Take Imperfect Action (LA 1319) - a podcast by Steven Butala & Jill DeWit

Take Imperfect Action (LA 1319)

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 sunny Southern California.



Steven Butala:

Today, Jill and I talk about how to take imperfect action. We interviewed one of our members. Her name's Bei. She's been a long-time member. The show actually airs next week.



Jill DeWit:

Oh, cool.



Steven Butala:

Not this week but next week. And she said ... I asked her a couple of things like, "What really separates ... I mean, you're in this for life now." She quit her job. She did everything correctly, in the right order and about the right time frames. And she's doing really, really well financially. Plus, which I always miss and Jill always catches, she has this good life balance. She's not a crazy Type A entrepreneur like most of us.



Jill DeWit:

Mm-hmm (affirmative).



Steven Butala:

So she said, "I take imperfect action." And I think that's what we want to talk about today.



Jill DeWit:

Mm-hmm (affirmative).



Steven Butala:

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



Jill DeWit:

Jessica wrote, "Really basic question, but I'm looking at Google Maps and Google Earth Pro trying to understand what I'm looking at. If I look at this parcel that stretches along this road up to the intersection in the 3D model on Google Maps, it looks okay. Maybe a bit hilly, but probably buildable. But, then, when I look at it at Google Earth Pro ..." Okay, wait. Google Maps. Got it. "... Google Earth Pro, it looks way too hilly. How do I know what is too hilly? In other words, when will the hills limit my buyers? Why are these views so different?" I use these all the time, but I want ... This is more you.



Steven Butala:

The way that these 3D-rendering satellite images appear on the internet and appear to us as users is much more dramatic than they are, so ... I'm sorry. It's the reverse. In real life, they are going to seem much more dramatic than they do when you're looking down at them. The same way when you're looking in an airplane and you're looking at stuff, and it's like, "Oh, it's not that big of a deal." But you stand there, and wall's 22 feet tall, or whatever. So my professional recommendation is to learn how to use layers in these maps. One of them's called Terrain. And before all these renderings and these maps, somebody my age, that's the only thing we had.



Jill DeWit:

Right.



Steven Butala:

So you can see it's 300 peaks, 400, 500, 600 feet, or whatever. And, believe me, something that's 600 feet's not buildable. There's two questions in here, so that's the deal. It's like in your car where it says, "Things in the mirror might appear to be closer than they are," that's very much what's going on here. It might appear to be okay on the maps, but it's not.



Jill DeWit:

And we have that. I think we have a Terrain setting, I'm sure we do, in NeighborScoop.



Steven Butala:

We do. I know we do.



Jill DeWit:

And if you look at a hill, it's like it'll have circles, like an outline of the hill, and that's kind of the levels of the elevation.



Steven Butala:

Yeah. Like the rings in a tree.



Jill DeWit:

Uh-huh (affirmative). Exactly. That's cool. What else was I going to say? I have another cheat way to do this. You can always call. Worst case scenario, you're really not sure. You're having a real hard time with this. You could call Planning and Zoning.

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