Throwing Land at Jill
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Jack Butala: Jack Butala here form Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow from Land show. In this episode Jill and I talk about how many deals we are managing at any given time, and how we choose which ones to complete. Jill, it's raining land deals right now. I see it on the computer every single morning. I can't wait to talk about this with you, but hey, as always, before we do, let's take a question.
Jill DeWit: Sure. Jonathan, from Alabama, asks, "There are no tax sales here. How can I buy land for my house?" Good question.
Jack Butala: What does that mean, do you think?
Jill DeWit: What's up in Alabama? First question is: Why are you leaving Alabama, because ...
Jack Butala: Oh, my gosh.
Jill DeWit: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. One of my best friends from years ago lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and I know she's very happy there, so Steven ...
Jack Butala: I think he means how can I buy land to buy a house on, or I think what he really means is, I want to buy land, or I want to buy inexpensive property right near here, and I can't find any tax sales.
Jill DeWit: Is there any chance that they're not ... I mean, I don't know. I'm looking to you because I have not dealt with Alabama.
Jack Butala: There is virtually ... Well, they have, I'm sure, from a statute standpoint, you have to have some type of tax thing, but maybe there is somebody that ... Who knows? Let's just say he's right. Let's say there is no tax sales. I think we're kind of in the business of sending mailers here, so what I would recommend is to send a mailer out to some highly focused areas that you want to buy a house in, or a data product, Data to Doorstep works just as well with buying houses, if not better. Buying land, in fact Jill and I are in a process of releasing a very specific program using the same data to help buy houses and help realtors get listings and all of that. I would highly recommend if you're having issues anywhere, not just Alabama, with buying property as inexpensively as you expect to, to implement the Data to Doorstep product that Jill and I have. Back to this tax sale thing, I mean, if it wasn't ... if you didn't want to buy it just to buy a house, you could go straight to Florida, there's a great tax, they have a tax sale there every week in every county.
Jill DeWit: Accept for just investment purposes and making some money to pay for you house in Alabama.
Jack Butala: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I guess that ... Here's the big picture to answer that question: you're never stuck. I don't care where you are in the country, there's data.
Jill DeWit: That's true.
Jack Butala: The Data to Doorstep program that we have contains the best real estate data in the country. It's the same data that First American Title uses to write policies. It's not just a list. You're downloading from an active data base, so that is the right way to do it.
Jill DeWit: The main thing is too, don't give up. Just because you think you hit a brick wall, there's a work around. There's a work around for everything.
Jack Butala: Think twice before you ask questions because we don't know how to answer them sometimes.
Jill DeWit: Very funny. How did this make it on? Just kidding. I'm teasing.
Jack Butala: How did we come to title a program called Throwing Land at Jill?
Jill DeWit: Oh, my God. It was based on, last night in my car at 9:00, getting a call.
Jack Butala: I have a lot to say about this. At this point in your career should you be taking direct phone calls in a car?
Jill DeWit: I didn't know, okay, so here's the deal: we can flip a switch here in our office where calls can be forwarded anywhere, to a certain person,