What we learned from our First Live Event (LA 821)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steven and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

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 we learn from our first live event.

Jill DeWit:                            A lot.

Steven Butala:                   Other than the fact that I do need eight hours of sleep a night.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh. That's awesome. Yeah. That was funny. We started right off the wrong way.

Steven Butala:                   So we spaced our beginning event and our intermediate event two weeks apart. And it's not enough time.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank goodness. I remember you when we were planning. You're like, "Oh just do them back to back." I'm like I'm not sure back to back's the right way to go and now I'm like thank goodness we have a week in between because there's so much that goes into this. I mean really a lot.

Steven Butala:                   In typical form, I believed it was going to fail right from the beginning. And it was a huge success. It was a huge success. So for everybody including us. We'll talk a little bit about it in a minute. And Jill said, "No, it's going to be great." And it was. It's like everything.

Jill DeWit:                            I knew it.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get into the topic let's take a question posted by one of our members in the land investors online community. It's free. And as you're listening to us please drop your questions into the comment section below.

Jill DeWit:                            Awesome. Carl asks, "After listening to a podcast I wasn't sure if days on market is available for land or just houses. Realtor.com doesn't have an option for land. Has anyone figured out how to look up this key stat for land by zip code?"

Steven Butala:                   Realtor.com absolutely has a category for land if you're using it in Windows based Chrome. This is what I've noticed about Realtor. If you're using it on an iPhone versus using it on IE versus using it in Chrome on Windows, it's a different experience. And certain stuff like completed sales even on Chrome on a computer work. It does not work on my Android phone. I don't have any experience on the Apple products. It doesn't matter. I just know that all of the information's in there and the data is actually in there and it's extremely accurate. But the user experience is a very wide variance based on the browser that you're using.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. What's been your experience about the accuracy of the land?

Steven Butala:                   Fantastic. Realtor.com and Redfin by the way in downloadable format by zip code. Redfin data has no matter what device you're using it has downloadable data right into Excel. So you can check days on market for just about any product type. I will tell you land is not in Realtor.com at all. I mean, sorry, Redfin.com.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   You have to piece this together. It's a puzzle. If it was really easy and there was just one thing to do actually really there is because that's what land academy 2.0 is.

Jill DeWit:                            Right. It's almost the easy button. But if it was an easy button, we almost don't want an easy button.

Steven Butala:                   We don't want t...