Restarting Life with a Plan (LA 1393) - a podcast by Steven Butala & Jill DeWit

Restarting Life with a Plan (LA 1393)

Transcript:



Steven Butala:

Steven and Jill here.



Jill DeWit:

Howdy.



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 restarting life with a plan because it's Friday.



Jill DeWit:

It is.



Steven Butala:

It's a little bit lighter. Topics are a little bit lighter.



Jill DeWit:

Are they?



Steven Butala:

But just as informative.



Jill DeWit:

This could be a very deep topic.



Steven Butala:

It will be actually. I don't know what to day.



Jill DeWit:

I know.



Steven Butala:

I'm sure you did too.



Jill DeWit:

Mm-hmm (affirmative).



Steven Butala:

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



Jill DeWit:

Grace wrote, "Any suggestion what website or Facebook groups I should post wholesale requests? I have a buyer who would like a waterfront lot in Travis County, Texas near Austin and Travis Lake. Thank you for your advice." Do you want to go first, or you want me to go first? I'm going to try to be really gentle.



Steven Butala:

I'm not. So let's go gentle first because I'm going to... Let's good cop, bad cop this.



Jill DeWit:

Okay.



Steven Butala:

You're a good cop.



Jill DeWit:

Okay. I have done this, Grace. I thought years ago when I had these buyers that were looking for property that call in and I didn't have exactly what they wanted, I would take notes. "Well, what kind of..." They were wholesale guys too. "What are you looking for? "Okay. I want anything in the West part of Texas. I want anything from 10 to 20 acres. I want this kind of access, this kind of zoning," and I started to keep a list. I thought, "All right, I'm going to try to do this." What I found out was, huge waste of my time.



Steven Butala:

Biggest waste of time in any real estate career ever. I don't care if you're a real estate agent or if you're a loan officer. I don't care.



Jill DeWit:

Because I really tried, Grace. I said, "Okay." I would get a deal and I go, "Oh." I go look at my list and I'd send it to the guy. "This is perfect. You asked for A, B, C, D and E and I've got them all. Here you go. How do you want to do this?" "Shucks, I didn't want that much of a... That's a little too close to the city than I wanted. I wanted to be a little further out." I'm like, "This is exactly what you said," but there was just something that didn't work. So my point is it was such a time killer. I eventually... I have a solution. Do you want to talk about that, and then I'll give you my solution?



Steven Butala:

Yeah. Please keep going.



Jill DeWit:

Okay. [crosstalk 00:02:29].



Steven Butala:

What I have to say, this is not pretty.



Jill DeWit:

Okay. He's going to get it off. [crosstalk 00:02:32] I'll finish my whole thoughts on this, Grace. I'm all good cop, and then he'll come along and give you his truth. So what I found was, "Hey, that's great. I have all kinds of properties." This is how the conversation ended and how I saved it and what we do today. Anytime someone is in a situation, they want this thing. "You know what? I get awesome properties all over the country all the time." Here's what I would suggest. "I send out an email once a month, once a whatever with a list of the properties. If you are really serious about this, get on my... I'll even do it for you.

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