Confidence You Need to Send Mail (LA 962)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Happy day.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from sunny, southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about the confidence you need to send mail. This is such an important topic.

Jill DeWit:                            It is.

Steven Butala:                   I have a lot of old school stories. There are just people that ... the gist of it's this. There are people that are confident. It's not just confidence to send the mail, that's one thing. Anybody can kind of get over that or learn it or whatever, but it's the confidence to make an acquisition decision.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   And not everybody is set up for this on the planet.

Jill DeWit:                            Some people have no confidence no matter what they do. That's a tough one, I feel bad for them. So maybe we can talk about ways that you can build your confidence if you need to. Because I think that's super important. Then there's other people like we all know them, I think you and I are two of them, that we have confidence no matter what it is. I'll be like, "All right, bring it." We've done some different ventures, there's other sub companies going on in our world that we don't think twice about it. We may not be fully versed on it, but we know how to run companies, we know how to start companies. And so we just kind of dive in.

Jill DeWit:                            So I think we're the other spectrum. We have a pretty healthy dose of confidence you and I.

Steven Butala:                   I've known you for a long time, and your confidence level amazes me, even to this day. On a daily basis, about little things. And I'm not talking about beating your chest, narcissistic wack job. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about making little decisions like, "That's not the logo we're gonna use for House Academy." Right, "I think it should actually look like this, this, this, and this." And have it be a good decision that sticks for a long time. Or how to answer somebody's concern about a mailer that didn't go the way that it's supposed to go on Land Investors, and here's why.

Steven Butala:                   I'm not talking about like my car is better than yours.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Jill DeWit:                            Or, "Does my hair look great?"

Steven Butala:                   There's so much false confidence.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, especially women are subject to so much more stuff, professional women are than men. And you can just see it a mile away when it's see through and it's a mess, you know?

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get into it, let's put Jill's mic in the right place first.

Jill DeWit:                            I thought it was.

Jill DeWit:                            You don't like it? I'm good, thank you.

Steven Butala:                   It's like this.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, I'm good.

Steven Butala:                   And let's take a question posted by one of our members. On the LandInvestors.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:                            It's like you're moving in front of my face.

Steven Butala:                   Did I mess up your mojo?

Jill DeWit:                            I thought you were moving in front of my face. This is what I thought you were doing. "Let's fix Jill's mic."

Steven Butala:                   You know that's probably what it should be.

Jill DeWit:                            I should be like this.

Confidence You Need to Send Mail (LA 962)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Happy day.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit. Broadcasting from sunny, southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about the confidence you need to send mail. This is such an important topic.

Jill DeWit:                            It is.

Steven Butala:                   I have a lot of old school stories. There are just people that ... the gist of it's this. There are people that are confident. It's not just confidence to send the mail, that's one thing. Anybody can kind of get over that or learn it or whatever, but it's the confidence to make an acquisition decision.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   And not everybody is set up for this on the planet.

Jill DeWit:                            Some people have no confidence no matter what they do. That's a tough one, I feel bad for them. So maybe we can talk about ways that you can build your confidence if you need to. Because I think that's super important. Then there's other people like we all know them, I think you and I are two of them, that we have confidence no matter what it is. I'll be like, "All right, bring it." We've done some different ventures, there's other sub companies going on in our world that we don't think twice about it. We may not be fully versed on it, but we know how to run companies, we know how to start companies. And so we just kind of dive in.

Jill DeWit:                            So I think we're the other spectrum. We have a pretty healthy dose of confidence you and I.

Steven Butala:                   I've known you for a long time, and your confidence level amazes me, even to this day. On a daily basis, about little things. And I'm not talking about beating your chest, narcissistic wack job. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about making little decisions like, "That's not the logo we're gonna use for House Academy." Right, "I think it should actually look like this, this, this, and this." And have it be a good decision that sticks for a long time. Or how to answer somebody's concern about a mailer that didn't go the way that it's supposed to go on Land Investors, and here's why.

Member Dallas Waldon on How Land Academy Improved Her Business (LA 961)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk with Dallas Waldon on how Land Academy improved her business. Before we get started though, I have a couple of non-real estate questions for you. It's Saturday, right, you're obviously dedicated to this or you don't have a life. Either way.

Dallas Waldon:                  [crosstalk 00:00:31].

Steven Butala:                   What did you give up to do this?

Jill DeWit:                            What could you be doing right now?

Steven Butala:                   Are you wearing any pants? What's going on?

Dallas Waldon:                  Okay, we're not gonna discuss my pants, but, we are really dedicated to just kind of improving ourselves all the time, my husband and I. So we really don't give up anything. I feel like this is our fun time. Working is our fun time. It sounds really lame though, I know.

Jill DeWit:                            It's like working in your own business, so it's different.

Dallas Waldon:                  Exactly.

Jill DeWit:                            Cool.

Steven Butala:                   Well I tell you, Jill and I started out like that, too, and that's not the case any longer.

Jill DeWit:                            It is for me.

Steven Butala:                   Jill's overt theme right now is when are we gonna have some fun? Let's get out of here and have some fun.

Jill DeWit:                            Well there's different fun.

Steven Butala:                   That's not true.

Jill DeWit:                            Well there's different kinds of fun. That's very true. Love it.

Steven Butala:                   Today's topic, remember Dallas Waldon shares how she improves her business through Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Jill, go ahead with the questions.

Jill DeWit:                            So we're glad you're here. I want to get a little bit of your backstory. So you were already in this business when you found us. So please tell us how long you've been doing this and how you got started.

Dallas Waldon:                  So we got started in early 2018 and we really made every mistake in the book. We're millennials so we like free information. We were interested in real estate we found online, we don't have to buy houses because we don't have that kind of capital, and so we looked up different ways to do it. We did postcards at first. We sent out about 4,000 postcards and not one deal. So I like to call us ambitious beginners. So we just kind of threw everything we had at it and got started. Things really revved up by the end of 2018.

Jill DeWit:                            That's great.

Steven Butala:                   How did you choose land?

Dallas Waldon:                  My husband's the idea machine. I kind of just go with whatever he throws at me and I kind of bring the human element to it. So he said, well, we could do land instead of houses. I said all right, let's try it.

Jill DeWit:                            Perfect. You sound like me. He comes up with these crazy ideas and by the time it gets to me, it's pretty well thought through and figured out and I'm like, you know what, what have we got to lose? Let's just do it.

Dallas Waldon:                  Exactly.

Jill DeWit:                            That's so good. So tell us how did you find us?

Dallas Waldon:                  I would probably say the podcast. Again, we are always trying to learn and listen to things, so we found your podcast and I loved listening to you guys.

Member Dallas Waldon on How Land Academy Improved Her Business (LA 961)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk with Dallas Waldon on how Land Academy improved her business. Before we get started though, I have a couple of non-real estate questions for you. It's Saturday, right, you're obviously dedicated to this or you don't have a life. Either way.

Dallas Waldon:                  [crosstalk 00:00:31].

Steven Butala:                   What did you give up to do this?

Jill DeWit:                            What could you be doing right now?

Steven Butala:                   Are you wearing any pants? What's going on?

Dallas Waldon:                  Okay, we're not gonna discuss my pants, but, we are really dedicated to just kind of improving ourselves all the time, my husband and I. So we really don't give up anything. I feel like this is our fun time. Working is our fun time. It sounds really lame though, I know.

Jill DeWit:                            It's like working in your own business, so it's different.

Dallas Waldon:                  Exactly.

Jill DeWit:                            Cool.

Steven Butala:                   Well I tell you, Jill and I started out like that, too, and that's not the case any longer.

Jill DeWit:                            It is for me.

Steven Butala:                   Jill's overt theme right now is when are we gonna have some fun? Let's get out of here and have some fun.

Jill DeWit:                            Well there's different fun.

Steven Butala:                   That's not true.

Jill DeWit:                            Well there's different kinds of fun. That's very true. Love it.

Steven Butala:                   Today's topic, remember Dallas Waldon shares how she improves her business through Land Academy.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Jill, go ahead with the questions.

Jill DeWit:                            So we're glad you're here. I want to get a little bit of your backstory. So you were already in this business when you found us. So please tell us how long you've been doing this and how you got started.

Dallas Waldon:                  So we got started in early 2018 and we really made every mistake in the book. We're millennials so we like free information. We were interested in real estate we found online, we don't have to buy houses because we don't have that kind of capital, and so we looked up different ways to do it. We did postcards at first. We sent out about 4,000 postcards and not one deal. So I like to call us ambitious beginners. So we just kind of threw everything we had at it and got started. Things really revved up by the end of 2018.

Jill DeWit:                            That's great.

Steven Butala:                   How did you choose land?

Dallas Waldon:                  My husband's the idea machine. I kind of just go with whatever he throws at me and I kind of bring the human element to it. So he said, well, we could do land instead of houses. I said all right, let's try it.

Jill DeWit:                            Perfect. You sound like me. He comes up with these crazy ideas and by the time it gets to me, it's pretty well thought through and figured out and I'm like, you know what,

3 Simple Systems in Place Before You Send Offers (LA 960)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Good day.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today jill and I talk about the three simple systems you should have in place before you send out mail. And I chose this topic because I was going through Land Investors and there's lots and lots of discussions about ... It seems to me there's three types of discussions that go out about mailers in Land Investors. Oh my gosh I just bought 14 properties I can't believe it. And then almost immediately you just don't hear from them anymore 'cause they're done with it. They learned how to do it and they're rinsing and repeating and repeating and repeating. Those are my favorite.

Steven Butala:                   Number two is how do I sharpen my pencil? What's the first step I don't know what to do? And then number three is, "Hey I did all this stuff. It's just not working like I thought." And that's really what this show is about, this episode. I sent out a bunch of mail, I'm getting a response it's not the response that I thought. Let's look at the systems that I have in place. Maybe there's something I missed. That's what I really ... It's technical week I guess this week.

Jill DeWit:                            I guess so. Went from back office week to technical week and that's okay. That's how we do-

Steven Butala:                   It's the same thing.

Jill DeWit:                            Things.

Steven Butala:                   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.

Jill DeWit:                            Sandy asks, "What makes one county better than the other county when comparing back tax history?" Love it.

Steven Butala:                   Why are you guys always saying back taxes don't, never mail, why are you answering this question?

Jill DeWit:                            No we're talking about back taxes.

Steven Butala:                   What does back taxes have to do with it?

Jill DeWit:                            Right. Wait a minute.

Steven Butala:                   What the hell Steve? When you're choosing a county it's important. It's not imperative. It's important to look at the back tax history of that county. Some counties like Wayne county Michigan where Detroit is there's 20, 30, 40, 50000 properties in a back tax situation. That's a red flag for me. That's all I'm saying. Just take a look at it. Mojave county same situation there's always 14, 15, 20000 back tax properties on there. Is that a red flag? Should you send your mail? Maybe, maybe not. Some counties have no back tax for ... Utah for some reason is famous for having very very few back tax properties ever.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   So maybe it's a cultural thing up there. I'm not sure. All I'm saying is take a look at it and make a decision so here's an example. I mean Wayne county Michigan has all these inner-city back tax properties that are amassing it's gonna be, it's, in my opinion, unfixable in our lifetime for a bunch of reasons. Mojave county on the other hand has the same back tax situation that might be a good thing 'cause there's just a lot of property that has been sold in the 60s and 70s and 80s that nobody's just gonna do anything with it and they just let it go back so that's a good thing.

Jill DeWit:                            And it's a growing community. We know that.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah exactly.

Jill DeWit:                            So that's the thing.

Steven Butala:                   Exactly, but what we want,

3 Simple Systems in Place Before You Send Offers (LA 960)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Good day.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today jill and I talk about the three simple systems you should have in place before you send out mail. And I chose this topic because I was going through Land Investors and there's lots and lots of discussions about ... It seems to me there's three types of discussions that go out about mailers in Land Investors. Oh my gosh I just bought 14 properties I can't believe it. And then almost immediately you just don't hear from them anymore 'cause they're done with it. They learned how to do it and they're rinsing and repeating and repeating and repeating. Those are my favorite.

Steven Butala:                   Number two is how do I sharpen my pencil? What's the first step I don't know what to do? And then number three is, "Hey I did all this stuff. It's just not working like I thought." And that's really what this show is about, this episode. I sent out a bunch of mail, I'm getting a response it's not the response that I thought. Let's look at the systems that I have in place. Maybe there's something I missed. That's what I really ... It's technical week I guess this week.

Jill DeWit:                            I guess so. Went from back office week to technical week and that's okay. That's how we do-

Steven Butala:                   It's the same thing.

Jill DeWit:                            Things.

Steven Butala:                   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.

Jill DeWit:                            Sandy asks, "What makes one county better than the other county when comparing back tax history?" Love it.

Steven Butala:                   Why are you guys always saying back taxes don't, never mail, why are you answering this question?

Jill DeWit:                            No we're talking about back taxes.

Steven Butala:                   What does back taxes have to do with it?

Jill DeWit:                            Right. Wait a minute.

Steven Butala:                   What the hell Steve? When you're choosing a county it's important. It's not imperative. It's important to look at the back tax history of that county. Some counties like Wayne county Michigan where Detroit is there's 20, 30, 40, 50000 properties in a back tax situation. That's a red flag for me. That's all I'm saying. Just take a look at it. Mojave county same situation there's always 14, 15, 20000 back tax properties on there. Is that a red flag? Should you send your mail? Maybe, maybe not. Some counties have no back tax for ... Utah for some reason is famous for having very very few back tax properties ever.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   So maybe it's a cultural thing up there. I'm not sure. All I'm saying is take a look at it and make a decision so here's an example. I mean Wayne county Michigan has all these inner-city back tax properties that are amassing it's gonna be, it's, in my opinion, unfixable in our lifetime for a bunch of reasons. Mojave county on the other hand has the same back tax situation that might be a good thing 'cause there's just a lot of property that has been sold in the 60s and 70s and 80s that nobody's just gonna do anything with it and they just let it go back so that's a good thing.

How to Protect Yourself Legally (LA 959)

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 how to protect yourself legally in the land business.

Jill DeWit:                            It sounds like it's scary. Like do I need protection? What am I missing?

Steven Butala:                   So I was coming up with topics before the show today, writing down topics as we always do. We try to do the whole weeks topics all at once and our customer service extraordinaire, Amy, helped us come up with this and she said, "There's one person in particular that really wants to start off and make sure that she's legal." And it-

Jill DeWit:                            I like that.

Steven Butala:                   ... just occurred to me, actually this whole week is kind of back office admin week and how to get a mailer out. Just the basics. Basic, basic stuff. Amy was nice enough to share that we have a bunch of new people, for whatever reason, in the last few months and they really need to just basic 101 type stuff, so Jill and I are happy to help.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   So how do you protect yourself legally? We'll talk about it in a second.

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Steven Butala:                   I have, as always, a lot of ideas on that.

Jill DeWit:                            As always, a lot to say.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:                            John A. asks: What's the difference between DataTree and RealQuest?

Steven Butala:                   Okay, I'll give the background and you get to answer the question.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh. Okay.

Steven Butala:                   We are, Jill and I, licensed providers of the three major and the only three worthwhile, in my opinion, data sources for assessor data. RealQuest Pro, which has been the old standby since the late 90s. TitlePro 24/7, which is kind of a newer but not totally new data set that helps title agents, actually, help figure out ... Close a deal. And then the third on is DataTree, which is First American Title's almost brand new answer to RealQuest and TitlePro. So what do you think the differences are between the three, Jill, in general?

Jill DeWit:                            Well, first of all, RealQuest, I still love the best because especially for land because every time you go into accounting ... And let's go back. RealQuest is CoreLogic's data company. A lot of it is direct pull from the county assessors and some stuff is fed in, it's manually, because we all know there's counties out there that are still using books on shelves, believe it or not. So RealQuest sends people out and they pull those books off the shelves and they sit there-

Steven Butala:                   I don't mean to interrupt-

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   In the spirit of 101, I'm going to take-

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, okay.

Steven Butala:                   ... a step back further. There's 3144 counties in this country. Counties, parishes.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   They all have a tax roll or an assessor role and that's essentially a database with all the statistics-

Jill DeWit:                            Of all the property.

Steven Butala:                   ... about every single property in their county. Why? Because they tax it every year.

How to Protect Yourself Legally (LA 959)

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 how to protect yourself legally in the land business.

Jill DeWit:                            It sounds like it's scary. Like do I need protection? What am I missing?

Steven Butala:                   So I was coming up with topics before the show today, writing down topics as we always do. We try to do the whole weeks topics all at once and our customer service extraordinaire, Amy, helped us come up with this and she said, "There's one person in particular that really wants to start off and make sure that she's legal." And it-

Jill DeWit:                            I like that.

Steven Butala:                   ... just occurred to me, actually this whole week is kind of back office admin week and how to get a mailer out. Just the basics. Basic, basic stuff. Amy was nice enough to share that we have a bunch of new people, for whatever reason, in the last few months and they really need to just basic 101 type stuff, so Jill and I are happy to help.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   So how do you protect yourself legally? We'll talk about it in a second.

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Steven Butala:                   I have, as always, a lot of ideas on that.

Jill DeWit:                            As always, a lot to say.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get into it, let's take a question, posted by one of members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:                            John A. asks: What's the difference between DataTree and RealQuest?

Steven Butala:                   Okay, I'll give the background and you get to answer the question.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh. Okay.

Steven Butala:                   We are, Jill and I, licensed providers of the three major and the only three worthwhile, in my opinion, data sources for assessor data. RealQuest Pro, which has been the old standby since the late 90s. TitlePro 24/7, which is kind of a newer but not totally new data set that helps title agents, actually, help figure out ... Close a deal. And then the third on is DataTree, which is First American Title's almost brand new answer to RealQuest and TitlePro. So what do you think the differences are between the three, Jill, in general?

Jill DeWit:                            Well, first of all, RealQuest, I still love the best because especially for land because every time you go into accounting ... And let's go back. RealQuest is CoreLogic's data company. A lot of it is direct pull from the county assessors and some stuff is fed in, it's manually, because we all know there's counties out there that are still using books on shelves, believe it or not. So RealQuest sends people out and they pull those books off the shelves and they sit there-

Steven Butala:                   I don't mean to interrupt-

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   In the spirit of 101, I'm going to take-

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, okay.

Steven Butala:                   ... a step back further. There's 3144 counties in this country. Counties, parishes.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Finance Friday with Steven, Jill & Justin (LA 958)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   With guest Justin Sliva just because it's Friday. Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

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

Steven Butala:                   Like I just said, today Jill and I talk with guest Justin Sliva 'cause it's Friday.

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Steven Butala:                   About the transactions we're doing and anything else, quite frankly, that we'd like to talk about.

Jill DeWit:                            That's because we all have so much free time. So much free time.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   I changed the time on ya Justin. Thanks for being flexible.

Justin Sliva:                         Oh yeah. No problem. It's throwing me off. I'm already off this week on days of the week and so this one just made me all kind of confused. I don't know quite where I'm at right now.

Jill DeWit:                            I understand.

Steven Butala:                   So, before we actually get into the whole show, how's your eBook doing and consulting and what's goin on?

Justin Sliva:                         The eBook's doing good still, between five and seven sells a day. I didn't expect a huge thing, but five to seven sells a day that just keep generating. It's been consistent across all the platforms at that. You know, it's something nice to see. To just, ah, somebody else got helped by this. So, the land business is going good. We just locked up a piece of property in Maine that touches the Canadian border, which I think is really cool. So, we have 66 acres that like backup to Canada, which to me is really neat. I don't know why. I just find it really cool. So, we're in it for, I think, $16 grand.

Steven Butala:                   Oh, that's cheap, cheap.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah. So, it's a-

Steven Butala:                   You know, Years ago, I bought a ranch that was adjacent to Mexico.

Justin Sliva:                         Oh okay cool.

Steven Butala:                   It struck me the same way, like I had to buy it. It probably wasn't the best deal I've ever done and it wasn't the best deal, but it was adjacent to Mexico, so I had to do it.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Justin Sliva:                         I'm thinking that, you know, as all the people that talk about wanting to move to Canada when different electorial people ... I'm like, ah, I can make it like a toll bridge, right? They can camp on our side and then move across if they want.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   You know, they probably could just walk across from where it is.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah. No, they could. They could. It's great.

Jill DeWit:                            Straddle the line.

Justin Sliva:                         Yep. That's all I need is somebody to get arrested for like illegal entry.

Jill DeWit:                            There we go.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            Love it.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah, everything else is going pretty good. Yeah, no complaints.

Jill DeWit:                            Good.

Steven Butala:                   All right. Awesome. How's it goin with you Jill?

Jill DeWit:                            Great.

Steven Butala:                   Is it a good transaction week?

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. I'm great. I had some really good deals, I know I will talk to you in a minute,

Finance Friday with Steven, Jill & Justin (LA 958)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   With guest Justin Sliva just because it's Friday. Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

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

Steven Butala:                   Like I just said, today Jill and I talk with guest Justin Sliva 'cause it's Friday.

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Steven Butala:                   About the transactions we're doing and anything else, quite frankly, that we'd like to talk about.

Jill DeWit:                            That's because we all have so much free time. So much free time.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   I changed the time on ya Justin. Thanks for being flexible.

Justin Sliva:                         Oh yeah. No problem. It's throwing me off. I'm already off this week on days of the week and so this one just made me all kind of confused. I don't know quite where I'm at right now.

Jill DeWit:                            I understand.

Steven Butala:                   So, before we actually get into the whole show, how's your eBook doing and consulting and what's goin on?

Justin Sliva:                         The eBook's doing good still, between five and seven sells a day. I didn't expect a huge thing, but five to seven sells a day that just keep generating. It's been consistent across all the platforms at that. You know, it's something nice to see. To just, ah, somebody else got helped by this. So, the land business is going good. We just locked up a piece of property in Maine that touches the Canadian border, which I think is really cool. So, we have 66 acres that like backup to Canada, which to me is really neat. I don't know why. I just find it really cool. So, we're in it for, I think, $16 grand.

Steven Butala:                   Oh, that's cheap, cheap.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah. So, it's a-

Steven Butala:                   You know, Years ago, I bought a ranch that was adjacent to Mexico.

Justin Sliva:                         Oh okay cool.

Steven Butala:                   It struck me the same way, like I had to buy it. It probably wasn't the best deal I've ever done and it wasn't the best deal, but it was adjacent to Mexico, so I had to do it.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Justin Sliva:                         I'm thinking that, you know, as all the people that talk about wanting to move to Canada when different electorial people ... I'm like, ah, I can make it like a toll bridge, right? They can camp on our side and then move across if they want.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   You know, they probably could just walk across from where it is.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah. No, they could. They could. It's great.

Jill DeWit:                            Straddle the line.

Justin Sliva:                         Yep. That's all I need is somebody to get arrested for like illegal entry.

Jill DeWit:                            There we go.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            Love it.

Justin Sliva:                         Yeah, everything else is going pretty good. Yeah, no complaints.