Truth about Property Tax Bills (LA 777)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hi.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I am Jill DeWit, and I am, we are, broadcasting from beautiful southern California.

Steven Butala:                   After I turn the lights on.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about the truth about property tax bills all week. It's everybody just wants the truth week.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, we just want the truth.

Steven Butala:                   We get so many questions, yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            You can't handle the truth.

Steven Butala:                   Jill and I have built ... That only took two episodes for you to say that.

Jill DeWit:                            I know. I beat you to it.

Steven Butala:                   Jill and I built this whole company on this concept. In fact, in the end it was a material point. It was a turning factor for us to actually do Land Academy. You know, we buy and sell real estate every day. That's our real job, but we decided to do Land Academy because just nobody seemed to be doing it right. Everybody, there's so much bad information out there.

Jill DeWit:                            And basically, our land-buying customers were coming to us and asking us to share, and we did. We did. It was like, "There's enough property to go around."

Steven Butala:                   They're like, "What do you mean? It's that easy?"

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, it really is.

Jill DeWit:                            Kind of. There's a lot of moving parts, but ...

Steven Butala:                   If you know about data and you understand acquisitions or you have a huge interest in it and a lot of time to dedicate to it, it pays out.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, and you can learn. It does.

Steven Butala:                   We have hundreds and hundreds of examples of people in our group that really are shining examples of this.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   I put an order in for one of our staff. I don't think you know about it.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   I asked one of our staff members to send an email out to all of our members, just writing one little paragraph.

Jill DeWit:                            I'm listening.

Steven Butala:                   It's a testimony. It was on a web site. I don't like to brag about it, but the truth is people ... Everybody needs the truth. People need to know what's going on with their members and how and why they've made it work for themselves, that kind of thing.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, okay. Cool.

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

Jill DeWit:                            Sarah asks, "I'm a mildly successful real estate agent and pretty good at getting listings. I'm thinking about plying my skills to purchase land or houses and then turning the deal over to a flipper. Do you have any examples of members who do this?" One, two ...