping each other, and I love it. It's so wonderful to me. The beauty of having a community is you don't feel like you're on an island. It's so nice.

Jill DeWit:
I wish we had started with a weekly member call from day one because it would have been like right there. It's just a calming thing. When you join Land Academy,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Land Academy is a Support Group (LA 1626)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about our Land Academy and how it's a support group.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, do you want to give a little prelude on what you're going to talk about?

Jill DeWit:
Nah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Steven wrote, "Results of the first mailer. Now that the recension date has passed ... Now that I paid for all the mail, the education, the data, subscriptions, and a good chunk of change on top of that." So let me back up and just, I want to explain this real quick here. So Steven said, okay, I joined Land Academy. I paid for the education, data, however many months of subscription for the data, all the mail I just sent. I sent out all these offers. And then we have a date, usually it's like 90 days that, it's either 60 or 90 days, that we suggest to have on there as an expiration date that the offer is valid for. Is it ready?

Steven Jack Butala:
On the actual offer that we send out to each person, there's a date that says-

Jill DeWit:
Right, that's valid for.

Steven Jack Butala:
... it's valid for X date, and it all expires after that date.

Jill DeWit:
Right. So Steven is saying, the reason is he's saying it like this too, it's hard to track how well your mailer does because there's so many things that come in after that date. Even though we say it's expired, someone calls me up, I'm still going to talk to them. I still might buy it, even for years past that. It's just a call to action. So Steven said, all right, no matter what, in this first time period, 60, 90 days, whatever he used. Oh my gosh, it already paid for all the mail, all the education, all the data, everything, and I've got money leftover. So this is like, congratulations, it's perfect.

Jill DeWit:
He goes on to say, "I had someone call after the offer expired, and that is currently in escrow, as well as another property, which was offered by a seller after I closed on a different property of his. He has a third property for me after this one. This is already a life-changing experience. Thank you, Steven and Jill." Oh, congratulations, and thank you for sharing that.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's endless. It's endless, the number of ... We've sent millions of offers out and it's just endless what goes on.

Jill DeWit:
I'm so happy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how Land Academy is a support group. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So, it's interesting how this all came to be. So we, way back when, starting Land Academy, it was just us in an education program, answering as many questions as we could pretty much via email or maybe in social media posts and things like that. We quickly realized it's better to help more than one at one time, and we created an online community. It was landinvestors.com, which is still there, and alive and well. Still online stuff. We're still in social media things. And then it morphed into our weekly calls, morphed into Discord. And it's just so much interaction. And where we are right now today, is everybody's helping each other, and I love it. It's so wonderful to me. The beauty of having a community is you don't feel like you're on an island. It's so nice.

Jill DeWit:
I wish we had started with a weekly member call from day one because it would have been like right there. It's just a calming thing. When you join Land Academy,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/05/jill-friday-land-academy-is-a-support-group-la-1626/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">wfJ88nQOW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 21:57:55 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8078d577-9b69-48a2-a65c-9f6ca6ff295e.mp3" length="15070862" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Distractions from Success (LA 1625)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Distractions from Success (LA 1625)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Distractions from Success (LA 1625)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about distractions from your success.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I bet you have a whole lot to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's the biggest distraction that you experience? What's the thing standing in your way? Besides me, standing in your way of being the successful woman I know is inside of you.

Jill DeWit:
Wasting time on deals that are too small.

Steven Jack Butala:
Beautiful answer. Wow, that didn't take long for you to answer.

Jill DeWit:
No, it didn't, because it was perfect timing. I just came in from my desk and I'm looking at-

Steven Jack Butala:
Tell us the story.

Jill DeWit:
I'm looking at deals... Here's the good news, some of these are coming in and I have... My transaction coordinator has been with me long enough now she knows what my answers are going to be. I just wrote her back saying, "Hey, you know what, you're right, this, this, this and this. You know what I'm going to say no to. Please take ownership of that and only loop me in now when we're at this level." Because I'm wasting time going what the heck, I shouldn't even be looking at this. And some of them is like, it's too small a deal and we're not even sure about the access. Why am I even looking at that?

Steven Jack Butala:
My answer is, it's just working on stuff that doesn't yield a dollar.

Jill DeWit:
That too.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so that's, we'll talk about it in a minute, but it's hard to... This show doesn't make any money. It doesn't make a dollar. In fact, it's a total time suck and it's a money suck, but it really works. It really helps people and it converts the right people to becoming Land Academy members where they can make a ton of money for themselves and contribute to the group, so that makes money. It makes everyone money. So there's this balance between, in Jill's case, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it's like, should I do this deal that's really small and kind of risky, but I know this person that's submitting it is going to be a superstar. That's what this show's about. Are they distractions or not? We don't know. You just don't want to go down a rabbit hole, that's my point. Right?

Jill DeWit:
Well, I'll tell you another truth time thing. As a matter of fact, I have one deal that I fund. I just got an email from an agent today saying, you might lose money on this one. I'm like, yeah, I'm prepared for that. It's a deal in a county, in California, that I funded for somebody else who realized later on they paid too much for it, and they kind of threw me the keys and ran away and said, oops, sorry, here you go. I made a mistake. It was your money, not mine and then they backed. I'm like, thanks a lot.

Steven Jack Butala:
Threw the keys at you. It's a great visual.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I hope our post production guys can do a little-

Jill DeWit:
I throw some keys in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
A little cartoon of throwing keys.

Jill DeWit:
Me with keys bouncing off me.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:50], throw some keys in Jill's face. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. That's correct.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I'm going to take a guess at how to pronounce this.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's first initial, last name.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thank you. Okay. So G Corley wrote, I was going to call it Guh Corley, "Hey everybody. I just joined Land Academy two weeks ago and I'm very grateful to be part of this group.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Distractions from Success (LA 1625)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about distractions from your success.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I bet you have a whole lot to say.

Steven Jack Butala:
What's the biggest distraction that you experience? What's the thing standing in your way? Besides me, standing in your way of being the successful woman I know is inside of you.

Jill DeWit:
Wasting time on deals that are too small.

Steven Jack Butala:
Beautiful answer. Wow, that didn't take long for you to answer.

Jill DeWit:
No, it didn't, because it was perfect timing. I just came in from my desk and I'm looking at-

Steven Jack Butala:
Tell us the story.

Jill DeWit:
I'm looking at deals... Here's the good news, some of these are coming in and I have... My transaction coordinator has been with me long enough now she knows what my answers are going to be. I just wrote her back saying, "Hey, you know what, you're right, this, this, this and this. You know what I'm going to say no to. Please take ownership of that and only loop me in now when we're at this level." Because I'm wasting time going what the heck, I shouldn't even be looking at this. And some of them is like, it's too small a deal and we're not even sure about the access. Why am I even looking at that?

Steven Jack Butala:
My answer is, it's just working on stuff that doesn't yield a dollar.

Jill DeWit:
That too.

Steven Jack Butala:
And so that's, we'll talk about it in a minute, but it's hard to... This show doesn't make any money. It doesn't make a dollar. In fact, it's a total time suck and it's a money suck, but it really works. It really helps people and it converts the right people to becoming Land Academy members where they can make a ton of money for themselves and contribute to the group, so that makes money. It makes everyone money. So there's this balance between, in Jill's case, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it's like, should I do this deal that's really small and kind of risky, but I know this person that's submitting it is going to be a superstar. That's what this show's about. Are they distractions or not? We don't know. You just don't want to go down a rabbit hole, that's my point. Right?

Jill DeWit:
Well, I'll tell you another truth time thing. As a matter of fact, I have one deal that I fund. I just got an email from an agent today saying, you might lose money on this one. I'm like, yeah, I'm prepared for that. It's a deal in a county, in California, that I funded for somebody else who realized later on they paid too much for it, and they kind of threw me the keys and ran away and said, oops, sorry, here you go. I made a mistake. It was your money, not mine and then they backed. I'm like, thanks a lot.

Steven Jack Butala:
Threw the keys at you. It's a great visual.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I hope our post production guys can do a little-

Jill DeWit:
I throw some keys in there.

Steven Jack Butala:
A little cartoon of throwing keys.

Jill DeWit:
Me with keys bouncing off me.

Steven Jack Butala:
[inaudible 00:02:50], throw some keys in Jill's face. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. That's correct.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I'm going to take a guess at how to pronounce this.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's first initial, last name.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thank you. Okay. So G Corley wrote, I was going to call it Guh Corley, "Hey everybody. I just joined Land Academy two weeks ago and I'm very grateful to be part of this group.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/04/jack-thursday-distractions-from-success-la-1625/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">E9k1_blyY</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:14:48 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6ffff8eb-a85e-4319-b8bf-728694fd72c3.mp3" length="19132009" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Housing Market Predictions for 2022 (HA 1624)</title><itunes:title>Housing Market Predictions for 2022 (HA 1624)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Housing Market Predictions for 2022 (HA 1624)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Really the House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit. And, we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I are talking about housing predictions for 2022.
Jill DeWit:I like to say I was asking this question too, to you earlier. I'm like, "I know you read up on all this stuff. You're really current on all this stuff. What the heck is everybody saying?" I'm personally dying to know. I have my thoughts, but I want to know what your thoughts are and what the general opinion is.
Steven Jack Butala:So, it's the fourth quarter, it's October 2021. It's a fourth quarter where everyone who's got any type of involvement in any market, whether it's a stock market or commodities or anything else or weather or anything, makes predictions for next year. And housing is no different. So, Core Logic piped in Fannie Mae, of course, which is the mortgage insurance backed federal government scenario, which allows a lot of mortgages to happen. So, they all have predictions and I'll talk about them in a minute here.
Jill DeWit:Cool.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, Hey, by the way, it's all good. In my opinion, it's not hockey stick straight up. It's good. Slow growth.
Jill DeWit:Spoiler alert.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the YouTube Land Academy channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Jason wrote, you guys talk all about houses a lot lately. If we buy and sell land, what is the point of this? I've renovated houses in a past life with success, but decide it's not worth it in the end.
Steven Jack Butala:Amen to that.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:So you're in the same boat as almost all of us, probably it's a logical conclusion to look at the things that I think suck. We talked about this a couple days ago.
Jill DeWit:Like Monday.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. What sucks about renovating houses is that... Pick window treatments. I always come back to that. If I hear the word window treatment, I'm not going to get involved in it financially. And so, I'm sorry that you had to go through that welcome to the land investment business.
Jill DeWit:I'm sorry. you had to go through this. Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:The housing market is very closely tied to the land market for a few reasons. The biggest reason is that when house values go up, people have extra money. When housing values go up and I'm going to get all kinds of comments on this wages generally go up. Compensation or equity generally goes up. Wages in themselves are so untied. So tragically disassociated with house values. It's staggering.
Jill DeWit:It's weird.
Steven Jack Butala:But in general, from an economic standpoint, not an accounting or reality standpoint, economic, that's not reality. That's just economics equity values go up when housing values go up. Which means there's more access to more disposable income on a macro level, which means people have access to more money so they can buy and sell land. Number one, this is a good question.
Jill DeWit:I like the pen on your finger. I'm like, I could just see... you know what's going to happen. Our post production guys are going to poke arrows that what's with the pen?
Steven Jack Butala:They will now for sure.
Jill DeWit:Yeah, they will because I just said it.
Steven Jack Butala:Number two when housing, it was funny for a while. Jill.
Jill DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:When housing goes up like this, there's a need for more housing, people sell their house, they got to move somewhere else. So land, it gets utilized for new housing and we're in a re...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Housing Market Predictions for 2022 (HA 1624)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Really the House Academy Show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit. And, we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I are talking about housing predictions for 2022.
Jill DeWit:I like to say I was asking this question too, to you earlier. I'm like, "I know you read up on all this stuff. You're really current on all this stuff. What the heck is everybody saying?" I'm personally dying to know. I have my thoughts, but I want to know what your thoughts are and what the general opinion is.
Steven Jack Butala:So, it's the fourth quarter, it's October 2021. It's a fourth quarter where everyone who's got any type of involvement in any market, whether it's a stock market or commodities or anything else or weather or anything, makes predictions for next year. And housing is no different. So, Core Logic piped in Fannie Mae, of course, which is the mortgage insurance backed federal government scenario, which allows a lot of mortgages to happen. So, they all have predictions and I'll talk about them in a minute here.
Jill DeWit:Cool.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, Hey, by the way, it's all good. In my opinion, it's not hockey stick straight up. It's good. Slow growth.
Jill DeWit:Spoiler alert.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the YouTube Land Academy channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Jason wrote, you guys talk all about houses a lot lately. If we buy and sell land, what is the point of this? I've renovated houses in a past life with success, but decide it's not worth it in the end.
Steven Jack Butala:Amen to that.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:So you're in the same boat as almost all of us, probably it's a logical conclusion to look at the things that I think suck. We talked about this a couple days ago.
Jill DeWit:Like Monday.
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. What sucks about renovating houses is that... Pick window treatments. I always come back to that. If I hear the word window treatment, I'm not going to get involved in it financially. And so, I'm sorry that you had to go through that welcome to the land investment business.
Jill DeWit:I'm sorry. you had to go through this. Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:The housing market is very closely tied to the land market for a few reasons. The biggest reason is that when house values go up, people have extra money. When housing values go up and I'm going to get all kinds of comments on this wages generally go up. Compensation or equity generally goes up. Wages in themselves are so untied. So tragically disassociated with house values. It's staggering.
Jill DeWit:It's weird.
Steven Jack Butala:But in general, from an economic standpoint, not an accounting or reality standpoint, economic, that's not reality. That's just economics equity values go up when housing values go up. Which means there's more access to more disposable income on a macro level, which means people have access to more money so they can buy and sell land. Number one, this is a good question.
Jill DeWit:I like the pen on your finger. I'm like, I could just see... you know what's going to happen. Our post production guys are going to poke arrows that what's with the pen?
Steven Jack Butala:They will now for sure.
Jill DeWit:Yeah, they will because I just said it.
Steven Jack Butala:Number two when housing, it was funny for a while. Jill.
Jill DeWit:Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:When housing goes up like this, there's a need for more housing, people sell their house, they got to move somewhere else. So land, it gets utilized for new housing and we're in a re...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/03/housing-market-predictions-for-2022-ha-1624/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">AzjpkBxWU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 21:58:07 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f8053a86-408e-453e-871f-725c624cc397.mp3" length="31377247" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:35</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Truth about Mailer Haight (LA 1623)</title><itunes:title>The Truth about Mailer Haight (LA 1623)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Truth about Mailer Haight (LA 1623)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit broadcasting from this sweet valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the truth about mailer hate.

Jill DeWit:
Why do you say with that much [inaudible 00:00:18]?

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I don't want to be misconstrued of mispronouncing it. Does it bug you?

Jill DeWit:
No, I just was wondering.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know, why? Because this has been a topic since I've been buying, selling property through sending out mailers. I want to say it with emphasis. There's a lot of hate involved in this business. Jill's about to dispel that theory that I have here. She's long dispelled this because she has experience as a customer service person many, many years ago.

Jill DeWit:
There's always going to be hate.

Steven Jack Butala:
Her theory is there's hate everywhere.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah. Come on, there's no business that you're going to 100% make every single person happy. They're all going to love you. They're all going to think that they spent way too little for whatever they got back. I don't think that's possible.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's really much more set up, honestly, to manage all this than I think I ever was and some new Land Academy members are set up to do so. It's something you got to get through. This is a total truth time episode. It's something you need to get over it or you're not. Some people are set up for it and some people aren't. I was not at all set up for sending out my first mailer and the deluge of anger that came back on it. Then I went and bought a bunch of property and made a ton of money.

Jill DeWit:
There's ways that you can remove yourself too. We can talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's going to tell us. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Among the Lord wrote "On the receiving hate side of things, that's a different battle altogether with your state of mind. I once wondered if I had the thick skin also, and my first incoming hate sat with me for years before I figured out how to shake it. My secret is a little woo woo. But, I did a lot of personal development during COVID and out how to alter my thoughts around it and many other things so it doesn't affect me anymore in the slightest. I can receive the hate directly or by mail, send out as much mail as I want anywhere I want, and the only reaction get from me even doing the worst hate and threats is a small smile on my face. And then, I forget about it. Sorry for the long reply, but it's definitely a mental game. The good news is that it's a game you play with yourself, and you can set your own rules." That's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's my response to this because I respond. This was in Discord. It's a long time, not long time, but a couple year member who's this is all worked out for them. I really, I responded by saying this set of reaction, this templated reaction when something like this happens, is so important in life. I have a mechanism like this that I use when there's any kind of confrontation to diffuse it and try to get everybody to laugh at the end. I don't care if it's the checkout clerk at the grocery store. My whole point to putting this question in, really it's a statement, is you have complete control over this, just like everything else. Total and complete control over what you allow someone to say to you on the phone about a offer you sent as insignificant as that is in life and the offer amount that you sent for a piece of real estate. That's obviously clearly worth way less than what they think it's worth.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Truth about Mailer Haight (LA 1623)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit broadcasting from this sweet valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the truth about mailer hate.

Jill DeWit:
Why do you say with that much [inaudible 00:00:18]?

Steven Jack Butala:
Because I don't want to be misconstrued of mispronouncing it. Does it bug you?

Jill DeWit:
No, I just was wondering.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know, why? Because this has been a topic since I've been buying, selling property through sending out mailers. I want to say it with emphasis. There's a lot of hate involved in this business. Jill's about to dispel that theory that I have here. She's long dispelled this because she has experience as a customer service person many, many years ago.

Jill DeWit:
There's always going to be hate.

Steven Jack Butala:
Her theory is there's hate everywhere.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah. Come on, there's no business that you're going to 100% make every single person happy. They're all going to love you. They're all going to think that they spent way too little for whatever they got back. I don't think that's possible.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's really much more set up, honestly, to manage all this than I think I ever was and some new Land Academy members are set up to do so. It's something you got to get through. This is a total truth time episode. It's something you need to get over it or you're not. Some people are set up for it and some people aren't. I was not at all set up for sending out my first mailer and the deluge of anger that came back on it. Then I went and bought a bunch of property and made a ton of money.

Jill DeWit:
There's ways that you can remove yourself too. We can talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill's going to tell us. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Among the Lord wrote "On the receiving hate side of things, that's a different battle altogether with your state of mind. I once wondered if I had the thick skin also, and my first incoming hate sat with me for years before I figured out how to shake it. My secret is a little woo woo. But, I did a lot of personal development during COVID and out how to alter my thoughts around it and many other things so it doesn't affect me anymore in the slightest. I can receive the hate directly or by mail, send out as much mail as I want anywhere I want, and the only reaction get from me even doing the worst hate and threats is a small smile on my face. And then, I forget about it. Sorry for the long reply, but it's definitely a mental game. The good news is that it's a game you play with yourself, and you can set your own rules." That's great.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's my response to this because I respond. This was in Discord. It's a long time, not long time, but a couple year member who's this is all worked out for them. I really, I responded by saying this set of reaction, this templated reaction when something like this happens, is so important in life. I have a mechanism like this that I use when there's any kind of confrontation to diffuse it and try to get everybody to laugh at the end. I don't care if it's the checkout clerk at the grocery store. My whole point to putting this question in, really it's a statement, is you have complete control over this, just like everything else. Total and complete control over what you allow someone to say to you on the phone about a offer you sent as insignificant as that is in life and the offer amount that you sent for a piece of real estate. That's obviously clearly worth way less than what they think it's worth.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/02/the-truth-about-mailer-haight-la-1623/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5kyiXEqm2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:34:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/947a8b37-81a2-42cb-9e96-274eeb0f0ce0.mp3" length="17655826" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Psychology of Choosing Land Investment as a Career (LA 1622)</title><itunes:title>Psychology of Choosing Land Investment as a Career (LA 1622)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Psychology of Choosing Land Investment as a Career (LA 1622)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the psychology of choosing land investment as a career. It seems simple, but it's not.

Jill DeWit:
I love this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
It's really good. I have two, I think, really good points that I see as, for me personally, why we do this and why it makes sense to me and I'm happy to share. Because I know a lot of people think like I do, and I want to share this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Over the course of the years, I've had people way more successful and wealthy than me and way less successful and wealthy than I am make comments on this, and none of it's wrong. So this show is about the perception, those perceptions.

Jill DeWit:
I think maybe some of it might be wrong, but that's okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Steven wrote, "I feel like Land Academy is a cheap code to the game of life in terms of financial precarity. Once you prove the concept to yourself, it's hard not to evangelize this to all the people you care about, but it's strange because they look at you like you have two heads."

Jill DeWit:
I love this. This is why I stopped a long time ago. When people say, "What do you do?" I never really tell them what I do, because they don't get it. They do look at me like I have two heads. And then it opens up the whole can of worms of me explaining it, and then half hour goes by and they're still looking at me sideways and I'm like, "I just wasted a half hour. I could have been talking about something more fun or just be doing nothing."

Steven Jack Butala:
And this falls into the heading of you either get it or you don't.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you're not going to tell anybody or sell anybody about the fact ... if somebody's on the fence about whether or not this works ...

Jill DeWit:
Let them sit on the fence.

Steven Jack Butala:
They'll be there forever. They're not ...

Jill DeWit:
Don't push them on the other side.

Steven Jack Butala:
People come to their own conclusion about whatever they see on the internet or talk to people. They come to their own conclusion about whether or not it works. You can see it in their eyes. Jill and I used to go ... this is a long time ago. Before we started Land Academy, just to see what other people are doing, like in 2013 and 14, we would go to these meetups.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, and sit in the back.

Steven Jack Butala:
And stand in the lobby, and not necessarily even go to the event, just go to the ... stand in the lobby, have a cup of coffee and talk to people and listen to people. And of course they were all real estate events about buy and selling houses just like today. Buying and selling houses is ridiculously ... and renovating them ... inefficient. And we know that. We've renovated houses and learned that the hard way. But it consumes ... people are just ... it has this designer component to it, which fascinates certain people. So when you say to somebody who either wants to or has bought and sold a house and renovated it and made $22,000 that buying and selling land is easier and better, they're either going to ... the light bulbs either are going to immediately go off, or they're going to say, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

Jill DeWit:
And that's sad. It's like, "Well, what do you mean? You don't get to pick the carpet and the wall?" That's really what they're doing. They must be fulfilling a love of just shopping...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Psychology of Choosing Land Investment as a Career (LA 1622)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the psychology of choosing land investment as a career. It seems simple, but it's not.

Jill DeWit:
I love this.

Steven Jack Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
It's really good. I have two, I think, really good points that I see as, for me personally, why we do this and why it makes sense to me and I'm happy to share. Because I know a lot of people think like I do, and I want to share this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Over the course of the years, I've had people way more successful and wealthy than me and way less successful and wealthy than I am make comments on this, and none of it's wrong. So this show is about the perception, those perceptions.

Jill DeWit:
I think maybe some of it might be wrong, but that's okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Steven wrote, "I feel like Land Academy is a cheap code to the game of life in terms of financial precarity. Once you prove the concept to yourself, it's hard not to evangelize this to all the people you care about, but it's strange because they look at you like you have two heads."

Jill DeWit:
I love this. This is why I stopped a long time ago. When people say, "What do you do?" I never really tell them what I do, because they don't get it. They do look at me like I have two heads. And then it opens up the whole can of worms of me explaining it, and then half hour goes by and they're still looking at me sideways and I'm like, "I just wasted a half hour. I could have been talking about something more fun or just be doing nothing."

Steven Jack Butala:
And this falls into the heading of you either get it or you don't.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you're not going to tell anybody or sell anybody about the fact ... if somebody's on the fence about whether or not this works ...

Jill DeWit:
Let them sit on the fence.

Steven Jack Butala:
They'll be there forever. They're not ...

Jill DeWit:
Don't push them on the other side.

Steven Jack Butala:
People come to their own conclusion about whatever they see on the internet or talk to people. They come to their own conclusion about whether or not it works. You can see it in their eyes. Jill and I used to go ... this is a long time ago. Before we started Land Academy, just to see what other people are doing, like in 2013 and 14, we would go to these meetups.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, and sit in the back.

Steven Jack Butala:
And stand in the lobby, and not necessarily even go to the event, just go to the ... stand in the lobby, have a cup of coffee and talk to people and listen to people. And of course they were all real estate events about buy and selling houses just like today. Buying and selling houses is ridiculously ... and renovating them ... inefficient. And we know that. We've renovated houses and learned that the hard way. But it consumes ... people are just ... it has this designer component to it, which fascinates certain people. So when you say to somebody who either wants to or has bought and sold a house and renovated it and made $22,000 that buying and selling land is easier and better, they're either going to ... the light bulbs either are going to immediately go off, or they're going to say, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

Jill DeWit:
And that's sad. It's like, "Well, what do you mean? You don't get to pick the carpet and the wall?" That's really what they're doing. They must be fulfilling a love of just shopping...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/11/01/psychology-of-choosing-land-investment-as-a-career-la-1622/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">t0Jh4C6vE</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dc1c7c68-316f-49df-a540-5cb6948275b4.mp3" length="17000806" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How You Know You are Good at Something (LA 1621)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How You Know You are Good at Something (LA 1621)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How You Know You are Good at Something (LA 1621)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how you know you're good at something.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know what you're good at?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I'm probably a unhealthy level of confidence in about two or three things in life. And then everything else is just like, "Wow. I need to improve on that."

Jill DeWit:
Oh, come on. You're good at more than you think, and I actually have a couple of things here. This is not going to be all like, "Oh, this is great. We're going to hear them tell each other how great they are." No, but I'm going to give some good examples of some things so you can figure out what you are good at.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have several questions. Please don't answer now, but my biggest question on this is, do you think that... It's nature/nurture, you know? How much actually can you change?

Jill DeWit:
We can talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Buckley wrote. "Hi, all. Question on utilizing a checkout card processing feature on your land sell website. At what point should this be set up? My first mailer is just now getting out the door, so I don't actually have any property to sell, but I'm trying to get ahead of the stumbling blocks later. I know Land Academy has the Heartland payment systems set up for Land Academy members. Thought someone implement this, and the ease of use. I'm totally new at it all and trying to learn. Thanks."

Jill DeWit:
I love this. This is so funny. Do you want me to just jump right into one of our answers? So one of our members, he goes by Old Steve, put a comment in here. We're going to read his answer to this question.

Steven Jack Butala:
To which my response is, I'm Older Steve.

Jill DeWit:
That's right. Old, not Older, Steve wrote, "Specialization is key. We buy 100 plus installment contracts a month in another vertical. Since we're first and last a lending business, we have those issues managed. Because it's what we do, I don't sell land or buy land and take pictures of land to post for sale. I take payments and collect or repossess on past due accounts. I agree that there is only one way to do this, hold title..." Does this really apply to this? I'm confused.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can I read it?

Jill DeWit:
Yes, please. Go ahead. Because I'm not getting it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Old Steve says this, "Specialization is the key. We buy 100 plus installment contracts a month in another vertical. Since we're first and last a lending business, we have those issues licked because it's what we do. I don't sell and buy land. I don't take pictures, I don't post land. I don't mess with that. I take payments and collect or repossess on past due accounts.

Steven Jack Butala:
"I agree that there's only one way do this. Hold title until paid in full, collect a decent down payment, so the buyer has something to lose. 40 years in the credit and collection business. All the noise is under the $5,000 deals. How about actually underwriting? Nobody seems to do that. Proof of sufficient income through bank verification.

Steven Jack Butala:
"We have a full online scoring model. 500 applications a month go through the machine. So sell on terms. I'll buy all the risk that's associated with that and discount it. Be a great land investor." This is his advice. "Let somebody else be the collector." Namely him. "Maybe a group Zoom on how to put these terms deals t...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How You Know You are Good at Something (LA 1621)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how you know you're good at something.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know what you're good at?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, I'm probably a unhealthy level of confidence in about two or three things in life. And then everything else is just like, "Wow. I need to improve on that."

Jill DeWit:
Oh, come on. You're good at more than you think, and I actually have a couple of things here. This is not going to be all like, "Oh, this is great. We're going to hear them tell each other how great they are." No, but I'm going to give some good examples of some things so you can figure out what you are good at.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have several questions. Please don't answer now, but my biggest question on this is, do you think that... It's nature/nurture, you know? How much actually can you change?

Jill DeWit:
We can talk about that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Buckley wrote. "Hi, all. Question on utilizing a checkout card processing feature on your land sell website. At what point should this be set up? My first mailer is just now getting out the door, so I don't actually have any property to sell, but I'm trying to get ahead of the stumbling blocks later. I know Land Academy has the Heartland payment systems set up for Land Academy members. Thought someone implement this, and the ease of use. I'm totally new at it all and trying to learn. Thanks."

Jill DeWit:
I love this. This is so funny. Do you want me to just jump right into one of our answers? So one of our members, he goes by Old Steve, put a comment in here. We're going to read his answer to this question.

Steven Jack Butala:
To which my response is, I'm Older Steve.

Jill DeWit:
That's right. Old, not Older, Steve wrote, "Specialization is key. We buy 100 plus installment contracts a month in another vertical. Since we're first and last a lending business, we have those issues managed. Because it's what we do, I don't sell land or buy land and take pictures of land to post for sale. I take payments and collect or repossess on past due accounts. I agree that there is only one way to do this, hold title..." Does this really apply to this? I'm confused.

Steven Jack Butala:
Can I read it?

Jill DeWit:
Yes, please. Go ahead. Because I'm not getting it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Old Steve says this, "Specialization is the key. We buy 100 plus installment contracts a month in another vertical. Since we're first and last a lending business, we have those issues licked because it's what we do. I don't sell and buy land. I don't take pictures, I don't post land. I don't mess with that. I take payments and collect or repossess on past due accounts.

Steven Jack Butala:
"I agree that there's only one way do this. Hold title until paid in full, collect a decent down payment, so the buyer has something to lose. 40 years in the credit and collection business. All the noise is under the $5,000 deals. How about actually underwriting? Nobody seems to do that. Proof of sufficient income through bank verification.

Steven Jack Butala:
"We have a full online scoring model. 500 applications a month go through the machine. So sell on terms. I'll buy all the risk that's associated with that and discount it. Be a great land investor." This is his advice. "Let somebody else be the collector." Namely him. "Maybe a group Zoom on how to put these terms deals t...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/29/jill-friday-how-you-know-you-are-good-at-something-la-1621/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">y4Fz4edil</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e5626b5e-adc0-473c-b50a-021d664b4a57.mp3" length="21427409" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Money Management (LA 1620)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Money Management (LA 1620)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Money Management (LA 1620)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about money management.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm going to take a nap.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know how I manage money? By buying land and selling it.

Jill DeWit:
You know how I manage money? By asking for your help.

Steven Jack Butala:
What?

Jill DeWit:
Just kidding. I don't know. Not really [inaudible 00:00:26]. You're the money. No, no, this is perfect, because look, you're the money guy in our whole relationship, meaning our personal finances and hey, we can do this or not do this. And I don't question you. I hope you appreciate that. I'm sure you do.

Steven Jack Butala:
I really appreciate that. I'll lay all the stuff out in a second here and then we'll talk about our personal situation, because it's worked. And it wouldn't work for everybody.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some stuff that Jill and I do that most people that are partners like this, wouldn't put up with. Number one, we don't have any joint money.

Jill DeWit:
We have company money.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have companies together.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
She and I do not share, and never have, and never will, share a personal bank account. So I don't talk about, ever, I mean, I never have, how she spends money. It's her money. I don't care. And vice versa. I think, look, here's a prelude to the whole thing and we will take a question first. The number one way to succeed at managing money is to have a plan. Otherwise, the money will manage you. And we've all had friends like this, friends, or maybe parents, or siblings, or cousins, or people that are just always down in the dumps about money. And it's because they never had a plan.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
[Zach 00:02:00] wrote, "Howdy, y'all. New member from Austin, Texas. My name is Zach K. I'm a seasoned entrepreneur, but totally new to land investing." This is great! "And fairly new to real estate investing, in general." Welcome Zach. This is cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Fit the profile perfectly on [crosstalk 00:02:17].

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "Having built several companies, the latest of which is a line of educational toys sold through big-box retail carrying Disney licensing, I'm experienced with building teams, setting up processes, outsourcing, et cetera, et cetera. The entire international supply chain has been wrecked these past years to say the least."

Steven Jack Butala:
Decimated is what I call it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "And I felt it's time to a new business started in an entirely different and more stable industry."

Steven Jack Butala:
Amen.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. This is so cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
We are so lucky we're in this business. We talk about it on the Thursday call all the time.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. And let's see here. "I started land investing two months ago after hearing great things from a friend who got into the business last year. I sent out 50,000 mailers to start and closed 10 sweet deals for info lots here in Texas, purchased for 8 to $20,000 and sold between 30 and $90,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's the textbook Land Academy deal.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. "By sending 50,000 letters right out of the gate, I was able to learn a ton, fast. Some of my letters were spot on and others were atrociously mispriced." That happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
It still happens us.

Jill DeWit:
That's right.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Money Management (LA 1620)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about money management.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm going to take a nap.

Steven Jack Butala:
You know how I manage money? By buying land and selling it.

Jill DeWit:
You know how I manage money? By asking for your help.

Steven Jack Butala:
What?

Jill DeWit:
Just kidding. I don't know. Not really [inaudible 00:00:26]. You're the money. No, no, this is perfect, because look, you're the money guy in our whole relationship, meaning our personal finances and hey, we can do this or not do this. And I don't question you. I hope you appreciate that. I'm sure you do.

Steven Jack Butala:
I really appreciate that. I'll lay all the stuff out in a second here and then we'll talk about our personal situation, because it's worked. And it wouldn't work for everybody.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some stuff that Jill and I do that most people that are partners like this, wouldn't put up with. Number one, we don't have any joint money.

Jill DeWit:
We have company money.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have companies together.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
She and I do not share, and never have, and never will, share a personal bank account. So I don't talk about, ever, I mean, I never have, how she spends money. It's her money. I don't care. And vice versa. I think, look, here's a prelude to the whole thing and we will take a question first. The number one way to succeed at managing money is to have a plan. Otherwise, the money will manage you. And we've all had friends like this, friends, or maybe parents, or siblings, or cousins, or people that are just always down in the dumps about money. And it's because they never had a plan.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
[Zach 00:02:00] wrote, "Howdy, y'all. New member from Austin, Texas. My name is Zach K. I'm a seasoned entrepreneur, but totally new to land investing." This is great! "And fairly new to real estate investing, in general." Welcome Zach. This is cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Fit the profile perfectly on [crosstalk 00:02:17].

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "Having built several companies, the latest of which is a line of educational toys sold through big-box retail carrying Disney licensing, I'm experienced with building teams, setting up processes, outsourcing, et cetera, et cetera. The entire international supply chain has been wrecked these past years to say the least."

Steven Jack Butala:
Decimated is what I call it.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "And I felt it's time to a new business started in an entirely different and more stable industry."

Steven Jack Butala:
Amen.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. This is so cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
We are so lucky we're in this business. We talk about it on the Thursday call all the time.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. And let's see here. "I started land investing two months ago after hearing great things from a friend who got into the business last year. I sent out 50,000 mailers to start and closed 10 sweet deals for info lots here in Texas, purchased for 8 to $20,000 and sold between 30 and $90,000."

Steven Jack Butala:
That's the textbook Land Academy deal.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. "By sending 50,000 letters right out of the gate, I was able to learn a ton, fast. Some of my letters were spot on and others were atrociously mispriced." That happens.

Steven Jack Butala:
It still happens us.

Jill DeWit:
That's right.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/28/jack-thursday-money-management-la-1621/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5KMayLVEA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c83eebc4-fe36-4412-9f12-a6651ac4e2f1.mp3" length="20066576" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Psychology of Affordable Housing (HA 1619)</title><itunes:title>The Psychology of Affordable Housing (HA 1619)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





The Psychology of Affordable Housing (HA 1619)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the psychology of affordable housing. Every Thursday, Jill and I have a call, we call it the Thursday call. It's a webinar, closed webinar with all Land Academy and House Academy members. And one of my jobs that I've assigned to myself is to kind of give everybody a... Let's call it a 10 minute overview on what's happening in the news with real estate, because it's really we didn't use to do it, but this whole COVID thing twisted this housing market all around. In the beginning of COVID, we thought it was going to crash like it did in 2010. So I was trying to prepare everybody, and help everybody with that. And by informing everybody of all these sources... I belong to all these sources of news feeds on real estate.
Steven Jack Butala:And so that didn't happen fortunately, in fact it went the other way and we're all a lot more successful for it. I hope you are too.
Steven Jack Butala:What I see now predominantly, and as a result of that what I continually go do this research for real estate for the Thursday call is this affordable housing topic.
Steven Jack Butala:Over, and over, and over again everyone loves to report on affordable housing, except for the core data tree itself, First American title data tree. The core and ADaM data, which I have tons of respect for, they're real estate data companies. They seem to stay out of it. They seem to know enough to just say, "You know what? The market's going to set itself, and that's it."
Steven Jack Butala:And it could end right there, but that's not what happens. This day and age it's just a current event, affordable housing is a cool thing to talk about.
Steven Jack Butala:Why? Because people have this perception that they can't afford houses, but that's just not the case at all. They absolutely can afford a house, and in fact I'll get into it in a minute.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Charlie wrote, "I have some questions about a title close versus a real estate attorney close. Number one, what does it mean when somebody says it's an attorney closed state? Are there no title companies in those states, or is that an extra step on top of what the title company's already doing?"
Jill DeWit:Should we answer them in order, or just go through them all?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, sure.
Steven Jack Butala:Go ahead, Jill.
Jill DeWit:So number one is yes, there are states, really only one that I can think of in particular.
Steven Jack Butala:New York. [crosstalk 00:02:34]
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Jill DeWit:That require an attorney basically to oversee the transaction. And, usually there's an attorney at the title company that's overseeing it all. And I've had some transactions like this, where in other states they still have an attorney overlook their transactions, even though it's not required. It's just kind of an extra layer of insurance for them. So that's what that means.
Jill DeWit:"Number two, I've also heard it's faster with a real estate attorney" And I'm partially the problem myself here for this one, because I really promote this. "Can I ditch my title company in Texas and do everything with an attorney?"
Steven Jack Butala:Hell yes.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:And I would encourage you to do that.
Jill DeWit:That's it.
Jill DeWit:So for number two, that's my now new way of getting deals done. First I'm going to try to find attorney nearby,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





The Psychology of Affordable Housing (HA 1619)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the psychology of affordable housing. Every Thursday, Jill and I have a call, we call it the Thursday call. It's a webinar, closed webinar with all Land Academy and House Academy members. And one of my jobs that I've assigned to myself is to kind of give everybody a... Let's call it a 10 minute overview on what's happening in the news with real estate, because it's really we didn't use to do it, but this whole COVID thing twisted this housing market all around. In the beginning of COVID, we thought it was going to crash like it did in 2010. So I was trying to prepare everybody, and help everybody with that. And by informing everybody of all these sources... I belong to all these sources of news feeds on real estate.
Steven Jack Butala:And so that didn't happen fortunately, in fact it went the other way and we're all a lot more successful for it. I hope you are too.
Steven Jack Butala:What I see now predominantly, and as a result of that what I continually go do this research for real estate for the Thursday call is this affordable housing topic.
Steven Jack Butala:Over, and over, and over again everyone loves to report on affordable housing, except for the core data tree itself, First American title data tree. The core and ADaM data, which I have tons of respect for, they're real estate data companies. They seem to stay out of it. They seem to know enough to just say, "You know what? The market's going to set itself, and that's it."
Steven Jack Butala:And it could end right there, but that's not what happens. This day and age it's just a current event, affordable housing is a cool thing to talk about.
Steven Jack Butala:Why? Because people have this perception that they can't afford houses, but that's just not the case at all. They absolutely can afford a house, and in fact I'll get into it in a minute.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:Charlie wrote, "I have some questions about a title close versus a real estate attorney close. Number one, what does it mean when somebody says it's an attorney closed state? Are there no title companies in those states, or is that an extra step on top of what the title company's already doing?"
Jill DeWit:Should we answer them in order, or just go through them all?
Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, sure.
Steven Jack Butala:Go ahead, Jill.
Jill DeWit:So number one is yes, there are states, really only one that I can think of in particular.
Steven Jack Butala:New York. [crosstalk 00:02:34]
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Jill DeWit:That require an attorney basically to oversee the transaction. And, usually there's an attorney at the title company that's overseeing it all. And I've had some transactions like this, where in other states they still have an attorney overlook their transactions, even though it's not required. It's just kind of an extra layer of insurance for them. So that's what that means.
Jill DeWit:"Number two, I've also heard it's faster with a real estate attorney" And I'm partially the problem myself here for this one, because I really promote this. "Can I ditch my title company in Texas and do everything with an attorney?"
Steven Jack Butala:Hell yes.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:And I would encourage you to do that.
Jill DeWit:That's it.
Jill DeWit:So for number two, that's my now new way of getting deals done. First I'm going to try to find attorney nearby,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/27/the-psychology-of-affordable-housing-ha-1620/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">N3vJD-ukV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:57:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3e7097bf-3571-41bc-a8cc-a68ec4bcf658.mp3" length="21397184" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Confidence in Your Success AND Failure (LA 1618)</title><itunes:title>Confidence in Your Success AND Failure (LA 1618)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Confidence in Your Success AND Failure (LA 1618)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Well, hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. It's entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about confidence and your success and your failure. I think this came from Jill's binge watching PBS biographies.

Jill DeWit:
Specials. Might have been. Exactly. Are we going to hear a football coach story?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, I don't know. It's only so many times I can tell these football coach stories.

Jill DeWit:
I was just going to say, we've kind of all heard it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think we'll leave it alone.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I was saying that to save you, listener.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're brand new, the whole gist of it is-

Jill DeWit:
Uh oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Celebrate your failure.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Make the best of it.

Jill DeWit:
We'll get into that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because you're on your way to success. Before we get into this though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
[Erin 00:01:07] wrote, "Has anyone mailed Hawaii? Wondering if there is anything weird, different, or just anything to know or avoid? For example, lava zones. I don't want to buy a [foreign language 00:01:23]-"

Steven Jack Butala:
I think it's [foreign language 00:01:25], yeah.

Jill DeWit:
"Or something and find out that the locals don't approve. I see there is a HARPTA withholding for non-residents of 7.5%."

Steven Jack Butala:
Same thing in California.

Jill DeWit:
But it looks like you can apply to get that back. Sounds like Canadian stuff too. Also, that seems to be two land systems will require some reading up on.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's all true.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have another member who piped in here who's got a lot of experience in Hawaii and I included this question in here because this is the kind of typical thing that happens in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
They all help each other.

Jill DeWit:
Help each other out. So, Steven, a different Steven wrote, "Hey Erin. There are unique things to Hawaii like other states. I've done a number of deals there in the lower price points on the Big Island, and I'm now working on a larger deal so it's possible. Avoid lava zones one and two, lower Puna. Demand is generally not high for most areas on the Big Island as supply is high and the weather is poor. The land court system isn't a big deal if you close through title companies. Title companies in general are more expensive and slower. Hit me up if you get stuck." That's so cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's several subdivisions that are very much non developed on the Big Island where I purchased property in the past. I actually took a trip there a lot of years ago and met in Honolulu, met with everybody, met with the state people about tax properties and back tax properties and I was met with nothing except roadblocks for a lot of reasons, so...

Jill DeWit:
Is it because you're from the mainland?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably.

Jill DeWit:
Ah, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
That was definitely part of it. There's no doubt about it, so... I'm used to a system here out in the Southwest, in Southern California, in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, where tax sales are part of life and they happen in some cases, in Texas's case, weekly. So, that's just not the case there. In fact, every time I read about Hawaii and real estate, they're off out in the Pacific Ocean on their own. They make their own rules. Everything's slower. The state is forever caught up in this, "Yeah,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Confidence in Your Success AND Failure (LA 1618)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Well, hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. It's entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about confidence and your success and your failure. I think this came from Jill's binge watching PBS biographies.

Jill DeWit:
Specials. Might have been. Exactly. Are we going to hear a football coach story?

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, I don't know. It's only so many times I can tell these football coach stories.

Jill DeWit:
I was just going to say, we've kind of all heard it.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think we'll leave it alone.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I was saying that to save you, listener.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're brand new, the whole gist of it is-

Jill DeWit:
Uh oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Celebrate your failure.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Make the best of it.

Jill DeWit:
We'll get into that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Because you're on your way to success. Before we get into this though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
[Erin 00:01:07] wrote, "Has anyone mailed Hawaii? Wondering if there is anything weird, different, or just anything to know or avoid? For example, lava zones. I don't want to buy a [foreign language 00:01:23]-"

Steven Jack Butala:
I think it's [foreign language 00:01:25], yeah.

Jill DeWit:
"Or something and find out that the locals don't approve. I see there is a HARPTA withholding for non-residents of 7.5%."

Steven Jack Butala:
Same thing in California.

Jill DeWit:
But it looks like you can apply to get that back. Sounds like Canadian stuff too. Also, that seems to be two land systems will require some reading up on.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's all true.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
We have another member who piped in here who's got a lot of experience in Hawaii and I included this question in here because this is the kind of typical thing that happens in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Jack Butala:
They all help each other.

Jill DeWit:
Help each other out. So, Steven, a different Steven wrote, "Hey Erin. There are unique things to Hawaii like other states. I've done a number of deals there in the lower price points on the Big Island, and I'm now working on a larger deal so it's possible. Avoid lava zones one and two, lower Puna. Demand is generally not high for most areas on the Big Island as supply is high and the weather is poor. The land court system isn't a big deal if you close through title companies. Title companies in general are more expensive and slower. Hit me up if you get stuck." That's so cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's several subdivisions that are very much non developed on the Big Island where I purchased property in the past. I actually took a trip there a lot of years ago and met in Honolulu, met with everybody, met with the state people about tax properties and back tax properties and I was met with nothing except roadblocks for a lot of reasons, so...

Jill DeWit:
Is it because you're from the mainland?

Steven Jack Butala:
Probably.

Jill DeWit:
Ah, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
That was definitely part of it. There's no doubt about it, so... I'm used to a system here out in the Southwest, in Southern California, in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, where tax sales are part of life and they happen in some cases, in Texas's case, weekly. So, that's just not the case there. In fact, every time I read about Hawaii and real estate, they're off out in the Pacific Ocean on their own. They make their own rules. Everything's slower. The state is forever caught up in this, "Yeah,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/26/confidence-in-your-success-and-failure-la-1618/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tbdTdRC0r</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:02:20 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/62512b16-e1f1-4370-b034-788e2c82e15d.mp3" length="15985848" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When is it Okay to Buy Land From Another Investor (LA 1617)</title><itunes:title>When is it Okay to Buy Land From Another Investor (LA 1617)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[When is it Okay to Buy Land From Another Investor (LA 1617)
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Transcribing in progress.

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If you enjoyed the podcast, please review it in Apple Podcasts . Reviews are incredibly important for rankings on Apple Podcasts. My staff and I read each and every one.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

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https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/25/when-is-it-okay-to-buy-land-from-another-investor-la-1617/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dz2aUr5oh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:00:51 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ca10ceff-80bc-479c-beb1-8b98853f2d63.mp3" length="17309889" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Deal Funding Explained (LA 1616)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Deal Funding Explained (LA 1616)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Deal Funding Explained (LA 1616)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about land, the Land Academy Deal Funding Explained.

Jill DeWit:
Yup. I gotta ask, too, by the way. I did a little adjusting my hair here before. Did you keep that in the video? Did you keep that rolling?

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, God. I was making sure that wasn't gonna make final cut here or not.

Steven Butala:
No. I should have though.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry about that. I had to take a moment and, to have a hair moment.

Steven Butala:
It seems like we're talking about Deal Funding a lot lately. And we are. And because it's just been a smash hit.

Jill DeWit:
It is.

Steven Butala:
If people are using it the way it's intended to be used, I think people are making a ton of money. If you submit a deal to us and for whatever reason, it doesn't fit our criteria, we're developing now a network of people, other people, that are funding deals in our community, that will get it done.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly, yup.

Steven Butala:
So [inaudible 00:01:03] on, I'm excited as heck about when stuff works.

Jill DeWit:
Me too. I have more to say, but I'll save it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Abby asked, "Hi guys, I received a couple of signed offers for properties that have no access. Even though I priced them right and they're pretty cheap, I'm still hesitant to buy them. Does anyone have success at selling landlocked property? How do you market them? Obviously, I don't intend to hide anything in my property listing. Thanks."

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I mean, we have a whole long history of success selling those types of property, and you'd be shocked at how many people love to buy property that doesn't have physical and/or legal access for a bunch of reasons.

Jill DeWit:
And a lot of them are legal.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Legit, not just running from the law.

Steven Butala:
One of the reasons, and I think one of the best reasons, is to buy property because it's so cheap. But then they don't get access.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Maybe a neighboring property owner has the means to give access to this landlocked property. They're rezoned property already. So it's a huge bargain for him. And then he gets it accessed, so. There's a whole business model in getting access to properties that don't already have it. And a lot of our members do that.

Steven Butala:
Number two, you'd be shocked and amazed at how many people use the property, and they don't want it to have access.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, they don't want to drive up road. They like to be out there bidding a little bit. They want the privacy.

Steven Butala:
But you nailed it. Actually, if you know their property doesn't have any access, you don't want to pretend that it just doesn't exist. You want to disclose that.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
The way that we disclose it, we don't personally buy property without access any longer. We work on very large, much larger dollar-wise deals. But there's, again, you just want to make sure that you're clear about it. And the way that we would deal with it in a posting on the internet is, "Please confirm access. Here's a phone number to the county." Have a talk about it.

Jill DeWit:
Well, and you're gonna have accurate photos of it, showing where it is. Everyone can see that. And the accurate GPS coordinates so they can look it up, and they see, and they know it. And if they ask, you're just gonna say, "Yeah, that's right. And that's why it's priced this way."

Steven Butala:
Yup, exactly.

Jill DeWit:
And that's it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Deal Funding Explained (LA 1616)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about land, the Land Academy Deal Funding Explained.

Jill DeWit:
Yup. I gotta ask, too, by the way. I did a little adjusting my hair here before. Did you keep that in the video? Did you keep that rolling?

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, God. I was making sure that wasn't gonna make final cut here or not.

Steven Butala:
No. I should have though.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry about that. I had to take a moment and, to have a hair moment.

Steven Butala:
It seems like we're talking about Deal Funding a lot lately. And we are. And because it's just been a smash hit.

Jill DeWit:
It is.

Steven Butala:
If people are using it the way it's intended to be used, I think people are making a ton of money. If you submit a deal to us and for whatever reason, it doesn't fit our criteria, we're developing now a network of people, other people, that are funding deals in our community, that will get it done.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly, yup.

Steven Butala:
So [inaudible 00:01:03] on, I'm excited as heck about when stuff works.

Jill DeWit:
Me too. I have more to say, but I'll save it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Abby asked, "Hi guys, I received a couple of signed offers for properties that have no access. Even though I priced them right and they're pretty cheap, I'm still hesitant to buy them. Does anyone have success at selling landlocked property? How do you market them? Obviously, I don't intend to hide anything in my property listing. Thanks."

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I mean, we have a whole long history of success selling those types of property, and you'd be shocked at how many people love to buy property that doesn't have physical and/or legal access for a bunch of reasons.

Jill DeWit:
And a lot of them are legal.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Legit, not just running from the law.

Steven Butala:
One of the reasons, and I think one of the best reasons, is to buy property because it's so cheap. But then they don't get access.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Maybe a neighboring property owner has the means to give access to this landlocked property. They're rezoned property already. So it's a huge bargain for him. And then he gets it accessed, so. There's a whole business model in getting access to properties that don't already have it. And a lot of our members do that.

Steven Butala:
Number two, you'd be shocked and amazed at how many people use the property, and they don't want it to have access.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, they don't want to drive up road. They like to be out there bidding a little bit. They want the privacy.

Steven Butala:
But you nailed it. Actually, if you know their property doesn't have any access, you don't want to pretend that it just doesn't exist. You want to disclose that.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
The way that we disclose it, we don't personally buy property without access any longer. We work on very large, much larger dollar-wise deals. But there's, again, you just want to make sure that you're clear about it. And the way that we would deal with it in a posting on the internet is, "Please confirm access. Here's a phone number to the county." Have a talk about it.

Jill DeWit:
Well, and you're gonna have accurate photos of it, showing where it is. Everyone can see that. And the accurate GPS coordinates so they can look it up, and they see, and they know it. And if they ask, you're just gonna say, "Yeah, that's right. And that's why it's priced this way."

Steven Butala:
Yup, exactly.

Jill DeWit:
And that's it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/22/land-academy-deal-funding-explained-la-1616/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ct0ymRBtb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:02:04 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f4938e0d-6763-4a8a-8b2c-af2ccc3c5526.mp3" length="12238780" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Property Data Quality Then and Now (LA 1615)</title><itunes:title>Property Data Quality Then and Now (LA 1615)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Property Data Quality Then and Now (LA 1615)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about property data quality, then and now. It's Data Week this week.

Jill DeWit:
It is.

Steven Butala:
In case you haven't noticed. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know what's funny? Is it just me, or do we have six Data Weeks a year? Maybe it's 10. I can't remember, but it's a pretty high number.

Steven Butala:
I wonder ... I haven't checked our ... You know, I used to obsess-

Jill DeWit:
It's Data Week again.

Steven Butala:
We get feedback on how many people listen to the show daily, and a number. I haven't checked, because it keeps going up really well.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
I stopped checking, and if I wonder if it just dramatically drops during Data Week.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, we shouldn't advertise that. Just slide it in there.

Steven Butala:
Here's the truth, Jill and I constantly go back and forth just like should we be a teacher or should be we be an entertainer? And you decide.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, because we're probably good at one, and we probably stink at the other one, and you know. We'd love to know. You should-

Steven Butala:
In fact-

Jill DeWit:
Tell us-

Steven Butala:
We're probably saying-

Jill DeWit:
Please tell us.

Steven Butala:
We're saying to people who don't listen to the show any longer.

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Butala:
They don't even know that-

Jill DeWit:
They're not here.

Steven Butala:
They're not hearing that sentence.

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
When you guys figure it out, let me know.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic ... Well, no before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Steven asks, "For those of you regularly using Zillow, do you put all of the normal listing information like you would on your website, or is it beneficial to leave some information off, like the cash purchase price, if you can post a low per month terms payment instead? I know some like to put minimal information in a Craigslist post, so I'm wondering if any benefit when doing Zillow ads." This is clearly a part ... I'm about to-

Steven Butala:
Oh, an online sneeze.

Jill DeWit:
Excuse me. I sneezed.

Steven Butala:
How's that for reality of telling the truth? I will not edit that out.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry about that.

Steven Butala:
By the way, is it healthy to just not let ... to let that out?

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. I'm not-

Steven Butala:
Since the day I met Jill-

Jill DeWit:
We don't agree on sneezes.

Steven Butala:
This little internal sneeze really concerns me. I say let it out of there.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I know. That's why I walk around with wipes, and I wipe things down where you've been.

Steven Butala:
I'm not criticizing you.

Jill DeWit:
Kidding.

Steven Butala:
I just don't want you to hurt yourself.

Jill DeWit:
It's not going to do any damage.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
I'm positive.

Steven Butala:
I bet it is.

Jill DeWit:
No, I think it's better than spraying your sneeze.

Steven Butala:
I'm not saying ... okay.

Jill DeWit:
You're supposed to [crosstalk 00:02:38]-

Steven Butala:
I'm not saying spray.

Jill DeWit:
You're supposed to put it in your arm, but I wasn't going to do that on the show.

Steven Butala:
Is that right?

Jill DeWit:
There we go. I could have gone like this. It would've been funny.

Steven Butala:
You know what you can do next time, is just ...

Jill DeWit:
I could have done-

Steven Butala:
I'm your man for a reason. You can sneeze right into me.

Jill DeWit:
You know what? That's what I should have done. I should have ... people who are listening and not watching, I should turned to my right,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Property Data Quality Then and Now (LA 1615)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about property data quality, then and now. It's Data Week this week.

Jill DeWit:
It is.

Steven Butala:
In case you haven't noticed. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know what's funny? Is it just me, or do we have six Data Weeks a year? Maybe it's 10. I can't remember, but it's a pretty high number.

Steven Butala:
I wonder ... I haven't checked our ... You know, I used to obsess-

Jill DeWit:
It's Data Week again.

Steven Butala:
We get feedback on how many people listen to the show daily, and a number. I haven't checked, because it keeps going up really well.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
I stopped checking, and if I wonder if it just dramatically drops during Data Week.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, we shouldn't advertise that. Just slide it in there.

Steven Butala:
Here's the truth, Jill and I constantly go back and forth just like should we be a teacher or should be we be an entertainer? And you decide.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, because we're probably good at one, and we probably stink at the other one, and you know. We'd love to know. You should-

Steven Butala:
In fact-

Jill DeWit:
Tell us-

Steven Butala:
We're probably saying-

Jill DeWit:
Please tell us.

Steven Butala:
We're saying to people who don't listen to the show any longer.

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Butala:
They don't even know that-

Jill DeWit:
They're not here.

Steven Butala:
They're not hearing that sentence.

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
When you guys figure it out, let me know.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic ... Well, no before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Steven asks, "For those of you regularly using Zillow, do you put all of the normal listing information like you would on your website, or is it beneficial to leave some information off, like the cash purchase price, if you can post a low per month terms payment instead? I know some like to put minimal information in a Craigslist post, so I'm wondering if any benefit when doing Zillow ads." This is clearly a part ... I'm about to-

Steven Butala:
Oh, an online sneeze.

Jill DeWit:
Excuse me. I sneezed.

Steven Butala:
How's that for reality of telling the truth? I will not edit that out.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry about that.

Steven Butala:
By the way, is it healthy to just not let ... to let that out?

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. I'm not-

Steven Butala:
Since the day I met Jill-

Jill DeWit:
We don't agree on sneezes.

Steven Butala:
This little internal sneeze really concerns me. I say let it out of there.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I know. That's why I walk around with wipes, and I wipe things down where you've been.

Steven Butala:
I'm not criticizing you.

Jill DeWit:
Kidding.

Steven Butala:
I just don't want you to hurt yourself.

Jill DeWit:
It's not going to do any damage.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
I'm positive.

Steven Butala:
I bet it is.

Jill DeWit:
No, I think it's better than spraying your sneeze.

Steven Butala:
I'm not saying ... okay.

Jill DeWit:
You're supposed to [crosstalk 00:02:38]-

Steven Butala:
I'm not saying spray.

Jill DeWit:
You're supposed to put it in your arm, but I wasn't going to do that on the show.

Steven Butala:
Is that right?

Jill DeWit:
There we go. I could have gone like this. It would've been funny.

Steven Butala:
You know what you can do next time, is just ...

Jill DeWit:
I could have done-

Steven Butala:
I'm your man for a reason. You can sneeze right into me.

Jill DeWit:
You know what? That's what I should have done. I should have ... people who are listening and not watching, I should turned to my right,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/21/property-data-quality-then-and-now-la-1615/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">du57xZXOa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:57:59 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b6b31e7b-bec1-4b98-9334-e55f3e2742d7.mp3" length="11439276" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>House Wholesaling Explained (HA 1279)</title><itunes:title>House Wholesaling Explained (HA 1279)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





House Wholesaling Explained (HA 1279)
Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Butala:Welcome to The House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-
Jill DeWit:That's a mouthful, and I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about wholesaling houses explained.
Jill DeWit:That's a lot [crosstalk 00:00:20]-
Steven Butala:Wow.
Jill DeWit:That was a lot.
Steven Butala:This seems like such a basic topic. Like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wholesale a house. You buy it for cheap, you sell it for more. Get out of there. Go do it again."
Jill DeWit:Do you think you use this term when you describe yourself anymore because I thought-
Steven Butala:No, heck no!
Jill DeWit:Yeah, isn't it funny? I used to say it, it used to mean something. And it used to mean something good. And you know what, there's always one bad one that ruins it for the rest of us!
Jill DeWit:I'm just kidding. But people have got confused by what wholesaling is, and then some people are, I think, not doing it right and now we have to describe what we do a different way and let them run with that.
Steven Butala:There's a lot of meat in these deals and because of that, there's a lot of people who have no shame and no real respect for real estate or money and the process and have come in and really-
Steven Butala:They haven't even put a dent in the industry, but they just get a lot of notary because they're not doing it responsibly, so-
Steven Butala:Here's a prelude to the rest of the show. What we really are, are acquisition experts for people who own a lot of property. Whether they're landlords or house flippers or whatever. So if you walk into an big company that's real estate driven, like a McDonald's or a banks with bank branches, they have buildings. Or a home-builder, they have buildings full of an acquisitions staff that help them buy an expense property that fits their acquisition criteria. And I cut my teeth in that corporate environment and now we do it for ourselves.
Steven Butala:So what the show really should be called is "How to Set Up an Outsourced Acquisition Department for Landlords." But if we call it that, you will be the only person who's listening to this show.
Jill DeWit:Could you imagine! That would be awesome! "Hey you gotta check out this show!" "What's it called?" "It's great! Little hard to find, because if you misspell one of the words, and there's a lot of them, you'll never find it."
Steven Butala:So then I went to a podcast national event onetime, and we had a show like that. And everybody's like looking cross-eyed at us.
Jill DeWit:Like what
Steven Butala:Why are you, why do you call it that? What the heck are you talking about! You lost me at the third word. You lost me at acquisitions.
Jill DeWit:That's my favorite!
Steven Butala:Before we get into the topic, lets take a question posted by one of our members on the houseacademy.com online community...it's free.
Jill DeWit:Jeff asks, "I just flipped a property in Kansas City and I made twelve thousand dollars. I know I left a bunch of money on the table. How do you deal with this?"
Jill DeWit:Move on.
Steven Butala:You know...I'll tell you what.
Jill DeWit:Well you surely can't call back and say "Hey, oops, by the way..."
Steven Butala:Well I think what he's saying is "You guys", meaning Jill and I, "what you teach or what you explain on how you do it is to make 10 or 15 or 20 grand on the thing and just keep moving."
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Butala:And that's right. So how do I deal with leaving money on the table? Because Jill and I leave money on the table on every single deal. And land deals too. That's part of the business model.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Butala:You need your buyers to just beat your door down
Jill DeWit:And now they will.
Steven Butala:And yeah!
Jill DeWit:Congratulations! That fire won't-]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





House Wholesaling Explained (HA 1279)
Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hi.
Steven Butala:Welcome to The House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-
Jill DeWit:That's a mouthful, and I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about wholesaling houses explained.
Jill DeWit:That's a lot [crosstalk 00:00:20]-
Steven Butala:Wow.
Jill DeWit:That was a lot.
Steven Butala:This seems like such a basic topic. Like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wholesale a house. You buy it for cheap, you sell it for more. Get out of there. Go do it again."
Jill DeWit:Do you think you use this term when you describe yourself anymore because I thought-
Steven Butala:No, heck no!
Jill DeWit:Yeah, isn't it funny? I used to say it, it used to mean something. And it used to mean something good. And you know what, there's always one bad one that ruins it for the rest of us!
Jill DeWit:I'm just kidding. But people have got confused by what wholesaling is, and then some people are, I think, not doing it right and now we have to describe what we do a different way and let them run with that.
Steven Butala:There's a lot of meat in these deals and because of that, there's a lot of people who have no shame and no real respect for real estate or money and the process and have come in and really-
Steven Butala:They haven't even put a dent in the industry, but they just get a lot of notary because they're not doing it responsibly, so-
Steven Butala:Here's a prelude to the rest of the show. What we really are, are acquisition experts for people who own a lot of property. Whether they're landlords or house flippers or whatever. So if you walk into an big company that's real estate driven, like a McDonald's or a banks with bank branches, they have buildings. Or a home-builder, they have buildings full of an acquisitions staff that help them buy an expense property that fits their acquisition criteria. And I cut my teeth in that corporate environment and now we do it for ourselves.
Steven Butala:So what the show really should be called is "How to Set Up an Outsourced Acquisition Department for Landlords." But if we call it that, you will be the only person who's listening to this show.
Jill DeWit:Could you imagine! That would be awesome! "Hey you gotta check out this show!" "What's it called?" "It's great! Little hard to find, because if you misspell one of the words, and there's a lot of them, you'll never find it."
Steven Butala:So then I went to a podcast national event onetime, and we had a show like that. And everybody's like looking cross-eyed at us.
Jill DeWit:Like what
Steven Butala:Why are you, why do you call it that? What the heck are you talking about! You lost me at the third word. You lost me at acquisitions.
Jill DeWit:That's my favorite!
Steven Butala:Before we get into the topic, lets take a question posted by one of our members on the houseacademy.com online community...it's free.
Jill DeWit:Jeff asks, "I just flipped a property in Kansas City and I made twelve thousand dollars. I know I left a bunch of money on the table. How do you deal with this?"
Jill DeWit:Move on.
Steven Butala:You know...I'll tell you what.
Jill DeWit:Well you surely can't call back and say "Hey, oops, by the way..."
Steven Butala:Well I think what he's saying is "You guys", meaning Jill and I, "what you teach or what you explain on how you do it is to make 10 or 15 or 20 grand on the thing and just keep moving."
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Butala:And that's right. So how do I deal with leaving money on the table? Because Jill and I leave money on the table on every single deal. And land deals too. That's part of the business model.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Butala:You need your buyers to just beat your door down
Jill DeWit:And now they will.
Steven Butala:And yeah!
Jill DeWit:Congratulations! That fire won't-]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/20/house-wholesaling-explained-ha-1279/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ctLSP7kJ9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 22:02:58 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8d10e1cb-20ad-4ad3-9780-80f03313e317.mp3" length="11533385" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Land Resellers Buy from Us (LA 1614)</title><itunes:title>Why Land Resellers Buy from Us (LA 1614)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Land Resellers Buy from Us (LA 1614)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why land resellers buy from us. We have a whole website called LandStay.com and the slogan is, "Land acquisitions for resellers", and it's been this way for years and years and years and this was not intentional.

Jill DeWit:
Let's just cut to the chase. It's me.

Steven Butala:
It's The Jill Show.

Jill DeWit:
Come on. No, no, I'm just saying, why do they buy from us? Because they get to talk to me.

Steven Butala:
Oh my gosh, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I'm just kidding.

Steven Butala:
That's hilarious.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
You know it's probably not completely not true.

Jill DeWit:
It doesn't hurt.

Steven Butala:
There's probably some truth to that.

Jill DeWit:
I got to tell you, people call and there's a woman on the other line it's like, "oh okay." Sometimes it's hard to get them off the phone.

Steven Butala:
Here's a one reason, it's cheap.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Isn't that funny?

Steven Butala:
It's cheap.

Jill DeWit:
It's hilarious. That's one thing that I'll never get tired of that question, "What's wrong with it?" I'm like, "Nope, nothing wrong with it."

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Just nope?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. No, I seriously, it's like it's nothing wrong with it. If you would like me to add more to the price so it really is more in line with all the competition, I am happy to.

Steven Butala:
We have a-

Jill DeWit:
And then they're like, "oh no, no, no. Caught it."

Steven Butala:
Over the last lot of years, Jill and I have developed a lot of one liners about the top six or seven questions that we get...

Jill DeWit:
From the buyers

Steven Butala:
... from people. And we only get them once because that put it's all to rest and you know what, we'll answer them in just a minute here.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members. On the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
Jason asks, "I'm very frustrated. Is there a simple video tutorial that someone has made that will walk you through the simple formulas and steps it takes to work with data that we are using in the business. I've edited my data down by going through and looking for government owned properties, Indian land, non-taxable land etc. I've done this manually. I know there's a better way. I've tried to watch the video to keep up with Jack. As he goes through adding a column, I can do that and then adding a reference number and a column for each row of data, but it bounces back and forth between him and the slides. I'm having a hard time following. OMG. Is there a better way? I've never had to use Excel and I can "guaran-dang-tee" you that my kids will learn to use this. I'd scream and kick the dog if I thought it'd help."

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh, that's hilarious.

Steven Butala:
Okay. Well this takes me right back to 2014.

Jill DeWit:
This is here, Steven. Everyone breathe, breathe, breathe.

Steven Butala:
And, I'm not picking on this writer at all. There's two red flags here for me. "I've never had to use Excel" and these are direct quotes. "and my kids will learn to use this." So, the very, very nucleus of how we buy and sell real estate is data driven and there's only really, in my experience, two ways to manipulate data to your benefit to get offers to owners. Whether you're doing direct mail, [inaudible 00:03:19], there's a million ways to get offers to owners.

Steven Butala:
Not a million, there's about four really good ones.

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Butala:
I really believe that you have to have and be comfortable with and I mean born-with comfort at manipulating data either using Excel or through the ma...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Land Resellers Buy from Us (LA 1614)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala-

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why land resellers buy from us. We have a whole website called LandStay.com and the slogan is, "Land acquisitions for resellers", and it's been this way for years and years and years and this was not intentional.

Jill DeWit:
Let's just cut to the chase. It's me.

Steven Butala:
It's The Jill Show.

Jill DeWit:
Come on. No, no, I'm just saying, why do they buy from us? Because they get to talk to me.

Steven Butala:
Oh my gosh, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I'm just kidding.

Steven Butala:
That's hilarious.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
You know it's probably not completely not true.

Jill DeWit:
It doesn't hurt.

Steven Butala:
There's probably some truth to that.

Jill DeWit:
I got to tell you, people call and there's a woman on the other line it's like, "oh okay." Sometimes it's hard to get them off the phone.

Steven Butala:
Here's a one reason, it's cheap.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Isn't that funny?

Steven Butala:
It's cheap.

Jill DeWit:
It's hilarious. That's one thing that I'll never get tired of that question, "What's wrong with it?" I'm like, "Nope, nothing wrong with it."

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Just nope?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. No, I seriously, it's like it's nothing wrong with it. If you would like me to add more to the price so it really is more in line with all the competition, I am happy to.

Steven Butala:
We have a-

Jill DeWit:
And then they're like, "oh no, no, no. Caught it."

Steven Butala:
Over the last lot of years, Jill and I have developed a lot of one liners about the top six or seven questions that we get...

Jill DeWit:
From the buyers

Steven Butala:
... from people. And we only get them once because that put it's all to rest and you know what, we'll answer them in just a minute here.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of our members. On the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
Jason asks, "I'm very frustrated. Is there a simple video tutorial that someone has made that will walk you through the simple formulas and steps it takes to work with data that we are using in the business. I've edited my data down by going through and looking for government owned properties, Indian land, non-taxable land etc. I've done this manually. I know there's a better way. I've tried to watch the video to keep up with Jack. As he goes through adding a column, I can do that and then adding a reference number and a column for each row of data, but it bounces back and forth between him and the slides. I'm having a hard time following. OMG. Is there a better way? I've never had to use Excel and I can "guaran-dang-tee" you that my kids will learn to use this. I'd scream and kick the dog if I thought it'd help."

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh, that's hilarious.

Steven Butala:
Okay. Well this takes me right back to 2014.

Jill DeWit:
This is here, Steven. Everyone breathe, breathe, breathe.

Steven Butala:
And, I'm not picking on this writer at all. There's two red flags here for me. "I've never had to use Excel" and these are direct quotes. "and my kids will learn to use this." So, the very, very nucleus of how we buy and sell real estate is data driven and there's only really, in my experience, two ways to manipulate data to your benefit to get offers to owners. Whether you're doing direct mail, [inaudible 00:03:19], there's a million ways to get offers to owners.

Steven Butala:
Not a million, there's about four really good ones.

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Butala:
I really believe that you have to have and be comfortable with and I mean born-with comfort at manipulating data either using Excel or through the ma...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/19/why-land-resellers-buy-from-us-la-1614/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">y7xegmsHc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 22:06:03 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/79be3fb7-c385-43d9-adb0-eacbe96eb707.mp3" length="7972205" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>06:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Real Deal on Land Education Courses (LA 1613)</title><itunes:title>Real Deal on Land Education Courses (LA 1613)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Real Deal on Land Education Courses (LA 1613)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I’m Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:                           And Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about the real deal on land education courses.

Jill Dewitt:                           Okay, this is a direct response. You know who you are, Anthony.

Steven Butala:                   That’s the question there.

Jill Dewitt:                           Oh is it really? Oh you put, oh-

Steven Butala:                   Yeah. I put the actual question here.

Jill Dewitt:                           Oh, so it’s all going to be one big molded, melded together thing.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:                           All right, so, all right, so let me just explain this real quick. So this is from a soon to be member, if he’s not already a member, because he’s asking everywhere this question, which I’ll read in a moment. I answered it. It was so funny. He put it in Facebook. I just happened to be trolling the Land Academy Facebook. And I was like, “Oh, there’s a message there.” And he was asked this question. I’m like, “All right, so I’ll write this message. My team’s really busy. I’ll write a message.” So I’m sitting here crafting my response, and then before I could hit the little send button, my team put a message. I’m like, “Oh, all right. Well now I got to go back and say okay, PS it looks like my team beat me to it, but I’m still going to give you my answer here.” So I put it in there. And now I’ve seen him ask this in our online community, which I’m really, really glad because I’m dying to see what our members, well actually I know what they’re going to say, but I’m glad you’re asking the community. Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   We encourage people in our group and not in our group. Our listeners go into landinvestors.com or these, our team just to put together these Facebook groups, are very specific to all the lines that we have, companies, and ask questions like, “What the heck? Is this real?” “This doesn’t make sense to me. Are you having success with it?” “Are these guys a fluke?” “Is it temporary or is this really actually work?” “These guys say a lot of stuff on the podcast. I wonder if any of it’s true at all.”

Jill Dewitt:                           Right.

Steven Butala:                   And so that’s what we encourage and that’s what this question is.

Jill Dewitt:                           And we encourage openness, and you know what we have never ever, ever, and if you’re in bigger pockets, you know this is the opposite, we have never filtered anything.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:                           What goes in there, stays in there, short of spam and junk. We kick that, kind of like buy these sunglasses, that thing, you know what I mean. But we don’t filter any of the responses. We really encourage, and that’s just who we are anyway, we encourage openness and transparency. And if it’s great, share it. If it’s not great, share it. We still need to know.

Steven Butala:                   That’s what this episode is about. It’s our, because this is a real source of humor, off the camera for Jill and I. What, how other Land Academy members, and other people in the land business, handle education, where they get education, and probably 80% of it’s wrong. Probably 90%, now that I’m thinking about it. That’s what we’re going to talk about.

Jill Dewitt:                           Okay. Cool.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get in to it though, let’s take a question posted by one of our members. The question we just talked about on thelandinvestors.com online community, it’s free.

Jill Dewitt:                           Okay, so Anthony, I knew your name already.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Real Deal on Land Education Courses (LA 1613)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I’m Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:                           And Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about the real deal on land education courses.

Jill Dewitt:                           Okay, this is a direct response. You know who you are, Anthony.

Steven Butala:                   That’s the question there.

Jill Dewitt:                           Oh is it really? Oh you put, oh-

Steven Butala:                   Yeah. I put the actual question here.

Jill Dewitt:                           Oh, so it’s all going to be one big molded, melded together thing.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:                           All right, so, all right, so let me just explain this real quick. So this is from a soon to be member, if he’s not already a member, because he’s asking everywhere this question, which I’ll read in a moment. I answered it. It was so funny. He put it in Facebook. I just happened to be trolling the Land Academy Facebook. And I was like, “Oh, there’s a message there.” And he was asked this question. I’m like, “All right, so I’ll write this message. My team’s really busy. I’ll write a message.” So I’m sitting here crafting my response, and then before I could hit the little send button, my team put a message. I’m like, “Oh, all right. Well now I got to go back and say okay, PS it looks like my team beat me to it, but I’m still going to give you my answer here.” So I put it in there. And now I’ve seen him ask this in our online community, which I’m really, really glad because I’m dying to see what our members, well actually I know what they’re going to say, but I’m glad you’re asking the community. Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   We encourage people in our group and not in our group. Our listeners go into landinvestors.com or these, our team just to put together these Facebook groups, are very specific to all the lines that we have, companies, and ask questions like, “What the heck? Is this real?” “This doesn’t make sense to me. Are you having success with it?” “Are these guys a fluke?” “Is it temporary or is this really actually work?” “These guys say a lot of stuff on the podcast. I wonder if any of it’s true at all.”

Jill Dewitt:                           Right.

Steven Butala:                   And so that’s what we encourage and that’s what this question is.

Jill Dewitt:                           And we encourage openness, and you know what we have never ever, ever, and if you’re in bigger pockets, you know this is the opposite, we have never filtered anything.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:                           What goes in there, stays in there, short of spam and junk. We kick that, kind of like buy these sunglasses, that thing, you know what I mean. But we don’t filter any of the responses. We really encourage, and that’s just who we are anyway, we encourage openness and transparency. And if it’s great, share it. If it’s not great, share it. We still need to know.

Steven Butala:                   That’s what this episode is about. It’s our, because this is a real source of humor, off the camera for Jill and I. What, how other Land Academy members, and other people in the land business, handle education, where they get education, and probably 80% of it’s wrong. Probably 90%, now that I’m thinking about it. That’s what we’re going to talk about.

Jill Dewitt:                           Okay. Cool.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get in to it though, let’s take a question posted by one of our members. The question we just talked about on thelandinvestors.com online community, it’s free.

Jill Dewitt:                           Okay, so Anthony, I knew your name already.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/18/real-deal-on-land-education-courses-la-1613/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">J2EJKnW90</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 22:05:31 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8048f086-e6e6-44b2-b263-b72fa824a087.mp3" length="15803056" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; 3 Relationships You Need in Your Land Business (LA 1612)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; 3 Relationships You Need in Your Land Business (LA 1612)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - 3 Relationships You Need in Your Land Business (LA 1612)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about the three relationships that you really should have, or that you need in your land business.

Jill DeWit:
They're not husbands, it's not children, it's not boss, it's not accountant.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And please don't forget to subscribe to the land academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Ian wrote, hey everyone, I have a property owner I'm talking to who owns a piece of property that has a dilapidated trailer on it. The property is pretty far back from a highway, but there appears to be a lengthy dirt road that goes through several pieces of property. Looks like there are a few other homes back down this road. Does anyone have any recommendations for determining legal access to the property? The sellers don't know much about it as they inherited it. There's nothing in writing that they know of. They told me they use the road to get to the property, but like I said, the trailer needs to be torn down and they really go back there. Is this an implied easement situation? Any input is appreciated.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a very good question and just like yesterday, it's a question that I directly got involved in on discord. All these things start with a plat map. A plat map is one of those... It's black and white. It's some type of a surveyor or way back in the day before even surveyors, there are people that would hand write maps based on the stuff that they found from the measurements that they took. And it's the most basic map you can get. We don't use them a lot anymore because of Google earth and things like that and data tree, but a plat map will have in when it was subdivided the legal roads. Nine times out of 10, way more than that actually probably. And they're identified by dotted lines, not straight lines. Straight lines are property lines, dotted lines are roads or easements if they're involved in other properties.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you'll start with that and you'll see it. If it goes along people's property lines and there are no properties between it, that's just a driveway and you won't see that on a plat map. Think about your own driveway or a driveway in a subdivision or even a parking lot in an apartment building. You won't see that in a plat map, you'll just see the property line and that's it and here's the dirt. And so this is going to take some digging into and it's worth it because I love these kinds of deals, by the way. If there's an old mobile home and it's way back somewhere off the road and it... You started to tell the story about the sales story here.

Jill DeWit:
Right?

Steven Jack Butala:
So I'd definitely get to the end of it. In a rare case if they find out, there's no easement at all. It sounds like the property is being used that way, or it has been used that way. So if you just talk to the neighbors and say, "Hey, do you mind if we make this official? I'm going to call my lawyer and we'll just redraft this stuff. The guys can sign some stuff so I can use it. That'd be great."

Jill DeWit:
Right?

Steven Jack Butala:
That happens a lot with us because she's on the phone doing it and she's talking nice to these neighbors. Flies with honey kind of thing.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you, sweetheart.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the three relationships you need in your land business. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So there aren't three individual people because every transaction is differ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - 3 Relationships You Need in Your Land Business (LA 1612)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about the three relationships that you really should have, or that you need in your land business.

Jill DeWit:
They're not husbands, it's not children, it's not boss, it's not accountant.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And please don't forget to subscribe to the land academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Ian wrote, hey everyone, I have a property owner I'm talking to who owns a piece of property that has a dilapidated trailer on it. The property is pretty far back from a highway, but there appears to be a lengthy dirt road that goes through several pieces of property. Looks like there are a few other homes back down this road. Does anyone have any recommendations for determining legal access to the property? The sellers don't know much about it as they inherited it. There's nothing in writing that they know of. They told me they use the road to get to the property, but like I said, the trailer needs to be torn down and they really go back there. Is this an implied easement situation? Any input is appreciated.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's a very good question and just like yesterday, it's a question that I directly got involved in on discord. All these things start with a plat map. A plat map is one of those... It's black and white. It's some type of a surveyor or way back in the day before even surveyors, there are people that would hand write maps based on the stuff that they found from the measurements that they took. And it's the most basic map you can get. We don't use them a lot anymore because of Google earth and things like that and data tree, but a plat map will have in when it was subdivided the legal roads. Nine times out of 10, way more than that actually probably. And they're identified by dotted lines, not straight lines. Straight lines are property lines, dotted lines are roads or easements if they're involved in other properties.

Steven Jack Butala:
So you'll start with that and you'll see it. If it goes along people's property lines and there are no properties between it, that's just a driveway and you won't see that on a plat map. Think about your own driveway or a driveway in a subdivision or even a parking lot in an apartment building. You won't see that in a plat map, you'll just see the property line and that's it and here's the dirt. And so this is going to take some digging into and it's worth it because I love these kinds of deals, by the way. If there's an old mobile home and it's way back somewhere off the road and it... You started to tell the story about the sales story here.

Jill DeWit:
Right?

Steven Jack Butala:
So I'd definitely get to the end of it. In a rare case if they find out, there's no easement at all. It sounds like the property is being used that way, or it has been used that way. So if you just talk to the neighbors and say, "Hey, do you mind if we make this official? I'm going to call my lawyer and we'll just redraft this stuff. The guys can sign some stuff so I can use it. That'd be great."

Jill DeWit:
Right?

Steven Jack Butala:
That happens a lot with us because she's on the phone doing it and she's talking nice to these neighbors. Flies with honey kind of thing.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you, sweetheart.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the three relationships you need in your land business. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So there aren't three individual people because every transaction is differ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/15/jill-friday-3-relationships-you-need-in-your-land-business-la-1612/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JfadF2wJK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 22:02:43 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8a4ada00-4615-4b1a-b6dc-3e6e345987ef.mp3" length="11811162" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; We Now Control Most Aspects of Our Own Lives (LA 1611)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; We Now Control Most Aspects of Our Own Lives (LA 1611)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - We Now Control Most Aspects of Our Own Lives (LA 1611)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt. And we are broadcasting from the Valley of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how we now control and I mean, all of us, all, almost all aspects of our own lives. And I'll tell what, when we were kids, Jill and I wasn't like that at all.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. I'm excited to talk about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "What points of failure do you think new land investors should be looking out for? As a one person show, I don't want to use my limited energy to create redundancy for the sake of redundancy, but there's bound to be ways we can mitigate the typical points of failure experienced by those at this stage of our careers."

Steven Jack Butala:
So Jessica and I in Discord, went back and forth on this. And then a lot of people came back in. I'm not in there every day or constantly or anything, but this is a topic that... A single point of failure is a topic that really sings to me because I was on the Brent end of that concept between around 2009 and 2011.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really until Jill and I had joined forces to get back in it, really get land investing back on track, or there was a recession then. And a lot of it was because of the single point of failure. We had a single point of failure sales channel. All we were doing was buying some property and selling them on eBay. It was great. I made millions and tens of millions of dollars doing it actually.

Jill DeWit:
It was great until it wasn't.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep. Until it turned off. And I looked around and said, "Well, it's off like the electricity. And what can I do about it? Pretty much nothing." And so I never want that to happen again. So Jessica and I were going back and forth on Discord. I said, you can't have a single point of failure in your sales channel. This came up because Facebook and Instagram were down for two days this week.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, that's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's why she was asking this.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's, "I don't want to get caught up in this."

Jill DeWit:
Whatif Facebook marketplace is the only place I seem to sell property?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's where she [crosstalk 00:02:21].

Jill DeWit:
Well, then don't let that happen.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really what she asked.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's another place that I've been burned on a single point of failure, recently, very, very recently. When you rely too heavily on a single important employee, it's going to bite you at some point. Now, Jill and I cross-train everybody. We don't go in there and say, "Hey, we're cross-training you." What ends up happening is somebody makes some time off, another person steps in. They learn how to run some stuff or whatever division it is. They work at 020 for a couple of weeks, they go over to data, the neighbor scoop for a week or whatever. So it ends up being a inadvertent cross-training.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody's in it together kind of thing. You can't do that with everybody. There's a lot of perfect personalities, you just want to do one thing and that's it. And I get that, and that's fine. To some degree, I'm like that. I just want to do one thing. And so you can't put too much stock in one employee, in one area. If you start to do mailers and you concentrate and you only use one way and you never do any type of review. And you bring your head back up from your desk three years...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - We Now Control Most Aspects of Our Own Lives (LA 1611)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt. And we are broadcasting from the Valley of The Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how we now control and I mean, all of us, all, almost all aspects of our own lives. And I'll tell what, when we were kids, Jill and I wasn't like that at all.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. I'm excited to talk about this.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And please don't forget to subscribe on the land academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Jessica wrote, "What points of failure do you think new land investors should be looking out for? As a one person show, I don't want to use my limited energy to create redundancy for the sake of redundancy, but there's bound to be ways we can mitigate the typical points of failure experienced by those at this stage of our careers."

Steven Jack Butala:
So Jessica and I in Discord, went back and forth on this. And then a lot of people came back in. I'm not in there every day or constantly or anything, but this is a topic that... A single point of failure is a topic that really sings to me because I was on the Brent end of that concept between around 2009 and 2011.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really until Jill and I had joined forces to get back in it, really get land investing back on track, or there was a recession then. And a lot of it was because of the single point of failure. We had a single point of failure sales channel. All we were doing was buying some property and selling them on eBay. It was great. I made millions and tens of millions of dollars doing it actually.

Jill DeWit:
It was great until it wasn't.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep. Until it turned off. And I looked around and said, "Well, it's off like the electricity. And what can I do about it? Pretty much nothing." And so I never want that to happen again. So Jessica and I were going back and forth on Discord. I said, you can't have a single point of failure in your sales channel. This came up because Facebook and Instagram were down for two days this week.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, that's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's why she was asking this.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:
She's, "I don't want to get caught up in this."

Jill DeWit:
Whatif Facebook marketplace is the only place I seem to sell property?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's where she [crosstalk 00:02:21].

Jill DeWit:
Well, then don't let that happen.

Steven Jack Butala:
Really what she asked.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
Here's another place that I've been burned on a single point of failure, recently, very, very recently. When you rely too heavily on a single important employee, it's going to bite you at some point. Now, Jill and I cross-train everybody. We don't go in there and say, "Hey, we're cross-training you." What ends up happening is somebody makes some time off, another person steps in. They learn how to run some stuff or whatever division it is. They work at 020 for a couple of weeks, they go over to data, the neighbor scoop for a week or whatever. So it ends up being a inadvertent cross-training.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody's in it together kind of thing. You can't do that with everybody. There's a lot of perfect personalities, you just want to do one thing and that's it. And I get that, and that's fine. To some degree, I'm like that. I just want to do one thing. And so you can't put too much stock in one employee, in one area. If you start to do mailers and you concentrate and you only use one way and you never do any type of review. And you bring your head back up from your desk three years...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/14/jack-thursday-we-now-control-most-aspects-of-our-own-lives-la-1611/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1vS-YIlVW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:03:19 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b1d173df-a939-4c41-8ab4-ec6240040b1e.mp3" length="12005408" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Housing Market is Back and so is House Academy (HA XYZ)</title><itunes:title>Housing Market is Back and so is House Academy (HA XYZ)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Housing Market is Back and so is House Academy (HA XYZ)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. Well, it's really the House Academy Show today.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:Hi, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how the housing market is back or is coming back. And then, so is House Academy. In the background for years and years and years before I met Jill, she was buying and selling houses and so was I. We met and we really focused on land because that's always been my primary focus and I think I kind of introduced it to her, but she always knew about buying, selling houses and we never stopped until COVID. We stopped because I thought initially it was going to crash like it did in 2010, the exact opposite happened to every economists and the planets dismay or amazement. Including us. Some of these markets got so hot, we just decided, you know what? We're not going to-
Jill DeWit:Plan up.
Steven Jack Butala:We're no... I don't want to swim with sharks. I want to swim with goldfish and have not a lot of competition. So we've been watching patiently. If you're in the group, you know we talk about this on that Thursday call all the time, in the Land Academy group. And it's statistics now, and I'll talk about this in a minute, are showing serious signs of, yep, let's get back in here and do it.
Jill DeWit:Agreed, I'm excited.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it. Let's take a question meets you posted on the one by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:I think we're going to have a house channel on the Land Academy Channel. I don't know, look around. We're going to come up with some more good house stuff for you. I'm just tying back to how-
Steven Jack Butala:On the Land Academy YouTube Channel.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:We will have a House Academy playlist very, very soon. If not, by the time that you listened to this. In the past, forget about the past. We had its own separate House Academy Channel. So we're moving all that content over.
Jill DeWit:It's going to be cool.
Steven Jack Butala:So it's going to roll it all up into one kind of thing.
Jill DeWit:Totally.
Jill DeWit:Charlie wrote, "What tricks do you have to help buyers get a survey completed in a timely manner? I'm going on three weeks since we opened escrow. Title could have closed last week and we're still waiting on the survey with no estimated date of completion. At this point, I'm willing to do anything before my buyer decides to walk." I hate the situation. It's happening. You're not alone. Charlie. It's frustrating. There's a lot of things that are behind, your Amazon deliveries behind not kidding. I mean, I've like not so much Amazon, but they've moved things around a little bit, but I'll tell you FedEx and UPS and other services are behind. My bigger point is, I think people are having a hard time finding workers and there's a transportation issue and just people to show up. So, that could be going on. Maybe this poor guy went out and did his stuff and it's waiting on the office staff to finally put the paperwork together to get you his survey.
Steven Jack Butala:Why are we doing a survey?
Jill DeWit:That too. Well, there are very, very infrequent. Let me go back to this. You're right, overall, don't do a survey.
Steven Jack Butala:Like 99.999% of the deals you will do in your career will not require survey.
Jill DeWit:Correct.
Jill DeWit:1% of the time you have something like a, what did I need it for?
Steven Jack Butala:I think it's way less than it was-
Jill DeWit:It was like a forest station plan.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn More About House Academy Here





Housing Market is Back and so is House Academy (HA XYZ)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. Well, it's really the House Academy Show today.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:Hi, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how the housing market is back or is coming back. And then, so is House Academy. In the background for years and years and years before I met Jill, she was buying and selling houses and so was I. We met and we really focused on land because that's always been my primary focus and I think I kind of introduced it to her, but she always knew about buying, selling houses and we never stopped until COVID. We stopped because I thought initially it was going to crash like it did in 2010, the exact opposite happened to every economists and the planets dismay or amazement. Including us. Some of these markets got so hot, we just decided, you know what? We're not going to-
Jill DeWit:Plan up.
Steven Jack Butala:We're no... I don't want to swim with sharks. I want to swim with goldfish and have not a lot of competition. So we've been watching patiently. If you're in the group, you know we talk about this on that Thursday call all the time, in the Land Academy group. And it's statistics now, and I'll talk about this in a minute, are showing serious signs of, yep, let's get back in here and do it.
Jill DeWit:Agreed, I'm excited.
Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it. Let's take a question meets you posted on the one by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill DeWit:I think we're going to have a house channel on the Land Academy Channel. I don't know, look around. We're going to come up with some more good house stuff for you. I'm just tying back to how-
Steven Jack Butala:On the Land Academy YouTube Channel.
Jill DeWit:Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:We will have a House Academy playlist very, very soon. If not, by the time that you listened to this. In the past, forget about the past. We had its own separate House Academy Channel. So we're moving all that content over.
Jill DeWit:It's going to be cool.
Steven Jack Butala:So it's going to roll it all up into one kind of thing.
Jill DeWit:Totally.
Jill DeWit:Charlie wrote, "What tricks do you have to help buyers get a survey completed in a timely manner? I'm going on three weeks since we opened escrow. Title could have closed last week and we're still waiting on the survey with no estimated date of completion. At this point, I'm willing to do anything before my buyer decides to walk." I hate the situation. It's happening. You're not alone. Charlie. It's frustrating. There's a lot of things that are behind, your Amazon deliveries behind not kidding. I mean, I've like not so much Amazon, but they've moved things around a little bit, but I'll tell you FedEx and UPS and other services are behind. My bigger point is, I think people are having a hard time finding workers and there's a transportation issue and just people to show up. So, that could be going on. Maybe this poor guy went out and did his stuff and it's waiting on the office staff to finally put the paperwork together to get you his survey.
Steven Jack Butala:Why are we doing a survey?
Jill DeWit:That too. Well, there are very, very infrequent. Let me go back to this. You're right, overall, don't do a survey.
Steven Jack Butala:Like 99.999% of the deals you will do in your career will not require survey.
Jill DeWit:Correct.
Jill DeWit:1% of the time you have something like a, what did I need it for?
Steven Jack Butala:I think it's way less than it was-
Jill DeWit:It was like a forest station plan.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/13/housing-market-is-back-and-so-is-house-academy-ha-1278/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">EVeDyY-vS</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:01:11 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dc0cb95f-d746-46cd-b9cd-65cf2b6277b0.mp3" length="19082879" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Beginners Guide to Doing Land Deals (LA 1610)</title><itunes:title>Beginners Guide to Doing Land Deals (LA 1610)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Beginners Guide to Doing Land Deals (LA 1610)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I, we're going to talk about a beginner's guide to doing land deals.

Jill DeWit:
I broke it down in a couple of steps from zero to 30, I should say.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I often have different takes on what these shows should be about. And today is no exception.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. We often have different takes on everything from parenting to where we're going to dinner tonight.

Steven Jack Butala:
We do not have different takes on the following: getting rich together.

Jill DeWit:
Yes.Getting in An RV.

Steven Jack Butala:
When that should happen.

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
How to run our staff, for the most part.

Jill DeWit:
Right. Leaving town.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think we're almost on, well, we're not on the same page about parenting, right? But I don't think you should be. I think you need two of them going at it.

Jill DeWit:
We're on the same page about vehicles in the garage and toys. We're pretty good about that because no one will say no. It's pretty much a,"Yeah, we should get one of those."

Steven Jack Butala:
We're on the same page about how much real estate we should own and not own and where.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a pretty big deal.

Jill DeWit:
I can agree with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Victor wrote: What does it mean when a property's co-owned with an "or" instead of an "and"? And I'm putting in quotes here, "Jane Smith and John Smith," instead of, "Jane Smith or John Smith." Both are deceased and the daughter wants to sell.

Jill DeWit:
It means absolutely nothing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is incorrect. And it's a great question. Whoever did this vesting deed before you, or before them, didn't do it right. Here's how you do it. Jane Smith and John Smith own this property as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. One of them dies, the other one owns it all, at the moment that that person passes, without any paperwork. It's a beautiful thing, actually. But eventually, John's going to die too. And that's what goes on here.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Any deed you come up with, you might even find still some tenants in common. Whatever it is "or" doesn't mean anything "Or" doesn't count. What counts are the words after it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, well said.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
What also accounts is that they're both dead. And so to answer that, depending on the state, that's really easy to undo, or really hard. Arizona's very hard. California's very easy. So, [crosstalk 00:02:52]. And it always changes, or else I would directly answer it.

Steven Jack Butala:
California requires an affidavit of death, and Arizona requires a whole new... In a lot of cases it's just not worth it, a new estate settlement. Or it means nothing. That's the takeaway from there.

Jill DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic: this is a beginner's guide to doing land deals. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
Do you want to start?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure. If you want me to.

Jill DeWit:
I'll start. You want me to start? I thought you would have something to say. Usually you dive right in.

Steven Jack Butala:
At the risk of sounding like your father, your mind, your head's got to be into this. I told somebody at recently, Jill and I were lucky enough to have dinner with some people that organized a live event near our house. They're all members.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Beginners Guide to Doing Land Deals (LA 1610)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I, we're going to talk about a beginner's guide to doing land deals.

Jill DeWit:
I broke it down in a couple of steps from zero to 30, I should say.

Steven Jack Butala:
Jill and I often have different takes on what these shows should be about. And today is no exception.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. We often have different takes on everything from parenting to where we're going to dinner tonight.

Steven Jack Butala:
We do not have different takes on the following: getting rich together.

Jill DeWit:
Yes.Getting in An RV.

Steven Jack Butala:
When that should happen.

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Jack Butala:
How to run our staff, for the most part.

Jill DeWit:
Right. Leaving town.

Steven Jack Butala:
I think we're almost on, well, we're not on the same page about parenting, right? But I don't think you should be. I think you need two of them going at it.

Jill DeWit:
We're on the same page about vehicles in the garage and toys. We're pretty good about that because no one will say no. It's pretty much a,"Yeah, we should get one of those."

Steven Jack Butala:
We're on the same page about how much real estate we should own and not own and where.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's a pretty big deal.

Jill DeWit:
I can agree with that.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Victor wrote: What does it mean when a property's co-owned with an "or" instead of an "and"? And I'm putting in quotes here, "Jane Smith and John Smith," instead of, "Jane Smith or John Smith." Both are deceased and the daughter wants to sell.

Jill DeWit:
It means absolutely nothing.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is incorrect. And it's a great question. Whoever did this vesting deed before you, or before them, didn't do it right. Here's how you do it. Jane Smith and John Smith own this property as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. One of them dies, the other one owns it all, at the moment that that person passes, without any paperwork. It's a beautiful thing, actually. But eventually, John's going to die too. And that's what goes on here.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Any deed you come up with, you might even find still some tenants in common. Whatever it is "or" doesn't mean anything "Or" doesn't count. What counts are the words after it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, well said.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
What also accounts is that they're both dead. And so to answer that, depending on the state, that's really easy to undo, or really hard. Arizona's very hard. California's very easy. So, [crosstalk 00:02:52]. And it always changes, or else I would directly answer it.

Steven Jack Butala:
California requires an affidavit of death, and Arizona requires a whole new... In a lot of cases it's just not worth it, a new estate settlement. Or it means nothing. That's the takeaway from there.

Jill DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic: this is a beginner's guide to doing land deals. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
Do you want to start?

Steven Jack Butala:
Sure. If you want me to.

Jill DeWit:
I'll start. You want me to start? I thought you would have something to say. Usually you dive right in.

Steven Jack Butala:
At the risk of sounding like your father, your mind, your head's got to be into this. I told somebody at recently, Jill and I were lucky enough to have dinner with some people that organized a live event near our house. They're all members.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/12/beginners-guide-to-doing-land-deals-la-1610/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">BAetShNNh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:01:59 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/43efcf01-8cd4-4458-85a3-47c310143df9.mp3" length="12543103" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Working From Home on Your Land Business (LA 1609)</title><itunes:title>Working From Home on Your Land Business (LA 1609)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Working From Home on Your Land Business (LA 1609)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala .

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about working from home on your land business.

Jill DeWit:
Pretty hot topic.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is. I saw that actually, I saw it, it ranked high... It falls under something I thought we all would've known and how this works but I get it though.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know what's so funny? It used to be, working from home on X, right? Meaning, you would have a second job, whatever gig, and now everybody's working from home. So, it's like, what do you happen to be working from home on? Does that make sense? Are you're working from home? No kidding. Is it your day job? You know what I mean? I'm just curious, so is the planet.

Steven Jack Butala:
It wasn't that long ago when someone said, she's working from home today?

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And everybody would say, oh, she's getting nothing done and took the day off.

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just not the case at all- [crosstalk 00:00:59]

Jill DeWit:
She's doing laundry and she's watching movies- [crosstalk 00:01:01].

Steven Jack Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
And everything. Now, it has a whole new different meaning now, it's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community is free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
I've got to add one little thing here too, by the way, home schooling has a whole new meaning now too.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's going to be interesting how this episode goes.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Two cynical people talk about working from home.

Jill DeWit:
I know. Okay. All right. Back to the topic. Jeff wrote, I've been an instructor since 2008.

Steven Jack Butala:
Flight instructor.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I thought of making flying an expense and probably would have been viable in the years before drones existed. I think you could do as an expense but be very costly compared to the low cost of getting the same photos from a drone. If you could expense the travel but it would be more expensive than the airlines. I think you could expense the travel but it'd be more expensive than the airlines, got it. So, Kevin, our moderator wrote, you can make anything an expense.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Get the right CPA. That's true. When he interviewed my CPA he asked an important question, how far do you want me to push the tax laws? I tell him I'm going to push it right up to the limit of the law.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
I don't care if I'm audited, as long as we document everything. He said, no problem, I know what to do. I think that flying over land that you have an interest in, you can define what an interest means, will be deductible. You will probably get audited but make sure it's documented and handled correctly on the tax returns. I have done this with a trip in the car to another state, I drove by some parcels while I was the and noted the APNs. Totally, totally on the same page.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, I agree with just about everything that Kevin said but he left a couple of really important key phrases out. Is it ordinary and necessary for you to get your pilot license to fly over an airplane and get good footage? That depends on what type of business you have. If you are a pilot that specializes in land, in fact, we actually have a person in our group who buys vacant land in these airplane communities. Where you land on your own airstrip, taxi into the hangar that is attached to your house and you live there. So,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working From Home on Your Land Business (LA 1609)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala .

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about working from home on your land business.

Jill DeWit:
Pretty hot topic.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is. I saw that actually, I saw it, it ranked high... It falls under something I thought we all would've known and how this works but I get it though.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know what's so funny? It used to be, working from home on X, right? Meaning, you would have a second job, whatever gig, and now everybody's working from home. So, it's like, what do you happen to be working from home on? Does that make sense? Are you're working from home? No kidding. Is it your day job? You know what I mean? I'm just curious, so is the planet.

Steven Jack Butala:
It wasn't that long ago when someone said, she's working from home today?

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Jack Butala:
And everybody would say, oh, she's getting nothing done and took the day off.

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's just not the case at all- [crosstalk 00:00:59]

Jill DeWit:
She's doing laundry and she's watching movies- [crosstalk 00:01:01].

Steven Jack Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
And everything. Now, it has a whole new different meaning now, it's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community is free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
I've got to add one little thing here too, by the way, home schooling has a whole new meaning now too.

Steven Jack Butala:
It's going to be interesting how this episode goes.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
Two cynical people talk about working from home.

Jill DeWit:
I know. Okay. All right. Back to the topic. Jeff wrote, I've been an instructor since 2008.

Steven Jack Butala:
Flight instructor.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I thought of making flying an expense and probably would have been viable in the years before drones existed. I think you could do as an expense but be very costly compared to the low cost of getting the same photos from a drone. If you could expense the travel but it would be more expensive than the airlines. I think you could expense the travel but it'd be more expensive than the airlines, got it. So, Kevin, our moderator wrote, you can make anything an expense.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Get the right CPA. That's true. When he interviewed my CPA he asked an important question, how far do you want me to push the tax laws? I tell him I'm going to push it right up to the limit of the law.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
I don't care if I'm audited, as long as we document everything. He said, no problem, I know what to do. I think that flying over land that you have an interest in, you can define what an interest means, will be deductible. You will probably get audited but make sure it's documented and handled correctly on the tax returns. I have done this with a trip in the car to another state, I drove by some parcels while I was the and noted the APNs. Totally, totally on the same page.

Steven Jack Butala:
So, I agree with just about everything that Kevin said but he left a couple of really important key phrases out. Is it ordinary and necessary for you to get your pilot license to fly over an airplane and get good footage? That depends on what type of business you have. If you are a pilot that specializes in land, in fact, we actually have a person in our group who buys vacant land in these airplane communities. Where you land on your own airstrip, taxi into the hangar that is attached to your house and you live there. So,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/11/working-from-home-on-your-land-business-la-1609/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jSmydcrbf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:03:26 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/087d7a8c-0bae-4cc7-abf8-eaf8028cab4b.mp3" length="22528849" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m Going to Have a Good Day Damn It (LA 1608)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m Going to Have a Good Day Damn It (LA 1608)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I'm Going to Have a Good Day Damn It (LA 1608)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to do a show called I'm going to have a good day damn it.

Jill DeWit:
So this, I started mentioning it yesterday. This is when we sat down. This topic came up as we sat down and in the morning. And we're thinking about a couple of days ago, what our topics are going to be for this week. And Steven very lovingly said, well, how's your day going to which I said, it's going to be a great day because I'm going to make it a great day. That was the whole point. So the title morphed into I'm going to have a good day damn it. So, because there's a lot in your control and that's what we're going to talk about.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Shannon wrote as a newbie, I'm getting a little overwhelmed by the amount of response we are receiving. This method works. If you work it, not sure if it's because tax time is coming or what, but as a newbie, it feels we have dove into the deep end. LOL. I don't know who else says the mail is dead. It's alive and well, and people are opening up their letters. The hate calls are comical are also LOL what's the... Yeah go ahead.

Steven Butala:
All right. So here's the thing. This happened to me the first time I sent mail out. So I didn't know what I was doing. This is a lot of years ago, and this is long after I had a very successful tax deed tax auction business. I just tried to just send out a [mailer 00:02:00] Just to see what was going to happen. I sent a mailer out to very specific number of properties in a specific county, Mojave county, Arizona for a straight $500. Just trying to get to see if people didn't want the property anymore.

Steven Butala:
We got a massive response, as you can imagine. No one's ever... There's tens of probably 45,000 properties in that county. No one ever received a letter or an offer ever. And so we had a massive response and I screwed up everything, everything. If I could go back and do that, now we would probably do a thousand deals. But the whole time I did it with a smile on my face because I knew now it's possible. I knew, all right, on the next mail we'll solve this. And this is without Jill. This is with somebody like me answering the phone, which is not the best choice or answering the phone at all.

Jill DeWit:
Well, you did what you had to do with what you have to work with. That was it.

Steven Butala:
This person, what I love about this and why I put this in here, Shannon doesn't care what she's not saying, "Well, they're not doing this. And the salary's not doing this. And everyone hates. There's all this hate and everywhere. I can't believe. I never knew that these words existed." Let alone, has anyone ever said that. She's not saying any of that, what's she saying is, "Oh my God, can you imagine what's going to happen after I land three of these?" That's all she's focusing on Shannon you're going to be amazing at this. I'm sure of it. It requires that attitude.

Jill DeWit:
It's perfect for today.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. I'm going to have a good day damn it. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So I was thinking about I've talked to people that are new to land investing, and they're like, "How do I start? How do I, what do I do?" And everything. And they feel there's at some point to get the education, there's, going to be a ceremony. And now I can put investor on my business card. I'm like, "No, there's not. It's right up here."]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I'm Going to Have a Good Day Damn It (LA 1608)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to do a show called I'm going to have a good day damn it.

Jill DeWit:
So this, I started mentioning it yesterday. This is when we sat down. This topic came up as we sat down and in the morning. And we're thinking about a couple of days ago, what our topics are going to be for this week. And Steven very lovingly said, well, how's your day going to which I said, it's going to be a great day because I'm going to make it a great day. That was the whole point. So the title morphed into I'm going to have a good day damn it. So, because there's a lot in your control and that's what we're going to talk about.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Shannon wrote as a newbie, I'm getting a little overwhelmed by the amount of response we are receiving. This method works. If you work it, not sure if it's because tax time is coming or what, but as a newbie, it feels we have dove into the deep end. LOL. I don't know who else says the mail is dead. It's alive and well, and people are opening up their letters. The hate calls are comical are also LOL what's the... Yeah go ahead.

Steven Butala:
All right. So here's the thing. This happened to me the first time I sent mail out. So I didn't know what I was doing. This is a lot of years ago, and this is long after I had a very successful tax deed tax auction business. I just tried to just send out a [mailer 00:02:00] Just to see what was going to happen. I sent a mailer out to very specific number of properties in a specific county, Mojave county, Arizona for a straight $500. Just trying to get to see if people didn't want the property anymore.

Steven Butala:
We got a massive response, as you can imagine. No one's ever... There's tens of probably 45,000 properties in that county. No one ever received a letter or an offer ever. And so we had a massive response and I screwed up everything, everything. If I could go back and do that, now we would probably do a thousand deals. But the whole time I did it with a smile on my face because I knew now it's possible. I knew, all right, on the next mail we'll solve this. And this is without Jill. This is with somebody like me answering the phone, which is not the best choice or answering the phone at all.

Jill DeWit:
Well, you did what you had to do with what you have to work with. That was it.

Steven Butala:
This person, what I love about this and why I put this in here, Shannon doesn't care what she's not saying, "Well, they're not doing this. And the salary's not doing this. And everyone hates. There's all this hate and everywhere. I can't believe. I never knew that these words existed." Let alone, has anyone ever said that. She's not saying any of that, what's she saying is, "Oh my God, can you imagine what's going to happen after I land three of these?" That's all she's focusing on Shannon you're going to be amazing at this. I'm sure of it. It requires that attitude.

Jill DeWit:
It's perfect for today.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. I'm going to have a good day damn it. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So I was thinking about I've talked to people that are new to land investing, and they're like, "How do I start? How do I, what do I do?" And everything. And they feel there's at some point to get the education, there's, going to be a ceremony. And now I can put investor on my business card. I'm like, "No, there's not. It's right up here."]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/08/jill-friday-im-going-to-have-a-good-day-damn-it-la-1608/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">oFSOYjd7A</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 22:05:07 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/425b82af-2fee-4c86-b622-6116466b48c3.mp3" length="13133344" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What&amp;#8217;s Possible What&amp;#8217;s Fair (LA 1607)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What&amp;#8217;s Possible What&amp;#8217;s Fair (LA 1607)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - What's Possible What's Fair (LA 1607)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and today I'm going to talk about what's possible and what's fair.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Butala:
I'm fascinated with what's possible. And after doing this for years now, which I thoroughly enjoy, by the way, I like teaching. I had no idea. If somebody told me you would like teaching 10, 15 years ago, I would've said, "Why would I ever teach anything? Everything's fine."

Jill DeWit:
Because it involves people.

Steven Butala:
I'm sitting here doing these real estate deals. Jill and I are doing great. We don't have any debt. kids are doing fine.

Jill DeWit:
She takes care of all the people now. I don't have to talk to anybody.

Steven Butala:
And then we go ahead and do this.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Complicate our lives.

Jill DeWit:
And now you love it. Oh, come on. You softy, you love people.

Steven Butala:
I actually, truth is I like teaching.

Jill DeWit:
You like smart people.

Steven Butala:
But there's a lot of different sides to teaching, and some of them are good, some are bad, like everything. And there's a lot of different types of people that you can attract who want to be taught or don't want to be taught. So what's possible is the portion of what I love to talk about. And we'll talk about it in a minute. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Steven wrote, "I was having a conversation about what I'm doing in this business with an old timer who made a lot of money flipping land early in his career. He asked what if it has toxic waste on it? I said we do a full title report and lots of due diligence and that if we can't find it and don't know about it, it isn't our fiduciary to convey that info. He said it wouldn't come up in the title report and that you would need a phase one environmental report to find out. Thoughts?" Sheesh. Go ahead.

Steven Butala:
The old timer's exactly right. The title report does only this. Bring it back to the eighth grade level here for a minute, and then I'll answer the question. The reason that you go to an escrow agent who requests a title report or title plan, depending on the state that you're in, to request that to get it done and then you take a look at it, is to get an insurance policy against the following, whatever they find.

Jill DeWit:
This is my favorite.

Steven Butala:
So all kidding aside for a second, the title report allows property basically to be finance-able in the future. It's kind of a insurance scam.

Jill DeWit:
It is.

Steven Butala:
So nothing's going to come up in that title report, except this. And you won't read it like this. I often think to myself, it would be great to have a graphic in a title report of a timeline. So 1830 happened and Joe Smith and Sally Smith, his wife, and their 18 children who never went to school because they were all farm hands, homesteaded the property in 1830. In 1840, the first child was old enough so we split off the property, some of it to him. In 1850, the second kid. And on and on. So you see that figuratively seeing this timeline up to when you buy it. That's all the title report's going to theoretically do. And it's only going to go back 30 years anyway, right?

Jill DeWit:
Traditionally.

Steven Butala:
Is it 30 or 20?

Jill DeWit:
30. Traditionally, it's around 30 years.

Steven Butala:
A titled agent, they're just putting all the paperwork together. The escrow agent is putting the paperwork together, including the title report,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - What's Possible What's Fair (LA 1607)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and today I'm going to talk about what's possible and what's fair.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited.

Steven Butala:
I'm fascinated with what's possible. And after doing this for years now, which I thoroughly enjoy, by the way, I like teaching. I had no idea. If somebody told me you would like teaching 10, 15 years ago, I would've said, "Why would I ever teach anything? Everything's fine."

Jill DeWit:
Because it involves people.

Steven Butala:
I'm sitting here doing these real estate deals. Jill and I are doing great. We don't have any debt. kids are doing fine.

Jill DeWit:
She takes care of all the people now. I don't have to talk to anybody.

Steven Butala:
And then we go ahead and do this.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Complicate our lives.

Jill DeWit:
And now you love it. Oh, come on. You softy, you love people.

Steven Butala:
I actually, truth is I like teaching.

Jill DeWit:
You like smart people.

Steven Butala:
But there's a lot of different sides to teaching, and some of them are good, some are bad, like everything. And there's a lot of different types of people that you can attract who want to be taught or don't want to be taught. So what's possible is the portion of what I love to talk about. And we'll talk about it in a minute. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Steven wrote, "I was having a conversation about what I'm doing in this business with an old timer who made a lot of money flipping land early in his career. He asked what if it has toxic waste on it? I said we do a full title report and lots of due diligence and that if we can't find it and don't know about it, it isn't our fiduciary to convey that info. He said it wouldn't come up in the title report and that you would need a phase one environmental report to find out. Thoughts?" Sheesh. Go ahead.

Steven Butala:
The old timer's exactly right. The title report does only this. Bring it back to the eighth grade level here for a minute, and then I'll answer the question. The reason that you go to an escrow agent who requests a title report or title plan, depending on the state that you're in, to request that to get it done and then you take a look at it, is to get an insurance policy against the following, whatever they find.

Jill DeWit:
This is my favorite.

Steven Butala:
So all kidding aside for a second, the title report allows property basically to be finance-able in the future. It's kind of a insurance scam.

Jill DeWit:
It is.

Steven Butala:
So nothing's going to come up in that title report, except this. And you won't read it like this. I often think to myself, it would be great to have a graphic in a title report of a timeline. So 1830 happened and Joe Smith and Sally Smith, his wife, and their 18 children who never went to school because they were all farm hands, homesteaded the property in 1830. In 1840, the first child was old enough so we split off the property, some of it to him. In 1850, the second kid. And on and on. So you see that figuratively seeing this timeline up to when you buy it. That's all the title report's going to theoretically do. And it's only going to go back 30 years anyway, right?

Jill DeWit:
Traditionally.

Steven Butala:
Is it 30 or 20?

Jill DeWit:
30. Traditionally, it's around 30 years.

Steven Butala:
A titled agent, they're just putting all the paperwork together. The escrow agent is putting the paperwork together, including the title report,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/07/jack-thursday-whats-possible-whats-fair-la-1607/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">uPIWoLWd7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:58:39 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c42d43c1-bed7-4b6e-a4de-6acb746a7e4c.mp3" length="17212511" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Funding with Integrity (LA 1606)</title><itunes:title>Land Funding with Integrity (LA 1606)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Funding with Integrity (LA 1606)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about land funding with integrity.

Jill DeWit:
Why is that funny?

Steven Butala:
I'm just looking at you, waiting.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
I'll start.

Jill DeWit:
Well, do we really need to talk about this? But I guess we do. There's a lot ... It's in everything.

Steven Butala:
We created what I think ... And I've been thinking about this lately, because I'm trying to figure out, like everybody, what to do with the rest of my life, and this is a good thing. This land thing is a good thing. We've created an environment, a total full-blown, pure supply and demand, laissez-faire environment, called Land Academy. And one of the unintended consequences of that, which is really what laissez-faire is, is just let the market solve itself, is personal land funding. And so new people come in, they don't have a lot of money. They're starting out. It's totally normal and ordinary, and there's older people in the group that have less energy and a lot more money because they've had success. They want to fund and help the young people, which I think is amazing consequence.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Butala:
But like everything, it comes with a little bit of responsibility and ultimately integrity. And it's starting to show signs of, oh, there's not such fair play going on. Look, we all want the unfair advantage, all of us. This is kind of the show now, but we do have some responsibility to do it correctly, so we'll talk about that. Before that's-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, let me just pause for just a moment here. Sometimes you're like, "Can't you be a little more agreeable? Can't you just kind of say 'Okay'? Do you have to comment on everything?" This is actually in our personal life, not really on this environment.

Steven Butala:
Well, it's not personal anymore.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I know. I'm sharing this. So, maybe, I don't know, 10 minutes ago ... So anyway, so then I sit down and I do it and he's like, "What's wrong?" Like, "Hold on a moment."

Steven Butala:
I just wonder if you're still breathing if you don't have any snide comments about stuff that I'm saying even on or off the camera.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. Oh yeah. I'll save them for off. Just kidding. Oh.

Steven Butala:
You know, if you've ever lived with somebody for a number of years consecutively, that's a show. That's a call-in show.

Jill DeWit:
Ah, ha, that's really funny. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Ty wrote, "First potential deal. Just how risky is doing a notary close on a larger deal? I have a seller who needs their money faster or it's a deal breaker." He says, like, "three or four days. It's a 10-acre buy at $28,000 deal to sell for $80,000ish. Very confident on the numbers, county-verified ownership and no tax issues, legal access via gravel road to the property. I guess I'm asking how bad can it be? Anybody ever just roll the dice? Thinking a warranty deed would cover me, and I'm sure he would have no issues with this. Seller owns his main residence and is not giving any signs of being sketchy. By the way, the $28,000 wouldn't kill me to lose, but I'd prefer to avoid it if possible. Basically if the consensus is there's less than 10% chance of this going sideways, I think I would risk it."

Jill DeWit:
I know what I would do.

Steven Butala:
I do too. I bet it's the same thing.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Wait. We're going to give our answer and it's going to be either, "Buy it," or "Not.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Funding with Integrity (LA 1606)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about land funding with integrity.

Jill DeWit:
Why is that funny?

Steven Butala:
I'm just looking at you, waiting.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
I'll start.

Jill DeWit:
Well, do we really need to talk about this? But I guess we do. There's a lot ... It's in everything.

Steven Butala:
We created what I think ... And I've been thinking about this lately, because I'm trying to figure out, like everybody, what to do with the rest of my life, and this is a good thing. This land thing is a good thing. We've created an environment, a total full-blown, pure supply and demand, laissez-faire environment, called Land Academy. And one of the unintended consequences of that, which is really what laissez-faire is, is just let the market solve itself, is personal land funding. And so new people come in, they don't have a lot of money. They're starting out. It's totally normal and ordinary, and there's older people in the group that have less energy and a lot more money because they've had success. They want to fund and help the young people, which I think is amazing consequence.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Steven Butala:
But like everything, it comes with a little bit of responsibility and ultimately integrity. And it's starting to show signs of, oh, there's not such fair play going on. Look, we all want the unfair advantage, all of us. This is kind of the show now, but we do have some responsibility to do it correctly, so we'll talk about that. Before that's-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, let me just pause for just a moment here. Sometimes you're like, "Can't you be a little more agreeable? Can't you just kind of say 'Okay'? Do you have to comment on everything?" This is actually in our personal life, not really on this environment.

Steven Butala:
Well, it's not personal anymore.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I know. I'm sharing this. So, maybe, I don't know, 10 minutes ago ... So anyway, so then I sit down and I do it and he's like, "What's wrong?" Like, "Hold on a moment."

Steven Butala:
I just wonder if you're still breathing if you don't have any snide comments about stuff that I'm saying even on or off the camera.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. Oh yeah. I'll save them for off. Just kidding. Oh.

Steven Butala:
You know, if you've ever lived with somebody for a number of years consecutively, that's a show. That's a call-in show.

Jill DeWit:
Ah, ha, that's really funny. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Ty wrote, "First potential deal. Just how risky is doing a notary close on a larger deal? I have a seller who needs their money faster or it's a deal breaker." He says, like, "three or four days. It's a 10-acre buy at $28,000 deal to sell for $80,000ish. Very confident on the numbers, county-verified ownership and no tax issues, legal access via gravel road to the property. I guess I'm asking how bad can it be? Anybody ever just roll the dice? Thinking a warranty deed would cover me, and I'm sure he would have no issues with this. Seller owns his main residence and is not giving any signs of being sketchy. By the way, the $28,000 wouldn't kill me to lose, but I'd prefer to avoid it if possible. Basically if the consensus is there's less than 10% chance of this going sideways, I think I would risk it."

Jill DeWit:
I know what I would do.

Steven Butala:
I do too. I bet it's the same thing.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Wait. We're going to give our answer and it's going to be either, "Buy it," or "Not.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/06/land-funding-with-integrity-la-1606/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_-HHntakn</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 22:12:44 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1009f346-ed66-48f9-b5ac-f0bc4e828622.mp3" length="14067431" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When to Do Your Own Work (LA 1605)</title><itunes:title>When to Do Your Own Work (LA 1605)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[When to Do Your Own Work (LA 1605)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the sweet valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about.

Jill DeWit:
When to do your own work.

Steven Butala:
Thank you.

Jill DeWit:
You're welcome.

Steven Butala:
Script is wrong.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay. I got you. I got your back. We're all good.

Steven Butala:
Guess who did the script?

Jill DeWit:
It's okay.

Steven Butala:
It's perfect for this topic. I do all the pre-production.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
I do the scripts. I do the questions and all of that.

Jill DeWit:
This is good.

Steven Butala:
And I didn't do it right.

Jill DeWit:
When to do you your own work and when not to do your own work?

Steven Butala:
Maybe not do your own work when you're getting so old that he's not doing the right work correctly.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, or you can't see.

Steven Butala:
The name of the show is When to do Your Own Work.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. There we go. All right, we're going to talk about this. So I have made some notes here. I've just, my first note is "sheesh" everyone. There's a lot of people that aren't doing their own work, and we will explain.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land investors or land members on our land investors online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "After watching a title company struggle for weeks now to get a very senior citizen seller to sign, notarize a deed themselves, and then mail it back, I'm starting to think mobile notary services can be worth the money."

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Hello? Hilarious. So, this sounds to me like, because I've had some of these folks that.

Steven Butala:
I know you have.

Jill DeWit:
They're not that mobile or they just don't like to go out. So, this notary that couldn't even send a mobile notary out to them. I've had this too where they... We sent a notary out and they needed to sign on the back on the trunk of a car. They wanted to be outside and had the fresh air. And, they're just little, probably still concerned health-wise and so I get it. I get it. And you know, so you work with them. So, I guess this person is saying, "Why am I having them do that?" Because, which is true. "So, I'm paying the title company, how much money to do this work. I could have done that."

Steven Butala:
And, they're not getting it done. And, who knows what's going on here? Maybe the town of the company or the town that where they live is so small, that they're very used to going into town and signing everything.

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Butala:
And, so maybe this person's elderly and that's just not an option, or we don't really know what's going on, but the fact is this, and I'm very sure of this. You, as an investor, Aaron have a better shot of getting people to do what you want them to do over the title agent.

Jill DeWit:
True. You have that relationship with them. They're selling to you because of you.

Steven Butala:
Here's the thing and this is my opinion now. This world that we live in is becoming more increasingly the lines of everybody's responsibility and the hierarchy of things, I'm going to get a ton of emails for this. All right, is getting blurred. Ever since this COVID thing started and is now we're in it like it or not, we're post COVID or we're in it in some stage. People's responsibilities and I got my first experience with it was going to Home Depot, buying some stuff. This is in California, in Los Angeles and being standing there with somebody and they might as well have had a swastika on their arm.

Steven Butala:
Telling everybody where to stand, what to do, how it's going to go.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[When to Do Your Own Work (LA 1605)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the sweet valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about.

Jill DeWit:
When to do your own work.

Steven Butala:
Thank you.

Jill DeWit:
You're welcome.

Steven Butala:
Script is wrong.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay. I got you. I got your back. We're all good.

Steven Butala:
Guess who did the script?

Jill DeWit:
It's okay.

Steven Butala:
It's perfect for this topic. I do all the pre-production.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
I do the scripts. I do the questions and all of that.

Jill DeWit:
This is good.

Steven Butala:
And I didn't do it right.

Jill DeWit:
When to do you your own work and when not to do your own work?

Steven Butala:
Maybe not do your own work when you're getting so old that he's not doing the right work correctly.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, or you can't see.

Steven Butala:
The name of the show is When to do Your Own Work.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. There we go. All right, we're going to talk about this. So I have made some notes here. I've just, my first note is "sheesh" everyone. There's a lot of people that aren't doing their own work, and we will explain.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land investors or land members on our land investors online community it's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "After watching a title company struggle for weeks now to get a very senior citizen seller to sign, notarize a deed themselves, and then mail it back, I'm starting to think mobile notary services can be worth the money."

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Hello? Hilarious. So, this sounds to me like, because I've had some of these folks that.

Steven Butala:
I know you have.

Jill DeWit:
They're not that mobile or they just don't like to go out. So, this notary that couldn't even send a mobile notary out to them. I've had this too where they... We sent a notary out and they needed to sign on the back on the trunk of a car. They wanted to be outside and had the fresh air. And, they're just little, probably still concerned health-wise and so I get it. I get it. And you know, so you work with them. So, I guess this person is saying, "Why am I having them do that?" Because, which is true. "So, I'm paying the title company, how much money to do this work. I could have done that."

Steven Butala:
And, they're not getting it done. And, who knows what's going on here? Maybe the town of the company or the town that where they live is so small, that they're very used to going into town and signing everything.

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Butala:
And, so maybe this person's elderly and that's just not an option, or we don't really know what's going on, but the fact is this, and I'm very sure of this. You, as an investor, Aaron have a better shot of getting people to do what you want them to do over the title agent.

Jill DeWit:
True. You have that relationship with them. They're selling to you because of you.

Steven Butala:
Here's the thing and this is my opinion now. This world that we live in is becoming more increasingly the lines of everybody's responsibility and the hierarchy of things, I'm going to get a ton of emails for this. All right, is getting blurred. Ever since this COVID thing started and is now we're in it like it or not, we're post COVID or we're in it in some stage. People's responsibilities and I got my first experience with it was going to Home Depot, buying some stuff. This is in California, in Los Angeles and being standing there with somebody and they might as well have had a swastika on their arm.

Steven Butala:
Telling everybody where to stand, what to do, how it's going to go.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/05/when-to-do-your-own-work-la-1605/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">XYwqhUCcQ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:12:01 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f4831af3-2a56-44be-b054-a76f3162efd2.mp3" length="17257000" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Real Estate Business Niches Inside of Land Niches (LA 1604)</title><itunes:title>Real Estate Business Niches Inside of Land Niches (LA 1604)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Real Estate Business Niches Inside of Land Niches (LA 1604)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the sweet valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the real estate business niches that are inside land niches.

Jill DeWit:
Niches inside of niches.

Steven Butala:
Niches inside of niches.

Jill DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
That is the most popular question in Discord right now among-

Jill DeWit:
Is it really?

Steven Butala:
Well, it's not phrased like this, but...

Jill DeWit:
They don't know they're asking it?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Everybody wants a secret path for some reason.

Jill DeWit:
That's interesting. I-

Steven Butala:
And so... Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't know we were talking about this. I just know that we talk about this and we naturally fall into this, which is a good... This is all good, positive stuff. Why are you laughing at you?

Steven Butala:
I'm not laughing.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I'm just smiling in the camera because this is a good topic.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Hey, you know what's kind of funny?

Steven Butala:
Why are you laughing at me?

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Butala:
Why are you having a good time?

Jill DeWit:
Well, you're laughing at me, not that you don't laugh at me, and that's okay. I laugh at me. That's totally fine. Speaking of laughing at each other, do you know what's so great? I woke up today thinking about... I think the next time we go out in the RV in a couple of weeks, we might start running into some colder weather and maybe snow, and I'm like, "That makes me happy." I love when we're outdoors, camping, and we're around a fire because we need a fire.

Steven Butala:
I love that too and Jill's referring to cold weather in California where she's from.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, like 60.

Steven Butala:
I'm from Michigan and being out in an RV in snow? That's a sleepless night for me. Sorry.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of love it. I remember one time whatever day we had to come back-

Steven Butala:
Sleepless because of my responsibility as a man, not-

Jill DeWit:
I know. It was April. It was April this year we had to come home and I was like, "Man, we missed the snow. Darn it." It was like one day. If we'd stayed one more day in wherever we were, we would've got snow, and I was very sad, and you're like, "Thank God."

Steven Butala:
Once in a while it's fine, if it's a light California kind of thing, but 10 degrees below in an RV, no one's happy.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm not doing that. No, no. We're talking a comfy 40 with snow on the ground.

Steven Butala:
Oh yeah, just over freezing.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, yeah.

Steven Butala:
40 for the night and 70 during the day.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, something like that.

Steven Butala:
That's California winter.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. Yeah, in the mountains. That's true.

Steven Butala:
As if we even remember what the topic is. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Jen wrote, "Have..." Oh, this is good. "Have any of you ever been asked to sign a termination of restrictions for an area you own land in? Evidently this is for a city subdivision. It's not an HOA or POA that had restrictions put in place about 50 years ago to prevent new construction. If they get enough site insurers, they can terminate those restrictions and build new housing. I don't see a downside since it's to help with growth, but maybe there's something I'm missing."

Steven Butala:
I don't see a downside either, as long as you read the fine print, and Jen's been with us for a while and she's very active in Discord and thank you for that.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Real Estate Business Niches Inside of Land Niches (LA 1604)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the sweet valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the real estate business niches that are inside land niches.

Jill DeWit:
Niches inside of niches.

Steven Butala:
Niches inside of niches.

Jill DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
That is the most popular question in Discord right now among-

Jill DeWit:
Is it really?

Steven Butala:
Well, it's not phrased like this, but...

Jill DeWit:
They don't know they're asking it?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Everybody wants a secret path for some reason.

Jill DeWit:
That's interesting. I-

Steven Butala:
And so... Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't know we were talking about this. I just know that we talk about this and we naturally fall into this, which is a good... This is all good, positive stuff. Why are you laughing at you?

Steven Butala:
I'm not laughing.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I'm just smiling in the camera because this is a good topic.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Hey, you know what's kind of funny?

Steven Butala:
Why are you laughing at me?

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Butala:
Why are you having a good time?

Jill DeWit:
Well, you're laughing at me, not that you don't laugh at me, and that's okay. I laugh at me. That's totally fine. Speaking of laughing at each other, do you know what's so great? I woke up today thinking about... I think the next time we go out in the RV in a couple of weeks, we might start running into some colder weather and maybe snow, and I'm like, "That makes me happy." I love when we're outdoors, camping, and we're around a fire because we need a fire.

Steven Butala:
I love that too and Jill's referring to cold weather in California where she's from.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, like 60.

Steven Butala:
I'm from Michigan and being out in an RV in snow? That's a sleepless night for me. Sorry.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of love it. I remember one time whatever day we had to come back-

Steven Butala:
Sleepless because of my responsibility as a man, not-

Jill DeWit:
I know. It was April. It was April this year we had to come home and I was like, "Man, we missed the snow. Darn it." It was like one day. If we'd stayed one more day in wherever we were, we would've got snow, and I was very sad, and you're like, "Thank God."

Steven Butala:
Once in a while it's fine, if it's a light California kind of thing, but 10 degrees below in an RV, no one's happy.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm not doing that. No, no. We're talking a comfy 40 with snow on the ground.

Steven Butala:
Oh yeah, just over freezing.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, yeah.

Steven Butala:
40 for the night and 70 during the day.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, something like that.

Steven Butala:
That's California winter.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. Yeah, in the mountains. That's true.

Steven Butala:
As if we even remember what the topic is. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Jen wrote, "Have..." Oh, this is good. "Have any of you ever been asked to sign a termination of restrictions for an area you own land in? Evidently this is for a city subdivision. It's not an HOA or POA that had restrictions put in place about 50 years ago to prevent new construction. If they get enough site insurers, they can terminate those restrictions and build new housing. I don't see a downside since it's to help with growth, but maybe there's something I'm missing."

Steven Butala:
I don't see a downside either, as long as you read the fine print, and Jen's been with us for a while and she's very active in Discord and thank you for that.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/04/real-estate-business-niches-inside-of-land-niches-la-1604/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TzEIdfNcx</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:31:18 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3ab97b2b-5561-4dbd-932f-584d8d329b0f.mp3" length="18642034" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What She Really Does in Her Office All Day (LA 1603)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; What She Really Does in Her Office All Day (LA 1603)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What She Really Does in Her Office All Day (LA 1603)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven, Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and we're going to find out what she really does in her office all day.

Jill K DeWit:
All right, let me back this up. As you know yesterday, Thursday, was Jack's work-life-money balance talk. And earlier this week we talked about the September third quarter, wrapping up the year financial review. So he's obviously looking at life, looking at big picture, looking at everything.

Jill K DeWit:
And he was getting concerned because he's thinking I'm overworked. He's like, he gets frustrated by me being in my office. Especially one night this week I was in my office until six or seven o'clock at night, whatever it was. And he was really thinking, "What the um?" You're looking at all this big picture life stuff and thinking I'm over there, doing it all wrong. And I had to say, "Hold on a moment."

Steven J Butala:
You're not doing it all wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
I think she's spending too much time doing real estate deals.

Jill K DeWit:
Word. Right. And I said-

Steven J Butala:
Specifically that.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. He's thinking that that's it. This ties into so much this week. We talked about the 80/20, and one of the things I brought up was I thought he was coming after me about 80% of your work is on 20% of the stuff that makes money. And so the whole point of this is, and this whole week is for me, you actually think I'm working in there?

Steven J Butala:
I guess we're [crosstalk 00:01:39] together, listener, going to find out. What Jill does at work all day.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me explain what really goes on in my office all day, then no one will ever be concerned about me again. Go ahead.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "I've had a few local land barons call to tell me how stupid I am, but then they end up on my buyers list by the end of the call."

Jill K DeWit:
I've totally had this. I've even had people write me back about that and call me specifically to say, "Okay, you guys are nuts, but if you can really make this happen, I want to buy from you." I'm like, "And yes I can."

Steven J Butala:
Those are real land people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, uh-huh (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. We're going to find out what she really does in her office all day. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me tell you what goes on in my office and let me first paint the picture. I love my office. You may have seen some of my videos. It's white, it's bright, it's pretty. And this is my home office by the way, this is my primary office, period. It's off on my own wing. I have my own door. It's all windows.

Steven J Butala:
Multiple doors with locks I've noticed.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, I've tried multiple door with locks, that's very true. I can lock people out, I can let people in. I have a courtyard off my office. I have a fountain going off my office. And just this morning, as a matter of fact, I was sitting there mesmerized by all the quail.

Steven J Butala:
I saw that too.

Jill K DeWit:
There are fat quail running around here right now.

Steven J Butala:
All over the yard.

Jill K DeWit:
There was, I swear, 20 of them in my courtyard.

Steven J Butala:
I noticed that today too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I'm like, "This is-"

Steven J Butala:
And they're healthy.

Jill K DeWit:
They're [inaudible 00:03:35], they're fat and healthy. And I saw a couple of them getting into it,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - What She Really Does in Her Office All Day (LA 1603)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven, Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and we're going to find out what she really does in her office all day.

Jill K DeWit:
All right, let me back this up. As you know yesterday, Thursday, was Jack's work-life-money balance talk. And earlier this week we talked about the September third quarter, wrapping up the year financial review. So he's obviously looking at life, looking at big picture, looking at everything.

Jill K DeWit:
And he was getting concerned because he's thinking I'm overworked. He's like, he gets frustrated by me being in my office. Especially one night this week I was in my office until six or seven o'clock at night, whatever it was. And he was really thinking, "What the um?" You're looking at all this big picture life stuff and thinking I'm over there, doing it all wrong. And I had to say, "Hold on a moment."

Steven J Butala:
You're not doing it all wrong.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
I think she's spending too much time doing real estate deals.

Jill K DeWit:
Word. Right. And I said-

Steven J Butala:
Specifically that.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. He's thinking that that's it. This ties into so much this week. We talked about the 80/20, and one of the things I brought up was I thought he was coming after me about 80% of your work is on 20% of the stuff that makes money. And so the whole point of this is, and this whole week is for me, you actually think I'm working in there?

Steven J Butala:
I guess we're [crosstalk 00:01:39] together, listener, going to find out. What Jill does at work all day.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me explain what really goes on in my office all day, then no one will ever be concerned about me again. Go ahead.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "I've had a few local land barons call to tell me how stupid I am, but then they end up on my buyers list by the end of the call."

Jill K DeWit:
I've totally had this. I've even had people write me back about that and call me specifically to say, "Okay, you guys are nuts, but if you can really make this happen, I want to buy from you." I'm like, "And yes I can."

Steven J Butala:
Those are real land people.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, uh-huh (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. We're going to find out what she really does in her office all day. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me tell you what goes on in my office and let me first paint the picture. I love my office. You may have seen some of my videos. It's white, it's bright, it's pretty. And this is my home office by the way, this is my primary office, period. It's off on my own wing. I have my own door. It's all windows.

Steven J Butala:
Multiple doors with locks I've noticed.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, I've tried multiple door with locks, that's very true. I can lock people out, I can let people in. I have a courtyard off my office. I have a fountain going off my office. And just this morning, as a matter of fact, I was sitting there mesmerized by all the quail.

Steven J Butala:
I saw that too.

Jill K DeWit:
There are fat quail running around here right now.

Steven J Butala:
All over the yard.

Jill K DeWit:
There was, I swear, 20 of them in my courtyard.

Steven J Butala:
I noticed that today too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I'm like, "This is-"

Steven J Butala:
And they're healthy.

Jill K DeWit:
They're [inaudible 00:03:35], they're fat and healthy. And I saw a couple of them getting into it,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/10/01/jill-friday-what-she-really-does-in-her-office-all-day-la-1603/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PRE3DELN2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:01:59 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ae93213f-9229-43bc-a4de-bff0273c2de4.mp3" length="14295936" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Work Life Money Balance (LA 1602)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Work Life Money Balance (LA 1602)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Work Life Money Balance (LA 1602)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about work, life and money balance.

Jill K DeWit:
That is so celebrate your life of you.

Steven J Butala:
Is it?

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. I noticed you have one of my [Deepak 00:00:27] books on your bookshelf.

Steven J Butala:
I'm sure that was collected from you.

Jill K DeWit:
That makes me happy. Yes, it is. And if you look inside, it might be signed because I think it was Metahuman. That's right.

Steven J Butala:
Actually, that's a recent one.

Jill K DeWit:
I went to the, yeah, I went to the ... It was in Manhattan Beach. I went to the, no, it was [inaudible 00:00:47]. I don't remember what it was, but a bunch of us went to hear him speak at a high school campus. And it was, yeah, it was [inaudible 00:00:55]. It was really cool. And I got the book there and got to see him. It was neat.

Steven J Butala:
Did you meet him?

Jill K DeWit:
Well not, I mean, didn't like shake his hand, but I mean, I guess.

Steven J Butala:
I'm a big Deepak fan. I think a lot of that, well, over the years it changes genes. Sometimes it's new age. Sometimes it's self-help. But I think he's the real deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. He's awesome.

Steven J Butala:
I think there's three or four people in that space that are really worth listening to and write well and are very smart.

Jill K DeWit:
He's awesome. Someday I'm going to go to one of his retreats. I've been thinking about it. So, yeah.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Ty wrote, "Does anyone use the last sold dollar amount or praised dollar amount versus offer when scrubbing, when available, of course." I just did an analysis on my last mailer and found some as crazy as 3%. These, of course, were anomalies, but I found that more than 20% of my offers were below the 10% range of offer to last sold. Sending an offer for $20,000 on a property that lasts over $500,000, no matter how long ago, minus 2009, seems a bit ridiculous and something I should just scrub or adjust. Thoughts?"

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very intelligent question. Here's what happens. You download it, you do everything that you're supposed to do according to the education and you download a dataset and you're staring at this dataset, you manipulate it and you're getting ready to price. You go away far over to the right of the data set and you see how much this person on this one line item paid for the property and when they paid. So if they bought a property for $30,000 in 1995, and you go back over to the left where your pricing column and you price everything out, and they paid $30,000, plus all this appreciation of how many years, and you're actually offering them $8,000, you start to question yourself. This is a very, very intelligent question.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true.

Steven J Butala:
Does it matter? Should you look at that? Should you do a mailer based on what people have, not just casting a wide net, but based on and offer that person a little bit more than what they paid and just see. Absolutely not. I've done this and I've tried it. We had a person in our most recent career path that built a company based on individually pricing very expensive properties. And at the end of career path, he messaged me and said, "I realize now we've been doing this wrong."

Steven J Butala:
You can't, you can try this, but what you're doing by using this methodology is removing the possibility of hitting a home run.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Work Life Money Balance (LA 1602)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about work, life and money balance.

Jill K DeWit:
That is so celebrate your life of you.

Steven J Butala:
Is it?

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. I noticed you have one of my [Deepak 00:00:27] books on your bookshelf.

Steven J Butala:
I'm sure that was collected from you.

Jill K DeWit:
That makes me happy. Yes, it is. And if you look inside, it might be signed because I think it was Metahuman. That's right.

Steven J Butala:
Actually, that's a recent one.

Jill K DeWit:
I went to the, yeah, I went to the ... It was in Manhattan Beach. I went to the, no, it was [inaudible 00:00:47]. I don't remember what it was, but a bunch of us went to hear him speak at a high school campus. And it was, yeah, it was [inaudible 00:00:55]. It was really cool. And I got the book there and got to see him. It was neat.

Steven J Butala:
Did you meet him?

Jill K DeWit:
Well not, I mean, didn't like shake his hand, but I mean, I guess.

Steven J Butala:
I'm a big Deepak fan. I think a lot of that, well, over the years it changes genes. Sometimes it's new age. Sometimes it's self-help. But I think he's the real deal.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah. He's awesome.

Steven J Butala:
I think there's three or four people in that space that are really worth listening to and write well and are very smart.

Jill K DeWit:
He's awesome. Someday I'm going to go to one of his retreats. I've been thinking about it. So, yeah.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Ty wrote, "Does anyone use the last sold dollar amount or praised dollar amount versus offer when scrubbing, when available, of course." I just did an analysis on my last mailer and found some as crazy as 3%. These, of course, were anomalies, but I found that more than 20% of my offers were below the 10% range of offer to last sold. Sending an offer for $20,000 on a property that lasts over $500,000, no matter how long ago, minus 2009, seems a bit ridiculous and something I should just scrub or adjust. Thoughts?"

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very intelligent question. Here's what happens. You download it, you do everything that you're supposed to do according to the education and you download a dataset and you're staring at this dataset, you manipulate it and you're getting ready to price. You go away far over to the right of the data set and you see how much this person on this one line item paid for the property and when they paid. So if they bought a property for $30,000 in 1995, and you go back over to the left where your pricing column and you price everything out, and they paid $30,000, plus all this appreciation of how many years, and you're actually offering them $8,000, you start to question yourself. This is a very, very intelligent question.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true.

Steven J Butala:
Does it matter? Should you look at that? Should you do a mailer based on what people have, not just casting a wide net, but based on and offer that person a little bit more than what they paid and just see. Absolutely not. I've done this and I've tried it. We had a person in our most recent career path that built a company based on individually pricing very expensive properties. And at the end of career path, he messaged me and said, "I realize now we've been doing this wrong."

Steven J Butala:
You can't, you can try this, but what you're doing by using this methodology is removing the possibility of hitting a home run.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/30/jack-thursday-work-life-money-balance-la-1602/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lEJFfdPOj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:50:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bfd5d932-73bb-456a-a0cc-6ff85c2936d0.mp3" length="17850613" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Occupations that are Going Away (LA 1601)</title><itunes:title>Occupations that are Going Away (LA 1601)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Occupations that are Going Away (LA 1601)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. And we are broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about occupations that we think are going away.

Jill K DeWit:
I want to even add just, not just, the big picture concerns about what's coming. It's so interesting. So I've read some interesting articles this morning. I'm going to, I have some notes to share.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Anthony wrote, a couple of topic suggestions, using the 80/20 rule, which is the Pareto principle in the land business. "I read this book a few years ago, and I applied the advice in it to a business I was running at the time. The results were shocking improvements in profitability. I moved on and forgot about this until last week when I heard it mentioned in a video, and I remembered how it helped. Identifying those 20% of things that produce 80% of the results. And then..." Is this for me?

Steven J Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven J Butala:
No. It's for our listeners. If you get something out of it, then that's up to you.

Jill K DeWit:
All right, thank you. "And then putting your focus on those things can result in big improvements. It's hard sometimes though, to be ruthless about applying the rule, an example, what characteristics do the people who accept your most profitable offers, like the 20% that make the 80% of the profit have in common?" Oh, this is a little out there, but yeah. "Are they out of state owners? Are they behind on taxes? Are they married age? How many homes do they have? Income? The idea would be to build a profile and find ways to target those people in that data." I took this as something else. I just took this as 80/20, like what am I doing every day that takes up 80% of my time.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, this is, I mean, we can talk about that in a minute too, but really if you're just buying and selling land full time, every one of us has one or two deals every year, where we say, "Oh my gosh, this is the greatest deal ever. If I could do just 10 of these, instead of all these other 50 deals, where I only made five, $10,000 or $15,000. But this one I made $150,000 on. All I need to do is 10 of these, where I make a million bucks a year." And so that's the 80/20, there're all kinds of, it's a tremendous number of examples. So the idea is to sit yourself down, and think about it. In my case, I'll take a piece of paper or, a tablet, or whatever with a pen. And I'm just brainstorming about why that deal was so good.

Steven J Butala:
And the flip side is, why some deals just didn't work out. And so it's not so much, like he says here in the question, the profile of the person that you're buying from, because I don't believe in that. I believe in sending everybody an offer and just, well, they'll find you.

Jill K DeWit:
I agree.

Steven J Butala:
You send out 25,000 offers, that five people or 10 people in there that are just dying to sell that day are going to find you. They're going to respond to your offer and say, "Yes, I want to do the deal." The question is, if I send out 25,000 offers, and I do it for only the property profile, and the pricing profile, where I made that $150,000 net, I'm going to do, it's not going to be 80/20 anymore.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the key.

Steven J Butala:
It's going to be, it's going to be 50/50, or 60/40 in your favor.

Jill K DeWit:
Right, I'm going to find more properties, priced this way, in this area, and with this attribute, because those fly off the shelves.

Steven J Butala:
Yep.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Occupations that are Going Away (LA 1601)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit. And we are broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about occupations that we think are going away.

Jill K DeWit:
I want to even add just, not just, the big picture concerns about what's coming. It's so interesting. So I've read some interesting articles this morning. I'm going to, I have some notes to share.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you liked.

Jill K DeWit:
Anthony wrote, a couple of topic suggestions, using the 80/20 rule, which is the Pareto principle in the land business. "I read this book a few years ago, and I applied the advice in it to a business I was running at the time. The results were shocking improvements in profitability. I moved on and forgot about this until last week when I heard it mentioned in a video, and I remembered how it helped. Identifying those 20% of things that produce 80% of the results. And then..." Is this for me?

Steven J Butala:
No.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay.

Steven J Butala:
No. It's for our listeners. If you get something out of it, then that's up to you.

Jill K DeWit:
All right, thank you. "And then putting your focus on those things can result in big improvements. It's hard sometimes though, to be ruthless about applying the rule, an example, what characteristics do the people who accept your most profitable offers, like the 20% that make the 80% of the profit have in common?" Oh, this is a little out there, but yeah. "Are they out of state owners? Are they behind on taxes? Are they married age? How many homes do they have? Income? The idea would be to build a profile and find ways to target those people in that data." I took this as something else. I just took this as 80/20, like what am I doing every day that takes up 80% of my time.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, this is, I mean, we can talk about that in a minute too, but really if you're just buying and selling land full time, every one of us has one or two deals every year, where we say, "Oh my gosh, this is the greatest deal ever. If I could do just 10 of these, instead of all these other 50 deals, where I only made five, $10,000 or $15,000. But this one I made $150,000 on. All I need to do is 10 of these, where I make a million bucks a year." And so that's the 80/20, there're all kinds of, it's a tremendous number of examples. So the idea is to sit yourself down, and think about it. In my case, I'll take a piece of paper or, a tablet, or whatever with a pen. And I'm just brainstorming about why that deal was so good.

Steven J Butala:
And the flip side is, why some deals just didn't work out. And so it's not so much, like he says here in the question, the profile of the person that you're buying from, because I don't believe in that. I believe in sending everybody an offer and just, well, they'll find you.

Jill K DeWit:
I agree.

Steven J Butala:
You send out 25,000 offers, that five people or 10 people in there that are just dying to sell that day are going to find you. They're going to respond to your offer and say, "Yes, I want to do the deal." The question is, if I send out 25,000 offers, and I do it for only the property profile, and the pricing profile, where I made that $150,000 net, I'm going to do, it's not going to be 80/20 anymore.

Jill K DeWit:
That's the key.

Steven J Butala:
It's going to be, it's going to be 50/50, or 60/40 in your favor.

Jill K DeWit:
Right, I'm going to find more properties, priced this way, in this area, and with this attribute, because those fly off the shelves.

Steven J Butala:
Yep.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/29/occupations-that-are-going-away-la-1601/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tIa4IE8p2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9c8b8185-4719-4f00-86ce-1b6e9f4c725d.mp3" length="18449903" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Your September Financial Review (LA 1600)</title><itunes:title>Your September Financial Review (LA 1600)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Your September Financial Review (LA 1600)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill D... or Jill dimwit, apparently.

Steven J Butala:
Oh my gosh. That's awful.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I got all kinds of good... It's funny. Who cares? I say this because I want people to know it's, who cares?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Some people get these letters back and they're like, "Oh no." Like, so what? Throw it away.

Steven J Butala:
It's part of it.

Jill K DeWit:
And the person who wrote the letter, they've already forgotten about it too, so it doesn't really matter. Anyway, I am Jill DeWit and I am broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about your September financial review. I'll tell you, it's based off of my September financial review. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Tony wrote, "I have a property that is an escrow for an attorney close. They are doing the title insurance and handling all the closing details. Can I assume it's safe to say I could officially, and legally begin marketing this property for sale?" Hold on Tony. You don't own it yet. I want you to get all ready to do this. You may or may not agree with me. We'll see what you say.

Steven J Butala:
I'm not going to agree.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
I'm not just being difficult. I'm not going to agree, but go ahead. I'll tell you why, because there are probably six people that piped in on this real hard.

Jill K DeWit:
Some do.

Steven J Butala:
And they said, "No, no, absolutely not. Don't do it. Don't do it. And don't do it."

Jill K DeWit:
And you say, "Yes."

Steven J Butala:
And I say, "Yes."

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. What's the... I mean, you could cover your butt and ask for permission.

Steven J Butala:
Ask who?

Jill K DeWit:
The seller. And then no one will ever get mad if the seller's on board with it.

Steven J Butala:
When you have a property that is in escrow, lawyers closing it, and lawyer's telling you... Usually lawyer closes are way faster than title insurance.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true.

Steven J Butala:
So you're going to be, let's say, it's safe to say, inside of two weeks. It's going to take you several days to get the property prepped anyway, pictures of it.

Jill K DeWit:
So you are agreeing with me.

Steven J Butala:
Start with all that. And I would start. I'd put it on Craigslist, Zillow, everywhere. I would not execute a listing agreement with a... If you're going that route, with a real estate agent until you have a book and page number, it's stamped on the deed.

Jill K DeWit:
So we are kind of on the same page.

Steven J Butala:
But I would ease into it. I wouldn't just not do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. So my thing, have it all ready, ready to push the button. I mean, you could start making some calls to neighbors and things like that.

Steven J Butala:
I would do all that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. See, we're on the same page more than you think.

Steven J Butala:
I just wouldn't list it. That's all.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go. I had one too where they were like ahead of the game, like, "I can't sign this yet you guys."

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. I've had that too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm like, "I love that you're that ready." But I'm like, "I can't sign the listing-" [crosstalk 00:03:12]

Steven J Butala:
You guys don't own it yet.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I can't...

Steven J Butala:
I've had that happen multiple times.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I don't want to get anybody in trouble. I don't want to get the agent in trouble, because then they're going to get pissed at me.

Steven J Butala:
Zillow doesn't care.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Your September Financial Review (LA 1600)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steven Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I am Jill D... or Jill dimwit, apparently.

Steven J Butala:
Oh my gosh. That's awful.

Jill K DeWit:
I know. I got all kinds of good... It's funny. Who cares? I say this because I want people to know it's, who cares?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Some people get these letters back and they're like, "Oh no." Like, so what? Throw it away.

Steven J Butala:
It's part of it.

Jill K DeWit:
And the person who wrote the letter, they've already forgotten about it too, so it doesn't really matter. Anyway, I am Jill DeWit and I am broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about your September financial review. I'll tell you, it's based off of my September financial review. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Tony wrote, "I have a property that is an escrow for an attorney close. They are doing the title insurance and handling all the closing details. Can I assume it's safe to say I could officially, and legally begin marketing this property for sale?" Hold on Tony. You don't own it yet. I want you to get all ready to do this. You may or may not agree with me. We'll see what you say.

Steven J Butala:
I'm not going to agree.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
I'm not just being difficult. I'm not going to agree, but go ahead. I'll tell you why, because there are probably six people that piped in on this real hard.

Jill K DeWit:
Some do.

Steven J Butala:
And they said, "No, no, absolutely not. Don't do it. Don't do it. And don't do it."

Jill K DeWit:
And you say, "Yes."

Steven J Butala:
And I say, "Yes."

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. What's the... I mean, you could cover your butt and ask for permission.

Steven J Butala:
Ask who?

Jill K DeWit:
The seller. And then no one will ever get mad if the seller's on board with it.

Steven J Butala:
When you have a property that is in escrow, lawyers closing it, and lawyer's telling you... Usually lawyer closes are way faster than title insurance.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true.

Steven J Butala:
So you're going to be, let's say, it's safe to say, inside of two weeks. It's going to take you several days to get the property prepped anyway, pictures of it.

Jill K DeWit:
So you are agreeing with me.

Steven J Butala:
Start with all that. And I would start. I'd put it on Craigslist, Zillow, everywhere. I would not execute a listing agreement with a... If you're going that route, with a real estate agent until you have a book and page number, it's stamped on the deed.

Jill K DeWit:
So we are kind of on the same page.

Steven J Butala:
But I would ease into it. I wouldn't just not do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. So my thing, have it all ready, ready to push the button. I mean, you could start making some calls to neighbors and things like that.

Steven J Butala:
I would do all that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. See, we're on the same page more than you think.

Steven J Butala:
I just wouldn't list it. That's all.

Jill K DeWit:
There you go. I had one too where they were like ahead of the game, like, "I can't sign this yet you guys."

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. I've had that too.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I'm like, "I love that you're that ready." But I'm like, "I can't sign the listing-" [crosstalk 00:03:12]

Steven J Butala:
You guys don't own it yet.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. I can't...

Steven J Butala:
I've had that happen multiple times.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, I don't want to get anybody in trouble. I don't want to get the agent in trouble, because then they're going to get pissed at me.

Steven J Butala:
Zillow doesn't care.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/28/your-september-financial-review-la-1600/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">CpCCEms7h</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fb69b5e0-415f-4e92-b7ab-b4cb20d3f913.mp3" length="11747509" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Top Performing Members are Outsourcing to Concierge Mailer (LA 1599)</title><itunes:title>Top Performing Members are Outsourcing to Concierge Mailer (LA 1599)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Top Performing Members are Outsourcing to Concierge Mailer (LA 1599)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how our top performing members are outsourcing to Concierge Mailer.

Jill K DeWit:
And we'll explain all of this. Don't worry. Okay with that. I got the top performing member part, I know what outsourcing is. So who's this Concierge thing that you guys are doing? What is this thing? And we'll fill you all in. We are talking about this today because I found this out from our staff last week and I'm like, "What do you mean they're using it?" They're like, "Yeah, they got some people that you know in the advanced group that are seeing this as a time-saving thing too and a very valuable product."

Steven J Butala:
Just like every product we've introduced, including Land Academy, I've been using it for years. I've been using this product for years to outsource my data mailer, and I check it at the end, and it turns out everybody else wants to use it too.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). You know what this is too? It's all in the name of being more efficient.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
And taking-

Steven J Butala:
Faster, better, cheaper.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. There you go. We'll talk more.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Todd wrote, "Is anyone scrubbing out owners that purchased their properties in the last year?" This is good, and I have another comment that continues this discussion. Aaron answered, "Wondering how often deals come from owners that just purchased though. I have done only handful of deals, but for these owners, mostly purchased decades ago," or the owner inherited it a decade-plus ago and has no idea why they are still paying the taxes.

Jill K DeWit:
I could see a more recent inheritance turning into a deal, but would that show up as a recent sale? Not that it matters, but some of the most pissed off people seem to have purchase recently and maybe just built a home. Oh, that happens. We have that going on with one of our mailers right now, too as a matter of fact. We sent out a very specific zoning type mailer, and this particular area is moving so quickly that people did build a bunch of homes. And so they're getting offers for land, and it's not just land anymore. And they think that it's us. And I'm like, "Eh, no, it's actually the data is not caught up with what you just did." And it's comical. I don't know if you saw me open the mail the other day, but that was a lot of the love mail that I got.

Steven J Butala:
Are you being satirical?

Jill K DeWit:
Totally being satirical. So I made a video of me opening the mail and it was funny. I have some new names. It's great.

Steven J Butala:
Four-letter names.

Jill K DeWit:
I do. I do. No, they made a great play on words on my last name, and our names combined, the BuWit name, and it's just wonderful.

Steven J Butala:
That was new for me.

Jill K DeWit:
In warms my heart. I don't care.

Steven J Butala:
So it turns out that BuWit rhymes with dimwit.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah, and dumb wit. I didn't know that. Yeah, I did. And it's so funny because the people that... I find it comical when people take the time to write a mean letter back, spend more postage than I did, and then even one of them was typed up. They had their poor secretary do this and make this label to mail it back to me. I'm like, "Okay, how much did that cost you? You could have just thrown it away." Okay, so back to the question, do you want to talk about scrubbing out recent stuff?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Top Performing Members are Outsourcing to Concierge Mailer (LA 1599)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how our top performing members are outsourcing to Concierge Mailer.

Jill K DeWit:
And we'll explain all of this. Don't worry. Okay with that. I got the top performing member part, I know what outsourcing is. So who's this Concierge thing that you guys are doing? What is this thing? And we'll fill you all in. We are talking about this today because I found this out from our staff last week and I'm like, "What do you mean they're using it?" They're like, "Yeah, they got some people that you know in the advanced group that are seeing this as a time-saving thing too and a very valuable product."

Steven J Butala:
Just like every product we've introduced, including Land Academy, I've been using it for years. I've been using this product for years to outsource my data mailer, and I check it at the end, and it turns out everybody else wants to use it too.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). You know what this is too? It's all in the name of being more efficient.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
And taking-

Steven J Butala:
Faster, better, cheaper.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. There you go. We'll talk more.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Todd wrote, "Is anyone scrubbing out owners that purchased their properties in the last year?" This is good, and I have another comment that continues this discussion. Aaron answered, "Wondering how often deals come from owners that just purchased though. I have done only handful of deals, but for these owners, mostly purchased decades ago," or the owner inherited it a decade-plus ago and has no idea why they are still paying the taxes.

Jill K DeWit:
I could see a more recent inheritance turning into a deal, but would that show up as a recent sale? Not that it matters, but some of the most pissed off people seem to have purchase recently and maybe just built a home. Oh, that happens. We have that going on with one of our mailers right now, too as a matter of fact. We sent out a very specific zoning type mailer, and this particular area is moving so quickly that people did build a bunch of homes. And so they're getting offers for land, and it's not just land anymore. And they think that it's us. And I'm like, "Eh, no, it's actually the data is not caught up with what you just did." And it's comical. I don't know if you saw me open the mail the other day, but that was a lot of the love mail that I got.

Steven J Butala:
Are you being satirical?

Jill K DeWit:
Totally being satirical. So I made a video of me opening the mail and it was funny. I have some new names. It's great.

Steven J Butala:
Four-letter names.

Jill K DeWit:
I do. I do. No, they made a great play on words on my last name, and our names combined, the BuWit name, and it's just wonderful.

Steven J Butala:
That was new for me.

Jill K DeWit:
In warms my heart. I don't care.

Steven J Butala:
So it turns out that BuWit rhymes with dimwit.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, yeah, and dumb wit. I didn't know that. Yeah, I did. And it's so funny because the people that... I find it comical when people take the time to write a mean letter back, spend more postage than I did, and then even one of them was typed up. They had their poor secretary do this and make this label to mail it back to me. I'm like, "Okay, how much did that cost you? You could have just thrown it away." Okay, so back to the question, do you want to talk about scrubbing out recent stuff?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/27/top-performing-members-are-outsourcing-to-concierge-mailer-la-1599/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">15uwkI6YC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1b51a695-1d96-43b4-b3bb-4d8d372cb1b1.mp3" length="17039801" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Jack Reeled Me In on a Few Land Deals (LA 1598)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Jack Reeled Me In on a Few Land Deals (LA 1598)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Jack Reeled Me In on a Few Land Deals (LA 1598)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk, I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she talks about how Jack reeled her in on a few land deals. I can't wait to hear what this topic is about because I honestly don't know. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me pause for just a second here about this topic today. It will come back to you because you got frustrated and you were correct. And I'm going to explain a little bit about what goes on. Okay. Back to the question. Chip wrote, "Does anyone have any tools or applications to decipher old deeds and retrieve the legal descriptions? I'm looking for actual meets and bounds legal, not the abstract. I'm using the deed check slash Subdivide 21 software application to map large properties and subdivide them, but finding legible legal descriptions for many of these properties has been challenging. Thanks in advance for any suggestions."

Steven J Butala:
This is a very intelligent question, a very advanced question. I'll try to put it in terms that everybody can describe. When you do a deed or when a title agent does a deed, there is what's called the legal description, or the deed legal description, and then elsewhere in our title abstract, this is especially for agricultural property and larger properties, there's a meets and bounds description that's a lot longer and a lot more complicated. And it's used for subdividing and a lot of other things. So vast majority of us aren't going to need to know this, but I've included this question in this episode because I want you to know that there are two.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
And Jill's famous for saying, and she's right, when you go to do a deed, copy the vesting deed, the deed right before it and the chain of title, verbatim, even if there's errors. That's what you need to know. And so Chip's going to do some subdividing here, and I'm going to follow up with him eventually and see how this went, because it's very difficult.

Jill K DeWit:
Hmm. Well, here's an easy example. So what are you guys talking about? Well, you know what, like a legal description might say Anderson Acres block three lot two. Well, that's great. How am I going to find that? I can't just Google Anderson Acres kind of thing and find it. So there's a real description somewhere else that tells you.

Steven J Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill K DeWit:
And it might be a section, town, [inaudible 00:02:52] ship, township range, and then the Northwest 10 of the Southeast whatever, you have to read it all. There's that kind of descriptions, these are meets and bounds, and then also there's other, well, what they are, they're real ways for you to actually stand somewhere and find the property.

Steven J Butala:
That's correct.

Jill K DeWit:
You can go somewhere. For example, we just came back on a vacation. If you saw us on my Facebook stuff on Land Academy Facebook. You saw we were standing at Four Corners, right? Where Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and-

Steven J Butala:
Utah.

Jill K DeWit:
... Utah meet. There's actually a spot. People don't realize there's a marker on the ground. So when you're in these sections of property, there's a place to go. There is baseline Meridian. This is back to YouTube if you really want to get into it. This stuff's not arbitrary, and there are places that you can really go and stand and be there. And like in Arizona, there's a place down on baseline where you can find where it start.

Steven J Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Jack Reeled Me In on a Few Land Deals (LA 1598)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk, I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she talks about how Jack reeled her in on a few land deals. I can't wait to hear what this topic is about because I honestly don't know. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Let me pause for just a second here about this topic today. It will come back to you because you got frustrated and you were correct. And I'm going to explain a little bit about what goes on. Okay. Back to the question. Chip wrote, "Does anyone have any tools or applications to decipher old deeds and retrieve the legal descriptions? I'm looking for actual meets and bounds legal, not the abstract. I'm using the deed check slash Subdivide 21 software application to map large properties and subdivide them, but finding legible legal descriptions for many of these properties has been challenging. Thanks in advance for any suggestions."

Steven J Butala:
This is a very intelligent question, a very advanced question. I'll try to put it in terms that everybody can describe. When you do a deed or when a title agent does a deed, there is what's called the legal description, or the deed legal description, and then elsewhere in our title abstract, this is especially for agricultural property and larger properties, there's a meets and bounds description that's a lot longer and a lot more complicated. And it's used for subdividing and a lot of other things. So vast majority of us aren't going to need to know this, but I've included this question in this episode because I want you to know that there are two.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
And Jill's famous for saying, and she's right, when you go to do a deed, copy the vesting deed, the deed right before it and the chain of title, verbatim, even if there's errors. That's what you need to know. And so Chip's going to do some subdividing here, and I'm going to follow up with him eventually and see how this went, because it's very difficult.

Jill K DeWit:
Hmm. Well, here's an easy example. So what are you guys talking about? Well, you know what, like a legal description might say Anderson Acres block three lot two. Well, that's great. How am I going to find that? I can't just Google Anderson Acres kind of thing and find it. So there's a real description somewhere else that tells you.

Steven J Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill K DeWit:
And it might be a section, town, [inaudible 00:02:52] ship, township range, and then the Northwest 10 of the Southeast whatever, you have to read it all. There's that kind of descriptions, these are meets and bounds, and then also there's other, well, what they are, they're real ways for you to actually stand somewhere and find the property.

Steven J Butala:
That's correct.

Jill K DeWit:
You can go somewhere. For example, we just came back on a vacation. If you saw us on my Facebook stuff on Land Academy Facebook. You saw we were standing at Four Corners, right? Where Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and-

Steven J Butala:
Utah.

Jill K DeWit:
... Utah meet. There's actually a spot. People don't realize there's a marker on the ground. So when you're in these sections of property, there's a place to go. There is baseline Meridian. This is back to YouTube if you really want to get into it. This stuff's not arbitrary, and there are places that you can really go and stand and be there. And like in Arizona, there's a place down on baseline where you can find where it start.

Steven J Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/24/jill-friday-jack-reeled-me-in-on-a-few-land-deals-la-1598/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ETQib6cEc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/09ba7a7a-86a2-46a9-a253-c018e38e0359.mp3" length="14799943" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Concept of Capital (LA 1597)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Concept of Capital (LA 1597)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Concept of Capital (LA 1597)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I am Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the concept of capital.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what I know? I love capital.

Steven J Butala:
You do?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. The concept of capital by Jill, more is better.

Steven J Butala:
I don't mean the big city in a state. That's the capital of the state. I don't mean capital letters. I mean the economic concept of capital. Everybody thinks it's money, but it's not. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Chuck wrote, "I just read the thread about useless, useless college degrees." I love this. "I have a slightly different take. I graduated with a degree in English literature and a minor in chemistry, really just because I liked those subjects. After graduation, I entered the Navy Pilot Training Program and spent six years as a Naval carrier pilot followed by a career as an airline pilot. My degree got me in the door for the Navy flight training. It didn't matter what it was, as long as I passed the entry exams and extensive physical. Now, I buy and sell land. So my point is, unless one is going into a highly-specialized field, such as medicine or engineering, the degree can serve as a door opener to other worlds, but it isn't necessary to be successful in life." I like [crosstalk 00:01:42]. I love that.

Steven J Butala:
Well said. Chuck was in our last Career Path, I think. I think that that's exactly right. I think that the more resources we have, which is really in my talk about capital today, I can't imagine a life without YouTube. I just can't.

Jill K DeWit:
Like a YouTube college degree?

Steven J Butala:
No, I just mean, like when I have a question about something there's a YouTube video on how to do it. I don't care if it's to change a light bulb or economic theories, there's going to be somebody who's going to explain it all. We just never had that. Formal education hasn't really improved at all. It hasn't changed, materially changed, at all since the 1700s. Why is that, when all these other resources in the last 20 years have completely changed? I'm pretty vocally critical about formal education and why it's becoming obsolete. If they would just improve it and improve the experience, then I think it would be great.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, here's what it does. It does tell you that people can stick through something and follow through, because there's a lot of obstacles to getting a college degree. So I get that. That's good. It does, I like to think, give you a broad, I hope, a broad experience nowadays to a lot of different possibilities, opportunities, different careers and really figure out what you're good at, not good at. What you like. What you don't like. There's nothing wrong with going and picking a major and changing your major. I think that's the greatest thing on the planet, by the way. If you realize, ooh, now I got into it, I don't like this and I'm not good at it. I realize my forte is over here kind of thing. I think that's great. But I do wish they would do a little more... I wish they could meld a little more of, like technical schools, that kind of a thing, with a college degree, if that makes sense.

Steven J Butala:
It makes great sense, actually.

Jill K DeWit:
And I don't like just sitting in a classroom. I want some real-world experience and not hearing someone talk about their real-world experience, you out there doing it.

Steven J Butala:
Whenever this topic comes up, the question it becomes, is it worth it?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Concept of Capital (LA 1597)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I am Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the concept of capital.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what I know? I love capital.

Steven J Butala:
You do?

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. The concept of capital by Jill, more is better.

Steven J Butala:
I don't mean the big city in a state. That's the capital of the state. I don't mean capital letters. I mean the economic concept of capital. Everybody thinks it's money, but it's not. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Chuck wrote, "I just read the thread about useless, useless college degrees." I love this. "I have a slightly different take. I graduated with a degree in English literature and a minor in chemistry, really just because I liked those subjects. After graduation, I entered the Navy Pilot Training Program and spent six years as a Naval carrier pilot followed by a career as an airline pilot. My degree got me in the door for the Navy flight training. It didn't matter what it was, as long as I passed the entry exams and extensive physical. Now, I buy and sell land. So my point is, unless one is going into a highly-specialized field, such as medicine or engineering, the degree can serve as a door opener to other worlds, but it isn't necessary to be successful in life." I like [crosstalk 00:01:42]. I love that.

Steven J Butala:
Well said. Chuck was in our last Career Path, I think. I think that that's exactly right. I think that the more resources we have, which is really in my talk about capital today, I can't imagine a life without YouTube. I just can't.

Jill K DeWit:
Like a YouTube college degree?

Steven J Butala:
No, I just mean, like when I have a question about something there's a YouTube video on how to do it. I don't care if it's to change a light bulb or economic theories, there's going to be somebody who's going to explain it all. We just never had that. Formal education hasn't really improved at all. It hasn't changed, materially changed, at all since the 1700s. Why is that, when all these other resources in the last 20 years have completely changed? I'm pretty vocally critical about formal education and why it's becoming obsolete. If they would just improve it and improve the experience, then I think it would be great.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, here's what it does. It does tell you that people can stick through something and follow through, because there's a lot of obstacles to getting a college degree. So I get that. That's good. It does, I like to think, give you a broad, I hope, a broad experience nowadays to a lot of different possibilities, opportunities, different careers and really figure out what you're good at, not good at. What you like. What you don't like. There's nothing wrong with going and picking a major and changing your major. I think that's the greatest thing on the planet, by the way. If you realize, ooh, now I got into it, I don't like this and I'm not good at it. I realize my forte is over here kind of thing. I think that's great. But I do wish they would do a little more... I wish they could meld a little more of, like technical schools, that kind of a thing, with a college degree, if that makes sense.

Steven J Butala:
It makes great sense, actually.

Jill K DeWit:
And I don't like just sitting in a classroom. I want some real-world experience and not hearing someone talk about their real-world experience, you out there doing it.

Steven J Butala:
Whenever this topic comes up, the question it becomes, is it worth it?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/23/jack-thursday-concept-of-capital-la-1597/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qtTSfA7_N</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:59:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0ebf65e3-5ea2-4aaa-aeb0-df3ff6bd3ff5.mp3" length="12520881" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When Its Too Late to Change Your Career (LA 1596)</title><itunes:title>When Its Too Late to Change Your Career (LA 1596)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[When Its Too Late to Change Your Career (LA 1596)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about when is it too late to change your career?

Jill K DeWit:
So I put some thought into this. We've been talking about this for a while because people come to us at all different ages. We have people in their sixties, we have people in their twenties and even teens, even middle school, Caitlin, high school. Caitlin's in high school and was in career path. So what's interesting is ... it's not necessarily, I think, the age, obviously. I don't think it's a number, especially because I'm a woman. I don't believe in numbers.

Steven J Butala:
You don't believe in numbers?

Jill K DeWit:
But it comes with age.

Steven J Butala:
I believe in numbers.

Jill K DeWit:
Age or the scale, I don't believe in numbers, but I do believe that there are things about a person that will make a difference and I'll share. I have two concerns for people of all ages that are starting another career.

Steven J Butala:
So this is largely circumstantial for me, so we're going to come at this a little bit differently, [crosstalk 00:01:18] which is good.

Jill K DeWit:
I like that.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Luke wrote, "So at what point should or would you consider entitlements? I was watching a recent interview with Seth Williams and Mike Marshall about this topic. Mike did a good job breaking down the idea and, for example, how it's different from rezoning. But at what point would a land investor decide to go further into development into entitlements for a particular parcel? Seems like a great topic of discussion."

Steven J Butala:
Mike Marshall and Seth Williams are both former Land Academy members, and [inaudible 00:02:05] have a ton of respect for those guys.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven J Butala:
Mike's just an expert in this specific topic, both in [crosstalk 00:02:12] California and Texas, so he's got both perspectives. When should I or Jill or let's say [crosstalk 00:02:23] yeah, you, or a land academy member could start down or go down the path of entitling real estate? And the answer is never.

Jill K DeWit:
Please explain [crosstalk 00:02:32] what it is, if you don't mind.

Steven J Butala:
Entitlements are when a large company, let's say like Shea Homes or Toll Brothers or any developer, could be even just a regular person like us, wants to take a piece of property, let's say a five acre property, or in a larger case, maybe a 40 acre property, and create a subdivision. Or entitle the property so that it can be developed into separate APNs. On the east coast, it's called creating a subdivision. On the west coast, it's called entitling real estate. There's tons and tons of different ways to do this. It is extremely time consuming and expensive and frustrating as hell, and our whole Land Academy model. And rightfully so, we've been proving this over and over, and now hundreds of members are proving it with us and for us. Buy a piece of property as is, sell it as is for more. That's the model.

Steven J Butala:
Entitlements, it's real easy to get into a spreadsheet and say, I'm going to pay $25,000 for this 40 acre property. And for sake of argument, if I had 41 acre properties, I could sell them all for $5,000 each, I don't need to do the math on that. It's incredibly profitable. It's also frustrating as heck if you don't know what you're doing. And can you hire consultants to do it? Yeah, but it's going to take you a year to two years later.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[When Its Too Late to Change Your Career (LA 1596)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about when is it too late to change your career?

Jill K DeWit:
So I put some thought into this. We've been talking about this for a while because people come to us at all different ages. We have people in their sixties, we have people in their twenties and even teens, even middle school, Caitlin, high school. Caitlin's in high school and was in career path. So what's interesting is ... it's not necessarily, I think, the age, obviously. I don't think it's a number, especially because I'm a woman. I don't believe in numbers.

Steven J Butala:
You don't believe in numbers?

Jill K DeWit:
But it comes with age.

Steven J Butala:
I believe in numbers.

Jill K DeWit:
Age or the scale, I don't believe in numbers, but I do believe that there are things about a person that will make a difference and I'll share. I have two concerns for people of all ages that are starting another career.

Steven J Butala:
So this is largely circumstantial for me, so we're going to come at this a little bit differently, [crosstalk 00:01:18] which is good.

Jill K DeWit:
I like that.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. Luke wrote, "So at what point should or would you consider entitlements? I was watching a recent interview with Seth Williams and Mike Marshall about this topic. Mike did a good job breaking down the idea and, for example, how it's different from rezoning. But at what point would a land investor decide to go further into development into entitlements for a particular parcel? Seems like a great topic of discussion."

Steven J Butala:
Mike Marshall and Seth Williams are both former Land Academy members, and [inaudible 00:02:05] have a ton of respect for those guys.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven J Butala:
Mike's just an expert in this specific topic, both in [crosstalk 00:02:12] California and Texas, so he's got both perspectives. When should I or Jill or let's say [crosstalk 00:02:23] yeah, you, or a land academy member could start down or go down the path of entitling real estate? And the answer is never.

Jill K DeWit:
Please explain [crosstalk 00:02:32] what it is, if you don't mind.

Steven J Butala:
Entitlements are when a large company, let's say like Shea Homes or Toll Brothers or any developer, could be even just a regular person like us, wants to take a piece of property, let's say a five acre property, or in a larger case, maybe a 40 acre property, and create a subdivision. Or entitle the property so that it can be developed into separate APNs. On the east coast, it's called creating a subdivision. On the west coast, it's called entitling real estate. There's tons and tons of different ways to do this. It is extremely time consuming and expensive and frustrating as hell, and our whole Land Academy model. And rightfully so, we've been proving this over and over, and now hundreds of members are proving it with us and for us. Buy a piece of property as is, sell it as is for more. That's the model.

Steven J Butala:
Entitlements, it's real easy to get into a spreadsheet and say, I'm going to pay $25,000 for this 40 acre property. And for sake of argument, if I had 41 acre properties, I could sell them all for $5,000 each, I don't need to do the math on that. It's incredibly profitable. It's also frustrating as heck if you don't know what you're doing. And can you hire consultants to do it? Yeah, but it's going to take you a year to two years later.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/22/when-its-too-late-to-change-your-career-la-1596/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ODROf_KWm</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:02:56 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6c0e90e8-e08d-4fe2-bbe0-5af2a8a3ce10.mp3" length="13930244" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Much Work Really Goes into Our Land Deals (LA 1595)</title><itunes:title>How Much Work Really Goes into Our Land Deals (LA 1595)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Much Work Really Goes into Our Land Deals (LA 1595)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how much work really goes into these land deals. This is a very timely topic for me personally, because as I get older, I get more frustrated, and my patience in general for a lot of stuff just gets shorter. I don't think it's specific to me. I just think it's something that happens.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, you're glossing right over that.

Steven J Butala:
It might be gender specific too. I'm not sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe. As I get older, my patience grows thinner. Yeah. So here's what I did. I gave you-

Steven J Butala:
Well, hold ... Oh my gosh.

Jill K DeWit:
I made notes.

Steven J Butala:
Okay, yeah. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Let tell you. I'm just going to give you a little snippet of what we're going to talk about. I listed things that you spend time on, things that you don't spend time on, and things you outsource.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, great.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. I did some homework.

Steven J Butala:
I can't wait to hear this because-

Jill K DeWit:
I came prepared.

Steven J Butala:
... there are times that I really believe that the efficiency in which Jill and I do land deals together lacks a dramatic. It's not efficient. I don't know how else to say this.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what happens? I'll tell you right now, because we each go down different rabbit holes. You go down a rabbit hole. I go down a rabbit hole, as soon as I'm like, "Okay, yeah." It just happens. We'll get to it.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question. We might get into it today, I can tell. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel.

Jill K DeWit:
And comment on the shows you love.

Jill K DeWit:
We got this. Shannon wrote, "So it happened. Boy, did I attract this to myself, LOL. We have a great buyer, but she went to the county website and she saw that our records haven't been updated to our name yet. So I got the email of why it says it's owned in someone else's name. I told her they're slow to record. But still what happens if we sold it before the county records and reflects the new owners?" This happens all the time. Especially now with COVID, they're not working on a regular schedule, they're behind. Some counties on purpose do them all at one time, like the end of the year. And it just often happens. Think about getting even a new plate at the DMV. How long does it take to get the plate to you in the mail? You can explain it to them just like that. It's not immediate, and by the way, XYZ county is behind, but if you really want to see it, here's the deed in showing it recorded. Here's the book and page showing that I have it, so you know. And that should be like game over.

Steven J Butala:
Let's take a step back. What she's talking about is that she bought a property and she did everything that we do here at Land Academy. She immediately posted it for sale and sold it. Everything went great. Well, the county recorder, especially in these rural counties, and the assessor, they're in different buildings and in different departments. They're completely different functions. So when she bought it, she sent in the deed and typically there's some type of affidavit that goes with the deed. The affidavit goes to the assessor when it gets sent, and the deed goes to the recorder. The recorder records it immediately and it goes into the system. Well, the system doesn't automatically get updated, especially in these rural counties. So in some cases it could take a year. It can take a whole year for Shannon's deed to,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Much Work Really Goes into Our Land Deals (LA 1595)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how much work really goes into these land deals. This is a very timely topic for me personally, because as I get older, I get more frustrated, and my patience in general for a lot of stuff just gets shorter. I don't think it's specific to me. I just think it's something that happens.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, you're glossing right over that.

Steven J Butala:
It might be gender specific too. I'm not sure.

Jill K DeWit:
Maybe. As I get older, my patience grows thinner. Yeah. So here's what I did. I gave you-

Steven J Butala:
Well, hold ... Oh my gosh.

Jill K DeWit:
I made notes.

Steven J Butala:
Okay, yeah. Go ahead.

Jill K DeWit:
Let tell you. I'm just going to give you a little snippet of what we're going to talk about. I listed things that you spend time on, things that you don't spend time on, and things you outsource.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, great.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. I did some homework.

Steven J Butala:
I can't wait to hear this because-

Jill K DeWit:
I came prepared.

Steven J Butala:
... there are times that I really believe that the efficiency in which Jill and I do land deals together lacks a dramatic. It's not efficient. I don't know how else to say this.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what happens? I'll tell you right now, because we each go down different rabbit holes. You go down a rabbit hole. I go down a rabbit hole, as soon as I'm like, "Okay, yeah." It just happens. We'll get to it.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question. We might get into it today, I can tell. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel.

Jill K DeWit:
And comment on the shows you love.

Jill K DeWit:
We got this. Shannon wrote, "So it happened. Boy, did I attract this to myself, LOL. We have a great buyer, but she went to the county website and she saw that our records haven't been updated to our name yet. So I got the email of why it says it's owned in someone else's name. I told her they're slow to record. But still what happens if we sold it before the county records and reflects the new owners?" This happens all the time. Especially now with COVID, they're not working on a regular schedule, they're behind. Some counties on purpose do them all at one time, like the end of the year. And it just often happens. Think about getting even a new plate at the DMV. How long does it take to get the plate to you in the mail? You can explain it to them just like that. It's not immediate, and by the way, XYZ county is behind, but if you really want to see it, here's the deed in showing it recorded. Here's the book and page showing that I have it, so you know. And that should be like game over.

Steven J Butala:
Let's take a step back. What she's talking about is that she bought a property and she did everything that we do here at Land Academy. She immediately posted it for sale and sold it. Everything went great. Well, the county recorder, especially in these rural counties, and the assessor, they're in different buildings and in different departments. They're completely different functions. So when she bought it, she sent in the deed and typically there's some type of affidavit that goes with the deed. The affidavit goes to the assessor when it gets sent, and the deed goes to the recorder. The recorder records it immediately and it goes into the system. Well, the system doesn't automatically get updated, especially in these rural counties. So in some cases it could take a year. It can take a whole year for Shannon's deed to,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/21/how-much-work-really-goes-into-our-land-deals-la-1595/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">IyQJ8N_Bn</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 22:07:03 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e5a5216d-7be8-43f7-8d30-efb33ba68370.mp3" length="19411855" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Our Land Business on the Road (LA 1594)</title><itunes:title>Our Land Business on the Road (LA 1594)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Our Land Business on the Road (LA 1594)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here-

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about our land business, on the road.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to start by saying, here's what happened. We are doing our show, our land business on the road goes great, but our podcast recording on the show, not so great. So we were supposed to record these on the road last week, but from the campsite, which was a beautiful lofty goal for us, but totally, totally failed. So it didn't, it just didn't work. It's like you can't. So we're going to talk about that. What the, my point I want to make today is, and I'll just to give you insight and we'll explain more, is your land business can just be seamless on the road, I promise.and I'll fill you in how, but if you have a podcast or you do weekly zoom calls or some big webinars or things like that, no, that, no, you can't be seamless from a campground or a boondocking.

Steven J Butala:
Well I'm working on that-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay well-

Steven J Butala:
Star Lynx coming, and it's not available.

Jill K DeWit:
It's not there yet. That's my point. So...

Steven J Butala:
What she's specifically referring to is the internet connection-

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Everything else with the equipment from the, oh, that's great.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, and I can get in enough to do the land business-

Steven J Butala:
Yeah-

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm going to, I'll fill you in.

Steven J Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Shannon wrote: Is it common when people are buying a mobile /manufactured home, to put the land that the mobile home company offers, to pay off the loan and then roll it into the balance of the manufactured home they're buying? [inaudible 00:02:06] Put it, put on the land that they're doing. Okay. Got it.

Steven J Butala:
So I think what you're getting at is, well, let me kind of rephrase the question as I understand it. There's a mobile homes that are installed on land that you own, and we're in a land business. So we love that. Let's say it's an acre, acre and a half somewhere. And there's mobile homes in a mobile home park that somebody else owns. A mobile home park. And so in that case, you owe the person who lives there, owns the mobile home itself, but not the land under it, and they usually pay land rep. Lenders love the first type and so to we.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
Where you actually own the land, and it really, really helps to get a loan successfully done, especially on our newer mobile homes. So, there's two different types of mobile home scenarios. It's a lot harder, although it's very possible and plausible to get a mobile home loan just on the mobile itself, the way you would get a car loan, it's personal property, but our way is way better. In fact, in my experience in doing land and mobile home scenarios, they've been, the way that we have it priced, no one's ever been turned down for a loan under, when it's combined land and mobile home.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It's amazing to me now, by the way, what people are getting loans on. We just have it, we have an offer right now, that's going through, it was a buy for 25, sell for 65. The guy is borrowing $52,000 and he's paying the rest cash and he's already pre-qualified-

Steven J Butala:
Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's just rural vacant land, not mobile, but so, it's just getting easier and easier by the way, for these people to get financing and all kinds of t...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our Land Business on the Road (LA 1594)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here-

Jill K DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about our land business, on the road.

Jill K DeWit:
I would like to start by saying, here's what happened. We are doing our show, our land business on the road goes great, but our podcast recording on the show, not so great. So we were supposed to record these on the road last week, but from the campsite, which was a beautiful lofty goal for us, but totally, totally failed. So it didn't, it just didn't work. It's like you can't. So we're going to talk about that. What the, my point I want to make today is, and I'll just to give you insight and we'll explain more, is your land business can just be seamless on the road, I promise.and I'll fill you in how, but if you have a podcast or you do weekly zoom calls or some big webinars or things like that, no, that, no, you can't be seamless from a campground or a boondocking.

Steven J Butala:
Well I'm working on that-

Jill K DeWit:
Okay well-

Steven J Butala:
Star Lynx coming, and it's not available.

Jill K DeWit:
It's not there yet. That's my point. So...

Steven J Butala:
What she's specifically referring to is the internet connection-

Jill K DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Everything else with the equipment from the, oh, that's great.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, and I can get in enough to do the land business-

Steven J Butala:
Yeah-

Jill K DeWit:
So I'm going to, I'll fill you in.

Steven J Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:
Shannon wrote: Is it common when people are buying a mobile /manufactured home, to put the land that the mobile home company offers, to pay off the loan and then roll it into the balance of the manufactured home they're buying? [inaudible 00:02:06] Put it, put on the land that they're doing. Okay. Got it.

Steven J Butala:
So I think what you're getting at is, well, let me kind of rephrase the question as I understand it. There's a mobile homes that are installed on land that you own, and we're in a land business. So we love that. Let's say it's an acre, acre and a half somewhere. And there's mobile homes in a mobile home park that somebody else owns. A mobile home park. And so in that case, you owe the person who lives there, owns the mobile home itself, but not the land under it, and they usually pay land rep. Lenders love the first type and so to we.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
Where you actually own the land, and it really, really helps to get a loan successfully done, especially on our newer mobile homes. So, there's two different types of mobile home scenarios. It's a lot harder, although it's very possible and plausible to get a mobile home loan just on the mobile itself, the way you would get a car loan, it's personal property, but our way is way better. In fact, in my experience in doing land and mobile home scenarios, they've been, the way that we have it priced, no one's ever been turned down for a loan under, when it's combined land and mobile home.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It's amazing to me now, by the way, what people are getting loans on. We just have it, we have an offer right now, that's going through, it was a buy for 25, sell for 65. The guy is borrowing $52,000 and he's paying the rest cash and he's already pre-qualified-

Steven J Butala:
Wow.

Jill K DeWit:
And it's just rural vacant land, not mobile, but so, it's just getting easier and easier by the way, for these people to get financing and all kinds of t...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/20/our-land-business-on-the-road-la-1594/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">DSzSvGbhL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2b2ca3f2-e5a6-4f80-a4f9-f419d8a18b0e.mp3" length="12505901" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Stop Walking Away from Good Deals (LA 1593)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Stop Walking Away from Good Deals (LA 1593)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Stop Walking Away from Good Deals (LA 1593)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about stop walking away from good deals.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
Not even I know what she means.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
Can you give us a little peak?

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like, and maybe on the shows you don't like so we actually can gauge future topics.

Jill DeWit:
The backgrounds you like you don't like, the outfits, the hairstyles, please let us know. Just kidding. All right. James wrote "The recommendation for number of letters to send seems to be greater than or equal to 1,500. Does this mean to send at least 1,500 letters for one acreage, like two to five, a mix of acre, just like two to five, six to 10 or multiple counties. Assume that the minimum of 1,500 is meant to maximize your chance of getting a deal and should be sent to one acreage and one county. For example, if I were mailing to counties then I would set 3,000 units." All right this is all you.

Steven J Butala:
This is a very technical question.

Jill DeWit:
It's a good question.

Steven J Butala:
And I can tell James, you're reasonably new. And I also can tell you're going to be very, very good at this because you're breaking it down. You're deconstructing what we're saying to do, asking a couple further questions and it's yeah, I can tell you're on the edge of the seat to let it out. Let the mail out. The rules of diversification and investment here apply in full force. It's better to take $100, split it into $50 each and buy two shares of stock instead of one. Well, the same thing applies here. If you're going to sign 1,500 units, split it up into two counties, or split it up into two zip codes and price it differently. This is what we teach in land academy 3.0. It's better to send variances in acreage than it is just all one acre property, 1,500 units in one zip code.

Steven J Butala:
So break it up as much as you can. And here's my final way to answer this question. Unlike a lot of laws in the universe, physics or not, more is better here. More is always better. It's always better to send more mail. It's also more expensive. So you've got to gauge that for yourself.

Jill DeWit:
What if he can afford 3,000?

Steven J Butala:
Oh, then send it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So the answer to the question is how much can you afford? What's your budget? You should have a budget for mail. Then whether it's 1,500 or 3,000, put a couple different things in there.

Steven J Butala:
Here's what I don't-

Jill DeWit:
Maybe it's 10,000 units.

Steven J Butala:
Yes, Jill. Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
Have four counties in there.

Steven J Butala:
Now you're-

Jill DeWit:
And have two different sizes.

Steven J Butala:
Now you're really setting yourself up to succeed.

Jill DeWit:
There you go.

Steven J Butala:
What I don't want to do, and I haven't seen this in discord lately at all. And I mean, within the last several months, is air quotes, test a mailer. Test a location.

Jill DeWit:
I hate that.

Steven J Butala:
I'm going to send out 300 units.

Jill DeWit:
Or 30.

Steven J Butala:
And I'm going to see if this actually works. It is absolutely the fastest way besides not sending anything at all, that's the fastest way to fail at this.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Think of gambling. It's all percentages. The more hands of Blackjack you play and stick to the actual rules of the book,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Stop Walking Away from Good Deals (LA 1593)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about stop walking away from good deals.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven J Butala:
Not even I know what she means.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
Can you give us a little peak?

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like, and maybe on the shows you don't like so we actually can gauge future topics.

Jill DeWit:
The backgrounds you like you don't like, the outfits, the hairstyles, please let us know. Just kidding. All right. James wrote "The recommendation for number of letters to send seems to be greater than or equal to 1,500. Does this mean to send at least 1,500 letters for one acreage, like two to five, a mix of acre, just like two to five, six to 10 or multiple counties. Assume that the minimum of 1,500 is meant to maximize your chance of getting a deal and should be sent to one acreage and one county. For example, if I were mailing to counties then I would set 3,000 units." All right this is all you.

Steven J Butala:
This is a very technical question.

Jill DeWit:
It's a good question.

Steven J Butala:
And I can tell James, you're reasonably new. And I also can tell you're going to be very, very good at this because you're breaking it down. You're deconstructing what we're saying to do, asking a couple further questions and it's yeah, I can tell you're on the edge of the seat to let it out. Let the mail out. The rules of diversification and investment here apply in full force. It's better to take $100, split it into $50 each and buy two shares of stock instead of one. Well, the same thing applies here. If you're going to sign 1,500 units, split it up into two counties, or split it up into two zip codes and price it differently. This is what we teach in land academy 3.0. It's better to send variances in acreage than it is just all one acre property, 1,500 units in one zip code.

Steven J Butala:
So break it up as much as you can. And here's my final way to answer this question. Unlike a lot of laws in the universe, physics or not, more is better here. More is always better. It's always better to send more mail. It's also more expensive. So you've got to gauge that for yourself.

Jill DeWit:
What if he can afford 3,000?

Steven J Butala:
Oh, then send it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So the answer to the question is how much can you afford? What's your budget? You should have a budget for mail. Then whether it's 1,500 or 3,000, put a couple different things in there.

Steven J Butala:
Here's what I don't-

Jill DeWit:
Maybe it's 10,000 units.

Steven J Butala:
Yes, Jill. Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
Have four counties in there.

Steven J Butala:
Now you're-

Jill DeWit:
And have two different sizes.

Steven J Butala:
Now you're really setting yourself up to succeed.

Jill DeWit:
There you go.

Steven J Butala:
What I don't want to do, and I haven't seen this in discord lately at all. And I mean, within the last several months, is air quotes, test a mailer. Test a location.

Jill DeWit:
I hate that.

Steven J Butala:
I'm going to send out 300 units.

Jill DeWit:
Or 30.

Steven J Butala:
And I'm going to see if this actually works. It is absolutely the fastest way besides not sending anything at all, that's the fastest way to fail at this.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Think of gambling. It's all percentages. The more hands of Blackjack you play and stick to the actual rules of the book,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/17/jill-friday-stop-walking-away-from-good-deals-la-1593/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hKPErs2FF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 22:04:49 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/31bbba32-8a9f-4e33-8dd8-0dd906938409.mp3" length="11593297" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How to Calculate your Cash Return on a Land Deal (LA 1592)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; How to Calculate your Cash Return on a Land Deal (LA 1592)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How to Calculate your Cash Return on a Land Deal (LA 1592)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk to you about how to calculate your cash-on-cash return on a given land deal.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't it just like, you buy it for 10, you sell it for 30? Or, is there more to it than that?

Steven J Butala:
There is a little more to it than that, but that's the basic.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, cool.

Steven J Butala:
And so, well, let's use your example. You buy for 10. You sell for 20. What's your cash return?

Jill DeWit:
Hundred percent.

Steven J Butala:
Right. You've been hanging around me too long. Buy for 10. Sell for 30. What's your return?

Jill DeWit:
Even better.

Steven J Butala:
It's 200%.

Jill DeWit:
Jill numbers.

Steven J Butala:
If you buy for 10, and this is a-

Jill DeWit:
Keep going.

Steven J Butala:
This is a giveaway. You buy for 10. You use deal funding. You sell for 20. You get $5,000 back. What's your cash-on-cash return?

Jill DeWit:
50%.

Steven J Butala:
You can't calculate it.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven J Butala:
Because you didn't put any money in.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
So if you want an infinite cash-on-cash return just use [crosstalk 00:01:14]-

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Well, there's the show, everyone!

Steven J Butala:
That's not all. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. It's very interesting that whenever these shows are about numbers and technical stuff, Jill jokes around.

Jill DeWit:
Hmm. Victor wrote, "Maybe-"

Steven J Butala:
Just, hmm!

Jill DeWit:
I know, I know. "Good morning, everybody. I have spent many days researching individual counties, days on market and price by zip code. And I've sent two mailers for the first time yesterday. I have three other counties that I want to send to that are going to average $2,500 an acre on the buy side. But I'm worried that if I don't get accepted offers back, I won't have money. Meaning, that since I'm new-"

Steven J Butala:
I'm worried that I do get accepted offers back.

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:02:11] do. Sorry. I won't have the money.

Steven J Butala:
I won't have the cash.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "Meaning that since I'm new, I feel like funding partners would not be interested. Any thoughts?" Well, that's not true. I just had a conversation with somebody about this. We have someone that we have done a handful of deals with. She wrote me a book of questions the other day, which I'm still responding to, but I hope by the time this airs, I've hit the reply button. But anyway, she's like, "Do you have a bottom? Is there a bottom here that you're willing to work with?" And I'm like, "The deal stands for itself. The deal should stand for itself. So I guess the answer is, yes and no. So don't be afraid."

Steven J Butala:
I can answer that. In some capacity, I've been involved in acquisitions since the minute I got out of college. I don't know why, it's just that career chose me. I will tell you, throughout my career, it has shocked me that every single person has a different acquisition criteria. Everybody wants to make money, let's start there. Some people love cashflow. They love to buy property and sell notes. So that type of acquisition is different for them. It's drive right up to it. Potentially use it right away. And because they know they can sell it really quickly, they'll pay a little bit more for it to have those amenities or attributes.

Steven J Butala:
In the long-term care business, there was a certain bed number for each facility that we love to buy,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - How to Calculate your Cash Return on a Land Deal (LA 1592)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk to you about how to calculate your cash-on-cash return on a given land deal.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't it just like, you buy it for 10, you sell it for 30? Or, is there more to it than that?

Steven J Butala:
There is a little more to it than that, but that's the basic.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, cool.

Steven J Butala:
And so, well, let's use your example. You buy for 10. You sell for 20. What's your cash return?

Jill DeWit:
Hundred percent.

Steven J Butala:
Right. You've been hanging around me too long. Buy for 10. Sell for 30. What's your return?

Jill DeWit:
Even better.

Steven J Butala:
It's 200%.

Jill DeWit:
Jill numbers.

Steven J Butala:
If you buy for 10, and this is a-

Jill DeWit:
Keep going.

Steven J Butala:
This is a giveaway. You buy for 10. You use deal funding. You sell for 20. You get $5,000 back. What's your cash-on-cash return?

Jill DeWit:
50%.

Steven J Butala:
You can't calculate it.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven J Butala:
Because you didn't put any money in.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
So if you want an infinite cash-on-cash return just use [crosstalk 00:01:14]-

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Well, there's the show, everyone!

Steven J Butala:
That's not all. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. It's very interesting that whenever these shows are about numbers and technical stuff, Jill jokes around.

Jill DeWit:
Hmm. Victor wrote, "Maybe-"

Steven J Butala:
Just, hmm!

Jill DeWit:
I know, I know. "Good morning, everybody. I have spent many days researching individual counties, days on market and price by zip code. And I've sent two mailers for the first time yesterday. I have three other counties that I want to send to that are going to average $2,500 an acre on the buy side. But I'm worried that if I don't get accepted offers back, I won't have money. Meaning, that since I'm new-"

Steven J Butala:
I'm worried that I do get accepted offers back.

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:02:11] do. Sorry. I won't have the money.

Steven J Butala:
I won't have the cash.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "Meaning that since I'm new, I feel like funding partners would not be interested. Any thoughts?" Well, that's not true. I just had a conversation with somebody about this. We have someone that we have done a handful of deals with. She wrote me a book of questions the other day, which I'm still responding to, but I hope by the time this airs, I've hit the reply button. But anyway, she's like, "Do you have a bottom? Is there a bottom here that you're willing to work with?" And I'm like, "The deal stands for itself. The deal should stand for itself. So I guess the answer is, yes and no. So don't be afraid."

Steven J Butala:
I can answer that. In some capacity, I've been involved in acquisitions since the minute I got out of college. I don't know why, it's just that career chose me. I will tell you, throughout my career, it has shocked me that every single person has a different acquisition criteria. Everybody wants to make money, let's start there. Some people love cashflow. They love to buy property and sell notes. So that type of acquisition is different for them. It's drive right up to it. Potentially use it right away. And because they know they can sell it really quickly, they'll pay a little bit more for it to have those amenities or attributes.

Steven J Butala:
In the long-term care business, there was a certain bed number for each facility that we love to buy,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/16/jack-thursday-how-to-calculate-your-cash-return-on-a-land-deal-la-1592/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5NHkWYOeR</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/37250837-f25a-4790-b76e-9ca4731051a5.mp3" length="12373377" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:32</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Glamping and How Some Members Cash Flow with it (LA 1591)</title><itunes:title>Glamping and How Some Members Cash Flow with it (LA 1591)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Glamping and How Some Members Cash Flow with it (LA 1591)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about glamping and how some of our members are cash flowing with it. This is a huge mile long topic, and rightfully so in Discord, and everybody chimed in. I can tell when it's a good topic in Discord, because people that are just lurking, they start piping in like, oh yeah, this is there's people in there. And so this is why I joined Land Academy. And then they're giving us as an example that five miles down the road this is what this person is doing in their unused cow pasture.

Jill DeWit:
Do you think what we do is a version of glamping?

Steven J Butala:
No, not at all. Oh yeah. I think it can be, but I'll explain it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill DeWit:
Erin wrote, "Airbnb, VRBO, glamping. Anyone here ever released their land to Airbnb campsite operators getting $135 a night for a tent with a composting toilet and an outdoor shower? I've been watching some YouTube videos about people buying or leasing lands near natural attractions for these style campsites. I have some lots that could be used for this. Any thoughts?"

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sorry. Nelly wrote, "I've been looking at these for a while. $40,000 canvas tents. Yikes. You can rent out campsites on your property with Hip Camp. Also, been thinking about doing that on a three acre lot that I live on, cleaning up an area near the pond to run out to campers. Maybe do a Deliverance experience for Halloween." That's kind of funny.

Steven J Butala:
I have to tell you, Nelly, if you've ever seen Deliverance, nobody's going to pay for a Deliverance experience. Most of you who are my age know exactly what I'm talking about and you're laughing in your cereal right now.

Jill DeWit:
I don't.

Steven J Butala:
I know.

Jill DeWit:
I have not seen Deliverance deliberately.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. Deliverance is not for you.

Jill DeWit:
That's what I [crosstalk 00:02:13].

Steven J Butala:
There's no singing and dancing or anything like that.

Jill DeWit:
No happy ending. Like who's still alive, basically, at the end.

Steven J Butala:
So I put this question in here. It's not really not even a question. I mean, I think the real question is, has anybody thought about this? And everybody responded and said, not only have I thought about it, it's happening down the street and all of that. So because it is a topic, we'll just get right into it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic glamping how some of our members are cash flowing with it. This is the meat of the show.

Steven J Butala:
Glamping is the combination of two words, glamor and camping. So, it really depends on who you talk to and where they're coming from in life. But there are some people in, I used to be one of these people, I think Jill did too, were look, I just want to stay in a five-star hotel and order some room service and jump in the pool. [crosstalk 00:03:01] any part of camping.

Jill DeWit:
I still have those days. Like today.

Steven J Butala:
And so I've slept, probably, unless there's grandchildren in my distant future, this way distant future, I've spent my last night in a tent. You know, this is not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about pitching a tent, like a soldier and an eating an MRE and downing a half pint of whiskey and go to sleep. That's not what I mean. I'm talking about glamping, which is these... I mean, picture of a fully produced movie from the eighties or nineties where the...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Glamping and How Some Members Cash Flow with it (LA 1591)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley Of The Sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about glamping and how some of our members are cash flowing with it. This is a huge mile long topic, and rightfully so in Discord, and everybody chimed in. I can tell when it's a good topic in Discord, because people that are just lurking, they start piping in like, oh yeah, this is there's people in there. And so this is why I joined Land Academy. And then they're giving us as an example that five miles down the road this is what this person is doing in their unused cow pasture.

Jill DeWit:
Do you think what we do is a version of glamping?

Steven J Butala:
No, not at all. Oh yeah. I think it can be, but I'll explain it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill DeWit:
Erin wrote, "Airbnb, VRBO, glamping. Anyone here ever released their land to Airbnb campsite operators getting $135 a night for a tent with a composting toilet and an outdoor shower? I've been watching some YouTube videos about people buying or leasing lands near natural attractions for these style campsites. I have some lots that could be used for this. Any thoughts?"

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sorry. Nelly wrote, "I've been looking at these for a while. $40,000 canvas tents. Yikes. You can rent out campsites on your property with Hip Camp. Also, been thinking about doing that on a three acre lot that I live on, cleaning up an area near the pond to run out to campers. Maybe do a Deliverance experience for Halloween." That's kind of funny.

Steven J Butala:
I have to tell you, Nelly, if you've ever seen Deliverance, nobody's going to pay for a Deliverance experience. Most of you who are my age know exactly what I'm talking about and you're laughing in your cereal right now.

Jill DeWit:
I don't.

Steven J Butala:
I know.

Jill DeWit:
I have not seen Deliverance deliberately.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. Deliverance is not for you.

Jill DeWit:
That's what I [crosstalk 00:02:13].

Steven J Butala:
There's no singing and dancing or anything like that.

Jill DeWit:
No happy ending. Like who's still alive, basically, at the end.

Steven J Butala:
So I put this question in here. It's not really not even a question. I mean, I think the real question is, has anybody thought about this? And everybody responded and said, not only have I thought about it, it's happening down the street and all of that. So because it is a topic, we'll just get right into it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic glamping how some of our members are cash flowing with it. This is the meat of the show.

Steven J Butala:
Glamping is the combination of two words, glamor and camping. So, it really depends on who you talk to and where they're coming from in life. But there are some people in, I used to be one of these people, I think Jill did too, were look, I just want to stay in a five-star hotel and order some room service and jump in the pool. [crosstalk 00:03:01] any part of camping.

Jill DeWit:
I still have those days. Like today.

Steven J Butala:
And so I've slept, probably, unless there's grandchildren in my distant future, this way distant future, I've spent my last night in a tent. You know, this is not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about pitching a tent, like a soldier and an eating an MRE and downing a half pint of whiskey and go to sleep. That's not what I mean. I'm talking about glamping, which is these... I mean, picture of a fully produced movie from the eighties or nineties where the...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/15/glamping-and-how-some-members-cash-flow-with-it-la-1591/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">CySB54ImA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2249ca49-ba36-4fdc-b0a5-91285cc07256.mp3" length="13528719" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Public Records and Your Next Land Deal (LA 1590)</title><itunes:title>Public Records and Your Next Land Deal (LA 1590)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Public Records and Your Next Land Deal (LA 1590)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about public records and your next land deal. So Jill, I had described it yesterday at the end of the show, but I'll describe it again. Jill and I are famous for driving around wherever we go. Not intentionally, but every single time we get in a car, I'm usually sitting shotgun, calling off real estate values around town or wherever we happen to be. And as I'm pulling these up, saying this property is for sale for $4 million or $2 million, Jill's first question is, what did they pay for it and when? And it's usually like, well, they bought it five years ago for a lot less than they're selling it for now. And Jill, I realized recently, usually on a Thursday call, this is important for her for some reason, when she makes a decision about negotiating when we go to buy the property.

Jill DeWit:
And value. It helps me determine the value, like, is it going up? How drastically is it going up? What do they think's going on? That kind of a thing.

Steven J Butala:
So the question is, how lucky are we that we have all this public record information that we can make these decisions? Well, this show is not so much about the fact that we have it because we all know that it's out there. How much does it matter when we're sending out these offer campaigns? Do people look at this stuff? And the answer is hell no, because they're not in the real estate business like we are. But we'll get into that in a second here. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. And don't forget please to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you liked.

Jill DeWit:
Shannon wrote, "How do you handle the public record of what you purchased the land for versus how much you're listing it? We are set to close on our first five acres, and I'm wondering how people will view it when they see what we bought it for versus what we're asking. Any input is appreciated. Just wondering what has been your experience in this type of scenario. Thanks in advance." This I know ties into all of this. I'm going to say most people don't look and they don't know.

Steven J Butala:
The truth is, and this is the question that was the inspiration for this entire-

Jill DeWit:
Very rare.

Steven J Butala:
... was the inspiration for this entire show. So first of all, you need to know that public record is what this whole information system in our country from a real estate data standpoint is built on. For whatever reason, who set up this real estate system, and I'm actually researching that pretty heavily right now about how this all came about very heavily, so I can put it in the Land Academy 3.0. I'm researching how this all came about that whoever put the system together, and it goes back to our founding fathers of this country, really, who sat around and said, "Everyone needs to know who owns everyone else's land," because it's the exact opposite in our entire world. No one wants anyone to know what they own.

Jill DeWit:
You know what's funny about that? We know a lot of what we did came from England, correct, when England is especially the exact opposite. That is private information. It is not public, who owns a house.

Steven J Butala:
I'll tell you, if I was setting the system up, I would lean toward the England way. Wouldn't you?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I would.

Steven J Butala:
I wouldn't want everybody to know everything.

Jill DeWit:
I know. So we'll talk about that too.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
So the answer to your question is I don't worry about it. It very rarely comes up. I've had it like, oh my gosh,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Public Records and Your Next Land Deal (LA 1590)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about public records and your next land deal. So Jill, I had described it yesterday at the end of the show, but I'll describe it again. Jill and I are famous for driving around wherever we go. Not intentionally, but every single time we get in a car, I'm usually sitting shotgun, calling off real estate values around town or wherever we happen to be. And as I'm pulling these up, saying this property is for sale for $4 million or $2 million, Jill's first question is, what did they pay for it and when? And it's usually like, well, they bought it five years ago for a lot less than they're selling it for now. And Jill, I realized recently, usually on a Thursday call, this is important for her for some reason, when she makes a decision about negotiating when we go to buy the property.

Jill DeWit:
And value. It helps me determine the value, like, is it going up? How drastically is it going up? What do they think's going on? That kind of a thing.

Steven J Butala:
So the question is, how lucky are we that we have all this public record information that we can make these decisions? Well, this show is not so much about the fact that we have it because we all know that it's out there. How much does it matter when we're sending out these offer campaigns? Do people look at this stuff? And the answer is hell no, because they're not in the real estate business like we are. But we'll get into that in a second here. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com, online community. It's free. And don't forget please to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you liked.

Jill DeWit:
Shannon wrote, "How do you handle the public record of what you purchased the land for versus how much you're listing it? We are set to close on our first five acres, and I'm wondering how people will view it when they see what we bought it for versus what we're asking. Any input is appreciated. Just wondering what has been your experience in this type of scenario. Thanks in advance." This I know ties into all of this. I'm going to say most people don't look and they don't know.

Steven J Butala:
The truth is, and this is the question that was the inspiration for this entire-

Jill DeWit:
Very rare.

Steven J Butala:
... was the inspiration for this entire show. So first of all, you need to know that public record is what this whole information system in our country from a real estate data standpoint is built on. For whatever reason, who set up this real estate system, and I'm actually researching that pretty heavily right now about how this all came about very heavily, so I can put it in the Land Academy 3.0. I'm researching how this all came about that whoever put the system together, and it goes back to our founding fathers of this country, really, who sat around and said, "Everyone needs to know who owns everyone else's land," because it's the exact opposite in our entire world. No one wants anyone to know what they own.

Jill DeWit:
You know what's funny about that? We know a lot of what we did came from England, correct, when England is especially the exact opposite. That is private information. It is not public, who owns a house.

Steven J Butala:
I'll tell you, if I was setting the system up, I would lean toward the England way. Wouldn't you?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I would.

Steven J Butala:
I wouldn't want everybody to know everything.

Jill DeWit:
I know. So we'll talk about that too.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
So the answer to your question is I don't worry about it. It very rarely comes up. I've had it like, oh my gosh,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/14/public-records-and-your-next-land-deal-la-1590/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">y9-clg-z1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:00:48 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e869b2f8-e6f4-455c-88ae-06f3f335f07c.mp3" length="16123287" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Business Can Be Your Legacy (LA 1589)</title><itunes:title>Land Business Can Be Your Legacy (LA 1589)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Business Can Be Your Legacy (LA 1589)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how your land business can be your legacy. This is Jill's idea, and I think it's actually pretty brilliant. It's something that she and I talk about all the time personally, but I think it's worth it's episode worthy.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I have to pause and just share. Is this what goes on in your world? Here's what my partner just told me: "You sound like crap."

Steven J Butala:
And I'm trying to help her though.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven J Butala:
I'm trying to find some DayQuil. [crosstalk 00:00:39]

Jill DeWit:
"Do you know you sound like crap?". Yeah, I do know I sound like crap. Cause I feel like crap, but that's okay.

Steven J Butala:
Jill's not feeling well.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Professional.

Steven J Butala:
She's showing up for it though.

Jill DeWit:
I am.

Steven J Butala:
I'll carry you if I need to.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Victor wrote "not sure this would fall under general or resource sharing, but does anyone, anybody recommend a credit card? That'd be great for our business type. It seems like the most expensive operating costs would be mail and online subscriptions. I have checked most business credit cards and none offer more than 1% of cash back for shipping or online services. This is something I never go there."

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very long discord.

Jill DeWit:
I don't have any advice.

Steven J Butala:
Very long discord. There are a lot of comments. I refrain from commenting but somebody.

Jill DeWit:
Until now.

Steven J Butala:
Well yeah, that's exactly right. Somebody did quote Dave Ramsey and I agree with this and pretty much everything he says, nobody ever got rich on credit card rewards. I can tell you from personal experience, Jill and I have an American Express Platinum business card, and it gives you a tremendous number of points back and for a lot of years, not a lot of years, for a couple of years, until we wised up, we would travel all around and use the points and stay in hotels for free and on and on and on until we realized... until we talked to a main vendor. We have a bunch of other companies that are non land related, where we have to buy cost to consult.

Steven J Butala:
And we were using the American express card to the tune of maybe a $100,000 - $150,000 a month. And we added all the numbers up and so I went to two vendors specifically and said, "Hey, if we stop using this American express card and we actually start wiring you money for all, for this material-

Jill DeWit:
how much will it save?"

Steven J Butala:
He said, "Oh yeah, well, we can knock off, you know,

Jill DeWit:
X percent.

Steven J Butala:
2% in one case in 3% in the other." and we fell out of our chairs, that's $3,000 to $5,000 a month per vendor. So if we add that up, it's real money. So, and then everybody went in Discord and talked about this. So here's my advice: forget about all that stuff. Just get a debit card. Or if you actually need a credit card, forget about the cash back and the points and all that. It's just a distraction.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
And in the end, you're, you're getting charged for it somewhere. It's not free.

Jill DeWit:
Good point.

Steven J Butala:
Sarah. You're not feeling well.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's okay. No, you have, I'm going to let you run with that. Cause like I don't want to.

Steven J Butala:
I mean,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Business Can Be Your Legacy (LA 1589)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how your land business can be your legacy. This is Jill's idea, and I think it's actually pretty brilliant. It's something that she and I talk about all the time personally, but I think it's worth it's episode worthy.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I have to pause and just share. Is this what goes on in your world? Here's what my partner just told me: "You sound like crap."

Steven J Butala:
And I'm trying to help her though.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven J Butala:
I'm trying to find some DayQuil. [crosstalk 00:00:39]

Jill DeWit:
"Do you know you sound like crap?". Yeah, I do know I sound like crap. Cause I feel like crap, but that's okay.

Steven J Butala:
Jill's not feeling well.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Professional.

Steven J Butala:
She's showing up for it though.

Jill DeWit:
I am.

Steven J Butala:
I'll carry you if I need to.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy, YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Victor wrote "not sure this would fall under general or resource sharing, but does anyone, anybody recommend a credit card? That'd be great for our business type. It seems like the most expensive operating costs would be mail and online subscriptions. I have checked most business credit cards and none offer more than 1% of cash back for shipping or online services. This is something I never go there."

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very long discord.

Jill DeWit:
I don't have any advice.

Steven J Butala:
Very long discord. There are a lot of comments. I refrain from commenting but somebody.

Jill DeWit:
Until now.

Steven J Butala:
Well yeah, that's exactly right. Somebody did quote Dave Ramsey and I agree with this and pretty much everything he says, nobody ever got rich on credit card rewards. I can tell you from personal experience, Jill and I have an American Express Platinum business card, and it gives you a tremendous number of points back and for a lot of years, not a lot of years, for a couple of years, until we wised up, we would travel all around and use the points and stay in hotels for free and on and on and on until we realized... until we talked to a main vendor. We have a bunch of other companies that are non land related, where we have to buy cost to consult.

Steven J Butala:
And we were using the American express card to the tune of maybe a $100,000 - $150,000 a month. And we added all the numbers up and so I went to two vendors specifically and said, "Hey, if we stop using this American express card and we actually start wiring you money for all, for this material-

Jill DeWit:
how much will it save?"

Steven J Butala:
He said, "Oh yeah, well, we can knock off, you know,

Jill DeWit:
X percent.

Steven J Butala:
2% in one case in 3% in the other." and we fell out of our chairs, that's $3,000 to $5,000 a month per vendor. So if we add that up, it's real money. So, and then everybody went in Discord and talked about this. So here's my advice: forget about all that stuff. Just get a debit card. Or if you actually need a credit card, forget about the cash back and the points and all that. It's just a distraction.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
And in the end, you're, you're getting charged for it somewhere. It's not free.

Jill DeWit:
Good point.

Steven J Butala:
Sarah. You're not feeling well.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's okay. No, you have, I'm going to let you run with that. Cause like I don't want to.

Steven J Butala:
I mean,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/13/land-business-can-be-your-legacy-la-1589/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5mDc5KAbH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e4118a22-8a97-4904-adcc-f7cc6c3f261a.mp3" length="15150885" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Nowhere in the World (LA 1588)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Nowhere in the World (LA 1588)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Nowhere in the World (LA 1588)
Transcript:

Jill DeWit:
Not me.

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about nowhere in the world is it possible to do what we do. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Charlie wrote a response to this sentence. I'm going to mix in a failure and success just to keep things in perspective. This is cute. So here we go, hashtag fail. "I was going through Irritable and saw a call from a mailer that had kept getting pushed down and pushed down on my list. So I was going through the deal again. I offered $30,000. He accepted. And the comps were around $90,000, which is a great deal if I hadn't seen it. But life happened and I checked out the land business while we had a kid and stuff." Oh, I checked out of the land business. Got it. "While looking into the property on Redfin, I see that after this guy got my letter and called, the property was listed and sold twice, once for $39,000 and then for $95,000. It made me sick to know that there were $60,000 sitting in my computer that I didn't act on. Shucks!"

Steven Butala:
Darn.

Jill DeWit:
You know what? That happens.

Steven Butala:
This is a great life experience.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. What was happening is the offer came in. He didn't act on it. Life got in the way. He went back and said, "Oh, maybe I'll do this deal," and found out somebody else did the deal.

Steven Butala:
They had a baby. That happens.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay. But hashtag win. He's got something. "But also during that time, I bought a lot for a hundred dollars in a subdivision with a terrible dirt road and no utilities. I started to list it on eBay multiple times. Never got all the way through it. I finally, decided Saturday," excuse me, "I finally decided it sat in my inventory long enough. So I called a realtor I've worked with before in the area and got it listed. He went and looked at it and told me what I already know, dirt road, no utilities, hard to sell, et cetera, and asked what I wanted to get out of it. There's only one for sale in that subdivision and it's at $6,000. So I told him I just wanted it gone. But 3,000 looks right to me."

Jill DeWit:
"What I didn't take into account was that the subdivision, once you read over, has blown up in the last year. So he suggested we list it for $15,000. Normally, I would dial him back a bit, but we worked together and he knows that I'm shooting for speed here, not top dollar. And by the way, I have a hundred dollars into this property, so I don't really care if it sits for a month before a buyer comes along. This business is great and can forever change your family's lives if you put in the work." That's great. Oh, I wonder what he did sell it for.

Steven Butala:
What's the moral of the story here? I have a takeaway. What do you think you should really take away from this?

Jill DeWit:
Well, there's a couple of things. If you can keep from stopping and keep going, that's my first choice. But pick up where you left off and just move on. That's the moral of my story, because we all make mistakes. We start diets. We don't follow through. We join gyms. We don't follow through. It doesn't mean you never go back. You say, "Well, I tried that workout thing to me once when I was 20, and again when I was 30, and one more time when I was 50. It's not my thing. I am never doing it. Ship has sailed." That's not true. You can always start it and just pick up where you left off. That's my moral.

Steven Butala:
This person's kicking themselves a little bit,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Nowhere in the World (LA 1588)
Transcript:

Jill DeWit:
Not me.

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about nowhere in the world is it possible to do what we do. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. And don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Charlie wrote a response to this sentence. I'm going to mix in a failure and success just to keep things in perspective. This is cute. So here we go, hashtag fail. "I was going through Irritable and saw a call from a mailer that had kept getting pushed down and pushed down on my list. So I was going through the deal again. I offered $30,000. He accepted. And the comps were around $90,000, which is a great deal if I hadn't seen it. But life happened and I checked out the land business while we had a kid and stuff." Oh, I checked out of the land business. Got it. "While looking into the property on Redfin, I see that after this guy got my letter and called, the property was listed and sold twice, once for $39,000 and then for $95,000. It made me sick to know that there were $60,000 sitting in my computer that I didn't act on. Shucks!"

Steven Butala:
Darn.

Jill DeWit:
You know what? That happens.

Steven Butala:
This is a great life experience.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. What was happening is the offer came in. He didn't act on it. Life got in the way. He went back and said, "Oh, maybe I'll do this deal," and found out somebody else did the deal.

Steven Butala:
They had a baby. That happens.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay. But hashtag win. He's got something. "But also during that time, I bought a lot for a hundred dollars in a subdivision with a terrible dirt road and no utilities. I started to list it on eBay multiple times. Never got all the way through it. I finally, decided Saturday," excuse me, "I finally decided it sat in my inventory long enough. So I called a realtor I've worked with before in the area and got it listed. He went and looked at it and told me what I already know, dirt road, no utilities, hard to sell, et cetera, and asked what I wanted to get out of it. There's only one for sale in that subdivision and it's at $6,000. So I told him I just wanted it gone. But 3,000 looks right to me."

Jill DeWit:
"What I didn't take into account was that the subdivision, once you read over, has blown up in the last year. So he suggested we list it for $15,000. Normally, I would dial him back a bit, but we worked together and he knows that I'm shooting for speed here, not top dollar. And by the way, I have a hundred dollars into this property, so I don't really care if it sits for a month before a buyer comes along. This business is great and can forever change your family's lives if you put in the work." That's great. Oh, I wonder what he did sell it for.

Steven Butala:
What's the moral of the story here? I have a takeaway. What do you think you should really take away from this?

Jill DeWit:
Well, there's a couple of things. If you can keep from stopping and keep going, that's my first choice. But pick up where you left off and just move on. That's the moral of my story, because we all make mistakes. We start diets. We don't follow through. We join gyms. We don't follow through. It doesn't mean you never go back. You say, "Well, I tried that workout thing to me once when I was 20, and again when I was 30, and one more time when I was 50. It's not my thing. I am never doing it. Ship has sailed." That's not true. You can always start it and just pick up where you left off. That's my moral.

Steven Butala:
This person's kicking themselves a little bit,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/10/jill-friday-nowhere-in-the-world-la-1588/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Agq9nWv9s</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1d3e767b-1d95-4060-a19e-bef45585a696.mp3" length="11194173" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Investor Dictionary 101 &amp;#8211; Equity (LA 1587)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Investor Dictionary 101 &amp;#8211; Equity (LA 1587)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Investor Dictionary 101 - Equity (LA 1587)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala ...

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jack Thursday, and it's Land Investor Dictionary 101. This is going to be a thing now. Every Thursday I'm going to talk about helping new people understand the terminology, the basic terminology of land investing. Today is equity.

Jill DeWit:
Did I hear you say we're making an online version of this, too?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. So, our team is actually putting together a separate landing page or website with all the terminologies that we talk about here. It's underway. It's not going to happen overnight, certainly, but when we get the dot-com I'll report it.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. I have to tell you, when I heard about this the other day, I had a few things that I wanted to throw in the dictionary.

Steven Butala:
Oh, good.

Jill DeWit:
So I have some of our own terminology that we have created-

Steven Butala:
Like Jillify it?

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. I'll tell you right now, I have Jillify that's going to go in there, BaJillian, that's going to go in there. I also told Aaron lickety-split should go in there. Lickety-split, the definition is going to be something like how fast your property should sell.

Steven Butala:
These are good things.

Jill DeWit:
Right, you like this? So when you see it, I'm going to put side-hustle in there, and a way overused term, wholesale.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. What are some good, silly terms that are silly?

Jill DeWit:
That's a bunch that I just have. Yeah, lickety-

Steven Butala:
W-2 job, things like that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
1099 job.

Jill DeWit:
W-2 job ... How about the 4:00 AM club?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, like Land Academy stuff.

Jill DeWit:
So yeah, they're all legitimate definitions. Some we have just made up. Some words and terms we have just made up that you need to know about and we throw around. Like in my world ... I confused you the other day. In our world, you're like, "What does that mean?"

Steven Butala:
Shotgun closing.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
Like shotgun wedding, but shotgun closing.

Jill DeWit:
We could come up with some good ones that you need to know. We'll give you a chance that you could submit some, too. Like, "I heard you talking about X. What the hell is ... "

Steven Butala:
Like the haight.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, the haight.

Steven Butala:
H-A-I-G-H-T.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I've got a whole list here.

Steven Butala:
There's a whole Land Academy of vocabulary we can cover.

Jill DeWit:
This is good. This is going to be funny.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill DeWit:
Is it first initial, Burton?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, E. Burton wrote, "Besides the LandTank and Facebook, what are other ways to get deals funded? I'm trying to keep my options open, and be open-minded and creative." Is there more to that? No. Okay, cool.

Steven Butala:
I'm not aware of Facebook, and LandTank honestly is coming down soon. Here's why: It's never been easier to get a deal funded, ever. I've never seen an environment in my entire career where people are throwing money out ... In a positive way, throwing money in, I should say, to get a good deal done. So if you're brand new and you're good at finding good deals, forget about the money. You're going to find so much money being dumped in your lap, it's silly.

Steven Butala:
Go to landfunding.com. It's a website we just started. There's all kinds of products for you. If it's really,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Investor Dictionary 101 - Equity (LA 1587)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala ...

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jack Thursday, and it's Land Investor Dictionary 101. This is going to be a thing now. Every Thursday I'm going to talk about helping new people understand the terminology, the basic terminology of land investing. Today is equity.

Jill DeWit:
Did I hear you say we're making an online version of this, too?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. So, our team is actually putting together a separate landing page or website with all the terminologies that we talk about here. It's underway. It's not going to happen overnight, certainly, but when we get the dot-com I'll report it.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. I have to tell you, when I heard about this the other day, I had a few things that I wanted to throw in the dictionary.

Steven Butala:
Oh, good.

Jill DeWit:
So I have some of our own terminology that we have created-

Steven Butala:
Like Jillify it?

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. I'll tell you right now, I have Jillify that's going to go in there, BaJillian, that's going to go in there. I also told Aaron lickety-split should go in there. Lickety-split, the definition is going to be something like how fast your property should sell.

Steven Butala:
These are good things.

Jill DeWit:
Right, you like this? So when you see it, I'm going to put side-hustle in there, and a way overused term, wholesale.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. What are some good, silly terms that are silly?

Jill DeWit:
That's a bunch that I just have. Yeah, lickety-

Steven Butala:
W-2 job, things like that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
1099 job.

Jill DeWit:
W-2 job ... How about the 4:00 AM club?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, like Land Academy stuff.

Jill DeWit:
So yeah, they're all legitimate definitions. Some we have just made up. Some words and terms we have just made up that you need to know about and we throw around. Like in my world ... I confused you the other day. In our world, you're like, "What does that mean?"

Steven Butala:
Shotgun closing.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
Like shotgun wedding, but shotgun closing.

Jill DeWit:
We could come up with some good ones that you need to know. We'll give you a chance that you could submit some, too. Like, "I heard you talking about X. What the hell is ... "

Steven Butala:
Like the haight.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, the haight.

Steven Butala:
H-A-I-G-H-T.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I've got a whole list here.

Steven Butala:
There's a whole Land Academy of vocabulary we can cover.

Jill DeWit:
This is good. This is going to be funny.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill DeWit:
Is it first initial, Burton?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, E. Burton wrote, "Besides the LandTank and Facebook, what are other ways to get deals funded? I'm trying to keep my options open, and be open-minded and creative." Is there more to that? No. Okay, cool.

Steven Butala:
I'm not aware of Facebook, and LandTank honestly is coming down soon. Here's why: It's never been easier to get a deal funded, ever. I've never seen an environment in my entire career where people are throwing money out ... In a positive way, throwing money in, I should say, to get a good deal done. So if you're brand new and you're good at finding good deals, forget about the money. You're going to find so much money being dumped in your lap, it's silly.

Steven Butala:
Go to landfunding.com. It's a website we just started. There's all kinds of products for you. If it's really,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/09/jack-thursday-land-investor-dictionary-101-equity-la-1587/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sR0Z5MNvF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:10:37 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/234ede21-09a5-4bc4-b6ec-0853b95bcbf8.mp3" length="12095737" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Creating an Easement by Being Nice to your Neighbors (LA 1586)</title><itunes:title>Creating an Easement by Being Nice to your Neighbors (LA 1586)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Creating an Easement by Being Nice to your Neighbors (LA 1586)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the land academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun today.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about creating an easement by simply being nice to your neighbors.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. This is confusing. An easement means I have access, preferably legal and physical, to go somewhere. An easement means it's the legal paperwork, as necessary, to access a property.

Steven Butala:
So I'll give a full-blown examples in the mid of the show, but this solves a landlocked property.

Jill DeWit:
I just have to ask. I'm so confused. I'm not confused. I'm just saying that-

Steven Butala:
Oh, you're asking for everybody-

Jill DeWit:
No. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
If you have a landlocked piece of property and there's a neighbor's property on the road, on a county road, let's say, and some of your [inaudible 00:01:00] sends it back to you and says, "Heck yes, I will sell you my incredibly valuable property for a tiny small amount of money, because I know there's no access."

Steven Butala:
And I'll explain how you can get access by baking a cake and showing up at somebody's store. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Has anyone figured out how to integrate their website with an e-signature service to automate purchase agreement signing? Use case looks like receive letter. He puts like the little terminology in there without-

Steven Butala:
This is a code-

Jill DeWit:
Website URL.

Steven Butala:
His case looks like receive letter. Go to website URL in letter, enter reference number, digitally sign their PA, just trying to think about how to reduce the friction of signing and sending back a purchase agreement.

Jill DeWit:
This is kind of cool. This is a really good idea.

Steven Butala:
Well, I think it's a brilliant idea. It'll never work.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven Butala:
So let's talk about this for a second. I want to make a kind of a big deal about this. There's a lot of technical people in our group, me included. I'm a very technical person and I'm hugely interested in making things easier and faster and more profitable. And one of the ways that you do that now, maybe the way, is through tech and technology improvements in databases and all this. And so Aaron obviously has a tech background or just knows about it. And so there's a lot of ways you can automate this and make this easy. And there's a lot of people who have come and gone in our group from a tech background, there's a lot of people in our group right now that have a core tech background in their W2 jobs, very successful, walking into this environment saying, "Oh no, we're going to make this whole thing an app. We're going to automate the entire system and we're going to take control over US land."

Steven Butala:
And so that's the extreme and Aaron, I'm not picking on you at all. I think this is a brilliant idea. I'm serious. But what you're missing here and what I think a lot of tech people miss, again, it's not a criticism at all. It's not like I'm talking about California right now. This is not a criticism. It's a backwards compliment. I'm not sure that you understand this customer. Do you think that most of the people that you sell property to, or buy property from, I'm sorry, are going to go onto a website, click on some stuff and sign it that way?

Jill DeWit:
No, that's true.

Steven Butala:
So Jill's right. They're not tech savvy. They're not set up for that. They want you to do it for them. They're asking you-

Jill DeWit:
kind of the point-

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Creating an Easement by Being Nice to your Neighbors (LA 1586)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the land academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun today.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about creating an easement by simply being nice to your neighbors.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. This is confusing. An easement means I have access, preferably legal and physical, to go somewhere. An easement means it's the legal paperwork, as necessary, to access a property.

Steven Butala:
So I'll give a full-blown examples in the mid of the show, but this solves a landlocked property.

Jill DeWit:
I just have to ask. I'm so confused. I'm not confused. I'm just saying that-

Steven Butala:
Oh, you're asking for everybody-

Jill DeWit:
No. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
If you have a landlocked piece of property and there's a neighbor's property on the road, on a county road, let's say, and some of your [inaudible 00:01:00] sends it back to you and says, "Heck yes, I will sell you my incredibly valuable property for a tiny small amount of money, because I know there's no access."

Steven Butala:
And I'll explain how you can get access by baking a cake and showing up at somebody's store. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Has anyone figured out how to integrate their website with an e-signature service to automate purchase agreement signing? Use case looks like receive letter. He puts like the little terminology in there without-

Steven Butala:
This is a code-

Jill DeWit:
Website URL.

Steven Butala:
His case looks like receive letter. Go to website URL in letter, enter reference number, digitally sign their PA, just trying to think about how to reduce the friction of signing and sending back a purchase agreement.

Jill DeWit:
This is kind of cool. This is a really good idea.

Steven Butala:
Well, I think it's a brilliant idea. It'll never work.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven Butala:
So let's talk about this for a second. I want to make a kind of a big deal about this. There's a lot of technical people in our group, me included. I'm a very technical person and I'm hugely interested in making things easier and faster and more profitable. And one of the ways that you do that now, maybe the way, is through tech and technology improvements in databases and all this. And so Aaron obviously has a tech background or just knows about it. And so there's a lot of ways you can automate this and make this easy. And there's a lot of people who have come and gone in our group from a tech background, there's a lot of people in our group right now that have a core tech background in their W2 jobs, very successful, walking into this environment saying, "Oh no, we're going to make this whole thing an app. We're going to automate the entire system and we're going to take control over US land."

Steven Butala:
And so that's the extreme and Aaron, I'm not picking on you at all. I think this is a brilliant idea. I'm serious. But what you're missing here and what I think a lot of tech people miss, again, it's not a criticism at all. It's not like I'm talking about California right now. This is not a criticism. It's a backwards compliment. I'm not sure that you understand this customer. Do you think that most of the people that you sell property to, or buy property from, I'm sorry, are going to go onto a website, click on some stuff and sign it that way?

Jill DeWit:
No, that's true.

Steven Butala:
So Jill's right. They're not tech savvy. They're not set up for that. They want you to do it for them. They're asking you-

Jill DeWit:
kind of the point-

Steven Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/08/creating-an-easement-by-being-nice-to-your-neighbors-la-1586/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Mq8AKYULs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:12:11 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/44287b5f-3dec-4210-8cf2-b7e4d1721f9b.mp3" length="15428377" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Income Taxes and Your Land Business (LA 1585)</title><itunes:title>Income Taxes and Your Land Business (LA 1585)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Income Taxes and Your Land Business (LA 1585)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about income taxes and your land business.

Jill DeWit:
Yay. I tell you I was losing sleep over this. I am so excited, it's one of my favorite topics.

Steven Butala:
Kidding aside, you don't have to lose sleep over it, because I do. And it turns out a lot of Land Academy members do, too. And so this is a big topic. We just completed the most recent Land Academy career path program, this was a big topic at the end. And so I did a whole presentation. So I figured I'd do a five, ten minute synopsis here. And really, my whole point being, and we'll get into it in detail here in a minute, you can't just let this happen. You can't let taxes happen to you, like I did when I had a W2 position forever. It's a completely different scenario. You just let taxes happen to you when you have a job.

Jill DeWit:
I know, because someone else dictates how it's going to go, kind of thing. You get to say what percentage you want withheld, but that's about it.

Steven Butala:
Now that you have your own entity, however it's structured, you have a lot of choices and a lot of control.

Jill DeWit:
I understand. It's a funny progression with our members like, "Oh my gosh, holy cow, I made so much money." And then at the end of the year you're like, "Holy cow, I made so much money."

Steven Butala:
I made a ton of money and I got to give 50% of it away.

Jill DeWit:
Shoot. What do I do? How do I plan for this? Uh-oh.

Steven Butala:
That's what we'll talk about. This is prompted by Jill sitting on the floor, Indian style-

Jill DeWit:
Crying.

Steven Butala:
... in a puddle, writing checks a couple of years ago. We didn't have to do that last year, fortunately, because of good planning. But two years ago there were crocodile tears.

Jill DeWit:
There were some tears.

Steven Butala:
And I hate that.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
I don't want to see you cry ever. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill DeWit:
Eburton wrote, "Newbs. How do you know you have a good deal? Like, how?"

Steven Butala:
I love this question.

Jill DeWit:
I do too. You want to go first?

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
I have a lot to say.

Jill DeWit:
How do I know I have a good deal? It comes in, I hang up the phone, I pull up the map and I glance at my five A's on the sticky note that's on my monitor. Access. Yep, it has that. Acreage. Yeah, wow. It's exactly what I wanted. Attribute. Oh my gosh, look how close it is to the water. Alive. Yeah. I just talked to the guy, now I'm confirming it's him. This is his name. And here he is, he's the only one on here. And then affordability. He's signing this thing and sending it back. Oh. And then, I take it one step further, because I'm assuming I did all my work going into it right on my pricing. I'm going to keep going with this here.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, you should.

Jill DeWit:
And then, now I'm going to go, "I'm going to go double check. Okay. This is all going too well right now." Now I'm starting to, like, I can feel the butterflies. I'm sweating, my pulse is racing a little bit. Did I screw something up? Now I'm going to jump into some land selling sites, even just Zillow, and look around on the MLS postings and see, all right, what are the other five acres selling for? And then I pull it up and I see, and I'm like, "Okay, don't get excited yet. Let's see what's sold. Holy cow. I can't find anything wrong with this. I need to get this in.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Income Taxes and Your Land Business (LA 1585)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about income taxes and your land business.

Jill DeWit:
Yay. I tell you I was losing sleep over this. I am so excited, it's one of my favorite topics.

Steven Butala:
Kidding aside, you don't have to lose sleep over it, because I do. And it turns out a lot of Land Academy members do, too. And so this is a big topic. We just completed the most recent Land Academy career path program, this was a big topic at the end. And so I did a whole presentation. So I figured I'd do a five, ten minute synopsis here. And really, my whole point being, and we'll get into it in detail here in a minute, you can't just let this happen. You can't let taxes happen to you, like I did when I had a W2 position forever. It's a completely different scenario. You just let taxes happen to you when you have a job.

Jill DeWit:
I know, because someone else dictates how it's going to go, kind of thing. You get to say what percentage you want withheld, but that's about it.

Steven Butala:
Now that you have your own entity, however it's structured, you have a lot of choices and a lot of control.

Jill DeWit:
I understand. It's a funny progression with our members like, "Oh my gosh, holy cow, I made so much money." And then at the end of the year you're like, "Holy cow, I made so much money."

Steven Butala:
I made a ton of money and I got to give 50% of it away.

Jill DeWit:
Shoot. What do I do? How do I plan for this? Uh-oh.

Steven Butala:
That's what we'll talk about. This is prompted by Jill sitting on the floor, Indian style-

Jill DeWit:
Crying.

Steven Butala:
... in a puddle, writing checks a couple of years ago. We didn't have to do that last year, fortunately, because of good planning. But two years ago there were crocodile tears.

Jill DeWit:
There were some tears.

Steven Butala:
And I hate that.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
I don't want to see you cry ever. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows that you like.

Jill DeWit:
Eburton wrote, "Newbs. How do you know you have a good deal? Like, how?"

Steven Butala:
I love this question.

Jill DeWit:
I do too. You want to go first?

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
I have a lot to say.

Jill DeWit:
How do I know I have a good deal? It comes in, I hang up the phone, I pull up the map and I glance at my five A's on the sticky note that's on my monitor. Access. Yep, it has that. Acreage. Yeah, wow. It's exactly what I wanted. Attribute. Oh my gosh, look how close it is to the water. Alive. Yeah. I just talked to the guy, now I'm confirming it's him. This is his name. And here he is, he's the only one on here. And then affordability. He's signing this thing and sending it back. Oh. And then, I take it one step further, because I'm assuming I did all my work going into it right on my pricing. I'm going to keep going with this here.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, you should.

Jill DeWit:
And then, now I'm going to go, "I'm going to go double check. Okay. This is all going too well right now." Now I'm starting to, like, I can feel the butterflies. I'm sweating, my pulse is racing a little bit. Did I screw something up? Now I'm going to jump into some land selling sites, even just Zillow, and look around on the MLS postings and see, all right, what are the other five acres selling for? And then I pull it up and I see, and I'm like, "Okay, don't get excited yet. Let's see what's sold. Holy cow. I can't find anything wrong with this. I need to get this in.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/07/income-taxes-and-your-land-business-la-1585/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qswtl_4YL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c4a26bfa-d1f9-4a71-b820-734ddbf7c979.mp3" length="17752437" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Satellite Internet Providers Tell us Where to Send Mail (LA 1584)</title><itunes:title>Why Satellite Internet Providers Tell us Where to Send Mail (LA 1584)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Satellite Internet Providers Tell us Where to Send Mail (LA 1584)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun. You like that?

Steven Butala:
I like it. Today, Jill and I talk about why satellite internet providers are continuously telling us where to send mail. This is a good thing.

Jill DeWit:
I wrote down a different reason as to why we care about this. And I'll share that when we get into the meat of the show, but I got to tell you, I was struggling, "Do I say Scottsdale? Do I say Phoenix? Where do I say we are?" And I forgot that this was always called The Valley of the Sun. Isn't that interesting?

Steven Butala:
I think there's more than one Valley of the Sun. Everybody thinks they're The Valley of the Sun.

Jill DeWit:
When you Google Valley of the Sun, though, Phoenix comes up.

Steven Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
I made sure. I'm like, seriously.

Steven Butala:
Do you Google stuff, Jill?

Jill DeWit:
All the time. I Google you. I Google... I'm just kidding. Of course.

Steven Butala:
I read recently that Google, as a product, it is the single most used product for a consumer in the history of all products.

Jill DeWit:
Really? What did you say Google was supposed to be? Remember you said that-

Steven Butala:
It's misspelled. It's supposed to be G-O-O G-E-L. And it's some type of cipher God. It's some type of scientific something.

Jill DeWit:
Really G-E-L and then-

Steven Butala:
Scientific measurement or something.

Jill DeWit:
But it didn't look right. Somebody just like-

Steven Butala:
They misspelled it right from the beginning and it just stuck, which is probably kind of cool because now it's obviously an incredible brand.

Jill DeWit:
It's a verb. It's a noun. It's all kinds of things. Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like. You don't have to comment on the shows that you hate. If you comment on the shows that you like, then we do more content about stuff you like.

Jill DeWit:
That's really good. The shows you love, please just go for it.

Steven Butala:
All kidding aside, it really does help us develop an algorithm to create content that people want to hear about. Like, maybe you're not interested in hearing me rant about California.

Jill DeWit:
Or this show at all. That's so funny. I couldn't tell you the day... Since now we're off topic... We're on Clubhouse [crosstalk 00:02:32]. So, we're on Clubhouse the other day and there was that guy... I can't tell if he was trying to break into our show.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. He totally was.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, was he? Okay. Or if he was like yelling at somebody on the street.

Steven Butala:
No, no. I think he was breaking in. He broke into our show.

Jill DeWit:
And just was cussing.

Steven Butala:
This is the world now.

Jill DeWit:
That was funny. So, my team got him off there, to quote you, "Lickedy split."

Steven Butala:
I just read a thing about this whole thing about the internet culture, how it's developing. I'm old enough to know when there was no internet at all. And so...

Jill DeWit:
You're older than me.

Steven Butala:
Right. And my parents would say stuff like, "Keep your opinions to yourself." That was just the world that I grew up in. And that's just not the way it is now. Everybody's really encouraged to have an opinion and be real loud about it with filthy language and everything. That's just like a norm. That's a normal state of the internet.

Jill DeWit:
I don't get it.

Steven Butala:
I don't either.

Jill DeWit:
Anyway, let's get back to the show. Ty wrote, "Anyone else getting first mailer jitters?" Oh,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Satellite Internet Providers Tell us Where to Send Mail (LA 1584)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun. You like that?

Steven Butala:
I like it. Today, Jill and I talk about why satellite internet providers are continuously telling us where to send mail. This is a good thing.

Jill DeWit:
I wrote down a different reason as to why we care about this. And I'll share that when we get into the meat of the show, but I got to tell you, I was struggling, "Do I say Scottsdale? Do I say Phoenix? Where do I say we are?" And I forgot that this was always called The Valley of the Sun. Isn't that interesting?

Steven Butala:
I think there's more than one Valley of the Sun. Everybody thinks they're The Valley of the Sun.

Jill DeWit:
When you Google Valley of the Sun, though, Phoenix comes up.

Steven Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
I made sure. I'm like, seriously.

Steven Butala:
Do you Google stuff, Jill?

Jill DeWit:
All the time. I Google you. I Google... I'm just kidding. Of course.

Steven Butala:
I read recently that Google, as a product, it is the single most used product for a consumer in the history of all products.

Jill DeWit:
Really? What did you say Google was supposed to be? Remember you said that-

Steven Butala:
It's misspelled. It's supposed to be G-O-O G-E-L. And it's some type of cipher God. It's some type of scientific something.

Jill DeWit:
Really G-E-L and then-

Steven Butala:
Scientific measurement or something.

Jill DeWit:
But it didn't look right. Somebody just like-

Steven Butala:
They misspelled it right from the beginning and it just stuck, which is probably kind of cool because now it's obviously an incredible brand.

Jill DeWit:
It's a verb. It's a noun. It's all kinds of things. Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors.com online community. It's free and don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like. You don't have to comment on the shows that you hate. If you comment on the shows that you like, then we do more content about stuff you like.

Jill DeWit:
That's really good. The shows you love, please just go for it.

Steven Butala:
All kidding aside, it really does help us develop an algorithm to create content that people want to hear about. Like, maybe you're not interested in hearing me rant about California.

Jill DeWit:
Or this show at all. That's so funny. I couldn't tell you the day... Since now we're off topic... We're on Clubhouse [crosstalk 00:02:32]. So, we're on Clubhouse the other day and there was that guy... I can't tell if he was trying to break into our show.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. He totally was.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, was he? Okay. Or if he was like yelling at somebody on the street.

Steven Butala:
No, no. I think he was breaking in. He broke into our show.

Jill DeWit:
And just was cussing.

Steven Butala:
This is the world now.

Jill DeWit:
That was funny. So, my team got him off there, to quote you, "Lickedy split."

Steven Butala:
I just read a thing about this whole thing about the internet culture, how it's developing. I'm old enough to know when there was no internet at all. And so...

Jill DeWit:
You're older than me.

Steven Butala:
Right. And my parents would say stuff like, "Keep your opinions to yourself." That was just the world that I grew up in. And that's just not the way it is now. Everybody's really encouraged to have an opinion and be real loud about it with filthy language and everything. That's just like a norm. That's a normal state of the internet.

Jill DeWit:
I don't get it.

Steven Butala:
I don't either.

Jill DeWit:
Anyway, let's get back to the show. Ty wrote, "Anyone else getting first mailer jitters?" Oh,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/06/why-satellite-internet-providers-tell-us-where-to-send-mail-la-1584/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7_iHJYpT-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 21:30:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e95ff9a3-af11-4d1b-b7c6-e36bdfb492ca.mp3" length="15855297" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Showing up for Work (LA 1583)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Showing up for Work (LA 1583)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Showing up for Work (LA 1583)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she talks about showing up for work, no matter where you work. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Land Academy member that is. Yep. Kevin responds to this post, which says called do neighbor letters work? So I guess this is the post?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Is this Kevin's thing or this the post and then comes Kevin's thing?

Steven J Butala:
This is Kevin.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Kevin our awesome moderator in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Kevin's saying, "Look, I have used neighbor letters with good success. I don't always use it, a neighbor letter, but I have sold several properties using neighbor letters. I don't call them the neighbors. I send letters. My letter's very brief. I offer the property at a good price and let the recipient know that I will be putting it on the market at a higher price. I include a large aerial view showing the parcel so that they know where it is in relationship to their land. I have sold landlocked parcels and other vacant land this way." Good stuff. Just like a little tip. Is that what the point was here?

Steven J Butala:
I have an entire business operation where I only sell property to the neighbors. Neighbors letters are awesome. And they're really, really inexpensive. What do you send out? Maybe 600 letters, sometimes. Maybe 300 letters.

Jill DeWit:
God, maybe-

Steven J Butala:
When you buy a piece of property-

Jill DeWit:
... maybe a hundred.

Steven J Butala:
You buy a piece of property, you send out 100, 200, 300, maybe 500 letters to all the people who own property around there, that quite simply says, "Hey, I know you have property here and I just, I've got an off-market property. It's probably a lot less than you spent to buy the one that you have, and if you're interested, give me a call. I'll sell it to you off market. We can get the deal done really easy. No financing, no real estate agents. None of that stuff. I just closed on it with escrow, so we can use the same agent. It's only going to take a few days."

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven J Butala:
What's going on?

Jill DeWit:
I don't know. You're just running. I'm just letting you go. It's easier.

Steven J Butala:
Let's let Jill talk.

Jill DeWit:
This is my goal in life. Just going to pick the easiest path, especially today.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about showing up for work. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Whatever you do, this kind of ties into what you talked about this week, which I thought was really interesting, the millionaire thing. Because you talked about having a plan. And I think for a lot of people having a plan might involve a job. It might involve a W2. It might involve a paycheck. And one of the things about... And I hope that you realize if that's your life and you have that job, you're getting a paycheck, that it can and should fit into your plan. You are still in control. You should be there because you want to be there. You picked it. You're not trapped. Trust me. I know this. It's really interesting, too, that whole mindset. You brought that up earlier. I worked at a job. I kind of, I started to fall into that. You can get a little brainwashed thinking that you're trapped somewhere and it's oh, good and you'll never find anything better.

Jill DeWit:
Because people tell you that. And it's really your coworkers around you that are just in a little trap and little hamster wheel.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Showing up for Work (LA 1583)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she talks about showing up for work, no matter where you work. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Land Academy member that is. Yep. Kevin responds to this post, which says called do neighbor letters work? So I guess this is the post?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Is this Kevin's thing or this the post and then comes Kevin's thing?

Steven J Butala:
This is Kevin.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Kevin our awesome moderator in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Kevin's saying, "Look, I have used neighbor letters with good success. I don't always use it, a neighbor letter, but I have sold several properties using neighbor letters. I don't call them the neighbors. I send letters. My letter's very brief. I offer the property at a good price and let the recipient know that I will be putting it on the market at a higher price. I include a large aerial view showing the parcel so that they know where it is in relationship to their land. I have sold landlocked parcels and other vacant land this way." Good stuff. Just like a little tip. Is that what the point was here?

Steven J Butala:
I have an entire business operation where I only sell property to the neighbors. Neighbors letters are awesome. And they're really, really inexpensive. What do you send out? Maybe 600 letters, sometimes. Maybe 300 letters.

Jill DeWit:
God, maybe-

Steven J Butala:
When you buy a piece of property-

Jill DeWit:
... maybe a hundred.

Steven J Butala:
You buy a piece of property, you send out 100, 200, 300, maybe 500 letters to all the people who own property around there, that quite simply says, "Hey, I know you have property here and I just, I've got an off-market property. It's probably a lot less than you spent to buy the one that you have, and if you're interested, give me a call. I'll sell it to you off market. We can get the deal done really easy. No financing, no real estate agents. None of that stuff. I just closed on it with escrow, so we can use the same agent. It's only going to take a few days."

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven J Butala:
What's going on?

Jill DeWit:
I don't know. You're just running. I'm just letting you go. It's easier.

Steven J Butala:
Let's let Jill talk.

Jill DeWit:
This is my goal in life. Just going to pick the easiest path, especially today.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about showing up for work. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Whatever you do, this kind of ties into what you talked about this week, which I thought was really interesting, the millionaire thing. Because you talked about having a plan. And I think for a lot of people having a plan might involve a job. It might involve a W2. It might involve a paycheck. And one of the things about... And I hope that you realize if that's your life and you have that job, you're getting a paycheck, that it can and should fit into your plan. You are still in control. You should be there because you want to be there. You picked it. You're not trapped. Trust me. I know this. It's really interesting, too, that whole mindset. You brought that up earlier. I worked at a job. I kind of, I started to fall into that. You can get a little brainwashed thinking that you're trapped somewhere and it's oh, good and you'll never find anything better.

Jill DeWit:
Because people tell you that. And it's really your coworkers around you that are just in a little trap and little hamster wheel.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/03/jill-friday-showing-up-for-work-la-1583/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">m3tW6JP5Q</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d3b9f808-d484-4d43-8c18-db95a306a047.mp3" length="8895163" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>08:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Rather be Dead in Arizona than Alive in California (LA 1582)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Rather be Dead in Arizona than Alive in California (LA 1582)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Rather be Dead in Arizona than Alive in California (LA 1582)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'd rather be dead in Arizona than alive in California.

Jill DeWit:
That was from the banana stand, Arrested Development.

Steven J Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
I love that show. Such a good show.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, actually it was in reverse though, on the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Before-

Jill DeWit:
Rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Okay, got it.

Steven J Butala:
Like a lot of states, where we're adjacent and we're not big fans of each other.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Actually, I have something funny to share about that real quick. I talked to our insurance guy today, our former insurance guy in California. He informed me that he recently got ... He got his certification or license or whatever, for all the states. All his people are moving too out of California. He says, "I've gotten Nevada, I've got Arizona."

Steven J Butala:
Texas.

Jill DeWit:
"I've got Texas."

Steven J Butala:
Florida.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. He's rolling them off. He's like, "So I can help you in Arizona now." And I'm like, "Oh, this is funny, I didn't know that." He's like, "Yeah, because all my clients were leaving." So anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Ty wrote, "I am new and working through the steps so take this with a grain of salt. I hired a full-time customer service specialist off Online Jobs. I made-"

Steven J Butala:
Onlinejobs.ph, for the Philippines.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, interesting. "I made sure to include data specialist in the post and I got about 20 resumes. In my post I requested a video introduction, which I understand can limit replies, but [inaudible 00:01:50] that important to find someone outgoing and personable."

Steven J Butala:
Outstanding.

Jill DeWit:
"Took the best five and did one-on-one interviews. Hired the best of those for a one-week working interview. Made Jason team member number one," ah, "an offer today and he accepted."

Jill DeWit:
I am stoked at the level of communication, knowledge of data systems, ability to handle tasks without hand-holding, overall professionalism, zero accent by the way. I can not be happier, but it's only been a week. He'll be working my time zone too, by the way, important since I want him to answer all incoming calls and data collection." This is huge.

Steven J Butala:
This is the best news ever.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven J Butala:
And I can tell, Ty, how you're writing this, and I can just tell how it's successful you're going to be at this.

Jill DeWit:
Wow. That's so good.

Steven J Butala:
I'm really happy for you. And I think we've had nothing but positive experiences with the Philippines in general.

Jill DeWit:
That's really good.

Steven J Butala:
We have a lot of people working for us in the Philippines.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
And they all report to our department heads here in the States.

Jill DeWit:
It's really cool.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic, it's Jack Thursday and I'd rather be dead in Arizona than alive in California. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So you turned that all around, why?

Steven J Butala:
What's the problem with California? Really, I ask myself this all the time. And I'll start off by saying this very positively, it's a shame what's happened to California. It's a shame what's happened to Detroit. So I grew up in Detroit and I watched it deteri...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Rather be Dead in Arizona than Alive in California (LA 1582)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and I'd rather be dead in Arizona than alive in California.

Jill DeWit:
That was from the banana stand, Arrested Development.

Steven J Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
I love that show. Such a good show.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, actually it was in reverse though, on the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Before-

Jill DeWit:
Rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Okay, got it.

Steven J Butala:
Like a lot of states, where we're adjacent and we're not big fans of each other.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Actually, I have something funny to share about that real quick. I talked to our insurance guy today, our former insurance guy in California. He informed me that he recently got ... He got his certification or license or whatever, for all the states. All his people are moving too out of California. He says, "I've gotten Nevada, I've got Arizona."

Steven J Butala:
Texas.

Jill DeWit:
"I've got Texas."

Steven J Butala:
Florida.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. He's rolling them off. He's like, "So I can help you in Arizona now." And I'm like, "Oh, this is funny, I didn't know that." He's like, "Yeah, because all my clients were leaving." So anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Ty wrote, "I am new and working through the steps so take this with a grain of salt. I hired a full-time customer service specialist off Online Jobs. I made-"

Steven J Butala:
Onlinejobs.ph, for the Philippines.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, interesting. "I made sure to include data specialist in the post and I got about 20 resumes. In my post I requested a video introduction, which I understand can limit replies, but [inaudible 00:01:50] that important to find someone outgoing and personable."

Steven J Butala:
Outstanding.

Jill DeWit:
"Took the best five and did one-on-one interviews. Hired the best of those for a one-week working interview. Made Jason team member number one," ah, "an offer today and he accepted."

Jill DeWit:
I am stoked at the level of communication, knowledge of data systems, ability to handle tasks without hand-holding, overall professionalism, zero accent by the way. I can not be happier, but it's only been a week. He'll be working my time zone too, by the way, important since I want him to answer all incoming calls and data collection." This is huge.

Steven J Butala:
This is the best news ever.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven J Butala:
And I can tell, Ty, how you're writing this, and I can just tell how it's successful you're going to be at this.

Jill DeWit:
Wow. That's so good.

Steven J Butala:
I'm really happy for you. And I think we've had nothing but positive experiences with the Philippines in general.

Jill DeWit:
That's really good.

Steven J Butala:
We have a lot of people working for us in the Philippines.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
And they all report to our department heads here in the States.

Jill DeWit:
It's really cool.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic, it's Jack Thursday and I'd rather be dead in Arizona than alive in California. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So you turned that all around, why?

Steven J Butala:
What's the problem with California? Really, I ask myself this all the time. And I'll start off by saying this very positively, it's a shame what's happened to California. It's a shame what's happened to Detroit. So I grew up in Detroit and I watched it deteri...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/02/jack-thursday-rather-be-dead-in-arizona-than-alive-in-california-la-1582/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e-k-nHWGr</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7c326919-cb80-4cab-8dd6-b3a7e839e852.mp3" length="13594903" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>LandFunding.com is Live (LA 1581)</title><itunes:title>LandFunding.com is Live (LA 1581)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[LandFunding.com is Live (LA 1581)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about landfunding.com and how it's now live.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited. This is so cool.

Steven J Butala:
You do not need money to be a successful land investor.

Jill DeWit:
What? Isn't that amazing. So many people, that's it. Getting into real estate of any kind, the barrier to entry for some people is like, I just don't have the money. I guess, I can't do it. I can't be like those cool HGTV people. Are you cool Land Academy people.

Steven J Butala:
People ask me, why would you ever start something like Land Academy and share all these secrets, when you had this perfectly awesome scenario going, and you guys are just traveling down, making millions of dollars a month? Here's why, limitless capital. And that's what Land Academy has provided, not only for us, now for everyone.

Steven J Butala:
Money people come out of the woodwork, including us and fund our stuff, and so we are those people. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "I have a dilemma that I'd like to get feedback on. Try to be brief and concise. I listed a small value property with an agent about a month ago. He expects it to sell in three to six months at a net profit that I'm happy with. Much longer timeframe than I like now, but he's an old school cowboy, who has worked vacant land in this area for decades. Ultimately, I bring him volume, then move on to the next deal, wait for the money to return, and it frees up a lot of my time since he takes on the sales and the marketing."

Jill DeWit:
"Communications so far has been, meh, but looking over his track record, I'm inclined to believe him. Received an offer today that I'm happy to take, but was from a pre-agent listing. And I would have to get the agent to cancel the contract." I don't know what that is. So someone today or long-term relationship to sell more at a slower pace. Oh, I see what it was. He listed it with somebody else and now he has this guy.

Steven J Butala:
Now, he's got the cowboy.

Jill DeWit:
So then the old guy found one. Oh, okay. Okay. "I'm not sure if I'm being patient or practical. Thank you for advance. Need to get this out of my head and get different perspectives."

Steven J Butala:
You go first.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Wait. So I'm trying to understand this.

Steven J Butala:
He had it listed with somebody with a beehive hairdo from the 50s and little cat eyeglasses.

Jill DeWit:
And that expired.

Steven J Butala:
That expired.

Jill DeWit:
And now he found a new guy.

Steven J Butala:
They dropped the ball. He got the right guy, the cowboy. Okay. And the beehive hairdo person produced an offer.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, the right thing to do is, shoot. The right thing to do is, the guy that he has a contract with now. The beehive doesn't really have a leg to stand on. You got to do the right thing.

Steven J Butala:
I know what I would do.

Jill DeWit:
And I wouldn't want to risk.

Steven J Butala:
I would never cut this cowboy out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't want to risk that guy, losing him.

Steven J Butala:
Yep, me too. Long-term, I choose B, long-term relationship.

Jill DeWit:
You need to talk to him and come and say, what do you guys usually do in this situation? That's what I would say. You knew that I had it with somebody else. That contract expired. Here we are. What's the protocol?

Steven J Butala:
I'm pretty sure if he'd just contractually read it, everyone needs to get paid.

Jill DeWit:
And then they'd probably have to split it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[LandFunding.com is Live (LA 1581)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about landfunding.com and how it's now live.

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited. This is so cool.

Steven J Butala:
You do not need money to be a successful land investor.

Jill DeWit:
What? Isn't that amazing. So many people, that's it. Getting into real estate of any kind, the barrier to entry for some people is like, I just don't have the money. I guess, I can't do it. I can't be like those cool HGTV people. Are you cool Land Academy people.

Steven J Butala:
People ask me, why would you ever start something like Land Academy and share all these secrets, when you had this perfectly awesome scenario going, and you guys are just traveling down, making millions of dollars a month? Here's why, limitless capital. And that's what Land Academy has provided, not only for us, now for everyone.

Steven J Butala:
Money people come out of the woodwork, including us and fund our stuff, and so we are those people. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "I have a dilemma that I'd like to get feedback on. Try to be brief and concise. I listed a small value property with an agent about a month ago. He expects it to sell in three to six months at a net profit that I'm happy with. Much longer timeframe than I like now, but he's an old school cowboy, who has worked vacant land in this area for decades. Ultimately, I bring him volume, then move on to the next deal, wait for the money to return, and it frees up a lot of my time since he takes on the sales and the marketing."

Jill DeWit:
"Communications so far has been, meh, but looking over his track record, I'm inclined to believe him. Received an offer today that I'm happy to take, but was from a pre-agent listing. And I would have to get the agent to cancel the contract." I don't know what that is. So someone today or long-term relationship to sell more at a slower pace. Oh, I see what it was. He listed it with somebody else and now he has this guy.

Steven J Butala:
Now, he's got the cowboy.

Jill DeWit:
So then the old guy found one. Oh, okay. Okay. "I'm not sure if I'm being patient or practical. Thank you for advance. Need to get this out of my head and get different perspectives."

Steven J Butala:
You go first.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Wait. So I'm trying to understand this.

Steven J Butala:
He had it listed with somebody with a beehive hairdo from the 50s and little cat eyeglasses.

Jill DeWit:
And that expired.

Steven J Butala:
That expired.

Jill DeWit:
And now he found a new guy.

Steven J Butala:
They dropped the ball. He got the right guy, the cowboy. Okay. And the beehive hairdo person produced an offer.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, the right thing to do is, shoot. The right thing to do is, the guy that he has a contract with now. The beehive doesn't really have a leg to stand on. You got to do the right thing.

Steven J Butala:
I know what I would do.

Jill DeWit:
And I wouldn't want to risk.

Steven J Butala:
I would never cut this cowboy out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't want to risk that guy, losing him.

Steven J Butala:
Yep, me too. Long-term, I choose B, long-term relationship.

Jill DeWit:
You need to talk to him and come and say, what do you guys usually do in this situation? That's what I would say. You knew that I had it with somebody else. That contract expired. Here we are. What's the protocol?

Steven J Butala:
I'm pretty sure if he'd just contractually read it, everyone needs to get paid.

Jill DeWit:
And then they'd probably have to split it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/09/01/landfunding-com-is-live-la-1581/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qRv40KnX2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dd1a29f3-c974-4033-ba85-8d80ea735b19.mp3" length="12303709" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:27</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Top 5 Habits of Successful Millionaires (LA 1580)</title><itunes:title>Top 5 Habits of Successful Millionaires (LA 1580)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Top 5 Habits of Successful Millionaires (LA 1580)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the top five habits of successful millionaires. Recently Credit Suisse, not recently last year in 2020 did a pretty extensive survey. We were not included.

Jill DeWit:
Who did this?

Steven J Butala:
Credit Suisse.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Of 10,000 voluntary millionaires.

Jill DeWit:
Sounds like you're so adamant. Credit Suisse. Okay.

Steven J Butala:
And...

Jill DeWit:
Are they a bank?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. It's a-

Jill DeWit:
Isn't it a bank?

Steven J Butala:
They're a full bank, an investment bank and all of that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, all right.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into-

Jill DeWit:
Are they American millionaires or they're just European millionaires?

Steven J Butala:
They're all American.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. I just have some questions. I'm curious. Thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get in, there's 20 million millionaires in the country.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
In this country and there's a lot less multi-millionaires. And I don't know the exact number, but it's dramatically less.

Jill DeWit:
So it's just, if you have one million, you're a million.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. And it's a net worth thing.

Jill DeWit:
There's a lot of people.

Steven J Butala:
It's a net worth. So it could be stock, it could... most houses are worth-

Jill DeWit:
Your retirement.

Steven J Butala:
Equity, and your house is more than a million, so.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. That's all of Southern California.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
They didn't start out that way, but they are there now.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, there's a show coming up later this Jack Thursday where I'm going to talk all about California.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, goodie. I can't wait for that one. I will have a helmet on. no kidding.

Steven J Butala:
Thursays become a rant.

Jill DeWit:
I think I'm going to go put my helmet on.

Steven J Butala:
Thursday just become, we should just call it Jack rant Thursday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, pretty much.

Steven J Butala:
You know what the problem is? People are emailing me saying this is my favorite-

Jill DeWit:
Sweetie.

Steven J Butala:
My favorite podcast is Thursday when you go off on all this stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Because they're poking the bear.

Steven J Butala:
You think?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It doesn't take much.

Steven J Butala:
I never went to my parents and said, "I really love when you yell at me."

Jill DeWit:
Say renovation, renovation. Watch what happens.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Danielle wrote, "Do we need to build a buyers list if we're going after bigger deals that will be handled by an agent? I'm spending all this money doing Facebook ads. And although they're going to my website and submitting their email, I feel like majority of these leads are tire kickers. The general inquiry about my marketplace ads is about the ability to camp or put a mobile on the property. So far, it feels like a waste." What was the beginning of the question? I'm sorry. I would mail the buyers list. Yeah, no, I don't think anything of this is bad at all. Why are you looking at me like I'm nuts?

Steven J Butala:
Well, because I don't think that.

Jill DeWit:
I think it's great.

Steven J Butala:
I don't necessarily... We have a five buyers in a very specific area where I buy and sell a ton of property. I have my stuff and Jill has her stuff.

Jill DeWit:
But you never know.

Steven J Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Top 5 Habits of Successful Millionaires (LA 1580)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the top five habits of successful millionaires. Recently Credit Suisse, not recently last year in 2020 did a pretty extensive survey. We were not included.

Jill DeWit:
Who did this?

Steven J Butala:
Credit Suisse.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Of 10,000 voluntary millionaires.

Jill DeWit:
Sounds like you're so adamant. Credit Suisse. Okay.

Steven J Butala:
And...

Jill DeWit:
Are they a bank?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. It's a-

Jill DeWit:
Isn't it a bank?

Steven J Butala:
They're a full bank, an investment bank and all of that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, all right.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into-

Jill DeWit:
Are they American millionaires or they're just European millionaires?

Steven J Butala:
They're all American.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. I just have some questions. I'm curious. Thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get in, there's 20 million millionaires in the country.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
In this country and there's a lot less multi-millionaires. And I don't know the exact number, but it's dramatically less.

Jill DeWit:
So it's just, if you have one million, you're a million.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. And it's a net worth thing.

Jill DeWit:
There's a lot of people.

Steven J Butala:
It's a net worth. So it could be stock, it could... most houses are worth-

Jill DeWit:
Your retirement.

Steven J Butala:
Equity, and your house is more than a million, so.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. That's all of Southern California.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
They didn't start out that way, but they are there now.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, there's a show coming up later this Jack Thursday where I'm going to talk all about California.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, goodie. I can't wait for that one. I will have a helmet on. no kidding.

Steven J Butala:
Thursays become a rant.

Jill DeWit:
I think I'm going to go put my helmet on.

Steven J Butala:
Thursday just become, we should just call it Jack rant Thursday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, pretty much.

Steven J Butala:
You know what the problem is? People are emailing me saying this is my favorite-

Jill DeWit:
Sweetie.

Steven J Butala:
My favorite podcast is Thursday when you go off on all this stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Because they're poking the bear.

Steven J Butala:
You think?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It doesn't take much.

Steven J Butala:
I never went to my parents and said, "I really love when you yell at me."

Jill DeWit:
Say renovation, renovation. Watch what happens.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Danielle wrote, "Do we need to build a buyers list if we're going after bigger deals that will be handled by an agent? I'm spending all this money doing Facebook ads. And although they're going to my website and submitting their email, I feel like majority of these leads are tire kickers. The general inquiry about my marketplace ads is about the ability to camp or put a mobile on the property. So far, it feels like a waste." What was the beginning of the question? I'm sorry. I would mail the buyers list. Yeah, no, I don't think anything of this is bad at all. Why are you looking at me like I'm nuts?

Steven J Butala:
Well, because I don't think that.

Jill DeWit:
I think it's great.

Steven J Butala:
I don't necessarily... We have a five buyers in a very specific area where I buy and sell a ton of property. I have my stuff and Jill has her stuff.

Jill DeWit:
But you never know.

Steven J Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/31/top-5-habits-of-successful-millionaires-la-1580/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jkTyHVfcT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:57:15 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cda75aa9-9f44-4d60-96b0-e260c27f1fef.mp3" length="15288473" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Basics of the Land Business (LA 1579)</title><itunes:title>The Basics of the Land Business (LA 1579)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Basics of the Land Business (LA 1579)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the basics of the land business. This whole topic came from a discussion on Discord, which I just thought was brilliant and so we'll talk all about ... Every business comes down to a few simple things.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Like when you think about Amazon or Walmart, there's one or two sentences you can describe the whole thing.

Jill DeWit:
Cheap.

Steven J Butala:
Cheap, fast.

Jill DeWit:
Fast.

Steven J Butala:
Easy.

Jill DeWit:
Let's see. Costco ...

Steven J Butala:
Abundant.

Jill DeWit:
... is quality.

Steven J Butala:
Quality. Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Nordstrom is customer service.

Steven J Butala:
Is it?

Jill DeWit:
I think so. It is for me.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on TheLandInvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I like to add ... We're going to rewrite our things here, too. Even though I'm interrupting all this to insert one more thing, I'm going to insert one more thing because our team asked me to and I need to fix this. We mentioned the Discord. Have I mentioned Clubhouse lately? Every Thursday at one o'clock Pacific Time you can find us on Clubhouse. Check it out. Go to the group or the club called Land ... Shoot, I think it's called Land Investors. How funny is that? Get to know your own stuff. I don't know. And by the way, too, don't forget you can also find us all over the heck on YouTube on Land Academy. Thank you.

Jill DeWit:
So, Chuck wrote, "I'm finding huge differences for properties on the market between LandWatch, Redfin, Zillow and Realtor. For example, in one county I'm looking at LandWatch and it shows 1,883 properties. Redfin shows 334 properties." These are all for sale, I'm assuming. "Realtor shows 959 and Zillow 346. Zillow's six months old shows 651. Redfin shows 389. The Zillow for sale/sold ratio is good but the others not so much. This makes it weird trying to evaluate what's really going on. Using the largest for sale, which is LandWatch and the most six month sales, which is Zillow, results in an undesirable ratio. This contradicts the fair ratio in Zillow for sale/sold. I'm coming to the conclusion that I should find another county." This is hilarious. "But ..."

Steven J Butala:
I'm coming to that conclusion, too.

Jill DeWit:
"... I want to see if anyone else has this issue and how it's dealt with. Thank you."

Steven J Butala:
Here's ...

Jill DeWit:
That's a tough one. You got to do apples to apples, not apples to oranges and oranges to pineapple, which is, it sounds like, what's going on.

Steven J Butala:
Jill's exactly right. Whatever you do for the red, green, yellow test you need to do it if you're going to look at Zillow active versus sold ... You need to look Zillow/Zillow.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Redfin/Redfin. Here's the deal. Realtor.com only lists properties that are listed with an active real estate agent. Period. It's the national MLS. Redfin has a very vested interest in listing properties that are with their agents or agents that comply with their business model, and so if you need to learn more about Redfin, which I'm pretty impressed with ... Redfin's kind of taking an ... This is an off-shoot comment/opinion of mine. Redfin has taken a terrible ...

Jill DeWit:
Alert, alert.

Steven J Butala:
... A terrible situation, which is this damn MLS, and made something good out of it. And so, they're only in certain places, in urban areas, not rural. But we're in the business of rural land so Redfin, we don't use it that much.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Basics of the Land Business (LA 1579)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the basics of the land business. This whole topic came from a discussion on Discord, which I just thought was brilliant and so we'll talk all about ... Every business comes down to a few simple things.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Like when you think about Amazon or Walmart, there's one or two sentences you can describe the whole thing.

Jill DeWit:
Cheap.

Steven J Butala:
Cheap, fast.

Jill DeWit:
Fast.

Steven J Butala:
Easy.

Jill DeWit:
Let's see. Costco ...

Steven J Butala:
Abundant.

Jill DeWit:
... is quality.

Steven J Butala:
Quality. Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Nordstrom is customer service.

Steven J Butala:
Is it?

Jill DeWit:
I think so. It is for me.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on TheLandInvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I like to add ... We're going to rewrite our things here, too. Even though I'm interrupting all this to insert one more thing, I'm going to insert one more thing because our team asked me to and I need to fix this. We mentioned the Discord. Have I mentioned Clubhouse lately? Every Thursday at one o'clock Pacific Time you can find us on Clubhouse. Check it out. Go to the group or the club called Land ... Shoot, I think it's called Land Investors. How funny is that? Get to know your own stuff. I don't know. And by the way, too, don't forget you can also find us all over the heck on YouTube on Land Academy. Thank you.

Jill DeWit:
So, Chuck wrote, "I'm finding huge differences for properties on the market between LandWatch, Redfin, Zillow and Realtor. For example, in one county I'm looking at LandWatch and it shows 1,883 properties. Redfin shows 334 properties." These are all for sale, I'm assuming. "Realtor shows 959 and Zillow 346. Zillow's six months old shows 651. Redfin shows 389. The Zillow for sale/sold ratio is good but the others not so much. This makes it weird trying to evaluate what's really going on. Using the largest for sale, which is LandWatch and the most six month sales, which is Zillow, results in an undesirable ratio. This contradicts the fair ratio in Zillow for sale/sold. I'm coming to the conclusion that I should find another county." This is hilarious. "But ..."

Steven J Butala:
I'm coming to that conclusion, too.

Jill DeWit:
"... I want to see if anyone else has this issue and how it's dealt with. Thank you."

Steven J Butala:
Here's ...

Jill DeWit:
That's a tough one. You got to do apples to apples, not apples to oranges and oranges to pineapple, which is, it sounds like, what's going on.

Steven J Butala:
Jill's exactly right. Whatever you do for the red, green, yellow test you need to do it if you're going to look at Zillow active versus sold ... You need to look Zillow/Zillow.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Redfin/Redfin. Here's the deal. Realtor.com only lists properties that are listed with an active real estate agent. Period. It's the national MLS. Redfin has a very vested interest in listing properties that are with their agents or agents that comply with their business model, and so if you need to learn more about Redfin, which I'm pretty impressed with ... Redfin's kind of taking an ... This is an off-shoot comment/opinion of mine. Redfin has taken a terrible ...

Jill DeWit:
Alert, alert.

Steven J Butala:
... A terrible situation, which is this damn MLS, and made something good out of it. And so, they're only in certain places, in urban areas, not rural. But we're in the business of rural land so Redfin, we don't use it that much.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/30/the-basics-of-the-land-business-la-1579/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">j2h7sfE4T</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0288662b-0248-4a44-8e13-61ebe1345776.mp3" length="12610339" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; When is the Right Time to Leave Your Job (LA 1578)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; When is the Right Time to Leave Your Job (LA 1578)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - When is the Right Time to Leave Your Job (LA 1578)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk, well, it's Jill Friday. And Jill talks about when is the right time to leave your job. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Stephen wrote.

Steven Butala:
I really think it's Stephan. With an A here.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Excuse me. Did you just correct me on that?

Steven Butala:
It's an offshoot.

Jill DeWit:
What if it is Stephen?

Steven Butala:
It's an offshoot of-

Jill DeWit:
What the heck was that?

Steven Butala:
The name Jill. Jill says.

Jill DeWit:
What the heck?

Steven Butala:
I'm just horsing around.

Jill DeWit:
Stefan. There's no-

Steven Butala:
It might be Stephan.

Jill DeWit:
There's no dots or anything above the A. Should we clarify this? What the heck is that?

Steven Butala:
The root of all this is that I have one of the most silly common name there ever was, so when there's just a slight off shoot on it, I'm happy. Anyway.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
Whatever.

Jill DeWit:
You know who you are wrote, and please, as I read this question, and you identify that it's you, would you please be so kind as to send him an email, or please put it in Discord, or somewhere.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Please don't [crosstalk 00:01:41].

Jill DeWit:
The correct pronunciation of your name.

Steven Butala:
Please don't send me emails.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Because this one apparently would like to know and make sure we get it right. Because okay, are we done now?

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. It reads, "Pro tip. If you use the first search function on Land Academy, it will also search podcast transcripts. I recently found a great paralegal for handling a probate issue by searching the word heirship. Come to think of it, jill says the words, 'neighbor letters,' at the end of every podcast, since Neighbor Scoop was released, so it might not work for this." That's funny. That's cool. So, on our website, you can just search, and then all that stuff comes up. That's good.

Steven Butala:
There's some amazing search tools on Discord, and all kinds of places for all kinds of information, to get really, I mean, it's one of the, that's why I put this in here. We should talk about it more. There's thousands and thousands and thousands-

Jill DeWit:
Of hours.

Steven Butala:
Of pages of content.

Jill DeWit:
Of content.

Steven Butala:
And there's transcripts for, beginning from Episode 0. And we were on, this is Episode 1578. And the transcripts are all in there, every single one. So, if you do have a specific question about, I mean, I'm betting, we probably talked about it just about everything.

Jill DeWit:
So, someone right now is listening going, "You mean I don't have to listen to this? I can just read it?"

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
"Oh, my life just improved. I can skim the cliff notes and not have to go through this torture?" Yes, that's true.

Steven Butala:
Because I'd rather be listening to Led Zeppelin anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, my goodness. All right. Moving on. Today is Jill Friday. When is the right time to leave your job? This is the meat of the show. Okay. One of the things that I do is, still do, not very often. It's really a part of Career Path. We've gotten busy, in case you didn't know. So, us and our normal consulting is not readily available, but it is inside of Career Path. So, I did a consulting recently for a person inside of Career Path, and this was the gist of the conversation. This person is in a wonderful position. I mean, great job, W-2,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - When is the Right Time to Leave Your Job (LA 1578)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk, well, it's Jill Friday. And Jill talks about when is the right time to leave your job. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Stephen wrote.

Steven Butala:
I really think it's Stephan. With an A here.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Excuse me. Did you just correct me on that?

Steven Butala:
It's an offshoot.

Jill DeWit:
What if it is Stephen?

Steven Butala:
It's an offshoot of-

Jill DeWit:
What the heck was that?

Steven Butala:
The name Jill. Jill says.

Jill DeWit:
What the heck?

Steven Butala:
I'm just horsing around.

Jill DeWit:
Stefan. There's no-

Steven Butala:
It might be Stephan.

Jill DeWit:
There's no dots or anything above the A. Should we clarify this? What the heck is that?

Steven Butala:
The root of all this is that I have one of the most silly common name there ever was, so when there's just a slight off shoot on it, I'm happy. Anyway.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
Whatever.

Jill DeWit:
You know who you are wrote, and please, as I read this question, and you identify that it's you, would you please be so kind as to send him an email, or please put it in Discord, or somewhere.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Please don't [crosstalk 00:01:41].

Jill DeWit:
The correct pronunciation of your name.

Steven Butala:
Please don't send me emails.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Because this one apparently would like to know and make sure we get it right. Because okay, are we done now?

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. It reads, "Pro tip. If you use the first search function on Land Academy, it will also search podcast transcripts. I recently found a great paralegal for handling a probate issue by searching the word heirship. Come to think of it, jill says the words, 'neighbor letters,' at the end of every podcast, since Neighbor Scoop was released, so it might not work for this." That's funny. That's cool. So, on our website, you can just search, and then all that stuff comes up. That's good.

Steven Butala:
There's some amazing search tools on Discord, and all kinds of places for all kinds of information, to get really, I mean, it's one of the, that's why I put this in here. We should talk about it more. There's thousands and thousands and thousands-

Jill DeWit:
Of hours.

Steven Butala:
Of pages of content.

Jill DeWit:
Of content.

Steven Butala:
And there's transcripts for, beginning from Episode 0. And we were on, this is Episode 1578. And the transcripts are all in there, every single one. So, if you do have a specific question about, I mean, I'm betting, we probably talked about it just about everything.

Jill DeWit:
So, someone right now is listening going, "You mean I don't have to listen to this? I can just read it?"

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
"Oh, my life just improved. I can skim the cliff notes and not have to go through this torture?" Yes, that's true.

Steven Butala:
Because I'd rather be listening to Led Zeppelin anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, my goodness. All right. Moving on. Today is Jill Friday. When is the right time to leave your job? This is the meat of the show. Okay. One of the things that I do is, still do, not very often. It's really a part of Career Path. We've gotten busy, in case you didn't know. So, us and our normal consulting is not readily available, but it is inside of Career Path. So, I did a consulting recently for a person inside of Career Path, and this was the gist of the conversation. This person is in a wonderful position. I mean, great job, W-2,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/27/jill-friday-when-is-the-right-time-to-leave-your-job-la-1578/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">rcXvHqGZ_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:04:47 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8640a33d-efbf-4ed5-a1c4-bdb34e652ca9.mp3" length="18394597" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Constant Change Personally and Professionally (LA 1577)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Constant Change Personally and Professionally (LA 1577)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Constant Change Personally and Professionally (LA 1577)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Hey, it's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about constant change, personally and professionally. Should be no surprises here, yet we get constant questions.

Jill DeWit:
We're not talking about changing your marital status or the number of children or things like that. That's not what we mean by constant change. Correct?

Steven Butala:
This is all because on Discord, somebody who's brand new, rightfully so, requested that we add a channel called new stupid questions.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
And I didn't realize this, but people were kind of intimidated about asking brand new questions, and that should never happen in an environment like this. And so-

Jill DeWit:
Put stupid questions.

Steven Butala:
Just brand new questions like, is 40 acres of better than 20? And I'm in there actively saying there's no such thing... there isn't, no such thing as a silly question or a wrong question-

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. It's okay.

Steven Butala:
... in that channel. There's a lot of places where that's a ridiculous question, including some places in Land Academy, but-

Jill DeWit:
Got it. I understand.

Steven Butala:
That's what this is about.

Jill DeWit:
So, as a disclaimer, if you open this thread, be ready. That's good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord, like I just said.

Jill DeWit:
Danielle wrote "When sending out neighbor letters, do you just send a certain radius around a property? How far out do you go? Thanks."

Steven Butala:
Okay. I specifically chose this question because of this topic. What do you think the answer is?

Jill DeWit:
Till you get a certain number because you... I don't want like three. I want a lot. Okay, let me back up. Are you getting mad? You look like you had like a "huhh."

Steven Butala:
No, I'm not mad at you.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thought-

Steven Butala:
And I'm not, certainly not mad at Danielle. Just go ahead. [crosstalk 00:02:12]

Jill DeWit:
Well, you know what? Now I'm afraid to answer. Oh, I'm not going to answer now. You go.

Steven Butala:
What do you think the answer is to this question?

Jill DeWit:
Do you get-

Steven Butala:
And why are we trying to put this in a box? It has nothing to do with Danielle. Please don't take this personally.

Jill DeWit:
No. I personally go out far enough-

Steven Butala:
The answer is it constantly changes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh God. Okay, I can't win.

Steven Butala:
I don't know. There's a constant theme that goes on in Land Academy, and I think in life, where everyone's trying to get a straight answer, a straight hard answer-

Jill DeWit:
I understand. It's not 1.2 miles.

Steven Butala:
Yes, thank you, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
That's fair. Okay. Now I understand where you're trying to go with this. Yeah, because 1.2 miles, depending on... Here's why. 1.2 miles, depending on how big all the properties are around there, might give you 10, and that's really not enough.

Steven Butala:
How many is enough?

Jill DeWit:
Maybe you go so enough that-

Steven Butala:
You can't answer that.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
There's no answer to this.

Jill DeWit:
Well, enough that you're going to yield a bunch [crosstalk 00:03:10] of feedback.

Steven Butala:
It constantly changes, and you have to get... This is what's beautiful about real estate and what is awful about, let's say day trading.

Jill DeWit:
It is Jack Thursday.

Steven Butala:
Because there is an answer. There is an answer about day trading to everything. If you do this,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Constant Change Personally and Professionally (LA 1577)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Hey, it's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about constant change, personally and professionally. Should be no surprises here, yet we get constant questions.

Jill DeWit:
We're not talking about changing your marital status or the number of children or things like that. That's not what we mean by constant change. Correct?

Steven Butala:
This is all because on Discord, somebody who's brand new, rightfully so, requested that we add a channel called new stupid questions.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
And I didn't realize this, but people were kind of intimidated about asking brand new questions, and that should never happen in an environment like this. And so-

Jill DeWit:
Put stupid questions.

Steven Butala:
Just brand new questions like, is 40 acres of better than 20? And I'm in there actively saying there's no such thing... there isn't, no such thing as a silly question or a wrong question-

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. It's okay.

Steven Butala:
... in that channel. There's a lot of places where that's a ridiculous question, including some places in Land Academy, but-

Jill DeWit:
Got it. I understand.

Steven Butala:
That's what this is about.

Jill DeWit:
So, as a disclaimer, if you open this thread, be ready. That's good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord, like I just said.

Jill DeWit:
Danielle wrote "When sending out neighbor letters, do you just send a certain radius around a property? How far out do you go? Thanks."

Steven Butala:
Okay. I specifically chose this question because of this topic. What do you think the answer is?

Jill DeWit:
Till you get a certain number because you... I don't want like three. I want a lot. Okay, let me back up. Are you getting mad? You look like you had like a "huhh."

Steven Butala:
No, I'm not mad at you.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thought-

Steven Butala:
And I'm not, certainly not mad at Danielle. Just go ahead. [crosstalk 00:02:12]

Jill DeWit:
Well, you know what? Now I'm afraid to answer. Oh, I'm not going to answer now. You go.

Steven Butala:
What do you think the answer is to this question?

Jill DeWit:
Do you get-

Steven Butala:
And why are we trying to put this in a box? It has nothing to do with Danielle. Please don't take this personally.

Jill DeWit:
No. I personally go out far enough-

Steven Butala:
The answer is it constantly changes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh God. Okay, I can't win.

Steven Butala:
I don't know. There's a constant theme that goes on in Land Academy, and I think in life, where everyone's trying to get a straight answer, a straight hard answer-

Jill DeWit:
I understand. It's not 1.2 miles.

Steven Butala:
Yes, thank you, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
That's fair. Okay. Now I understand where you're trying to go with this. Yeah, because 1.2 miles, depending on... Here's why. 1.2 miles, depending on how big all the properties are around there, might give you 10, and that's really not enough.

Steven Butala:
How many is enough?

Jill DeWit:
Maybe you go so enough that-

Steven Butala:
You can't answer that.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
There's no answer to this.

Jill DeWit:
Well, enough that you're going to yield a bunch [crosstalk 00:03:10] of feedback.

Steven Butala:
It constantly changes, and you have to get... This is what's beautiful about real estate and what is awful about, let's say day trading.

Jill DeWit:
It is Jack Thursday.

Steven Butala:
Because there is an answer. There is an answer about day trading to everything. If you do this,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/26/jack-thursday-constant-change-personally-and-professionally-la-1577/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3Hgzt_XO_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:55:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e96b50c9-d387-4b43-8094-1b69c05af7e7.mp3" length="14492685" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Would You Do with Limitless Capital (LA 1576)</title><itunes:title>What Would You Do with Limitless Capital (LA 1576)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[What Would You Do with Limitless Capital (LA 1576)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from pretty Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what would you do with limitless capital? I love this topic. I love talking about money.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, man the shopping I could do.

Steven Butala:
See? That's where it starts.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, oh, that's not what you meant? Oh, shoot.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
That's an honest mistake. I just kidding. Marianne wrote sometimes it's a blessing to have a full-time job that's a bit of a game delay in getting back to sellers. I was slammed at work and three callbacks stacked up from the same area. The pattern was a flag, and I was able to do some digging.

Steven Butala:
Red flag.

Jill DeWit:
Red flag. Okay. The subdivision originally sold 5 and 10 acre parcels that the county only allowed buildable at 20 acres. Interesting. It left a bunch of people unable to build their retirement homes and stuck with desert land in this state. My offers were based too high. My offers were too high based on this for purely recreational land, and I didn't even want them at all. I think if I had called the first seller back right away, I would have taken the deal. If anyone is into this sort of thing, please direct message me, perhaps one woman's trash, dot, dot, dot. That's good. So how do we learn to get better at finding and understanding legal descriptions and zoning codes? That's a part of this question, too?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. And so what she's getting at here is-

Jill DeWit:
Because she missed something and she might not have, I think.

Steven Butala:
What she's getting at here, this is my opinion, is chill out. Just chill out. Let your mailer do the work. These mailers do a ton of work for you. They don't just find sellers for you, which is amazing in its own right. They also tell you, hey, if there's 25 people responding to you immediately and signing your offers in one little area, that-

Jill DeWit:
There could be a problem.

Steven Butala:
It might be priced too high. And that's okay because you can go in and reduce prices and review it and whatnot. You have complete control over what properties you buy, entirely and completely. So let the mail do its job and chill out a little bit. Let them come back and choose the best one. It's like dating. Choose the best one.

Jill DeWit:
I was waiting. I'm like let him go. Let it go. He'll hang himself. It's fine. I don't need to get it on this.

Steven Butala:
And she says, how do we-

Jill DeWit:
Well, can I comment on this?

Steven Butala:
Oh, sure of course. Of course.

Jill DeWit:
I want to comment, too, that I love it. She quickly figured out on her own... People, this happens often. The first one comes back. We're scrambling to try to make it because it might be my only one. No, it won't. Hold on everyone. And the best thing I could say, too, is I'm glad you let hours and/or a day go by. I like to let a bunch of them come in. I want to review 10 deals at once, and I want you to review 10 deals at once. So then I know you're going to pick the best one. Don't try to make every deal, especially the first two or three, work because as she uncovered, there could be some problems. And I don't want you to try to see something that's not there. That happens. Now, on to the second part.

Steven Butala:
How do we learn to get better at finding and understanding legal descriptions and zoning codes? Google, YouTube, and Land Academy Discord. This was off of Discord, and this is a perfect place to start. And I didn't put it in this context,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[What Would You Do with Limitless Capital (LA 1576)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from pretty Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what would you do with limitless capital? I love this topic. I love talking about money.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, man the shopping I could do.

Steven Butala:
See? That's where it starts.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, oh, that's not what you meant? Oh, shoot.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
That's an honest mistake. I just kidding. Marianne wrote sometimes it's a blessing to have a full-time job that's a bit of a game delay in getting back to sellers. I was slammed at work and three callbacks stacked up from the same area. The pattern was a flag, and I was able to do some digging.

Steven Butala:
Red flag.

Jill DeWit:
Red flag. Okay. The subdivision originally sold 5 and 10 acre parcels that the county only allowed buildable at 20 acres. Interesting. It left a bunch of people unable to build their retirement homes and stuck with desert land in this state. My offers were based too high. My offers were too high based on this for purely recreational land, and I didn't even want them at all. I think if I had called the first seller back right away, I would have taken the deal. If anyone is into this sort of thing, please direct message me, perhaps one woman's trash, dot, dot, dot. That's good. So how do we learn to get better at finding and understanding legal descriptions and zoning codes? That's a part of this question, too?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. And so what she's getting at here is-

Jill DeWit:
Because she missed something and she might not have, I think.

Steven Butala:
What she's getting at here, this is my opinion, is chill out. Just chill out. Let your mailer do the work. These mailers do a ton of work for you. They don't just find sellers for you, which is amazing in its own right. They also tell you, hey, if there's 25 people responding to you immediately and signing your offers in one little area, that-

Jill DeWit:
There could be a problem.

Steven Butala:
It might be priced too high. And that's okay because you can go in and reduce prices and review it and whatnot. You have complete control over what properties you buy, entirely and completely. So let the mail do its job and chill out a little bit. Let them come back and choose the best one. It's like dating. Choose the best one.

Jill DeWit:
I was waiting. I'm like let him go. Let it go. He'll hang himself. It's fine. I don't need to get it on this.

Steven Butala:
And she says, how do we-

Jill DeWit:
Well, can I comment on this?

Steven Butala:
Oh, sure of course. Of course.

Jill DeWit:
I want to comment, too, that I love it. She quickly figured out on her own... People, this happens often. The first one comes back. We're scrambling to try to make it because it might be my only one. No, it won't. Hold on everyone. And the best thing I could say, too, is I'm glad you let hours and/or a day go by. I like to let a bunch of them come in. I want to review 10 deals at once, and I want you to review 10 deals at once. So then I know you're going to pick the best one. Don't try to make every deal, especially the first two or three, work because as she uncovered, there could be some problems. And I don't want you to try to see something that's not there. That happens. Now, on to the second part.

Steven Butala:
How do we learn to get better at finding and understanding legal descriptions and zoning codes? Google, YouTube, and Land Academy Discord. This was off of Discord, and this is a perfect place to start. And I didn't put it in this context,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/25/what-would-you-do-with-limitless-capital-la-1576/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">G23qtbtPo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b5cbe3d2-b1f7-4e4d-8d3f-488a058e1f25.mp3" length="16102375" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy 4 AM Club (LA 1575)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy 4 AM Club (LA 1575)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy 4 AM Club (LA 1575)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the Land Academy 4:00 AM club. Something that our members came up with because they have... Our newer members usually have regular W2 jobs and they're obviously not happy with that. So they still have their W2 jobs, as they should.

Jill DeWit:
We'll talk about it.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. I want to share more because I want to say where... I think it's just a really cool thing that they created. I want to share that.

Steven Butala:
First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
This is an exchange on Discord in the Success Stories channel. You hung out there. This is cool.

Steven Butala:
I love this channel.

Jill DeWit:
That was yesterday's question and today's question. So, all right. So this is written by a guy named Scott on August 11th, and it says, Jill mentioned she follows someone on Facebook in the group who travels full-time. That is our dream, RV life and international. If that is you, or you know who it is, DM me. Wink. I'd love to follow their page and be inspired.

Jill DeWit:
So this is another guy that also wrote, followed up on this. His name is Dan and he wrote, I don't travel full time at all, but was traveling for six weeks or so and was doing deals from my campsite next to the lake, with the weak little wifi signal I was getting. That was pretty awesome. So then Scott wrote back and replied, that's awesome. My wife is an immigrant and I like her to see more of the USA and get to go home more often. But it's impossible when you get two to three weeks off a year.

Steven Butala:
That's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
You put a lot in here. Okay. So then Steven, one of our members, Stephen A wrote, how about Land Academy members pool money and buy an RV park? And we can just do IRL Discord there with tall cans. What's IRL?

Steven Butala:
I don't know, but I love where this is going.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny. International, rural land. Maybe that's it. Something, I don't know. Scott wrote back, take my money. And then Steven A put, a grueling business weekend like that would have to be tax deductible. This is cute. That's really good.

Steven Butala:
This is the kind of stuff I put this in here because this is the kind of stuff that goes on, on Discord in this. Land Academy has become a culture. It's not just, "Hey, this is how you buy and sell land. And this is how you get wealthy." There's friendships happening for life. That's what the show is about. This 4:00 AM Club. These people will probably do deals with each other forever.

Jill DeWit:
That's really good. Yeah. It's a community. We help each other with all kinds of motivational and inspirational and getting through tough times and, you're right, it leads right into this show.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic. The Land Academy 4:00AM Club as described by Jill. This is going to be the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So as we're saying, people are finding each other and finding similarities in each other. And it was funny cause we were on something. We were all chatting as a group and somebody said, well, I get up at 4:00 AM. This is when I do my best work because I've got a little kids.

Steven Butala:
Children, yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I've got a day job. Sleep will come later. It's paying off. This is the time that I can get up and the house is quiet and no one bugs me. I can review my deals, get things in the works. And then I do my day job. And then somebody else said, I do the same thing. And then more and more people were joining and going, I do that too.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy 4 AM Club (LA 1575)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the Land Academy 4:00 AM club. Something that our members came up with because they have... Our newer members usually have regular W2 jobs and they're obviously not happy with that. So they still have their W2 jobs, as they should.

Jill DeWit:
We'll talk about it.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. I want to share more because I want to say where... I think it's just a really cool thing that they created. I want to share that.

Steven Butala:
First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
This is an exchange on Discord in the Success Stories channel. You hung out there. This is cool.

Steven Butala:
I love this channel.

Jill DeWit:
That was yesterday's question and today's question. So, all right. So this is written by a guy named Scott on August 11th, and it says, Jill mentioned she follows someone on Facebook in the group who travels full-time. That is our dream, RV life and international. If that is you, or you know who it is, DM me. Wink. I'd love to follow their page and be inspired.

Jill DeWit:
So this is another guy that also wrote, followed up on this. His name is Dan and he wrote, I don't travel full time at all, but was traveling for six weeks or so and was doing deals from my campsite next to the lake, with the weak little wifi signal I was getting. That was pretty awesome. So then Scott wrote back and replied, that's awesome. My wife is an immigrant and I like her to see more of the USA and get to go home more often. But it's impossible when you get two to three weeks off a year.

Steven Butala:
That's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
You put a lot in here. Okay. So then Steven, one of our members, Stephen A wrote, how about Land Academy members pool money and buy an RV park? And we can just do IRL Discord there with tall cans. What's IRL?

Steven Butala:
I don't know, but I love where this is going.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny. International, rural land. Maybe that's it. Something, I don't know. Scott wrote back, take my money. And then Steven A put, a grueling business weekend like that would have to be tax deductible. This is cute. That's really good.

Steven Butala:
This is the kind of stuff I put this in here because this is the kind of stuff that goes on, on Discord in this. Land Academy has become a culture. It's not just, "Hey, this is how you buy and sell land. And this is how you get wealthy." There's friendships happening for life. That's what the show is about. This 4:00 AM Club. These people will probably do deals with each other forever.

Jill DeWit:
That's really good. Yeah. It's a community. We help each other with all kinds of motivational and inspirational and getting through tough times and, you're right, it leads right into this show.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic. The Land Academy 4:00AM Club as described by Jill. This is going to be the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So as we're saying, people are finding each other and finding similarities in each other. And it was funny cause we were on something. We were all chatting as a group and somebody said, well, I get up at 4:00 AM. This is when I do my best work because I've got a little kids.

Steven Butala:
Children, yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I've got a day job. Sleep will come later. It's paying off. This is the time that I can get up and the house is quiet and no one bugs me. I can review my deals, get things in the works. And then I do my day job. And then somebody else said, I do the same thing. And then more and more people were joining and going, I do that too.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/24/land-academy-4-am-club-la-1575/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kholOSiQs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 21:59:44 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7606c405-c922-46f3-8ed6-73fdd4c6463b.mp3" length="12565495" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Questions 101 From Our Nephew (LA 1574)</title><itunes:title>Land Questions 101 From Our Nephew (LA 1574)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Questions 101 From Our Nephew (LA 1574)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about land questions 101, directly from our nephew last night at dinner.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny.

Steven Butala:
Knows nothing about land. And Jill said, "Hey. How about you ask us some questions about land? You know a lot about construction." He's involved in commercial construction, pretty successful for his age. He's in his early 20s and he's-

Jill DeWit:
About to graduate college.

Steven Butala:
In his own language, he asked us several questions.

Jill DeWit:
They were good questions.

Steven Butala:
Honestly, cracked me up.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, it was kind of [inaudible 00:00:45].

Steven Butala:
I think about it now, I didn't even answer the questions. I just collected the questions for the show and that's it.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
And he's never going to watch this or listen to it.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. He won't get the answers.

Steven Butala:
Before we get to the questions though, let's take a question, actually, from a Land Academy member from our online community at landinvestors.com, or if you're already a member, join us on Discord, Land Academy Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I got a new teleprompter, and I don't know how to you use yet.

Jill DeWit:
I know I like to know where the camera is. So here's the scoop, by the way. Even if you are a member, whether you're a member or not, we created an online community over five years ago, and it's packed with information, so that's landinvestors.com. So go in there, type in questions, get an account. It's free. Have fun.

Steven Butala:
Thank you for saving me, here.

Jill DeWit:
You're welcome. I'm just explaining it. Then Jack's extra little PS is, by the way, if you're a member, get in both environments because there's a back area on the online community, Land Investors. And then we have a separate little thing with the Discord app that we have constant, banter, chats running too for members. We want to make sure that our members know about that. I think by now, they do, but just saying.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into the actual show.

Jill DeWit:
Here's our question. Okay, here we go. So that was an explanation, so here's the question. Spencer wrote, "Success story for a Friday. I bought this property before joining Land Academy. I made some mistakes, but I learned a lot along the way. I paid $45,000 for a 20 and a half acre, 20.5 acre property in the Southeast on April 5th, excuse me, March 5th. I interviewed a few local realtors. I went with one that my title company recommended." That's a good way to find them.

Steven Butala:
This is smart, I can tell already.

Jill DeWit:
He explained that I needed to get a survey done on the property to correctly identify the driveway easement going into the neighbor's property. I listened and paid about $2000 for the survey. We listed on March 30th. So that was March 5th, now we're March 30th, at 79,900 and had a full price offer in less than 24 hours. Woo hoo.

Steven Butala:
That's how it works.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. The buyer was getting a bank loan on the property, red flag number one, oops. And then requested that I pay for a perc test, red flag number two. Yeah, everything was great up until here. My broker said the perc test-

Steven Butala:
This is how you learn.

Jill DeWit:
Would cost $500 and shouldn't be a problem. I listened again.

Steven Butala:
Broker, broker, broker, broker. Spend money, spend money.

Jill DeWit:
Well, there's that.

Steven Butala:
Spend it on a survey, spend it on a perc test. Spend your money. Give me your money.

Jill DeWit:
Are you done?

Steven Butala:
Not yet.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Do you want to finish this,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Questions 101 From Our Nephew (LA 1574)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about land questions 101, directly from our nephew last night at dinner.

Jill DeWit:
It's funny.

Steven Butala:
Knows nothing about land. And Jill said, "Hey. How about you ask us some questions about land? You know a lot about construction." He's involved in commercial construction, pretty successful for his age. He's in his early 20s and he's-

Jill DeWit:
About to graduate college.

Steven Butala:
In his own language, he asked us several questions.

Jill DeWit:
They were good questions.

Steven Butala:
Honestly, cracked me up.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, it was kind of [inaudible 00:00:45].

Steven Butala:
I think about it now, I didn't even answer the questions. I just collected the questions for the show and that's it.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
And he's never going to watch this or listen to it.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. He won't get the answers.

Steven Butala:
Before we get to the questions though, let's take a question, actually, from a Land Academy member from our online community at landinvestors.com, or if you're already a member, join us on Discord, Land Academy Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I got a new teleprompter, and I don't know how to you use yet.

Jill DeWit:
I know I like to know where the camera is. So here's the scoop, by the way. Even if you are a member, whether you're a member or not, we created an online community over five years ago, and it's packed with information, so that's landinvestors.com. So go in there, type in questions, get an account. It's free. Have fun.

Steven Butala:
Thank you for saving me, here.

Jill DeWit:
You're welcome. I'm just explaining it. Then Jack's extra little PS is, by the way, if you're a member, get in both environments because there's a back area on the online community, Land Investors. And then we have a separate little thing with the Discord app that we have constant, banter, chats running too for members. We want to make sure that our members know about that. I think by now, they do, but just saying.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into the actual show.

Jill DeWit:
Here's our question. Okay, here we go. So that was an explanation, so here's the question. Spencer wrote, "Success story for a Friday. I bought this property before joining Land Academy. I made some mistakes, but I learned a lot along the way. I paid $45,000 for a 20 and a half acre, 20.5 acre property in the Southeast on April 5th, excuse me, March 5th. I interviewed a few local realtors. I went with one that my title company recommended." That's a good way to find them.

Steven Butala:
This is smart, I can tell already.

Jill DeWit:
He explained that I needed to get a survey done on the property to correctly identify the driveway easement going into the neighbor's property. I listened and paid about $2000 for the survey. We listed on March 30th. So that was March 5th, now we're March 30th, at 79,900 and had a full price offer in less than 24 hours. Woo hoo.

Steven Butala:
That's how it works.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. The buyer was getting a bank loan on the property, red flag number one, oops. And then requested that I pay for a perc test, red flag number two. Yeah, everything was great up until here. My broker said the perc test-

Steven Butala:
This is how you learn.

Jill DeWit:
Would cost $500 and shouldn't be a problem. I listened again.

Steven Butala:
Broker, broker, broker, broker. Spend money, spend money.

Jill DeWit:
Well, there's that.

Steven Butala:
Spend it on a survey, spend it on a perc test. Spend your money. Give me your money.

Jill DeWit:
Are you done?

Steven Butala:
Not yet.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Do you want to finish this,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/23/land-questions-101-from-our-nephew-la-1574/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HATfbHsGD</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/19f55eee-9314-4749-8560-492a8a0f36ca.mp3" length="18834985" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Don&amp;#8217;t be that Guy (LA 1573)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Don&amp;#8217;t be that Guy (LA 1573)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Don't be that Guy (LA 1573)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt. Broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I... Well, it's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about, don't be that guy.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. This comes up now and then. It's so interesting. You'd be surprised how many people call us and they track us down at Land Academy because they're trying to find out if this person's legit? Is this a good deal? Is this person real? Are they a good person to do business with?

Jack Butala:
I don't know how they trace us, Jill's right, but I don't know how they trace it back to us, but they find out. So a member sends a bunch of mail out and they call Land Academy for some reason. And they want to check to see if they're legit.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Jack Butala:
And so I don't know how that the train of that, that trail happens on the internet.

Jill DeWit:
We used to have a little tag, little icon graphics that we would share that you could put Land Academy certified or something. I wonder if people are still using that. If you are, go for it. I love it. I think it's cool.

Jack Butala:
I don't know. It's kind of hokey.

Jill DeWit:
It's fine. If they want to do that, I think that's fine. It's like saying I'm a member of whatever association and people look at that and go, that must mean something.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I like it when you say, join us on the Discord. I was waiting for that. Oh, this is Janet. Janet wrote, everyone keeps sending mail and working your deals. She's very vocal in my Land Academy ladies group too, by the way. Our big win today is a property we acquired for $11,500, all in, with title, photos, et cetera. We're closing on today for $52,000. Keep at it. We can all do this. Thanks Jill, Steven and Aaron. Oh, that's sweet. She's awesome. Janet has been with us for a couple of years now.

Jack Butala:
Really successful and vocal. We're proud of you.

Jill DeWit:
Congratulations. And thank you for sharing that, I love those.

Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. And it's the name of the show is called, don't be that guy. I have a feeling this is going to be a Jack roast today.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's not you.

Jack Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's not you, it's just, now and then, even we run into this. We are really good at trusting. You and I both will go in with good... Assuming everyone has good intentions, right? And then I find out later, shoot they didn't. And maybe it's on a deal or maybe something unrelated to this, maybe it's renovations on a house and they didn't follow through, like they said they were going to follow through, the time commitment, the communication, whatever it is. And all it does is just make it bad for everybody. It makes me never want to work with them. Never want to do business with them. And gosh, it's hard to even write the check at the end and then I'm having to do more work and they're not even happy. They're not happy. Nobody's happy. You know?

Jill DeWit:
So I just wanted to remind everyone. You don't want to be that guy. What I want you to do is think about this. You're starting your business, whatever it is. I want you to sit down and think of your own company motto and how you're going to roll. Because the foundation you lay is going to continue through you, your partners, your employees, all of it. And you want to be consistent. And the best thing I can say is do the right thing. And that's our motto, our motto, which you, I think you probably said it in passing a long time ago, but boy, it stuck with me.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Don't be that Guy (LA 1573)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt. Broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I... Well, it's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about, don't be that guy.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. This comes up now and then. It's so interesting. You'd be surprised how many people call us and they track us down at Land Academy because they're trying to find out if this person's legit? Is this a good deal? Is this person real? Are they a good person to do business with?

Jack Butala:
I don't know how they trace us, Jill's right, but I don't know how they trace it back to us, but they find out. So a member sends a bunch of mail out and they call Land Academy for some reason. And they want to check to see if they're legit.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Jack Butala:
And so I don't know how that the train of that, that trail happens on the internet.

Jill DeWit:
We used to have a little tag, little icon graphics that we would share that you could put Land Academy certified or something. I wonder if people are still using that. If you are, go for it. I love it. I think it's cool.

Jack Butala:
I don't know. It's kind of hokey.

Jill DeWit:
It's fine. If they want to do that, I think that's fine. It's like saying I'm a member of whatever association and people look at that and go, that must mean something.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I like it when you say, join us on the Discord. I was waiting for that. Oh, this is Janet. Janet wrote, everyone keeps sending mail and working your deals. She's very vocal in my Land Academy ladies group too, by the way. Our big win today is a property we acquired for $11,500, all in, with title, photos, et cetera. We're closing on today for $52,000. Keep at it. We can all do this. Thanks Jill, Steven and Aaron. Oh, that's sweet. She's awesome. Janet has been with us for a couple of years now.

Jack Butala:
Really successful and vocal. We're proud of you.

Jill DeWit:
Congratulations. And thank you for sharing that, I love those.

Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. And it's the name of the show is called, don't be that guy. I have a feeling this is going to be a Jack roast today.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's not you.

Jack Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's not you, it's just, now and then, even we run into this. We are really good at trusting. You and I both will go in with good... Assuming everyone has good intentions, right? And then I find out later, shoot they didn't. And maybe it's on a deal or maybe something unrelated to this, maybe it's renovations on a house and they didn't follow through, like they said they were going to follow through, the time commitment, the communication, whatever it is. And all it does is just make it bad for everybody. It makes me never want to work with them. Never want to do business with them. And gosh, it's hard to even write the check at the end and then I'm having to do more work and they're not even happy. They're not happy. Nobody's happy. You know?

Jill DeWit:
So I just wanted to remind everyone. You don't want to be that guy. What I want you to do is think about this. You're starting your business, whatever it is. I want you to sit down and think of your own company motto and how you're going to roll. Because the foundation you lay is going to continue through you, your partners, your employees, all of it. And you want to be consistent. And the best thing I can say is do the right thing. And that's our motto, our motto, which you, I think you probably said it in passing a long time ago, but boy, it stuck with me.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/20/jill-friday-dont-be-that-guy-la-1573/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">72INpIXC3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/158250cd-b240-4c63-93df-8ad030973179.mp3" length="14398261" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Ordinary and Necessary (LA 1572)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Ordinary and Necessary (LA 1572)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Ordinary and Necessary (LA 1572)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from cool, incredible Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about ordinary and necessary as it applies to business expenses and Jill's going to fall asleep.

Jill DeWit:
That's exactly right.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on Landinvestors.com online community, it's free. If you're already a land academy member, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "I stopped telling my friends, outside of this group, I used to try and motivate friends to get into the land game with these crazy profit stories, but they're all like, "What's the catch? Are you dealing drugs? Are you on drugs, et cetera?" That's funny. "We can give someone a winning lottery ticket, but they're too skeptical to even check the damn numbers." This is what you guys call rich guy problems? This is hilarious.

Jack Butala:
If that's your question? Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh.

Jack Butala:
This is Aaron and Liz, Aaron.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, good. That's so funny.

Jack Butala:
Not using their last name.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, thank you.

Jack Butala:
Long, long time members. I had him on the show a couple of times. They're a lot of fun.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't that true though? We had this discussion the other day in Career Path. We were talking about things that people just don't get. It was along these lines too. We were talking about investing. We were talking about if you need money, you get going, you're starting to do great, you're doing some deals, you start to share with your family members, "You're not going to believe what I did. I asked made $20,000 last week." Next thing you know, they're saying, "Can I give you $5,000 and you do that for me?" You have to be careful, because it just always, in our situation, backfires. We don't do that anymore. It's better to say, "If you want to do this, just go do it." Then, like Aaron shared, most people don't get it.

Jack Butala:
I have couple of things to say. I stopped telling people what we do for a living a lot of years ago. It's not possible. For a while, my answer was that we buy real estate, we buy land, and then we sell it for more. They look at you cross-eyed. The super smart ones will say, "How do you do that?" I send a bunch of offers out. Thousands and thousands of blind offers to everybody who owns land in the area for a price that I'm willing to buy it, then I see who calls me back. It ends there for the smart people.

Jack Butala:
Here's my second point. I learned the hard way that when people get to know you, whether it's online like this, or whether it's in person, and they see that you're successful, you can put a couple of sentences together, speak in full sentences and your grammar's reasonably okay, they want to be a part of it. They don't want to send out letters. They don't care about real estate. That's all just noise to them. The real work is noise and difficult. They just want the fun stuff. I just want to live in a house on a beach, have a fast car or a hot girl like Jill. They don't care. Here's what I learned. Ultimately, they have to find us. We can't find them. They have to find us, because they're interested. Members who are successful find us because they're interested in real estate, money, land, data, and the whole process of all this. Not-

Jill DeWit:
Perfect.

Jack Butala:
"Wow, I love your car! How'd you get it?"

Jill DeWit:
That's the wrong approach.

Jack Butala:
It won't work.

Jill DeWit:
That's, often, how it is. They're like, "I can learn this too. My cousin's a real estate agent. Is that all it is?"

Jack Butala:
Jill, you're nailing it on the head. Nailing it.

Jill DeWit:
I'm like, "That's not it at all.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Ordinary and Necessary (LA 1572)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from cool, incredible Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about ordinary and necessary as it applies to business expenses and Jill's going to fall asleep.

Jill DeWit:
That's exactly right.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on Landinvestors.com online community, it's free. If you're already a land academy member, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "I stopped telling my friends, outside of this group, I used to try and motivate friends to get into the land game with these crazy profit stories, but they're all like, "What's the catch? Are you dealing drugs? Are you on drugs, et cetera?" That's funny. "We can give someone a winning lottery ticket, but they're too skeptical to even check the damn numbers." This is what you guys call rich guy problems? This is hilarious.

Jack Butala:
If that's your question? Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh.

Jack Butala:
This is Aaron and Liz, Aaron.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, good. That's so funny.

Jack Butala:
Not using their last name.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, thank you.

Jack Butala:
Long, long time members. I had him on the show a couple of times. They're a lot of fun.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't that true though? We had this discussion the other day in Career Path. We were talking about things that people just don't get. It was along these lines too. We were talking about investing. We were talking about if you need money, you get going, you're starting to do great, you're doing some deals, you start to share with your family members, "You're not going to believe what I did. I asked made $20,000 last week." Next thing you know, they're saying, "Can I give you $5,000 and you do that for me?" You have to be careful, because it just always, in our situation, backfires. We don't do that anymore. It's better to say, "If you want to do this, just go do it." Then, like Aaron shared, most people don't get it.

Jack Butala:
I have couple of things to say. I stopped telling people what we do for a living a lot of years ago. It's not possible. For a while, my answer was that we buy real estate, we buy land, and then we sell it for more. They look at you cross-eyed. The super smart ones will say, "How do you do that?" I send a bunch of offers out. Thousands and thousands of blind offers to everybody who owns land in the area for a price that I'm willing to buy it, then I see who calls me back. It ends there for the smart people.

Jack Butala:
Here's my second point. I learned the hard way that when people get to know you, whether it's online like this, or whether it's in person, and they see that you're successful, you can put a couple of sentences together, speak in full sentences and your grammar's reasonably okay, they want to be a part of it. They don't want to send out letters. They don't care about real estate. That's all just noise to them. The real work is noise and difficult. They just want the fun stuff. I just want to live in a house on a beach, have a fast car or a hot girl like Jill. They don't care. Here's what I learned. Ultimately, they have to find us. We can't find them. They have to find us, because they're interested. Members who are successful find us because they're interested in real estate, money, land, data, and the whole process of all this. Not-

Jill DeWit:
Perfect.

Jack Butala:
"Wow, I love your car! How'd you get it?"

Jill DeWit:
That's the wrong approach.

Jack Butala:
It won't work.

Jill DeWit:
That's, often, how it is. They're like, "I can learn this too. My cousin's a real estate agent. Is that all it is?"

Jack Butala:
Jill, you're nailing it on the head. Nailing it.

Jill DeWit:
I'm like, "That's not it at all.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/19/jack-thursday-ordinary-and-necessary-la-1572/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">udXBDuiVq</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b1f5bee8-99d1-4b68-8851-7c9db764eaac.mp3" length="17310815" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Name to Use on Your Mailer (LA 1571)</title><itunes:title>What Name to Use on Your Mailer (LA 1571)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[What Name to Use on Your Mailer (LA 1571)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from cool southern Arizona. Not cool at all, though. It's hot. Sorry.

Jack Butala:
It's been kind of cool the last few days actually.

Jill DeWit:
This is true.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what name to use on your mailer. This all came about because we had a huge discussion in Career Path, which is kind of our advanced Land Academy group. Should I put my name on there, or should I use a different last name? Should I put my assistant's name on there? Should I create a name? Should I be anonymous?

Jill DeWit:
You know, I have a question. You have a pretty solid name.

Jack Butala:
I think I have a confusing as heck name.

Jill DeWit:
This leads into my question. What name do you wish you had? If you were born with a different name or you could change your name, what ... Have you ever ... This is a girl thing because we think about this stuff.

Jack Butala:
Jill and I have ... Our tip-top holding company is called BuWit, B-U-W-I-T. It's a combination of my last name and Jill's last name, Butala and DeWit, and I think that would be a great name, Buwit, two syllables. Or Dewit's fine, but Butala is all confusing. I have to spell it every time. Everybody spells it wrong. Spellcheck-

Jill DeWit:
I can't say it. I say Butala because it's looks like that.

Jack Butala:
And you know what? You're probably right. Spellcheck thinks it's Brutal every time I type my name in.

Jill DeWit:
That's a cool name, Steven Brutal.

Jack Butala:
I think that's a great name for a 70s punk singer.

Jill DeWit:
Or WWF. Oh, there we go.

Jack Butala:
Jack Brutal.

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome. That's cool. I like that.

Jack Butala:
I don't have any complaints about my name. It's fine. The real positive to my name is that there's only two out there that I know of in the entire country that have the same name, and we know each other. We get each other's stuff. This is a funny anecdote. The Steven Butala that I know has a PhD in chemistry, I think, or maybe physics, and he is a professor. Last I heard was at University of Utah, totally respected in his field, and I'm not respected in my field at all. It's very ... We get each other's stuff, and we laugh about it. I get somebody's dissertation in the email, and I have to send it to him, and we really laugh about it. He gets all kinds of weird stuff that are supposed to go to me.

Jill DeWit:
That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:
Are you happy with your name?

Jill DeWit:
I always wanted to be the name ... It was a Charlie's Angel thing for me. I wanted to be Chris, but fortunately, that's kind of in my middle name, so I would kind of do that for a while. My other thing I used to do ... This is kind of silly, but every babysitter I had, I would adopt their name. I always thought that was a cool name. I don't know why. My mom would come home, and I'd say now my name is this.

Jack Butala:
That makes sense because they're older, right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. That's true.

Jack Butala:
Jill, I'll call you anything you want, for the record.

Jill DeWit:
Really? Princess? Is Princess on there?

Jack Butala:
I call you that all the time.

Jill DeWit:
I know. It's usually not out of love. It's like, listen princess. That's not how it should be used in a sentence. Okay.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on the Discord.

Jill DeWit:
P wrote, I have a signed purchase agreement for a lot, with an interesting situation. The current owner is an attorney who acquired the property via quitclaim deed from a client as payment for certain legal fees. It seems the property was divided in 2015 from a larger ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[What Name to Use on Your Mailer (LA 1571)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from cool southern Arizona. Not cool at all, though. It's hot. Sorry.

Jack Butala:
It's been kind of cool the last few days actually.

Jill DeWit:
This is true.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what name to use on your mailer. This all came about because we had a huge discussion in Career Path, which is kind of our advanced Land Academy group. Should I put my name on there, or should I use a different last name? Should I put my assistant's name on there? Should I create a name? Should I be anonymous?

Jill DeWit:
You know, I have a question. You have a pretty solid name.

Jack Butala:
I think I have a confusing as heck name.

Jill DeWit:
This leads into my question. What name do you wish you had? If you were born with a different name or you could change your name, what ... Have you ever ... This is a girl thing because we think about this stuff.

Jack Butala:
Jill and I have ... Our tip-top holding company is called BuWit, B-U-W-I-T. It's a combination of my last name and Jill's last name, Butala and DeWit, and I think that would be a great name, Buwit, two syllables. Or Dewit's fine, but Butala is all confusing. I have to spell it every time. Everybody spells it wrong. Spellcheck-

Jill DeWit:
I can't say it. I say Butala because it's looks like that.

Jack Butala:
And you know what? You're probably right. Spellcheck thinks it's Brutal every time I type my name in.

Jill DeWit:
That's a cool name, Steven Brutal.

Jack Butala:
I think that's a great name for a 70s punk singer.

Jill DeWit:
Or WWF. Oh, there we go.

Jack Butala:
Jack Brutal.

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome. That's cool. I like that.

Jack Butala:
I don't have any complaints about my name. It's fine. The real positive to my name is that there's only two out there that I know of in the entire country that have the same name, and we know each other. We get each other's stuff. This is a funny anecdote. The Steven Butala that I know has a PhD in chemistry, I think, or maybe physics, and he is a professor. Last I heard was at University of Utah, totally respected in his field, and I'm not respected in my field at all. It's very ... We get each other's stuff, and we laugh about it. I get somebody's dissertation in the email, and I have to send it to him, and we really laugh about it. He gets all kinds of weird stuff that are supposed to go to me.

Jill DeWit:
That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:
Are you happy with your name?

Jill DeWit:
I always wanted to be the name ... It was a Charlie's Angel thing for me. I wanted to be Chris, but fortunately, that's kind of in my middle name, so I would kind of do that for a while. My other thing I used to do ... This is kind of silly, but every babysitter I had, I would adopt their name. I always thought that was a cool name. I don't know why. My mom would come home, and I'd say now my name is this.

Jack Butala:
That makes sense because they're older, right?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. That's true.

Jack Butala:
Jill, I'll call you anything you want, for the record.

Jill DeWit:
Really? Princess? Is Princess on there?

Jack Butala:
I call you that all the time.

Jill DeWit:
I know. It's usually not out of love. It's like, listen princess. That's not how it should be used in a sentence. Okay.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on the Discord.

Jill DeWit:
P wrote, I have a signed purchase agreement for a lot, with an interesting situation. The current owner is an attorney who acquired the property via quitclaim deed from a client as payment for certain legal fees. It seems the property was divided in 2015 from a larger ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/18/what-name-to-use-on-your-mailer-la-1571/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">IDoL4ek6R</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d9c765b6-aaf1-4b0f-a2ba-86b6da645195.mp3" length="14471023" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>On Site Land Improvements Never Pencil (LA 1570)</title><itunes:title>On Site Land Improvements Never Pencil (LA 1570)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[On Site Land Improvements Never Pencil (LA 1570)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how on-site land improvements never pencil.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, explain this again. Please.

Jack Butala:
Land improvements are stuff that you buy a piece of land, and there's always this question, especially with our super new Land Academy members, "Well, I should probably clear it, and make sure you can see it, and then maybe I should put a well in." Yet, there's all kinds of stuff, and we'll talk about all the possible things that you can do. And I'll tell you the vast majority of the time it doesn't pencil. It doesn't make sense financially.

Jill DeWit:
Who came up with that? Who came up with the whole pencil thing?

Jack Butala:
I have an accounting background and I'm from the '80s.

Jill DeWit:
I know, but who came up with it? I was ready to say I have a kind of background from the '80s, and I still don't know who came up with that saying.

Jack Butala:
Well, you're from California too, so that there's a lot probably involved in that too. Penciling is just a way of saying, "Hey, let's make it-"

Jill DeWit:
You heard that.

Jack Butala:
"... Let's pencil this thing out before we actually go do it."

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
"Before we spend any money on it."

Jill DeWit:
Thank you, got it. Listen, soup to nuts, I'll give you soup to nuts.

Jack Butala:
Jill's constantly making fun of the sayings that I think are normal and everybody understands.

Jill DeWit:
No one in the planet says soup to nuts, or bajillion.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Michael wrote, "Hi, I've a signed purchase agreement from a recent mailer for a 10 acre parcel in Northern Arizona. Initially I felt that I over offered in the price, but then I talked to the seller who stated there's a shared well on the property. I reviewed the docs and feel comfortable with this being a great deal, that was until I visited the property and saw two derelict abandoned trailers with no wheels and a vehicle on the property, as well as two generators, and a heap of put trash and debris. Apparently this belongs to the uncle who willed the property to the current owners before he died. Otherwise this could be a great deal, which I think I could sell for three times our purchase price. Just not sure how to deal with the abandoned trailers and vehicles, any ideas would be greatly appreciated." Ready? Go.

Jack Butala:
If there's stuff on the property already 99% of the time it's better than just having big vacant land, unless, and there's only really one exception that I can think of, where the EPA might have an opinion about it, like an old storage tank, fuel tank, or tanks underground.

Jill DeWit:
Or, Refrigerator.

Jack Butala:
Or, 500 refrigerators leaking Freon. Doesn't sound like that's the case here at all. Sounds like you've got a couple of generators, which might be great. You know, the vast majority of the people that are going to want really rural property are really interested in all the things you described. They don't want... It's not like buying a house where it's you want to walk in and there's music playing and you move your stuff in, and it's beautiful. It's just not, it's a completely different mindset.

Jill DeWit:
This is...

Jack Butala:
People, they want a rural piece of land to get away from everybody and put their own trailer, and fix a trailer up. There's generators out there, I'm telling you, if there's two generators out there...

Jill DeWit:
That's worth something.

Jack Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[On Site Land Improvements Never Pencil (LA 1570)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how on-site land improvements never pencil.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, explain this again. Please.

Jack Butala:
Land improvements are stuff that you buy a piece of land, and there's always this question, especially with our super new Land Academy members, "Well, I should probably clear it, and make sure you can see it, and then maybe I should put a well in." Yet, there's all kinds of stuff, and we'll talk about all the possible things that you can do. And I'll tell you the vast majority of the time it doesn't pencil. It doesn't make sense financially.

Jill DeWit:
Who came up with that? Who came up with the whole pencil thing?

Jack Butala:
I have an accounting background and I'm from the '80s.

Jill DeWit:
I know, but who came up with it? I was ready to say I have a kind of background from the '80s, and I still don't know who came up with that saying.

Jack Butala:
Well, you're from California too, so that there's a lot probably involved in that too. Penciling is just a way of saying, "Hey, let's make it-"

Jill DeWit:
You heard that.

Jack Butala:
"... Let's pencil this thing out before we actually go do it."

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
"Before we spend any money on it."

Jill DeWit:
Thank you, got it. Listen, soup to nuts, I'll give you soup to nuts.

Jack Butala:
Jill's constantly making fun of the sayings that I think are normal and everybody understands.

Jill DeWit:
No one in the planet says soup to nuts, or bajillion.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Michael wrote, "Hi, I've a signed purchase agreement from a recent mailer for a 10 acre parcel in Northern Arizona. Initially I felt that I over offered in the price, but then I talked to the seller who stated there's a shared well on the property. I reviewed the docs and feel comfortable with this being a great deal, that was until I visited the property and saw two derelict abandoned trailers with no wheels and a vehicle on the property, as well as two generators, and a heap of put trash and debris. Apparently this belongs to the uncle who willed the property to the current owners before he died. Otherwise this could be a great deal, which I think I could sell for three times our purchase price. Just not sure how to deal with the abandoned trailers and vehicles, any ideas would be greatly appreciated." Ready? Go.

Jack Butala:
If there's stuff on the property already 99% of the time it's better than just having big vacant land, unless, and there's only really one exception that I can think of, where the EPA might have an opinion about it, like an old storage tank, fuel tank, or tanks underground.

Jill DeWit:
Or, Refrigerator.

Jack Butala:
Or, 500 refrigerators leaking Freon. Doesn't sound like that's the case here at all. Sounds like you've got a couple of generators, which might be great. You know, the vast majority of the people that are going to want really rural property are really interested in all the things you described. They don't want... It's not like buying a house where it's you want to walk in and there's music playing and you move your stuff in, and it's beautiful. It's just not, it's a completely different mindset.

Jill DeWit:
This is...

Jack Butala:
People, they want a rural piece of land to get away from everybody and put their own trailer, and fix a trailer up. There's generators out there, I'm telling you, if there's two generators out there...

Jill DeWit:
That's worth something.

Jack Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/17/on-site-land-improvements-never-pencil-la-1570/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">atTbW91SB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:59:17 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1dcb6d3f-59d6-4d48-a050-5dea8214dc02.mp3" length="11796759" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Bank Financing on Land 101 (LA 1569)</title><itunes:title>Bank Financing on Land 101 (LA 1569)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Bank Financing on Land 101 (LA 1569)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about bank financing on land 101. You have a great deal, you don't have enough money. Or you already bought a piece of property with your own money or any way else, and you're going to want to sell it to somebody who's going to go to a bank and get financing. We're seeing that a lot now.

Jill DeWit:
I would like to pause for a moment and just talk about, for those of you who are not watching, I just got stopped with the funniest comment which was, Jill, where's the bottom of your blouse? You can't tell, it looks like it goes way down on the screen. It's there, it exists.

Jack Butala:
Then I said, is that okay? And then I corrected myself and said-

Jill DeWit:
Might improve our numbers.

Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's where [inaudible 00:01:01].

Jill DeWit:
Let's see what Jill's wearing today.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Vic wrote, "I have a closing next week and there is physical access, but it's via a private road. The title company [inaudible 00:01:27] the following in the exception sections, that would be called schedule B, and I wanted to see if that clause is normal and if it would be a problem for me when I'm selling the property."

Jack Butala:
Like always-

Jill DeWit:
I was looking for the comment.

Jack Butala:
Like I said, there's a lot of comments on this.

Jack Butala:
Here's my take on it. The vast majority of schedule B exceptions on title policies say we don't ensure the fact that this property has access.

Jill DeWit:
Good, bad, or otherwise.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's just-

Jill DeWit:
We're not going to promise anything.

Jack Butala:
They don't even check it. It's just a sentence that they include in there among several other things that the title policy doesn't-

Jill DeWit:
Cover.

Jack Butala:
Yeah, it doesn't cover. So, no, I wouldn't. This doesn't concern me at all. I would check out the physical details of the private road. Is there a gate? That might cause some problems. That may change your mind. If the private road is maintained by a neighbor and the access to your property is through that private road, if this is actually the truth and it's not just template language in the schedule B title exception for the title policy, that could pretty dramatically affect how people get there to see the property to see if they want to buy it. And/or if they do buy it and somebody puts up a gate because it is their private road, that's a problem.

Jill DeWit:
I think there's two kinds of private. There's your neighbor's private road, and then there's the public utility. There's APS, the power service private road. So you have to do some digging.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to add, I had this come up yesterday, and people say things, too. You have to really do your own homework. Don't believe everything that one person says. Someone said, "Oh, that's a private road," and now you're believing it. It might not be true.

Jill DeWit:
An agent came up, we have a property that we're selling ourselves, and we got a phone call from an agent in the area who said, "I'd love to help you guys sell this property." We put a sign in the ground and she obviously saw it and called the sign. She told my transaction coordinator, "By the way, because it's only a half acre, you need an acre to build in this area." But she's all excited to list and sell the property. I'm like, I'm not sure I believe her. And so my transaction coordinator passed that on and I said, that's nice.

Jill DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Bank Financing on Land 101 (LA 1569)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about bank financing on land 101. You have a great deal, you don't have enough money. Or you already bought a piece of property with your own money or any way else, and you're going to want to sell it to somebody who's going to go to a bank and get financing. We're seeing that a lot now.

Jill DeWit:
I would like to pause for a moment and just talk about, for those of you who are not watching, I just got stopped with the funniest comment which was, Jill, where's the bottom of your blouse? You can't tell, it looks like it goes way down on the screen. It's there, it exists.

Jack Butala:
Then I said, is that okay? And then I corrected myself and said-

Jill DeWit:
Might improve our numbers.

Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's where [inaudible 00:01:01].

Jill DeWit:
Let's see what Jill's wearing today.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Vic wrote, "I have a closing next week and there is physical access, but it's via a private road. The title company [inaudible 00:01:27] the following in the exception sections, that would be called schedule B, and I wanted to see if that clause is normal and if it would be a problem for me when I'm selling the property."

Jack Butala:
Like always-

Jill DeWit:
I was looking for the comment.

Jack Butala:
Like I said, there's a lot of comments on this.

Jack Butala:
Here's my take on it. The vast majority of schedule B exceptions on title policies say we don't ensure the fact that this property has access.

Jill DeWit:
Good, bad, or otherwise.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's just-

Jill DeWit:
We're not going to promise anything.

Jack Butala:
They don't even check it. It's just a sentence that they include in there among several other things that the title policy doesn't-

Jill DeWit:
Cover.

Jack Butala:
Yeah, it doesn't cover. So, no, I wouldn't. This doesn't concern me at all. I would check out the physical details of the private road. Is there a gate? That might cause some problems. That may change your mind. If the private road is maintained by a neighbor and the access to your property is through that private road, if this is actually the truth and it's not just template language in the schedule B title exception for the title policy, that could pretty dramatically affect how people get there to see the property to see if they want to buy it. And/or if they do buy it and somebody puts up a gate because it is their private road, that's a problem.

Jill DeWit:
I think there's two kinds of private. There's your neighbor's private road, and then there's the public utility. There's APS, the power service private road. So you have to do some digging.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to add, I had this come up yesterday, and people say things, too. You have to really do your own homework. Don't believe everything that one person says. Someone said, "Oh, that's a private road," and now you're believing it. It might not be true.

Jill DeWit:
An agent came up, we have a property that we're selling ourselves, and we got a phone call from an agent in the area who said, "I'd love to help you guys sell this property." We put a sign in the ground and she obviously saw it and called the sign. She told my transaction coordinator, "By the way, because it's only a half acre, you need an acre to build in this area." But she's all excited to list and sell the property. I'm like, I'm not sure I believe her. And so my transaction coordinator passed that on and I said, that's nice.

Jill DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/16/bank-financing-on-land-101-la-1569/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">FPV0pG3Du</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dbfe3a0c-d592-4ce2-9872-1196abcf0447.mp3" length="15446169" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Choose a Market to Send Blind Offers (LA 1568)</title><itunes:title>How to Choose a Market to Send Blind Offers (LA 1568)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Choose a Market to Send Blind Offers (LA 1568)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here,

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to choose a market to send blind offers. Oh my God. Both of you.

Jill DeWit:
Haven't we talked about this before?

Steven Butala:
How many times can you talk about the same topic in five years of a daily show? Well it turns out, I agree with you,

Jill DeWit:
But it comes up.

Steven Butala:
That's why we're responding to demand.

Jill DeWit:
It still comes up, people are like wait, can we run through that again?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Has anything changed? What am I missing?

Steven Butala:
And you know what? It turns out some stuff has changed.

Jill DeWit:
How do I do this? I got a good one. We can help.

Steven Butala:
Technology has changed. There's a lot of new available tools out there and we'll talk all about it. What hasn't changed is there's no easy button, which is why there's a few of us getting crazy wealthy at this, and then the rest of the people don't even know about Land Academy in the world. That's why you're listening. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
Charlie asked, so I had a buyer pay the down payment on our website, fill out a form for the deed info, and then they disappeared. We talked through texts one time and I sent the contract and the deed because it was sold over [inaudible 00:01:26] with contract for deed, excuse me, it was sold on terms. And now I can't get ahold of them. She never signed, never returned the contract back to me. What do I do now? The contract lays out default clearly, but technically she never signed it. I think I'm going to keep trying until Friday to reach them and make sure I have everything documented and then re-list the property with the expectation that I'll just refund them if they ever return my calls. Any thoughts? That's kind of what I would do.

Steven Butala:
Well, I'll tell you, you're kind of stumping me here because this has never happened to us, not. This happens all the time. Jill and I over the last year, maybe two years actually now, maybe two and a half or three, have gone a hundred percent to cash sales. So, selling property on terms, we buy a piece of property for cash and you sell it on terms, $500 sound, $200 a month for five years and then you own it. Like a car. It's very popular among other groups in the land education environment out there. Or maybe it's not, I don't know. I don't keep up with them.

Steven Butala:
But it takes a whole different skillset than what I believe, Jill and I are really good at. We're good at data. We're good at sending out blind offers, buying property real cheap and reselling it very quickly for cash for more. This business of the customer service and the maintenance of servicing alone and the stuff that goes on with it, we learned pretty early in our operation together that we don't want to do that.

Jill DeWit:
It's a lot of work. Lot of people package this up like, oh, it's passive income, is what they. Because you set it up once-

Steven Butala:
There's nothing passive about it.

Jill DeWit:
You get them on auto pay, and it's all beautiful and sunny and everybody pays and they don't have to do anything. And that's the whole point. It's not passive. It's just like the situation, there's a little bit of work sometimes. And this person managing, this situation is actually easy. So let me cover real quick. What you're doing Charlie's exactly what I would do. They went dark. I leave them voicemails. I text mail. I email. I cover all the bases. I tried. And then I put the money aside knowing if they come back, I'm going to say you went dark,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Choose a Market to Send Blind Offers (LA 1568)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here,

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to choose a market to send blind offers. Oh my God. Both of you.

Jill DeWit:
Haven't we talked about this before?

Steven Butala:
How many times can you talk about the same topic in five years of a daily show? Well it turns out, I agree with you,

Jill DeWit:
But it comes up.

Steven Butala:
That's why we're responding to demand.

Jill DeWit:
It still comes up, people are like wait, can we run through that again?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Has anything changed? What am I missing?

Steven Butala:
And you know what? It turns out some stuff has changed.

Jill DeWit:
How do I do this? I got a good one. We can help.

Steven Butala:
Technology has changed. There's a lot of new available tools out there and we'll talk all about it. What hasn't changed is there's no easy button, which is why there's a few of us getting crazy wealthy at this, and then the rest of the people don't even know about Land Academy in the world. That's why you're listening. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
Charlie asked, so I had a buyer pay the down payment on our website, fill out a form for the deed info, and then they disappeared. We talked through texts one time and I sent the contract and the deed because it was sold over [inaudible 00:01:26] with contract for deed, excuse me, it was sold on terms. And now I can't get ahold of them. She never signed, never returned the contract back to me. What do I do now? The contract lays out default clearly, but technically she never signed it. I think I'm going to keep trying until Friday to reach them and make sure I have everything documented and then re-list the property with the expectation that I'll just refund them if they ever return my calls. Any thoughts? That's kind of what I would do.

Steven Butala:
Well, I'll tell you, you're kind of stumping me here because this has never happened to us, not. This happens all the time. Jill and I over the last year, maybe two years actually now, maybe two and a half or three, have gone a hundred percent to cash sales. So, selling property on terms, we buy a piece of property for cash and you sell it on terms, $500 sound, $200 a month for five years and then you own it. Like a car. It's very popular among other groups in the land education environment out there. Or maybe it's not, I don't know. I don't keep up with them.

Steven Butala:
But it takes a whole different skillset than what I believe, Jill and I are really good at. We're good at data. We're good at sending out blind offers, buying property real cheap and reselling it very quickly for cash for more. This business of the customer service and the maintenance of servicing alone and the stuff that goes on with it, we learned pretty early in our operation together that we don't want to do that.

Jill DeWit:
It's a lot of work. Lot of people package this up like, oh, it's passive income, is what they. Because you set it up once-

Steven Butala:
There's nothing passive about it.

Jill DeWit:
You get them on auto pay, and it's all beautiful and sunny and everybody pays and they don't have to do anything. And that's the whole point. It's not passive. It's just like the situation, there's a little bit of work sometimes. And this person managing, this situation is actually easy. So let me cover real quick. What you're doing Charlie's exactly what I would do. They went dark. I leave them voicemails. I text mail. I email. I cover all the bases. I tried. And then I put the money aside knowing if they come back, I'm going to say you went dark,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/13/how-to-choose-a-market-to-send-blind-offers-la-1568/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hRpTOhYLo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:06:04 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b2cc2261-d43d-483b-bca7-e746ab5c6b48.mp3" length="15933067" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to use Free Data to Price Your Mailer (LA 1567)</title><itunes:title>How to use Free Data to Price Your Mailer (LA 1567)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to use Free Data to Price Your Mailer (LA 1567)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Cheers.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt. No, I'm not drinking. And we are broadcasting from sunny, Southern California.

Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to use free data to price your mailer.

Jill DeWit:
Can't get you to laugh.

Jack Butala:
I can try.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, none of this makes you happy?

Jack Butala:
I love free data.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Thank you. There we go.

Jack Butala:
Yeah, I love free data.

Jill DeWit:
I'm trying to get some good response or just happy fun.

Jack Butala:
Here it is.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Jack Butala:
This is a serious time.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
I mean, this is like, there are people that are out of work and I think that they need some help.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Let me back up. Let me just say one thing, for everyone here. People grieve in different ways. Some people are serious. Some people cry. Some people tell funny stories. Some people go silent. Maybe we're grieving in different ways. No way is right or wrong.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. I couldn't agree more.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
Jill, I'm not criticizing you at all. I'm just saying, "Yeah, can I laugh yet?" I can laugh, not right now.

Jill DeWit:
You don't have to. Okay, then you are allowed ... Well, obviously, you want to be very serious, I still choose not to be serious. That's how I prefer things.

Jack Butala:
There's a great way to price mailers. I'm digging deeply, deeply digging into how to more accurately price mailers faster.

Jill DeWit:
Yah.

Jack Butala:
And we're going to share it, and probably have a couple of laughs at the same time. But this is not ... I don't think that the vast majority, maybe few months ago, I think everybody was laughing and saying, "Yeah, this is a great. Those guys are entertaining." And I would love someone to email me and say, "Oh no, you're, you're totally wronged, Jack, we just want to laugh. That's why we listen to your show."

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
We can do two shows.

Jill DeWit:
Would you call it entertaining real estate investment talk?

Jack Butala:
Right. I actually think this is entertaining, watching us bicker. For some people.

Jill DeWit:
That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:
When I've watch other couples bicker, I'm like, "Wow, finally, somebody else too."

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
I'm want to tell you my Vince Vaughn story along those lines. Joe and I are sitting in Manhattan Beach, right outside of Los Angeles, a couple of years ago at this Mexican place, having the greatest street Mexican food there ever was. And Vince Vaughn's three tables down and his kids are crawling on his head, and it's just ... And so he and I make contact, eye contact, and he's, he just looks at me dad to dad, not ... And I'm like, "Yeah, I got it." And his wife's yelling in his ear about something and, you know.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:
And I felt great about myself.

Jill DeWit:
It's your turn.

Jack Butala:
I felt completely entertained.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Jack Butala:
If a guy like Vince Vaughn could have the same family stuff that goes on, I might be okay.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
So there's a lot of guys listening to this going, "You know what? Those guys are talking to each other like I talk to my wife sometimes." I might be okay.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
How's that for entertainment? It's not that funny, is it?

Jill DeWit:
No, it's not that funny.

Jack Butala:
You want ha-ha slapstick, silly.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay. It's okay. It's all right. Thank you.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, of course, Jill and I already have, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landacademy.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Blake wrote, "Hi, this is an Excel question.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to use Free Data to Price Your Mailer (LA 1567)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Cheers.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt. No, I'm not drinking. And we are broadcasting from sunny, Southern California.

Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to use free data to price your mailer.

Jill DeWit:
Can't get you to laugh.

Jack Butala:
I can try.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, none of this makes you happy?

Jack Butala:
I love free data.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Thank you. There we go.

Jack Butala:
Yeah, I love free data.

Jill DeWit:
I'm trying to get some good response or just happy fun.

Jack Butala:
Here it is.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Jack Butala:
This is a serious time.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
I mean, this is like, there are people that are out of work and I think that they need some help.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Let me back up. Let me just say one thing, for everyone here. People grieve in different ways. Some people are serious. Some people cry. Some people tell funny stories. Some people go silent. Maybe we're grieving in different ways. No way is right or wrong.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. I couldn't agree more.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
Jill, I'm not criticizing you at all. I'm just saying, "Yeah, can I laugh yet?" I can laugh, not right now.

Jill DeWit:
You don't have to. Okay, then you are allowed ... Well, obviously, you want to be very serious, I still choose not to be serious. That's how I prefer things.

Jack Butala:
There's a great way to price mailers. I'm digging deeply, deeply digging into how to more accurately price mailers faster.

Jill DeWit:
Yah.

Jack Butala:
And we're going to share it, and probably have a couple of laughs at the same time. But this is not ... I don't think that the vast majority, maybe few months ago, I think everybody was laughing and saying, "Yeah, this is a great. Those guys are entertaining." And I would love someone to email me and say, "Oh no, you're, you're totally wronged, Jack, we just want to laugh. That's why we listen to your show."

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
We can do two shows.

Jill DeWit:
Would you call it entertaining real estate investment talk?

Jack Butala:
Right. I actually think this is entertaining, watching us bicker. For some people.

Jill DeWit:
That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:
When I've watch other couples bicker, I'm like, "Wow, finally, somebody else too."

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
I'm want to tell you my Vince Vaughn story along those lines. Joe and I are sitting in Manhattan Beach, right outside of Los Angeles, a couple of years ago at this Mexican place, having the greatest street Mexican food there ever was. And Vince Vaughn's three tables down and his kids are crawling on his head, and it's just ... And so he and I make contact, eye contact, and he's, he just looks at me dad to dad, not ... And I'm like, "Yeah, I got it." And his wife's yelling in his ear about something and, you know.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:
And I felt great about myself.

Jill DeWit:
It's your turn.

Jack Butala:
I felt completely entertained.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Jack Butala:
If a guy like Vince Vaughn could have the same family stuff that goes on, I might be okay.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
So there's a lot of guys listening to this going, "You know what? Those guys are talking to each other like I talk to my wife sometimes." I might be okay.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Jack Butala:
How's that for entertainment? It's not that funny, is it?

Jill DeWit:
No, it's not that funny.

Jack Butala:
You want ha-ha slapstick, silly.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay. It's okay. It's all right. Thank you.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, of course, Jill and I already have, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landacademy.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Blake wrote, "Hi, this is an Excel question.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/13/how-to-use-free-data-to-price-your-mailer-la-1567/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">x8gLdDnRM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:02:16 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9e6605fa-c63d-4081-9b97-8ccdcd1cfbfe.mp3" length="16345605" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (LA 1566)</title><itunes:title>Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (LA 1566)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (LA 1566)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk with member Andy Barnhart, who shares his Land Academy success stories. But, before we get into it I have a simple question. Andy, you're sitting right there in that seat. How did you get there? Tell us your story and tell us how you chose Land Academy, and if it's working for you.

Andy Barnhart:
Yeah, hello. I'll go way back to when I was a child and my dad was a farmer, a dairy farmer. He would try to grow his operation and buy more land, so he would show me plat maps when I was... So, I was looking at plat maps when I was eight years old. He's like, "Oh, we own this 80 acres, and I'm going to buy this 80, and I'd love to have-" he always wanted a section of land. That was his goal. I knew what a section was, and a quarter and a half section at a young age. After college, I got a job-

Steven Butala:
I have to explain to everybody what a section is. A section is a square mile, and it's 640 acres. A half section is 320, and a quarter section is half of that.

Jill DeWit:
160.

Steven Butala:
160, and on, and on, and on.

Andy Barnhart:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Anyway, go ahead. So, you're in college.

Andy Barnhart:
So yeah, I got through college and I got my first job as an Auditor with the US Department of Agriculture with the Dairy Division. I went right in on my first day, and I had learned Excel and everything in college, and thought I was a whiz kid. Then I get into the government organization that I was hired with, and literally some older guys didn't even have a computer on their desk. They refused to work with a computer. All the programs were written in Lotus 123. So, it was like stepping back in time 30 years.

Andy Barnhart:
I was there 10 years, and we converted everything to Excel and all the reports and everything. So, I was very comfortable with... I had the agriculture background, I have Excel background, I have an auditing background. Then yeah, I bought the realtor courses and took all of the courses to become a realtor. I thought that's something I'm interested in, and then got to the end. I did all of the education and got to the end, and I think at that time is when I found your podcast. You guys were, as you are today, dealing with realtors and [inaudible 00:03:22].

Andy Barnhart:
You guys have never shied away from talking trash on realtors, so it made me think, "Well, do I really want to be a realtor?" So, I never went to take the test, and then that's when I bought the programs in 2016. Yeah, that's how I got here. I'm in my third year, and yeah still-

Steven Butala:
Is it working? Have you done a bunch of deals? I guess, you're on the show so hopefully some of it's working.

Andy Barnhart:
Yeah, yeah I didn't start out of the gate with a bang. I was skeptical, and I took it really slow. I wrote down my numbers. The first year, 2017, I did 19 deals, and I still had some other jobs going on, some part-time things. The revenue that year was $62,000.00-

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Andy Barnhart:
And then so last year- and I was still doing this all on my own. I did last year 184 deals completed, and then the revenue was $343,000.00. Yeah, I was like, "Yeah, this is-"

Jill DeWit:
I'm in.

Andy Barnhart:
I'm in. I'm not a skeptic anymore.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I think that was your testing it.

Andy Barnhart:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
After $400,000.00, I said, all right. I guess this works.

Steven Butala:
He's an auditor. You know, I have an auditing background too and I just [crosstalk 00:04:59] naturally un-trusting of everything. Unless you're an auditor, you can't explain that. People don't understand that.

Andy Barnhart:
Right.

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Member Andy Barnhart Shares Land Academy Success Stories (LA 1566)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk with member Andy Barnhart, who shares his Land Academy success stories. But, before we get into it I have a simple question. Andy, you're sitting right there in that seat. How did you get there? Tell us your story and tell us how you chose Land Academy, and if it's working for you.

Andy Barnhart:
Yeah, hello. I'll go way back to when I was a child and my dad was a farmer, a dairy farmer. He would try to grow his operation and buy more land, so he would show me plat maps when I was... So, I was looking at plat maps when I was eight years old. He's like, "Oh, we own this 80 acres, and I'm going to buy this 80, and I'd love to have-" he always wanted a section of land. That was his goal. I knew what a section was, and a quarter and a half section at a young age. After college, I got a job-

Steven Butala:
I have to explain to everybody what a section is. A section is a square mile, and it's 640 acres. A half section is 320, and a quarter section is half of that.

Jill DeWit:
160.

Steven Butala:
160, and on, and on, and on.

Andy Barnhart:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Anyway, go ahead. So, you're in college.

Andy Barnhart:
So yeah, I got through college and I got my first job as an Auditor with the US Department of Agriculture with the Dairy Division. I went right in on my first day, and I had learned Excel and everything in college, and thought I was a whiz kid. Then I get into the government organization that I was hired with, and literally some older guys didn't even have a computer on their desk. They refused to work with a computer. All the programs were written in Lotus 123. So, it was like stepping back in time 30 years.

Andy Barnhart:
I was there 10 years, and we converted everything to Excel and all the reports and everything. So, I was very comfortable with... I had the agriculture background, I have Excel background, I have an auditing background. Then yeah, I bought the realtor courses and took all of the courses to become a realtor. I thought that's something I'm interested in, and then got to the end. I did all of the education and got to the end, and I think at that time is when I found your podcast. You guys were, as you are today, dealing with realtors and [inaudible 00:03:22].

Andy Barnhart:
You guys have never shied away from talking trash on realtors, so it made me think, "Well, do I really want to be a realtor?" So, I never went to take the test, and then that's when I bought the programs in 2016. Yeah, that's how I got here. I'm in my third year, and yeah still-

Steven Butala:
Is it working? Have you done a bunch of deals? I guess, you're on the show so hopefully some of it's working.

Andy Barnhart:
Yeah, yeah I didn't start out of the gate with a bang. I was skeptical, and I took it really slow. I wrote down my numbers. The first year, 2017, I did 19 deals, and I still had some other jobs going on, some part-time things. The revenue that year was $62,000.00-

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Andy Barnhart:
And then so last year- and I was still doing this all on my own. I did last year 184 deals completed, and then the revenue was $343,000.00. Yeah, I was like, "Yeah, this is-"

Jill DeWit:
I'm in.

Andy Barnhart:
I'm in. I'm not a skeptic anymore.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I think that was your testing it.

Andy Barnhart:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
After $400,000.00, I said, all right. I guess this works.

Steven Butala:
He's an auditor. You know, I have an auditing background too and I just [crosstalk 00:04:59] naturally un-trusting of everything. Unless you're an auditor, you can't explain that. People don't understand that.

Andy Barnhart:
Right.

Steven Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/11/member-andy-barnhart-shares-land-academy-success-stories-la-1566/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1BOw7nbrK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ecb3bf98-3388-4f2e-b8b4-031704169347.mp3" length="26903080" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why a Small Percentage of People Accomplish Their Goals (LA 1565)</title><itunes:title>Why a Small Percentage of People Accomplish Their Goals (LA 1565)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why a Small Percentage of People Accomplish Their Goals (LA 1565)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy new year.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from sunny, Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why a small percentage of people accomplish their goals. And I thought this was appropriate because it's January, well, it's the first real show in January.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it's the fourth. This is one of those rare occasions where we're recording on the actual day.

Steven Butala:
The same day. Why? Because we just got off of, like everybody, having some fun during the holiday season.

Jill DeWit:
Well, here's what's funny too. Last week was supposed to be with my ladies, Land Academy ladies group on Tuesday, which is the 29th or something. We were going to talk about work-life balance. And because I respect work-life balance, I needed some more life balance and not work balance. So I canceled our thing. So tomorrow we're going to pick up where we left on work-life balance. So this is partially why we're recording today too. We needed that work-life balance.

Steven Butala:
Awesome. Today's topic. Oh no... Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
You're out of your mojo, out of your groove. Aren't you?

Steven Butala:
We haven't recorded in quite some time.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's a week and a half. It's nice. James wrote, "Hello and happy new year. Transitioning military member signing up and excited to get started. The member guide appears to focus on the tools first, but I assume we should review the videos, which are the same thing as reference, the YouTube courses also references DVDs."

Steven Butala:
Yes. That's how long we've been doing this.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. You're right.

Steven Butala:
Used to be in DVD form.

Jill DeWit:
We did. And they provide the basics. "I have some of my family working with me and my initial thoughts about how to organize to take care of the most important responsibilities would be useful. Like step one, build a list, tutorial, step two, sort the list, et cetera. Noted we need a name and a website but we didn't understand the purpose of the website upfront. Is the purpose of the website to list on the mailer so sellers have a website with all your information and documents? Question. Thank you."

Steven Butala:
So this is a very, very popular question that usually Jill and I don't answer it, but I think everybody can benefit from it. We have a pretty substantial number of new members that signed up over the last 90 days. So it's really important to watch the programs, Land Academy One and Land Academy Two. And the Cash Flow From Land, the original program from 2015. And if you follow it step by step, all this stuff will get answered. And you will, at the end of it, have a comprehensive plan and a calendar, or you should anyway, from which to start at that point. So you don't want to build lists or whatever you mentioned in this, I'm not even sure what that means. Because we use database driven data, not lists. So the best thing you can absolutely do is follow the programming in order.

Jill DeWit:
Well, that's great. That's great, Jack. Let me answer your question, James.

Steven Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
Yes. What's the fucking point to the website? Yes. I do want you to go out and spend a couple hundred bucks. Even if you need to do it on... Pay $200 and get something on Fiverr to get your website, pick a name. And you could spend, don't spend a week on this, but spend a day on it and make sure you find a name you like.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, but it's [crosstalk 00:03:32]

Jill DeWit:
Short as possible-

Steven Butala:
It's addressed in the program.

Jill DeWit:
I know, but I'm helping the planet right now.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why a Small Percentage of People Accomplish Their Goals (LA 1565)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy new year.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from sunny, Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why a small percentage of people accomplish their goals. And I thought this was appropriate because it's January, well, it's the first real show in January.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it's the fourth. This is one of those rare occasions where we're recording on the actual day.

Steven Butala:
The same day. Why? Because we just got off of, like everybody, having some fun during the holiday season.

Jill DeWit:
Well, here's what's funny too. Last week was supposed to be with my ladies, Land Academy ladies group on Tuesday, which is the 29th or something. We were going to talk about work-life balance. And because I respect work-life balance, I needed some more life balance and not work balance. So I canceled our thing. So tomorrow we're going to pick up where we left on work-life balance. So this is partially why we're recording today too. We needed that work-life balance.

Steven Butala:
Awesome. Today's topic. Oh no... Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
You're out of your mojo, out of your groove. Aren't you?

Steven Butala:
We haven't recorded in quite some time.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's a week and a half. It's nice. James wrote, "Hello and happy new year. Transitioning military member signing up and excited to get started. The member guide appears to focus on the tools first, but I assume we should review the videos, which are the same thing as reference, the YouTube courses also references DVDs."

Steven Butala:
Yes. That's how long we've been doing this.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. You're right.

Steven Butala:
Used to be in DVD form.

Jill DeWit:
We did. And they provide the basics. "I have some of my family working with me and my initial thoughts about how to organize to take care of the most important responsibilities would be useful. Like step one, build a list, tutorial, step two, sort the list, et cetera. Noted we need a name and a website but we didn't understand the purpose of the website upfront. Is the purpose of the website to list on the mailer so sellers have a website with all your information and documents? Question. Thank you."

Steven Butala:
So this is a very, very popular question that usually Jill and I don't answer it, but I think everybody can benefit from it. We have a pretty substantial number of new members that signed up over the last 90 days. So it's really important to watch the programs, Land Academy One and Land Academy Two. And the Cash Flow From Land, the original program from 2015. And if you follow it step by step, all this stuff will get answered. And you will, at the end of it, have a comprehensive plan and a calendar, or you should anyway, from which to start at that point. So you don't want to build lists or whatever you mentioned in this, I'm not even sure what that means. Because we use database driven data, not lists. So the best thing you can absolutely do is follow the programming in order.

Jill DeWit:
Well, that's great. That's great, Jack. Let me answer your question, James.

Steven Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
Yes. What's the fucking point to the website? Yes. I do want you to go out and spend a couple hundred bucks. Even if you need to do it on... Pay $200 and get something on Fiverr to get your website, pick a name. And you could spend, don't spend a week on this, but spend a day on it and make sure you find a name you like.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, but it's [crosstalk 00:03:32]

Jill DeWit:
Short as possible-

Steven Butala:
It's addressed in the program.

Jill DeWit:
I know, but I'm helping the planet right now.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/11/why-a-small-percentage-of-people-accomplish-their-goals-la-1565/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">DtOBhcDh0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:59:36 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/42a175c5-6449-4ff2-b3cc-a3fd37488104.mp3" length="14304265" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Filling in the Land Acquisition Education Gaps with Land Academy (LA 1564)</title><itunes:title>Filling in the Land Acquisition Education Gaps with Land Academy (LA 1564)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Filling in the Land Acquisition Education Gaps with Land Academy (LA 1564)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the LandAcademy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about filling in the land acquisition education gaps with LandAcademy. This is all about understanding that you can buy and sell land. A lot of it's unwanted land for a pretty substantial profit with not a tremendous of cash outlay.

Steven Butala:
But what are the tiny little nuances, or the things that tell us exactly how to do it? What's the trick? What are the key things that I missed in all this other education that I see out there? Great. I know you can make money. What's the real deal?

Jill DeWit:
You know what's funny? I didn't know this until it happened that so many people over the years, since LandAcademy, have said, "Oh, my gosh, you guys. I didn't know this. You filled in this piece. This was all of the questions that I had, that the little things, you covered them all." I think a lot of them... What's interesting, too? A lot of those people have said, "I did it with the podcast." They have said that they've learned a lot and filled in a lot of missing information free right here on the podcast.

Steven Butala:
And here's a great real-world example. There are other people that are pretty loud out on the internet about... First of all, all the people that are in this teaching land space, every single one, without exception, except Jack Bosch, were LandAcademy members at one point. So, they've taken our concept and made it into some funky little niche. In a lot of cases, they copied exactly what we're doing and put their own face on it.

Steven Butala:
But there's several things that I think everybody's missing, and they are tiny little nuances. For example, the vast majority of people still don't send out offers. They send out letters of interest.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Or they just send letters to people who are in a back tech situation.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Or I think they're not effectively pricing as well as they could.

Steven Butala:
Or they don't have the integrity that you should have as a acquisition or an investor and the compassion when you're talking to a seller and finding out why they're doing this, and what's going on.

Jill DeWit:
This is good stuff to talk about.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Chris wrote, "I'm new to the land business and looking for others to join an accountability group. Whether you just joined LandAcademy as I did a few days ago, or are otherwise somewhat new to the business, it's all good. I anticipate we'll be running into a lot of the same questions and hurdles around the same time as we do our research, get out our first mailers. Mine will go out next week, field our first phone calls, et cetera. More answers and knowledge than we could ever ask for are here in the forums, education, podcasts, weekly calls, et cetera." Right, it's a lot.

Jill DeWit:
"So, we are covered there, but what we can provide each other some accountability and encouragement as we rack up our first success stories. Not to mention learning from whatever unique talents/experience we each bring to the table, and that landed us in this business. I, myself," it says, "experienced software developer/business owner. Perhaps a biweekly networking call over Zoom, and a free Slack channel to stay in touch in the meantime? Anyone interested, please reply to this thread or send me a private message. Thanks."

Steven Butala:
This is all you.

Jill DeWit:
This is something that we are actually working on. I'm so happy.

Steven Butala:
Me, too.

Jill DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Filling in the Land Acquisition Education Gaps with Land Academy (LA 1564)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the LandAcademy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about filling in the land acquisition education gaps with LandAcademy. This is all about understanding that you can buy and sell land. A lot of it's unwanted land for a pretty substantial profit with not a tremendous of cash outlay.

Steven Butala:
But what are the tiny little nuances, or the things that tell us exactly how to do it? What's the trick? What are the key things that I missed in all this other education that I see out there? Great. I know you can make money. What's the real deal?

Jill DeWit:
You know what's funny? I didn't know this until it happened that so many people over the years, since LandAcademy, have said, "Oh, my gosh, you guys. I didn't know this. You filled in this piece. This was all of the questions that I had, that the little things, you covered them all." I think a lot of them... What's interesting, too? A lot of those people have said, "I did it with the podcast." They have said that they've learned a lot and filled in a lot of missing information free right here on the podcast.

Steven Butala:
And here's a great real-world example. There are other people that are pretty loud out on the internet about... First of all, all the people that are in this teaching land space, every single one, without exception, except Jack Bosch, were LandAcademy members at one point. So, they've taken our concept and made it into some funky little niche. In a lot of cases, they copied exactly what we're doing and put their own face on it.

Steven Butala:
But there's several things that I think everybody's missing, and they are tiny little nuances. For example, the vast majority of people still don't send out offers. They send out letters of interest.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Or they just send letters to people who are in a back tech situation.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Or I think they're not effectively pricing as well as they could.

Steven Butala:
Or they don't have the integrity that you should have as a acquisition or an investor and the compassion when you're talking to a seller and finding out why they're doing this, and what's going on.

Jill DeWit:
This is good stuff to talk about.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Chris wrote, "I'm new to the land business and looking for others to join an accountability group. Whether you just joined LandAcademy as I did a few days ago, or are otherwise somewhat new to the business, it's all good. I anticipate we'll be running into a lot of the same questions and hurdles around the same time as we do our research, get out our first mailers. Mine will go out next week, field our first phone calls, et cetera. More answers and knowledge than we could ever ask for are here in the forums, education, podcasts, weekly calls, et cetera." Right, it's a lot.

Jill DeWit:
"So, we are covered there, but what we can provide each other some accountability and encouragement as we rack up our first success stories. Not to mention learning from whatever unique talents/experience we each bring to the table, and that landed us in this business. I, myself," it says, "experienced software developer/business owner. Perhaps a biweekly networking call over Zoom, and a free Slack channel to stay in touch in the meantime? Anyone interested, please reply to this thread or send me a private message. Thanks."

Steven Butala:
This is all you.

Jill DeWit:
This is something that we are actually working on. I'm so happy.

Steven Butala:
Me, too.

Jill DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/09/filling-in-the-land-acquisition-education-gaps-with-land-academy-la-1564/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">m5MUso0m9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:02:27 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bc270bd6-b6b8-415f-84c4-61fe909aa1ed.mp3" length="15464647" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Turn a Dead Deal into a Successfully Completed One (LA 1563)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to Turn a Dead Deal into a Successfully Completed One (LA 1563)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Turn a Dead Deal into a Successfully Completed One (LA 1563)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from amazing Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jill Friday. Well, she's going to talk and she's going to let us know how to turn a deal, a dead deal, into a successfully completed one.

Jill DeWit:
That'd be funny. We should each ... Share how you would do it and how I would do it.

Steven J Butala:
Perfect. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and join us on Discord if you're already a Land Academy member,

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "I've listened to the podcast this morning about how Jill talks to sellers in order to find common ground. I loved her examples. Does anyone know where I can get more info like this? I would love to have a number of things to practice that would help me connect with the seller." Oh. I have a few things right now. Number one, out of the gate ask how they are? People don't do that. How are you today? Every time I'm calling somewhere whether it's a title company, a bank, internet provider, I'm totally serious on this, I try to get them right on my team by being nice to them, by offering up a little something like, "How are you? How's your day going? Wow, that was a long hold time." And I'm not being sarcastic.

Jill DeWit:
I'm saying, "You guys are slammed, how are you hanging in there?" And I'll even say, "Take a second, catch a breath. Do you have coffee there? Take a drink." They'll be like, "Thank you." No one cares enough to even say that. So automatically I'm being nice and helpful, and I have them on my team, and now we can ... And then they're ready to go, "Well, how can I help you?" And then I say, "My cable doesn't work," or whatever it is. There you go.

Steven J Butala:
Some of the best advice I've ever gotten ever was from a bartender many years ago, 20 plus years ago. And he said, "Meet people from where they're coming." That's it. And he said, "Specifically, children. You're not going to meet a two-year-old ... You're not going to treat a two-year-old the way that you're going to treat a six-year-old or a 16-year-old. They're completely different people. And you need to meet everybody from where they're coming and it's going to go a lot better."

Jill DeWit:
You have to take a step back and think about where they ... Exactly where they're coming from. People in New York just live differently, talk differently, communicate differently, different speeds, different volumes than somebody from the Deep South. And you have to do your best to mirror them without not belittling and not condescending. But if you're talking to a sweet little lady from somewhere in a dreamy part of Georgia, I don't know. You need to ... You're going to take a step back, and calm down, and think she's sitting right now drinking her tea, opening her mail, and calling me. I need to be that person she wants to talk to, and answer all her questions, and get this deal done, and make it easy and understandable for her.

Steven J Butala:
You're trying to get a deal done here. This is the topic. Let's get into the topic.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. How to turn a deal, a dead deal, into a successfully completed one. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So by dead deal, we don't necessarily mean that you kicked it to the curb or they told you whatever and you're calling them back talking them into anything, which you could do some ... I mean, it does happens but-

Steven J Butala:
A lot of scenarios here.

Jill DeWit:
You're not talking anybody into anything.

Steven J Butala:
Back to what the question was today. People ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to Turn a Dead Deal into a Successfully Completed One (LA 1563)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from amazing Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jill Friday. Well, she's going to talk and she's going to let us know how to turn a deal, a dead deal, into a successfully completed one.

Jill DeWit:
That'd be funny. We should each ... Share how you would do it and how I would do it.

Steven J Butala:
Perfect. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and join us on Discord if you're already a Land Academy member,

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "I've listened to the podcast this morning about how Jill talks to sellers in order to find common ground. I loved her examples. Does anyone know where I can get more info like this? I would love to have a number of things to practice that would help me connect with the seller." Oh. I have a few things right now. Number one, out of the gate ask how they are? People don't do that. How are you today? Every time I'm calling somewhere whether it's a title company, a bank, internet provider, I'm totally serious on this, I try to get them right on my team by being nice to them, by offering up a little something like, "How are you? How's your day going? Wow, that was a long hold time." And I'm not being sarcastic.

Jill DeWit:
I'm saying, "You guys are slammed, how are you hanging in there?" And I'll even say, "Take a second, catch a breath. Do you have coffee there? Take a drink." They'll be like, "Thank you." No one cares enough to even say that. So automatically I'm being nice and helpful, and I have them on my team, and now we can ... And then they're ready to go, "Well, how can I help you?" And then I say, "My cable doesn't work," or whatever it is. There you go.

Steven J Butala:
Some of the best advice I've ever gotten ever was from a bartender many years ago, 20 plus years ago. And he said, "Meet people from where they're coming." That's it. And he said, "Specifically, children. You're not going to meet a two-year-old ... You're not going to treat a two-year-old the way that you're going to treat a six-year-old or a 16-year-old. They're completely different people. And you need to meet everybody from where they're coming and it's going to go a lot better."

Jill DeWit:
You have to take a step back and think about where they ... Exactly where they're coming from. People in New York just live differently, talk differently, communicate differently, different speeds, different volumes than somebody from the Deep South. And you have to do your best to mirror them without not belittling and not condescending. But if you're talking to a sweet little lady from somewhere in a dreamy part of Georgia, I don't know. You need to ... You're going to take a step back, and calm down, and think she's sitting right now drinking her tea, opening her mail, and calling me. I need to be that person she wants to talk to, and answer all her questions, and get this deal done, and make it easy and understandable for her.

Steven J Butala:
You're trying to get a deal done here. This is the topic. Let's get into the topic.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. How to turn a deal, a dead deal, into a successfully completed one. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So by dead deal, we don't necessarily mean that you kicked it to the curb or they told you whatever and you're calling them back talking them into anything, which you could do some ... I mean, it does happens but-

Steven J Butala:
A lot of scenarios here.

Jill DeWit:
You're not talking anybody into anything.

Steven J Butala:
Back to what the question was today. People ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/06/jill-friday-how-to-turn-a-dead-deal-into-a-successfully-completed-one-la-1563/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jjn8JFV3A</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f71e3d77-d36a-418c-8475-9181c473792b.mp3" length="15432071" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Life Math (LA 1562)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Life Math (LA 1562)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Life Math (LA 1562)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from amazing Phoenix Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about life math, which completely confuses Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Hold on a moment.

Steven J Butala:
Not life math the topic, just what the hell is he going to talk about now?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that does. Yeah. I don't know where you're going with that, but I was going to pause and say, I'm actually good at math.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, I know.

Jill DeWit:
I did really well in school at math.

Steven J Butala:
And physics.

Jill DeWit:
And physics, that was one of my favorite subjects. I liked physics. That was really fun for me. So flying and old school when you're learning to fly and you have to map out where you're going and how many minutes to get somewhere and degrees and that kind of thing, oh, I love that stuff. I kill it on all that. So don't think I can't do math. But that's not what this is about today.

Steven J Butala:
Right. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member of Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Of Land Academy.

Steven J Butala:
Join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks. Leah wrote, "Hello. I have a property under contract and the owner's relative has a neighboring parcel. The relative has agreed to give the owner an easement so her property can be accessed by the road. This is in" should I say the state or no?

Steven J Butala:
Sure.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, "This is in California. Where do I find the paperwork to get this done? What is the process?"

Steven J Butala:
This is not something you can do yourself. It's not something I could do myself after how many years of doing this. You need to call a lawyer, preferably a real estate lawyer that understands easements and preferably in that county, potentially even in that city. And that's really the only way that it's going to get done. Here's the great news, this almost never happens. The fact that these people are related and that they're cooperating and that-.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven J Butala:
What's you're now doing is every land person's dream. You're taking a property that until you do this, its use is very limited. If anything, it's only limited to the people that actually have access around it.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
And fortunately, one of this is a relative. And you're creating equity. And that's what this is all about. We create equity here. We buy property cheap and we sell it for more, and create some equity for ourselves and the persons we sell it to. And so this is good. I put this in here for a reason. This is a dream situation. So anybody who's looking at property that doesn't have physical or legal access, and that's a lot of us all the time. The remedy is to talk to the neighbors and see, "Hey, can I get some access to this property over here? It's on the edge of your property. It doesn't look like you live there anyway. It looks like you live in Nevada, the properties in Texas. What do you say, I blade a road in, get some physical and legal access. I'll pay for it all, I just need you to sign some stuff." It doesn't happen enough.

Jill DeWit:
Beautiful. Thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic, its Jack Thursday. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
Life math.

Steven J Butala:
It's Jack Thursday about life math.

Jill DeWit:
What is life math?

Steven J Butala:
When I was a kid, I was confused like every kid.

Jill DeWit:
And now you've got it all down. Especially, understanding women.

Steven J Butala:
Like everything, not only was I confused, I wanted to grow up really fast. I was tired of being a kid. I was tired of being a kid.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Life Math (LA 1562)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from amazing Phoenix Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about life math, which completely confuses Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Hold on a moment.

Steven J Butala:
Not life math the topic, just what the hell is he going to talk about now?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that does. Yeah. I don't know where you're going with that, but I was going to pause and say, I'm actually good at math.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, I know.

Jill DeWit:
I did really well in school at math.

Steven J Butala:
And physics.

Jill DeWit:
And physics, that was one of my favorite subjects. I liked physics. That was really fun for me. So flying and old school when you're learning to fly and you have to map out where you're going and how many minutes to get somewhere and degrees and that kind of thing, oh, I love that stuff. I kill it on all that. So don't think I can't do math. But that's not what this is about today.

Steven J Butala:
Right. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member of Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Of Land Academy.

Steven J Butala:
Join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks. Leah wrote, "Hello. I have a property under contract and the owner's relative has a neighboring parcel. The relative has agreed to give the owner an easement so her property can be accessed by the road. This is in" should I say the state or no?

Steven J Butala:
Sure.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, "This is in California. Where do I find the paperwork to get this done? What is the process?"

Steven J Butala:
This is not something you can do yourself. It's not something I could do myself after how many years of doing this. You need to call a lawyer, preferably a real estate lawyer that understands easements and preferably in that county, potentially even in that city. And that's really the only way that it's going to get done. Here's the great news, this almost never happens. The fact that these people are related and that they're cooperating and that-.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven J Butala:
What's you're now doing is every land person's dream. You're taking a property that until you do this, its use is very limited. If anything, it's only limited to the people that actually have access around it.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
And fortunately, one of this is a relative. And you're creating equity. And that's what this is all about. We create equity here. We buy property cheap and we sell it for more, and create some equity for ourselves and the persons we sell it to. And so this is good. I put this in here for a reason. This is a dream situation. So anybody who's looking at property that doesn't have physical or legal access, and that's a lot of us all the time. The remedy is to talk to the neighbors and see, "Hey, can I get some access to this property over here? It's on the edge of your property. It doesn't look like you live there anyway. It looks like you live in Nevada, the properties in Texas. What do you say, I blade a road in, get some physical and legal access. I'll pay for it all, I just need you to sign some stuff." It doesn't happen enough.

Jill DeWit:
Beautiful. Thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic, its Jack Thursday. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
Life math.

Steven J Butala:
It's Jack Thursday about life math.

Jill DeWit:
What is life math?

Steven J Butala:
When I was a kid, I was confused like every kid.

Jill DeWit:
And now you've got it all down. Especially, understanding women.

Steven J Butala:
Like everything, not only was I confused, I wanted to grow up really fast. I was tired of being a kid. I was tired of being a kid.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/05/jack-thursday-life-math-la-1562/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YNviMC3dM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d05d049c-ee6d-4321-a3b9-361dff867d0d.mp3" length="12530757" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Career Path Members are Aligning themselves with Each Other (LA 1561)</title><itunes:title>How Career Path Members are Aligning themselves with Each Other (LA 1561)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Career Path Members are Aligning themselves with Each Other (LA 1561)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from amazing Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how Career Path members are aligning themselves with each other.

Steven J Butala:
This is a fascinating for me.

Jill DeWit:
I love this. This makes me so happy. This is why we're here. I'm not here to have a million members and just sit back and roll out a program and just go up and say, "Here you go. Have a nice day."

Steven J Butala:
"Figure it out."

Jill DeWit:
Could you imagine, it's like I'm at a cash register dishing out ice cream cones. That's not what I'm doing. We're here creating businesses and helping putting people together, not just with us, but with themselves. I really mean it when we say there's nothing better than hearing that you're making more money than me this month. It's really cool because all I think of is, "Hey, please remember me someday when you need cash. I'll fund your deal." It's awesome. It's great. We're doing just fine and I'm happy you're doing better.

Jill DeWit:
So, how does this happen? People in our group find each other and we'll talk more about that.

Steven J Butala:
Why wouldn't you?

Jill DeWit:
Right?

Steven J Butala:
That's one of the huge benefits of being a serious Land Academy member. You're doing deals with other people in the group.

Jill DeWit:
I remember our first, very first live event. People were like, "I was just so happy to be in a room. I thought I was on an island somewhere because you guys are here. I'm six states over. So, I was so happy to be able to get with like-minded people." And now with all of the ways that we have to communicate, our weekly calls, the accountability groups and Career Path and other meetings and venues and Discord and everything. The community can really communicate. You really find that you're not alone and that is huge.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. When a group of like-minded people... Well, let's get into the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, cool.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
A Land Academy member, that is. James wrote, "I'm buying from a seller who bought the property in 1985 and they want to close quickly and get cash with a local attorney and via warranty deed." Perfect. "I think I should close with title and pay the additional $700 plus two weeks, so I don't have any issues on the sales end. Do you normally take title on the buy and sales and pay twice? Thank you." Close quickly, local attorney. There's no difference here.

Steven J Butala:
Let me clarify something and this is a very, very good question. And I think a lot of people can benefit from it. When you buy a property through a title company, a title escrow company just like when you buy a house, you get a title policy and everything's good and it's recorded correctly. You dot your I's and cross your T's and it's done. It is the exact same thing with the lawyer. Exactly. There's no difference at all. In fact, they usually do it faster and I would argue cheaper and I would argue more accurately because they usually have more experience.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
So, please, the take away from this is there's no difference between closing a deal through a lawyer and through a title escrow company except speed, money and quality.

Jill DeWit:
And James, you just spelled it out perfectly. If I go with the attorney, I save two weeks and $700. So, my argument is that's the right thing to do, James.

Steven J Butala:
So, I think, James, you're assuming and it's totally okay. I'm not knocking you here at all.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Career Path Members are Aligning themselves with Each Other (LA 1561)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from amazing Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how Career Path members are aligning themselves with each other.

Steven J Butala:
This is a fascinating for me.

Jill DeWit:
I love this. This makes me so happy. This is why we're here. I'm not here to have a million members and just sit back and roll out a program and just go up and say, "Here you go. Have a nice day."

Steven J Butala:
"Figure it out."

Jill DeWit:
Could you imagine, it's like I'm at a cash register dishing out ice cream cones. That's not what I'm doing. We're here creating businesses and helping putting people together, not just with us, but with themselves. I really mean it when we say there's nothing better than hearing that you're making more money than me this month. It's really cool because all I think of is, "Hey, please remember me someday when you need cash. I'll fund your deal." It's awesome. It's great. We're doing just fine and I'm happy you're doing better.

Jill DeWit:
So, how does this happen? People in our group find each other and we'll talk more about that.

Steven J Butala:
Why wouldn't you?

Jill DeWit:
Right?

Steven J Butala:
That's one of the huge benefits of being a serious Land Academy member. You're doing deals with other people in the group.

Jill DeWit:
I remember our first, very first live event. People were like, "I was just so happy to be in a room. I thought I was on an island somewhere because you guys are here. I'm six states over. So, I was so happy to be able to get with like-minded people." And now with all of the ways that we have to communicate, our weekly calls, the accountability groups and Career Path and other meetings and venues and Discord and everything. The community can really communicate. You really find that you're not alone and that is huge.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. When a group of like-minded people... Well, let's get into the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, cool.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
A Land Academy member, that is. James wrote, "I'm buying from a seller who bought the property in 1985 and they want to close quickly and get cash with a local attorney and via warranty deed." Perfect. "I think I should close with title and pay the additional $700 plus two weeks, so I don't have any issues on the sales end. Do you normally take title on the buy and sales and pay twice? Thank you." Close quickly, local attorney. There's no difference here.

Steven J Butala:
Let me clarify something and this is a very, very good question. And I think a lot of people can benefit from it. When you buy a property through a title company, a title escrow company just like when you buy a house, you get a title policy and everything's good and it's recorded correctly. You dot your I's and cross your T's and it's done. It is the exact same thing with the lawyer. Exactly. There's no difference at all. In fact, they usually do it faster and I would argue cheaper and I would argue more accurately because they usually have more experience.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
So, please, the take away from this is there's no difference between closing a deal through a lawyer and through a title escrow company except speed, money and quality.

Jill DeWit:
And James, you just spelled it out perfectly. If I go with the attorney, I save two weeks and $700. So, my argument is that's the right thing to do, James.

Steven J Butala:
So, I think, James, you're assuming and it's totally okay. I'm not knocking you here at all.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/04/how-career-path-members-are-aligning-themselves-with-each-other-la-1561/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">EotTn90d9</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/11a1c06a-7a0d-47de-b293-ee31e97ee300.mp3" length="12889007" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill&amp;#8217;s Confused about Our Accountants Email (LA 1560)</title><itunes:title>Jill&amp;#8217;s Confused about Our Accountants Email (LA 1560)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill's Confused about Our Accountants Email (LA 1560)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm the patient one sitting next to the impatient one. My name is Jill Dewit and we're broadcasting from awesome Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why is Jill confused about our accountant's email?

Jill DeWit:
Good. Don't say anything. I'm going to read you what we wrote in a few minutes, and then I'm going to read you what his response was. I went, "What the heck is this all about? It's interesting. We'll talk all about it.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, I'm curious how others may approach pricing this situation, small county with only two zip codes. Good, not great market. Has a lake, but the lake doesn't appear to influence home values. Only doing less than one acre lots. Here's what I'm trying to square up. Medium home values are between 200,000 and 250,000 and Zillow searches reinforced that pricing.

Jill DeWit:
The Kelly treats most of the lots, like they're worth a couple of beers and not much more, except for a handful of properties that they think are worth between 60 and $70,000. Nothing vacant is currently for sale. Taxes seemed to have no relation to valuation of properties. One lot sold in the past year for $10,000. Would you price off of the homes and risk over pricing? Price off of the county and offer people wide range of prices and negotiate your way to deals or price off that one sold comp and then negotiate each deal?

Steven J Butala:
This is a brilliant question. How should I price something when I have no real data? How can I make a business decision without any real data? Not just for land, but anything, because all decisions should be made on ...

Jill DeWit:
Real information.

Steven J Butala:
Empirical data and not emotion. That's exactly what John is doing here. By the way, there's lots of Johns in our group. This one really knows what he's doing. You know who you are. I love testing new markets like this. If nothing's been purchased or sold or recorded, nobody's there doing anything.

Steven J Butala:
This is what I want you to do, I want you to go in there and just crush the price so low it's silly. There's going to be a bunch of low hanging fruit. Just get it all on that first run. There's a chance that you price it way too low and it'll bust. I haven't experienced that, neither has Jill, and most people ... I'd bet John, you haven't either. I don't think anyone has had it just completely failed.

Jill DeWit:
I argue.

Steven J Butala:
Mailer.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to argue off failed mailers. It's usually not the mailer, it's something wrong with an area or something.

Steven J Butala:
You got $200,000 houses on smaller lots, less than an acre. I would go in and just start offering five to $8,000 just across the board for both zip codes and see what happens. It probably bites. This is what usually happens when I do this, we buy two or three, four properties, maybe. Hopefully the data set's big. If it's a thousand unit dataset, now, that's a little scary. But, if you've got eight or 8,000, let's say, vacant properties, I'd go in across the board. Forget about the lake. Go in across the board, in at $10,000, maybe 8,000, maybe seven or whatever pricing scheme you come up with. You're going to buy a few most likely, hopefully a few more. Then, you're going to find out where that magic ... by the way, you're operating all by yourself here. Nobody's doing anything else.

Steven J Butala:
You're going to find out where that threshold is. There's a threshold in every single market. I think it'd make a lot of sense, then,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill's Confused about Our Accountants Email (LA 1560)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm the patient one sitting next to the impatient one. My name is Jill Dewit and we're broadcasting from awesome Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why is Jill confused about our accountant's email?

Jill DeWit:
Good. Don't say anything. I'm going to read you what we wrote in a few minutes, and then I'm going to read you what his response was. I went, "What the heck is this all about? It's interesting. We'll talk all about it.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, I'm curious how others may approach pricing this situation, small county with only two zip codes. Good, not great market. Has a lake, but the lake doesn't appear to influence home values. Only doing less than one acre lots. Here's what I'm trying to square up. Medium home values are between 200,000 and 250,000 and Zillow searches reinforced that pricing.

Jill DeWit:
The Kelly treats most of the lots, like they're worth a couple of beers and not much more, except for a handful of properties that they think are worth between 60 and $70,000. Nothing vacant is currently for sale. Taxes seemed to have no relation to valuation of properties. One lot sold in the past year for $10,000. Would you price off of the homes and risk over pricing? Price off of the county and offer people wide range of prices and negotiate your way to deals or price off that one sold comp and then negotiate each deal?

Steven J Butala:
This is a brilliant question. How should I price something when I have no real data? How can I make a business decision without any real data? Not just for land, but anything, because all decisions should be made on ...

Jill DeWit:
Real information.

Steven J Butala:
Empirical data and not emotion. That's exactly what John is doing here. By the way, there's lots of Johns in our group. This one really knows what he's doing. You know who you are. I love testing new markets like this. If nothing's been purchased or sold or recorded, nobody's there doing anything.

Steven J Butala:
This is what I want you to do, I want you to go in there and just crush the price so low it's silly. There's going to be a bunch of low hanging fruit. Just get it all on that first run. There's a chance that you price it way too low and it'll bust. I haven't experienced that, neither has Jill, and most people ... I'd bet John, you haven't either. I don't think anyone has had it just completely failed.

Jill DeWit:
I argue.

Steven J Butala:
Mailer.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to argue off failed mailers. It's usually not the mailer, it's something wrong with an area or something.

Steven J Butala:
You got $200,000 houses on smaller lots, less than an acre. I would go in and just start offering five to $8,000 just across the board for both zip codes and see what happens. It probably bites. This is what usually happens when I do this, we buy two or three, four properties, maybe. Hopefully the data set's big. If it's a thousand unit dataset, now, that's a little scary. But, if you've got eight or 8,000, let's say, vacant properties, I'd go in across the board. Forget about the lake. Go in across the board, in at $10,000, maybe 8,000, maybe seven or whatever pricing scheme you come up with. You're going to buy a few most likely, hopefully a few more. Then, you're going to find out where that magic ... by the way, you're operating all by yourself here. Nobody's doing anything else.

Steven J Butala:
You're going to find out where that threshold is. There's a threshold in every single market. I think it'd make a lot of sense, then,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/03/jills-confused-about-our-accountants-email-la-1560/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Lky4EHXAm</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 22:00:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/919d671c-ca44-45b6-82ad-861ca321f4aa.mp3" length="15156485" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Truth About Taxes as a Real Estate Investor (LA 1559)</title><itunes:title>Truth About Taxes as a Real Estate Investor (LA 1559)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Truth About Taxes as a Real Estate Investor (LA 1559)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven J Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the truth about taxes as a real estate investor.

Jill DeWit:
This is a hot topic often, not just tax time, but that's when it really hurts, but this is a big deal. People come into this, and it's kind of funny, I never thought about this going into this business. I never thought about if I make a lot of money, how am I going to do my taxes? I always let those things work themselves out at the end, but it turns out we have a lot of people, probably smarter than me, that are thinking about this now, so we wanted to talk about it to put everybody at ease and give you some insight and some ways to tackle taxes.

Steven J Butala:
If you love paying taxes-

Jill DeWit:
This is not the show for you.

Steven J Butala:
No, if you love paying taxes, then after these next three or four sentences, you can just turn the episode off, because the rest is for people who don't want to pay taxes or like to legally minimize tax. That's what this is about. If you love to pay taxes, this is what you do. You form an LLC.

Jill DeWit:
We'll save it for the show.

Steven J Butala:
No, this is just for people who love to pay taxes.

Jill DeWit:
So they can get it out of the way now.

Steven J Butala:
Form an LLC, set your W2 paycheck, you and your partner, pay the highest salary as you can, and then you pay a withholding, and then there's nothing left over, because pay yourself so much in all those taxes, so you're all set there.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Hello. I know these two. Erica and Abby wrote, "Hi, Jack and Jill. Just want to give you guys a quick update. My wife and I joined Land Academy a year or so ago, and we just completed 100 deals, 74 cash, 26 on terms." They were at our last live event. I remember. "We feel grateful and want to thank you so much for sharing this business with us. Please keep up the good work. Best Erica and Abby. That's so great. I also see them on social media traveling the world.

Steven J Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
That's great.

Jill DeWit:
So, it's obviously working out just wonderful for them. That's so good. Congratulations. Thanks for sharing that.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic, the truth about taxes as a real estate investor. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I wanted to bring this topic up because it's important, number one, and it's often on people's minds, as it should be. We're making all this money. Where's it going to go? How do I account for it? Do I file taxes in every state? Do I get an LLC for every property? Do I get an LLC for every state? Oh my goodness. There's so many ways to do this. Here's my answer. Yes, there are so many ways to do this. This is the point for me, if you don't mind.

Steven J Butala:
Of course.

Jill DeWit:
Then I'm going to let the person with the accounting background give you their professional advice. But my advice is mainly this. People always ask us exactly how we do it, who's our accountant, can we call our guy? Can we copy you? You know what? We've been doing it for so long, and we have certain tax, you'll talk about this too, designations that may not apply to everybody. We're all different ages. We're all in different states. We've been doing things differently. Guess what? It's okay. My main point here today is there are different ways to do this. There's no perfect cookie cutter Land Academy approved roadmap to taxes that says,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Truth About Taxes as a Real Estate Investor (LA 1559)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven J Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the truth about taxes as a real estate investor.

Jill DeWit:
This is a hot topic often, not just tax time, but that's when it really hurts, but this is a big deal. People come into this, and it's kind of funny, I never thought about this going into this business. I never thought about if I make a lot of money, how am I going to do my taxes? I always let those things work themselves out at the end, but it turns out we have a lot of people, probably smarter than me, that are thinking about this now, so we wanted to talk about it to put everybody at ease and give you some insight and some ways to tackle taxes.

Steven J Butala:
If you love paying taxes-

Jill DeWit:
This is not the show for you.

Steven J Butala:
No, if you love paying taxes, then after these next three or four sentences, you can just turn the episode off, because the rest is for people who don't want to pay taxes or like to legally minimize tax. That's what this is about. If you love to pay taxes, this is what you do. You form an LLC.

Jill DeWit:
We'll save it for the show.

Steven J Butala:
No, this is just for people who love to pay taxes.

Jill DeWit:
So they can get it out of the way now.

Steven J Butala:
Form an LLC, set your W2 paycheck, you and your partner, pay the highest salary as you can, and then you pay a withholding, and then there's nothing left over, because pay yourself so much in all those taxes, so you're all set there.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Hello. I know these two. Erica and Abby wrote, "Hi, Jack and Jill. Just want to give you guys a quick update. My wife and I joined Land Academy a year or so ago, and we just completed 100 deals, 74 cash, 26 on terms." They were at our last live event. I remember. "We feel grateful and want to thank you so much for sharing this business with us. Please keep up the good work. Best Erica and Abby. That's so great. I also see them on social media traveling the world.

Steven J Butala:
Really?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
That's great.

Jill DeWit:
So, it's obviously working out just wonderful for them. That's so good. Congratulations. Thanks for sharing that.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic, the truth about taxes as a real estate investor. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I wanted to bring this topic up because it's important, number one, and it's often on people's minds, as it should be. We're making all this money. Where's it going to go? How do I account for it? Do I file taxes in every state? Do I get an LLC for every property? Do I get an LLC for every state? Oh my goodness. There's so many ways to do this. Here's my answer. Yes, there are so many ways to do this. This is the point for me, if you don't mind.

Steven J Butala:
Of course.

Jill DeWit:
Then I'm going to let the person with the accounting background give you their professional advice. But my advice is mainly this. People always ask us exactly how we do it, who's our accountant, can we call our guy? Can we copy you? You know what? We've been doing it for so long, and we have certain tax, you'll talk about this too, designations that may not apply to everybody. We're all different ages. We're all in different states. We've been doing things differently. Guess what? It's okay. My main point here today is there are different ways to do this. There's no perfect cookie cutter Land Academy approved roadmap to taxes that says,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/08/02/truth-about-taxes-as-a-real-estate-investor-la-1559/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SXQa1ZlgS</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/876dfa89-fa0b-4df5-ad20-4056fe09ae05.mp3" length="12882235" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to be an Effective Entrepreneur (LA 1558)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How to be an Effective Entrepreneur (LA 1558)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to be an Effective Entrepreneur (LA 1558)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. How to be an effective Entrepreneur. I was going to say infectious, because you're like an infectious entrepreneur. And that's a compliment. Huge compliment.

Jill DeWit:
That's Great. But do you know with COVID [inaudible 00:00:26], you can't throw infectious around.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, that's probably not [inaudible 00:00:31].

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Two years ago. We all get it. Now, not so much.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Laurie wrote, "Success stories." I like this, I saw this the other day. Okay. Laurie wrote, "Success stories are too few and I'm posting this one on request. Bought 20 acres with a falling down house and a ton of trash for $70,000, sold in less than a week for $165,000 to the neighbor. I funded this for a partner who's negotiating and set a selling wizard and made it possible. We had to work through an attorney for several months to finalize probate and to get the property redated. Seller knew nothing about probate. Didn't even know she had to go through probate or to facilitate with two attorneys involved.

Jill DeWit:
Was a headache of a deal. But at the end, the seller was so incredibly grateful to have the money and the neighbors were thrilled to get the property cheap. My deal partner, and I were both delighted to make that much and sell so fast. And he wasn't even a bit upset to get a wire for $53,000. And the attorney was happy with the flowers we sent her and she sent a picture of them in her conference room. And a love you guys email. That's five people that were very happy from one deal made possible by Land Academy."

Steven Butala:
So I put this in the script on this episode because Jill's going to ... This is happy Jill. And because yesterday ...

Jill DeWit:
It was crappy Jack. Happy Jill, crappy Jack.

Steven Butala:
This experience, I believe represents the vast majority of what goes on Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Today's topic Jill Friday. How to be an effective entrepreneur. This is the meat of the show. For helping each other out this week. Sometimes we fall a little behind. Sometimes we lose our train of thought. Sometimes we're just, who knows what is going on.

Steven Butala:
Broadcasting to you from our personal job site.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
Construction site.

Jill DeWit:
There is that too. Yes, we are recording around different projects. So it's okay. So here's the deal. I find there's a lot of people that hit a certain level in their company, and it's usually deal flow and money combined. And they're like, "I know how to make 50, 75, a hundred thousand dollars a month seriously, but I can't get past that level of right now. I'm doing bigger deals. I'm answering the phone as best I can. I love my job. I'm not sleeping. I don't know what to do now. I'm trying to get past this hump. And so I want to help you be an effective entrepreneur. Guess what the problem is. It's you.

Steven Butala:
Maybe this is a rant today. Jill's rant. [crosstalk 00:03:42] maybe it's narcissistic view.

Jill DeWit:
You saw that coming right?

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:03:54]. I thought you would agree with me, but that's really it. It's you, okay. You've got-

Steven Butala:
I want to get in on this now.

Jill DeWit:
Why is it you? Because you are holding yourself back. You need to step aside. You need to hire, you need to let some self ... You need to let some things go. You've got to force the growth and I get it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How to be an Effective Entrepreneur (LA 1558)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. How to be an effective Entrepreneur. I was going to say infectious, because you're like an infectious entrepreneur. And that's a compliment. Huge compliment.

Jill DeWit:
That's Great. But do you know with COVID [inaudible 00:00:26], you can't throw infectious around.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, that's probably not [inaudible 00:00:31].

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Two years ago. We all get it. Now, not so much.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Laurie wrote, "Success stories." I like this, I saw this the other day. Okay. Laurie wrote, "Success stories are too few and I'm posting this one on request. Bought 20 acres with a falling down house and a ton of trash for $70,000, sold in less than a week for $165,000 to the neighbor. I funded this for a partner who's negotiating and set a selling wizard and made it possible. We had to work through an attorney for several months to finalize probate and to get the property redated. Seller knew nothing about probate. Didn't even know she had to go through probate or to facilitate with two attorneys involved.

Jill DeWit:
Was a headache of a deal. But at the end, the seller was so incredibly grateful to have the money and the neighbors were thrilled to get the property cheap. My deal partner, and I were both delighted to make that much and sell so fast. And he wasn't even a bit upset to get a wire for $53,000. And the attorney was happy with the flowers we sent her and she sent a picture of them in her conference room. And a love you guys email. That's five people that were very happy from one deal made possible by Land Academy."

Steven Butala:
So I put this in the script on this episode because Jill's going to ... This is happy Jill. And because yesterday ...

Jill DeWit:
It was crappy Jack. Happy Jill, crappy Jack.

Steven Butala:
This experience, I believe represents the vast majority of what goes on Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Today's topic Jill Friday. How to be an effective entrepreneur. This is the meat of the show. For helping each other out this week. Sometimes we fall a little behind. Sometimes we lose our train of thought. Sometimes we're just, who knows what is going on.

Steven Butala:
Broadcasting to you from our personal job site.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
Construction site.

Jill DeWit:
There is that too. Yes, we are recording around different projects. So it's okay. So here's the deal. I find there's a lot of people that hit a certain level in their company, and it's usually deal flow and money combined. And they're like, "I know how to make 50, 75, a hundred thousand dollars a month seriously, but I can't get past that level of right now. I'm doing bigger deals. I'm answering the phone as best I can. I love my job. I'm not sleeping. I don't know what to do now. I'm trying to get past this hump. And so I want to help you be an effective entrepreneur. Guess what the problem is. It's you.

Steven Butala:
Maybe this is a rant today. Jill's rant. [crosstalk 00:03:42] maybe it's narcissistic view.

Jill DeWit:
You saw that coming right?

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:03:54]. I thought you would agree with me, but that's really it. It's you, okay. You've got-

Steven Butala:
I want to get in on this now.

Jill DeWit:
Why is it you? Because you are holding yourself back. You need to step aside. You need to hire, you need to let some self ... You need to let some things go. You've got to force the growth and I get it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/30/jill-friday-how-to-be-an-effective-entrepreneur-la-1558/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_UGzbsY0W</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e7b5420b-4289-4fa3-8f0b-22e67e9116eb.mp3" length="11957595" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy Members with Personality Disorders (LA 1557)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Land Academy Members with Personality Disorders (LA 1557)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Academy Members with Personality Disorders (LA 1557)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about Land Academy members with personality disorders.

Jill DeWit:
Put your helmet on.

Steven Butala:
Why would you ever talk about Land Academy members with disorders when 99.8% of all Land Academy members past and present are awesome. Because it's Jack Thursday, that's why.

Jill DeWit:
Because he wants to.

Steven Butala:
And some people need to be discussed and disgusted.

Jill DeWit:
Oh no.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're already a member and you don't have a personality disorder, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. It's already starting.

Jill DeWit:
All right, Kevin wrote, this might be a rant on open contracts.

Steven Butala:
Options.

Jill DeWit:
Ops. Excuse me. Let me start over. "This might be a rant on option contracts. I talked to a man about five acres in a county in the Midwest. My offer was $10,681. And he said he received a higher offer from someone who wanted a 90 day close. I told him that the person making an offer sounds like they want to do an option contract. He said that sounds about right. He did not want to deal with this person and is willing to take my offer that is $3,000 less. This option contract person is pushing deals our way. I just talked to the seller yesterday and he had another deal with the same scenario." His offer was, a member, excuse me.

Jill DeWit:
"He talked to a member yesterday and he had to deal with the same scenario. His offer was less, but the seller did not understand the need for 90 day close and was put off. The seller would rather deal with the member, this other member, even though his offer is lower, same situation again. There's a time and a place for an option contract."

Steven Butala:
Is there?

Jill DeWit:
"But it's probably a poor choice for the initial offer, whoever's doing this is pushing deals my way, so thank you." That's totally true. So can I say real quick, here's an option. We would use to suggest this in the past and use this in the past when I was flat out out of money, when all these great deals are coming my way, I spent all my acquisition funds, I didn't have more money to take it down another deal. And I'd say, "Look, here's the story, I can't afford to buy it right now, but can I have 90 days?" And I'll kind of pull it together and what I might do and I would be honest with this too, is just go out and try to market it and sell it on my own, or sell it on your behalf kind of thing. And I'll give you the money that we agree upon. And they're like, "Sure, that's fine. As long as I get my eight grand, I don't really care how you do it. And 90 days is fine for you to try to go get me my eight grand."

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So I'd have them sign this option contract, which gives me a skin in the game, equitable title so I can go out and kind of market it as my own. And here it is, this is my new property on Land Stay and try to sell it. And if I, maybe I sold it for 12, maybe I sold it for 14, whatever it was, I could then go afford to buy it from him for eight and do it all really fast. That's the thing.

Jill DeWit:
Some people, and this is before, this is what I really would run out of money. And, or I would also suggest is like, maybe it was a really good deal, but I wasn't a hundred percent sure on the price. So I'd say, "Maybe I'll do an option. See if I can get what I think I'm going to get, then I'll pull the trigger and make it happen kind of thing."

Jill DeWit:
So what it has sadly turned into,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Land Academy Members with Personality Disorders (LA 1557)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about Land Academy members with personality disorders.

Jill DeWit:
Put your helmet on.

Steven Butala:
Why would you ever talk about Land Academy members with disorders when 99.8% of all Land Academy members past and present are awesome. Because it's Jack Thursday, that's why.

Jill DeWit:
Because he wants to.

Steven Butala:
And some people need to be discussed and disgusted.

Jill DeWit:
Oh no.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're already a member and you don't have a personality disorder, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. It's already starting.

Jill DeWit:
All right, Kevin wrote, this might be a rant on open contracts.

Steven Butala:
Options.

Jill DeWit:
Ops. Excuse me. Let me start over. "This might be a rant on option contracts. I talked to a man about five acres in a county in the Midwest. My offer was $10,681. And he said he received a higher offer from someone who wanted a 90 day close. I told him that the person making an offer sounds like they want to do an option contract. He said that sounds about right. He did not want to deal with this person and is willing to take my offer that is $3,000 less. This option contract person is pushing deals our way. I just talked to the seller yesterday and he had another deal with the same scenario." His offer was, a member, excuse me.

Jill DeWit:
"He talked to a member yesterday and he had to deal with the same scenario. His offer was less, but the seller did not understand the need for 90 day close and was put off. The seller would rather deal with the member, this other member, even though his offer is lower, same situation again. There's a time and a place for an option contract."

Steven Butala:
Is there?

Jill DeWit:
"But it's probably a poor choice for the initial offer, whoever's doing this is pushing deals my way, so thank you." That's totally true. So can I say real quick, here's an option. We would use to suggest this in the past and use this in the past when I was flat out out of money, when all these great deals are coming my way, I spent all my acquisition funds, I didn't have more money to take it down another deal. And I'd say, "Look, here's the story, I can't afford to buy it right now, but can I have 90 days?" And I'll kind of pull it together and what I might do and I would be honest with this too, is just go out and try to market it and sell it on my own, or sell it on your behalf kind of thing. And I'll give you the money that we agree upon. And they're like, "Sure, that's fine. As long as I get my eight grand, I don't really care how you do it. And 90 days is fine for you to try to go get me my eight grand."

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So I'd have them sign this option contract, which gives me a skin in the game, equitable title so I can go out and kind of market it as my own. And here it is, this is my new property on Land Stay and try to sell it. And if I, maybe I sold it for 12, maybe I sold it for 14, whatever it was, I could then go afford to buy it from him for eight and do it all really fast. That's the thing.

Jill DeWit:
Some people, and this is before, this is what I really would run out of money. And, or I would also suggest is like, maybe it was a really good deal, but I wasn't a hundred percent sure on the price. So I'd say, "Maybe I'll do an option. See if I can get what I think I'm going to get, then I'll pull the trigger and make it happen kind of thing."

Jill DeWit:
So what it has sadly turned into,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/29/jack-thursday-land-academy-members-with-personality-disorders-la-1557/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Cj_wa4VHy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:09:35 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/69eeb15d-7209-40ba-a364-ea9a35bf23bd.mp3" length="14036881" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Number 1 Reason You May Not Be Doing as Many Deals as Possible (LA 1556)</title><itunes:title>Number 1 Reason You May Not Be Doing as Many Deals as Possible (LA 1556)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Number 1 Reason You May Not Be Doing as Many Deals as Possible (LA 1556)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt.

Steven Butala:
[inaudible 00:00:10]

Jill DeWit:
Full fit. Broadcasting from perfect Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the number one reason you may not be doing as many deals as possible.

Jill DeWit:
And no, it's not answering the phone. That starts it, but that's not the only reason.

Steven Butala:
And no, it's not because your pricing sucks.

Jill DeWit:
That's right.

Steven Butala:
It's not those two.

Jill DeWit:
And no, it's because your pricing was just too good and they don't realize it. It's so perfect. These guys are idiots. That's not it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, you can use Land Investors if you want, but join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Use both. Use both. Okay. Because there's good information in both. I have to say, if you're a brand new member, if you're not using the search function and utilizing landinvestors.com you're missing it because there's so much information. There's-

Steven Butala:
There's 3,000-

Jill DeWit:
Six and a half years of information ... Of comments, and people, and-

Steven Butala:
3,000-

Jill DeWit:
Situations.

Steven Butala:
Pages of questions.

Jill DeWit:
That.

Steven Butala:
To answer.

Jill DeWit:
There's a lot of things that have already been addressed that can really help you that are in landinvestors.com and it's a great resource. And it's free to the planet so go get an account. Shannon and James wrote, "I spoke with a lady today who has two and a half acres on a road with access and another pair of 1.25 acres behind it with no road access. She responded to my mailer from the 1.25-acre offer. She'd liked to sell all five acres." So two and half acre the payer and then the parent the 1.25, we got it, at one time. "And she's made it known that she just doesn't want to sell the two and a half acres with the access." Totally agree. "Should I make an offer on all five acres?" Yes. "However, break up the pricing for the non-access pair on the 1.25 acre lots."

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
I see where they're going that whole place.

Steven Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
Or should I move on because she doesn't want to sell me the two and a half acres that has the access, which is what I'd really like to purchase? Thank you, Shannon and James."

Steven Butala:
Sell it yourself.

Jill DeWit:
You want the five acres? So if you need to say ... If you need to ... I don't really need you to be this guy or this couple. Look. Or, I can't ... I'm not paying as much for the back acres as I am for the front acres because the access is here. So here's my offer. You could do that but I don't condone that. Just give her an offer for the all five acres. Love it. This is great. And down the road, if somebody else wants to do something with them, that's on them. They want to create access to the back half that's great they can do that too. I would just buy all five.

Steven Butala:
Or nothing. You'll see if they're a seller pretty quickly. You need access ... Property needs to have access this day and age. There's a ... If you go back to last week, there's a question in the topic about access that explains it. Why it's so important? So there was a time in my career when I bought a lot accessless property very inexpensively and resold it, disclosing that it has no access. So there's a whole business model there. But the time in our career right now is to buy property with access.

Jill DeWit:
Right. I look at it this way. She happens to have five acres on a road with three APNs.

Steven Butala:
That's exactly how I would look at this deal,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Number 1 Reason You May Not Be Doing as Many Deals as Possible (LA 1556)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt.

Steven Butala:
[inaudible 00:00:10]

Jill DeWit:
Full fit. Broadcasting from perfect Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the number one reason you may not be doing as many deals as possible.

Jill DeWit:
And no, it's not answering the phone. That starts it, but that's not the only reason.

Steven Butala:
And no, it's not because your pricing sucks.

Jill DeWit:
That's right.

Steven Butala:
It's not those two.

Jill DeWit:
And no, it's because your pricing was just too good and they don't realize it. It's so perfect. These guys are idiots. That's not it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, you can use Land Investors if you want, but join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Use both. Use both. Okay. Because there's good information in both. I have to say, if you're a brand new member, if you're not using the search function and utilizing landinvestors.com you're missing it because there's so much information. There's-

Steven Butala:
There's 3,000-

Jill DeWit:
Six and a half years of information ... Of comments, and people, and-

Steven Butala:
3,000-

Jill DeWit:
Situations.

Steven Butala:
Pages of questions.

Jill DeWit:
That.

Steven Butala:
To answer.

Jill DeWit:
There's a lot of things that have already been addressed that can really help you that are in landinvestors.com and it's a great resource. And it's free to the planet so go get an account. Shannon and James wrote, "I spoke with a lady today who has two and a half acres on a road with access and another pair of 1.25 acres behind it with no road access. She responded to my mailer from the 1.25-acre offer. She'd liked to sell all five acres." So two and half acre the payer and then the parent the 1.25, we got it, at one time. "And she's made it known that she just doesn't want to sell the two and a half acres with the access." Totally agree. "Should I make an offer on all five acres?" Yes. "However, break up the pricing for the non-access pair on the 1.25 acre lots."

Steven Butala:
Nope.

Jill DeWit:
I see where they're going that whole place.

Steven Butala:
So do I.

Jill DeWit:
Or should I move on because she doesn't want to sell me the two and a half acres that has the access, which is what I'd really like to purchase? Thank you, Shannon and James."

Steven Butala:
Sell it yourself.

Jill DeWit:
You want the five acres? So if you need to say ... If you need to ... I don't really need you to be this guy or this couple. Look. Or, I can't ... I'm not paying as much for the back acres as I am for the front acres because the access is here. So here's my offer. You could do that but I don't condone that. Just give her an offer for the all five acres. Love it. This is great. And down the road, if somebody else wants to do something with them, that's on them. They want to create access to the back half that's great they can do that too. I would just buy all five.

Steven Butala:
Or nothing. You'll see if they're a seller pretty quickly. You need access ... Property needs to have access this day and age. There's a ... If you go back to last week, there's a question in the topic about access that explains it. Why it's so important? So there was a time in my career when I bought a lot accessless property very inexpensively and resold it, disclosing that it has no access. So there's a whole business model there. But the time in our career right now is to buy property with access.

Jill DeWit:
Right. I look at it this way. She happens to have five acres on a road with three APNs.

Steven Butala:
That's exactly how I would look at this deal,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/28/number-1-reason-you-may-not-be-doing-as-many-deals-as-possible-la-1556/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">uJp5B598Q</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bfa4bb7e-4131-446b-9dca-5357d6ed380e.mp3" length="16380507" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Real Math Behind the Number of Needed Offers Sent to Succeed (LA 1555)</title><itunes:title>Real Math Behind the Number of Needed Offers Sent to Succeed (LA 1555)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Real Math Behind the Number of Needed Offers Sent to Succeed (LA 1555)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I explore the real math behind the number of offers needed to be sent out to succeed. Should I send 100? Should I send 1000? I'm brand new, I don't know what to do. What's the real math behind it? I really want to buy a few properties. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Austin wrote, "Hey, y'all, I'm doing research in an area that is heavy on lakes. The comp data is all over the place, likely due to the variants in attributes. Do you guys sort out and price specifically for waterfront property or mix them up and use one pricing methodology?" Good question.

Steven Butala:
Well, you have two choices here, and you kind of identified both of them. Depending on who you talk to in the Land Academy group or really anyone, they're going to give you a different answer. But you're saying, hey, what do I do? What do I do? I look at the data. I look at the mailer I'm about to send out. California's like this. There's a lot of waterfront property that's incredibly expensive. And then if you go one block back, it's a different price. Two blocks back, it's a different price. And then three blocks back all the way to Michigan, it's the same price.

Steven Butala:
So if you're super concerned about pricing and accuracy, which you shouldn't be, and I'll explain why in a second, you're going to take a microscopic or what I call a rifle approach versus a shotgun approach to pricing all this data. So, dream with me for a second. If you had the time and the patience to look up every property, and we have people in our group who do this-

Jill DeWit:
That's the problem, yeah.

Steven Butala:
... and price it, every single property, you will fail.

Jill DeWit:
It's just too much. It's too much.

Steven Butala:
It's too time consuming, and you're removing the possibility of hitting a home run.

Jill DeWit:
It's personal preference, I think, was really what it is. You can't line by line this stuff. We're going to talk here in a minute about the number of mail you should be sending out. You don't have time to sit and go through 15,000 of them line by line. You'll be here until December.

Steven Butala:
And it's not that important anyway. Jill's going to talk about that in a second. Pricing is not why people sign an offer, and she'll explain that in a second. So what do you do? You got all this, let's say Florida canal property, and then inland property. The Florida canal property is twice as expensive as the inland property on the MLS. You follow the methodology of zip code pricing, and you come to an average or a mean of all the data in that data set, and you send everybody an offer at a price that you think is appropriate below retail. So maybe it's 20% or 30% or 40% or some number like that.

Steven Butala:
What's going to happen is that the people who own the waterfront property and the people who own the inland property are going to get an offer roughly the same, and they're going to sign it. Some of them are going to sign it and some of them aren't. The ones who sign it on the waterfront, you're going to make a ton of money. The ones who sign it on inland, you're going to make-

Jill DeWit:
Still good money.

Steven Butala:
... not quite a ton of money, but very good money on the deal as an investment. So pricing is not why people sign offers. People sign offers because you just hit them at the right time and they were having a life event and they want to sell it.

Jill DeWit:
You could also have this.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Real Math Behind the Number of Needed Offers Sent to Succeed (LA 1555)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I explore the real math behind the number of offers needed to be sent out to succeed. Should I send 100? Should I send 1000? I'm brand new, I don't know what to do. What's the real math behind it? I really want to buy a few properties. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Austin wrote, "Hey, y'all, I'm doing research in an area that is heavy on lakes. The comp data is all over the place, likely due to the variants in attributes. Do you guys sort out and price specifically for waterfront property or mix them up and use one pricing methodology?" Good question.

Steven Butala:
Well, you have two choices here, and you kind of identified both of them. Depending on who you talk to in the Land Academy group or really anyone, they're going to give you a different answer. But you're saying, hey, what do I do? What do I do? I look at the data. I look at the mailer I'm about to send out. California's like this. There's a lot of waterfront property that's incredibly expensive. And then if you go one block back, it's a different price. Two blocks back, it's a different price. And then three blocks back all the way to Michigan, it's the same price.

Steven Butala:
So if you're super concerned about pricing and accuracy, which you shouldn't be, and I'll explain why in a second, you're going to take a microscopic or what I call a rifle approach versus a shotgun approach to pricing all this data. So, dream with me for a second. If you had the time and the patience to look up every property, and we have people in our group who do this-

Jill DeWit:
That's the problem, yeah.

Steven Butala:
... and price it, every single property, you will fail.

Jill DeWit:
It's just too much. It's too much.

Steven Butala:
It's too time consuming, and you're removing the possibility of hitting a home run.

Jill DeWit:
It's personal preference, I think, was really what it is. You can't line by line this stuff. We're going to talk here in a minute about the number of mail you should be sending out. You don't have time to sit and go through 15,000 of them line by line. You'll be here until December.

Steven Butala:
And it's not that important anyway. Jill's going to talk about that in a second. Pricing is not why people sign an offer, and she'll explain that in a second. So what do you do? You got all this, let's say Florida canal property, and then inland property. The Florida canal property is twice as expensive as the inland property on the MLS. You follow the methodology of zip code pricing, and you come to an average or a mean of all the data in that data set, and you send everybody an offer at a price that you think is appropriate below retail. So maybe it's 20% or 30% or 40% or some number like that.

Steven Butala:
What's going to happen is that the people who own the waterfront property and the people who own the inland property are going to get an offer roughly the same, and they're going to sign it. Some of them are going to sign it and some of them aren't. The ones who sign it on the waterfront, you're going to make a ton of money. The ones who sign it on inland, you're going to make-

Jill DeWit:
Still good money.

Steven Butala:
... not quite a ton of money, but very good money on the deal as an investment. So pricing is not why people sign offers. People sign offers because you just hit them at the right time and they were having a life event and they want to sell it.

Jill DeWit:
You could also have this.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/27/real-math-behind-the-number-of-needed-offers-sent-to-succeed-la-1555/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bSf-YCXl_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:00:09 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/36da9bd7-7ef2-4a93-85ca-580a8b167a45.mp3" length="13236905" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How We Test for Reason 3 Times During the Acquisition Process (LA 1554)</title><itunes:title>How We Test for Reason 3 Times During the Acquisition Process (LA 1554)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How We Test for Reason 3 Times During the Acquisition Process (LA 1554)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona. I'll get my new little spiel down.

Steven Butala:
If I were you, I would've fast-forwarded through that too. Today, Jill and I talk about-

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
... how we test for reason three times during the acquisition process.

Jill DeWit:
How much do you fast-forward in life?

Steven Butala:
I fast-forward everything.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
I mean, it's just the way the world is. Like the greatest thing in the world is that 10-second button on Netflix and Amazon.

Jill DeWit:
I don't use that unless I miss some dialogue because somebody else is talking.

Steven Butala:
Or like [crosstalk 00:00:37]-

Jill DeWit:
I go backwards.

Steven Butala:
Really? You wait [crosstalk 00:00:41] for all the stuff in the beginning, like which production company did what and who did the-

Jill DeWit:
No, I don't do that but-

Steven Butala:
So that's what that 10-second button's for.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I thought you meant just my comments.

Steven Butala:
That's why half the people that are listening or watching this, they already know what the intro is. They're [crosstalk 00:00:53] going to fast forward to it.

Jill DeWit:
They didn't hear any of this anyway.

Steven Butala:
This is where they probably started.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a land academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Hello. Eve wrote, "Hello all, I'm working on my first mailer and came across the data that I did not have a situs address or zip code. Do you all have any advice on how I can price these properties, since I did zip code pricing?" Thank you in advance."

Steven Butala:
Go ahead, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Why? This is kind of your area.

Steven Butala:
The vast majority of real estate in the country doesn't have a post office address, therefore, does not have a ready-made zip code. You only get an address for a property, or the person who built your house got an address for the property by contacting the post office.

Jill DeWit:
And saying we want to get mail there.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. We want to get mail.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's not that hard to work backwards. If you have a small data set, you can just go on a map and look. It's not hard, or if mailing one small little area, that's pretty easy. But that's not how we roll here. We we send 10, 20, 30,000 mailers out at a time and all different zip codes. So DataTree was nice enough to populate the GPS coordinates columns really effectively. So it's not hard. In fact, it's incredibly simple to copy and paste the GPS coordinates out of the mailer that you're building, whether it's a 100 unit mailer or a 100,000 unit mailer. Drop them into an application that we use called geocod.io into a spreadsheet, pay them a couple of bucks and then dump it back out, back into your spreadsheet, into your mailer that you're building, and now you have a situs address. It's as simple as that, and then you can move through the zip code pricing like we teach in the education.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how do we test for reason three, no less than three, sometimes more, during the acquisition process. This is the meat of the show.

Steven Butala:
What is test for reason? Test for reason is an old, I think it's an accounting concept, it might be, I mean, it's just pure logic to me. But I'm not sure where I first heard about it, but it's just applying logic. You go through all this brainy stuff in the world, especially at Land Academy,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How We Test for Reason 3 Times During the Acquisition Process (LA 1554)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona. I'll get my new little spiel down.

Steven Butala:
If I were you, I would've fast-forwarded through that too. Today, Jill and I talk about-

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
... how we test for reason three times during the acquisition process.

Jill DeWit:
How much do you fast-forward in life?

Steven Butala:
I fast-forward everything.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
I mean, it's just the way the world is. Like the greatest thing in the world is that 10-second button on Netflix and Amazon.

Jill DeWit:
I don't use that unless I miss some dialogue because somebody else is talking.

Steven Butala:
Or like [crosstalk 00:00:37]-

Jill DeWit:
I go backwards.

Steven Butala:
Really? You wait [crosstalk 00:00:41] for all the stuff in the beginning, like which production company did what and who did the-

Jill DeWit:
No, I don't do that but-

Steven Butala:
So that's what that 10-second button's for.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I thought you meant just my comments.

Steven Butala:
That's why half the people that are listening or watching this, they already know what the intro is. They're [crosstalk 00:00:53] going to fast forward to it.

Jill DeWit:
They didn't hear any of this anyway.

Steven Butala:
This is where they probably started.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a land academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Hello. Eve wrote, "Hello all, I'm working on my first mailer and came across the data that I did not have a situs address or zip code. Do you all have any advice on how I can price these properties, since I did zip code pricing?" Thank you in advance."

Steven Butala:
Go ahead, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Why? This is kind of your area.

Steven Butala:
The vast majority of real estate in the country doesn't have a post office address, therefore, does not have a ready-made zip code. You only get an address for a property, or the person who built your house got an address for the property by contacting the post office.

Jill DeWit:
And saying we want to get mail there.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. We want to get mail.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's not that hard to work backwards. If you have a small data set, you can just go on a map and look. It's not hard, or if mailing one small little area, that's pretty easy. But that's not how we roll here. We we send 10, 20, 30,000 mailers out at a time and all different zip codes. So DataTree was nice enough to populate the GPS coordinates columns really effectively. So it's not hard. In fact, it's incredibly simple to copy and paste the GPS coordinates out of the mailer that you're building, whether it's a 100 unit mailer or a 100,000 unit mailer. Drop them into an application that we use called geocod.io into a spreadsheet, pay them a couple of bucks and then dump it back out, back into your spreadsheet, into your mailer that you're building, and now you have a situs address. It's as simple as that, and then you can move through the zip code pricing like we teach in the education.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how do we test for reason three, no less than three, sometimes more, during the acquisition process. This is the meat of the show.

Steven Butala:
What is test for reason? Test for reason is an old, I think it's an accounting concept, it might be, I mean, it's just pure logic to me. But I'm not sure where I first heard about it, but it's just applying logic. You go through all this brainy stuff in the world, especially at Land Academy,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/26/how-we-test-for-reason-3-times-during-the-acquisition-process-la-1554/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tXdXln5Ea</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a8e96cb2-d101-4735-b53b-b2f2ce171e46.mp3" length="11141599" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; The Drama of Scrapping the Internet for Accurate Pricing (LA 1552)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; The Drama of Scrapping the Internet for Accurate Pricing (LA 1552)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - The Drama of Scrapping the Internet for Accurate Pricing (LA 1552)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
Is it entertaining?

Steven J Butala:
Maybe.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
For certain people it might be.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
I'm entertained.

Jill DeWit:
Oh good. I'm glad. That's what matters. And I'm Jill DeWit. We are broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona. I'll come up with a good name.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and the topic is the drama of scraping the internet for accurate pricing.

Jill DeWit:
There's so much drama. Why is there so much drama?

Steven J Butala:
I'll explain it all. Because you know why? Because it's probably not ethical. In some cases, it might not be legal. Now, there's all kinds of potential lawsuits. There's a huge multi-billion dollar, not just a lawsuit, but it's almost now a criminal thing. So I'm not sure if it's a civil lawsuit or a criminal. Nobody knows the rules. That's why. It's brand new.

Jill DeWit:
It's not real clear.

Steven J Butala:
Nobody knows who exactly owns what data. So we'll talk all about that.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, because it's MLS data. I can look at it freely on Zillow. Why can't I look at it this way and not that way?

Steven J Butala:
That's one of the seriously compelling arguments, in my opinion. I have access to all the data anyway.

Jill DeWit:
I could be writing it all down.

Steven J Butala:
Right. That's right. I could be screenshotting it. Is that okay? There's a lot of questions and not a lot of answers yet. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on the discord.

Jill DeWit:
Kyler wrote, "Data tree question. I just pulled some data and set my parameters on all the improvement fields to zero and zero, to weed out the properties with structures. I even tried setting the living area and other fields to zero and zero, but those took my search results down to zero. Once I'd pull the data, I had almost 900 lines with some type of Homer structure on them. Is there something I'm missing to weed out the properties with structures? I tried everything I thought would work, but either they don't weed them out or it takes my search results down to zero. Or do you think it varies by county? Thanks for any help."

Steven J Butala:
This is a very common question. And it's a very good question. And I have trouble with this. Everyone does. The fact is this will never go away. And here's why, here's a short answer. And then I'll give a longer one. The fields that matter to you in DataTree, don't matter to that assessor.

Jill DeWit:
Good point.

Steven J Butala:
But some fields do matter to that assessor. So, here's the long answer and it's very workable. I'll get you there. DataTree is a data aggregator. They have an agreement with 3,144 counties to access their assessor data. And as you can imagine, some are very urban counties. Let's use San Francisco as an example, because that's where Silicon Valley is, extremely sophisticated computerized assessor in tax role. What your accessing is this tax roll. So if you did this in San Francisco, it would probably be a breeze, but we don't buy property in San Francisco. And probably nobody in our group does because we're rural vacant land people.

Steven J Butala:
So let's just pick an Arkansas. Arkansas probably doesn't use half the fields that are in DataTree. They just don't care. They might check a box. Does it have a house on it? Check. They don't care about how many bedrooms it is or whatever their methodology is. And I'm not judging anybody, whatever makes sense to them, it's their county. And so you have to manipulate the heck out of getting those structures off out of you...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - The Drama of Scrapping the Internet for Accurate Pricing (LA 1552)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
Is it entertaining?

Steven J Butala:
Maybe.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
For certain people it might be.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
I'm entertained.

Jill DeWit:
Oh good. I'm glad. That's what matters. And I'm Jill DeWit. We are broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona. I'll come up with a good name.

Steven J Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and the topic is the drama of scraping the internet for accurate pricing.

Jill DeWit:
There's so much drama. Why is there so much drama?

Steven J Butala:
I'll explain it all. Because you know why? Because it's probably not ethical. In some cases, it might not be legal. Now, there's all kinds of potential lawsuits. There's a huge multi-billion dollar, not just a lawsuit, but it's almost now a criminal thing. So I'm not sure if it's a civil lawsuit or a criminal. Nobody knows the rules. That's why. It's brand new.

Jill DeWit:
It's not real clear.

Steven J Butala:
Nobody knows who exactly owns what data. So we'll talk all about that.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, because it's MLS data. I can look at it freely on Zillow. Why can't I look at it this way and not that way?

Steven J Butala:
That's one of the seriously compelling arguments, in my opinion. I have access to all the data anyway.

Jill DeWit:
I could be writing it all down.

Steven J Butala:
Right. That's right. I could be screenshotting it. Is that okay? There's a lot of questions and not a lot of answers yet. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on the discord.

Jill DeWit:
Kyler wrote, "Data tree question. I just pulled some data and set my parameters on all the improvement fields to zero and zero, to weed out the properties with structures. I even tried setting the living area and other fields to zero and zero, but those took my search results down to zero. Once I'd pull the data, I had almost 900 lines with some type of Homer structure on them. Is there something I'm missing to weed out the properties with structures? I tried everything I thought would work, but either they don't weed them out or it takes my search results down to zero. Or do you think it varies by county? Thanks for any help."

Steven J Butala:
This is a very common question. And it's a very good question. And I have trouble with this. Everyone does. The fact is this will never go away. And here's why, here's a short answer. And then I'll give a longer one. The fields that matter to you in DataTree, don't matter to that assessor.

Jill DeWit:
Good point.

Steven J Butala:
But some fields do matter to that assessor. So, here's the long answer and it's very workable. I'll get you there. DataTree is a data aggregator. They have an agreement with 3,144 counties to access their assessor data. And as you can imagine, some are very urban counties. Let's use San Francisco as an example, because that's where Silicon Valley is, extremely sophisticated computerized assessor in tax role. What your accessing is this tax roll. So if you did this in San Francisco, it would probably be a breeze, but we don't buy property in San Francisco. And probably nobody in our group does because we're rural vacant land people.

Steven J Butala:
So let's just pick an Arkansas. Arkansas probably doesn't use half the fields that are in DataTree. They just don't care. They might check a box. Does it have a house on it? Check. They don't care about how many bedrooms it is or whatever their methodology is. And I'm not judging anybody, whatever makes sense to them, it's their county. And so you have to manipulate the heck out of getting those structures off out of you...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/22/jack-thursday-the-drama-of-scrapping-the-internet-for-accurate-pricing-la-1552/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YZAPffuDd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:00:27 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9013b586-a8b8-4590-93a6-a2957c1b9c90.mp3" length="14398237" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Career Path Mindset and How Different This Group is After Three Weeks (LA 1551)</title><itunes:title>Career Path Mindset and How Different This Group is After Three Weeks (LA 1551)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Career Path Mindset and How Different This Group is After Three Weeks (LA 1551)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Phoenix area, Arizona. I don't know what to call it anymore.

Steven J Butala:
Paradise Valley.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I don't like that.

Steven J Butala:
Why?

Jill DeWit:
Because it's just, you know. It's a little personal.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, I see.

Jill DeWit:
If you really want to know. Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Well, I guess the cat's out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I don't think that's cool. I'm like, just say it like we'd say southern California.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, I see.

Jill DeWit:
See, I don't have a southern Arizona. I don't know what to call it.

Steven J Butala:
Central Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. See, then that sounds kind of weird too. We'll get there. Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the Land Academy Career Path mindset and how different the entire group is after the three weeks we've been through together. It's kind of a continuation of yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. And good, because I have some notes of things that I forgot to say yesterday.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
If I didn't know us any better, I would say we're hungover or something really bad, and we're not.

Steven J Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
We're kind of just out of sorts. So I apologize.

Steven J Butala:
Overworked is what we are.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you for your patience. I really appreciate that. Chuck wrote, "Good evening. Day one as a Land Academy member, many days as a lurker. Going through my video chapters. Question came to mind. I was listening to the website chapter. Seems to me that building a website targeted to sellers is very different objective than a website targeted to buyers, psychology and such. Would it make sense, given that the digital side of things is so cheap, just to create one presence for buyers and one for sellers? Anybody think this makes sense?" I like this question. I know this comes up often when people join in, and I have an answer if you want me to go first or you want to go first.

Steven J Butala:
You can solo answer this question.

Jill DeWit:
I can. We did that in the past. Totally thought that made sense. We no longer feel that way because the purpose of the website is A, sell property, and B, just show you're a real person and who you are and you are selling land. So if you go out right now and make a brand new landing page, just a here I am, I'm just a buyer kind of thing, that's great. And then have the second, I don't know. I think it just leads more credibility showing your full business. And we only have one website. Go ahead.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. It's more of a landing page. All it is, is this, and this question comes up so often that I don't address it clearly or it's not-

Jill DeWit:
We're not doing anything clearly this week.

Steven J Butala:
How we are addressing this in the formal education has changed. Here's what I think. You need a landing page that shows just some basic information because when the property owners get your letters, they need to look you up.

Jill DeWit:
And one website will do it.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, one landing page with maybe a contact us.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You're saying the opposite.

Steven J Butala:
But that's it. No, one landing page with maybe a contact us, and that's it. You do not need two websites, I don't think.

Jill DeWit:
So the landing page is going to be like land.com/content. Where would you direct them? Because if they're going to go to your website, they're going to the website.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Career Path Mindset and How Different This Group is After Three Weeks (LA 1551)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Phoenix area, Arizona. I don't know what to call it anymore.

Steven J Butala:
Paradise Valley.

Jill DeWit:
I know. I don't like that.

Steven J Butala:
Why?

Jill DeWit:
Because it's just, you know. It's a little personal.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, I see.

Jill DeWit:
If you really want to know. Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Well, I guess the cat's out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I don't think that's cool. I'm like, just say it like we'd say southern California.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, I see.

Jill DeWit:
See, I don't have a southern Arizona. I don't know what to call it.

Steven J Butala:
Central Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. See, then that sounds kind of weird too. We'll get there. Okay.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the Land Academy Career Path mindset and how different the entire group is after the three weeks we've been through together. It's kind of a continuation of yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. And good, because I have some notes of things that I forgot to say yesterday.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
If I didn't know us any better, I would say we're hungover or something really bad, and we're not.

Steven J Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
We're kind of just out of sorts. So I apologize.

Steven J Butala:
Overworked is what we are.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you for your patience. I really appreciate that. Chuck wrote, "Good evening. Day one as a Land Academy member, many days as a lurker. Going through my video chapters. Question came to mind. I was listening to the website chapter. Seems to me that building a website targeted to sellers is very different objective than a website targeted to buyers, psychology and such. Would it make sense, given that the digital side of things is so cheap, just to create one presence for buyers and one for sellers? Anybody think this makes sense?" I like this question. I know this comes up often when people join in, and I have an answer if you want me to go first or you want to go first.

Steven J Butala:
You can solo answer this question.

Jill DeWit:
I can. We did that in the past. Totally thought that made sense. We no longer feel that way because the purpose of the website is A, sell property, and B, just show you're a real person and who you are and you are selling land. So if you go out right now and make a brand new landing page, just a here I am, I'm just a buyer kind of thing, that's great. And then have the second, I don't know. I think it just leads more credibility showing your full business. And we only have one website. Go ahead.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. It's more of a landing page. All it is, is this, and this question comes up so often that I don't address it clearly or it's not-

Jill DeWit:
We're not doing anything clearly this week.

Steven J Butala:
How we are addressing this in the formal education has changed. Here's what I think. You need a landing page that shows just some basic information because when the property owners get your letters, they need to look you up.

Jill DeWit:
And one website will do it.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, one landing page with maybe a contact us.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You're saying the opposite.

Steven J Butala:
But that's it. No, one landing page with maybe a contact us, and that's it. You do not need two websites, I don't think.

Jill DeWit:
So the landing page is going to be like land.com/content. Where would you direct them? Because if they're going to go to your website, they're going to the website.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/21/career-path-mindset-and-how-different-this-group-is-after-three-weeks-la-1551/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aogtBmRsd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8560dc34-7a2e-46d7-898f-287adffadb9f.mp3" length="13063733" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Getting Ahead of Yourself in the Land Academy Education Process (LA 1550)</title><itunes:title>Getting Ahead of Yourself in the Land Academy Education Process (LA 1550)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Getting Ahead of Yourself in the Land Academy Education Process (LA 1550)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
Are you sure?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, and I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
I'm hot.

Jill DeWit:
How you doing there? What's going on, babe?

Steven J Butala:
Well, I'm hot. I'm distracted.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
We are recording [crosstalk 00:00:24] right now, this moment, in the middle of a construction site [crosstalk 00:00:28] we call our house.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Our house is literally at a job site.

Steven J Butala:
Our sort of house. We live in the living room.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, there is that, too. All true. We're running around helping landscapers and pool people and flooring people and all that stuff, but ...

Steven J Butala:
And we're still here to do the show.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven J Butala:
The show must go on.

Jill DeWit:
I'm happy to be the general contractor of our own project.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I ... Wow. And I can't talk. Today, Jill and I are talking about getting ahead of yourself in the land academy education process.

Jill DeWit:
One thing, I'm not getting ahead of myself with this project. You know what? This is a good example. I could be running around asking for things [inaudible 00:01:08] alone. No, I ask people, what's the process? For example, our wood flooring. How's this going to go? How long does that take? What's the next step? And then I wait. I put it on the calendar and I wait. So this ties into our topic.

Steven J Butala:
When I was a kid, I took a boating class. I had to take a class from coast guard to get my boating license, and I was a little. It's like with airplanes. It's not like you have to turn 16 to get your license. You can get a boating license really early on, and I think you can get certified as a pilot early on, too.

Jill DeWit:
You have to be 16 to solo.

Steven J Butala:
Okay, but I don't think that was the case a while ago, and I know it's not the case for boats. Maybe it's all changed recently. And the second I got into that class, boy, did I have a lot of questions. And I was really interested in getting out on the water that day. It was two weeks before we ever got on the water, and it was books and exams and all kinds of stuff. And I got so frustrated and ahead of myself and, by golly, that's what happens at Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
By Golly. What am I going to do with you? Lickety split, by golly and bajillion.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on the discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Erin wrote, Hello, I'm preparing my second first mailer. Oh, that's hilarious. I like that with a happy face. It took me second. Should I scrub out properties that are labeled low income in the opportunity zone column? That's hilarious. I'm concerned that there'll be a price cap on how much I could sell it. Is that accurate?

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very hidden PhD level question.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
What he or she is asking is what do I scrub out of my mailer when it comes to use? Property types, commercial use, industrial use, residential, NEC, which is non-classified property and on and on. What do I exclude? And the answer is nothing. In the very early parts of Land Academy, I made a big deal about use and how you should check out all kinds of stuff, specifically industrial property because you don't want to deal with any type of [crosstalk 00:03:35] EPA cleanup. Yeah, exactly. Well, times have changed. And the more letters that you get out now ... and we've grown as a land investor,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Getting Ahead of Yourself in the Land Academy Education Process (LA 1550)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
Are you sure?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, and I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from awesome Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
I'm hot.

Jill DeWit:
How you doing there? What's going on, babe?

Steven J Butala:
Well, I'm hot. I'm distracted.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
We are recording [crosstalk 00:00:24] right now, this moment, in the middle of a construction site [crosstalk 00:00:28] we call our house.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. Our house is literally at a job site.

Steven J Butala:
Our sort of house. We live in the living room.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, there is that, too. All true. We're running around helping landscapers and pool people and flooring people and all that stuff, but ...

Steven J Butala:
And we're still here to do the show.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven J Butala:
The show must go on.

Jill DeWit:
I'm happy to be the general contractor of our own project.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I ... Wow. And I can't talk. Today, Jill and I are talking about getting ahead of yourself in the land academy education process.

Jill DeWit:
One thing, I'm not getting ahead of myself with this project. You know what? This is a good example. I could be running around asking for things [inaudible 00:01:08] alone. No, I ask people, what's the process? For example, our wood flooring. How's this going to go? How long does that take? What's the next step? And then I wait. I put it on the calendar and I wait. So this ties into our topic.

Steven J Butala:
When I was a kid, I took a boating class. I had to take a class from coast guard to get my boating license, and I was a little. It's like with airplanes. It's not like you have to turn 16 to get your license. You can get a boating license really early on, and I think you can get certified as a pilot early on, too.

Jill DeWit:
You have to be 16 to solo.

Steven J Butala:
Okay, but I don't think that was the case a while ago, and I know it's not the case for boats. Maybe it's all changed recently. And the second I got into that class, boy, did I have a lot of questions. And I was really interested in getting out on the water that day. It was two weeks before we ever got on the water, and it was books and exams and all kinds of stuff. And I got so frustrated and ahead of myself and, by golly, that's what happens at Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
By Golly. What am I going to do with you? Lickety split, by golly and bajillion.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on the discord.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Erin wrote, Hello, I'm preparing my second first mailer. Oh, that's hilarious. I like that with a happy face. It took me second. Should I scrub out properties that are labeled low income in the opportunity zone column? That's hilarious. I'm concerned that there'll be a price cap on how much I could sell it. Is that accurate?

Steven J Butala:
This is a very, very hidden PhD level question.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
What he or she is asking is what do I scrub out of my mailer when it comes to use? Property types, commercial use, industrial use, residential, NEC, which is non-classified property and on and on. What do I exclude? And the answer is nothing. In the very early parts of Land Academy, I made a big deal about use and how you should check out all kinds of stuff, specifically industrial property because you don't want to deal with any type of [crosstalk 00:03:35] EPA cleanup. Yeah, exactly. Well, times have changed. And the more letters that you get out now ... and we've grown as a land investor,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/20/getting-ahead-of-yourself-in-the-land-academy-education-process-la-1550/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bdb59Fn4D</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8693e7d6-0d82-4d30-8c27-80adb03e542b.mp3" length="11076035" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Internet Trolling has Become Acceptable Here is What We Do (LA 1549)</title><itunes:title>Internet Trolling has Become Acceptable Here is What We Do (LA 1549)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Internet Trolling has Become Acceptable Here is What We Do (LA 1549)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how internet trolling has become acceptable and this is what we do about it. Before we get into it, though, let's take a question.

Jill DeWit:
I was thinking [crosstalk 00:00:28].

Steven J Butala:
Oh sorry.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay.

Steven J Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's just it makes me a little bit mad and it's very interesting. And what does this have to do with us? We'll tell you in a minute. It does.

Steven J Butala:
We created Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
To really improve people's lives and to create business partners for ourselves. And things like ... you can't ever anticipate something like this, but-

Jill DeWit:
It still happens.

Steven J Butala:
Ut won't be prevalent in our group, let's put it that way.

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:00:54] funny.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already with us and you're not a troll, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Vic wrote ... this is long. So I'm going to do first part, you do the second part [crosstalk 00:01:12]-

Steven J Butala:
Long but incredibly important. This is a great question, a great series of questions and comments about access.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Vic wrote this initial question. I am in escrow on a property in Florida. And I'm running into a bit of a confusing situation for me as far as the access goes. I can clearly see a road running through the property and it has a street name as well. However, the township said they do not maintain it and is likely a private road or easement. When I look at the vesting deed, I see nothing in there about an easement. But what I do see on the deed after legal description is something that says less road right of way. So what does that mean? And what does this mean about the access?

Steven J Butala:
Excellent question. Access, access, access is one of our [crosstalk 00:02:03]-

Jill DeWit:
One of our five As.

Steven J Butala:
One of the five As and it's incredibly important.

Jill DeWit:
It's important. That's why one of the As.

Steven J Butala:
[crosstalk 00:02:08] you or the person you sell it to, to get to your property, within reason, without a helicopter. Kevin responds, Vic, the road is most likely a private road, i.e. not maintained by the county. Exactly. This is something that will affect your ability to sell the property quickly. When you get the preliminary title report, they should have the easements called out on the property. The road right of way thing sounds like the county has an easement for a possible future road in that area. You need to know about that and how much it takes out of this parcel. Meaning it's going to make it smaller. There's already an easement in the deed of this property to another property or a set of properties. If you get the information from the title report and you don't like the deal, you can renegotiate or decline to purchase. Jill and I just did this. You may have some fees to pay the title company if you need to do that. But that's very unusual.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Laurie went on to add, hey, I've had this situation play out in different ways. Some of them based on county records and others based on state law. But a title company should be the ones provide you the information. Here's what I've seen. Number one, the private road and ownership marked on a survey for one of the bordering properties. Sorry.

Steven J Butala:
That's awesome. [inaudible 00:03:31]. If you're listening to this, we have-

Jill DeWit:
Our landscaper's here.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Internet Trolling has Become Acceptable Here is What We Do (LA 1549)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Phoenix, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how internet trolling has become acceptable and this is what we do about it. Before we get into it, though, let's take a question.

Jill DeWit:
I was thinking [crosstalk 00:00:28].

Steven J Butala:
Oh sorry.

Jill DeWit:
It's okay.

Steven J Butala:
Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
No, it's just it makes me a little bit mad and it's very interesting. And what does this have to do with us? We'll tell you in a minute. It does.

Steven J Butala:
We created Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
To really improve people's lives and to create business partners for ourselves. And things like ... you can't ever anticipate something like this, but-

Jill DeWit:
It still happens.

Steven J Butala:
Ut won't be prevalent in our group, let's put it that way.

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:00:54] funny.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already with us and you're not a troll, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Vic wrote ... this is long. So I'm going to do first part, you do the second part [crosstalk 00:01:12]-

Steven J Butala:
Long but incredibly important. This is a great question, a great series of questions and comments about access.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Vic wrote this initial question. I am in escrow on a property in Florida. And I'm running into a bit of a confusing situation for me as far as the access goes. I can clearly see a road running through the property and it has a street name as well. However, the township said they do not maintain it and is likely a private road or easement. When I look at the vesting deed, I see nothing in there about an easement. But what I do see on the deed after legal description is something that says less road right of way. So what does that mean? And what does this mean about the access?

Steven J Butala:
Excellent question. Access, access, access is one of our [crosstalk 00:02:03]-

Jill DeWit:
One of our five As.

Steven J Butala:
One of the five As and it's incredibly important.

Jill DeWit:
It's important. That's why one of the As.

Steven J Butala:
[crosstalk 00:02:08] you or the person you sell it to, to get to your property, within reason, without a helicopter. Kevin responds, Vic, the road is most likely a private road, i.e. not maintained by the county. Exactly. This is something that will affect your ability to sell the property quickly. When you get the preliminary title report, they should have the easements called out on the property. The road right of way thing sounds like the county has an easement for a possible future road in that area. You need to know about that and how much it takes out of this parcel. Meaning it's going to make it smaller. There's already an easement in the deed of this property to another property or a set of properties. If you get the information from the title report and you don't like the deal, you can renegotiate or decline to purchase. Jill and I just did this. You may have some fees to pay the title company if you need to do that. But that's very unusual.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Laurie went on to add, hey, I've had this situation play out in different ways. Some of them based on county records and others based on state law. But a title company should be the ones provide you the information. Here's what I've seen. Number one, the private road and ownership marked on a survey for one of the bordering properties. Sorry.

Steven J Butala:
That's awesome. [inaudible 00:03:31]. If you're listening to this, we have-

Jill DeWit:
Our landscaper's here.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/19/internet-trolling-has-become-acceptable-here-is-what-we-do-la-1549/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">KMjvHOZog</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2e10d1a5-cb91-4700-bbab-6aaa8f022368.mp3" length="13922361" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Why My Heart Felt Land Business Model Has Worked for Decades (LA 1548)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Why My Heart Felt Land Business Model Has Worked for Decades (LA 1548)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Why My Heart Felt Land Business Model Has Worked for Decades (LA 1548)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet, sizzling, Scottsdale, Arizona. I got to ask you something. Why did you pause there for a second, like, "What show am I doing?"

Steven J Butala:
That's why.

Jill DeWit:
Have you not done enough?

Steven J Butala:
That's exactly why.

Jill DeWit:
"Welcome to the, what show is this today?" The same one you've done for 1,547 times before this.

Steven J Butala:
I've been writing the Showing Up for Life show, and we did a House Academy show for a long time.

Jill DeWit:
That's no excuse.

Steven J Butala:
And it's Friday. And it's your show. In fact, it's called Jill Friday: Why My Heartfelt Land Business Model Has Worked for Decades. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please have patience with me, unlike Jill, about reading lines. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
And as you saw, you are witness to, he just skipped right over my comments. It's Friday. He's done. That's what that is. Okay, Sam Amalita wrote, "Love the honesty. We had a similar call. Was the daughter." So this is obviously down in the conversation.

Steven J Butala:
Yep. But it's really worth.

Jill DeWit:
"It was the daughter of the owner. She said, 'You're absolutely sure you want to buy this?' 'It used to be farmland and the land my father grew up on. The state took most of it and flooded it to expand the lake. Now we don't even know where the parcel is, but it's only what was leftover after the flooding. We tried to get there by foot and we couldn't. We had to cross other people's land, and we could never find it. We're guessing you have to go by boat.' I asked her why in the world her dad is paying on that, and she said, well, she's been asking him that for 15 years."

Steven J Butala:
They went on to buy the property. This person Sam Amalita, I believe, it was down a string, said they got it for such a good price from these people who inherited it, that they bought it.

Jill DeWit:
Definitely almost gave it away.

Steven J Butala:
So my point is not trying to get cheap property, because we all know how to do that. They're having a back and forth conversation, an honest conversation about the property. They clearly, as a seller, doesn't want the stuff anymore, or doesn't see the value in it. I will tell you, we have bought boat access only property and made a killing on it. People love that stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It was unique. You had to find the right buyer, but it worked. I want to say this, about asking that for 15 years. This is something I come across often. People don't know you can stop paying the taxes. There's a lot of people out there that think all unwanted land is in a back tax situation. No, it's not. There's a ton of unwanted land in a back tax situation like this one. People didn't know they could not pay the taxes. They think the IRS is going to come after them and garnish their wages or do something like that, which they don't.

Steven J Butala:
Let me make a comment on that. Jill is exactly right. When you stop paying your mortgage, you're in a lot of trouble.

Jill DeWit:
Correct.

Steven J Butala:
It's going to really affect your credit score, depending on what state you're in, they're going to come after you, and all kinds of stuff is going to happen. The IRS may or may not get involved. Typically, not now, they don't. And because you unknowingly signed a personal guarantee in a document that's tied to that real estate, usually it's a primary residence, or an office building, or all kinds of stuff, with freely owned real estate, the taxing authority,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Why My Heart Felt Land Business Model Has Worked for Decades (LA 1548)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet, sizzling, Scottsdale, Arizona. I got to ask you something. Why did you pause there for a second, like, "What show am I doing?"

Steven J Butala:
That's why.

Jill DeWit:
Have you not done enough?

Steven J Butala:
That's exactly why.

Jill DeWit:
"Welcome to the, what show is this today?" The same one you've done for 1,547 times before this.

Steven J Butala:
I've been writing the Showing Up for Life show, and we did a House Academy show for a long time.

Jill DeWit:
That's no excuse.

Steven J Butala:
And it's Friday. And it's your show. In fact, it's called Jill Friday: Why My Heartfelt Land Business Model Has Worked for Decades. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please have patience with me, unlike Jill, about reading lines. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
And as you saw, you are witness to, he just skipped right over my comments. It's Friday. He's done. That's what that is. Okay, Sam Amalita wrote, "Love the honesty. We had a similar call. Was the daughter." So this is obviously down in the conversation.

Steven J Butala:
Yep. But it's really worth.

Jill DeWit:
"It was the daughter of the owner. She said, 'You're absolutely sure you want to buy this?' 'It used to be farmland and the land my father grew up on. The state took most of it and flooded it to expand the lake. Now we don't even know where the parcel is, but it's only what was leftover after the flooding. We tried to get there by foot and we couldn't. We had to cross other people's land, and we could never find it. We're guessing you have to go by boat.' I asked her why in the world her dad is paying on that, and she said, well, she's been asking him that for 15 years."

Steven J Butala:
They went on to buy the property. This person Sam Amalita, I believe, it was down a string, said they got it for such a good price from these people who inherited it, that they bought it.

Jill DeWit:
Definitely almost gave it away.

Steven J Butala:
So my point is not trying to get cheap property, because we all know how to do that. They're having a back and forth conversation, an honest conversation about the property. They clearly, as a seller, doesn't want the stuff anymore, or doesn't see the value in it. I will tell you, we have bought boat access only property and made a killing on it. People love that stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It was unique. You had to find the right buyer, but it worked. I want to say this, about asking that for 15 years. This is something I come across often. People don't know you can stop paying the taxes. There's a lot of people out there that think all unwanted land is in a back tax situation. No, it's not. There's a ton of unwanted land in a back tax situation like this one. People didn't know they could not pay the taxes. They think the IRS is going to come after them and garnish their wages or do something like that, which they don't.

Steven J Butala:
Let me make a comment on that. Jill is exactly right. When you stop paying your mortgage, you're in a lot of trouble.

Jill DeWit:
Correct.

Steven J Butala:
It's going to really affect your credit score, depending on what state you're in, they're going to come after you, and all kinds of stuff is going to happen. The IRS may or may not get involved. Typically, not now, they don't. And because you unknowingly signed a personal guarantee in a document that's tied to that real estate, usually it's a primary residence, or an office building, or all kinds of stuff, with freely owned real estate, the taxing authority,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/16/jill-friday-why-my-heart-felt-land-business-model-has-worked-for-decades-la-1548/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HLcceA9zq</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:06:49 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/229ff93f-4179-41c6-a71f-8d99c998cc87.mp3" length="13299725" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Should Agricultural Land be Included in Your Mailer (LA 1547)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Should Agricultural Land be Included in Your Mailer (LA 1547)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Should Agricultural Land be Included in Your Mailer (LA 1547)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
That's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jack Thursday, and I talk about should agricultural land be included in your mailer.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Or if you're already a Land Academy Member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
"My name is Michelle. I live in Missouri and I am new to land investing. I have done some investing, but still consider myself new to the world of real estate. I have one rental property, and I just bought a property I'm doing some cosmetic fixes on for a nightly rental."

Jill DeWit:
"I have been interested in land investing and purchasing for a long time, and I'm excited to learn the process and add it to my portfolio. I'm planning on concentrating on land and note investing extensively going forward at this time. I look forward to learning from you all and we'll hopefully be able to contribute to others in the future. Blessings." Aww.

Steven J Butala:
I put this in here because this is very frequent, and welcome Michelle. But there's lots of people that are joining us that have somewhat of a light existing real estate investing background. In her case, she's got a couple of rentals and she's seen the light.

Steven J Butala:
If you've seen the light in real ... Here's my point. If you've seen the light, and I sound like a company here.

Jill DeWit:
Aah. This is it, it's just sounds a little weird, by the way I was going to ... I'm like ...

Steven J Butala:
Here's what I ... Let me try it the other way. If you love the idea of making a lot of money but you haven't seen the light in real estate and [inaudible 00:01:54] just kind of an afterthought, this is not for you.

Jill DeWit:
And we'll say in general, or our kind?

Steven J Butala:
If you've seen the light in real estate-

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
... and maybe you have a rental. Maybe you redid a few houses and you know that's not for you.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Or inherited some land and sold it and made some money, and it just, it is now in your soul and won't go away, Land Academy is for you.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
If that hasn't happened to you ... Or let's say you're a data person and you want to capitalize on your understanding of data. And real estate is just the thing that you think might be able to ... you want to be able to do that, this is for you.

Jill DeWit:
You know what my favorite is? My favorite is the people that come to us and they're like, "Oh, that's boring." And they go off and do something else. And I'm like, "No, I think I'd like boring." You know what I mean?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, and they come back.

Jill DeWit:
You're like, "How'd that renovation go?" Oh my goodness. They're like, "I could do with a lot less excitement." "Yeah, I bet it was exciting when you opened the walls and found that wasn't it." They're like, "I am not set up for that." So yeah.

Steven J Butala:
Michelle, welcome to the group. You are a perfect candidate to take this all the way to the end.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic. Should agricultural land be included in your mailer? This is the meat of the show.

Steven J Butala:
Here's the deal with agricultural property. Agricultural property is quite possibly the best zoned or used code that you can get in nearly every environment.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven J Butala:
Because the taxes, there's huge incentives and have been ... This whole country was built on agriculture.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Should Agricultural Land be Included in Your Mailer (LA 1547)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
That's for sure.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jack Thursday, and I talk about should agricultural land be included in your mailer.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Or if you're already a Land Academy Member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
"My name is Michelle. I live in Missouri and I am new to land investing. I have done some investing, but still consider myself new to the world of real estate. I have one rental property, and I just bought a property I'm doing some cosmetic fixes on for a nightly rental."

Jill DeWit:
"I have been interested in land investing and purchasing for a long time, and I'm excited to learn the process and add it to my portfolio. I'm planning on concentrating on land and note investing extensively going forward at this time. I look forward to learning from you all and we'll hopefully be able to contribute to others in the future. Blessings." Aww.

Steven J Butala:
I put this in here because this is very frequent, and welcome Michelle. But there's lots of people that are joining us that have somewhat of a light existing real estate investing background. In her case, she's got a couple of rentals and she's seen the light.

Steven J Butala:
If you've seen the light in real ... Here's my point. If you've seen the light, and I sound like a company here.

Jill DeWit:
Aah. This is it, it's just sounds a little weird, by the way I was going to ... I'm like ...

Steven J Butala:
Here's what I ... Let me try it the other way. If you love the idea of making a lot of money but you haven't seen the light in real estate and [inaudible 00:01:54] just kind of an afterthought, this is not for you.

Jill DeWit:
And we'll say in general, or our kind?

Steven J Butala:
If you've seen the light in real estate-

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
... and maybe you have a rental. Maybe you redid a few houses and you know that's not for you.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
Or inherited some land and sold it and made some money, and it just, it is now in your soul and won't go away, Land Academy is for you.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J Butala:
If that hasn't happened to you ... Or let's say you're a data person and you want to capitalize on your understanding of data. And real estate is just the thing that you think might be able to ... you want to be able to do that, this is for you.

Jill DeWit:
You know what my favorite is? My favorite is the people that come to us and they're like, "Oh, that's boring." And they go off and do something else. And I'm like, "No, I think I'd like boring." You know what I mean?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, and they come back.

Jill DeWit:
You're like, "How'd that renovation go?" Oh my goodness. They're like, "I could do with a lot less excitement." "Yeah, I bet it was exciting when you opened the walls and found that wasn't it." They're like, "I am not set up for that." So yeah.

Steven J Butala:
Michelle, welcome to the group. You are a perfect candidate to take this all the way to the end.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic. Should agricultural land be included in your mailer? This is the meat of the show.

Steven J Butala:
Here's the deal with agricultural property. Agricultural property is quite possibly the best zoned or used code that you can get in nearly every environment.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven J Butala:
Because the taxes, there's huge incentives and have been ... This whole country was built on agriculture.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/15/jack-thursday-should-agricultural-land-be-included-in-your-mailer-la-1547/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_ta5bxuyp</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e29f82a4-e042-47d8-b7bb-e5639ac4a60b.mp3" length="9761433" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:48</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When is it Appropriate to Survey Land (LA 1546)</title><itunes:title>When is it Appropriate to Survey Land (LA 1546)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[When is it Appropriate to Survey Land (LA 1546)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about when is it appropriate to survey land?

Jill DeWit:
There are times it is, and there are times it is not. So does everybody hear that? There are times it is not appropriate, like most of the time. Don't give it away.

Steven J Butala:
I'm going to interview Jill, and I'm going to ask her when it's appropriate and when it's not.

Jill DeWit:
I can tell you, because some people think you do it on every time, and that is not the case, unless you want to give away a lot of money. Thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okie-dokie. Chuck wrote, which is this the Chuck that I'm thinking of or is this a different Chuck?

Steven J Butala:
I don't know. There's two.

Jill DeWit:
All right. "I've run into a weird problem with DataTree. In the last two batches of records that I purchased, between one-third and one-half of each list did not have a situs zip code. The zip codes for the mailing addresses were there, but the situs was missing. This is a problem because in both counties, my intention is to make offers based on the zip code values, which I've computed. The price per acre varies greatly between zip codes in these counties. It looks like the missing zip codes are for properties that do not have a street address, which is a lot of them, by the way. In all cases, the parcel numbers are there, as are the long/lat numbers. And the county CAD shows the situs zip codes. I would think there would be enough info for DataTree to be able to produce a zip code. Has anyone run into this with DataTree? I'm thinking of just mailing those with zip codes so I can price them reasonably. That would eliminate though almost half the properties. Thanks."

Steven J Butala:
This is an incredibly intelligent question, and luckily I have the solution. It's something I've been working on for a while. You take the data set that you have, and it sounds like you've taken it all the way to the point where you're stuck with this. So, I'll directly answer your question. DataTree was nice enough to include longitude and latitude numbers, and it's pretty easy for a computer to convert long/lat to zip codes in America. We use a website called geocod.io. It's G-I-O-C-O-D, without an E, dot io. For a very nominal price, and I mean like $2 or $3, you can take a massive dataset, drop the long/lat numbers in, and it's going to convert the long/lat to an American zip code. And as a bonus, it tells you how accurate that is.

Steven J Butala:
So they'll tell you it's 100% accurate. We know exactly where this property is or-

Jill DeWit:
Because of the long/lat.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, because, well their database is limited. So it's still a work in progress. But what you do is then copy and paste the results of that into the back end of the zip code area, and you can then be on your merry way. Concierge pricing, which is a product that Jill and I launched very recently, does all this for you. And in Land Academy 3.0, which I'm filming right now, in this actual module that addresses this will be released before, because it's such a popular topic, will be released long before ... It will be really soon, very soon, within days I'm told, or at least this month. It's in post production. I recorded it and they're just trying to make it perfect, my team is.

Jill DeWit:
This is for Land Academy members, have access.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. This is what makes DataTree so superior, in my opinion, to RealQuest and to Black Knight.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[When is it Appropriate to Survey Land (LA 1546)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about when is it appropriate to survey land?

Jill DeWit:
There are times it is, and there are times it is not. So does everybody hear that? There are times it is not appropriate, like most of the time. Don't give it away.

Steven J Butala:
I'm going to interview Jill, and I'm going to ask her when it's appropriate and when it's not.

Jill DeWit:
I can tell you, because some people think you do it on every time, and that is not the case, unless you want to give away a lot of money. Thank you.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okie-dokie. Chuck wrote, which is this the Chuck that I'm thinking of or is this a different Chuck?

Steven J Butala:
I don't know. There's two.

Jill DeWit:
All right. "I've run into a weird problem with DataTree. In the last two batches of records that I purchased, between one-third and one-half of each list did not have a situs zip code. The zip codes for the mailing addresses were there, but the situs was missing. This is a problem because in both counties, my intention is to make offers based on the zip code values, which I've computed. The price per acre varies greatly between zip codes in these counties. It looks like the missing zip codes are for properties that do not have a street address, which is a lot of them, by the way. In all cases, the parcel numbers are there, as are the long/lat numbers. And the county CAD shows the situs zip codes. I would think there would be enough info for DataTree to be able to produce a zip code. Has anyone run into this with DataTree? I'm thinking of just mailing those with zip codes so I can price them reasonably. That would eliminate though almost half the properties. Thanks."

Steven J Butala:
This is an incredibly intelligent question, and luckily I have the solution. It's something I've been working on for a while. You take the data set that you have, and it sounds like you've taken it all the way to the point where you're stuck with this. So, I'll directly answer your question. DataTree was nice enough to include longitude and latitude numbers, and it's pretty easy for a computer to convert long/lat to zip codes in America. We use a website called geocod.io. It's G-I-O-C-O-D, without an E, dot io. For a very nominal price, and I mean like $2 or $3, you can take a massive dataset, drop the long/lat numbers in, and it's going to convert the long/lat to an American zip code. And as a bonus, it tells you how accurate that is.

Steven J Butala:
So they'll tell you it's 100% accurate. We know exactly where this property is or-

Jill DeWit:
Because of the long/lat.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, because, well their database is limited. So it's still a work in progress. But what you do is then copy and paste the results of that into the back end of the zip code area, and you can then be on your merry way. Concierge pricing, which is a product that Jill and I launched very recently, does all this for you. And in Land Academy 3.0, which I'm filming right now, in this actual module that addresses this will be released before, because it's such a popular topic, will be released long before ... It will be really soon, very soon, within days I'm told, or at least this month. It's in post production. I recorded it and they're just trying to make it perfect, my team is.

Jill DeWit:
This is for Land Academy members, have access.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. This is what makes DataTree so superior, in my opinion, to RealQuest and to Black Knight.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/14/when-is-it-appropriate-to-survey-land-la-1546/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QW2c_5AvM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2e3bcf0e-e7b2-43b5-9ed0-e578fead5381.mp3" length="15796987" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Fixed Price MLS listing vs Listing with an Actual Real Estate Agent (LA 1545)</title><itunes:title>Fixed Price MLS listing vs Listing with an Actual Real Estate Agent (LA 1545)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Fixed Price MLS listing vs Listing with an Actual Real Estate Agent (LA 1545)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello?

Steven J Butala:
Wow. Welcome to Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Puberty just strikes at crazy times, doesn't it?

Steven J Butala:
Mid fifties.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven J Butala:
I'm just now getting my adult voice.

Jill DeWit:
There you go. That's right.

Steven J Butala:
Figuratively and literally.

Jill DeWit:
You used to sound like your mom when you were 12 and now you sound like your mom again. Just kidding.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit.

Steven J Butala:
[inaudible 00:00:36].

Jill DeWit:
I mean, hilarious. If my voice dropped four octaves.

Steven J Butala:
Know what else would be hilarious? If you were the data person for a week and I was the salesperson for a week.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my Goodness. That would be a disaster. Anyway, we are broadcasting from sizzling, Scottsdale, Arizona. But it's cool.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about fixed price MLS listings versus listing the property with an actual real estate agent.

Jill DeWit:
Not like a fake real estate engine, a real one. Actual.

Steven J Butala:
Most of them are fake actually.

Jill DeWit:
That's why you put that there. You should say one that shows up. Just kidding.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Jeanette wrote, Hi Jeannette.

Jill DeWit:
"What flat fee MLS listing service is best for land? I hear a lot of people using Zillow, but if you use a different flat fee MLS service, it gets listed there anyway. Also, is the flat fee MLS fee per property, or does it allow for multiple property listings or switching properties for the listing period? Help, please."

Jill DeWit:
I can answer this.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, yes.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I was waiting. So, it's per property and listing. You don't just... It's not like a turn it on, turn it off thing at six months to do like LandWatch or land and farm for your signature things. You have 10 that you could have running or five you can have running depending on whatever your deal is with them. Or you could put one up, it sells, take it down, put another one in its place. As long as you don't go over the five or the 10 or 20, whatever you have. So, this is a whole different thing it's per property.

Jill DeWit:
So, what does it cost? Anywhere from... I've seen deals down to man $39 for six months up to $400, 395 for six months, depending on the location. Because I think, I know that their contracts vary what each individual MLS and stuff, regions in the country charge these services. That's where the money difference comes in.

Jill DeWit:
So, do we want to jump into, I kind of answered her questions. Can we jump into the show because I'm going to talk even more about this.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic fixed price, MLS versus listing with an actual real estate agent. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So, what the heck are we talking about?

Steven J Butala:
Well, let's define what the MLS is really quickly.

Jill DeWit:
That's... Okay. You define MLS.

Steven J Butala:
You took a lot of notes in this.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of did.

Steven J Butala:
This is right up your alley because we saw the vast majority or maybe all of our property with real estate agents now, so Jill's qualified.

Jill DeWit:
Do people not know what the MLS is?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. People don't know.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You define the MLS, then I'll define the different ways to get things right on the MLS.

Steven J Butala:
The MLS is an acronym for a Multiple Listing Service. There are approximately 344 ish of them in the country.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Fixed Price MLS listing vs Listing with an Actual Real Estate Agent (LA 1545)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello?

Steven J Butala:
Wow. Welcome to Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:
Puberty just strikes at crazy times, doesn't it?

Steven J Butala:
Mid fifties.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven J Butala:
I'm just now getting my adult voice.

Jill DeWit:
There you go. That's right.

Steven J Butala:
Figuratively and literally.

Jill DeWit:
You used to sound like your mom when you were 12 and now you sound like your mom again. Just kidding.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit.

Steven J Butala:
[inaudible 00:00:36].

Jill DeWit:
I mean, hilarious. If my voice dropped four octaves.

Steven J Butala:
Know what else would be hilarious? If you were the data person for a week and I was the salesperson for a week.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my Goodness. That would be a disaster. Anyway, we are broadcasting from sizzling, Scottsdale, Arizona. But it's cool.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about fixed price MLS listings versus listing the property with an actual real estate agent.

Jill DeWit:
Not like a fake real estate engine, a real one. Actual.

Steven J Butala:
Most of them are fake actually.

Jill DeWit:
That's why you put that there. You should say one that shows up. Just kidding.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Jeanette wrote, Hi Jeannette.

Jill DeWit:
"What flat fee MLS listing service is best for land? I hear a lot of people using Zillow, but if you use a different flat fee MLS service, it gets listed there anyway. Also, is the flat fee MLS fee per property, or does it allow for multiple property listings or switching properties for the listing period? Help, please."

Jill DeWit:
I can answer this.

Steven J Butala:
Oh, yes.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I was waiting. So, it's per property and listing. You don't just... It's not like a turn it on, turn it off thing at six months to do like LandWatch or land and farm for your signature things. You have 10 that you could have running or five you can have running depending on whatever your deal is with them. Or you could put one up, it sells, take it down, put another one in its place. As long as you don't go over the five or the 10 or 20, whatever you have. So, this is a whole different thing it's per property.

Jill DeWit:
So, what does it cost? Anywhere from... I've seen deals down to man $39 for six months up to $400, 395 for six months, depending on the location. Because I think, I know that their contracts vary what each individual MLS and stuff, regions in the country charge these services. That's where the money difference comes in.

Jill DeWit:
So, do we want to jump into, I kind of answered her questions. Can we jump into the show because I'm going to talk even more about this.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic fixed price, MLS versus listing with an actual real estate agent. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So, what the heck are we talking about?

Steven J Butala:
Well, let's define what the MLS is really quickly.

Jill DeWit:
That's... Okay. You define MLS.

Steven J Butala:
You took a lot of notes in this.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of did.

Steven J Butala:
This is right up your alley because we saw the vast majority or maybe all of our property with real estate agents now, so Jill's qualified.

Jill DeWit:
Do people not know what the MLS is?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. People don't know.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You define the MLS, then I'll define the different ways to get things right on the MLS.

Steven J Butala:
The MLS is an acronym for a Multiple Listing Service. There are approximately 344 ish of them in the country.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/13/fixed-price-mls-listing-vs-listing-with-an-actual-real-estate-agent-la-1545/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fD7VqAxVK</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/be032805-d4e6-4cb0-9f7a-1b08c5091744.mp3" length="15232747" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:31</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Much Time Do I Really Need to Spend on Pricing (LA 1544)</title><itunes:title>How Much Time Do I Really Need to Spend on Pricing (LA 1544)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Much Time Do I Really Need to Spend on Pricing (LA 1544)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steven, Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about how much time do I really need to spend on pricing?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, What do you think?

Steven J Butala:
No, I think you should take a whole year.

Jill DeWit:
Oh that's true. I have a few people that are saying, "Yeah, I'm pushing a month." Oops. Yeah, we'll talk about that.

Steven J Butala:
We'll talk all about it and we're joking around, but I understand. We both understand it, how caught up you can get in this.

Jill DeWit:
You can accidentally spend a month on this.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already with us, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Anthony wrote, "I joined an auto pricing service just to see the product. I checked how they price counties and that I have previously mailed. In general, they price way too high. I've been mailing counties with a lot of waterfront properties. I find it difficult to come up with good prices, given that a parcel just a few blocks away can go for double and vice versa. Their prices were way too high there also. I don't think there's an easy way out for pricing. You have to put in the work, even if it means drilling down past zip codes to map sections. On the other hand, you can get sucked in and go too granular. I sometimes forget that perfect is the enemy of good enough." That was great Anthony.

Steven J Butala:
Anthony, tell me where to send the check.

Jill DeWit:
Was this in Land Investors or was this in discord?

Steven J Butala:
It was in discord.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven J Butala:
I responded and a lot of people did too. I actually responded to him and thanked him.

Jill DeWit:
So if you're in discord, you're a member. If you're in Land Investors, you might be both, by the way, you can be either. Sorry. Yeah, this is perfect. This ties right into it.

Steven J Butala:
Well, this was the inspiration for the actual topic.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
So we're right in the pricing module right now, Jill and I, or about to be for career path.

Jill DeWit:
Number two.

Steven J Butala:
And it, for some reason, and I believe this is great, the Land Academy itself attracts technical people or intelligent people, or it's generally attracts, it seems to me now, technical people with a technical background, but are very comfortable in a sales role too.

Jill DeWit:
Because that's who we are.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Last time I checked.

Steven J Butala:
I mean, that's exactly who you and I are so...

Jill DeWit:
That's what I mean.

Steven J Butala:
Individually and collectively. And so because of that technical background, it's you can just spend way too much time on pricing. Hey, wait, today's topic, how much time do you really need to spend on pricing? This is the meat of the show. I can directly answer that question. And it's a one-to-one association with how new you are at land investing and how much experience you have with Excel and data in general. And if this is brand new and you are not a data person at all, I think a month. Jill was joking about it earlier, might be appropriate or better yet, use a product like Concierge Pricing that we created for people like you.

Jill DeWit:
To speed the process up.

Steven J Butala:
You can go to Offers 2 Owners and check that out there or get somebody like me to do your mailers for you. And if you go through discord, there's all kinds of people in there that are willing to do it.

Jill DeWit:
Here's the point. So when you're new, you need to spend the time, you need to put the time in.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Much Time Do I Really Need to Spend on Pricing (LA 1544)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steven, Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about how much time do I really need to spend on pricing?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, What do you think?

Steven J Butala:
No, I think you should take a whole year.

Jill DeWit:
Oh that's true. I have a few people that are saying, "Yeah, I'm pushing a month." Oops. Yeah, we'll talk about that.

Steven J Butala:
We'll talk all about it and we're joking around, but I understand. We both understand it, how caught up you can get in this.

Jill DeWit:
You can accidentally spend a month on this.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already with us, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Anthony wrote, "I joined an auto pricing service just to see the product. I checked how they price counties and that I have previously mailed. In general, they price way too high. I've been mailing counties with a lot of waterfront properties. I find it difficult to come up with good prices, given that a parcel just a few blocks away can go for double and vice versa. Their prices were way too high there also. I don't think there's an easy way out for pricing. You have to put in the work, even if it means drilling down past zip codes to map sections. On the other hand, you can get sucked in and go too granular. I sometimes forget that perfect is the enemy of good enough." That was great Anthony.

Steven J Butala:
Anthony, tell me where to send the check.

Jill DeWit:
Was this in Land Investors or was this in discord?

Steven J Butala:
It was in discord.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

Steven J Butala:
I responded and a lot of people did too. I actually responded to him and thanked him.

Jill DeWit:
So if you're in discord, you're a member. If you're in Land Investors, you might be both, by the way, you can be either. Sorry. Yeah, this is perfect. This ties right into it.

Steven J Butala:
Well, this was the inspiration for the actual topic.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
So we're right in the pricing module right now, Jill and I, or about to be for career path.

Jill DeWit:
Number two.

Steven J Butala:
And it, for some reason, and I believe this is great, the Land Academy itself attracts technical people or intelligent people, or it's generally attracts, it seems to me now, technical people with a technical background, but are very comfortable in a sales role too.

Jill DeWit:
Because that's who we are.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Last time I checked.

Steven J Butala:
I mean, that's exactly who you and I are so...

Jill DeWit:
That's what I mean.

Steven J Butala:
Individually and collectively. And so because of that technical background, it's you can just spend way too much time on pricing. Hey, wait, today's topic, how much time do you really need to spend on pricing? This is the meat of the show. I can directly answer that question. And it's a one-to-one association with how new you are at land investing and how much experience you have with Excel and data in general. And if this is brand new and you are not a data person at all, I think a month. Jill was joking about it earlier, might be appropriate or better yet, use a product like Concierge Pricing that we created for people like you.

Jill DeWit:
To speed the process up.

Steven J Butala:
You can go to Offers 2 Owners and check that out there or get somebody like me to do your mailers for you. And if you go through discord, there's all kinds of people in there that are willing to do it.

Jill DeWit:
Here's the point. So when you're new, you need to spend the time, you need to put the time in.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/12/how-much-time-do-i-really-need-to-spend-on-pricing-la-1544/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">70vSmy4OZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9528d07c-4d71-4b45-84de-f45d81739df4.mp3" length="14264830" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; When to Get a Transaction Coordinator and Why (LA 1543)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; When to Get a Transaction Coordinator and Why (LA 1543)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - When to Get a Transaction Coordinator and Why (LA 1543)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here-

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
... welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk ... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about when it's appropriate to get a transaction coordinator and why you need one. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Miles wrote, "On my first mailer, almost all of the potential deals I got were for other parcels or land in other counties that were not on my mailer. So I'm having to make new offers and I'm unsure how to price it because there are no comps. Would you contact an agent in this case? And before you make your new offers, do you get a broker's opinion? It sounds like you don't do that, right? Thank you."

Jill DeWit:
Okay, so let me back up. So here's what Miles is talking about. I sent my mailer, a guy calls back and says, "I don't want to sell that one, but I've got two over here if you want one. My brother has this, my mom has that, we want to sell whatever." That kind of a thing. And you're like, "Oh, why did this come up?" Because I've taught you well, hopefully.

Steven Butala:
Because you sent some mail out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, and one, I have it on my checklist. I always say when my inbound seller checklist, one of the questions your asking everybody is, "By the way, what else do you have?" Because they may have something great and you don't know it. They may say, "Oh, I have this other agricultural parcel two lots over, I didn't think you wanted that one." I'm like, "Yeah, I absolutely want that. That one's even better." Because that comes up.

Jill DeWit:
So in this situation Miles is going, "All right, now I need to go back and make new offers." Hold on a moment, Miles. Let me make it easier for you, what I would do instead is say, "Great, you have what? 10 acres where? Happy to go look for it. How much are you asking? Let's talk a for a second. You know who I am, I know who you are. I own this sweet little company, it's mine. I pay cash, I close fast. You're staring at my letter for a different property. So with that in mind, how much would you accept and I could just cash you out of that one, too, or instead of, or whatever?" Get a number from them.

Jill DeWit:
Last thing I want you to is get all excited and go and start spending a day and a half doing research, calling around, getting excited about this other area, this other potential property, and what's possible. Calling agents, calling brokers, and everything, and then coming back and going, "Okay, here's my number." And the guy says, "Oh, no, no, no. I wouldn't let it go for less than a million." You needed to know that before you even did anything. So that's what I want you to do.

Jill DeWit:
So let's say now you do this, so you go, "Okay, what's this?" I said, "You know what, all right, Miles, I get it. I know how you roll. I know it's worth maybe more than this, but you know what? I just one to get rid of this one-

Steven Butala:
"And I like you."

Jill DeWit:
... because I'm never over there. My wife never wanted it. So you know what? I'd let it go for 30,000." You go, "Okay, give me date. Let' see, today's Friday, can I get back to you on Tuesday? Because I know it's getting late, the county's probably closing soon. I got to make some calls. Can I call you on Tuesday?" And where's the best time and what's the best number? "Yep, here you go, you can reach me here." "Awesome." Now Miles, now I want you to go look at this.

Jill DeWit:
And what do I want you to do? You're like, "Okay, how do I get the comps?" Well, look at all the normal places,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - When to Get a Transaction Coordinator and Why (LA 1543)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here-

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
... welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk ... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about when it's appropriate to get a transaction coordinator and why you need one. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Miles wrote, "On my first mailer, almost all of the potential deals I got were for other parcels or land in other counties that were not on my mailer. So I'm having to make new offers and I'm unsure how to price it because there are no comps. Would you contact an agent in this case? And before you make your new offers, do you get a broker's opinion? It sounds like you don't do that, right? Thank you."

Jill DeWit:
Okay, so let me back up. So here's what Miles is talking about. I sent my mailer, a guy calls back and says, "I don't want to sell that one, but I've got two over here if you want one. My brother has this, my mom has that, we want to sell whatever." That kind of a thing. And you're like, "Oh, why did this come up?" Because I've taught you well, hopefully.

Steven Butala:
Because you sent some mail out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, and one, I have it on my checklist. I always say when my inbound seller checklist, one of the questions your asking everybody is, "By the way, what else do you have?" Because they may have something great and you don't know it. They may say, "Oh, I have this other agricultural parcel two lots over, I didn't think you wanted that one." I'm like, "Yeah, I absolutely want that. That one's even better." Because that comes up.

Jill DeWit:
So in this situation Miles is going, "All right, now I need to go back and make new offers." Hold on a moment, Miles. Let me make it easier for you, what I would do instead is say, "Great, you have what? 10 acres where? Happy to go look for it. How much are you asking? Let's talk a for a second. You know who I am, I know who you are. I own this sweet little company, it's mine. I pay cash, I close fast. You're staring at my letter for a different property. So with that in mind, how much would you accept and I could just cash you out of that one, too, or instead of, or whatever?" Get a number from them.

Jill DeWit:
Last thing I want you to is get all excited and go and start spending a day and a half doing research, calling around, getting excited about this other area, this other potential property, and what's possible. Calling agents, calling brokers, and everything, and then coming back and going, "Okay, here's my number." And the guy says, "Oh, no, no, no. I wouldn't let it go for less than a million." You needed to know that before you even did anything. So that's what I want you to do.

Jill DeWit:
So let's say now you do this, so you go, "Okay, what's this?" I said, "You know what, all right, Miles, I get it. I know how you roll. I know it's worth maybe more than this, but you know what? I just one to get rid of this one-

Steven Butala:
"And I like you."

Jill DeWit:
... because I'm never over there. My wife never wanted it. So you know what? I'd let it go for 30,000." You go, "Okay, give me date. Let' see, today's Friday, can I get back to you on Tuesday? Because I know it's getting late, the county's probably closing soon. I got to make some calls. Can I call you on Tuesday?" And where's the best time and what's the best number? "Yep, here you go, you can reach me here." "Awesome." Now Miles, now I want you to go look at this.

Jill DeWit:
And what do I want you to do? You're like, "Okay, how do I get the comps?" Well, look at all the normal places,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/09/jill-friday-when-to-get-a-transaction-coordinator-and-why-la-1543/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c-0ow6Fmo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 22:07:58 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4d97a0c7-e070-4d9b-acf9-6db73d418554.mp3" length="14461519" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:42</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What Mailer Size Should I Send? (LA 1542)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What Mailer Size Should I Send? (LA 1542)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - What Mailer Size Should I Send? (LA 1542)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jack Thursday. What mailer size should I send? This is an endless top five question that Jill and I get. If we get five new people in a month, we answer this question five times.

Jill DeWit:
So let's do the math. If you get 50 people a month, how many times does it come up?

Steven Butala:
Five zero.

Jill DeWit:
Uh-huh (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free if you're already a Land Academy member. Please join us on Discord. And maybe you can ask this question there and everyone will help you.

Jill DeWit:
You are a stinker.

Steven Butala:
This might be the shortest episode in the history of the Land Academy Show.

Jill DeWit:
You are a stinker. Okay. Rebecca wrote, "Hi everyone. When we previously posted our lots on Facebook Marketplace, Facebook gave us an option to add keywords in an SEO section."

Jill DeWit:
Recently, I'm not seeing that area when I post lots. Has anyone experienced something familiar or similar with Facebook? The SEO keywords really gave us a lot of interest from buyers in our lots. We have not been getting as much interest now that the SEO area's gone. Any input would be great. Thanks everyone."

Steven Butala:
Very familiar with the Facebook marketing, and not as familiar with Marketplace. I have two points here. Number one, sometimes stuff on Facebook changes.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes it's not there, but it's only not there for an hour because they're working on that module. So stick with it. I can guarantee you this, SEO and keywords are the very center of how Facebook generates revenue and income. So chances are they've replaced it with something or they're working on it to make it better. Socially, I think Facebook is stupid. I think all the stuff that you hear on talk shows-

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
... and radio and how-

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
... it's just the bane of the world, I believe that.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
I think it promotes all kinds of terrible stuff. As a marketing device, there's nothing better. So if you have a product or you want to sell something, I don't care if you're selling jackknives out of your-

Jill DeWit:
Trunk.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, out of your garage. There's no better place to effectively sell anything, including land, than Facebook and Facebook Marketplace specifically. So if you don't know about it or it's not in your regular way to market property, I would stop what you're doing and really go look at it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, now don't hold back. Please really share what you're trying to say.

Steven Butala:
Facebook for business is amazing. Facebook socially, get a life.

Jill DeWit:
Steven.

Steven Butala:
I mean it.

Jill DeWit:
Oh gosh. Anyway.

Steven Butala:
Number two.

Jill DeWit:
I like it, when used properly. I don't use it for political reasons.

Steven Butala:
You really want to know-

Jill DeWit:
Hold on a moment.

Steven Butala:
... what your high school classmates are doing right now? I don't.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I have new friends.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Well, now I use it for my current friends too to see what they're doing, because we might be in another state.

Steven Butala:
That's what texting is for.

Jill DeWit:
We might be in another state though, but I get it. Okay, fine. Whatever.

Steven Butala:
Number two. And no one talks about this and I don't know why. There's metadata you can embed in graphics that CEO will capture. I love all the Adobe products,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - What Mailer Size Should I Send? (LA 1542)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about ... Well, it's Jack Thursday. What mailer size should I send? This is an endless top five question that Jill and I get. If we get five new people in a month, we answer this question five times.

Jill DeWit:
So let's do the math. If you get 50 people a month, how many times does it come up?

Steven Butala:
Five zero.

Jill DeWit:
Uh-huh (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free if you're already a Land Academy member. Please join us on Discord. And maybe you can ask this question there and everyone will help you.

Jill DeWit:
You are a stinker.

Steven Butala:
This might be the shortest episode in the history of the Land Academy Show.

Jill DeWit:
You are a stinker. Okay. Rebecca wrote, "Hi everyone. When we previously posted our lots on Facebook Marketplace, Facebook gave us an option to add keywords in an SEO section."

Jill DeWit:
Recently, I'm not seeing that area when I post lots. Has anyone experienced something familiar or similar with Facebook? The SEO keywords really gave us a lot of interest from buyers in our lots. We have not been getting as much interest now that the SEO area's gone. Any input would be great. Thanks everyone."

Steven Butala:
Very familiar with the Facebook marketing, and not as familiar with Marketplace. I have two points here. Number one, sometimes stuff on Facebook changes.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes it's not there, but it's only not there for an hour because they're working on that module. So stick with it. I can guarantee you this, SEO and keywords are the very center of how Facebook generates revenue and income. So chances are they've replaced it with something or they're working on it to make it better. Socially, I think Facebook is stupid. I think all the stuff that you hear on talk shows-

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
... and radio and how-

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
... it's just the bane of the world, I believe that.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go.

Steven Butala:
I think it promotes all kinds of terrible stuff. As a marketing device, there's nothing better. So if you have a product or you want to sell something, I don't care if you're selling jackknives out of your-

Jill DeWit:
Trunk.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, out of your garage. There's no better place to effectively sell anything, including land, than Facebook and Facebook Marketplace specifically. So if you don't know about it or it's not in your regular way to market property, I would stop what you're doing and really go look at it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, now don't hold back. Please really share what you're trying to say.

Steven Butala:
Facebook for business is amazing. Facebook socially, get a life.

Jill DeWit:
Steven.

Steven Butala:
I mean it.

Jill DeWit:
Oh gosh. Anyway.

Steven Butala:
Number two.

Jill DeWit:
I like it, when used properly. I don't use it for political reasons.

Steven Butala:
You really want to know-

Jill DeWit:
Hold on a moment.

Steven Butala:
... what your high school classmates are doing right now? I don't.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I have new friends.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Well, now I use it for my current friends too to see what they're doing, because we might be in another state.

Steven Butala:
That's what texting is for.

Jill DeWit:
We might be in another state though, but I get it. Okay, fine. Whatever.

Steven Butala:
Number two. And no one talks about this and I don't know why. There's metadata you can embed in graphics that CEO will capture. I love all the Adobe products,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/08/jack-thursday-what-mailer-size-should-i-send-la-1542/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RlfdQwUSX</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2b209a6f-fa7e-493f-a672-74793019908e.mp3" length="13022703" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Our Biggest Land Flipping Bottlenecks in 2021 (LA 1541)</title><itunes:title>Our Biggest Land Flipping Bottlenecks in 2021 (LA 1541)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Our Biggest Land Flipping Bottlenecks in 2021 (LA 1541)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from scorching Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about our biggest land flipping bottlenecks this year in 2021.

Jill DeWit:
I got two.

Steven Butala:
Yes, we're not perfect.

Jill DeWit:
I got two. I'm sure there's 20.

Steven Butala:
I have two also.

Jill DeWit:
Like, you know, you ask an unrelated third party, they're like, "Oh, all right. Oh honey, sit down."

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you, we just started Career Path, the second Career Path. So everybody's baring all. Like, this is what I want, this is what I do right and this is what I do wrong. And while we're doing that, I'm looking at myself going, wow, we don't have any of these issues, but these are our issues. So it's really helpful in a group like that to hear what other people's issues are.

Jill DeWit:
Like an AA meeting?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, just like that. Or Weight Watchers, yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's really helpful in a closed environment where we can all share personal things.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
That's how I'm going to lead the next Career Path meeting. I'm going to say, "Everyone, this is a safe space."

Steven Butala:
Taylor has a story here. It's a little bit lengthy, but trust me, worth it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, cool. All right. Taylor wrote, "I wanted to share my latest deal that was in a flood zone." So if I can shed some light on buying flood zone properties.

Steven Butala:
Thank you, so I don't have to do this.

Jill DeWit:
"I had a seller reach out to me after receiving one of my offers on a seven acre property. The seller informed me that he would sell at $35,000 and not a penny less. I began my due diligence and found the entire property is in a flood sound. However, there are mobile/RV parks and houses throughout the surrounding area all within the same flood zone. I researched and found the flood elevation is just above the surface of the property. I decided to purchase at the seller's asking price, knowing it was higher than I would have liked, but knew there was a market for this property. After closing, the seller contacted me, thanking us for the purchase at his asking price because of medical bills stacking up from a health issue he was dealing with. The seller went on to tell me that several investors had inquired about this property, but all of them passed or tried to lower the price due to the flood zone. I listed the property a week later and sold it within five days for $72,500. The buyer had been looking for property for over a year just like this one."

Jill DeWit:
Two lessons to take note of here. Number one, not all flood zones are bad.

Steven Butala:
Totally.

Jill DeWit:
Just look at Phoenix, your famous one. Just because a property is in a flood zone does not mean the property won't sell.

Steven Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill DeWit:
Make sure to cover your due diligence, know what's developed around the area, know the restrictions on what you can and cannot do with the property and make sure to know where the flood elevation is. Number two, sellers and buyers both have problems that they're looking to resolve. Take the time to look into these deals and see what you can do to help. You never know. It may be profitable and beneficial for you as well.

Steven Butala:
Well said. Great story.

Jill DeWit:
That was great.

Steven Butala:
The entire city of Phoenix is in a flood zone. If you look it up on NeighborScoop and click the flood button at the end, complete entire-

Jill DeWit:
You're like, what? Oh no, move.

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our Biggest Land Flipping Bottlenecks in 2021 (LA 1541)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from scorching Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about our biggest land flipping bottlenecks this year in 2021.

Jill DeWit:
I got two.

Steven Butala:
Yes, we're not perfect.

Jill DeWit:
I got two. I'm sure there's 20.

Steven Butala:
I have two also.

Jill DeWit:
Like, you know, you ask an unrelated third party, they're like, "Oh, all right. Oh honey, sit down."

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you, we just started Career Path, the second Career Path. So everybody's baring all. Like, this is what I want, this is what I do right and this is what I do wrong. And while we're doing that, I'm looking at myself going, wow, we don't have any of these issues, but these are our issues. So it's really helpful in a group like that to hear what other people's issues are.

Jill DeWit:
Like an AA meeting?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, just like that. Or Weight Watchers, yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's really helpful in a closed environment where we can all share personal things.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
That's how I'm going to lead the next Career Path meeting. I'm going to say, "Everyone, this is a safe space."

Steven Butala:
Taylor has a story here. It's a little bit lengthy, but trust me, worth it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, cool. All right. Taylor wrote, "I wanted to share my latest deal that was in a flood zone." So if I can shed some light on buying flood zone properties.

Steven Butala:
Thank you, so I don't have to do this.

Jill DeWit:
"I had a seller reach out to me after receiving one of my offers on a seven acre property. The seller informed me that he would sell at $35,000 and not a penny less. I began my due diligence and found the entire property is in a flood sound. However, there are mobile/RV parks and houses throughout the surrounding area all within the same flood zone. I researched and found the flood elevation is just above the surface of the property. I decided to purchase at the seller's asking price, knowing it was higher than I would have liked, but knew there was a market for this property. After closing, the seller contacted me, thanking us for the purchase at his asking price because of medical bills stacking up from a health issue he was dealing with. The seller went on to tell me that several investors had inquired about this property, but all of them passed or tried to lower the price due to the flood zone. I listed the property a week later and sold it within five days for $72,500. The buyer had been looking for property for over a year just like this one."

Jill DeWit:
Two lessons to take note of here. Number one, not all flood zones are bad.

Steven Butala:
Totally.

Jill DeWit:
Just look at Phoenix, your famous one. Just because a property is in a flood zone does not mean the property won't sell.

Steven Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill DeWit:
Make sure to cover your due diligence, know what's developed around the area, know the restrictions on what you can and cannot do with the property and make sure to know where the flood elevation is. Number two, sellers and buyers both have problems that they're looking to resolve. Take the time to look into these deals and see what you can do to help. You never know. It may be profitable and beneficial for you as well.

Steven Butala:
Well said. Great story.

Jill DeWit:
That was great.

Steven Butala:
The entire city of Phoenix is in a flood zone. If you look it up on NeighborScoop and click the flood button at the end, complete entire-

Jill DeWit:
You're like, what? Oh no, move.

Steven Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/07/our-biggest-land-flipping-bottlenecks-in-2021-la-1541/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">04sJdNYl7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 22:11:30 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f7ceabfa-11c8-4598-bb69-c6df06ab6646.mp3" length="13238027" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Complete a Land Acquisition with a Mobile Home on it (LA 1540)</title><itunes:title>How to Complete a Land Acquisition with a Mobile Home on it (LA 1540)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Complete a Land Acquisition with a Mobile Home on it (LA 1540)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Hot.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
100 degrees, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
I'm sorry, I meant to say scorching Scottsdale.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to complete a land acquisition with a mobile home on it. Or do you even want to do that?

Jill DeWit:
That's a bad thing. Uh-oh, I only wanted land. Shoot. I almost said a bad word. Shoot. There's something on it. Is that bad? Hold on, everyone. This is good. This is great. It's great.

Steven Butala:
Here's a spoiler. Mobile homes rock.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
And they're easy deals to do. We'll talk all about it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord. Mean it.

Jill DeWit:
And Clubhouse. Okay.

Steven Butala:
Well, you might as well. You brought it up. When's your Clubhouse show?

Jill DeWit:
Every Thursday. Well, you're joining me now.

Steven Butala:
I know.

Jill DeWit:
You're a guest.

Steven Butala:
I got drug into this.

Jill DeWit:
He did, but you like it.

Steven Butala:
It's another thing on my calendar now, permanently.

Jill DeWit:
He likes it. Hey Mikey, he likes it. So, yes-

Steven Butala:
Every Thursday when?

Jill DeWit:
Every Thursday at one o'clock Pacific time. Come find me. Search me, find me, follow me on Clubhouse. In addition to that, join the land investing group and you will get notified whenever I schedule something and whenever we go live.

Steven Butala:
So there's a land investing-

Jill DeWit:
Club.

Steven Butala:
Clubhouse thing?

Jill DeWit:
There's a Clubhouse, like a separate group.

Steven Butala:
Do we run that?

Jill DeWit:
It's mine.

Steven Butala:
Oh, outstanding, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
It's all mine, man. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
I love to not know what's happening in my own company.

Jill DeWit:
That great? You're welcome. And that's the truth. That's what's so funny. So, he's being sarcastic? Nope. Likes it this way. Every time we do a live event and he's like, "Just tell me where to stand."

Steven Butala:
I'll write it and show up.

Jill DeWit:
Sure, just like, "I don't want to do anything else."

Steven Butala:
That's basically my whole responsibility now.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Okay. Evan wrote, "I'm looking to purchase a parcel with a mobile home on it. The mobile's considered personal property with its own title. The owner wants to sell me the land and the mobile. How should I specify that the offer is for both the land and the mobile? Should I just add a line item to my purchase agreement?" That works.

Steven Butala:
Evan, we're going to answer this during the show here. Today's topic, how to complete a land acquisition with a mobile home on it. This is the meat of the show. There's a deed for the property and a title at the DMV. There's two separate components to this thing. The short answer is, and everybody loves this answer, me included, title company will work it out for you. If they don't know how to do it, find another title company or another title agent in that company. These are real simple transactions. You never want to buy a mobile home property with a mobile on it and then not buy the mobile home.

Jill DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Butala:
It's almost always more... Not almost always. It's frequently more expensive to move the damn thing than it is to just leave it there and sell it with it. Here's why. Somebody put probably a septic tank in or septic field-

Jill DeWit:
Maybe a pad.

Steven Butala:
Septic systems.

Jill DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Complete a Land Acquisition with a Mobile Home on it (LA 1540)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Hot.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
100 degrees, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
I'm sorry, I meant to say scorching Scottsdale.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to complete a land acquisition with a mobile home on it. Or do you even want to do that?

Jill DeWit:
That's a bad thing. Uh-oh, I only wanted land. Shoot. I almost said a bad word. Shoot. There's something on it. Is that bad? Hold on, everyone. This is good. This is great. It's great.

Steven Butala:
Here's a spoiler. Mobile homes rock.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
And they're easy deals to do. We'll talk all about it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord. Mean it.

Jill DeWit:
And Clubhouse. Okay.

Steven Butala:
Well, you might as well. You brought it up. When's your Clubhouse show?

Jill DeWit:
Every Thursday. Well, you're joining me now.

Steven Butala:
I know.

Jill DeWit:
You're a guest.

Steven Butala:
I got drug into this.

Jill DeWit:
He did, but you like it.

Steven Butala:
It's another thing on my calendar now, permanently.

Jill DeWit:
He likes it. Hey Mikey, he likes it. So, yes-

Steven Butala:
Every Thursday when?

Jill DeWit:
Every Thursday at one o'clock Pacific time. Come find me. Search me, find me, follow me on Clubhouse. In addition to that, join the land investing group and you will get notified whenever I schedule something and whenever we go live.

Steven Butala:
So there's a land investing-

Jill DeWit:
Club.

Steven Butala:
Clubhouse thing?

Jill DeWit:
There's a Clubhouse, like a separate group.

Steven Butala:
Do we run that?

Jill DeWit:
It's mine.

Steven Butala:
Oh, outstanding, Jill.

Jill DeWit:
It's all mine, man. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
I love to not know what's happening in my own company.

Jill DeWit:
That great? You're welcome. And that's the truth. That's what's so funny. So, he's being sarcastic? Nope. Likes it this way. Every time we do a live event and he's like, "Just tell me where to stand."

Steven Butala:
I'll write it and show up.

Jill DeWit:
Sure, just like, "I don't want to do anything else."

Steven Butala:
That's basically my whole responsibility now.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Okay. Evan wrote, "I'm looking to purchase a parcel with a mobile home on it. The mobile's considered personal property with its own title. The owner wants to sell me the land and the mobile. How should I specify that the offer is for both the land and the mobile? Should I just add a line item to my purchase agreement?" That works.

Steven Butala:
Evan, we're going to answer this during the show here. Today's topic, how to complete a land acquisition with a mobile home on it. This is the meat of the show. There's a deed for the property and a title at the DMV. There's two separate components to this thing. The short answer is, and everybody loves this answer, me included, title company will work it out for you. If they don't know how to do it, find another title company or another title agent in that company. These are real simple transactions. You never want to buy a mobile home property with a mobile on it and then not buy the mobile home.

Jill DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Butala:
It's almost always more... Not almost always. It's frequently more expensive to move the damn thing than it is to just leave it there and sell it with it. Here's why. Somebody put probably a septic tank in or septic field-

Jill DeWit:
Maybe a pad.

Steven Butala:
Septic systems.

Jill DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/06/how-to-complete-a-land-acquisition-with-a-mobile-home-on-it-la-1540/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YT4nDxXhH</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d70be7a5-dbe9-4fcf-a8eb-9e918926fa50.mp3" length="12338625" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Successful Mailer Key Performance Indicators (LA 1539)</title><itunes:title>Successful Mailer Key Performance Indicators (LA 1539)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Successful Mailer Key Performance Indicators (LA 1539)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting again, back in sweet Scottsdale, Arizona. You never know where we're going to be. Right? We just keep popping up in different places.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about successful mailer key performance indicators.

Jill DeWit:
That's a mouthful.

Steven Butala:
This was requested by our Land Academy staff, because people are asking about it through the customer service channels. What is it really? Did my mailer work or not?

Jill DeWit:
Why don't we just call it that? I have to ask. If don't you have a title [inaudible 00:00:43] and you have to explain the title. Why don't you just use the definition?

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you why.

Jill DeWit:
Did my mailer work?

Steven Butala:
Because you and I are very fortunate because all the people that work for us are smarter than we are.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
We're just the actors.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's getting more and more like that.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I wasn't done with that thought. I have one more thing to add. I have a former personal assistant that told me this is probably something that you forgot again. I'm like no kidding. That's why I had you.

Steven Butala:
If you expect us to be smart-

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
... about anything.

Jill DeWit:
I just remember everything.

Steven Butala:
About anything else.

Jill DeWit:
I hired you to remember things so I don't have to. I have a little bit going on.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I are smart about buying and selling land. That's why you're listening to this show. Everything else, forget it.

Jill DeWit:
The little details, I'm not going to remember that again. That's why I hired you. Anyway. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, Hi everyone. This is my first year as a land investor. I bought and sold half a dozen properties already. I sold all my inventory within a month of buying it. However I'm working in cold Northern states. Since this is my first year, I'm interested to hear if others find it harder to sell property up here, once snow hits the ground. Does the snow make a difference in your sales? Do folks who invest in these areas also have non snow Southern states they rely on to do deals in the winter? Trying to plan a few months in advance. Thanks for your help.

Steven Butala:
You absolutely-

Jill DeWit:
I appreciate this.

Steven Butala:
... So do I, it's a good question. And what I really respect here is planning ahead. Yes, you absolutely can sell property in-

Jill DeWit:
Winter.

Steven Butala:
I'm from Michigan. I know this. So it's just slower. And your red, green, yellow test will reflect that. So if you run a red, green, yellow test in February for November, December, January, you're going to see it's slower. It's going to slow down.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
The days on market are going to be slower and all of that. But there's no replacement for buying property at 20, 30% of it's value.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe that's the time buy it, by the way.

Steven Butala:
That's exactly what I was going to say. So just make sure your pictures are good. Make sure you got a bright sunny day.

Jill DeWit:
Without snow on the ground.

Steven Butala:
I would really seriously consider drone shots during that time of year because everything's a better from above. Everything looks better. And so no that shouldn't stop you. What it should do is encourage you to buy it even cheaper.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
What's the worst thing that can happen? You have to hold onto for six months to try and do...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Successful Mailer Key Performance Indicators (LA 1539)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting again, back in sweet Scottsdale, Arizona. You never know where we're going to be. Right? We just keep popping up in different places.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about successful mailer key performance indicators.

Jill DeWit:
That's a mouthful.

Steven Butala:
This was requested by our Land Academy staff, because people are asking about it through the customer service channels. What is it really? Did my mailer work or not?

Jill DeWit:
Why don't we just call it that? I have to ask. If don't you have a title [inaudible 00:00:43] and you have to explain the title. Why don't you just use the definition?

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you why.

Jill DeWit:
Did my mailer work?

Steven Butala:
Because you and I are very fortunate because all the people that work for us are smarter than we are.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
We're just the actors.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. It's getting more and more like that.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I wasn't done with that thought. I have one more thing to add. I have a former personal assistant that told me this is probably something that you forgot again. I'm like no kidding. That's why I had you.

Steven Butala:
If you expect us to be smart-

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
... about anything.

Jill DeWit:
I just remember everything.

Steven Butala:
About anything else.

Jill DeWit:
I hired you to remember things so I don't have to. I have a little bit going on.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I are smart about buying and selling land. That's why you're listening to this show. Everything else, forget it.

Jill DeWit:
The little details, I'm not going to remember that again. That's why I hired you. Anyway. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, Hi everyone. This is my first year as a land investor. I bought and sold half a dozen properties already. I sold all my inventory within a month of buying it. However I'm working in cold Northern states. Since this is my first year, I'm interested to hear if others find it harder to sell property up here, once snow hits the ground. Does the snow make a difference in your sales? Do folks who invest in these areas also have non snow Southern states they rely on to do deals in the winter? Trying to plan a few months in advance. Thanks for your help.

Steven Butala:
You absolutely-

Jill DeWit:
I appreciate this.

Steven Butala:
... So do I, it's a good question. And what I really respect here is planning ahead. Yes, you absolutely can sell property in-

Jill DeWit:
Winter.

Steven Butala:
I'm from Michigan. I know this. So it's just slower. And your red, green, yellow test will reflect that. So if you run a red, green, yellow test in February for November, December, January, you're going to see it's slower. It's going to slow down.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
The days on market are going to be slower and all of that. But there's no replacement for buying property at 20, 30% of it's value.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe that's the time buy it, by the way.

Steven Butala:
That's exactly what I was going to say. So just make sure your pictures are good. Make sure you got a bright sunny day.

Jill DeWit:
Without snow on the ground.

Steven Butala:
I would really seriously consider drone shots during that time of year because everything's a better from above. Everything looks better. And so no that shouldn't stop you. What it should do is encourage you to buy it even cheaper.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
What's the worst thing that can happen? You have to hold onto for six months to try and do...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/05/successful-mailer-key-performance-indicators-la-1539/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">WpTkhYVU4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/de55522c-b010-4a17-ac19-503519f45179.mp3" length="13971645" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; New Members Always Want to Send LESS Mail (LA 1538)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; New Members Always Want to Send LESS Mail (LA 1538)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - New Members Always Want to Send LESS Mail (LA 1538)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the last time in this location in sweet Southern California. We are going to be moving the operation. We will be back in some capacity. We're never going to always be fully out of California, but sitting in this exact seat with this [back 00:00:29] background, won't be happening again and that's okay.

Steven Butala:
Our background will be improving.

Jill DeWit:
As well, our mental health. What else?

Steven Butala:
And our general tax situation.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. And our bank balances.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She talks about why new members always want to send less mail versus more mail. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Mitchell and Heidi wrote, "While I didn't make it to the last accountability group meeting, I have a question though. First, as to goals for the week, we made great progress this week and we'll be sending our first 1,500 pieces out next week. Next goal is 1,500 more the following week from the same data set, but larger parcels this time. Leads me to two questions I hope to ask on the call."

Steven Butala:
One second. We have accountability groups-

Jill DeWit:
This came from that?

Steven Butala:
As part of the membership of Land Academy and these two people missed the accountability groups. So when you miss a Weight Watchers meeting, you report in different ways, and try to make up for it. So that was the design with all of this, and it's kind of a taste on what this is about, but in their case, these are really good. They're really taking this seriously, which I love.

Jill DeWit:
Good. It's kind of like, "Can we get the teacher's notes? Because I missed the meeting." That's great.

Jill DeWit:
Here's what they wrote. So number one, "Do you set a lower acreage limit when pulling data or set it at 0.1 to capture the most parcels? I did 0.1 as the lower limit, which surprisingly, there are a lot of 0.1 to 0.4 acre lots in this rural county. Which leads me to question two. Upon a random test for reason of the first 1,500 pieces, I found a lot of these smaller parcels are right next to land with the owners' homes on them. I can't think of a way to stop that when pulling data. So I assume those will just be wasted mail because they aren't likely to sell the 0.1 acres right next to their home or that might be providing them access to their land. Am I missing anything?"

Steven Butala:
I put this in here because this saves so much time and mistake-making energy. This is a brilliant question. It's very typical and totally understandable for a new person. Yes. You're wasting your time. Especially if you're getting that much responses from 0.1 to 0.4. That's not part of the five A's. We want acreage. Larger acreage properties sell much faster. And so, I would have to see exactly where you're pulling it and the stuff that's coming back. But in general, I don't recommend buying, especially in the beginning, buying anything less than an acre, especially in an urban setting where it's going to be really expensive.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
That's it?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, Jill Friday, new members always seem to want to send less mail versus more. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So I've got it down to three things. I think there's three reasons why this happens and I want to talk about them. So what are we talking about? These guys are good. I want you to send 1,500 to 2,000, or more, depending what you could handle, units of mail to an area. Period.

Jill DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - New Members Always Want to Send LESS Mail (LA 1538)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the last time in this location in sweet Southern California. We are going to be moving the operation. We will be back in some capacity. We're never going to always be fully out of California, but sitting in this exact seat with this [back 00:00:29] background, won't be happening again and that's okay.

Steven Butala:
Our background will be improving.

Jill DeWit:
As well, our mental health. What else?

Steven Butala:
And our general tax situation.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. And our bank balances.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She talks about why new members always want to send less mail versus more mail. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Mitchell and Heidi wrote, "While I didn't make it to the last accountability group meeting, I have a question though. First, as to goals for the week, we made great progress this week and we'll be sending our first 1,500 pieces out next week. Next goal is 1,500 more the following week from the same data set, but larger parcels this time. Leads me to two questions I hope to ask on the call."

Steven Butala:
One second. We have accountability groups-

Jill DeWit:
This came from that?

Steven Butala:
As part of the membership of Land Academy and these two people missed the accountability groups. So when you miss a Weight Watchers meeting, you report in different ways, and try to make up for it. So that was the design with all of this, and it's kind of a taste on what this is about, but in their case, these are really good. They're really taking this seriously, which I love.

Jill DeWit:
Good. It's kind of like, "Can we get the teacher's notes? Because I missed the meeting." That's great.

Jill DeWit:
Here's what they wrote. So number one, "Do you set a lower acreage limit when pulling data or set it at 0.1 to capture the most parcels? I did 0.1 as the lower limit, which surprisingly, there are a lot of 0.1 to 0.4 acre lots in this rural county. Which leads me to question two. Upon a random test for reason of the first 1,500 pieces, I found a lot of these smaller parcels are right next to land with the owners' homes on them. I can't think of a way to stop that when pulling data. So I assume those will just be wasted mail because they aren't likely to sell the 0.1 acres right next to their home or that might be providing them access to their land. Am I missing anything?"

Steven Butala:
I put this in here because this saves so much time and mistake-making energy. This is a brilliant question. It's very typical and totally understandable for a new person. Yes. You're wasting your time. Especially if you're getting that much responses from 0.1 to 0.4. That's not part of the five A's. We want acreage. Larger acreage properties sell much faster. And so, I would have to see exactly where you're pulling it and the stuff that's coming back. But in general, I don't recommend buying, especially in the beginning, buying anything less than an acre, especially in an urban setting where it's going to be really expensive.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
That's it?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, Jill Friday, new members always seem to want to send less mail versus more. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
So I've got it down to three things. I think there's three reasons why this happens and I want to talk about them. So what are we talking about? These guys are good. I want you to send 1,500 to 2,000, or more, depending what you could handle, units of mail to an area. Period.

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Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I talk about five rich people personality traits. Thursday...

Jill DeWit:
Sounds kind of funny.

Steven Butala:
I get to pick the topic.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. How about Monday through Friday you get to pick the topic? Because that's really what goes on.

Steven Butala:
I honestly have somewhat of veto power, which I don't exercise almost ever. But on Thursday, I like to talk about the stuff that I really think matters. Most of the time, it doesn't have to do with real estate.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member of Land Academy, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Dallas wrote, "Hi everyone. I've a property in escrow. I got a title commitment, but closing is a couple of weeks out. I found a builder looking for lots in this subdivision. Is there any reason I shouldn't let them take a look at it now? Is it too early to put on my website and market as coming soon or something? It's my first run-through with all this. So not sure what could go wrong. Just eager to sell and recycle the capital."

Steven Butala:
I respect that, Jill, this is all you. I know what I would do.

Jill DeWit:
Technically, not supposed to. Unless you want to have some kind of conversation real quick with the seller about it.

Steven Butala:
I think this is a massive opportunity. Everyone loves off-market property. I think you should say, "Look, you didn't hear this from me. I've got a piece of property in escrow." I thought you were going to fall off the stool.

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no.

Steven Butala:
"I've got a piece of property in escrow. It's due to close any time. It is in the subdivision that you're interested in and I'm not going to get into it in too much detail because I want to-"

Jill DeWit:
We are saying the same things. We're not going to give them all the details yet.

Steven Butala:
"Maintain some ethics, but here's a price range and it'll be available in two weeks and you have my word you have first crack at it."

Jill DeWit:
That would be okay with me. I agree with that. See, so as you can see Dallas, he's not fully disclosing and giving it all out there, but you can start the dialogue like, "I'm buying in this area, please sit tight. And I know you're looking for what size? Good. I got something coming. I'll let you know on this day." So, that's really the right thing to do. Cause you don't want to get into a pickle because things could go wrong. That's the thing. And you don't want to be collecting money before you own it. Things could go wrong.

Steven Butala:
My experience with builders is that they're not dealmakers. That's not why they do stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Butala:
They're builders.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
They know about cabinets and framing and probably a little bit about finance.

Jill DeWit:
Contracting.

Steven Butala:
And I also don't think that they're left in the world in this business by being dishonest in general. So I don't think they're going to go around you or try to figure it out just to save whatever it ends up being 20, $30,000. Hopefully you're making that much money on it. But I'll tell you if you manage this relationship right and talk to this person every couple of days and say, "Hey, the escrow is just about to close. I can't wait to present it," and just build this trust, you'll have a customer for life. We have a couple of people in one market where we buy infill lots and dead houses and they can't wait to talk to Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I do think that, Dallas,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 5 Rich People Personality Traits (LA 1537)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. And I talk about five rich people personality traits. Thursday...

Jill DeWit:
Sounds kind of funny.

Steven Butala:
I get to pick the topic.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. How about Monday through Friday you get to pick the topic? Because that's really what goes on.

Steven Butala:
I honestly have somewhat of veto power, which I don't exercise almost ever. But on Thursday, I like to talk about the stuff that I really think matters. Most of the time, it doesn't have to do with real estate.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member of Land Academy, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Dallas wrote, "Hi everyone. I've a property in escrow. I got a title commitment, but closing is a couple of weeks out. I found a builder looking for lots in this subdivision. Is there any reason I shouldn't let them take a look at it now? Is it too early to put on my website and market as coming soon or something? It's my first run-through with all this. So not sure what could go wrong. Just eager to sell and recycle the capital."

Steven Butala:
I respect that, Jill, this is all you. I know what I would do.

Jill DeWit:
Technically, not supposed to. Unless you want to have some kind of conversation real quick with the seller about it.

Steven Butala:
I think this is a massive opportunity. Everyone loves off-market property. I think you should say, "Look, you didn't hear this from me. I've got a piece of property in escrow." I thought you were going to fall off the stool.

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no.

Steven Butala:
"I've got a piece of property in escrow. It's due to close any time. It is in the subdivision that you're interested in and I'm not going to get into it in too much detail because I want to-"

Jill DeWit:
We are saying the same things. We're not going to give them all the details yet.

Steven Butala:
"Maintain some ethics, but here's a price range and it'll be available in two weeks and you have my word you have first crack at it."

Jill DeWit:
That would be okay with me. I agree with that. See, so as you can see Dallas, he's not fully disclosing and giving it all out there, but you can start the dialogue like, "I'm buying in this area, please sit tight. And I know you're looking for what size? Good. I got something coming. I'll let you know on this day." So, that's really the right thing to do. Cause you don't want to get into a pickle because things could go wrong. That's the thing. And you don't want to be collecting money before you own it. Things could go wrong.

Steven Butala:
My experience with builders is that they're not dealmakers. That's not why they do stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Butala:
They're builders.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
They know about cabinets and framing and probably a little bit about finance.

Jill DeWit:
Contracting.

Steven Butala:
And I also don't think that they're left in the world in this business by being dishonest in general. So I don't think they're going to go around you or try to figure it out just to save whatever it ends up being 20, $30,000. Hopefully you're making that much money on it. But I'll tell you if you manage this relationship right and talk to this person every couple of days and say, "Hey, the escrow is just about to close. I can't wait to present it," and just build this trust, you'll have a customer for life. We have a couple of people in one market where we buy infill lots and dead houses and they can't wait to talk to Jill.

Jill DeWit:
I do think that, Dallas,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/07/01/jack-thursday-5-rich-people-personality-traits-la-1537/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">46e2SvHoS</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:05:07 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/60fbba85-c6e4-488d-a02f-c8b6fc1ca6f3.mp3" length="16348147" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:40</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Social Media Trends 2021 for Your Land Business (LA 1536)</title><itunes:title>Social Media Trends 2021 for Your Land Business (LA 1536)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Social Media Trends 2021 for Your Land Business (LA 1536)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how social media trends in 2001 can benefit your land business. Which ones are good, which ones not so much, and how we use them.

Jill DeWit:
Yup.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Yup. Hey, Land Academy, Arturo wrote, "Hi, Land Academy. This inquiry is for someone well-experienced in this business."

Steven Butala:
That's Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Right. That's hilarious. "My name is Toro and for the next success chapter in my life, I've been looking for an effective and efficient way to buy and sell real estate without having to get a real estate license for quite some time. The Land Academy strategy appeared to be a good fit for me, and I've been binge learning mostly all day, every day since I first heard it about a week ago. I'm keeping my expectations low, but hopeful." That's funny.

Steven Butala:
That's me.

Jill DeWit:
"So, I'm going to follow Stephen B's advice from a podcast in the ebook by asking tough questions before I plunk down any dough."

Steven Butala:
Good for you.

Jill DeWit:
This is really good, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Outstanding.

Jill DeWit:
"Thank you for the opportunity, and here are my questions. Number one, how many members are there currently in Land Academy?"

Steven Butala:
About 500. I'll just take them as we go here. About 500. That's where we keep it always, intentionally.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Do we close up enrollment and stuff now and then to-

Steven Butala:
We don't play those games.

Jill DeWit:
... stuff like that. We do sometimes, but yeah, we're not here to sell 5,000 and say see ya. Nope. "Number two, what is the average yearly number of members who have canceled their membership?"

Steven Butala:
Less than 1%.

Jill DeWit:
I don't know, but it's low. Yeah. It's amazingly low.

Steven Butala:
We have a less than 1% annual attrition rate.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. And the people that come back is awesome. It's always life got in the way and then they come back. "Number three, what is there no one-on-one beginner mentoring program for the people ... What is there one-on-one"-

Steven Butala:
Why.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, "Why is there a one" ... Oh, it is now. "Why is there no one-on-one beginner mentorship program for people who like this type of mentorship?" We do now. It started in 2021 and it's called Career Path. This is good.

Steven Butala:
Otherwise, there's discord. And the reason, we've tried these things in the past, and if you get matched with the wrong person, there's all kinds of stuff that goes on. Honestly for the price and what all this costs, we can't manage programs like that. We could charge you a lot more. That's not what we chose to do. Jill's right. Career Path is what you do.

Jill DeWit:
Career Path. "Number four"-

Steven Butala:
By the way, this person is a member now. Arturo already joined.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I figured. Okay. Well, hopefully they're going to do Career Path too. That would be awesome. Okay. "So I've read the land investment forum that you need three things to get started, a website, a phone number and a mailing address. So in addition to joining Land Academy and the mailing service fees," like getting mail out there basically, "what are the other average startup costs associated with curating things like selling the first parcel of land, creating and maintaining a website and other things I would no way of knowing about." I'm sure everybody had a lot to say about that.

Steven Butala:
There's probably 50,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Social Media Trends 2021 for Your Land Business (LA 1536)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how social media trends in 2001 can benefit your land business. Which ones are good, which ones not so much, and how we use them.

Jill DeWit:
Yup.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Yup. Hey, Land Academy, Arturo wrote, "Hi, Land Academy. This inquiry is for someone well-experienced in this business."

Steven Butala:
That's Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Right. That's hilarious. "My name is Toro and for the next success chapter in my life, I've been looking for an effective and efficient way to buy and sell real estate without having to get a real estate license for quite some time. The Land Academy strategy appeared to be a good fit for me, and I've been binge learning mostly all day, every day since I first heard it about a week ago. I'm keeping my expectations low, but hopeful." That's funny.

Steven Butala:
That's me.

Jill DeWit:
"So, I'm going to follow Stephen B's advice from a podcast in the ebook by asking tough questions before I plunk down any dough."

Steven Butala:
Good for you.

Jill DeWit:
This is really good, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Outstanding.

Jill DeWit:
"Thank you for the opportunity, and here are my questions. Number one, how many members are there currently in Land Academy?"

Steven Butala:
About 500. I'll just take them as we go here. About 500. That's where we keep it always, intentionally.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Do we close up enrollment and stuff now and then to-

Steven Butala:
We don't play those games.

Jill DeWit:
... stuff like that. We do sometimes, but yeah, we're not here to sell 5,000 and say see ya. Nope. "Number two, what is the average yearly number of members who have canceled their membership?"

Steven Butala:
Less than 1%.

Jill DeWit:
I don't know, but it's low. Yeah. It's amazingly low.

Steven Butala:
We have a less than 1% annual attrition rate.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. And the people that come back is awesome. It's always life got in the way and then they come back. "Number three, what is there no one-on-one beginner mentoring program for the people ... What is there one-on-one"-

Steven Butala:
Why.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, "Why is there a one" ... Oh, it is now. "Why is there no one-on-one beginner mentorship program for people who like this type of mentorship?" We do now. It started in 2021 and it's called Career Path. This is good.

Steven Butala:
Otherwise, there's discord. And the reason, we've tried these things in the past, and if you get matched with the wrong person, there's all kinds of stuff that goes on. Honestly for the price and what all this costs, we can't manage programs like that. We could charge you a lot more. That's not what we chose to do. Jill's right. Career Path is what you do.

Jill DeWit:
Career Path. "Number four"-

Steven Butala:
By the way, this person is a member now. Arturo already joined.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I figured. Okay. Well, hopefully they're going to do Career Path too. That would be awesome. Okay. "So I've read the land investment forum that you need three things to get started, a website, a phone number and a mailing address. So in addition to joining Land Academy and the mailing service fees," like getting mail out there basically, "what are the other average startup costs associated with curating things like selling the first parcel of land, creating and maintaining a website and other things I would no way of knowing about." I'm sure everybody had a lot to say about that.

Steven Butala:
There's probably 50,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/30/social-media-trends-2021-for-your-land-business-la-1536/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4kl7N5mUG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:40:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/27a8f913-9bb4-4e25-b5e1-335fc4a17b1c.mp3" length="16962063" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to use the Multiple Listing Service MLS in Your Land Business (LA 1535)</title><itunes:title>How to use the Multiple Listing Service MLS in Your Land Business (LA 1535)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to use the Multiple Listing Service MLS in Your Land Business (LA 1535)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sweet, sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to use the multiple listing service or the MLS in your land business.

Jill DeWitt:
I'm going to talk about three things by the way. I want to talk about when you use it before you're buying and then pricing property. I'm going to talk about due diligence and I'm going to talk about selling. So I'm going to give you all three different reasons, so get a pen. Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
I'm going to get comfortable because I want to learn some stuff here too. But when I'm done, I'm going to talk about how I use it to choose counties and stuff and-

Jill DeWitt:
Well, you're going to be first and then I'll do the second.

Steven Butala:
I was going to go last because yours is more important.

Jill DeWitt:
Well, then the phase one is... I was going to go in order. We can figure it out.

Steven Butala:
Well, do whatever you want.

Jill DeWitt:
We'll wing it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member of Land Academy, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
Travis wrote, "I'm nervous about this deal for some reason. I could sure use a set of experience eyes please. Would you do this deal," and he puts it in here and gives some notes. So I really liked the price of this one compared to the others and comps overlooking this river, the Arkansas river. It's hilly and it's not far from railroad. Thank you in advance. So it's [inaudible 00:01:29] County Arkansas. It's a little over six acres. It has access. The purchase price he's got locked in is 33,000 to $800 and thinks he could sell it for between 70 and 80,000. So easy doubling his money. It's got a paved road, not in the flood plain. It does have an HOA and there's electricity in the area. And the potential problems are this. He's like it's hilly, but he sees other people have solved it and they built there. So you want to go on this?

Steven Butala:
Yes. So this is what we call, "Would you do this deal?" It's very prevalent on Discord and a little bit on Land Investors, but not too much, but I want people who are not members or maybe just casual listeners to see what happens constantly in this group and see the value in it. And so probably 10 people responded to this, looked it up and responded and said yes and in this case, everybody loved it, including the moderator, Kevin, including me. I loved it at 30 and I love Arkansas acreage in general. But he's concerned. This person's concerned. And all of us said... It's one of their first transactions, so we really said, "Look, if you need some help with that, let me know," including me. It's a great deal actually.

Jill DeWitt:
Good. Yeah. I was going to say too, that that's part of the value of this group is that majority of what we're doing is sending mail and offers to cities in places and counties we're not in. And I think I know what's going and the numbers tell me what's going on, but man, having someone that's there and really knows is so beneficial. So having a group like this where you can throw something out there, there's probably someone who says, "Oh, I'm two counties over. I know exactly what's going on in this area. Buy it," because that happens often.

Steven Butala:
I mean, I know that we've done tens of thousands of deals, Jill and I and I can tell you by looking at this that... and I wasn't alone. Like if I was just the only one who said, "Oh yeah, that's a pretty good deal. I think you should take it to the next level or buy it and I'll pay for it if you want," and everybody else said,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to use the Multiple Listing Service MLS in Your Land Business (LA 1535)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sweet, sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to use the multiple listing service or the MLS in your land business.

Jill DeWitt:
I'm going to talk about three things by the way. I want to talk about when you use it before you're buying and then pricing property. I'm going to talk about due diligence and I'm going to talk about selling. So I'm going to give you all three different reasons, so get a pen. Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
I'm going to get comfortable because I want to learn some stuff here too. But when I'm done, I'm going to talk about how I use it to choose counties and stuff and-

Jill DeWitt:
Well, you're going to be first and then I'll do the second.

Steven Butala:
I was going to go last because yours is more important.

Jill DeWitt:
Well, then the phase one is... I was going to go in order. We can figure it out.

Steven Butala:
Well, do whatever you want.

Jill DeWitt:
We'll wing it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member of Land Academy, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
Travis wrote, "I'm nervous about this deal for some reason. I could sure use a set of experience eyes please. Would you do this deal," and he puts it in here and gives some notes. So I really liked the price of this one compared to the others and comps overlooking this river, the Arkansas river. It's hilly and it's not far from railroad. Thank you in advance. So it's [inaudible 00:01:29] County Arkansas. It's a little over six acres. It has access. The purchase price he's got locked in is 33,000 to $800 and thinks he could sell it for between 70 and 80,000. So easy doubling his money. It's got a paved road, not in the flood plain. It does have an HOA and there's electricity in the area. And the potential problems are this. He's like it's hilly, but he sees other people have solved it and they built there. So you want to go on this?

Steven Butala:
Yes. So this is what we call, "Would you do this deal?" It's very prevalent on Discord and a little bit on Land Investors, but not too much, but I want people who are not members or maybe just casual listeners to see what happens constantly in this group and see the value in it. And so probably 10 people responded to this, looked it up and responded and said yes and in this case, everybody loved it, including the moderator, Kevin, including me. I loved it at 30 and I love Arkansas acreage in general. But he's concerned. This person's concerned. And all of us said... It's one of their first transactions, so we really said, "Look, if you need some help with that, let me know," including me. It's a great deal actually.

Jill DeWitt:
Good. Yeah. I was going to say too, that that's part of the value of this group is that majority of what we're doing is sending mail and offers to cities in places and counties we're not in. And I think I know what's going and the numbers tell me what's going on, but man, having someone that's there and really knows is so beneficial. So having a group like this where you can throw something out there, there's probably someone who says, "Oh, I'm two counties over. I know exactly what's going on in this area. Buy it," because that happens often.

Steven Butala:
I mean, I know that we've done tens of thousands of deals, Jill and I and I can tell you by looking at this that... and I wasn't alone. Like if I was just the only one who said, "Oh yeah, that's a pretty good deal. I think you should take it to the next level or buy it and I'll pay for it if you want," and everybody else said,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/29/how-to-use-the-multiple-listing-service-mls-in-your-land-business-la-1535/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cVEJNoOLm</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:03:12 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/18b2af51-d986-43dc-b09d-59fbc6464995.mp3" length="16835277" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Costs Less Than One College Course (LA 1534)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Costs Less Than One College Course (LA 1534)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Costs Less Than One College Course (LA 1534)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how Land Academy costs less than one college course.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't that amazing?

Steven Butala:
I talked about this in the content of one of our podcasts I think last week, and it exploded on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it struck a chord with me too.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
So I was like this is worth talking about, the value and just how things change, how the value of this, the value of trade schools, the value of college degrees. They all have a place.

Steven Butala:
I mean there's probably 40 entries in there about personal... A lot of it is personal experiences about college degrees that people... other types of degrees they wish they got, how the degrees that they got had treated them well and then invariably costs. So Jill and I looked it up this morning because we were horsing around a little bit-

Jill DeWit:
Let's share it in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Over a cup of coffee. So yeah, we'll share it in a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
If you're a member of Land Academy that is. So yes. Joseph wrote, "On a recent mailing campaign, I ran into an issue with a property owner listing his vacant land for sale with a realtor. He told me he will sell the land to me once his contract expires with the realtor. Evidently, the relationship had soured." That happens.

Steven Butala:
This is very common.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "My question is this, if I wait until the contract with the realtor expires and put it into contract, would this be considered ethical? I'm not real superstitious, but I don't want any bad juju." You know what? Yeah. There is a conflict here. I mean isn't it if they bring someone in during the course of the contract and then there's always a tail end of the expiration thing. I have to go back and read the exact verbiage, but I'm not loving this because I don't want to piss anybody off but I think you have a different opinion.

Steven Butala:
I do.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. And we're going to hear it.

Steven Butala:
At least number one, this is a contract. That's it. It's a contract. There shouldn't be very much emotion. Joseph, this is a great question. I love answering this stuff and thank you for asking it. This is not personal at all. It's a contract and the terms of the contract are going to dictate everybody's behavior and those outcomes. So please read it. There's always, in my opinion, a trailing period of a listing where if... and I believe that it says now or it may be changed, chances are it's changed now because lawyers love to change these listing agreements minute by minute, but it used to say, like Jill said, if an agent introduces somebody to a property-

Jill DeWit:
Is identified during that time.

Steven Butala:
And they do buy it six months after the expiration of the contract, then you owe me money.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Now whether or not they... Because you know what? And you found it... Well, you know what? This is a tough one too. You didn't find it obviously because of the listing, so there's a bit of a gray area. I'm not going to-

Steven Butala:
That's not gray.The contract's not gray at all. It's black and white, whoever buys this property.

Jill DeWit:
But do you know what's gray? What's gray is you have to read the contract is, does it say if anybody came forward or if I identify this person, because technically you found this property on your own by a mailer and didn't know it was listed on the MLS. That's what I mean by a gray area, but again,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Costs Less Than One College Course (LA 1534)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how Land Academy costs less than one college course.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't that amazing?

Steven Butala:
I talked about this in the content of one of our podcasts I think last week, and it exploded on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it struck a chord with me too.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
So I was like this is worth talking about, the value and just how things change, how the value of this, the value of trade schools, the value of college degrees. They all have a place.

Steven Butala:
I mean there's probably 40 entries in there about personal... A lot of it is personal experiences about college degrees that people... other types of degrees they wish they got, how the degrees that they got had treated them well and then invariably costs. So Jill and I looked it up this morning because we were horsing around a little bit-

Jill DeWit:
Let's share it in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Over a cup of coffee. So yeah, we'll share it in a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
If you're a member of Land Academy that is. So yes. Joseph wrote, "On a recent mailing campaign, I ran into an issue with a property owner listing his vacant land for sale with a realtor. He told me he will sell the land to me once his contract expires with the realtor. Evidently, the relationship had soured." That happens.

Steven Butala:
This is very common.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "My question is this, if I wait until the contract with the realtor expires and put it into contract, would this be considered ethical? I'm not real superstitious, but I don't want any bad juju." You know what? Yeah. There is a conflict here. I mean isn't it if they bring someone in during the course of the contract and then there's always a tail end of the expiration thing. I have to go back and read the exact verbiage, but I'm not loving this because I don't want to piss anybody off but I think you have a different opinion.

Steven Butala:
I do.

Jill DeWit:
Here we go. And we're going to hear it.

Steven Butala:
At least number one, this is a contract. That's it. It's a contract. There shouldn't be very much emotion. Joseph, this is a great question. I love answering this stuff and thank you for asking it. This is not personal at all. It's a contract and the terms of the contract are going to dictate everybody's behavior and those outcomes. So please read it. There's always, in my opinion, a trailing period of a listing where if... and I believe that it says now or it may be changed, chances are it's changed now because lawyers love to change these listing agreements minute by minute, but it used to say, like Jill said, if an agent introduces somebody to a property-

Jill DeWit:
Is identified during that time.

Steven Butala:
And they do buy it six months after the expiration of the contract, then you owe me money.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Now whether or not they... Because you know what? And you found it... Well, you know what? This is a tough one too. You didn't find it obviously because of the listing, so there's a bit of a gray area. I'm not going to-

Steven Butala:
That's not gray.The contract's not gray at all. It's black and white, whoever buys this property.

Jill DeWit:
But do you know what's gray? What's gray is you have to read the contract is, does it say if anybody came forward or if I identify this person, because technically you found this property on your own by a mailer and didn't know it was listed on the MLS. That's what I mean by a gray area, but again,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/28/land-academy-costs-less-than-one-college-course-la-1534/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">o0NKNLQCx</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 22:03:28 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c4d4a040-b53d-41be-a61d-50cee2cbbe15.mp3" length="13604547" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I Have Money to Burn (on Your Deals!) (LA 1533)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I Have Money to Burn (on Your Deals!) (LA 1533)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I Have Money to Burn (on Your Deals!) (LA 1533)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how she has money to burn on your real estate deals.

Jill DeWit:
Am I?

S Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Can we spend two minutes on that, because that's not as exciting. We could come up with some other stuff for Friday.

S Jack Butala:
Today, we're going to talk about what Jill wants to talk about.

Jill DeWit:
That's what I want to hear.

S Jack Butala:
How about inspiration by Jill?

Jill DeWit:
No, we can do... Well, that would be good. We can come up with some more stuff too.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already on Land Academy, please join us on [Discord 00:00:45].

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. Sean wrote, "Great thanks to Jack and Jill. First mailer, a huge success." Aww. "After months of watching Jack and Jill's podcast, I put in some work and sent out my first mailer. I was planning on sending out 1500 offers but after scrubbing, ended up with only a thousand. My letters hit 10 days ago and I have four deals so far, and one seller has properties in four other states she wants to sell. After closing my first round of deals, I look forward to becoming a Land Academy member. I can't wait to join the community fully and enrich my life even further. Thank you so much, Jack and Jill, for creating such an incredible community and sharing your invaluable knowledge. I love you both and look forward to seeing every episode."

S Jack Butala:
Wow. Geez. Tell me where to send the check, pal.

Jill DeWit:
Aww, thank you Sean. That's so awesome. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. How cool is this? Sean just kind of winged it with what he collected here and now he's like, "Oh hold on, I know there's more," which is true, "How I can really up my game and make it big."

S Jack Butala:
When people come to us from other groups or prior real estate experience or own other types of companies, real estate related or not, they stay forever. I think this is great that you tested it on your own. This is what I would do.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

S Jack Butala:
Test it all on my own. Make sure I did it right, and then realize that, okay-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. This is the thing.

S Jack Butala:
... now I need to learn the right way to do this-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

S Jack Butala:
... and bounce it out. Get myself some partners.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. That's so perfect. Good job. Congratulations.

S Jack Butala:
Yeah, it's great. It's a good Friday statement question. Today's topic, it's Jill Friday and she has money to burn on your real estate deals.

Jill DeWit:
Ready?

S Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yada, yada, yada, I got money. Some people are beating me to it. Stupid land tank, recreated that, some people put in deals there and keep looking at them before I do. That's great-

S Jack Butala:
I'll help you.

Jill DeWit:
... because then people have money too, so I got money, hit me up, cheque book's open.

S Jack Butala:
It's no big secret that Jill and I do deal funding very successfully.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

S Jack Butala:
If you have a great deal, and you want a partner, just a funding partner, let us know.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

S Jack Butala:
There's lots of other places in the group to do it too.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, there I guess we're good.

S Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Now let's talk about something way more fun.

S Jack Butala:
Doh.

Jill DeWit:
Like deals. I know we got some crazy deals, so-

S Jack Butala:
I noticed that. I just got that email yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I Have Money to Burn (on Your Deals!) (LA 1533)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how she has money to burn on your real estate deals.

Jill DeWit:
Am I?

S Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Can we spend two minutes on that, because that's not as exciting. We could come up with some other stuff for Friday.

S Jack Butala:
Today, we're going to talk about what Jill wants to talk about.

Jill DeWit:
That's what I want to hear.

S Jack Butala:
How about inspiration by Jill?

Jill DeWit:
No, we can do... Well, that would be good. We can come up with some more stuff too.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already on Land Academy, please join us on [Discord 00:00:45].

Jill DeWit:
Thank you. Sean wrote, "Great thanks to Jack and Jill. First mailer, a huge success." Aww. "After months of watching Jack and Jill's podcast, I put in some work and sent out my first mailer. I was planning on sending out 1500 offers but after scrubbing, ended up with only a thousand. My letters hit 10 days ago and I have four deals so far, and one seller has properties in four other states she wants to sell. After closing my first round of deals, I look forward to becoming a Land Academy member. I can't wait to join the community fully and enrich my life even further. Thank you so much, Jack and Jill, for creating such an incredible community and sharing your invaluable knowledge. I love you both and look forward to seeing every episode."

S Jack Butala:
Wow. Geez. Tell me where to send the check, pal.

Jill DeWit:
Aww, thank you Sean. That's so awesome. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. How cool is this? Sean just kind of winged it with what he collected here and now he's like, "Oh hold on, I know there's more," which is true, "How I can really up my game and make it big."

S Jack Butala:
When people come to us from other groups or prior real estate experience or own other types of companies, real estate related or not, they stay forever. I think this is great that you tested it on your own. This is what I would do.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

S Jack Butala:
Test it all on my own. Make sure I did it right, and then realize that, okay-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. This is the thing.

S Jack Butala:
... now I need to learn the right way to do this-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

S Jack Butala:
... and bounce it out. Get myself some partners.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. That's so perfect. Good job. Congratulations.

S Jack Butala:
Yeah, it's great. It's a good Friday statement question. Today's topic, it's Jill Friday and she has money to burn on your real estate deals.

Jill DeWit:
Ready?

S Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yada, yada, yada, I got money. Some people are beating me to it. Stupid land tank, recreated that, some people put in deals there and keep looking at them before I do. That's great-

S Jack Butala:
I'll help you.

Jill DeWit:
... because then people have money too, so I got money, hit me up, cheque book's open.

S Jack Butala:
It's no big secret that Jill and I do deal funding very successfully.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

S Jack Butala:
If you have a great deal, and you want a partner, just a funding partner, let us know.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

S Jack Butala:
There's lots of other places in the group to do it too.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, there I guess we're good.

S Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Now let's talk about something way more fun.

S Jack Butala:
Doh.

Jill DeWit:
Like deals. I know we got some crazy deals, so-

S Jack Butala:
I noticed that. I just got that email yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/25/jill-friday-i-have-money-to-burn-on-your-deals-la-1533/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">I_eLudcVB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1c81d975-da2d-4d93-a0e5-ae46eca3f8b6.mp3" length="9343831" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>09:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Counties You Shouldn&amp;#8217;t Mail in 2021 (LA 1532)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Counties You Shouldn&amp;#8217;t Mail in 2021 (LA 1532)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Counties You Shouldn't Mail in 2021 (LA 1532)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about counties you shouldn't send mail to in 2021.

Jill DeWit:
Oh I'm excited. Should I get out a pen and be ready to write them down?

S Jack Butala:
Actually you should, I am going to give a couple of counties that you just shouldn't send mail to, but I'm going to give you the secret weapon.

Jill DeWit:
But that's not what this is about.

S Jack Butala:
I'll give you the absolute secret weapon on how to analyze any county or parish in this entire country and it will tell you whether or not you should send out mail there.

Jill DeWit:
We're going to go through all 3144 today, right?

S Jack Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
Could you imagine?

S Jack Butala:
No, I'm going to tell you how to set up a spreadsheet.

Jill DeWit:
Yes, no, no, yes, yes, no, yes. That's so funny.

S Jack Butala:
I'll show you how to set it up in a spreadsheet and it'll tell you right away.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted on landinvestors.com, our online free community, or some of the questions come from Discord and if you're already a member, you know all about the Land Academy Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

S Jack Butala:
This is like one of my favorite, I laughed out loud at this question. You have to read this all the way through.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, this is long.

S Jack Butala:
It's funny too.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Bear with me. This is going to be long. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
"I don't subscribe to Land Academy since I come from real estate oriented family and I've been involved in real estate investing for years." This is Dallas, okay. "My opinion is real estate is often hyper-local, get out on the ground and visit neighborhoods you'd like to invest in. Don't give away your investment strategy, but meet the neighbors, invest in foot leather, et cetera. Word of mouth is so powerful. Talk to cities and get to know council members, show that you care about your investment neighborhoods and want to make them even better places. You will learn so much and open up an avenue to better leads.

Jill DeWit:
Don't always enter it with expectation of flipping quickly, sometimes it makes sense to buy and hold, perhaps even develop certain vacant parcels or find temporary income producing uses. Sometimes you can work out deals with investor neighbors to acquire better parcels. PS, word to the wise, some great investment neighborhoods can be a bit rough and tumble. I'm a fairly big guy, but when I was getting started, I nearly got into a fist fight. I had an AK 47 pointed at me at point blank on one other occasion, and I've had to evict a drug addict, but I've also had disgruntled people yell at me dozens of times. Be safe and good luck."

Jill DeWit:
Boy, that sure makes me want to run out there and do the same thing. Not. What? What?

S Jack Butala:
This person is not a member and this person is engaging and engaging in what I would call a non data driven real estate career, like a real estate agent and like a person who drives for dollars or like somebody who flips houses for show on HGTV. I'm going to spend some time on this for a second.

Jill DeWit:
Can I tell you how many times I've had anything pointed in my face? Zero.

S Jack Butala:
When's the last time you saw a piece of property you even bought?

Jill DeWit:
Well, I'm trying to think of now.

S Jack Butala:
Five or eight years ago? On accident because we were on vacation.

Jill DeWit:
We were on vacation. We drove by it, actually and the conversation was we sold a bunch of stuff over there. Oh, that's kind of nice. It's pretty.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Counties You Shouldn't Mail in 2021 (LA 1532)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about counties you shouldn't send mail to in 2021.

Jill DeWit:
Oh I'm excited. Should I get out a pen and be ready to write them down?

S Jack Butala:
Actually you should, I am going to give a couple of counties that you just shouldn't send mail to, but I'm going to give you the secret weapon.

Jill DeWit:
But that's not what this is about.

S Jack Butala:
I'll give you the absolute secret weapon on how to analyze any county or parish in this entire country and it will tell you whether or not you should send out mail there.

Jill DeWit:
We're going to go through all 3144 today, right?

S Jack Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
Could you imagine?

S Jack Butala:
No, I'm going to tell you how to set up a spreadsheet.

Jill DeWit:
Yes, no, no, yes, yes, no, yes. That's so funny.

S Jack Butala:
I'll show you how to set it up in a spreadsheet and it'll tell you right away.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted on landinvestors.com, our online free community, or some of the questions come from Discord and if you're already a member, you know all about the Land Academy Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

S Jack Butala:
This is like one of my favorite, I laughed out loud at this question. You have to read this all the way through.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, this is long.

S Jack Butala:
It's funny too.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Bear with me. This is going to be long. Okay.

Jill DeWit:
"I don't subscribe to Land Academy since I come from real estate oriented family and I've been involved in real estate investing for years." This is Dallas, okay. "My opinion is real estate is often hyper-local, get out on the ground and visit neighborhoods you'd like to invest in. Don't give away your investment strategy, but meet the neighbors, invest in foot leather, et cetera. Word of mouth is so powerful. Talk to cities and get to know council members, show that you care about your investment neighborhoods and want to make them even better places. You will learn so much and open up an avenue to better leads.

Jill DeWit:
Don't always enter it with expectation of flipping quickly, sometimes it makes sense to buy and hold, perhaps even develop certain vacant parcels or find temporary income producing uses. Sometimes you can work out deals with investor neighbors to acquire better parcels. PS, word to the wise, some great investment neighborhoods can be a bit rough and tumble. I'm a fairly big guy, but when I was getting started, I nearly got into a fist fight. I had an AK 47 pointed at me at point blank on one other occasion, and I've had to evict a drug addict, but I've also had disgruntled people yell at me dozens of times. Be safe and good luck."

Jill DeWit:
Boy, that sure makes me want to run out there and do the same thing. Not. What? What?

S Jack Butala:
This person is not a member and this person is engaging and engaging in what I would call a non data driven real estate career, like a real estate agent and like a person who drives for dollars or like somebody who flips houses for show on HGTV. I'm going to spend some time on this for a second.

Jill DeWit:
Can I tell you how many times I've had anything pointed in my face? Zero.

S Jack Butala:
When's the last time you saw a piece of property you even bought?

Jill DeWit:
Well, I'm trying to think of now.

S Jack Butala:
Five or eight years ago? On accident because we were on vacation.

Jill DeWit:
We were on vacation. We drove by it, actually and the conversation was we sold a bunch of stuff over there. Oh, that's kind of nice. It's pretty.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/24/jack-thursday-counties-you-shouldnt-mail-in-2021-la-1532/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aNPGhBecV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:26:58 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/77d7143a-afb2-4b31-a5b1-201ae5ac9ed1.mp3" length="15814393" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Much do Flood Zones Really Matter? (LA 1531)</title><itunes:title>How Much do Flood Zones Really Matter? (LA 1531)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Much do Flood Zones Really Matter? (LA 1531)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the topic called how much do flood zones really matter?

Jill DeWit:
Are we still talking about this?

S Jack Butala:
What the heck are flood zones?

Jill DeWit:
Really? Is this really ... This is important? Yes, it is/however, is it worth spending weeks on this? Mm-mm (negative). We're going to talk about it. There's a lot of discussion going on in this, way too much discussion on this.

S Jack Butala:
Federal government has taken it upon themselves ...

Jill DeWit:
Once again.

S Jack Butala:
... to map out the ...

Jill DeWit:
Once again.

S Jack Butala:
That goes without saying.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

S Jack Butala:
To map out the entire country and tell us all where the flood zones are.

Jill DeWit:
That's nice.

S Jack Butala:
I'll let you decided if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I personally think it's a good thing. And they gauge it in a map about when stuff floods ... and it always does, always ... where the water should go and what should be built there. And so, we'll talk about if your property's in a flood zone, exactly what to do.

Jill DeWit:
How excited should you really get?

S Jack Butala:
This is one of Jill's favorite topics.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I love this.

S Jack Butala:
She loves talking about flood zones.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sure.

S Jack Butala:
Driving for dollars.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, yeah.

S Jack Butala:
She loves talking about data.

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:01:21] agents, yeah.

S Jack Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
I love how long things take.

S Jack Butala:
Jill had an interview. I keep thinking about this, I don't know why. Jill hired a personal assistant recently. And she had an interview, and she comes back from these interviews ... This is an in-person hire, so they work next to her.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

S Jack Butala:
They don't work in Canada.

Jill DeWit:
Remotely, yeah.

S Jack Butala:
Yeah, and so, she came back from this interview. And as always, I'm like, "How did it go?" I mean, I'm secretly hoping that she found the right person.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

S Jack Butala:
And Jill walks through the door and says, "She likes pretty things."

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, not going to work. Not going to work.

S Jack Butala:
Like, floral arrangements. And there's nothing wrong with floral arrangements, but that's just not the first thing you want somebody to say on an interview as a personal assistant.

Jill DeWit:
Like, "Where's my desk going to be? And what's it going to look like?" Huh? What?

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into that, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already with us, check out discord.

Jill DeWit:
Deanna wrote, "Hi. I thought I would post here seeking inspiration. I signed up for Land Academy in September, 2020. I sent out maybe 2,000 to 2,500 mailers thus far. I had quite a bit of call backs from sellers who were interested. I've not actually bought any property, for I do not necessarily have the capital to do so. I instead, have a few active option contracts, and also reached out to a few investors, but to no avail on the investors. The properties I have under option have been there now for three to five months. Option is difficult, because the seller wants what the seller wants, so it seems that the price is usually too high. I figured I will go at it anyway, because I'm not losing anything out of it. Now that it has been seven months and I still have not made a deal, I'm feeling a little disheartened and already looking at other career paths, but I know this one can be very successful and lucrative. I assume I should set up more mail.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Much do Flood Zones Really Matter? (LA 1531)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the topic called how much do flood zones really matter?

Jill DeWit:
Are we still talking about this?

S Jack Butala:
What the heck are flood zones?

Jill DeWit:
Really? Is this really ... This is important? Yes, it is/however, is it worth spending weeks on this? Mm-mm (negative). We're going to talk about it. There's a lot of discussion going on in this, way too much discussion on this.

S Jack Butala:
Federal government has taken it upon themselves ...

Jill DeWit:
Once again.

S Jack Butala:
... to map out the ...

Jill DeWit:
Once again.

S Jack Butala:
That goes without saying.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

S Jack Butala:
To map out the entire country and tell us all where the flood zones are.

Jill DeWit:
That's nice.

S Jack Butala:
I'll let you decided if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I personally think it's a good thing. And they gauge it in a map about when stuff floods ... and it always does, always ... where the water should go and what should be built there. And so, we'll talk about if your property's in a flood zone, exactly what to do.

Jill DeWit:
How excited should you really get?

S Jack Butala:
This is one of Jill's favorite topics.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I love this.

S Jack Butala:
She loves talking about flood zones.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, sure.

S Jack Butala:
Driving for dollars.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, yeah.

S Jack Butala:
She loves talking about data.

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:01:21] agents, yeah.

S Jack Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
I love how long things take.

S Jack Butala:
Jill had an interview. I keep thinking about this, I don't know why. Jill hired a personal assistant recently. And she had an interview, and she comes back from these interviews ... This is an in-person hire, so they work next to her.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

S Jack Butala:
They don't work in Canada.

Jill DeWit:
Remotely, yeah.

S Jack Butala:
Yeah, and so, she came back from this interview. And as always, I'm like, "How did it go?" I mean, I'm secretly hoping that she found the right person.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

S Jack Butala:
And Jill walks through the door and says, "She likes pretty things."

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, not going to work. Not going to work.

S Jack Butala:
Like, floral arrangements. And there's nothing wrong with floral arrangements, but that's just not the first thing you want somebody to say on an interview as a personal assistant.

Jill DeWit:
Like, "Where's my desk going to be? And what's it going to look like?" Huh? What?

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into that, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already with us, check out discord.

Jill DeWit:
Deanna wrote, "Hi. I thought I would post here seeking inspiration. I signed up for Land Academy in September, 2020. I sent out maybe 2,000 to 2,500 mailers thus far. I had quite a bit of call backs from sellers who were interested. I've not actually bought any property, for I do not necessarily have the capital to do so. I instead, have a few active option contracts, and also reached out to a few investors, but to no avail on the investors. The properties I have under option have been there now for three to five months. Option is difficult, because the seller wants what the seller wants, so it seems that the price is usually too high. I figured I will go at it anyway, because I'm not losing anything out of it. Now that it has been seven months and I still have not made a deal, I'm feeling a little disheartened and already looking at other career paths, but I know this one can be very successful and lucrative. I assume I should set up more mail.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/23/how-much-do-flood-zones-really-matter-la-1531/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bwp7XJ0In</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cf214947-d56b-4315-9079-d7e93b603c86.mp3" length="15427963" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Career Path &amp;#8211; What We Learned (LA 1530)</title><itunes:title>Career Path &amp;#8211; What We Learned (LA 1530)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Career Path - What We Learned (LA 1530)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Career Path and what we learned. We just finished our first 10-week session for Career Path and [crosstalk 00:00:19].

Jill DeWit:
The very first ever, ever group.

S Jack Butala:
And with glaringly positive results. Jill's going to talk to us about it. But before she does, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you are already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
This is very interesting username, Modern Asset Management. Okay, "We just funded our 20th partnership deal. Most of the sales have been on terms. I found a couple of great partners here. My goal is to build up a portfolio of seller finance contracts. My day job is running a small ..."

S Jack Butala:
Financial tech.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thank you. "Financial tech specializing in subprime medical loans. We work with hospitals and surgery clinics and underwrite, buy and collect the accounts. We have a robust application website and use a full loan management system. Currently there are 1400 active accounts. This takes way more than 40 hours a week to operate. So I'm not just a passive investor."

Jill DeWit:
"We bring real experience to the table. I'm looking to buy, originate, fund, manage, et cetera. Target here is using the machine we've built and improve our assets under management. If you have experienced a good volume of smaller deals, we might be a fit. Also, if I'm completely off base just wave, and thanks to all. So far, this has been a great community."

Jill DeWit:
Interesting. So they're taking what they already know and basically knowing how to do terms, transactions and manage accounts and to do it with land. And get other people to be bird dogs, and bring them the deals and they'll fund them and help them manage them. I'm sure for some people that's good.

S Jack Butala:
This is something I've been waiting for, for a long time.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

S Jack Butala:
Imagine this, you're new. Or you already have a well-established business like us. Properties come in. You're looking at the asset. Some assets scream to be sold on terms. You can drive right up to them. There're all kinds of stuff you can do with them. Like this weekend, you can camp on it, it's in a beautiful area. It's not necessarily a builder lot, but it's some kind of rec property that a family wants to purchase and use over time and then resell for more.

S Jack Butala:
There's a lot of assets that have classified that for us. You don't have any money, but you're great at finding them. You find it. It's great for terms, you call this company, they buy it, and you manage the asset or they actually manage it for you and pay you a percentage.

S Jack Butala:
How fast do you think if you're good at buying good properties like this, can you build up a portfolio with these guys and make 10, 20, $30,000 a month?

Jill DeWit:
Pretty quickly.

S Jack Butala:
Really, really fast. This is very unusual. People fund deals more like us, which is a lot more common in this group is, Jack and Jill, here's an asset, it's $50,000. I know it's worth 120. I've done 25 deals. I need the 50 grand. We write the check, you go and sell it. And we split the profit. That's the regular deal funding model.

S Jack Butala:
But if you have that other personality type that loves these payments, and there's a lot of people that do, and there's nothing wrong with that. Think about how much better it would be to get a couple of hundred dollars a month from a deal that you fed these guys versus owning a duplex.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's for sure.

S Jack Butala:
Because that's what this is.

Jill DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Career Path - What We Learned (LA 1530)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Career Path and what we learned. We just finished our first 10-week session for Career Path and [crosstalk 00:00:19].

Jill DeWit:
The very first ever, ever group.

S Jack Butala:
And with glaringly positive results. Jill's going to talk to us about it. But before she does, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you are already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
This is very interesting username, Modern Asset Management. Okay, "We just funded our 20th partnership deal. Most of the sales have been on terms. I found a couple of great partners here. My goal is to build up a portfolio of seller finance contracts. My day job is running a small ..."

S Jack Butala:
Financial tech.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, thank you. "Financial tech specializing in subprime medical loans. We work with hospitals and surgery clinics and underwrite, buy and collect the accounts. We have a robust application website and use a full loan management system. Currently there are 1400 active accounts. This takes way more than 40 hours a week to operate. So I'm not just a passive investor."

Jill DeWit:
"We bring real experience to the table. I'm looking to buy, originate, fund, manage, et cetera. Target here is using the machine we've built and improve our assets under management. If you have experienced a good volume of smaller deals, we might be a fit. Also, if I'm completely off base just wave, and thanks to all. So far, this has been a great community."

Jill DeWit:
Interesting. So they're taking what they already know and basically knowing how to do terms, transactions and manage accounts and to do it with land. And get other people to be bird dogs, and bring them the deals and they'll fund them and help them manage them. I'm sure for some people that's good.

S Jack Butala:
This is something I've been waiting for, for a long time.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

S Jack Butala:
Imagine this, you're new. Or you already have a well-established business like us. Properties come in. You're looking at the asset. Some assets scream to be sold on terms. You can drive right up to them. There're all kinds of stuff you can do with them. Like this weekend, you can camp on it, it's in a beautiful area. It's not necessarily a builder lot, but it's some kind of rec property that a family wants to purchase and use over time and then resell for more.

S Jack Butala:
There's a lot of assets that have classified that for us. You don't have any money, but you're great at finding them. You find it. It's great for terms, you call this company, they buy it, and you manage the asset or they actually manage it for you and pay you a percentage.

S Jack Butala:
How fast do you think if you're good at buying good properties like this, can you build up a portfolio with these guys and make 10, 20, $30,000 a month?

Jill DeWit:
Pretty quickly.

S Jack Butala:
Really, really fast. This is very unusual. People fund deals more like us, which is a lot more common in this group is, Jack and Jill, here's an asset, it's $50,000. I know it's worth 120. I've done 25 deals. I need the 50 grand. We write the check, you go and sell it. And we split the profit. That's the regular deal funding model.

S Jack Butala:
But if you have that other personality type that loves these payments, and there's a lot of people that do, and there's nothing wrong with that. Think about how much better it would be to get a couple of hundred dollars a month from a deal that you fed these guys versus owning a duplex.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's for sure.

S Jack Butala:
Because that's what this is.

Jill DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/22/career-path-what-we-learned-la-1530/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">LE6NJIW6y</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/90e0a420-4ec4-4cef-84fc-f7dc64e3cecd.mp3" length="13485955" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:41</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (LA 1529)</title><itunes:title>How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (LA 1529)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (LA 1529)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to schedule your days successfully.

Jill DeWit:
All right, brain, go for it.

S Jack Butala:
Full disclosure, this is one of my favorite topics, and here's why. Not because I love to live in my calendar, but I love to make money. And this is the only way I know how to actually run a crew and make money and sleep at night, quite honestly.

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were going to say, I love to make fun of Jill.

S Jack Butala:
No, I don't want to ... Jill's amazingly good at this. She doesn't realize it, but we'll make fun of her in a minute.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of am. I mean, I do, on the big stuff. Maybe the little stuff, I kind of slack on, but remember I have my reasons why. We've talked about that.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "I just joined Land Academy a couple months ago. Honestly, I have stuck with my mailing procedure. Oh, I stuck with my mailing procedure instead of starting from scratch with Offers 2 Owners." I'm curious what her old procedure was. I hope it wasn't handwriting letters with the family at dining room.

S Jack Butala:
You'll see. There's a reason this made it into-

Jill DeWit:
Oh, it's coming? Okay, good. I'm excited to see what this is. Okay, Sandy. Here we go. "Unfortunately, I received an email today that states I have to send my mailers first class." Oh, that's funny.

S Jack Butala:
But it's hilarious.

Jill DeWit:
Here come the questions. "Number one, is it standard practice to send first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Not at all.

Jill DeWit:
"Number two, does O2O require that offers be sent first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Heck no.

Jill DeWit:
"Number three, how many people send first class versus standard?"

S Jack Butala:
Very, very few, if that.

Jill DeWit:
"Four, other than the obvious price difference, has anyone tested to see if there are any other differences, ie. performance, ease of mailing, et cetera? Thanks so much for any help you can give, Sandy." Sorry.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80, this matters.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think it matters.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80 and you're receiving a letter. I don't even look at how it's stamped ever. I mean, none of us do.

Jill DeWit:
No. No, we don't.

S Jack Butala:
First class is something that happened like in World War II and, I'm not exaggerating. No. And it goes on, everybody had some stuff to say about this, me included actually on ... And if you want to see it all-

Jill DeWit:
Was she licking stamps?

S Jack Butala:
... it's either he or she, we don't know. And no, they were using click to mail. And so Click2Mail, it's not even a competitor, but it's another way you can send mail for twice as much money, and it's very popular with non-members of Land Academy and everybody changes over. And even Sandy now goes on to say at the bottom of the string. It was too long for me to include in this.

Jill DeWit:
It said, so I get it? I hear ya?

S Jack Butala:
So Click2Mail went into this whole thing about, they sent it to all their people saying, "If you're sending these, this and this, and here's the regulations from the Post Office," and they cited it all.

Jill DeWit:
How sneaky. That's sneaky, making you think you have to do that.

S Jack Butala:
Our other members just jumped right in and took screenshots of how this is all fiction.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

S Jack Butala:
So look, I don't want to blow my own horn here, but I am for a second, our horn. O2O rocks. O2O is set up to do this.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Schedule Your Days Successfully (LA 1529)
Transcript:

S Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

S Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

S Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to schedule your days successfully.

Jill DeWit:
All right, brain, go for it.

S Jack Butala:
Full disclosure, this is one of my favorite topics, and here's why. Not because I love to live in my calendar, but I love to make money. And this is the only way I know how to actually run a crew and make money and sleep at night, quite honestly.

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were going to say, I love to make fun of Jill.

S Jack Butala:
No, I don't want to ... Jill's amazingly good at this. She doesn't realize it, but we'll make fun of her in a minute.

Jill DeWit:
I kind of am. I mean, I do, on the big stuff. Maybe the little stuff, I kind of slack on, but remember I have my reasons why. We've talked about that.

S Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "I just joined Land Academy a couple months ago. Honestly, I have stuck with my mailing procedure. Oh, I stuck with my mailing procedure instead of starting from scratch with Offers 2 Owners." I'm curious what her old procedure was. I hope it wasn't handwriting letters with the family at dining room.

S Jack Butala:
You'll see. There's a reason this made it into-

Jill DeWit:
Oh, it's coming? Okay, good. I'm excited to see what this is. Okay, Sandy. Here we go. "Unfortunately, I received an email today that states I have to send my mailers first class." Oh, that's funny.

S Jack Butala:
But it's hilarious.

Jill DeWit:
Here come the questions. "Number one, is it standard practice to send first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Not at all.

Jill DeWit:
"Number two, does O2O require that offers be sent first class?"

S Jack Butala:
Heck no.

Jill DeWit:
"Number three, how many people send first class versus standard?"

S Jack Butala:
Very, very few, if that.

Jill DeWit:
"Four, other than the obvious price difference, has anyone tested to see if there are any other differences, ie. performance, ease of mailing, et cetera? Thanks so much for any help you can give, Sandy." Sorry.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80, this matters.

Jill DeWit:
I don't think it matters.

S Jack Butala:
If you're over 80 and you're receiving a letter. I don't even look at how it's stamped ever. I mean, none of us do.

Jill DeWit:
No. No, we don't.

S Jack Butala:
First class is something that happened like in World War II and, I'm not exaggerating. No. And it goes on, everybody had some stuff to say about this, me included actually on ... And if you want to see it all-

Jill DeWit:
Was she licking stamps?

S Jack Butala:
... it's either he or she, we don't know. And no, they were using click to mail. And so Click2Mail, it's not even a competitor, but it's another way you can send mail for twice as much money, and it's very popular with non-members of Land Academy and everybody changes over. And even Sandy now goes on to say at the bottom of the string. It was too long for me to include in this.

Jill DeWit:
It said, so I get it? I hear ya?

S Jack Butala:
So Click2Mail went into this whole thing about, they sent it to all their people saying, "If you're sending these, this and this, and here's the regulations from the Post Office," and they cited it all.

Jill DeWit:
How sneaky. That's sneaky, making you think you have to do that.

S Jack Butala:
Our other members just jumped right in and took screenshots of how this is all fiction.

Jill DeWit:
Wow.

S Jack Butala:
So look, I don't want to blow my own horn here, but I am for a second, our horn. O2O rocks. O2O is set up to do this.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/21/how-to-schedule-your-days-successfully-la-1529/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">KCa3SdbUh</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:02:38 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/80fc4ec1-d61b-4766-9699-1f9f36453ce2.mp3" length="18520113" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m Writing a Book! (LA 1528)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m Writing a Book! (LA 1528)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I'm Writing a Book! (LA 1528)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about the book she's writing. I can't wait to hear this also.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. So yesterday I alluded to, I talked about this not long ago. I always have three books on my nightstand. I have one, that's a high power, kind of business-related, leadership book. And then I often have a self-help book. And then I have a fun book, one of this fun book I'm reading right now, it's actually really fun for me. It's called Mouse Tales. It's Disneyland behind the scenes. And it's talking about all the stuff that went wrong and all the rats that happened in the beginning, early years and just crazy things that broke, went wrong, stuff he didn't know about, Club 33 is mentioned for those of you know who that is and it's just really kind of fun. It's cool. So anyway, I have all these books on my nightstand. While I'm reading this one book, this is going to tie into this, I promise.

Jill DeWit:
So reading this book from this woman, so I'm going to talk about mine here in the show, but I thought as preface to my book, I've found this book on the nightstand. I'm not going to say who it is because I don't think it's nice. I don't want to name names, but I am not impressed by her book. So she wrote this book as a woman in her late forties to help other young women. So you think it's going to be great. I'm like, I got to hear what she has to say, but as I'm reading the book, I realized, well, hold on a moment. You're beautiful. You've never not got any job that you didn't want. You are happily married, no kids. She's just never failed.

Steven Butala:
No life experience.

Jill DeWit:
That's my problem with this and no real experience. Her parents are still together. No one's been through a divorce. I think her grandparents and great-grandparents are still alive. She's never experienced any kind of serious hardship.

Steven Butala:
Who's that helping?

Jill DeWit:
So what's interesting is, I'm using the word interesting lieu of other words, but interesting is because she has no real experience, the stuff that she brings to the table is kind of fluff. I'm like, that's all you got? Her experiences and here's what I think you need to do to be successful. Have another dress at the office? You can always dress up. That's in there, that's in there. It's stuff have a backup dress for emergencies so you look good.

Steven Butala:
Oh man.

Jill DeWit:
Wait a minute. There's way more I think people need to think about and know about-

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it.

Jill DeWit:
Why are you cutting me off?

Steven Butala:
Because this is the topic of this show. This is interesting. You know why? Because I really want to get into it with you, but let's get the question out of the way. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Dana wrote, hi everyone. I joined Land Academy recently and I'm so glad I did. There's a wealth of information available here on discord and the podcasts, et cetera and it's so valuable. That being said, I am often guilty of spending too much time absorbing information and researching. I've been slow to start taking action on my first mailer. I suspect that may also be spending too much time thinking about how I want to brand my company and deciding on a name. I want to set up a domain for a landing slash squeeze page, along with profiles on social media and listing sites. My first thought was using my last name, but I'm having second and third thoughts because it doesn't seem memorable or catchy enough.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - I'm Writing a Book! (LA 1528)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about the book she's writing. I can't wait to hear this also.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. So yesterday I alluded to, I talked about this not long ago. I always have three books on my nightstand. I have one, that's a high power, kind of business-related, leadership book. And then I often have a self-help book. And then I have a fun book, one of this fun book I'm reading right now, it's actually really fun for me. It's called Mouse Tales. It's Disneyland behind the scenes. And it's talking about all the stuff that went wrong and all the rats that happened in the beginning, early years and just crazy things that broke, went wrong, stuff he didn't know about, Club 33 is mentioned for those of you know who that is and it's just really kind of fun. It's cool. So anyway, I have all these books on my nightstand. While I'm reading this one book, this is going to tie into this, I promise.

Jill DeWit:
So reading this book from this woman, so I'm going to talk about mine here in the show, but I thought as preface to my book, I've found this book on the nightstand. I'm not going to say who it is because I don't think it's nice. I don't want to name names, but I am not impressed by her book. So she wrote this book as a woman in her late forties to help other young women. So you think it's going to be great. I'm like, I got to hear what she has to say, but as I'm reading the book, I realized, well, hold on a moment. You're beautiful. You've never not got any job that you didn't want. You are happily married, no kids. She's just never failed.

Steven Butala:
No life experience.

Jill DeWit:
That's my problem with this and no real experience. Her parents are still together. No one's been through a divorce. I think her grandparents and great-grandparents are still alive. She's never experienced any kind of serious hardship.

Steven Butala:
Who's that helping?

Jill DeWit:
So what's interesting is, I'm using the word interesting lieu of other words, but interesting is because she has no real experience, the stuff that she brings to the table is kind of fluff. I'm like, that's all you got? Her experiences and here's what I think you need to do to be successful. Have another dress at the office? You can always dress up. That's in there, that's in there. It's stuff have a backup dress for emergencies so you look good.

Steven Butala:
Oh man.

Jill DeWit:
Wait a minute. There's way more I think people need to think about and know about-

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it.

Jill DeWit:
Why are you cutting me off?

Steven Butala:
Because this is the topic of this show. This is interesting. You know why? Because I really want to get into it with you, but let's get the question out of the way. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Dana wrote, hi everyone. I joined Land Academy recently and I'm so glad I did. There's a wealth of information available here on discord and the podcasts, et cetera and it's so valuable. That being said, I am often guilty of spending too much time absorbing information and researching. I've been slow to start taking action on my first mailer. I suspect that may also be spending too much time thinking about how I want to brand my company and deciding on a name. I want to set up a domain for a landing slash squeeze page, along with profiles on social media and listing sites. My first thought was using my last name, but I'm having second and third thoughts because it doesn't seem memorable or catchy enough.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/18/jill-friday-im-writing-a-book-la-1528/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">kHjrhWGgm</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/592c3b56-3c0c-4f2b-a049-f0a8fc34a84e.mp3" length="21643531" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Real Estate Courses vs Free Online Content (LA 1526)</title><itunes:title>Real Estate Courses vs Free Online Content (LA 1526)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Real Estate Courses vs Free Online Content (LA 1526)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show: Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet, sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Finally, Jill gets to come back to California.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about real estate courses versus free online content.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. What's that about?

Steven Butala:
No, both are going to get you there. It's just how serious are you?

Jill DeWit:
I don't think both are going to get you there.

Steven Butala:
If you want to spend 10 years to do your first deal-

Jill DeWit:
And then still not get there.

Steven Butala:
And do it wrong. All the free stuff's here.

Jill DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it... Like I did because it took me 10 years.

Jill DeWit:
We're here to save you. That's the whole point.

Steven Butala:
Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, this is paid for stuff now. Please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Here, podcast free. The Discord, not free but good. But worth it. We'll explain.

Jill DeWit:
Geraldo and Evelyn wrote, "Hello. For our mailers, we're thinking of leaving out a price offer and leaving it as if we would like to make you an offer. We're thinking this is going to entice the land owner more as it gives them a little more power on the initial negotiation." Oh yeah, it does. Have any of you ever tried?

Steven Butala:
These people are consuming the free content that we put out there.

Jill DeWit:
And for free, we're going to save you. We're going to attempt to save you. "Have any of you ever tried this method? And if so, was it a successful one? Is it too risky and what are your thoughts? Thanks in advance." May I go first, please?

Steven Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill DeWit:
Sure. We've tried it all. That's part of why you're here. That's why we're here. Oh, you better believe we tried everything.

Steven Butala:
This is what they're talking about. One second. You know how we send out all of these offers and there's a price in there and we talk about pricing and how to price and obsess on pricing.

Jill DeWit:
Red, yellow, green.

Steven Butala:
There's a reason for that. What they're talking about is saying, "Hey, Joe Smith, I know you own this property over here. We're thinking about making an offer. Can you give me a call? Let me know if you want to sell it."

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
And here's what's going to happen. Every single person's going to call you.

Steven Butala:
You're going to get 5,000 phone calls.

Jill DeWit:
And more than half of them are only calling you because they're all excited about their number, which I'm pretty darn sure is not your number. So, what is that you're talking about? That's the make me move number. Everybody has their... "This is our lucky day, babe. I just got it. They want to buy it."

Steven Butala:
"I told you that property is worth a million dollars."

Jill DeWit:
"I know. What do you think? I was going to say two. You think one? Okay. All right. Well settle for one. Let's call him. You want to call him or you want me to call him?" That's not the call. And then they call and you're going to go, "Okay. Talk to me." And maybe you throw out a number too, "Well, I'm thinking 50,000." They're like, "Oh, that's... It says you want to buy it. What the heck is that?" And they have a whole long drawn out conversation and now they're mad. You've wasted time. And by the way, let's not think about all your time that got wasted with every one of those phone calls that are going to call you that you don't want.

Steven Butala:
A lot of this stuff can be solved by simple math. So, let's do some math. If you send out a 5,000 unit mailer that says,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Real Estate Courses vs Free Online Content (LA 1526)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show: Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet, sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Finally, Jill gets to come back to California.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about real estate courses versus free online content.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. What's that about?

Steven Butala:
No, both are going to get you there. It's just how serious are you?

Jill DeWit:
I don't think both are going to get you there.

Steven Butala:
If you want to spend 10 years to do your first deal-

Jill DeWit:
And then still not get there.

Steven Butala:
And do it wrong. All the free stuff's here.

Jill DeWit:
There you go.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it... Like I did because it took me 10 years.

Jill DeWit:
We're here to save you. That's the whole point.

Steven Butala:
Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, this is paid for stuff now. Please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Here, podcast free. The Discord, not free but good. But worth it. We'll explain.

Jill DeWit:
Geraldo and Evelyn wrote, "Hello. For our mailers, we're thinking of leaving out a price offer and leaving it as if we would like to make you an offer. We're thinking this is going to entice the land owner more as it gives them a little more power on the initial negotiation." Oh yeah, it does. Have any of you ever tried?

Steven Butala:
These people are consuming the free content that we put out there.

Jill DeWit:
And for free, we're going to save you. We're going to attempt to save you. "Have any of you ever tried this method? And if so, was it a successful one? Is it too risky and what are your thoughts? Thanks in advance." May I go first, please?

Steven Butala:
Absolutely.

Jill DeWit:
Sure. We've tried it all. That's part of why you're here. That's why we're here. Oh, you better believe we tried everything.

Steven Butala:
This is what they're talking about. One second. You know how we send out all of these offers and there's a price in there and we talk about pricing and how to price and obsess on pricing.

Jill DeWit:
Red, yellow, green.

Steven Butala:
There's a reason for that. What they're talking about is saying, "Hey, Joe Smith, I know you own this property over here. We're thinking about making an offer. Can you give me a call? Let me know if you want to sell it."

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
And here's what's going to happen. Every single person's going to call you.

Steven Butala:
You're going to get 5,000 phone calls.

Jill DeWit:
And more than half of them are only calling you because they're all excited about their number, which I'm pretty darn sure is not your number. So, what is that you're talking about? That's the make me move number. Everybody has their... "This is our lucky day, babe. I just got it. They want to buy it."

Steven Butala:
"I told you that property is worth a million dollars."

Jill DeWit:
"I know. What do you think? I was going to say two. You think one? Okay. All right. Well settle for one. Let's call him. You want to call him or you want me to call him?" That's not the call. And then they call and you're going to go, "Okay. Talk to me." And maybe you throw out a number too, "Well, I'm thinking 50,000." They're like, "Oh, that's... It says you want to buy it. What the heck is that?" And they have a whole long drawn out conversation and now they're mad. You've wasted time. And by the way, let's not think about all your time that got wasted with every one of those phone calls that are going to call you that you don't want.

Steven Butala:
A lot of this stuff can be solved by simple math. So, let's do some math. If you send out a 5,000 unit mailer that says,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/16/real-estate-courses-vs-free-online-content-la-1526/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sF2kFTnUq</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d5c51640-8eb6-46c1-ad9e-32c17a17ba14.mp3" length="16423301" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Part-Time Real Estate Investing &amp;#124; Land Investing (LA 1525)</title><itunes:title>Part-Time Real Estate Investing &amp;#124; Land Investing (LA 1525)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Part-Time Real Estate Investing | Land Investing (LA 1525)
Transcript:

Speaker 1:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Speaker 1:
Today Jill and I talk about part time real estate or land investing. Let me tell you, we all started part-time.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Speaker 1:
With very, very, very few exceptions that I know of. We all started part-time until we made enough money and convinced ourselves that there's some longevity in it and we quit our jobs.

Jill DeWit:
Beautiful.

Speaker 1:
But I'm going to say this, if you start this right off the bat, because you hate your job so much and are consumed with trying to get to that starting line so you can quit your job, you're just causing problems for yourself. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you are already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Corey asks, did I send to escrow too early? I received a signed PA the other day. The signature had a small note under it saying that the owner was deceased, minor detail, right? PS-

Speaker 1:
Gets good though, this is a good start.

Jill DeWit:
Wait, this is going to be funny. It sounds funny. I haven't read this before. I'm just envisioning, sure we want to sell, we love it. PS, mom's dead. Here you go. Like we're not going to notice.

Speaker 1:
Figure it out.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Speaker 1:
At least they told you.

Jill DeWit:
Well, there is that. And then just sign mom's name and pretend. Small note under it saying that the owner was deceased and that the person responding is a daughter of the deceased. The daughter didn't leave any contact info to reach her. I did due diligence on the property and realized that this is a very good deal. I signed the purchase agreement and also included a letter asking the daughter to contact me with my contact info on the letter and overnighted it to her on... This is all real time. This is a new. June 3rd.

Jill DeWit:
In the meantime, I went ahead and sent the signed purchase agreement to an attorney and started escrow. The letter was delivered on 6/4/2021. I still haven't heard anything from the daughter as of June 8th. The attorney got back to me today and told me that mother conveyed the property to her in a revocable living trust and left the daughter who signed the purchase agreement as a successor trustee. This is good.

Speaker 1:
Good start.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. So in parentheses, it says we're good to go there. All of that to ask this, do you guys think I sent it to escrow/attorney too quick? Should I have waited until the daughter contacted me? Or would you guys have done the same thing I did? I got with a realtor that was recommended and he told me that he thought the property would sell quickly and it would gross a profit over $130,000. I love it. Here's my only thing, I probably would've done the same stuff.

Speaker 1:
I would skip trace this daughter and I would blow her phone up.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Just make sure.

Speaker 1:
Did you do it too early? No. You did everything right.

Jill DeWit:
So, and I imagine too right now, because you're having an attorney close the deal obviously. I think you're having an attorney close a deal. Is that what he said?

Speaker 1:
Attorneys are great at finding people by the way.

Jill DeWit:
That doesn't say it's nice. And let's see, in the meantime, I went ahead and saw the attorney and started escrow. Okay. So that's why I'm assuming they're doing the deal. So you're trying to reach the daughter and the attorneys try and reach the daughter. Pretty sure one of you is going to reach the daughter because what's needed from the daughter is, hey, by the way, we need to get your signature and where do you want your money to go?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Part-Time Real Estate Investing | Land Investing (LA 1525)
Transcript:

Speaker 1:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Speaker 1:
Today Jill and I talk about part time real estate or land investing. Let me tell you, we all started part-time.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Speaker 1:
With very, very, very few exceptions that I know of. We all started part-time until we made enough money and convinced ourselves that there's some longevity in it and we quit our jobs.

Jill DeWit:
Beautiful.

Speaker 1:
But I'm going to say this, if you start this right off the bat, because you hate your job so much and are consumed with trying to get to that starting line so you can quit your job, you're just causing problems for yourself. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you are already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Corey asks, did I send to escrow too early? I received a signed PA the other day. The signature had a small note under it saying that the owner was deceased, minor detail, right? PS-

Speaker 1:
Gets good though, this is a good start.

Jill DeWit:
Wait, this is going to be funny. It sounds funny. I haven't read this before. I'm just envisioning, sure we want to sell, we love it. PS, mom's dead. Here you go. Like we're not going to notice.

Speaker 1:
Figure it out.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Speaker 1:
At least they told you.

Jill DeWit:
Well, there is that. And then just sign mom's name and pretend. Small note under it saying that the owner was deceased and that the person responding is a daughter of the deceased. The daughter didn't leave any contact info to reach her. I did due diligence on the property and realized that this is a very good deal. I signed the purchase agreement and also included a letter asking the daughter to contact me with my contact info on the letter and overnighted it to her on... This is all real time. This is a new. June 3rd.

Jill DeWit:
In the meantime, I went ahead and sent the signed purchase agreement to an attorney and started escrow. The letter was delivered on 6/4/2021. I still haven't heard anything from the daughter as of June 8th. The attorney got back to me today and told me that mother conveyed the property to her in a revocable living trust and left the daughter who signed the purchase agreement as a successor trustee. This is good.

Speaker 1:
Good start.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. So in parentheses, it says we're good to go there. All of that to ask this, do you guys think I sent it to escrow/attorney too quick? Should I have waited until the daughter contacted me? Or would you guys have done the same thing I did? I got with a realtor that was recommended and he told me that he thought the property would sell quickly and it would gross a profit over $130,000. I love it. Here's my only thing, I probably would've done the same stuff.

Speaker 1:
I would skip trace this daughter and I would blow her phone up.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Just make sure.

Speaker 1:
Did you do it too early? No. You did everything right.

Jill DeWit:
So, and I imagine too right now, because you're having an attorney close the deal obviously. I think you're having an attorney close a deal. Is that what he said?

Speaker 1:
Attorneys are great at finding people by the way.

Jill DeWit:
That doesn't say it's nice. And let's see, in the meantime, I went ahead and saw the attorney and started escrow. Okay. So that's why I'm assuming they're doing the deal. So you're trying to reach the daughter and the attorneys try and reach the daughter. Pretty sure one of you is going to reach the daughter because what's needed from the daughter is, hey, by the way, we need to get your signature and where do you want your money to go?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/15/part-time-real-estate-investing-land-investing-la-1525/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QFTfHkL50</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d0132a34-f6ed-41ec-8807-3a266af47305.mp3" length="15268519" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Best Way to Lower Your Seller&amp;#8217;s Price &amp;#124; Real Estate (LA 1524)</title><itunes:title>The Best Way to Lower Your Seller&amp;#8217;s Price &amp;#124; Real Estate (LA 1524)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Best Way to Lower Your Seller's Price | Real Estate (LA 1524)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit. Wait for it. Broadcasting from sunny Southern California. I had to say that. Can you see? Can you see?

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the best way to lower your sellers price.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
I can't wait to.

Jill DeWit:
Why would we ever do this?

Steven Butala:
Hear how Jill does this also.

Jill DeWit:
What? I need to do it. How do I do it? We can help. We got this. I'll tell you why this happens too. Although, you probably know.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it... Well, sometimes you send a letter out. The thing comes back and they say, "I got your letter and I do want to sell but this price doesn't work for me."

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no. I'm lowering their price of any one I offered them.

Steven Butala:
Whoa.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Hold on. Let me-

Steven Butala:
Yes. Set us up.

Jill DeWit:
Let me tell you what the show is really about today, babe.

Jill DeWit:
That's great.

Steven Butala:
You know what?

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you are already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were saying, "If you work for your spouse, you understand what just happened." I work with, not for.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Bobby wrote, "Hello, to this fabulous community. And thank you again for taking the time to read this. One area I'm getting hung up on is checking counties against the listed to universal rule. This usually kicks out otherwise great counties as they pass all other tests. Except that one. I thought I understood it but can someone please explain, in your words, and the overall importance of this test so I can be sure that I'm applying the correct logic. Thanks so much."

Jill DeWit:
Go.

Steven Butala:
Here at Land Academy, we have what is called a red, green, yellow test when you choose a county to send mail or zip code. And before I send mail out, it has to pass these three tests. And one of them is the listed to universal rule, which means how many properties are listed for sale on the MLS against the universe of like-kind properties in that county or zip code. So, there might be 50 pieces of property that are listed for sale and 5,000 pieces of property that are in the universe of just vacant parcels in that county. And you want that number to be low.

Jill DeWit:
I like that number.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
50 to 5,000, I can do. 1,000 to 5,000, not so great.

Steven Butala:
Or 5,000 to 5,000.

Jill DeWit:
Really bad.

Steven Butala:
San Bernardino County California is like that. So, you don't want to generally send mail. In general, you don't want to send mail to where there are just tons and tons of for-sale property. And this statistic is designed to point in the direction of, don't do that.

Jill DeWit:
This is such a common thing. I love it. When you do this Bobby and you do it, just get into it. Figure it out and when you're staring and please pull at least zip codes or counties or something lined up. Two or three of them are going to jump to the top. You're going to go, "Oh, I see it now." So, as you're starting the process, we all kind of question it like you are but hang in there.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic: The best way to lower your sellers price. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
As I alluded to in the beginning, here's the setup.

Steven Butala:
I want to sit back and listen.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. This is fine. So, you picked a county. You did what Bobby said. You sent out your offers. You think you did a great job pricing your offers.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Best Way to Lower Your Seller's Price | Real Estate (LA 1524)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit. Wait for it. Broadcasting from sunny Southern California. I had to say that. Can you see? Can you see?

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the best way to lower your sellers price.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
I can't wait to.

Jill DeWit:
Why would we ever do this?

Steven Butala:
Hear how Jill does this also.

Jill DeWit:
What? I need to do it. How do I do it? We can help. We got this. I'll tell you why this happens too. Although, you probably know.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it... Well, sometimes you send a letter out. The thing comes back and they say, "I got your letter and I do want to sell but this price doesn't work for me."

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no. I'm lowering their price of any one I offered them.

Steven Butala:
Whoa.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Hold on. Let me-

Steven Butala:
Yes. Set us up.

Jill DeWit:
Let me tell you what the show is really about today, babe.

Jill DeWit:
That's great.

Steven Butala:
You know what?

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you are already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were saying, "If you work for your spouse, you understand what just happened." I work with, not for.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Bobby wrote, "Hello, to this fabulous community. And thank you again for taking the time to read this. One area I'm getting hung up on is checking counties against the listed to universal rule. This usually kicks out otherwise great counties as they pass all other tests. Except that one. I thought I understood it but can someone please explain, in your words, and the overall importance of this test so I can be sure that I'm applying the correct logic. Thanks so much."

Jill DeWit:
Go.

Steven Butala:
Here at Land Academy, we have what is called a red, green, yellow test when you choose a county to send mail or zip code. And before I send mail out, it has to pass these three tests. And one of them is the listed to universal rule, which means how many properties are listed for sale on the MLS against the universe of like-kind properties in that county or zip code. So, there might be 50 pieces of property that are listed for sale and 5,000 pieces of property that are in the universe of just vacant parcels in that county. And you want that number to be low.

Jill DeWit:
I like that number.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
50 to 5,000, I can do. 1,000 to 5,000, not so great.

Steven Butala:
Or 5,000 to 5,000.

Jill DeWit:
Really bad.

Steven Butala:
San Bernardino County California is like that. So, you don't want to generally send mail. In general, you don't want to send mail to where there are just tons and tons of for-sale property. And this statistic is designed to point in the direction of, don't do that.

Jill DeWit:
This is such a common thing. I love it. When you do this Bobby and you do it, just get into it. Figure it out and when you're staring and please pull at least zip codes or counties or something lined up. Two or three of them are going to jump to the top. You're going to go, "Oh, I see it now." So, as you're starting the process, we all kind of question it like you are but hang in there.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic: The best way to lower your sellers price. This is why you're listening.

Jill DeWit:
As I alluded to in the beginning, here's the setup.

Steven Butala:
I want to sit back and listen.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. This is fine. So, you picked a county. You did what Bobby said. You sent out your offers. You think you did a great job pricing your offers.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/14/the-best-way-to-lower-your-sellers-price-real-estate-la-1524/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nvJqGS_kV</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7689d99d-40ac-419e-8b3d-c9f5e37e4414.mp3" length="14488505" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday What Jill Looks at When Doing Deals &amp;#8211; (LA 1523)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday What Jill Looks at When Doing Deals &amp;#8211; (LA 1523)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday What Jill Looks at When Doing Deals - (LA 1523)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sweet Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. It's called what Jill looks at when doing deals. Yesterday was my turn. I described how I see these deals correctly or incorrectly, but it works for me. Today's Jill's turn.

Jill Dewitt:
It's going to be fun because I think we have different ways, things that we look at first when the deal pops in. So this will be good.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill Dewitt:
Sandy wrote ... Okay, let me just see what I've got here. Is that the question, and then a response?

Jack Butala:
There is a discussion in Discord, yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
So, a little thing going on. Okay. So Sandy wrote, "One of the reasons I joined Land Academy was to find something better than DataTree. My last group concluded that there was nothing wrong with DataTree and that the problem had to be operator error." That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:
Let's see what the other member John says.

Jill Dewitt:
Okay. John wrote, "I have noticed in some states that there's a discrepancy between what DataTree says and what, say ParcelFact shows for both owner name and mailing address. One state in particular is a pain in the rear that I work with. I try to step back and say, if I'm mailing 10,000 records and 500 are busted, it's no fun spending that money on mail, but it's a small percentage. In one of the training videos in Land Academy, 2.0, Steven said that something like if 80% of your mail is right, you're doing great. We get 1000 free records each month. Why don't you do a RealQuest pull on a county that you have DataTree records on and compare? You may find it's better than where you're working."

Jack Butala:
I mean, John, you're exactly right. And no, it's not user error for the most part, Sandy. I don't know for sure, but probably not, because DataTree is real easy to use. Here's the deal. These data aggregators, DataTree, RealQuest, and TitlePro247 pull data from assessor databases. And there are some places in the country, I'm going to give you a real solid example of a place in the country, which is South Dakota, for whatever reason is not interested in playing this game. They're not interested in providing data, or the data that they do provide is pretty substandard. It's very difficult to use if you're used to, let's say using data in Texas or California or whatever else.

Jill Dewitt:
You said playing this game. It's like, they're not interested in doing their job correctly. It's kind of what it sounds like.

Jack Butala:
No, I actually-

Jill Dewitt:
It's like they're not interested in inputting the information correctly.

Jack Butala:
There's a part of my personality that really respects that. They're kind of just putting their figurative middle finger up.

Jill Dewitt:
In what way? I don't know.

Jack Butala:
Just like-

Jill Dewitt:
They don't fill it in, they don't provide much?

Jack Butala:
This is not a priority for us.

Jill Dewitt:
Data?

Jack Butala:
We love living here. Maybe we live on a cattle ranch. We don't need to assess this property down to the letter. They're just not interested in providing the data.

Jill Dewitt:
Yeah, we'll get it recorded when we feel like it.

Jack Butala:
I don't know. It's not good for us, but personally, I kind of respect some of these counties that are like, "Yeah, I'm not going to be here on Friday."

Jill Dewitt:
You know what? You're right, because there are some counties that say, "We only update all our records once a year at the end of the year.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday What Jill Looks at When Doing Deals - (LA 1523)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sweet Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. It's called what Jill looks at when doing deals. Yesterday was my turn. I described how I see these deals correctly or incorrectly, but it works for me. Today's Jill's turn.

Jill Dewitt:
It's going to be fun because I think we have different ways, things that we look at first when the deal pops in. So this will be good.

Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill Dewitt:
Sandy wrote ... Okay, let me just see what I've got here. Is that the question, and then a response?

Jack Butala:
There is a discussion in Discord, yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
So, a little thing going on. Okay. So Sandy wrote, "One of the reasons I joined Land Academy was to find something better than DataTree. My last group concluded that there was nothing wrong with DataTree and that the problem had to be operator error." That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:
Let's see what the other member John says.

Jill Dewitt:
Okay. John wrote, "I have noticed in some states that there's a discrepancy between what DataTree says and what, say ParcelFact shows for both owner name and mailing address. One state in particular is a pain in the rear that I work with. I try to step back and say, if I'm mailing 10,000 records and 500 are busted, it's no fun spending that money on mail, but it's a small percentage. In one of the training videos in Land Academy, 2.0, Steven said that something like if 80% of your mail is right, you're doing great. We get 1000 free records each month. Why don't you do a RealQuest pull on a county that you have DataTree records on and compare? You may find it's better than where you're working."

Jack Butala:
I mean, John, you're exactly right. And no, it's not user error for the most part, Sandy. I don't know for sure, but probably not, because DataTree is real easy to use. Here's the deal. These data aggregators, DataTree, RealQuest, and TitlePro247 pull data from assessor databases. And there are some places in the country, I'm going to give you a real solid example of a place in the country, which is South Dakota, for whatever reason is not interested in playing this game. They're not interested in providing data, or the data that they do provide is pretty substandard. It's very difficult to use if you're used to, let's say using data in Texas or California or whatever else.

Jill Dewitt:
You said playing this game. It's like, they're not interested in doing their job correctly. It's kind of what it sounds like.

Jack Butala:
No, I actually-

Jill Dewitt:
It's like they're not interested in inputting the information correctly.

Jack Butala:
There's a part of my personality that really respects that. They're kind of just putting their figurative middle finger up.

Jill Dewitt:
In what way? I don't know.

Jack Butala:
Just like-

Jill Dewitt:
They don't fill it in, they don't provide much?

Jack Butala:
This is not a priority for us.

Jill Dewitt:
Data?

Jack Butala:
We love living here. Maybe we live on a cattle ranch. We don't need to assess this property down to the letter. They're just not interested in providing the data.

Jill Dewitt:
Yeah, we'll get it recorded when we feel like it.

Jack Butala:
I don't know. It's not good for us, but personally, I kind of respect some of these counties that are like, "Yeah, I'm not going to be here on Friday."

Jill Dewitt:
You know what? You're right, because there are some counties that say, "We only update all our records once a year at the end of the year.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/11/jill-friday-what-jill-looks-at-when-doing-deals-la-1523/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aachG3Ai4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9d8ae369-3336-417e-9173-0ea86e65ac62.mp3" length="14725467" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What Jack Looks at When Doing Deals (LA 1522)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; What Jack Looks at When Doing Deals (LA 1522)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - What Jack Looks at When Doing Deals (LA 1522)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk, we hope. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from perfect Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and it's called What Jack Looks At When Doing Deals. I will tell you what I look at, what I look like while I'm looking at deals.

Jill DeWit:
I'll tell you what you look like.

Jack Butala:
How I feel about it.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Jack Butala:
What makes me livid.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Jack Butala:
What makes me happy.

Jill DeWit:
What gets to me.

Jack Butala:
What makes me jump up and down.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Jack Butala:
I'll tell it all.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Jack Butala:
For better or for worse.

Jill DeWit:
Uh-oh.

Jack Butala:
You decide if you want to listen to the rest of the show.

Jill DeWit:
That's right. For those of you who love a Jack Rand, this is for you.

Jack Butala:
Oh yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "In the meeting, I was asked to share some results. This is not a done deal by any means, but here's what I have to share. My second mailer is starting to hit out of state owners first. First response via email, I offered $4,000. The owner wants to get at least what they paid for it in the 1980s, which is $12,000. Both brokers I talked to today said the market has gone mad and they think they'll sell it in 30 days for $30,000 to $40,000. I have to dig into comps tonight and decide if I believe them." Love that. "I would love to hear how others are doing $4,000 and would have been about right on a lot with no trees in this area?" That was a little confusing there.

Jack Butala:
A little encrypted.

Jill DeWit:
But big picture is-

Jack Butala:
He's buying for 12, selling for 35.

Jill DeWit:
Well, right now he's offering four. The guy said he wants 12. So I have two things that I'd like to say first, please. Number one is, sometimes they're right. In this situation, if the guy just wants to go to his 12 out and you can confirm you're going to get $30,000 to $40,000 out of it, and then we'd have to discuss it and you're comfortable with that, I would do it.

Jack Butala:
So would I.

Jill DeWit:
My second comment is sometimes it's not right. I have had people that paid 12,000 for property years ago in the '80s, because of this mall or this airport or this freeway was going to come in and it was going to be, yay, the greatest thing, and then didn't pan out. So they have paid 12,000 for it and now it's worth two. I've had that. And they know that and I've had to remind them. They're like, "Yeah, I knew when I bought it that it was because of X, and that military base never happened." So there we go. I know. And so you have to explain that to them. So sometimes I just want you to know that just because they pay 12 in the '80s doesn't mean it's always worth money today. Go ahead.

Jack Butala:
I couldn't have said it better. I mean, I would've said-

Jill DeWit:
Oh, you would have said it better.

Jack Butala:
No, I mean, this is a great topic. Tomorrow's topic, by the way, is how Jill looks at deals. It's Jack Thursday, it's about me, not about Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh.

Jack Butala:
And believe me, this doesn't happen often

Jill DeWit:
We should do this. We're going to make Thursday all about Jack all day long.

Jack Butala:
I sit next to Jill. That's what Land Academy should be.

Jill DeWit:
The guy next to Jill.

Jack Butala:
John F. Kennedy used to say, "I am Jackie Kennedy's husband."

Jill DeWit:
There we go. Thank you, babe. That's awesome. So what are your comments?

Jack Butala:
Today's topic?

Jill DeWit:
You have no other comments?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - What Jack Looks at When Doing Deals (LA 1522)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk, we hope. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from perfect Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday and it's called What Jack Looks At When Doing Deals. I will tell you what I look at, what I look like while I'm looking at deals.

Jill DeWit:
I'll tell you what you look like.

Jack Butala:
How I feel about it.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Jack Butala:
What makes me livid.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Jack Butala:
What makes me happy.

Jill DeWit:
What gets to me.

Jack Butala:
What makes me jump up and down.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Jack Butala:
I'll tell it all.

Jill DeWit:
I love it.

Jack Butala:
For better or for worse.

Jill DeWit:
Uh-oh.

Jack Butala:
You decide if you want to listen to the rest of the show.

Jill DeWit:
That's right. For those of you who love a Jack Rand, this is for you.

Jack Butala:
Oh yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "In the meeting, I was asked to share some results. This is not a done deal by any means, but here's what I have to share. My second mailer is starting to hit out of state owners first. First response via email, I offered $4,000. The owner wants to get at least what they paid for it in the 1980s, which is $12,000. Both brokers I talked to today said the market has gone mad and they think they'll sell it in 30 days for $30,000 to $40,000. I have to dig into comps tonight and decide if I believe them." Love that. "I would love to hear how others are doing $4,000 and would have been about right on a lot with no trees in this area?" That was a little confusing there.

Jack Butala:
A little encrypted.

Jill DeWit:
But big picture is-

Jack Butala:
He's buying for 12, selling for 35.

Jill DeWit:
Well, right now he's offering four. The guy said he wants 12. So I have two things that I'd like to say first, please. Number one is, sometimes they're right. In this situation, if the guy just wants to go to his 12 out and you can confirm you're going to get $30,000 to $40,000 out of it, and then we'd have to discuss it and you're comfortable with that, I would do it.

Jack Butala:
So would I.

Jill DeWit:
My second comment is sometimes it's not right. I have had people that paid 12,000 for property years ago in the '80s, because of this mall or this airport or this freeway was going to come in and it was going to be, yay, the greatest thing, and then didn't pan out. So they have paid 12,000 for it and now it's worth two. I've had that. And they know that and I've had to remind them. They're like, "Yeah, I knew when I bought it that it was because of X, and that military base never happened." So there we go. I know. And so you have to explain that to them. So sometimes I just want you to know that just because they pay 12 in the '80s doesn't mean it's always worth money today. Go ahead.

Jack Butala:
I couldn't have said it better. I mean, I would've said-

Jill DeWit:
Oh, you would have said it better.

Jack Butala:
No, I mean, this is a great topic. Tomorrow's topic, by the way, is how Jill looks at deals. It's Jack Thursday, it's about me, not about Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh.

Jack Butala:
And believe me, this doesn't happen often

Jill DeWit:
We should do this. We're going to make Thursday all about Jack all day long.

Jack Butala:
I sit next to Jill. That's what Land Academy should be.

Jill DeWit:
The guy next to Jill.

Jack Butala:
John F. Kennedy used to say, "I am Jackie Kennedy's husband."

Jill DeWit:
There we go. Thank you, babe. That's awesome. So what are your comments?

Jack Butala:
Today's topic?

Jill DeWit:
You have no other comments?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/10/jack-thursday-what-jack-looks-at-when-doing-deals-la-1522/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nlNSCr9HP</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 22:00:16 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/48b4e99d-a121-4aa5-a7ed-c7af81bce5a4.mp3" length="13098079" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Creative Deal Structuring (1521)</title><itunes:title>Creative Deal Structuring (1521)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Creative Deal Structuring (1521)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWitt coming to you from the job site in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
If you're watching this, not listening to us, we're starting to take delivery on all kinds of stuff that's happening to this rehab house that we're in.

Jill:
Yes, you're going to be watching mounds of Hickory, real wood flooring show up over my shoulder here in just a minute.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about creative deal structuring. One of my favorite topics. Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill:
Anne Marie wrote, general newbie question here. "I've been a member now for about seven weeks and I've spent many hours studying Land Academy, Land Investors, Discord, et cetera. I love hearing get the mail out from Steve and Jill. I've chosen my counties and have scraped the data of for sale and sold properties on Land & Farm, Zillow and Redfin. Is it naive of me to think I can get ahold of a good price per acre."

Jack Butala:
Price per acre.

Jill:
Familiar with that code. Thank you very much, sir.

Jack Butala:
How are you familiar with that though?

Jill:
That's awesome.

Jack Butala:
BFF.

Jill:
Are you familiar with some of the hand gestures I'm about to hold up?

Jack Butala:
Pretty familiar with OMG.

Jill:
Pretty sure. Yeah. All right. Are you familiar with BTW?

Jack Butala:
By the way?

Jill:
Oh, you are. Good, good. Wasn't sure.

Jack Butala:
Gosh. [crosstalk 00:01:49].

Jill:
Oh, my gosh. Anyway, "Is it naive of me to think I can get a good price breaker comp to price my first mailer? I've averaged out the price breaker on all three platforms and have a good average. Is it unreasonable to price it for 20% of the average value? Please confirm it is better to be under than overpriced." Oh, heck yeah.

Jill:
Unlike our... What's that?

Jack Butala:
I don't know.

Jill:
I don't know What that is.

Jack Butala:
Unlike our choices where.

Jill:
Overdressed is better than underdressed. Got it. "I know the market very well. People are flocking towards these areas. There are few more properties sold than compared to list it."

Jill:
This is all great stuff.

Jill:
"I'm not sure how to check the wholesale for wholesale competition, but my state is X. I don't see a lot of the Thursday will you do this deals properties in this area? I'd love to know how to check that though, and I'd be more comfortable in negotiating up."

Jill:
Okay. Can we tackle these a little bit at a time?

Jack Butala:
You please answer all the questions you want. I'm going to answer the question about, "Is it reasonable?"

Jill:
Well, good.

Jack Butala:
"At 40%"

Jill:
You start with that one. I'll do the other stuff.

Jack Butala:
Is it unreasonable to price it for 20% of this average value question mark. There is no way, this question comes up all the time. The question is this, "I have a great price per acre. It's $1,500. I'm real confident in my data that in this zip code for properties that are between one and five acres, they've been listed and sold for an average of $1,500."

Jack Butala:
So it's real easy to get to that point. If you're new, it's time consuming, but it's not that hard. Then the question becomes, "How should I price my mailer? Should I price it at 20% of $1,500 an acre? 35%, 40%, 50% am I going to ruin my mailer at 20%? Am I going to ruin my mailer at 70%?" These are the questions that go through a new person's head, rightfully so. So they seek out an answer. I'm not saying anything negative against Ann-Marie here at all. I'm just using this as an example, because this is probably 50% of the new people that gets to the point where the sending a mailer out,...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Creative Deal Structuring (1521)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWitt coming to you from the job site in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
If you're watching this, not listening to us, we're starting to take delivery on all kinds of stuff that's happening to this rehab house that we're in.

Jill:
Yes, you're going to be watching mounds of Hickory, real wood flooring show up over my shoulder here in just a minute.

Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about creative deal structuring. One of my favorite topics. Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community it's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill:
Anne Marie wrote, general newbie question here. "I've been a member now for about seven weeks and I've spent many hours studying Land Academy, Land Investors, Discord, et cetera. I love hearing get the mail out from Steve and Jill. I've chosen my counties and have scraped the data of for sale and sold properties on Land & Farm, Zillow and Redfin. Is it naive of me to think I can get ahold of a good price per acre."

Jack Butala:
Price per acre.

Jill:
Familiar with that code. Thank you very much, sir.

Jack Butala:
How are you familiar with that though?

Jill:
That's awesome.

Jack Butala:
BFF.

Jill:
Are you familiar with some of the hand gestures I'm about to hold up?

Jack Butala:
Pretty familiar with OMG.

Jill:
Pretty sure. Yeah. All right. Are you familiar with BTW?

Jack Butala:
By the way?

Jill:
Oh, you are. Good, good. Wasn't sure.

Jack Butala:
Gosh. [crosstalk 00:01:49].

Jill:
Oh, my gosh. Anyway, "Is it naive of me to think I can get a good price breaker comp to price my first mailer? I've averaged out the price breaker on all three platforms and have a good average. Is it unreasonable to price it for 20% of the average value? Please confirm it is better to be under than overpriced." Oh, heck yeah.

Jill:
Unlike our... What's that?

Jack Butala:
I don't know.

Jill:
I don't know What that is.

Jack Butala:
Unlike our choices where.

Jill:
Overdressed is better than underdressed. Got it. "I know the market very well. People are flocking towards these areas. There are few more properties sold than compared to list it."

Jill:
This is all great stuff.

Jill:
"I'm not sure how to check the wholesale for wholesale competition, but my state is X. I don't see a lot of the Thursday will you do this deals properties in this area? I'd love to know how to check that though, and I'd be more comfortable in negotiating up."

Jill:
Okay. Can we tackle these a little bit at a time?

Jack Butala:
You please answer all the questions you want. I'm going to answer the question about, "Is it reasonable?"

Jill:
Well, good.

Jack Butala:
"At 40%"

Jill:
You start with that one. I'll do the other stuff.

Jack Butala:
Is it unreasonable to price it for 20% of this average value question mark. There is no way, this question comes up all the time. The question is this, "I have a great price per acre. It's $1,500. I'm real confident in my data that in this zip code for properties that are between one and five acres, they've been listed and sold for an average of $1,500."

Jack Butala:
So it's real easy to get to that point. If you're new, it's time consuming, but it's not that hard. Then the question becomes, "How should I price my mailer? Should I price it at 20% of $1,500 an acre? 35%, 40%, 50% am I going to ruin my mailer at 20%? Am I going to ruin my mailer at 70%?" These are the questions that go through a new person's head, rightfully so. So they seek out an answer. I'm not saying anything negative against Ann-Marie here at all. I'm just using this as an example, because this is probably 50% of the new people that gets to the point where the sending a mailer out,...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/09/creative-deal-structuring-1521/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">vuYAL7IIF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7ece8f0e-cc18-410a-b365-c7742a77a545.mp3" length="20734819" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:14</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Assignment Deals &amp;#8211; Do We Do Them? (LA 1520)</title><itunes:title>Assignment Deals &amp;#8211; Do We Do Them? (LA 1520)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Assignment Deals - Do We Do Them? (LA 1520)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from hot and not so perfect Paradise Valley, Arizona today.

Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about assignment deals. Do we do them?

Jill Dewitt:
Oh I have a lot to say.

Jack Butala:
This topic comes from a lot of questions that we're getting about assignment deals, because there's always this buzz, not so much in our group, but this buzz about assignment deals.

Jill Dewitt:
On the planet.

Jack Butala:
And why they're...

Jill Dewitt:
The planet thinks they're awesome.

Jack Butala:
How you can make a fortune. Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm here to tell you they suck.

Jack Butala:
They do suck.

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to explain what this is. I'm going to tell you all the things that can go wrong.

Jack Butala:
That's excellent.

Jill Dewitt:
And why I have chosen to go, "Nope, not doing that."

Jack Butala:
I can't wait to hear it and I bet I agree. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already with us in the Land Academy group, join us on Discord. You won't be disappointed.

Jill Dewitt:
Which is another way that we communicate. It's like We Chat or Teams or something. What the heck is discord? That's what it is. And it's pretty cool. Scott wrote, "Question for the land veterans in a situation like this, where the property just went back to the tax authority, is it worth it to pay the former owner a few hundred bucks and get her to assign you the right of redemption and a quick claim deed. Then someone could pick it up for basically the cost of the back taxes. Sounds like there's enough meat on the bone for the extra trouble."

Jack Butala:
May I?

Jill Dewitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:
We do this all the time. I've been doing this for 25 years. There's all kinds of education out there about how to do this too. Do I think it should completely and totally focus on this? Absolutely not. Do I think you should focus on back tax properties only? Nope. But what happens is we send all this mail out and invariably someone calls you back. Usually on every single mailer and says, "Yeah, I'm going to let this go back anyway. I don't want this property. It's been five years. I haven't paid the taxes. Here's the APN. Well, you know the APN, you sent it to me on my letter. So knock yourself out. Maybe send me $500." Or maybe you suggest that you give them $500 to let you to undo all this mess for them, depending on how much back taxes there are, it may or may not be worth it.

Jack Butala:
It's just a math situation. If there's too much more back taxes than the properties, then you can sell it for, then it's not...

Jill Dewitt:
Then you walk away.

Jack Butala:
Right. There are people in our space, other people who have a land academy like environments, where they teach how to buy and sell land, that only focus on this. Which to think of silly. Why would you focus on just one small little part of the revenue stream? No, in the vast majority of these situations, we win, you would win as the investor because you're dealing with somebody who just doesn't care anymore. They already gave up, stopped paying the taxes and you have to solve their problem usually from a legal standpoint. The deed might be in a deceased mom's name.

Jill Dewitt:
Yeah. You got to make sure it's undoable and they're into it.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. I'm skipping along the top of this topic.

Jill Dewitt:
Because we have one right now, that's majorly hard to undo and they're not into it. It's a double thing working against us. So then you have to decide is my time worth it?

Jack Butala:
I put this in here for a reason, among many, many questions.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Assignment Deals - Do We Do Them? (LA 1520)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from hot and not so perfect Paradise Valley, Arizona today.

Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about assignment deals. Do we do them?

Jill Dewitt:
Oh I have a lot to say.

Jack Butala:
This topic comes from a lot of questions that we're getting about assignment deals, because there's always this buzz, not so much in our group, but this buzz about assignment deals.

Jill Dewitt:
On the planet.

Jack Butala:
And why they're...

Jill Dewitt:
The planet thinks they're awesome.

Jack Butala:
How you can make a fortune. Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm here to tell you they suck.

Jack Butala:
They do suck.

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to explain what this is. I'm going to tell you all the things that can go wrong.

Jack Butala:
That's excellent.

Jill Dewitt:
And why I have chosen to go, "Nope, not doing that."

Jack Butala:
I can't wait to hear it and I bet I agree. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already with us in the Land Academy group, join us on Discord. You won't be disappointed.

Jill Dewitt:
Which is another way that we communicate. It's like We Chat or Teams or something. What the heck is discord? That's what it is. And it's pretty cool. Scott wrote, "Question for the land veterans in a situation like this, where the property just went back to the tax authority, is it worth it to pay the former owner a few hundred bucks and get her to assign you the right of redemption and a quick claim deed. Then someone could pick it up for basically the cost of the back taxes. Sounds like there's enough meat on the bone for the extra trouble."

Jack Butala:
May I?

Jill Dewitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:
We do this all the time. I've been doing this for 25 years. There's all kinds of education out there about how to do this too. Do I think it should completely and totally focus on this? Absolutely not. Do I think you should focus on back tax properties only? Nope. But what happens is we send all this mail out and invariably someone calls you back. Usually on every single mailer and says, "Yeah, I'm going to let this go back anyway. I don't want this property. It's been five years. I haven't paid the taxes. Here's the APN. Well, you know the APN, you sent it to me on my letter. So knock yourself out. Maybe send me $500." Or maybe you suggest that you give them $500 to let you to undo all this mess for them, depending on how much back taxes there are, it may or may not be worth it.

Jack Butala:
It's just a math situation. If there's too much more back taxes than the properties, then you can sell it for, then it's not...

Jill Dewitt:
Then you walk away.

Jack Butala:
Right. There are people in our space, other people who have a land academy like environments, where they teach how to buy and sell land, that only focus on this. Which to think of silly. Why would you focus on just one small little part of the revenue stream? No, in the vast majority of these situations, we win, you would win as the investor because you're dealing with somebody who just doesn't care anymore. They already gave up, stopped paying the taxes and you have to solve their problem usually from a legal standpoint. The deed might be in a deceased mom's name.

Jill Dewitt:
Yeah. You got to make sure it's undoable and they're into it.

Jack Butala:
Yeah. I'm skipping along the top of this topic.

Jill Dewitt:
Because we have one right now, that's majorly hard to undo and they're not into it. It's a double thing working against us. So then you have to decide is my time worth it?

Jack Butala:
I put this in here for a reason, among many, many questions.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/08/assignment-deals-do-we-do-them-la-1520/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">idTQ6ywZ7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e7afe978-0c8a-4836-80ec-f9fbd94997ce.mp3" length="13522823" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>We Brought Back the Advanced Group (LA 1519)</title><itunes:title>We Brought Back the Advanced Group (LA 1519)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[We Brought Back the Advanced Group (LA 1519)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why we brought back the Land Academy Advanced Group.

Jill DeWitt:
I don't think it ever really went away.

Jack Butala:
It really didn't.

Jill DeWitt:
No, it was kind of just on a hiatus, and we'll talk about that.

Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
And why it's getting big now.

Jack Butala:
Massive traction. Here's a hint, it has to do with funding.

Jill DeWitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:
Funding new people's deals, and funding each other. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free, and if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
So there's two places you can connect with us is what that means. Okay, Nolan wrote, "I've sent out a couple mailers. I have had a few signed purchase agreements come back, and a good amount of leads I'm working through, but access to the land seems to be my issue. I do have a couple in the hopper I'm pretty excited about, but I'm waiting to hear back from a broker what they think they can sell them for before I buy them. It certainly takes time, and being new and in the weeds is tough, especially hunting for deal number one. It will come, I just have to keep at it." Nolan gave his own advice.

Jack Butala:
Self-motivation.

Jill DeWitt:
Exactly. I know it, I know what you're going to say, it's like when you're a kid, and you walk in like, "I know Dad, I know I'm wrong. I know I screwed up, I know I", whatever it is, "I wrecked the car, you don't have to tell me. The policeman already did it, we had a whole talk. I'm good." So that's kind of ... But you're not in trouble, obviously.

Jack Butala:
Everybody goes through this, that's why I included this. It's not a question, it's a statement.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah.

Jack Butala:
And actually, this is his response to several people saying, "My mailers are out, I've got some stuff coming back in", it's just that oh my God moment, and we all went through it.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah. And you're doing it.

Jack Butala:
So important.

Jill DeWitt:
Access to the land. That's fine.

Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWitt:
And you know what to do, Nolan. You know the difference between physical access and legal access, and I love that you're bringing in, if you're really on the fence, that's one of the best, safest things you can do is call someone really local to the area and just say, "What do you think? What could you sell this for?" Without telling them any of the backstory, just what do you think and how fas could you do it? And then you know, "Oh, I need to hurry up and buy this", or, "Oh, don't bother."

Jack Butala:
Today's topic, why we brought back the Advanced Group. This is the meat of the show. If I wrote this title, and I didn't, I would say, "Why we brought back the Advanced Group, which never really went away."

Jill DeWitt:
Yep. Well, maybe some people are on our staff are a little confused, and again, it never went away. We've always had the Advanced Group, but now we've added to it. We've added to the services, and the time, and the energy, and the group. So our Advanced Group was really a core, handpick, I want to give the back story.

Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill DeWitt:
This was a core, handpicked group that started like 20 people that you identified as heavy hitters, like minded, sending out a ton of mail, buying a ton of deals, doing big numbers, big dollar amounts. People that we all need to kind of learn from each other, and again, it's still kind of handpicked who gets in the group, period. And if you're in the Advanced Group, you should know, you are handpicked.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[We Brought Back the Advanced Group (LA 1519)
Transcript:

Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about why we brought back the Land Academy Advanced Group.

Jill DeWitt:
I don't think it ever really went away.

Jack Butala:
It really didn't.

Jill DeWitt:
No, it was kind of just on a hiatus, and we'll talk about that.

Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
And why it's getting big now.

Jack Butala:
Massive traction. Here's a hint, it has to do with funding.

Jill DeWitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:
Funding new people's deals, and funding each other. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free, and if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
So there's two places you can connect with us is what that means. Okay, Nolan wrote, "I've sent out a couple mailers. I have had a few signed purchase agreements come back, and a good amount of leads I'm working through, but access to the land seems to be my issue. I do have a couple in the hopper I'm pretty excited about, but I'm waiting to hear back from a broker what they think they can sell them for before I buy them. It certainly takes time, and being new and in the weeds is tough, especially hunting for deal number one. It will come, I just have to keep at it." Nolan gave his own advice.

Jack Butala:
Self-motivation.

Jill DeWitt:
Exactly. I know it, I know what you're going to say, it's like when you're a kid, and you walk in like, "I know Dad, I know I'm wrong. I know I screwed up, I know I", whatever it is, "I wrecked the car, you don't have to tell me. The policeman already did it, we had a whole talk. I'm good." So that's kind of ... But you're not in trouble, obviously.

Jack Butala:
Everybody goes through this, that's why I included this. It's not a question, it's a statement.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah.

Jack Butala:
And actually, this is his response to several people saying, "My mailers are out, I've got some stuff coming back in", it's just that oh my God moment, and we all went through it.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah. And you're doing it.

Jack Butala:
So important.

Jill DeWitt:
Access to the land. That's fine.

Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWitt:
And you know what to do, Nolan. You know the difference between physical access and legal access, and I love that you're bringing in, if you're really on the fence, that's one of the best, safest things you can do is call someone really local to the area and just say, "What do you think? What could you sell this for?" Without telling them any of the backstory, just what do you think and how fas could you do it? And then you know, "Oh, I need to hurry up and buy this", or, "Oh, don't bother."

Jack Butala:
Today's topic, why we brought back the Advanced Group. This is the meat of the show. If I wrote this title, and I didn't, I would say, "Why we brought back the Advanced Group, which never really went away."

Jill DeWitt:
Yep. Well, maybe some people are on our staff are a little confused, and again, it never went away. We've always had the Advanced Group, but now we've added to it. We've added to the services, and the time, and the energy, and the group. So our Advanced Group was really a core, handpick, I want to give the back story.

Jack Butala:
Sure.

Jill DeWitt:
This was a core, handpicked group that started like 20 people that you identified as heavy hitters, like minded, sending out a ton of mail, buying a ton of deals, doing big numbers, big dollar amounts. People that we all need to kind of learn from each other, and again, it's still kind of handpicked who gets in the group, period. And if you're in the Advanced Group, you should know, you are handpicked.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/07/we-brought-back-the-advanced-group-la-1519/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">vg4am1pcI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:20:36 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/52acdc8f-b074-4a95-b14e-3187023c6c0e.mp3" length="14096041" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How We Failed at Hiring (LA 1518)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; How We Failed at Hiring (LA 1518)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How We Failed at Hiring (LA 1518)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how we failed at hiring, and bring it home this week. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord. This question is two parts.

Jill DeWit:
I see that. There's different dates, so this us going to be good.

Steven Butala:
So this is Austin asking a question on May 4th, and we'll read the question.

Jill DeWit:
Uh-huh (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
And then a million people in our group and outside of our group respond.

Jill DeWit:
As a follow-up.

Steven Butala:
Two or three weeks later, he gives us his decision.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good. Okay. So this is Austin on May 4th. "Hello. I'm writing this in response to podcast number 1479 about recovering landlords." This is good. "I've owned a duplex for about 10 years. Cashflow is about $600 a month, depending on expenses. If I was to sell it right now, I could gross approximately $220,000 after paying off the underlying mortgage." I remember this, by the way.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
"The real estate fees and other taxes would still need to be subtracted. I'm not sure what this looks like tax wise, until I have a chat with my accountant. Would you guys hang on to this asset and let rents and equity just go up? Or would you sell it and take this money and apply it to property acquisitions? I could also do a cash out refinance as well. Thoughts? Thanks, Austin." And a lot of people wrote in on it. I think I wrote in on this too, if I remember correctly, and I know what I said.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I said sell it.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
The vast majority, if not every single response, and there were tons of them, said to keep it.

Jill DeWit:
Really?

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, so this is good. So here's the follow-up.

Steven Butala:
Bear in mind, it's cash flowing $600 a month.

Jill DeWit:
$600 a month. Not counting the headaches.

Steven Butala:
That doesn't pay our utility bill.

Jill DeWit:
And the alcohol that he needs to consume for the headaches that go with this. I would spend that $600 easy. Okay, so Austin wrote back on May 21st. "Hello. So my question made the podcast." Yeah, it did Austin. Yeah, episode 1501. And now you're back too. I don't know what episode we're on today, but anyway. "I would have responded sooner except I was out of town doing important rural land research." Good for him. "I was comparing different areas and how affluent the flavor of wine and how they influence." Excuse me, affluent. "I was comparing different areas and how they influence the flavor of wine and charcuterie plates." That's my kind of research.

Steven Butala:
This is the same type of land research we do.

Jill DeWit:
That's exactly what we do. "After listening to the podcast, I'm leaning towards selling, but for a slightly different reason than it being an underperforming asset. Allow me to go on a tangent for a moment. I work for a small company and my employer is retiring at the end of the year. My current company will shut down. I will have a similar W2 job tentatively lined up. I don't find my current work very interesting."

Steven Butala:
Amen to that.

Jill DeWit:
"While I was on vacation, a land buyer contacted me and I set up most of the transaction from my camp site. For the next couple of days, I rode around on a deal high. Many of you out there who have done deals already should know what I'm talking about. Doing land deals is much more interesting and fun than many W2 situations.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - How We Failed at Hiring (LA 1518)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how we failed at hiring, and bring it home this week. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord. This question is two parts.

Jill DeWit:
I see that. There's different dates, so this us going to be good.

Steven Butala:
So this is Austin asking a question on May 4th, and we'll read the question.

Jill DeWit:
Uh-huh (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
And then a million people in our group and outside of our group respond.

Jill DeWit:
As a follow-up.

Steven Butala:
Two or three weeks later, he gives us his decision.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good. Okay. So this is Austin on May 4th. "Hello. I'm writing this in response to podcast number 1479 about recovering landlords." This is good. "I've owned a duplex for about 10 years. Cashflow is about $600 a month, depending on expenses. If I was to sell it right now, I could gross approximately $220,000 after paying off the underlying mortgage." I remember this, by the way.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
"The real estate fees and other taxes would still need to be subtracted. I'm not sure what this looks like tax wise, until I have a chat with my accountant. Would you guys hang on to this asset and let rents and equity just go up? Or would you sell it and take this money and apply it to property acquisitions? I could also do a cash out refinance as well. Thoughts? Thanks, Austin." And a lot of people wrote in on it. I think I wrote in on this too, if I remember correctly, and I know what I said.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I said sell it.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
The vast majority, if not every single response, and there were tons of them, said to keep it.

Jill DeWit:
Really?

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, so this is good. So here's the follow-up.

Steven Butala:
Bear in mind, it's cash flowing $600 a month.

Jill DeWit:
$600 a month. Not counting the headaches.

Steven Butala:
That doesn't pay our utility bill.

Jill DeWit:
And the alcohol that he needs to consume for the headaches that go with this. I would spend that $600 easy. Okay, so Austin wrote back on May 21st. "Hello. So my question made the podcast." Yeah, it did Austin. Yeah, episode 1501. And now you're back too. I don't know what episode we're on today, but anyway. "I would have responded sooner except I was out of town doing important rural land research." Good for him. "I was comparing different areas and how affluent the flavor of wine and how they influence." Excuse me, affluent. "I was comparing different areas and how they influence the flavor of wine and charcuterie plates." That's my kind of research.

Steven Butala:
This is the same type of land research we do.

Jill DeWit:
That's exactly what we do. "After listening to the podcast, I'm leaning towards selling, but for a slightly different reason than it being an underperforming asset. Allow me to go on a tangent for a moment. I work for a small company and my employer is retiring at the end of the year. My current company will shut down. I will have a similar W2 job tentatively lined up. I don't find my current work very interesting."

Steven Butala:
Amen to that.

Jill DeWit:
"While I was on vacation, a land buyer contacted me and I set up most of the transaction from my camp site. For the next couple of days, I rode around on a deal high. Many of you out there who have done deals already should know what I'm talking about. Doing land deals is much more interesting and fun than many W2 situations.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/04/jill-friday-how-we-failed-at-hiring-la-1518/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">VTIb5OAfo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 22:01:36 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/569f91bc-185a-4fa7-a76b-6f6143ba1053.mp3" length="17089450" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why Concierge Data Will Change your Life (LA 1517)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Why Concierge Data Will Change your Life (LA 1517)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why Concierge Data Will Change your Life (LA 1517)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And, I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from darn near perfect Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I talk about why our product, Concierge Data, could change your life.

Jill DeWit:
It's changing my life.

Steven Butala:
I am your concierge data, by the way.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. You have changed my life.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
This is coming from mutual and consensual.

Steven Butala:
From yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Okay, Billy wrote, I am wondering if anyone has things to look out for in the Texas market.

Steven Butala:
This is a wonderful brief question.

Jill DeWit:
I like it.

Steven Butala:
Texas is an awesome place to buy and sell land, has always been, and probably always will be. It's a great place to do minor splits. It's a great place to have the freedom to, once you buy the property, to do stuff to it. So Texas has great-

Jill DeWit:
Even houses, for houses there, too.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, for house academy, too. There's a reason it's like number three moving-toward destination in the country. I'll tell you. There's a couple of things to look out for. The south western part of Texas on the border, Culbertson County and Hudspeth County specifically, there's a lot of property there and how it got subdivided. No one knows where it is, including the people at the county. And, the terrain itself is pretty awful. It's kind of like being on the moon, like certain places in Arizona. And, it's dry and it's barren.

Jill DeWit:
No one's going to bother you out there, that's for sure.

Steven Butala:
So, it's the kind of terrain that's in a lot of cowboy movies, that's where they die, because there's no water and they just can't get anywhere.

Jill DeWit:
That's as far as they got.

Steven Butala:
But the real problem is not that. The problem is that knowing they got subdivided so quickly and incorrectly, and probably with some not legally, that no one knows where the property is. It's very difficult to find. Outside of that, on Thursday when Jill and I do the Thursday Would You Do This Deal call, where members give us all these deals and ask us, "Would you do this deal?" Texas is-

Jill DeWit:
It doesn't come up at all.

Steven Butala:
... strangely constantly absent, which there's 244 counties in Texas, the largest number of counties in a state. And it just, I have a feeling that we have some quiet members that are just burning it up there.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. And they're not talking about it.

Steven Butala:
In Texas fashion. I respect that.

Jill DeWit:
I agree, but there's a lot of great opportunity. An hour outside of Dallas, an hour outside of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, just outside those places, because there's so much going on.

Steven Butala:
Every deal I've ever done in Texas worked out great. Today's topic, it's Jack Thursday. Why concierge data will change your life? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Can you please explain what this is?

Steven Butala:
We are soon going to release a product called Concierge Data, that was at the dramatic request of our membership.

Jill DeWit:
By the time this airs, I think it's out.

Steven Butala:
Yes. It's a product that falls under offers to owners. And this is what it is. If you, for whatever reason, can't get an offer campaign out as a member or you haven't joined Land Academy because you're a Jill, but you don't really... You're just afraid to do a mailer, which I get, because I'm afraid of talking on the phone. This solves that. What it does is you can actually fill out a form, a real simple form on Offers2Owners and say,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Why Concierge Data Will Change your Life (LA 1517)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And, I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from darn near perfect Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday, and I talk about why our product, Concierge Data, could change your life.

Jill DeWit:
It's changing my life.

Steven Butala:
I am your concierge data, by the way.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. You have changed my life.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
This is coming from mutual and consensual.

Steven Butala:
From yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Okay, Billy wrote, I am wondering if anyone has things to look out for in the Texas market.

Steven Butala:
This is a wonderful brief question.

Jill DeWit:
I like it.

Steven Butala:
Texas is an awesome place to buy and sell land, has always been, and probably always will be. It's a great place to do minor splits. It's a great place to have the freedom to, once you buy the property, to do stuff to it. So Texas has great-

Jill DeWit:
Even houses, for houses there, too.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, for house academy, too. There's a reason it's like number three moving-toward destination in the country. I'll tell you. There's a couple of things to look out for. The south western part of Texas on the border, Culbertson County and Hudspeth County specifically, there's a lot of property there and how it got subdivided. No one knows where it is, including the people at the county. And, the terrain itself is pretty awful. It's kind of like being on the moon, like certain places in Arizona. And, it's dry and it's barren.

Jill DeWit:
No one's going to bother you out there, that's for sure.

Steven Butala:
So, it's the kind of terrain that's in a lot of cowboy movies, that's where they die, because there's no water and they just can't get anywhere.

Jill DeWit:
That's as far as they got.

Steven Butala:
But the real problem is not that. The problem is that knowing they got subdivided so quickly and incorrectly, and probably with some not legally, that no one knows where the property is. It's very difficult to find. Outside of that, on Thursday when Jill and I do the Thursday Would You Do This Deal call, where members give us all these deals and ask us, "Would you do this deal?" Texas is-

Jill DeWit:
It doesn't come up at all.

Steven Butala:
... strangely constantly absent, which there's 244 counties in Texas, the largest number of counties in a state. And it just, I have a feeling that we have some quiet members that are just burning it up there.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. And they're not talking about it.

Steven Butala:
In Texas fashion. I respect that.

Jill DeWit:
I agree, but there's a lot of great opportunity. An hour outside of Dallas, an hour outside of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, just outside those places, because there's so much going on.

Steven Butala:
Every deal I've ever done in Texas worked out great. Today's topic, it's Jack Thursday. Why concierge data will change your life? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Can you please explain what this is?

Steven Butala:
We are soon going to release a product called Concierge Data, that was at the dramatic request of our membership.

Jill DeWit:
By the time this airs, I think it's out.

Steven Butala:
Yes. It's a product that falls under offers to owners. And this is what it is. If you, for whatever reason, can't get an offer campaign out as a member or you haven't joined Land Academy because you're a Jill, but you don't really... You're just afraid to do a mailer, which I get, because I'm afraid of talking on the phone. This solves that. What it does is you can actually fill out a form, a real simple form on Offers2Owners and say,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/03/jack-thursday-why-concierge-data-will-change-your-life-la-1517/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TB-brGRiW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7709044e-2aae-4d95-9c40-6138e59b9315.mp3" length="12065411" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Who Should I Hire First in 2021? (LA 1516)</title><itunes:title>Who Should I Hire First in 2021? (LA 1516)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Who Should I Hire First in 2021? (LA 1516)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about who should you hire first in 2021. This is a very popular question in our customer service Land Academy environment. How do I get that first employee?

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited. I have some ideas.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
First, before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It is free, so I'm getting an account there. And then by the way, if you are a member, I know that we're beating a dead horse here, but I want you guys to get in Discord. It rocks.

Steven Butala:
John asks, "Can anyone elaborate and help me understand the paragraph from V26 May investors newsletter?"

Steven Butala:
We have a newsletter, Land Academy does. I don't know if it goes to everybody or if it goes just to our members. And so I write stuff in there, I'm a writer for the newsletter. And, this whole thing, I'm going to read this because this person was asking for clarification about what I said. A lot of years ago, I was with us listening to Larry King on this long drive. And he was interviewing William Shatner and of course, Star Trek came up and Larry King said, "Do you have these people that ever come up to you and ask you about Star Trek?" And he said, "Oh yeah, I have people on a daily basis." And, so they'd take a question from a caller on that switchboard. And the caller says, "What did you mean by... When you said XYZ in episode 14 in the third season of star Trek?" And, William Shatner blew his top.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven Butala:
He said, "I don't remember."

Jill DeWit:
Why would they not have a better relationship with the Klingon community based on X?" Yeah.

Steven Butala:
He said, "Listen, asshole" I can't say that. I'm going to ask our guys to... He just blew his top. He said, "Listen, I can't remember even actually doing that show at all. Ever."

Steven Butala:
Are you writing down the time?

Jill DeWit:
Yes I am.

Steven Butala:
"I don't remember showing up for work for that entire part of my life, let alone episodes and what I said and the dialogue and all of that. And by the way, it wasn't me who said that it was my character." And, so he just went off and I don't know, I stopped the car. I was laughing so hard.

Jill DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
So, here I am saying and writing some stuff, then I'm going to try to translate that I don't remember saying it, right?

Jill DeWit:
Go for it.

Steven Butala:
He asks,, "Can you elaborate or help me understand what you meant?" And, what I wrote is this, "Here is what it can do for property investors like us after reviewing the entire 150 million unit data set, there's 150 million unit properties in this country, I would like to see properties with no improvement value, just land in zip codes, where the spread between the average completed sale value and the foresale values are the largest."

Steven Butala:
So, you've got really large for sale values and really low completed sale values. "This tells me where to send out blind offers. Then I would like to see within those geographic parameters, what acreage range is the widest. This tells me which owners or to whom to send blind offers after scrubbing down to this dataset, I'd like to know what the actual spread prices are. This tells me for how much to send each offer out how to price the offers."

Steven Butala:
That makes complete sense to me. Does it make sense to you? What he didn't include, and it's fine, is the context of what this was and what I said. And, this is my advice to everyone. Take four steps back and don't get all in the deluge of the data. Take a look,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Who Should I Hire First in 2021? (LA 1516)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about who should you hire first in 2021. This is a very popular question in our customer service Land Academy environment. How do I get that first employee?

Jill DeWit:
I'm excited. I have some ideas.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
First, before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It is free, so I'm getting an account there. And then by the way, if you are a member, I know that we're beating a dead horse here, but I want you guys to get in Discord. It rocks.

Steven Butala:
John asks, "Can anyone elaborate and help me understand the paragraph from V26 May investors newsletter?"

Steven Butala:
We have a newsletter, Land Academy does. I don't know if it goes to everybody or if it goes just to our members. And so I write stuff in there, I'm a writer for the newsletter. And, this whole thing, I'm going to read this because this person was asking for clarification about what I said. A lot of years ago, I was with us listening to Larry King on this long drive. And he was interviewing William Shatner and of course, Star Trek came up and Larry King said, "Do you have these people that ever come up to you and ask you about Star Trek?" And he said, "Oh yeah, I have people on a daily basis." And, so they'd take a question from a caller on that switchboard. And the caller says, "What did you mean by... When you said XYZ in episode 14 in the third season of star Trek?" And, William Shatner blew his top.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny.

Steven Butala:
He said, "I don't remember."

Jill DeWit:
Why would they not have a better relationship with the Klingon community based on X?" Yeah.

Steven Butala:
He said, "Listen, asshole" I can't say that. I'm going to ask our guys to... He just blew his top. He said, "Listen, I can't remember even actually doing that show at all. Ever."

Steven Butala:
Are you writing down the time?

Jill DeWit:
Yes I am.

Steven Butala:
"I don't remember showing up for work for that entire part of my life, let alone episodes and what I said and the dialogue and all of that. And by the way, it wasn't me who said that it was my character." And, so he just went off and I don't know, I stopped the car. I was laughing so hard.

Jill DeWit:
That's good.

Steven Butala:
So, here I am saying and writing some stuff, then I'm going to try to translate that I don't remember saying it, right?

Jill DeWit:
Go for it.

Steven Butala:
He asks,, "Can you elaborate or help me understand what you meant?" And, what I wrote is this, "Here is what it can do for property investors like us after reviewing the entire 150 million unit data set, there's 150 million unit properties in this country, I would like to see properties with no improvement value, just land in zip codes, where the spread between the average completed sale value and the foresale values are the largest."

Steven Butala:
So, you've got really large for sale values and really low completed sale values. "This tells me where to send out blind offers. Then I would like to see within those geographic parameters, what acreage range is the widest. This tells me which owners or to whom to send blind offers after scrubbing down to this dataset, I'd like to know what the actual spread prices are. This tells me for how much to send each offer out how to price the offers."

Steven Butala:
That makes complete sense to me. Does it make sense to you? What he didn't include, and it's fine, is the context of what this was and what I said. And, this is my advice to everyone. Take four steps back and don't get all in the deluge of the data. Take a look,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/02/who-should-i-hire-first-in-2021-la-1516/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">l3lsdz6nd</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e122c6a0-4d02-43a7-a3bc-7e84768f2a77.mp3" length="15793905" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Employees We Can Live Without (Rants) (LA 1515)</title><itunes:title>The Employees We Can Live Without (Rants) (LA 1515)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Employees We Can Live Without (Rants) (LA 1515)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the employees we can live without.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I've got one.

Steven Butala:
This is our rant.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
It's hiring week all week today, all this week.

Jill DeWit:
This is going to be good. I'll tell you one employee I could do without, the kind that wants to replace me.

Steven Butala:
Who would ever replace you?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, wait, I'll fill you in.

Steven Butala:
Let's take a question before Jill's rant. It was posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Martin wrote, "A potential buyer reached out to me following my first mailer interested in selling their 0.5 acre vacant lot for $14,682. They informed me that they were selling not only the lot from my mailer offer, but the neighboring 0.5 acre lot. This is cool. I was informed that the additional lot has their deceased mother's hundred year old home on it and it was quoted as being uninhabitable. This is my first mailer and I'm diving into some unknown territory with potentially buying a lot with a home on it and I'd like to get some perspective from the group. The sellers informed me that both lots are off of primary roads and a three minute walk to a lake and both lots are in the seller's name."

Jill DeWit:
This is all good information.

Steven Butala:
This is really good.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. So here are the questions.

Steven Butala:
This is a beautiful story.

Jill DeWit:
"Number one, pending I can get the home for a low price, is it worth it? I don't want to do a home flip as one of my first buys and would plan to list as is. Two, can I take the home straight title myself or do I need to hire a realtor once I get the purchase agreement back? Thank you to match your health, Martin."

Jill DeWit:
This is great. Do you want to go first or do you want me to go first?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. 99% of all cases with vacant land, if there's something on it, it's more valuable, not less value. I don't care if it's a blown out mobile home, it's better. The 1% where you don't want this to be the case is where there's something that would fall under EPA guidelines as toxic and it would require a cleanup. So if there's an old house that's fallen down on a piece of property that's a few blocks from a lake, you can tell that's a beautiful, beautiful story. It's a fantastic. With a vacant lot next to it?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Now you have an acre.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, now you have a full acre. One of them has a house on it. So whoever buys it can keep one, sell the other, keep them both, whatever.

Steven Butala:
Can you imagine a situation where a vacant piece of property would be more value than one with an old house on it?

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Butala:
Neither can I.

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Butala:
All the utilities are hooked up. There's probably a slab there.

Jill DeWit:
That's great.

Steven Butala:
There's all kinds of positive things that go with that. And people know that. This world, people who go on Craigslist or anywhere are DIY type people. They would love to get a really inexpensive old house and spent five years fixing it up.

Jill DeWit:
Someone's going to want that. The hundred year old home that's been there and the loving story that goes with it. That mom lived there for how many years. Maybe dad built it. Maybe grandpa built it. That would be so cool and someone will love that.

Jill DeWit:
Another thing is, too, by the way, you can do this whole transaction yourself. Just because there's a house on it does not mean you need an agent.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Employees We Can Live Without (Rants) (LA 1515)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the employees we can live without.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I've got one.

Steven Butala:
This is our rant.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
It's hiring week all week today, all this week.

Jill DeWit:
This is going to be good. I'll tell you one employee I could do without, the kind that wants to replace me.

Steven Butala:
Who would ever replace you?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, wait, I'll fill you in.

Steven Butala:
Let's take a question before Jill's rant. It was posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Martin wrote, "A potential buyer reached out to me following my first mailer interested in selling their 0.5 acre vacant lot for $14,682. They informed me that they were selling not only the lot from my mailer offer, but the neighboring 0.5 acre lot. This is cool. I was informed that the additional lot has their deceased mother's hundred year old home on it and it was quoted as being uninhabitable. This is my first mailer and I'm diving into some unknown territory with potentially buying a lot with a home on it and I'd like to get some perspective from the group. The sellers informed me that both lots are off of primary roads and a three minute walk to a lake and both lots are in the seller's name."

Jill DeWit:
This is all good information.

Steven Butala:
This is really good.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. So here are the questions.

Steven Butala:
This is a beautiful story.

Jill DeWit:
"Number one, pending I can get the home for a low price, is it worth it? I don't want to do a home flip as one of my first buys and would plan to list as is. Two, can I take the home straight title myself or do I need to hire a realtor once I get the purchase agreement back? Thank you to match your health, Martin."

Jill DeWit:
This is great. Do you want to go first or do you want me to go first?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. 99% of all cases with vacant land, if there's something on it, it's more valuable, not less value. I don't care if it's a blown out mobile home, it's better. The 1% where you don't want this to be the case is where there's something that would fall under EPA guidelines as toxic and it would require a cleanup. So if there's an old house that's fallen down on a piece of property that's a few blocks from a lake, you can tell that's a beautiful, beautiful story. It's a fantastic. With a vacant lot next to it?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Now you have an acre.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, now you have a full acre. One of them has a house on it. So whoever buys it can keep one, sell the other, keep them both, whatever.

Steven Butala:
Can you imagine a situation where a vacant piece of property would be more value than one with an old house on it?

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Butala:
Neither can I.

Jill DeWit:
Nope.

Steven Butala:
All the utilities are hooked up. There's probably a slab there.

Jill DeWit:
That's great.

Steven Butala:
There's all kinds of positive things that go with that. And people know that. This world, people who go on Craigslist or anywhere are DIY type people. They would love to get a really inexpensive old house and spent five years fixing it up.

Jill DeWit:
Someone's going to want that. The hundred year old home that's been there and the loving story that goes with it. That mom lived there for how many years. Maybe dad built it. Maybe grandpa built it. That would be so cool and someone will love that.

Jill DeWit:
Another thing is, too, by the way, you can do this whole transaction yourself. Just because there's a house on it does not mean you need an agent.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/06/01/the-employees-we-can-live-without-rants-la-1515/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">hcdobpMEm</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3764878e-3c8e-4b61-b39a-faab2ca2bb05.mp3" length="23728793" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>24:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Our Favorite Types of Employees (Raves) (LA 1514)</title><itunes:title>Our Favorite Types of Employees (Raves) (LA 1514)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Our Favorite Types of Employees (Raves) (LA 1514)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala,

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet paradise valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about our favorite types of employees. These are raves and it's a-

Jill DeWit:
Positive.

Steven Butala:
...hiring week, all week.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Employee, employer, I love that. This is going to be good. Things that we've learned that we can help you with.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. You know enough.

Jill DeWit:
Because we've done it wrong and we've done it right.

Steven Butala:
We're getting a lot of questions from our members about how to scale their businesses up. They're buying and selling land pretty successfully, and now they want to make it a career.

Jill DeWit:
They need to expand their team and hire people.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Amir wrote, hi guys, thanks for the endless valuable information you give. I learn something new every podcast you post. As a beginner that aims to make relatively big deals, I want to buy between 30 and 70,000 and sell between 90 to $200,000. That's my favorite too.

Steven Butala:
That's what I want.

Jill DeWit:
I'm wondering, should I start with 10 to 20 small deals, buy in $3,000 in sell in the $10,000 range and then scale to the bigger ones or should I get familiar with the big ones right on my first mailer. Thanks at advance, Amir. You want to go first?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. A lot of people had a lot to say starting with our moderator, Kevin. Kevin, I can't thank you enough, by the way. And they all said go small first and I agree. I don't necessarily think you need to... And it's not because, here's why, there's two reasons. Number one, you're going to make some mistakes, everybody does. And the earlier you make the mistakes, the faster you're going to be successful. So you want to do that on smaller deals. You don't want to lose a lot of money.

Jill DeWit:
I'm not going to sweat about it.

Steven Butala:
I'm not necessarily saying you're going to lose money, but you might not do a deed right or you might not respond to a seller the right way, or there's just little things that happen.

Jill DeWit:
Really, that's stuff you can solve regardless of the deal. But what if you bought one wrong, I don't know, you overpaid for one big deal. So, that's my usual thing at the 10 out of the way. If they're 10 smaller ones and nine of them are great, and one you're like, oh, I totally screwed up and shoot. Technically I lost money on that one or I broke even on that one, but that's okay because the other nine make up for that one and now you got it.

Steven Butala:
And then my second and final point, which is I think incredibly important is you need to find out if this is for you.

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Butala:
So there's a lot of their sips. This isn't for everybody. It's a lot of work, it's extremely rewarding. I think it's a lot of fun. You might find out this is just no fun.

Jill DeWit:
We are weird.

Steven Butala:
I know. Yes. Land Academy is a group full of weird people that enjoy buying real estate and selling it for more. You get high off of it actually, just do so.

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Butala:
Here's another question here later in the week where we talk about the deal high.

Jill DeWit:
Can I pause for just a second here BEcause this is so good? Because we sometimes talk about this differently. We really have told people, Hey, go for it, whatever you want to do, you can just go for it. So there's no real wrong answer here. If you want to just dive in, go for the bigger deals, you feel real comfortable with them and do deal fundi...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our Favorite Types of Employees (Raves) (LA 1514)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala,

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet paradise valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about our favorite types of employees. These are raves and it's a-

Jill DeWit:
Positive.

Steven Butala:
...hiring week, all week.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Employee, employer, I love that. This is going to be good. Things that we've learned that we can help you with.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. You know enough.

Jill DeWit:
Because we've done it wrong and we've done it right.

Steven Butala:
We're getting a lot of questions from our members about how to scale their businesses up. They're buying and selling land pretty successfully, and now they want to make it a career.

Jill DeWit:
They need to expand their team and hire people.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Amir wrote, hi guys, thanks for the endless valuable information you give. I learn something new every podcast you post. As a beginner that aims to make relatively big deals, I want to buy between 30 and 70,000 and sell between 90 to $200,000. That's my favorite too.

Steven Butala:
That's what I want.

Jill DeWit:
I'm wondering, should I start with 10 to 20 small deals, buy in $3,000 in sell in the $10,000 range and then scale to the bigger ones or should I get familiar with the big ones right on my first mailer. Thanks at advance, Amir. You want to go first?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. A lot of people had a lot to say starting with our moderator, Kevin. Kevin, I can't thank you enough, by the way. And they all said go small first and I agree. I don't necessarily think you need to... And it's not because, here's why, there's two reasons. Number one, you're going to make some mistakes, everybody does. And the earlier you make the mistakes, the faster you're going to be successful. So you want to do that on smaller deals. You don't want to lose a lot of money.

Jill DeWit:
I'm not going to sweat about it.

Steven Butala:
I'm not necessarily saying you're going to lose money, but you might not do a deed right or you might not respond to a seller the right way, or there's just little things that happen.

Jill DeWit:
Really, that's stuff you can solve regardless of the deal. But what if you bought one wrong, I don't know, you overpaid for one big deal. So, that's my usual thing at the 10 out of the way. If they're 10 smaller ones and nine of them are great, and one you're like, oh, I totally screwed up and shoot. Technically I lost money on that one or I broke even on that one, but that's okay because the other nine make up for that one and now you got it.

Steven Butala:
And then my second and final point, which is I think incredibly important is you need to find out if this is for you.

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Butala:
So there's a lot of their sips. This isn't for everybody. It's a lot of work, it's extremely rewarding. I think it's a lot of fun. You might find out this is just no fun.

Jill DeWit:
We are weird.

Steven Butala:
I know. Yes. Land Academy is a group full of weird people that enjoy buying real estate and selling it for more. You get high off of it actually, just do so.

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Butala:
Here's another question here later in the week where we talk about the deal high.

Jill DeWit:
Can I pause for just a second here BEcause this is so good? Because we sometimes talk about this differently. We really have told people, Hey, go for it, whatever you want to do, you can just go for it. So there's no real wrong answer here. If you want to just dive in, go for the bigger deals, you feel real comfortable with them and do deal fundi...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/31/our_favorite_types_of_employees_raves/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nJgs-lhi_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/362ad50d-e012-4e8e-b225-d177a2784adf.mp3" length="14607919" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; We Have Hot Water! Starting my House Renovation (LA 1513)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; We Have Hot Water! Starting my House Renovation (LA 1513)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - We Have Hot Water! Starting my House Renovation (LA 1513)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from happening Paradise Valley, Arizona. It's happening because we are here now. Everyone-

Steven Butala:
It's-

Jill K DeWit:
Excuse me. Hold, please. I'm not done. All of you 80 year-olds that are listening that are my neighbors ... Just kidding. Watch out. There's new kids in town. There's a reason we're here. We have no HOA so we're going to have some rocking parties.

Steven Butala:
We're the young whippersnappers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, we are.

Steven Butala:
We're the ones who are going to create the noise in the state.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, it's going to be good.

Steven Butala:
We're the Gatsbys.

Jill K DeWit:
Our neighbors are going to wish we had an HOA. Just kidding. "Paradise Valley Police Department. Yeah, yeah, we know. Jack and Jill? Uh-huh, we're on it." Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about how we actually have hot water in this monstrosity of a mess of a house that we just bought and how we're starting-

Jill K DeWit:
How we're starting some renovations.

Steven Butala:
Jill's renovation, I call it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'd like to add, too ... Here's what realistically happened because this is what happened at the beach. When you call the police department you might get a voicemail because they're at our party.

Steven Butala:
That's true.

Jill K DeWit:
That really did happen at the beach.

Steven Butala:
That's true. Those guys are great.

Jill K DeWit:
So, just be prepared.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on LandInvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Andrew W. wrote, "Hi, everyone. Question for you. We have a buyer who's interested in one of our properties and he wants to purchase but he stated they want to meet us, the owners, in person at the property to confirm before purchasing. Has anyone experienced this and know what to say or do? The property's out of state and if anything we could make the trip but wanted to see what others have done in the past. Thanks."

Jill K DeWit:
Well, one easy way to get out of it right now is play the COVID card like, "Oh, I can't. My wife won't go." Play the double whammy. "My wife is not into it and ..." What were you going to say? You're so serious right now.

Steven Butala:
I've done this ...

Jill K DeWit:
Have fun.

Steven Butala:
Here's why I'm serious, because this is a serious question.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I know that. You want me to answer? Because that's ... I believe it. I'm having fun but I wanted to lighten it up a little bit and [inaudible 00:02:30][crosstalk 00:02:30]-

Steven Butala:
I'm racking Jill's time.

Jill K DeWit:
And then I can reel it ... give a real.

Steven Butala:
This is not the first time.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what, Andrew. I accurately tell people I'm not there. I've had people say, "Are you going to show me around?" And I made a joke and I said, "Yeah, I'll leave a key under the mat," and then they didn't quite get it and I had to ... It's okay. The right people get it. But there's nothing wrong with that. You don't need to be there. You don't need to show the property. I'm just ... You have a lot to say. I can tell you're holding back.

Steven Butala:
I don't have a lot to say.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm honest about it.

Steven Butala:
I've three or four sentences. I've done this a handful of times and every single time it's a mess.

Jill K DeWit:
You show up there?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I've never done that.

Steven Butala:
And here's what I've ... This is way early in my career because we were dying for sales and it was never ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - We Have Hot Water! Starting my House Renovation (LA 1513)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from happening Paradise Valley, Arizona. It's happening because we are here now. Everyone-

Steven Butala:
It's-

Jill K DeWit:
Excuse me. Hold, please. I'm not done. All of you 80 year-olds that are listening that are my neighbors ... Just kidding. Watch out. There's new kids in town. There's a reason we're here. We have no HOA so we're going to have some rocking parties.

Steven Butala:
We're the young whippersnappers.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes, we are.

Steven Butala:
We're the ones who are going to create the noise in the state.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, it's going to be good.

Steven Butala:
We're the Gatsbys.

Jill K DeWit:
Our neighbors are going to wish we had an HOA. Just kidding. "Paradise Valley Police Department. Yeah, yeah, we know. Jack and Jill? Uh-huh, we're on it." Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about how we actually have hot water in this monstrosity of a mess of a house that we just bought and how we're starting-

Jill K DeWit:
How we're starting some renovations.

Steven Butala:
Jill's renovation, I call it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'd like to add, too ... Here's what realistically happened because this is what happened at the beach. When you call the police department you might get a voicemail because they're at our party.

Steven Butala:
That's true.

Jill K DeWit:
That really did happen at the beach.

Steven Butala:
That's true. Those guys are great.

Jill K DeWit:
So, just be prepared.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on LandInvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Andrew W. wrote, "Hi, everyone. Question for you. We have a buyer who's interested in one of our properties and he wants to purchase but he stated they want to meet us, the owners, in person at the property to confirm before purchasing. Has anyone experienced this and know what to say or do? The property's out of state and if anything we could make the trip but wanted to see what others have done in the past. Thanks."

Jill K DeWit:
Well, one easy way to get out of it right now is play the COVID card like, "Oh, I can't. My wife won't go." Play the double whammy. "My wife is not into it and ..." What were you going to say? You're so serious right now.

Steven Butala:
I've done this ...

Jill K DeWit:
Have fun.

Steven Butala:
Here's why I'm serious, because this is a serious question.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I know that. You want me to answer? Because that's ... I believe it. I'm having fun but I wanted to lighten it up a little bit and [inaudible 00:02:30][crosstalk 00:02:30]-

Steven Butala:
I'm racking Jill's time.

Jill K DeWit:
And then I can reel it ... give a real.

Steven Butala:
This is not the first time.

Jill K DeWit:
You know what, Andrew. I accurately tell people I'm not there. I've had people say, "Are you going to show me around?" And I made a joke and I said, "Yeah, I'll leave a key under the mat," and then they didn't quite get it and I had to ... It's okay. The right people get it. But there's nothing wrong with that. You don't need to be there. You don't need to show the property. I'm just ... You have a lot to say. I can tell you're holding back.

Steven Butala:
I don't have a lot to say.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm honest about it.

Steven Butala:
I've three or four sentences. I've done this a handful of times and every single time it's a mess.

Jill K DeWit:
You show up there?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I've never done that.

Steven Butala:
And here's what I've ... This is way early in my career because we were dying for sales and it was never ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/28/jill-friday-we-have-hot-water-starting-my-house-renovation-la-1513/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aurna4UgC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/886372ee-22f1-40d4-93ff-f6538fd7d902.mp3" length="11588485" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; DataTree vs RealQuest vs TitlePRO (LA 1512)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; DataTree vs RealQuest vs TitlePRO (LA 1512)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - DataTree vs RealQuest vs TitlePRO (LA 1512)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about DataTree versus RealQuest versus TitlePro. These are the three largest mainstream data aggregators. I'll really deconstruct them and tell you which ones are which and why.

Jill K DeWit:
This sounds so exciting.

Steven Butala:
What color is your nail polish today that you're going to put on your nails while I talk about this?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't have any. I'm going to run and get some here. I will have plenty of time to choose and paint.

Jill K DeWit:
Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Sean wrote, "Which is more accurate for getting situs zip, geocode.io or DataTree?

Jill K DeWit:
There's other places to do those, too, by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
I ran the long [lap 00:01:09] from DataTree through geocode.io to get situs zip codes. Then I noticed DataTree already had the situs zip codes listed to download. I can put the two columns side-by-side and notice some discrepancies. Anyone have any experience on which one is more accurate?

Jill K DeWit:
Where to go?

Steven Butala:
Sean, this is the right way to do this, but as I'm going to explain here in a few minutes about sources of data, generally, the more urban the data, the more populated all the columns are because the assessor has a vested interest in getting to know properties more in urban areas versus rural areas. Why? So that they can charge accurate and, in a lot of cases, higher-

Jill K DeWit:
More.

Steven Butala:
... property taxes.

Steven Butala:
This is a universal rule about data. This is a good question for today. The more urban it is, the more populated or accurate it probably is. When you look at data for LA County, specifically City of Los Angeles, I fall out of my chair at how amazing the data quality is, regardless of the source. If you go to rural, I'm not picking on any state in general, Indiana or anywhere, some rural counties in Texas, it's incredibly incomplete to the point where you fall out of the other side of your chair. You can't use it. I'll talk all about that.

Steven Butala:
The reason that you're getting discrepancies in geo zip codes is because you took a county or a city or zip code, whatever, that was really populated with zip codes, situs zip codes in DataTree. Then when you try to convert it over, there are discrepancies because geocoding is not perfect. It's just like everything. Does the discrepancies matter? No, it's all a numbers game. If 90% of it's probably accurate or higher, you're going to buy some real estate. That's the whole point here.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
And I'll just say, the people that join Land Academy are incredibly intelligent. We don't have any control over who joins or who doesn't.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, we do.

Steven Butala:
We have control over who stays in the group.

Jill K DeWit:
There we go. Like, hold on a moment.

Steven Butala:
This is a crazy intelligent question, but I think that there are certain types of people that join Land Academy and just make it an academic exercise for them. Instead of, let's say, quilting, data analysis becomes their hobby.

Jill K DeWit:
It's good.

Steven Butala:
This is how people get divorced, by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
I thought you were going to say how people get rich.

Steven Butala:
No, just [follow 00:03:44] me on this.

Steven Butala:
Instead of keeping your eye on the prize, which is buying a piece of land and reselling it for more infamy-

Jill K DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - DataTree vs RealQuest vs TitlePRO (LA 1512)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about DataTree versus RealQuest versus TitlePro. These are the three largest mainstream data aggregators. I'll really deconstruct them and tell you which ones are which and why.

Jill K DeWit:
This sounds so exciting.

Steven Butala:
What color is your nail polish today that you're going to put on your nails while I talk about this?

Jill K DeWit:
I don't have any. I'm going to run and get some here. I will have plenty of time to choose and paint.

Jill K DeWit:
Just kidding.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Sean wrote, "Which is more accurate for getting situs zip, geocode.io or DataTree?

Jill K DeWit:
There's other places to do those, too, by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
I ran the long [lap 00:01:09] from DataTree through geocode.io to get situs zip codes. Then I noticed DataTree already had the situs zip codes listed to download. I can put the two columns side-by-side and notice some discrepancies. Anyone have any experience on which one is more accurate?

Jill K DeWit:
Where to go?

Steven Butala:
Sean, this is the right way to do this, but as I'm going to explain here in a few minutes about sources of data, generally, the more urban the data, the more populated all the columns are because the assessor has a vested interest in getting to know properties more in urban areas versus rural areas. Why? So that they can charge accurate and, in a lot of cases, higher-

Jill K DeWit:
More.

Steven Butala:
... property taxes.

Steven Butala:
This is a universal rule about data. This is a good question for today. The more urban it is, the more populated or accurate it probably is. When you look at data for LA County, specifically City of Los Angeles, I fall out of my chair at how amazing the data quality is, regardless of the source. If you go to rural, I'm not picking on any state in general, Indiana or anywhere, some rural counties in Texas, it's incredibly incomplete to the point where you fall out of the other side of your chair. You can't use it. I'll talk all about that.

Steven Butala:
The reason that you're getting discrepancies in geo zip codes is because you took a county or a city or zip code, whatever, that was really populated with zip codes, situs zip codes in DataTree. Then when you try to convert it over, there are discrepancies because geocoding is not perfect. It's just like everything. Does the discrepancies matter? No, it's all a numbers game. If 90% of it's probably accurate or higher, you're going to buy some real estate. That's the whole point here.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
And I'll just say, the people that join Land Academy are incredibly intelligent. We don't have any control over who joins or who doesn't.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, we do.

Steven Butala:
We have control over who stays in the group.

Jill K DeWit:
There we go. Like, hold on a moment.

Steven Butala:
This is a crazy intelligent question, but I think that there are certain types of people that join Land Academy and just make it an academic exercise for them. Instead of, let's say, quilting, data analysis becomes their hobby.

Jill K DeWit:
It's good.

Steven Butala:
This is how people get divorced, by the way.

Jill K DeWit:
I thought you were going to say how people get rich.

Steven Butala:
No, just [follow 00:03:44] me on this.

Steven Butala:
Instead of keeping your eye on the prize, which is buying a piece of land and reselling it for more infamy-

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Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to find real estate deals in 2021. So is it any different than 2020? Is it any different than 1960?

Jill K DeWit:
No. Well, probably. 1960 was probably a lot of knocking on doors back then, but it could have been done the same way.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I'd like to talk about that here in a minute.

Steven Butala:
I will. I'll ask you questions.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Jordan wrote, "When you guys are looking at Land Watch and Land and Farm, do you pay attention to the listings from other sources? It seems like a lot of the properties on listings from other sources are always a lot cheaper and more reasonably priced." Is that like on Zillow, where it's like FSBO versus agent listings? I'm not even sure what that is.

Steven Butala:
Jordan, this is a brilliant question. There are alternative sources, which I love, alternative sources to look at real estate that's for sale that's posted because people like us and people like Land Academy members understand it. You don't have to necessarily go through the MLS. So on Zillow, there's a category called other, and you should study that. On Land Watch and Land and Farm, those two sites specifically encourage independent postings for property.

Jill K DeWit:
I thought the whole thing is that way.

Steven Butala:
The whole thing is not that way anymore. They have what's called an IDX feed for each area, so-

Jill K DeWit:
They're pulling it in from MLS. That's taking away what it used to be.

Steven Butala:
Exactly. Exactly. It's just those sites, not so much Zillow, although it's true are all run by tech people in San Francisco and so they don't really, truly understand-

Jill K DeWit:
They're not investors. We happened to know that. We had a run in with them several years ago and they're like, "We don't really care who you are, what you do, or how much money you pay us every month. This is just the way it is." I was like, "Okay, noted," and then we've made our own site called LandPin.

Steven Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
So we don't need you guys then fine.

Steven Butala:
But Jordan's question is, is it pertinent to running data from a red, green, yellow test than from a.. Yeah. It's pertinent. I would absolutely look at it. Would I throw it into your pool of data and then take averages out and price it that way? No, not at all, but I really would use it to see what kind of activities there are and all that. This is a very good question. Today's topic, how to find deals in 2021. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
So I would like to talk about... I'm trying to think. So in 1960, I bet that was like the height in up and coming thing, was probably very classy and maybe they had the gold jackets back then. I don't know. Was it century 21 when they had the gold jackets I think?

Steven Butala:
I can tell you from experience. I bought a house in the late eighties personally, or maybe it was very early nineties and when I sat down with a real estate agent and I...

Jill K DeWit:
There's a book.

Steven Butala:
I put a yellow piece of paper, shoved a yellow pad and I said, "I drove the whole area where I want to buy a house, and these are all the addresses that have listings and here's the listing." I was creating my own MLS. I didn't know anything about this stuff. I was a kid. And she looked at me and said, "Whatever you choose to do, be for your living for the rest of your life,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Find Real Estate Deals 2021 | Direct Mail (LA 1511)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to find real estate deals in 2021. So is it any different than 2020? Is it any different than 1960?

Jill K DeWit:
No. Well, probably. 1960 was probably a lot of knocking on doors back then, but it could have been done the same way.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I'd like to talk about that here in a minute.

Steven Butala:
I will. I'll ask you questions.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Jordan wrote, "When you guys are looking at Land Watch and Land and Farm, do you pay attention to the listings from other sources? It seems like a lot of the properties on listings from other sources are always a lot cheaper and more reasonably priced." Is that like on Zillow, where it's like FSBO versus agent listings? I'm not even sure what that is.

Steven Butala:
Jordan, this is a brilliant question. There are alternative sources, which I love, alternative sources to look at real estate that's for sale that's posted because people like us and people like Land Academy members understand it. You don't have to necessarily go through the MLS. So on Zillow, there's a category called other, and you should study that. On Land Watch and Land and Farm, those two sites specifically encourage independent postings for property.

Jill K DeWit:
I thought the whole thing is that way.

Steven Butala:
The whole thing is not that way anymore. They have what's called an IDX feed for each area, so-

Jill K DeWit:
They're pulling it in from MLS. That's taking away what it used to be.

Steven Butala:
Exactly. Exactly. It's just those sites, not so much Zillow, although it's true are all run by tech people in San Francisco and so they don't really, truly understand-

Jill K DeWit:
They're not investors. We happened to know that. We had a run in with them several years ago and they're like, "We don't really care who you are, what you do, or how much money you pay us every month. This is just the way it is." I was like, "Okay, noted," and then we've made our own site called LandPin.

Steven Butala:
Exactly.

Jill K DeWit:
So we don't need you guys then fine.

Steven Butala:
But Jordan's question is, is it pertinent to running data from a red, green, yellow test than from a.. Yeah. It's pertinent. I would absolutely look at it. Would I throw it into your pool of data and then take averages out and price it that way? No, not at all, but I really would use it to see what kind of activities there are and all that. This is a very good question. Today's topic, how to find deals in 2021. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
So I would like to talk about... I'm trying to think. So in 1960, I bet that was like the height in up and coming thing, was probably very classy and maybe they had the gold jackets back then. I don't know. Was it century 21 when they had the gold jackets I think?

Steven Butala:
I can tell you from experience. I bought a house in the late eighties personally, or maybe it was very early nineties and when I sat down with a real estate agent and I...

Jill K DeWit:
There's a book.

Steven Butala:
I put a yellow piece of paper, shoved a yellow pad and I said, "I drove the whole area where I want to buy a house, and these are all the addresses that have listings and here's the listing." I was creating my own MLS. I didn't know anything about this stuff. I was a kid. And she looked at me and said, "Whatever you choose to do, be for your living for the rest of your life,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/26/how-to-find-real-estate-deals-2021-direct-mail-la-1511/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">brag88lvG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0b820163-aca0-47eb-9295-9b15a526f152.mp3" length="16305313" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is it Too Late to Get Started in Real Estate? (LA 1510)</title><itunes:title>Is it Too Late to Get Started in Real Estate? (LA 1510)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Is it Too Late to Get Started in Real Estate? (LA 1510)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona. That's a mouthful. How am I going to get that? I'm have to come up with some cute little saying with that.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Nolan wrote, "Hello, all. Curious to know how you include a second parcel in the original purchase agreement, if possible, meaning the seller wants to sell the property you sent the PA for, purchase agreement, but he also wants to sell another one that they own in this transaction. Do you typically just mail another PA for the second property, or can something be written on the original PA to include the second one. The seller is older and not very tech savvy for DocuSign. Thanks." You can, a hundred percent, just write it on the bottom. I just tell them, "Hey, if we change the price or something, cross out that price, put in the new price on there and initial it." Good enough for me.

Steven Butala:
And take a picture of it and send it with your phone, or have his grandchildren do that, or whatever.

Jill K DeWit:
I've done them all.

Steven Butala:
However, it works.

Jill K DeWit:
I have called on Saturday and taught them how to take a picture with their phone. I have waited for the grandkids to get home. Sometimes they have an old fashioned fax machine kind of thing. So there's lots of ways to get it back to you. You can just write it on there. It doesn't have to be... And even for escrow. I have two things I want to say on this. One is, if you're going to self close a deal, it's just, if you want to have it, it's only personal preference, you don't need to have this piece of paper. It's like your accountant's going to need to see it or anything like that at the end of the year, if you want it. But for escrow, most of the time, they're going to want you to have something opening up the transaction, showing that, "Hey, here's what I'm buying. I have a signed purchase agreement. This is the price. And moving forward." Thank you for letting me finish my sentence today.

Steven Butala:
The National Association of Realtors and lawyers in general, spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fake you out, into believing that you have to sign your name 50 times to buy a piece of real estate and that you need them. Here's the facts. This came up in Career Path and we talked about it for a long time. And somebody in Career Path... These are extremely advanced, intelligent people in some cases, said, "What do you need from a legal documentation standpoint to close a deal?" To which I said, "A deed. You need to have the seller sign the deed over to you."

Jill K DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Butala:
That's all. Then the deal is done and it's legal.

Jill K DeWit:
It makes me nuts. I can't believe I've had to sign like COVID things and all that stuff for a piece of land, four states over that I'm never going to see, and I'm never going to even talk to that person.

Steven Butala:
That's right.

Jill K DeWit:
Why do I have to sign this?

Steven Butala:
So as far as the purchase agreement is concerned, it's only a guide for pricing. It's an agreement between the buyer and seller. You can do it on the back of a cocktail napkin. I've done many deals on the back of a cocktail napkin where two people have initialed it. You put the APN on there and the price and the time. Do you even need that? No, but it's just like an agreement. It's an agreement between two people. So as far as that purchasing agreement goes, if you have somebody who's not super elderly and understands how to use their phone,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Is it Too Late to Get Started in Real Estate? (LA 1510)
Transcript:

Jill K DeWit:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from pretty Paradise Valley, Arizona. That's a mouthful. How am I going to get that? I'm have to come up with some cute little saying with that.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Nolan wrote, "Hello, all. Curious to know how you include a second parcel in the original purchase agreement, if possible, meaning the seller wants to sell the property you sent the PA for, purchase agreement, but he also wants to sell another one that they own in this transaction. Do you typically just mail another PA for the second property, or can something be written on the original PA to include the second one. The seller is older and not very tech savvy for DocuSign. Thanks." You can, a hundred percent, just write it on the bottom. I just tell them, "Hey, if we change the price or something, cross out that price, put in the new price on there and initial it." Good enough for me.

Steven Butala:
And take a picture of it and send it with your phone, or have his grandchildren do that, or whatever.

Jill K DeWit:
I've done them all.

Steven Butala:
However, it works.

Jill K DeWit:
I have called on Saturday and taught them how to take a picture with their phone. I have waited for the grandkids to get home. Sometimes they have an old fashioned fax machine kind of thing. So there's lots of ways to get it back to you. You can just write it on there. It doesn't have to be... And even for escrow. I have two things I want to say on this. One is, if you're going to self close a deal, it's just, if you want to have it, it's only personal preference, you don't need to have this piece of paper. It's like your accountant's going to need to see it or anything like that at the end of the year, if you want it. But for escrow, most of the time, they're going to want you to have something opening up the transaction, showing that, "Hey, here's what I'm buying. I have a signed purchase agreement. This is the price. And moving forward." Thank you for letting me finish my sentence today.

Steven Butala:
The National Association of Realtors and lawyers in general, spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fake you out, into believing that you have to sign your name 50 times to buy a piece of real estate and that you need them. Here's the facts. This came up in Career Path and we talked about it for a long time. And somebody in Career Path... These are extremely advanced, intelligent people in some cases, said, "What do you need from a legal documentation standpoint to close a deal?" To which I said, "A deed. You need to have the seller sign the deed over to you."

Jill K DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Butala:
That's all. Then the deal is done and it's legal.

Jill K DeWit:
It makes me nuts. I can't believe I've had to sign like COVID things and all that stuff for a piece of land, four states over that I'm never going to see, and I'm never going to even talk to that person.

Steven Butala:
That's right.

Jill K DeWit:
Why do I have to sign this?

Steven Butala:
So as far as the purchase agreement is concerned, it's only a guide for pricing. It's an agreement between the buyer and seller. You can do it on the back of a cocktail napkin. I've done many deals on the back of a cocktail napkin where two people have initialed it. You put the APN on there and the price and the time. Do you even need that? No, but it's just like an agreement. It's an agreement between two people. So as far as that purchasing agreement goes, if you have somebody who's not super elderly and understands how to use their phone,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/25/is-it-too-late-to-get-started-in-real-estate-1510/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">mPkPmPXjs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 22:08:32 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2bb06090-e702-407b-98ad-56b0be70f5d0.mp3" length="15863709" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Investing in Other Business vs Real Estate (LA 1509)</title><itunes:title>Investing in Other Business vs Real Estate (LA 1509)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Investing in Other Business vs Real Estate (LA 1509)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I don't think it's Scottsdale, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry. Well, let's just say-

Steven Butala:
This is new for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm near Scottsdale, Arizona, we'll just say that. I'm sitting in front of what appears like, you know what it looks like? It looks like we're at a resort. Coming to you from the Camelback Inn Resort and Villas. Coming to you from Ballroom A. We should do that.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I are recording this week from a property that we purchased in Paradise Valley.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you very much.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please use Discord, but don't overuse it.

Jill K DeWit:
Noted.

Steven Butala:
I'll leave it at that.

Jill K DeWit:
Noted.

Steven Butala:
This is a long story that's worth reading. I'd happily read it, if you'd like.

Jill K DeWit:
I like reading it. I will settle in. And you too should settle in, as I look how long this is. Tony wrote, "Hi everyone." Wait, wait. Was this in Land Investors or was this in Discord?

Steven Butala:
Land investors.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "Hi everyone. I just wanted to chime in, introduce myself. My name is Tony and I've owned and operated an insurance agency for the past 11 years with great success. Finally I got tired of the company that I was selling for and sold my agency about six months ago. Was in the process of trying to figure out what to do next when I came across a YouTube video ad for land flipping. I thought to myself, is this for real? Well as most of you know, research leads you down some pretty deep rabbit holes, and I finally came across Land Academy with Steve and Jill. Those guys really struck a chord in me, as I found them to be probably the most sincere and entertaining educators on the subject out there." Entertaining.

Steven Butala:
I'll take it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sincere, you're entertaining. We're going to change our ending.

Steven Butala:
I think it's the other way. Insincere? This is Steve and Jill. Insincere.

Jill K DeWit:
And entertaining. Insincere and boring. No, I'm just kidding. That's so cool. Thank you, Tony. All right. Back to the comments here. "As much as I've researched and tried to learn, and trust me, there's plenty more out there to learn, I was and still am a bit skeptical. One night I was talking about possibly doing land flipping at the dinner table with my family and my 15-year-old daughter got intrigued as much as I did. Afterwards, little did I know she started to watch Land Academy episodes on YouTube." You've got to be kidding me.

Steven Butala:
Entertaining teenagers.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Butala:
It's something that Jill and I haven't been able to accomplish in our own family.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. This is the only one.

Steven Butala:
Congratulations, pal. You have the unicorn.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "YouTube and started to learn on her own the basics of land flipping. She came to me a little over a week ago and said, 'Dad, we could totally do this.' She then went on to tell me why and she went into steps of one" ... I'm still flipping proud of her.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
I want to give this little girl a hug.

Steven Butala:
We should have her on the show.

Jill K DeWit:
She's so good. "One, researching counties. Two, pick a county. Three, get the data. Four, scrub the data. Five, send out mailers. Six, buy the land. Seven, sell the land. Eight, rinse and repeat. Now I'm sure to all the experienced land folks out there, this is way over simplified,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Investing in Other Business vs Real Estate (LA 1509)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I don't think it's Scottsdale, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, I'm sorry. Well, let's just say-

Steven Butala:
This is new for us.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, I'm near Scottsdale, Arizona, we'll just say that. I'm sitting in front of what appears like, you know what it looks like? It looks like we're at a resort. Coming to you from the Camelback Inn Resort and Villas. Coming to you from Ballroom A. We should do that.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I are recording this week from a property that we purchased in Paradise Valley.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you very much.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please use Discord, but don't overuse it.

Jill K DeWit:
Noted.

Steven Butala:
I'll leave it at that.

Jill K DeWit:
Noted.

Steven Butala:
This is a long story that's worth reading. I'd happily read it, if you'd like.

Jill K DeWit:
I like reading it. I will settle in. And you too should settle in, as I look how long this is. Tony wrote, "Hi everyone." Wait, wait. Was this in Land Investors or was this in Discord?

Steven Butala:
Land investors.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "Hi everyone. I just wanted to chime in, introduce myself. My name is Tony and I've owned and operated an insurance agency for the past 11 years with great success. Finally I got tired of the company that I was selling for and sold my agency about six months ago. Was in the process of trying to figure out what to do next when I came across a YouTube video ad for land flipping. I thought to myself, is this for real? Well as most of you know, research leads you down some pretty deep rabbit holes, and I finally came across Land Academy with Steve and Jill. Those guys really struck a chord in me, as I found them to be probably the most sincere and entertaining educators on the subject out there." Entertaining.

Steven Butala:
I'll take it.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sincere, you're entertaining. We're going to change our ending.

Steven Butala:
I think it's the other way. Insincere? This is Steve and Jill. Insincere.

Jill K DeWit:
And entertaining. Insincere and boring. No, I'm just kidding. That's so cool. Thank you, Tony. All right. Back to the comments here. "As much as I've researched and tried to learn, and trust me, there's plenty more out there to learn, I was and still am a bit skeptical. One night I was talking about possibly doing land flipping at the dinner table with my family and my 15-year-old daughter got intrigued as much as I did. Afterwards, little did I know she started to watch Land Academy episodes on YouTube." You've got to be kidding me.

Steven Butala:
Entertaining teenagers.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow.

Steven Butala:
It's something that Jill and I haven't been able to accomplish in our own family.

Jill K DeWit:
Wow. This is the only one.

Steven Butala:
Congratulations, pal. You have the unicorn.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. "YouTube and started to learn on her own the basics of land flipping. She came to me a little over a week ago and said, 'Dad, we could totally do this.' She then went on to tell me why and she went into steps of one" ... I'm still flipping proud of her.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill K DeWit:
I want to give this little girl a hug.

Steven Butala:
We should have her on the show.

Jill K DeWit:
She's so good. "One, researching counties. Two, pick a county. Three, get the data. Four, scrub the data. Five, send out mailers. Six, buy the land. Seven, sell the land. Eight, rinse and repeat. Now I'm sure to all the experienced land folks out there, this is way over simplified,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/24/investing-in-other-business-vs-real-estate-1509/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">xo1ouCcTo</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 21:57:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/56aa002e-ea94-42cb-8c79-3b5c869140f5.mp3" length="19897805" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Sometimes it Takes the Owner to Get a Deal Done (LA 1508)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Sometimes it Takes the Owner to Get a Deal Done (LA 1508)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Sometimes it Takes the Owner to Get a Deal Done (LA 1508)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
It's getting that way.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She says, "Sometimes it takes the owner to get a deal done." Boy, that's the truth.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes the owner's got to get involved.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes dad's got to get involved.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. That's what this is all about.

Steven Butala:
Is that what this is?

Jill DeWit:
That's exactly what this is about. You don't want to do it. I'm here to save you. If you think your staff's all idiots and no one can do anything, that's not true. Sometimes it just takes that extra whatever to get it, to get it done.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into this, let's take a question posed by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Andrew W. wrote, "Hey, everyone. I'm very interested in doing Land Academy. However, I'm not a citizen of the United States and was wondering if it would still be possible to purchase and sell land in America?"

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
"If anyone can answer the question for me, that would be great. Also, if possible, are there any particular issues that came along with not being a citizen? Thanks a lot, Andrew." I thought this was important because it hasn't come up in a while.

Steven Butala:
It's a great question.

Jill DeWit:
People don't realize that you don't have to live here and you don't have to be a citizen. You don't have to have a visa. You don't have to be a resident. You can be happily in, say, Ireland and do this.

Steven Butala:
This comes up probably once a week now, maybe once a month. But probably every couple of weeks somebody ask this question, whether they're in Discord or wherever, and we point them to the other people that are successfully doing this from other countries, specifically Canada and Ireland. We've got military people that are stationed all over the country that are doing it. I mean, all over the world.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
All of our VAs are in the Philippines, so it's truly a worldwide situation.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't that great? And it's funny, remember a long time ago we talked? One of the reasons we do what we do in the United States is the ease of it, but it's the ease of the data. And we were looking at doing this maybe internationally in Australia, because I think still right now it's the only other place that we can really get quality data and it's legal. Because we were talking about this with somebody in England one time, that version of the assessor and the owner data is not public information.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. We're very, very fortunate in this country.

Jill DeWit:
It's public information.

Steven Butala:
When the property got all subdivided or sanctioned, or whatever the verb is, by the federal and then eventually homesteaded out, I don't know why, but they just became a transparent ownership scenario. In most places in the world, it's the exact opposite. Nobody wants anyone else to know that they own anything.

Jill DeWit:
Or what they paid, or any of that.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
It's so funny that it's your home, but not your car.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
There's so many other things that it's not.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
It's real interesting. But luckily for us, it is.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Well, it wouldn't be possible.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
I've spent a substantial amount of time trying to duplicate this in Canada and it's just not going to happen.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Sometimes it Takes the Owner to Get a Deal Done (LA 1508)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
It's getting that way.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. She says, "Sometimes it takes the owner to get a deal done." Boy, that's the truth.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes the owner's got to get involved.

Jill DeWit:
Yep.

Steven Butala:
Sometimes dad's got to get involved.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. That's what this is all about.

Steven Butala:
Is that what this is?

Jill DeWit:
That's exactly what this is about. You don't want to do it. I'm here to save you. If you think your staff's all idiots and no one can do anything, that's not true. Sometimes it just takes that extra whatever to get it, to get it done.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into this, let's take a question posed by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Andrew W. wrote, "Hey, everyone. I'm very interested in doing Land Academy. However, I'm not a citizen of the United States and was wondering if it would still be possible to purchase and sell land in America?"

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
"If anyone can answer the question for me, that would be great. Also, if possible, are there any particular issues that came along with not being a citizen? Thanks a lot, Andrew." I thought this was important because it hasn't come up in a while.

Steven Butala:
It's a great question.

Jill DeWit:
People don't realize that you don't have to live here and you don't have to be a citizen. You don't have to have a visa. You don't have to be a resident. You can be happily in, say, Ireland and do this.

Steven Butala:
This comes up probably once a week now, maybe once a month. But probably every couple of weeks somebody ask this question, whether they're in Discord or wherever, and we point them to the other people that are successfully doing this from other countries, specifically Canada and Ireland. We've got military people that are stationed all over the country that are doing it. I mean, all over the world.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
All of our VAs are in the Philippines, so it's truly a worldwide situation.

Jill DeWit:
Isn't that great? And it's funny, remember a long time ago we talked? One of the reasons we do what we do in the United States is the ease of it, but it's the ease of the data. And we were looking at doing this maybe internationally in Australia, because I think still right now it's the only other place that we can really get quality data and it's legal. Because we were talking about this with somebody in England one time, that version of the assessor and the owner data is not public information.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. We're very, very fortunate in this country.

Jill DeWit:
It's public information.

Steven Butala:
When the property got all subdivided or sanctioned, or whatever the verb is, by the federal and then eventually homesteaded out, I don't know why, but they just became a transparent ownership scenario. In most places in the world, it's the exact opposite. Nobody wants anyone else to know that they own anything.

Jill DeWit:
Or what they paid, or any of that.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
It's so funny that it's your home, but not your car.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
There's so many other things that it's not.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
It's real interesting. But luckily for us, it is.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Well, it wouldn't be possible.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
I've spent a substantial amount of time trying to duplicate this in Canada and it's just not going to happen.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/21/jill-friday-sometimes-it-takes-the-owner-to-get-a-deal-done-la-1508/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">S2vGsfE1z</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 22:12:21 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0e24cf32-9f25-428e-a8da-5110a47dbd09.mp3" length="15580557" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; State of the Union &amp;#8211; Do We Care About Lumber Prices? (LA 1507)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; State of the Union &amp;#8211; Do We Care About Lumber Prices? (LA 1507)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - State of the Union - Do We Care About Lumber Prices? (LA 1507)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, hey, hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. What the heck?

Jill DeWit:
I don't know.

Steven Butala:
Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, and I apparently had too much caffeine.

Steven Butala:
Yes, you have.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to do what our customer service people have requested. A State of the Union, real estate in 2021. For example, do we care about lumber prices?

Jill DeWit:
I have a lot of questions, don't worry.

Steven Butala:
Okay. Before we get into it, then, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Corey wrote, "Good evening."

Steven Butala:
Sorry.

Jill DeWit:
When posting a deal on Land Tank or sending a deal to someone for funding, what info about the property is good to include, so that no time is wasted, to get a quick "yes" or "no" answer for funding? Of course, I know that the [inaudible 00:01:06] are important, but what else should I include? I love this question, by the way. I am new and I haven't bought any land yet, but I'm sending offers to ten to a hundred acre properties, because I know that there are plenty of people here that will fund a deal if it's right. P.S. Jill, I had to leave this in here. I absolutely love listening on Clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
You snuck this in here.

Jill DeWit:
I totally.

Steven Butala:
Jill has a love affair with Clubhouse.

Jill DeWit:
This is not me making it up. Corey really put this in here and I'm like, oh I am putting the whole thing.

Jill DeWit:
He said Jill, I absolutely love listening on Clubhouse for someone that isn't a member yet. I feel like I'm breaking the law getting all the info for free that you guys talk about on there. Of course, the podcasts on this site are great too. Thanks, Corey. [inaudible 00:01:54] this is awesome. Okay. I need to know how the property is going, how the property will be sold, how fast it will be sold and what the game plan is. So let me give you an example. So Corey, you come up with a beautiful twenty-acre property and whatever county and whatever price let's just say. Say it's twenty-acre property for $20,000. So not only do you give me the property details. If there's anything pertinent, I want that I found that there is a well, they used to have a mobile on there.

Jill DeWit:
I've found out that it just got rezoned to this. Something unique or cooler, something that's making you want, why we're doing this deal about the actual property. Then the other thing I want you to do is tell me about you. You're selling me not only on the property, but you're selling me on you because you're coming to me to money and you should be saying, here's how great the property is and here's how great I am. And here's what I'm going to do with this. So I need information that says, I've been studying this for six months. I've got three brokers lined up champing at the bit. They think it's going to sell within 30 days at three times our money and how fast can I do it? And I can, and I've got the title agent ready to go. I can do this in two weeks. That's the information I need.

Steven Butala:
Let me state the obvious.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
And put this sentence in there. I don't need anything from you guys except the money.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Perfect.

Steven Butala:
[inaudible 00:03:36] We have not so much now anymore. We've had a lot big problems with that when we start started Land Tank and deal funding. Basically new people were just throwing a property in there. It's a great deal. I know it's a great deal and just handing it to us and expecting us to do work.

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - State of the Union - Do We Care About Lumber Prices? (LA 1507)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, hey, hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. What the heck?

Jill DeWit:
I don't know.

Steven Butala:
Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, and I apparently had too much caffeine.

Steven Butala:
Yes, you have.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jack Thursday. I'm going to do what our customer service people have requested. A State of the Union, real estate in 2021. For example, do we care about lumber prices?

Jill DeWit:
I have a lot of questions, don't worry.

Steven Butala:
Okay. Before we get into it, then, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Corey wrote, "Good evening."

Steven Butala:
Sorry.

Jill DeWit:
When posting a deal on Land Tank or sending a deal to someone for funding, what info about the property is good to include, so that no time is wasted, to get a quick "yes" or "no" answer for funding? Of course, I know that the [inaudible 00:01:06] are important, but what else should I include? I love this question, by the way. I am new and I haven't bought any land yet, but I'm sending offers to ten to a hundred acre properties, because I know that there are plenty of people here that will fund a deal if it's right. P.S. Jill, I had to leave this in here. I absolutely love listening on Clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
You snuck this in here.

Jill DeWit:
I totally.

Steven Butala:
Jill has a love affair with Clubhouse.

Jill DeWit:
This is not me making it up. Corey really put this in here and I'm like, oh I am putting the whole thing.

Jill DeWit:
He said Jill, I absolutely love listening on Clubhouse for someone that isn't a member yet. I feel like I'm breaking the law getting all the info for free that you guys talk about on there. Of course, the podcasts on this site are great too. Thanks, Corey. [inaudible 00:01:54] this is awesome. Okay. I need to know how the property is going, how the property will be sold, how fast it will be sold and what the game plan is. So let me give you an example. So Corey, you come up with a beautiful twenty-acre property and whatever county and whatever price let's just say. Say it's twenty-acre property for $20,000. So not only do you give me the property details. If there's anything pertinent, I want that I found that there is a well, they used to have a mobile on there.

Jill DeWit:
I've found out that it just got rezoned to this. Something unique or cooler, something that's making you want, why we're doing this deal about the actual property. Then the other thing I want you to do is tell me about you. You're selling me not only on the property, but you're selling me on you because you're coming to me to money and you should be saying, here's how great the property is and here's how great I am. And here's what I'm going to do with this. So I need information that says, I've been studying this for six months. I've got three brokers lined up champing at the bit. They think it's going to sell within 30 days at three times our money and how fast can I do it? And I can, and I've got the title agent ready to go. I can do this in two weeks. That's the information I need.

Steven Butala:
Let me state the obvious.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
And put this sentence in there. I don't need anything from you guys except the money.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Perfect.

Steven Butala:
[inaudible 00:03:36] We have not so much now anymore. We've had a lot big problems with that when we start started Land Tank and deal funding. Basically new people were just throwing a property in there. It's a great deal. I know it's a great deal and just handing it to us and expecting us to do work.

Steven Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/20/jack-thursday-state-of-the-union-do-we-care-about-lumber-prices-la-1507/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">gas89CMDg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/97917a60-15fb-4b2d-b26c-7f7121f5a34b.mp3" length="15372719" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Power of Answering the Phone (LA 1506)</title><itunes:title>The Power of Answering the Phone (LA 1506)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Power of Answering the Phone (LA 1506)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the power of answering the phone.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Nothing like a live person answering the phone. You need to do that, and I'll explain more in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free if you're already a Land Academy member. Join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sean wrote, "Have any of you ever had a title company refuse to close a deal because the sale price is too far greater than the county assessed value? This just happened to me with two different title companies. I bought a lot with a current market value of $10,000. I'm selling it for $5,800, but the county assessor data has it valued at 3,825. The title companies are saying they cannot issue title insurance on the property because the sale price is more than 50% above the tax value. Since when does a title company determine the value of the property?"

Steven Butala:
Never.

Jill DeWit:
You are correct, Sean.

Steven Butala:
You're correct to question this. They can't ...

Jill DeWit:
You are correct.

Steven Butala:
They shouldn't. There's something else going on.

Jill DeWit:
There's somebody with ... Is it a big ego thing?

Steven Butala:
If you're brand new at this or you're thinking about getting into this business, these things almost never happen. This is a strange anomaly that, Jill and I have done almost 16,000 deals combined in our career. I think something like this has happened to me maybe less than five times, but I'll tell you, yeah, I had a title person one time, after she did about eight deals for me, called her husband and said, "These deals are all coming in. We should just buy these ourselves, they're so cheap," and so she took a bunch of business away.

Jill DeWit:
That's, like, not legal.

Steven Butala:
I've had country recorders a couple of times refuse to record property that I bought because I was from out of state and they didn't want to sell property to people that were out of state, especially for an expensive amount.

Jill DeWit:
Hopefully that's all fixed by now.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, you can fix it. This, honestly, I would call a lawyer.

Jill DeWit:
I have an example, though. This is how I would explain it. We've all heard of this situation where a home was being sold for a price higher than it was appraised at. We've all heard of that. You get an accepted offer, the appraiser goes out ... Normally, this happens. Normally, you're buying a house, you're buying it for $479,000. The appraiser goes out. We always want it to be that price or higher. We obviously want it to be higher, right, because thinking, "I got a good deal," but it's funny how, "Gee, look at that, the appraisal came back at $479,000. What the heck?"

Jill DeWit:
Now and then, and I haven't heard so much now, but I think anybody over 30 has heard of this. Now and then you've had an appraiser goes out and then, like, "Oh, shoot, they only appraised it at 459," so you have to pay cash for that last bit if you really want the house. This, to me, is no different, absolutely no different. The title company's not going to go, "Nope, not doing it. Not taking it because it didn't appraise to what you're actually spending so we're not going to close the deal." They never do that. That's not true. We just know that, and especially, often if there's a lender involved, that's why you had to get it appraised, too, by the way, so the lender says, "Oh, we're only going to loan you up to the 459, because that's what it's appraised at." It's a hot market, we realize, you're buying it at 479. You get to pay that extra 20,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Power of Answering the Phone (LA 1506)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill, here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the power of answering the phone.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Nothing like a live person answering the phone. You need to do that, and I'll explain more in a minute.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free if you're already a Land Academy member. Join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sean wrote, "Have any of you ever had a title company refuse to close a deal because the sale price is too far greater than the county assessed value? This just happened to me with two different title companies. I bought a lot with a current market value of $10,000. I'm selling it for $5,800, but the county assessor data has it valued at 3,825. The title companies are saying they cannot issue title insurance on the property because the sale price is more than 50% above the tax value. Since when does a title company determine the value of the property?"

Steven Butala:
Never.

Jill DeWit:
You are correct, Sean.

Steven Butala:
You're correct to question this. They can't ...

Jill DeWit:
You are correct.

Steven Butala:
They shouldn't. There's something else going on.

Jill DeWit:
There's somebody with ... Is it a big ego thing?

Steven Butala:
If you're brand new at this or you're thinking about getting into this business, these things almost never happen. This is a strange anomaly that, Jill and I have done almost 16,000 deals combined in our career. I think something like this has happened to me maybe less than five times, but I'll tell you, yeah, I had a title person one time, after she did about eight deals for me, called her husband and said, "These deals are all coming in. We should just buy these ourselves, they're so cheap," and so she took a bunch of business away.

Jill DeWit:
That's, like, not legal.

Steven Butala:
I've had country recorders a couple of times refuse to record property that I bought because I was from out of state and they didn't want to sell property to people that were out of state, especially for an expensive amount.

Jill DeWit:
Hopefully that's all fixed by now.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, you can fix it. This, honestly, I would call a lawyer.

Jill DeWit:
I have an example, though. This is how I would explain it. We've all heard of this situation where a home was being sold for a price higher than it was appraised at. We've all heard of that. You get an accepted offer, the appraiser goes out ... Normally, this happens. Normally, you're buying a house, you're buying it for $479,000. The appraiser goes out. We always want it to be that price or higher. We obviously want it to be higher, right, because thinking, "I got a good deal," but it's funny how, "Gee, look at that, the appraisal came back at $479,000. What the heck?"

Jill DeWit:
Now and then, and I haven't heard so much now, but I think anybody over 30 has heard of this. Now and then you've had an appraiser goes out and then, like, "Oh, shoot, they only appraised it at 459," so you have to pay cash for that last bit if you really want the house. This, to me, is no different, absolutely no different. The title company's not going to go, "Nope, not doing it. Not taking it because it didn't appraise to what you're actually spending so we're not going to close the deal." They never do that. That's not true. We just know that, and especially, often if there's a lender involved, that's why you had to get it appraised, too, by the way, so the lender says, "Oh, we're only going to loan you up to the 459, because that's what it's appraised at." It's a hot market, we realize, you're buying it at 479. You get to pay that extra 20,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/19/the-power-of-answering-the-phone-la-1506/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">VTtoeAZud</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/072004f3-b2e9-49fd-8848-4887b6392d76.mp3" length="18424971" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>We Answer the Same 10 Questions (LA 1505)</title><itunes:title>We Answer the Same 10 Questions (LA 1505)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[We Answer the Same 10 Questions (LA 1505)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit. Broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how we seem to answer the same 10 questions over and over again.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, we'll talk about this.

Steven Butala:
I can't wait to record this episode-[crosstalk 00:00:24]

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
... and that's the truth.

Jill DeWit:
You really are giving me the green light to talk about this? Yes, yes.[crosstalk 00:00:34] Give me the green light.

Steven Butala:
We are going to make sure we keep it humorous, even though Jill right before the show was said... She got a little heated.

Jill DeWit:
We're not going to name names. This will be good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on a LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "In Steven's state summary..." Remember this?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I created a dictionary.

Jill DeWit:
He did. It went state by state about how the deals get done in that state. "... He indicates whether closing is done by attorney or title company. How do I know if I can do a self-closing, or if I have to close with an attorney/title? Am I able to self-close anywhere? Are there laws against self-closings? And if so, is that at the state- or county-level? Thanks for any help you can give."

Steven Butala:
Thank you Sandy, this is a great question.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
And it's not one of the same 10 questions that we constantly get.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:01:35] Exactly.

Steven Butala:
Without exception, you can self-close in any state... That's the answer.

Jill DeWit:
Even New York?

Steven Butala:
Yep... There's huge misinformation about this out there. You can do it. I'm not saying that the recorder will allow you to record it. I'm not saying that if you asked title companies, they might say, "No, you have to get an attorney," and if you ask a lawyer, they might, because they've all been misinformed.

Jill DeWit:
Wow, that makes sense.

Steven Butala:
A long time ago. There was before... During homestead times, people would just walked in and do their own deeds. The recorder would help them. They didn't then-[crosstalk 00:02:20]

Jill DeWit:
That's what I was going to say.

Steven Butala:
... lawyers got involved. Because there were so many mistakes. Or landowners wanted to protect their interests, so they got lawyers. So eventually then title insurance came in, and Escrow and all that much, much, much later. So no, you can close.

Jill DeWit:
This country was founded on that, is what you're trying to say?

Steven Butala:
Right, that's right.

Jill DeWit:
That we can do that. It's like saying, "Oh, I can't sell you a car because I'm going to go to jail." You're not going to go to jail for selling a car on Craigslist. You don't have to have a dealer's license.That's kind of what you're saying.

Steven Butala:
No, it's interesting you bring cars up. Because there's a huge number of laws associated with how many cars you can sell each state by state, before you become a dealer. I think in Arizona, it's six a year. And then on your seventh you have to get your dealers license.

Jill DeWit:
Because you're making it a business now, [crosstalk 00:03:07].

Steven Butala:
Get this too, because Jill and I started a company called Car Academy, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. Got all the way down to just about ready to release it, and found out that there's some pretty serious federal laws against using DMV data for any type of marketing. And when you think about it, we all own cars. I've never gotten a note that says, "Hey, you owner,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[We Answer the Same 10 Questions (LA 1505)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit. Broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how we seem to answer the same 10 questions over and over again.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, we'll talk about this.

Steven Butala:
I can't wait to record this episode-[crosstalk 00:00:24]

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
... and that's the truth.

Jill DeWit:
You really are giving me the green light to talk about this? Yes, yes.[crosstalk 00:00:34] Give me the green light.

Steven Butala:
We are going to make sure we keep it humorous, even though Jill right before the show was said... She got a little heated.

Jill DeWit:
We're not going to name names. This will be good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on a LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "In Steven's state summary..." Remember this?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I created a dictionary.

Jill DeWit:
He did. It went state by state about how the deals get done in that state. "... He indicates whether closing is done by attorney or title company. How do I know if I can do a self-closing, or if I have to close with an attorney/title? Am I able to self-close anywhere? Are there laws against self-closings? And if so, is that at the state- or county-level? Thanks for any help you can give."

Steven Butala:
Thank you Sandy, this is a great question.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
And it's not one of the same 10 questions that we constantly get.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:01:35] Exactly.

Steven Butala:
Without exception, you can self-close in any state... That's the answer.

Jill DeWit:
Even New York?

Steven Butala:
Yep... There's huge misinformation about this out there. You can do it. I'm not saying that the recorder will allow you to record it. I'm not saying that if you asked title companies, they might say, "No, you have to get an attorney," and if you ask a lawyer, they might, because they've all been misinformed.

Jill DeWit:
Wow, that makes sense.

Steven Butala:
A long time ago. There was before... During homestead times, people would just walked in and do their own deeds. The recorder would help them. They didn't then-[crosstalk 00:02:20]

Jill DeWit:
That's what I was going to say.

Steven Butala:
... lawyers got involved. Because there were so many mistakes. Or landowners wanted to protect their interests, so they got lawyers. So eventually then title insurance came in, and Escrow and all that much, much, much later. So no, you can close.

Jill DeWit:
This country was founded on that, is what you're trying to say?

Steven Butala:
Right, that's right.

Jill DeWit:
That we can do that. It's like saying, "Oh, I can't sell you a car because I'm going to go to jail." You're not going to go to jail for selling a car on Craigslist. You don't have to have a dealer's license.That's kind of what you're saying.

Steven Butala:
No, it's interesting you bring cars up. Because there's a huge number of laws associated with how many cars you can sell each state by state, before you become a dealer. I think in Arizona, it's six a year. And then on your seventh you have to get your dealers license.

Jill DeWit:
Because you're making it a business now, [crosstalk 00:03:07].

Steven Butala:
Get this too, because Jill and I started a company called Car Academy, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. Got all the way down to just about ready to release it, and found out that there's some pretty serious federal laws against using DMV data for any type of marketing. And when you think about it, we all own cars. I've never gotten a note that says, "Hey, you owner,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/18/we-answer-the-same-10-questions-la-1505/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">foE3LVl3o</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9805eed5-3219-4505-9aa6-f275e02aed36.mp3" length="18365347" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Cool Things You Find When You Dig a Little Deeper (LA 1504)</title><itunes:title>Cool Things You Find When You Dig a Little Deeper (LA 1504)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Cool Things You Find When You Dig a Little Deeper (LA 1504)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about cool things you find when you dig a little deeper into some of the Land Academy tools.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Well, actually it's dig a little deeper and due diligence, and things like that. So we'll help you out.

Steven Butala:
All week. These are...

Jill DeWit:
Jill and Aaron topics!

Steven Butala:
They're customer service driven topics that, somewhat, clearly out of frustration...

Jill DeWit:
Jill and Aaron sat down, let's truth time it here! Jill and Aaron sat down the other day and said, we're picking the topics this week. And you said, go for it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And speaking of cool things, when you dig a little deeper, join us on Discord. If you're a Land Academy member, it's turning out to be one of the most amazing tools or decisions that we've made. It's really helping a lot of people. Me included.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it's like Land Investors. It's another version of a way to get stuff answered really fast.

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
So the only thing that I have to say real quick is, the Search and the things like that, and Discord, are not like a website. So I think you should use both. So don't forget landinvestors.com. So, all right, this question, and this comment came from Discord, so Miguel wrote, "Any suggestions as to what I should be doing while waiting on my next mailer to hit? Thanks in advance." This is so funny. You get all excited. The mail goes out and now you're just sitting. And you're like "Should I just sit here and wait and watch the phone to ring?" Nope, you should be getting stuff ready to go. You want to talk?

Steven Butala:
Go ahead. I mean, I have a couple of things.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
But I bet mine are real different.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it was funny. One thing that one person wrote in there I've chimed in, which was right, they're like "Yeah, start picking the next County!"

Steven Butala:
That's it. That's my answer!

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Start thinking for the next one, which is true. But the other thing you should be doing is making sure you're ready for the calls to come in. Do you know when the calls come in, the questions you're going to ask the sellers? Great. You know, go get my cheat sheet on Land Investors. Print that out. Have a couple of copies on your desk. Maybe 10, maybe 50. I don't know. So when the calls come in, you right away can grab that sheet and go all right, I know exactly what to ask this person when they call.

Jill DeWit:
Also, how's it going to flow? Where are you going to put all the information? Do you have a spreadsheet set up even just starting there? I would definitely just start with a great spreadsheet. Take the information that's on my cheat sheet (go to land investors and scroll down on the left!) It says "Jill's inbound seller checklist", something like that. Take those columns and make a spreadsheet with all of the state, County, APN. Because once you get all that stuff on the sheet, you need to put it into your spreadsheet. So you could start the process here of going through all the properties. You know, what's going to be next? Doing your due diligence. What's going to be next? Buying the property. What's going to be next? Posting the property. What's going to be next? Selling the property.

Jill DeWit:
So think ahead about the process, everything that you're going to do here and start building out your sheet and the columns. Think about... The area that you sent, by the way, you know you were searching for five acre properties in Northern Ca...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Cool Things You Find When You Dig a Little Deeper (LA 1504)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about cool things you find when you dig a little deeper into some of the Land Academy tools.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Well, actually it's dig a little deeper and due diligence, and things like that. So we'll help you out.

Steven Butala:
All week. These are...

Jill DeWit:
Jill and Aaron topics!

Steven Butala:
They're customer service driven topics that, somewhat, clearly out of frustration...

Jill DeWit:
Jill and Aaron sat down, let's truth time it here! Jill and Aaron sat down the other day and said, we're picking the topics this week. And you said, go for it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And speaking of cool things, when you dig a little deeper, join us on Discord. If you're a Land Academy member, it's turning out to be one of the most amazing tools or decisions that we've made. It's really helping a lot of people. Me included.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it's like Land Investors. It's another version of a way to get stuff answered really fast.

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
So the only thing that I have to say real quick is, the Search and the things like that, and Discord, are not like a website. So I think you should use both. So don't forget landinvestors.com. So, all right, this question, and this comment came from Discord, so Miguel wrote, "Any suggestions as to what I should be doing while waiting on my next mailer to hit? Thanks in advance." This is so funny. You get all excited. The mail goes out and now you're just sitting. And you're like "Should I just sit here and wait and watch the phone to ring?" Nope, you should be getting stuff ready to go. You want to talk?

Steven Butala:
Go ahead. I mean, I have a couple of things.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
But I bet mine are real different.

Jill DeWit:
Well, it was funny. One thing that one person wrote in there I've chimed in, which was right, they're like "Yeah, start picking the next County!"

Steven Butala:
That's it. That's my answer!

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Start thinking for the next one, which is true. But the other thing you should be doing is making sure you're ready for the calls to come in. Do you know when the calls come in, the questions you're going to ask the sellers? Great. You know, go get my cheat sheet on Land Investors. Print that out. Have a couple of copies on your desk. Maybe 10, maybe 50. I don't know. So when the calls come in, you right away can grab that sheet and go all right, I know exactly what to ask this person when they call.

Jill DeWit:
Also, how's it going to flow? Where are you going to put all the information? Do you have a spreadsheet set up even just starting there? I would definitely just start with a great spreadsheet. Take the information that's on my cheat sheet (go to land investors and scroll down on the left!) It says "Jill's inbound seller checklist", something like that. Take those columns and make a spreadsheet with all of the state, County, APN. Because once you get all that stuff on the sheet, you need to put it into your spreadsheet. So you could start the process here of going through all the properties. You know, what's going to be next? Doing your due diligence. What's going to be next? Buying the property. What's going to be next? Posting the property. What's going to be next? Selling the property.

Jill DeWit:
So think ahead about the process, everything that you're going to do here and start building out your sheet and the columns. Think about... The area that you sent, by the way, you know you were searching for five acre properties in Northern Ca...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/17/cool-things-you-find-when-you-dig-a-little-deeper-la-1504/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JDdEQIdgZ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 22:01:47 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ae5cdbc6-5e83-4224-8b10-97f39ce2dee3.mp3" length="15743533" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Where Do I Start in Real Estate Land Investing (LA 1503)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Where Do I Start in Real Estate Land Investing (LA 1503)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Where Do I Start in Real Estate Land Investing (LA 1503)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And, we talk about where do I start in real estate land investing? Jill's going to enlighten us, I'm sure of it.

Jill DeWit:
I got this. It's not hard. Well, there's a lot to it, but the steps to get started are easy. I will help you and I will lay them out.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, in case you hadn't heard earlier this week, oh boy. Have we revamped and reworked, and you're going to see some changes physically, not physically, but on the website, physically. And, then in the way we run things with Land Academy Deal funding. We are partnering up and have partnered up with some heavy hitters and you really have no reason to not ask for money. We not going to make it super easy for you. We have so much capital behind us and decades of experience, as you already know. And we're here to help you get those deals done. So, don't wait, go to land investors.com. Click on deal funding, submit your deal. And, we will tell you what to do next.

Steven Butala:
You got a couple of deals you're not sure about? Submit them. We'll tell you whether or not we'll happily fund them. We'll tell you if they're good deals or not.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "I caught a bunch of RV parks, lots in my data. The county has them at 0.9 acres, but they're probably 0.09. They do seem to sell for 10 to $20,000. Probably have rules like an HOA, anyone mail RV parks, or is it a waste of 50 cents?"

Steven Butala:
These types of properties, RV properties are what I call specialty real estate. I put them in the category of mobile home lots, mobile home park lots. Property that is zoned for a hotel, maybe any type of special use property. Zone for a cemetery. You'll find them a lot in urban areas where a city planner has gone through it there and said, "This is where we kind of want all the industrial areas to be. This is where you want the high end houses to be. The low end houses to be and, and on and on and on." That's what a civil engineer or city planner does.

Steven Butala:
I absolutely love these kinds of lots. They sing to the right person. They're usually... How many times if be driven down the street and seen a defunct trailer park? That's just waiting for somebody like us or you who's got some skill and some energy to go in there, put a sign up, put a shack up there and say, "Look, bring your mobile home." Or "We'll put a mobile home on here for the right person." So, I love specialization property like this, as long as it's super cheap. And, if you know anything about internet marketing, the more specialized, whatever you're selling is, the easier it is to find people in a specifically in that geography and that zip code with Instagram or Facebook. So, it pops right up while they're going through whatever.

Jill DeWit:
Ding ding.

Steven Butala:
So, hell yes. And you need a partner in this? Please call me. It's one of my favorite types of real estate.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you for playing Aaron. I have nothing to add.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic is well, it's Jill Fridays. She's going to tell us about where do I start in real estate land investing? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You stumbled across the show. You ran into somebody in Land Academy you're like, "Wait a minute. What the heck are you all talking about? How are you all making this money? Doing this stuff? What do you mean land? Okay. I want to do this. I really want to jump in."

Jill DeWit:
Let's hold on just a moment.

Steven Butala:
Good. Good Jill, thank you.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Where Do I Start in Real Estate Land Investing (LA 1503)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Good day.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today is Jill Friday. And, we talk about where do I start in real estate land investing? Jill's going to enlighten us, I'm sure of it.

Jill DeWit:
I got this. It's not hard. Well, there's a lot to it, but the steps to get started are easy. I will help you and I will lay them out.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, in case you hadn't heard earlier this week, oh boy. Have we revamped and reworked, and you're going to see some changes physically, not physically, but on the website, physically. And, then in the way we run things with Land Academy Deal funding. We are partnering up and have partnered up with some heavy hitters and you really have no reason to not ask for money. We not going to make it super easy for you. We have so much capital behind us and decades of experience, as you already know. And we're here to help you get those deals done. So, don't wait, go to land investors.com. Click on deal funding, submit your deal. And, we will tell you what to do next.

Steven Butala:
You got a couple of deals you're not sure about? Submit them. We'll tell you whether or not we'll happily fund them. We'll tell you if they're good deals or not.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "I caught a bunch of RV parks, lots in my data. The county has them at 0.9 acres, but they're probably 0.09. They do seem to sell for 10 to $20,000. Probably have rules like an HOA, anyone mail RV parks, or is it a waste of 50 cents?"

Steven Butala:
These types of properties, RV properties are what I call specialty real estate. I put them in the category of mobile home lots, mobile home park lots. Property that is zoned for a hotel, maybe any type of special use property. Zone for a cemetery. You'll find them a lot in urban areas where a city planner has gone through it there and said, "This is where we kind of want all the industrial areas to be. This is where you want the high end houses to be. The low end houses to be and, and on and on and on." That's what a civil engineer or city planner does.

Steven Butala:
I absolutely love these kinds of lots. They sing to the right person. They're usually... How many times if be driven down the street and seen a defunct trailer park? That's just waiting for somebody like us or you who's got some skill and some energy to go in there, put a sign up, put a shack up there and say, "Look, bring your mobile home." Or "We'll put a mobile home on here for the right person." So, I love specialization property like this, as long as it's super cheap. And, if you know anything about internet marketing, the more specialized, whatever you're selling is, the easier it is to find people in a specifically in that geography and that zip code with Instagram or Facebook. So, it pops right up while they're going through whatever.

Jill DeWit:
Ding ding.

Steven Butala:
So, hell yes. And you need a partner in this? Please call me. It's one of my favorite types of real estate.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you for playing Aaron. I have nothing to add.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic is well, it's Jill Fridays. She's going to tell us about where do I start in real estate land investing? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You stumbled across the show. You ran into somebody in Land Academy you're like, "Wait a minute. What the heck are you all talking about? How are you all making this money? Doing this stuff? What do you mean land? Okay. I want to do this. I really want to jump in."

Jill DeWit:
Let's hold on just a moment.

Steven Butala:
Good. Good Jill, thank you.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/14/jill-friday-where-do-i-start-in-real-estate-land-investing-la-1503/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iFQx9Zp5w</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1073ac3b-6df6-4fd7-9921-f1bcc7b96aa8.mp3" length="12612997" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 5 Things You Must Know Before You Start Real Estate Investing (LA 1502)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; 5 Things You Must Know Before You Start Real Estate Investing (LA 1502)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 5 Things You Must Know Before You Start Real Estate Investing (LA 1502)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jack Thursday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's the five things you must know before you start real estate investing of any kind. I'm going to tailor mine a little bit to land, but it's really just being a general real estate investor.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
I think there's a little bit of a misconception about what this takes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. I can't wait because I wrote down my own list. I had trouble coming up with five. I think I came up with four. I could have turned four into five. I thought, "Nah, I'm going to leave them condensed."

Steven Butala:
I came up with 40, but we'll just do the top five.

Jill DeWit:
Aha. But mine's also just general real estate investing. Mine is not necessarily land-focused. It's kind of anything. Honestly, mine can be any niche. Mine can be anything. Mine could be the top five things you must know to start X.

Steven Butala:
A marriage.

Jill DeWit:
Even that.

Steven Butala:
Go.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm not going to share my list now.

Steven Butala:
Quick. Come on. Read it off.

Jill DeWit:
No. I'm not going to share my list now.

Steven Butala:
Top five things you need to be in a successful marriage. Go.

Jill DeWit:
It's the same list. I'm going to share it in a minute.

Steven Butala:
It's the same list?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, it's good.

Steven Butala:
You want to get into it?

Jill DeWit:
You're going to hear this. We're going to do this in a minute when we get to the topic. We're going to have you envision my list.

Steven Butala:
Right. Here's a new title. There's a new title, five things you need to know before you cross out, start fill in the blank.

Jill DeWit:
Start X. Oh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Because that's how mine is too.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, mine could be a marriage. I'm going to use it. You know, I wrote it down as real estate investing, but we're going to sub marriage in a minute here and it's going to be funny.

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
It's like Mad Libs.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already with us in Land Academy, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Hold, please. Before I read the question, I'd like to give one little thing too. Don't forget, Land Academy deal funding is bigger and better and faster, and boy, do we have money. We now have limitless money available and decades of experience, you can tell, look at us, to help you get deals done. Right?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. See this gray hair?

Jill DeWit:
Lots. So go to landinvestors.com and click on the Deal Funding tab today. Thank you. All right.

Steven Butala:
Nice.

Jill DeWit:
Where was I? Danielle wrote, "I have an owner who wants to sell and has three people on the deed. All three will signed." That is helpful. "She also asked to have three checks, one-third to each." Fine. "She also asked that I send them each a purchase agreement." Okay, Danielle. Now you're pushing it with me a little bit, but okay.

Steven Butala:
Well, they're pushing it with her.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
It's not you, Danielle.

Jill DeWit:
The other two are giving Danielle a hard time. I get it. "Should I list the property for the total amount? Should I list the property for the total amount on each purchase agreement or break it up into thirds for each person's portion? Or should I send all three a new purchase agreement, three places to sign?" I like that one. It's not that big of a deal. You don't even really need ... I mean, depending ... If you're going through escrow,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - 5 Things You Must Know Before You Start Real Estate Investing (LA 1502)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jack Thursday.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It's the five things you must know before you start real estate investing of any kind. I'm going to tailor mine a little bit to land, but it's really just being a general real estate investor.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
I think there's a little bit of a misconception about what this takes.

Jill DeWit:
Oh. I can't wait because I wrote down my own list. I had trouble coming up with five. I think I came up with four. I could have turned four into five. I thought, "Nah, I'm going to leave them condensed."

Steven Butala:
I came up with 40, but we'll just do the top five.

Jill DeWit:
Aha. But mine's also just general real estate investing. Mine is not necessarily land-focused. It's kind of anything. Honestly, mine can be any niche. Mine can be anything. Mine could be the top five things you must know to start X.

Steven Butala:
A marriage.

Jill DeWit:
Even that.

Steven Butala:
Go.

Jill DeWit:
No, I'm not going to share my list now.

Steven Butala:
Quick. Come on. Read it off.

Jill DeWit:
No. I'm not going to share my list now.

Steven Butala:
Top five things you need to be in a successful marriage. Go.

Jill DeWit:
It's the same list. I'm going to share it in a minute.

Steven Butala:
It's the same list?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, it's good.

Steven Butala:
You want to get into it?

Jill DeWit:
You're going to hear this. We're going to do this in a minute when we get to the topic. We're going to have you envision my list.

Steven Butala:
Right. Here's a new title. There's a new title, five things you need to know before you cross out, start fill in the blank.

Jill DeWit:
Start X. Oh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Because that's how mine is too.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, mine could be a marriage. I'm going to use it. You know, I wrote it down as real estate investing, but we're going to sub marriage in a minute here and it's going to be funny.

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
It's like Mad Libs.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already with us in Land Academy, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Hold, please. Before I read the question, I'd like to give one little thing too. Don't forget, Land Academy deal funding is bigger and better and faster, and boy, do we have money. We now have limitless money available and decades of experience, you can tell, look at us, to help you get deals done. Right?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. See this gray hair?

Jill DeWit:
Lots. So go to landinvestors.com and click on the Deal Funding tab today. Thank you. All right.

Steven Butala:
Nice.

Jill DeWit:
Where was I? Danielle wrote, "I have an owner who wants to sell and has three people on the deed. All three will signed." That is helpful. "She also asked to have three checks, one-third to each." Fine. "She also asked that I send them each a purchase agreement." Okay, Danielle. Now you're pushing it with me a little bit, but okay.

Steven Butala:
Well, they're pushing it with her.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
It's not you, Danielle.

Jill DeWit:
The other two are giving Danielle a hard time. I get it. "Should I list the property for the total amount? Should I list the property for the total amount on each purchase agreement or break it up into thirds for each person's portion? Or should I send all three a new purchase agreement, three places to sign?" I like that one. It's not that big of a deal. You don't even really need ... I mean, depending ... If you're going through escrow,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/13/jack-thursday-5-things-you-must-know-before-you-start-real-estate-investing-la-1502/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">46kdzWA8q</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/52d5f0fe-da95-4103-99c8-24d79e78437e.mp3" length="19731241" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Real Estate Investing 2021 (LA 1501)</title><itunes:title>Real Estate Investing 2021 (LA 1501)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Real Estate Investing 2021 (LA 1501)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit coming to you from scorching Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Not yet, but coming.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
We'll be in a different state.

Jill DeWit:
It's probably 100 today.

Steven Butala:
We'll be in a different state for sure, when it gets real hot. Today, Jill and I talk about real estate investing in the year 2021, what's different about the past and what's probably coming in the future.

Jill DeWit:
You know what this is like, I remember when I was dating, newly dating, late teens, early twenties, and you're a girl, I'm a girl all hung up on a guy and my mom sat me down and said, "Look, don't get all hung up. You think this is it, this is the guy, this is what I'm going to do, whatever."

Steven Butala:
He loves me. But he loves me. You don't understand.

Jill DeWit:
It wasn't even that. I was too into him. But my mom's like, look, let me just share with us with you. The guy that you bring home at 18, 19, 20 is pretty different from the guy that you're serious about in 30, 31, at an age that you should be really getting serious.

Steven Butala:
Do tell. What are the differences? Because this is going to be the show now.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Want some truth time?

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
I may or may not have been in a punk rock phase at that age. I once had my hair done, came home and my mom cried. So I may or may not have dated a guy that wore more eyeliner than I did. And as you can see Steven wears zero eyeliner. So there's a little difference there.

Steven Butala:
I'm the guy she settled for.

Jill DeWit:
Where is eyeliner guy now, I don't know.

Steven Butala:
He probably looks like me, just a lot less money.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. So anyway, that's one really good example of what was then and is now, what you thought was important then and how it's the end all be all and what's really important now are different. And what's really going on in 2021 now with real estate and investing and everything, it's pretty darn awesome. And I'm glad that you're older and can handle it and you're ready for it.

Steven Butala:
I don't understand this. So is 2021 the punk rock guy or the old guy like me?

Jill DeWit:
2021 is you.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, yeah, no, no. That was a year that I'm not going to call out, but it was way before 2021. When I was 20.

Steven Butala:
Okay, you're actually assigning a real year. I understand.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already in our group, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
It was in the eighties. I will be truth. So, okay. Austin wrote, "Hello. I'm writing this in response to podcast number 1479." Do you remember that one? I do.

Steven Butala:
Oh yeah. I remember every single word.

Jill DeWit:
Me too.

Steven Butala:
I remember episode 10.

Jill DeWit:
I love it. "About recovering landlords." I do remember that. "I've owned a duplex for about 10 years." This is going to be funny. "It cashflows about $600 a month, depending on expenses. If I was to sell it right now, I could gross approximately $220,000 after paying off the underlying mortgage."

Steven Butala:
I'm going to stop you there for a second.

Jill DeWit:
Yay.

Steven Butala:
You would net 220, not gross. This is, oh my God, Jack, really, do you have to call us out on every little nitpicky thing, gross, net, please.

Jill DeWit:
He does. He does.

Steven Butala:
Well for the same reason that your mother stopped you from saying, ain't your whole life. Like I ain't going to eat my broccoli.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You're picking on us, got it.

Steven Butala:
It's net, it's net.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Real Estate Investing 2021 (LA 1501)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit coming to you from scorching Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Not yet, but coming.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
We'll be in a different state.

Jill DeWit:
It's probably 100 today.

Steven Butala:
We'll be in a different state for sure, when it gets real hot. Today, Jill and I talk about real estate investing in the year 2021, what's different about the past and what's probably coming in the future.

Jill DeWit:
You know what this is like, I remember when I was dating, newly dating, late teens, early twenties, and you're a girl, I'm a girl all hung up on a guy and my mom sat me down and said, "Look, don't get all hung up. You think this is it, this is the guy, this is what I'm going to do, whatever."

Steven Butala:
He loves me. But he loves me. You don't understand.

Jill DeWit:
It wasn't even that. I was too into him. But my mom's like, look, let me just share with us with you. The guy that you bring home at 18, 19, 20 is pretty different from the guy that you're serious about in 30, 31, at an age that you should be really getting serious.

Steven Butala:
Do tell. What are the differences? Because this is going to be the show now.

Jill DeWit:
All right. Want some truth time?

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
I may or may not have been in a punk rock phase at that age. I once had my hair done, came home and my mom cried. So I may or may not have dated a guy that wore more eyeliner than I did. And as you can see Steven wears zero eyeliner. So there's a little difference there.

Steven Butala:
I'm the guy she settled for.

Jill DeWit:
Where is eyeliner guy now, I don't know.

Steven Butala:
He probably looks like me, just a lot less money.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. So anyway, that's one really good example of what was then and is now, what you thought was important then and how it's the end all be all and what's really important now are different. And what's really going on in 2021 now with real estate and investing and everything, it's pretty darn awesome. And I'm glad that you're older and can handle it and you're ready for it.

Steven Butala:
I don't understand this. So is 2021 the punk rock guy or the old guy like me?

Jill DeWit:
2021 is you.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, yeah, no, no. That was a year that I'm not going to call out, but it was way before 2021. When I was 20.

Steven Butala:
Okay, you're actually assigning a real year. I understand.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already in our group, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
It was in the eighties. I will be truth. So, okay. Austin wrote, "Hello. I'm writing this in response to podcast number 1479." Do you remember that one? I do.

Steven Butala:
Oh yeah. I remember every single word.

Jill DeWit:
Me too.

Steven Butala:
I remember episode 10.

Jill DeWit:
I love it. "About recovering landlords." I do remember that. "I've owned a duplex for about 10 years." This is going to be funny. "It cashflows about $600 a month, depending on expenses. If I was to sell it right now, I could gross approximately $220,000 after paying off the underlying mortgage."

Steven Butala:
I'm going to stop you there for a second.

Jill DeWit:
Yay.

Steven Butala:
You would net 220, not gross. This is, oh my God, Jack, really, do you have to call us out on every little nitpicky thing, gross, net, please.

Jill DeWit:
He does. He does.

Steven Butala:
Well for the same reason that your mother stopped you from saying, ain't your whole life. Like I ain't going to eat my broccoli.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. You're picking on us, got it.

Steven Butala:
It's net, it's net.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/12/real-estate-investing-2021-la-1501/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">z5jgnxdYG</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/657b31b2-438f-4353-b95b-5bebf07c25c0.mp3" length="20785791" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:18</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 1500 of the Land Academy Show (LA 1500)</title><itunes:title>Episode 1500 of the Land Academy Show (LA 1500)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Episode 1500 of the Land Academy Show (LA 1500)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today it's episode 1500 of the Land Academy show, and I am absolutely floored.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
That you, the listener still listens to this.

Jill DeWit:
There's marriages that have not lasted this long.

Steven Butala:
Well, there's a lot.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly, especially during COVID. Exactly.

Steven Butala:
So we've decided we're going to kind of reflect on Land Academy and its members and what this group is all about. And the truth is, Jill and I have not talked about what this episode is going to be about at all. So-

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:00:43] I have some funny things.

Steven Butala:
... I'm just interested or uninterested as you are.

Jill DeWit:
Ha, yeah. Thanks.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord to get your, all your questions answered in real time.

Jill DeWit:
To put your minute-by-minute land fix.

Steven Butala:
Or just lurk.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh. It's ... Let me warn you. It's nonstop. All I hear on his desk is ping, ping, ping all, and all day and all night.

Steven Butala:
It's the tool, the membership tool that I've been waiting for for six years. That's the truth of it.

Jill DeWit:
It's Jack's Clubhouse. Let's just call it. There you go.

Steven Butala:
You can get your answer. I don't care what you need, put it in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Jeff wrote, "Hey guys, I'm buying a property through title and a survey is needed. There's also an heirship issue that the seller needs to work out. Do you do anything to protect against spending all that survey money and then having the seller disappear to fix their heirship problem?" Nope. You know what? I had to do this.

Steven Butala:
You would never get a survey before this heirship problem solved.

Jill DeWit:
Well, hold please.

Steven Butala:
There's two-

Jill DeWit:
I've had to do this.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, I understand.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I'm not saying don't get a survey. I'm saying do not even start down the survey path. And so this is one of the five A's during due diligence. You need to make sure everybody's alive and the person who's signing on the deed is going to convey and all that. So there's an order in which this goes and it's an education and you need to make sure you can close the deal and people are alive and available to sign. And the chain of title is correct long before you start ordering surveys.

Jill DeWit:
That's correct. As I read it, I was thinking as I'm selling it, not as I'm buying. So yeah, no, you're right. Don't put any money into somebody else's property that they could go away, number one. But on the flip side, what I was starting to say, which I've had to do is there's properties that require documents in certain counties for certain green belt zones that every time it changes hands, you have to do stuff like that. I've done that. I've had to get things ready for when I sell it, knowing I'm going to sell it. And I don't wait for the buyer to come up, and then I start the process. I just got it out of the way because it was like a requirement. That's okay.

Steven Butala:
I don't want you to be afraid of things like this.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Especially if you're new, not all deals are like this. Most deals go really well. Really, they're very smooth, but people ask questions when there's issues. People don't ask this question, "Why is it so easy?"

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It just never comes up.

Jill DeWit:
And this is usually needed. Most of the time, in this situation,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Episode 1500 of the Land Academy Show (LA 1500)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today it's episode 1500 of the Land Academy show, and I am absolutely floored.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
That you, the listener still listens to this.

Jill DeWit:
There's marriages that have not lasted this long.

Steven Butala:
Well, there's a lot.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly, especially during COVID. Exactly.

Steven Butala:
So we've decided we're going to kind of reflect on Land Academy and its members and what this group is all about. And the truth is, Jill and I have not talked about what this episode is going to be about at all. So-

Jill DeWit:
[crosstalk 00:00:43] I have some funny things.

Steven Butala:
... I'm just interested or uninterested as you are.

Jill DeWit:
Ha, yeah. Thanks.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord to get your, all your questions answered in real time.

Jill DeWit:
To put your minute-by-minute land fix.

Steven Butala:
Or just lurk.

Jill DeWit:
Oh my gosh. It's ... Let me warn you. It's nonstop. All I hear on his desk is ping, ping, ping all, and all day and all night.

Steven Butala:
It's the tool, the membership tool that I've been waiting for for six years. That's the truth of it.

Jill DeWit:
It's Jack's Clubhouse. Let's just call it. There you go.

Steven Butala:
You can get your answer. I don't care what you need, put it in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Jeff wrote, "Hey guys, I'm buying a property through title and a survey is needed. There's also an heirship issue that the seller needs to work out. Do you do anything to protect against spending all that survey money and then having the seller disappear to fix their heirship problem?" Nope. You know what? I had to do this.

Steven Butala:
You would never get a survey before this heirship problem solved.

Jill DeWit:
Well, hold please.

Steven Butala:
There's two-

Jill DeWit:
I've had to do this.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, I understand.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
I'm not saying don't get a survey. I'm saying do not even start down the survey path. And so this is one of the five A's during due diligence. You need to make sure everybody's alive and the person who's signing on the deed is going to convey and all that. So there's an order in which this goes and it's an education and you need to make sure you can close the deal and people are alive and available to sign. And the chain of title is correct long before you start ordering surveys.

Jill DeWit:
That's correct. As I read it, I was thinking as I'm selling it, not as I'm buying. So yeah, no, you're right. Don't put any money into somebody else's property that they could go away, number one. But on the flip side, what I was starting to say, which I've had to do is there's properties that require documents in certain counties for certain green belt zones that every time it changes hands, you have to do stuff like that. I've done that. I've had to get things ready for when I sell it, knowing I'm going to sell it. And I don't wait for the buyer to come up, and then I start the process. I just got it out of the way because it was like a requirement. That's okay.

Steven Butala:
I don't want you to be afraid of things like this.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Especially if you're new, not all deals are like this. Most deals go really well. Really, they're very smooth, but people ask questions when there's issues. People don't ask this question, "Why is it so easy?"

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
It just never comes up.

Jill DeWit:
And this is usually needed. Most of the time, in this situation,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/11/episode-1500-of-the-land-academy-show-la-1500/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">eTWU1EvfF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f7736c01-cbe5-44c1-a661-65dccb8ba878.mp3" length="14533033" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:47</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Get Your Deal Funded by Land Academy Deal Funding &amp;#8211; Its Official (LA 1499)</title><itunes:title>How to Get Your Deal Funded by Land Academy Deal Funding &amp;#8211; Its Official (LA 1499)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Get Your Deal Funded by Land Academy Deal Funding - Its Official (LA 1499)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to get funded, how to get your deal funded through Land Academy Deal Funding. It's completely official now.

Jill DeWit:
It's beneficial. It's now even better, right? It's huge and better. And I'm going to pause and have my little, I prepared a new little commercial spiel. So you tell me what you think. Land Academy Deal Funding, now with limitless money available and decades of experience to help you get deals done. Go to landinvestors.com and click Deal Funding Today.

Steven Butala:
I think I love it. So what does it mean? It means you should never have to worry about getting money to buy a property. That's good.

Jill DeWit:
And we'll talk all about that.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please take advantage of the amazing conversations that go on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Every minute. Nick wrote, "Hi, all. Just joined Land Academy. Pleasure to meet you. I'm particularly interested in the deal funding/landing tools and was curious, which you recommend. Are there other ways you can get all your deals funded? Thanks." Can we just roll this into the beginning of the show or into the whole topic of the show?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Because I don't have to answer it twice.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how to get funded by Land Academy Deal Funding. It's official. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So it's been a year and a half since we've had deal funding, roughly. It started after the second live event and it's come, and in that last year and a half, let's just say, we pretty much have limitless capital. So there's two things going on here. There's Land Academy Deal Funding. I'm going to tell you what they are. And then I'm going to tell you about LandTank, and then we'll talk about changes and all the great things that are available to you. So let's back up. Do you want to give the background as to why this exists?

Steven Butala:
Sure. Here's an eighth grade simple explanation about what this product is. Land Academy Deal Funding was put together by Jill and I originally so that you don't have to use your own money to do deals. Here's a real simple eighth grade example. You find a property because you sent mail out. You learned how to do it correctly. You learn how to price a mailer. You listen to Jill and all the programs and you engage the seller and bought a piece of property for let's say $10,000. You think it's worth 30,000 or 40,000. That's the typical Land Academy model 2021, but you didn't have the 10,000, nor should you have the 10,000. People feel really guilty about that. Like, I don't have enough money to do this. No, you just need to be real smart about sending out mail, answer your phone and create some deals.

Steven Butala:
And so we're here to fund that $10,000 and then split that profit margin. If it's $30,000 or $40,000, there's $20,000 or $30,000 of profit in that deal, we'll split it with you. We may split it with you for as much as 50%. So you take $15,000 out and you're off to the races, and then you can use that 15,000 for however you use it. We have people in our group that this is their whole model. They don't ever keep any money. So we're trying to make this really simple and very, very clear because what's happened is this. It's become a shark feeding frenzy of money people out there attacking Land Academy members to be their funder. And so what we've done is we've approached all these people. Now they're behind us and they're funding in a pool.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Get Your Deal Funded by Land Academy Deal Funding - Its Official (LA 1499)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment Talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to get funded, how to get your deal funded through Land Academy Deal Funding. It's completely official now.

Jill DeWit:
It's beneficial. It's now even better, right? It's huge and better. And I'm going to pause and have my little, I prepared a new little commercial spiel. So you tell me what you think. Land Academy Deal Funding, now with limitless money available and decades of experience to help you get deals done. Go to landinvestors.com and click Deal Funding Today.

Steven Butala:
I think I love it. So what does it mean? It means you should never have to worry about getting money to buy a property. That's good.

Jill DeWit:
And we'll talk all about that.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please take advantage of the amazing conversations that go on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Every minute. Nick wrote, "Hi, all. Just joined Land Academy. Pleasure to meet you. I'm particularly interested in the deal funding/landing tools and was curious, which you recommend. Are there other ways you can get all your deals funded? Thanks." Can we just roll this into the beginning of the show or into the whole topic of the show?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Because I don't have to answer it twice.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how to get funded by Land Academy Deal Funding. It's official. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So it's been a year and a half since we've had deal funding, roughly. It started after the second live event and it's come, and in that last year and a half, let's just say, we pretty much have limitless capital. So there's two things going on here. There's Land Academy Deal Funding. I'm going to tell you what they are. And then I'm going to tell you about LandTank, and then we'll talk about changes and all the great things that are available to you. So let's back up. Do you want to give the background as to why this exists?

Steven Butala:
Sure. Here's an eighth grade simple explanation about what this product is. Land Academy Deal Funding was put together by Jill and I originally so that you don't have to use your own money to do deals. Here's a real simple eighth grade example. You find a property because you sent mail out. You learned how to do it correctly. You learn how to price a mailer. You listen to Jill and all the programs and you engage the seller and bought a piece of property for let's say $10,000. You think it's worth 30,000 or 40,000. That's the typical Land Academy model 2021, but you didn't have the 10,000, nor should you have the 10,000. People feel really guilty about that. Like, I don't have enough money to do this. No, you just need to be real smart about sending out mail, answer your phone and create some deals.

Steven Butala:
And so we're here to fund that $10,000 and then split that profit margin. If it's $30,000 or $40,000, there's $20,000 or $30,000 of profit in that deal, we'll split it with you. We may split it with you for as much as 50%. So you take $15,000 out and you're off to the races, and then you can use that 15,000 for however you use it. We have people in our group that this is their whole model. They don't ever keep any money. So we're trying to make this really simple and very, very clear because what's happened is this. It's become a shark feeding frenzy of money people out there attacking Land Academy members to be their funder. And so what we've done is we've approached all these people. Now they're behind us and they're funding in a pool.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/10/how-to-get-your-deal-funded-by-land-academy-deal-funding-its-official-la-1499/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">w-802stla</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b4efb5ea-e2c7-45f7-a2b5-d3b14ae62a06.mp3" length="11898863" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Unique Ways to Improve Your Land (LA 1497)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Unique Ways to Improve Your Land (LA 1497)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Unique Ways to Improve Your Land (LA 1497)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about unique ways to improve your land. It's Jack Thursday.

Steven Butala:
There's so many things, simple things that you can do to a piece of property that will set it apart from the five or eight or 10 other pieces of property that are maybe listed for sale in the area. We'll talk about simple, fast, cheap ways to make your property stand out on the internet against all those other properties. And keep you legal, if we can. Like meth labs, that will make you stand out.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
But that's not the best thing to do, I don't think. Although, it might sell fast.

Jill DeWit:
The caution tape and all the stuff from the police, that will make your property stand out.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please join us on Discord if you're already a member.

Jill DeWit:
You should have called this, Unique and Legal Ways to Improve Your Land.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, but we'll address some of the illegal ones just because it's fun.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Jill DeWit:
Where's my question? Here we go. Lee wrote, "Hi all. I just turned down a deal that wasn't for me, but the seller has other property that could be for another Land Academy member. How do I go about it? Where do I post it? Thanks."

Jill DeWit:
You know what? That was a thing for the deal board. That was the original intent of the deal board. I was passing on so many deals that I'm like, Somebody should get this. I don't want it. It might be for somebody else because it's too small to ... fill in the blank. I don't know the area that well. Whatever it is. Usually it was too small money-wise and I'd throw them up there. I wouldn't use LandTank because that's not what that's for.

Jill DeWit:
What would you suggest?

Steven Butala:
I think this is chaos waiting to happen.

Jill DeWit:
There's that, too.

Steven Butala:
I think that if you go post it on a deal board, which I'm not recommending at all ... In fact, we need to stop talking about it on this show.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. It is going to go away.

Steven Butala:
We're decommissioning it. If you have another person in the group that you like, maybe you know their name. Kevin Farrell, who's our moderator, would be a perfect candidate for this. He does this all the time. He marks it up a certain amount and just passes on the deal. Marks it up a very small amount of money, less than a thousand dollars regardless of how large it is. At least that's what he reported to me the last time we talked about it, which actually several months ago. It's always better to go with somebody with a sentence like this, "Hey, Kevin," just like this, "I got this deal in. It's not for me. I know it's a good deal ..."

Steven Butala:
We get great deals in all the time, for some reason we just don't do it.

Jill DeWit:
I gave one to Aaron the other day to give to somebody.

Steven Butala:
Okay, good.

Jill DeWit:
We do do it.

Steven Butala:
Great example.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I did. I don't want any money for it.

Jill DeWit:
On Land Academy. I just gave it away. I just said, Hey Aaron, here you go. Give it to somebody you like.

Steven Butala:
Jill, what was wrong with the deal? Everyone-

Jill DeWit:
Too small dollar-wise.

Steven Butala:
Excellent. That's a perfect example.

Jill DeWit:
I'm not going to run up and down for $4,000, but somebody else would.

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Steven Butala:
What I would do is personally reach out to somebody that you have some respect for in the Discord or the Land Investors,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Unique Ways to Improve Your Land (LA 1497)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about unique ways to improve your land. It's Jack Thursday.

Steven Butala:
There's so many things, simple things that you can do to a piece of property that will set it apart from the five or eight or 10 other pieces of property that are maybe listed for sale in the area. We'll talk about simple, fast, cheap ways to make your property stand out on the internet against all those other properties. And keep you legal, if we can. Like meth labs, that will make you stand out.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
But that's not the best thing to do, I don't think. Although, it might sell fast.

Jill DeWit:
The caution tape and all the stuff from the police, that will make your property stand out.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please join us on Discord if you're already a member.

Jill DeWit:
You should have called this, Unique and Legal Ways to Improve Your Land.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, but we'll address some of the illegal ones just because it's fun.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Jill DeWit:
Where's my question? Here we go. Lee wrote, "Hi all. I just turned down a deal that wasn't for me, but the seller has other property that could be for another Land Academy member. How do I go about it? Where do I post it? Thanks."

Jill DeWit:
You know what? That was a thing for the deal board. That was the original intent of the deal board. I was passing on so many deals that I'm like, Somebody should get this. I don't want it. It might be for somebody else because it's too small to ... fill in the blank. I don't know the area that well. Whatever it is. Usually it was too small money-wise and I'd throw them up there. I wouldn't use LandTank because that's not what that's for.

Jill DeWit:
What would you suggest?

Steven Butala:
I think this is chaos waiting to happen.

Jill DeWit:
There's that, too.

Steven Butala:
I think that if you go post it on a deal board, which I'm not recommending at all ... In fact, we need to stop talking about it on this show.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. It is going to go away.

Steven Butala:
We're decommissioning it. If you have another person in the group that you like, maybe you know their name. Kevin Farrell, who's our moderator, would be a perfect candidate for this. He does this all the time. He marks it up a certain amount and just passes on the deal. Marks it up a very small amount of money, less than a thousand dollars regardless of how large it is. At least that's what he reported to me the last time we talked about it, which actually several months ago. It's always better to go with somebody with a sentence like this, "Hey, Kevin," just like this, "I got this deal in. It's not for me. I know it's a good deal ..."

Steven Butala:
We get great deals in all the time, for some reason we just don't do it.

Jill DeWit:
I gave one to Aaron the other day to give to somebody.

Steven Butala:
Okay, good.

Jill DeWit:
We do do it.

Steven Butala:
Great example.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I did. I don't want any money for it.

Jill DeWit:
On Land Academy. I just gave it away. I just said, Hey Aaron, here you go. Give it to somebody you like.

Steven Butala:
Jill, what was wrong with the deal? Everyone-

Jill DeWit:
Too small dollar-wise.

Steven Butala:
Excellent. That's a perfect example.

Jill DeWit:
I'm not going to run up and down for $4,000, but somebody else would.

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Steven Butala:
What I would do is personally reach out to somebody that you have some respect for in the Discord or the Land Investors,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/06/jack-thursday-unique-ways-to-improve-your-land-la-1497/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fy-OD_ZGJ</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d582fbaa-fb80-4f52-bf3a-d6791eca1573.mp3" length="14123917" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Our Last Mailer Deconstructed-We Created a Quarter of a Million Dollars (LA 1496)</title><itunes:title>Our Last Mailer Deconstructed-We Created a Quarter of a Million Dollars (LA 1496)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Our Last Mailer Deconstructed-We Created a Quarter of a Million Dollars (LA 1496)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill-

Jill DeWit:
I was going to say sweaty Scottsdale, Arizona. Not to make you and the rest of the country mad at us, but it's 22% humidity right now which is pretty darn high for us.

Steven Butala:
High for us. At 95 degrees, it starts to get-

Jill DeWit:
A little bit... Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Start to have thoughts of Christmas. And these things happen when it's may. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I'm like, "I need to be in the pool right now." Okay.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how our last... well, we're going to deconstruct our last mailer and show you exactly how we made about a quarter of a million bucks on that.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academ member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Mike D wrote, "Hello everyone. I've actually been a member since August 2020, and I've done 10 deals since then, mostly buy for two to 5,000 and sell for double. I'm starting to gain some momentum. And I'm looking to get some help from members on how to move forward with confidence. I would like to discuss a rather large deal for me, buy for $150,000 and sell for $300,000. And I need the assurance from people that have been doing this a while that it's a good deal. Where can I post the details so it can be discussed? Thanks." Aww.

Steven Butala:
Mike D., you've done every single thing right, every single thing. It's been about six months, less than six months, you've done 10 deals just like Jill always talks about, get 10 deals under your belt. Who cares what they look like? Who cares how much money you make? Just to see if this is for you. And now you're ready to make $150,000 on a deal. And this is a great question. It's actually my favorite question of the week. I would reach out. There's two or three places that we have set up for this to really get some traction for you and people like you. I would start with Discord. I know you're a member because I can tell on Land Investors. We also have something called Deal Board, which we're kind of phasing out, but our members-

Jill DeWit:
Because of Land Tank now.

Steven Butala:
Our members won't let us phase it out because they like it. It's like a bulletin board in a hospital for guitar lessons.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, exactly.

Steven Butala:
And then there's Land Tank. I'm not so sure if you don't have a deal, that Land Tank is the best place if it were me and I can speak confidently. If it were Jill, I would post it on all three places just to see what would happen.

Jill DeWit:
But I do want to sign purchase agreement though moving forward just to make sure because no one really has a deal until we have that, then we can really talk about it.

Steven Butala:
If you have a signed purchase agreement and you think the numbers are 150 to 300 and you put it on Land Tank, it won't last three minutes. There's vultures and I say that in a good way, money people in our group that are dying to fund property.

Jill DeWit:
I would like to add a point here too. We don't always have to double our money. So think about the numbers you've been doing to this point. What if you do it all wrong and you buy it for 150 and you sell it for 250 or 225, those are still great numbers.

Steven Butala:
We do deals like that all the time.

Jill DeWit:
So don't worry. Don't stress. If you know going into it, "I'm buying it for 150 no matter what. I really made a mistake. I sell it for 200," you're still going to be just fine.

Steven Butala:
Yep. That's a big topic for last week that came up a lot.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our Last Mailer Deconstructed-We Created a Quarter of a Million Dollars (LA 1496)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill-

Jill DeWit:
I was going to say sweaty Scottsdale, Arizona. Not to make you and the rest of the country mad at us, but it's 22% humidity right now which is pretty darn high for us.

Steven Butala:
High for us. At 95 degrees, it starts to get-

Jill DeWit:
A little bit... Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Start to have thoughts of Christmas. And these things happen when it's may. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
I'm like, "I need to be in the pool right now." Okay.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how our last... well, we're going to deconstruct our last mailer and show you exactly how we made about a quarter of a million bucks on that.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a Land Academ member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Mike D wrote, "Hello everyone. I've actually been a member since August 2020, and I've done 10 deals since then, mostly buy for two to 5,000 and sell for double. I'm starting to gain some momentum. And I'm looking to get some help from members on how to move forward with confidence. I would like to discuss a rather large deal for me, buy for $150,000 and sell for $300,000. And I need the assurance from people that have been doing this a while that it's a good deal. Where can I post the details so it can be discussed? Thanks." Aww.

Steven Butala:
Mike D., you've done every single thing right, every single thing. It's been about six months, less than six months, you've done 10 deals just like Jill always talks about, get 10 deals under your belt. Who cares what they look like? Who cares how much money you make? Just to see if this is for you. And now you're ready to make $150,000 on a deal. And this is a great question. It's actually my favorite question of the week. I would reach out. There's two or three places that we have set up for this to really get some traction for you and people like you. I would start with Discord. I know you're a member because I can tell on Land Investors. We also have something called Deal Board, which we're kind of phasing out, but our members-

Jill DeWit:
Because of Land Tank now.

Steven Butala:
Our members won't let us phase it out because they like it. It's like a bulletin board in a hospital for guitar lessons.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, exactly.

Steven Butala:
And then there's Land Tank. I'm not so sure if you don't have a deal, that Land Tank is the best place if it were me and I can speak confidently. If it were Jill, I would post it on all three places just to see what would happen.

Jill DeWit:
But I do want to sign purchase agreement though moving forward just to make sure because no one really has a deal until we have that, then we can really talk about it.

Steven Butala:
If you have a signed purchase agreement and you think the numbers are 150 to 300 and you put it on Land Tank, it won't last three minutes. There's vultures and I say that in a good way, money people in our group that are dying to fund property.

Jill DeWit:
I would like to add a point here too. We don't always have to double our money. So think about the numbers you've been doing to this point. What if you do it all wrong and you buy it for 150 and you sell it for 250 or 225, those are still great numbers.

Steven Butala:
We do deals like that all the time.

Jill DeWit:
So don't worry. Don't stress. If you know going into it, "I'm buying it for 150 no matter what. I really made a mistake. I sell it for 200," you're still going to be just fine.

Steven Butala:
Yep. That's a big topic for last week that came up a lot.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/05/our-last-mailer-deconstructed-we-created-a-quarter-of-a-million-dollars-la-1496/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2g89Q6lWf</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 22:38:26 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/af0e7380-c1b1-464e-8222-2ba24011111f.mp3" length="13921011" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:09</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Mystery of Assessed Value (LA 1495)</title><itunes:title>The Mystery of Assessed Value (LA 1495)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Mystery of Assessed Value (LA 1495)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the mystery of assessed value.

Jill DeWit:
God, this comes up often.

Steven Butala:
Yes. Why do you think it comes up so often?

Jill DeWit:
It's a thing. Well, because people need to have some way to value property. And when they're doing pricing and they're buying and they're selling, right. So we often go, "Well, what does the assessor say? Where can I find some numbers?" And the number that jumps up first, it's like, "I'm staring at it. I'm staring at the data. It's the assessed value." So that must be real, right? So it's always real, right?

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you what I think about this in a minute.

Jill DeWit:
Oh okay. Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, please join us on discord. It's an amazing tool. And I get a lot of our questions, like the question that Jill's about to read, from landinvestors.com. And I see older, seasoned, amazingly successful members, piping in hard on landinvestors.com, but not discord. And I'm about to call him myself.

Jill DeWit:
What does that mean?

Steven Butala:
There's some older established people that have been with us for five years that don't know about discord.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. You're about beating that dead horse now, by the way. So I think we got it.

Steven Butala:
This is such an invaluable tool.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, thanks. Jason wrote, "I have a deal that I have a seller willing to sell and a buyer ready to buy." Nice. "The buyer wants to go through title of his expense. My first thought is to do a notary close, get the land deeded to me and record it. And then...", Sorry, I lost the question.

Steven Butala:
Oh, I'm sorry.

Jill DeWit:
You're fine.

Steven Butala:
That was my fault.

Jill DeWit:
You got it. "And then go to the title company with the deed in hand and then sell to the buyer." I get it, and do title insurance then. That's what Jason's talking about. "So I disclosed this to the seller and he says, he's an investigator. And he asked..."

Steven Butala:
He's an investor.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, excuse me. Anyway, "...and he asked, 'Well, why don't I just assign the contract and then collect the assignment fee versus the double close?' I don't know why not, so, I wanted to ask the group. We all live in a different city across Texas. So I don't know if the assignment may be too messy for the seller, that I've already said I would just send a check for the notary close. Pros versus cons on the double close versus the assignment." So I'm going to go first, sir.

Steven Butala:
Actually, you can just go.

Jill DeWit:
You know what's funny? This has come up a couple of times in Clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
Jill loves Clubhouse.

Jill DeWit:
I do, just as much as you love discord. And it's interesting, but anyway,

Steven Butala:
Jill has her new baby and it's called Clubhouse. And she feeds it and pays tons of attention..

Jill DeWit:
So do you, Mr... Yes. Anyway, it's not about me right now. So this has come up because a lot of people do this successfully. And it's kind of like it's given the wholesaling term a bad name. So you've got to be real careful here. So let me back up and just explain. So there's a couple ways to do this. So you bought a property, you're under contract, whatever it is to buy it, and you start shopping it around to some of your buyers and you find out, "Yeah, I want to buy it." And you're like, "Huh, okay, wait a minute. He's ready to go. And the seller's ready to go. I can just take a piece in the middle." That's what he's talking about doing an assignme...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Mystery of Assessed Value (LA 1495)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the mystery of assessed value.

Jill DeWit:
God, this comes up often.

Steven Butala:
Yes. Why do you think it comes up so often?

Jill DeWit:
It's a thing. Well, because people need to have some way to value property. And when they're doing pricing and they're buying and they're selling, right. So we often go, "Well, what does the assessor say? Where can I find some numbers?" And the number that jumps up first, it's like, "I'm staring at it. I'm staring at the data. It's the assessed value." So that must be real, right? So it's always real, right?

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you what I think about this in a minute.

Jill DeWit:
Oh okay. Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, please join us on discord. It's an amazing tool. And I get a lot of our questions, like the question that Jill's about to read, from landinvestors.com. And I see older, seasoned, amazingly successful members, piping in hard on landinvestors.com, but not discord. And I'm about to call him myself.

Jill DeWit:
What does that mean?

Steven Butala:
There's some older established people that have been with us for five years that don't know about discord.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, okay. You're about beating that dead horse now, by the way. So I think we got it.

Steven Butala:
This is such an invaluable tool.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, thanks. Jason wrote, "I have a deal that I have a seller willing to sell and a buyer ready to buy." Nice. "The buyer wants to go through title of his expense. My first thought is to do a notary close, get the land deeded to me and record it. And then...", Sorry, I lost the question.

Steven Butala:
Oh, I'm sorry.

Jill DeWit:
You're fine.

Steven Butala:
That was my fault.

Jill DeWit:
You got it. "And then go to the title company with the deed in hand and then sell to the buyer." I get it, and do title insurance then. That's what Jason's talking about. "So I disclosed this to the seller and he says, he's an investigator. And he asked..."

Steven Butala:
He's an investor.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, excuse me. Anyway, "...and he asked, 'Well, why don't I just assign the contract and then collect the assignment fee versus the double close?' I don't know why not, so, I wanted to ask the group. We all live in a different city across Texas. So I don't know if the assignment may be too messy for the seller, that I've already said I would just send a check for the notary close. Pros versus cons on the double close versus the assignment." So I'm going to go first, sir.

Steven Butala:
Actually, you can just go.

Jill DeWit:
You know what's funny? This has come up a couple of times in Clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
Jill loves Clubhouse.

Jill DeWit:
I do, just as much as you love discord. And it's interesting, but anyway,

Steven Butala:
Jill has her new baby and it's called Clubhouse. And she feeds it and pays tons of attention..

Jill DeWit:
So do you, Mr... Yes. Anyway, it's not about me right now. So this has come up because a lot of people do this successfully. And it's kind of like it's given the wholesaling term a bad name. So you've got to be real careful here. So let me back up and just explain. So there's a couple ways to do this. So you bought a property, you're under contract, whatever it is to buy it, and you start shopping it around to some of your buyers and you find out, "Yeah, I want to buy it." And you're like, "Huh, okay, wait a minute. He's ready to go. And the seller's ready to go. I can just take a piece in the middle." That's what he's talking about doing an assignme...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/05/the-mystery-of-assessed-value-la-1495/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">uiRF__RVj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 18:45:21 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/38a28a44-ccbc-4241-8538-88e44e96e72b.mp3" length="18430905" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Working with Your Spouse (JJ 635 / LA 1494)</title><itunes:title>Working with Your Spouse (JJ 635 / LA 1494)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Working with Your Spouse (JJ 635 / LA 1494)
Transcript:
Jack Butala:                         Jack and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:                            Hi.
Jack Butala:                         Welcome to the Jack Jill Show, entertaining real estate investment advice. I’m Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:                            And, I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.
Jack Butala:                         Today, Jill and I talk about working with your spouse.
Jill DeWit:                            What could be more fun?
Jack Butala:                         This is a topic I feel extremely qualified to discuss.
Jill DeWit:                            Aw.
Jack Butala:                         In public.
Jill DeWit:                            It’s every day.
Jack Butala:                         Unlike most of the topics we talk about.
Jill DeWit:                            There’s a new surprise that just makes me want to do it more.
Jack Butala:                         So, what should the title really be?
Jill DeWit:                            Oh, my gosh.
Jack Butala:                         It should be Working with your Spouse-
Jill DeWit:                            Without Killing Someone.
Jack Butala:                         Working with your Spouse,-
Speaker 3:                           Go ahead.
Jack Butala:                         Without Killing Someone.
Jill DeWit:                            Or, Yourself.
Jack Butala:                         I think that’s how it should be, Work Without Your Spouse.
Jill DeWit:                            Oh.
Jack Butala:                         How did we end up like this? Working together?
Jill DeWit:                            You know why?
Jack Butala:                         What the hell-
Jill DeWit:                            I have a lot to say about this.
Jack Butala:                         We’ll get into it in a minute here.
Jill DeWit:                            Okay.
Jack Butala:                         Before we actually do get into it, let’s take a question posted by one of our members on the jackjill.com online community, it’s free.
Jill DeWit:                            Okay, Rick G. asked, “Hi. I have a seller who will sell a 40 acre property in ___ County, Arizona, for $8,000.00, about eight miles from ___ city. The owner tells me,” he wrote, I’m not doing that on purpose, “roads are good enough to be traverse with a two wheel drive.” This is really good. “Planning to re-sell at $12,000.00, which should be more competitive than when I typically see on Land Watch for this county.”
Aw, and he even included a satellite image of a property on this site. “I’m looking for a money partner to fund this deal, and split the profits 50/50. Here are the sample prices from Land Watch for this county on 40 acre properties,” and he puts $32,000.00, $25,000.00, $24,900.00, $13,000.00, $39.9, $24.4, $29.9 … do you want me to keep going, Jack?
Jack Butala:                         No, it’s $30,000.00. $20,000.00-$30,000.00 comparison values.
Jill DeWit:                            There’s one funky one in there for $13,000.00, so the lowest is $13,000.00-
Jack Butala:                         Which is probably a Land Academy member.
Jill DeWit:                            Right? And, the highest is $37,500.00 thousand dollars.
Jack Butala:                         It might even be us.
Jill DeWit:                            So, this is really, really good. Thank you for doing your homework. We all know he can buy it for $8,000.00. Okay. “Planning on posting this on the Member Deal Board, also, but I’m working with getting it set up. Please let me know if interested.”
Jack Butala:                         I love it.
Jill DeWit:                            Okay.
Jack Butala:                         So, you did every single thing right here. This member did everything right. That’s exactly what we teach. For $8,000.00, and you have it by county, that’s a heck of a deal.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working with Your Spouse (JJ 635 / LA 1494)
Transcript:
Jack Butala:                         Jack and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:                            Hi.
Jack Butala:                         Welcome to the Jack Jill Show, entertaining real estate investment advice. I’m Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:                            And, I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.
Jack Butala:                         Today, Jill and I talk about working with your spouse.
Jill DeWit:                            What could be more fun?
Jack Butala:                         This is a topic I feel extremely qualified to discuss.
Jill DeWit:                            Aw.
Jack Butala:                         In public.
Jill DeWit:                            It’s every day.
Jack Butala:                         Unlike most of the topics we talk about.
Jill DeWit:                            There’s a new surprise that just makes me want to do it more.
Jack Butala:                         So, what should the title really be?
Jill DeWit:                            Oh, my gosh.
Jack Butala:                         It should be Working with your Spouse-
Jill DeWit:                            Without Killing Someone.
Jack Butala:                         Working with your Spouse,-
Speaker 3:                           Go ahead.
Jack Butala:                         Without Killing Someone.
Jill DeWit:                            Or, Yourself.
Jack Butala:                         I think that’s how it should be, Work Without Your Spouse.
Jill DeWit:                            Oh.
Jack Butala:                         How did we end up like this? Working together?
Jill DeWit:                            You know why?
Jack Butala:                         What the hell-
Jill DeWit:                            I have a lot to say about this.
Jack Butala:                         We’ll get into it in a minute here.
Jill DeWit:                            Okay.
Jack Butala:                         Before we actually do get into it, let’s take a question posted by one of our members on the jackjill.com online community, it’s free.
Jill DeWit:                            Okay, Rick G. asked, “Hi. I have a seller who will sell a 40 acre property in ___ County, Arizona, for $8,000.00, about eight miles from ___ city. The owner tells me,” he wrote, I’m not doing that on purpose, “roads are good enough to be traverse with a two wheel drive.” This is really good. “Planning to re-sell at $12,000.00, which should be more competitive than when I typically see on Land Watch for this county.”
Aw, and he even included a satellite image of a property on this site. “I’m looking for a money partner to fund this deal, and split the profits 50/50. Here are the sample prices from Land Watch for this county on 40 acre properties,” and he puts $32,000.00, $25,000.00, $24,900.00, $13,000.00, $39.9, $24.4, $29.9 … do you want me to keep going, Jack?
Jack Butala:                         No, it’s $30,000.00. $20,000.00-$30,000.00 comparison values.
Jill DeWit:                            There’s one funky one in there for $13,000.00, so the lowest is $13,000.00-
Jack Butala:                         Which is probably a Land Academy member.
Jill DeWit:                            Right? And, the highest is $37,500.00 thousand dollars.
Jack Butala:                         It might even be us.
Jill DeWit:                            So, this is really, really good. Thank you for doing your homework. We all know he can buy it for $8,000.00. Okay. “Planning on posting this on the Member Deal Board, also, but I’m working with getting it set up. Please let me know if interested.”
Jack Butala:                         I love it.
Jill DeWit:                            Okay.
Jack Butala:                         So, you did every single thing right here. This member did everything right. That’s exactly what we teach. For $8,000.00, and you have it by county, that’s a heck of a deal.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/05/03/working-with-your-spouse-jj-635-la-1494/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_necdJ6yt</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2151c1cf-9384-4863-9036-fb42f74f8f07.mp3" length="22331761" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:56</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Best Investors Know their Limits (LA 1493)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Best Investors Know their Limits (LA 1493)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Best Investors Know their Limits (LA 1493)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, it's Jill Friday. And she talks about the best investors. Know their limits.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven J Butala:
And my head's a little smaller because Jill-

Jill K DeWit:
Informed you of your limits?

Steven J Butala:
I mean physically smaller in front of this camera because she backed me up. So we're a little bit more equal. She said, "You know, they've been meaning to tell you your heads a little bit big because you're sitting too far forward", which prompted as you can imagine quite the conversation.

Jill K DeWit:
That's great. I thought you were going to say I put... Like, let's talk about your limits, babe.

Steven J Butala:
Oh we're going to talk about that in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay good.

Steven J Butala:
And your limits.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh great. Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. This is cute. So Luke, our infamous Luke Smith wrote, "Have you guys ever been pooed on by a barn owl? I went to get pictures of some land today that is covered in junk and try and figure how much it costs and clean it up and sell it. Looking into this slide sling blade"

Steven J Butala:
"Sling blade looking tool shed built on telephone poles, the owl came right at me when I was in the doorway, dumped white goo all over my hat"

Jill K DeWit:
The hat.

Steven J Butala:
"Front side of my shirt, backside, as well as my shorts leg and shoe. It got my dog, some of my dog also in the same second. Amazing load of crap right there. By the way..." This is a perfect Luke Smith format.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
"Got a commercial retail vacant lot under contract today, 54,000. By-side 135,000 south side, on land tank. Another land tank deal closes today. Buy for 55 south through title at 122."

Steven J Butala:
Even owl poop doesn't stop Luke from making money.

Jill K DeWit:
Not the good hat, not his favorite hat.

Steven J Butala:
A lot of people had some stuff to say, this is on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
A lot of people had owl stories. So it turns out, I didn't know this until all this came out on discord that owls are strategic about who they poop on-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, for real?

Steven J Butala:
And territorial and why. Yeah. Especially when there's dogs, they don't want the dogs around.

Jill K DeWit:
So, it wasn't a coincidence that he flew by and happened to release at that moment.

Steven J Butala:
Nope. Not at all. It was a full blown-

Jill K DeWit:
Attack.

Steven J Butala:
Dive bomb, fighter jet dive bomb.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Noted. Yet another reason to not go out and look at your property. I'm poo free today.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, me too. And he would've made numbers anyway. True. He likes the drama.

Jill K DeWit:
He does.

Steven J Butala:
And he likes to report the drama to us.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic is Jill Friday. Best investors know their limits. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Nice. Okay. So this came from, I was thinking about some of our discussions in career path. So career path is, This is our first time ever running it this year. It's a small elite group of 15 people that we do now once a quarter and take you from wherever you are right now to wherever you want to be personally. How's that?

Jill K DeWit:
So, one of the things we talked about, because there's some really awesome people in there. And I was just sitting back and thinking about how well everyone in this group kind o...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Best Investors Know their Limits (LA 1493)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, it's Jill Friday. And she talks about the best investors. Know their limits.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven J Butala:
And my head's a little smaller because Jill-

Jill K DeWit:
Informed you of your limits?

Steven J Butala:
I mean physically smaller in front of this camera because she backed me up. So we're a little bit more equal. She said, "You know, they've been meaning to tell you your heads a little bit big because you're sitting too far forward", which prompted as you can imagine quite the conversation.

Jill K DeWit:
That's great. I thought you were going to say I put... Like, let's talk about your limits, babe.

Steven J Butala:
Oh we're going to talk about that in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay good.

Steven J Butala:
And your limits.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh great. Thanks.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. This is cute. So Luke, our infamous Luke Smith wrote, "Have you guys ever been pooed on by a barn owl? I went to get pictures of some land today that is covered in junk and try and figure how much it costs and clean it up and sell it. Looking into this slide sling blade"

Steven J Butala:
"Sling blade looking tool shed built on telephone poles, the owl came right at me when I was in the doorway, dumped white goo all over my hat"

Jill K DeWit:
The hat.

Steven J Butala:
"Front side of my shirt, backside, as well as my shorts leg and shoe. It got my dog, some of my dog also in the same second. Amazing load of crap right there. By the way..." This is a perfect Luke Smith format.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
"Got a commercial retail vacant lot under contract today, 54,000. By-side 135,000 south side, on land tank. Another land tank deal closes today. Buy for 55 south through title at 122."

Steven J Butala:
Even owl poop doesn't stop Luke from making money.

Jill K DeWit:
Not the good hat, not his favorite hat.

Steven J Butala:
A lot of people had some stuff to say, this is on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven J Butala:
A lot of people had owl stories. So it turns out, I didn't know this until all this came out on discord that owls are strategic about who they poop on-

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, for real?

Steven J Butala:
And territorial and why. Yeah. Especially when there's dogs, they don't want the dogs around.

Jill K DeWit:
So, it wasn't a coincidence that he flew by and happened to release at that moment.

Steven J Butala:
Nope. Not at all. It was a full blown-

Jill K DeWit:
Attack.

Steven J Butala:
Dive bomb, fighter jet dive bomb.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. Noted. Yet another reason to not go out and look at your property. I'm poo free today.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, me too. And he would've made numbers anyway. True. He likes the drama.

Jill K DeWit:
He does.

Steven J Butala:
And he likes to report the drama to us.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes. That's funny.

Steven J Butala:
Today's topic is Jill Friday. Best investors know their limits. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:
Nice. Okay. So this came from, I was thinking about some of our discussions in career path. So career path is, This is our first time ever running it this year. It's a small elite group of 15 people that we do now once a quarter and take you from wherever you are right now to wherever you want to be personally. How's that?

Jill K DeWit:
So, one of the things we talked about, because there's some really awesome people in there. And I was just sitting back and thinking about how well everyone in this group kind o...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/30/jill-friday-best-investors-know-their-limits-la-1493/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JhZTLexbz</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 22:14:29 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/aadfd0d2-993a-494b-a2fb-9b50015ac13a.mp3" length="13632087" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; More Deals Less Work (LA 1492)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; More Deals Less Work (LA 1492)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - More Deals Less Work (LA 1492)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jack Thursday, and more deals and less work is my current goal in life.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I'd like to back up for just a moment.

Jill K DeWit:
Shouldn't that be everybody's goal?

Steven J Butala:
You know-

Jill K DeWit:
It's not just your personal goal. It happens to be mine, too.

Steven J Butala:
I know. It's Jack Thursday, so it's kind of about me. Jill Friday is tomorrow.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, excuse me. Oh, it's about you. Sorry. Oops.

Steven J Butala:
Well, I'll give you an example where this should not be your goal. If you haven't done your first deal yet, this doesn't apply to you. You just need to get past that first deal. In fact, Joe Long said, get 10 deals under your belt, see if you really want to do this. But if this is now your career and you're full-time, this would absolutely be your goal.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Totally.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, Miguel wrote, I failed my first mailer.

Jill K DeWit:
He thinks he failed his first mailer. Let's see here.

Jill K DeWit:
I had co ... Oh

Steven J Butala:
I love to throw Jill for a loop on these questions because she doesn't read them before.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I have no idea. This is cold, in case you can't tell. In case you did not know, this is totally unrehearsed.

Steven J Butala:
In fact, this is the most that Jill and I talk to each other the entire week.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true. Only on Thursdays.

Jill K DeWit:
I had calls sent to my Google voice number voicemail, and I missed most of the calls. Won't happen again. I have PATLive now. No deals, no acceptance on any offers, but a few angry owners left messages. I offered 20% of the assessed land value per the data tree column just to get the mail out. Any tips from a pro are appreciated.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, [inaudible 00:02:04] without giving Miguel ... Miguel kind of knows.

Steven J Butala:
No, I do.

Jill K DeWit:
We've got a couple of things he already figured out. You want to-

Steven J Butala:
Here's the good news. Here's good news, Miguel, this failure is one step closer to success. If I added up all my failures, oh my gosh.

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry, I wasn't laughing at you. I was just giggling.

Steven J Butala:
One of my really long time friends for decades came to me and said, "Look, I've got this great business idea. I'm not sure where to start and I could really use your advice." And I said, "I'm happy to help you, but I will tell you, no one can turn a dollar into 50 cents like me." I said, of all the companies Jill and I have ever started and all the stuff I've ever done, the ones that we have right now are the ones that were leftover because they succeeded.

Jill K DeWit:
They made the cut.

Steven J Butala:
And they're the most recent. All the failures and all of that, we don't have a show about failing at companies. We have the Land Academy Show.

Steven J Butala:
Don't get discouraged. That's the good news. I will tell you, this questioning and the few points in here, I have to really seriously request, and please take this to heart, this is for everybody, you got to go through the steps, the Land Academy steps. You've got to go through the program. You have to participate in our Thursday calls. That's how you get the most up-to-date information on the tools that we use. You have to use the Discord, and you put this in Discord which is awesome.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - More Deals Less Work (LA 1492)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jack Thursday, and more deals and less work is my current goal in life.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
I'd like to back up for just a moment.

Jill K DeWit:
Shouldn't that be everybody's goal?

Steven J Butala:
You know-

Jill K DeWit:
It's not just your personal goal. It happens to be mine, too.

Steven J Butala:
I know. It's Jack Thursday, so it's kind of about me. Jill Friday is tomorrow.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, excuse me. Oh, it's about you. Sorry. Oops.

Steven J Butala:
Well, I'll give you an example where this should not be your goal. If you haven't done your first deal yet, this doesn't apply to you. You just need to get past that first deal. In fact, Joe Long said, get 10 deals under your belt, see if you really want to do this. But if this is now your career and you're full-time, this would absolutely be your goal.

Jill K DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Totally.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay, Miguel wrote, I failed my first mailer.

Jill K DeWit:
He thinks he failed his first mailer. Let's see here.

Jill K DeWit:
I had co ... Oh

Steven J Butala:
I love to throw Jill for a loop on these questions because she doesn't read them before.

Jill K DeWit:
No, I have no idea. This is cold, in case you can't tell. In case you did not know, this is totally unrehearsed.

Steven J Butala:
In fact, this is the most that Jill and I talk to each other the entire week.

Jill K DeWit:
This is true. Only on Thursdays.

Jill K DeWit:
I had calls sent to my Google voice number voicemail, and I missed most of the calls. Won't happen again. I have PATLive now. No deals, no acceptance on any offers, but a few angry owners left messages. I offered 20% of the assessed land value per the data tree column just to get the mail out. Any tips from a pro are appreciated.

Jill K DeWit:
Well, [inaudible 00:02:04] without giving Miguel ... Miguel kind of knows.

Steven J Butala:
No, I do.

Jill K DeWit:
We've got a couple of things he already figured out. You want to-

Steven J Butala:
Here's the good news. Here's good news, Miguel, this failure is one step closer to success. If I added up all my failures, oh my gosh.

Jill K DeWit:
Sorry, I wasn't laughing at you. I was just giggling.

Steven J Butala:
One of my really long time friends for decades came to me and said, "Look, I've got this great business idea. I'm not sure where to start and I could really use your advice." And I said, "I'm happy to help you, but I will tell you, no one can turn a dollar into 50 cents like me." I said, of all the companies Jill and I have ever started and all the stuff I've ever done, the ones that we have right now are the ones that were leftover because they succeeded.

Jill K DeWit:
They made the cut.

Steven J Butala:
And they're the most recent. All the failures and all of that, we don't have a show about failing at companies. We have the Land Academy Show.

Steven J Butala:
Don't get discouraged. That's the good news. I will tell you, this questioning and the few points in here, I have to really seriously request, and please take this to heart, this is for everybody, you got to go through the steps, the Land Academy steps. You've got to go through the program. You have to participate in our Thursday calls. That's how you get the most up-to-date information on the tools that we use. You have to use the Discord, and you put this in Discord which is awesome.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/29/jack-thursday-more-deals-less-work-la-1492/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">LdC_xZQnj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:09:28 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/916367c0-9974-4f75-ba39-7ad9c19b6b93.mp3" length="15834229" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Top Three Data and Pricing Tips (LA 1491)</title><itunes:title>Top Three Data and Pricing Tips (LA 1491)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Top Three Data and Pricing Tips (LA 1491)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny, I almost wanted to say Southern California, but I'm not there right now. It's just a habit. Sunny, Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the top three data and pricing tips.

Jill K DeWit:
I can't wait. So, I'm sorry. Do we have three of each?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
My top three of each.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be good. This is important.

Steven J Butala:
This is crazy, crazy important. And it's an imperative step to, I think, being really successful at this. There's a bunch of steps, but pricing and data it's all centered around that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven J Butala:
So, before we get into that, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on the Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Bobby wrote, "Hello land investors/Land Academy community. I hope you're all doing well. When scrubbing our lists, do you guys filter out owners who have owned their property for less than X, fill in the blank, years? For example, I am wondering if excluding owners who have owned their property for less than three years or whatever helps avoid wasting postage on those who just purchased the land and are less likely to want to sell. Money, saved as money earned, right? And postage is expensive. In the name of efficiency, what has been your experience?"

Jill K DeWit:
You want to go first?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. I don't think money saved is money earned. I think money spent as money earned when it comes to the postage and all of that. Number one, number two, I don't know where this comes from. There's a whole handful, not a ton of things, but there's a ton of topics right now, somebody out there who's less qualified, way less qualified than us is saying to do some certain things just probably because they're real out about it. No, we don't. If this makes sense to you, here's a real answer. If it makes sense to you do it. We have never done that.

Jill K DeWit:
If it makes sense to you, I'm sorry. Don't do it. Let me save you. This is one of the things about us that makes us different. So many people are trying to save a penny and send only due back tax property or only do out-of-state owners or they think there's some magic to getting a really small whatever list and you know what? You're missing a lot of people. So, what I cannot tell you how much wonderful property I have bought from people who fit this mold.

Jill K DeWit:
Dad just passed on, probate was done. The property just got in their name a month ago. Everybody paid the taxes on it. It's all current. They just don't know what to do with it. And they just got my letter. You would have missed them. Oh, and they live in the same state. By the way they lived, they live in the same city as this property that dad had down the road and I'm buying it. They just don't want it. It's all about the situation. And you just can't assume one thing. You can't assume that because they're paying the taxes on it. They love it. No, a lot of people are paying the taxes on it because they didn't know they could not pay the taxes on it. That's the reality.

Steven J Butala:
Here's the big picture perception, my perception of what's happening with some of these topics, specifically mailer efficiency. And, then I'm going to follow it up with a incredible success story that happened to us yesterday in career path.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
So, what you're really asking is Bobby, what you're asking is how can I make my mailer efficiency or my mailer yield more efficient? How can I send out less mailers and buy more property?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Top Three Data and Pricing Tips (LA 1491)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And, I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny, I almost wanted to say Southern California, but I'm not there right now. It's just a habit. Sunny, Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the top three data and pricing tips.

Jill K DeWit:
I can't wait. So, I'm sorry. Do we have three of each?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
My top three of each.

Jill K DeWit:
This is going to be good. This is important.

Steven J Butala:
This is crazy, crazy important. And it's an imperative step to, I think, being really successful at this. There's a bunch of steps, but pricing and data it's all centered around that.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep.

Steven J Butala:
So, before we get into that, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on the Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Bobby wrote, "Hello land investors/Land Academy community. I hope you're all doing well. When scrubbing our lists, do you guys filter out owners who have owned their property for less than X, fill in the blank, years? For example, I am wondering if excluding owners who have owned their property for less than three years or whatever helps avoid wasting postage on those who just purchased the land and are less likely to want to sell. Money, saved as money earned, right? And postage is expensive. In the name of efficiency, what has been your experience?"

Jill K DeWit:
You want to go first?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. I don't think money saved is money earned. I think money spent as money earned when it comes to the postage and all of that. Number one, number two, I don't know where this comes from. There's a whole handful, not a ton of things, but there's a ton of topics right now, somebody out there who's less qualified, way less qualified than us is saying to do some certain things just probably because they're real out about it. No, we don't. If this makes sense to you, here's a real answer. If it makes sense to you do it. We have never done that.

Jill K DeWit:
If it makes sense to you, I'm sorry. Don't do it. Let me save you. This is one of the things about us that makes us different. So many people are trying to save a penny and send only due back tax property or only do out-of-state owners or they think there's some magic to getting a really small whatever list and you know what? You're missing a lot of people. So, what I cannot tell you how much wonderful property I have bought from people who fit this mold.

Jill K DeWit:
Dad just passed on, probate was done. The property just got in their name a month ago. Everybody paid the taxes on it. It's all current. They just don't know what to do with it. And they just got my letter. You would have missed them. Oh, and they live in the same state. By the way they lived, they live in the same city as this property that dad had down the road and I'm buying it. They just don't want it. It's all about the situation. And you just can't assume one thing. You can't assume that because they're paying the taxes on it. They love it. No, a lot of people are paying the taxes on it because they didn't know they could not pay the taxes on it. That's the reality.

Steven J Butala:
Here's the big picture perception, my perception of what's happening with some of these topics, specifically mailer efficiency. And, then I'm going to follow it up with a incredible success story that happened to us yesterday in career path.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J Butala:
So, what you're really asking is Bobby, what you're asking is how can I make my mailer efficiency or my mailer yield more efficient? How can I send out less mailers and buy more property?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/28/top-three-data-and-pricing-tips-la-1491/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">g2q3nZEQw</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:03:27 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f5f64cba-069a-4d4e-bef8-74d27a8e8d31.mp3" length="18895753" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When to Perform Due Diligence (LA 1490)</title><itunes:title>When to Perform Due Diligence (LA 1490)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[When to Perform Due Diligence (LA 1490)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hey.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about when to perform due diligence on a land deal.

Jill K DeWit:
For every property before the mail goes out.

Steven J Butala:
This is a snarky little topic where we don't want you to waste time. We only want you to do due diligence on properties that have already-

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to help you.

Steven J Butala:
... pass the financial test first.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to help you. We got this.

Steven J Butala:
But before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Mike wrote, "Hi guys. I'm trying to conduct my due diligence on a property that I got a response on today."

Steven J Butala:
That I got a response on today.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. What the heck was that? Oh my god, could you imagine-

Steven J Butala:
If I conducted-

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait, wait I've got to say this. Could you imagine if we walked around like that in life?

Steven J Butala:
Let's do it. Let's do it all show today, on the whole episode today.

Jill K DeWit:
This would be so fun, like, hey, what do you want for lunch? What do you want for lunch?

Steven J Butala:
I'm sure there's people like that.

Jill K DeWit:
This is awful.

Steven J Butala:
Let's do it right now, annoying and funny.

Jill K DeWit:
It's annoying and funny.

Steven J Butala:
She says.

Jill K DeWit:
This is awful. That's a good one.

Steven J Butala:
Let's do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you remember that movie, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days? That would be the way. If you go on a first date and you act like that, you announce whatever the person says like that with emphasis on all the wrong words too.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, this is good. Anyway. Okay, this is going to be funny. "I looked it up on the county assessor's website" ... I'm waiting for you to do it again.

Steven J Butala:
I'll do it at the end of the sentence for effect.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay. Got it. "But it wouldn't pull up on the county map. It only gave a general area to look."

Steven J Butala:
A general area to look.

Jill K DeWit:
"No luck. I took the APN from the county data and I tried to look it up on the ParcelFact. Still no luck. Any suggestions on a workaround for this issue? I also tried calling county assessor, but they were not any help either. Thanks." County assessor, no help.

Steven J Butala:
So what's going on with Mike here, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, this is totally easy. Okay. So he's just having trouble finding the APN. So sometimes it's a formatting issue. No big deal. You and I do ... Well, hold on a moment. I'll get to that in just a second. There's two parts of this question. One is I can't find the property because of my APN's mis-formatted, or something's on here wrong. I don't know what to do. So, the quickest, fastest, easiest way is to jump into something like TitlePro or DataTree, search by owner name. You have that. Or if you're staring at your purchase agreement back in the mail and you've got a reference number on it, maybe jump back into your master spreadsheet where you downloaded the data, look up and see what the correct formatting is somewhat. Usually it's in there. Like when you download the data, there's usually two ways of format APNs, and sometimes there's even an ownership number, depending on the area that starts with like an R one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. You might be able to find it like that.

Jill K DeWit:
But my easiest way is just go search by owner last name, and then you can find it in one of the other sources and go,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[When to Perform Due Diligence (LA 1490)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hey.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about when to perform due diligence on a land deal.

Jill K DeWit:
For every property before the mail goes out.

Steven J Butala:
This is a snarky little topic where we don't want you to waste time. We only want you to do due diligence on properties that have already-

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to help you.

Steven J Butala:
... pass the financial test first.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm going to help you. We got this.

Steven J Butala:
But before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Cool. Mike wrote, "Hi guys. I'm trying to conduct my due diligence on a property that I got a response on today."

Steven J Butala:
That I got a response on today.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you. What the heck was that? Oh my god, could you imagine-

Steven J Butala:
If I conducted-

Jill K DeWit:
Wait, wait, wait I've got to say this. Could you imagine if we walked around like that in life?

Steven J Butala:
Let's do it. Let's do it all show today, on the whole episode today.

Jill K DeWit:
This would be so fun, like, hey, what do you want for lunch? What do you want for lunch?

Steven J Butala:
I'm sure there's people like that.

Jill K DeWit:
This is awful.

Steven J Butala:
Let's do it right now, annoying and funny.

Jill K DeWit:
It's annoying and funny.

Steven J Butala:
She says.

Jill K DeWit:
This is awful. That's a good one.

Steven J Butala:
Let's do it.

Jill K DeWit:
Do you remember that movie, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days? That would be the way. If you go on a first date and you act like that, you announce whatever the person says like that with emphasis on all the wrong words too.

Steven J Butala:
Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, this is good. Anyway. Okay, this is going to be funny. "I looked it up on the county assessor's website" ... I'm waiting for you to do it again.

Steven J Butala:
I'll do it at the end of the sentence for effect.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, okay. Got it. "But it wouldn't pull up on the county map. It only gave a general area to look."

Steven J Butala:
A general area to look.

Jill K DeWit:
"No luck. I took the APN from the county data and I tried to look it up on the ParcelFact. Still no luck. Any suggestions on a workaround for this issue? I also tried calling county assessor, but they were not any help either. Thanks." County assessor, no help.

Steven J Butala:
So what's going on with Mike here, Jill?

Jill K DeWit:
Oh, this is totally easy. Okay. So he's just having trouble finding the APN. So sometimes it's a formatting issue. No big deal. You and I do ... Well, hold on a moment. I'll get to that in just a second. There's two parts of this question. One is I can't find the property because of my APN's mis-formatted, or something's on here wrong. I don't know what to do. So, the quickest, fastest, easiest way is to jump into something like TitlePro or DataTree, search by owner name. You have that. Or if you're staring at your purchase agreement back in the mail and you've got a reference number on it, maybe jump back into your master spreadsheet where you downloaded the data, look up and see what the correct formatting is somewhat. Usually it's in there. Like when you download the data, there's usually two ways of format APNs, and sometimes there's even an ownership number, depending on the area that starts with like an R one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. You might be able to find it like that.

Jill K DeWit:
But my easiest way is just go search by owner last name, and then you can find it in one of the other sources and go,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/27/when-to-perform-due-diligence-la-1490/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dc8Wrs_aW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/37063156-ce98-42d8-bb83-87d01c194b48.mp3" length="14986527" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why are We Still Talking about a Secret County List-There is No Such Thing (LA 1489)</title><itunes:title>Why are We Still Talking about a Secret County List-There is No Such Thing (LA 1489)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why are We Still Talking about a Secret County List-There is No Such Thing (LA 1489)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why are we still talking about the Secret County List?

Jill K DeWit:
Really?

Steven J Butala:
There's no such thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Really. Thank you for listening. I had to push this forward as a podcast topic because I can't believe it's still coming up.

Steven J Butala:
There is no such thing as a Secret County List to send mail to buy property.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. We're going to explain where this came from, why it's popular, what it is, and what you should do to save yourself.

Steven J Butala:
It's frustrating a lot of people, and we don't want to see that.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven J Butala:
We want you to succeed.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already with us as a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Mike wrote, "I have been using the purchase agreement from Land Academy. I've recently had a seller call back and want to back out of the contract because he now wants to sell it to his daughter instead." If I had a nickel...

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, this is very common.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-huh (affirmative). My brother, my mom, whatever. "I sent the contract to a lawyer here in Oregon, and this is his response below. I have the purchase agreement and it was signed by the seller and dated on July 15th." It's like valid until July 15, 2021. That's it. Okay. So I guess he copied and pasted there. Great. And then he goes on to say, "Has anyone else ever been in something like this? I could make a lot of money in this deal and I want to make sure it's worth it. I have seen Steve talk about how the PA is fine and sufficient enough to hold a seller to a contract. Any advice would be great." I would love to go first if I may.

Steven J Butala:
Sure. Yeah. I mean, I really shortened this.

Jill K DeWit:
Obviously.

Steven J Butala:
Out of respect for my co-host cause last week.

Jill K DeWit:
There were a mile long.

Steven J Butala:
She said they're too long.

Jill K DeWit:
Will you give me a real quick two seconds? What did the lawyer say?

Steven J Butala:
Well, there's a lot of money involved. He was going to make a bunch of money.

Jill K DeWit:
But did the lawyer have a comment?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. The lawyer said you're out of luck.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
And so did our moderator, Kevin. And so do I. That's what I say.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So here's the point. Here's what I was going to say. Even if the lawyer says a version of this: "Oh, absolutely binding. Here's what we do. You could expect these fees. It's going to take this long and you're going to get this deal." I don't want to be that guy. So I kind of don't really care what the lawyer says. And this came up, was it on a Thursday? It came up recently. Somebody asked me this exact question basically like, "What do you do?" You know, do you push it? Like, no, do you want to be that guy. Do you want to spend your time, your money, your energy chasing somebody down for a dumb deal.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't even care. I do not care if this stands up in court. Do you want to go to court over this? No, you don't want to do that. Yeah. My exact answer was, "I let karma work these things out." Totally fine.

Steven J Butala:
I could not agree more with everything single thing you said. We live in a world now where it's very popular on television, in the media, and even like in fictitious stories now where there's just a victim, and it ends up in a courtroom,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why are We Still Talking about a Secret County List-There is No Such Thing (LA 1489)
Transcript:

Steven J Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Good day.

Steven J Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why are we still talking about the Secret County List?

Jill K DeWit:
Really?

Steven J Butala:
There's no such thing.

Jill K DeWit:
Really. Thank you for listening. I had to push this forward as a podcast topic because I can't believe it's still coming up.

Steven J Butala:
There is no such thing as a Secret County List to send mail to buy property.

Jill K DeWit:
Right. We're going to explain where this came from, why it's popular, what it is, and what you should do to save yourself.

Steven J Butala:
It's frustrating a lot of people, and we don't want to see that.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven J Butala:
We want you to succeed.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven J Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already with us as a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Mike wrote, "I have been using the purchase agreement from Land Academy. I've recently had a seller call back and want to back out of the contract because he now wants to sell it to his daughter instead." If I had a nickel...

Steven J Butala:
Yeah, this is very common.

Jill K DeWit:
Uh-huh (affirmative). My brother, my mom, whatever. "I sent the contract to a lawyer here in Oregon, and this is his response below. I have the purchase agreement and it was signed by the seller and dated on July 15th." It's like valid until July 15, 2021. That's it. Okay. So I guess he copied and pasted there. Great. And then he goes on to say, "Has anyone else ever been in something like this? I could make a lot of money in this deal and I want to make sure it's worth it. I have seen Steve talk about how the PA is fine and sufficient enough to hold a seller to a contract. Any advice would be great." I would love to go first if I may.

Steven J Butala:
Sure. Yeah. I mean, I really shortened this.

Jill K DeWit:
Obviously.

Steven J Butala:
Out of respect for my co-host cause last week.

Jill K DeWit:
There were a mile long.

Steven J Butala:
She said they're too long.

Jill K DeWit:
Will you give me a real quick two seconds? What did the lawyer say?

Steven J Butala:
Well, there's a lot of money involved. He was going to make a bunch of money.

Jill K DeWit:
But did the lawyer have a comment?

Steven J Butala:
Yeah. The lawyer said you're out of luck.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh.

Steven J Butala:
And so did our moderator, Kevin. And so do I. That's what I say.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So here's the point. Here's what I was going to say. Even if the lawyer says a version of this: "Oh, absolutely binding. Here's what we do. You could expect these fees. It's going to take this long and you're going to get this deal." I don't want to be that guy. So I kind of don't really care what the lawyer says. And this came up, was it on a Thursday? It came up recently. Somebody asked me this exact question basically like, "What do you do?" You know, do you push it? Like, no, do you want to be that guy. Do you want to spend your time, your money, your energy chasing somebody down for a dumb deal.

Jill K DeWit:
I don't even care. I do not care if this stands up in court. Do you want to go to court over this? No, you don't want to do that. Yeah. My exact answer was, "I let karma work these things out." Totally fine.

Steven J Butala:
I could not agree more with everything single thing you said. We live in a world now where it's very popular on television, in the media, and even like in fictitious stories now where there's just a victim, and it ends up in a courtroom,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/26/why-are-we-still-talking-about-a-secret-county-list-there-is-no-such-thing-la-1489/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">jdUwpqLTj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d6102b41-71ce-4542-8957-f6104a963965.mp3" length="14148243" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Three Ps and What Makes a Great Land Investor (LA 1488)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; Three Ps and What Makes a Great Land Investor (LA 1488)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Three Ps and What Makes a Great Land Investor (LA 1488)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about... Well, it's Jill Friday and her three P's and what makes a great land investor.

Jill K DeWit:
Versus a good one. I think I did a week or so ago on Clubhouse and people were trying to figure out, "Hey, what's the difference?" Really, it came to be who are these career path people because they look at it for them as great, great investors because they're really putting the money and the time and energy into making this a really a career kind of thing. And so people say, "Well, they're obviously great investors. What makes them stand out?" All right, I'm going to put some thought into this. What do I think is the difference here? And then you and I talked about it and I did the first two, three P's, and you came up with the 3rd P, which we'll share in a few minutes.

Jill K DeWit:
And I did this little talk on Clubhouse and it was really fun. It was an open discussion as Clubhouse always is. It was super fun. By the way too, I'd like to note, thank you for my pretty flowers. For those of you who are watching us on YouTube right now, you notice I put some pretty red roses behind me that Steven got me for, what was the occasion?

Steven Jack Butala:
For no reason at all because I like to.

Jill K DeWit:
These are really nice. Thank you. So now that they look so pretty behind us, we should make this a thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, this is Jill's way of getting flowers every single week.

Jill K DeWit:
You better believe it is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which I have no problem with.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
If there's a subscription flower service.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there is. It's called 800 flowers. You could probably have different color roses and stuff. Do you want me to just do it for you?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, no, I'll do it. I'll go do it. I mean, I wonder if Amazon's probably got a floral component to it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord. It's a tremendous tool to get every question you've ever had about this answered. And if you're just a lurker, it's a great way to learn through other people's questions. I'm on there all the time all day.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So this is a lengthy one. I'm going to go through the whole thing here, but it's a great question that we have. Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Greg wrote, "Hi everyone. Another fun story to share with the group and looking for any advice. I have a property in blank that has no legal access. The road doesn't quite make it there that I sold/I'm selling on a land contract. Of course, I told the guy I didn't think it had legal access, but he wanted to buy it anyway for a low price. That was a year ago. So a month ago, I get a letter from the Property Owners Association indicating that the parcel has trucks and trailers and all of stuff parked on it and apparently it's in the middle of this association and the road that almost leads there is owned by the Property Owners Association, the POA. The POA asked for all the stuff to be removed within 30 days and to stop trespassing or they would call the sheriff. I told the guy that I sold the place to, again, it was under land contract and he wasn't too happy and has missed his March payment. I fear he's going to back out of the contract and I understand why. So today, I get a letter in the mail from an attorney in the state saying that they represent the Property Owners Association and they go on to say that all the junk is still on the property.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - Three Ps and What Makes a Great Land Investor (LA 1488)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about... Well, it's Jill Friday and her three P's and what makes a great land investor.

Jill K DeWit:
Versus a good one. I think I did a week or so ago on Clubhouse and people were trying to figure out, "Hey, what's the difference?" Really, it came to be who are these career path people because they look at it for them as great, great investors because they're really putting the money and the time and energy into making this a really a career kind of thing. And so people say, "Well, they're obviously great investors. What makes them stand out?" All right, I'm going to put some thought into this. What do I think is the difference here? And then you and I talked about it and I did the first two, three P's, and you came up with the 3rd P, which we'll share in a few minutes.

Jill K DeWit:
And I did this little talk on Clubhouse and it was really fun. It was an open discussion as Clubhouse always is. It was super fun. By the way too, I'd like to note, thank you for my pretty flowers. For those of you who are watching us on YouTube right now, you notice I put some pretty red roses behind me that Steven got me for, what was the occasion?

Steven Jack Butala:
For no reason at all because I like to.

Jill K DeWit:
These are really nice. Thank you. So now that they look so pretty behind us, we should make this a thing.

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, this is Jill's way of getting flowers every single week.

Jill K DeWit:
You better believe it is.

Steven Jack Butala:
Which I have no problem with.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:
If there's a subscription flower service.

Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there is. It's called 800 flowers. You could probably have different color roses and stuff. Do you want me to just do it for you?

Steven Jack Butala:
No, no, no, I'll do it. I'll go do it. I mean, I wonder if Amazon's probably got a floral component to it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord. It's a tremendous tool to get every question you've ever had about this answered. And if you're just a lurker, it's a great way to learn through other people's questions. I'm on there all the time all day.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So this is a lengthy one. I'm going to go through the whole thing here, but it's a great question that we have. Yes.

Jill K DeWit:
Greg wrote, "Hi everyone. Another fun story to share with the group and looking for any advice. I have a property in blank that has no legal access. The road doesn't quite make it there that I sold/I'm selling on a land contract. Of course, I told the guy I didn't think it had legal access, but he wanted to buy it anyway for a low price. That was a year ago. So a month ago, I get a letter from the Property Owners Association indicating that the parcel has trucks and trailers and all of stuff parked on it and apparently it's in the middle of this association and the road that almost leads there is owned by the Property Owners Association, the POA. The POA asked for all the stuff to be removed within 30 days and to stop trespassing or they would call the sheriff. I told the guy that I sold the place to, again, it was under land contract and he wasn't too happy and has missed his March payment. I fear he's going to back out of the contract and I understand why. So today, I get a letter in the mail from an attorney in the state saying that they represent the Property Owners Association and they go on to say that all the junk is still on the property.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/23/jill-friday-three-ps-and-what-makes-a-great-land-investor-la-1488/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">O50g_5nim</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/53f1ab9d-f5b5-4714-b581-c8cc333e29be.mp3" length="16164617" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Mailers are Never Finished (LA 1487)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Mailers are Never Finished (LA 1487)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Mailers are Never Finished (LA 1487)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jack Thursday, how mailers are really, truly never finished like art.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
At this point in my career, there's more art in doing a really good well-priced mailer, one's that's really effective than there is a science or technical talent.

Jill K DeWit:
You think so, really?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I think when a painter learns to paint, it's all about technical stuff. Or when you learn to play the guitar in the beginning, it's all about getting the techniques down. And further along in their career, it just becomes an art effort.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know. Is it that way with your end of the business, you think?

Jill K DeWit:
Mine's all art. It's a little bit of both.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
And if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord. All right. Doug wrote, "Hi, I'm in the middle of purchasing a parcel in North Carolina. To get an idea of what price I should sell it at, I'd like to talk to a local realtor to get their thoughts on what the parcel might be worth. Especially, is it a zone for agricultural use? How are you approaching realtors with this question, especially if you don't actually plan to work with them to sell the property?"

Jill K DeWit:
Well, first of all, I never let them think that. I let them think that I'm... which I really am. Because what if they really are awesome. I do let them think that I am interviewing them if they want to maybe sell my property and you get to know each other. They might be fantastic. Because I've had some guys that just blew my socks off. I've had some that didn't, but that's the whole point.

Jill K DeWit:
So number one, what you want to do is make sure you have it locked in. I want you to have it a signed purchase agreement. You shouldn't even doing anything without a signed purchase agreement anyway, because as far as I'm concerned, it's not a real deal. Anybody could change their mind at that point. You could speak vaguely enough that it's almost done, preferably you have it in escrow. That's my second thing.

Jill K DeWit:
If I'm that serious about it, I'm talking to brokers and agents trying to get an idea of what to sell it at. I feel pretty good about it and like, "Hey, I'm just closing on this," and then that's all I'll say. "I think I know what I'm going to do with it, but I'm just reaching out. You look like the expert in the area. I'm reaching out to find out what your thoughts are, what you think we could sell this for, and in what timeframe."

Jill K DeWit:
The other thing I also tell agents and brokers is, "Hey, I'm not that guy. I'm not holding out for retail, by the way. So I hope to be your favorite person. I really want this to go within 30 days. So be aggressive. Tell me what you really think."

Steven Jack Butala:
I also think you should explain to the person that you're happily, we'll pay them 10%. But you want to feel like you got all of it. You got the service that you needed, that the buyer's a correct buyer. And that the person really did put a lot of work into it, unlike most residential real estate agents who don't understand what work is.

Jill K DeWit:
You're bashing on them a lot this week. Are you okay? Did you have some run in? Did a real estate agent rear end you, and I don't know about it?

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what happened, why I'm real down on real estate agents? Somebody in a Land Academy Discord group asked, they said, "Look,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Mailers are Never Finished (LA 1487)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jack Thursday, how mailers are really, truly never finished like art.

Jill K DeWit:
Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:
At this point in my career, there's more art in doing a really good well-priced mailer, one's that's really effective than there is a science or technical talent.

Jill K DeWit:
You think so, really?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. I think when a painter learns to paint, it's all about technical stuff. Or when you learn to play the guitar in the beginning, it's all about getting the techniques down. And further along in their career, it just becomes an art effort.

Jill K DeWit:
I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:
I don't know. Is it that way with your end of the business, you think?

Jill K DeWit:
Mine's all art. It's a little bit of both.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:
And if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord. All right. Doug wrote, "Hi, I'm in the middle of purchasing a parcel in North Carolina. To get an idea of what price I should sell it at, I'd like to talk to a local realtor to get their thoughts on what the parcel might be worth. Especially, is it a zone for agricultural use? How are you approaching realtors with this question, especially if you don't actually plan to work with them to sell the property?"

Jill K DeWit:
Well, first of all, I never let them think that. I let them think that I'm... which I really am. Because what if they really are awesome. I do let them think that I am interviewing them if they want to maybe sell my property and you get to know each other. They might be fantastic. Because I've had some guys that just blew my socks off. I've had some that didn't, but that's the whole point.

Jill K DeWit:
So number one, what you want to do is make sure you have it locked in. I want you to have it a signed purchase agreement. You shouldn't even doing anything without a signed purchase agreement anyway, because as far as I'm concerned, it's not a real deal. Anybody could change their mind at that point. You could speak vaguely enough that it's almost done, preferably you have it in escrow. That's my second thing.

Jill K DeWit:
If I'm that serious about it, I'm talking to brokers and agents trying to get an idea of what to sell it at. I feel pretty good about it and like, "Hey, I'm just closing on this," and then that's all I'll say. "I think I know what I'm going to do with it, but I'm just reaching out. You look like the expert in the area. I'm reaching out to find out what your thoughts are, what you think we could sell this for, and in what timeframe."

Jill K DeWit:
The other thing I also tell agents and brokers is, "Hey, I'm not that guy. I'm not holding out for retail, by the way. So I hope to be your favorite person. I really want this to go within 30 days. So be aggressive. Tell me what you really think."

Steven Jack Butala:
I also think you should explain to the person that you're happily, we'll pay them 10%. But you want to feel like you got all of it. You got the service that you needed, that the buyer's a correct buyer. And that the person really did put a lot of work into it, unlike most residential real estate agents who don't understand what work is.

Jill K DeWit:
You're bashing on them a lot this week. Are you okay? Did you have some run in? Did a real estate agent rear end you, and I don't know about it?

Steven Jack Butala:
You know what happened, why I'm real down on real estate agents? Somebody in a Land Academy Discord group asked, they said, "Look,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/22/jack-thursday-mailers-are-never-finished-la-1487/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">mp2bfuFs2</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1d12a287-2729-454b-b60d-7f7b12674df8.mp3" length="16007425" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Members Overall Deal Quality is Now Amazing (LA 1486)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Members Overall Deal Quality is Now Amazing (LA 1486)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Members Overall Deal Quality is Now Amazing (LA 1486)
Transcript:
Steve Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Howdy.
Steve Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investing talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. What was the long pause there for?
Steve Butala:I forgot my line.
Jill K DeWit:Wow.
Steve Butala:I've said it 1,485 times.
Jill K DeWit:1486, okay. Sorry.
Steve Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how the Land Academy members, their overall deal quality is now amazing. Yesterday, we talked about at the end of the show, every Thursday, Jill and I have a member call. It's a webinar. It began a lot of years ago. We're on episode, I mean, it's thousands of hours now.
Jill K DeWit:Every week.
Steve Butala:Every Thursday. And it began as a continuing education product a lot of years ago where I would just sit and talk.
Jill K DeWit:Answer questions. Just answer your questions about things, rant here and there.
Steve Butala:And it evolved over the years into us giving our opinions about members deals, whether they should buy it property or how much they should sell it. Or just a general question forum.
Jill K DeWit:We have the Land Investors online community, which we're going to talk about here in a second. And I'm going to read a question from there, which is great to write things in, but sometimes you need to see things. It became a, you know, especially visual became, you know what, here I'll show you what I do kind of thing. And then it evolved into the call and the what are you want to call it? It's a tool that it is today. The resource. Sometimes it's more entertainment, entertainment and information. Entertainment first I think. And then information second.
Steve Butala:And Jill and I treat the deals as if they were our own. So we would look it up, do the due diligence, check the floodplain, check the pricing, as if it was our own deals.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. It's every Thursday. I love it. And it's funny because now it's a thing, I know people are just, I'm sure there's people that may or not be doing as aggressively doing deals, but they're on every Thursday call because it's just so funny. And we can share things because it's not edited like iTunes and Spotify.
Steve Butala:It's not necessarily rated Google like this show is.
Jill K DeWit:And all the places that you get this show, so we can kind of really cut loose and be silly and have fun. It's hilarious. And there's interaction.
Steve Butala:It's very real. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us in real time on Discord.
Jill K DeWit:Greg wrote, and this is going to be a little bit lengthy, I'll let you know now. "So the way I look at pricing is you can't make everyone happy with the same pricing at X dollars per acre. This is because the values of the properties in any sample, regardless of the size will vary. So let's assume a normal distribution. You can one, set your price based on the lowest junk you can find on the web. And most of the calls you get back will be from owners of the lowest priced junk in that sample and perhaps a diamond. Downside is you self-select to the junkers and lose out on the larger number of nicer properties in the higher value in that sample."
Steve Butala:Before you go on to number two, he's dead right, Greg and this is why I chose your question. And this is how we used to do it. This is how in the early nineties, before we had all this information, before there was a Zillow or Trulia or realtor.com or any type of real comparison value online mechanism that you can get real time like you can now, that's what we used to do.
Jill K DeWit:Thank you.
Steve Butala:Did I wreck your rhythm?
Jill K DeWit:No, it's okay. "Number two, set your price based on the mean value in that sample,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Members Overall Deal Quality is Now Amazing (LA 1486)
Transcript:
Steve Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:Howdy.
Steve Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investing talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. What was the long pause there for?
Steve Butala:I forgot my line.
Jill K DeWit:Wow.
Steve Butala:I've said it 1,485 times.
Jill K DeWit:1486, okay. Sorry.
Steve Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how the Land Academy members, their overall deal quality is now amazing. Yesterday, we talked about at the end of the show, every Thursday, Jill and I have a member call. It's a webinar. It began a lot of years ago. We're on episode, I mean, it's thousands of hours now.
Jill K DeWit:Every week.
Steve Butala:Every Thursday. And it began as a continuing education product a lot of years ago where I would just sit and talk.
Jill K DeWit:Answer questions. Just answer your questions about things, rant here and there.
Steve Butala:And it evolved over the years into us giving our opinions about members deals, whether they should buy it property or how much they should sell it. Or just a general question forum.
Jill K DeWit:We have the Land Investors online community, which we're going to talk about here in a second. And I'm going to read a question from there, which is great to write things in, but sometimes you need to see things. It became a, you know, especially visual became, you know what, here I'll show you what I do kind of thing. And then it evolved into the call and the what are you want to call it? It's a tool that it is today. The resource. Sometimes it's more entertainment, entertainment and information. Entertainment first I think. And then information second.
Steve Butala:And Jill and I treat the deals as if they were our own. So we would look it up, do the due diligence, check the floodplain, check the pricing, as if it was our own deals.
Jill K DeWit:Yeah. It's every Thursday. I love it. And it's funny because now it's a thing, I know people are just, I'm sure there's people that may or not be doing as aggressively doing deals, but they're on every Thursday call because it's just so funny. And we can share things because it's not edited like iTunes and Spotify.
Steve Butala:It's not necessarily rated Google like this show is.
Jill K DeWit:And all the places that you get this show, so we can kind of really cut loose and be silly and have fun. It's hilarious. And there's interaction.
Steve Butala:It's very real. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us in real time on Discord.
Jill K DeWit:Greg wrote, and this is going to be a little bit lengthy, I'll let you know now. "So the way I look at pricing is you can't make everyone happy with the same pricing at X dollars per acre. This is because the values of the properties in any sample, regardless of the size will vary. So let's assume a normal distribution. You can one, set your price based on the lowest junk you can find on the web. And most of the calls you get back will be from owners of the lowest priced junk in that sample and perhaps a diamond. Downside is you self-select to the junkers and lose out on the larger number of nicer properties in the higher value in that sample."
Steve Butala:Before you go on to number two, he's dead right, Greg and this is why I chose your question. And this is how we used to do it. This is how in the early nineties, before we had all this information, before there was a Zillow or Trulia or realtor.com or any type of real comparison value online mechanism that you can get real time like you can now, that's what we used to do.
Jill K DeWit:Thank you.
Steve Butala:Did I wreck your rhythm?
Jill K DeWit:No, it's okay. "Number two, set your price based on the mean value in that sample,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/21/land-academy-members-overall-deal-quality-is-now-amazing-la-1486/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">HP_0T_bZk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86b46281-4ee5-47c3-bf85-a9d620fe3e8e.mp3" length="18610875" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Story of Two Broker Opinions (LA 1485)</title><itunes:title>The Story of Two Broker Opinions (LA 1485)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[The Story of Two Broker Opinions (LA 1485)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the story of two broker opinions. In life, sometimes brokers don't agree.

Jill K DeWit:
It's funny. It's funny how you reach out- [crosstalk 00:00:20]-

Steven Jack Butala:
Sometimes couples don't agree.

Jill K DeWit:
Not us, other couples.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's peaches and cream with Jill and I, every minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. The way you just cheerily jump out of bed every morning and are always just smiling and never serious, just giddy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Especially during the COVID.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Oh, that was my favorite time, I love that quality time we got to spend together.

Steven Jack Butala:
Nobody, nobody likes work Steve, especially Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. I get to see it all.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody loves drinking Steve.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
But not work, Steve.

Jill K DeWit:
And spending Steve and rewarding Steve and like, sure, why not? Buy it Steve. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into today, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's completely free and if you're already a member, please join us on Discord, it's a blast.

Jill K DeWit:
Austin wrote, flood pocalypse.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the title of his question, flood pocalypse.

Jill K DeWit:
Flood pocalypse, I love it. "What do you folks do regarding your due diligence for flood plains? I found some info for the following designations. Holy moly. A, AE, A1-A30, AH, AO, AR, A99, V, VE, V1-V30. It's Greek to me...

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too. Not really.

Jill K DeWit:
... If there's anything floody that comes up, do you pass or does it depend? Also, please share what tools you use. Thanks, Austin." This is very sweet. So, Laurie very nicely wrote, "hey Austin. As a rule of thumb, regulatory flood plains are unusable...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
... Other designations have varied implications depending on the place. I do a quick check using the FEMA flood map overlay, which you can find in neighborscoop.com and it's available on the fema.gov site, to see what others have done with land in the same flood designation areas. Is there a house? Is there a barn? Mobile? Crops? Boat tied up to a fence? If I want a purpose or I want to pursue the property, I'll call the county and find out what the requirements are, if any, to build in the flood plain. He didn't mention wetlands, there's still a hope, if the properties in the floodplain, wetlands hopeless. Best, Laurie."

Steven Jack Butala:
Couldn't have said it better myself. All of it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Now, Kevin says don't mess with it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Kevin the moderator says, one short sentence, "don't mess with it."

Jill K DeWit:
So I guess- [crosstalk 00:03:16].

Steven Jack Butala:
They're both completely right.

Jill K DeWit:
So, it depends on what it is, for me. So for example, I use neighborscoop.com, I have it open all day, every day. So, property comes in, I pull up my NeighborScoop and that's one of the things that I go through, my quick, little, five minute, phase one due diligence and I'll see if it falls under flood plain. And then, I'll start on, say it's a light purple and so I'm like, "all right, what else has been built in light purple? And when was it built?" Because that's the beauty of NeighborScoop, I can click on it and go, "all right, this isn't a flood pipe. Look, here's a house that was just built or a barn or something, in 2010, I can see it on there, I pulled up the property history, so it's no big deal. And they solved it.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Story of Two Broker Opinions (LA 1485)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the story of two broker opinions. In life, sometimes brokers don't agree.

Jill K DeWit:
It's funny. It's funny how you reach out- [crosstalk 00:00:20]-

Steven Jack Butala:
Sometimes couples don't agree.

Jill K DeWit:
Not us, other couples.

Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's peaches and cream with Jill and I, every minute.

Jill K DeWit:
Steven, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. The way you just cheerily jump out of bed every morning and are always just smiling and never serious, just giddy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Especially during the COVID.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. Oh, that was my favorite time, I love that quality time we got to spend together.

Steven Jack Butala:
Nobody, nobody likes work Steve, especially Jill.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. I get to see it all.

Steven Jack Butala:
Everybody loves drinking Steve.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
But not work, Steve.

Jill K DeWit:
And spending Steve and rewarding Steve and like, sure, why not? Buy it Steve. Okay.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into today, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's completely free and if you're already a member, please join us on Discord, it's a blast.

Jill K DeWit:
Austin wrote, flood pocalypse.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is the title of his question, flood pocalypse.

Jill K DeWit:
Flood pocalypse, I love it. "What do you folks do regarding your due diligence for flood plains? I found some info for the following designations. Holy moly. A, AE, A1-A30, AH, AO, AR, A99, V, VE, V1-V30. It's Greek to me...

Steven Jack Butala:
Me too. Not really.

Jill K DeWit:
... If there's anything floody that comes up, do you pass or does it depend? Also, please share what tools you use. Thanks, Austin." This is very sweet. So, Laurie very nicely wrote, "hey Austin. As a rule of thumb, regulatory flood plains are unusable...

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
... Other designations have varied implications depending on the place. I do a quick check using the FEMA flood map overlay, which you can find in neighborscoop.com and it's available on the fema.gov site, to see what others have done with land in the same flood designation areas. Is there a house? Is there a barn? Mobile? Crops? Boat tied up to a fence? If I want a purpose or I want to pursue the property, I'll call the county and find out what the requirements are, if any, to build in the flood plain. He didn't mention wetlands, there's still a hope, if the properties in the floodplain, wetlands hopeless. Best, Laurie."

Steven Jack Butala:
Couldn't have said it better myself. All of it.

Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Now, Kevin says don't mess with it.

Steven Jack Butala:
Kevin the moderator says, one short sentence, "don't mess with it."

Jill K DeWit:
So I guess- [crosstalk 00:03:16].

Steven Jack Butala:
They're both completely right.

Jill K DeWit:
So, it depends on what it is, for me. So for example, I use neighborscoop.com, I have it open all day, every day. So, property comes in, I pull up my NeighborScoop and that's one of the things that I go through, my quick, little, five minute, phase one due diligence and I'll see if it falls under flood plain. And then, I'll start on, say it's a light purple and so I'm like, "all right, what else has been built in light purple? And when was it built?" Because that's the beauty of NeighborScoop, I can click on it and go, "all right, this isn't a flood pipe. Look, here's a house that was just built or a barn or something, in 2010, I can see it on there, I pulled up the property history, so it's no big deal. And they solved it.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/20/the-story-of-two-broker-opinions-la-1485/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b3LoEwdgS</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0738f9c5-f94d-44c7-8873-e4572472f0af.mp3" length="13882533" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Be a Producer Not a Consumer (LA 1484)</title><itunes:title>Be a Producer Not a Consumer (LA 1484)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Be a Producer Not a Consumer (LA 1484)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how I think you really should be a producer more than a consumer, which is a ridiculous podcast topic because you're consuming this podcast.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, [crosstalk 00:00:21] excited about that. I'm like, it's interesting when you wrote that down, you're like, "That's a great line." The other day, I'm like, "Where are we going to go with that?" So I do have some questions.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody in our land academy accountability group said, they typed this in and said, and so I really think that's good advice for, you need to be a land investor, you need to produce.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I have questions. I'll save them for the show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a member, please join us on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
You love the discord.

Steven Jack Butala:
I do love the discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank goodness that's not a drinking game. I bet it is actually.

Steven Jack Butala:
For somebody it is.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my gosh. It started on our Thursday call and now it's just become a thing that we have a few keywords that we tend to maybe overuse. Like I've stopped saying dreamy, all of you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have some too. Like tragic.

Jill K DeWit:
Tragic, yeah. That's a good one.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a tragic piece of real estate.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you're approaching this in a very tragic way.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Slopeyness. That's another one. So anyway, it's funny, it's turn into a thing and discord is one of the words. As is Clubhouse and we'll get to that later.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
So Rebecca wrote, "Hi, all. Quick question I need advice on. I have a sold lot in North Carolina. It's closing on January 8th." This is a couple of weeks ago. "We had no idea if it was perced." Oh my gosh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Perced is a drinking word.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a drinking word for me. That is a trigger word for me. I've got to tell you right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is a trigger word for me, too.

Jill K DeWit:
I hate perc and any version of the word perc. So we don't even have a percolator coffee thing. Anyway, "Buyer was told to do her due diligence and sign a contract. Seeing they're responsible for all due diligence on the lot. The buyer never did a perc because-

Steven Jack Butala:
[crosstalk 00:02:19].

Jill K DeWit:
... because it would've taken too long. We're not going to hold a lot for her that long. Neither of us, nor the buyer knew if it perced. Today, randomly, some realtor who we don't know, just emailed us out of the blue and said, "oh, the lot does not perc." An old client of hers ran a perc test and it failed. I don't know who this realtor is or why she's contacting us. Should I just close it to the buyer. Please advise, please." You want to go first?

Steven Jack Butala:
Buck response. This is, in land investors-

Jill K DeWit:
[inaudible 00:02:50] people wrote in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this gets great. I would not have put this in here if it's not fantastically entertaining.

Jill K DeWit:
You've got lines and lines here. I see responses.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's multiple responses, including our moderator.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. You want to read Buck and I'll read the back half?

Steven Jack Butala:
Buck response, "sounds like sour grapes." I couldn't agree more. I always refer buyers to the county septic department if they have questions about getting a permit. Getting this hearsay from a questionable source,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Be a Producer Not a Consumer (LA 1484)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how I think you really should be a producer more than a consumer, which is a ridiculous podcast topic because you're consuming this podcast.

Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, [crosstalk 00:00:21] excited about that. I'm like, it's interesting when you wrote that down, you're like, "That's a great line." The other day, I'm like, "Where are we going to go with that?" So I do have some questions.

Steven Jack Butala:
Somebody in our land academy accountability group said, they typed this in and said, and so I really think that's good advice for, you need to be a land investor, you need to produce.

Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I have questions. I'll save them for the show.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a member, please join us on discord.

Jill K DeWit:
You love the discord.

Steven Jack Butala:
I do love the discord.

Jill K DeWit:
Thank goodness that's not a drinking game. I bet it is actually.

Steven Jack Butala:
For somebody it is.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh my gosh. It started on our Thursday call and now it's just become a thing that we have a few keywords that we tend to maybe overuse. Like I've stopped saying dreamy, all of you.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have some too. Like tragic.

Jill K DeWit:
Tragic, yeah. That's a good one.

Steven Jack Butala:
This is a tragic piece of real estate.

Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:
And you're approaching this in a very tragic way.

Jill K DeWit:
Exactly. Slopeyness. That's another one. So anyway, it's funny, it's turn into a thing and discord is one of the words. As is Clubhouse and we'll get to that later.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.

Jill K DeWit:
So Rebecca wrote, "Hi, all. Quick question I need advice on. I have a sold lot in North Carolina. It's closing on January 8th." This is a couple of weeks ago. "We had no idea if it was perced." Oh my gosh.

Steven Jack Butala:
Perced is a drinking word.

Jill K DeWit:
That's a drinking word for me. That is a trigger word for me. I've got to tell you right now.

Steven Jack Butala:
It is a trigger word for me, too.

Jill K DeWit:
I hate perc and any version of the word perc. So we don't even have a percolator coffee thing. Anyway, "Buyer was told to do her due diligence and sign a contract. Seeing they're responsible for all due diligence on the lot. The buyer never did a perc because-

Steven Jack Butala:
[crosstalk 00:02:19].

Jill K DeWit:
... because it would've taken too long. We're not going to hold a lot for her that long. Neither of us, nor the buyer knew if it perced. Today, randomly, some realtor who we don't know, just emailed us out of the blue and said, "oh, the lot does not perc." An old client of hers ran a perc test and it failed. I don't know who this realtor is or why she's contacting us. Should I just close it to the buyer. Please advise, please." You want to go first?

Steven Jack Butala:
Buck response. This is, in land investors-

Jill K DeWit:
[inaudible 00:02:50] people wrote in.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, this gets great. I would not have put this in here if it's not fantastically entertaining.

Jill K DeWit:
You've got lines and lines here. I see responses.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's multiple responses, including our moderator.

Jill K DeWit:
All right. You want to read Buck and I'll read the back half?

Steven Jack Butala:
Buck response, "sounds like sour grapes." I couldn't agree more. I always refer buyers to the county septic department if they have questions about getting a permit. Getting this hearsay from a questionable source,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/19/be-a-producer-not-a-consumer-la-1484/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JxwPkEgqk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:04:13 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/17262b50-e610-4831-ad92-b31e28c7fd2a.mp3" length="13436983" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; So Much Fun Looking at Our Properties (LA 1483)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; So Much Fun Looking at Our Properties (LA 1483)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - So Much Fun Looking at Our Properties (LA 1483)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jill Friday and how much fun we have looking at our properties right now.

Jill DeWit:
Kind of eating your words.

Steven Butala:
I thought you said never go look at your properties. You should never leave your desk.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, you lose money.

Steven Butala:
Well, this is the way we do it, it's kind of fun. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Of Land Academy. That's right.

Steven Butala:
You will learn stuff. I learn stuff every day.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Dave wrote, I've got several sellers lined up from my first mailing and I wonder which deed to create and mail to the notary for the transfer? The initial deal is from a seller who's owned the property since the early 90s, and the county website says he purchased a quick claim deed following a public auction. I just told him I would send him a deed to sign without bothering to figure out what kind of create. How do you decide which deed to use? I use DeedPerfect.

Steven Butala:
Whatever it spits out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. For the most part. For the most part, hold on a moment.

Steven Butala:
DeedPerfect is a site that we own.

Jill DeWit:
Let's just say, because most of the time, you do need to check and make sure, but usually most of the time it's a normal transfer. Where'd you go? And it's saying California. It's a grant deed. Other places, it's a special warranty deed. That's usually what we're doing. I'm not going to do another quick claim deed, that's used for a certain situation. [inaudible 00:01:52] back up, Dave, first just kind of researching, it's really easy to, research in google types of deeds and what they mean.

Steven Butala:
It's very state specific.

Jill DeWit:
You need to first understand what is a warranty, what's a quick claim deed, what's a trust deed. There's different kinds of deeds, treasurers deed. Just because they obtained the property that way, this is one of the mistakes that I made originally. I had a property, I'm looking at a treasurer's deed, and I was brand spanking new at this. And I thought, okay, you always copy the same deed before. So I'm redoing it and I called it a treasurer's deed. I'm not a treasurer, I don't do a treasurer's deed. So, you just need to understand what the deeds are, first of all, and who uses them.

Steven Butala:
Thank you for not asking me which one to use.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, you're welcome.

Steven Butala:
I really appreciate that you don't ask me that.

Jill DeWit:
I learned, I learned, like, oh, so I'm not a treasurer so you don't use a treasure's deed. That's just how they bought it. Now, when I sell it, now it goes to a special warranty deed. Say if it's that appropriate state, California might be a grant deed. So my cheat sheet, first of all is, I use DeedPerfect because for the 99% of normal transactions that you're doing, the deed is universal and it can be found in deedperfect.com. And we made this site to solve this problem for everybody. If you're a Land Academy member, it's free. Everybody else is like a hundred bucks. Rocket Lawyer, and those guys are like 200 bucks, or it's like a couple hundred bucks for one deed. Ours are $99, that's it.

Steven Butala:
We got tired of doing our own deeds. We were doing so many deeds that we said, you know what, we need to build a site and we're not going to pay Rocket Lawyer or whatever else. The way that those sites are set up, it's not set up for what we do.

Jill DeWit:
It's not to spit out a deed, I don't know what it's used for,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday - So Much Fun Looking at Our Properties (LA 1483)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how it's Jill Friday and how much fun we have looking at our properties right now.

Jill DeWit:
Kind of eating your words.

Steven Butala:
I thought you said never go look at your properties. You should never leave your desk.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, you lose money.

Steven Butala:
Well, this is the way we do it, it's kind of fun. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Of Land Academy. That's right.

Steven Butala:
You will learn stuff. I learn stuff every day.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Dave wrote, I've got several sellers lined up from my first mailing and I wonder which deed to create and mail to the notary for the transfer? The initial deal is from a seller who's owned the property since the early 90s, and the county website says he purchased a quick claim deed following a public auction. I just told him I would send him a deed to sign without bothering to figure out what kind of create. How do you decide which deed to use? I use DeedPerfect.

Steven Butala:
Whatever it spits out.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. For the most part. For the most part, hold on a moment.

Steven Butala:
DeedPerfect is a site that we own.

Jill DeWit:
Let's just say, because most of the time, you do need to check and make sure, but usually most of the time it's a normal transfer. Where'd you go? And it's saying California. It's a grant deed. Other places, it's a special warranty deed. That's usually what we're doing. I'm not going to do another quick claim deed, that's used for a certain situation. [inaudible 00:01:52] back up, Dave, first just kind of researching, it's really easy to, research in google types of deeds and what they mean.

Steven Butala:
It's very state specific.

Jill DeWit:
You need to first understand what is a warranty, what's a quick claim deed, what's a trust deed. There's different kinds of deeds, treasurers deed. Just because they obtained the property that way, this is one of the mistakes that I made originally. I had a property, I'm looking at a treasurer's deed, and I was brand spanking new at this. And I thought, okay, you always copy the same deed before. So I'm redoing it and I called it a treasurer's deed. I'm not a treasurer, I don't do a treasurer's deed. So, you just need to understand what the deeds are, first of all, and who uses them.

Steven Butala:
Thank you for not asking me which one to use.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, you're welcome.

Steven Butala:
I really appreciate that you don't ask me that.

Jill DeWit:
I learned, I learned, like, oh, so I'm not a treasurer so you don't use a treasure's deed. That's just how they bought it. Now, when I sell it, now it goes to a special warranty deed. Say if it's that appropriate state, California might be a grant deed. So my cheat sheet, first of all is, I use DeedPerfect because for the 99% of normal transactions that you're doing, the deed is universal and it can be found in deedperfect.com. And we made this site to solve this problem for everybody. If you're a Land Academy member, it's free. Everybody else is like a hundred bucks. Rocket Lawyer, and those guys are like 200 bucks, or it's like a couple hundred bucks for one deed. Ours are $99, that's it.

Steven Butala:
We got tired of doing our own deeds. We were doing so many deeds that we said, you know what, we need to build a site and we're not going to pay Rocket Lawyer or whatever else. The way that those sites are set up, it's not set up for what we do.

Jill DeWit:
It's not to spit out a deed, I don't know what it's used for,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/16/jill-friday-so-much-fun-looking-at-our-properties-la-1483/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bcRS8ylmk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7c7ac1fc-ed4a-4609-a2b9-cb8d82afd646.mp3" length="15280837" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Just for Engineers and Business Owners (LA 1482)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; Just for Engineers and Business Owners (LA 1482)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Just for Engineers and Business Owners (LA 1482)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet, sunny, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how it's Jack Thursday, just for engineers and business owners.

Jill DeWit:
Bye-bye.

Steven Butala:
We have a tremendous number of business owners and engineers in our group, and I'm going to talk about why, and so is Jill.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, I urge you to join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okie dokie. Chris wrote, "Hi, my name is Chris B., and I've only been a member for maybe two weeks and I've watched all the videos." Chris, those are two weeks you'll never get back. Just kidding. Good for you. I am happy, you blew through that. "I didn't know if there was a place on the website to make myself available to fund deals. Any input is appreciated." There is. There's two ways.

Steven Butala:
Well, there's two that I know of, but let's see if they're the same.

Jill DeWit:
One is where you could be watching for deals via LandTank and HouseTank. When people need money, that's where they post them. And you can just go in there and grab them.

Steven Butala:
Get on LandTank and make sure that you turn your notifications on, because every single deal without exception, that goes to Land Tank, it gets gobbled up within minutes by other funders. That's one way. What's your other way?

Jill DeWit:
Well, every January, we put out a master list where we ... You'll get on the next one, Chris. We publish who you are, all your contact information, any details about how much money you're willing to spend per deal, how much money you're willing to spend in total. If there's any parts of the country that you like, any nuances about how much you're willing to help or not help or whatever it is, funding other people's deals. That's it.

Jill DeWit:
The other way I'd say put it in, maybe Land Investors? I'm trying to think where else he could-

Steven Butala:
Nobody listens to that funding deal, and it comes out once a year anyway. It's just cool to know that there's $100 million available to people who were in the Land Academy to do good deals.

Jill DeWit:
Well, I look at it.

Steven Butala:
So, it's a cool thing. I look at it, too, but it's once a year.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
There's a section in Discord called Would You Fund This Deal. And people who need transactions funded, us included sometimes. We do some deals that are so big that we don't want to bite it all ourselves.

Steven Butala:
There's a section called, Would You Fund This Deal. If I were you, and there's other people in this group that have no intention of ever sending out a mailer, they just want to fund other people's deals, which is fine. People from institutions and hedge funds and stuff, actually, are members. I would go be real loud about it in Discord and say, "I fund deals. And they better be damn good deals. And you better be really intelligent or else I don't want to work with you." And I would really be that clear about it. Because you will-

Jill DeWit:
Not you, Chris. You tell them that if you want.

Steven Butala:
Tell them. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
You better be intelligent and nice and have only five star deals.

Jill DeWit:
Give us your checklist. Jack's like, "Here's what I expect." Come on, are we working together?

Steven Butala:
Between the two of us, Jill and I, I'm not allowed to fund deals.

Jill DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Butala:
Because of this attitude I have.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. As you can see, he's still on step one of my 10-step anger program.

Steven Butala:
You know what the truth is?]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - Just for Engineers and Business Owners (LA 1482)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet, sunny, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how it's Jack Thursday, just for engineers and business owners.

Jill DeWit:
Bye-bye.

Steven Butala:
We have a tremendous number of business owners and engineers in our group, and I'm going to talk about why, and so is Jill.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, I urge you to join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Okie dokie. Chris wrote, "Hi, my name is Chris B., and I've only been a member for maybe two weeks and I've watched all the videos." Chris, those are two weeks you'll never get back. Just kidding. Good for you. I am happy, you blew through that. "I didn't know if there was a place on the website to make myself available to fund deals. Any input is appreciated." There is. There's two ways.

Steven Butala:
Well, there's two that I know of, but let's see if they're the same.

Jill DeWit:
One is where you could be watching for deals via LandTank and HouseTank. When people need money, that's where they post them. And you can just go in there and grab them.

Steven Butala:
Get on LandTank and make sure that you turn your notifications on, because every single deal without exception, that goes to Land Tank, it gets gobbled up within minutes by other funders. That's one way. What's your other way?

Jill DeWit:
Well, every January, we put out a master list where we ... You'll get on the next one, Chris. We publish who you are, all your contact information, any details about how much money you're willing to spend per deal, how much money you're willing to spend in total. If there's any parts of the country that you like, any nuances about how much you're willing to help or not help or whatever it is, funding other people's deals. That's it.

Jill DeWit:
The other way I'd say put it in, maybe Land Investors? I'm trying to think where else he could-

Steven Butala:
Nobody listens to that funding deal, and it comes out once a year anyway. It's just cool to know that there's $100 million available to people who were in the Land Academy to do good deals.

Jill DeWit:
Well, I look at it.

Steven Butala:
So, it's a cool thing. I look at it, too, but it's once a year.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
There's a section in Discord called Would You Fund This Deal. And people who need transactions funded, us included sometimes. We do some deals that are so big that we don't want to bite it all ourselves.

Steven Butala:
There's a section called, Would You Fund This Deal. If I were you, and there's other people in this group that have no intention of ever sending out a mailer, they just want to fund other people's deals, which is fine. People from institutions and hedge funds and stuff, actually, are members. I would go be real loud about it in Discord and say, "I fund deals. And they better be damn good deals. And you better be really intelligent or else I don't want to work with you." And I would really be that clear about it. Because you will-

Jill DeWit:
Not you, Chris. You tell them that if you want.

Steven Butala:
Tell them. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
You better be intelligent and nice and have only five star deals.

Jill DeWit:
Give us your checklist. Jack's like, "Here's what I expect." Come on, are we working together?

Steven Butala:
Between the two of us, Jill and I, I'm not allowed to fund deals.

Jill DeWit:
Correct.

Steven Butala:
Because of this attitude I have.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. As you can see, he's still on step one of my 10-step anger program.

Steven Butala:
You know what the truth is?]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/15/jack-thursday-just-for-engineers-and-business-owners-la-1482/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">G_hfMtue4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d901c932-308a-4390-9a92-b4ad26508b3f.mp3" length="14744857" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Web Scraping for Accurate Mailer Pricing (LA 1481)</title><itunes:title>Web Scraping for Accurate Mailer Pricing (LA 1481)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... really, I talk about web scraping for accurate mailer pricing. Jill adds some flair to it.

Jill Dewit:
Truth time. This was my topic. I love this.

Steven Butala:
You like web scraping?

Jill Dewit:
Yes. I just said, "Can we please talk about this? I just can't talk about it enough." I think this is the greatest thing. Ever since I've learned this trick, I do it for everything. I web scrape to make sure I'm buying the right mascara, hair products.

Steven Butala:
You know what? Friday, tomorrow's Jack Thursday.

Jill Dewit:
Okay, got it. Do I get a Friday? Oh, I get my ... okay.

Steven Butala:
On Friday, it's Jill Friday. So much fun looking at our properties, so you can talk about-

Jill Dewit:
Okay. I can talk about that. Oh darn. Okay.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, so taking the [crosstalk 00:01:03]

Jill Dewit:
Fine. I'll let you have web scraping this time. I might roll that into mine on Friday.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Oh, and if you're already a member, you should join us on Discord. Seriously, I'm not joking. It cracks me up that a lot of people in our group aren't on Discord. That is 50% of the education value of being in Land Academy is Discord.

Jill Dewit:
It gets distracting though, because I mean, we have that, and then we have the land investors online community. Both are great. Both are great. Okay.

Steven Butala:
What I'm noticing since we started the Discord thing is that the people on land investors are all not in our group. Even though there are a lot of people that answer questions on land investors that are in our group, but the questions are from new people that are not yet members, but all the real questions and education goes on in Discord.

Jill Dewit:
Understood. Hello, Bobbie. Bobbie wrote, "Still new here and getting my bearings. First off blessings to you all, Steven and Jill and the entire Land Academy team." Thank you, Bobbie.

Steven Butala:
That's nice. I never get tired of hearing that.

Jill Dewit:
Aww. She says, "Thank you for creating such an amazingly helpful community and offering so much of yourselves to all of us. After a lot of research I have yet to stumble across this info. I just wanted to find out what's typical with regard to the purchase agreement when selling land. Is it as simple as using the same purchase agreement to buy it? If so, do you all have suggestions on any necessary modifications when converting the agreement? Thanks in advance." I use the same one.

Steven Butala:
Same one.

Jill Dewit:
It doesn't really matter.

Steven Butala:
If you go to offers, the number 2, owners.com, and you go to forums-

Jill Dewit:
Forums.

Steven Butala:
... This is all free and it's all open to the public. Click on purchase agreement, and whether you're in the group or not, you can use it to buy and sell real estate, and here's why. Jill and I just bought a house. We're going to flip it, but it's an extremely expensive high-end house that Jill got for an amazing price. I have never ... And we got a mortgage on it, because it was less than 3%, because I couldn't make the math work otherwise.

Steven Butala:
I have never signed so many documents in my life. I bet we signed our names-

Jill Dewit:
Tell me. I know. A hundred times.

Steven Butala:
... probably a hundred times. You know how many times we sign that purchase agreement when we buy and sell land? Once, and the seller or buyer signs it once.

Jill Dewit:
Right. I sign that, I sign off on one-

Steven Butala:
So it's just my way of sticking my middle finger up to real estate agents and the lawyers behind them.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about ... really, I talk about web scraping for accurate mailer pricing. Jill adds some flair to it.

Jill Dewit:
Truth time. This was my topic. I love this.

Steven Butala:
You like web scraping?

Jill Dewit:
Yes. I just said, "Can we please talk about this? I just can't talk about it enough." I think this is the greatest thing. Ever since I've learned this trick, I do it for everything. I web scrape to make sure I'm buying the right mascara, hair products.

Steven Butala:
You know what? Friday, tomorrow's Jack Thursday.

Jill Dewit:
Okay, got it. Do I get a Friday? Oh, I get my ... okay.

Steven Butala:
On Friday, it's Jill Friday. So much fun looking at our properties, so you can talk about-

Jill Dewit:
Okay. I can talk about that. Oh darn. Okay.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, so taking the [crosstalk 00:01:03]

Jill Dewit:
Fine. I'll let you have web scraping this time. I might roll that into mine on Friday.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Oh, and if you're already a member, you should join us on Discord. Seriously, I'm not joking. It cracks me up that a lot of people in our group aren't on Discord. That is 50% of the education value of being in Land Academy is Discord.

Jill Dewit:
It gets distracting though, because I mean, we have that, and then we have the land investors online community. Both are great. Both are great. Okay.

Steven Butala:
What I'm noticing since we started the Discord thing is that the people on land investors are all not in our group. Even though there are a lot of people that answer questions on land investors that are in our group, but the questions are from new people that are not yet members, but all the real questions and education goes on in Discord.

Jill Dewit:
Understood. Hello, Bobbie. Bobbie wrote, "Still new here and getting my bearings. First off blessings to you all, Steven and Jill and the entire Land Academy team." Thank you, Bobbie.

Steven Butala:
That's nice. I never get tired of hearing that.

Jill Dewit:
Aww. She says, "Thank you for creating such an amazingly helpful community and offering so much of yourselves to all of us. After a lot of research I have yet to stumble across this info. I just wanted to find out what's typical with regard to the purchase agreement when selling land. Is it as simple as using the same purchase agreement to buy it? If so, do you all have suggestions on any necessary modifications when converting the agreement? Thanks in advance." I use the same one.

Steven Butala:
Same one.

Jill Dewit:
It doesn't really matter.

Steven Butala:
If you go to offers, the number 2, owners.com, and you go to forums-

Jill Dewit:
Forums.

Steven Butala:
... This is all free and it's all open to the public. Click on purchase agreement, and whether you're in the group or not, you can use it to buy and sell real estate, and here's why. Jill and I just bought a house. We're going to flip it, but it's an extremely expensive high-end house that Jill got for an amazing price. I have never ... And we got a mortgage on it, because it was less than 3%, because I couldn't make the math work otherwise.

Steven Butala:
I have never signed so many documents in my life. I bet we signed our names-

Jill Dewit:
Tell me. I know. A hundred times.

Steven Butala:
... probably a hundred times. You know how many times we sign that purchase agreement when we buy and sell land? Once, and the seller or buyer signs it once.

Jill Dewit:
Right. I sign that, I sign off on one-

Steven Butala:
So it's just my way of sticking my middle finger up to real estate agents and the lawyers behind them.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/14/web-scraping-for-accurate-mailer-pricing-la-1481/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">TXXWDNSjW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1e732f48-a238-4728-996f-7e3adf88e78a.mp3" length="12881947" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1480)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1480)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1480)



Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWitt:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWitt:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.
Steven Butala:When will we be back in California to do this?
Jill DeWitt:I don't know.
Steven Butala:In the middle of May.
Jill DeWitt:Maybe. You'll be there and I'm going to go back for a couple of days in a week or so I think.
Steven Butala:Oh, I didn't know that.
Jill DeWitt:Yeah. It's on the calendar.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how Land Academy career path, it's not just for pros. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.
Jill DeWitt:You know what I should've said is I'll be back when it warms up.
Steven Butala:Yeah.
Jill DeWitt:It's been cold there, like not even 60. I'm like, no, I'm good. Ross wrote, "Hi everyone. I'm interested in possibly not selling a land property with seller financing, but actually buying one from a seller. My intent is to sell it though and, of course, when I sell it I want to write it into the contract that the seller will make whole once I-"
Steven Butala:Will be made whole.
Jill DeWitt:"I'll make him whole once I sell it, just like a traditional montage would be."
Steven Butala:Mortgage.
Jill DeWitt:Oh, okay.
Steven Butala:It's okay. it's not you.
Jill DeWitt:All right.
Steven Butala:It's a puzzle.
Jill DeWitt:Okay.
Steven Butala:This question is written in puzzle format.
Jill DeWitt:Oh, good. You're going to help put this all together. Thank you. "In order to be legal, I understand that my name needs to be on the title in order for me to market it for sale. Otherwise I'm marketing property that I don't legally own. So I'm not sure how, what kind of contract or deed instrument I should use in this situation. For example, I buy this hundred thousand dollar property from you, but you have to provide owner financing. I pay you $3,000 per month in monthly payments and when selling the property, the next buyer you'll be made whole at that point. Is this possible? Anyone would have a contract that could see or use or hire someone to write me the contract in the legal way? Thank you for all you do."
Steven Butala:So what you're, if you do this and there's a contract in the Land Academy program, the first one, to do this. So it's in there. I don't recommend doing this at all. I think you're getting yourself into a mess, but if you want to do it, I understand. You're not breaking the law at all, in my opinion, you're not representing someone else in the sale of their property because what you're doing when you sign this is creating equitable interest in a property. And so if you buy the property on a contract, you own it. You just have a lien, there's a lien on it, just like you do with a mortgage. So if you go buy a house and Bank of America provides a mortgage for you, you will move in, paint it, do whatever you're going to do to it, clean it up, renovate it. If something goes sideways and you stop making payments, the bank comes and gets it. It's the same situation here. So I don't believe that there's any legal issues here with this at all.
Steven Butala:You own the property. There's a lien on it. You have equitable interest. The real problem here is there's just a lot of stuff that can go wrong. Let's say you don't, if you don't sell the property, you're going to stop paying. So there's some huge financial concerns that I have. But if this is the way you want to start, knock yourself out.
Jill DeWitt:Yeah, I'm not a fan. If it's that good, here's the bottom line, if it's that good, somebody will fund it, like us.
Steven Butala:If it's a great deal.
Jill DeWitt:Yeah. Say let's all back up for just a second here.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Career Path is Not Just for Pros (LA 1480)



Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWitt:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWitt:And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.
Steven Butala:When will we be back in California to do this?
Jill DeWitt:I don't know.
Steven Butala:In the middle of May.
Jill DeWitt:Maybe. You'll be there and I'm going to go back for a couple of days in a week or so I think.
Steven Butala:Oh, I didn't know that.
Jill DeWitt:Yeah. It's on the calendar.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about how Land Academy career path, it's not just for pros. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.
Jill DeWitt:You know what I should've said is I'll be back when it warms up.
Steven Butala:Yeah.
Jill DeWitt:It's been cold there, like not even 60. I'm like, no, I'm good. Ross wrote, "Hi everyone. I'm interested in possibly not selling a land property with seller financing, but actually buying one from a seller. My intent is to sell it though and, of course, when I sell it I want to write it into the contract that the seller will make whole once I-"
Steven Butala:Will be made whole.
Jill DeWitt:"I'll make him whole once I sell it, just like a traditional montage would be."
Steven Butala:Mortgage.
Jill DeWitt:Oh, okay.
Steven Butala:It's okay. it's not you.
Jill DeWitt:All right.
Steven Butala:It's a puzzle.
Jill DeWitt:Okay.
Steven Butala:This question is written in puzzle format.
Jill DeWitt:Oh, good. You're going to help put this all together. Thank you. "In order to be legal, I understand that my name needs to be on the title in order for me to market it for sale. Otherwise I'm marketing property that I don't legally own. So I'm not sure how, what kind of contract or deed instrument I should use in this situation. For example, I buy this hundred thousand dollar property from you, but you have to provide owner financing. I pay you $3,000 per month in monthly payments and when selling the property, the next buyer you'll be made whole at that point. Is this possible? Anyone would have a contract that could see or use or hire someone to write me the contract in the legal way? Thank you for all you do."
Steven Butala:So what you're, if you do this and there's a contract in the Land Academy program, the first one, to do this. So it's in there. I don't recommend doing this at all. I think you're getting yourself into a mess, but if you want to do it, I understand. You're not breaking the law at all, in my opinion, you're not representing someone else in the sale of their property because what you're doing when you sign this is creating equitable interest in a property. And so if you buy the property on a contract, you own it. You just have a lien, there's a lien on it, just like you do with a mortgage. So if you go buy a house and Bank of America provides a mortgage for you, you will move in, paint it, do whatever you're going to do to it, clean it up, renovate it. If something goes sideways and you stop making payments, the bank comes and gets it. It's the same situation here. So I don't believe that there's any legal issues here with this at all.
Steven Butala:You own the property. There's a lien on it. You have equitable interest. The real problem here is there's just a lot of stuff that can go wrong. Let's say you don't, if you don't sell the property, you're going to stop paying. So there's some huge financial concerns that I have. But if this is the way you want to start, knock yourself out.
Jill DeWitt:Yeah, I'm not a fan. If it's that good, here's the bottom line, if it's that good, somebody will fund it, like us.
Steven Butala:If it's a great deal.
Jill DeWitt:Yeah. Say let's all back up for just a second here.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/13/land-academy-career-path-is-not-just-for-pros-la-1480/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6e7cJJRJy</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2021 22:32:18 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e78adfc2-61f5-456b-ae89-e097d76cb1bc.mp3" length="13210943" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Are You a Recovering Landlord? (LA 1479)</title><itunes:title>Are You a Recovering Landlord? (LA 1479)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Are You a Recovering Landlord? (LA 1479)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I are talking about are you a recovering landlord?].

Jill DeWitt:
That's funny, because we have a few.

Steven Butala:
Since the COVID, it seems like it's optional to pay your rent now. Do you feel like paying your rent? Go ahead. If you don't, don't. If you feel like wearing a mask, go ahead. If you don't ...

Jill DeWitt:
Well, wait a minute. And if you don't want to fill out the paperwork to get rent aid, I'll do it for you.

Steven Butala:
That's what's so bad.

Jill DeWitt:
I feel bad for these poor ... No, it's true. The landlords are allowed to do it.

Steven Butala:
Oh, man.

Jill DeWitt:
It's like what's funny, with the person's permission. It's like, "Yeah, I'm too busy sitting on my couch. Will you do that for me?"

Steven Butala:
Never. And on top of that, institutional real estate companies, specifically class A apartment building REITs and stuff are reporting the best earnings ever, like record earnings. So I think some of the smaller landlords, some of these smaller apartment buildings in really specific states, California is one of them. California, New York and Michigan are having huge, huge problems with people not paying their rent. And every politician on the television is saying it's okay.

Jill DeWitt:
And it's extended again and again and again.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah. I'm glad we're not in that business.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you are already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord. It's a party every minute.

Jill DeWitt:
So silly. Steven's Discord is my Clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
I love Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
I know you do. Ann Marie wrote, "I'm working my way through the course and also listening to the podcast while driving. I have a mailer question. I think I've understood to send a tri county area a 1500 unit volume of mailers with 500 to each of the three." Got it. "Then today the podcast was about getting really knowledgeable with one county and how to price it. Should I interpret this, that me, that I should send on my first batch to only one county with 1500 units going to the one county and drill down on two or three nearby counties and then go 500 each to those? Thank you."

Steven Butala:
This is all you.

Jill DeWitt:
Me, why? Why? You're the mail guy.

Steven Butala:
Because Jill and I-

Jill DeWitt:
Differ.

Steven Butala:
... Jill and I are enjoying instructing our first career path class, Land Academy Career Path.

Jill DeWitt:
True.

Steven Butala:
And we divided the whole entire group, it's a group of 15 people, between brand new people and not brand new people. And the not brand new people could be, I've done anywhere between 10 or 20 transactions and I get it and I want it to be my career now, all the way up to I've done thousands and thousands of deals but I want to grow my business from 500,000 a month to a million a month. And she got the new people and I got the not new people. So, Ann Marie's a new person.

Jill DeWitt:
You're so funny. We might have different answers. This is going to be funny.

Steven Butala:
We do have different answers, and yours is the right one.

Jill DeWitt:
Here are my thoughts. Ann Marie, if you want to make your life easy, I really want you to send more mail to one concentrated area, so the offers you're getting returned are like kind. You're comparing apples to apples, not getting to know a new area based on what comes back. Are you sighing because you don't like that?

Steven Butala:
No, I'm not sighing.

Jill DeWitt:
You're breathing heavy like, huh.

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Are You a Recovering Landlord? (LA 1479)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I are talking about are you a recovering landlord?].

Jill DeWitt:
That's funny, because we have a few.

Steven Butala:
Since the COVID, it seems like it's optional to pay your rent now. Do you feel like paying your rent? Go ahead. If you don't, don't. If you feel like wearing a mask, go ahead. If you don't ...

Jill DeWitt:
Well, wait a minute. And if you don't want to fill out the paperwork to get rent aid, I'll do it for you.

Steven Butala:
That's what's so bad.

Jill DeWitt:
I feel bad for these poor ... No, it's true. The landlords are allowed to do it.

Steven Butala:
Oh, man.

Jill DeWitt:
It's like what's funny, with the person's permission. It's like, "Yeah, I'm too busy sitting on my couch. Will you do that for me?"

Steven Butala:
Never. And on top of that, institutional real estate companies, specifically class A apartment building REITs and stuff are reporting the best earnings ever, like record earnings. So I think some of the smaller landlords, some of these smaller apartment buildings in really specific states, California is one of them. California, New York and Michigan are having huge, huge problems with people not paying their rent. And every politician on the television is saying it's okay.

Jill DeWitt:
And it's extended again and again and again.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWitt:
Yeah. I'm glad we're not in that business.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you are already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord. It's a party every minute.

Jill DeWitt:
So silly. Steven's Discord is my Clubhouse.

Steven Butala:
I love Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
I know you do. Ann Marie wrote, "I'm working my way through the course and also listening to the podcast while driving. I have a mailer question. I think I've understood to send a tri county area a 1500 unit volume of mailers with 500 to each of the three." Got it. "Then today the podcast was about getting really knowledgeable with one county and how to price it. Should I interpret this, that me, that I should send on my first batch to only one county with 1500 units going to the one county and drill down on two or three nearby counties and then go 500 each to those? Thank you."

Steven Butala:
This is all you.

Jill DeWitt:
Me, why? Why? You're the mail guy.

Steven Butala:
Because Jill and I-

Jill DeWitt:
Differ.

Steven Butala:
... Jill and I are enjoying instructing our first career path class, Land Academy Career Path.

Jill DeWitt:
True.

Steven Butala:
And we divided the whole entire group, it's a group of 15 people, between brand new people and not brand new people. And the not brand new people could be, I've done anywhere between 10 or 20 transactions and I get it and I want it to be my career now, all the way up to I've done thousands and thousands of deals but I want to grow my business from 500,000 a month to a million a month. And she got the new people and I got the not new people. So, Ann Marie's a new person.

Jill DeWitt:
You're so funny. We might have different answers. This is going to be funny.

Steven Butala:
We do have different answers, and yours is the right one.

Jill DeWitt:
Here are my thoughts. Ann Marie, if you want to make your life easy, I really want you to send more mail to one concentrated area, so the offers you're getting returned are like kind. You're comparing apples to apples, not getting to know a new area based on what comes back. Are you sighing because you don't like that?

Steven Butala:
No, I'm not sighing.

Jill DeWitt:
You're breathing heavy like, huh.

Steven Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/12/are-you-a-recovering-landlord-la-1479/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">dEiyd3rid</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6f9a328e-1573-48e2-9e3b-3cba073ddbf3.mp3" length="16494393" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:49</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; The People Side of Real Estate Investment (LA 1478)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday &amp;#8211; The People Side of Real Estate Investment (LA 1478)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday - The People Side of Real Estate Investment (LA 1478)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the LandAcademy show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about the people side of real estate investment.

Jill DeWit:
What's this thing on my head?

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it and talk about the thing on Jill's head, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already with us, check us out on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Dave wrote, all right, so I have a question and a comment, it looks like. Dave wrote, "Anyone downloading Redfin data for their red, yellow, green test and finding days on market data to be arbitrarily and incorrectly set to 19 or 22 days on market for 80 to 90% of properties in a county. Not sure what's up with this, as I've tried several counties now, and I'm finding this for the listed data. When I go into an individual listing, they're showing the correct date of the listing, which is often sometimes last year, but in the data I downloaded, it's showing 22 days on market. Anyone else have this happen? At first, I thought it was just a bad county, but a few of them have been like this."

Jill DeWit:
So Chuck replied and said, "Regarding days on market and Redfin-"

Steven Butala:
This is days later.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I have confirmed that the data shown on the Redfin data download is incorrect as posted here previously. It is days since the property sold, not days on the market to sell. I called Redfin and they confirmed this and say that they're aware of the problem and it's being worked on." Got it.

Steven Butala:
Boy. This question could not be more inappropriate for the show title. There's nothing people business about this. It's all the tech side, the data side on mine.

Jill DeWit:
Well, I guess it's people, because Chuck is helping him. Chuck's like, "Don't worry about it. I called Redfin and I can help to save you some stress. They know there's a problem. And it's coming."

Steven Butala:
There's a couple of points here and we'll move on to Jill's happy place. Number one, Jill just made my point. The people component is the fact that we're in a community, we're all interacting together and solving each other's problems. I would have never caught this.

Jill DeWit:
And I wouldn't.

Steven Butala:
You know, I check days on market through two to three sources before we make a decision on sending mail somewhere. So kudos to both of these guys for figuring this out and sharing with the group and saving us a ton of time and energy and potentially some money loss on sending mail out to counties that we didn't have good data on. So thank you fellows. It's awesome. That's what this is all about.

Jill DeWit:
Tech support, Chuck.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic. It's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the people side of real estate investment. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
You brought up a good point as we were sitting down to record. And you said, the reason you came up with this title was so many brainy tech people in our group, and which is, like you, and you were saying-

Steven Butala:
Not necessarily tech people, just people with technical backgrounds, counting, aerospace-

Jill DeWit:
Numbers.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Numbers.

Jill DeWit:
Analytical, research driven, staring at computers in dark rooms, kind of things. And not necessarily working with customers, at least in person or on the phone and things like that. And it was really nice, you said, I wrote, "Are they missing it? Are they missing out on this?" Because you had said you... will you back up and preface your whole thing again?

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Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the LandAcademy show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about... Well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about the people side of real estate investment.

Jill DeWit:
What's this thing on my head?

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it and talk about the thing on Jill's head, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already with us, check us out on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Dave wrote, all right, so I have a question and a comment, it looks like. Dave wrote, "Anyone downloading Redfin data for their red, yellow, green test and finding days on market data to be arbitrarily and incorrectly set to 19 or 22 days on market for 80 to 90% of properties in a county. Not sure what's up with this, as I've tried several counties now, and I'm finding this for the listed data. When I go into an individual listing, they're showing the correct date of the listing, which is often sometimes last year, but in the data I downloaded, it's showing 22 days on market. Anyone else have this happen? At first, I thought it was just a bad county, but a few of them have been like this."

Jill DeWit:
So Chuck replied and said, "Regarding days on market and Redfin-"

Steven Butala:
This is days later.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I have confirmed that the data shown on the Redfin data download is incorrect as posted here previously. It is days since the property sold, not days on the market to sell. I called Redfin and they confirmed this and say that they're aware of the problem and it's being worked on." Got it.

Steven Butala:
Boy. This question could not be more inappropriate for the show title. There's nothing people business about this. It's all the tech side, the data side on mine.

Jill DeWit:
Well, I guess it's people, because Chuck is helping him. Chuck's like, "Don't worry about it. I called Redfin and I can help to save you some stress. They know there's a problem. And it's coming."

Steven Butala:
There's a couple of points here and we'll move on to Jill's happy place. Number one, Jill just made my point. The people component is the fact that we're in a community, we're all interacting together and solving each other's problems. I would have never caught this.

Jill DeWit:
And I wouldn't.

Steven Butala:
You know, I check days on market through two to three sources before we make a decision on sending mail somewhere. So kudos to both of these guys for figuring this out and sharing with the group and saving us a ton of time and energy and potentially some money loss on sending mail out to counties that we didn't have good data on. So thank you fellows. It's awesome. That's what this is all about.

Jill DeWit:
Tech support, Chuck.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic. It's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about the people side of real estate investment. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
You brought up a good point as we were sitting down to record. And you said, the reason you came up with this title was so many brainy tech people in our group, and which is, like you, and you were saying-

Steven Butala:
Not necessarily tech people, just people with technical backgrounds, counting, aerospace-

Jill DeWit:
Numbers.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Numbers.

Jill DeWit:
Analytical, research driven, staring at computers in dark rooms, kind of things. And not necessarily working with customers, at least in person or on the phone and things like that. And it was really nice, you said, I wrote, "Are they missing it? Are they missing out on this?" Because you had said you... will you back up and preface your whole thing again?

Steven Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/09/jill-friday-the-people-side-of-real-estate-investment-la-1478/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">787P0gA1F</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:10:15 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fb68e92c-1a91-4f9f-8c84-4ac9a4c1756b.mp3" length="17722215" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; You Have to Start Somewhere (LA 1477)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday &amp;#8211; You Have to Start Somewhere (LA 1477)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - You Have to Start Somewhere (LA 1477)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about it's Jack Thursday, and you have to start somewhere. Jill and I just started doing Jack Thursday and Jill Friday, and all of our people, our Land Academy employees, love it. For some reason, it's generating a lot of questions. It's clarifying a lot of things in a human perspective, instead of talking about data and real estate and mail and stuff like that.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Butala:
So, you got to start somewhere. And this is a culmination of me being in this business since the early '90s and all this gray hair that you see, and then Jill and I starting Land Academy in early 2015, so we've got a good six years, a full six years of experience teaching people. I'm starting to feel like we know what we're doing sort of. Are you?

Jill DeWit:
Your hair is not that gray.

Steven Butala:
That's what you got out of that?

Jill DeWit:
That's what I got out of that.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord, please.

Jill DeWit:
Luke wrote, "Mailed a bunch of commercial vacant properties across a couple of states, most of all of the West," most all the West, maybe not all of the West, but in the West. Got it. "Boy, a lot of them accepted. I'm dreaming of building warehouses, fast food, Dollar General, tractor supply store, gas stations, auto repair shops, storage, trailer parks, medical, et cetera." This is all commercial stuff here. "Not much of any multi-family or office space-looking ones. I would've guessed it was going to be all office space-looking commercial land taking me up on my offers." Interesting.

Jill DeWit:
"Trying to ..." I already have some things to say about this, "Trying to verify lots of the pricing on these with third-party brokers. I think I'm in over my head. Looking for the sweet, obvious ones that are just priced way wrong. I'm sure they're in here." You know, it's funny. I was just reading an article on this, with the whole 2020, how the year went, everybody working from home and now staying at home. There's still a huge office component. I am seeing and hearing office space not going away. And if anything, it might even be maybe a little bit better because those dear sweet people who still want office space now are wanting more room. The days of cramming people in one room and cubicle after cubicle after cubicle might be gone.

Steven Butala:
I read a similar article that said, "We all know what happened in 2020. And despite that, institutional landlords, specifically multifamily, are killing it. They had the best year ever."

Jill DeWit:
Yup. Yup, so there you go.

Steven Butala:
So, where's the tragedy?

Jill DeWit:
I know. I love this though. So, what Luke is talking about is, "Hey, I went into it thinking I was going to get all the office stuff. I didn't, number one. Number two, this is such a new venture for me, so I'm just looking for the low-hanging fruit," which I totally get. And I'm sure they're in there. Yeah. Grab them and go and then figure it out. He's very good at that. That's one thing about this person. Luke's nuts.

Steven Butala:
Luke Smith. If you follow-

Jill DeWit:
He's like me. He's nuts.

Steven Butala:
If you follow land investing and the people that are involved, Luke's one of our-

Jill DeWit:
Long-time members.

Steven Butala:
He's number 22 or something like that. And he's taken Land Academy to a place I didn't even know where it would go, and he's fearless. And so he obviously said sent out a massive mailer to commercial property owners,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday - You Have to Start Somewhere (LA 1477)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about it's Jack Thursday, and you have to start somewhere. Jill and I just started doing Jack Thursday and Jill Friday, and all of our people, our Land Academy employees, love it. For some reason, it's generating a lot of questions. It's clarifying a lot of things in a human perspective, instead of talking about data and real estate and mail and stuff like that.

Jill DeWit:
Cool.

Steven Butala:
So, you got to start somewhere. And this is a culmination of me being in this business since the early '90s and all this gray hair that you see, and then Jill and I starting Land Academy in early 2015, so we've got a good six years, a full six years of experience teaching people. I'm starting to feel like we know what we're doing sort of. Are you?

Jill DeWit:
Your hair is not that gray.

Steven Butala:
That's what you got out of that?

Jill DeWit:
That's what I got out of that.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord, please.

Jill DeWit:
Luke wrote, "Mailed a bunch of commercial vacant properties across a couple of states, most of all of the West," most all the West, maybe not all of the West, but in the West. Got it. "Boy, a lot of them accepted. I'm dreaming of building warehouses, fast food, Dollar General, tractor supply store, gas stations, auto repair shops, storage, trailer parks, medical, et cetera." This is all commercial stuff here. "Not much of any multi-family or office space-looking ones. I would've guessed it was going to be all office space-looking commercial land taking me up on my offers." Interesting.

Jill DeWit:
"Trying to ..." I already have some things to say about this, "Trying to verify lots of the pricing on these with third-party brokers. I think I'm in over my head. Looking for the sweet, obvious ones that are just priced way wrong. I'm sure they're in here." You know, it's funny. I was just reading an article on this, with the whole 2020, how the year went, everybody working from home and now staying at home. There's still a huge office component. I am seeing and hearing office space not going away. And if anything, it might even be maybe a little bit better because those dear sweet people who still want office space now are wanting more room. The days of cramming people in one room and cubicle after cubicle after cubicle might be gone.

Steven Butala:
I read a similar article that said, "We all know what happened in 2020. And despite that, institutional landlords, specifically multifamily, are killing it. They had the best year ever."

Jill DeWit:
Yup. Yup, so there you go.

Steven Butala:
So, where's the tragedy?

Jill DeWit:
I know. I love this though. So, what Luke is talking about is, "Hey, I went into it thinking I was going to get all the office stuff. I didn't, number one. Number two, this is such a new venture for me, so I'm just looking for the low-hanging fruit," which I totally get. And I'm sure they're in there. Yeah. Grab them and go and then figure it out. He's very good at that. That's one thing about this person. Luke's nuts.

Steven Butala:
Luke Smith. If you follow-

Jill DeWit:
He's like me. He's nuts.

Steven Butala:
If you follow land investing and the people that are involved, Luke's one of our-

Jill DeWit:
Long-time members.

Steven Butala:
He's number 22 or something like that. And he's taken Land Academy to a place I didn't even know where it would go, and he's fearless. And so he obviously said sent out a massive mailer to commercial property owners,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/08/jack-thursday-you-have-to-start-somewhere-la-1477/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">tgvV2SgUC</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fcd2a4a1-fcf2-4fd5-a69b-c3c67629ef5f.mp3" length="13028073" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:13</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Interview with Long Time Member Matt Bailey (LA 1476)</title><itunes:title>Interview with Long Time Member Matt Bailey (LA 1476)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Interview with Long Time Member Matt Bailey (LA 1476)



Transcript:

Steve:
Steve Butala here for Land Academy. Jill's not with us today. Lucky for her. She's actually out having some fun. So I wanted to take this opportunity, this kind of vacant opportunity to introduce, I think, a long time member, Matt Bailey, a member of Land Academy. Matt came to us from another member, Lori Phillips, who said, "Look, you got to, I just talked to this guy. He's been a member for a long time, a lot longer than I have. He's really got his stuff together. And he'd be a great guy to have on the show because I think a lot of new people specifically would get a lot out of this." We are Steve and Jill.

Jill:
Together we've been buying and reselling land since the 90s.

Steve:
Our data centric approach leaves our buyers asking, "How can you sell it so cheap?"

Jill:
Here on the Land Academy show-

Steve:
We answer that and more. Welcome, Matt. Thanks so much for being on the show. I'll start off right away and just ask you, how'd you find us? How long have you been with us? What are you working on? If you can just introduce yourself and give us a little flavor, that'd be great.

Matt:
Yeah, sure. So I've been at this for about four years now. I got into it, like I think a lot of people did, listening to BiggerPockets and then Seth had a podcast early on in there and I got started on his course shortly after I jumped in. And did your course. I think that both have a lot to offer. I'm glad that I had done both. And so, yeah, I mean, I've been with you guys for four years, working and lately really this year kind of scaling the company up. So now we have four full-time employees. Lori was the person who introduced us and suggested we jump on the podcast and I'd kind of come to her because I was working on trying to build the processes out, scaling the company, training. And I didn't really have a ton of time to price a mailer. And she had a bunch of mailers priced, but not a lot of bandwidth to do the overhead and the actual execution on it and that's exactly what my business is kind of designed to do.

Matt:
I've kind of built it from the beginning to be designed for scaling, so I focused a lot on business processes and developing a CRM with automations and stuff to kind of like help streamline everything. And that's how I started working with her. And I think we did like five or six deals off of that mailer. And, most of them have kind of come full circle now and yeah, I mean, it's just land's been pretty good. I'm really enjoying it and it's nice to be able to be on the podcast with you.

Steve:
That's great, man. So what's a typical deal look like for you right now with Lori or without Lori or what's a typical deal look like?

Matt:
Yeah. So, I started on some of the smaller deals and as I've done more deals, even though I built this for volume, I think that if you build your business from the beginning to be able to handle volume, you can do fewer deals and not have to work so hard on each one because all of your stuff is streamlined. Right? So, I started doing smaller deals and right now, my minimum threshold is $5,000 profit is what we're looking to do. So I'd say most of them are probably in that five to $20,000 range and we're starting to work on larger ones. So like I mentioned, I've got now four full-time employees that work with me and I know exactly what we're going to convert in the markets that we've done before if we mailed a certain percentage of offer price to these five to $20,000 deals, right?

Matt:
So I'm keeping those as the bread and butter, but I'm looking to scale up to larger deals, but I don't want to jump into those larger deals and find out that, okay, it turns out you convert one in 7,000 if you're trying to get more than a $50,000 profit or something. Right? And I assume that it's going to be closer to one in 1000 or 2000 or whatever it might be. So now that I've got all these people underneath me, it's like,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Interview with Long Time Member Matt Bailey (LA 1476)



Transcript:

Steve:
Steve Butala here for Land Academy. Jill's not with us today. Lucky for her. She's actually out having some fun. So I wanted to take this opportunity, this kind of vacant opportunity to introduce, I think, a long time member, Matt Bailey, a member of Land Academy. Matt came to us from another member, Lori Phillips, who said, "Look, you got to, I just talked to this guy. He's been a member for a long time, a lot longer than I have. He's really got his stuff together. And he'd be a great guy to have on the show because I think a lot of new people specifically would get a lot out of this." We are Steve and Jill.

Jill:
Together we've been buying and reselling land since the 90s.

Steve:
Our data centric approach leaves our buyers asking, "How can you sell it so cheap?"

Jill:
Here on the Land Academy show-

Steve:
We answer that and more. Welcome, Matt. Thanks so much for being on the show. I'll start off right away and just ask you, how'd you find us? How long have you been with us? What are you working on? If you can just introduce yourself and give us a little flavor, that'd be great.

Matt:
Yeah, sure. So I've been at this for about four years now. I got into it, like I think a lot of people did, listening to BiggerPockets and then Seth had a podcast early on in there and I got started on his course shortly after I jumped in. And did your course. I think that both have a lot to offer. I'm glad that I had done both. And so, yeah, I mean, I've been with you guys for four years, working and lately really this year kind of scaling the company up. So now we have four full-time employees. Lori was the person who introduced us and suggested we jump on the podcast and I'd kind of come to her because I was working on trying to build the processes out, scaling the company, training. And I didn't really have a ton of time to price a mailer. And she had a bunch of mailers priced, but not a lot of bandwidth to do the overhead and the actual execution on it and that's exactly what my business is kind of designed to do.

Matt:
I've kind of built it from the beginning to be designed for scaling, so I focused a lot on business processes and developing a CRM with automations and stuff to kind of like help streamline everything. And that's how I started working with her. And I think we did like five or six deals off of that mailer. And, most of them have kind of come full circle now and yeah, I mean, it's just land's been pretty good. I'm really enjoying it and it's nice to be able to be on the podcast with you.

Steve:
That's great, man. So what's a typical deal look like for you right now with Lori or without Lori or what's a typical deal look like?

Matt:
Yeah. So, I started on some of the smaller deals and as I've done more deals, even though I built this for volume, I think that if you build your business from the beginning to be able to handle volume, you can do fewer deals and not have to work so hard on each one because all of your stuff is streamlined. Right? So, I started doing smaller deals and right now, my minimum threshold is $5,000 profit is what we're looking to do. So I'd say most of them are probably in that five to $20,000 range and we're starting to work on larger ones. So like I mentioned, I've got now four full-time employees that work with me and I know exactly what we're going to convert in the markets that we've done before if we mailed a certain percentage of offer price to these five to $20,000 deals, right?

Matt:
So I'm keeping those as the bread and butter, but I'm looking to scale up to larger deals, but I don't want to jump into those larger deals and find out that, okay, it turns out you convert one in 7,000 if you're trying to get more than a $50,000 profit or something. Right? And I assume that it's going to be closer to one in 1000 or 2000 or whatever it might be. So now that I've got all these people underneath me, it's like,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/07/interview-with-long-time-member-matt-bailey-la-1476/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">PClX_E0py</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/77768c7e-8d91-488c-811d-d36a40091d03.mp3" length="27520513" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>27:19</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pick a County and Price it &amp;#8211; the Two Ps &amp;#8211; PP &amp;#8211; Its a Thing Now (LA 1475)</title><itunes:title>Pick a County and Price it &amp;#8211; the Two Ps &amp;#8211; PP &amp;#8211; Its a Thing Now (LA 1475)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Pick a County and Price it - the Two Ps - PP - Its a Thing Now (LA 1475)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to pick a county and price it. We all call it the two Ps. It's a thing now. It just became a thing because it was born out of a discussion in Discord about-

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were going to say disgust.

Steven Butala:
Well, maybe there is. No. On somebody's part there might have been some disgust. It's just one of those things where it's so simple. We all know we have to do it, like exercising every morning, but it doesn't happen often enough. In my case, anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Would you just pick a damn county?

Steven Butala:
That's it.

Jill DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Butala:
And get it priced.

Jill DeWit:
That's it. People get hung up on that.

Steven Butala:
This'll kick your whole career off.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. And don't pick one that we've all talked about.

Steven Butala:
Well said.

Jill DeWit:
Now I'm done. We don't have to do this episode.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it? Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, "How soon should I expect to start hearing back from my mailers? The first one, 600-ish mailers, went out on March 18th." So, this is cool. So Leonard, dear Leonard in Ireland ... I'll weigh in on this too.

Steven Butala:
Thank God.

Jill DeWit:
Dear Leonard in Ireland wrote a response that we have shared here. I'll read that and then I'll give you my response.

Jill DeWit:
Leonard wrote, "You should get a response in a mailer, but I typically buy one in 1500 sent. If I get a high response, it can be less than a thousand units per purchase, but you may not get a deal in only 600 units. Depends on how much the area is mailed. Great start and look forward to hearing your first deal. Not to say it doesn't happen, I got my first deal on a 200 unit mailer."

Jill DeWit:
Two things are going on here. I'll let you handle the second part, which is the volume that he sent. I'll handle, the question is, did it hit? Is anybody going to call me? This happens every single time, including to Steven and I. We'll send out these mailers, we're like, "When's it going to hit? When's it going to hit? When's it going to hit? Did we do something wrong? Did we forget our phone number on there? Is our address wrong?" We go through all the possible scenarios. Or, "They all hate them. I did something wrong. Everybody's shredding them right now. I'm not getting a response." And then you watch, you wait two days and here comes a blast of response. It's always our first reaction that we just, we're like, "Oh no." The calm before the storm.

Steven Butala:
I take it even more seriously than Jill. I'm like, "Ugh, I guess my career is over."

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, "My pricing, I'm done."

Steven Butala:
I guess all the land that's ever going to be sold, is sold.

Jill DeWit:
Is done. That's right. We're done. No one's going to do this anymore. What have we done?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, whatever. No.

Steven Butala:
I'm just joking.

Jill DeWit:
So funny.

Steven Butala:
I used to do that a long, long, long time ago. Way before Jill. I obviously stopped doing that.

Jill DeWit:
Tell me about what you think about the volume he sent though. That's the thing I want you to touch on real quick.

Steven Butala:
I think it's crazy. I think Leonard was very, very nice about it.

Jill DeWit:
He was politically correct.

Steven Butala:
I'm running out of analogies to explain this. Now I'm thinking it's might be biological, that makes somebody want to test this mailer concept.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Pick a County and Price it - the Two Ps - PP - Its a Thing Now (LA 1475)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to pick a county and price it. We all call it the two Ps. It's a thing now. It just became a thing because it was born out of a discussion in Discord about-

Jill DeWit:
I thought you were going to say disgust.

Steven Butala:
Well, maybe there is. No. On somebody's part there might have been some disgust. It's just one of those things where it's so simple. We all know we have to do it, like exercising every morning, but it doesn't happen often enough. In my case, anyway.

Jill DeWit:
Would you just pick a damn county?

Steven Butala:
That's it.

Jill DeWit:
That's it.

Steven Butala:
And get it priced.

Jill DeWit:
That's it. People get hung up on that.

Steven Butala:
This'll kick your whole career off.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. And don't pick one that we've all talked about.

Steven Butala:
Well said.

Jill DeWit:
Now I'm done. We don't have to do this episode.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it? Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, "How soon should I expect to start hearing back from my mailers? The first one, 600-ish mailers, went out on March 18th." So, this is cool. So Leonard, dear Leonard in Ireland ... I'll weigh in on this too.

Steven Butala:
Thank God.

Jill DeWit:
Dear Leonard in Ireland wrote a response that we have shared here. I'll read that and then I'll give you my response.

Jill DeWit:
Leonard wrote, "You should get a response in a mailer, but I typically buy one in 1500 sent. If I get a high response, it can be less than a thousand units per purchase, but you may not get a deal in only 600 units. Depends on how much the area is mailed. Great start and look forward to hearing your first deal. Not to say it doesn't happen, I got my first deal on a 200 unit mailer."

Jill DeWit:
Two things are going on here. I'll let you handle the second part, which is the volume that he sent. I'll handle, the question is, did it hit? Is anybody going to call me? This happens every single time, including to Steven and I. We'll send out these mailers, we're like, "When's it going to hit? When's it going to hit? When's it going to hit? Did we do something wrong? Did we forget our phone number on there? Is our address wrong?" We go through all the possible scenarios. Or, "They all hate them. I did something wrong. Everybody's shredding them right now. I'm not getting a response." And then you watch, you wait two days and here comes a blast of response. It's always our first reaction that we just, we're like, "Oh no." The calm before the storm.

Steven Butala:
I take it even more seriously than Jill. I'm like, "Ugh, I guess my career is over."

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, "My pricing, I'm done."

Steven Butala:
I guess all the land that's ever going to be sold, is sold.

Jill DeWit:
Is done. That's right. We're done. No one's going to do this anymore. What have we done?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, whatever. No.

Steven Butala:
I'm just joking.

Jill DeWit:
So funny.

Steven Butala:
I used to do that a long, long, long time ago. Way before Jill. I obviously stopped doing that.

Jill DeWit:
Tell me about what you think about the volume he sent though. That's the thing I want you to touch on real quick.

Steven Butala:
I think it's crazy. I think Leonard was very, very nice about it.

Jill DeWit:
He was politically correct.

Steven Butala:
I'm running out of analogies to explain this. Now I'm thinking it's might be biological, that makes somebody want to test this mailer concept.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/06/pick-a-county-and-price-it-the-two-ps-pp-its-a-thing-now-la-1475/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sJ9YPMNLW</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:06:29 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a9c2ea9f-60e8-4a3d-aaa8-7b82341bb755.mp3" length="15466581" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Distressed Property Acquisitions Don&amp;#8217;t Work (LA 1474)</title><itunes:title>Why Distressed Property Acquisitions Don&amp;#8217;t Work (LA 1474)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Distressed Property Acquisitions Don't Work (LA 1474)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why distressed property acquisitions don't work. It's a big pile of fiction.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
And you've heard it. Well, we're going to reiterate.

Jill DeWit:
Wait a minute. Do you mean that I'm not the first one to find this boarded up house and this diamond in the rough that's just sitting there waiting for me?

Steven Butala:
Yes. You're not the first one.

Jill DeWit:
Darn it. Oh, come on. It makes me think of those two houses on Jolla Cove that had been there for years. I wonder if they're still there. They may or may not be there, but it was a good 20 years that they were boarded up in like some of the most prime real estate on the planet and I'm sure people went, "What," and tried to track them down.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I are staying in a VRVO for a few months while the house that we bought is getting all cleaned up and we're right next to a vacant piece of property that's fallen down in a really nice area of old town Scottsdale. You can walk to all the fun stuff and it's just dying to be renovated or torn down or whatever. If I had a nickel for every car that stopped there and they got a yellow pad out with some pen and paper-

Jill DeWit:
Write down the address.

Steven Butala:
Like it's 1983, I watched it all day long. I watched people just stop and take down the address and write stuff down on a piece of paper. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already with us in the Land Academy group, please join us on Discord. I can't stress it enough.

Jill DeWit:
He loves it. Discord's the new Clubhouse, in case you didn't know that. And those of you on the Thursday calls know exactly what I'm talking about. All right. By the way, I have not promoted Clubhouse really once here, so I don't [crosstalk 00:02:07]. I should. John wrote, "Question for all, but hoping to get Steven's input when he has time. For those of you with well-established internet presences that are linked to certain geographic locations, rural vacant land San Diego, LandStay, Phoenix for example. When starting a mail campaign in a distant state, do you start up both a new phone number and a new mailing address? If yes to either, when interested sellers are looking up in the internet, how do they say there's a Tennessee number based with a Phoenix company?" Oh, John, you know us. And that's me. Yeah. I have a lot to say. "And does this even matter? Thank you."

Jill DeWit:
Can I go?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I think this is for you. And I did answer this in Discord and a bunch of other people did too.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So here's the deal. I've never had someone that said, and if they do, it's like, "We have a Tennessee office. We're based out of Phoenix, but we have offices around the country." Oh, done. That's all I ever have to say. And it depends on how much mail you're going to send, how long you going to be in that area because once you start a new phone number, a new address, you want to keep it. So I don't think it's wise to have one address and one phone number in 50 states. I don't think you need that nor do you want to pay for that for years and years because the mail and the calls will still keep coming. You want to own these numbers and put them in. So what we do though, is if I know we're going to go on for a while and be there for a while, I'll do it. I'll bite the bullet. No, I'm going to keep it and I'll make it like a regional number kind of thing. So I might send, maybe the Tennessee number gets anything on the East coast, except for upper East,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Distressed Property Acquisitions Don't Work (LA 1474)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about why distressed property acquisitions don't work. It's a big pile of fiction.

Jill DeWit:
What?

Steven Butala:
And you've heard it. Well, we're going to reiterate.

Jill DeWit:
Wait a minute. Do you mean that I'm not the first one to find this boarded up house and this diamond in the rough that's just sitting there waiting for me?

Steven Butala:
Yes. You're not the first one.

Jill DeWit:
Darn it. Oh, come on. It makes me think of those two houses on Jolla Cove that had been there for years. I wonder if they're still there. They may or may not be there, but it was a good 20 years that they were boarded up in like some of the most prime real estate on the planet and I'm sure people went, "What," and tried to track them down.

Steven Butala:
Jill and I are staying in a VRVO for a few months while the house that we bought is getting all cleaned up and we're right next to a vacant piece of property that's fallen down in a really nice area of old town Scottsdale. You can walk to all the fun stuff and it's just dying to be renovated or torn down or whatever. If I had a nickel for every car that stopped there and they got a yellow pad out with some pen and paper-

Jill DeWit:
Write down the address.

Steven Butala:
Like it's 1983, I watched it all day long. I watched people just stop and take down the address and write stuff down on a piece of paper. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already with us in the Land Academy group, please join us on Discord. I can't stress it enough.

Jill DeWit:
He loves it. Discord's the new Clubhouse, in case you didn't know that. And those of you on the Thursday calls know exactly what I'm talking about. All right. By the way, I have not promoted Clubhouse really once here, so I don't [crosstalk 00:02:07]. I should. John wrote, "Question for all, but hoping to get Steven's input when he has time. For those of you with well-established internet presences that are linked to certain geographic locations, rural vacant land San Diego, LandStay, Phoenix for example. When starting a mail campaign in a distant state, do you start up both a new phone number and a new mailing address? If yes to either, when interested sellers are looking up in the internet, how do they say there's a Tennessee number based with a Phoenix company?" Oh, John, you know us. And that's me. Yeah. I have a lot to say. "And does this even matter? Thank you."

Jill DeWit:
Can I go?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I think this is for you. And I did answer this in Discord and a bunch of other people did too.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So here's the deal. I've never had someone that said, and if they do, it's like, "We have a Tennessee office. We're based out of Phoenix, but we have offices around the country." Oh, done. That's all I ever have to say. And it depends on how much mail you're going to send, how long you going to be in that area because once you start a new phone number, a new address, you want to keep it. So I don't think it's wise to have one address and one phone number in 50 states. I don't think you need that nor do you want to pay for that for years and years because the mail and the calls will still keep coming. You want to own these numbers and put them in. So what we do though, is if I know we're going to go on for a while and be there for a while, I'll do it. I'll bite the bullet. No, I'm going to keep it and I'll make it like a regional number kind of thing. So I might send, maybe the Tennessee number gets anything on the East coast, except for upper East,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/05/why-distressed-property-acquisitions-dont-work-la-1474/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zVaNhVZBj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/89cb690e-9008-41e1-a60d-f774cc565a06.mp3" length="17737429" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Fund Deals and What You Should Look for if You&amp;#8217;re the Bank (LA 1473)</title><itunes:title>How to Fund Deals and What You Should Look for if You&amp;#8217;re the Bank (LA 1473)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Fund Deals and What You Should Look for if You're the Bank (LA 1473)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Friday Land Academy show. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to fund deals as the funder and what you should look for in the bank roll.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
We're reversing the talk this week.

Jill DeWit:
How different deals, what you should look for if you're the bank. Okay, got it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord for sure.

Jill DeWit:
Saba wrote, and I've got some comments it looks like too?

Steven Butala:
These are two really nice compliments about how these two new members found us and why they made a decision to join. It's not really a question.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good. This is cool. Saba wrote, "It's nice to meet you all. I was trying to look up on Google how to use Google Maps and search for properties by APN, and I ended up here. After reading a few posts, I decided to create an account because you guys seem to have pretty interesting discussions here. I'm a real estate development professional with a decade of experience in a corporate setting, I've sourced multiple deals and processed entitlements for many projects. I'm currently helping a few clients with financial modeling, market research, and zoning research on a consulting basis. Some of my clients are not in the area where I'm located, so I think I may be able to find some good, useful info about how doing deals in various municipalities work in this forum. Feel free to ask me any question you might have. Thanks." How sweet is that?

Steven Butala:
You're in the right place.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to use you guys for information for me, and I'm happy to share what I know. That's our community. That's awesome. RSally wrote, I hope I'm saying your names correctly, thank you. "Hello. So I'm just starting my late in life dream of buying, investing, and owning land. I found Land Academy on Instagram and I've already learned so much. I was about to start my coursework and get my real estate license. I know you don't need to have a license to buy and sell land, but for me, it's about gaining new knowledge. The coursework is a small investment for me to understand best practices, terminology, contracts, et cetera."

Steven Butala:
There's one more paragraph, but I'm going to jump in here and say that Jill and I have both been through the coursework portion of getting a real estate license with no intention of taking the test, just to learn very specific State-specific real estate laws and rules. And I think it's cheap. When I went through it, it was like four or $500 and it's intense. There's a huge legal component to it.

Jill DeWit:
It's like 60 hours for the course here in Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I learned a lot. It's really worth it.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Back to the question. He said, "My dream is to buy small parcels of land that have minimal deed restrictions to build and rent out or sell small custom modern cabins for city dwellers. I live in Philly, Philadelphia, and I'm fortunate to be a short drive to wooded land. Personally, all this started with my desire to have a few acres where I could have a small off-grid cabin and get away and let my dog run around freely. I guess I can have both, huh? Anyway, I'm excited to continue learning and hearing from all of you."

Steven Butala:
All of this started because I had a desire to have a small cabin on a small piece of property, 30 years ago. And here we are. Welcome everybody.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how to fund deals and what you should look for if you're the bank. This is the meat of the show.

Steven Butala:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Fund Deals and What You Should Look for if You're the Bank (LA 1473)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Friday Land Academy show. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about how to fund deals as the funder and what you should look for in the bank roll.

Jill DeWit:
All right.

Steven Butala:
We're reversing the talk this week.

Jill DeWit:
How different deals, what you should look for if you're the bank. Okay, got it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord for sure.

Jill DeWit:
Saba wrote, and I've got some comments it looks like too?

Steven Butala:
These are two really nice compliments about how these two new members found us and why they made a decision to join. It's not really a question.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, good. This is cool. Saba wrote, "It's nice to meet you all. I was trying to look up on Google how to use Google Maps and search for properties by APN, and I ended up here. After reading a few posts, I decided to create an account because you guys seem to have pretty interesting discussions here. I'm a real estate development professional with a decade of experience in a corporate setting, I've sourced multiple deals and processed entitlements for many projects. I'm currently helping a few clients with financial modeling, market research, and zoning research on a consulting basis. Some of my clients are not in the area where I'm located, so I think I may be able to find some good, useful info about how doing deals in various municipalities work in this forum. Feel free to ask me any question you might have. Thanks." How sweet is that?

Steven Butala:
You're in the right place.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to use you guys for information for me, and I'm happy to share what I know. That's our community. That's awesome. RSally wrote, I hope I'm saying your names correctly, thank you. "Hello. So I'm just starting my late in life dream of buying, investing, and owning land. I found Land Academy on Instagram and I've already learned so much. I was about to start my coursework and get my real estate license. I know you don't need to have a license to buy and sell land, but for me, it's about gaining new knowledge. The coursework is a small investment for me to understand best practices, terminology, contracts, et cetera."

Steven Butala:
There's one more paragraph, but I'm going to jump in here and say that Jill and I have both been through the coursework portion of getting a real estate license with no intention of taking the test, just to learn very specific State-specific real estate laws and rules. And I think it's cheap. When I went through it, it was like four or $500 and it's intense. There's a huge legal component to it.

Jill DeWit:
It's like 60 hours for the course here in Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I learned a lot. It's really worth it.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Back to the question. He said, "My dream is to buy small parcels of land that have minimal deed restrictions to build and rent out or sell small custom modern cabins for city dwellers. I live in Philly, Philadelphia, and I'm fortunate to be a short drive to wooded land. Personally, all this started with my desire to have a few acres where I could have a small off-grid cabin and get away and let my dog run around freely. I guess I can have both, huh? Anyway, I'm excited to continue learning and hearing from all of you."

Steven Butala:
All of this started because I had a desire to have a small cabin on a small piece of property, 30 years ago. And here we are. Welcome everybody.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how to fund deals and what you should look for if you're the bank. This is the meat of the show.

Steven Butala:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/02/how-to-fund-deals-and-what-you-should-look-for-if-youre-the-bank-la-1473/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">3rYW118Cl</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 22:07:05 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/aa0a2894-9900-45b1-b135-d48933870b30.mp3" length="17904356" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Having Someone Else Fund Your Deals is Smart &amp;#8211; We Do it Too (LA 1472)</title><itunes:title>Why Having Someone Else Fund Your Deals is Smart &amp;#8211; We Do it Too (LA 1472)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Why Having Someone Else Fund Your Deals is Smart - We Do it Too (LA 1472)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I think it's sunny is the staple.

Jill DeWit:
Just leave it as sunny. [crosstalk 00:00:17].

Steven Butala:
But it is sunny here, more than California.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about why having someone else's deal, why having someone else fund your deal is actually a good idea. In fact, we do it all the time. We actually seek out partners to fund some of our deals, and the short version is, it depends on the deal. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord, it's worth it.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Andy wrote, and there's a note here that he's not a member, "In the process of browsing counties, I often come across areas where sorting low to high brings up similarly priced lots, but the acreage of the lots varies wildly. For example, I'm currently looking at a zip code in X state where half acre lots and 20 acre lots all seem to be in the 10 to $20,000 price range. I tend to avoid areas like this because of the huge discrepancy and it throws off my confidence in pricing. It would feel unwise of me to mail the half acre lots, offering 3 to $4,000, and then go on and mail 20 acre lots and offer the same amount. Any thoughts on how divided areas like this or how to get a better read? Do you ever just blanket mail a county with one offer price and then disregard acreage? Any thoughts? I appreciate it."

Steven Butala:
Always. What's important here is to get the mail out. This discrepancy in data, get used to it. This is one big... If you're a data person in another field or you're a retired pilot, or you got 30 years in public accounting, or you're a mechanical engineer, maybe you're retired. You know what looking at a data set like this and how frustrating it can be. And you've been doing it for decades. Welcome to Land Academy and welcome to real estate investing in general. Andy's already light years ahead of the clubhouse discussion that Jill was involved in this morning. Whereas they drive around and they'd look for dilapidated houses. They write down the address, they find the owner's name and they send them a kind little note saying, "Your house is a pile of crap. I'm happy to... Why don't you give me a call? I'll take it off your hands."

Steven Butala:
So Andy's already looking at data sets. He's realizing the data's not perfect. It's a little bit wonky and he's trying to figure it out and get into that real estate market through data, not through the actual real estate. So, if you're new and you're listening to these sentences that I'm saying, and the light bulb's going off over your head, this is for you. And expect some weird data because I know exactly where he's talking about him in New Mexico, and I know how I would do it, but it's all based on experience. So honestly, my opinion on this is just based on... Jill and I've done thousands of deals in New Mexico. So, in the beginning, this is frustrating for me, but not really. If you can crack through this data and figure it out, get it in a spreadsheet, go price per acre.

Steven Butala:
You're going to find similarities. You're going to dig through that data and scrub yourself down to a point where you actually do have confidence that this 20 acre property in this zip code is actually probably worth $12,000. So I'm going to go out. I'm going to offer everybody 2000 bucks. And so you have to just deconstruct the whole thing, chill out, get a good cup of coffee, make yourself a sandwich, turn all the lights off, spend three hours in a dark room,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Having Someone Else Fund Your Deals is Smart - We Do it Too (LA 1472)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I think it's sunny is the staple.

Jill DeWit:
Just leave it as sunny. [crosstalk 00:00:17].

Steven Butala:
But it is sunny here, more than California.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about why having someone else's deal, why having someone else fund your deal is actually a good idea. In fact, we do it all the time. We actually seek out partners to fund some of our deals, and the short version is, it depends on the deal. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord, it's worth it.

Jill DeWit:
All right. So Andy wrote, and there's a note here that he's not a member, "In the process of browsing counties, I often come across areas where sorting low to high brings up similarly priced lots, but the acreage of the lots varies wildly. For example, I'm currently looking at a zip code in X state where half acre lots and 20 acre lots all seem to be in the 10 to $20,000 price range. I tend to avoid areas like this because of the huge discrepancy and it throws off my confidence in pricing. It would feel unwise of me to mail the half acre lots, offering 3 to $4,000, and then go on and mail 20 acre lots and offer the same amount. Any thoughts on how divided areas like this or how to get a better read? Do you ever just blanket mail a county with one offer price and then disregard acreage? Any thoughts? I appreciate it."

Steven Butala:
Always. What's important here is to get the mail out. This discrepancy in data, get used to it. This is one big... If you're a data person in another field or you're a retired pilot, or you got 30 years in public accounting, or you're a mechanical engineer, maybe you're retired. You know what looking at a data set like this and how frustrating it can be. And you've been doing it for decades. Welcome to Land Academy and welcome to real estate investing in general. Andy's already light years ahead of the clubhouse discussion that Jill was involved in this morning. Whereas they drive around and they'd look for dilapidated houses. They write down the address, they find the owner's name and they send them a kind little note saying, "Your house is a pile of crap. I'm happy to... Why don't you give me a call? I'll take it off your hands."

Steven Butala:
So Andy's already looking at data sets. He's realizing the data's not perfect. It's a little bit wonky and he's trying to figure it out and get into that real estate market through data, not through the actual real estate. So, if you're new and you're listening to these sentences that I'm saying, and the light bulb's going off over your head, this is for you. And expect some weird data because I know exactly where he's talking about him in New Mexico, and I know how I would do it, but it's all based on experience. So honestly, my opinion on this is just based on... Jill and I've done thousands of deals in New Mexico. So, in the beginning, this is frustrating for me, but not really. If you can crack through this data and figure it out, get it in a spreadsheet, go price per acre.

Steven Butala:
You're going to find similarities. You're going to dig through that data and scrub yourself down to a point where you actually do have confidence that this 20 acre property in this zip code is actually probably worth $12,000. So I'm going to go out. I'm going to offer everybody 2000 bucks. And so you have to just deconstruct the whole thing, chill out, get a good cup of coffee, make yourself a sandwich, turn all the lights off, spend three hours in a dark room,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/04/01/why-having-someone-else-fund-your-deals-is-smart-we-do-it-too-la-1472/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">XJS3yZc0l</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9e235d5f-331a-4050-9083-b317c8b0898d.mp3" length="13971493" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Interview with Long Time Member Kevin Farrell (LA 1471)</title><itunes:title>Interview with Long Time Member Kevin Farrell (LA 1471)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Interview with Long Time Member Kevin Farrell (LA 1471)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from Sweets. That's still Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have the greatest treat of all. We have a long time member, Kevin Farrell with us who is also Kevins-

Jill Dewitt:
Does consulting for us-

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, he does land academy consulting, he's a moderator in a couple of our forums on land investors specifically, and just always a treat to talk to Kevin because he brings a certain serious expertise, but also a certain sense of... I can't describe it. Well, you'll see it in a minute. This type of sense of humor, and this whole thing.

Jill Dewitt:
Welcome! We are Steven and Jill. Together, we've been buying and reselling land since the nineties.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our data-centric approach leaves our buyers asking, "How can you sell it so cheap?"

Jill Dewitt:
Here on the land Academy show-

Steven Jack Butala:
We answer that, and more.

Steven Jack Butala:
Kevin how have you been since the last Land event?

Kevin:
I've been well. I mean, the main word is "well" because we've gone through this crazy pandemic and you know, I'm glad I'm in the land business because I want to tell people that it has not affected my ability to acquire land or my ability to sell it, which is amazing.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm so happy. You know, I want to pause and say thank you, by the way, for all that you have done for us and our other members and the consulting and the hours and the time and the welcoming new people that you put in for us. I really, really appreciate it and I know it makes a difference and people connect with you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
Thank you.

Kevin:
Yeah, thanks Jill. I appreciate it. It's I still enjoy doing it, so that's why I'm in there every day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's the same as for us here. I stopped telling people that the pandemic hasn't negatively affected us because they just... you never know how it's going to go. I don't want to, I don't want to make it seem like I'm bragging or anything, but we were just all really lucky. I can't think of anything else. Just purely lucky to be in this business when this thing rolled around.

Jill Dewitt:
That's true.

Kevin:
Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
Right.

Kevin:
Yeah, thanks to this I don't [crosstalk 00:02:07].

Jill Dewitt:
Catch us up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Perfect example.

Jill Dewitt:
Yeah.

Kevin:
Yeah, well, [crosstalk 00:02:15].

Jill Dewitt:
What kind of deals are you doing? Catch us up in your world.

Kevin:
Yeah, I've been doing my version of the business, which is kind of laid back. When I speak with people and we're doing consulting calls, they want to know how much mail we send out, and what kind of targets to make. I said, "Well, I may not be your role model. I'm 64 years old, and if I work two days a week, that's a full schedule. I'm pretty good with that". We put ourselves in a position, financially, where our needs are not really that high, so I'm all about being comfortable with what I'm doing. I have also been trying to find my niche. I think all of us in this land business, we're always kind of trying to figure out where's our niche either geographically or property type. Whether it's desert or commercial or infill, et cetera, et cetera. I've learned some things. I've had some real good lessons the past year or two.

Kevin:
I would say the five anchor lesson is a big one that I want to pass on to experienced and new people. There's just something magic, Steve you've said it before. People want five acre properties. I don't care really where you are. If you're selling, what I call, small properties, if you're doing five acre properties that phone's going to ring more than if you had one to two acre properties or even 10 acre properties.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Interview with Long Time Member Kevin Farrell (LA 1471)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from Sweets. That's still Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today we have the greatest treat of all. We have a long time member, Kevin Farrell with us who is also Kevins-

Jill Dewitt:
Does consulting for us-

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, he does land academy consulting, he's a moderator in a couple of our forums on land investors specifically, and just always a treat to talk to Kevin because he brings a certain serious expertise, but also a certain sense of... I can't describe it. Well, you'll see it in a minute. This type of sense of humor, and this whole thing.

Jill Dewitt:
Welcome! We are Steven and Jill. Together, we've been buying and reselling land since the nineties.

Steven Jack Butala:
Our data-centric approach leaves our buyers asking, "How can you sell it so cheap?"

Jill Dewitt:
Here on the land Academy show-

Steven Jack Butala:
We answer that, and more.

Steven Jack Butala:
Kevin how have you been since the last Land event?

Kevin:
I've been well. I mean, the main word is "well" because we've gone through this crazy pandemic and you know, I'm glad I'm in the land business because I want to tell people that it has not affected my ability to acquire land or my ability to sell it, which is amazing.

Jill Dewitt:
I'm so happy. You know, I want to pause and say thank you, by the way, for all that you have done for us and our other members and the consulting and the hours and the time and the welcoming new people that you put in for us. I really, really appreciate it and I know it makes a difference and people connect with you.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
Thank you.

Kevin:
Yeah, thanks Jill. I appreciate it. It's I still enjoy doing it, so that's why I'm in there every day.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. That's the same as for us here. I stopped telling people that the pandemic hasn't negatively affected us because they just... you never know how it's going to go. I don't want to, I don't want to make it seem like I'm bragging or anything, but we were just all really lucky. I can't think of anything else. Just purely lucky to be in this business when this thing rolled around.

Jill Dewitt:
That's true.

Kevin:
Yeah.

Jill Dewitt:
Right.

Kevin:
Yeah, thanks to this I don't [crosstalk 00:02:07].

Jill Dewitt:
Catch us up.

Steven Jack Butala:
Perfect example.

Jill Dewitt:
Yeah.

Kevin:
Yeah, well, [crosstalk 00:02:15].

Jill Dewitt:
What kind of deals are you doing? Catch us up in your world.

Kevin:
Yeah, I've been doing my version of the business, which is kind of laid back. When I speak with people and we're doing consulting calls, they want to know how much mail we send out, and what kind of targets to make. I said, "Well, I may not be your role model. I'm 64 years old, and if I work two days a week, that's a full schedule. I'm pretty good with that". We put ourselves in a position, financially, where our needs are not really that high, so I'm all about being comfortable with what I'm doing. I have also been trying to find my niche. I think all of us in this land business, we're always kind of trying to figure out where's our niche either geographically or property type. Whether it's desert or commercial or infill, et cetera, et cetera. I've learned some things. I've had some real good lessons the past year or two.

Kevin:
I would say the five anchor lesson is a big one that I want to pass on to experienced and new people. There's just something magic, Steve you've said it before. People want five acre properties. I don't care really where you are. If you're selling, what I call, small properties, if you're doing five acre properties that phone's going to ring more than if you had one to two acre properties or even 10 acre properties.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/31/interview-with-long-time-member-kevin-farrell-la-1471/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">aHh6Xzc0a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 23:32:59 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a57a23f3-2dc8-4cf8-a2f8-4e8992817a3e.mp3" length="26714334" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>26:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Deal Funding 101 &amp;#8211; How Deal Funding Works (LA 1470)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Deal Funding 101 &amp;#8211; How Deal Funding Works (LA 1470)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy Deal Funding 101 - How Deal Funding Works (LA 1470)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, coming to you from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona. Soon we'll be saying a lot.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Land Academy deal funding 101 and how deal funding works. Yesterday we talked about private equity and private lending and the basis of that and why I think it's the best way, we think it's the best way to raise capital to get deals done when you don't have your own money. Jill's going to walk us through the mechanics of when somebody sends her a deal, how she chooses it, how she analyzes it, why she says yes, why she says no. Maybe I'll actually submit a couple of fictitious deals to you and you can say, you're an idiot for this and you don't ever call me again.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I will happily play that game.

Steven Butala:
Or happily do this deal like right now. In fact, let's all stop what we're doing and fund it.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already with us in Land Academy, join us on Discord. It's nothing short of amazing.

Jill DeWit:
Anthony wrote, "In using the red, yellow, green test, I have found massive differences in days on market. I searched and found the base formula for days on market. It's a 12 month sold overactive for sale, then divided by 365. So let's say there were 3000 properties sold in the last 12 months and they are 500 sale for sale now. So 3000 divided by 500 is six divided by 365 divided by six, we got it, is 60.8 days on market. Zillow, Realtor, and Redfin all have different numbers for days on market. How do you guys account for the variance?"

Steven Butala:
This is very, very important question and it doesn't just apply to real estate or days on market. Where you have data sets from different sources it's very important not to mix them up. However, let's just pick on Redfin. However Redfin came about having properties in their dataset both for sale and sold is the same for sale and sold. But if you just look at for sale property in Redfin and then sold property in Zillow, it's an apples to oranges situation and you're mixing up two non-life kind data sets with different definitions. I don't mean to nitpick here, but this is actually pretty important because you're spending money on sending mail out based on data. So it's very important to just apples to apples it. So great, Jack. Steve, why are they different then? The real question is why are there's three sources of data?

Steven Butala:
I kept them separate. They're apples to apples to apples, all three. Why are they so different? Because the sources of data for Zillow, Zillow brags about the fact that they have all kinds of data in their dataset for properties. They could be Jill and I posting a property without a real estate agent as a for sale for owner. They could be the MLS. There's all kinds of places that you can get data to do this. Redfin goes the opposite way. They only have datasets in very specific areas based on which MLS is. There's three or 400 MLSs believe it or not, little local ones all over the country that roll up into the National Association of Realtors. So there's only certain local MLSs that participate with Redfin. And why is that? Because Redfin is not really interested in rural areas. They're really interested in urban areas where there's huge high volume of transactions.

Steven Butala:
That doesn't help us as much because we buy rural vacant land. And where that line cuts off, just imagine a boundary of the MLS is all geography based. So where one ends and one starts could be in the middle of a zip code. It could be in the middle of a county. So there's really,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy Deal Funding 101 - How Deal Funding Works (LA 1470)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, coming to you from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona. Soon we'll be saying a lot.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Land Academy deal funding 101 and how deal funding works. Yesterday we talked about private equity and private lending and the basis of that and why I think it's the best way, we think it's the best way to raise capital to get deals done when you don't have your own money. Jill's going to walk us through the mechanics of when somebody sends her a deal, how she chooses it, how she analyzes it, why she says yes, why she says no. Maybe I'll actually submit a couple of fictitious deals to you and you can say, you're an idiot for this and you don't ever call me again.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, I will happily play that game.

Steven Butala:
Or happily do this deal like right now. In fact, let's all stop what we're doing and fund it.

Jill DeWit:
Got it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already with us in Land Academy, join us on Discord. It's nothing short of amazing.

Jill DeWit:
Anthony wrote, "In using the red, yellow, green test, I have found massive differences in days on market. I searched and found the base formula for days on market. It's a 12 month sold overactive for sale, then divided by 365. So let's say there were 3000 properties sold in the last 12 months and they are 500 sale for sale now. So 3000 divided by 500 is six divided by 365 divided by six, we got it, is 60.8 days on market. Zillow, Realtor, and Redfin all have different numbers for days on market. How do you guys account for the variance?"

Steven Butala:
This is very, very important question and it doesn't just apply to real estate or days on market. Where you have data sets from different sources it's very important not to mix them up. However, let's just pick on Redfin. However Redfin came about having properties in their dataset both for sale and sold is the same for sale and sold. But if you just look at for sale property in Redfin and then sold property in Zillow, it's an apples to oranges situation and you're mixing up two non-life kind data sets with different definitions. I don't mean to nitpick here, but this is actually pretty important because you're spending money on sending mail out based on data. So it's very important to just apples to apples it. So great, Jack. Steve, why are they different then? The real question is why are there's three sources of data?

Steven Butala:
I kept them separate. They're apples to apples to apples, all three. Why are they so different? Because the sources of data for Zillow, Zillow brags about the fact that they have all kinds of data in their dataset for properties. They could be Jill and I posting a property without a real estate agent as a for sale for owner. They could be the MLS. There's all kinds of places that you can get data to do this. Redfin goes the opposite way. They only have datasets in very specific areas based on which MLS is. There's three or 400 MLSs believe it or not, little local ones all over the country that roll up into the National Association of Realtors. So there's only certain local MLSs that participate with Redfin. And why is that? Because Redfin is not really interested in rural areas. They're really interested in urban areas where there's huge high volume of transactions.

Steven Butala:
That doesn't help us as much because we buy rural vacant land. And where that line cuts off, just imagine a boundary of the MLS is all geography based. So where one ends and one starts could be in the middle of a zip code. It could be in the middle of a county. So there's really,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/30/land-academy-deal-funding-101-how-deal-funding-works-la-1470/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4VOnSo_KI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:14:24 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c8919093-bc24-4648-9e62-88a8d11f1c84.mp3" length="22992977" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>23:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Use Private Money to Get Started in Real Estate (LA 1469)</title><itunes:title>How to Use Private Money to Get Started in Real Estate (LA 1469)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Use Private Money to Get Started in Real Estate (LA 1469)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to use private money to get started in real estate. Jill just sat down. This is what happens. I do all the work, hours of work and Jill sits down at one minute till the time we're supposed to record and she says, "Okay, what's the topic? And how do I look?" And I say, this is the topic and you look great. And she gives me an opinion on the topic. And she happened to like this one. It's a 50/50 shot.

Jill DeWit:
That's kind of funny.

Steven Butala:
What were just doing before you got on the show?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, so I was on clubhouse. I jumped into this clubhouse group. It was real estate, just kind of like a real estate one-on-one and there were people in there. Everybody's trying to find houses to like rehab and rent them out. They're trying to buy them, rent them out. By the way, they're talking about some markets like Columbus I want to say and Indianapolis and these stupid places. It's so nuts. You can buy a house for like $40,000 and rent them out for a thousand.

Steven Butala:
That's what my sister does in Cadillac, Michigan.

Jill DeWit:
It's brilliant. They're figuring out these good areas, but where they're falling down is how to buy the asset. So that's where I chimed in and let them know how to get the data and what to do. So one guy said direct mail and you better believe I jumped all over that one.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I think that rental model is compelling. If you can get a good management company and you can buy a lot all at once, it's still a lot of work. In the end, I would never pull the trigger on it just because land is our thing, but my sister's got 30 or 40, 45 doors she said the last time I talked to her in Cadillac, Michigan because her husband, this is what he does full time.

Jill DeWit:
He's kind of the management company.

Steven Butala:
He is the management company and he has patience. So I don't have any patience for that.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. No, we do not. What do you have patience for babe?

Steven Butala:
Land acquisitions and resales and teaching.

Jill DeWit:
Even then it better go quickly.

Steven Butala:
That's true. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're with us already in the Land Academy community, please join us on Discord. It's gets bigger every day and I'm getting a lot out of it for sure and I know just based on the volume that our members are really... it's a new tool for us. It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't cost us anything and it doesn't cost our members anything and it's a great way to stay in constant contact with all of us.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Johanns wrote, "I've done some research about closing costs, but most resources I've found are related to buying house using a mortgage and not buying vacant land without a mortgage. So what are your typical closing costs on the buy and sell side provided that A, use a title agency when both buying and selling the property B, use an agent to sell the property. Let's say you buy a property for 30,000 and sell it for 70. My questions are, what would be your average title agency fees when buying property for 30,000? What other closing costs are there? What would be your overall expenses when buying? How much does an agency typically charge? What would be the title agency fees and other fees on the sell side? Who has to typically carry the title agency fees on the sell side? I understand that it's negotiable, but what is standard? Who typically has to carry the agent's fees?" We're getting a little too brainy here, but I'll answer them.

Steven Butala:
Well,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Use Private Money to Get Started in Real Estate (LA 1469)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to use private money to get started in real estate. Jill just sat down. This is what happens. I do all the work, hours of work and Jill sits down at one minute till the time we're supposed to record and she says, "Okay, what's the topic? And how do I look?" And I say, this is the topic and you look great. And she gives me an opinion on the topic. And she happened to like this one. It's a 50/50 shot.

Jill DeWit:
That's kind of funny.

Steven Butala:
What were just doing before you got on the show?

Jill DeWit:
Oh, so I was on clubhouse. I jumped into this clubhouse group. It was real estate, just kind of like a real estate one-on-one and there were people in there. Everybody's trying to find houses to like rehab and rent them out. They're trying to buy them, rent them out. By the way, they're talking about some markets like Columbus I want to say and Indianapolis and these stupid places. It's so nuts. You can buy a house for like $40,000 and rent them out for a thousand.

Steven Butala:
That's what my sister does in Cadillac, Michigan.

Jill DeWit:
It's brilliant. They're figuring out these good areas, but where they're falling down is how to buy the asset. So that's where I chimed in and let them know how to get the data and what to do. So one guy said direct mail and you better believe I jumped all over that one.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I think that rental model is compelling. If you can get a good management company and you can buy a lot all at once, it's still a lot of work. In the end, I would never pull the trigger on it just because land is our thing, but my sister's got 30 or 40, 45 doors she said the last time I talked to her in Cadillac, Michigan because her husband, this is what he does full time.

Jill DeWit:
He's kind of the management company.

Steven Butala:
He is the management company and he has patience. So I don't have any patience for that.

Jill DeWit:
Yes. No, we do not. What do you have patience for babe?

Steven Butala:
Land acquisitions and resales and teaching.

Jill DeWit:
Even then it better go quickly.

Steven Butala:
That's true. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're with us already in the Land Academy community, please join us on Discord. It's gets bigger every day and I'm getting a lot out of it for sure and I know just based on the volume that our members are really... it's a new tool for us. It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't cost us anything and it doesn't cost our members anything and it's a great way to stay in constant contact with all of us.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Johanns wrote, "I've done some research about closing costs, but most resources I've found are related to buying house using a mortgage and not buying vacant land without a mortgage. So what are your typical closing costs on the buy and sell side provided that A, use a title agency when both buying and selling the property B, use an agent to sell the property. Let's say you buy a property for 30,000 and sell it for 70. My questions are, what would be your average title agency fees when buying property for 30,000? What other closing costs are there? What would be your overall expenses when buying? How much does an agency typically charge? What would be the title agency fees and other fees on the sell side? Who has to typically carry the title agency fees on the sell side? I understand that it's negotiable, but what is standard? Who typically has to carry the agent's fees?" We're getting a little too brainy here, but I'll answer them.

Steven Butala:
Well,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/29/how-to-use-private-money-to-get-started-in-real-estate-la-1469/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">6420AdmE-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0c529c95-29dd-4745-98d0-58b912ed167e.mp3" length="14925419" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:11</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jill Friday and Her Take on Relationships (LA 1468)</title><itunes:title>Jill Friday and Her Take on Relationships (LA 1468)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jill Friday and Her Take on Relationships (LA 1468)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about it's Jill Friday, and her take on all types of relationships. Are you looking forward to this, or are you dreading it?

Jill DeWit:
No, are you kidding? I love talking about this stuff.

Steven Butala:
She loves this topic.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Just actually thinking about it.

Jill DeWit:
It's important. I am write... I'm going to do it. I'm going to write a book series on these things, and I will tell you how it's going to come out. It's good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you are already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Can you imagine? If I didn't like talking about relationships, I'd be pretty sucky in relationships.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
But like talking in general. It's kind of funny.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, it's something that you always improve on. Like I'm always trying to be better in any relationship that I have. I'm always trying to improve.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Is that obvious?

Jill DeWit:
It is obvious.

Steven Butala:
Is it really?

Jill DeWit:
It's appreciated. It is.

Steven Butala:
That's good. I didn't know it was obvious.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. All right. Johanes wrote, "Learning. If you want... " Lost my question here.

Steven Butala:
Sorry.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Butala:
That was me.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I guess it's like, "I'm learning. If you want to use money partners, you have to use an agent, unless the money partner will market the property with you only acting as a bird dog."

Steven Butala:
Let me explain this.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
This is a legal question.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
And the question here is, do I need a real estate license? That's really what they're asking.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I missed the whole preface to this.

Steven Butala:
The only reason that you need a real estate license... This is very important, if you don't know about this. Jill and I have talked about this a lot over the years. The reason you need a real estate license is because you are representing somebody else in the purchase or sale or lease of real property. It doesn't matter what kind. We don't need licenses at all, because we represent ourselves. It gets a gray area when you take on a partner.

Steven Butala:
And so, here's how you can completely and totally avoid any legal issue entirely. They are on the deed. So, if you're a money partner you're on the deed, and if you're the person who brings the deal to the money partner... We call that a manager in our... You know. There's the manager and the investor. We're the investor, because we put out the money. You're the manager, because you brought the property to us and you're going to manage the deal. You're going to actually buy it. You're going to sell it. You're going to deal with a title agent. If there is a real estate agent, you're going to deal with them, and on and on and on. Great. We're all partners, and we're all owners.

Steven Butala:
There are times where I don't think it's appropriate for a manager, especially if they're brand new and we don't know if they're any good or not... I shouldn't say any good. We don't know where they are in their land investing career, how educated they are yet... where Jill and I would theoretically just be the only ones on the deed, because we don't want to go through-

Jill DeWit:
Undoing anything.

Steven Butala:
... undoing stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
And have any type of confrontation with their manager. We want it to be positive. So,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jill Friday and Her Take on Relationships (LA 1468)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, coming to you from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about it's Jill Friday, and her take on all types of relationships. Are you looking forward to this, or are you dreading it?

Jill DeWit:
No, are you kidding? I love talking about this stuff.

Steven Butala:
She loves this topic.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Just actually thinking about it.

Jill DeWit:
It's important. I am write... I'm going to do it. I'm going to write a book series on these things, and I will tell you how it's going to come out. It's good.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you are already a Land Academy member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Can you imagine? If I didn't like talking about relationships, I'd be pretty sucky in relationships.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
But like talking in general. It's kind of funny.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, it's something that you always improve on. Like I'm always trying to be better in any relationship that I have. I'm always trying to improve.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
Is that obvious?

Jill DeWit:
It is obvious.

Steven Butala:
Is it really?

Jill DeWit:
It's appreciated. It is.

Steven Butala:
That's good. I didn't know it was obvious.

Jill DeWit:
Totally. All right. Johanes wrote, "Learning. If you want... " Lost my question here.

Steven Butala:
Sorry.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Butala:
That was me.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I guess it's like, "I'm learning. If you want to use money partners, you have to use an agent, unless the money partner will market the property with you only acting as a bird dog."

Steven Butala:
Let me explain this.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
This is a legal question.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
And the question here is, do I need a real estate license? That's really what they're asking.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I missed the whole preface to this.

Steven Butala:
The only reason that you need a real estate license... This is very important, if you don't know about this. Jill and I have talked about this a lot over the years. The reason you need a real estate license is because you are representing somebody else in the purchase or sale or lease of real property. It doesn't matter what kind. We don't need licenses at all, because we represent ourselves. It gets a gray area when you take on a partner.

Steven Butala:
And so, here's how you can completely and totally avoid any legal issue entirely. They are on the deed. So, if you're a money partner you're on the deed, and if you're the person who brings the deal to the money partner... We call that a manager in our... You know. There's the manager and the investor. We're the investor, because we put out the money. You're the manager, because you brought the property to us and you're going to manage the deal. You're going to actually buy it. You're going to sell it. You're going to deal with a title agent. If there is a real estate agent, you're going to deal with them, and on and on and on. Great. We're all partners, and we're all owners.

Steven Butala:
There are times where I don't think it's appropriate for a manager, especially if they're brand new and we don't know if they're any good or not... I shouldn't say any good. We don't know where they are in their land investing career, how educated they are yet... where Jill and I would theoretically just be the only ones on the deed, because we don't want to go through-

Jill DeWit:
Undoing anything.

Steven Butala:
... undoing stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
And have any type of confrontation with their manager. We want it to be positive. So,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/26/jill-friday-and-her-take-on-relationships-la-1468/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">KTJjabaXj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:26:17 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/68f43eb6-5502-44eb-8c0d-80947e848d70.mp3" length="20872190" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:21</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack Thursday and What Your Father Never Told You about Land Investing (LA 1467)</title><itunes:title>Jack Thursday and What Your Father Never Told You about Land Investing (LA 1467)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Thursday and What Your Father Never Told You about Land Investing (LA 1467)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, Broadcasting from sexy Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Wow. How long have you been holding that in?

Jill DeWit:
I just came to me actually, just S word, S word, sexy done.

Steven Butala:
Today, when Jill's not horsing around, today, Jill and I talk about what your father never told you about land investing. this title I wrote, if you can't tell. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Jeff wrote, "Hey all. I'm sure this has been answered before, but if you have two comparable info lots across the street from one another, with the only obvious difference being that one is cleared and the other is wooded, is there typically a difference in value? In this case the cleared lot last year sold for $65,000. Just wondering if it's an apples to apples comparison."

Steven Butala:
This is a fantastic question. Reality-based question and an academic question. So if you asked an economist this, if you're not an economist and you're not an accountant, you would never know that economists hate accountants and accountants hate economists. Accountants say to economists, get in reality. Yeah. Great. You sit in your office all day and come up with these concepts. But in reality, I'm an accountant. I'm in there in the field and we're looking at stuff and how to make or lose money. This is an academic question. an accountant would say this, the price different, I'm sorry, an economist would say this, "At the price difference is how much it costs to clear the lot. That's the difference." An accountant would say, "No, you're an idiot. It's whatever the market demands. There could be some real value in a wooded lot, because you're just going to create clear a little part of it to build a house." So there's your academic answer and there's a reality answer. I personally probably price them the same. Would you?

Jill DeWit:
It's the funniest thing too. I'm like, I have to say too. It depends Jeff. So when you say infill lot, now I'm thinking house lots are not that big. If we were talking 20 or so acres, I'd want the wooded one. I think the wooded one would be more valuable than the barren one kind of thing. It's usually, that's how that goes, because you have a lot of options at that point. I totally agree with you. So in this situation, yeah, I would just be pricing it based on per acre average in the area. But my gut tells me that for a buyer coming in, having a cleared lot, if it's, again, I'm going to put a house there. It's somebody did the work. It's like someone poured a pad. Even if it's not exactly what you want to build your house, somebody started to construction and then they walked away. But they put in some of the infrastructure and poured a pad. That's worth something.

Steven Butala:
All true. It's interesting you ask this now because the properties that Jill and I are buying, we really look at this. Because we're improving the property to resell it and we look at the cost of how much it's going to get that property graded correctly and all of that. And that stuff's not insignificant. It can be expensive. But I'll tell you if two people drive their car up to a property and they see a barren lot or if they see with one with beautiful trees on it, guess which one they're going to choose.

Jill DeWit:
Then you have that.

Steven Butala:
Beautiful trees.

Jill DeWit:
There you go. Exactly. And they can decide where they want to put the house and position it and what trees they want to keep. So there's value there.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, what your father never told you about land inv...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jack Thursday and What Your Father Never Told You about Land Investing (LA 1467)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, Broadcasting from sexy Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Wow. How long have you been holding that in?

Jill DeWit:
I just came to me actually, just S word, S word, sexy done.

Steven Butala:
Today, when Jill's not horsing around, today, Jill and I talk about what your father never told you about land investing. this title I wrote, if you can't tell. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Jeff wrote, "Hey all. I'm sure this has been answered before, but if you have two comparable info lots across the street from one another, with the only obvious difference being that one is cleared and the other is wooded, is there typically a difference in value? In this case the cleared lot last year sold for $65,000. Just wondering if it's an apples to apples comparison."

Steven Butala:
This is a fantastic question. Reality-based question and an academic question. So if you asked an economist this, if you're not an economist and you're not an accountant, you would never know that economists hate accountants and accountants hate economists. Accountants say to economists, get in reality. Yeah. Great. You sit in your office all day and come up with these concepts. But in reality, I'm an accountant. I'm in there in the field and we're looking at stuff and how to make or lose money. This is an academic question. an accountant would say this, the price different, I'm sorry, an economist would say this, "At the price difference is how much it costs to clear the lot. That's the difference." An accountant would say, "No, you're an idiot. It's whatever the market demands. There could be some real value in a wooded lot, because you're just going to create clear a little part of it to build a house." So there's your academic answer and there's a reality answer. I personally probably price them the same. Would you?

Jill DeWit:
It's the funniest thing too. I'm like, I have to say too. It depends Jeff. So when you say infill lot, now I'm thinking house lots are not that big. If we were talking 20 or so acres, I'd want the wooded one. I think the wooded one would be more valuable than the barren one kind of thing. It's usually, that's how that goes, because you have a lot of options at that point. I totally agree with you. So in this situation, yeah, I would just be pricing it based on per acre average in the area. But my gut tells me that for a buyer coming in, having a cleared lot, if it's, again, I'm going to put a house there. It's somebody did the work. It's like someone poured a pad. Even if it's not exactly what you want to build your house, somebody started to construction and then they walked away. But they put in some of the infrastructure and poured a pad. That's worth something.

Steven Butala:
All true. It's interesting you ask this now because the properties that Jill and I are buying, we really look at this. Because we're improving the property to resell it and we look at the cost of how much it's going to get that property graded correctly and all of that. And that stuff's not insignificant. It can be expensive. But I'll tell you if two people drive their car up to a property and they see a barren lot or if they see with one with beautiful trees on it, guess which one they're going to choose.

Jill DeWit:
Then you have that.

Steven Butala:
Beautiful trees.

Jill DeWit:
There you go. Exactly. And they can decide where they want to put the house and position it and what trees they want to keep. So there's value there.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, what your father never told you about land inv...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/25/jack-thursday-and-what-your-father-never-told-you-about-land-investing-la-1467/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">pL6M--bSB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/71b984cb-f61c-41ff-913f-149f238ffb08.mp3" length="15475993" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pros and Cons of Leveraging Time vs Money (LA 1466)</title><itunes:title>Pros and Cons of Leveraging Time vs Money (LA 1466)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Pros and Cons of Leveraging Time vs Money (LA 1466)



Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the pros and cons of leveraging your time versus money. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord. Seriously, join us on Discord.
Jill DeWit:Okay. In case you can't tell, he's got a little bit of a thing for this Discord. It's a little unhealthy. There's no money involved. It takes a lot of time on his part. Just kidding. You love it.
Steven Butala:Really Clubhouse?
Jill DeWit:I was waiting for that. We each have our new favorites. Isn't that hilarious? I'm like, "All right, you represent us on Discord. You just have a blast. Let me know if there's anything interesting. And I'll take the Clubhouse thing and that's fun." So, it's perfect.
Steven Butala:It's funny you bring up unhealthy because somebody said, and it turned into this huge thing. Somebody said, "I listen to X while I'm scrubbing data." And it just became a whole thing, and it unraveled about what people listen to and all their unhealthy weird habits about how they crunch data to get it ready for a mailer and when they do it and where they do it in their house. I listen to the band Tool extremely loud when no one else is around while I'm scrubbing data. And everyone's like, "You think that's weird, then," fill in the blank.
Jill DeWit:That's hilarious.
Steven Butala:It became this thing, like we are not healthy, normal people.
Jill DeWit:That's true.
Steven Butala:We're all these weird data people that are ... That's what I love about discord. And no one's afraid of that. We're all serious geeks, is what it is.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. It's a support group. That's it. If you're struggling to find friends because you are weird too, you can find them in Discord and you can all just have a great time together. Mom, I have friends. Leave me alone.
Steven Butala:Yeah. You know what it is? It's like this age, this is our video game.
Jill DeWit:It is. Yeah.
Steven Butala:The kids get on the line and-
Jill DeWit:So they're playing with the thing and then the talking. This is your version of you're doing that while you're scrubbing data.
Steven Butala:It's great.
Jill DeWit:Oh, this is hilarious. The grown-up version of gaming with your friends. All right. Back to the question. Daniel wrote, "I'm in negotiations with a seller for a $1 million acquisition price for a bulk purchase of multiple properties. I need help pricing from a local realtor, but I'm hesitant to give them all the information since I do not yet have a signed purchase agreement. Is this something you'd be cautious with?" Yeah, I would. Totally.
Steven Butala:Whatever you say, I'm going to agree with you on this.
Jill DeWit:Get a signed purchase agreement. There's no reason-
Steven Butala:Jill has a, and correctly so, has a peeve about not signed purchase agreements. You're not doing anything wrong in any way here, Daniel. It's a good question. Jill likes signed purchase agreements.
Jill DeWit:Well, for two reasons. Here's reason number one. So Daniel, you're going to sleep better. I would even take it so far if you're really worried, take the signed purchase agreement, give it to an escrow agent and say, "Give me an escrow number. And even though we can all change our minds, I just want to have a number that it's started the process," because that's good faith moving forward.
Steven Butala:This is extremely important, what she's saying, in my opinion.
Jill DeWit:And as far as an agent's involved, you're in escrow. It's like a hands-off kind of thing. Even though all you have is a number and nobody's done anything,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Pros and Cons of Leveraging Time vs Money (LA 1466)



Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the pros and cons of leveraging your time versus money. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord. Seriously, join us on Discord.
Jill DeWit:Okay. In case you can't tell, he's got a little bit of a thing for this Discord. It's a little unhealthy. There's no money involved. It takes a lot of time on his part. Just kidding. You love it.
Steven Butala:Really Clubhouse?
Jill DeWit:I was waiting for that. We each have our new favorites. Isn't that hilarious? I'm like, "All right, you represent us on Discord. You just have a blast. Let me know if there's anything interesting. And I'll take the Clubhouse thing and that's fun." So, it's perfect.
Steven Butala:It's funny you bring up unhealthy because somebody said, and it turned into this huge thing. Somebody said, "I listen to X while I'm scrubbing data." And it just became a whole thing, and it unraveled about what people listen to and all their unhealthy weird habits about how they crunch data to get it ready for a mailer and when they do it and where they do it in their house. I listen to the band Tool extremely loud when no one else is around while I'm scrubbing data. And everyone's like, "You think that's weird, then," fill in the blank.
Jill DeWit:That's hilarious.
Steven Butala:It became this thing, like we are not healthy, normal people.
Jill DeWit:That's true.
Steven Butala:We're all these weird data people that are ... That's what I love about discord. And no one's afraid of that. We're all serious geeks, is what it is.
Jill DeWit:Yeah. It's a support group. That's it. If you're struggling to find friends because you are weird too, you can find them in Discord and you can all just have a great time together. Mom, I have friends. Leave me alone.
Steven Butala:Yeah. You know what it is? It's like this age, this is our video game.
Jill DeWit:It is. Yeah.
Steven Butala:The kids get on the line and-
Jill DeWit:So they're playing with the thing and then the talking. This is your version of you're doing that while you're scrubbing data.
Steven Butala:It's great.
Jill DeWit:Oh, this is hilarious. The grown-up version of gaming with your friends. All right. Back to the question. Daniel wrote, "I'm in negotiations with a seller for a $1 million acquisition price for a bulk purchase of multiple properties. I need help pricing from a local realtor, but I'm hesitant to give them all the information since I do not yet have a signed purchase agreement. Is this something you'd be cautious with?" Yeah, I would. Totally.
Steven Butala:Whatever you say, I'm going to agree with you on this.
Jill DeWit:Get a signed purchase agreement. There's no reason-
Steven Butala:Jill has a, and correctly so, has a peeve about not signed purchase agreements. You're not doing anything wrong in any way here, Daniel. It's a good question. Jill likes signed purchase agreements.
Jill DeWit:Well, for two reasons. Here's reason number one. So Daniel, you're going to sleep better. I would even take it so far if you're really worried, take the signed purchase agreement, give it to an escrow agent and say, "Give me an escrow number. And even though we can all change our minds, I just want to have a number that it's started the process," because that's good faith moving forward.
Steven Butala:This is extremely important, what she's saying, in my opinion.
Jill DeWit:And as far as an agent's involved, you're in escrow. It's like a hands-off kind of thing. Even though all you have is a number and nobody's done anything,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/24/pros-and-cons-of-leveraging-time-vs-money-la-1466/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">H3KfA59uT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/08189f5c-d6e4-4d67-b691-3877e579c883.mp3" length="14323869" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:34</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Using Data 101 in Your Land Investing Career (LA 1465)</title><itunes:title>Using Data 101 in Your Land Investing Career (LA 1465)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Using Data 101 in Your Land Investing Career (LA 1465)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from special Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today jill and I talk about using data 101 in her land investing career. Special Scottsdale?

Jill DeWit:
I don't know. I'm just trying to think of a different S word. I had sizzling. Sunny I say for California. I said sweet. Today it's special. I'll come up with some other words. Someday it might be sucky. I don't know it. It won't be sucky. It's awesome.

Steven Butala:
Are you guys really going to talk about data again?

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
Don't you think you talk about data enough? I thought this show was supposed to be about real estate. Where's the ... I want to choose paint colors. I want to choose window treatments. I want you to talk about issue TV and buying a rickety, broken down house and making it beautiful. Isn't that what real estate is? No, it's not for us.

Jill DeWit:
Stop it. Just stop it.

Steven Butala:
It's not just it's about assessor's tax rules, and it might as well not be about real estate. In fact, what we should probably call this as a Data ... Data Academy is what we should call this.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. You are right.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you are already a Land Academy member, make sure, put it on your list today. Join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I'm making a note to talk about here, but on the topic, because it's important, but with this data. Okay, Doug wrote, "I've got eight siblings with 10 acre parcel each. All want to sell to me. They're all clustered together. Problem is, no access. Is this worth contacting a neighboring land owner to try and work out a deal for on an easement? Providing I can make that happen. I'd have to get a dirt road built to access the other seven parcels, and then build that easement into each of the deeds. Headache or goldmine waiting to happen?" This ties into the Luke thing yesterday. Go.

Steven Butala:
Run. Run the other way. Open the next signed offer and do that deal. That's my advice here.

Jill DeWit:
It's doable. Doug's not nuts, but are you saying because of the time and the energy and the costs and all of that?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Yeah. Before ... I'll tell you, here's my serious answer. How much money are you actually going to make? If you're going to make a couple million bucks, okay, I get it. Then you can start down the year long path of how long this is going to take, and make sure that it doesn't stop you from doing other deals too.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Butala:
This is a long, long path, and I've never ... I'll phrase this in a question. Have you ever had the sibling thing work out to your favor? Everybody signing at Thanksgiving kind of thing.

Jill DeWit:
A few times, but when there's that many it's hard.

Steven Butala:
It's the exception for sure. It's not the rule.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. It is hard. Often one of them gets a stick up there or whatever, and they decide they don't want to sell at that price or something. It's really hard to get eight on the same page. It's very true.

Steven Butala:
Siblings are famous for fighting with each other at the time of parent's death.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I thought you just meant in general.

Steven Butala:
Oh, they're famous for finding each other anyway, but specifically when everyone breaks the will out and says ... The worst thing you can do is Jill and I are going through this estate planning right now. The absolute worst thing you can do as a parent to your heirs is say, "The daughter gets 50% and the son gets 50%, and you guys work it out, knock yourselves out."

Jill DeWit:
Right. Whatever it is. I don't know.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Using Data 101 in Your Land Investing Career (LA 1465)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from special Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today jill and I talk about using data 101 in her land investing career. Special Scottsdale?

Jill DeWit:
I don't know. I'm just trying to think of a different S word. I had sizzling. Sunny I say for California. I said sweet. Today it's special. I'll come up with some other words. Someday it might be sucky. I don't know it. It won't be sucky. It's awesome.

Steven Butala:
Are you guys really going to talk about data again?

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
Don't you think you talk about data enough? I thought this show was supposed to be about real estate. Where's the ... I want to choose paint colors. I want to choose window treatments. I want you to talk about issue TV and buying a rickety, broken down house and making it beautiful. Isn't that what real estate is? No, it's not for us.

Jill DeWit:
Stop it. Just stop it.

Steven Butala:
It's not just it's about assessor's tax rules, and it might as well not be about real estate. In fact, what we should probably call this as a Data ... Data Academy is what we should call this.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. You are right.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you are already a Land Academy member, make sure, put it on your list today. Join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
I'm making a note to talk about here, but on the topic, because it's important, but with this data. Okay, Doug wrote, "I've got eight siblings with 10 acre parcel each. All want to sell to me. They're all clustered together. Problem is, no access. Is this worth contacting a neighboring land owner to try and work out a deal for on an easement? Providing I can make that happen. I'd have to get a dirt road built to access the other seven parcels, and then build that easement into each of the deeds. Headache or goldmine waiting to happen?" This ties into the Luke thing yesterday. Go.

Steven Butala:
Run. Run the other way. Open the next signed offer and do that deal. That's my advice here.

Jill DeWit:
It's doable. Doug's not nuts, but are you saying because of the time and the energy and the costs and all of that?

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Yeah. Before ... I'll tell you, here's my serious answer. How much money are you actually going to make? If you're going to make a couple million bucks, okay, I get it. Then you can start down the year long path of how long this is going to take, and make sure that it doesn't stop you from doing other deals too.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Butala:
This is a long, long path, and I've never ... I'll phrase this in a question. Have you ever had the sibling thing work out to your favor? Everybody signing at Thanksgiving kind of thing.

Jill DeWit:
A few times, but when there's that many it's hard.

Steven Butala:
It's the exception for sure. It's not the rule.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. It is hard. Often one of them gets a stick up there or whatever, and they decide they don't want to sell at that price or something. It's really hard to get eight on the same page. It's very true.

Steven Butala:
Siblings are famous for fighting with each other at the time of parent's death.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I thought you just meant in general.

Steven Butala:
Oh, they're famous for finding each other anyway, but specifically when everyone breaks the will out and says ... The worst thing you can do is Jill and I are going through this estate planning right now. The absolute worst thing you can do as a parent to your heirs is say, "The daughter gets 50% and the son gets 50%, and you guys work it out, knock yourselves out."

Jill DeWit:
Right. Whatever it is. I don't know.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/23/using-data-101-in-your-land-investing-career-la-1465/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zS7O7ePio</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/97fbdbec-6e0a-4c4c-a734-33296ce04cee.mp3" length="16980873" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Using WebHarvy to Collect Comparison Values on Zillow (LA 1464)</title><itunes:title>Using WebHarvy to Collect Comparison Values on Zillow (LA 1464)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Using WebHarvy to Collect Comparison Values on Zillow (LA 1464)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale. Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about using WebHarvy to collect comparison values on Zillow.

Jill DeWit:
Oh boy. Alrighty, it sounds like, and we're out. I promise it's not that bad. This is a good thing, but it sounds like this is a big topic.

Steven Butala:
Today, we talk about how to make the best out of your new encyclopedia set.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. That's what this sounds like, "Today we're going to dissect and discuss your accounting," whatever. "We're going to dissect and discuss all the tax changes from 2021."

Steven Butala:
You know you've made it in life when you don't have to write the titles of your own show anymore. I'm not a writer on the show anymore, and I think that's great.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny. So, okay. Yes, I did have encyclopedias, by the way. I remember that.

Steven Butala:
So did I. Did you have World Book or Britannica?

Jill DeWit:
Britannica.

Steven Butala:
We had World Book. Britannica, that's why you're smarter than me.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't say I used them. We had them.

Steven Butala:
Mine were very, very, very unused.

Jill DeWit:
Remember you'd opened them up and the pages would just crinkle

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Because they were brand new.

Steven Butala:
Because it's brand new. I think it was a guilt thing. Our parents they had to get it because they wanted to make sure we were educated.

Jill DeWit:
They felt like they were better parents.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, it's true. You had to have it as a parent. It was a rite of passage or something.

Steven Butala:
It was really truly just silly because any topic you looked up, there was a paragraph on its whole subject. I don't know, let's say you looked up turtle, and it's a tiny little paragraph. You didn't learn anything.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
All it did was say, "You need to go to the library and actually get a book on turtles."

Jill DeWit:
Right. Here's where the country is.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
Not going to tell you that much about it.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
Here's the brief overview. You know what? Actually, this is one of the reasons I like encyclopedias, it was a Cliff Notes to wars, countries, all of that. I'm all about Cliff Notes.

Steven Butala:
You'd look a country up and it's like, "Their major exports are shale and oil and corn." I'm like, "Oh, that's awesome. That's exactly what I needed to know about country X."

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Population. This is funny. We should find some old, that'd be really good, like at Goodwill, it'd be fun to have an encyclopedia to show the kids.

Steven Butala:
These kids, I'm going to sound like an old man, these kids have no idea with Google and then with YouTube how ...

Jill DeWit:
Lucky.

Steven Butala:
... far ahead and how educated they are at such a young age on anything, because I had a computer when I was a kid. I was real lucky, I always started with computers, and I said, "My dream one day is to have a computer in the living room, in the corner." There were no such thing as notebooks back then, or laptops, but to have a computer terminal where you could find out the answers to stuff when you wanted it.

Jill DeWit:
Is that why we had that computer in the corner?

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
That's exactly what that was.

Jill DeWit:
When we got together, there was a computer in the corner and I'm like, "Is that a timeout? Someone has to go sit there and stare at it?"

Steven Butala:
Yeah, your punishment is to go sit there and learn stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. That would be punishment for me.

Steven Butala:
Jill,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Using WebHarvy to Collect Comparison Values on Zillow (LA 1464)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale. Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about using WebHarvy to collect comparison values on Zillow.

Jill DeWit:
Oh boy. Alrighty, it sounds like, and we're out. I promise it's not that bad. This is a good thing, but it sounds like this is a big topic.

Steven Butala:
Today, we talk about how to make the best out of your new encyclopedia set.

Jill DeWit:
There we go. That's what this sounds like, "Today we're going to dissect and discuss your accounting," whatever. "We're going to dissect and discuss all the tax changes from 2021."

Steven Butala:
You know you've made it in life when you don't have to write the titles of your own show anymore. I'm not a writer on the show anymore, and I think that's great.

Jill DeWit:
That's funny. So, okay. Yes, I did have encyclopedias, by the way. I remember that.

Steven Butala:
So did I. Did you have World Book or Britannica?

Jill DeWit:
Britannica.

Steven Butala:
We had World Book. Britannica, that's why you're smarter than me.

Jill DeWit:
I didn't say I used them. We had them.

Steven Butala:
Mine were very, very, very unused.

Jill DeWit:
Remember you'd opened them up and the pages would just crinkle

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Because they were brand new.

Steven Butala:
Because it's brand new. I think it was a guilt thing. Our parents they had to get it because they wanted to make sure we were educated.

Jill DeWit:
They felt like they were better parents.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, it's true. You had to have it as a parent. It was a rite of passage or something.

Steven Butala:
It was really truly just silly because any topic you looked up, there was a paragraph on its whole subject. I don't know, let's say you looked up turtle, and it's a tiny little paragraph. You didn't learn anything.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
All it did was say, "You need to go to the library and actually get a book on turtles."

Jill DeWit:
Right. Here's where the country is.

Steven Butala:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:
Not going to tell you that much about it.

Steven Butala:
Right.

Jill DeWit:
Here's the brief overview. You know what? Actually, this is one of the reasons I like encyclopedias, it was a Cliff Notes to wars, countries, all of that. I'm all about Cliff Notes.

Steven Butala:
You'd look a country up and it's like, "Their major exports are shale and oil and corn." I'm like, "Oh, that's awesome. That's exactly what I needed to know about country X."

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. Population. This is funny. We should find some old, that'd be really good, like at Goodwill, it'd be fun to have an encyclopedia to show the kids.

Steven Butala:
These kids, I'm going to sound like an old man, these kids have no idea with Google and then with YouTube how ...

Jill DeWit:
Lucky.

Steven Butala:
... far ahead and how educated they are at such a young age on anything, because I had a computer when I was a kid. I was real lucky, I always started with computers, and I said, "My dream one day is to have a computer in the living room, in the corner." There were no such thing as notebooks back then, or laptops, but to have a computer terminal where you could find out the answers to stuff when you wanted it.

Jill DeWit:
Is that why we had that computer in the corner?

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
That's exactly what that was.

Jill DeWit:
When we got together, there was a computer in the corner and I'm like, "Is that a timeout? Someone has to go sit there and stare at it?"

Steven Butala:
Yeah, your punishment is to go sit there and learn stuff.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. That would be punishment for me.

Steven Butala:
Jill,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/22/using-webharvy-to-collect-comparison-values-on-zillow-la-1464/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">2CJbFVyHc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5c226f83-fcdd-410d-bdd4-c97d218330ef.mp3" length="14188905" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:25</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Jill-ify a Land Transaction (LA 1463)</title><itunes:title>How to Jill-ify a Land Transaction (LA 1463)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How to Jill-ify a Land Transaction (LA 1463)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to Jillify a land transaction.

Jill DeWit:
You came up with this.

Steven Butala:
This is a sentence Jill just said before we turned the camera on, just now.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
"Don't go all man on me and tell me the facts and the truth."

Jill DeWit:
Don't tell me about the year and the make and the model and why that car is dumb. That's not the point here.

Steven Butala:
What is the point?

Jill DeWit:
I was making a comment about the car. I was skipping along the top and you're like, "No, here's why this car's bad. This is what it's worth. This is what kind of mileage it gets. This is where it won't go." I'm like, "What the heck?"

Steven Butala:
Don't go up all man on me.

Jill DeWit:
Like, "That's not the point, at all." Oh my gosh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please make sure you join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Newbie, first mailer, stage question. Is ParcelFact or NeighborScoop required right away for due diligence? I've been looking up properties at assessor sites, and the owner info seems to be available there. Also, I think there's a site to look up FEMA flood maps, checking the parcel on Google earth is a PITA? I don't know what that is, but possible without tools.

Steven Butala:
Pain in the.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, now I know what that is.

Steven Butala:
Is a PITA.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it. I didn't know that. I hadn't heard that before. That's funny. Am I correct in that tools like ParcelFact and NeighborScoop are more for productivity? Can't DataTree do most of this as well.

Steven Butala:
Hold on a second, I have a lot to say about this. This is in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Go.

Steven Butala:
And I answered it in Discord this way, and I'm going to answer it here as well.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
You don't need Land Academy, you don't need NeighborScoop, you don't need O2O, you don't need any of this. I never had any of it. Never. And it took me 20 years to get where I am. It can take you two months with all these tools. You have this podcast that's free. There's all kinds of free stuff. You don't need to join Land Academy. You need to look at Land Academy like an insurance policy. If you do join Land Academy and follow along here and participate and actually watch the program and ask questions, you're going to make a fortune. It's either going to click in place for you or it's not. So no, you don't need these tools. Good luck.

Jill DeWit:
I was not expecting that. That's like a speech you give a kid. You know what? Nope, you don't need high school, you don't need college. You want to drop out now? Go right ahead. Nevermind.

Steven Butala:
And eat nothing but pop tarts. Good luck, kid.

Jill DeWit:
Sit on the couch, buddy, but it's not going to be my couch. Good luck. Oh my gosh. Call somebody who cares.

Steven Butala:
I personally-

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Butala:
This is the truth of it. I don't want to mansplain anything.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, that's right, don't go all man on me.

Steven Butala:
I'm trying to micromanage what I say. Jill thinks in sound bites. The shorter, the better.

Jill DeWit:
That was not in the book by the way, about me and my personality, but I'm still learning. That's good.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how to Jillify a land transaction.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Would you like to man explain, mansplain?

Steven Butala:
I'm about to give you a bunch of compliments here.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How to Jill-ify a Land Transaction (LA 1463)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to Jillify a land transaction.

Jill DeWit:
You came up with this.

Steven Butala:
This is a sentence Jill just said before we turned the camera on, just now.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
"Don't go all man on me and tell me the facts and the truth."

Jill DeWit:
Don't tell me about the year and the make and the model and why that car is dumb. That's not the point here.

Steven Butala:
What is the point?

Jill DeWit:
I was making a comment about the car. I was skipping along the top and you're like, "No, here's why this car's bad. This is what it's worth. This is what kind of mileage it gets. This is where it won't go." I'm like, "What the heck?"

Steven Butala:
Don't go up all man on me.

Jill DeWit:
Like, "That's not the point, at all." Oh my gosh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please make sure you join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Newbie, first mailer, stage question. Is ParcelFact or NeighborScoop required right away for due diligence? I've been looking up properties at assessor sites, and the owner info seems to be available there. Also, I think there's a site to look up FEMA flood maps, checking the parcel on Google earth is a PITA? I don't know what that is, but possible without tools.

Steven Butala:
Pain in the.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, now I know what that is.

Steven Butala:
Is a PITA.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it. I didn't know that. I hadn't heard that before. That's funny. Am I correct in that tools like ParcelFact and NeighborScoop are more for productivity? Can't DataTree do most of this as well.

Steven Butala:
Hold on a second, I have a lot to say about this. This is in Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Go.

Steven Butala:
And I answered it in Discord this way, and I'm going to answer it here as well.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
You don't need Land Academy, you don't need NeighborScoop, you don't need O2O, you don't need any of this. I never had any of it. Never. And it took me 20 years to get where I am. It can take you two months with all these tools. You have this podcast that's free. There's all kinds of free stuff. You don't need to join Land Academy. You need to look at Land Academy like an insurance policy. If you do join Land Academy and follow along here and participate and actually watch the program and ask questions, you're going to make a fortune. It's either going to click in place for you or it's not. So no, you don't need these tools. Good luck.

Jill DeWit:
I was not expecting that. That's like a speech you give a kid. You know what? Nope, you don't need high school, you don't need college. You want to drop out now? Go right ahead. Nevermind.

Steven Butala:
And eat nothing but pop tarts. Good luck, kid.

Jill DeWit:
Sit on the couch, buddy, but it's not going to be my couch. Good luck. Oh my gosh. Call somebody who cares.

Steven Butala:
I personally-

Jill DeWit:
That's awesome.

Steven Butala:
This is the truth of it. I don't want to mansplain anything.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, that's right, don't go all man on me.

Steven Butala:
I'm trying to micromanage what I say. Jill thinks in sound bites. The shorter, the better.

Jill DeWit:
That was not in the book by the way, about me and my personality, but I'm still learning. That's good.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how to Jillify a land transaction.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Would you like to man explain, mansplain?

Steven Butala:
I'm about to give you a bunch of compliments here.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/19/how-to-jill-ify-a-land-transaction-la-1463/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">qvNSRXp08</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:02:57 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/129bc51c-df93-419b-a701-e243ecddaaa1.mp3" length="15940315" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How and How Not to Review a Land Acquisition Deal (LA 1462)</title><itunes:title>How and How Not to Review a Land Acquisition Deal (LA 1462)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How and How Not to Review a Land Acquisition Deal (LA 1462)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
Oh, and I'm Jill...

Steven Butala:
What's going on?

Jill Dewitt:
I don't know. For some reason I was waiting, I was ready for what I was going to say after that I forgot about my name. I was focusing on what word do I want to use today? So I'm going to say, and I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sizzling, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
It's perfect weather right now though.

Jill Dewitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill Dewitt:
Isn't it funny when you live in some of these places, by the way, where the forecast doesn't change? I'm sure it's like that for some people in the winter, in some locations, like, "Well, and today's another cold one."

Steven Butala:
I moved to Arizona in 1994. And I can tell you very accurately that all the perceptions that people from Michigan have about Arizona and specifically Phoenix are completely incorrect. It's only old people live there, it's too hot all year round, you can't really, it's just so hot. None of those things are true at all.

Jill Dewitt:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
And there are 10 other ones, but some of them are really derogatory, so I'm not going to... I'll stop right there.

Jill Dewitt:
Okay. Cool. All right. I'm not sure how to say this name [Sitoboh 00:01:18] wrote. Thank you both for providing insightful answers and guidance on last evening's accountability group call. Following up now on one of the topics discussed, accounting as a land investor. Within that topic, you Steve had spoken about the importance of setting up separate bank accounts and to never co-mingling funds. Would welcoming the opportunity to continue discussion here and potentially receive further guidance on handling bank and funds and bank accounts in the land business, tracking expenses and related areas of accounting within reason since this could be an entire course that you believe are important to an entry to mid-level land investor. That's a lot.

Steven Butala:
This is posted on Discord and what ended up I answered it. And I'm going to answer the question here, but more importantly, what ended up happening is that we have a member who lives in Salt Lake City, who's a CPA and has his family practice in California, so he quote-unquote escaped California a lot of years ago, more than 10 years ago. Good for him. We just did too. And this became a massive topic. And now this guy, I'd plug his name if I could remember it, is taking on new clients and customers and setting up bank accounts and helping people in our group. This is my point about Discord. It just became this topic. Then it turned into, "Hey, you got to read this book." And then we all... Did you see it?

Jill Dewitt:
No no.

Steven Butala:
Then we all piped in like, "No, you got to read this book and you got to read this book." So my Amazon cart's full of books, that members are saying, you need to read and you need to think about it this way.

Jill Dewitt:
That's really cool.

Steven Butala:
Here's what you do. Wherever your personal bank account is right now, go on there and open another account. It takes seconds. In most cases, I know for Bank of America it just take seconds.

Jill Dewitt:
Like a sub-account kind of thing?

Steven Butala:
Yeah separate account. And go fund it put some amount of money in from the other account. Whenever Jill and I start new companies, I always put $10,000 in there. I don't know why. Sometimes it takes a lot more, sometimes it takes a lot less. And then every single expense you incur, get checks, order checks and a debit card, and it doesn't have to be in an LLC yet. What's important is it's separate.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How and How Not to Review a Land Acquisition Deal (LA 1462)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
Oh, and I'm Jill...

Steven Butala:
What's going on?

Jill Dewitt:
I don't know. For some reason I was waiting, I was ready for what I was going to say after that I forgot about my name. I was focusing on what word do I want to use today? So I'm going to say, and I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sizzling, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
It's perfect weather right now though.

Jill Dewitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill Dewitt:
Isn't it funny when you live in some of these places, by the way, where the forecast doesn't change? I'm sure it's like that for some people in the winter, in some locations, like, "Well, and today's another cold one."

Steven Butala:
I moved to Arizona in 1994. And I can tell you very accurately that all the perceptions that people from Michigan have about Arizona and specifically Phoenix are completely incorrect. It's only old people live there, it's too hot all year round, you can't really, it's just so hot. None of those things are true at all.

Jill Dewitt:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
And there are 10 other ones, but some of them are really derogatory, so I'm not going to... I'll stop right there.

Jill Dewitt:
Okay. Cool. All right. I'm not sure how to say this name [Sitoboh 00:01:18] wrote. Thank you both for providing insightful answers and guidance on last evening's accountability group call. Following up now on one of the topics discussed, accounting as a land investor. Within that topic, you Steve had spoken about the importance of setting up separate bank accounts and to never co-mingling funds. Would welcoming the opportunity to continue discussion here and potentially receive further guidance on handling bank and funds and bank accounts in the land business, tracking expenses and related areas of accounting within reason since this could be an entire course that you believe are important to an entry to mid-level land investor. That's a lot.

Steven Butala:
This is posted on Discord and what ended up I answered it. And I'm going to answer the question here, but more importantly, what ended up happening is that we have a member who lives in Salt Lake City, who's a CPA and has his family practice in California, so he quote-unquote escaped California a lot of years ago, more than 10 years ago. Good for him. We just did too. And this became a massive topic. And now this guy, I'd plug his name if I could remember it, is taking on new clients and customers and setting up bank accounts and helping people in our group. This is my point about Discord. It just became this topic. Then it turned into, "Hey, you got to read this book." And then we all... Did you see it?

Jill Dewitt:
No no.

Steven Butala:
Then we all piped in like, "No, you got to read this book and you got to read this book." So my Amazon cart's full of books, that members are saying, you need to read and you need to think about it this way.

Jill Dewitt:
That's really cool.

Steven Butala:
Here's what you do. Wherever your personal bank account is right now, go on there and open another account. It takes seconds. In most cases, I know for Bank of America it just take seconds.

Jill Dewitt:
Like a sub-account kind of thing?

Steven Butala:
Yeah separate account. And go fund it put some amount of money in from the other account. Whenever Jill and I start new companies, I always put $10,000 in there. I don't know why. Sometimes it takes a lot more, sometimes it takes a lot less. And then every single expense you incur, get checks, order checks and a debit card, and it doesn't have to be in an LLC yet. What's important is it's separate.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/18/how-and-how-not-to-review-a-land-acquisition-deal-la-1462/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">mkWr_5WU7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e2c80200-3c1e-4be3-88e3-355f9f28dc8a.mp3" length="18043975" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:26</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>5 Land Investing Tools We Can Not Live Without (LA 1461)</title><itunes:title>5 Land Investing Tools We Can Not Live Without (LA 1461)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[5 Land Investing Tools We Can Not Live Without (LA 1461)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the five land investing tools that we can't live without.

Jill DeWit:
Yes, this is going to be good. I have my list. Don't look.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Don't [inaudible 00:00:20].

Steven Butala:
Okay, good. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're a member, please join or participate in our strings on Discord. I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

Jill DeWit:
You're going to get immediate answers. I was telling someone about that the other day. I'm like, if you're struggling with anything.

Steven Butala:
Anything.

Jill DeWit:
And you're not taking advantage of the support that's there, you just got to throw a question and people will answer it.

Steven Butala:
Here's an example.

Jill DeWit:
That's kind of like, I can't help you with that. If you don't do it, don't ask.

Steven Butala:
I'm having trouble getting my first mailer out. I can't just pull the trigger. Can somebody please kick me in the butt? And everybody will sweep in, me included. I answer tons of questions in real time.

Jill DeWit:
That's good. Okay. Thomas wrote, I have sold many things online in the past and understand that there's no shortage of flaky people that call on items listed for sale.

Steven Butala:
We talked about this yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
I did not expect this with real estate though. I'm trying to sell my first two properties and I'm getting a steady flow of interested buyers, but all of them disappear after telling me how interested they are to buy. I'm now advertising on Craigslist and Zillow right now. The properties have good attributes, almost five acres each, and a price at half of what two and a half acre properties are. Is the issue my lack of reach in marketing or because they are desert properties where several others are being bought and sold?

Steven Butala:
This is [inaudible 00:01:45]. This is a classic. This is classic men mistake. I'm a man and I have made this mistake and sometimes make it to this day. You believe that the thing that you're selling is what matters. You believe that the mouse trap that you've built doesn't require any sales, and what really is happening here is, you're doing the first 60% of everything correct. And you're not doing the backend 40%. I would bet you a dollar that you are not having this conversations with these people and then saying, "Hey, what's your email address? I'll email you all the information right now, and included there is a link for you to put $500 down on the property so we can start the closing process, and somebody would buy it. That's all you need to do. It's not the posting is bad or the real estate's bad. It's the sales. It's the call to action closing part.

Jill DeWit:
We had someone on our staff who now is doing a different job, trying to help with this job for a while. And that's all they were doing. They thought they were just there to answer questions like customer service.

Steven Butala:
No.

Steven Butala:
I'm like, no, you've got to...

Jill DeWit:
You're there to sell it.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. You've got to do a little bit more than just answer the question and go, is that it? Okay, well, have a nice day. Click. Hello? What the heck? That's not what this is about. That's right. That's where it is. Okay, good. All right. Take care. No.

Steven Butala:
It's interesting, most real estate agents are like this too. They just don't... They just wait. Okay, thanks. No, you've got to send... You need to...

Jill DeWit:
Work. You've got to work a little bit.

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Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the five land investing tools that we can't live without.

Jill DeWit:
Yes, this is going to be good. I have my list. Don't look.

Steven Butala:
Okay.

Jill DeWit:
Don't [inaudible 00:00:20].

Steven Butala:
Okay, good. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free. And if you're a member, please join or participate in our strings on Discord. I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

Jill DeWit:
You're going to get immediate answers. I was telling someone about that the other day. I'm like, if you're struggling with anything.

Steven Butala:
Anything.

Jill DeWit:
And you're not taking advantage of the support that's there, you just got to throw a question and people will answer it.

Steven Butala:
Here's an example.

Jill DeWit:
That's kind of like, I can't help you with that. If you don't do it, don't ask.

Steven Butala:
I'm having trouble getting my first mailer out. I can't just pull the trigger. Can somebody please kick me in the butt? And everybody will sweep in, me included. I answer tons of questions in real time.

Jill DeWit:
That's good. Okay. Thomas wrote, I have sold many things online in the past and understand that there's no shortage of flaky people that call on items listed for sale.

Steven Butala:
We talked about this yesterday.

Jill DeWit:
I did not expect this with real estate though. I'm trying to sell my first two properties and I'm getting a steady flow of interested buyers, but all of them disappear after telling me how interested they are to buy. I'm now advertising on Craigslist and Zillow right now. The properties have good attributes, almost five acres each, and a price at half of what two and a half acre properties are. Is the issue my lack of reach in marketing or because they are desert properties where several others are being bought and sold?

Steven Butala:
This is [inaudible 00:01:45]. This is a classic. This is classic men mistake. I'm a man and I have made this mistake and sometimes make it to this day. You believe that the thing that you're selling is what matters. You believe that the mouse trap that you've built doesn't require any sales, and what really is happening here is, you're doing the first 60% of everything correct. And you're not doing the backend 40%. I would bet you a dollar that you are not having this conversations with these people and then saying, "Hey, what's your email address? I'll email you all the information right now, and included there is a link for you to put $500 down on the property so we can start the closing process, and somebody would buy it. That's all you need to do. It's not the posting is bad or the real estate's bad. It's the sales. It's the call to action closing part.

Jill DeWit:
We had someone on our staff who now is doing a different job, trying to help with this job for a while. And that's all they were doing. They thought they were just there to answer questions like customer service.

Steven Butala:
No.

Steven Butala:
I'm like, no, you've got to...

Jill DeWit:
You're there to sell it.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. You've got to do a little bit more than just answer the question and go, is that it? Okay, well, have a nice day. Click. Hello? What the heck? That's not what this is about. That's right. That's where it is. Okay, good. All right. Take care. No.

Steven Butala:
It's interesting, most real estate agents are like this too. They just don't... They just wait. Okay, thanks. No, you've got to send... You need to...

Jill DeWit:
Work. You've got to work a little bit.

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Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what makes a good land internet posting.

Jill Dewitt:
I have a good list here.

Steven Butala:
I will tell you the single best and most important thing about a good land internet posting is posting it.

Jill Dewitt:
Is it exists. So that's step one.

Steven Butala:
I made people buy property and they forget about the sales part. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member, please join Discord. It's becoming an irreplaceable, essential tool, in my opinion, for being a Land Academy member.

Jill Dewitt:
It's funny that though, I was talking to somebody about this recently, about posting property and you can't sell it if no one knows it's for sale. And then number two, I was mentioning using Discord as a way to get some quick feedback. If you want some feedback on your posting, throw it on Discord and everybody will [inaudible 00:01:09]. I said, "You put it on Discord and show what you've got going on there, trust me, you'll get 10 responses really fast about that's good, change this, whatever it is, you priced it wrong or whatever you need that..." Because everybody is so good on their [inaudible 00:01:24]. Okay, Andy wrote, "I understand that it means things can be built on it, but is this a legal designation or does it have something to do with soil utilities slope? Is there a good way to check for this and to get a good yes or no? Or is this something that is more of a gray area and it depends on the buyer's plan for the property? Thanks. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, y'all."

Steven Butala:
I failed to put the title of the posting and what Andy is asking is what is the definition of buildable? He goes on to say what Jill just said. I understand that it means things can be built on it, but is this a legal designation? This has long been a misunderstood phrase. Is it buildable? This is what buildable means. It's not a legal designation. What it means is this, in it's current state, and I mean grading and everything, when you walk straight up and stand on the property, you can either start construction that day from a stick-built house or structure, or you can put a mobile home on it, which means this, almost all property, almost without exception, it's not buildable in its current state. Stuff has to happen, whether it's grading or checking to see if utilities are available or creating utilities. In a lot of cases, you do a septic in a well situation.

Jill Dewitt:
Zoning. [crosstalk 00:02:46] things.

Steven Butala:
I see a lot of new people and when I was new, I did this. My lawyer called me and said, "You need to stop this right now." In fact, our teenager who's selling property online right now, just saw this happen. It said, "A buildable lot," in XYZ city and it's not buildable at all. You should never use that phrase. You should say things like... This is timely, too. This is actually good for this episode. In your internet posting you just don't want to use the word buildable. You probably can say, "Look, it probably needs, in my opinion, it needs this, this, this and this to make this property buildable." And it's very close. You know, maybe it just needs grading. Jill and I just bought a piece of property that all it needs is grading for it to be buildable.

Jill Dewitt:
What we do in our postings, like on LandPin and everything, it says, "Time limit to build," which is usually none. But you can talk about that. And you can talk about what's allowed there per the zoning. Maybe it allows mobiles. Maybe it allows RVs.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[What Makes a Good Land Internet Posting (LA 1460)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill Dewitt:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill Dewitt:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what makes a good land internet posting.

Jill Dewitt:
I have a good list here.

Steven Butala:
I will tell you the single best and most important thing about a good land internet posting is posting it.

Jill Dewitt:
Is it exists. So that's step one.

Steven Butala:
I made people buy property and they forget about the sales part. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member, please join Discord. It's becoming an irreplaceable, essential tool, in my opinion, for being a Land Academy member.

Jill Dewitt:
It's funny that though, I was talking to somebody about this recently, about posting property and you can't sell it if no one knows it's for sale. And then number two, I was mentioning using Discord as a way to get some quick feedback. If you want some feedback on your posting, throw it on Discord and everybody will [inaudible 00:01:09]. I said, "You put it on Discord and show what you've got going on there, trust me, you'll get 10 responses really fast about that's good, change this, whatever it is, you priced it wrong or whatever you need that..." Because everybody is so good on their [inaudible 00:01:24]. Okay, Andy wrote, "I understand that it means things can be built on it, but is this a legal designation or does it have something to do with soil utilities slope? Is there a good way to check for this and to get a good yes or no? Or is this something that is more of a gray area and it depends on the buyer's plan for the property? Thanks. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, y'all."

Steven Butala:
I failed to put the title of the posting and what Andy is asking is what is the definition of buildable? He goes on to say what Jill just said. I understand that it means things can be built on it, but is this a legal designation? This has long been a misunderstood phrase. Is it buildable? This is what buildable means. It's not a legal designation. What it means is this, in it's current state, and I mean grading and everything, when you walk straight up and stand on the property, you can either start construction that day from a stick-built house or structure, or you can put a mobile home on it, which means this, almost all property, almost without exception, it's not buildable in its current state. Stuff has to happen, whether it's grading or checking to see if utilities are available or creating utilities. In a lot of cases, you do a septic in a well situation.

Jill Dewitt:
Zoning. [crosstalk 00:02:46] things.

Steven Butala:
I see a lot of new people and when I was new, I did this. My lawyer called me and said, "You need to stop this right now." In fact, our teenager who's selling property online right now, just saw this happen. It said, "A buildable lot," in XYZ city and it's not buildable at all. You should never use that phrase. You should say things like... This is timely, too. This is actually good for this episode. In your internet posting you just don't want to use the word buildable. You probably can say, "Look, it probably needs, in my opinion, it needs this, this, this and this to make this property buildable." And it's very close. You know, maybe it just needs grading. Jill and I just bought a piece of property that all it needs is grading for it to be buildable.

Jill Dewitt:
What we do in our postings, like on LandPin and everything, it says, "Time limit to build," which is usually none. But you can talk about that. And you can talk about what's allowed there per the zoning. Maybe it allows mobiles. Maybe it allows RVs.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/16/what-makes-a-good-land-internet-posting-la-1460/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">sXA1E9lyL</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/91703f38-b179-4f6f-a96f-a75f922fc74e.mp3" length="16627378" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mistakes We Have Made in Land Investing (LA 1459)</title><itunes:title>Mistakes We Have Made in Land Investing (LA 1459)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Mistakes We Have Made in Land Investing (LA 1459)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the LandAcademy show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the mistakes we've made in land investing. And man, I have made some great-

Jill DeWit:
This ought to be funny.

Steven Butala:
Biblical mistakes. You know what? I bet my mistakes are way bigger than yours.

Jill DeWit:
You know, it's funny, I have one catastrophic mistake that we make all the time, seriously. And then I have mistakes that I've just talked to people recently about, and I will share those too.

Steven Butala:
Excellent. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com forum. If you're already a LandAcademy member, please make sure you check us out on Discord, one of my favorite tools actually.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Yeah. There's two places. So you can go on landinvestors.com and chat with everybody. That's free, you don't have to be a member. Or the Discord thing he's talking about, is for members, and that's super special and fun and fast.

Steven Butala:
It's my new favorite tool.

Jill DeWit:
It's hilarious. Okay. Levi wrote, "Hi everyone. They're still in escrow now, so I don't want to count my chickens too soon, but I just snagged my first two big time deals. They'll both end up being about $15,000 to acquire, and I think they're worth about $100,000 each, retail."

Steven Butala:
That's why we're here.

Jill DeWit:
Holy moly. "I will probably list them at 65 ish."

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
No, no. Let Levi go. Let him go. I'm going to share, it ties in today. "And move them quickly. They're both partner funded and it's also my first time doing that as well, working with an old childhood friend."

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
"Cross your fingers for me because if the spread works out the way I think, that'll be the most money I've ever seen in one place in my life." Aww.

Steven Butala:
That's a great story.

Jill DeWit:
That ties into the show too.

Steven Butala:
And you're never going to get rid of that childhood friend when they get a check, they're going to be standing at your door.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. So here's one of the mistakes I'll give it. It's a prelude and it ties into what Levi just said, and it's a prelude to the show today. People often go in and retail price, and then they sit there and wonder why it doesn't sell. Well, congratulations, because you're retail price, you're one of however many there are in there. You got to stand out somehow, and it's usually price. It's price and reach, that's the whole point here.

Steven Butala:
It does tap right into the show.

Jill DeWit:
And you're going to totally, Levi's going to way double his money. If he wanted to move them for 35... What's funny is Levi's getting into the territory where if you price things too cheap, that you just try to really double your money and move on. Now it's priced too cheap and people think there's something wrong with it, and that's the funniest thing.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, the good news is that there's two. So I think you have the opportunity when you have two APNs like this, or more, to sell the first one at 40,000 and sell the second one at 100. So you recoup all your money, you get another mailer out, and you let the better of the two properties just mark it up. And if it's really, truly worth 100, sell it for 90.

Jill DeWit:
Not what I do, but that's okay. I like Levi's read too, both at 65 because they're worth 100 each and then let them go.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, mistakes we've made in land investing. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
We obviously see differently about these things, and there's nothing wrong-

Steven Butala:
No, I was just moving if forward because we're really...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Mistakes We Have Made in Land Investing (LA 1459)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the LandAcademy show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the mistakes we've made in land investing. And man, I have made some great-

Jill DeWit:
This ought to be funny.

Steven Butala:
Biblical mistakes. You know what? I bet my mistakes are way bigger than yours.

Jill DeWit:
You know, it's funny, I have one catastrophic mistake that we make all the time, seriously. And then I have mistakes that I've just talked to people recently about, and I will share those too.

Steven Butala:
Excellent. Before we get into it though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com forum. If you're already a LandAcademy member, please make sure you check us out on Discord, one of my favorite tools actually.

Jill DeWit:
Cool. Yeah. There's two places. So you can go on landinvestors.com and chat with everybody. That's free, you don't have to be a member. Or the Discord thing he's talking about, is for members, and that's super special and fun and fast.

Steven Butala:
It's my new favorite tool.

Jill DeWit:
It's hilarious. Okay. Levi wrote, "Hi everyone. They're still in escrow now, so I don't want to count my chickens too soon, but I just snagged my first two big time deals. They'll both end up being about $15,000 to acquire, and I think they're worth about $100,000 each, retail."

Steven Butala:
That's why we're here.

Jill DeWit:
Holy moly. "I will probably list them at 65 ish."

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
No, no. Let Levi go. Let him go. I'm going to share, it ties in today. "And move them quickly. They're both partner funded and it's also my first time doing that as well, working with an old childhood friend."

Steven Butala:
Excellent.

Jill DeWit:
"Cross your fingers for me because if the spread works out the way I think, that'll be the most money I've ever seen in one place in my life." Aww.

Steven Butala:
That's a great story.

Jill DeWit:
That ties into the show too.

Steven Butala:
And you're never going to get rid of that childhood friend when they get a check, they're going to be standing at your door.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. So here's one of the mistakes I'll give it. It's a prelude and it ties into what Levi just said, and it's a prelude to the show today. People often go in and retail price, and then they sit there and wonder why it doesn't sell. Well, congratulations, because you're retail price, you're one of however many there are in there. You got to stand out somehow, and it's usually price. It's price and reach, that's the whole point here.

Steven Butala:
It does tap right into the show.

Jill DeWit:
And you're going to totally, Levi's going to way double his money. If he wanted to move them for 35... What's funny is Levi's getting into the territory where if you price things too cheap, that you just try to really double your money and move on. Now it's priced too cheap and people think there's something wrong with it, and that's the funniest thing.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, the good news is that there's two. So I think you have the opportunity when you have two APNs like this, or more, to sell the first one at 40,000 and sell the second one at 100. So you recoup all your money, you get another mailer out, and you let the better of the two properties just mark it up. And if it's really, truly worth 100, sell it for 90.

Jill DeWit:
Not what I do, but that's okay. I like Levi's read too, both at 65 because they're worth 100 each and then let them go.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, mistakes we've made in land investing. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
We obviously see differently about these things, and there's nothing wrong-

Steven Butala:
No, I was just moving if forward because we're really...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/15/mistakes-we-have-made-in-land-investing-la-1459/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iAmzpLyY5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:06:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/57b5eeaa-0620-4f18-a511-2a74233537f1.mp3" length="19553075" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Becoming an Influencer by Jill DeWit (LA 1458)</title><itunes:title>Becoming an Influencer by Jill DeWit (LA 1458)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Becoming an Influencer by Jill DeWit (LA 1458)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Hey Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Want to see why we're laughing?

Steven Butala:
I just looked at Jill's notes and she wrote down this word, quesadilla. And we both just burst out laughing. I've never met anyone who writes down in their notes what they want to eat for lunch.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. That's right. It just sounded good, didn't want to forget. So I wrote it down.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Becoming an Influencer, by Jill DeWit. I said this story yesterday, I'll say it again. A couple of weeks ago, we were standing in the kitchen and our number three kid, who's a late teenager said, ended a sentence with this, "Because, like, you guys are influencers on the internet." Both of us stopped and said, I had never thought of myself as an influencer. And he looked at us like, "People a lot less than you are influencers." I guess this is show 1500 or something.

Jill DeWit:
1458.

Steven Butala:
1458, so I guess we do have a lot of content out there and we are in our little land flipping niche, somewhat of a authority, but Jill's becoming more and more of an influencer, especially on Clubhouse.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
And what's happening is that, this is the reason I really wrote this title, more and more and more people are asking Jill to share and teach, really, how to handle these people on the phone. How to handle a seller on the phone, how to handle a buyer on the phone, basically how to have a personality to do this stuff more successfully. And I'll tell you what, she's a thousand times more qualified on this topic than I am. The second that Jill and I joined forces, I never picked up a phone again. I couldn't do it fast enough and more happily.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks, babe.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discard.

Jill DeWit:
Scott wrote, "Hello, Land Academy folks. I am putting the final touches on my first mailer, targeting properties between 5 and 20 acres, recreational land. I have done all the requisite research like the red, yellow, green test, etc. So I feel good about my county selection. However, I would like to send at least 2,500 pieces for my first mailer, but my chosen county has only just over 1400 records that meet my criteria. The neighboring counties don't seem strong candidates to add to my mailer in order to get to my target 2,500 units"-

Steven Butala:
Excellent. Excellent question.

Jill DeWit:
..."so, here's my questions. Should I just go with the 1400 units in my selected county?"

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
"Should I add another county in the same state, but not neighboring, maybe an hour away? Or should I add another strong candidate from a county from another state? Thanks in advance."

Steven Butala:
Strong candidate from another state. This does two things. It gets you to that 2,500. Thank you for listening by the way, because we always recommend in the beginning to send out a bunch. 2,500 is good. Two things, add another super strong candidate from another state. This accomplishes diversity too, a diversification. So on a small chance that something weird is going on and there's a bunch of weird gas leases or something... One time I sent a mailer out in New Mexico and there's all these natural gas leases that stopped us from doing any deals there. So this will make you avoid that, and it's kind of an extra insurance policy. Diversification is always good in any type of investment.

Steven Butala:
And number two, it gets you to that 2,500 unit mark. And then, finally,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Becoming an Influencer by Jill DeWit (LA 1458)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Hey Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Want to see why we're laughing?

Steven Butala:
I just looked at Jill's notes and she wrote down this word, quesadilla. And we both just burst out laughing. I've never met anyone who writes down in their notes what they want to eat for lunch.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. That's right. It just sounded good, didn't want to forget. So I wrote it down.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about Becoming an Influencer, by Jill DeWit. I said this story yesterday, I'll say it again. A couple of weeks ago, we were standing in the kitchen and our number three kid, who's a late teenager said, ended a sentence with this, "Because, like, you guys are influencers on the internet." Both of us stopped and said, I had never thought of myself as an influencer. And he looked at us like, "People a lot less than you are influencers." I guess this is show 1500 or something.

Jill DeWit:
1458.

Steven Butala:
1458, so I guess we do have a lot of content out there and we are in our little land flipping niche, somewhat of a authority, but Jill's becoming more and more of an influencer, especially on Clubhouse.

Jill DeWit:
Thank you.

Steven Butala:
And what's happening is that, this is the reason I really wrote this title, more and more and more people are asking Jill to share and teach, really, how to handle these people on the phone. How to handle a seller on the phone, how to handle a buyer on the phone, basically how to have a personality to do this stuff more successfully. And I'll tell you what, she's a thousand times more qualified on this topic than I am. The second that Jill and I joined forces, I never picked up a phone again. I couldn't do it fast enough and more happily.

Jill DeWit:
Thanks, babe.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discard.

Jill DeWit:
Scott wrote, "Hello, Land Academy folks. I am putting the final touches on my first mailer, targeting properties between 5 and 20 acres, recreational land. I have done all the requisite research like the red, yellow, green test, etc. So I feel good about my county selection. However, I would like to send at least 2,500 pieces for my first mailer, but my chosen county has only just over 1400 records that meet my criteria. The neighboring counties don't seem strong candidates to add to my mailer in order to get to my target 2,500 units"-

Steven Butala:
Excellent. Excellent question.

Jill DeWit:
..."so, here's my questions. Should I just go with the 1400 units in my selected county?"

Steven Butala:
No.

Jill DeWit:
"Should I add another county in the same state, but not neighboring, maybe an hour away? Or should I add another strong candidate from a county from another state? Thanks in advance."

Steven Butala:
Strong candidate from another state. This does two things. It gets you to that 2,500. Thank you for listening by the way, because we always recommend in the beginning to send out a bunch. 2,500 is good. Two things, add another super strong candidate from another state. This accomplishes diversity too, a diversification. So on a small chance that something weird is going on and there's a bunch of weird gas leases or something... One time I sent a mailer out in New Mexico and there's all these natural gas leases that stopped us from doing any deals there. So this will make you avoid that, and it's kind of an extra insurance policy. Diversification is always good in any type of investment.

Steven Butala:
And number two, it gets you to that 2,500 unit mark. And then, finally,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/12/becoming-an-influencer-by-jill-dewit-la-1458/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">oxDqPvZi-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0efa568a-1f9b-43cb-b9e8-d16e00d6aa4f.mp3" length="16328159" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How much Available Investment Capital is Really in Land Academy Group (LA 1457)</title><itunes:title>How much Available Investment Capital is Really in Land Academy Group (LA 1457)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How much Available Investment Capital is Really in Land Academy Group (LA 1457)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today jill and I talk about how much available investment capital is really in this Land Academy group of ours. Lots.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, that we know of, by the way.

Steven Butala:
I would actually say it's limitless for the right deals.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
It's limitless for great real estate deal.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it...

Jill DeWit:
Well now you've answered the whole... did the whole show.

Steven Butala:
That is pretty much... you don't need to listen...

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
...to the rest if you...

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
...don't want to.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members, LandInvestors.com. Our online community, it's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Wouldn't it be funny. So did you hear the show yesterday? Yeah, it was three minutes long.

Steven Butala:
We should do that one time. See what people say.

Jill DeWit:
That would be funny. They would... I think they would think that's cute. Okay. So Chip wrote, "Hi land investors. I'm prepping for a mailer for large tracts of land that I will flip to a network of developers who focus on low density, large acreage land developments."

Steven Butala:
I love that.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Low density, large acreage land developments are my favorite.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative) everybody wants that.

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Does anyone have a template for a non-circumvent non-disclosure agreement.

Steven Butala:
An NDA.

Jill DeWit:
Right, or whatever it might be called. There you go. "The price point of these properties will be beyond my capabilities and quite a bit larger than many of the deals done within the group."

Steven Butala:
Well, this is a perfect question for this topic. Go ahead Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Gee, imagine how that happened.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
Honestly, it was just pure luck.

Jill DeWit:
Oh okay. "My plan is to either do a simultaneous close or simply sign the contract to the end, excuse me, end buyer. These developers form a new LLC for each land track," which is kind of normal for that. "My concern is that when I present these deals to the buyer, they or partner of theirs will go around me and directly to the seller and then steal slash kill the deal for me. Does anyone have any suggestions or a template document that I could use for some level of protection?" You want to go?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, this has happened to me, and it's going to happen to you. So you just have to accept that. Ask them for an NDA, because if they are big developers and they're very experienced and it sounds like they are because they're doing a new LLC for every deal, they're going to have one. And so especially they're going to have one, if they give it to you and you ask them to sign it and they say no, it's like, why do they have have it. They make other people do it.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
So it's not so much... I would actually get their NDA and then I would look out on the internet. I used to, when I was buying and selling long-term care facilities and brokering them, I would make them sign an open-ended agreement that says, look, you're going to pay me 2% of the transaction value of any deal I bring to you and I'm going to register each deal and you're going to sign it.

Steven Butala:
You're going to sign it. When I bring you the deal, you're going to sign that. Then you're going to pay me. After a while, they stop...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How much Available Investment Capital is Really in Land Academy Group (LA 1457)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today jill and I talk about how much available investment capital is really in this Land Academy group of ours. Lots.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, that we know of, by the way.

Steven Butala:
I would actually say it's limitless for the right deals.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
It's limitless for great real estate deal.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it...

Jill DeWit:
Well now you've answered the whole... did the whole show.

Steven Butala:
That is pretty much... you don't need to listen...

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
...to the rest if you...

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
...don't want to.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members, LandInvestors.com. Our online community, it's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on discord.

Jill DeWit:
Wouldn't it be funny. So did you hear the show yesterday? Yeah, it was three minutes long.

Steven Butala:
We should do that one time. See what people say.

Jill DeWit:
That would be funny. They would... I think they would think that's cute. Okay. So Chip wrote, "Hi land investors. I'm prepping for a mailer for large tracts of land that I will flip to a network of developers who focus on low density, large acreage land developments."

Steven Butala:
I love that.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Low density, large acreage land developments are my favorite.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative) everybody wants that.

Steven Butala:
Yes.

Jill DeWit:
Does anyone have a template for a non-circumvent non-disclosure agreement.

Steven Butala:
An NDA.

Jill DeWit:
Right, or whatever it might be called. There you go. "The price point of these properties will be beyond my capabilities and quite a bit larger than many of the deals done within the group."

Steven Butala:
Well, this is a perfect question for this topic. Go ahead Jill.

Jill DeWit:
Gee, imagine how that happened.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
Honestly, it was just pure luck.

Jill DeWit:
Oh okay. "My plan is to either do a simultaneous close or simply sign the contract to the end, excuse me, end buyer. These developers form a new LLC for each land track," which is kind of normal for that. "My concern is that when I present these deals to the buyer, they or partner of theirs will go around me and directly to the seller and then steal slash kill the deal for me. Does anyone have any suggestions or a template document that I could use for some level of protection?" You want to go?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, this has happened to me, and it's going to happen to you. So you just have to accept that. Ask them for an NDA, because if they are big developers and they're very experienced and it sounds like they are because they're doing a new LLC for every deal, they're going to have one. And so especially they're going to have one, if they give it to you and you ask them to sign it and they say no, it's like, why do they have have it. They make other people do it.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
So it's not so much... I would actually get their NDA and then I would look out on the internet. I used to, when I was buying and selling long-term care facilities and brokering them, I would make them sign an open-ended agreement that says, look, you're going to pay me 2% of the transaction value of any deal I bring to you and I'm going to register each deal and you're going to sign it.

Steven Butala:
You're going to sign it. When I bring you the deal, you're going to sign that. Then you're going to pay me. After a while, they stop...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/11/how-much-available-investment-capital-is-really-in-land-academy-group-la-1457/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">7DK6FNZ0h</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/45ab4aed-25ae-46f9-bdb3-4a9df9386285.mp3" length="17610299" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Breakdown of How to Hire Staff (LA 1456)</title><itunes:title>Breakdown of How to Hire Staff (LA 1456)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Breakdown of How to Hire Staff (LA 1456)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the breakdown of how to hire staff. Super, super popular topic with our customer service people and on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know why this makes me so happy?

Steven Butala:
Tell me.

Jill DeWit:
Because that means so many people are doing it right, and they're getting busy, and they need help.

Steven Butala:
Oh, sure. Right, I didn't think of that.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. If you're not thinking about hiring, you're not doing any volume. You're not busy, you're doing just fine. But this many people, this is such a hot topic right now. And I'm like, "Oh, it's going great for a lot of people."

Steven Butala:
This is the single most challenging thing in my career, is hiring people. And fortunately, now we've got staff now to hire other staff. And they're very, very good at it, much better than I ever was. Steve jobs said one time, if you do everything right in your career, at some point you will end up being a recruiter. And I think that's really telling.

Jill DeWit:
I love that. I agree.

Steven Butala:
We actually just recently put up a webpage on all of our sites about careers and our help wanted.

Jill DeWit:
I hoped it's to the public now. It's on landinvestors.com. If you go to the top and look at jobs there. And it's not just us, we have our own jobs posted, and it's a place for you as a member to for free post your jobs.

Steven Butala:
Does anybody use it?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, there's actually other people on there.

Steven Butala:
That's great.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Totally.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Rachel wrote, "Hi all, I'm looking to join a mastermind group where I can contribute and continue growing as a land investor. Are there any groups willing to open the doors for one more? I can be reached here and we can also connect on Discord." Thank you for any consideration, Rachel. First I was going to say, Rachel, you're on discord, so you're a member. I hope you're in the Land Academy ladies group. So definitely join there, because we have people from, oh boy, all levels.

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you, that's free, and these women are doing deals together. Jill's a ringleader. And it's worked out. A lot of times you start these products and they just don't work. I don't know, three out of 10 maybe. This thing worked, this lady's group, they're kicking it.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It's awesome, and it's fun.

Steven Butala:
Here's the thing, we've got the regular Land Academy, we've got Land Investors, we've got discord, we have Jill's ladies group, we have the accountability group. This is a closed group, we have to cap it. Then it's very, very popular, and it's hard to get into. Reach out to service@landacademy.com. Jill and I are doing it presently, we're going to get other people to get involved, other members who've shown interest in teaching. And it doesn't cost anything, at the moment anyway, but it's hard to get into. I was actually considering doing two, so we'll see what happens. We have tons and tons of people trying to sign up for it. And then ultimately, we just started Career Path.

Jill DeWit:
It just recently launched by the way. What day are we airing.... This is Wednesday.

Steven Butala:
It's April 4th.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, yeah.

Steven Butala:
When it starts. Land Academy Career Path is a paid-for 15 person cap, Jill and I'll teach the class. And at the end of it, you'll be selling the real estate you bought during the class.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Breakdown of How to Hire Staff (LA 1456)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the breakdown of how to hire staff. Super, super popular topic with our customer service people and on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Do you know why this makes me so happy?

Steven Butala:
Tell me.

Jill DeWit:
Because that means so many people are doing it right, and they're getting busy, and they need help.

Steven Butala:
Oh, sure. Right, I didn't think of that.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. If you're not thinking about hiring, you're not doing any volume. You're not busy, you're doing just fine. But this many people, this is such a hot topic right now. And I'm like, "Oh, it's going great for a lot of people."

Steven Butala:
This is the single most challenging thing in my career, is hiring people. And fortunately, now we've got staff now to hire other staff. And they're very, very good at it, much better than I ever was. Steve jobs said one time, if you do everything right in your career, at some point you will end up being a recruiter. And I think that's really telling.

Jill DeWit:
I love that. I agree.

Steven Butala:
We actually just recently put up a webpage on all of our sites about careers and our help wanted.

Jill DeWit:
I hoped it's to the public now. It's on landinvestors.com. If you go to the top and look at jobs there. And it's not just us, we have our own jobs posted, and it's a place for you as a member to for free post your jobs.

Steven Butala:
Does anybody use it?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, there's actually other people on there.

Steven Butala:
That's great.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Totally.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Rachel wrote, "Hi all, I'm looking to join a mastermind group where I can contribute and continue growing as a land investor. Are there any groups willing to open the doors for one more? I can be reached here and we can also connect on Discord." Thank you for any consideration, Rachel. First I was going to say, Rachel, you're on discord, so you're a member. I hope you're in the Land Academy ladies group. So definitely join there, because we have people from, oh boy, all levels.

Steven Butala:
I'll tell you, that's free, and these women are doing deals together. Jill's a ringleader. And it's worked out. A lot of times you start these products and they just don't work. I don't know, three out of 10 maybe. This thing worked, this lady's group, they're kicking it.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It's awesome, and it's fun.

Steven Butala:
Here's the thing, we've got the regular Land Academy, we've got Land Investors, we've got discord, we have Jill's ladies group, we have the accountability group. This is a closed group, we have to cap it. Then it's very, very popular, and it's hard to get into. Reach out to service@landacademy.com. Jill and I are doing it presently, we're going to get other people to get involved, other members who've shown interest in teaching. And it doesn't cost anything, at the moment anyway, but it's hard to get into. I was actually considering doing two, so we'll see what happens. We have tons and tons of people trying to sign up for it. And then ultimately, we just started Career Path.

Jill DeWit:
It just recently launched by the way. What day are we airing.... This is Wednesday.

Steven Butala:
It's April 4th.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, yeah.

Steven Butala:
When it starts. Land Academy Career Path is a paid-for 15 person cap, Jill and I'll teach the class. And at the end of it, you'll be selling the real estate you bought during the class.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/10/breakdown-of-how-to-hire-staff-la-1456/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1E25oqLU5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:05:23 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b53b1ba1-c599-4f84-af50-5a680f193b93.mp3" length="20424455" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Self-Discipline 101 (LA 1455)</title><itunes:title>Self-Discipline 101 (LA 1455)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Self-Discipline 101 (LA 1455)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Oh, that's better.

Jill DeWit:
I don't know. It just came off, just came out.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about self discipline 101. It is not something you're born with. People think that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I have a ton of it. I'm happy to share. Just kidding. Could you imagine?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, we'll use ourselves [crosstalk 00:00:27]. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
It's free.

Jill DeWit:
You know.

Steven Butala:
If you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'm commonly going, "No, just put down the cookie. I got this."

Steven Butala:
This is exactly what happened a half hour ago.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Jill, will you please turn your phone off.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
We need to record these shows. Because you're going to California tomorrow. We're not going to be in the same room. To her credit, she can't put her phone down because we've got a very successful mailer going on right now.

Jill DeWit:
It's so [inaudible 00:01:03].

Steven Butala:
And she's like, "Listen man, you want to make money buying real estate today? Or do you want to record shows today?"

Steven Butala:
And I said, "We need to record these shows." So you're going to have like, 10 deals when we're done.

Jill DeWit:
I know, the mail's hitting, and it's awesome.

Steven Butala:
It is. We got three properties out of this mailer already, and they're ...

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative), phenomenal.

Steven Butala:
We'll make six digits on each of them. And I bet, there's probably like, 10 more.

Jill DeWit:
And nobody's mad. I'm really going to up my game, by the way. Side note, we're totally off topic.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
But I'm working on more content and to help everyone, because as time goes on, I'm getting better. And I can really help everyone here with these phone calls coming in. And winning them over in just a few sentences so they want to sell to you, and they're not mad.

Steven Butala:
Here's what I did on this mailer. It's a very low volume mailer, about a thousand units-ish. But I went in at about 60 to 80 percent of the retail value, because I know the area very, very well. And I know that ... I was just explaining this to somebody on Discord. I know how fast they're going to sell.

Steven Butala:
So think of it in houses, from a housing standpoint. If you live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of similar houses, and three of your neighbors sold like kind houses really recently for 300,000 dollars, would you pay 250,000 for the house across the street?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Absolutely. And that's a pretty high percentage. That's 70, that's 85 percent of retail value.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Because you know you're going to sell it really fast. And you know the neighborhood, and you know the whole thing. So, people were pretty surprised that I was talking about this on Discord, because there's always somebody in the group that says, "Oh my gosh, you've been telling us for two years just to do it at 25 percent." I said, "You know what? It's not engraved in stone."

Jill DeWit:
I know, it's true.

Steven Butala:
Going into a new market like we are still buying property from an old mailer.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). I got a couple [crosstalk 00:03:01].

Steven Butala:
We went in at 20 percent on that, and she's still buying property.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. All right, Jason wrote, "I have an accepted offer on a parcel in Blank County.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Self-Discipline 101 (LA 1455)



Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Oh, that's better.

Jill DeWit:
I don't know. It just came off, just came out.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about self discipline 101. It is not something you're born with. People think that.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I have a ton of it. I'm happy to share. Just kidding. Could you imagine?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, we'll use ourselves [crosstalk 00:00:27]. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
It's free.

Jill DeWit:
You know.

Steven Butala:
If you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I'm commonly going, "No, just put down the cookie. I got this."

Steven Butala:
This is exactly what happened a half hour ago.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven Butala:
Jill, will you please turn your phone off.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, yeah.

Steven Butala:
We need to record these shows. Because you're going to California tomorrow. We're not going to be in the same room. To her credit, she can't put her phone down because we've got a very successful mailer going on right now.

Jill DeWit:
It's so [inaudible 00:01:03].

Steven Butala:
And she's like, "Listen man, you want to make money buying real estate today? Or do you want to record shows today?"

Steven Butala:
And I said, "We need to record these shows." So you're going to have like, 10 deals when we're done.

Jill DeWit:
I know, the mail's hitting, and it's awesome.

Steven Butala:
It is. We got three properties out of this mailer already, and they're ...

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative), phenomenal.

Steven Butala:
We'll make six digits on each of them. And I bet, there's probably like, 10 more.

Jill DeWit:
And nobody's mad. I'm really going to up my game, by the way. Side note, we're totally off topic.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
But I'm working on more content and to help everyone, because as time goes on, I'm getting better. And I can really help everyone here with these phone calls coming in. And winning them over in just a few sentences so they want to sell to you, and they're not mad.

Steven Butala:
Here's what I did on this mailer. It's a very low volume mailer, about a thousand units-ish. But I went in at about 60 to 80 percent of the retail value, because I know the area very, very well. And I know that ... I was just explaining this to somebody on Discord. I know how fast they're going to sell.

Steven Butala:
So think of it in houses, from a housing standpoint. If you live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of similar houses, and three of your neighbors sold like kind houses really recently for 300,000 dollars, would you pay 250,000 for the house across the street?

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Absolutely. And that's a pretty high percentage. That's 70, that's 85 percent of retail value.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Because you know you're going to sell it really fast. And you know the neighborhood, and you know the whole thing. So, people were pretty surprised that I was talking about this on Discord, because there's always somebody in the group that says, "Oh my gosh, you've been telling us for two years just to do it at 25 percent." I said, "You know what? It's not engraved in stone."

Jill DeWit:
I know, it's true.

Steven Butala:
Going into a new market like we are still buying property from an old mailer.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). I got a couple [crosstalk 00:03:01].

Steven Butala:
We went in at 20 percent on that, and she's still buying property.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. All right, Jason wrote, "I have an accepted offer on a parcel in Blank County.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/09/self-discipline-101-la-1455/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">SOKN1deYN</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ad27eb6a-8829-4284-9b04-dbce99408243.mp3" length="21225355" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Your Income Directly Correlates to the Amount of Mailers You Send (LA 1454)</title><itunes:title>Your Income Directly Correlates to the Amount of Mailers You Send (LA 1454)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Your Income Directly Correlates to the Amount of Mailers You Send (LA 1454)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from sunny Southern Scottsdale. I have to figure this out. I feel so bad. I'm so sorry. I need to have a good [crosstalk 00:00:17]

Steven Butala:
It's not your fault if we change the script.

Jill DeWit:
Well, you know what, I'm not sure that sits well with me. It's not like it's not sunny and it's not like we're in Southern Scottsdale, but it's like, I need something a little catchier. So we got to work on that.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about your income is directly correlated with the amount of mailers you send. I got this topic from Discord. If you're in our group, you know all about Discord. We recently maybe a couple months ago set up, our staff set up a Discord account so we can in real time communicate with each other and ask questions. And somebody was talking about how much mailers they sent and it was a very small number. It was like 200 mailers a week.

Jill DeWit:
How are you going to make money off that?

Steven Butala:
I can tell you exactly where-

Jill DeWit:
How that's going to go.

Steven Butala:
Well, that person came from the land gig because that's he teaches that. He teaches, you and your family sit around the kitchen table at night and do about-

Jill DeWit:
Lick stamps.

Steven Butala:
20 letters every day. And that may work eventually. But why wouldn't you just send out 5,000 letters?

Jill DeWit:
I know. All I can think of is the, well, we'll talk about it, the yield and you're scrambling for a deal.

Steven Butala:
Plus the COVID might be on those stamps.

Jill DeWit:
There is that, too.

Steven Butala:
And what your kids licking that stuff. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And by the way, if you're a Land Academy member, you can also find us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sounds like we get money from Discord, but we don't.

Steven Butala:
I love Discord. That's why I keep plugging it.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
We have no financial affiliation, but I just, I love the, " Hey Jack, would you do this deal?" And it's like, bang, bang, bang. It's very quick. I just reviewed somebody in our group who's brand new. They did the Craigslist thing and the ebook. And they came up with 80 acres in downtown Sacramento and I priced it at about 10 million for each property. And which was a perfect pricing because I then, about 20 minutes later, found out it was listed on LoopNet commercial property. It's being used as agriculture, but it's a subdivision waiting to happen. And that they're listed for 22 million each. So I was right. At 10 million, we would've would've done okay.

Jill DeWit:
So what happened?

Steven Butala:
Well, it was already listed for 20 million.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, they can't still... They don't have an agreement.

Steven Butala:
This person and she did the right thing. She's just brand spanking new. She's doing the Craigslist thing. She just like, I tell everybody go on Craigslist, type this in.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, so someone said I want to sell.

Steven Butala:
The owner did.

Jill DeWit:
And she said, "I'll offer you 10." And they're like, ha ha.

Steven Butala:
He said I can live with 16. And so she reached out to me on Discord and said, "I don't usually reach out to you, but I'm brand new at this. And this is a $16 million deal. And you might want to look at it."

Jill DeWit:
You know, well, here's the reality is you can buy it for 16. Then you sell it for 17. You made a million. It really does make sense but-

Steven Butala:
Well, here's the, I'm just down on California's real estate market right now. But that's the truth. But and here's how it ended. I said, "We just do not ever,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Your Income Directly Correlates to the Amount of Mailers You Send (LA 1454)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from sunny Southern Scottsdale. I have to figure this out. I feel so bad. I'm so sorry. I need to have a good [crosstalk 00:00:17]

Steven Butala:
It's not your fault if we change the script.

Jill DeWit:
Well, you know what, I'm not sure that sits well with me. It's not like it's not sunny and it's not like we're in Southern Scottsdale, but it's like, I need something a little catchier. So we got to work on that.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about your income is directly correlated with the amount of mailers you send. I got this topic from Discord. If you're in our group, you know all about Discord. We recently maybe a couple months ago set up, our staff set up a Discord account so we can in real time communicate with each other and ask questions. And somebody was talking about how much mailers they sent and it was a very small number. It was like 200 mailers a week.

Jill DeWit:
How are you going to make money off that?

Steven Butala:
I can tell you exactly where-

Jill DeWit:
How that's going to go.

Steven Butala:
Well, that person came from the land gig because that's he teaches that. He teaches, you and your family sit around the kitchen table at night and do about-

Jill DeWit:
Lick stamps.

Steven Butala:
20 letters every day. And that may work eventually. But why wouldn't you just send out 5,000 letters?

Jill DeWit:
I know. All I can think of is the, well, we'll talk about it, the yield and you're scrambling for a deal.

Steven Butala:
Plus the COVID might be on those stamps.

Jill DeWit:
There is that, too.

Steven Butala:
And what your kids licking that stuff. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And by the way, if you're a Land Academy member, you can also find us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Sounds like we get money from Discord, but we don't.

Steven Butala:
I love Discord. That's why I keep plugging it.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
We have no financial affiliation, but I just, I love the, " Hey Jack, would you do this deal?" And it's like, bang, bang, bang. It's very quick. I just reviewed somebody in our group who's brand new. They did the Craigslist thing and the ebook. And they came up with 80 acres in downtown Sacramento and I priced it at about 10 million for each property. And which was a perfect pricing because I then, about 20 minutes later, found out it was listed on LoopNet commercial property. It's being used as agriculture, but it's a subdivision waiting to happen. And that they're listed for 22 million each. So I was right. At 10 million, we would've would've done okay.

Jill DeWit:
So what happened?

Steven Butala:
Well, it was already listed for 20 million.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, they can't still... They don't have an agreement.

Steven Butala:
This person and she did the right thing. She's just brand spanking new. She's doing the Craigslist thing. She just like, I tell everybody go on Craigslist, type this in.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, so someone said I want to sell.

Steven Butala:
The owner did.

Jill DeWit:
And she said, "I'll offer you 10." And they're like, ha ha.

Steven Butala:
He said I can live with 16. And so she reached out to me on Discord and said, "I don't usually reach out to you, but I'm brand new at this. And this is a $16 million deal. And you might want to look at it."

Jill DeWit:
You know, well, here's the reality is you can buy it for 16. Then you sell it for 17. You made a million. It really does make sense but-

Steven Butala:
Well, here's the, I'm just down on California's real estate market right now. But that's the truth. But and here's how it ended. I said, "We just do not ever,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/08/your-income-directly-correlates-to-the-amount-of-mailers-you-send-la-1454/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UeJ1HrTP3</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2ee47e4c-9f15-4ded-b329-92f259205bd2.mp3" length="13815297" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (LA 1453)</title><itunes:title>How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (LA 1453)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (LA 1453)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Happy Friday. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how many offers should you really be sending a month. And yesterday we agreed that-

Jill DeWit:
We'll do three levels, whether you're brand new, whether you're intermediate or just an average in this business and then your advanced/pro, what you should be sending. And like I said, we separately wrote down our numbers and we'll share them with you in a few minutes.

Steven Butala:
But before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, join us on Discord. I really mean that. If you're a Land Academy member already, this Discord thing was one of the best things that ever happened to this group. It's just real-time advice. Hey, should I be buying this property or not? Hey, I need a lawyer in Atlanta. It's pretty cool stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Austin wrote, "Hello. After reading a recent post, I came across an affidavit of disclosure. I looked it up and it looks like Arizona may require this document when transacting land. For my Arizona transactions so far, I've conveyed the property to my buyers with a special warranty deed and an affidavit of property value. Am I doing the right thing or do I need to include this additional document to be above board? Thanks, Austin."

Steven Butala:
You're doing every single thing right. For Arizona, it just happens to be called an affidavit of property value. There's a lot of other ... By the way, this is all you need to buy property, two documents, the deed, and let's just call it an addendum because it's called different stuff in different states. It's called a P-Corp in Colorado. What do they call it in California?

Jill DeWit:
I can't remember.

Steven Butala:
The reason for this document is so that the assessor and the treasurer get a copy of it. Actually, I'm sorry. One goes to the recorder, the deed, and the affidavit never gets recorded. It gets walked over or sent to the assessor to notify the assessor that a transaction happened and so that it gets reassessed, most of the time, for the next year's tax rates, which gets communicated to the treasurer.

Jill DeWit:
Based on what you paid for the property.

Steven Butala:
Right. In some states, they don't do it at all. They used to not do it in New Mexico. I haven't done a deal there in a while, which was just slam that stuff out. You could do a deed in five seconds. But they require something now. Today's topic ... Oh, you want to answer this?

Jill DeWit:
No, no, we're good. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Usually I just sit and listen to you.

Jill DeWit:
I'll be over here. Just let me know if you need anything.

Steven Butala:
Today's topics, how many offers should you really be sending per month? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
This is your inventory. This is why you are in business. This I would argue is the number one thing. You can't buy any property to sell any property to make any money if you don't have any deals coming in, and you don't have any deals coming in if you don't send out any mail. So this is crucial. And I see people often make mistakes and it's one easy little fix. They're sending too little. You can't send 100 a week. You can't hand-write them. Actually today, by the time this airs it'll be last week, I'm going to talk on Clubhouse about the difference between the number of deals that we get sending direct mail versus driving for dollars, even pre COVID. Let's just say pre COVID, you can go knock on anybody's door, introduce yourself, hand them a card. And you're trying ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[How Many Offers Should You Really Be Sending per Month (LA 1453)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Happy Friday. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how many offers should you really be sending a month. And yesterday we agreed that-

Jill DeWit:
We'll do three levels, whether you're brand new, whether you're intermediate or just an average in this business and then your advanced/pro, what you should be sending. And like I said, we separately wrote down our numbers and we'll share them with you in a few minutes.

Steven Butala:
But before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, join us on Discord. I really mean that. If you're a Land Academy member already, this Discord thing was one of the best things that ever happened to this group. It's just real-time advice. Hey, should I be buying this property or not? Hey, I need a lawyer in Atlanta. It's pretty cool stuff.

Jill DeWit:
It is. Austin wrote, "Hello. After reading a recent post, I came across an affidavit of disclosure. I looked it up and it looks like Arizona may require this document when transacting land. For my Arizona transactions so far, I've conveyed the property to my buyers with a special warranty deed and an affidavit of property value. Am I doing the right thing or do I need to include this additional document to be above board? Thanks, Austin."

Steven Butala:
You're doing every single thing right. For Arizona, it just happens to be called an affidavit of property value. There's a lot of other ... By the way, this is all you need to buy property, two documents, the deed, and let's just call it an addendum because it's called different stuff in different states. It's called a P-Corp in Colorado. What do they call it in California?

Jill DeWit:
I can't remember.

Steven Butala:
The reason for this document is so that the assessor and the treasurer get a copy of it. Actually, I'm sorry. One goes to the recorder, the deed, and the affidavit never gets recorded. It gets walked over or sent to the assessor to notify the assessor that a transaction happened and so that it gets reassessed, most of the time, for the next year's tax rates, which gets communicated to the treasurer.

Jill DeWit:
Based on what you paid for the property.

Steven Butala:
Right. In some states, they don't do it at all. They used to not do it in New Mexico. I haven't done a deal there in a while, which was just slam that stuff out. You could do a deed in five seconds. But they require something now. Today's topic ... Oh, you want to answer this?

Jill DeWit:
No, no, we're good. Yeah.

Steven Butala:
Usually I just sit and listen to you.

Jill DeWit:
I'll be over here. Just let me know if you need anything.

Steven Butala:
Today's topics, how many offers should you really be sending per month? This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
This is your inventory. This is why you are in business. This I would argue is the number one thing. You can't buy any property to sell any property to make any money if you don't have any deals coming in, and you don't have any deals coming in if you don't send out any mail. So this is crucial. And I see people often make mistakes and it's one easy little fix. They're sending too little. You can't send 100 a week. You can't hand-write them. Actually today, by the time this airs it'll be last week, I'm going to talk on Clubhouse about the difference between the number of deals that we get sending direct mail versus driving for dollars, even pre COVID. Let's just say pre COVID, you can go knock on anybody's door, introduce yourself, hand them a card. And you're trying ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/05/how-many-offers-should-you-really-be-sending-per-month-la-1453/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">YITGuSRF_</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ab9317c7-23a0-4606-a264-a51bef0395ed.mp3" length="10927619" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Housing vs Land Investing in 2021 (LA 1452)</title><itunes:title>Housing vs Land Investing in 2021 (LA 1452)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, and I don't know where we are. We've been doing this for several years. Broadcasting from sunny southern Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about housing versus land investing in 2021. You guessed it. You should be doing a version of both.

Jill DeWit:
I'm sure you're going to tell us all about that job.

Steven Butala:
And where you should be doing it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Mitch asks ... This is a long one, I'm just ... Hello. I'm currently working on purchasing three properties from a church. The deeds that I received from the county seem to be written well, and are all in the same format. It sure seems like a nice, easy purchase. The properties are currently written to be owned by the Episcopal church in blank state. My question is: who is able to sign the new deed once it's written, since it's owned by the church, instead of an individual? I asked a representative from the church dealing with the transaction if they know who signed the original deed, but they were unsure. I'm currently a grad student, so I'm in the process of saving up to join Land Academy and have some extra capital for my actual mailers and deals when the time comes. My question is, for someone who's totally new to this, how would you recommend someone who has a couple of months to prep to make the most of their time before diving in?

Jill DeWit:
So there's two parts, one's how to handle the deal, and then some other parts here.

Steven Butala:
I'll do the first one.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I'll finish the whole thing, and we'll go back. What's your recommend who has a couple months to prep, make the most of their time before diving in? What are some of the good resources to really map out this process, and maybe even get the feel for searching, scrubbing, and playing with some data? I'd also be super grateful to get the chance to speak with someone who's been through it to see how they learn those first few steps.

Steven Butala:
That's what I was going to say.

Jill DeWit:
In any case, it'd be a pleasure to be here and excited to start. Thank you very much and wishing everyone the best. Cheers, Julius. Cool.

Steven Butala:
Boy. What a good attitude.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:02:20] Let's go. Oh. Is it Mitch or Julius? I guess it's Julius.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Butala:
Maybe I did it wrong.

Jill DeWit:
That's okay. Cool.

Steven Butala:
This whole business with the church thing, when any entity, other than an individual, John Smith or whatever, owns a piece of property, you need some backing to identify, and to tie into or desk audit to check to see if they are able to sign on behalf of the entity, whether it's an LLC, a trust, whatever.

Jill DeWit:
A church.

Steven Butala:
In this case, a church. All churches are by default, this is interesting, all churches by default are deemed by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, but they don't have to fill out any paperwork and file it. They're just deemed that. There's a charter somewhere or something like that that says, "Hey, this" ... It's usually the pastor actually or-

Jill DeWit:
Or the board. Sometimes you have to be a member of a board.

Steven Butala:
It might be a board. In some cases-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
I doubt it.

Jill DeWit:
I've had a few where they knew, and they had the document, and they could send it to me.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Most of them they do.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's always been my case. Yep. Here's a copy of the document. It shows this is the primary for the board, the secondary for the board, they both sign it-

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, and I don't know where we are. We've been doing this for several years. Broadcasting from sunny southern Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about housing versus land investing in 2021. You guessed it. You should be doing a version of both.

Jill DeWit:
I'm sure you're going to tell us all about that job.

Steven Butala:
And where you should be doing it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Mitch asks ... This is a long one, I'm just ... Hello. I'm currently working on purchasing three properties from a church. The deeds that I received from the county seem to be written well, and are all in the same format. It sure seems like a nice, easy purchase. The properties are currently written to be owned by the Episcopal church in blank state. My question is: who is able to sign the new deed once it's written, since it's owned by the church, instead of an individual? I asked a representative from the church dealing with the transaction if they know who signed the original deed, but they were unsure. I'm currently a grad student, so I'm in the process of saving up to join Land Academy and have some extra capital for my actual mailers and deals when the time comes. My question is, for someone who's totally new to this, how would you recommend someone who has a couple of months to prep to make the most of their time before diving in?

Jill DeWit:
So there's two parts, one's how to handle the deal, and then some other parts here.

Steven Butala:
I'll do the first one.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I'll finish the whole thing, and we'll go back. What's your recommend who has a couple months to prep, make the most of their time before diving in? What are some of the good resources to really map out this process, and maybe even get the feel for searching, scrubbing, and playing with some data? I'd also be super grateful to get the chance to speak with someone who's been through it to see how they learn those first few steps.

Steven Butala:
That's what I was going to say.

Jill DeWit:
In any case, it'd be a pleasure to be here and excited to start. Thank you very much and wishing everyone the best. Cheers, Julius. Cool.

Steven Butala:
Boy. What a good attitude.

Jill DeWit:
[inaudible 00:02:20] Let's go. Oh. Is it Mitch or Julius? I guess it's Julius.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Sorry.

Steven Butala:
Maybe I did it wrong.

Jill DeWit:
That's okay. Cool.

Steven Butala:
This whole business with the church thing, when any entity, other than an individual, John Smith or whatever, owns a piece of property, you need some backing to identify, and to tie into or desk audit to check to see if they are able to sign on behalf of the entity, whether it's an LLC, a trust, whatever.

Jill DeWit:
A church.

Steven Butala:
In this case, a church. All churches are by default, this is interesting, all churches by default are deemed by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, but they don't have to fill out any paperwork and file it. They're just deemed that. There's a charter somewhere or something like that that says, "Hey, this" ... It's usually the pastor actually or-

Jill DeWit:
Or the board. Sometimes you have to be a member of a board.

Steven Butala:
It might be a board. In some cases-

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
I doubt it.

Jill DeWit:
I've had a few where they knew, and they had the document, and they could send it to me.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Most of them they do.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's always been my case. Yep. Here's a copy of the document. It shows this is the primary for the board, the secondary for the board, they both sign it-

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/04/housing-vs-land-investing-in-2021-la-1452/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">rv_cBOG32</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1a0bfc76-2200-4df6-b105-2d24c2f68b45.mp3" length="12594515" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Top 5 Mistakes New Land Investors Make (LA 1451)</title><itunes:title>Top 5 Mistakes New Land Investors Make (LA 1451)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny, Southern Scottsdale. Where it's got a cowboy vibe around here. Let's just tell it like it is.

Steven Butala:
Whenever Jill goes into any new environment, even if it's very temporary, she has to dress the part. So, she's got... Like if we go skiing, even though she doesn't ski [inaudible 00:00:31], she will get all the outfits...

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
If it's a six day ski trip, she's got six outfits, six new outfits.

Jill DeWit:
If we were in Japan, I'd be wearing a kimono right now.

Steven Butala:
We're no stranger to Scottsdale. We lived here together and separately for years, years and years. We never had cowboy boots.

Jill DeWit:
First separately, and then together.

Steven Butala:
We never had cowboy boots, never had hats or anything, and now she's got all that.

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Butala:
What's all that about?

Jill DeWit:
Got them in Utah, which is really funny. Park City started the whole thing. It's just cool. I love it. I enjoy this environment.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talked... And she doesn't find the cheap ones.

Jill DeWit:
Come on. It's not like I have 10 of them.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the top five mistakes new land investors make. This is going to be an interesting show. We all went in separate corners and listed the top five separately. So, I have no idea really-

Jill DeWit:
It's going to be fun.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I wonder how much they overlap. I bet not at all.

Jill DeWit:
I bet they do. I bet there's total overlap.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Luke wrote, Hey guys, hope everyone is doing well. Just curious, how many of you send just the purchase agreement in the mailer from offers to owners, to the title company / attorney versus closing with another version of the purchase agreement. Perhaps even as far as the state or the realtor version of a purchase agreement. I only bring this up because many attorneys have sort of chuckled at my purchase agreements I've used when I was wholesaling houses, as if to say they were short-sighted and too basic for such an agreement. It sounds like they chuckled at it, but they took them, which is kind of funny. Just wondering if the one used in the mailer is more of a barometer of testing the willingness of the seller. Then from what you utilize a more detailed and professional purchase agreement. Thanks.

Steven Butala:
I'm going to answer this, all right?

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
When I started this, I sent a scaled down version of the purchase agreement that we use now, which is literally half of a page to my lawyer. And he looked at me and said, "this is the greatest thing I have ever seen ever." Total binding legal document with parameters for both parties and a timeframe. I think whoever said this, they're not laughing, Luke, because it's not comprehensive. They're laughing in a manner that's like, congratulations, you guys are doing this the right way. I don't want to say you're getting away with it, but this is thought out, it's a binding agreement. It does the job. People sign it and send it back. And it's a single page. It's very clear. I want to buy a property, here's the APN, here's the legal description for the price within this timeframe. And here's how we're going to do it. Everything else in life is complicated as hell, everything.

Jill DeWit:
I agree.

Steven Butala:
Why does a real estate deal have to be complicated.

Jill DeWit:
The answer to the question is no, we use the exact form. That's what I sent into a title company or attorney. And they're like, okay, here we go.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here. Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny, Southern Scottsdale. Where it's got a cowboy vibe around here. Let's just tell it like it is.

Steven Butala:
Whenever Jill goes into any new environment, even if it's very temporary, she has to dress the part. So, she's got... Like if we go skiing, even though she doesn't ski [inaudible 00:00:31], she will get all the outfits...

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steven Butala:
If it's a six day ski trip, she's got six outfits, six new outfits.

Jill DeWit:
If we were in Japan, I'd be wearing a kimono right now.

Steven Butala:
We're no stranger to Scottsdale. We lived here together and separately for years, years and years. We never had cowboy boots.

Jill DeWit:
First separately, and then together.

Steven Butala:
We never had cowboy boots, never had hats or anything, and now she's got all that.

Jill DeWit:
Totally.

Steven Butala:
What's all that about?

Jill DeWit:
Got them in Utah, which is really funny. Park City started the whole thing. It's just cool. I love it. I enjoy this environment.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talked... And she doesn't find the cheap ones.

Jill DeWit:
Come on. It's not like I have 10 of them.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the top five mistakes new land investors make. This is going to be an interesting show. We all went in separate corners and listed the top five separately. So, I have no idea really-

Jill DeWit:
It's going to be fun.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I wonder how much they overlap. I bet not at all.

Jill DeWit:
I bet they do. I bet there's total overlap.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Luke wrote, Hey guys, hope everyone is doing well. Just curious, how many of you send just the purchase agreement in the mailer from offers to owners, to the title company / attorney versus closing with another version of the purchase agreement. Perhaps even as far as the state or the realtor version of a purchase agreement. I only bring this up because many attorneys have sort of chuckled at my purchase agreements I've used when I was wholesaling houses, as if to say they were short-sighted and too basic for such an agreement. It sounds like they chuckled at it, but they took them, which is kind of funny. Just wondering if the one used in the mailer is more of a barometer of testing the willingness of the seller. Then from what you utilize a more detailed and professional purchase agreement. Thanks.

Steven Butala:
I'm going to answer this, all right?

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven Butala:
When I started this, I sent a scaled down version of the purchase agreement that we use now, which is literally half of a page to my lawyer. And he looked at me and said, "this is the greatest thing I have ever seen ever." Total binding legal document with parameters for both parties and a timeframe. I think whoever said this, they're not laughing, Luke, because it's not comprehensive. They're laughing in a manner that's like, congratulations, you guys are doing this the right way. I don't want to say you're getting away with it, but this is thought out, it's a binding agreement. It does the job. People sign it and send it back. And it's a single page. It's very clear. I want to buy a property, here's the APN, here's the legal description for the price within this timeframe. And here's how we're going to do it. Everything else in life is complicated as hell, everything.

Jill DeWit:
I agree.

Steven Butala:
Why does a real estate deal have to be complicated.

Jill DeWit:
The answer to the question is no, we use the exact form. That's what I sent into a title company or attorney. And they're like, okay, here we go.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/03/top-5-mistakes-new-land-investors-make-la-1451/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">fYLrFbqna</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0cd25b4e-842f-430e-bece-d0fa9e54ecd8.mp3" length="15446013" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Take Full Advantage of Land Academy (LA 1450)</title><itunes:title>How to Take Full Advantage of Land Academy (LA 1450)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern Scottsdale.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about How to Take Full Advantage of Land Academy Membership. I can't.

Jill DeWit:
What? What?

Steven Butala:
My first reaction to this whole topic is, "This sounds like a sales pitch. I don't want to do it," but it really ... But then I started thinking about it. I took some notes. I'm like, "Wow."

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It's for the people that are here. This is ... Sorry. If you're not a member, this'll still be beneficial, I'm sure. But if you are a member, this is going to be very beneficial, especially if you're a new member, because there's a lot of moving parts. So we're here to kind of describe the components and tell you how to best take advantage of everything we have.

Steven Butala:
And how to use it. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, "I'm about to close a deal tomorrow, and I understand I have to register the property, which takes up to several weeks, as I was told at the recorder's office in Los Angeles. How can is sell it in the meantime?" Okay. I'm reading it as when he means register, it's going to [inaudible 00:01:16] recorded.

Steven Butala:
Recorded.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. And John's not a member, so it leads me to think he's new. You can, especially ... I know this property's ... Yeah, it's in LA.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
You can just record it online.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
You can do it within seconds and get a ... They literally stamp the deed. Now, they actually have a sticker with a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional bar code or a QR code, so they can file it correctly. It's called book and a page, and once you have that, you own it. So if they're several weeks behind, they're not behind on ... It's called Simplifile, and you can e-record it, so that doesn't ... You just got a recorder that is a government employee that doesn't want to do it fast.

Jill DeWit:
Here's the thing, too. No matter where you are in what county, this is pretty much universal. So you've got the deed, it's signed, you're sending it in for recording, and you're just waiting for it to come back to you. I would totally go ahead start marketing it, start doing everything, and selling it because you could sell it and do another deed. And while you're waiting for this one to come back, you could be sending it in for the next person to own it. It could hit 10 days, 10 whatever-it-is later, 10 hours later from when the first one goes in. It doesn't matter, as long as they're recorded in order, and that's really kind of the gist of it. So don't worry about that. I would not wait for, "Okay, I sent it and to be recorded however I'm doing it."

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Just sell it.

Jill DeWit:
"Wait for it to come all the way back to me before, now, I push the button and go to try to sell the property." That's so much valuable time that you could be done and moved on and have the cash.

Steven Butala:
Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
Good question.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, How to Take Full of Advantage of the Land Academy Membership. This is why you're listening. Jill, you have notes, I see.

Jill DeWit:
I do. I wanted to cover everything that there is. There's a lot. When we first launched this in 2015, there was one thing, education, and that was it. And it wasn't even online. It was in DVDs which, oddly enough, I have about five sets.

Steven Butala:
Why is that?

Jill DeWit:
Because we just ... Okay. Since COVID, we've all decided we don't need our sweet little office that we had in R...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern Scottsdale.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about How to Take Full Advantage of Land Academy Membership. I can't.

Jill DeWit:
What? What?

Steven Butala:
My first reaction to this whole topic is, "This sounds like a sales pitch. I don't want to do it," but it really ... But then I started thinking about it. I took some notes. I'm like, "Wow."

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). It's for the people that are here. This is ... Sorry. If you're not a member, this'll still be beneficial, I'm sure. But if you are a member, this is going to be very beneficial, especially if you're a new member, because there's a lot of moving parts. So we're here to kind of describe the components and tell you how to best take advantage of everything we have.

Steven Butala:
And how to use it. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
John wrote, "I'm about to close a deal tomorrow, and I understand I have to register the property, which takes up to several weeks, as I was told at the recorder's office in Los Angeles. How can is sell it in the meantime?" Okay. I'm reading it as when he means register, it's going to [inaudible 00:01:16] recorded.

Steven Butala:
Recorded.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. And John's not a member, so it leads me to think he's new. You can, especially ... I know this property's ... Yeah, it's in LA.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
You can just record it online.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:
You can do it within seconds and get a ... They literally stamp the deed. Now, they actually have a sticker with a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional bar code or a QR code, so they can file it correctly. It's called book and a page, and once you have that, you own it. So if they're several weeks behind, they're not behind on ... It's called Simplifile, and you can e-record it, so that doesn't ... You just got a recorder that is a government employee that doesn't want to do it fast.

Jill DeWit:
Here's the thing, too. No matter where you are in what county, this is pretty much universal. So you've got the deed, it's signed, you're sending it in for recording, and you're just waiting for it to come back to you. I would totally go ahead start marketing it, start doing everything, and selling it because you could sell it and do another deed. And while you're waiting for this one to come back, you could be sending it in for the next person to own it. It could hit 10 days, 10 whatever-it-is later, 10 hours later from when the first one goes in. It doesn't matter, as long as they're recorded in order, and that's really kind of the gist of it. So don't worry about that. I would not wait for, "Okay, I sent it and to be recorded however I'm doing it."

Steven Butala:
Yeah. Just sell it.

Jill DeWit:
"Wait for it to come all the way back to me before, now, I push the button and go to try to sell the property." That's so much valuable time that you could be done and moved on and have the cash.

Steven Butala:
Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
Good question.

Steven Butala:
Today's topic, How to Take Full of Advantage of the Land Academy Membership. This is why you're listening. Jill, you have notes, I see.

Jill DeWit:
I do. I wanted to cover everything that there is. There's a lot. When we first launched this in 2015, there was one thing, education, and that was it. And it wasn't even online. It was in DVDs which, oddly enough, I have about five sets.

Steven Butala:
Why is that?

Jill DeWit:
Because we just ... Okay. Since COVID, we've all decided we don't need our sweet little office that we had in R...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/02/how-to-take-full-advantage-of-land-academy-la-1450/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5IyfyXzRI</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cb72952f-95dc-419d-89f6-dc2cb6ea8e1f.mp3" length="10936223" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Right Kind of Seller to Buy From (LA 1449)</title><itunes:title>The Right Kind of Seller to Buy From (LA 1449)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome... Where am I?

Steven Butala:
Central-

Jill DeWit:
Arizona.

Steven Butala:
No, sunny Scottsdale. Southern Scottsdale, actually.

Jill DeWit:
Well, do we say southern... Okay, there we go. From sunny Southern Scottsdale. Okay. Here we go.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the right kind of buyer to sell from, and we don't talk about ending a sentence with a preposition.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to say. Oh, look cute it is, our bikes are in the back of the frame. I like that. There's my new bike and your new bike. That's so cute.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Jack, I think it's okay. I'm not... I'm pretty sure your English teacher is not listening.

Steven Butala:
I bet she's not either.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
You know what my English teacher told me?

Jill DeWit:
What? Uh-oh.

Steven Butala:
"Why are you going to go to college? That's just... Just so you can beat your head against the wall and when you stop, it makes you feel better?"

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Butala:
I swear.

Jill DeWit:
Who told you that?

Steven Butala:
My high school English teacher said that.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven Butala:
She's just an old, cranky lady and she didn't think I was smart. We all have stories like this.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I never had that. That's kind of interesting. I'm sorry.

Steven Butala:
Well, you're a happy, nice person, and you were probably a good student.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe it's all true. Okay. Got it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Mike wrote, "Hi guys. I'm getting a great response from my first mailer. One of the responses is a lady who has 23 acres and willing to sell. However, it turns out that she has another 84 acres that is connected to the 23 acres that she also wants to sell." Good problem to have Mike. "The only thing is there are three homes... " Wow "... included." Again, not seeing a problem. This is great. "Two houses and one mobile home. There are three other family members on the deeds." Here it comes. "All of which are willing to sell also." Okay, doing great. "On top of this, the total of 107 acres and divided into nine different parcels, three of which have one of the homes included. Leaving six vacant parcels. I needed advice. Does all this strike you as a huge mess or huge opportunity? Thanks in advance for the input."

Steven Butala:
You go first.

Jill DeWit:
Opportunity.

Steven Butala:
Massive opportunity.

Jill DeWit:
Holy moly.

Steven Butala:
Here's what's funny about this. I chose this question in part because there are two members of the advanced group that answered this question in Land Investors, and also our moderator who is a very active land seller. And all three of them said, "This is a huge mess."

Jill DeWit:
They did?

Steven Butala:
"It's complicated." This person isn't a member.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
They're just part of the [crosstalk 00:02:55].

Jill DeWit:
Mike's not a member?

Steven Butala:
Mm-mm (negative).

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Got it.

Steven Butala:
And so they said, "No, you're too new and this is too complicated. Don't do the deal." I'm like-

Jill DeWit:
Or bring somebody on like us and we can do it with you.

Steven Butala:
I would immediately get with... One of the members is Lori Phillips and she didn't say don't do it, she just said, "This is too complicated for you in the beginning."

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Butala:
What I want you to do is reach out to her or somebody in the advanced group.

Jill DeWit:
Seasoned.

Steven Butala:
Or us.

Jill DeWit:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome... Where am I?

Steven Butala:
Central-

Jill DeWit:
Arizona.

Steven Butala:
No, sunny Scottsdale. Southern Scottsdale, actually.

Jill DeWit:
Well, do we say southern... Okay, there we go. From sunny Southern Scottsdale. Okay. Here we go.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the right kind of buyer to sell from, and we don't talk about ending a sentence with a preposition.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to say. Oh, look cute it is, our bikes are in the back of the frame. I like that. There's my new bike and your new bike. That's so cute.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Jack, I think it's okay. I'm not... I'm pretty sure your English teacher is not listening.

Steven Butala:
I bet she's not either.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
You know what my English teacher told me?

Jill DeWit:
What? Uh-oh.

Steven Butala:
"Why are you going to go to college? That's just... Just so you can beat your head against the wall and when you stop, it makes you feel better?"

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Butala:
I swear.

Jill DeWit:
Who told you that?

Steven Butala:
My high school English teacher said that.

Jill DeWit:
Why?

Steven Butala:
She's just an old, cranky lady and she didn't think I was smart. We all have stories like this.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. I never had that. That's kind of interesting. I'm sorry.

Steven Butala:
Well, you're a happy, nice person, and you were probably a good student.

Jill DeWit:
Maybe it's all true. Okay. Got it.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Mike wrote, "Hi guys. I'm getting a great response from my first mailer. One of the responses is a lady who has 23 acres and willing to sell. However, it turns out that she has another 84 acres that is connected to the 23 acres that she also wants to sell." Good problem to have Mike. "The only thing is there are three homes... " Wow "... included." Again, not seeing a problem. This is great. "Two houses and one mobile home. There are three other family members on the deeds." Here it comes. "All of which are willing to sell also." Okay, doing great. "On top of this, the total of 107 acres and divided into nine different parcels, three of which have one of the homes included. Leaving six vacant parcels. I needed advice. Does all this strike you as a huge mess or huge opportunity? Thanks in advance for the input."

Steven Butala:
You go first.

Jill DeWit:
Opportunity.

Steven Butala:
Massive opportunity.

Jill DeWit:
Holy moly.

Steven Butala:
Here's what's funny about this. I chose this question in part because there are two members of the advanced group that answered this question in Land Investors, and also our moderator who is a very active land seller. And all three of them said, "This is a huge mess."

Jill DeWit:
They did?

Steven Butala:
"It's complicated." This person isn't a member.

Jill DeWit:
Oh.

Steven Butala:
They're just part of the [crosstalk 00:02:55].

Jill DeWit:
Mike's not a member?

Steven Butala:
Mm-mm (negative).

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Got it.

Steven Butala:
And so they said, "No, you're too new and this is too complicated. Don't do the deal." I'm like-

Jill DeWit:
Or bring somebody on like us and we can do it with you.

Steven Butala:
I would immediately get with... One of the members is Lori Phillips and she didn't say don't do it, she just said, "This is too complicated for you in the beginning."

Jill DeWit:
True.

Steven Butala:
What I want you to do is reach out to her or somebody in the advanced group.

Jill DeWit:
Seasoned.

Steven Butala:
Or us.

Jill DeWit:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/03/01/the-right-kind-of-seller-to-buy-from-la-1449/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UtfSYY6Wa</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ff466f5b-2f9e-4df2-9d91-993db3b4b18f.mp3" length="15610055" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:54</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Where to Start when Starting a Business and without Fear (LA 1448)</title><itunes:title>Where to Start when Starting a Business and without Fear (LA 1448)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Hey, welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about where to start when starting a business and without fear.

Jill DeWit:
What is this?

Steven Butala:
So it's not just about starting a land business. It's just basically starting a business. I think this confuses a lot of people. For other people, it's just very natural. It's a logical extension to having a W2 job. But this is really just about that initial twinge like, "I really want to start a business and I don't want to do it with fear. I want to know that it's going to work within reason and I just need a first few steps to check it out."

Jill DeWit:
Perfect.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Buck wrote, "I have a buyer who wants to immediately move his RV onto a property where I'm providing owner financing. The county requires that septic be installed and that he have a temporary use permit for the RV to be legal. The buyer says he'll get the permits. What would you do?"

Steven Butala:
Run the other way.

Jill DeWit:
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second.

Steven Butala:
I would never allow this.

Jill DeWit:
Why not?

Steven Butala:
There's too much legal issues.

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no. Oh, owner financing. Sorry.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That was my thought. I'm like, "Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. Where are you going with that?" I had to take a step back and realize it's owner financing, because most of what I do is cash.

Steven Butala:
You bought a $10,000 property. You posted it for sale on Craigslist for $2,000 down and $150 a month for 15 years. And you calculated on your little calculator that you're going to make about $22,000 on this deal when it's all paid off. And so you're jumping up and down around the kitchen. Well, the fact is that a very material percentage, more than 50% of these properties, when they get sold, you get the down payment, they make five payments, then they go dark and you just never hear from them again. And so there's something wrong. This person has a lot of money to do all this RV stuff and these improvements, but they don't want to buy the property outright. There's some issue there.

Jill DeWit:
So that's what you'd do. Number one, you say, "Look, owner financing, I'm not comfortable with this. Can't do it. You want to buy it cash from me, now it's yours and everything's on you. Knock yourself out." That's the first solution, is right there. And I would even say, "Look, here's the deal." Most people do that. When the people that I've seen, they have a cash price and they have a seller or an owner financed price, and it'll be obvious, you cash out, it's definitely cheaper. So if you don't even have that, offer them a great cash price. "Look, I'll give you a 20% discount if you want to just buy the property and then it's yours and then I won't have a say in it. You can do whatever you want."

Steven Butala:
Jill's an expert at this. I've heard her on the phone. If you've got to list a property for, here's my example, you bought it for 10, just say you sell it for $15,000 or $18,000 cash, and if the property is worth 50, he'd be shocked at how fast whoever they are can come up with their money from their relatives or whatever else just to get them into the property, all of it.

Jill DeWit:
Right, they really want it.

Steven Butala:
As an owner with no liens.

Jill DeWit:
But I agree with Steven. I mean, the bad news is it's just too much that I could be liable for and I don't want to do that. I don't want the county calling me saying, "This guy's out there. He needs to move it." And it's mine, so I'm responsible to get somebody out there to ge...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Hey, welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about where to start when starting a business and without fear.

Jill DeWit:
What is this?

Steven Butala:
So it's not just about starting a land business. It's just basically starting a business. I think this confuses a lot of people. For other people, it's just very natural. It's a logical extension to having a W2 job. But this is really just about that initial twinge like, "I really want to start a business and I don't want to do it with fear. I want to know that it's going to work within reason and I just need a first few steps to check it out."

Jill DeWit:
Perfect.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Buck wrote, "I have a buyer who wants to immediately move his RV onto a property where I'm providing owner financing. The county requires that septic be installed and that he have a temporary use permit for the RV to be legal. The buyer says he'll get the permits. What would you do?"

Steven Butala:
Run the other way.

Jill DeWit:
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second.

Steven Butala:
I would never allow this.

Jill DeWit:
Why not?

Steven Butala:
There's too much legal issues.

Jill DeWit:
No, no, no. Oh, owner financing. Sorry.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That was my thought. I'm like, "Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. Where are you going with that?" I had to take a step back and realize it's owner financing, because most of what I do is cash.

Steven Butala:
You bought a $10,000 property. You posted it for sale on Craigslist for $2,000 down and $150 a month for 15 years. And you calculated on your little calculator that you're going to make about $22,000 on this deal when it's all paid off. And so you're jumping up and down around the kitchen. Well, the fact is that a very material percentage, more than 50% of these properties, when they get sold, you get the down payment, they make five payments, then they go dark and you just never hear from them again. And so there's something wrong. This person has a lot of money to do all this RV stuff and these improvements, but they don't want to buy the property outright. There's some issue there.

Jill DeWit:
So that's what you'd do. Number one, you say, "Look, owner financing, I'm not comfortable with this. Can't do it. You want to buy it cash from me, now it's yours and everything's on you. Knock yourself out." That's the first solution, is right there. And I would even say, "Look, here's the deal." Most people do that. When the people that I've seen, they have a cash price and they have a seller or an owner financed price, and it'll be obvious, you cash out, it's definitely cheaper. So if you don't even have that, offer them a great cash price. "Look, I'll give you a 20% discount if you want to just buy the property and then it's yours and then I won't have a say in it. You can do whatever you want."

Steven Butala:
Jill's an expert at this. I've heard her on the phone. If you've got to list a property for, here's my example, you bought it for 10, just say you sell it for $15,000 or $18,000 cash, and if the property is worth 50, he'd be shocked at how fast whoever they are can come up with their money from their relatives or whatever else just to get them into the property, all of it.

Jill DeWit:
Right, they really want it.

Steven Butala:
As an owner with no liens.

Jill DeWit:
But I agree with Steven. I mean, the bad news is it's just too much that I could be liable for and I don't want to do that. I don't want the county calling me saying, "This guy's out there. He needs to move it." And it's mine, so I'm responsible to get somebody out there to ge...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/26/where-to-start-when-starting-a-business-and-without-fear-la-1448/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">UpstSYuVc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:59:27 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fa6aa2df-c303-4077-8f44-a1d5937dfe68.mp3" length="14251245" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:29</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What to Do When You Can&amp;#8217;t Find a Data Set for a Mailable County (LA 1447)</title><itunes:title>What to Do When You Can&amp;#8217;t Find a Data Set for a Mailable County (LA 1447)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, hey, hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about what to do when you can't find a dataset for a mailable county.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to sneeze. Nope, we're good. Sorry. I'm like, "Oh, oh, can I talk?"

Steven Butala:
This week it's like most popular questions week. "Jack, I can't find this dataset. I could find it for the county over. I can't find it at Redfin and I can't find it in realtor.com, but I know it's in Zillow. What do I do?" It's a very valid question. It's like looking at chocolate cake through glass. It's like, I know it'll work. I have all the answers actually.

Jill DeWit:
I have never heard of that. What is that, like up against the window? I want the chocolate cake. What? That's funny. Did you make that up or is that a thing?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, just now.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's good. Very good.

Steven Butala:
I just watched this video on YouTube.

Jill DeWit:
Chocolate cake through glass.

Steven Butala:
This guy sits his toddler down and puts a ... Did you see this?

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Butala:
It went viral. Sits his toddler down and puts a bowl full of Skittles or M&M's, a big bowl, like big as their head. And says in the nicest way, "Oh sweetheart, I've got to take this phone call. Don't don't eat this. I'll be right back." And it goes on. She only can take it for three minutes and it's just pure torture. And she's tiny. She's really little.

Jill DeWit:
That's not nice. Here's the grown-up version. Oh, I put down a bottle of scotch and there's a little a bit at the bottom, all of it's gone. You're like, "Oh man, I wish I hadn't even thought about scotch. Now, I'm thinking about scotch. We don't have enough scotch." Shoot, I could see you trying to get every last drop.

Steven Butala:
Well, I think there's a lot of grown-up versions of temptation that we could talk about too that, you see it, but you can't have it.

Jill DeWit:
Hello. That's not where I was going. Well, yeah, yeah. Okay. I get it. Let's get to the show.

Steven Butala:
So, back to data. Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Julius wrote, "Hello everyone. My name is Julius and I'm just jumping into land investment, 100% fresh." I like that. It's a great way to put this. "I've been thinking about it for my own personal property purchases for a while now, but after some research, I found this business model to be rather incredible. I'm currently a grad student, so I'm in the process of saving up to join Land Academy and I have some extra capital for the actual mailers and deals when the time comes." Thank you, Julius. You're doing it correctly and I really appreciate that.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
"So my question is this, for someone who's totally new, how would you recommend someone who has a couple of months to prep make the most of their time doing so before diving in? What are some good resources to really map out the process and maybe even get a feel for searching for, scrubbing and playing with some data? I'd also be super grateful to get the chance to speak with someone who's been through it to see how they learn from those first steps. In any case, it's a pleasure to be here and very excited to start. Thank you very much and wishing everyone all the best. Cheers, Julius." Well, he's already in the right place.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, that's what I was just going to say, that he took the first step. And then there's a bunch of people in Land Investors that go on to say, "Hey, give me a call. I'll tell you exactly what to expect and what to do," other members.

Jill DeWit:
That's so nice.

Steven Butala:
And the moderator too.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hey, hey, hey.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about what to do when you can't find a dataset for a mailable county.

Jill DeWit:
I'm going to sneeze. Nope, we're good. Sorry. I'm like, "Oh, oh, can I talk?"

Steven Butala:
This week it's like most popular questions week. "Jack, I can't find this dataset. I could find it for the county over. I can't find it at Redfin and I can't find it in realtor.com, but I know it's in Zillow. What do I do?" It's a very valid question. It's like looking at chocolate cake through glass. It's like, I know it'll work. I have all the answers actually.

Jill DeWit:
I have never heard of that. What is that, like up against the window? I want the chocolate cake. What? That's funny. Did you make that up or is that a thing?

Steven Butala:
Yeah, just now.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, that's good. Very good.

Steven Butala:
I just watched this video on YouTube.

Jill DeWit:
Chocolate cake through glass.

Steven Butala:
This guy sits his toddler down and puts a ... Did you see this?

Jill DeWit:
No.

Steven Butala:
It went viral. Sits his toddler down and puts a bowl full of Skittles or M&M's, a big bowl, like big as their head. And says in the nicest way, "Oh sweetheart, I've got to take this phone call. Don't don't eat this. I'll be right back." And it goes on. She only can take it for three minutes and it's just pure torture. And she's tiny. She's really little.

Jill DeWit:
That's not nice. Here's the grown-up version. Oh, I put down a bottle of scotch and there's a little a bit at the bottom, all of it's gone. You're like, "Oh man, I wish I hadn't even thought about scotch. Now, I'm thinking about scotch. We don't have enough scotch." Shoot, I could see you trying to get every last drop.

Steven Butala:
Well, I think there's a lot of grown-up versions of temptation that we could talk about too that, you see it, but you can't have it.

Jill DeWit:
Hello. That's not where I was going. Well, yeah, yeah. Okay. I get it. Let's get to the show.

Steven Butala:
So, back to data. Yeah. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Julius wrote, "Hello everyone. My name is Julius and I'm just jumping into land investment, 100% fresh." I like that. It's a great way to put this. "I've been thinking about it for my own personal property purchases for a while now, but after some research, I found this business model to be rather incredible. I'm currently a grad student, so I'm in the process of saving up to join Land Academy and I have some extra capital for the actual mailers and deals when the time comes." Thank you, Julius. You're doing it correctly and I really appreciate that.

Steven Butala:
Me too.

Jill DeWit:
"So my question is this, for someone who's totally new, how would you recommend someone who has a couple of months to prep make the most of their time doing so before diving in? What are some good resources to really map out the process and maybe even get a feel for searching for, scrubbing and playing with some data? I'd also be super grateful to get the chance to speak with someone who's been through it to see how they learn from those first steps. In any case, it's a pleasure to be here and very excited to start. Thank you very much and wishing everyone all the best. Cheers, Julius." Well, he's already in the right place.

Steven Butala:
Yeah, that's what I was just going to say, that he took the first step. And then there's a bunch of people in Land Investors that go on to say, "Hey, give me a call. I'll tell you exactly what to expect and what to do," other members.

Jill DeWit:
That's so nice.

Steven Butala:
And the moderator too.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/25/what-to-do-when-you-cant-find-a-data-set-for-a-mailable-county-la-1447/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">5a5yr7iuj</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5514404b-20a7-4079-b2f7-9bb88a1e37fc.mp3" length="21997101" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Types of Blind Offers to Send and Not to Send (LA 1446)</title><itunes:title>Types of Blind Offers to Send and Not to Send (LA 1446)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California .

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the types of blind offers to send and the types not to send.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I have a list. Believe you me.

Steven Butala:
This is one of those topics that just gets a little passionate about, and I love it.

Jill DeWit:
Well, only because we've done it all. I mean, I can honestly say, we haven't been doing this... Well, you, because you're much older than me, since the '90s, and tested every possible thing. There's a reason why we got to this point. The reason why we're successful, is the reason why our community is successful, and we all have the secret, and I'm happy to share it.

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Jill DeWit:
For $10,000. Just kidding, I want to share it right now today.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "I'm in one of the states with a lot of rural lands and with thousands of lakes." Well, how lucky are you, James? You're bragging a little bit, and I think that's awesome.

Steven Butala:
You can brag, but those lakes are frozen, right now.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, there is that.

Steven Butala:
I'm from a place like that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I ran the red, yellow, green test, and many of the counties look like good spots to mail. My problem is, it's hard to find any good average for the pricing, because of all the lakes. On a coastal lake are often higher priced, where a half mile to mile away are much cheaper. I was thinking I need to use in-fill lot pricing, but even on the zip code level, there's a lot of price variability. Do I have to price APN by APN? Or is there a way to price to get me in the ball park of a decent sized area?" This such a good question, because this is stuff that we talked about in the show yesterday. That's a common thing here, if you're doing an area like where we're sitting in Southern California. Ocean front and on the west side of PCH is a whole different pricing point versus one mile or even half mile or even yards away.

Steven Butala:
James, this is a question I asked myself, even today. I'm working a certain, very specific area in a specific state right now, and I looked at and studied and studied and studied pricing variances based on attribute, that's really what the issue is. And the red, green, yellow test, was designed to solve that for you. So, even in a rural area, if you take each zip code, if you're lucky enough to get the data and drop it into the red, green, yellow test, you're going to see where property is selling, and where it's not. So the theory is, property that's close to the lakes and cheap or cheaper, will sell faster. And then, so you can price that that way, so that's one way to look at it. And then if that's the case, and it almost always is, it's pure supply and demand, pricing and supply and demand go together.

Steven Butala:
Then you can extrapolate that and run the data sets that way, based on what you find from a zip code standpoint. But zip codes don't often comply with, let's say, shoreline, so what do you do? You have to pretty much run an APN scenario, and I just did it. All of this is more theory than reality. The fact is, if you stick 42 fishing lines in the water versus three, you're going to catch more fish and some of the fish that you catch are going to be small, and you're going to throw them back, because you don't want them. Some of the fish are going to be awesome, you're going to keep it. And some of the fish are going to be, you're going to shake your head and say, "This might be a record for this lake, for the biggest catch of all time,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California .

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the types of blind offers to send and the types not to send.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I have a list. Believe you me.

Steven Butala:
This is one of those topics that just gets a little passionate about, and I love it.

Jill DeWit:
Well, only because we've done it all. I mean, I can honestly say, we haven't been doing this... Well, you, because you're much older than me, since the '90s, and tested every possible thing. There's a reason why we got to this point. The reason why we're successful, is the reason why our community is successful, and we all have the secret, and I'm happy to share it.

Steven Butala:
Awesome.

Jill DeWit:
For $10,000. Just kidding, I want to share it right now today.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
James wrote, "I'm in one of the states with a lot of rural lands and with thousands of lakes." Well, how lucky are you, James? You're bragging a little bit, and I think that's awesome.

Steven Butala:
You can brag, but those lakes are frozen, right now.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, well, there is that.

Steven Butala:
I'm from a place like that.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I ran the red, yellow, green test, and many of the counties look like good spots to mail. My problem is, it's hard to find any good average for the pricing, because of all the lakes. On a coastal lake are often higher priced, where a half mile to mile away are much cheaper. I was thinking I need to use in-fill lot pricing, but even on the zip code level, there's a lot of price variability. Do I have to price APN by APN? Or is there a way to price to get me in the ball park of a decent sized area?" This such a good question, because this is stuff that we talked about in the show yesterday. That's a common thing here, if you're doing an area like where we're sitting in Southern California. Ocean front and on the west side of PCH is a whole different pricing point versus one mile or even half mile or even yards away.

Steven Butala:
James, this is a question I asked myself, even today. I'm working a certain, very specific area in a specific state right now, and I looked at and studied and studied and studied pricing variances based on attribute, that's really what the issue is. And the red, green, yellow test, was designed to solve that for you. So, even in a rural area, if you take each zip code, if you're lucky enough to get the data and drop it into the red, green, yellow test, you're going to see where property is selling, and where it's not. So the theory is, property that's close to the lakes and cheap or cheaper, will sell faster. And then, so you can price that that way, so that's one way to look at it. And then if that's the case, and it almost always is, it's pure supply and demand, pricing and supply and demand go together.

Steven Butala:
Then you can extrapolate that and run the data sets that way, based on what you find from a zip code standpoint. But zip codes don't often comply with, let's say, shoreline, so what do you do? You have to pretty much run an APN scenario, and I just did it. All of this is more theory than reality. The fact is, if you stick 42 fishing lines in the water versus three, you're going to catch more fish and some of the fish that you catch are going to be small, and you're going to throw them back, because you don't want them. Some of the fish are going to be awesome, you're going to keep it. And some of the fish are going to be, you're going to shake your head and say, "This might be a record for this lake, for the biggest catch of all time,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/24/types-of-blind-offers-to-send-and-not-to-send-la-1446/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">QJQtK36qU</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/99bac46a-6203-4b7b-8e7a-381539080367.mp3" length="19511435" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:58</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>First 10 Week Land Academy Accountability Group &amp;#8211; Huge Success for Members (LA 1445)</title><itunes:title>First 10 Week Land Academy Accountability Group &amp;#8211; Huge Success for Members (LA 1445)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the first 10 weeks of our Land Academy Accountability Group and how much of a success it has been for our members. I'm surprised by this, like always.

Jill DeWit:
We're halfway in, right? Where are we ... I don't know what weekend.

Steven Butala:
We're on session six of 10-

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
... or seven of 10 actually.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
It'll be almost done by the time this airs. Every single time Jill and I start something new, some little subsection based on what people ask for, I don't think it's going to work. That's just how my personality is.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to have a different answer. Go ahead.

Steven Butala:
Every single time, Jill's like, "Oh, I'm so excited. It's going to be ... Everyone's going to love this." And that's what ends up happening. Most of the time, not all the time.

Jill DeWit:
Here's my takeout. Every time we start something new, it develops into something else new.

Steven Butala:
Then we have to do more stuff.

Jill DeWit:
So instead of one new project, then we have three. It was so sweet, I had Kristin and I had a consulting call the other day. And it was very nice, the first few minutes she said, "Look, I own my own business and I'm just getting started in this. How the heck do you guys do what you do? I can't believe what you do." And every time I hear that, I'm like, "Yeah ..." First of all, thank you, Kristen. And yes, I am that tired.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
It is a lot, but it's all good and I'm very happy and we have a great group. And so I'm inspired just to get up every day and do it again.

Steven Butala:
Deal funding really helps deal. Deal funding allows us to do a lot of real estate deals without doing a tremendous amount of work.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. [crosstalk 00:01:38] help.

Steven Butala:
So for years and years ... I mean, we still do tons of our own deals, but we've got a good staff in place so it's not that bad.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Butala:
We still do it.

Jill DeWit:
I know. We do it to ourselves

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Thomas wrote, "Hi, everyone. My partners and I are active since about a year ago and currently operating in X state. We made multiple acquisitions so far and I'm very enthusiastic about the process. We started off in a lower price range in X County, and are now dealing with gradually larger and higher value properties that range between 10,000 and $20,000. However, we've noticed big price fluctuations depending on the attributes, specifically trees. It seems that land with trees on it is disproportionally more valuable than land without." I'm sure in this area, it makes a difference.

Jill DeWit:
"For instance, we recently bought a property with a tiny forest on it for $6,800 and sold it for $20,000 within a matter of days. While the treeless properties, we can often sell with up to a 50% profit margin. A few days ago, we received a signed purchase agreement for a seven acre property with lovely mountain view for $14,000. According to our research and comps in the area, we estimate a conservative retail price of about 25 to $28,000." So 80% of the lowest price comparable in the area. These are all making sense to me. This is great.

Steven Butala:
So far, so good. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
"Nevertheless, it neither has electricity nor trees, but it's located near a creek." I'm good with all of this.

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
"A local land investor who we sold properties to in the past and sometimes consult with about our new acquisitions,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the first 10 weeks of our Land Academy Accountability Group and how much of a success it has been for our members. I'm surprised by this, like always.

Jill DeWit:
We're halfway in, right? Where are we ... I don't know what weekend.

Steven Butala:
We're on session six of 10-

Jill DeWit:
There we go.

Steven Butala:
... or seven of 10 actually.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Butala:
It'll be almost done by the time this airs. Every single time Jill and I start something new, some little subsection based on what people ask for, I don't think it's going to work. That's just how my personality is.

Jill DeWit:
I was going to have a different answer. Go ahead.

Steven Butala:
Every single time, Jill's like, "Oh, I'm so excited. It's going to be ... Everyone's going to love this." And that's what ends up happening. Most of the time, not all the time.

Jill DeWit:
Here's my takeout. Every time we start something new, it develops into something else new.

Steven Butala:
Then we have to do more stuff.

Jill DeWit:
So instead of one new project, then we have three. It was so sweet, I had Kristin and I had a consulting call the other day. And it was very nice, the first few minutes she said, "Look, I own my own business and I'm just getting started in this. How the heck do you guys do what you do? I can't believe what you do." And every time I hear that, I'm like, "Yeah ..." First of all, thank you, Kristen. And yes, I am that tired.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
It is a lot, but it's all good and I'm very happy and we have a great group. And so I'm inspired just to get up every day and do it again.

Steven Butala:
Deal funding really helps deal. Deal funding allows us to do a lot of real estate deals without doing a tremendous amount of work.

Jill DeWit:
That's true. [crosstalk 00:01:38] help.

Steven Butala:
So for years and years ... I mean, we still do tons of our own deals, but we've got a good staff in place so it's not that bad.

Jill DeWit:
It's true.

Steven Butala:
We still do it.

Jill DeWit:
I know. We do it to ourselves

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Thomas wrote, "Hi, everyone. My partners and I are active since about a year ago and currently operating in X state. We made multiple acquisitions so far and I'm very enthusiastic about the process. We started off in a lower price range in X County, and are now dealing with gradually larger and higher value properties that range between 10,000 and $20,000. However, we've noticed big price fluctuations depending on the attributes, specifically trees. It seems that land with trees on it is disproportionally more valuable than land without." I'm sure in this area, it makes a difference.

Jill DeWit:
"For instance, we recently bought a property with a tiny forest on it for $6,800 and sold it for $20,000 within a matter of days. While the treeless properties, we can often sell with up to a 50% profit margin. A few days ago, we received a signed purchase agreement for a seven acre property with lovely mountain view for $14,000. According to our research and comps in the area, we estimate a conservative retail price of about 25 to $28,000." So 80% of the lowest price comparable in the area. These are all making sense to me. This is great.

Steven Butala:
So far, so good. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
"Nevertheless, it neither has electricity nor trees, but it's located near a creek." I'm good with all of this.

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
"A local land investor who we sold properties to in the past and sometimes consult with about our new acquisitions,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/23/first-10-week-land-academy-accountability-group-huge-success-for-members-la-1445/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">JyrgctoDB</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/693d435e-7e93-4ec9-92ea-00e20a68d627.mp3" length="18510197" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pros and Cons of Using your Own Money for Land Flipping (LA 1444)</title><itunes:title>Pros and Cons of Using your Own Money for Land Flipping (LA 1444)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the pros and cons of using your own money for land flipping.

Jill DeWit:
Let's talk about the pros and cons of going back and forth from state to state. It's a little nutty. Truth time. Before we recorded this, we went through, I don't know, how many hours setting this whole thing up now, because we're half here, half there, but at least we're set

Steven Butala:
I think we have two pretty permanent studios now.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, now we do. It took a little while.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about... Oh, I already said that. Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Corey wrote, "Good evening. I received a response from a potential seller. I sent an offer to him on 40 acres. He replied saying he has an additional 40 acres for sale right next to the property I sent an offer on. Both properties and landlocked, but the timber company that owns the last next to the parcels allows access. Is this something you guys would move forward with? It seems good to me, but this is only my second positive response I've gotten from this first mailer. Let me know. Thanks."

Steven Butala:
Well, two 40-acre properties at the right price, Corey, would be fantastic.

Jill DeWit:
I agree.

Steven Butala:
I think that this is a perfect example of how you can make a true success story on rural vacant land, buying rural vacant land, with just jumping over one little hurdle. So, if the timber company is going to allow access, all you need to do is get it in writing, and then maybe cut them a deal. So, the more contact that you can have with people in and around the property where you're taking a look at it, where you're considering buying, maybe it's with adjacent property owners in this situation, if you can take two 40-acre properties, buy them for a very small amount of money, create access, that's what you're actually saying here, that's the improvement. I mean, wouldn't you rather do that with a few phone calls and probably a $1,000 attorney bill than renovate a house or renovate an office building?

Jill DeWit:
Right. I love this.

Steven Butala:
I think it's a great position to be in.

Jill DeWit:
I love it. You touched on something that I'm actually putting a lot of energy in right now and writing a bunch about, is about relationships. So much of our business is not just our offers and how well it's done and the data and what you do, and getting them in the right people's hands, but making these transactions happen because we can forge these relationships with these people.

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
If you didn't have a good relationship with the seller, you wouldn't know about the property nextdoor, number one, and then he's sharing great information with you about the lumber company, and then you have the opportunity now, Corey, to reach out, like Jack said, to the lumber company, get a relationship and a dialogue with them going, and say, "Hey, let's make this work for everybody. I just need to get to these properties. What's it going to... I'll do the work and I'll pay for the attorney. How is it going to go best for you?" and I'd have a hard time saying no to that. It's awesome.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I wonder how... He says the timber company that owns the land next to the parcels allows access, quote-unquote, so I wonder how he knows that. Did he talk to a neighbor?

Jill DeWit:
I bet he's been driving over their land for a long time, and they never said boo, and there's no fence. That's what it sounds like to me. Allows access, to me, I could be reading this wrong, but it sounds like there's a path,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about the pros and cons of using your own money for land flipping.

Jill DeWit:
Let's talk about the pros and cons of going back and forth from state to state. It's a little nutty. Truth time. Before we recorded this, we went through, I don't know, how many hours setting this whole thing up now, because we're half here, half there, but at least we're set

Steven Butala:
I think we have two pretty permanent studios now.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, now we do. It took a little while.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about... Oh, I already said that. Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Corey wrote, "Good evening. I received a response from a potential seller. I sent an offer to him on 40 acres. He replied saying he has an additional 40 acres for sale right next to the property I sent an offer on. Both properties and landlocked, but the timber company that owns the last next to the parcels allows access. Is this something you guys would move forward with? It seems good to me, but this is only my second positive response I've gotten from this first mailer. Let me know. Thanks."

Steven Butala:
Well, two 40-acre properties at the right price, Corey, would be fantastic.

Jill DeWit:
I agree.

Steven Butala:
I think that this is a perfect example of how you can make a true success story on rural vacant land, buying rural vacant land, with just jumping over one little hurdle. So, if the timber company is going to allow access, all you need to do is get it in writing, and then maybe cut them a deal. So, the more contact that you can have with people in and around the property where you're taking a look at it, where you're considering buying, maybe it's with adjacent property owners in this situation, if you can take two 40-acre properties, buy them for a very small amount of money, create access, that's what you're actually saying here, that's the improvement. I mean, wouldn't you rather do that with a few phone calls and probably a $1,000 attorney bill than renovate a house or renovate an office building?

Jill DeWit:
Right. I love this.

Steven Butala:
I think it's a great position to be in.

Jill DeWit:
I love it. You touched on something that I'm actually putting a lot of energy in right now and writing a bunch about, is about relationships. So much of our business is not just our offers and how well it's done and the data and what you do, and getting them in the right people's hands, but making these transactions happen because we can forge these relationships with these people.

Steven Butala:
Yep.

Jill DeWit:
If you didn't have a good relationship with the seller, you wouldn't know about the property nextdoor, number one, and then he's sharing great information with you about the lumber company, and then you have the opportunity now, Corey, to reach out, like Jack said, to the lumber company, get a relationship and a dialogue with them going, and say, "Hey, let's make this work for everybody. I just need to get to these properties. What's it going to... I'll do the work and I'll pay for the attorney. How is it going to go best for you?" and I'd have a hard time saying no to that. It's awesome.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. I wonder how... He says the timber company that owns the land next to the parcels allows access, quote-unquote, so I wonder how he knows that. Did he talk to a neighbor?

Jill DeWit:
I bet he's been driving over their land for a long time, and they never said boo, and there's no fence. That's what it sounds like to me. Allows access, to me, I could be reading this wrong, but it sounds like there's a path,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/22/pros-and-cons-of-using-your-own-money-for-land-flipping-la-1444/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yc38CaAU8</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3f4bd62e-6136-41bf-924d-17f55c9ea685.mp3" length="16826221" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Are you One Deal a Month or One Deal a Day Kind of Investor (LA 1443)</title><itunes:title>Are you One Deal a Month or One Deal a Day Kind of Investor (LA 1443)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, are you a one deal a month or a one deal a day kind of investor?

Jill DeWit:
You to do our answers now, or you want to save it for the show?

Steven Butala:
I think everyone can pretty much guess.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Okay. Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to count down. I'm going to do three, two, one. And then you either say month or day, depending how you feel. Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Month.

Steven Butala:
Both. Month? You're a one deal a month person?

Jill DeWit:
Boy, if I had my way, I'd be-

Steven Butala:
Are you serious?

Jill DeWit:
We used to ... that's why I wanted to do this.

Steven Butala:
Wow. I'm both.

Jill DeWit:
I would love to do one stellar deal a month. I think that would be awesome because then I can goof off the rest of the time.

Steven Butala:
I understand that goof-off point, but you're just putting your eggs in one basket if it doesn't work out.

Jill DeWit:
But I have 12. I have more going on. Let's be honest. Because you know what? I'll have a rotation of many in the pipeline at the same time. But, hey, between one deal a day and one deal a month, I'm leaning towards month. But as I say that, I'm eating my words a little bit because I do say volume a lot.

Steven Butala:
I just think that you got to have 10 or 20 really good deals in the pipeline. And some months you're going to close 10 of them. Someone months you're going to close two. It's not often that you would close-

Jill DeWit:
All the bigger ones.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. It's not often you're going to close 20 a day. But the point is-

Jill DeWit:
But you have.

Steven Butala:
... we all have met people. If you're in this group, you know people that are one deal a day kind of people, and you know people that are just one deal a month. That's it. I'm good. I want to make a couple hundred thousand bucks.

Jill DeWit:
This one's been one deal an hour.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
It's a little nuts.

Steven Butala:
It's not that I want to do the deals because I've done that. My time for doing deals is over. My job is to keep everybody motivated and paid and happy and healthy and working in an environment they want. And generally being kind of, hopefully, a leader and not a pain in everybody's butt.

Jill DeWit:
He's become the HR department. Just kidding. I'm joking.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
You know I was teasing?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget you can find us on Discord. Jesse wrote, "I'm new to Land Academy, just about ready to pull the trigger and lay down my money. In the interim, I figured it would be a good idea to brush up on my Excel skills. Does anyone know of a good online course that is applicable to the data analysis used here at Land Academy? I did a search, and the only one I found mentioned was it at ... " Is it Udemy?

Steven Butala:
Udemy.

Jill DeWit:
Udemy.

Steven Butala:
Like university.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I had someone else, not Land Academy, suggest DataCamp. Does anyone have any experience with DataCamp? Thanks in advance."

Steven Butala:
There's a lot of places to learn things like this, and I think it's great that you're trying to learn more. I would start with Khan Academy, K-A-H-N.

Jill DeWit:
That have Excel stuff?

Steven Butala:
They have everything. I mean, I have never ... and it's all free. It's a foundation. Now they raise money, people donate. It's been around for a while. It was originally designed to help young people from not affluent areas who didn't have access to learning how to c...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about, are you a one deal a month or a one deal a day kind of investor?

Jill DeWit:
You to do our answers now, or you want to save it for the show?

Steven Butala:
I think everyone can pretty much guess.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. Okay. Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to count down. I'm going to do three, two, one. And then you either say month or day, depending how you feel. Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Month.

Steven Butala:
Both. Month? You're a one deal a month person?

Jill DeWit:
Boy, if I had my way, I'd be-

Steven Butala:
Are you serious?

Jill DeWit:
We used to ... that's why I wanted to do this.

Steven Butala:
Wow. I'm both.

Jill DeWit:
I would love to do one stellar deal a month. I think that would be awesome because then I can goof off the rest of the time.

Steven Butala:
I understand that goof-off point, but you're just putting your eggs in one basket if it doesn't work out.

Jill DeWit:
But I have 12. I have more going on. Let's be honest. Because you know what? I'll have a rotation of many in the pipeline at the same time. But, hey, between one deal a day and one deal a month, I'm leaning towards month. But as I say that, I'm eating my words a little bit because I do say volume a lot.

Steven Butala:
I just think that you got to have 10 or 20 really good deals in the pipeline. And some months you're going to close 10 of them. Someone months you're going to close two. It's not often that you would close-

Jill DeWit:
All the bigger ones.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. It's not often you're going to close 20 a day. But the point is-

Jill DeWit:
But you have.

Steven Butala:
... we all have met people. If you're in this group, you know people that are one deal a day kind of people, and you know people that are just one deal a month. That's it. I'm good. I want to make a couple hundred thousand bucks.

Jill DeWit:
This one's been one deal an hour.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
It's a little nuts.

Steven Butala:
It's not that I want to do the deals because I've done that. My time for doing deals is over. My job is to keep everybody motivated and paid and happy and healthy and working in an environment they want. And generally being kind of, hopefully, a leader and not a pain in everybody's butt.

Jill DeWit:
He's become the HR department. Just kidding. I'm joking.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
You know I was teasing?

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget you can find us on Discord. Jesse wrote, "I'm new to Land Academy, just about ready to pull the trigger and lay down my money. In the interim, I figured it would be a good idea to brush up on my Excel skills. Does anyone know of a good online course that is applicable to the data analysis used here at Land Academy? I did a search, and the only one I found mentioned was it at ... " Is it Udemy?

Steven Butala:
Udemy.

Jill DeWit:
Udemy.

Steven Butala:
Like university.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. "I had someone else, not Land Academy, suggest DataCamp. Does anyone have any experience with DataCamp? Thanks in advance."

Steven Butala:
There's a lot of places to learn things like this, and I think it's great that you're trying to learn more. I would start with Khan Academy, K-A-H-N.

Jill DeWit:
That have Excel stuff?

Steven Butala:
They have everything. I mean, I have never ... and it's all free. It's a foundation. Now they raise money, people donate. It's been around for a while. It was originally designed to help young people from not affluent areas who didn't have access to learning how to c...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/19/are-you-one-deal-a-month-or-one-deal-a-day-kind-of-investor-la-1443/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">DBR3v9dni</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e687a82a-3937-4e67-bcc4-99f732efcc35.mp3" length="13507137" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:43</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Develop the Skills I&amp;#8217;m Missing to Have a Successful Company (LA 1442)</title><itunes:title>How to Develop the Skills I&amp;#8217;m Missing to Have a Successful Company (LA 1442)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to develop the skills that you may be missing to have a successful company like Jill talked about. I'm sort of wondering this about you actually.

Jill DeWit:
It's a long process, but I'm going to share all of it today.

Steven Butala:
As we talked about yesterday at the end of the show, Jill and I host an accountability group. And go ahead, Jill, explain the backstory with this.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, so it's our first ever Land Academy official accountability group held by Steven and I, and it's free and voluntary to anyone that enrolled. It was like November, December, last year kind of thing. And we started in January, kicked off in January. So we had a really good question last night or the other night, which was, "I've heard you guys talk about how having a past life or being a business owner in some form was a good indicator who's going to be successful in this world."

Jill DeWit:
And so we answered that question and then the person said, and I'll give you the quick answer, which was, "You can afford it. Tenacity. You know how to solve problems. You die trying. You're going to kick [inaudible 00:01:31] high water. It's going to be successful." If you've done that, then there's not much you can't do I think, so stuff like that. And then the person said, "All right," and there's a lot of other things. They said, "Okay, well, how do I develop the skills that I'm missing then to be that person?" And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget. You can reach us on Discord. So Anthony wrote, "I have been seeing a lot of posts like does anyone know of a good photographer in X, Y, Z County? I was thinking we could add state and county sub farms to the resources forum, so we could share resources by county rather than having to post requests for providers in the general forums. Then, we can share who is good in each county and who we should avoid." And I personally think this is a great idea.

Steven Butala:
That's good, but I have a 180 degrees different opinion. Over the years, Jill and I have created forums and we do have forums in Land Investors, in Discord and a knowledge base that I think we're transferring through different... well it's knowledge based. The software that it's being used on is obsolete, so we're moving into another one. And the heartache that it causes, if you go say in X, Y, Z County, I've got this great person who can close deals. I have a great lawyer, closes deals all over the state. They're based out of this county. It's going to become obsolete fairly quickly, number one. Number two, we're going to get a call from that lawyer that says, "I'm getting all these calls from Land Academy members and they're not asking me the right questions. What they're asking me is, where should I send mail, things that I've never heard of before." And so it's title mind all over again.

Jill DeWit:
I was only talking about photographer.

Steven Butala:
And I think photographers get obsolete too. The best photographers I've ever had, the times that I've gone to use them again, they're gone. I just don't think-

Jill DeWit:
That's fair.

Steven Butala:
It's like saying air table is the best CRM. It's not. It's really good for us. We love it. Jill loves it. It's pretty. She says it all the time. Apparently, that matters to her and that's fine. Whatever it takes to get deals done. I just don't think that sharing this type of information... and this question is appropriate for this topic today.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to develop the skills that you may be missing to have a successful company like Jill talked about. I'm sort of wondering this about you actually.

Jill DeWit:
It's a long process, but I'm going to share all of it today.

Steven Butala:
As we talked about yesterday at the end of the show, Jill and I host an accountability group. And go ahead, Jill, explain the backstory with this.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah, so it's our first ever Land Academy official accountability group held by Steven and I, and it's free and voluntary to anyone that enrolled. It was like November, December, last year kind of thing. And we started in January, kicked off in January. So we had a really good question last night or the other night, which was, "I've heard you guys talk about how having a past life or being a business owner in some form was a good indicator who's going to be successful in this world."

Jill DeWit:
And so we answered that question and then the person said, and I'll give you the quick answer, which was, "You can afford it. Tenacity. You know how to solve problems. You die trying. You're going to kick [inaudible 00:01:31] high water. It's going to be successful." If you've done that, then there's not much you can't do I think, so stuff like that. And then the person said, "All right," and there's a lot of other things. They said, "Okay, well, how do I develop the skills that I'm missing then to be that person?" And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget. You can reach us on Discord. So Anthony wrote, "I have been seeing a lot of posts like does anyone know of a good photographer in X, Y, Z County? I was thinking we could add state and county sub farms to the resources forum, so we could share resources by county rather than having to post requests for providers in the general forums. Then, we can share who is good in each county and who we should avoid." And I personally think this is a great idea.

Steven Butala:
That's good, but I have a 180 degrees different opinion. Over the years, Jill and I have created forums and we do have forums in Land Investors, in Discord and a knowledge base that I think we're transferring through different... well it's knowledge based. The software that it's being used on is obsolete, so we're moving into another one. And the heartache that it causes, if you go say in X, Y, Z County, I've got this great person who can close deals. I have a great lawyer, closes deals all over the state. They're based out of this county. It's going to become obsolete fairly quickly, number one. Number two, we're going to get a call from that lawyer that says, "I'm getting all these calls from Land Academy members and they're not asking me the right questions. What they're asking me is, where should I send mail, things that I've never heard of before." And so it's title mind all over again.

Jill DeWit:
I was only talking about photographer.

Steven Butala:
And I think photographers get obsolete too. The best photographers I've ever had, the times that I've gone to use them again, they're gone. I just don't think-

Jill DeWit:
That's fair.

Steven Butala:
It's like saying air table is the best CRM. It's not. It's really good for us. We love it. Jill loves it. It's pretty. She says it all the time. Apparently, that matters to her and that's fine. Whatever it takes to get deals done. I just don't think that sharing this type of information... and this question is appropriate for this topic today.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/18/how-to-develop-the-skills-im-missing-to-have-a-successful-company-la-1442-2/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">Oik3hz7-0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/893ed205-b4a3-4a43-901f-adde90078561.mp3" length="15017319" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Boondocking on Your Land (LA 1441)</title><itunes:title>Boondocking on Your Land (LA 1441)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jill DeWit:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt coming to you from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
Where am I, where am I, where am I? Nevermind, I'm looking straight out a window staring at a big cactus, but every now and then you forget, and these old habits, you just-

Steven Butala:
Well, we've been saying sunny Southern California for about-

Jill DeWit:
A long time.

Steven Butala:
...two, at least two years.

Jill DeWit:
Wait a minute. You know what's funny? We started this in Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I think so, too.

Jill DeWit:
I wonder what I used to say back then. But now we're here, that's funny. Went to Southern California and now we're back.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about boondocking on your land. What the heck is boondocking? It's when somebody that you don't know at all is driving their RV around because their employer lets them use their laptop to work anywhere they'd like now. Not lets them, but he's forced to because of the COVID or whatever "de jour" problem there is.

Jill DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
And he's on your land. Is that good or bad? And can you do it if you have an RV on other people's land? We'll talk about that in a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
And if you're a member of Land Academy, by the way, you can also catch up with the [inaudible 00:01:24]. James wrote, "Hello in Texas, a real," excuse me. "In Texas, realtor.com does not have data on rural counties. Steve mentioned that this should not exclude you from going after rural land. Anyone have a manual way to pull data in the red, yellow, green test and figure out which rural county is best? Assuming that days on market is the most important indicator, pulls data on all property types, including housing, which may skew results for land. Also, Texas land seems more expensive, like $9,000 an acre retail, than most of the two to $3,000 retail deals that you have here around in Land Academy. Does it matter as long as the land is retail for the price on the various websites, such as Redfin, Zillow, realtor, et cetera?" Take it away.

Steven Butala:
Well, this is the third or fourth time I've answered this. And I think at least two times, maybe three times from the same person. This is not, there's no equation. And if you think like in math, in high school or college, where you figure it out and you've got it and that's it. Every single county is different. The states are different. You have to feel your way through this and figure it out. And data is readily available for certain product types like houses in certain areas like urban areas. When you get out into rural areas and you start changing product types, like land, like we all buy and sell, you're going to get a different result. Especially in Texas, Texas is famous for not reporting the completed sale and everything that surrounds it, including and most importantly price. So yeah, you're going to have a tough time completing an OCD complete, I'm going to write this down. Red, yellow, green test. This topic comes up a lot for new people and I'm trying to drive this point home.

Jill DeWit:
There's no secret. We're not holding you back. We're not holding back.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
There's a special way.

Steven Butala:
The reason that some people do extremely well with this, us included, is because we have an open mind when we go into a dataset and we say, "It's not complete. I'm going to have to fill in some gaps here. I'm going to have to guess over here, I'm going to have to take the data that I have," which could be 50% incomplete. Look around surrounding counties. Look at housing data, call the 7-Eleven clerk. I'm not sure what you need to do,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcripts:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Jill DeWit:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt coming to you from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
Where am I, where am I, where am I? Nevermind, I'm looking straight out a window staring at a big cactus, but every now and then you forget, and these old habits, you just-

Steven Butala:
Well, we've been saying sunny Southern California for about-

Jill DeWit:
A long time.

Steven Butala:
...two, at least two years.

Jill DeWit:
Wait a minute. You know what's funny? We started this in Arizona.

Steven Butala:
I think so, too.

Jill DeWit:
I wonder what I used to say back then. But now we're here, that's funny. Went to Southern California and now we're back.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about boondocking on your land. What the heck is boondocking? It's when somebody that you don't know at all is driving their RV around because their employer lets them use their laptop to work anywhere they'd like now. Not lets them, but he's forced to because of the COVID or whatever "de jour" problem there is.

Jill DeWit:
That's cool.

Steven Butala:
And he's on your land. Is that good or bad? And can you do it if you have an RV on other people's land? We'll talk about that in a second. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:
And if you're a member of Land Academy, by the way, you can also catch up with the [inaudible 00:01:24]. James wrote, "Hello in Texas, a real," excuse me. "In Texas, realtor.com does not have data on rural counties. Steve mentioned that this should not exclude you from going after rural land. Anyone have a manual way to pull data in the red, yellow, green test and figure out which rural county is best? Assuming that days on market is the most important indicator, pulls data on all property types, including housing, which may skew results for land. Also, Texas land seems more expensive, like $9,000 an acre retail, than most of the two to $3,000 retail deals that you have here around in Land Academy. Does it matter as long as the land is retail for the price on the various websites, such as Redfin, Zillow, realtor, et cetera?" Take it away.

Steven Butala:
Well, this is the third or fourth time I've answered this. And I think at least two times, maybe three times from the same person. This is not, there's no equation. And if you think like in math, in high school or college, where you figure it out and you've got it and that's it. Every single county is different. The states are different. You have to feel your way through this and figure it out. And data is readily available for certain product types like houses in certain areas like urban areas. When you get out into rural areas and you start changing product types, like land, like we all buy and sell, you're going to get a different result. Especially in Texas, Texas is famous for not reporting the completed sale and everything that surrounds it, including and most importantly price. So yeah, you're going to have a tough time completing an OCD complete, I'm going to write this down. Red, yellow, green test. This topic comes up a lot for new people and I'm trying to drive this point home.

Jill DeWit:
There's no secret. We're not holding you back. We're not holding back.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
There's a special way.

Steven Butala:
The reason that some people do extremely well with this, us included, is because we have an open mind when we go into a dataset and we say, "It's not complete. I'm going to have to fill in some gaps here. I'm going to have to guess over here, I'm going to have to take the data that I have," which could be 50% incomplete. Look around surrounding counties. Look at housing data, call the 7-Eleven clerk. I'm not sure what you need to do,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/17/boondocking-on-your-land-la-1441/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">S7Bn4NDU0</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6aec760c-756b-49d3-90b3-8d7ee816b847.mp3" length="11717909" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>11:51</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What We Learned in 4 Weeks Hosting the Land Academy Accountability Group (LA 1440)</title><itunes:title>What We Learned in 4 Weeks Hosting the Land Academy Accountability Group (LA 1440)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Yee-haw!Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from... What's a great Western term?Steven Butala:Sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.Jill DeWit:Okay, we'll go with that.Steven Butala:What's a good Western term?Jill DeWit:I don't know. I'm trying to think of a good Western description. Dusty, dusty, Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Dusty boots Jill today.Jill DeWit:There we go. We actually took our car, truth time. We went up to parts of Northern Phoenix area-Steven Butala:Carefree Cave Creek.Jill DeWit:... Carefree Cave Creek.Steven Butala:Looked at ranches.Jill DeWit:Driving all over in dirt and four wheel drive. And think of this. We have that. And my beautiful clean car was like a dusty mess, but it was cool. And I wore my cowboy boots. Very proud of them.Steven Butala:Today Jill and I talk about what we learned in four weeks of hosting the Land Academy accountability Group. Take it away, Jill. This is the first-Jill DeWit:We missed the question.Steven Butala:Oh, no, there isn't a question.Jill DeWit:Oh.Steven Butala:That's what we learned about.Jill DeWit:Oh, okay. [crosstalk 00:01:03] topic. I'm all goofed up.Steven Butala:Jill and I, we started, decided to start an accountability group because our members were like starting these little groups on their own and they were asking us to attend and we did and it was kind of just a talking session. So we decided to bring, it's all free for members or for certain members that sign up at a certain time and it's working out great. I really think it's or at least our members are-Jill DeWit:I have results to share.Steven Butala:Yeah. Okay. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill DeWit:By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget, you can find us on Discord. Patterson wrote, "Howdy Accountability Group. Heidi and I are behind sorry for that. It keeps us from contributing to the calls in here." This must be from Discord?Steven Butala:Yes.Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:Yes, it is.Jill DeWit:We have-Steven Butala:There's a specific Discord Accountability Group too.Jill DeWit:OK, cool. We have a lot of time blocked out this weekend to work on getting caught up. Anyone else struggling to keep up and interested in, perhaps jumping on Zoom call this weekend to discuss the red, green, yellow test, test for reason, data polling, data scrubbing and work you've done to date. How cool is that?Steven Butala:And of course, a lot of people responded.Jill DeWit:Aw, that's nice.Steven Butala:And so I wanted to put that in here because it's a study group just like in school.Jill DeWit:That's one of the things I was going to talk about here on my list. Let's jump into it.Steven Butala:Today's topic, what we learned in four weeks of hosting the Land Academy Accounting Accountability Group. This is the meat of the show.Jill DeWit:I want to start right there. So, because it's a small group, it's not a hundred, it's a small contained group. Everyone found us or joined up with us within a 30 or 60 day window. Can't remember what it was. So everybody's really on the same timeline. And that has really encouraged like this, will have great open communication because no one can say, "Oh, I did that two years ago." Everybody's at the same point, like, "I haven't read that. What was that? Or how, what was your take on that?" Just like you said, being in a class, being on the same page, it'd be hard to talk to someone who's in their masters in accounting versus I'm just taking the first class. The master's in accounting person is going to be sick of my questions and bored and I might not even be comfortable enough to ask them, even if they weren't, I might not be comfortable enough to ask that person questions because I'm like, "Oh,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Yee-haw!Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from... What's a great Western term?Steven Butala:Sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.Jill DeWit:Okay, we'll go with that.Steven Butala:What's a good Western term?Jill DeWit:I don't know. I'm trying to think of a good Western description. Dusty, dusty, Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Dusty boots Jill today.Jill DeWit:There we go. We actually took our car, truth time. We went up to parts of Northern Phoenix area-Steven Butala:Carefree Cave Creek.Jill DeWit:... Carefree Cave Creek.Steven Butala:Looked at ranches.Jill DeWit:Driving all over in dirt and four wheel drive. And think of this. We have that. And my beautiful clean car was like a dusty mess, but it was cool. And I wore my cowboy boots. Very proud of them.Steven Butala:Today Jill and I talk about what we learned in four weeks of hosting the Land Academy accountability Group. Take it away, Jill. This is the first-Jill DeWit:We missed the question.Steven Butala:Oh, no, there isn't a question.Jill DeWit:Oh.Steven Butala:That's what we learned about.Jill DeWit:Oh, okay. [crosstalk 00:01:03] topic. I'm all goofed up.Steven Butala:Jill and I, we started, decided to start an accountability group because our members were like starting these little groups on their own and they were asking us to attend and we did and it was kind of just a talking session. So we decided to bring, it's all free for members or for certain members that sign up at a certain time and it's working out great. I really think it's or at least our members are-Jill DeWit:I have results to share.Steven Butala:Yeah. Okay. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill DeWit:By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget, you can find us on Discord. Patterson wrote, "Howdy Accountability Group. Heidi and I are behind sorry for that. It keeps us from contributing to the calls in here." This must be from Discord?Steven Butala:Yes.Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:Yes, it is.Jill DeWit:We have-Steven Butala:There's a specific Discord Accountability Group too.Jill DeWit:OK, cool. We have a lot of time blocked out this weekend to work on getting caught up. Anyone else struggling to keep up and interested in, perhaps jumping on Zoom call this weekend to discuss the red, green, yellow test, test for reason, data polling, data scrubbing and work you've done to date. How cool is that?Steven Butala:And of course, a lot of people responded.Jill DeWit:Aw, that's nice.Steven Butala:And so I wanted to put that in here because it's a study group just like in school.Jill DeWit:That's one of the things I was going to talk about here on my list. Let's jump into it.Steven Butala:Today's topic, what we learned in four weeks of hosting the Land Academy Accounting Accountability Group. This is the meat of the show.Jill DeWit:I want to start right there. So, because it's a small group, it's not a hundred, it's a small contained group. Everyone found us or joined up with us within a 30 or 60 day window. Can't remember what it was. So everybody's really on the same timeline. And that has really encouraged like this, will have great open communication because no one can say, "Oh, I did that two years ago." Everybody's at the same point, like, "I haven't read that. What was that? Or how, what was your take on that?" Just like you said, being in a class, being on the same page, it'd be hard to talk to someone who's in their masters in accounting versus I'm just taking the first class. The master's in accounting person is going to be sick of my questions and bored and I might not even be comfortable enough to ask them, even if they weren't, I might not be comfortable enough to ask that person questions because I'm like, "Oh,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/16/what-we-learned-in-4-weeks-hosting-the-land-academy-accountability-group-la-1440/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">ogM_UNOMt</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0bdd0915-d9e1-4958-a468-1aeb6862dd22.mp3" length="10466471" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>10:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy Membership vs Owning a Franchise (LA 1439)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy Membership vs Owning a Franchise (LA 1439)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hello.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Today. Jill and I talk about Land Academy membership versus owning a franchise couldn't be more different.Jill DeWit:But sounds like, well, hey, wait a minute though, well, Land Academy to be an investor, right? So it's really kind of about being an investor versus this business... What business do you want to be in? You want to be an investor, which is what we teach you how to do and set you up for, versus owning a franchise, which is kind of, they teach you how to run, let's just say it's Cold Stone Creamery. You even go to Cold Stone school, and then you have your business. But there's a lot of different things going on.Steven Butala:We teach you how to get free, and autonomous, and independent, and happy and done. We don't have our hooks in you forever, like, let's say, Cold Stone.Jill DeWit:Well, we'll talk about that because I made a list and you're tying into my list. I'm trying to just state the facts, man.Steven Butala:I'm not talking about you.Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:I just, I'm not a huge franchise fan.Jill DeWit:No kidding.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.Jill DeWit:I'm here to tell you, truth time, there's one and only one franchise this person likes to go to, and it's Wendy's.Steven Butala:Just because I want to eat for free?Jill DeWit:No, just the chilies. No, not because you want to eat for free, I'm here... it's truth time. You're like, "I don't like that, I don't like... " You don't like the franchise, anything, but you're like, "I do like Wendy's Chili." How's that? Okay.Steven Butala:Let's see. If you had a franchise, it would be a Zales Jewelry or something.Jill DeWit:No. What would my franchise be? Oh, Nordstrom.Steven Butala:Yeah, that's for sure.Jill DeWit:Well, it's not a franchise-Steven Butala:I know, I know. Neither is Zales-Jill DeWit:Oh yeah-Steven Butala:... I'm just joking around.Jill DeWit:I don't know what my... Maybe subway? No. I have to think about that.Jill DeWit:Okay. Herbert asks, "Hello. I know this isn't our typical vacant land leasing, single family convo, but I would like some help clarifying some things, and figured what better place to gain information about this topic than from our super knowledgeable and amazing group here at Land Investors?"Jill DeWit:Okay. Herbert, are you trying to get brownie points? Because you're winning. It's working.Jill DeWit:All right. I'm pretty new to real estate in general, never owning a home before. So I'd like your advice on the process slash plan of action for acquiring a four unit, multi-family property to serve as a primary residence. I plan to purchase the four units by using an either FHA or FHA 203(k) loan to renovate, and then live here in Miami, Florida.Jill DeWit:My questions are, number one. Am I correct to assume that our direct mail approach to acquiring real estate is also the best way to acquire my first multi-family deal for a primary residence?Steven Butala:Yes.Jill DeWit:What are some of the differences in the approach that I should be aware of?Jill DeWit:Number two. Will House Academy teach me how to acquire multi-families as well as single families?Steven Butala:Yes.Jill DeWit:Steven. Ready. Go.Steven Butala:Yes, but I have to tell you, I think you're on the wrong path here.Jill DeWit:Ah, uh-oh. Well, like you said, Herbert, you really want to pick the brain from the knowledgeable, amazing group here at Land Investors. And one was going to really pick apart your thing, and I'm sure he's right.Steven Butala:You got to live somewhere, I understand that. I'm quoting my friend, Jill. You got to live somewhere. Recently... I got a speech on this.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hello.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from awesome Scottsdale, Arizona.Steven Butala:Today. Jill and I talk about Land Academy membership versus owning a franchise couldn't be more different.Jill DeWit:But sounds like, well, hey, wait a minute though, well, Land Academy to be an investor, right? So it's really kind of about being an investor versus this business... What business do you want to be in? You want to be an investor, which is what we teach you how to do and set you up for, versus owning a franchise, which is kind of, they teach you how to run, let's just say it's Cold Stone Creamery. You even go to Cold Stone school, and then you have your business. But there's a lot of different things going on.Steven Butala:We teach you how to get free, and autonomous, and independent, and happy and done. We don't have our hooks in you forever, like, let's say, Cold Stone.Jill DeWit:Well, we'll talk about that because I made a list and you're tying into my list. I'm trying to just state the facts, man.Steven Butala:I'm not talking about you.Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:I just, I'm not a huge franchise fan.Jill DeWit:No kidding.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.Jill DeWit:I'm here to tell you, truth time, there's one and only one franchise this person likes to go to, and it's Wendy's.Steven Butala:Just because I want to eat for free?Jill DeWit:No, just the chilies. No, not because you want to eat for free, I'm here... it's truth time. You're like, "I don't like that, I don't like... " You don't like the franchise, anything, but you're like, "I do like Wendy's Chili." How's that? Okay.Steven Butala:Let's see. If you had a franchise, it would be a Zales Jewelry or something.Jill DeWit:No. What would my franchise be? Oh, Nordstrom.Steven Butala:Yeah, that's for sure.Jill DeWit:Well, it's not a franchise-Steven Butala:I know, I know. Neither is Zales-Jill DeWit:Oh yeah-Steven Butala:... I'm just joking around.Jill DeWit:I don't know what my... Maybe subway? No. I have to think about that.Jill DeWit:Okay. Herbert asks, "Hello. I know this isn't our typical vacant land leasing, single family convo, but I would like some help clarifying some things, and figured what better place to gain information about this topic than from our super knowledgeable and amazing group here at Land Investors?"Jill DeWit:Okay. Herbert, are you trying to get brownie points? Because you're winning. It's working.Jill DeWit:All right. I'm pretty new to real estate in general, never owning a home before. So I'd like your advice on the process slash plan of action for acquiring a four unit, multi-family property to serve as a primary residence. I plan to purchase the four units by using an either FHA or FHA 203(k) loan to renovate, and then live here in Miami, Florida.Jill DeWit:My questions are, number one. Am I correct to assume that our direct mail approach to acquiring real estate is also the best way to acquire my first multi-family deal for a primary residence?Steven Butala:Yes.Jill DeWit:What are some of the differences in the approach that I should be aware of?Jill DeWit:Number two. Will House Academy teach me how to acquire multi-families as well as single families?Steven Butala:Yes.Jill DeWit:Steven. Ready. Go.Steven Butala:Yes, but I have to tell you, I think you're on the wrong path here.Jill DeWit:Ah, uh-oh. Well, like you said, Herbert, you really want to pick the brain from the knowledgeable, amazing group here at Land Investors. And one was going to really pick apart your thing, and I'm sure he's right.Steven Butala:You got to live somewhere, I understand that. I'm quoting my friend, Jill. You got to live somewhere. Recently... I got a speech on this.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/15/land-academy-membership-vs-owning-a-franchise-la-1439/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1H36gUP_u</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7c47fae2-b494-45cf-b1a2-898237b4bed0.mp3" length="20868209" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:23</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jills Recent Successful 11th Hour Land Upsell (LA 1438)</title><itunes:title>Jills Recent Successful 11th Hour Land Upsell (LA 1438)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hi.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Middle Arizona. Since I was-Steven Butala:Scottsdale.Jill DeWit:It was so politely, which it was pointed out to me yesterday. What's with the Southern, I'm so used to saying Southern.Steven Butala:Yeah.Jill DeWit:Right, so that's why.Steven Butala:Sunny Scottsdale.Jill DeWit:Sunny Scottsdale, I'll change the script.Jill DeWit:That's good. Cool.Steven Butala:Did he, Jill and I talk about Jill's recent successful 11th hour land upsell. I could, could be. Couldn't be more proud of her.Jill DeWit:Thank you very much.Steven Butala:We had, many, many, many times it happens, you have adjacent property, you buy two properties, contiguous two or three or four properties altogether. This, these two properties that we Joe and I happened to buy really recently generated a ton of interest. And so well, I'll ask her about.Jill DeWit:I'll explain it in a little bit.Steven Butala:Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land, investors.com online community. It's free.Jill DeWit:Ross wrote "Hi guys. We're in the process of hiring staff. And my question is specifically about an acquisition manager and a sales manager. Do you think that these two positions should be equal compensation or is one position deserving higher pay? Thanks".Jill DeWit:You wanna go first?Steven Butala:You're like pitting us against each other,Jill DeWit:Huh.Steven Butala:Cause I think there's more way more value in the acquisition process and less value in the sales manager, but...Jill DeWit:And I feel the opposite.Steven Butala:I'm confident. She feels the opposite.Jill DeWit:Yeah exactly.Jill DeWit:So then that way equal pay.Steven Butala:I'll tell you Ross, I'm not sure that you want to outsource both of those at the same time. Nothing happens. There's nothing to sell. Unless somebody bought something at a great price where there's built in equity and then the sales happens automatically. So if you are, if you are and have been the acquisition manager, which Jill and I both kind of do in our, in our life, our professional land life, you're just shoving it off to salespeople. Basically, they're just posting it and taking calls and saying, this is how you pay, or this is how we're going to close. So I think the acquisition manager, hopefully it's, you should stay on and you should get not managers, but assistance to help you post stuff and, and kind of train somebody and guide them along. And I'll tell you what worked for us, is hiring family members really early on at this point. Cause you can, they're going to not, you're going to have a 'tiff and some stuff's going to happen and they're not going to leave and go screaming off. And it was just worked out well for us.Jill DeWit:Well, you have the trust factor and all that too. So if you've got someone, that'd be a good someone who wants to learn and get in this with you, which I'm sure someone wants, you start making a few dollars. There's going to be family members that come, come forward.Steven Butala:Yeah.Jill DeWit:And say, what are you doing over there?Steven Butala:Or a spouse.Jill DeWit:Aha, and want to help? That's a good idea. I love it.Steven Butala:It's philosophically. Let's say it's not land business. Do you think acquisitions, like an investment banking they're paid equally. [crosstalk 00:03:04] If you see a bifurcated investment bank without acquisition, people are going to find properties, companies to buy and people are dealing with selling them, dealing with it.Jill DeWit:Right.Steven Butala:It's challenging enough. I was in investment banking. I was always on the South side.Jill DeWit:Well, I was going to say in, I think in the majority of organizations, the salespeople are paid the most. They get these rocking commissions because they sell...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hi.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Middle Arizona. Since I was-Steven Butala:Scottsdale.Jill DeWit:It was so politely, which it was pointed out to me yesterday. What's with the Southern, I'm so used to saying Southern.Steven Butala:Yeah.Jill DeWit:Right, so that's why.Steven Butala:Sunny Scottsdale.Jill DeWit:Sunny Scottsdale, I'll change the script.Jill DeWit:That's good. Cool.Steven Butala:Did he, Jill and I talk about Jill's recent successful 11th hour land upsell. I could, could be. Couldn't be more proud of her.Jill DeWit:Thank you very much.Steven Butala:We had, many, many, many times it happens, you have adjacent property, you buy two properties, contiguous two or three or four properties altogether. This, these two properties that we Joe and I happened to buy really recently generated a ton of interest. And so well, I'll ask her about.Jill DeWit:I'll explain it in a little bit.Steven Butala:Before we get into it. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land, investors.com online community. It's free.Jill DeWit:Ross wrote "Hi guys. We're in the process of hiring staff. And my question is specifically about an acquisition manager and a sales manager. Do you think that these two positions should be equal compensation or is one position deserving higher pay? Thanks".Jill DeWit:You wanna go first?Steven Butala:You're like pitting us against each other,Jill DeWit:Huh.Steven Butala:Cause I think there's more way more value in the acquisition process and less value in the sales manager, but...Jill DeWit:And I feel the opposite.Steven Butala:I'm confident. She feels the opposite.Jill DeWit:Yeah exactly.Jill DeWit:So then that way equal pay.Steven Butala:I'll tell you Ross, I'm not sure that you want to outsource both of those at the same time. Nothing happens. There's nothing to sell. Unless somebody bought something at a great price where there's built in equity and then the sales happens automatically. So if you are, if you are and have been the acquisition manager, which Jill and I both kind of do in our, in our life, our professional land life, you're just shoving it off to salespeople. Basically, they're just posting it and taking calls and saying, this is how you pay, or this is how we're going to close. So I think the acquisition manager, hopefully it's, you should stay on and you should get not managers, but assistance to help you post stuff and, and kind of train somebody and guide them along. And I'll tell you what worked for us, is hiring family members really early on at this point. Cause you can, they're going to not, you're going to have a 'tiff and some stuff's going to happen and they're not going to leave and go screaming off. And it was just worked out well for us.Jill DeWit:Well, you have the trust factor and all that too. So if you've got someone, that'd be a good someone who wants to learn and get in this with you, which I'm sure someone wants, you start making a few dollars. There's going to be family members that come, come forward.Steven Butala:Yeah.Jill DeWit:And say, what are you doing over there?Steven Butala:Or a spouse.Jill DeWit:Aha, and want to help? That's a good idea. I love it.Steven Butala:It's philosophically. Let's say it's not land business. Do you think acquisitions, like an investment banking they're paid equally. [crosstalk 00:03:04] If you see a bifurcated investment bank without acquisition, people are going to find properties, companies to buy and people are dealing with selling them, dealing with it.Jill DeWit:Right.Steven Butala:It's challenging enough. I was in investment banking. I was always on the South side.Jill DeWit:Well, I was going to say in, I think in the majority of organizations, the salespeople are paid the most. They get these rocking commissions because they sell...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/12/jills-recent-successful-11th-hour-land-upsell-la-1438/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">8Jv4rAP_T</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e6a8b225-d1ae-45bc-b9e2-cef76d68c702.mp3" length="13620773" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:50</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Personal Career Advice from Steven and Jill (LA 1437)</title><itunes:title>Personal Career Advice from Steven and Jill (LA 1437)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Personal Career Advice from Steven and Jill (LA 1437)Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Howdy.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from awesome western southern Arizona, not western as in western southern, I mean kind of western cowyboyish around here.Steven Butala:Yeah. I think it's central Arizona, don't you?Jill DeWit:I don't know. I would say southern, I don't know. Because I can drive to the border in a couple of hours, so that's why I feel like it's southern. So I don't know.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about your personal career advice from both Jill and I.Jill DeWit:Now I took this a little bit career and because I heard personal, so I put career and like a life advice. I came up with three-Steven Butala:That's how I feel too.Jill DeWit:Okay, good. Because it always does tie together.Steven Butala:Professional career advice would be something like ...Jill DeWit:Get a recruiter.Steven Butala:Don't wear high tops.Jill DeWit:Don't wear high tops?Steven Butala:Yeah, it's work.Jill DeWit:Would you ever? Do you own? Have you ever owned?Steven Butala:Yeah, I'm sure I did.Jill DeWit:Really?Steven Butala:Yeah.Jill DeWit:I never did.Steven Butala:Not like the ones that the kids wear now.Jill DeWit:Okay. The kids.Steven Butala:Not the $500 ones, I'll tell you that.Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.Jill DeWit:And by the way, if you are a Land Academy member, check us out. You can reach us on Discord to.Jill DeWit:Kevin wrote, "Hello, land investors. My name is Kevin, I live in New Jersey, about 20 minutes outside of New York City. I currently own two single family homes and properties. Here it's expensive, but can be found if you look hard enough. We purchased our investment property for $160,000, put $40,000 into rehab and did a cash out refinance at $200,000. Our tenants pay $2,100 a month, which gives us, excuse me, cashflow of about $250 a month and the house is valued at $350,000."Steven Butala:That's a good start.Jill DeWit:This is great, "Our personal property costs $260,000 and it's valued at $325,000 currently, although we're in the process of fixing it up to force value. Taxes in this area are killer, with it being over $6,000 on each of the properties." I'm sure that's a year.Steven Butala:New Jersey has the worst taxes, highest tax rate in the country.Jill DeWit:Worse than California?Steven Butala:Yeah, by far.Jill DeWit:Got it. Okay. "We want to continue to buy and hold properties, but it requires a good amount of cash on homes in this area. We're not quite at the point of feeling comfortable investing in buy and hold properties out of state. After hearing about the podcast through a book and listening to Steve and Jill, I believe buying and selling land will give us a cash infusion we need to further our long-term goals." This is great.Steven Butala:Boy, whoever you guys are, you're smart.Jill DeWit:"Right now, my biggest question is to figure out where do we begin with my mailers. The U.S. Is a large place, lol." That's true.Steven Butala:All right. So you're smart and you understand real estate. That's the good news, Here's the bad news. We're going to have to undo a little bit of this. I hope you don't deal with the real estate agents. I almost want to say Kevin, that you might want to take a look at a, we have another product that Jill and I never talk about called House Academy. If you go to house academy.com and take a look around there, it's going to really sing to you. These properties that you can successfully clearly renovate, you need to be finding them cheaper. So imagine this $160,000 hot property, you bought it for 80,000 and put 40 in that cap rate at $2,100 a month is fantastic. So you're on the right track,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Personal Career Advice from Steven and Jill (LA 1437)Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Howdy.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill Dewit, broadcasting from awesome western southern Arizona, not western as in western southern, I mean kind of western cowyboyish around here.Steven Butala:Yeah. I think it's central Arizona, don't you?Jill DeWit:I don't know. I would say southern, I don't know. Because I can drive to the border in a couple of hours, so that's why I feel like it's southern. So I don't know.Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about your personal career advice from both Jill and I.Jill DeWit:Now I took this a little bit career and because I heard personal, so I put career and like a life advice. I came up with three-Steven Butala:That's how I feel too.Jill DeWit:Okay, good. Because it always does tie together.Steven Butala:Professional career advice would be something like ...Jill DeWit:Get a recruiter.Steven Butala:Don't wear high tops.Jill DeWit:Don't wear high tops?Steven Butala:Yeah, it's work.Jill DeWit:Would you ever? Do you own? Have you ever owned?Steven Butala:Yeah, I'm sure I did.Jill DeWit:Really?Steven Butala:Yeah.Jill DeWit:I never did.Steven Butala:Not like the ones that the kids wear now.Jill DeWit:Okay. The kids.Steven Butala:Not the $500 ones, I'll tell you that.Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community, it's free.Jill DeWit:And by the way, if you are a Land Academy member, check us out. You can reach us on Discord to.Jill DeWit:Kevin wrote, "Hello, land investors. My name is Kevin, I live in New Jersey, about 20 minutes outside of New York City. I currently own two single family homes and properties. Here it's expensive, but can be found if you look hard enough. We purchased our investment property for $160,000, put $40,000 into rehab and did a cash out refinance at $200,000. Our tenants pay $2,100 a month, which gives us, excuse me, cashflow of about $250 a month and the house is valued at $350,000."Steven Butala:That's a good start.Jill DeWit:This is great, "Our personal property costs $260,000 and it's valued at $325,000 currently, although we're in the process of fixing it up to force value. Taxes in this area are killer, with it being over $6,000 on each of the properties." I'm sure that's a year.Steven Butala:New Jersey has the worst taxes, highest tax rate in the country.Jill DeWit:Worse than California?Steven Butala:Yeah, by far.Jill DeWit:Got it. Okay. "We want to continue to buy and hold properties, but it requires a good amount of cash on homes in this area. We're not quite at the point of feeling comfortable investing in buy and hold properties out of state. After hearing about the podcast through a book and listening to Steve and Jill, I believe buying and selling land will give us a cash infusion we need to further our long-term goals." This is great.Steven Butala:Boy, whoever you guys are, you're smart.Jill DeWit:"Right now, my biggest question is to figure out where do we begin with my mailers. The U.S. Is a large place, lol." That's true.Steven Butala:All right. So you're smart and you understand real estate. That's the good news, Here's the bad news. We're going to have to undo a little bit of this. I hope you don't deal with the real estate agents. I almost want to say Kevin, that you might want to take a look at a, we have another product that Jill and I never talk about called House Academy. If you go to house academy.com and take a look around there, it's going to really sing to you. These properties that you can successfully clearly renovate, you need to be finding them cheaper. So imagine this $160,000 hot property, you bought it for 80,000 and put 40 in that cap rate at $2,100 a month is fantastic. So you're on the right track,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/11/personal-career-advice-from-steven-and-jill-la-1437/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">C9pSE9fhA</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/862bf7d8-8323-47a1-91b9-8cbfa72b6a81.mp3" length="19650619" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:07</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Structuring Infill Lot Development with Home Builders (LA 1436)</title><itunes:title>Structuring Infill Lot Development with Home Builders (LA 1436)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:
Steve Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWitt:
Hey.
Steve Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWitt:
I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from beautiful Southern Arizona.
Steve Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about Structuring Infill Lot Development Deals with Home Builders and it's Infill Lot. I-N-F-I-L-L. It's pretty funny, because I've heard people call it infield.
Jill DeWitt:
Oh.
Steve Butala:
And, inful.
Jill DeWitt:
Inful?
Steve Butala:
I-N-F-
Jill DeWitt:
F-U-L?
Steve Butala:
Or, something. F-O-O-L.
Jill DeWitt:
Infilt? Infold? Unfold?
Steve Butala:
So you're filling in a lot between two houses. We'll talk all about that. There's a deal we're involved in that's pretty pertinent, but before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.
Jill DeWitt:
Hey, by the way, if you are a Land Academy member, you can also find us on Discord. So Julius wrote, "Hi everyone. My name is Julius, and I'm just jumping into land investing 100% fresh. I had been thinking about it from my own personal property purchases for a while now, but after some research found this business model to be rather incredible."
Steve Butala:
Good.
Jill DeWitt:
Yeah, you're right. "I'm currently a grad student. I'm in the process of saving up to join Land Academy. I have some extra capital from my actual mailers and deals when that time comes. My question is this. For someone who is totally new, how would you recommend someone who has a couple months to prep make the most of their time doing so before diving in? What are some good resources to really map out the process, and maybe even get a feel for searching for, scrubbing and playing with some data? I'd also be super grateful to get the chance to speak with someone who's been through it, to see how they learn from those first steps. In any case, it's a pleasure to be here and very excited to start. Thanks very much and wishing everyone all the best. Cheers, Julius." Oh. That's awesome. You want to answer first? Or, you want me to answer?
Steve Butala:
Yeah. I mean, Land Academy is very much like Alcoholics Anonymous.
Jill DeWitt:
Oh my gosh. Not at all what I was going to say.
Steve Butala:
You're in a group, and there's some steps to complete before you can get a chip.
Jill DeWitt:
Move forward.
Steve Butala:
Instead of getting a chip, you get a big bank balance.
Jill DeWitt:
Or a deed.
Steve Butala:
Then, if you're lucky, you can find somebody who will, on a personal one-to-one basis, mentor you. Just like AA.
Jill DeWitt:
Like your sponsor. Mentor. We call it mentor, some call it sponsor, pick a word. Oh my gosh.
Steve Butala:
Jill's going to answer.
Jill DeWitt:
Well, I was going to say, you're doing everything right. Start communicating.
Steve Butala:
That's what I think too. Yeah.
Jill DeWitt:
Communicate with everyone. Okay. Yeah. If you don't know Excel, get to be a wiz in Excel. You don't have to know exactly what we're scrubbing, just get really good at maneuvering and not looking at the keys when using Excel. That's a lot of it. Just, I think that there's so much out there. Listening to this show is one. There's so much free content that you and I put out over the years now, five going on six years, that you can really get a lot of information right there. I would just spend time listening, watching, following, writing, communicating, then you're going to get a real good idea. Enough that you think, "I got this," but wait for it. Then, when you're ready and you join, it's going to put all the little moving parts in place. You're going to know, "Oh, I put this before that, then I do this. That's the nuances. I really need to know about that," because it's impossible here for you and I to really... We do, but it just puts it all in place, then spills it out.
Steve Butala:
I can tell how this is written, how you're presenting yourself,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:
Steve Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWitt:
Hey.
Steve Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWitt:
I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from beautiful Southern Arizona.
Steve Butala:
Today, jill and I talk about Structuring Infill Lot Development Deals with Home Builders and it's Infill Lot. I-N-F-I-L-L. It's pretty funny, because I've heard people call it infield.
Jill DeWitt:
Oh.
Steve Butala:
And, inful.
Jill DeWitt:
Inful?
Steve Butala:
I-N-F-
Jill DeWitt:
F-U-L?
Steve Butala:
Or, something. F-O-O-L.
Jill DeWitt:
Infilt? Infold? Unfold?
Steve Butala:
So you're filling in a lot between two houses. We'll talk all about that. There's a deal we're involved in that's pretty pertinent, but before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.
Jill DeWitt:
Hey, by the way, if you are a Land Academy member, you can also find us on Discord. So Julius wrote, "Hi everyone. My name is Julius, and I'm just jumping into land investing 100% fresh. I had been thinking about it from my own personal property purchases for a while now, but after some research found this business model to be rather incredible."
Steve Butala:
Good.
Jill DeWitt:
Yeah, you're right. "I'm currently a grad student. I'm in the process of saving up to join Land Academy. I have some extra capital from my actual mailers and deals when that time comes. My question is this. For someone who is totally new, how would you recommend someone who has a couple months to prep make the most of their time doing so before diving in? What are some good resources to really map out the process, and maybe even get a feel for searching for, scrubbing and playing with some data? I'd also be super grateful to get the chance to speak with someone who's been through it, to see how they learn from those first steps. In any case, it's a pleasure to be here and very excited to start. Thanks very much and wishing everyone all the best. Cheers, Julius." Oh. That's awesome. You want to answer first? Or, you want me to answer?
Steve Butala:
Yeah. I mean, Land Academy is very much like Alcoholics Anonymous.
Jill DeWitt:
Oh my gosh. Not at all what I was going to say.
Steve Butala:
You're in a group, and there's some steps to complete before you can get a chip.
Jill DeWitt:
Move forward.
Steve Butala:
Instead of getting a chip, you get a big bank balance.
Jill DeWitt:
Or a deed.
Steve Butala:
Then, if you're lucky, you can find somebody who will, on a personal one-to-one basis, mentor you. Just like AA.
Jill DeWitt:
Like your sponsor. Mentor. We call it mentor, some call it sponsor, pick a word. Oh my gosh.
Steve Butala:
Jill's going to answer.
Jill DeWitt:
Well, I was going to say, you're doing everything right. Start communicating.
Steve Butala:
That's what I think too. Yeah.
Jill DeWitt:
Communicate with everyone. Okay. Yeah. If you don't know Excel, get to be a wiz in Excel. You don't have to know exactly what we're scrubbing, just get really good at maneuvering and not looking at the keys when using Excel. That's a lot of it. Just, I think that there's so much out there. Listening to this show is one. There's so much free content that you and I put out over the years now, five going on six years, that you can really get a lot of information right there. I would just spend time listening, watching, following, writing, communicating, then you're going to get a real good idea. Enough that you think, "I got this," but wait for it. Then, when you're ready and you join, it's going to put all the little moving parts in place. You're going to know, "Oh, I put this before that, then I do this. That's the nuances. I really need to know about that," because it's impossible here for you and I to really... We do, but it just puts it all in place, then spills it out.
Steve Butala:
I can tell how this is written, how you're presenting yourself,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/10/structuring-infill-lot-development-with-home-builders-la-1436/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">LdRydzvWq</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0791016a-5aa1-42dc-8087-27b4a5be2a96.mp3" length="14998761" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:16</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Blast from the past June 2016: Removing Risk from Your REI Career (LA 1435)</title><itunes:title>Blast from the past June 2016: Removing Risk from Your REI Career (LA 1435)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Blast from the past June 2016: Removing Risk from Your REI CareerJack Butala: Removing Risk from Your REI Career. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening.Jack Butala:Jack Butala for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land show. In this episode, Jill and I talk about removing risk from your REI career. Great show today, Jill. Before we start, let's hear some funny stuff.Jill DeWit:It's interesting that I am still surprised by the things that come out of your blog sometimes, Jack. What were you checking for titles today?Jack Butala:What?Jill DeWit:I'm not sure those will pass the ...Jack Butala:My gosh.Jill DeWit:Who's in charge of when you write a blog and you title ... Is there an FCC? Who's in charge of that kind of thing? I happen to,Jack Butala:You mean the boredom-Jill DeWit:... catch you.Jack Butala:The boredom factor?Jill DeWit:No, no, no, no. I caught the ... I was lucky enough to sit in on your marketing meeting today. You guys are running through some title checker thing which I thought was really cool. I was just a little surprised by how far south you two took it looking for titles is what I'm trying to say.Jack Butala:What did you hear?Jill DeWit:I heard things like strippers. I heard things like how horrible it is to be Italian.Jack Butala:It's not horrible to be Italian. It's great to be Italian.Jill DeWit:No, wait. Not horrible, but what was the word? Shucks, I forgot what the terminology was.Jack Butala:Italian people, at times, communicate through yelling. I'm softening it for the show.Jill DeWit:You were working on something like a blog title and print titles. That's what I caught. I was just like ... I can't believe I'm still surprised by what you guys come up with.Jack Butala:I'm having trouble being Italian. That was one of them.Jill DeWit:There you go. It was really funny. All good.Jack Butala:Yeah, that is some funny stuff that we heard today.Jill DeWit:Yes.Jack Butala:Boy, if I knew that was the topic, I would have some [insane 00:01:40] one-liners. Anyway, let's take a question-Jill DeWit:That's why you don't know what's coming until I get to say that.Jack Butala:Let's take a question posted by one of our members on successplant.com, our free online community.Jill DeWit:Okay. Kyle says, "I'm just getting started in pulling my first list from Agent Pro. For property type, do I select agricultural/rural or residential vacant land?" Do you want to back up?Jack Butala:Can you take a crack at answering that?Jill DeWit:Well, I would like to back up and ask, if you would, Jack, explain what he's trying to do here for people that might be just joining in.Jack Butala:Yeah. There's lots of places to go get data. Most of them are ... Well, some of them are very credible. What you want to make sure about any data that you pull is a couple of things. One that it's fresh because properties get bought and sold all the time. If you have a database or a list ... If you're not accessing a database, chances are you have a list. A list can be old. It could be 20 years old, two years old, one year old. We don't know. It could be from yesterday. You want fresh data. The best way to do that is to access the database.Number two, you want that database for all product types, not just land, to have a assessed value. It's the way that you can really scrub your data down and send offers to the right people. This is for apartment buildings. It's for houses. It's for vacant land, all product types. That's how you gauge who you're sending a letter to and that's, in some ways, how you priced the offer. If you don't have assessed value, you're really taking a stab in the dark. What you're going to end up doing is wasting a ton of postage. A ton of money on postage.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Blast from the past June 2016: Removing Risk from Your REI CareerJack Butala: Removing Risk from Your REI Career. Every Single month we give away a property for free. It's super simple to qualify. Two simple steps. Leave us your feedback for this podcast on iTunes and number two, get the free ebook at landacademy.com, you don't even have to read it. Thanks for listening.Jack Butala:Jack Butala for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land show. In this episode, Jill and I talk about removing risk from your REI career. Great show today, Jill. Before we start, let's hear some funny stuff.Jill DeWit:It's interesting that I am still surprised by the things that come out of your blog sometimes, Jack. What were you checking for titles today?Jack Butala:What?Jill DeWit:I'm not sure those will pass the ...Jack Butala:My gosh.Jill DeWit:Who's in charge of when you write a blog and you title ... Is there an FCC? Who's in charge of that kind of thing? I happen to,Jack Butala:You mean the boredom-Jill DeWit:... catch you.Jack Butala:The boredom factor?Jill DeWit:No, no, no, no. I caught the ... I was lucky enough to sit in on your marketing meeting today. You guys are running through some title checker thing which I thought was really cool. I was just a little surprised by how far south you two took it looking for titles is what I'm trying to say.Jack Butala:What did you hear?Jill DeWit:I heard things like strippers. I heard things like how horrible it is to be Italian.Jack Butala:It's not horrible to be Italian. It's great to be Italian.Jill DeWit:No, wait. Not horrible, but what was the word? Shucks, I forgot what the terminology was.Jack Butala:Italian people, at times, communicate through yelling. I'm softening it for the show.Jill DeWit:You were working on something like a blog title and print titles. That's what I caught. I was just like ... I can't believe I'm still surprised by what you guys come up with.Jack Butala:I'm having trouble being Italian. That was one of them.Jill DeWit:There you go. It was really funny. All good.Jack Butala:Yeah, that is some funny stuff that we heard today.Jill DeWit:Yes.Jack Butala:Boy, if I knew that was the topic, I would have some [insane 00:01:40] one-liners. Anyway, let's take a question-Jill DeWit:That's why you don't know what's coming until I get to say that.Jack Butala:Let's take a question posted by one of our members on successplant.com, our free online community.Jill DeWit:Okay. Kyle says, "I'm just getting started in pulling my first list from Agent Pro. For property type, do I select agricultural/rural or residential vacant land?" Do you want to back up?Jack Butala:Can you take a crack at answering that?Jill DeWit:Well, I would like to back up and ask, if you would, Jack, explain what he's trying to do here for people that might be just joining in.Jack Butala:Yeah. There's lots of places to go get data. Most of them are ... Well, some of them are very credible. What you want to make sure about any data that you pull is a couple of things. One that it's fresh because properties get bought and sold all the time. If you have a database or a list ... If you're not accessing a database, chances are you have a list. A list can be old. It could be 20 years old, two years old, one year old. We don't know. It could be from yesterday. You want fresh data. The best way to do that is to access the database.Number two, you want that database for all product types, not just land, to have a assessed value. It's the way that you can really scrub your data down and send offers to the right people. This is for apartment buildings. It's for houses. It's for vacant land, all product types. That's how you gauge who you're sending a letter to and that's, in some ways, how you priced the offer. If you don't have assessed value, you're really taking a stab in the dark. What you're going to end up doing is wasting a ton of postage. A ton of money on postage.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/09/blast-from-the-past-june-2016-removing-risk-from-your-rei-career-cffl-0207/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">riM6I7fAs</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:37:33 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7a8c8eb2-4c09-4f0c-b634-b344c0a0fb5b.mp3" length="30631350" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>21:08</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Interview with Member Laurie Phillips (LA 1434)</title><itunes:title>Interview with Member Laurie Phillips (LA 1434)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Steven Butala:Steven and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hello.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny southern California.Steven Butala:Today Jill and I interview Member Laurie Phillips. Laurie, welcome.Laurie Phillips:Thank you.Steven Butala:Give us just a little introduction and then we'll take this question. Tell us where you are and whether or not you're happy to be here at all.Laurie Phillips:All right. Well, I live in Richmond, Virginia and I've been here for a while. I'm happy to be here. I know that we've talked before. Some of the things I'm doing in my business, which is not very old, there are a little different than what some other people did. Might be interesting to hear what you think about it.Steven Butala:I can't wait to hear. Everybody who's different in this group seems to do extremely well. You take the basic stuff that we offer-Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:In the environment and then make it your own.Jill DeWit:You make it you're own.Steven Butala:Yeah, exactly. Hey, before we get into it though let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill DeWit:Brandon asked, I'm a new member based in Atlanta, Georgia. Three weeks old and I'm trying to choose a market and ultimately do my first mailer in Alabama. I'm considering the following counties, low population density but near a city, low population density and days on market, less than 100 days. I've searched the forum... They've searched and the forum doesn't seem to have much conversation or topics about Alabama. Can anyone speak to their experience working Alabama or any of these counties?Steven Butala:Laurie, I chose this question because you actually answered it in the forum. I think better than I ever would have answered it. Do you remember this question?Laurie Phillips:I don't. Yeah.Steven Butala:That's great. You want to take a shot at it?Laurie Phillips:Why don't you go ahead and read what I wrote? I answer a lot of questions in the forum. I really enjoyed it and they make me think. I don't recall this one.Steven Butala:Go for it. What you said was Steve spends a lot of time addressing this topic and maybe you should listen to him. I'm paraphrasing. I'll find the question though.Jill DeWit:That's awesome. That's hilarious. Trying to find it here.Steven Butala:Here it is. You got it.Jill DeWit:There we go.Steven Butala:Do I read it, Jill?Jill DeWit:Will read. This is good. Hi Brandon and welcome. I'm pretty new to... This was months ago. After a lot of overthinking, should I mail to this particular vacation county? Even though it's five hours from a population area, et cetera. I went back to Land Academy 1.0 and followed Steve's instructions exactly for picking a new County. I decided being new wasn't the right time to be creative. His process didn't involve minute analysis.Jill DeWit:Just pick a county, follow the process, have some data to support your choices and mail. That's what I did but you may have more knowledge of the areas or REI in general. Take what I say above with your experience in mind. Let me keep going.Steven Butala:No-Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:She goes on to say-Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:The real clear message is here and I can concur exactly. Get the education under your belt. Get that mailer too under your belt and adjust and do the research. But you got to get it out the door, right? The truth is, I have to get a mailer out the door and I'm two days late on it.Jill DeWit:Yes, he is.Steven Butala:This is just-Jill DeWit:That's true.Steven Butala:It happens to everybody. Today's topic interview with member Laurie Phillips. This is the meat of the show. All right. I can't wait to hear it. Laurie what's... When did you join? What's your experience been? Then, how did you veer off into your own direction?Laurie Phillips:All right. Well,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Steven Butala:Steven and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Hello.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny southern California.Steven Butala:Today Jill and I interview Member Laurie Phillips. Laurie, welcome.Laurie Phillips:Thank you.Steven Butala:Give us just a little introduction and then we'll take this question. Tell us where you are and whether or not you're happy to be here at all.Laurie Phillips:All right. Well, I live in Richmond, Virginia and I've been here for a while. I'm happy to be here. I know that we've talked before. Some of the things I'm doing in my business, which is not very old, there are a little different than what some other people did. Might be interesting to hear what you think about it.Steven Butala:I can't wait to hear. Everybody who's different in this group seems to do extremely well. You take the basic stuff that we offer-Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:In the environment and then make it your own.Jill DeWit:You make it you're own.Steven Butala:Yeah, exactly. Hey, before we get into it though let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.Jill DeWit:Brandon asked, I'm a new member based in Atlanta, Georgia. Three weeks old and I'm trying to choose a market and ultimately do my first mailer in Alabama. I'm considering the following counties, low population density but near a city, low population density and days on market, less than 100 days. I've searched the forum... They've searched and the forum doesn't seem to have much conversation or topics about Alabama. Can anyone speak to their experience working Alabama or any of these counties?Steven Butala:Laurie, I chose this question because you actually answered it in the forum. I think better than I ever would have answered it. Do you remember this question?Laurie Phillips:I don't. Yeah.Steven Butala:That's great. You want to take a shot at it?Laurie Phillips:Why don't you go ahead and read what I wrote? I answer a lot of questions in the forum. I really enjoyed it and they make me think. I don't recall this one.Steven Butala:Go for it. What you said was Steve spends a lot of time addressing this topic and maybe you should listen to him. I'm paraphrasing. I'll find the question though.Jill DeWit:That's awesome. That's hilarious. Trying to find it here.Steven Butala:Here it is. You got it.Jill DeWit:There we go.Steven Butala:Do I read it, Jill?Jill DeWit:Will read. This is good. Hi Brandon and welcome. I'm pretty new to... This was months ago. After a lot of overthinking, should I mail to this particular vacation county? Even though it's five hours from a population area, et cetera. I went back to Land Academy 1.0 and followed Steve's instructions exactly for picking a new County. I decided being new wasn't the right time to be creative. His process didn't involve minute analysis.Jill DeWit:Just pick a county, follow the process, have some data to support your choices and mail. That's what I did but you may have more knowledge of the areas or REI in general. Take what I say above with your experience in mind. Let me keep going.Steven Butala:No-Jill DeWit:Okay.Steven Butala:She goes on to say-Jill DeWit:Yeah.Steven Butala:The real clear message is here and I can concur exactly. Get the education under your belt. Get that mailer too under your belt and adjust and do the research. But you got to get it out the door, right? The truth is, I have to get a mailer out the door and I'm two days late on it.Jill DeWit:Yes, he is.Steven Butala:This is just-Jill DeWit:That's true.Steven Butala:It happens to everybody. Today's topic interview with member Laurie Phillips. This is the meat of the show. All right. I can't wait to hear it. Laurie what's... When did you join? What's your experience been? Then, how did you veer off into your own direction?Laurie Phillips:All right. Well,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/08/interview-with-member-laurie-phillips-la-1434/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">x2v3sZTIM</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/658bb083-aa5e-40fc-8dc1-e6440371b888.mp3" length="55254859" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>57:12</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Income and Property Taxes Work in Your Land Business 2021 (LA 1433)</title><itunes:title>How Income and Property Taxes Work in Your Land Business 2021 (LA 1433)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:
Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California and awesome, cool Arizona.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how income and property taxes work in your land business in 2021. Why? Because all week this week, Jill and I were talked into talking about the most boring things possible in the land business. What's not boring in the land business, making hoards of money.
Jill DeWit:
Boy, am I excited about this show.
Steven Jack Butala:
If I could write a topic and no one had any say in it, specifically our customer service people, here's the topic. This is how much money you're going to make next month. That's a whole topic.
Jill DeWit:
Oh, this is good. Do you know what mine would be?
Steven Jack Butala:
All you got to do are these three things and that's it. That's a whole topic. But no, we have to talk about taxes today.
Jill DeWit:
Wait, wait, wait. I want one. Mine would be, this is how to replace your income times two and cut your hours in half. I will show you.
Steven Jack Butala:
Here's another one. What to do with all the time that you're going to have when you're rich.
Jill DeWit:
Or what boat works best in X conditions?
Steven Jack Butala:
I like those. Let's take a look in Jill's garage. That's another show.
Jill DeWit:
That's right. That's perfect. You know what's funny? Seth did this a couple, like a year ago. Seth bought a new big house in Michigan, right? I don't know if you saw this, Steven.
Steven Jack Butala:
No.
Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Seth, bless his heart, got a new house in Michigan and he gave a tour of the house walking around like a selfie tour on his phone. And I'm like, this is hilarious. And I bet a lot of people were very intrigued by that though. He went through the living room, the kitchen, you could see the kids' toys in the corner. It was the funniest thing. And he goes downstairs, like it's a Michigan basement, and that's where his office is and it's really nice, and he shows the layout and everything. And I thought that was funny. So I'm wondering, should we do that, when you talked about the garage thing? We don't need to see the garage, but I don't know, maybe somebody would like to see the garage. It's kind of funny.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. The garage I'm okay with.
Jill DeWit:
Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:
Because there will be 16 not so inexpensive cars in there when we're done.
Jill DeWit:
We'll work on that later. Okay. So did you set me up for the question?
Steven Jack Butala:
So before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.
Jill DeWit:
I got so excited getting off-topic because we're both avoiding this topic.
Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, I should have said this before we started being negative, but I can save you some money on this episode here, I think
Jill DeWit:
Bob wrote, "Hey, Land Academy folks, we're wanting to bring on someone per task or on a part-time basis to help us get our mail out consistently. My wife, Carly, and I have scaled our business over the past year and it's currently more than we can keep up. If you have a knack for data, but don't like the rest of the business, let me know and we can chat further. Experience with RealQuest, compiling comps, pricing, and data scrubbing is a must. Here's my cell number. Evan, if you want, you can text me for a faster response. Thanks." There you go. There's Bob's job posting for the board.
Steven Jack Butala:
Bob, I just posted this exact job, exact job on the job board on Land Academy or Land Investors, so touché. If you get a good person, let me know, Bob.
Today's topic, how income and property taxes work in your land business in 2021. This is the meat of the show.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:
Hi.
Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California and awesome, cool Arizona.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how income and property taxes work in your land business in 2021. Why? Because all week this week, Jill and I were talked into talking about the most boring things possible in the land business. What's not boring in the land business, making hoards of money.
Jill DeWit:
Boy, am I excited about this show.
Steven Jack Butala:
If I could write a topic and no one had any say in it, specifically our customer service people, here's the topic. This is how much money you're going to make next month. That's a whole topic.
Jill DeWit:
Oh, this is good. Do you know what mine would be?
Steven Jack Butala:
All you got to do are these three things and that's it. That's a whole topic. But no, we have to talk about taxes today.
Jill DeWit:
Wait, wait, wait. I want one. Mine would be, this is how to replace your income times two and cut your hours in half. I will show you.
Steven Jack Butala:
Here's another one. What to do with all the time that you're going to have when you're rich.
Jill DeWit:
Or what boat works best in X conditions?
Steven Jack Butala:
I like those. Let's take a look in Jill's garage. That's another show.
Jill DeWit:
That's right. That's perfect. You know what's funny? Seth did this a couple, like a year ago. Seth bought a new big house in Michigan, right? I don't know if you saw this, Steven.
Steven Jack Butala:
No.
Jill DeWit:
Okay. So Seth, bless his heart, got a new house in Michigan and he gave a tour of the house walking around like a selfie tour on his phone. And I'm like, this is hilarious. And I bet a lot of people were very intrigued by that though. He went through the living room, the kitchen, you could see the kids' toys in the corner. It was the funniest thing. And he goes downstairs, like it's a Michigan basement, and that's where his office is and it's really nice, and he shows the layout and everything. And I thought that was funny. So I'm wondering, should we do that, when you talked about the garage thing? We don't need to see the garage, but I don't know, maybe somebody would like to see the garage. It's kind of funny.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. The garage I'm okay with.
Jill DeWit:
Okay.
Steven Jack Butala:
Because there will be 16 not so inexpensive cars in there when we're done.
Jill DeWit:
We'll work on that later. Okay. So did you set me up for the question?
Steven Jack Butala:
So before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.
Jill DeWit:
I got so excited getting off-topic because we're both avoiding this topic.
Steven Jack Butala:
Actually, I should have said this before we started being negative, but I can save you some money on this episode here, I think
Jill DeWit:
Bob wrote, "Hey, Land Academy folks, we're wanting to bring on someone per task or on a part-time basis to help us get our mail out consistently. My wife, Carly, and I have scaled our business over the past year and it's currently more than we can keep up. If you have a knack for data, but don't like the rest of the business, let me know and we can chat further. Experience with RealQuest, compiling comps, pricing, and data scrubbing is a must. Here's my cell number. Evan, if you want, you can text me for a faster response. Thanks." There you go. There's Bob's job posting for the board.
Steven Jack Butala:
Bob, I just posted this exact job, exact job on the job board on Land Academy or Land Investors, so touché. If you get a good person, let me know, Bob.
Today's topic, how income and property taxes work in your land business in 2021. This is the meat of the show.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/05/how-income-and-property-taxes-work-in-your-land-business-2021-la-1433/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">eBeVGIK9a</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b4df7d2c-f1b2-468a-b89a-1d68abbf1f8b.mp3" length="21486673" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>22:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>NEW Land Academy Job Board (LA 1432)</title><itunes:title>NEW Land Academy Job Board (LA 1432)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[NEW Land Academy Job Board (LA 1432)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
And me from Arizona.
Today, Jill and I talk about the new Land Academy/Land Investors job board. I am personally ridiculously excited about this. There's not one lick of sarcasm or non-truth to what I said.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have long, long said the most challenging thing in any business, including this, is staffing.

Jill DeWit:
Yup.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've got a huge group of people that know this business, and they're entrepreneurs. I've actually posted jobs up there myself.

Jill DeWit:
Yup. Three of them on there right now are ours. Three of the job postings are for some part of our company.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're a member or even not a member, and you're looking for a job in this industry, we are hiring.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Nick wrote, "What's the best way to handle a potential seller who refuses to accept or deny the amount of the offer, but insists on me sending her the comps of how I came up with the offer, before any further conversation? She wants to sell, but won't say anything about the offer price without comps. 'I send dollars, not comps,'" in quote, Nick wrote.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's my little comment. I send dollars, not comps.

Jill DeWit:
That is so funny. Sometimes, Nick, people get a little confused about who you are or what you do. I've had that. I've had people, four from mailers from years back, calling me and asking me questions like I am the county. What the heck?
They get kind of demanding too. I'm like, "What are you talking about?" "Hey, I need to know what you guys show for this, that, and this." I'm like, "Well, how the heck do I know? I just sent an offer to buy your property."
The first thing I would do would be to educate her on who you are, and what you do, and what you're happy to do. I would just stand firm, honestly, Nick, on this one. I would say, "Look. My name's Nick. I own nicksLand.com. Check me out. There's me. Yep, that's me with my dog. There's my wife and our baby," whatever it is, "camping. We buy and sell property. I sent you an offer. If it works for you, great. Please, sign it, send it back. If it doesn't, I wish you all the best."
"But I need comps. I need comps." "You know what? You could reach out to maybe ..." I guess now I'm talking myself out of it. She could reach out to a local agent. Maybe that's what you should say. Let's be honest. "You can reach out to a local agent. They could probably help you with something like that."
Now, we do run the risk of her reaching an agent, and the agent saying, "Oh, I can sell it to you for this." You know what? Then let them do that, honestly. But most likely, especially if it's a small whatever property, the agent's going to go, "You're who? You want what? It's how much? No. I'm sorry. That's not what I do."
She's probably going to really hit a wall. If it's a smaller property, like less than $10,000, a lot of agents, "Do I want a commission on $10,000? Am I going to make 600 bucks, maybe a thousand, when I'm doing deals where I can make 50,000? It's not going to be worth my time." It's probably going to go like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
If your seller knows the word comps, which stands for comparison values, by the way, you're not going to do a deal with them.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
They have a bunch of experience in real estate. They want a current comparison value driven price.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[NEW Land Academy Job Board (LA 1432)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
And me from Arizona.
Today, Jill and I talk about the new Land Academy/Land Investors job board. I am personally ridiculously excited about this. There's not one lick of sarcasm or non-truth to what I said.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Jack Butala:
I have long, long said the most challenging thing in any business, including this, is staffing.

Jill DeWit:
Yup.

Steven Jack Butala:
We've got a huge group of people that know this business, and they're entrepreneurs. I've actually posted jobs up there myself.

Jill DeWit:
Yup. Three of them on there right now are ours. Three of the job postings are for some part of our company.

Steven Jack Butala:
If you're a member or even not a member, and you're looking for a job in this industry, we are hiring.

Jill DeWit:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Nick wrote, "What's the best way to handle a potential seller who refuses to accept or deny the amount of the offer, but insists on me sending her the comps of how I came up with the offer, before any further conversation? She wants to sell, but won't say anything about the offer price without comps. 'I send dollars, not comps,'" in quote, Nick wrote.

Steven Jack Butala:
That's my little comment. I send dollars, not comps.

Jill DeWit:
That is so funny. Sometimes, Nick, people get a little confused about who you are or what you do. I've had that. I've had people, four from mailers from years back, calling me and asking me questions like I am the county. What the heck?
They get kind of demanding too. I'm like, "What are you talking about?" "Hey, I need to know what you guys show for this, that, and this." I'm like, "Well, how the heck do I know? I just sent an offer to buy your property."
The first thing I would do would be to educate her on who you are, and what you do, and what you're happy to do. I would just stand firm, honestly, Nick, on this one. I would say, "Look. My name's Nick. I own nicksLand.com. Check me out. There's me. Yep, that's me with my dog. There's my wife and our baby," whatever it is, "camping. We buy and sell property. I sent you an offer. If it works for you, great. Please, sign it, send it back. If it doesn't, I wish you all the best."
"But I need comps. I need comps." "You know what? You could reach out to maybe ..." I guess now I'm talking myself out of it. She could reach out to a local agent. Maybe that's what you should say. Let's be honest. "You can reach out to a local agent. They could probably help you with something like that."
Now, we do run the risk of her reaching an agent, and the agent saying, "Oh, I can sell it to you for this." You know what? Then let them do that, honestly. But most likely, especially if it's a small whatever property, the agent's going to go, "You're who? You want what? It's how much? No. I'm sorry. That's not what I do."
She's probably going to really hit a wall. If it's a smaller property, like less than $10,000, a lot of agents, "Do I want a commission on $10,000? Am I going to make 600 bucks, maybe a thousand, when I'm doing deals where I can make 50,000? It's not going to be worth my time." It's probably going to go like that.

Steven Jack Butala:
If your seller knows the word comps, which stands for comparison values, by the way, you're not going to do a deal with them.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Jack Butala:
They have a bunch of experience in real estate. They want a current comparison value driven price.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/04/new-land-academy-job-board-la-1432/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">LzodD_EsT</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ca1e0733-3869-4167-9556-9e3fbc74e602.mp3" length="12137531" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Start to Finish Documents Needed to Buy and Sell a Parcel of Land (LA 1431)</title><itunes:title>Start to Finish Documents Needed to Buy and Sell a Parcel of Land (LA 1431)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Start to Finish Documents Needed to Buy and Sell a Parcel of Land (LA 1431)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about start to finish documents that are needed to buy and sell a parcel of land. Again, this is a requested topic by our customer service staff because a lot of people are asking about it.

Jill DeWitt:
I'll make it really easy. I promise. You know what's funny? I made some notes here and I'm thinking about what are all the documents? It sounds like, "Oh no, this is going to be hard," but it's actually very easy and there's not a lot. And I'll explain each and everyone and let you know what's important.

Steven Jack Butala:
Good. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
Kyler wrote, "Has anyone had a title company refuse to handle your closing because the purchase price is three times lower than the assessed value? Only two title companies in this county and they said they can't do it. Never heard of this. With that said, if anyone knows a normal title company in Northern blank state, please refer them." That's the stupidest thing I have ever, ever heard. Could you imagine?

Steven Jack Butala:
I responded to this. I actually responded to this and what I said, I'll say it here again. I've been dealing with this in some way my entire career, whether it's a know-it-all title company or real estate agent that gets wind of the deal and says, "You know what? For that, I'll buy it," or, "Hey, I can even do better than that," or somebody's sister-in-law says, "What do you mean you're selling that property for 10 grand. I'm happy to buy it from you for that. Don't give it away," so this is part of this business and it needs to be accepted and dealt with. And probably you just need to accept it.

Jill DeWitt:
It's amazing. It's almost like I want to say to the title company, "Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. What should I be buying it for? What the hell? You shouldn't be involved in it at all." It's like-

Steven Jack Butala:
In small counties, I know this from personal experience, all the title agents talk to each other, regardless of the company that they work for. The people at the county talk to the title companies. If there's HOA's anywhere, they all talk to each other.

Jill DeWitt:
All of four them.

Steven Jack Butala:
And date each other. Really I mean it. They're married to each other or their sister works there or something crazy like that.

Jill DeWitt:
I would just like, go find an attorney then. Go rogue, find another way to do this. If you need title insurance, do you even need title insurance, Kyler? I would maybe get the deal done and then after the fact. That might be the way to do it, close the deal, get it done then saying, "Now let's get title insurance."

Steven Jack Butala:
That was exactly my final point like, is it really that necessary?

Jill DeWitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Get it. Buy it. It's over. Now get insurance and you don't need to do that at a local company. You can cross state lines on that. Today's topic are start to finish documents needed to buy and sell a parcel of land. This is the meat of the show. Start us off Jill, what's document number one?

Jill DeWitt:
Okay. The first document in our business is a combo document. It goes out in the mail. It's a cover letter, introducing ourselves and our mailer and a purchase agreement with the offer price. So that's it. It's mailer/offer, which includes a purchase agreement. Do you want me to keep going?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, please. So they sign the document.

Jill DeWitt:]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Start to Finish Documents Needed to Buy and Sell a Parcel of Land (LA 1431)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWitt:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWitt:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about start to finish documents that are needed to buy and sell a parcel of land. Again, this is a requested topic by our customer service staff because a lot of people are asking about it.

Jill DeWitt:
I'll make it really easy. I promise. You know what's funny? I made some notes here and I'm thinking about what are all the documents? It sounds like, "Oh no, this is going to be hard," but it's actually very easy and there's not a lot. And I'll explain each and everyone and let you know what's important.

Steven Jack Butala:
Good. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWitt:
Kyler wrote, "Has anyone had a title company refuse to handle your closing because the purchase price is three times lower than the assessed value? Only two title companies in this county and they said they can't do it. Never heard of this. With that said, if anyone knows a normal title company in Northern blank state, please refer them." That's the stupidest thing I have ever, ever heard. Could you imagine?

Steven Jack Butala:
I responded to this. I actually responded to this and what I said, I'll say it here again. I've been dealing with this in some way my entire career, whether it's a know-it-all title company or real estate agent that gets wind of the deal and says, "You know what? For that, I'll buy it," or, "Hey, I can even do better than that," or somebody's sister-in-law says, "What do you mean you're selling that property for 10 grand. I'm happy to buy it from you for that. Don't give it away," so this is part of this business and it needs to be accepted and dealt with. And probably you just need to accept it.

Jill DeWitt:
It's amazing. It's almost like I want to say to the title company, "Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. What should I be buying it for? What the hell? You shouldn't be involved in it at all." It's like-

Steven Jack Butala:
In small counties, I know this from personal experience, all the title agents talk to each other, regardless of the company that they work for. The people at the county talk to the title companies. If there's HOA's anywhere, they all talk to each other.

Jill DeWitt:
All of four them.

Steven Jack Butala:
And date each other. Really I mean it. They're married to each other or their sister works there or something crazy like that.

Jill DeWitt:
I would just like, go find an attorney then. Go rogue, find another way to do this. If you need title insurance, do you even need title insurance, Kyler? I would maybe get the deal done and then after the fact. That might be the way to do it, close the deal, get it done then saying, "Now let's get title insurance."

Steven Jack Butala:
That was exactly my final point like, is it really that necessary?

Jill DeWitt:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Jack Butala:
Get it. Buy it. It's over. Now get insurance and you don't need to do that at a local company. You can cross state lines on that. Today's topic are start to finish documents needed to buy and sell a parcel of land. This is the meat of the show. Start us off Jill, what's document number one?

Jill DeWitt:
Okay. The first document in our business is a combo document. It goes out in the mail. It's a cover letter, introducing ourselves and our mailer and a purchase agreement with the offer price. So that's it. It's mailer/offer, which includes a purchase agreement. Do you want me to keep going?

Steven Jack Butala:
Yes, please. So they sign the document.

Jill DeWitt:]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/03/start-to-finish-documents-needed-to-buy-and-sell-a-parcel-of-land-la-1431/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">zhNrYQ5Rc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d0490ca0-3617-408b-a8f1-ce904670c887.mp3" length="19584337" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What is HOA and Why it Matters in Land Investing (LA 1430)</title><itunes:title>What is HOA and Why it Matters in Land Investing (LA 1430)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[What is HOA and Why it Matters in Land Investing (LA 1430)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steve:
Today, Jill and I talk about what is an HOA, and why does it matter in land investing? I hate them. Who doesn't?

Jill:
I know. Who wants more people involved telling you what you can and cannot do with the property that you own. By the way, they don't own it, you do. So I have a lot to say about this.

Steve:
I do, too. I have to tell you, I've always had this weird fascination with somehow requesting that clinical psychiatrists or psychologists do a dissertation on certain topics. And this has always been one of them. What psychologically makes someone choose, forget about the money, [crosstalk 00:01:02] make someone choose to start an HOA? Which I get, because you make some money. But more importantly, why do you seek out to live in an HOA or seek out some type of a land where there's more rules, not less? Is it better that we have more laws in life or less laws?

Jill:
I was just thinking that. Working at an HOA has got to be like the IRS. There's really no reason anyone's going to call you happy. They're calling you to find out what's the stupid rule, or why did I get fined?

Steve:
What's that movie, when the kids were little? It was a cartoon about the bunch of animals are living in the back of the woods, and they in they're all hibernating. And they woke up out of hibernation and there this massive subdivision where they used to live?

Jill:
Yep.

Steve:
What's it called? Hedge ...

Jill:
I forgot, and they went through the fence.

Steve:
Over the Hedge.

Jill:
That's right.

Steve:
Over the Hedge. Yeah.

Jill:
Okay.

Steve:
And there was this character in there, this woman who was the classic real estate agent/president of the HOA. And they took it to extremities where she would measure the length of everybody's lawn and then send them notes. Do you remember that?

Jill:
No. I mean, I do remember that movie, but I don't remember it in that level of detail that you have. I do not recall. That is so flipping funny. I love it.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill:
Kristen wrote topic idea. Why do responding sellers have property with no physical access, or in a flood plain, and what to do about it? Oh, why do responding sellers have property with no physical hazards or a flood plan? What to do about it? I know new sellers shouldn't be buying these, but it's pretty much all I'm getting. Yeah. I like that. That's a good idea. Can we do that one day and really dive deep into it?

Steve:
Yeah, we can dive deep. I can give you the 32nd overview here, too, if you want.

Jill:
Go for it.

Steve:
Sellers almost always don't know about their property. They've inherited it. They've never seen it. I mean, back me up here or correct, Jill, probably 80% of the time, they have no idea about the property. Sometimes they live adjacent to it and that's a different story, so they don't know. No physical access can be remedied. It's not that complicated. You just need to get the right people involved and make sure that there's a ton of profit margin on it, because it takes a while. And if there's a process, then it's possible. The floodplain scenario, they're not going to know. It's only relatively new to land ownership that we can click on these FEMA maps at places like Neighbors Scoop, and just within seconds, see if the property is in a flood plain.

Jill:
Right.

Steve:
So even two years ago ... I mean, even now, if you go on to fema.gov and try to find out if a property ... it's a big, huge, massive process. So, that's not their fault at all. And what do you do about it? You just work through these things where you adjust the price.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[What is HOA and Why it Matters in Land Investing (LA 1430)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steve:
Today, Jill and I talk about what is an HOA, and why does it matter in land investing? I hate them. Who doesn't?

Jill:
I know. Who wants more people involved telling you what you can and cannot do with the property that you own. By the way, they don't own it, you do. So I have a lot to say about this.

Steve:
I do, too. I have to tell you, I've always had this weird fascination with somehow requesting that clinical psychiatrists or psychologists do a dissertation on certain topics. And this has always been one of them. What psychologically makes someone choose, forget about the money, [crosstalk 00:01:02] make someone choose to start an HOA? Which I get, because you make some money. But more importantly, why do you seek out to live in an HOA or seek out some type of a land where there's more rules, not less? Is it better that we have more laws in life or less laws?

Jill:
I was just thinking that. Working at an HOA has got to be like the IRS. There's really no reason anyone's going to call you happy. They're calling you to find out what's the stupid rule, or why did I get fined?

Steve:
What's that movie, when the kids were little? It was a cartoon about the bunch of animals are living in the back of the woods, and they in they're all hibernating. And they woke up out of hibernation and there this massive subdivision where they used to live?

Jill:
Yep.

Steve:
What's it called? Hedge ...

Jill:
I forgot, and they went through the fence.

Steve:
Over the Hedge.

Jill:
That's right.

Steve:
Over the Hedge. Yeah.

Jill:
Okay.

Steve:
And there was this character in there, this woman who was the classic real estate agent/president of the HOA. And they took it to extremities where she would measure the length of everybody's lawn and then send them notes. Do you remember that?

Jill:
No. I mean, I do remember that movie, but I don't remember it in that level of detail that you have. I do not recall. That is so flipping funny. I love it.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill:
Kristen wrote topic idea. Why do responding sellers have property with no physical access, or in a flood plain, and what to do about it? Oh, why do responding sellers have property with no physical hazards or a flood plan? What to do about it? I know new sellers shouldn't be buying these, but it's pretty much all I'm getting. Yeah. I like that. That's a good idea. Can we do that one day and really dive deep into it?

Steve:
Yeah, we can dive deep. I can give you the 32nd overview here, too, if you want.

Jill:
Go for it.

Steve:
Sellers almost always don't know about their property. They've inherited it. They've never seen it. I mean, back me up here or correct, Jill, probably 80% of the time, they have no idea about the property. Sometimes they live adjacent to it and that's a different story, so they don't know. No physical access can be remedied. It's not that complicated. You just need to get the right people involved and make sure that there's a ton of profit margin on it, because it takes a while. And if there's a process, then it's possible. The floodplain scenario, they're not going to know. It's only relatively new to land ownership that we can click on these FEMA maps at places like Neighbors Scoop, and just within seconds, see if the property is in a flood plain.

Jill:
Right.

Steve:
So even two years ago ... I mean, even now, if you go on to fema.gov and try to find out if a property ... it's a big, huge, massive process. So, that's not their fault at all. And what do you do about it? You just work through these things where you adjust the price.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/02/what-is-hoa-and-why-it-matters-in-land-investing-la-1430/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cGQpUHoyN</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cfb89829-f9ec-4769-a0b1-84c7a8fb8342.mp3" length="17197393" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>17:33</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Post Transaction Communication (LA 1429)</title><itunes:title>Post Transaction Communication (LA 1429)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Post Transaction Communication (LA 1429)
Transcript:

Stephen Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California, for me.

Stephen Jack Butala:
And Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
Anyway.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about post-transaction communication and we're also trying out new software. So we'll see how this goes.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Sometimes it's appropriate, I think, when the deal is all done to talk to a seller. And when a buyer buys property, it's appropriate post transaction to talk to them too. Jill is going to tell us all about it. Although my personal opinion is that it's not that common, but we're going to find out from the expert. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord, which is getting more popular by the minute. I'm happy to report.

Jill DeWit:
I saw you in there just a little while ago. Lucas wrote, after five months, 4,000 letters, and five completed assignment deals, I finally got a deal that I was able to self-fund and now it's under contract to sell. It feels great.

Stephen Jack Butala:
It's a beautiful way to say it's working.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. My offer was for a property that was already listed. The seller and I couldn't agree on a price. However, he had a tiny parcel in a nearby county that he was also wanting to get rid of. It was so tiny that I wasn't sure if anything could be done with it, but it was right downtown in a nice community directly off main street. City zoning allows for trailers and modular homes, so I went for it.
We agreed on a price. Closed quickly. I put it up for sale. I put up a for sale sign and it was under contract to sell within a week. Never even had time to get my posting online. Bought for $3,800 and sold for $9,000. Now I have enough cash to go back and try some deals that I missed from my first mailer. Again, I owe a debt of gratitude to this community. Your examples, keep us going. Thank you. How cool is that?

Stephen Jack Butala:
It's kind of a mic drop posting.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. So it wasn't really a question. It was really like, hey, here's my story. I love it. I'm so glad, how great is that [crosstalk 00:02:39]

Stephen Jack Butala:
Congratulations Lucas, that's fantastic seriously. I'm very conscious now, Jill of the words that I use, because yesterday we had our Thursday webinar and some of the members reported... Our regular members reported to us that they have a side drinking game going on because it's kind of at night, based on the words that Jill and I say probably too often. So I just said fantastic and I know that's one of the drinking words.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Okay. Everyone now you got us started. Now we're going to come up with our own drinking game.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Yeah. [crosstalk 00:03:20] I mean, this airs at 3:00 PM. So I hope there is not that much drinking, but if you're listening to this at nine o'clock, as Jill says, drink yourself silly.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Exactly.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today's topic, post-transaction communication. This is the meat of the show. So like I said, in the intro, Jill, when do you think, is it appropriate? Or do you have communication right now with anybody that consistently they like to do as a friend, that you've done a deal with either on the buyer or the seller side.

Jill DeWit:
Yes.

Stephen Jack Butala:
You really do?

Jill DeWit:
Only one and it's a personal transaction. That's the only reason why.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Like a primary residence?

Jill DeWit:
Yes.

Stephen Jack Butala:
You're not going to tell us?

Jill DeWit:
And she happens to be the lender. So right now she's my best friend.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Oh,]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Post Transaction Communication (LA 1429)
Transcript:

Stephen Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California, for me.

Stephen Jack Butala:
And Arizona.

Jill DeWit:
Anyway.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about post-transaction communication and we're also trying out new software. So we'll see how this goes.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Sometimes it's appropriate, I think, when the deal is all done to talk to a seller. And when a buyer buys property, it's appropriate post transaction to talk to them too. Jill is going to tell us all about it. Although my personal opinion is that it's not that common, but we're going to find out from the expert. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord, which is getting more popular by the minute. I'm happy to report.

Jill DeWit:
I saw you in there just a little while ago. Lucas wrote, after five months, 4,000 letters, and five completed assignment deals, I finally got a deal that I was able to self-fund and now it's under contract to sell. It feels great.

Stephen Jack Butala:
It's a beautiful way to say it's working.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. My offer was for a property that was already listed. The seller and I couldn't agree on a price. However, he had a tiny parcel in a nearby county that he was also wanting to get rid of. It was so tiny that I wasn't sure if anything could be done with it, but it was right downtown in a nice community directly off main street. City zoning allows for trailers and modular homes, so I went for it.
We agreed on a price. Closed quickly. I put it up for sale. I put up a for sale sign and it was under contract to sell within a week. Never even had time to get my posting online. Bought for $3,800 and sold for $9,000. Now I have enough cash to go back and try some deals that I missed from my first mailer. Again, I owe a debt of gratitude to this community. Your examples, keep us going. Thank you. How cool is that?

Stephen Jack Butala:
It's kind of a mic drop posting.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. So it wasn't really a question. It was really like, hey, here's my story. I love it. I'm so glad, how great is that [crosstalk 00:02:39]

Stephen Jack Butala:
Congratulations Lucas, that's fantastic seriously. I'm very conscious now, Jill of the words that I use, because yesterday we had our Thursday webinar and some of the members reported... Our regular members reported to us that they have a side drinking game going on because it's kind of at night, based on the words that Jill and I say probably too often. So I just said fantastic and I know that's one of the drinking words.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Okay. Everyone now you got us started. Now we're going to come up with our own drinking game.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Yeah. [crosstalk 00:03:20] I mean, this airs at 3:00 PM. So I hope there is not that much drinking, but if you're listening to this at nine o'clock, as Jill says, drink yourself silly.

Jill DeWit:
Yep. Exactly.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Today's topic, post-transaction communication. This is the meat of the show. So like I said, in the intro, Jill, when do you think, is it appropriate? Or do you have communication right now with anybody that consistently they like to do as a friend, that you've done a deal with either on the buyer or the seller side.

Jill DeWit:
Yes.

Stephen Jack Butala:
You really do?

Jill DeWit:
Only one and it's a personal transaction. That's the only reason why.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Like a primary residence?

Jill DeWit:
Yes.

Stephen Jack Butala:
You're not going to tell us?

Jill DeWit:
And she happens to be the lender. So right now she's my best friend.

Stephen Jack Butala:
Oh,]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/02/01/post-transaction-communication-la-1429/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">lAT1ydR2i</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9caea332-d700-4aea-8c69-58c2b312bb89.mp3" length="15017425" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>15:17</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Red Green Yellow Test for Picking a County Explained (LA 1428)</title><itunes:title>Red Green Yellow Test for Picking a County Explained (LA 1428)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Red Green Yellow Test for Picking a County Explained (LA 1428)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from beautiful central Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the Red Green Yellow Test for picking a county explained. We don't have a lot of dart boards in our office. We don't do a lot of guessing about real estate and whether we should buy it or sell it or where we should send a mailer.

Jill DeWit:
I wouldn't mind a dart board in our office, but for a different reason. Here's what I think about what this person told me.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some politicians I'd like to put on a dart board-

Jill DeWit:
There we go. That would be nice.

Steven Jack Butala:
... But we'll talk about that later. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Mitch wrote, "Hello. So my first mailer did not get the response I was hoping for. I mailed one acre properties in Mojave County, Arizona targeting Meadview-

Steven Jack Butala:
Meadview.

Jill DeWit:
... Meadview, and I didn't get much response. Luckily I was able to purchase three properties, but all were from the same seller. Other than that, I had only two calls come through, one being a hate call. I understand that this county is a highly competitive market, which could be the reason I didn't get much response. However, I'm concerned that my pricing was way off and this is the reason I didn't get any takers. I priced my property at $652 per acre. Now I'm getting ready to send another mailer to Santa Cruz County, Arizona targeting Rio Rico's zero to two acre properties, and I was wondering if someone could give me any advice on pricing so I can hopefully get more response."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, you're going to get some advice from me in a second here.

Jill DeWit:
I've been waiting for it. I'm holding back, I know. "I know this is more of an art than a science, and I need to fail to learn, but I'm worried my whole thought process on pricing is inaccurate. Thanks in advance for any advice. Mitch"

Steven Jack Butala:
Mitch, this is not personal. I'm only responding to what you're saying here to help everybody who's listening to this.

Jill DeWit:
But put your face mask on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Put your helmet on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not going to use your name. I'm just going to assume that you're just somebody. This is not personal. You cannot send a mailer out for $652 for a piece of property and expect to get anybody to respond. You just can't. Those days are gone. They were gone in 1975.
Mojave County in Arizona is the county that I chose to, as an example, in both of the programs both the Cash Flow From Land Program and then Land Academy 1.0. 2.0 is about infill lots, so I used another county and I say, all the way through the programs, please don't mail Mojave County. Please don't use this. I'm only using it as an example. It's not the place to do this. Meadview itself is becoming a subdivision of Las Vegas. In fact, Jill and I just bought a mobile home there. I don't know when. It was like three days ago. We paid 5,000 bucks for it; it's worth 40, on a one acre property in Meadview.
Santa Cruz and Rio Rico, you just stop. There's 3,144 counties in this country. There are 13 counties in Arizona. They are grossly over-mailed. The same thing with Nevada. We have these Thursday calls and I have never been so proud as the last probably five calls that we've had. People are mailing counties that I've never heard of, and they're killing it. They're killing it especially on the East coast. This goes for everybody. Stop it with Arizona. It's over... And he even bought three properties. So it's not like you're not going to buy property.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Red Green Yellow Test for Picking a County Explained (LA 1428)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from beautiful central Arizona.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the Red Green Yellow Test for picking a county explained. We don't have a lot of dart boards in our office. We don't do a lot of guessing about real estate and whether we should buy it or sell it or where we should send a mailer.

Jill DeWit:
I wouldn't mind a dart board in our office, but for a different reason. Here's what I think about what this person told me.

Steven Jack Butala:
There's some politicians I'd like to put on a dart board-

Jill DeWit:
There we go. That would be nice.

Steven Jack Butala:
... But we'll talk about that later. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Mitch wrote, "Hello. So my first mailer did not get the response I was hoping for. I mailed one acre properties in Mojave County, Arizona targeting Meadview-

Steven Jack Butala:
Meadview.

Jill DeWit:
... Meadview, and I didn't get much response. Luckily I was able to purchase three properties, but all were from the same seller. Other than that, I had only two calls come through, one being a hate call. I understand that this county is a highly competitive market, which could be the reason I didn't get much response. However, I'm concerned that my pricing was way off and this is the reason I didn't get any takers. I priced my property at $652 per acre. Now I'm getting ready to send another mailer to Santa Cruz County, Arizona targeting Rio Rico's zero to two acre properties, and I was wondering if someone could give me any advice on pricing so I can hopefully get more response."

Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, you're going to get some advice from me in a second here.

Jill DeWit:
I've been waiting for it. I'm holding back, I know. "I know this is more of an art than a science, and I need to fail to learn, but I'm worried my whole thought process on pricing is inaccurate. Thanks in advance for any advice. Mitch"

Steven Jack Butala:
Mitch, this is not personal. I'm only responding to what you're saying here to help everybody who's listening to this.

Jill DeWit:
But put your face mask on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Put your helmet on.

Steven Jack Butala:
Not going to use your name. I'm just going to assume that you're just somebody. This is not personal. You cannot send a mailer out for $652 for a piece of property and expect to get anybody to respond. You just can't. Those days are gone. They were gone in 1975.
Mojave County in Arizona is the county that I chose to, as an example, in both of the programs both the Cash Flow From Land Program and then Land Academy 1.0. 2.0 is about infill lots, so I used another county and I say, all the way through the programs, please don't mail Mojave County. Please don't use this. I'm only using it as an example. It's not the place to do this. Meadview itself is becoming a subdivision of Las Vegas. In fact, Jill and I just bought a mobile home there. I don't know when. It was like three days ago. We paid 5,000 bucks for it; it's worth 40, on a one acre property in Meadview.
Santa Cruz and Rio Rico, you just stop. There's 3,144 counties in this country. There are 13 counties in Arizona. They are grossly over-mailed. The same thing with Nevada. We have these Thursday calls and I have never been so proud as the last probably five calls that we've had. People are mailing counties that I've never heard of, and they're killing it. They're killing it especially on the East coast. This goes for everybody. Stop it with Arizona. It's over... And he even bought three properties. So it's not like you're not going to buy property.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/29/red-green-yellow-test-for-picking-a-county-explained-la-1428/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">VzK92W9TF</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/df98486c-8b90-41ff-b4bb-b8039a2aac56.mp3" length="13447321" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>13:39</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Good Bad Ugly About Land Sales on Terms (LA 1427)</title><itunes:title>Good Bad Ugly About Land Sales on Terms (LA 1427)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Good Bad Ugly About Land Sales on Terms (LA 1427)
Transcript:

Steven J. Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J. Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome Central Arizona.

Steven J. Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the good, the bad and the ugly. About land sales on terms. You can sell a property for cash, buy for $50 sell it for $100 or you can sell it on terms, buy for $50, $10,000 down, $1000 a month until you pay it off.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J. Butala:
Who doesn't want to have more money in their bank account? Who doesn't want to talk less on the phone and listen to [inaudible 00:00:40] get to know your tenant.

Jill DeWit:
We'll talk all about that and more.

Steven J. Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote, this is a long one, bear with me. "Hi everyone. Love to get your feedback on this one. I have a desert junk property in New Mexico, bought it for $1,600, six months ago and it's not selling. I'm about to unload it at $3,200 to a fellow and I haven't signed any papers yet."

Steven J. Butala:
I don't know how that's losing or failing, but okay.

Jill DeWit:
I know. And that's not junk to me.

Steven J. Butala:
We don't use that word.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. "A couple of days ago, a guy called me claiming to be an attorney and offered to buy this parcel from me for $2,000. Claimed to have tracked me down from the previous seller. I told him I wanted $3,800 and he proceeded to tell me that this property was subject to a quite a title that he and his family were working on. Something about it being sold incorrectly 50 years ago."

Steven J. Butala:
Lies.

Jill DeWit:
Wow. That mean?

Steven J. Butala:
All lies, [inaudible 00:01:48].

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "I thought that was strange that he offered to buy it, combined with a quiet title information. I gave him my address and told him he was welcome to send any claim or action my way, but I haven't received anything yet. It's only been a couple of days."

Steven J. Butala:
This is the last you'll ever hear of this.

Jill DeWit:
"So my question is, should I say something to this guy who now wants to buy it, should I say nothing since I've seen nothing in writing, or should I not sell it and sit on until I hear something from the quiet title guy? I don't want to mess. I'm thinking to just sit on it, low value, not a finance problem for me, instead of risking a sale and an unhappy customer. Happy to hear your advice, Greg." I know what I'd do.

Steven J. Butala:
Go.

Jill DeWit:
Ignore the call. It's amazing that he even found you and tracked your number and everything. I don't believe it too.

Steven J. Butala:
I'd chill for about a week.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J. Butala:
And I wouldn't... And then I might... I would actually research. With resources that we have at Land Academy, you can go look at the chain of title.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven J. Butala:
Here's the thing about New Mexico-

Jill DeWit:
Do your homework and make sure.

Steven J. Butala:
Specifically New Mexico. Long before I met Jill. I was on the auction circuit in my car, in my SUV, six months a year. And I spent a lot of time in New Mexico going to auctions and buying property and selling it on the internet. And every third auction that I would go to in New Mexico, someone would stand up right before the auction and give us a big, long speech about how we're terrible Americans and we stole all this property from Mexico. And how dare we buy any land in New Mexico. That's what this is related to. This is some kind of meeting that either native Americans or Latinos have organized and there's to call them land owners and something like that.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Good Bad Ugly About Land Sales on Terms (LA 1427)
Transcript:

Steven J. Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven J. Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome Central Arizona.

Steven J. Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the good, the bad and the ugly. About land sales on terms. You can sell a property for cash, buy for $50 sell it for $100 or you can sell it on terms, buy for $50, $10,000 down, $1000 a month until you pay it off.

Jill DeWit:
Right.

Steven J. Butala:
Who doesn't want to have more money in their bank account? Who doesn't want to talk less on the phone and listen to [inaudible 00:00:40] get to know your tenant.

Jill DeWit:
We'll talk all about that and more.

Steven J. Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Greg wrote, this is a long one, bear with me. "Hi everyone. Love to get your feedback on this one. I have a desert junk property in New Mexico, bought it for $1,600, six months ago and it's not selling. I'm about to unload it at $3,200 to a fellow and I haven't signed any papers yet."

Steven J. Butala:
I don't know how that's losing or failing, but okay.

Jill DeWit:
I know. And that's not junk to me.

Steven J. Butala:
We don't use that word.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly. "A couple of days ago, a guy called me claiming to be an attorney and offered to buy this parcel from me for $2,000. Claimed to have tracked me down from the previous seller. I told him I wanted $3,800 and he proceeded to tell me that this property was subject to a quite a title that he and his family were working on. Something about it being sold incorrectly 50 years ago."

Steven J. Butala:
Lies.

Jill DeWit:
Wow. That mean?

Steven J. Butala:
All lies, [inaudible 00:01:48].

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. "I thought that was strange that he offered to buy it, combined with a quiet title information. I gave him my address and told him he was welcome to send any claim or action my way, but I haven't received anything yet. It's only been a couple of days."

Steven J. Butala:
This is the last you'll ever hear of this.

Jill DeWit:
"So my question is, should I say something to this guy who now wants to buy it, should I say nothing since I've seen nothing in writing, or should I not sell it and sit on until I hear something from the quiet title guy? I don't want to mess. I'm thinking to just sit on it, low value, not a finance problem for me, instead of risking a sale and an unhappy customer. Happy to hear your advice, Greg." I know what I'd do.

Steven J. Butala:
Go.

Jill DeWit:
Ignore the call. It's amazing that he even found you and tracked your number and everything. I don't believe it too.

Steven J. Butala:
I'd chill for about a week.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven J. Butala:
And I wouldn't... And then I might... I would actually research. With resources that we have at Land Academy, you can go look at the chain of title.

Jill DeWit:
Sure.

Steven J. Butala:
Here's the thing about New Mexico-

Jill DeWit:
Do your homework and make sure.

Steven J. Butala:
Specifically New Mexico. Long before I met Jill. I was on the auction circuit in my car, in my SUV, six months a year. And I spent a lot of time in New Mexico going to auctions and buying property and selling it on the internet. And every third auction that I would go to in New Mexico, someone would stand up right before the auction and give us a big, long speech about how we're terrible Americans and we stole all this property from Mexico. And how dare we buy any land in New Mexico. That's what this is related to. This is some kind of meeting that either native Americans or Latinos have organized and there's to call them land owners and something like that.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/28/good-bad-ugly-about-land-sales-on-terms-la-1427/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">iY0PmCBrg</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9c8fae11-b14b-41a2-adc9-3081ef4203c9.mp3" length="14031923" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:15</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Simple Ways to Improve Your Land so it Stands Out Online (LA 1426)</title><itunes:title>Simple Ways to Improve Your Land so it Stands Out Online (LA 1426)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Simple Ways to Improve Your Land so it Stands Out Online (LA 1426)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome central Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the simple ways to improve your land so it stands out online. I was just thinking about Arizona and yesterday we were talking about how happy you are, because you've got a personal assistant and everything.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
I could be not be more happy in my life then right now. I know this is like the happiest I've ever been. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Really? Really?

Steven Butala:
Arizona rocks.

Jill DeWit:
Because you're not in California?

Steven Butala:
Yes, that's part of it. Yeah, Jill. That's part of it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
And I just feel understood here. And I feel like there's camaraderie and the people that are here want to be here and they believe in everything. In California, since March, half the people you talk to are disgusted and they can't leave. We're fortunate that we could leave.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
And it's too bad because they have family and jobs or whatever or businesses. We have a really good friend who owns, two friends, who own a bunch of restaurants and they're really struggling. And they're real upset with the way the decisions that are being made. And we're just so fortunate that we're not subject to that. So I'm happy too. It's not just you.

Jill DeWit:
Oh good. I'm glad.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Chris wrote, "I've been a member since July 2020, and I have yet to send out a mailer. I had several unforeseen events happen that drain the bank account, but I'm now at a point where I'm ready to send out a mailer and pick a county. My question is if I only have $5,000 to $10,000, would it be better to buy several cheap desert properties or send out a mailer in a more expensive, less competitive area and use LandTank to deal fund? By doing the latter, I would be using the $5,000 to $10,000 to solely send out mailers and buy data. But on the other hand, it may be better as a beginner to send out my first mailers to an inexpensive desert area and fund the deals myself so there's less risk for my first few properties. Any advice or thoughts?" I know what my answer would be and I bet it's the same as you.

Steven Butala:
We have the exact same answer on this. Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
Go big. Use it on the data. You use it on the mail. Don't worry about funding the deal. I'll buy it.

Steven Butala:
You need to forget about... Think of it like this. You're never going to pay for a property, but what you need to do then is find some great property at fantastic prices.

Jill DeWit:
Get to know the area.

Steven Butala:
Your job for the next six months, Chris, is to understand data, get into the whole mailer part and understand how to answer the phone and generate some great real estate deals. Forget about the money. I truly, truly mean that. I just had a consulting call with a guy that said they have limitless money for this. They joined the... they actually... He scheduled a-

Jill DeWit:
Consulting.

Steven Butala:
... consulting call with me and at the end of the call, and I said, "This is how you mail. This is what you do with urban counties." The whole thing. And I said, "I got to tell you, man, I don't believe we're ever going to send out a mailer at all. I don't think you're actually paying attention. And I think you're making so much money as a lender, as a partner to other Land Academy members, why would you?" And he said, "Thank you. That's kind of what I wanted to get out of this because I...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Simple Ways to Improve Your Land so it Stands Out Online (LA 1426)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome central Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about the simple ways to improve your land so it stands out online. I was just thinking about Arizona and yesterday we were talking about how happy you are, because you've got a personal assistant and everything.

Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah.

Steven Butala:
I could be not be more happy in my life then right now. I know this is like the happiest I've ever been. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Really? Really?

Steven Butala:
Arizona rocks.

Jill DeWit:
Because you're not in California?

Steven Butala:
Yes, that's part of it. Yeah, Jill. That's part of it.

Jill DeWit:
Okay.

Steven Butala:
And I just feel understood here. And I feel like there's camaraderie and the people that are here want to be here and they believe in everything. In California, since March, half the people you talk to are disgusted and they can't leave. We're fortunate that we could leave.

Jill DeWit:
I know.

Steven Butala:
And it's too bad because they have family and jobs or whatever or businesses. We have a really good friend who owns, two friends, who own a bunch of restaurants and they're really struggling. And they're real upset with the way the decisions that are being made. And we're just so fortunate that we're not subject to that. So I'm happy too. It's not just you.

Jill DeWit:
Oh good. I'm glad.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
Chris wrote, "I've been a member since July 2020, and I have yet to send out a mailer. I had several unforeseen events happen that drain the bank account, but I'm now at a point where I'm ready to send out a mailer and pick a county. My question is if I only have $5,000 to $10,000, would it be better to buy several cheap desert properties or send out a mailer in a more expensive, less competitive area and use LandTank to deal fund? By doing the latter, I would be using the $5,000 to $10,000 to solely send out mailers and buy data. But on the other hand, it may be better as a beginner to send out my first mailers to an inexpensive desert area and fund the deals myself so there's less risk for my first few properties. Any advice or thoughts?" I know what my answer would be and I bet it's the same as you.

Steven Butala:
We have the exact same answer on this. Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:
Go big. Use it on the data. You use it on the mail. Don't worry about funding the deal. I'll buy it.

Steven Butala:
You need to forget about... Think of it like this. You're never going to pay for a property, but what you need to do then is find some great property at fantastic prices.

Jill DeWit:
Get to know the area.

Steven Butala:
Your job for the next six months, Chris, is to understand data, get into the whole mailer part and understand how to answer the phone and generate some great real estate deals. Forget about the money. I truly, truly mean that. I just had a consulting call with a guy that said they have limitless money for this. They joined the... they actually... He scheduled a-

Jill DeWit:
Consulting.

Steven Butala:
... consulting call with me and at the end of the call, and I said, "This is how you mail. This is what you do with urban counties." The whole thing. And I said, "I got to tell you, man, I don't believe we're ever going to send out a mailer at all. I don't think you're actually paying attention. And I think you're making so much money as a lender, as a partner to other Land Academy members, why would you?" And he said, "Thank you. That's kind of what I wanted to get out of this because I...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/27/simple-ways-to-improve-your-land-so-it-stands-out-online-la-1426/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">nUCDQIMul</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c466e598-2667-49eb-bcbe-5eebcdacae15.mp3" length="19164015" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>19:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Introducing Land Academy Accountability and Women&amp;#8217;s Groups (LA 1425)</title><itunes:title>Introducing Land Academy Accountability and Women&amp;#8217;s Groups (LA 1425)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Transcript

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome, Southern... Are we southern or central area?

Steve:
Central?

Jill:
Excuse me. Awesome, Central Arizona. [inaudible 00:00:16] I have got to figure that out.

Steve:
Our elevation's 1500 here. In California, we were at elevation number... Like one foot.

Jill:
There we go.

Steve:
You know how you obsess on-

Jill:
I do obsess on that.

Steve:
On the weather and stuff?

Jill:
And GPS and all that.

Steve:
I have elevation issues. I put elevation in every single one of our land postings.

Jill:
[inaudible 00:00:38] you remember, you used to have that thing... And it was dialed into satellite stuff?

Steve:
Yeah, the weather...

Jill:
Yeah. And it would tell you all kinds of cool... The barometric pressure and things like that. I'm going to get one of those again for the new house.

Steve:
I think that you can get... I like the one that goes on the roof, where you don't need the internet.

Jill:
This one didn't need the internet too.

Steve:
So you install a little thing that goes... You ever see those little...

Jill:
A little gyro thing?

Steve:
Yeah.

Jill:
Oh, well you can do that if you want. I don't need that.

Steve:
[inaudible 00:01:09] Jill's out, if you have to install anything now.

Jill:
Exactly.

Steve:
Do you ever notice how girl products are just like open it and plug it in? And it's clean and pretty and simple and you don't really get any real information or the meat of anything? But-

Jill:
Why is this a bad thing?

Steve:
They're happy.

Jill:
It should work. I should open up and plug it in.

Steve:
I think I just described Apple computer.

Jill:
It's like a bathroom scale and should be able to just do it quickly. Not have to program the whole thing.

Steve:
Before Jill starts to talk about women's weight. Today, Jill and I talk about introducing Land Academy accountability and women's groups.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community.
It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill:
Okay.
James wrote, "Hello. When filling in the red, yellow, and green tests in the equity planner, which filters are used for land and farm to get land postings and Redfin [inaudible 00:02:09] data?"
Assume on Redfin for [inaudible 00:02:13] data, you only select land for the last three months. And for land and farm, no houses and undeveloped land. However, the numbers from these filters are very different than the numbers in the example Jack uses for the equity planner.
And I want to make sure I'm doing this right.

Steve:
You're doing it right. James, I can tell you haven't filled this out before and by this question, you are going to be wildly successful at this.
Whenever I get questions about equity planner, data scrubbing. Like yesterday, the school district thing yesterday was nothing short of amazing. I didn't make enough of a big deal about how positive that is like Jill did. So I'm doing it now.
The answer is this. When you have a lot of data available, i.e. You have an urban county or a zip code that you're sending it to, then use it all in from one source, probably Redfin. You're not going to get the data that you need in realtor, all of it. And you're not going to get all of the data that you need in Zillow. You are going to get it in Redfin.
The bad news is that Redfin's coverage doesn't... Rural counties are not a priority for them. So you're doing it right. I can tell. In three months is great, that's actually what I use. It's interesting that you say three months, because that just made sense to you and that makes sense to me. Jill likes 30 days, but there's not enough data. You can do it back three years if you want on Redfin, that's, that's not apples to apples. Because real estate market was not the same thre...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Transcript

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill:
Hi.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from awesome, Southern... Are we southern or central area?

Steve:
Central?

Jill:
Excuse me. Awesome, Central Arizona. [inaudible 00:00:16] I have got to figure that out.

Steve:
Our elevation's 1500 here. In California, we were at elevation number... Like one foot.

Jill:
There we go.

Steve:
You know how you obsess on-

Jill:
I do obsess on that.

Steve:
On the weather and stuff?

Jill:
And GPS and all that.

Steve:
I have elevation issues. I put elevation in every single one of our land postings.

Jill:
[inaudible 00:00:38] you remember, you used to have that thing... And it was dialed into satellite stuff?

Steve:
Yeah, the weather...

Jill:
Yeah. And it would tell you all kinds of cool... The barometric pressure and things like that. I'm going to get one of those again for the new house.

Steve:
I think that you can get... I like the one that goes on the roof, where you don't need the internet.

Jill:
This one didn't need the internet too.

Steve:
So you install a little thing that goes... You ever see those little...

Jill:
A little gyro thing?

Steve:
Yeah.

Jill:
Oh, well you can do that if you want. I don't need that.

Steve:
[inaudible 00:01:09] Jill's out, if you have to install anything now.

Jill:
Exactly.

Steve:
Do you ever notice how girl products are just like open it and plug it in? And it's clean and pretty and simple and you don't really get any real information or the meat of anything? But-

Jill:
Why is this a bad thing?

Steve:
They're happy.

Jill:
It should work. I should open up and plug it in.

Steve:
I think I just described Apple computer.

Jill:
It's like a bathroom scale and should be able to just do it quickly. Not have to program the whole thing.

Steve:
Before Jill starts to talk about women's weight. Today, Jill and I talk about introducing Land Academy accountability and women's groups.
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community.
It's free. And if you're already a member, please join us on Discord.

Jill:
Okay.
James wrote, "Hello. When filling in the red, yellow, and green tests in the equity planner, which filters are used for land and farm to get land postings and Redfin [inaudible 00:02:09] data?"
Assume on Redfin for [inaudible 00:02:13] data, you only select land for the last three months. And for land and farm, no houses and undeveloped land. However, the numbers from these filters are very different than the numbers in the example Jack uses for the equity planner.
And I want to make sure I'm doing this right.

Steve:
You're doing it right. James, I can tell you haven't filled this out before and by this question, you are going to be wildly successful at this.
Whenever I get questions about equity planner, data scrubbing. Like yesterday, the school district thing yesterday was nothing short of amazing. I didn't make enough of a big deal about how positive that is like Jill did. So I'm doing it now.
The answer is this. When you have a lot of data available, i.e. You have an urban county or a zip code that you're sending it to, then use it all in from one source, probably Redfin. You're not going to get the data that you need in realtor, all of it. And you're not going to get all of the data that you need in Zillow. You are going to get it in Redfin.
The bad news is that Redfin's coverage doesn't... Rural counties are not a priority for them. So you're doing it right. I can tell. In three months is great, that's actually what I use. It's interesting that you say three months, because that just made sense to you and that makes sense to me. Jill likes 30 days, but there's not enough data. You can do it back three years if you want on Redfin, that's, that's not apples to apples. Because real estate market was not the same thre...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/26/introducing-land-academy-accountability-and-womens-groups-la-1425/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">etwxKDkTk</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/34e947f5-35a1-4fa6-9fd0-916b142bbd8d.mp3" length="17978507" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:22</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Land Academy 1000 Free Record a Month Giveaway (LA 1424)</title><itunes:title>Land Academy 1000 Free Record a Month Giveaway (LA 1424)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Land Academy 1000 Free Record a Month Giveaway (LA 1424)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome, cool Arizona.

Steve:
Rainy Arizona today.

Jill DeWit:
It is, a little bit.

Steve:
Today, Jill and I talk about Land Academy's 1000 Free Record-a-Month Giveaway. I was just informed, it's not a giveaway at all.

Jill DeWit:
It's not a giveaway. It's a new thing. It's not like it's a special thing right now. It's the way we roll, and I'll explain it.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please check us out or join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
David wrote, "My latest mailer had sites zip code-

Steve:
Situs.

Jill DeWit:
Situs, excuse me. It was not spelled the right-

Steve:
I know. It's not you.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it.

Steve:
It's David.

Jill DeWit:
S-I-T-U-S zip code for about half of the 1000 records I downloaded. I got those all priced by zip code. Then there's the other 4000, and I don't know where they are in the county, unless I put them into ParcelFact. Pricing by zip code or subdivisions, always how I do it, but on this other half of the [inaudible 00:01:15], that that doesn't seem to have those. How would you price them? I have them priced by school district right now, which looks to be a reliable data set for the properties. But I haven't sent them out. My gut is that this won't be perfect, but the county's good enough that I think I'm willing to risk my mailer costs on pricing that may not be exact.
Take it away, Jack.

Steve:
It's never perfect.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steve:
Jill and I went to a dinner with a bunch of our years and years friends last night. And one guy's a government contractor. And he owns a manufacturing company. They do all kinds of stuff, from jet engine parts to whatever. And we're going down the path, starting a company with him, which we will market some very specialty items that he will manufacture. And there was a guy there that has been in that business for a lot of years, but he's never been an entrepreneur. He's been a friend of mine for 25 years. And so, I started down the path with the entrepreneur buddy. And the guy who's a former CEO of a company, a government contracting company, couldn't keep up and didn't understand us. And I love these guys. I love them equally. But there's entrepreneurs who just won't take no for an answer. And then, there's former CEOs or former W2 employees that have never been truly through a startup, so they don't get it.
So on my left, is this guy saying, "We're going to do this and we're going to probably fail at it 50 times before we get it right," which I'm saying, "Exactly. Is there another way?" And my former CEO buddy's just horrified. And he doesn't understand why. So look, so my point is here, yeah, it's not going to be perfect. The mailers I do are not perfect. I'm going to talk about failing all this week. Because we have a lot of new people, and there's a material percentage of these people... I'm not sure if David is one or not. I don't think so. He's not actually, now that I'm thinking about it, that haven't wrapped their head around the fact that they're going to fail a few times.

Jill DeWit:
What do you think about his thought process here? I think that was scrappy.

Steve:
I do too.

Jill DeWit:
I'm really impressed. You're like, "Okay, what else can I use?"

Steve:
That's geographic specific.

Jill DeWit:
School district is great.

Steve:
Yeah. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's a great way to do this. I love it.

Steve:
Here's what I'd do-

Jill DeWit:
I'd love to... you can't... what David said in the beginning, I'm just going to explain real quick. There's no way, nor should anyone ever sit and one-by-one look up things.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Land Academy 1000 Free Record a Month Giveaway (LA 1424)
Transcript:

Steve:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Howdy.

Steve:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome, cool Arizona.

Steve:
Rainy Arizona today.

Jill DeWit:
It is, a little bit.

Steve:
Today, Jill and I talk about Land Academy's 1000 Free Record-a-Month Giveaway. I was just informed, it's not a giveaway at all.

Jill DeWit:
It's not a giveaway. It's a new thing. It's not like it's a special thing right now. It's the way we roll, and I'll explain it.

Steve:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And if you're a Land Academy member already, please check us out or join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:
David wrote, "My latest mailer had sites zip code-

Steve:
Situs.

Jill DeWit:
Situs, excuse me. It was not spelled the right-

Steve:
I know. It's not you.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it.

Steve:
It's David.

Jill DeWit:
S-I-T-U-S zip code for about half of the 1000 records I downloaded. I got those all priced by zip code. Then there's the other 4000, and I don't know where they are in the county, unless I put them into ParcelFact. Pricing by zip code or subdivisions, always how I do it, but on this other half of the [inaudible 00:01:15], that that doesn't seem to have those. How would you price them? I have them priced by school district right now, which looks to be a reliable data set for the properties. But I haven't sent them out. My gut is that this won't be perfect, but the county's good enough that I think I'm willing to risk my mailer costs on pricing that may not be exact.
Take it away, Jack.

Steve:
It's never perfect.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah.

Steve:
Jill and I went to a dinner with a bunch of our years and years friends last night. And one guy's a government contractor. And he owns a manufacturing company. They do all kinds of stuff, from jet engine parts to whatever. And we're going down the path, starting a company with him, which we will market some very specialty items that he will manufacture. And there was a guy there that has been in that business for a lot of years, but he's never been an entrepreneur. He's been a friend of mine for 25 years. And so, I started down the path with the entrepreneur buddy. And the guy who's a former CEO of a company, a government contracting company, couldn't keep up and didn't understand us. And I love these guys. I love them equally. But there's entrepreneurs who just won't take no for an answer. And then, there's former CEOs or former W2 employees that have never been truly through a startup, so they don't get it.
So on my left, is this guy saying, "We're going to do this and we're going to probably fail at it 50 times before we get it right," which I'm saying, "Exactly. Is there another way?" And my former CEO buddy's just horrified. And he doesn't understand why. So look, so my point is here, yeah, it's not going to be perfect. The mailers I do are not perfect. I'm going to talk about failing all this week. Because we have a lot of new people, and there's a material percentage of these people... I'm not sure if David is one or not. I don't think so. He's not actually, now that I'm thinking about it, that haven't wrapped their head around the fact that they're going to fail a few times.

Jill DeWit:
What do you think about his thought process here? I think that was scrappy.

Steve:
I do too.

Jill DeWit:
I'm really impressed. You're like, "Okay, what else can I use?"

Steve:
That's geographic specific.

Jill DeWit:
School district is great.

Steve:
Yeah. Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
That's a great way to do this. I love it.

Steve:
Here's what I'd do-

Jill DeWit:
I'd love to... you can't... what David said in the beginning, I'm just going to explain real quick. There's no way, nor should anyone ever sit and one-by-one look up things.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/25/land-academy-1000-free-record-a-month-giveaway-la-1424/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4SoBP0y5-</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9d279ce8-37cb-48d1-b1c6-5ce9bfc86732.mp3" length="12343951" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>12:30</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Introducing Land Academy Classroom (LA 1423)</title><itunes:title>Introducing Land Academy Classroom (LA 1423)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Introducing Land Academy Classroom (LA 1423)
Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny, hot almost-
Steven Butala:Hot?
Jill DeWit:I guess it's not hot.
Steven Butala:It's gorgeous out.
Jill DeWit:It's nice. All right. Gorgeous southern Arizona. I don't have a good saying for this. We got to figure out the Arizona saying.
Steven Butala:Yeah, it's okay. Might take a couple of weeks.
Jill DeWit:It might. If you have any ideas, please put them in the links below and tell me what to say because I clearly don't know what to say. But Arizona's awesome.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about our introduction to Land Academy Classroom. Jill and I are real proud of this. About a year ago, people started to ask us for the next product. Great, you guys have a self-study product, but we really would like to be in some type of classroom setting where we can learn from you directly and we all go through it together, like a regular classroom.
Jill DeWit:And it's not an accountability group. This is something very different. We'll explain it here in a few minutes.
Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And additionally, please join us on Discord. If you're already a member of Land Academy.
Jill DeWit:Edgar wrote, "I read that it costs $800 a year." Did he really write this? Is this you but this is true?
Steven Butala:This is all true.
Jill DeWit:This is true. I happen to know this is true.
Steven Butala:I did not make this up in any way. Not have a word of it.
Jill DeWit:I thought you put this in here because of me complaining.
Steven Butala:No. This is going to be a little bit of a rant.
Jill DeWit:Okay, cool. All right. So Edgar wrote, "I read that it costs $800 a year to maintain an LLC in California. Specific to California, are there any other out of the ordinary LLC fees to be aware of in regards to establishing, maintaining and/or one day terminating the LLC?" And Frank wrote, I'm going to read Frank's thing, "Correct on the $800 flat annual fee. There's a $70 filing fee and $5 certified copy fee. Also, an operating agreement is not required, i.e. for single member LLCs between spouses or even multiple people. And it can be verbal, but it's not a good idea. So you may need an attorney to write up an operating agreement. Also, every two years, you have to submit a statement of information, which is a $12 fee."
Steven Butala:$20.
Jill DeWit:Excuse me, $20 fee. I'm just making up stuff here. "There's no termination fee." So is there more to this, or is that the end of this? Oh, okay. Cool. Happen to have [inaudible 00:02:37]. Inside information is true, and this is all true. It's expensive.
Steven Butala:There's a reason we're sitting in Arizona right now and not California. And it's because of crap like this. They make everything from a business owner's perspective infinitely more complicated and expensive than it needs be. I don't know how it got to be this way, but Jill and I are fed up with it. And that's truth. There's no fee at all if you are willing to wait the right amount of time to file an LLC in Arizona. And they don't come after you with all these other little fees and all this stuff. I can tell these two guys are both from California and probably were born there because this is what has been my experience because I've lived in other states, a lot of other states actually, other than California. Oh, yeah. [Inaudible 00:03:30]. You got to do this. You got to pay the $800. You got to do this. You got to cut your toenails correctly. And you've got to make sure that you look okay and wear Vans shoes
Jill DeWit:Okay. What Jack is nicely saying is they don't know better. They just grew up in it. And that's true. I understand that.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Introducing Land Academy Classroom (LA 1423)
Transcript:
Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:Hello.
Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny, hot almost-
Steven Butala:Hot?
Jill DeWit:I guess it's not hot.
Steven Butala:It's gorgeous out.
Jill DeWit:It's nice. All right. Gorgeous southern Arizona. I don't have a good saying for this. We got to figure out the Arizona saying.
Steven Butala:Yeah, it's okay. Might take a couple of weeks.
Jill DeWit:It might. If you have any ideas, please put them in the links below and tell me what to say because I clearly don't know what to say. But Arizona's awesome.
Steven Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about our introduction to Land Academy Classroom. Jill and I are real proud of this. About a year ago, people started to ask us for the next product. Great, you guys have a self-study product, but we really would like to be in some type of classroom setting where we can learn from you directly and we all go through it together, like a regular classroom.
Jill DeWit:And it's not an accountability group. This is something very different. We'll explain it here in a few minutes.
Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And additionally, please join us on Discord. If you're already a member of Land Academy.
Jill DeWit:Edgar wrote, "I read that it costs $800 a year." Did he really write this? Is this you but this is true?
Steven Butala:This is all true.
Jill DeWit:This is true. I happen to know this is true.
Steven Butala:I did not make this up in any way. Not have a word of it.
Jill DeWit:I thought you put this in here because of me complaining.
Steven Butala:No. This is going to be a little bit of a rant.
Jill DeWit:Okay, cool. All right. So Edgar wrote, "I read that it costs $800 a year to maintain an LLC in California. Specific to California, are there any other out of the ordinary LLC fees to be aware of in regards to establishing, maintaining and/or one day terminating the LLC?" And Frank wrote, I'm going to read Frank's thing, "Correct on the $800 flat annual fee. There's a $70 filing fee and $5 certified copy fee. Also, an operating agreement is not required, i.e. for single member LLCs between spouses or even multiple people. And it can be verbal, but it's not a good idea. So you may need an attorney to write up an operating agreement. Also, every two years, you have to submit a statement of information, which is a $12 fee."
Steven Butala:$20.
Jill DeWit:Excuse me, $20 fee. I'm just making up stuff here. "There's no termination fee." So is there more to this, or is that the end of this? Oh, okay. Cool. Happen to have [inaudible 00:02:37]. Inside information is true, and this is all true. It's expensive.
Steven Butala:There's a reason we're sitting in Arizona right now and not California. And it's because of crap like this. They make everything from a business owner's perspective infinitely more complicated and expensive than it needs be. I don't know how it got to be this way, but Jill and I are fed up with it. And that's truth. There's no fee at all if you are willing to wait the right amount of time to file an LLC in Arizona. And they don't come after you with all these other little fees and all this stuff. I can tell these two guys are both from California and probably were born there because this is what has been my experience because I've lived in other states, a lot of other states actually, other than California. Oh, yeah. [Inaudible 00:03:30]. You got to do this. You got to pay the $800. You got to do this. You got to cut your toenails correctly. And you've got to make sure that you look okay and wear Vans shoes
Jill DeWit:Okay. What Jack is nicely saying is they don't know better. They just grew up in it. And that's true. I understand that.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/22/introducing-land-academy-classroom-la-1423/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">yNO4U-kBE</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/726f6af7-74ff-459f-ace9-e43244211e72.mp3" length="16288297" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>16:36</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>DataTree vs TitlePro vs RealQuest Pro (LA 1422)</title><itunes:title>DataTree vs TitlePro vs RealQuest Pro (LA 1422)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[DataTree vs TitlePro vs RealQuest Pro (LA 1422)Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Howdy.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from amazing, arid Arizona. I'm trying to think quickly, "What can I do that all starts with As?"Steven Butala:Today Jill and I talk about DataTree versus TitlePro versus RealQuest Pro. Those are the three best professional sources of data. We're licensed providers for all three of them, Jill and I are. And every member with us has access to all of them. And again, this, like all week this week, this topic came from our customer service department because they're getting a lot of questions on this.Jill DeWit:This topic is the very best way to get out of a conversation if you're approached by somebody boring in a bar environment. [inaudible 00:00:53]Steven Butala:Well, I think that if you say, "We're licensed providers of data," and then fill in the blank, you've already lost most of the people.Jill DeWit:There we go.Steven Butala:Just licensed providers. It's like, "Nope."Jill DeWit:"How was your day?" "Well here, thank you for asking. Here's what I did." And watch their eyes go, "And we're done."Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And additionally, if you're a member, join us on Discord.Jill DeWit:Tiffany asks, "I'm wondering has anyone experienced longer and longer lead times on getting deals closed through an attorney or title in the last several months? Or do I just need to get a new attorney? Laughing. Ha ha. Though this is the second one. And they have both been just swamped. I'm guessing it's across the board."I have, but it's not catastrophic. I seriously have. What I used to do in 10 days, might take... If I used to do it in 10 days, it maybe takes 15 or 20. But a 30 day escrow is not a 90 day escrow.Steven Butala:Here's why. Whether you're closing a deal through an attorney or you close it through escrow, they both have to get a, depending on the state, a preliminary title report back that says, "Okay, green lights. Everything's passed. We're now putting together the actual title insurance policy, or a title plant done in some cases. State to state is different. And sometimes the property is, there's issues. So we need to get plant work done." That's the holdup.There's a lot of escrow agents and a lot of lawyers that'll take your deal. And the best lawyers in the world can get deals done in days. They still are held out, this, right now. And this is a sign of the times in whatever it is, January of 2021. Because it's so busy, they're held up by title people.Jill DeWit:It's just volume. It's just the amount of deals getting done right now.Steven Butala:Title companies and escrow companies are different. Sometimes they have a title division, but they're usually just escrow companies. Lawyers never have a title component. They always go out to a title company. And title companies, they have a huge problem staffing. Because the title plant people don't get paid that much and they need to be really smart.So that's the real answer, Tiffany. That's really what's happening. There's a huge shortage of title people, not escrow people.Jill DeWit:Right. So anything you can do? Help them, always be available. Like the things that I would do to be different, check in with them. Don't wait for them to check in with you. I would call them a couple of times a week. Maybe twice a week is probably a good number. Because they're busy. And just say, "Where are you in the process? And what do you need from me?"I mean, this is what I do and I have my team do. I always make sure you're not waiting for me. If you're waiting on me, I'm on it kind of thing.Call, find out ahead of time before you open escrow, find out how backed up they are and how long they think it's going to take....]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[DataTree vs TitlePro vs RealQuest Pro (LA 1422)Transcript:Steven Butala:Steve and Jill here.Jill DeWit:Howdy.Steven Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from amazing, arid Arizona. I'm trying to think quickly, "What can I do that all starts with As?"Steven Butala:Today Jill and I talk about DataTree versus TitlePro versus RealQuest Pro. Those are the three best professional sources of data. We're licensed providers for all three of them, Jill and I are. And every member with us has access to all of them. And again, this, like all week this week, this topic came from our customer service department because they're getting a lot of questions on this.Jill DeWit:This topic is the very best way to get out of a conversation if you're approached by somebody boring in a bar environment. [inaudible 00:00:53]Steven Butala:Well, I think that if you say, "We're licensed providers of data," and then fill in the blank, you've already lost most of the people.Jill DeWit:There we go.Steven Butala:Just licensed providers. It's like, "Nope."Jill DeWit:"How was your day?" "Well here, thank you for asking. Here's what I did." And watch their eyes go, "And we're done."Steven Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And additionally, if you're a member, join us on Discord.Jill DeWit:Tiffany asks, "I'm wondering has anyone experienced longer and longer lead times on getting deals closed through an attorney or title in the last several months? Or do I just need to get a new attorney? Laughing. Ha ha. Though this is the second one. And they have both been just swamped. I'm guessing it's across the board."I have, but it's not catastrophic. I seriously have. What I used to do in 10 days, might take... If I used to do it in 10 days, it maybe takes 15 or 20. But a 30 day escrow is not a 90 day escrow.Steven Butala:Here's why. Whether you're closing a deal through an attorney or you close it through escrow, they both have to get a, depending on the state, a preliminary title report back that says, "Okay, green lights. Everything's passed. We're now putting together the actual title insurance policy, or a title plant done in some cases. State to state is different. And sometimes the property is, there's issues. So we need to get plant work done." That's the holdup.There's a lot of escrow agents and a lot of lawyers that'll take your deal. And the best lawyers in the world can get deals done in days. They still are held out, this, right now. And this is a sign of the times in whatever it is, January of 2021. Because it's so busy, they're held up by title people.Jill DeWit:It's just volume. It's just the amount of deals getting done right now.Steven Butala:Title companies and escrow companies are different. Sometimes they have a title division, but they're usually just escrow companies. Lawyers never have a title component. They always go out to a title company. And title companies, they have a huge problem staffing. Because the title plant people don't get paid that much and they need to be really smart.So that's the real answer, Tiffany. That's really what's happening. There's a huge shortage of title people, not escrow people.Jill DeWit:Right. So anything you can do? Help them, always be available. Like the things that I would do to be different, check in with them. Don't wait for them to check in with you. I would call them a couple of times a week. Maybe twice a week is probably a good number. Because they're busy. And just say, "Where are you in the process? And what do you need from me?"I mean, this is what I do and I have my team do. I always make sure you're not waiting for me. If you're waiting on me, I'm on it kind of thing.Call, find out ahead of time before you open escrow, find out how backed up they are and how long they think it's going to take....]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/21/datatree-vs-titlepro-vs-realquest-pro-la-1422/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">_wJ3Vmv3D</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/20aeb4aa-fe6d-4dc5-b3f4-74771bcdfd0e.mp3" length="18001993" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>18:24</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Cloudy Title Drama (LA 1421)</title><itunes:title>Cloudy Title Drama (LA 1421)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Cloudy Title Drama (LA 1421)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about cloudy title drama.

Jill DeWit:
What the heck? All right. This, like yesterday's topic, came from our staff.

Steven Butala:
From our customer service staff.

Jill DeWit:
Our customers, actually. Because this comes up a lot. And I want to say, to quote you, Jack, "Everyone, everyone, everyone." There's things to get worked up about and things not to get worked up about, and this is not a thing to get worked up about, and a lot of people do. So that's the whole point here, it's like, "Oh my gosh, how do I uncover this?" It manifests into this big problem and it doesn't have to be that big of a problem. So we're going to talk a minute about the drama. Are you a drama person? Because that could be part of the problem there, number one, but we'll tackle that.

Steven Butala:
Oh, that was right in my whole talk today.

Jill DeWit:
What other drama is in your life?

Steven Butala:
The cloud on the title is not really the problem.

Jill DeWit:
That's not the problem, exactly. It's the problem right now, but it's not the problem. Number two, we're going to talk to you about, okay, what's really important here? And then number three, I have solutions for you.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a ... I was going to start down the path of defining a chain of title, but we'll do it in a minute. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and additionally, if you're a member, join us on Discord as a Land Academy member.

Jill DeWit:
For a lot of more exciting chat. All right, Dave wrote, "Two times now I've downloaded a bunch of what was supposed to be vacant land data from DataTree only to find out that 25 to 35% of records are actually the owners' residence and are not in fact vacant. What the heck am I doing wrong? This is super frustrating. Anyone else having this problem, or better yet, know what I need to do to avoid this?

Steven Butala:
Sure, I'm happy to help. 25 to 35% of a data download that you end up not using the data is not that bad. If you would download 10,000 records and you end up using eight or 7,500 of them, you're going to scrub that stuff out because ... And there's, that I know of, no way to really avoid it. In this case specifically, if you're getting data records that are residences with vertical construction on it, it's happening because ... And this is all in education. So Dave, I hope you remember. I'm not sure if you are, but if you go through all the education, Land Academy 1.0 and 2.0, it's in all in there about how to do this. And again, that's what Discord is for. And I think I actually pulled this question off of Discord.
Anyway, there's two or three or four or five ways to make sure you don't get property that have vertical structures on it and that's through ... Every single property should have two types of assessments so that the assessor can tell the treasurer how much taxes, real estate taxes, to charge every year. The land value and the vertical value, or the improvement value is what it's called. If the improvement value is zero, then you know it's a piece of land. The problem is that not every ... There's no universal way to book data from assessor to assess her. You can imagine, an assessor in Arkansas that hasn't yet computerized their operation in 2021 versus an assessor in let's say Silicon Valley where computers were actually created. There's going to be a pretty substantial difference between how they contribute that data.
So the answer is to be redundant. There's vertical assessment percentages that need to be zero. There's vertical or improvement assessed values that ...]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Cloudy Title Drama (LA 1421)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hello.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern Arizona.

Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about cloudy title drama.

Jill DeWit:
What the heck? All right. This, like yesterday's topic, came from our staff.

Steven Butala:
From our customer service staff.

Jill DeWit:
Our customers, actually. Because this comes up a lot. And I want to say, to quote you, Jack, "Everyone, everyone, everyone." There's things to get worked up about and things not to get worked up about, and this is not a thing to get worked up about, and a lot of people do. So that's the whole point here, it's like, "Oh my gosh, how do I uncover this?" It manifests into this big problem and it doesn't have to be that big of a problem. So we're going to talk a minute about the drama. Are you a drama person? Because that could be part of the problem there, number one, but we'll tackle that.

Steven Butala:
Oh, that was right in my whole talk today.

Jill DeWit:
What other drama is in your life?

Steven Butala:
The cloud on the title is not really the problem.

Jill DeWit:
That's not the problem, exactly. It's the problem right now, but it's not the problem. Number two, we're going to talk to you about, okay, what's really important here? And then number three, I have solutions for you.

Steven Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a ... I was going to start down the path of defining a chain of title, but we'll do it in a minute. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and additionally, if you're a member, join us on Discord as a Land Academy member.

Jill DeWit:
For a lot of more exciting chat. All right, Dave wrote, "Two times now I've downloaded a bunch of what was supposed to be vacant land data from DataTree only to find out that 25 to 35% of records are actually the owners' residence and are not in fact vacant. What the heck am I doing wrong? This is super frustrating. Anyone else having this problem, or better yet, know what I need to do to avoid this?

Steven Butala:
Sure, I'm happy to help. 25 to 35% of a data download that you end up not using the data is not that bad. If you would download 10,000 records and you end up using eight or 7,500 of them, you're going to scrub that stuff out because ... And there's, that I know of, no way to really avoid it. In this case specifically, if you're getting data records that are residences with vertical construction on it, it's happening because ... And this is all in education. So Dave, I hope you remember. I'm not sure if you are, but if you go through all the education, Land Academy 1.0 and 2.0, it's in all in there about how to do this. And again, that's what Discord is for. And I think I actually pulled this question off of Discord.
Anyway, there's two or three or four or five ways to make sure you don't get property that have vertical structures on it and that's through ... Every single property should have two types of assessments so that the assessor can tell the treasurer how much taxes, real estate taxes, to charge every year. The land value and the vertical value, or the improvement value is what it's called. If the improvement value is zero, then you know it's a piece of land. The problem is that not every ... There's no universal way to book data from assessor to assess her. You can imagine, an assessor in Arkansas that hasn't yet computerized their operation in 2021 versus an assessor in let's say Silicon Valley where computers were actually created. There's going to be a pretty substantial difference between how they contribute that data.
So the answer is to be redundant. There's vertical assessment percentages that need to be zero. There's vertical or improvement assessed values that ...]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/20/cloudy-title-drama-la-1421/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">inggCXPVR</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1173a092-fe75-41da-9b78-9a8caf98c031.mp3" length="20369315" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>20:52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Deal Funding with People who are Unfamiliar with Land Investing (LA 1420)</title><itunes:title>Deal Funding with People who are Unfamiliar with Land Investing (LA 1420)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Deal Funding with People who are Unfamiliar with Land Investing (LA 1420)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern Arizona. I have to change that every time. You watching can tell my background is different. You probably have an idea that I'm not in Southern California. We're not in Southern California, but.

Steven Butala:
We're going through a back and forth. We're making some changes.

Jill DeWit:
We got some projects we're working on and it involves us spending a little more time here. It's all good stuff.

Steven Butala:
Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
What were you saying at the beginning? When we just were starting?

Steven Butala:
Our numbers were, on this talk show, we get all kinds of analytics back. We always have for five, whatever, six years that we've been doing this show. And our numbers have been incredibly well. They're doing very, very well. This last two months, I guess.

Jill DeWit:
Where did we record last time?

Steven Butala:
Because I think Jill and I are just having little bit more fun. I really do.

Jill DeWit:
Were we sitting here? I can't even remember.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it. I'm like, we've been traveling around, not traveling around, but you know, making changes in different, doing different things and trying to do stuff. So I'm like, I don't even know where I am. It's Friday, right?

Steven Butala:
It's actually Tuesday.

Jill DeWit:
I know. It's Monday.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. No, it's Tuesday when this airs.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
That's what I meant.
Today, Jill and I talk about deal funding with people who are unfamiliar with land investing.

Jill DeWit:
But before we get into it first, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors online community. It is free.
Jen wrote, got my first response today from my mailer. Yay. Lady inherited three parcels from her-

Steven Butala:
Mother-in-law.

Jill DeWit:
Mother-in-law, thank you.

Steven Butala:
M-I-L.

Jill DeWit:
I'm like, I see it. I'm like military. I'm like what the heck? Mother-in-law, okay, forty-five years ago. And recently quit paying taxes on them. She owes about thousand dollars so far in back taxes. There's access to only the first parcel, all three equal, and about two acres. So I'm thinking I'd have to sell them all together. Could probably get around $2,000 as I'm thinking she just wants out. Probably buy them around $2,000. Called the county to confirm utilities and access and found out the ground is rock hard, and to get utilities to it, they have to use explosives. They were very nice and actually going to call me back tomorrow with an estimate. Oh my gosh, I can't imagine. Thinking this one's dead, but good first learning experience.

Steven Butala:
I think, and Jen, we all know who you are. You're very new and very vocal in our group, and I appreciate that.

Jill DeWit:
You are.

Steven Butala:
But it seems to me, you're trying to find a way to kill this deal. I'm not sure why. How about we just look at the core economics of it. You can get it for 2000, 3000 with back taxes. I don't know what the value is. It's all economics for me. The hard rock thing, the hard rocks been that way for as long as that property has been there. And people, hopefully, have found a way around that or there's solar panels now and stuff. So I don't know enough about this deal to tell you, yeah, you should do it, or no, you shouldn't. But I do know you just found five reasons not to do the deal instead of maybe the one reason that you could do the deal that, and hopefully it's some version of, I'm going to be into it for three or 4,000 bucks, by the time it's done and it's worth 20.

Jill DeWit:
This made me think of what you took a picture of just yesterday.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Deal Funding with People who are Unfamiliar with Land Investing (LA 1420)
Transcript:

Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Hi.

Steven Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny, southern Arizona. I have to change that every time. You watching can tell my background is different. You probably have an idea that I'm not in Southern California. We're not in Southern California, but.

Steven Butala:
We're going through a back and forth. We're making some changes.

Jill DeWit:
We got some projects we're working on and it involves us spending a little more time here. It's all good stuff.

Steven Butala:
Exactly.

Jill DeWit:
What were you saying at the beginning? When we just were starting?

Steven Butala:
Our numbers were, on this talk show, we get all kinds of analytics back. We always have for five, whatever, six years that we've been doing this show. And our numbers have been incredibly well. They're doing very, very well. This last two months, I guess.

Jill DeWit:
Where did we record last time?

Steven Butala:
Because I think Jill and I are just having little bit more fun. I really do.

Jill DeWit:
Were we sitting here? I can't even remember.

Steven Butala:
Yeah.

Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it. I'm like, we've been traveling around, not traveling around, but you know, making changes in different, doing different things and trying to do stuff. So I'm like, I don't even know where I am. It's Friday, right?

Steven Butala:
It's actually Tuesday.

Jill DeWit:
I know. It's Monday.

Steven Butala:
Yeah. No, it's Tuesday when this airs.

Jill DeWit:
That's true.

Steven Butala:
That's what I meant.
Today, Jill and I talk about deal funding with people who are unfamiliar with land investing.

Jill DeWit:
But before we get into it first, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors online community. It is free.
Jen wrote, got my first response today from my mailer. Yay. Lady inherited three parcels from her-

Steven Butala:
Mother-in-law.

Jill DeWit:
Mother-in-law, thank you.

Steven Butala:
M-I-L.

Jill DeWit:
I'm like, I see it. I'm like military. I'm like what the heck? Mother-in-law, okay, forty-five years ago. And recently quit paying taxes on them. She owes about thousand dollars so far in back taxes. There's access to only the first parcel, all three equal, and about two acres. So I'm thinking I'd have to sell them all together. Could probably get around $2,000 as I'm thinking she just wants out. Probably buy them around $2,000. Called the county to confirm utilities and access and found out the ground is rock hard, and to get utilities to it, they have to use explosives. They were very nice and actually going to call me back tomorrow with an estimate. Oh my gosh, I can't imagine. Thinking this one's dead, but good first learning experience.

Steven Butala:
I think, and Jen, we all know who you are. You're very new and very vocal in our group, and I appreciate that.

Jill DeWit:
You are.

Steven Butala:
But it seems to me, you're trying to find a way to kill this deal. I'm not sure why. How about we just look at the core economics of it. You can get it for 2000, 3000 with back taxes. I don't know what the value is. It's all economics for me. The hard rock thing, the hard rocks been that way for as long as that property has been there. And people, hopefully, have found a way around that or there's solar panels now and stuff. So I don't know enough about this deal to tell you, yeah, you should do it, or no, you shouldn't. But I do know you just found five reasons not to do the deal instead of maybe the one reason that you could do the deal that, and hopefully it's some version of, I'm going to be into it for three or 4,000 bucks, by the time it's done and it's worth 20.

Jill DeWit:
This made me think of what you took a picture of just yesterday.]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://landacademy.com/2021/01/19/deal-funding-with-people-who-are-unfamiliar-with-land-investing-la-1420/]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">RR7VZOWia</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/c20a46f3-6c8d-4561-be6d-e9705165022b/vnfby2kcy.jpg"/><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/16a84de5-83fe-4044-8ae0-6e883dfc6386.mp3" length="14481329" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>14:44</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Interview with Land Academy Members Mike and Joe Brusca (LA 1419)</title><itunes:title>Interview with Land Academy Members Mike and Joe Brusca (LA 1419)</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[Interview with Land Academy Members Mike and Joe Brusca (LA 1419)
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If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Interview with Land Academy Members Mike and Joe Brusca (LA 1419)
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If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly at steven@BuWit.com.

The BuWit Family of Companies include:

https://BuWit.com

https://offers2owners.com

https://landinvestors.com

https://landacademy.com

https://landpin.com

https://parcelfact.com

https://countywise.com

https://deedperfect.com

https://ownersdata.com

https://houseacademy.com

I would like to think it’s entertaining and informative and in the end profitable.

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Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about providing information instead of directly selling. I always save the Friday shows for the week. The one that's my favorite.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I like this. This is good. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "When analyzing counties, what is a good substitute for Redfin properties sold for the counties that are not listed on Redfin? Thanks so much." Sandy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Great question. Here's how it works. You can get data all over the place. Realtor.com is a great place to go to get visual data. They don't have a good download function at all, and that's for good reason. They just want you to look at it. They don't want you to manipulate it, which is understandable because they own the MLS. The real estate environment in the entire country is made up of about 344 separate little MLS's. So Phoenix has like two and then Arizona, I'm just picking on Arizona because I know, there's, I don't know, eight or 10 more in different regions. And some of them choose to participate with Redfin and some of them don't and inevitably, most of the urban counties that choose to participate. So what do we deal in? Rural real estate.
So Redfin doesn't cover everything. Redfin has fantastic data and the download capabilities are amazing. And the data that they share is truly open source. We use it every single day in some capacity, I'm on there looking at analyzing counties or if we're buying stuff, whatever. So, but it's spotty. The coverage is spotty. Zillow has amazing data, but it's also, it's got holes in it. So what do you do? You use them all. And I can almost guarantee, and this is the takeaway on this, that two months from now and certainly a year from now, some other great source will pop up that's downloadable and fantastic. Jill and I are licensed providers. LandAcademy is licensed providers for DataTree, which is an amazing place to get data. It's not entirely free, but I'll tell you, when you get it, it's right. And TitlePro, which is Black Knight. And then RealQuest, the three major professional data providers, the ones that I mentioned before are applications on the internet that are kind of designed for everybody. So in some capacity, I use those all the time. As a LandAcademy member and I'm not selling anything here at all. It's providing information because that's the name of the show. We provide all that. And it's hard to lose when you have that much data power behind you.

Jill DeWit:
Yeah. You don't rely on just one source is the point. Even and we do that, like you talked about that often when you're picking counties, that's, I'm sure that's what Sandy is doing here doing the red, yellow, green test. So when you'll pull up this resource and you'll double check it with that resource. And I do that, even with doing my due diligence, I'll look a couple of different places sometimes to confirm what I'm looking at is right.

Steven Jack Butala:
When you look at two data sources in general, I'm asking you for real. How often do you find discrepancies?

Jill DeWit:
Not very often.

Steven Jack Butala:
Me, too.

Jill DeWit:
It just makes you feel good.

Steven Jack Butala:
And when you do, it's like, "Okay, well there's a problem." There really is a problem.

Jill DeWit:
Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, providing information instead of directly selling. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:
Okay. So this is about selling land and I would argue that it shouldn't be this hard.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Providing Information Instead of Directly Selling (LA 1418)
Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.

Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:
Today. Jill and I talk about providing information instead of directly selling. I always save the Friday shows for the week. The one that's my favorite.

Jill DeWit:
Oh, I like this. This is good. Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:
Sandy wrote, "When analyzing counties, what is a good substitute for Redfin properties sold for the counties that are not listed on Redfin? Thanks so much." Sandy.

Steven Jack Butala:
Great question. Here's how it works. You can get data all over the place. Realtor.com is a great place to go to get visual data. They don't have a good download function at all, and that's for good reason. They just want you to look at it. They don't want you to manipulate it, which is understandable because they own the MLS. The real estate environment in the entire country is made up 