Stories of Great Land Brokers (LA 1788)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:
Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill K DeWit:
And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today Jill and I talk about stories of great land brokers. Jill and I were talking a couple of days ago about the deals that we're doing, like we always do. And she was telling me these stories about all these-
Jill K DeWit:
What a difference.
Steven Jack Butala:
... these great brokers that she's finding.
Jill K DeWit:
Well, wait a minute. Because of not great brokers, the great ones stand out. Let's be clear here.
Steven Jack Butala:
So we bash real estate agents all the time on this show with the... It's kind of a hobby of mine.
Jill K DeWit:
Yes.
Steven Jack Butala:
But this show is not about that. This show is about good ones, because there are a lot of good ones out there.
Jill K DeWit:
Okay.
Steven Jack 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, and I hope by now you know Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, live on Zoom, called Career Path. It's 10 weeks, and if this is your career, or you want it to be, check it out. Call us, or email us I should say, at support@landacademy.com, and see if it's for you.
Jill K DeWit:
Aston wrote, "Hi, I have an interested seller for my first mailer, which is an infill lot. The guy inherited it from his mom, who also left her home and another property to him, his sister and his brother, who is in prison. Does anyone have an experience trying to get signatures from someone in prison?" I've not had that one. "If the numbers make sense, is this something that I should pursue, or a lost cause? Thoughts?" Well I wouldn't drop it yet.
Steven Jack Butala:
No, it's not a lost cause at all.
Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there's a way.
Steven Jack Butala:
In fact, I'm sure this is a benefit to you.
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:
People in prison sign stuff all the time.
Jill K DeWit:
I'm sure there's a way that you can request the documents. They probably have a notary on staff.
Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely. Plus, people in prisons have lawyers, so-
Jill K DeWit:
True.
Steven Jack Butala:
I don't have any personal experience with this. This is quite the topic in Discord. Everybody kind of just said the same thing I just said. People sign documents all the time.
Jill K DeWit:
Most people, I bet if you're in prison, let's just say it, and you know you might have some legal things that need to get taken care of while you're in prison, you probably have an attorney or somebody already lined up, and you already have a power of attorney to that person, and then they can do all the stuff for you. So it's probably in place. But I have not had to do that yet. Nor do I plan to learn about it from the other side.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today's topic, stories of great land brokers. This is the meat of the show.
Jill K DeWit:
Okay. So this started because, you walked in my office the other day and I said, "Check out this conversation with Jan and I that's happening inside of Airtable."
Steven Jack Butala:
Who's Jan?
Jill K DeWit:
Jan is my transaction [crosstalk 00:02:53].
Steven Jack Butala:
Oh.
Jill K DeWit:
So this is really how we communicate. We don't even communicate as much like via Skype or Teams or chatting like that, or texting. Pretty much all of our communication, and not even email, it's in Airtable. Airtable is... it's like Excel on steroids. It's a great place to keep track of all your transactions. How we move our properties through the system. Everything that we do. Properties come in, it goes into our Airtable base, and it gets assigned to a person. And then there's a task. It might be,