Separate Your Self From the Less Motivated (LA 1208)
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 DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.
Steven Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about now is the time to thrive. I don't need to say what's going on in the world right now.
Jill DeWit:
Nope. I do know we're on day seven or eight depending on how you counted of 15 so I feel good about that. We're halfway there. You think I'm kidding?
Steven Butala:
No, I [crosstalk 00:00:29], I agree with you. We got at least some time behind us, but that's, Jill brings up the perfect point. That's what this is all about. How long is it going to happen? What's going to happen specifically to the real estate environment? What's going to happen in my personal bank account? And on and on and on. So that's kind of the unofficial theme this week. I will try to share the experiences that I've had. This is my personal third downturn and all throughout this positive economic time that we just experienced, I've been saying some version of this, "Ah, don't worry. This next time, it's not going to get bad as the last time. The last time was like a real estate market crash." So now I hope I'm wrong. No one could see this coming. So you can't be moping around saying to yourself, "Wow, what did I do wrong?" You didn't do anything wrong. Just have to adjust.
Jill DeWit:
No. And you know what? If you think this is it in your lifetime, you're never going to experience it again. No. This is probably going to happen again in your lifetime. So, and how you handle it and how you carry yourself and how you treat everybody around you. I mean, this is important stuff.
Steven Butala:
Couldn't agree more.
Jill DeWit:
Thank you.
Steven Butala:
Happy Jill is a perfect person to fall back on here when these times happen.
Jill DeWit:
Oh, come on.
Steven Butala:
I'm serious. I'm not exaggerating at all. You're like the happiest person I've ever met.
Jill DeWit:
Thank you.
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:
Linda says, it said, "New member from New York here. I would love to explore other places, which is one of the reasons why I'm here. I have family across the U.S. I think the hardest part for me is what area to start with. I am excited to be here and learn, so hopefully I can help others succeed." Very cool.
Steven Butala:
Great question. So this is the Land Show. So we have this saying in our group and some of the people that are listening right now are just like, "Oh, he's going to say it again." Let the data decide for you. So we're not, this is, there's no real version of putting a dart board up and just have a dart board of the United States, throw, it hits Montana. Oh, that's where I'm going to send mail, right? We do the exact opposite of that. We look at all the data, really try to make sense of it and we can make sense of it. We've been doing this 16,000 deals and a bunch of years later. We know what's going to happen when we send mail out pretty much anywhere.
Steven Butala:
So and if you're brand new, make sure you go through all the education once or twice. Make sure you, you did the absolutely right thing by posting this on landinvestors.com. When we talk, when Jill and I do these questions on the show, we don't talk about really or show the nine or 10 responses that we typically got or somebody will get from experienced members in our group.
Steven Butala:
So, to directly answer your question, you have to look at the data, look at what's available from a county standpoint. Sometimes you find the greatest area in the planet to send mail out, passes all the tests, but the people at the county only work on Wednesday.
Jill DeWit: