Creating an Easement by Being Nice to your Neighbors (LA 1586)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hi.

Steven Butala:

Welcome to the land academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill Dewitt broadcasting from the valley of the sun today.

Steven Butala:

Today Jill and I talk about creating an easement by simply being nice to your neighbors.

Jill DeWit:

Okay. This is confusing. An easement means I have access, preferably legal and physical, to go somewhere. An easement means it's the legal paperwork, as necessary, to access a property.

Steven Butala:

So I'll give a full-blown examples in the mid of the show, but this solves a landlocked property.

Jill DeWit:

I just have to ask. I'm so confused. I'm not confused. I'm just saying that-

Steven Butala:

Oh, you're asking for everybody-

Jill DeWit:

No. Yeah.

Steven Butala:

If you have a landlocked piece of property and there's a neighbor's property on the road, on a county road, let's say, and some of your [inaudible 00:01:00] sends it back to you and says, "Heck yes, I will sell you my incredibly valuable property for a tiny small amount of money, because I know there's no access."

Steven Butala:

And I'll explain how you can get access by baking a cake and showing up at somebody's store. 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. Don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill DeWit:

Aaron wrote, "Has anyone figured out how to integrate their website with an e-signature service to automate purchase agreement signing? Use case looks like receive letter. He puts like the little terminology in there without-

Steven Butala:

This is a code-

Jill DeWit:

Website URL.

Steven Butala:

His case looks like receive letter. Go to website URL in letter, enter reference number, digitally sign their PA, just trying to think about how to reduce the friction of signing and sending back a purchase agreement.

Jill DeWit:

This is kind of cool. This is a really good idea.

Steven Butala:

Well, I think it's a brilliant idea. It'll never work.

Jill DeWit:

Why?

Steven Butala:

So let's talk about this for a second. I want to make a kind of a big deal about this. There's a lot of technical people in our group, me included. I'm a very technical person and I'm hugely interested in making things easier and faster and more profitable. And one of the ways that you do that now, maybe the way, is through tech and technology improvements in databases and all this. And so Aaron obviously has a tech background or just knows about it. And so there's a lot of ways you can automate this and make this easy. And there's a lot of people who have come and gone in our group from a tech background, there's a lot of people in our group right now that have a core tech background in their W2 jobs, very successful, walking into this environment saying, "Oh no, we're going to make this whole thing an app. We're going to automate the entire system and we're going to take control over US land."

Steven Butala:

And so that's the extreme and Aaron, I'm not picking on you at all. I think this is a brilliant idea. I'm serious. But what you're missing here and what I think a lot of tech people miss, again, it's not a criticism at all. It's not like I'm talking about California right now. This is not a criticism. It's a backwards compliment. I'm not sure that you understand this customer. Do you think that most of the people that you sell property to, or buy property from, I'm sorry, are going to go onto a website, click on some stuff and sign it that way?

Jill DeWit:

No, that's true.

Steven Butala:

So Jill's right. They're not tech savvy. They're not set up for that. They want you to do it for them. They're asking you-

Jill DeWit:

kind of the point-

Steven Butala: