Why You Don't Need a Real Estate Agent

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Jack Butala: Jack Butala with Jill DeWit.

Jill DeWit: Hey.

Jack Butala: Welcome to our show today. In this episode, Jill and I talk about why you don't need a real estate agent.

Jill DeWit: Oh no! What? This is going to be our worst show, our worst listen-to. Just kidding.

Jack Butala: I have to be honest. When I started, I thought you had to be a real estate agent to buy and sell property. A lot of people think that in the beginning. Good show today. Before we get started, though, let's share something interesting that happened to us recently, Jill.

Jill DeWit: Actually ...

Jack Butala: Uh oh.

Jill DeWit: You know, I would imagine the office culture is suffering right now without me there. With you wreaking your havoc and just messing up everyone's days. I just wanted to ask, how is the office culture right now? Please tell me they're getting less done.

Jack Butala: There's no way I can answer that honestly and still come out of this okay.

Jill DeWit: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Do you miss me?

Jack Butala: Personally, I miss you a lot.

Jill DeWit: Thank you. I miss you, too.

Jack Butala: Personally is the key word.

Jill DeWit: Oh. Do you guys walk around all the day saying, "Oh, gosh, thank goodness Jill's not here. This wouldn't happen. We would never get this done."

Jack Butala: Jill adds spice to everything that she's involved in. Sometimes it's, you know...

Jill DeWit: Too spicy?

Jack Butala: Yeah. Sometimes you have to spit it out.

Jill DeWit: What the heck?

Jack Butala: It's too spicy!

Jill DeWit: Yuck. All right.

Jack Butala: No, the office culture is great. We're just in a get-stuff-done mode. We just hired some high, pricey people to come in and really, really clean up some of the stuff. Specifically in Land Academy, because, look, I never thought Land Academy would go anywhere. We kind of just did it for fun. It was started out as a .org. Remember? We started out as a .org. It was a non-profit. All the resources have been, until very recently, just going into LandStay and buying and selling land. That's our regular company, but it turns out, and I've said this several times on the air and I'm not joking. It turns out everybody likes it. They really like it.

Jill DeWit: And they're doing it and they're learning from it.

Jack Butala: We cannot develop the products that they're requesting fast enough. They're all asking. Here's an example. "What CRM do you use? How do you do this? How do you locate the property? Do you get titled?" And on and on and on. Now we're developing products to make that incredibly easy for our members. More people want it and more people are signing up, so Jill and I decided to get super serious about it. We hired some high price people that are coming in and mopping it all up and making it super simple.

Jill DeWit: We have 6 products down the road and I have 1 another person brought up the other day. I don't know if I should mention it now or not.

Jack Butala: Yeah, go ahead. 6 that you know about. There's probably 8 more. Go ahead. Did you hear about a new one?

Jill DeWit: I know. Someone brought up the other day about the whole notary, like do we have our own notary, 1, 2, 3.

Jack Butala: I saw that.

Jill DeWit: I'm like, "Oh."

Jack Butala: I saw that and I talked to our staff about that and they said, "Yes, there's an API specific way we can actually draw that into our own scenario." Yes, that is on the list now. I saw that question and I prompted the same thing, Jill.

Jill DeWit: I'm like, "Oh, yeah. We don't have that but maybe we should. Okay.