Jill Friday - Showing up for Work (LA 1583)

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Steven J Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Happy Friday.

Steven J Butala:

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

Jill DeWit:

And I am Jill Dewitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven J Butala:

Today is Jill Friday, and she talks about showing up for work, no matter where you work. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on landinvestors.com online community. It's free. If you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:

Land Academy member that is. Yep. Kevin responds to this post, which says called do neighbor letters work? So I guess this is the post?

Steven J Butala:

Yeah.

Jill DeWit:

Okay. Is this Kevin's thing or this the post and then comes Kevin's thing?

Steven J Butala:

This is Kevin.

Jill DeWit:

Okay.

Steven J Butala:

Kevin our awesome moderator in Discord.

Jill DeWit:

Okay. So Kevin's saying, "Look, I have used neighbor letters with good success. I don't always use it, a neighbor letter, but I have sold several properties using neighbor letters. I don't call them the neighbors. I send letters. My letter's very brief. I offer the property at a good price and let the recipient know that I will be putting it on the market at a higher price. I include a large aerial view showing the parcel so that they know where it is in relationship to their land. I have sold landlocked parcels and other vacant land this way." Good stuff. Just like a little tip. Is that what the point was here?

Steven J Butala:

I have an entire business operation where I only sell property to the neighbors. Neighbors letters are awesome. And they're really, really inexpensive. What do you send out? Maybe 600 letters, sometimes. Maybe 300 letters.

Jill DeWit:

God, maybe-

Steven J Butala:

When you buy a piece of property-

Jill DeWit:

... maybe a hundred.

Steven J Butala:

You buy a piece of property, you send out 100, 200, 300, maybe 500 letters to all the people who own property around there, that quite simply says, "Hey, I know you have property here and I just, I've got an off-market property. It's probably a lot less than you spent to buy the one that you have, and if you're interested, give me a call. I'll sell it to you off market. We can get the deal done really easy. No financing, no real estate agents. None of that stuff. I just closed on it with escrow, so we can use the same agent. It's only going to take a few days."

Jill DeWit:

Cool.

Steven J Butala:

What's going on?

Jill DeWit:

I don't know. You're just running. I'm just letting you go. It's easier.

Steven J Butala:

Let's let Jill talk.

Jill DeWit:

This is my goal in life. Just going to pick the easiest path, especially today.

Steven J Butala:

Today is Jill Friday, and she's going to talk about showing up for work. This is the meat of the show.

Jill DeWit:

Yes. Whatever you do, this kind of ties into what you talked about this week, which I thought was really interesting, the millionaire thing. Because you talked about having a plan. And I think for a lot of people having a plan might involve a job. It might involve a W2. It might involve a paycheck. And one of the things about... And I hope that you realize if that's your life and you have that job, you're getting a paycheck, that it can and should fit into your plan. You are still in control. You should be there because you want to be there. You picked it. You're not trapped. Trust me. I know this. It's really interesting, too, that whole mindset. You brought that up earlier. I worked at a job. I kind of, I started to fall into that. You can get a little brainwashed thinking that you're trapped somewhere and it's oh, good and you'll never find anything better.

Jill DeWit:

Because people tell you that. And it's really your coworkers around you that are just in a little trap and little hamster wheel.