Transcript:

Stephen Jack Butala:

Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hello.

Stephen Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Stephen Jack Butala:

Today Jill and I, well, it's Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about how to make it as a female land investor. It's an interesting topic choice, Jill.

Jill DeWit:

Why?

Stephen Jack Butala:

Because I really want to know this too. I want to know what the difference is between women, some of the challenges, the unique challenges. I think I speak for everybody. There are apparently unique challenges that women face to make it as an investor that I hope you just spell it out for us.

Jill DeWit:

I will.

Stephen 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, it was nearly impossible to find land anywhere on the internet without a mailing address. I mean, locate the actual parcel because you're thinking about buying it. We solved this by collecting and regurgitating that 150 million unit database based on APN. So now-

Jill DeWit:

Regurgitating.

Stephen Jack Butala:

All you have to do is type in the state, county and... Jill makes fun of this because she didn't actually, wasn't involved in manipulating 150 million units of data.

Jill DeWit:

I did too. Just kidding. I did two of them. That's what I mean. No, I'm just kidding.

Stephen Jack Butala:

We solved it. Go to parcelfact.com. It's simple to use and tailor made for what we do.

Jill DeWit:

Thank you. All right. Dan wrote, Dan S. wrote, "Here's a success story that's a little different. I am celebrating the success I have finally had in establishing scheduled office hours for myself." Good. This is hard for people. I get it. "I know I've been told over and over that keeping a schedule is crucial. This has been a challenge for me. We've been doing well enough the way I have been going. But by setting up two days a week of seven hours a day and then three days of two hours scheduled undeserved land time, it's a little less chaotic. Thank you to my wife who was much better at organization for helping keep me on task." That's awesome.

Stephen Jack Butala:

Dan is a, this is Dan Smart, and he's a long time now Land Academy member, Career Path alumni, and crazy successful and just a down to earth, really nice guy. So this was his Academy Award speech I think.

Jill DeWit:

Oh, that's sweet. That's really good. I love it.

Stephen Jack Butala:

All kidding aside, you have to have close the door time, don't mess with dad time or mom, I guess in the case of this episode.

Jill DeWit:

And then even more, we've talked about it on another show you have to plan out, really plan out your week. So we have versions of that and then I have this is deed signing day and this day and that day. When you're going to do your callbacks, have a set time for that. It just makes your life easier.

Stephen Jack Butala:

Closing day, research day, all of that.

Jill DeWit:

Due diligence time.

Stephen Jack Butala:

It's not necessarily days but blocks of time.

Jill DeWit:

Maybe every day for an hour, it's due diligence. Fill in the blank.

Stephen Jack Butala:

Took me forever to do that for myself. I went all through college and it was an absolute scheduling disaster. There was no schedule. It was just putting out a fire one minute to the next.

Jill DeWit:

Got it.

Stephen Jack Butala:

Today's Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to make it as a female land investor. This is the meat of the show. But before she does, what makes female land investors different than male land investors?

Jill DeWit:

How we make decisions.

Stephen Jack Butala:

Oh, that was fast. Okay.

Jill DeWit:

Oh, I'll tell you. Yeah, that's just a no-brainer. So every man knows that. Come on. When we come to you and say,