5 Levels of Land Company Progress (LA 950)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hi.

Steven Butala:                   With guest, Justin Sliva. 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 with guest, Justin Sliva, just like we do every Friday, about the transactions that we've done this past week. Justin, how are you?

Justin Sliva:                         Good. Good. Busy.

Jill DeWit:                            That's a good thing, right?

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah, we had our e-book launched this week so we did the software [crosstalk 00:00:29]. It had all the [inaudible 00:00:31] so that was pretty neat, saying that starting to work good in the system.

Steven Butala:                   Are you getting download numbers?

Justin Sliva:                         I haven't pulled it yet. No, I was wanting to wait to first. We just hit the soft advertising push that did the social media channels, and so we'll see how that kind of plays out. I've had a couple of people reach out to say, "Hey, thanks for the book. It seems great so far," so I know that that it was getting bought, I just haven't looked yet to see what the numbers are.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh cool.

Steven Butala:                   We're trying to hit 50 a day, downloads for our e-book just on our website.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Justin Sliva:                         Nice. Nice, that's awesome.

Jill DeWit:                            Cool.

Steven 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.

Jill DeWit:                            Quinn R. asks, "Hi everyone, I'm Quinn, a sophomore in college, and I've always been extremely interested in real estate, but never considered the possibility of selling the land."

Steven Butala:                   Been there.

Jill DeWit:                            Right? "I'm from Scranton, PA. I don't mind traveling. Actually, I just drove back from a small trip to Michigan."

Steven Butala:                   Been there too.

Jill DeWit:                            "I'm a musician, photographer, stock investor, and adrenaline junkie." Well, it sounds like, Quinn, you're in the right place, by the way. "I'm not entirely sure where to start with this, so any direction would be appreciated. Cheers."

Steven Butala:                   So I intentionally chose this question, Justin, for our call today because I know you deal with a lot of people that are new to the real estate business. Brand new. What's your advice.

Justin Sliva:                         I want to say just get started in sending some mail. Learn the basics. Just get with a county, put some mail in the box and start working forward from there. You're going to fail forward, make mistakes. Don't stop, just keep moving through. If you've got questions, say you come up with some consulting and you work through those particular issues and you push them [crosstalk 00:02:10]-

Steven Butala:                   It's a baptism by fire. Just get some mail out there and deal with it.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            It's true.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah, we talk about that every day. Your first mailers, they can go really good or really bad, and if you do really good on your first mailer you're going to do really bad on your second mailer because you're so confident. From there, you just keep real estate-doing it. You have fun with it, because it's profitable. It's simple. It's so simple that you're not going to believe how simple it is.