Choose the Best County (area) to Buy Land.
Jill DeWit: Welcome to the Cash Flow from Land Show. In this episode Steven and I talk about how to choose the best area or county to buy property. It's a super hot topic with our new members. We figured we would tackle it in our pod cast. Welcome Steve.
Jack Butala: Hello again.
Jill DeWit: I love getting to be the host, I got to tell you.
Jack Butala: I love it too.
Jill DeWit: Getting a little big head over here.
Jack Butala: That's half the work for me and twice the fun.
Jill DeWit: It's nice, I get to be in charge and really run the show. Thank you for addressing this hot, hot topic with us. I know you've been doing it for a long time and you have some great information to share with us, so please.
Jack Butala: Here's what happens, a substantial number of newer member in Land Academy and people in general no matter where we are, they ask me some version of this. "Where do I start geographically, can you please give me the name of the county, tell me exactly what to do, and I'm going to make a bunch of money just like you." By answering that question directly by saying, "Oh, it's X, Y, Z county and concentrate in this area," which I would never say, all I'm doing is hurting that person. If you learn how to very aesthetically choose different areas you're going to have a life-long career of choosing the right areas on your own. Our whole point here in to doing Land Academy is to teach our members how to do this so that they don't need us anymore. After a certain amount of time you should be able to go of and do this on your own forever. I can tell you the basic attributes, and we cover this a great deal in our Cash Flow from Land package, our program. We're selling tons of those things now Jill, it's working out great.
This topic is worthy of it's own podcast. I'll tell you some of the attributes that great counties are that I use. Before I do that I want to tell you a real short story about a new member, about a two month old member, took this to heart, went through all the steps in the program to find an area to work, he sent a mailer out, and then he reported back through Success Plan which is our ongoing ... It's our member forum where we all communicate together and he sent a mailer out in a county that I've never been involved in before ever, in a state that I'm heavily involved in, but for whatever reason didn't do it. He killed it, he knocked it out of the park. That's the reason I don't say go to X, Y, Z county. Why would I do that? He went through the right steps, found his own, and he'll do it again right after this. In fact, what he said was, and we had him on a podcast, "I'm sticking with this county for awhile. Yeah, I sent out properties for a small acreage amount but now I'm going to do large acreage properties [inaudible 00:02:56]," because he go to know everybody. He got to know everybody who worked at the county, he go to know the people and photographer in the area, and the whole thing.
That's the long way, I guess, of saying, "I'll show you how to teach a man to fish kind of thing. Basically here's some attributes of a county that will work and then after that I'll describe a county that I don't think would work at all. Low-density population, and I show you exactly how to find those maps and where to look for that stuff through census information on the internet. They have a lot of different ways we talk about it. I talk about it a great detail in the package, in the program excuse me.
Jill DeWit: This is the top of your listing to look for? These are the good things?
Jack Butala: Yes, these are good things, the attributes. Attributes of a county that's probably going to work really well.