Only You Know the Meaning of Time Well Spent (LA 1659)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here. Hello. Welcome to Land Academy Show, entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Stephen Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today Jill and I talk about only you, know the meaning of time well spent.

Jill DeWit:

By the way, if you don't recognize us. Yes, we did both get haircuts.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill's is better.

Jill DeWit:

Yep. Well, no, I didn't mean yep. Sorry. I didn't mean it like that. I didn't know that's what you were going to say. I had yep already coming out. So yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:

We just moved back to Arizona from California and we got to find new people to do our stuff and...

Jill DeWit:

Oh yeah. That's a process.

Steven Jack Butala:

What do you say? You know every guy's gone through this. It's like, "Yep. I can see it in the mirror. It's all going to hell. I'm watching it unfold".

Jill DeWit:

I'm in the chair and I'm trapped. It's like you can't...

Steven Jack Butala:

Women ever go through this?

Jill DeWit:

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, that does happen. It does. You're like, "And I'm trapped, it's not like I can get up and walk out right now. I'm wearing a robe", kind of thing. It's just not going to work. Yeah. I've had massages like that where I'm like, "Crap, this person's beating me up. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid to say anything".

Steven Jack Butala:

Well, I've had the opposite. I've had the opposite. It's like, this is a 13 year old girl. She couldn't massage a...

Jill DeWit:

Raccoon?

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah. A raccoon.

Jill DeWit:

All right. Again, I'm not drinking.

Steven Jack Butala:

You're so dirty.

Jill DeWit:

Not drinking. It may sound like it, but I'm not drinking. Go ahead.

Steven Jack Butala:

But Jill's hair, I've been saying this for a long time, Jill with age, she gets prettier and more elegant. And I just get fatter and more angry.

Jill DeWit:

Hey, before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors online community, it's free. And by the way, don't forget to subscribe on our YouTube channel and comment on the shows that you like. Michael wrote, "I've come across a county where I can't figure out how to filter out parcels with improvements in DataTree. And I thought I'd check with the community". How do you filter out improvements in DataTree? There are a couple different ways, you want to explain this?

Steven Jack Butala:

Here's a real deal. Here's the sad, terrible truth about data, all data. There's exceptions, and so the vast majority of it goes great, but there's always exceptions. And DataTree is no different than RealQuest or TitlePro or any other data aggregator. DataTree does not create this data, they just aggregate it. And so the majority of what we use in DataTree comes from the assessor. And the LA County assessor does a darn good job at data, but rural county X, in let's say, Arkansas, it's not that important to them. It's not good or bad. It's just how it is. And so if you can't get the data that you need to send out a mailer in the format that you need it, go to another county. This happens to me all the time. And I've been millions and millions and millions of mail merges and data that we've utilized over the years, Jill and I. And to this day, we just get bad data sometimes.

Jill DeWit:

What if you're dead set on the zip code? Could I download a couple lines of the data, follow me on here? I can download it and I can see all the columns all the way across and I can maybe figure out, "Oh, they don't use these use improvement percentage, but I see they fill in doors or some kind of structure". I can figure out something that they use. Is that a possibility?

Steven Jack Butala:

This is before I sat down to record this, I looked at a data set that I ordered from Concierge Data. It's 45 units,