Class Clown High School Experience
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Jack Butala: Jack Butala here for Land Academy. Welcome to our cash flow from land show and this episode talks about being the class clown in high school and what we generally got out of that experience. Jill, I think this is going to be one of those shows that we don't talk to much about real estate. My favorite kind. Well, sort of.
Before we get into this class clown business, let's take a question. What do you say?
Jill DeWit: Okay. Jackie from Wisconsin called in and asked this question, which this comes up. I love it. How do I find GPS coordinates for the land that I am buying?
Steven, I know you did a youtube video. I went back and found it from May.
Jack Butala: I did?
Jill DeWit: You did! A youtube video, May of 2015. It was pretty easy to search and find what I was looking for us. I had to put in Land Academy but it popped right up.
Jack Butala: What did I say? Did you watch it?
Jill DeWit: I started to. I remember it. You get into ... I remember the video very well.
Jack Butala: Okay. Good. I thought the thirty second attention span just kicked in and you probably watched what, twenty or thirty seconds of it?
Jill DeWit: I remember it. Thank you.
Jack Butala: So how do you do it?
Jill DeWit: I'm asking you! You did the video. You did the video, you do it.
Jack Butala: Okay, so the old school way is you get a plat map from the county where you buy the property. You find out what the meets and bounds coordinates are and blah blah blah. That's the old school way to do it. The new school way is to very simply type in the APN or the Assessors parcel number, which is how the county keeps track of taxes and sending tax bills, assessing the value of the properties, so the actual value of the taxes. Type that into Google Earth Pro and then it pops right up for you, but somebody told me recently, and I haven't confirmed this that one of our members told us that Google Earth Pro is discontinuing that. Do you know anything about that?
Jill DeWit: Mm-mm (negative) I haven't looked it up yet either.
Jack Butala: If that's the case, the world has progressed since the world of plat maps. Since the age of plat maps, so nine times out of ten you're going to go to the county wherever the property it and you're going to type in ... you are going to go to what is called a GIS map. Most counties have them, almost all of them now I guess. A few of the rural ones don't. You can either type the APN in there or you can look at it if it's got a street address you can find it. It's not something typically that happens in just a few seconds, even for seasoned people like us, but you will find it. If you can't, if you're really struggling with it reach out to us and we'll help you or go into success plant and ask how to do it because there are a lot of people there who ...
Jill DeWit: Are doing it.
Jack Butala: We all go through the same things. All of us here at Land Academy, so any question like this that is very technical, you're going to get a very quick response and success plan.
Jill DeWit: Mm-hmm (affirmative) A lot of help. What's interesting too is some of the counties are so progressed that I've had them where you can put in the APN, you can put in the street address if there is one,