Focus and What Not to Work On (LA 964)
Transcript:
Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit: Hello.
Steven Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny southern California.
Steven Butala: Today Jill and I talk about focus and what not to work on.
Jill DeWit: I have some good stuff to say about this.
Steven Butala: I direct ... so do I. I directly took this topic from a quote or an interview, old interview from somebody talking about Steve Jobs and he said, "I'm so proud of what we folk have not done even more so than what we've chosen to create." He goes, "We had all these other things that we could have gotten involved in and we didn't. We chose like this four products to develop and the software that's involved with them and it obviously turned out great so." Focus.
Jill DeWit: I thought you took it from the book that I'm reading right now. So I have a lot to say about this too. Cool.
Steven Butala: This is something I actually am relatively good at so I can't wait to hear what happens with what you got to say.
Jill DeWit: Yeah you had to work at it too sometimes. It's hard sometimes.
Steven Butala: Before we get into it let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.
Jill DeWit: [Erin 00:01:09] asks, "Hey everyone, I'd like to do a mobile home mailer and maybe buy a car or two. The issue I'm having is getting access to the DMV database. I have researched and found that each state has different requirements for DMV access. It seems like most states require you to be either a tow company, an attorney or an auto dealer et cetera. I'm thinking there must be an easier way to get access or maybe my information was bad. If anyone has the low down and is willing to share it would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks."
Steven Butala: Here's the lowdown.
Jill DeWit: I know you've researched this.
Steven Butala: This on my personal drawing board and off of everybody else who works here at Land Academy and Land Stay off of their radar, but it's probably gonna be on there is now. I bought the .com a couple years ago and would love to start Mobile Academy and at some point Owners Academy which does exactly what you're talking about. Send out letters to car owners or anybody that's in the DMV database. So I've done all the research and what you've said was correct. You have to be a lawyer or if they have some reason to have access to this information it's not, real estate data, assessor data from a statute standpoint has to be accessible to the public. How they manifest that or how that manifests itself is put on the local municipality in the states and the counties and stuff. Some counties make it real tough. Some counties make it real easy. Real Quest does all that work for us at all, entirely.
Steven Butala: So the DMV data is incredibly powerful and important and it's on my radar to provide it in some other venue.
Jill DeWit: Isn't that funny? What's the thought process. I'm sure there is no thought process I just answered the question. None. Like why is your, everything about your house, every last detail about your house, public information a required to be public information. Nevermind your car. Oh that's a little bit harder. You got to jump through some hoops.
Steven Butala: Can I answer that?
Jill DeWit: Well I have a thought.
Steven Butala: Go ahead.
Jill DeWit: Here's my though...