Jill Friday - Duck You (LA 1807)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hi.

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 Dewitt broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today. Jill and I, well, it's still Friday, and she has created a topic called duck you.

Jill K DeWit:

This is going to be good.

Steven Jack Butala:

This is some classic stuff.

Jill K DeWit:

I have a good story to share with you here in a minute.

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. Back in the day, I got to tell you this, we struggled with finding land. None of these properties that we buy, most of them have a physical address, like 12 Mid 3 Main Street. Fast forward to today, we took that massive database of 150 million properties, took all the attributes and aspects of the data set that we think are important to make decisions and made them available on a website called Parcel Fact and/or Neighbor Scoop. All you have to do is type in the state, the county, and the assessor's parcel number. It pops right up actually so fast that if you're on the phone with the seller you can pretty much make a decision about whether or not you want to buy the property at that moment.

Jill K DeWit:

It's awesome.

Steven Jack Butala:

Check it out. Neighborscoop.com, Parcelfact, F A C T, .com.

Jill K DeWit:

Steven wrote, I had a tangle of title issues on a property I've been working on since before I knew about Land Academy. I would've skipped it otherwise. So far, First American has been the easiest and most knowledgeable. The other title companies didn't know what to do from my situation, but First American did, and I got a lost instrument bond. No problem. That's pretty cool.

Steven Jack Butala:

Here's my point in putting this in here. It's not necessarily a question. He's just informing everybody that's had a good experience with the title company. A lot of what we see in discord and in landinvestors.com is negative stuff. I can't believe this title company's taken so long. I'm getting treated poorly. Well, this guy goes out and does something about it. Title company number one didn't get it. Title company number two didn't get it. He found somebody at First American that helped him and solved it because I'm sure this particular agent wanted to get the deal done. Please don't become a victim of some silly rogue title person.

Jill K DeWit:

That's true. That says can't be done. Pick up the phone and call.

Steven Jack Butala:

There's something that can always can be done.

Jill K DeWit:

There's a lot of them they'll say can't be done.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yep.

Jill K DeWit:

Call somebody else.

Steven Jack Butala:

That's code for, I don't want to do it.

Jill K DeWit:

Correct.

Steven Jack Butala:

Not can't be done.

Jill K DeWit:

Exactly.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today's topic is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about duck you. This is the meat of the show. I hope I don't get in trouble for this.

Jill K DeWit:

It can't be done is not to be confused with can't say no. That's a whole different thing. We'll go there another time. Okay. These are the notes that I got on July 6th. This is awesome. This came to me through my transaction coordinator in Airtable, from the manager of the property. I funded the deal from the broker that we have selling it. This broker's trying to get creative here to sell this property. Here's what he wrote. The agent sent these ideas about ways to make the property sell. Just got word from a bulldozer guy.

Steven Jack Butala:

Just hold on a second. Can I set this up a little different?

Jill K DeWit:

Why?

Steven Jack Butala:

We bought a partnership to a piece of property in deal funding, and it's not selling as fast as we think it should, or that the manager thinks that it should.