This is 2020 How to Plan Your Decade (1146)

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Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about, it's 2020, how to plan your decade.

Jill DeWit:                            Happy new year.

Steven Butala:                   I love this kind of stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            Yay.

Steven Butala:                   This is one of my favorite days of the year, if not my favorite.

Jill DeWit:                            You know what I love about today, which we did this morning? It's silly. One of the things that, I mean, I'm telling you, you know, my tradition, I'm one of the first ones up. I'm here to say, I get coffee going, I get some fruit, maybe some cinnamon rolls, maybe I make coffee cake. Today I went lazy on it because we have people in town. And I plop my butt down and I watched the Rose Parade. And some year, I haven't done it in a long time, we are in Southern California, the Rose Parade's of course in-

Steven Butala:                   It's not that far.

Jill DeWit:                            Pasadena.

Steven Butala:                   Pasadena. Probably like, five miles away.

Jill DeWit:                            It's not that far. So anyway, some year I might, you don't have to go, I won't drag you there, but I'll go again because I know you don't want to go.

Steven Butala:                   You know, I'll go. I'm happy. First of all, I love Pasadena. I always have.

Jill DeWit:                            Pretty.

Steven Butala:                   In Brentwood and all that, which is all the same area. If we want to take the electric bikes someday. Next year.

Jill DeWit:                            That's a lot of trek. That's a little bit of a trek.

Steven Butala:                   I'd still do it.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   I'll pack the lunch. I think that'd be fun.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, I don't want to do that.

Steven Butala:                   See?

Jill DeWit:                            No. I'm not going to do that. I'll take a car.

Steven Butala:                   When you take a car-

Jill DeWit:                            Not going to ride my bike.

Steven Butala:                   First of all, driving in Los Angeles, don't get me started.

Jill DeWit:                            Not taking my bike. I don't want to die.

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:                            Ian asked, how would you go about finding [inaudible 00:01:48] on market, new listings versus property sold and the number of properties active on the MLS that Steven talks about in Land Academy 1.0, if the county I'm looking at isn't among the top 1,000 counties listed on realtor.com/research/data, which is where Steven has directed everyone to go? Which is correct.

Steven Butala:                   I have a lot to say about this.

Jill DeWit:                            I know. One member recommended contacting a realtor in the area.

Steven Butala:                   No.

Jill DeWit:                            Any recommendations on how you would approach a realtor in the areas since I'm not looking to use a realtor?

Steven Butala:                   You wouldn't.

Jill DeWit:                            But would like that info. Thanks. Hi, I just want to pick your brain for free?

Steven Butala:                   No.

Jill DeWit:                            I know.

Steven Butala:                   [crosstalk 00:02:27] And real estate agents do...