How to Jill-ify a Land Transaction (LA 1463)
Transcript:
Steven Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:
Hey.
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 sweet Scottsdale, Arizona.
Steven Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to Jillify a land transaction.
Jill DeWit:
You came up with this.
Steven Butala:
This is a sentence Jill just said before we turned the camera on, just now.
Jill DeWit:
Yeah.
Steven Butala:
"Don't go all man on me and tell me the facts and the truth."
Jill DeWit:
Don't tell me about the year and the make and the model and why that car is dumb. That's not the point here.
Steven Butala:
What is the point?
Jill DeWit:
I was making a comment about the car. I was skipping along the top and you're like, "No, here's why this car's bad. This is what it's worth. This is what kind of mileage it gets. This is where it won't go." I'm like, "What the heck?"
Steven Butala:
Don't go up all man on me.
Jill DeWit:
Like, "That's not the point, at all." Oh my gosh, yeah.
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, and if you're a Land Academy member, please make sure you join us on Discord.
Jill DeWit:
Aaron wrote, "Newbie, first mailer, stage question. Is ParcelFact or NeighborScoop required right away for due diligence? I've been looking up properties at assessor sites, and the owner info seems to be available there. Also, I think there's a site to look up FEMA flood maps, checking the parcel on Google earth is a PITA? I don't know what that is, but possible without tools.
Steven Butala:
Pain in the.
Jill DeWit:
Oh, now I know what that is.
Steven Butala:
Is a PITA.
Jill DeWit:
Okay, got it. I didn't know that. I hadn't heard that before. That's funny. Am I correct in that tools like ParcelFact and NeighborScoop are more for productivity? Can't DataTree do most of this as well.
Steven Butala:
Hold on a second, I have a lot to say about this. This is in Discord.
Jill DeWit:
Go.
Steven Butala:
And I answered it in Discord this way, and I'm going to answer it here as well.
Jill DeWit:
Right.
Steven Butala:
You don't need Land Academy, you don't need NeighborScoop, you don't need O2O, you don't need any of this. I never had any of it. Never. And it took me 20 years to get where I am. It can take you two months with all these tools. You have this podcast that's free. There's all kinds of free stuff. You don't need to join Land Academy. You need to look at Land Academy like an insurance policy. If you do join Land Academy and follow along here and participate and actually watch the program and ask questions, you're going to make a fortune. It's either going to click in place for you or it's not. So no, you don't need these tools. Good luck.
Jill DeWit:
I was not expecting that. That's like a speech you give a kid. You know what? Nope, you don't need high school, you don't need college. You want to drop out now? Go right ahead. Nevermind.
Steven Butala:
And eat nothing but pop tarts. Good luck, kid.
Jill DeWit:
Sit on the couch, buddy, but it's not going to be my couch. Good luck. Oh my gosh. Call somebody who cares.
Steven Butala:
I personally-
Jill DeWit:
That's awesome.
Steven Butala:
This is the truth of it. I don't want to mansplain anything.
Jill DeWit:
Oh yeah, that's right, don't go all man on me.
Steven Butala:
I'm trying to micromanage what I say. Jill thinks in sound bites. The shorter, the better.
Jill DeWit:
That was not in the book by the way, about me and my personality, but I'm still learning. That's good.
Steven Butala:
Today's topic, how to Jillify a land transaction.
Jill DeWit:
Okay.
Steven Butala:
This is the meat of the show.
Jill DeWit:
Would you like to man explain, mansplain?
Steven Butala:
I'm about to give you a bunch of compliments here.