Getting Property Data to Work For You
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Jack Butala: Jack Butala with Jill DeWit.
Jill DeWit: Hello.
Jack Butala: Welcome to our show today. In this episode, Jill and I talk about getting property data to work for you, not the other way around. Great show today Jill. Before we get into it, I'd like to share something interesting that happened to us recently.
Jill DeWit: How about where we're sitting.
Jack Butala: Yeah. This is new and different for us.
Jill DeWit: Exactly. We are now in a ... As you can tell, a ... Well, let me back up. As we're recording this show right now, we're in a brand new studio local here in LA. We are doing a little Facebook live at the same time, which is really really fun. What's great for us is our commute still rocks. You know what I mean?
Jack Butala: Yeah. I feel all grown up. People doing stuff for us. It's not ... We're out of the bedroom so to speak.
Jill DeWit: This is very true.
Jack Butala: It's a lot of fun, but it might be the last time. We'll see. See how the numbers come out.
Jill DeWit: You're so silly. I think it's going to be just great. Thanks. Love it.
Jack Butala: Let's take a question before we begin. Posted by one of our members on successplant.com, our free online community.
Jill DeWit: Okay, Erin asked, I posted my property in land stays platinum buyer's club. I'll explain in a minute. I stupidly wasn't expecting ... Oh I love this. I stupidly wasn't expecting a buyer very soon, so I didn't have the checkout process locked down before I posted them. The buyer emailed me and wants to know how to pay. Sadly, I don't know how he should. Can anyone give me some pointers on the best way to finish this transaction?
Jack Butala: Go ahead.
Jill DeWit: I love it.
Jack Butala: Because this is classic. Erin, you're not alone.
Jill DeWit: Exactly.
Jack Butala: We tape everything together, and then we figure out that it works, and then we take off the tape and actually do it right. I'm proud of you man. You're on your way.
Jill DeWit: Exactly. You are correct. Well first of all, I wanted to explain what our platinum buyer's club is real quick. One of the things that we do for our members is that we allow them to market their property with our property. We let them post their properties on what we call our platinum buyer's club, which is a list of thousands of buyers that we've collected over the years since 99. It's an opt in. They want to be on this list and get an advanced peek at our properties. Erin did the right thing. He's got it. He doesn't even have the process figured out. He just knows I need to get it out there. Now that I own this property, I need to get it out there for sale. He threw it on our platinum buyer's club list, which is a weekly email that goes out on just a spreadsheet with just crude details. Just the parcel information. The APN. The legal description and a price and a link to the seller. We, by the way, there's no commission or anything like that. It's just something that we do that we help our people. Th best thing could possibly happen is, he's like I wasn't thinking. I thought this was going to take some time.
Jack Butala: Right.
Jill DeWit: Sure enough, somebody pulled up this property. One of our buyers and wants it. It's great.
Jack Butala: How do you ... To answer the question, what do you think? How should he close this deal? I'd say kick it old school.
Jill DeWit: Yeah.
Jack Butala: Just call the guy and make arrangements.
Jill DeWit: Have him wire it, depending what the ... How much it is.
Jack Butala: How big the deal is, right.
Jill DeWit: Exactly.