3 Topics from the Advanced Member Discord Channel (LA 1794)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here. 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:

Today, Jill and I talk about three topics from the Advanced Member Discord channel.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay, let's back up.

Steven Jack Butala:

How do you get to be an advanced member?

Jill K DeWit:

What the heck are we talking about? All right, so within Land Academy, we have an elite group of people who are doing deals like us. Volume wise, dollar amount wise, we're kind of all doing similar things, or they're pretty darn close and they're trying to get to our level. So we, a long time ago, handpicked people. We could tell... We would go back and look at who's sending the mail out, and who's sending the volume of mail, basically through our company. We could tell, and know two of them, and we would hand pick people and ask them.

Since then, now everyone comes from Career Path. We do have some grandfathered in people that were handpicked, and even those people though have already gone through Career Path, anyway. They're like, "I need Career Path, to make it even better." So, that's where they come from. Then we have our own monthly meeting, we have our own Discord channel, because we're talking about some really high level stuff, and we're going to share a little bit of that today.

Steven Jack Butala:

That's right. Career Path graduates are the advanced members. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of the members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope you know by now, Jill and I started and successfully operate a full blown commercial printing company to get your offers in the mail. It's called offers2owners.com. We set it up several years ago out of our own frustration with a regular commercial printing industry. Fast forward to today. We do between 700,000 and a million offers a month on behalf of our members and non-members. I should add, if you're sending out more than about 5000 letters a month, it's more efficient cost wise for you to be become Land Academy member.

Jill K DeWit:

Yep.

Steven Jack Butala:

Contact [email protected] or if you're trying to get a mailer done, [email protected].

Jill K DeWit:

Thank you. So Dan S wrote: "Okay, here's my summer intern update. So the computer science kid decided to work minimum wage at a sports retail shop instead of learning data and pricing." Yeah, that happens. "The mechanical engineer student is about to be onboarded to do data." That's good. "Land is not sexy, so I guess it takes a certain type of person." That's hilarious. I think land is sexy. I'm going to argue land's sexy, but I understand.

Steven Jack Butala:

I don't think land's sexy, but it's awesome.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay, you're right.

Steven Jack Butala:

... and profitable.

Jill K DeWit:

Well, you know what? Land's pretty to stand on. Your bank balance is sexy.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:

There we go.

Steven Jack Butala:

Well said. What's a sexy business, anyway? I'm not sure you want to be in that.

Jill K DeWit:

What is a sexy business? I guess fashion?

Steven Jack Butala:

Yacht brokerage?

Jill K DeWit:

That's sexy.

Steven Jack Butala:

I don't know if it's profitable.

Jill K DeWit:

That'd be a lot of work though.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:

I don't want to do that.

Steven Jack Butala:

You got to deal with personalities that are... They think they're better than everyone. I just think... I don't know. I think sexy and money making are separate. You make a lot of money, and then do sexy stuff.

Jill K DeWit:

Do you know where it gets confusing? It's those shows on TV where they're all hot blondes. There's 20 hot blondes, supermodels that work in a real estate office in L.A. I'm not kidding.