Land Academy Member Casey Jewett Interview (LA 1790)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here. 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 we have member, Casey Jewett, who just informed us he's been a member for a year. But for some reason, I thought you were a member for a really long time. It doesn't matter.

Jill K DeWit:

That's good.

Casey:

Time flies.

Jill K DeWit:

You are involved and that's what's important. So thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:

And you said yes, that's what's important. You said yes to my assistant, Gabriel and thank you for being on the show.

Jill K DeWit:

Exactly.

Casey:

Of course, of course. It's hard to say no to you guys.

Jill K DeWit:

Aw, thank you very much.

Steven Jack Butala:

So how's Land Academy working out for you?

Casey:

It's well. Initially it's like drinking from a fire hose. There's just a lot of information, a lot of moving parts, you have to take it all in stride and take small steps as you move forward because there's going to be a lot that hits you, and a lot that continues, things that you maybe thought you knew that you don't know.

Jill K DeWit:

Right.

Steven Jack Butala:

That's how I would describe the Land Academy for myself.

Jill K DeWit:

Exactly. What did you do before this? There's a certain mindset we pick up on people that get it and then some that don't get it. So what's your background?

Casey:

In college, my internship was actually as a real estate agent. So I got into real estate in 2005 initially in that regard. It just so happened that where I went to school they had a new internship and it was at one of the real estate agencies. I was like, "Cool, I can do that." My grandfather was an agent many, many years ago. I was like, "I'll give it a shot. See what's going on here," and so I became a realtor. They paid for my classes to take, get my license and kind of moved through that. I've been in real estate a long time. I've never done land, it's just not something that I had ever thought of. I have bought and sold hotels, residential real estate, mobile homes, mobile home parks, all kinds of things. I've been in the real estate realm for quite a while. 2008 happened, market went down, I actually decided I was going to become a fireman. So funny I said drinking from a fire hose, funny enough.

Jill K DeWit:

Love it.

Casey:

I spent five years as a fireman, but I also was still doing real estate on the side, just not as much as I was. Fast forward... I don't know, that was 2008... fast forward 10 years, I started getting more heavily involved in real estate, became a licensed agent again working as a realtor on the daily. Saw a book, started reading the book, got interested in land, took a little while to kind of do something. I was just finagling around on YouTube one night, found you all. I don't even remember if it was a podcast or what, but it was on YouTube, started watching some videos. And it wasn't not even a month, it was probably a couple of weeks that Career Path came out. I was like, "I'm doing this. I don't know what all it involves but I'm going to do it." That was, like I said, just over a year ago that've I've been calling it doing it full time. My wife allowed me to-

Steven Jack Butala:

Did you start as a commercial real estate agent. Did you seek that out?

Casey:

I didn't seek it out, no, just kind of started doing. In all reality I-

Steven Jack Butala:

What was the first deal you did? Did you sell a house first or was it commercial?

Casey:

Yeah, mainly I sold homes. And very similar to land, everything that I've done I've actually purchased and sold. For all of my investing stuff, I bought and then sold. So like hotel, bought and then sold it. Mobile homes, mobile home park, same thing, as opposed to listing it. Everything I've done as far as a real estate agent has been residen...