How Many Blind Offers You Send is Tied Directly to Your Success (LA 1844) - a podcast by Steven Butala & Jill DeWit

How Many Blind Offers You Send is Tied Directly to Your Success (LA 1844)
Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Steve and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:Hello.

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

Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWitt. Broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:This week we're broadcasting from the valley of the sun. But by the time you listen to this, we are deep into the center of the country in an RV.

Jill K DeWit:I know, I'm going to have to change it every time we record. I'm going to come up with a cute saying as to wherever we are, fill in the blank, it might be brought broadcasting from the center of the rust belt.

Steven Jack Butala:Rust belt cracks you up. Rust belt's been... Jill just learned the word rust belt.

Jill K DeWit:Do you know what's funny? Do you know what it is? I actually used soup to nuts in a sentence the other day and I didn't know soup to nuts for a while too. That's old school for me.

Steven Jack Butala:People from Southern California are a very interesting bunch. Today Jill and I talk about how many blind offers you need to send and how it's tied directly to your success. Before we get into it, let's take a good question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free. I hope by now, Jill and I own and operate, successfully, a full blown commercial printing company to help you get offers in the mail. Offers2owners.com

Jill K DeWit:Oh two. Oh, look. How cute is that? I have a cheer. O and the two and O.

Steven Jack Butala:A cheer. What's going to happen in this episode?

Jill K DeWit:Oh my God. You think I'm like drunk or something?

Steven Jack Butala:Check it out. Oh, but we send between 500,000 and a million offers a month. Check it out at offers2owners.com. Wow. Geez, Jill.

Jill K DeWit:What? All right. Kevin wrote,"Oftentimes on the Thursday call while doing due diligence, Jack and Jill click around on the neighbor scoop and say,"I would call X, be at a builder or a neighbor et cetera."My question is, well, how do you introduce yourself? Since they won't have much to gain from answering your questions, how do you navigate the situation?"Steven Jack Butala:
Let me back up and describe the situation and Jill's going to answer that. If you get to a point where you've got a property that comes back, it comes back signed or you've renegotiated the situation, and you don't know whether you're going to buy or not, you're making that final decision. So you present it on the Thursday webinar call that we have for all of our members and our answer is, you know what? I'm not sure either. It looks like a great piece of property. It looks like there's access over here and the numbers support the acquisition so you can sell it for twice as much. But it'd be great to get an opinion from somebody who's local. Why don't you call a local builder, the gas station owner next door, or a local real estate agent and ask them their opinion of what they think the value is.

Jill K DeWit:Or even not even that, it's like, I can't tell if this meets that. I can't tell if the road stops here. I can't tell how close it is to fill in the blank. I can't tell how deep it is. So in the past, I had a situation, here's a real example of this exact thing. We had an island and I couldn't tell, based on the maps, when we look at the different dates on it, there could be access certain times of the year right? As the water levels go up, go down. I think there's a bridge over here. I can't tell there's a bridge over here. So I was like,"I'm going to call somebody and figure out, can I even get over there without a boat?"So I did, I picked up the phone and started calling and it was good because there was a lumber company across the way.
This is a true story. So I dropped a little man on Google Earth Pro, you know what I'm talking about.

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