Tons of Ways to Succeed. Which One Makes You Happy

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Jack:                                           Jack be told with Jill Dewitt.

Jill Dewitt:                              Hello.

Jack:                                           Welcome to our show today. In this episode, Jill and I talk about, "Hey there's tons of ways to succeed."

Get this, what we do. In the end, which one makes you happy? You got to get up tomorrow happy or it's just not going to work in the long run, right?

Jill Dewitt:                              Oh my goodness.

Jack:                                           Be fun. This is awesome. This is inspirational.

Jill Dewitt:                              I know, it's kinda like a Jill show.

Jack:                                           Before we get into it, lets take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Academy online community. It's free.

Jill Dewitt:                              Jeff asked this question, "Have you ever used the duration of ownership as a filter criteria?" This was on a weekly call and I love this question so I'm glad it came up here.

Jack:                                           Yeah, me too. It's great. Great question.

Jill Dewitt:                              Yeah, this is one of the questions that, this is ...let me preface this real quick here. This is the kind of stuff that we talk about on our weekly member calls. That's exactly where this come from and we want to share this here. So, Jeff had said "Have you ever used the duration of ownership as a filter criteria?" So, going through our data and figuring out who we're going to mail to. He said, "For example, owned more than 3 years, etc, or is it irrelevant?" Jeff, or Jeff. Jack and I are both on the same page on this one.

Jack:                                           Here's a tiny bit of background. There's a universe, that we have access to it and the assessors data bases all over the country and it's exactly like it sounds. Every single piece of real estate is in that database, every single one from skyscrapers to pieces of land to everything. It's our job to intelligently scrub all that data down to get to the ones where you're going to send offers to owners and it makes since, right? You don't want to send a $500 offer to a personal loads and office building. It's just silly and you're wasting your money and time. There's lots of scrubs. There's lots of filter criteria just like Jeff said, you know, and he's thinking maybe if I just ... one of the data columns is, this purchased it on X, Y, Z dates. He saying, maybe there's more likelihood of a person owning property for a longer length of time, that they might want to sell it.

Jill Dewitt:                              Which is good. I wish it were where he's thinking that.

Jack:                                           Right. Me too. It's thinking out of the box and it's a great question.

Jill Dewitt:                              Yeah.

Jack:                                           His question is, "Is it irrelevant", and the answer is yes, it's irrelevant.

Jill Dewitt:                              Because we don't know how, A, how accurate that is and B, it could of been a transfer of ownership because someone had passed. It could have been someone passed on yesterday and they quick claimed it over today to just to somebody else or whatever it is and they now want to sell it. Still been in the family for 45 years but it doesn't reflect that so, you might be missing some good things.

Jack:                                           I've said it a million times, what you're really looking for is the situation. So, there's just lots or triggers that cause people to sell their property for less t...