Let Some Other Guy be Last

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Jack Butala:

Jack Butala for Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land show. In this episode, Jill and I talk about letting some other guy finish last. Get to the deal first and you'll always make money or you just simply walk away. It's that simple. Jill, great topic today. Before we start, let's take a question from a caller.

Jill DeWit:

Okay. Martin from Cleveland called in and asked, "This is a question for those investors who no longer go to a regular job every day and instead invest for a living. Did you find It frustrating that the job held you back in a sense because of the time it took away from networking and marketing, et cetera?" Good question. Very good question. What are your-

Jack Butala:

I'm not sure ... I think his question is, "Did you find it frustrating that while you had your job, you feel like you're kind of behind?" No, I never felt like that. I don't know. I always feel like we could be doing more from a social media standpoint. I'm never satisfied, I mean never. I don't think there's a circumstance out there where I would say, "You know what? We're reaching the right amount of people. We're sending the right message and our costs are in line with what ... I don't ever see that happening.

Jill DeWit:

Right.

Jack Butala:

It's not because ... I just think it's set up that way.

Jill DeWit:

Right.

Jack Butala:

You're always going to try to find a [crosstalk 00:01:27] better way to reach more people and deliver our message so it's funny because I don't feel that way about everything.

Jill DeWit:

You know, I kind of did. I've got to say there were times that I think I was frustrated. I knew where this was going. You know what it was? I knew where this was going and at that time, I wasn't ready to make that transition yet and I see it in our people. Does that make sense?

Jack Butala:

Yes, totally.

Jill DeWit:

I get it. I'm sure that we have people, members right now, who are working with us in our group and they are dying to leave their day job but it's not the right timing yet. They probably are frustrated because, "Shucks, three calls came in but, gosh, I was at my office because I've got to do this and now I have to find the time" ... "I have to come on my lunch or when I get home" whatever, or marketing stuff. You know what I think though too>? It might be frustrating but it's a good frustration. It's a good thing that's pushing you in that right direction. You see it coming. [crosstalk 00:02:33]

Jack Butala:

That's good.

Jill DeWit:

This is fuel to go, "All right, I'm really going to focus on this because it works and I'm going to leave this at some point."

Jack Butala:

This is actually a really multi-layered question. I'll try to be brief but if you're not reaching the right people from a sales ... Reaching the right people to buy property, I mean we cover that. You can do that very, very, very quickly. It's easy. You send mailers out. We've talked about it a million times. It takes the same amount of energy to send 50 offers as it does 50,000 offers, literally. It literally takes about the same amount of energy. There's no real issue, I don't think, with on a buy side. On a sell side, it's frustrating because all right, great, so I have 15 properties I just purchased. I think what he's saying is my whole group is 500 strong and that's it.

One of the reasons you get involved in Land Academy is because you get all of us as potential buyers and then you get all the people that we know as potential buyers. If I was in a situation where I was frustrated about social media and how ...