Jill Friday - How to Pick a Great Land Business Partner (LA 1752)

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Steven Jack Butala:

Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hello.

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 DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about how to pick a great land business partner. I can't wait to hear this show.

Jill K DeWit:

This comes up all the time. Everyone ask me, "How did you get so darn lucky?"

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh, I thought you were going to say, "How do you put up with that?"

Jill K DeWit:

"Your life looks like a dream."

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh my gosh. No one says that. 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.

Steven Jack Butala:

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Jill K DeWit:

Okay. This is the right question here, not this one. Okay, okay. So Martin wrote, this is hilarious. "You two are great. How can I get my wife interested in working with me?"

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh, geez. Martin says this?

Jill K DeWit:

Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh, Martin.

Jill K DeWit:

Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:

The cards are stacked against you.

Jill K DeWit:

This-

Steven Jack Butala:

How do you get your wife interested in anything, is the real question.

Jill K DeWit:

Oh. You know what's funny? I hear this often from men, "My wife kind of gets it." Usually it's just trying to get your wife on board. It's people I'm talking to that are thinking about joining Career Path or thinking about joining Land Academy. And sometimes they get to me and I'm just answering questions, and one of it's like, "Gosh." And I will ask, "By the way, is your significant other on the same page?"

Jill K DeWit:

Because, look, men, you all know, or look men or women, doesn't matter who you are, if your partner is not on the same page it's probably not going to work. If they're adamantly against you doing something like this, they're not going to be supportive.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah, don't do it then.

Jill K DeWit:

And you shouldn't.

Steven Jack Butala:

My favorite is, "I bought this from my wife," meaning Land Academy. And she said, "What the hell is this?"

Jill K DeWit:

Right. "I'm not doing this."

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah. And the guy says, "Here I am 14 deals later and I quit my job."

Jill K DeWit:

Exactly. It's funny. I do know that there are many couples that listen to our show, not even I think in the land space, but for the comic relief. I get that. I know what it is, it's like, "Hey, we're not that bad, babe."

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah, yeah. "Boy, they make me feel better about myself."

Jill K DeWit:

Exactly. "Do you imagine if we worked together? Woo, sheesh. Dodged that bullet."

Steven Jack Butala:

Let me get this out of the way. Today's Jill Friday, how to pick a great land business partner. This is the meat of the show.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay, we're going to dive in and cover it all at one time. All right. And I understand, you can't push it. You really can't. If they're interested, they are. If not, at least I would share ... To kind of answer Martin's question, offer to get them involved, share with what you're doing, show them the bank account when it's growing. And if they weren't involved initially and they see the bank account growing, they'll probably be supportive after that.

Jill K DeWit:

That used to be a thing a long time ago. I remember a guy years ago said,