Idaho Kansas DO NOT CONTACT Laws (CFFL 500)
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Jack Butala: Jack Butala and Jill DeWit.
Jill DeWit: Good day.
Jack Butala: Welcome to our show today. This episode, Jill and I talk about the Idaho/Kansas so-called Do Not Contact laws for sending out direct mail offers like we do. 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: Okay. Justin asked, "Anyone use RealQuest to mail for houses? I seem to get either 10,000 lines of data or 250-ish. Looking for a good parameter set that would help narrow it down. There has been discussion on the podcast about 2018 being the year for houses." That would be us.
Jack Butala: But I'm ready now.
Jill DeWit: That would be us. "But I am ready to grow-"
Jack Butala: Yeah Justin.
Jill DeWit: "... the next layer of my business."
Jack Butala: Love your attitude.
Jill DeWit: "I have wholesaled and bought and sold houses in the past ..." This seems like a no-brainer ... "to get houses in our contract-"
Jack Butala: It is.
Jill DeWit: "... and assign them to my buyers' list."
Jack Butala: It's a no-brainer.
Jill DeWit: "When other wholesalers are out knocking on doors I like to have the acquisitions come to my mailbox." It's hot in Texas this time of year. I love it. "Any help is appreciated." Jack?
Jack Butala: I'm so glad Justin that you asked this, because Jill and I do this all the time, and it is a total logical extension from Land. So yeah, I mean, to really get into what you're asking here about the 10,000 lines of data or 250 lines of data, I'm unfortunately sorry to report that it's some type of user error on your part because, maybe we can get to the bottom of it if you email me. I'm happy to help you at jack@landinvestors.com, because I love this topic.
Jill DeWit: I was going to add, so Justin knows because he's playing around with it. You're just going to have, you have to keep playing around with it until you find your, exactly what you want.
Jack Butala: Yeah, that is the answer.
Jill DeWit: So, for example, you can do zip code, I mean you can do subdivision, you can be as broad or specific as you want. You can do three bedroom, two baths, you cannot put those criteria in if you want. You can put in no mortgage if you want. I mean, that's the beauty of this data that we have. We have so many options, so if you really, you have it all at your fingertips, Justin. You know what you're doing.
Jack Butala: Well said, Jill. Play around with it, but I'll tell you what works great for us. When a subdivider, when a home builder goes to create a subdivision, they sit down with the county to get approval. Out west it's called big entitlements and one of the things that happens during that process is the assessor assigns a series of assessors' parcel numbers and nine times out of 10, well, actually for us in Arizona, 10 times out of 10 it's very, very, very predictable. That is how we send mail out.
What I do is I say, "All right, it's APN scheme, one, two, three through one, two, five. Now I'm staring at a list of every single property in that subdivision. We do it by subdivision. I start removing and scrubbing the data just like we do with Land. We take out all the houses that don't have, that have mortgages. Then we take out houses that have pools. Then and on and on and on, and to price it, we take a dollar per square foot.