Jill Friday–Sometimes it Takes the Owner to Get a Deal Done (LA 1508) - a podcast by Steven Butala & Jill DeWit

Jill Friday - Sometimes it Takes the Owner to Get a Deal Done (LA 1508)
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 sizzling Scottsdale, Arizona.

Steven Butala:It's getting that way.

Jill DeWit:Yeah.

Steven Butala:Today is Jill Friday. She says,"Sometimes it takes the owner to get a deal done."Boy, that's the truth.

Jill DeWit:Yep.

Steven Butala:Sometimes the owner's got to get involved.

Jill DeWit:Yep.

Steven Butala:Sometimes dad's got to get involved.

Jill DeWit:Yep. That's what this is all about.

Steven Butala:Is that what this is?

Jill DeWit:That's exactly what this is about. You don't want to do it. I'm here to save you. If you think your staff's all idiots and no one can do anything, that's not true. Sometimes it just takes that extra whatever to get it, to get it done.

Steven Butala:Before we get into this, let's take a question posed by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and if you're already a member, join us on Discord.

Jill DeWit:Andrew W. wrote,"Hey, everyone. I'm very interested in doing Land Academy. However, I'm not a citizen of the United States and was wondering if it would still be possible to purchase and sell land in America?"Steven Butala:
Yes.Jill DeWit:"If anyone can answer the question for me, that would be great. Also, if possible, are there any particular issues that came along with not being a citizen? Thanks a lot, Andrew."I thought this was important because it hasn't come up in a while.

Steven Butala:It's a great question.

Jill DeWit:People don't realize that you don't have to live here and you don't have to be a citizen. You don't have to have a visa. You don't have to be a resident. You can be happily in, say, Ireland and do this.

Steven Butala:This comes up probably once a week now, maybe once a month. But probably every couple of weeks somebody ask this question, whether they're in Discord or wherever, and we point them to the other people that are successfully doing this from other countries, specifically Canada and Ireland. We've got military people that are stationed all over the country that are doing it. I mean, all over the world.

Jill DeWit:Yeah.

Steven Butala:All of our VAs are in the Philippines, so it's truly a worldwide situation.

Jill DeWit:Isn't that great? And it's funny, remember a long time ago we talked? One of the reasons we do what we do in the United States is the ease of it, but it's the ease of the data. And we were looking at doing this maybe internationally in Australia, because I think still right now it's the only other place that we can really get quality data and it's legal. Because we were talking about this with somebody in England one time, that version of the assessor and the owner data is not public information.

Steven Butala:Yeah. We're very, very fortunate in this country.

Jill DeWit:It's public information.

Steven Butala:When the property got all subdivided or sanctioned, or whatever the verb is, by the federal and then eventually homesteaded out, I don't know why, but they just became a transparent ownership scenario. In most places in the world, it's the exact opposite. Nobody wants anyone else to know that they own anything.

Jill DeWit:Or what they paid, or any of that.

Steven Butala:Yeah.

Jill DeWit:It's so funny that it's your home, but not your car.

Steven Butala:Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jill DeWit:There's so many other things that it's not.

Steven Butala:Right.

Jill DeWit:It's real interesting. But luckily for us, it is.

Steven Butala:Yeah. Well, it wouldn't be possible.

Jill DeWit:Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:I've spent a substantial amount of time trying to duplicate this in Canada and it's just not going to happen.

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