Enjoy the Process or the End (LA 1168) - a podcast by Steven Butala & Jill DeWit

Enjoy the Process or the End (LA 1168)

Transcript: 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 I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Steven Butala: Today Jill and I talk about, do you enjoy the process or the end? This is what Jill just said. What the hell were you thinking when you did this? I don't get it.

Jill DeWit: I didn't I say it like that.

Steven Butala: And I said, don't worry, I'll carry you.

Jill DeWit: Why do you do that to me? You like to throw me under the bus. So, and I didn't do that. I just, I really sincerely asked, because I'm sitting here making notes about what I think it is, and I'm like, "Where were you going with this?" And it wasn't-

Steven Butala: Here's Jill's mix. Let me read your notes, okay?

Jill DeWit: Yeah.

Steven Butala: A. What is this?

Jill DeWit: Right.

Steven Butala: B. Benefits, if any? C. Us.

Jill DeWit: Yeah. And I'll explain my notes here in a minute. But I would like to know, seriously, are you going to share it for the meat of the show?

Steven Butala: There are some people who really enjoy the process of doing stuff, I assume people who do crafts or people who build models, which I guess is a craft, or well, people who play cards until the middle of the night with each other, I think enjoy the process, not the end.

Jill DeWit: Are they really playing cards or is that code for something else?

Steven Butala: You decide.

Jill DeWit: Okay.

Steven Butala: See, you always bring it to that point, don't you?

Jill DeWit: Why is-

Steven Butala: Is it rated G, Jill, this episode? We never know.

Jill DeWit: Well we have used that term for other things. It's why I'm asking.

Steven Butala: I actually mean playing poker-

Jill DeWit: Oh, okay, got it.

Steven Butala: with a bunch of guys until the middle of the night, okay?

Jill DeWit: Okay, thank you. All right, thank you.

Steven Butala: So you either enjoy the process. I think you kind of lean toward one or the other. You either enjoy the process of doing something or you're getting through the process to get to the end so you can say, "This is freaking done and I'd like to do something else." I know which kind you are.

Jill DeWit: Oh, totally.

Steven Butala: And I know which kind I am.

Jill DeWit: Exactly.

Steven Butala: And I bet most of the people listening to this don't enjoy the process of doing a mailer. They enjoy the bank deposits at the end.

Jill DeWit: Ding, ding.

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

Jill DeWit: Bob asked, "How do you send a targeted mailer when there is no sense to the APN scheme?" Thanks. Now, did you write this there, or did you reply online?

Steven Butala: I edited and improved on, in my opinion, Kevin Pharrell's response. Who at the moderator for land investors. You don't have to read it. I can just answer it.

Jill DeWit: Okay.

Steven Butala: What Bob is asking is, if you look at a data set for a county or a zip code and it's in an Excel spreadsheet and of course you can take all that dataset and sort. You can sort by name, owner's name. You can sort by anything. Square footage if it's a house, acreage if it's land. Or you can sort numerically by the actual APNa and then you can make some sense out of it. But in very rare cases, for some reason in the very deep South, it's like this. There's no rhyme or reason at all for the APN. So it just randomly got assigned.

Steven Butala: So in most counties, the vast majority of counties, East, West, North, South, all of it. There's an APN scheme.

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