What Gets Jill Excited (LA 1268)
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 what gets Jill excited.
Jill DeWit:
Nobody go there, by the way, this is business, this is professional.
Steven Butala:
How much fun is that?
Jill DeWit:
Oh, come on.
Steven Butala:
And who's nobody, just me?
Jill DeWit:
Well, everybody.
Steven Butala:
Here's what the title could be. What gets you excited?
Jill DeWit:
In business.
Steven Butala:
At what point in the transaction-
Jill DeWit:
There we go.
Steven Butala:
... do you get real excited and say, you know. Everybody's got that little euphoric moment or maybe a set of moments in a real estate deal, or like in the company development stage that you're in, you know, how you're accumulating wealth in real estate. That's what this is really about. But no one would listen to it if that was the title. So everyone wants to know what gets Jill excited.
Jill DeWit:
Yeah. So for any of you who just found this show based on the title alone and have no idea what we talk about, but just heard that someone named Jill's getting excited, it's not what you think.
Steven Butala:
Could be though.
Jill DeWit:
Oh boy. First.
Steven Butala:
And I'm qualified to answer that.
Jill DeWit:
Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors online community, it is free.
Steven Butala:
Non-Land Academy member X says the following. "I have traditionally always gotten my lists from the County, but decided to give RealQuest Pro a try because it was advertised in the Land Academy program." This person's not a Land Academy member. "I have mailed four counties so far, and the results have been nothing but horrible." Member X, this is me talking now, has had not a good experience, and so that stuff happens. You know, you can't bat a thousand. The other eight or 900 members that have passed through and gone on with and had huge success are wrong, apparently. Member X is right here.
Steven Butala:
"I've spent thousands of dollars without acquiring a single property. One of the owners call me saying she sold the property two years ago and shouldn't have had been on the list. The ownership information has been updated on the CAD as well", which I think he means ParcelFact. "Most of the records are duplicated owner's names and addresses. So the cost of getting the data increases from 10 to 20% per record. AgentPro provides data for 5 cents per record. I haven't tried them yet, but they give the same information for half the price. I am never going back to using RealQuest Pro again, what a waste."
Jill DeWit:
This is funny to me. They just don't know what they're doing. They just don't know and, no, I feel bad.
Steven Butala:
Jill and I have sent out tens of millions of offers and done tens of thousands of real estate deals using RealQuest Pro. So, and we've got historical members-
Jill DeWit:
And have hundreds-
Steven Butala:
... historical members, and I don't know how many, it's a lot.
Jill DeWit:
They just don't know.
Steven Butala:
And we have people in our group that are making way more money than us, you know, millions of dollars a month doing this and using that data. So do you think it might be user error?
Jill DeWit:
That's what I think.
Steven Butala:
Can you imagine going to do something in your life without getting educated on how to do it first? If you decide to become a welder, you go to school for a couple of years and you do an apprentice, you work as an apprentice or a journeyman and learn, you know, you learn to make the mistakes, you learn how to do it.
Steven Butala:
There's something about real estate and I've long said this and I think it comes from real estate agents and how that's structured,