Jill Friday - Don't be that Guy (LA 1573)
Transcript:
Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:
Happy Friday.
Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:
And I'm Jill Dewitt. Broadcasting from sweet Scottsdale Arizona.
Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I... Well, it's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about, don't be that guy.
Jill DeWit:
Yes. This comes up now and then. It's so interesting. You'd be surprised how many people call us and they track us down at Land Academy because they're trying to find out if this person's legit? Is this a good deal? Is this person real? Are they a good person to do business with?
Jack Butala:
I don't know how they trace us, Jill's right, but I don't know how they trace it back to us, but they find out. So a member sends a bunch of mail out and they call Land Academy for some reason. And they want to check to see if they're legit.
Jill DeWit:
Yeah.
Jack Butala:
And so I don't know how that the train of that, that trail happens on the internet.
Jill DeWit:
We used to have a little tag, little icon graphics that we would share that you could put Land Academy certified or something. I wonder if people are still using that. If you are, go for it. I love it. I think it's cool.
Jack Butala:
I don't know. It's kind of hokey.
Jill DeWit:
It's fine. If they want to do that, I think that's fine. It's like saying I'm a member of whatever association and people look at that and go, that must mean something.
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 if you're already a Land Academy member, please join us on Discord.
Jill DeWit:
I like it when you say, join us on the Discord. I was waiting for that. Oh, this is Janet. Janet wrote, everyone keeps sending mail and working your deals. She's very vocal in my Land Academy ladies group too, by the way. Our big win today is a property we acquired for $11,500, all in, with title, photos, et cetera. We're closing on today for $52,000. Keep at it. We can all do this. Thanks Jill, Steven and Aaron. Oh, that's sweet. She's awesome. Janet has been with us for a couple of years now.
Jack Butala:
Really successful and vocal. We're proud of you.
Jill DeWit:
Congratulations. And thank you for sharing that, I love those.
Jack Butala:
Today's Jill Friday. And it's the name of the show is called, don't be that guy. I have a feeling this is going to be a Jack roast today.
Jill DeWit:
No, it's not you.
Jack Butala:
This is the meat of the show.
Jill DeWit:
No, it's not you, it's just, now and then, even we run into this. We are really good at trusting. You and I both will go in with good... Assuming everyone has good intentions, right? And then I find out later, shoot they didn't. And maybe it's on a deal or maybe something unrelated to this, maybe it's renovations on a house and they didn't follow through, like they said they were going to follow through, the time commitment, the communication, whatever it is. And all it does is just make it bad for everybody. It makes me never want to work with them. Never want to do business with them. And gosh, it's hard to even write the check at the end and then I'm having to do more work and they're not even happy. They're not happy. Nobody's happy. You know?
Jill DeWit:
So I just wanted to remind everyone. You don't want to be that guy. What I want you to do is think about this. You're starting your business, whatever it is. I want you to sit down and think of your own company motto and how you're going to roll. Because the foundation you lay is going to continue through you, your partners, your employees, all of it. And you want to be consistent. And the best thing I can say is do the right thing. And that's our motto, our motto, which you, I think you probably said it in passing a long time ago, but boy, it stuck with me.
