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.