Hit Real Estate Deal Singles Not Home Runs
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Jack Butala:
Jack Butala for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow for Land Show. In the episode, Jill and I talk about hitting real estate deal singles, not home runs. Cool concept, cool show. Jill, before we get into it, let's take a question. Hosted by one of our members on successplant.com, our free online community.
Jill DeWit:
Yes. Claire, who I have not read about in a while ...
Jack Butala:
I had to put it in there. She's one of our original five members.
Jill DeWit:
I think, before we even released all this, Claire was reaching out to us saying, "And, and, and. When, when, when." Yep. Okay. Claire wrote, "Hey all. I have a guy who wants to sell me something in Hudspeth County as part of a deal. Does anyone have any experience here? Hudspeth has a website duh, duh, duh, but all I keep getting is this site cannot be reached. I know west Texas a little notorious for being hard to contact. Does anyone have any recent experience with them? I saw something about the taxes being done through an appraisal district? Anyone have any experience with this county? Has the websites been down for a while? Help Thanks. Claire"
Jack Butala:
Actually, because it's Claire, I answered her directly in a success plant personally, but I'll share it with everybody right now. I love West Texas for what we do. You can buy incredibly inexpensive property. Texas itself is a ... we don't think of it this way, or I don't, as having really good weather but compared to the rest of the country, the rust belt, the northeast, Texas has very good weather. Not good weather, but it doesn't snow as much. Let's put it that way. So, there's that. I think that forty acres in Texas appeals a lot of men for some reason, truck drivers specifically. Which I've ever understood, but I've had numerous, numerous forty acre properties in west Texas, in this county specifically, that truck drivers love to buy. Maybe it runs right through a freeway, I don't know.
Jill DeWit:
I've had people that just want to be out there and have a place to hunt and camp. There are some places out there, apparently, that you can do that. Maybe the off road or something. You never know.
Jack Butala:
There's also a theory, Claire, that if a county has an awful website ... they're so rural that they just don't have the budget for it or it's not a priority, that the information that's available is lacking quality. That can be a great place to buy property because they're just ... if you're having a problem getting on their website and getting information, then boy ... and I know you Claire, I know that you're trying. You're in there digging it out. A lot of people are stopped long before that and just move on to the next county. Hudspeth is a great county. Like everywhere, you have to make sure that the access is okay, and Texas is a little bit famous for fencing off property that maybe ... People fence property off in Texas that maybe they don't even own.
Jill DeWit:
This road happens to eventually hit my house or my property way back here, so I'm going to put a fence here. That's true and it's actually comical. They can't do that. They can't withhold you from getting access to your property, but they try. It's kind of funny.
Jack Butala:
If you wrote the exact same question, or comment, and replaced Texas with South Dakota, I would say no. That's a bad idea.
Jill DeWit:
Why?
Jack Butala:
Just because it's not ... Unless you're trying to buy farmland or frack something, I don't see it as a destination type of ...