How to make your Land StandOut on the Internet (LI 698)

Transcript:

Steve J. Butala:                  Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hi.

Steve J. Butala:                  Welcome to The Land Investors Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            I am Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steve J. Butala:                  Today, Jill and I talk about how to make your land stand out on the internet. We talk about buying property, night and day it seems like. We don't talk about selling it as much.

Jill DeWit:                            It's true.

Steve J. Butala:                  Here's a spoiler alert. Here's what's ahead. If you buy property so cheap and sell it so cheap, it's going to stand out on the internet.

Jill DeWit:                            That's number one.

Steve J. Butala:                  That's not what the whole show is about. There's a lot of ways to make your property stand out, but nothing makes it stand out ... if you're pressed for time today, you can turn it off.

Jill DeWit:                            What does that mean?

Steve J. Butala:                  Price is the best way to sell a piece of property. It turns out you have incredible control over how much you pay for a piece of real estate.

                                                Before we get in to that, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Mark asks, "I'm coming across some big land holding LLCs and invest ..." I don't know. Was the name on there correct or not correct?

Steve J. Butala:                  It's correct. You're correct.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. "I'm coming across some big land holding LLCs and investment groups in a county, and was wondering what type of success others are experiencing when making offers to the corporate world."

Steve J. Butala:                  I'm extremely confident you're talking about Nevada. Here's a story with Nevada and some parts of California, but mostly Nevada.

Jill DeWit:                            Nevada Land Company.

Steve J. Butala:                  Yeah. Nevada Land Company. Nevada Land Company is a land ownership holding company for a mining company. They're not interested in service rights, which is what we buy and sell here. What all of us do. They have an arm where all the rogue employees that are kind of weirdos work. They're responsible for selling huge, huge properties, like square miles, and square miles, and square miles of property. I just wrote an article for our newsletter that's going to go out Thursday. The title of it is The Top 10 Landowners in the Country, and how we rank against it, and what we do. It's actually pretty impressive.

Jill DeWit:                            Cool.

Steve J. Butala:                  Anyway, these guys don't come close. There's people who own millions and millions of acres. But, when you run across these large owners of LLCs that just ... you look down the list of ownership, and they own like 80% of it. Make contact with them, and ask them. Talk with them. I personally have purchased thousands of acres from Nevada Land Company. One of our competitors, our first student, Mark Podolsky, The Land Geek, made his career off that, off of my advice.

Jill DeWit:                            It's good.

Steve J. Butala:                  Back in the day, you could buy a section of property, like 640 acres, and cut it up into 40 acre properties and sell it on terms. You literally buy it for, I don't know, $50,000. A whole square mile. Cut it all up, and sell it the 40s for 20,000 each. You don't need a calculator for that math.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. Well, you do. I do.

Steve J. Butala:                  Make contact with them.