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 there's a big fire in Laguna Beach right now.

Steven Jack Butala:

In Laguna Beach itself?

Jill K DeWit:

Yes. And it's real close to the homes, so the firefighters, a wall of them standing between homes, it's in the little canyon and it's sitting in the winds and that's what's happening, it's blowing at the wrong, you know...

Steven Jack Butala:

Every single year.

Jill K DeWit:

I know, that's true.

Steven Jack Butala:

Every year this happens.

Jill K DeWit:

This is true. I know.

Steven Jack Butala:

It's still terrible.

Jill K DeWit:

I know, it's scary, but I'll take my hippy...

Steven Jack Butala:

That's an outstanding way to change the conversation almost immediately.

Jill K DeWit:

Wearing my Laguna Beach sand.

Steven Jack Butala:

It took an eighth of a second for us to not talk about real estate.

Jill K DeWit:

Yes, thank you. Now you know. Welcome to my world.

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 please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, comment on the shows you like

Jill K DeWit:

Kim wrote... "Does anyone know if there's an easy way to search days on market for agents? I'm one by one-ing my way through Zillow and LandWatch at the moment, researching listing and brokers to engage. But I keep thinking there's an API or Excel download that I could be accessing. I'm attempting to weigh sales price versus days on market for these agents." Interesting. "This approach seems to make sense when choosing who I contact, let me know if you look for other characteristics as well in a listing agent." Oh, I have a few! "I don't want this to take forever, but right now I'm new to this piece of the process and wanting to make a little sense out of who I should engage."

Steven Jack Butala:

Kim, this is an extremely intelligent question. And Jill's got a lot to say, but before she says it, I want you to stop this notion of tying a real estate agent, the best real estate agent out there, maximizes your price. So I think that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get a download to see who's getting the most price per acre, and then you're going to contact that agent and they might be your agent. Jill's going to dispel that for you right now.

Jill K DeWit:

Totally. So Kim you're clearly like Jack, and it's all data driven. And I do understand that, but here's my first tip to finding an agent. Do they answer the phone?

Steven Jack Butala:

Yep, call them.

Jill K DeWit:

That's number one.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill calls him at like six in the morning sometimes to trick him.

Jill K DeWit:

I don't do that!

Steven Jack Butala:

Two or three days ago, you did that.

Jill K DeWit:

It was 8:00 and it wasn't a trick! Okay, wait a minute. It was between 7:00 and 8:00. It wasn't 6:00, but it was like 7:30 in the morning. Yes, it was early, but we were getting ready to go on the road an...