Replacing Yourself in Your Land Company (LA 949)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Good morning.

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 replacing yourself with a land company virtual assistant. Replacing yourself let's say ...

Jill DeWit:                            I just say replacing yourself in general. What if it's not a VA, seriously what if you bring in some, a partner.

Steven Butala:                   Well I read the title wrong.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh.

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

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   Let's read.

Jill DeWit:                            We'll cover the title. We'll fix it here in just a few minutes. Hang in there.

Steven Butala:                   No the title is ...

Jill DeWit:                            Replacing yourself in your land company.

Steven Butala:                   Yes.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   The VA comes a few shows from now.

Jill DeWit:                            Right. If you even use one.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            There's a lot of people and I was one of them that didn't see the value. I was afraid of it, but I got over it and I do see the value/however, there's stuff I just can't do.

Steven Butala:                   You know what that would be a good show.

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:                   A good episode like there's some stuff that I fought you on in the beginning and there was some stuff that you fought me on.

Jill DeWit:                            There's stuff you're still fighting me on.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, well that's a different show too.

Jill DeWit:                            Like today.

Steven Butala:                   But there's some stuff that we ended up using that I said, "No this is a terrible idea." And then like a year later it turns out we're full blown using it.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   And then Vice versa. It's always like that. I mean-

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   That's why you have partners. It's free.

Jill DeWit:                            So the question Sandy asks, "If Redfin data," everyone knows Redfin.com. It's a great source for a lot of information. "If Redfin data doesn't have information on the county or zip code is there an alternative source that might have the data." Now this is something that we use in our ... In our equity planner in our program. We have a red, yellow, green chart which is helping you pick a city or zip code a county where to send mail to. And one to the things that we look at now 'cause we have it now is some of the data that's out there from comps. And so we'll pull that in and that's kind of what she's referring to so what's great is a couple of our members have already responded here.

Jill DeWit:                            One of 'em is Kevin. Kevin [Farrell 00:02:23] said, "Sandy. I used Realtor.com for the similar map function. I also use Land Watch and Zillow. Redfin is great, but it only covers certain markets. My comments here is to apply to vacant land searches."

Steven Butala:                   Kevin's a moderator on LandInvestors.com and he's also a very successful member.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   And he's absolutely right...