Other Ways to Use Real Quest Assessor Data (LA 944)

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Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Good morning. Good afternoon [crosstalk 00:00:05].

Steven Butala:                   Welcome to The Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk, I'm Steven Jack Butala.

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

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about other ways to use Real Quest Assessor Data of which we are licensed providers.

Jill DeWit:                            Of all, yeah.

Steven Butala:                   This is what the show is about. If you think about this, you have the name, and address, and a tremendous amount of data about the piece of real estate that they own anywhere.

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Steven Butala:                   What could you help them achieve if you have the name, and address, and a super effective efficient way to contacting them.

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Steven Butala:                   That's what we're talking about today.

Jill DeWit:                            Cool.

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:                            Ben C asks, "A quick question for everyone. Do you have a preference between mailing tax delinquent lists or normal mailing lists? Do you get a better response percentage for those that may target tax delinquent lists, how many years of delinquency do you look at, i.e. two years delinquent, three years delinquent? Do you combine your price break and the back taxes together when assessing the offer? What percentage are you typically offering? Thank you." This is a good question. We haven't talked about this in a while.

Steven Butala:                   We haven't and I love how ...

Jill DeWit:                            [crosstalk 00:01:29].

Steven Butala:                   You know, it used to miff you.

Jill DeWit:                            Two parts. Oh, yeah. I used to get really all fired up about this. I still am kind of fired about this, but it's okay Ben.

Steven Butala:                   So, go ahead. I want to hear what you have to say now that you've taken a year and cooled off a bit.

Jill DeWit:                            I have cooled off a little bit. Don't even say driving for dollars because that will make a whole, I don't want to bring that up. That's a whole other rant. First of all, no, we don't. How do I say this?

Steven Butala:                   Let me help you. All right, let me start off real quick.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay, you go ahead.

Steven Butala:                   We never ever mail tax delinquent only property's.

Jill DeWit:                            Single out. Correct. Only, is the key word there.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            We mail them all, not single them out. Why, because the percentage of those that are problems are huge. If you single out all the bad ones, all the tax delinquent, I mean, for a lot of them, there's a reason why they're not paying their taxes. There's a problem there and do you really want to take that on, number one? We have found and I just watched this discussion, maybe I saw the same thread too in the online community because I saw people saying, you know, "Don't do it." How many people that I buy property from that the taxes are current? That's what I like too and that's what we get. Most of them are people that are current. Didn't know they could stop paying their taxes and are thrilled to sell their property.

Jill DeWit:                            They're like, "Yay, I didn't know I could not pay them." That's number one. My second point is if you're going to sit and go line by line, by the way,