Jill Friday - Nowhere in the World (LA 1588)

Transcript:

Jill DeWit:

Not me.

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill, here.

Jill DeWit:

Hi.

Steven Butala:

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

Jill DeWit:

And I am Jill Dewit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Butala:

Today is Jill Friday. She's going to talk about nowhere in the world is it possible to do what we do. 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:

Charlie wrote a response to this sentence. I'm going to mix in a failure and success just to keep things in perspective. This is cute. So here we go, hashtag fail. "I was going through Irritable and saw a call from a mailer that had kept getting pushed down and pushed down on my list. So I was going through the deal again. I offered $30,000. He accepted. And the comps were around $90,000, which is a great deal if I hadn't seen it. But life happened and I checked out the land business while we had a kid and stuff." Oh, I checked out of the land business. Got it. "While looking into the property on Redfin, I see that after this guy got my letter and called, the property was listed and sold twice, once for $39,000 and then for $95,000. It made me sick to know that there were $60,000 sitting in my computer that I didn't act on. Shucks!"

Steven Butala:

Darn.

Jill DeWit:

You know what? That happens.

Steven Butala:

This is a great life experience.

Jill DeWit:

Totally. What was happening is the offer came in. He didn't act on it. Life got in the way. He went back and said, "Oh, maybe I'll do this deal," and found out somebody else did the deal.

Steven Butala:

They had a baby. That happens.

Jill DeWit:

It's okay. But hashtag win. He's got something. "But also during that time, I bought a lot for a hundred dollars in a subdivision with a terrible dirt road and no utilities. I started to list it on eBay multiple times. Never got all the way through it. I finally, decided Saturday," excuse me, "I finally decided it sat in my inventory long enough. So I called a realtor I've worked with before in the area and got it listed. He went and looked at it and told me what I already know, dirt road, no utilities, hard to sell, et cetera, and asked what I wanted to get out of it. There's only one for sale in that subdivision and it's at $6,000. So I told him I just wanted it gone. But 3,000 looks right to me."

Jill DeWit:

"What I didn't take into account was that the subdivision, once you read over, has blown up in the last year. So he suggested we list it for $15,000. Normally, I would dial him back a bit, but we worked together and he knows that I'm shooting for speed here, not top dollar. And by the way, I have a hundred dollars into this property, so I don't really care if it sits for a month before a buyer comes along. This business is great and can forever change your family's lives if you put in the work." That's great. Oh, I wonder what he did sell it for.

Steven Butala:

What's the moral of the story here? I have a takeaway. What do you think you should really take away from this?

Jill DeWit:

Well, there's a couple of things. If you can keep from stopping and keep going, that's my first choice. But pick up where you left off and just move on. That's the moral of my story, because we all make mistakes. We start diets. We don't follow through. We join gyms. We don't follow through. It doesn't mean you never go back. You say, "Well, I tried that workout thing to me once when I was 20, and again when I was 30, and one more time when I was 50. It's not my thing. I am never doing it. Ship has sailed." That's not true. You can always start it and just pick up where you left off. That's my moral.

Steven Butala:

This person's kicking themselves a little bit,