How to Unsubscribe in a Conversation (LA 1803)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:
Steven and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:
Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala
Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Southern California.
Steven Jack Butala:
Again.
Jill K DeWit:
We're back here right now, haha.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about how to unsubscribe in a conversation, usually with the buyer or a seller.
Jill K DeWit:
Right? Or maybe your partner.
Steven Jack Butala:
This is-
Jill K DeWit:
Maybe who you're sitting next to.
Steven Jack Butala:
This is a concept that we came up with when we were having a lot of fun with some friends from out of town. It's interesting.
Jill K DeWit:
Exactly.
Steven Jack 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 I hope you know by now, Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career or you want it to be, check out support landacademy.com and see if this level of involvement of this craziness that we do is for you.
Jill K DeWit:
It's craziness. It's craziness that pays the bills, and puts us in Southern California right now.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, that's true.
Jill K DeWit:
Okay. First let's take a question. Did we do that? Oh, we did. Sorry. Parker wrote, "I started pulling data for Texas to begin mailing that state. And I'm getting quite a few parcels that have homes on him. Kickass, sorry. Below this is shown by the circle, which is a separate APN from the land." All right. So we have an image here. "Anyone familiar with Texas and knows how to scrub this data out? Or is this something you just accept as part of the Texas parcel scheme, and who cares, mail it all?" I'm going with mail it all.
Steven Jack Butala:
No way.
Jill K DeWit:
Oh. Haha.
Steven Jack Butala:
No. I mean, so between the two of us-
Jill K DeWit:
Accidentally.
Steven Jack Butala:
Guess who doesn't do the mailers?
Jill K DeWit:
I know. I do just answer the phone when it rings. Go ahead.
Steven Jack Butala:
This is not Texas-specific. In fact, every single mailer that you do long before you pull the data, you need to look at the preview and see if it's what you want. Really take a good look at it. By the way, when you're doing this, it doesn't charge you anything. And so when you get that data set all ready to go, that's when you want to hit the export button, because that's when you're going to get charged. So pulling data off of DataTree first of all is a thousand times easier than RealQuest. It's a huge, massive improvement from the way that we used to do it.
Jill K DeWit:
Correct.
Steven Jack Butala:
And it allows you to preview this and actually see, what's in that data set that you pull and preview. Those are the people that are going to get mail. And so you got to make sure. There's a lot of questions that Jill and I answer all the time where the questions are like this. "All the properties I'm getting back from this mail are wetlands."
And my first response, my first mental response, not verbal, is well, you sent them offers that they responded to you. And so if you don't want wetlands buying wetlands, and some people love it for hunting. But if it's not you, then you need to make sure before you download the data that the property's not wet. So there's a big component to previewing the data before you download it. And it might very well be that the county or the zip code or whatever data set you thought that passed the red, green, yellow test, and you're all happy with yourself. It might be that that data, it just didn't come out the way you wanted it in the preview so you move on, move to a different zip code.
Jill K DeWit:
So what you're saying is what you're not saying.