How Your Land Business Compares to Other Small Businesses (LA 1839) - a podcast by Steven Butala & Jill DeWit

How Your Land Business Compares to Other Small Businesses (LA 1839)
Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:
Howdy.Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how your land business compares to other types of small businesses. And believe me, it's almost all good news, especially the way we have it set up now with the Land Academy membership group and funding and all of that stuff. So I'll go through the list here in a minute.

Jill K DeWit:Cool.

Steven Jack Butala:Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com community, online community. It's free. We have, Jill and I started quite some time ago, several years ago, a full blown commercial printing company to help you get your offers to owners. In fact, that's what it's called offers2owners.com. We send out between 600,000 and a million offers on behalf of members and non-members.

Jill K DeWit:Every month.

Steven Jack Butala:Every single month.

Jill K DeWit:Yeah.

Steven Jack Butala:Check it out, offers2owners.com.

Jill K DeWit:Cool. Now back to the question, which is coming on the teleprompter. Charlie responds. Okay, so this is a response to something else?

Steven Jack Butala:No, Charlie just-

Jill K DeWit:Oh.

Steven Jack Butala:You can't believe everything you read on the teleprompter.

Jill K DeWit:Oh, okay.

Steven Jack Butala:Charlie's got a question.

Jill K DeWit:Okay. Charlie wrote this question."Anybody ever had an old communications tower on their land? I'm looking at one that has a tower. It appears to be in good shape, but is not currently being used. How would you go about advertising that you have spots for lease on your tower? Or maybe that's not how it works at all?"Steven Jack Butala:
So when people are new in this business, they have, and we picked up all of these real estate habits our whole lives, and then all of a sudden we're a Land Academy member buying and selling land and we can't help it but to apply all this stuff that we've picked up along the way.

Jill K DeWit:Right.

Steven Jack Butala:This, in my opinion, is a massive attribute. And so many people think that they need to clear the land and make it presentable and change it somehow. Or if there's structures on it or an antenna, that it's bad. The fact is, and everybody piped in on Discord about this, this is a ham radio operator's dream. And I would try to market this property to them.A lot of years ago, Jill and I accidentally bought a property, because we didn't have all the tools that we are available to us now like Google Earth, that was on the side of a mountain. It was literally and some rock climbers bought it so that they could rock climb on their own land.

Jill K DeWit:That's one of the things I always say, I want to stress is, whatever the property, I try to turn everything into a positive. You just have to accurately convey what's really going on in the property. Whether it's a serious slope or no slope at all. It's flat, grassy, perfect for fill in the blank. Or own your own rock climbing cliff kind of thing. Whatever it is, do it. Don't advertise is as,"Oh, you can build anywhere,"when it's a rock climbing cliff, because you can't build on the side of that. You know what I mean? Unless you hang one of those tents on the side, but we're not even going to go there.
Because if you don't properly convey what it is, you're going to have a refund on your hands or unhappy buyers kind of thing. But this is a good example. It's a positive for somebody. Every little thing is a positive for somebody. Even a falling down, it's funny we talk about this often, a falling down mobile home, that's a positive for people.

Steven Jack Butala:Absolutely.

Jill K DeWit:

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