What Name to Use on Your Mailer (LA 1571)
Transcript:
Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill DeWit:
Hello.
Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit:
And I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from cool southern Arizona. Not cool at all, though. It's hot. Sorry.
Jack Butala:
It's been kind of cool the last few days actually.
Jill DeWit:
This is true.
Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I talk about what name to use on your mailer. This all came about because we had a huge discussion in Career Path, which is kind of our advanced Land Academy group. Should I put my name on there, or should I use a different last name? Should I put my assistant's name on there? Should I create a name? Should I be anonymous?
Jill DeWit:
You know, I have a question. You have a pretty solid name.
Jack Butala:
I think I have a confusing as heck name.
Jill DeWit:
This leads into my question. What name do you wish you had? If you were born with a different name or you could change your name, what ... Have you ever ... This is a girl thing because we think about this stuff.
Jack Butala:
Jill and I have ... Our tip-top holding company is called BuWit, B-U-W-I-T. It's a combination of my last name and Jill's last name, Butala and DeWit, and I think that would be a great name, Buwit, two syllables. Or Dewit's fine, but Butala is all confusing. I have to spell it every time. Everybody spells it wrong. Spellcheck-
Jill DeWit:
I can't say it. I say Butala because it's looks like that.
Jack Butala:
And you know what? You're probably right. Spellcheck thinks it's Brutal every time I type my name in.
Jill DeWit:
That's a cool name, Steven Brutal.
Jack Butala:
I think that's a great name for a 70s punk singer.
Jill DeWit:
Or WWF. Oh, there we go.
Jack Butala:
Jack Brutal.
Jill DeWit:
That's awesome. That's cool. I like that.
Jack Butala:
I don't have any complaints about my name. It's fine. The real positive to my name is that there's only two out there that I know of in the entire country that have the same name, and we know each other. We get each other's stuff. This is a funny anecdote. The Steven Butala that I know has a PhD in chemistry, I think, or maybe physics, and he is a professor. Last I heard was at University of Utah, totally respected in his field, and I'm not respected in my field at all. It's very ... We get each other's stuff, and we laugh about it. I get somebody's dissertation in the email, and I have to send it to him, and we really laugh about it. He gets all kinds of weird stuff that are supposed to go to me.
Jill DeWit:
That's hilarious.
Jack Butala:
Are you happy with your name?
Jill DeWit:
I always wanted to be the name ... It was a Charlie's Angel thing for me. I wanted to be Chris, but fortunately, that's kind of in my middle name, so I would kind of do that for a while. My other thing I used to do ... This is kind of silly, but every babysitter I had, I would adopt their name. I always thought that was a cool name. I don't know why. My mom would come home, and I'd say now my name is this.
Jack Butala:
That makes sense because they're older, right?
Jill DeWit:
Yeah. That's true.
Jack Butala:
Jill, I'll call you anything you want, for the record.
Jill DeWit:
Really? Princess? Is Princess on there?
Jack Butala:
I call you that all the time.
Jill DeWit:
I know. It's usually not out of love. It's like, listen princess. That's not how it should be used in a sentence. Okay.
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. If you're already a Land Academy member, join us on the Discord.
Jill DeWit:
P wrote, I have a signed purchase agreement for a lot, with an interesting situation. The current owner is an attorney who acquired the property via quitclaim deed from a client as payment for certain legal fees. It seems the property was divided in 2015 from a larger ...