3 Reasons We all Need a Great Land Engineer

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Steve: Jack Butala here for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow for the Land show. In this episode Jill and I talk about the 3 reasons we all need a great land engineer. Here's a prelude.

To make great and timely acquisitions decisions, that's number one. Create top notch pictures and maps and maybe most importantly, to call out presentation quality attributes in the property that you buy. You know how professional people see stuff that we don't sometimes see?

Jill: Mm-hmm (affirmative) I do.

Steve: I love this. Jill, I love quality map engineering. I think it's one of the focal points that makes or breaks a good operation. Before we get into the details let's hear a question from a caller.

Jill: Sure. Okay, Fred from Indianapolis called in and asked, "I've been listening for awhile now and I'm looking for my cabin lot to retire. How can this help me?" He is ... we have a couple of people that are ...

Steve: Yeah, we do.

Jill: ... About our program and listening and learning this to be able to do that.

Steve: Can I answer this?

Jill: Yeah.

Steve: We get enough calls and questions from people who don't really want to start real estate companies like our members now. They just want exactly what this caller wants, they want to really get a great deal on a primary residence or a property to build a cabin on at any point in their life. Hey Fred, don't wait for us. Jill and I have decided we are going to do an educational program that's very specifically for people who just want to do one or two deals. A way scaled down version of how to do a mailer and things like that. Don't wait for us to complete that, because lord knows it's kind of far down on the list of programs that we're ... upon request programs that Jill and I are creating. Yes, the answer is heck yes. When you really do the math, the price of the education and the price of the data to implement what you're talking about will save you times ten.

Jill: That's true.

Steve: If you save $10,000 and our stuff is way less expensive than that, but I'm just using that number. If you implement our program and you buy a lot of $10,000 less than you expected, I mean ...

Jill: You've won.

Steve: Like times 5, it's 5 times more than the education costs.

Jill: Exactly.

Steve: If you do it the way we suggest that you do it, you're more likely going to save $20-$30-$40,000.

Jill: What I love, too, is I have had a number of people that said, "Wait a minute, so here's what I did, I had 4 lots in the area that really piqued my interest, so I bought all 4. I'm living on this one, I put my cabin on this one, I sold the other 3 and guess what, it paid for it times ... and then some!" I'm like, "Brilliant!" Then they're out, they're happy.

Steve: Then you're not retired anymore, because this is your new business.

Jill: Well, you could keep going, that's true.

Steve: You realize how easy it is and how little time it takes after you know what you're doing. After the learning curve.

Jill: Yeah, after you do a couple of deals, you're right. You get into it and it's not hard. You could just sit. In his situation you could just sit and wait for the home runs to land in your lap and only act on those.

Steve: Yeah, we have members who do that all the time. "I want to make $10,000 on every deal I do and I don't need to do a lot of deals." So they let the little ones go.

Jill: Exactly.

Steve: They feed them to the rest our community on success plans.

Jill: Kind of like I do sometimes.

Steve: We have a deal board. We have this thing called Deal Board for our members...