Transcripts:

Steven Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hey, hey, hey.

Steven Butala:

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

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:

Today Jill and I talk about what to do when you can't find a dataset for a mailable county.

Jill DeWit:

I'm going to sneeze. Nope, we're good. Sorry. I'm like, "Oh, oh, can I talk?"

Steven Butala:

This week it's like most popular questions week. "Jack, I can't find this dataset. I could find it for the county over. I can't find it at Redfin and I can't find it in realtor.com, but I know it's in Zillow. What do I do?" It's a very valid question. It's like looking at chocolate cake through glass. It's like, I know it'll work. I have all the answers actually.

Jill DeWit:

I have never heard of that. What is that, like up against the window? I want the chocolate cake. What? That's funny. Did you make that up or is that a thing?

Steven Butala:

Yeah, just now.

Jill DeWit:

Oh, that's good. Very good.

Steven Butala:

I just watched this video on YouTube.

Jill DeWit:

Chocolate cake through glass.

Steven Butala:

This guy sits his toddler down and puts a ... Did you see this?

Jill DeWit:

No.

Steven Butala:

It went viral. Sits his toddler down and puts a bowl full of Skittles or M&M's, a big bowl, like big as their head. And says in the nicest way, "Oh sweetheart, I've got to take this phone call. Don't don't eat this. I'll be right back." And it goes on. She only can take it for three minutes and it's just pure torture. And she's tiny. She's really little.

Jill DeWit:

That's not nice. Here's the grown-up version. Oh, I put down a bottle of scotch and there's a little a bit at the bottom, all of it's gone. You're like, "Oh man, I wish I hadn't even thought about scotch. Now, I'm thinking about scotch. We don't have enough scotch." Shoot, I could see you trying to get every last drop.

Steven Butala:

Well, I think there's a lot of grown-up versions of temptation that we could talk about too that, you see it, but you can't have it.

Jill DeWit:

Hello. That's not where I was going. Well, yeah, yeah. Okay. I get it. Let's get to the show.

Steven Butala:

So, back to data. Yeah. 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:

Julius wrote, "Hello everyone. My name is Julius and I'm just jumping into land investment, 100% fresh." I like that. It's a great way to put this. "I've been thinking about it for my own personal property purchases for a while now, but after some research, I found this business model to be rather incredible. I'm currently a grad student, so I'm in the process of saving up to join Land Academy and I have some extra capital for the actual mailers and deals when the time comes." Thank you, Julius. You're doing it correctly and I really appreciate that.

Steven Butala:

Me too.

Jill DeWit:

"So my question is this, for someone who's totally new, how would you recommend someone who has a couple of months to prep make the most of their time doing so before diving in? What are some good resources to really map out the process and maybe even get a feel for searching for, scrubbing and playing with some data? I'd also be super grateful to get the chance to speak with someone who's been through it to see how they learn from those first steps. In any case, it's a pleasure to be here and very excited to start. Thank you very much and wishing everyone all the best. Cheers, Julius." Well, he's already in the right place.

Steven Butala:

Yeah, that's what I was just going to say, that he took the first step. And then there's a bunch of people in Land Investors that go on to say, "Hey, give me a call. I'll tell you exactly what to expect and what to do," other members.

Jill DeWit:

That's so nice.

Steven Butala:

And the moderator too.