Undoing preconceived Real Estate Habits and Notions (LA 1703)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hi.

Steven Jack Butala:

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

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today, Jill and I talk about undoing preconceived real estate habits and notions.

Jill K DeWit:

This makes me think of this clubhouse talk, this room I was in earlier today. It was a real estate group, and it was multifamily apartments and things like that they were talking about. The conversation part of the way through, like halfway through shifted to not talking about that at all, the nuts and bolts, but talking about the mindset of a person coming into this environment. It was so interesting to me because that part doesn't change, and the whole point of what this person was saying was, why do you not trust someone who has experience? Usually a mentor doesn't say, "Hey, you want me to mentor you?" Usually, you go to them and say, "Will you please mentor me?"

Jill K DeWit:

And you're doing that because you recognize that they have experience, and they've made a lot of mistakes, and by not trusting them, and... hold on a moment, this all relates, trusting their experience and their way of doing things and getting out of your own head is nuts because that mentor is going to probably shave years off your learning curve. That's what this whole topic is for me today, and I really want to dive into this that, why people have a hard time dropping their habits and things. When someone's right there saying, "I've got 16,000 reasons why I do it this way."

Steven Jack Butala:

This, what you're saying specifically, in this topic, absolutely baffles me.

Jill K DeWit:

Right.

Steven Jack Butala:

And Jill and I talk about this often. Not often, once a week, usually when we're prepping for a show like this, or when something strange happens in the Land Academy Group, or there's a slew of questions in Discord, or when we have the opportunity in a real positive way, to get immediate and direct feedback, audio and video feedback, on career path. And we're on, what? We're in the middle of career path right now. So, we're on module 5 of 10. It's just shocking to me that how, I don't know if it's generational, I don't know what it is, but it just shocks me that people's minds, we're saying the same thing, just aren't open to listening to somebody that's got decades of experience. I've been fighting it.

Jill K DeWit:

We're going to talk about it.

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh yeah, this is the start of the show. Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel, and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:

Sarah wrote...

Steven Jack Butala:

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Jill K DeWit:

All right. Please subscribe or not subscribe, however you see fit. And if you need to hit the off button, we understand.

Steven Jack Butala:

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Jill K DeWit:

There we go. Sarah wrote, "I have someone who wants to sell a property with some liens on it, but she doesn't know how much they are." I can relate to that. Who does know exactly?

Steven Jack Butala:

This is a perfect question for you.

Jill K DeWit:

Could you imagine? I know exactly what I owe. Really? Okay. "With the resources that we have here, is there a way to check for liens? I've only closed for attorneys, so I don't know how to do my own title search."

Steven Jack Butala:

You just answered your question. No, yeah, is there a super easy,