A Day in the Life of a Land Investor (LA 1773)

A Day in the Life of a Land Investor (LA 1773) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hello. Steven Jack Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit: I'm over here choking. Steven Jack Butala: Jill's having a little episode. Jill DeWit: Sorry. I took a big swig of coffee as we started, and that was a little too big. Anyway, I'm Jill DeWit, and we are broadcasting from the valley of the sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today Jill and I talk about a day in the life of a successful land investor. Jill DeWit: It doesn't say, "successful." It says, "land investor," I thought we were going to go both ways. Steven Jack Butala: Oh, all right. Yeah. Let's go both ways. Jill DeWit: Come on. Let's not just assume it's all peaches and cream. Steven Jack Butala: This show, this episode is a long time coming. People have said to me, my whole career, long before even Land Academy, "Hey, could I shadow you? What do you do all day?" I'll tell you, it would be the most boring day of your life. Jill DeWit: Great. Steven Jack 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, and I hope you know by now, that Jill and I personally instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a live class, live over the Zoom. Anyway, called Career Path. If buying and selling land is your career, or you want it to be, give us a call. Or, better yet, contact us at [email protected] to find out if this is for you. Jill DeWit: I'm going to tell you right now, the next one starts in October. Steven Jack Butala: Okay, good. Jill DeWit: It's a 10 week program, starts in October. Just so you can plan for that, and we are about to open up enrollment for it soon. Kevin wrote, "I had a great call with a Fran and Martha yesterday. At the end of the call, they asked if I had the day off next Monday, and they could schedule another call with me. On Memorial Day, which is today as [inaudible 00:01:49]. I laughed and said, "Yeah. Heck, I have every day off," so if you're looking for someone to talk to about your land business, you can sign up at the link below. We'll have a great time, and it will help you with your land business. How cute is that? That's on our website, on Land Academy. You can schedule a call with one of our moderators, Kevin Ferrell. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah. Kevin's been with us for a long time. Jill DeWit: Everybody loves talking to him. Steven Jack Butala: He does a consulting call for any Land Academy member who wants it, and I've never heard anyone say anything negative about it. Jill DeWit: Yeah. Steven Jack Butala: If you've gone through the program, you're active in discord, but you really want the icing on the cake, Kevin will really, really help you. Today's happy, a day in the life of a land investor. This is the meat of the show. Jill DeWit: Here's what I would like to say about being a land investor. Of all of the jobs that I do, from not just here at Land Academy and being a mom, and a partner. Steven Jack Butala: Uh-oh. Jill DeWit: I'm totally kidding. I mean I'm totally being serious here. I've got to tell you. No offense. Steven Jack Butala: None taken. Jill DeWit: But, being a land investor is the easiest, and the most fun for me. Steven Jack Butala: I agree with that. Jill DeWit: I've got to tell you. Of every single thing I do in my life. From home renovations. You name it. This is the easiest for me, and it's fun for me. I love it. Even if I'm doing it all by myself, 100% by myself, and a lot of people who start out are. I get that. You're like, "I've got to get some money coming in. I've got to figure this out. I'm going to learn all the jobs, and I'll go from there." Yeah. That's how you should do it. Even if I was a one-man show, because I was. There was a time. Especially when you were writing and doing Land Academ...