Land Academy Members Speak Their Mind (LA 924)
Transcript:
Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit: Hello.
Steven Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk, I'm Stephen Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit: I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.
Steven Butala: Today Jill and I talk about how Land Academy members speak their mind.
Jill DeWit: As do you.
Steven Butala: I was thinking that, trying to figure out how I could say it and you did it for me.
Jill DeWit: Oh, yeah, don't worry about it. I never have to come to you and say, "Steven, I think you're holding back. Could you please tell me how you really feel?" Could you imagine if I ever said that to you?
Steven Butala: Jill and I, from day one, set this all up so that this is not like a college lecture, where we sit here and say stuff and people take notes and then they regurgitate it out on the test. This is a place for everybody to just get in it.
Jill DeWit: Yep.
Steven Butala: Say what you need to say. We'll talk about in a second.
Jill DeWit: Hilarious.
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.
Jill DeWit: Daniel B. asks, "I was wanting another tool in my toolbox for closings plus a source to get a little more knowledge on quiet title and gaining access to properties. It doesn't take long to see the benefits of just sending more mail, but there might be some jewels hidden in some of the multiple, problematic properties you get calls on. As we grow our property price points, some of these problems might not be that difficult to remedy.
Steven Butala: Okay, I've said it a thousand times in this show. It just constantly amazes me how smart our members are.
Jill DeWit: I know.
Steven Butala: ... and the people that join. This is an incredibly astute perception, a well-written question. I'm going to list three or four of the offshoot companies that people have started, members have started, based on solving problems.
What happens is you send a bunch of mail out. People sign it. They send it back and you jump up and down and say I'm about to buy 40 acres in a fantastic area for $10,000 or $12,000 that's got to be worth $50,000. A couple of minutes later, you find out the person you're talking to is the niece of the actual person on the deed and you've got to undo a bunch of legal stuff. It's all centered around dead people, the vast majority of these issues, dead owners, and the person on the phone's-
Jill DeWit: Dead people. That's hilarious.
Steven Butala: I say this stuff and I don't realize what I'm saying like I don't even think that's derogatory or funny.
Jill DeWit: I'm going to go with that one.
Steven Butala: What if I was just sitting here talking about myself? This would be no fun.
Jill DeWit: Make America alive again.
Steven Butala: Make America alive again?
Jill DeWit: I don't know. I was just thinking of the dead people. I'm trying to grab any type of one liners I could throw dead people in there.
Steven Butala: Let's make America thin again is more accurate.
Jill DeWit: I know that's yours.
Steven Butala: Make America thin again. Oh, we just lost half our listeners.
Jill DeWit: Oh, my gosh. David dropped that one on. We were somewhere and it was clearly that envir...