This is episode 1,952. Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit delve into the topics of Your Ideal Land Transaction & Working Backwards from Your Land Investment Goals. You can visit landacademy.com to have a glimpse of the Land Academy Discord community. If you want your question answered on air or need assistance with community participation, send us a text at 480-530-7383. We review every text we receive, and if we find your question interesting, we'll feature it on our upcoming podcast episodes.

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Steven Jack Butala:

I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill Dewitt, and this is the Land Academy Show.

Steven Jack Butala:

This is episode number 1,952, and today we're going to talk about setting goals in land investment, a reverse engineering approach. You want to start at the end and work your way forward so you make sure you get there, and we're going to talk about your ideal land transaction, explained.

Jill K DeWit:

This'll be good.

Steven Jack Butala:

You want to do deals that, you know, you planned for.

Jill K DeWit:

Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:

You don't want to just send a bunch of mail out. That's what this is all about today, both of these topics.

Jill K DeWit:

Yes.

Steven Jack Butala:

You don't want to just do stuff and see how it goes.

Jill K DeWit:

Yeah, "Let's just blast this county, this state. Let's just leave everything in, see what comes back and I'll just figure it out. I'll wing it." I mean, that's one way to do it, but I prefer making it easy and we'll talk about that too.

Steven Jack Butala:

When the cameras are turned off and the weekend starts, which is about two hours from now for us, I just want to see how it goes. But not in my land career, I don't.

Jill K DeWit:

No.

Steven Jack Butala:

I want to know exactly how it's going to go.

Jill K DeWit:

That's a good point. Just see how it goes. I want to pause and tell the story that you just talked about from our neighbor here at this-

Steven Jack Butala:

Okay, sure.

Jill K DeWit:

So we're at this sweet, sweet park just outside Estes Park.

Steven Jack Butala:

RV Park.

Jill K DeWit:

Uh-huh, an RV Park, and Jack was talking to our neighbor who sounds like they just, on a whim, signed up to be a park host in Estes Park. Is it Rocky Mountain National Park or Estes Park?

Steven Jack Butala:

Estes Park. Right up there.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay, but not Rocky National Park. Anyway, they're going to be a park host for like eight months and they just decided to do it on a whim.

Steven Jack Butala:

Said they're both 67, he and his wife, and he was in the auto industry, I think as an auto mechanic.

Jill K DeWit:

Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:

She's a retired teacher and they lost a very close friend of theirs a couple years ago and then they said, "That's it. We're done working."

Jill K DeWit:

Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:

And they're full time. They sold their house. They sold everything.

Jill K DeWit:

Oh, that's so good.

Steven Jack Butala:

From Virginia.

Jill K DeWit:

All I heard out the window was him say, "I don't want to be a statistic." I'm like, that's flipping cool. I agree with that.

Steven Jack Butala:

I have to say-

Jill K DeWit:

And I remember you saying, "That's why we're doing this stuff."

Steven Jack Butala:

As a man-

Jill K DeWit:

Mm-hmm.

Steven Jack Butala:

People pull in and within the first five minutes that they're here, you can see how much of a man they are. How they hook their stuff up, how they back their rig in, all of it. And that guy put me to shame. Usually that's not the case. Usually I'm like, "I can handle all of this."

Jill K DeWit:

We did come back last night and you said this, "This man's serious. Look how perfect everything is."

Steven Jack Butala:

Then we're talking and he's opening all of his storage and everything's all perfect in there. He's got a whole work chest. Pulled things out and he's got screws. I'm jealous. Now I got to up my game.

Jill K DeWit:

Oh yeah, there you go.