Work Ethic Disappointment
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Jack Butala: Jack and Jill here.
Jill DeWit: Good day.
Jack Butala: Welcome to the Jack Jill Show. Entertaining real estate investment talk, I'm Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.
Jack Butala: Today Jill and I talk about work ethic disappointment.
Jill DeWit: It's funny when you say the word disappointment.
Jack Butala: I feel compelled to quote my partner Jill.
Jill DeWit: Uh-oh.
Jack Butala: In her immediate question before the show, "What the heck could you possibly mean by work ethic disappointment?" And here's my answer. All the people in our group who are knocking it out of the park, us included, financially buying and selling houses and land have this level of work ethic that they bring to the table long before they ever choose to get involved in our group. And it's really, really disappointing when I see people who are incredibly talented and really bright that just don't have that work ethic discipline.
Jill DeWit: You're right.
Jack Butala: And I'm going to plug my heritage a little bit here. A lot of people from the Midwest seem to have a level of work ethic that I see not as prevalent as people from the core East Coast and West Coast.
Jill DeWit: Careful.
Jack Butala: That's why this show's going to be funny-
Jill DeWit: Careful.
Jack Butala: ... 'cause Jill's going to get into it with me.
Jill DeWit: Don't dig a hole.
Jack Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the jackjill.com online community, it's free.
Jill DeWit: Okay, this I recall you showing me, because this was awesome. This is not so much a question, this is so much a sharing some valuable knowledge and information to our folks. So we have two members, Daniel and Miriam, who are working together, they're a team, partners, and they share this so I'm just going to read what they did. It said, "After scrubbing a number of lists, we have slowly developed a simple scrubbing checklist. We wanted to share that with other investors that may just be starting off, or those who would like a step by step guide to make life easier. Here is a little video introduction about the scrubbing checklist." And then, "click here," and it links to their video. And, "And then here is a link to the Google Docs. Click here." Links to a beautiful step by step thing when scrubbing-
Jack Butala: It's really detailed and amazing.
Jill DeWit: So good. If you have any additional questions or thoughts, feel free to reach out anytime, we'll do our best to help where we can.
Jack Butala: So what happens is, and thank you so much fellas for doing this, what happens is that when you pull up a data source, like [Real Classed 00:02:38] or Data Tree or any other data sets that you use, you start with the universe of properties in any given geographic area. So let's say all the properties in Scottsdale, Arizona, or all the properties in Mohave County, Arizona, or Manhattan, New York or anywhere in the country. And you have to scrub down from there to get to the owners where you think they're going to respond to some letter. And that's what these people have addressed in a truly mechanical and interesting way. We all have a little bit of a different take on it, but if you're brand new it can be daunting. So go to Land Investors and keyword search "Miriam,