How to Time Release an Offer Campaign

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Jack B:                   Jack Butala with Jill DeWitt.

Jill D:                      Hi.

Jack B:                   Welcome to our show today. In this episode Jill and I talk about how to time release, in quotations, time release an offer campaign.

Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com on-line community. It's free.

Jill D:                      OK. Dave asked, it's regarding, do you want me to say the county?

Jack B:                   Sure. He's put it in there.

Jill D:                      Las Animas County, Colorado. Can't find the properties on Google Earth. I did a large mail order to Las Animas, is that right, Animas?

Jack B:                   Yeah, you're saying it right.

Jill D:                      And I'm receiving a huge number of accepted offers, However Las An, now he's, which I would too, does not a GIS system nor do they use GPS. So, this is just within the county, their information is what he's talking about. So you must view the legal description. Boy we've all been here.

Some have the township range and section with northeast, northwest, etc. so you can find the quarter where the properties located and use the plat map to make a little better guess. However many of the properties that I have found, do not contain the township range section data. So you have to pull the county road map to find township and range. This is so good that he's doing all this, cause, man we've done this. [crosstalk 00:01:16] He's learning it. It's true. This is really, really good. Then view the plat map and maybe find the section.  Still it's very hard to find the exactly the right parcel. Does anyone here who has worked with Las Animas already have any tricks that they have learned help with this?

I have tried to call the assessor and ask for help, and they are clueless. No kidding. I'm thinking about driving there tomorrow, three and a half hours. Well, that's not going to help.

Jack B:                   That's the answer.

Jill D:                      I mean can you really stand there. How you gonna stand there and find it if you can't find it on the map?

Jack B:                   Because you have a plat map.

Jill D:                      But, how do you know where to drive?

Jack B:                   So what the assessor's gonna say, this is a, book, cause it has a book and page. So every property ...

Jill D:                      Oh driving through the county. That's true. In terms of the property, I'm like hold on ...

Jack B:                   Let me start over. 99.8 % of the counties in the country are covered on parcelfact.com, which is one of our companies. So, and Las Animas is one of those that is not. Why is it not covered? Because the county is in the Dark Ages. Parcelfact.com and RealQuest Pro, for that matter, collect data from the county. Right? I mean they literally sometimes ... they have people walk in and collect data every month. Sometimes more than one time a month. And if the county's not willing to participate or they are so unorganized or non-computerized, then it's not included. But that's ... we always end up talking about the problem counties.

Jill D:                      I know. Why is that?

Jack B:                   Because, and Dave's right, you know. This is in the one-half of one percent of the counties that's not covered in the country. Which by the way, might be a reason why he's getting so many offers coming back, because nobody's [crosstalk 00:02:53] ...

Jill D:                      This is very true. A huge number of offers cause no one is touching them.

Jack B:                   By the way, Las An ... Jill and I have done incredibly well in Las Animas County over the years, flipping land.  So what I've done in the past and I did it, this is long before parcelfact and any type of spatial product at all.