Creatively Choosing Counties to Mail Offers
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Jack Butala: Jack Butala with Jill DeWit.
Jill DeWit: Hi.
Jack Butala: Welcome to our show today. In this episode, Jill and I talk about creatively choosing counties in which to mail offers.
Great show today, Jill.
Jill DeWit: Yeah.
Jack Butala: Let's take a question posted by one of our members on successplan.com, our free online community.
Jill DeWit: Okay. Ron asks, "I've run into this twice now and in both cases it wasn't a deal, but I thought I'd ask about what I'm seeing. I'm looking on the county's website. I search for the APN, the assessor's parcel number, and when it comes up, they show more than one, in this case three, another case five, property listings for one assessor's parcel number, APN. In both cases, there were mobile homes on most if not all the listings, so perhaps there's a tie there. I did use zero for the land value, for land improvement, and I did some scrubbing out that were obvious homes, but this county must not pay attention to that field?"
Jack Butala: What do you mean? A county didn't pay attention to something?
Jill DeWit: Right? I get it. I think it's a couple different things here because several properties are one APN and one has something on it.
Go ahead, Jack. No, this can happen. It's okay.
Jack Butala: There's a lot of things going on here. This is a great question, by the way. This is like a master's degree level question. There's lots of things that can be going on.
First and foremost, seems like, I'd bet, I don't think there's any side of the mobile thing, by the way. Some counties treat mobile homes as a car, where you're registered with the DMV. Some of them treat them as personal property that it's taxed. None of them treat them, that I know of, treat them as real property, so they don't have assessor's parcels numbers.
There's also the possibility that, and I see this in mobile home areas all the time where it gets subdivided, but it only gets subdivided from a northeast quarter to a southeast quarter standpoint, and then they get assigned new APN's, so it's one-two-three, four-five-six, seven-eight-nine, A, and B, and C, and D. There's lots of stuff. Man, I wish I could answer this question for you, but I have like nine questions then I could probably answer it, but my gut says I think the county maybe, if the numbers are exactly the same, the county made a mistake.
Jill DeWit: I have one follow-up thing to add. I pointed Ron to one of the properties listed for sale on our website and in our list because I can show there's one property with one APN and if you read the legal description it sounds like, "Huh, this sounds like multiple properties," because it is. It really was a split-up. They're not even next to each other. It's one over here and then the one next to it, and then the one across the street, and one over there. That can happen so I was pointing that out to Ron to say, "You're not losing your mind." That could happen.
Jack Butala: I feel impelled to quote Jill. If this is complicated, maybe just move onto the next deal. There's lots of deals.
Jill DeWit: It might be something really worth getting there. I guess, I think, I took it as, "Am I losing my mind? Is this right?" No, Ron. You're not losing your mind. It might be worth buying it because it has multiple properties? Sure. Maybe, and even depending on the size of them, like the one that we have that's I don't know how many properties, if I really wanted to, I could go to the county and make it three separate parcels and sell them separately if I want to. That's an idea if you want, too.