Why Offers2Owners is Hitting Records (LA 1171)

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Steven Butala: Steve 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 Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala: Today Jill and I talk about why offerstoowners.com is hitting records. Right before we started the show, I said, hey, do you want to talk about this before we launch the show here, Jill? Oh no. I think we know exactly what we're going to say. And I think-

Jill DeWit: It might be the same.

Steven Butala: We had the exact same opinion.

Jill DeWit: We'll see. It'd be fun to see.

Steven Butala: When that happens, it's just becomes a deluge of fat clothes.

Jill DeWit: Oh, come on. We, let me tell you right now, listener, we always see eye to eye. We, there's never any disagreements in our work life or home life. Nah, peachy.

Steven Butala: Yeah. If you've ever, if you're a little, if you're from the generation we are, and you've ever watched Little House on the Prairie and Laura Ingalls and that whole thing.

Jill DeWit: Oh, just like that.

Steven Butala: That's our life.

Jill DeWit: That's totally our life.

Steven Butala: A little bit of humor on the side. Everybody's prosperous, a little bit of a struggle, but it's healthy.

Jill DeWit: Whatever you say goes. I'm home baking and waiting for you.

Steven Butala: Can you imagine?

Jill DeWit: In my long apron, with my hat on.

Steven Butala: I'm out chopping wood outside. I'm not at work anywhere, I'm close enough to settle any disputes that go on with the kids.

Jill DeWit: Yeah, we can come running out to you in the field.

Steven Butala: Their oldest kid is a-

Jill DeWit: When somebody trips.

Steven Butala: The oldest kid's a school teacher.

Jill DeWit: Yes.

Steven Butala: She teaches all the kids around and everybody's happy.

Jill DeWit: There we go. There we go. It's beautiful. That is our life.

Steven Butala: And the weather's perfect every day.

Jill DeWit: Oh yes, that's true. Okay.

Steven Butala: 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: Jeff wrote, tried an experiment this month. I sent about 400 offers with no phone number. Instead-

Steven Butala: He means that he didn't include a phone number on his offer.

Jill DeWit: Right.

Steven Butala: Oh, okay.

Jill DeWit: That's what I thought, that's how I took it.

Steven Butala: I didn't understand it the first time I read it.

Jill DeWit: I took that like that.

Steven Butala: Okay, good.

Jill DeWit: Yeah. Yeah. Trying to see if they email or write, or whatever, back.

Steven Butala: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit: Okay, good. That's how I took it. So Jeff's like, I sent about four hundred offers with no phone number. Instead, I offered the seller a choice of accepting their offer on my website, sending me an email, or mail me back a signed purchase agreement. The experiment is still in progress and about 230 of my offers haven't reached the sellers yet. But out of the other 170, so far I've had two people visit my website portal, but not accept the offer. I've had one email and no letters. Has anyone else tried something like this with no phone number provided and what was your experience?

Jill DeWit: I kind of like it, it's like trying to direct them where they want to go. I'm not sure how well that would go, so I'm going to see what one person has commented here. Lori wrote, Jeff, what drove you to try this? I'm curious. I've probably had same thoughts. I despise wasting time on the phone. But if I hadn't made myself available to talk, I would have missed out on being able to buy five properties worth over $100,000, because the little lady who owned them, one, didn't think I would possibly want four of them and mentioned that in passing. And two, she doesn't have email and a contact us form is beyond her.