The Value of Selling Land with Home Made Signs and Neighbor Letters (LA 1874)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hi.

Steven Jack 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 the Ozark Mountains.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill DeWit:

We are technically in the Ozarks here in Eureka Springs.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today Jill and I talk about the value of selling land with homemade signs, the kind you put in your yard, and neighbor letters.

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the online community, landinvestors.com, it's free. And I hope we have a full blown commercial printing company that Jill and I own exclusively called Offers2Owners, the number two, owners.com. All we do is send out blind offers for people who are buying real estate. Whether you remember or not, go to offers2owners.com and check it all out. We process between six or 700,000 units a month, maybe 1.2 million a month. It works.

Jill DeWit:

By the way, it also has other products there. If you need help with getting the data, downloading the data, scrubbing the data, all of that, there's full service options there too that we can really help you out with.

Steven Jack Butala:

Exactly.

Jill DeWit:

So back to the question Thomas wrote. So I know Jack and Jill say not to use your home address, because those change, I've been to the [inaudible 00:01:24] for 28 years and I don't have any plans to move. Is there any reason I can't use it? I got one.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah. You choose life.

Jill DeWit:

Yeah. Do you really want to have all these offers going out there and have everyone know where you live, look up what your house is worth, that thing? I don't think that's the right-

Steven Jack Butala:

So yesterday I said there's a theme to this week's questions and the theme is-

Jill DeWit:

Do these questions.

Steven Jack Butala:

Please go through the Land Academy 3.0. Jill and I did not slap this program together and say, "Yeah, I don't know, should you use your home address or should you go get a mailbox type address? I'm going to choose a letter." That's not what...

Jill DeWit:

We're thinking of you.

Steven Jack Butala:

Years, I spent years using my home address and it's all bad. And then I realized I should get or use a box that I've had for it during the same time instead and it made my life a lot more sane. So while we don't explain all the reasons why we ask you to do stuff in these education programs, just please trust us because we know what we're doing.

Jill DeWit:

And I get it. You know what's funny, Thomas? Because we all know Warren Buffett still lives in the same house he lived in back in the fill in the blank day.

Steven Jack Butala:

Does he though?

Jill DeWit:

Good question. My understanding is he does. Well this is true.

Steven Jack Butala:

Can you imagine if he went home there every day?

Jill DeWit:

Rumor has it, here's what I'd like, rumor has it his assistant every morning or every night at whatever, makes sure he has his $2.89. You know the story, right?

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah. I just think this is all marketing.

Jill DeWit:

For the McDonald's drive through that he gets?

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill DeWit:

Oh, you don't buy it.

Steven Jack Butala:

First of all, a guy that age eating meal at McDonald's is bad. It's a bad idea.

Jill DeWit:

Well there is that. That's true. So yeah, does he though?

Steven Jack Butala:

And a multi billionaire like that should have a few bucks in his pocket.

Jill DeWit:

And a few houses.

Steven Jack Butala:

So no, I'm sorry I don't buy it for one second. I think the publicity and the media.

Jill DeWit:

That's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:

Just the media. What if the other guy? Then more-

Jill DeWit:

You're a little pessimistic today. You're a little pissy today.

Steven Jack Butala:

I just don't... I'm not pissy.