Advice Current Members Have for New Investors (LA 1148)
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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 sunny Southern California.
Steven Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about advice current members have for new investors. Jill and I did a survey. Well Jill did a survey. I did nothing. I just learned about that there's a survey.
Jill DeWit: Yeah, we do this every year by the way.
Steven Butala: And one of the questions is what is your best piece of advice for anyone just starting out, and more than a hundred people piped in, so which is a pretty good number. So we're going to take some of the highlighted answers and the advice that some of our successful members have and share it.
Jill DeWit: It's really good.
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: I peeked and saw this really isn't kind of a question. This is kind of an update and I think it's cool. And I remember you guys, Eric and Abby said, "Hi Jack and Jill. I 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 a 100 deals, 74 for cash, 26 on terms and then there's a report here. We can go in and see what they did. We feel grateful and wanting to thank you so much for sharing this business with us. We're also looking forward to Car Academy. Please keep up the good work. Best, Derek and Abby. Thanks you. Yeah.
Steven Butala: A hundred deals in a year.
Jill DeWit: Isn't it amazing? This is people don't, people look at me like I'm nuts and it comes, it's going to come out and this, this, the surveys are reasonable results. But I'm like if you can do one, you can do 10 and if you can do 10 you can do a 100 and Abby and Erica just have proven that.
Steven Butala: Car Academy's going to come out in the first quarter of 2020 and what's taking so long as we're building a website. so you can go in there and very simply it's a very simple website. The backend is very complicated, but it looks simple like Google where you can say in zip code eight five two five eight I would like to know, all the information for make and a model.
Steven Butala: So let's say a Honda Civic from the years, model year 2015 to 2017 and how many are there? Click the button. It says there's 471. Do you want to download the data? Yes I do. And you download it just like a Land Academy and House Academy and you have all their information including their phone number. And so you can send them offers and you do the research. It's very, very simple. It's just like the other House Academy, Land Academy. You do the research on what you want to send an offer and use offers to owners to send it or call them. All the data's there. It's actually pretty cool. It's just taking a while to build out the website. The education part's not hard.
Jill DeWit: Thank you for that plus.
Steven Butala: Today's topic, advice current members have for new investors. This is the meat of the show.
Jill DeWit: I love this. This makes me so happy. We do this at the end of the year and it helps us. A, figure out what training and things. I mean a, it's, well two parts. A, we know we're on the right track and then B, it helps us plan for the next year on what training or what new programs or what new tools or resources people need to grow their businesses.