Scaling Your Real Estate Operation (LA 968)
Transcript:
Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here!
Jill DeWit: Happy day!
Steven Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, welcome to Friday, entertaining land investment talk, I am Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny southern California.
Steven Butala: Today Jill and I talk about scaling your real estate operation.
Steven Butala: You know one of the things I wanna talk about too is what the difference is between scaling something and repeating something.
Jill DeWit: Okay.
Steven Butala: It's a very misused term in my opinion. And whether or not something is scalable, is a question I ask myself before I start anything new.
Jill DeWit: Right
Steven Butala: Anything, because if it's not scalable, and certainly if it's not reputable, and I'll give [inaudible 00:00:39] lots of examples, it's honestly not worth your time. So there's probably a lot of things that you can remove from your life that are not gonna ever amount to anything, because they're scalable or reputable.
Steven Butala: Before I 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: I gotta tell you I was thrown there, 'cause I was waiting, like wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, there's always like, you know I had a relationship like that, well then you can't see my face. You always come in with, oh you know Steven was just moving my mic, so if you weren't watching that's what was happening there, so yeah. He was like moving it right in front of my face, well that's not nice.
Steven Butala: The amount of stuff that I have to do as a producer, to circumvent Jill's, and I say this lovingly -
Jill DeWit: I put it here purposefully!
Steven Butala: Jill's behavior while we're recording this show
Jill DeWit: Behavior! [crosstalk 00:01:34]
Steven Butala: I'm not gonna talk into the mic today
Jill DeWit: Behavior!
Steven Butala: I'm gonna laugh exceedingly loud today.
Jill DeWit: Behavior! Steven! All right, all right. Anyway, my point was I was waiting for you to come up with something and you did! Oh you don't disappoint, you came up with some other little thing, to throw in there so thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, back to the question. Okay, Steven K asks, So I visited some lots I own and tried to use Google maps in offline mode, on an Android phone - this is funny.
Steven Butala: You know what, this is for you -
Jill DeWit: It's good, wait - Tech support Jill!
Steven Butala: This is actually, this is, I know that you know the answer to this better than me.
Jill DeWit: Okay, so we're out there on our Android phone - well there's a problem there - we're on offline mode, well there's another problem! Sorry.
Steven Butala: I knew, this is a driving [inaudible 00:02:30] situation, I put this in here specifically, because I - and I didn't tell you about it because I wanna hear your natural reaction.
Jill DeWit: All right, my first, okay wait this is gonna be good. It's determined where the lot's GPS coordinates were, and I was totally useless, it was totally useless as I did not have cell reception - really? I was under the impression the GPS function would work without a cell signal.
Steven Butala: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop right there.
Jill DeWit: Oh my goodn...