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Jill Friday - How to Get Over the First Deal Jitters (LA 1702) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to get over the first deal jitters. Jill K DeWit: This is a thing. I understand. I always tell you, if you want to wake up tomorrow and be an investor, you can. Just wake up, you're an investor today. Steven Jack Butala: I love that. Jill K DeWit: Yep. This is what I'm going to do. Making some changes. This is it. And then it's like, "Oh crap. I told everybody." Steven Jack Butala: Now you have to do it. Now I have to be one. Now I have to be one. Jill K DeWit: Oh my gosh. I sent out all these letters. Now they're going to come back. Holy moly. I'm pretending to be an investor. I'm going to fail. No, no. You

Jack Thursday - Concept of Deal Flow (LA 1701) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Howdy. Steven Jack Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting for The Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about the concept of deal flow. Grossly, taken advantage of, not taken advantage of, taken for granted in this group and in our Land Academy group, because Jill and I are doing our jobs and we're teaching everybody. Instructing everyone to create an amazing amount of deal flow that's controllable and manageable. I'll talk about it in a minute. Jill K DeWit: Is there a problem? Steven Jack Butala: No, it's a great thing ever. Jill K DeWit: Are we in trouble? Steven Jack Butala: No. Jill K DeWit: Okay. Steven Jack Butala: It's just the greatest thing ever and I'll talk about it. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by o

Learn More About House Academy Here Due Diligence for Off Grid SFRs (LA 1700) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit:Hi. Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Sorry, the House Academy Show, this Wednesday, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun. Steven Jack Butala:Today, jill and I talk about due diligence for off grid houses or SFRs. Jill K DeWit:This came up because of the one we went and looked at? Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Jill K DeWit:Okay, cool. So we're going to tell you all about that. We drove, gosh, an hour and a half each way to check out a really cool property. Steven Jack Butala:Full blown real ranch. Jill'll tell you all about it. Jill K DeWit:Let me remind you, we drove an hour and a half each way. Am I going to do that every weekend, maybe not. And then it was a good least half hour from civilization. Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Easy. So in the end we d

Role of Your Telephone in Your Land Business (LA 1699) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steph and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today, jill and I talk about the role of your telephone in the land business. Well, really, Jill's going to talk about it. Jill K DeWit: Yeah, exactly. That's how it's going to go. Steven 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. And don't forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill K DeWit: Jessica wrote, "Do you have a business line of credit? If so, where? And are you pleased with the service?" Well, this is interesting. Was this in discord? Steven Jack Butala: Yeah. It was a very popular topic and heavily responded to by

Building a Land Work Flow Process like Machine Events (LA 1698) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Happy Monday. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today Jill and I, aside from Jill looking like a hippie, are going to talk a little bit about building a land flow. Jill K DeWit: What are you talking about? Steven Jack Butala: Building a land workflow process, like machining events. Jill K DeWit: Why do you think I look like a hippy? Because of my necklace? Steven Jack Butala: You got a little hippy thing going on. And it's good. Jill K DeWit: Well yeah. By the way, this is Laguna Beach sand in here. And by the way, did you know that there's a fire? Did you see the news today? Steven Jack Butala: No. Jill K DeWit: As we're recording this it's Thursday, it's four days before this is going to air and

Jill Friday - Short Cuts (LA 1697) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven Jack Butala: Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today it's Jill Friday and she's going to talk about shortcuts. Jill K DeWit: How do you think I feel about shortcuts? Steven Jack Butala: I'm pretty confident that you're not a big fan. Jill K DeWit: Nope, Nope. Not a fan. I'm going to give you ... we got to talk. This is brutal truth week, right? Sorry. I have a tickle in my throat. So I'm going to talk about first of all, when it's not okay, and then I'm going to talk about when it is okay. Steven Jack Butala: There's a massive difference between shortcuts and laziness. Jill K DeWit: That's usually what it is. Steven Jack Butala: Because laziness ... I've driven by laziness at times. And I'll tell you when I catch myself being lazy, the

Jack Thursday - The Honest Truth about Business Ownership (LA 1696) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about the honest truth about business ownership. Jill K DeWit: How honest you going to be? Steven Jack Butala: Brutally honest. It's brutal honesty week. Jill K DeWit: Oh. Maybe we should call the brutal honest truth. Steven Jack Butala: I should have. I don't know about putting brutal in a title though. Jill K DeWit: That's true. I don't know someone might be searching for that. I'm sure. Steven Jack Butala: I'm sure. I'm sure there are people searching for all kinds of stuff. Jill K DeWit: Tell me the good, bad and the ugly. I need to know. Well, that's why we're here. Again we're here to save you. Boy, do I wish I

Learn More About House Academy Here Real Difference Between a Land and House Flip (LA 1695) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit:Hi. Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the real difference between a house and a land flip. Basic structure, basic mechanical, send out blind offers, receive them, choose the ones you want, close the deal. There's a lot of stuff in the middle. Jill K DeWit:It's different. We're going to share this with you. It's different. Steven Jack Butala:There's a lot of stuff in the middle. Jill K DeWit:And I'm sure you can tell by my sigh which side I'm on. So there's Beth Dutton in me that just loves land. Steven Jack Butala:Once a week, a new Land Academy member reaches out to me. I'll put it in terms you can understand, and then we'll get into the details

3 Critical Success Points in Every Land Deal (LA 1694) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Good day. Steven Jack 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 for the Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about the three critical success points in every land deal. If you can envision a flow chart, a chart of all little events that happen starting from when you find an area that you want to send mail to all the way to when you get that check in your hand or that wire transfer on the sale, there's all these little points in between, but there's three of them that I think are imperative and critical. And we'll talk about that. Jill K DeWit: Okay. I was thinking something funny- Steven Jack Butala: What's your interest level in land today, Jill? Jill K DeWit: Well, first of all, I notice have an earring and that's kind of falling out. So I want to fix

Outsourcing to Scale Your Land Business (LA 1693) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hello. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about outsourcing to scale your land business. Every 10- Jill K DeWit: This- Steven Jack Butala: Go ahead. Jill K DeWit: The topic for me is, kids, we need to talk. Steven Jack Butala: Really? Jill K DeWit: Yeah. Steven Jack Butala: Every 10 weeks we teach a course called Career Path. We're about the third week, third let's say module, third week in the 10 week class. Jill K DeWit: Where we are now. Steven Jack Butala: And every time we teach this, there becomes a theme. And last Career Path was pricing, and this Career Path is scaling up. And the only way to do that is through outsourcing, so I wanted to share some of the highlights with everybody

Jill Friday - Land Love Language (LA 1692) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Happy Friday. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today, well, it's Jill Friday. Jill's going to talk about land love language. Jill K DeWit: This came up a couple weeks ago. I realized, "What's your land love language?" Because we look at things differently and I say we meaning him and I, so I'm sure that's probably going on in your world. First, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It's free, and don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. You want to read it? Steven Jack Butala: No. Jill K DeWit: Okay. Kyle wrote- Steven Jack Butala: I don't know where you're going with this. Jill K DeWit: You could just sit back t

Jack Thursday - How to Host a Successful Podcast (LA 1691) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Howdy. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today's Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about how to host a successful podcast. Jill K DeWit: Is this one? Steven Jack Butala: This is one. Jill K DeWit: Oh, good. Steven Jack Butala: As I mentioned yesterday, we have 100,000 unique downloads a month now on this show, and Jill and I've been doing it since 2015. That's what? 1700 or 1800 episodes. Jill K DeWit: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Steven Jack Butala: Pretty much daily. Used to be seven days a week, we went to five days a week a lot of years ago. And it turns out it worked. It turns out that people actually like it, so most people. Jill K DeWit: Most people. Well, at least 100,000 of you. Steven Jack Butala

Learn More About House Academy Here Best Place to Buy Houses Right Now (LA 1690) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit:Hi. Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about the best place to buy houses right now. What is right now, Jill? February 1st, 2022. Jill K DeWit:What is today? Wait, what is today? Well, today is two, two, two, two, two. Steven Jack Butala:No, tomorrow. Jill K DeWit:I know. Hold please. Steven Jack Butala:Oh, well, we're recording it. Jill K DeWit:Yeah, it's a little early. Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. Jill K DeWit:Is it early? Okay. I understand. Yeah. As we record this on 02/01/22, this show is airing on 02/02/22. How cool is that? Steven Jack Butala:I don't know. Things like that amaze you. Jill K DeWit:I don't think I'm alone. Last time I checked by the way, silly.

3 Types of Land Transactions We Do (LA 1689) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today, Jill and I are going to talk about the three types of land transactions that we do. This is something new that Jill and I just came up with in this current career path that we're instructing. It seems to be getting really, really good response and I think you should consider doing three types also. Jill K DeWit: I was going to pause and talk about for a second... It's kind of funny, this sounds like... Do you have IT issues too? Does your website go down at random times and you just need help and can't find a good person? Well, you are not alone. We're meeting with an IT person today, and we were just talking about... I'm like, "I wonder if anybody else has these same issues we

Going Broke Land Investing or Not (LA1688) RERUN Transcript: Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Howdy. 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 going broke land investing or not, hopefully not. This came up because somebody directly emailed me and asked me, "Am I going to go broke doing this?" And I said, "I don't know. Are you?" I mean, I can tell you... That's what this episode is about. I can tell you exactly how to go broke or how not to go broke, hopefully. And what it takes like in your soul, and in your skillset, and in your attitude, and everything. Jill has got a lot of notes too, because I think a lot of it... Jill talks to a lot more, "I'm thinking about joining, but I'm not sure yet," people. Jill DeWit: And this is one of their big concerns. Steven Butala: Yeah. Jill DeWit: And I tell them,

Jill Friday - Your Goals are Your Goals Alone (LA 1687) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi, happy Friday. Steven Jack 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 Jack Butala: Today's Jill Friday. And she's going to talk about how your goals are your goals alone. Jill K DeWit: Yes, they are. Steven Jack Butala: What does that really mean? Jill K DeWit: It's not 2022. What are your goals? Let's all talk about it. Let's set some goals together, shall we folks? No, it's not that. No, it means that, with us, we have very different goals. I'll share something, like your goals, you have financial goals that are very different than my financial goals, and I support you in your financial goals. I have been happy and done and at the level I wanted to be as of a couple years ago and... Steven Jack Butala: Really? Jill K DeWit: Yeah, two hou

Jack Thursday - Land Deal Flow Machine Consistency (LA 1686) Transcript: Steven Jack : Steven Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven Jack : Welcome to the land academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven, Jack [inaudible 00:00:08] Jill K DeWit: And I am Jill DeWitt and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun. Steven Jack : Today's Jack Thursday. And I'm going to talk about land deal flow, machine consistency. This whole episode is about one basic concept and I'll phrase it as a question. Is it better to buy [crosstalk 00:00:28]. Jill K DeWit: Sorry. Steven Jack : Better to buy a piece of real estate and decide what to do with it every single time, or is it better to buy the same type of real estate over and over and over again and do exact same thing? The same process, the same people are involved over and over and over again. I bet you can guess which one I think is better. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online comm

Learn More About House Academy Here Record Low SFR Inventory (LA 1685) Transcript: Steve Butala:Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit:Good day. Steve Butala:Welcome to the House Academy Show, entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit:I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steve Butala:Today, jill and I talk about record low single family residential inventory. Record low housing availability. Jill K DeWit:Since we are sitting in the Valley of the Sun, the Phoenix Metro area, let's just say, it's been nuts. COVID nuts. There was a lot of sales, a lot of transactions, a lot of stuff, available things, just moving hands. And then I've noticed very recently and we're through the holidays, so we're past all that. There's just not a lot of inventory. And the days on market are still like record low. So I want to talk to you about this, because I'm like, and I have a list of questions that I would like to hear your answer, and I'm sure you would like to hear h

The Solution to All Land Business Bottlenecks (LA 1684) Transcript: Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven 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 Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about the solution to all land business bottlenecks, and I would even venture to say all bottlenecks. Jill K DeWit: This is kind of like struggling week. Steven Butala: Struggling week? Jill K DeWit: I don't know. Because we talked yesterday about burnout. Today, we're talking about bottlenecks. I don't want to make it ... It's not bad week. It's not struggling week, but it's the beginning of the year. I hope you, like us, are taking a look around everything that you're doing and making sure going into 2022, am I doing it right? Am I motivated? Am I excited? Is my team excited? The goals and the things that we have forecast for this year, are we going to hit them?

Managing Land Business Burnout (LA 1683) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hello. Steven Jack 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 this Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Jill and I talk about managing land business burnout. Jill K DeWit: It's a thing. Steven Jack Butala: Jill and I are neck-deep in Career Path right now, and we're coming up with a lot of good topics, because these are some of the things ... A lot of these topics this week, probably for next several weeks, are legitimate Career Path discussions. Jill K DeWit: Well, and even our discussions. Steven Jack Butala: On this topic, yes. Jill K DeWit: Yeah. We're just going to share it and air it right here with you. Steven Jack Butala: A little bit burned out, jill? Jill K DeWit: One of us does get burned out. And shockingly, not usually me, but we'll talk about that. Steven Jack Butala