Working with Your Wife (LA 791)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hi.

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

Jill DeWit:                            And I am Jill DeWit, and we are broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Why is that funny?

Steven Butala:                   It's not.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh okay.

Steven Butala:                   We just have a lot going on. Today, Jill and I talk about working with your wife. We decided to lighten it up a little bit just for a minute.

Jill DeWit:                            For a minute? This is actually valuable information I have to say because we have a number of people in our community that that this happens. I think sometimes by default like, "Hey sweetheart, I need to answer the phone. Help me with the phones. These sellers are calling back." And some by design, they want to have a business, a family business, and that's the first person that they look to is their spouse.

Steven Butala:                   I can't overestimate this topic enough.

Jill DeWit:                            Overestimate, like don't do it?

Steven Butala:                   No, I mean, it's just so important.

Jill DeWit:                            Because we're going to talk about that.

Steven Butala:                   It's so incredibly important. Here's a little anecdote before we start the show. Yesterday, I was horsing around on YouTube and there's this couple from Pennsylvania that bought a very large boat. They never had a boat before, and they bought this boat. The first episode of what is now like a very, very popular show on YouTube is them going over, "What the heck did we do? How much does it cost?" And so, I watched the whole thing, and it ended up being in the end cheaper than actually having a nice house.

Jill DeWit:                            True.

Steven Butala:                   So that's what they did. They went all ... They're doing it right now in real time. I'll call the loop, you know, on the East Coast. My comment on the YouTube page was, "Yeah, it's expensive and it costs money, but finding a woman ... " because his wife's like you, enthusiastic and interested and showing up.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   I'll tell you what. That's what my comment was. Yeah, it costs a lot of money. But finding an enthusiastic female who really is actually interested in this stuff-

Jill DeWit:                            And stuff that you're interested in.

Steven Butala:                   ... priceless.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   She seemed like she was into it, or she should get an academy award.

Jill DeWit:                            She might get an award. Just kidding. Move on.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the Land Investors online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:                            I love this person. They want to be incognito, I guess. So on our website, they're Land X. So Land X asks, "Hi there. I'm new to the land game. I need help calculating the price of a certain deal to see if it's worth it. We started by mailing out offers to a certain area, and when a lady called us back about one of her properties, she happened to say that she had another larger property in Kern County, California. It's 49.9 acres with road access but is on top of a hill wit...