Land Academy Member Dan Smart Interview (LA 1780) - a podcast by Steven Butala & Jill DeWit

Land Academy Member Dan Smart Interview (LA 1780)
Transcript:Steven Butala:
Steve, and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:
Hello.Steven Butala:
Welcome to the Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

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

Steven Butala:Today Jill and I talk with, or interview Dan Smart. He's in Washington State, Land Academy member for a while now, and former career path. I think you were career path too. A couple, about last time...

Daniel Smart:Yeah, Career Path Three.

Steven Butala:Welcome to the show, Dan. We've never interviewed before, and I'm looking forward to hearing what you like, and don't like about Land Academy. Let's start there. What do you like, and not like about Land Academy?

Daniel Smart:Well, there's mostly like. I mean, there's not a whole lot I don't like. So, I started about a year ago, year and a half ago. It's just very personal, and very... I mean, we have our, the way that we do land, but there's so many niches. There's so many directions you can go, and that's just very exciting.

Jill K DeWit:How did you find us?

Daniel Smart:You know, it was kind of a roundabout way. So, it was right after COVID, and everything. I was a pharmacist prior to this, Clinical Pharmacist, and you know, healthcare just got hammered. Healthcare workers got hammered. I was a contractor for the Navy, and had a lot of vacation, had my own office. But then, the contracts renewed, and they took away most of the vacation. They started decreasing pay, and it wasn't going to be sustainable.

Daniel Smart:So like,"Okay, what are we going to do? Real estate, you know, rentals."So, we were looking into that, and we almost threw our money away with that. We were looking crazy places, even Detroit to buy rentals. I was almost ready to fly, and meet some guys to invest with. They lived in Detroit, and then COVID hit, and gosh, we couldn't fly anywhere.

Daniel Smart:So, just listening to more interviews, and then I saw, I don't remember. I think it was a Luke Smith interview about land. And, I was like,"Oh, that sounds more my style. No people, no houses."And, he mentioned Land Academy at some point in one interview. And, I had been looking at other things, and I had actually sent out a mailer, based on free education from another program. And, it was based on assessed value.

Daniel Smart:So, I was sending offers for 300 bucks for a $80,000 parcel. And, that was going nowhere, but I was like,"This makes sense, I just got to find the right way to do it."And then, by God's grace, your name came up, and I was like,"Well, let's look into this, and watch the podcast, these are just regular people. They're not trying to be flashy, or impress me. It's just, this is what we do, check it out."Daniel Smart:
And, it filled in all the gaps. And so then, I was, okay, let's do this. Forget the doctorate. I found this on YouTube, and so we're going to do it. So, yeah. We started, the first one we did was, we made quite a bit. So, after that, it was just like,"Yeah, we can do this."Steven Butala:
Well, I'll tell you what a stroke of luck that COVID, and this Detroit thing happened all at the same time for you. Because, I would've done a free consulting call, to talk you out of that.

Daniel Smart:Yeah. Well, it's completely out of my... I'm not a contractor. I don't know. I wear a white coat, and I talk to diabetes patients all day, but I know like,"Okay, people make money in real estate."Daniel Smart:
What I'm doing isn't working. Lord, what are we supposed to do? And, it's just like, God's grace, that everything lined up, and we found you, and it all worked out great.

Jill K DeWit:That's so sweet.

Steven Butala:We're having some drainage plumbing issues, in our primary residence right now. And, it's taken a strange twist, but it'll all be fine. But, the entire process I'm thinking,

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