Land Academy Show

Jack Thursday - Work Life Money Balance (LA 1602) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven J 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 J Butala: Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about work, life and money balance. Jill K DeWit: That is so celebrate your life of you. Steven J Butala: Is it? Jill K DeWit: Yes. I noticed you have one of my [Deepak 00:00:27] books on your bookshelf. Steven J Butala: I'm sure that was collected from you. Jill K DeWit: That makes me happy. Yes, it is. And if you look inside, it might be signed because I think it was Metahuman. That's right. Steven J Butala: Actually, that's a recent one. Jill K DeWit: I went to the, yeah, I went to the ... It was in Manhattan Beach. I went to the, no, it was [inaudible 00:00:47]. I don't remember what it was, but a bunch of us went to hear him speak at

Occupations that are Going Away (LA 1601) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven J Butala: Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit. And we are broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven J Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about occupations that we think are going away. Jill K DeWit: I want to even add just, not just, the big picture concerns about what's coming. It's so interesting. So I've read some interesting articles this morning. I'm going to, I have some notes to share. Steven J 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 don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you liked. Jill K DeWit: Anthony wrote, a couple of topic suggestions, using the 80/20 rule, which is the Pareto principle in the land business. "I read this book a few years ago

Your September Financial Review (LA 1600) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steven Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hello. Steven J Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I am Jill D... or Jill dimwit, apparently. Steven J Butala: Oh my gosh. That's awful. Jill K DeWit: I know. I got all kinds of good... It's funny. Who cares? I say this because I want people to know it's, who cares? Steven J Butala: Yeah. Jill K DeWit: Some people get these letters back and they're like, "Oh no." Like, so what? Throw it away. Steven J Butala: It's part of it. Jill K DeWit: And the person who wrote the letter, they've already forgotten about it too, so it doesn't really matter. Anyway, I am Jill DeWit and I am broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven J Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about your September financial review. I'll tell you, it's based off of my September financial review. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one

Top Performing Members are Outsourcing to Concierge Mailer (LA 1599) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven J 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 J Butala: Today Jill and I talk about how our top performing members are outsourcing to Concierge Mailer. Jill K DeWit: And we'll explain all of this. Don't worry. Okay with that. I got the top performing member part, I know what outsourcing is. So who's this Concierge thing that you guys are doing? What is this thing? And we'll fill you all in. We are talking about this today because I found this out from our staff last week and I'm like, "What do you mean they're using it?" They're like, "Yeah, they got some people that you know in the advanced group that are seeing this as a time-saving thing too and a very valuable product." Steven J Butala: Just like every product we've intro

Jill Friday - Jack Reeled Me In on a Few Land Deals (LA 1598) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Happy Friday. Steven J 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 J Butala: Today is Jill Friday, and she talks about how Jack reeled her in on a few land deals. I can't wait to hear what this topic is about because I honestly don't know. 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 don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill K DeWit: Let me pause for just a second here about this topic today. It will come back to you because you got frustrated and you were correct. And I'm going to explain a little bit about what goes on. Okay. Back to the question. Chip wrote, "Does anyone have any tools or applicat

Jack Thursday - Concept of Capital (LA 1597) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven J Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I am Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven J Butala: Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the concept of capital. Jill K DeWit: You know what I know? I love capital. Steven J Butala: You do? Jill K DeWit: Yeah. The concept of capital by Jill, more is better. Steven J Butala: I don't mean the big city in a state. That's the capital of the state. I don't mean capital letters. I mean the economic concept of capital. Everybody thinks it's money, but it's not. 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 don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill K DeWit: Chuck wrote, "I just read the thre

When Its Too Late to Change Your Career (LA 1596) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hello. Steven J 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 J Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about when is it too late to change your career? Jill K DeWit: So I put some thought into this. We've been talking about this for a while because people come to us at all different ages. We have people in their sixties, we have people in their twenties and even teens, even middle school, Caitlin, high school. Caitlin's in high school and was in career path. So what's interesting is ... it's not necessarily, I think, the age, obviously. I don't think it's a number, especially because I'm a woman. I don't believe in numbers. Steven J Butala: You don't believe in numbers? Jill K DeWit: But it comes with age. Steven J Butala: I believe in numbers. Jill K DeWit: Age

How Much Work Really Goes into Our Land Deals (LA 1595) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven J 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 J Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about how much work really goes into these land deals. This is a very timely topic for me personally, because as I get older, I get more frustrated, and my patience in general for a lot of stuff just gets shorter. I don't think it's specific to me. I just think it's something that happens. Jill K DeWit: Oh, you're glossing right over that. Steven J Butala: It might be gender specific too. I'm not sure. Jill K DeWit: Maybe. As I get older, my patience grows thinner. Yeah. So here's what I did. I gave you- Steven J Butala: Well, hold ... Oh my gosh. Jill K DeWit: I made notes. Steven J Butala: Okay, yeah. Go ahead. Jill K DeWit: Let tell you. I'm just going

Our Land Business on the Road (LA 1594) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here- Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven J 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 J Butala: Today Jill and I talk about our land business, on the road. Jill K DeWit: I would like to start by saying, here's what happened. We are doing our show, our land business on the road goes great, but our podcast recording on the show, not so great. So we were supposed to record these on the road last week, but from the campsite, which was a beautiful lofty goal for us, but totally, totally failed. So it didn't, it just didn't work. It's like you can't. So we're going to talk about that. What the, my point I want to make today is, and I'll just to give you insight and we'll explain more, is your land business can just be seamless on the road, I promise.and I'll fill you in how, but if you have a podcas

Jill Friday - Stop Walking Away from Good Deals (LA 1593) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Happy Friday. Steven J Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the valley of the sun. Steven J Butala: Today Jill and I talk about, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about stop walking away from good deals. Jill DeWit: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Steven J Butala: Not even I know what she means. Jill DeWit: Oh. That's funny. Steven J Butala: Can you give us a little peak? Jill DeWit: No. Steven J Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe to the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like, and maybe on the shows you don't like so we actually can gauge future topics. Jill DeWit: The backgrounds you like you don't like, the outfits, the hairsty

Jack Thursday - How to Calculate your Cash Return on a Land Deal (LA 1592) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hello. Steven J 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 the Valley of the Sun. Steven J Butala: Today is Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk to you about how to calculate your cash-on-cash return on a given land deal. Jill DeWit: Isn't it just like, you buy it for 10, you sell it for 30? Or, is there more to it than that? Steven J Butala: There is a little more to it than that, but that's the basic. Jill DeWit: Okay, cool. Steven J Butala: And so, well, let's use your example. You buy for 10. You sell for 20. What's your cash return? Jill DeWit: Hundred percent. Steven J Butala: Right. You've been hanging around me too long. Buy for 10. Sell for 30. What's your return? Jill DeWit: Even better. Steven J Butala: It's 200%. Jill DeWit: Jill numbers. Stev

Glamping and How Some Members Cash Flow with it (LA 1591) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Howdy. Steven J 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 the Valley Of The Sun. Steven J Butala: Today Jill and I talk about glamping and how some of our members are cash flowing with it. This is a huge mile long topic, and rightfully so in Discord, and everybody chimed in. I can tell when it's a good topic in Discord, because people that are just lurking, they start piping in like, oh yeah, this is there's people in there. And so this is why I joined Land Academy. And then they're giving us as an example that five miles down the road this is what this person is doing in their unused cow pasture. Jill DeWit: Do you think what we do is a version of glamping? Steven J Butala: No, not at all. Oh yeah. I think it can be, but I'll explain it. Jill DeWit: Okay, good. Steven J Butal

Public Records and Your Next Land Deal (LA 1590) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hello. Steven J 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 the valley of the sun. Steven J Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about public records and your next land deal. So Jill, I had described it yesterday at the end of the show, but I'll describe it again. Jill and I are famous for driving around wherever we go. Not intentionally, but every single time we get in a car, I'm usually sitting shotgun, calling off real estate values around town or wherever we happen to be. And as I'm pulling these up, saying this property is for sale for $4 million or $2 million, Jill's first question is, what did they pay for it and when? And it's usually like, well, they bought it five years ago for a lot less than they're selling it for now. And Jill, I realized recently, usually on a Thursday call, this is

Land Business Can Be Your Legacy (LA 1589) Transcript: Steven J Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hello. Steven J Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun. Steven J Butala: Today Jill and I talk about how your land business can be your legacy. This is Jill's idea, and I think it's actually pretty brilliant. It's something that she and I talk about all the time personally, but I think it's worth it's episode worthy. Jill DeWit: It is. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I have to pause and just share. Is this what goes on in your world? Here's what my partner just told me: "You sound like crap." Steven J Butala: And I'm trying to help her though. Jill DeWit: I know. Steven J Butala: I'm trying to find some DayQuil. [crosstalk 00:00:39] Jill DeWit: "Do you know you sound like crap?". Yeah, I do know I sound like crap. Cause I feel like crap, but that's okay. S