Easy Land Internet Checkout (JJ 672)
Transcript:
Jack Butala: Jack and Jill here.
Jill DeWit: Hi.
Jack Butala: Welcome to the Jack Jill Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I am Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit: I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.
Jack Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about easy land Internet checkout experience for your customers, and why it's important.
Jill DeWit: It's easy for them, it's not so easy to set up sometimes.
Jack Butala: You know, the good news is you're right, but the good news is you only have to set it up once.
Jill DeWit: That's true.
Jack Butala: One time, and it applies to everything.
Jill DeWit: It's so worth it. I gotta tell you, this is one of those things that ... I mean, I'll be honest and we'll share this. There are some hoops you gotta jump through, and I want to properly convey what's involved here, but then we're going to share why it's so important. I think people don't believe that this really happens, and I want to share some stories about when it really did happen.
Jack Butala: Exactly.
Jill DeWit: Thank you.
Jack Butala: What Jill's saying is there's a really beautiful ending to this story.
Jill DeWit: Yeah.
Jack Butala: The good news is we've figured it all out, we're going to explain why it's so important, and then tell you exactly where to go and what to do to make your land/checkouts ... customer experience when they purchase land or down payments on houses, even.
Jill DeWit: Yeah, it's ... I mean, imagine. It's like, someone says they add this to your cart, and it's 40 acres, and they add it to their cart, and then they check out. That's what we're talking about, and it really does happen. It's cool.
Jack Butala: Before we get into the details of all of that, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the JackJill.com online community. It's free.
Jill DeWit: Okay. Brian asks, "Hello everyone. I recently sent out a mailer and received a purchase agreement with a property owned by an individual within an Indian reservation on RealQuest Maps. The owner of all surrounding properties is listed as 'Colorado River Indian Reservation.' My questions are: 1. Can Indian reservation properties be purchased? 2. Should I purchase? 3. Thanks for your help. Brian."
Jack Butala: Good question. Good basic question, Brian.
Jill DeWit: Is this legal? Should I do it?
Jack Butala: So here's what happens. The only way that a county can make a property taxable so it starts to receive property taxes by assigning an APN, an Accessories Parcel Number. Think of a developer who goes through the process, who buys 40 acres on the edge of town, and then puts roads in and maps out a plat map, or 50, 60, or 100 or some number of houses are going to be built.
When he took the property it was 40 acres, it had one APN before he did this, and now it's got 100 APNs. That's the same thing that happens when you're on the edge of a Native American reservation. It's the same thing that happens when you are on the edge of a mountain. A lot of times they are incorrectly plat mapped by the assessor at the time. They're human. They make mistakes.
I just read a story ... in San Francisco, all the streets have APNs, and no one should own the streets. The municipality should. So, it's a real problem because no one pays the tax ... whoever owns them, they stop paying the taxes,