Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hello.Steven Jack Butala:Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from awesome Dallas, Texas.Steven Jack Butala:Today, Jill and I talk about what the real-time commitment is to run your land business. Doesn't matter where you are, you might be on the road in an RV or you might be in your 20 years-plus office.Jill K DeWit:Yeah, that's the thing. Most people come to us having full, awesome, brilliant careers, really smart. We have a lot of very smart brainy people, scientists and pilots, and analysts and accountants in Land Academy. And you've got pharmacists. You know who you are. You've got time commitments, you've got little kids and so it's a really valid question. Like, Boy, I want to do this, but I can't give 40 hours. I can't even for sure say I can give 20. So what is the real-time commitment I need to start and run my own land business? And that's what we're going to talk about today.Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on a landinvestors.com online community, it's free. Before we get to that, did you know that we have a commercial printing company solely created to help you get inexpensive direct mail offers in the hands of sellers quickly? It's called Offers 2 Owners. Offers the number 2owners.com. Jill and I set this company up several years ago and now we've share... We're obviously, now sharing it with members and non-members. Today, fast forward to today, we mail about seven to 800,000 offers a month, and we can do everything for you from start to finish, pulling the data, scrubbing it, collecting comps, and getting it even in first class mail if you'd like to, call 800-725-8816 or email [email protected] for more information. Nice script writing.Jill K DeWit:Thank you very much.Steven Jack Butala:I appreciate that. You clean that up pretty well.Jill K DeWit:I did. Josiah wrote this is the first email from the seller. Talk about an easy transaction. So here we go. In quotes, "Mr. Ronco, my name is John Smith. I own 40 acres of land in County USA. You recently sent me an offer to purchase it for the sum of $58,244 and 27 cents. The APN is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I'm currently considering listing my property with a local realtor for the sum of $125,000. I have done a comparable market analysis, CMA and similar properties around mine have sold for around $3,000 an acre. My property is as good or better. I have no liens, no past-due taxes. I have no encumbrances ever or currently. There's no debris." This is nice. I can't believe the seller wrote all this. "There's no debris, mobile homes, structure, automobiles, or trash on my property. The property is primarily oak woodlands with about six acres cleared.I left occasional trees on the cleared land for aesthetics. The property is beautiful. That being said, I will sell you my property for $60,000 under the following conditions." So I want to back up for just a second there. So the offer was-Steven Jack Butala:58.Jill K DeWit:58, so he says make it 60 even. And he thinks you can get 125. Okay. So, okay, "That being said, I will sell you my property for $60,000 under the following conditions. I pay no closing costs, recording fees, or any associated costs of the transfer session of my property to you or your company. In addition, we must close transfer, complete the sale within two weeks of signing the sales contract."Steven Jack Butala:Love that.Jill K DeWit:I checked out the property and the comps and that's the end of the thing. So I'm like done, done and done. That's who we are. So Josiah went on to write, I checked out the property and I checked out the comps. The guy isn't lying. It's worth $125,000 all day and we might even be able to push the price higher because it's so beautiful, perfect for hunting and growing pine.