Jills Way of Working from Home (LA 1213)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Butala:

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

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:

Today, jill and I talk about Jill's way of working from home. You know, it just occurred to me that these shows air a week after we record them, so we're talking about this ... I've never seen such a current event, minute by minute, what's happening that we're all involved in with this virus and so hopefully a week from now, it's like we're talking about it and we're saying, "Oh, this can happen," and it's over.

Jill DeWit:

Wouldn't that be nice?

Steven Butala:

Yeah.

Jill DeWit:

Not sure if that'll happen in a week, but that would sure be nice.

Steven Butala:

Right. Today, Jill and I talk about Jill's way of working from home.

Jill DeWit:

We said that.

Steven Butala:

Oh. Before we get into it-

Jill DeWit:

Before we ... well, that's what we didn't say.

Steven Butala:

Let's take a question by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:

This is so funny. Wayne wrote, "You guys have been around for a long time." Well, hang on, Wayne, not that long. Okay, just kidding.

Steven Butala:

I think he means Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:

That's good. Okay, that's good. What ... or just buying and selling land. That's true too. What changes are permanent or temporary in real estate based on current events? Love this.

Steven Butala:

This whole week, we've been actually talking about that. I'm going to very directly answer the question. We're going to see major permanent changes in commercial real estate. Is there really a reason to build a new office building? No. Do we need strip malls? No. If I want to order a Coke, I can just order one online or have it delivered. We're going to see a much more mobile everything.

Jill DeWit:

Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:

We're going to see people moving to rural locations like never before, and here's why, because this taps in. Everybody's got kind of a irrational concern about something that it's not founded at all. Well, being a hypochondriac or a borderline hypochondriac, this is going to send you to the moon, and there's a lot of people that are going to move out of cities because of this, I think, and a lot of people that are going to have this thought, "I work online anyway. I'm sitting in an office, in a cube, working on the internet. Do I really need to be there, or maybe I can get a job doing the same thing and then I can go live in a very small town where real estate's way cheaper."

Jill DeWit:

I just thought of something too, I wanted to say, I want to make a point. What's going to happen when this is all over and everybody says, "Go back to work"? I expect there's going to be some pushback.

Steven Butala:

Me too.

Jill DeWit:

"My company says it's safe. I don't think it's safe." We all know there are still people getting sick. It's not like we're going to wake up one day magically, serious, I mean seriously, I wish that were true. But if we wake up one day and magically, all of a sudden it's over, everybody's healthy, we're not going to get it again, game over. No, it's going to be ... And people are talking about that, the gradual getting back into work. Well, I can see that` companies are saying, "Okay, the doors are open. You have to come in," and what are you going to do when the people push back and say, "I'm not coming"?

Steven Butala:

Exactly. They're going to hire new people. But everybody wins there, you know? Look at 9/11. Isn't it, really, in the scheme of things, a micro example of how things change permanently and how you got on an airplane, what changed with building security and all of it, permanently. So-

Jill DeWit:

Metal detectors at the schools.

Steven Butala:

All of it.