Introducing Land Academy Garage Sale (LA 1634)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hey.

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.

Steven Butala:

Today, Jill and I talk about what we're going to introduce: the Land Academy garage sale.

Jill DeWit:

I love it.

Steven Butala:

So do I and it was a smash hit. A lot of stuff we do, a lot of these [sub 00:00:20] and products that we do just don't catch on. We are in beta right here on this thing, and it really, really works. It's our way of internally auctioning off property that... Every land investor has a bunch of stuff, a bunch of [pieces 00:00:37] of property laying around that, for whatever reason, are accumulating taxes, they haven't gotten sold. They just fell through the cracks. I have properties since 25 years ago that we still have. And so, it's a $1 no-reserve of auction. We're just auctioning it off internally within the land academy group [crosstalk 00:00:56]

Jill DeWit:

We have long written it off, and our loss is your gain.

Steven Butala:

Yeah. And it's a blast. People are stealing property, and we're happy with it.

Jill DeWit:

We'll explain more in a minute.

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

Jill DeWit:

Jake wrote, "This might be a fairly obvious 'do not do this', but does anybody know about the legality of using pictures of another lot that is essentially the same in every aspect as yours, from the internet to help market your own property online?" Well, I have a lot to say about this.

Steven Butala:

Go ahead.

Jill DeWit:

Well-

Steven Butala:

So do I.

Jill DeWit:

Because we have personally taken for... As Land Academy member, you may or may not know this, you have access to a library of photos in several areas that we took, and made available to you when we launched the original cashflow from land program. We gave these photos, we took them. You took them. And back then, you or our engineering people, took these photos. And so they're ours. It's not like it's proprietary, we stole them or anything. No. They're ours, and we have given permission freely to use them.

Jill DeWit:

So the point, though, is we want to make sure you say... you have to properly say that these are of the area because it doesn't happen so much anymore. But sometimes you have properties in a, say a subdivision or certain area, maybe you own four or five 10. I don't know. You don't need to send the same guy out there 10 times. But you can, especially now with Google maps and Google earth and things, people can really look in and see that property really with detail. And back then we couldn't. So I have no trouble with this as long as you're not stealing it, A. Don't do that. Like you're not getting it off Canva or something like that. And then B, you let them know that maybe you took the... "This is a lot next door I visited last week. You can see it over here." You may or may not... You don't agree with me?

Steven Butala:

No. I just waiting, actually.

Jill DeWit:

I can't tell you're if agreeing or not. So anyway, you just properly say it's of area.

Steven Butala:

I would say I agree with you Jill, and now and forever.

Jill DeWit:

Okay. Yeah, I'm sure you would. I said, "Don't worry about that. You know what toes you're stepping on. If you think there's any legal issue, then definitely don't do it." But if someone says, "Sure, use this. It's fine" in the email or whatever, yeah. Go.

Steven Butala:

I have one word for you. And if you're a note taker or you're actually listening to the show, or if you're cooking dinner and you're listening to it, please listen to this.