Land Academy Member Kyler Dawson
Recording Location: 33.840103, - 118.391379
Transcript:
Jack Butala: Jack Butala with Jill DeWit and Kyler Dawson today.
Jill DeWit: Hey.
Jack Butala: Welcome Kyler.
Kyler Dawson: Hi guys.
Jack Butala: We're really happy to have you on the program today. Today our show is all about you.
Kyler Dawson: Perfect, sounds good. I'm excited to be here.
Jack Butala: Awesome. Jill's got some real specific questions because she's like that.
Kyler Dawson: Okay, shoot.
Jill DeWit: It's so funny. I'm not normally the organized one, but in this area I am. I want to ask you first kind of your back story. Let me tell you what I'm going to ask. I'm going to ask you your back story if you want to just tell us a little about your history, then I want to go into how you found us, and then I want to hear what you're doing now.
Kyler Dawson: Okay, perfect. I'll just jump in. If I start talking too much just cut in and stop me. About a little under two years ago I was working full-time and just kind of wanted something else to do. The monotony of my day-to-day job was getting to me, and I just wanted to find some kind of side thing to do and keep my full-time job. I had a commute to work, about 45 minutes each way, so I just started listening to podcasts, a bunch of different business podcasts, trying to get [inaudible 00:01:15] of what I could do and all that. I came across a podcast for land investing and it wasn't y'all's. It was a different person's. I liked the idea of it and the numbers seemed to make sense so I did research on my own and I decided to go ahead and purchase that program. I did that program for probably about six or seven months. Throughout the entire process I felt like there were just holes throughout it where I just wanted more information or there had to be a better way to do this or that. Just a little bit about that, I was getting data from the county directly, so I think you guys know that that's like looking at the matrix and trying to decipher the information.
Jack Butala: Kyler, you can use Mark's name on the air.
Kyler Dawson: Okay, yeah it was Mark's program.
Jill DeWit: I was waiting.
Kyler Dawson: Yeah, I was trying to be politically correct here, but yeah, so it was Mark's program. Nothing against the program because it brought me to land business and it gave me the idea and the passion. Just dealing with the county data, I'd send a mailer out, and no lie, 50% to 75% of the letters came back as undeliverable.
Jill DeWit: Oh gosh, wow.
Kyler Dawson: That name, that address, whatever.
Jack Butala: Wow.
Kyler Dawson: It was just, maybe it was just the counties I was dealing with, but it was just super frustrating and I just had so many questions about different things. I bought a couple properties through him and was lucky enough to sell them for a profit, but I just bought them completely wrong. I mean, I was just getting lucky and I just knew that there was a better way to do this. I went back and just started searching land investing podcasts and somehow stumbled across y'all's very first podcast, I think it was a different one than what it's called now, but just on y'all's podcasts, the first few I listened to, y'all were answering a lot of the questions that I already had, so I knew there was more to you guys and there was more to this business than I knew. I think I emailed Jill a few times and I read everything on y'all's website,