Proven (LA 939)
Transcript:
Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit: Hello.
Steven 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 sunny southern California.
Steven Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about the word proven. And full disclosure, I was watching a basketball, a college basketball game, and Ford commercial came on and it said, "Proven." And I'm like, you know what?
Jill DeWit: Is that where this came from?
Steven Butala: Ford is proven. We're proven.
Jill DeWit: Oh.
Steven Butala: There's a lot in that word.
Jill DeWit: There is.
Steven Butala: A lot. I have a lot to say.
Jill DeWit: I'm sure you do.
Steven Butala: Hey, before we get into it, though, let's take a question. Before we get into the question, even, I have been ... I don't think you see the comments people make about this show.
Jill DeWit: No, I don't look at them. I don't.
Steven Butala: Recently, there's been a couple of comments about how-
Jill DeWit: Uh-oh.
Steven Butala: ... will you guys quit screwing around?
Jill DeWit: Oh.
Steven Butala: You're making ... This wonderful somebody says ...
Jill DeWit: Or I'm here to get some education.
Steven Butala: "You guys are so unprofessional-
Jill DeWit: Oh. Seriously?
Steven Butala: You're laughing and joking and the only jokes are inside jokes. No one cares." Yeah. Stop having so much fun. It's like my high school-
Jill DeWit: Teacher. Yeah, don't enjoy this.
Steven Butala: ... social studies teachers.
Jill DeWit: You're not supposed to enjoy your childhood.
Steven Butala: Stop having so much fun.
Jill DeWit: Or enjoy your adulthood.
Steven Butala: Stop laughing.
Jill DeWit: Exactly. We're here to get serious, young man.
Steven Butala: Yeah. Yeah. We're here to buy and sell real estate.
Jill DeWit: Not enjoy this. I don't care how big your bank balance is. Do not enjoy it.
Steven Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. And do not laugh. Whatever you do.
Jill DeWit: I promise.
Steven Butala: And don't smile.
Jill DeWit: I won't. Nope. Sorry. I will not have fun. It's like I used to do that with the kids. Ben C. asks, "Hi, everyone. So this is my first official post. Tested out a comment yesterday, but figured this was the best place to start. My wife and I have been researching vacant land investing somewhat passively, I might add, for the better part of six months." Good.
Steven Butala: Good.
Jill DeWit: "Over the past two months, I figured it was time to take it seriously and really buckle down the research and looked at something other than YouTube videos and gave myself a launch date of June 1, 2019." This is awesome.
Steven Butala: This is great.
Jill DeWit: Yeah. "The goal is to target vacant land residential lots between a quarter and five acres to start, supplement with larger wholesale lots to get experience with bigger deals without the risk and scale upward from there.