Childhood Markers that Lead to Land Investing (LA 973)

Childhood Markers that Lead to Land Investing (LA 973) Transcript: Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit:                            Happy Friday. Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny southern California. Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about childhood markers that could lead to your serial land investing habit. This is show 973, by the way. Jill DeWit:                            Wow. Steven Butala:                   We are rapidly approaching show 1000. Jill DeWit:                            1000. Steven Butala:                   Which will be in June. June of this year. Jill DeWit:                            Wow. Steven Butala:                   Truly amazing. I'm amazed. Jill DeWit:                            It is. Steven Butala:                   When we started this, I figured we'd just do a couple weeks of episodes or something. I don't know. Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. I had no idea what were doing. Steven Butala:                   I just figured nobody would listen to it. That's really what I thought. Jill DeWit:                            And then our weekly member calls, I'm like, eh, let's see how it goes. Let's turn it on and see if everybody wants to do it. Steven Butala:                   Our listenership's wide. Jill DeWit:                            I'm like, wow. There's a lot of people that show up and they want to talk. They like this. So we'll keep doing it. Steven Butala:                   Before we get into the topic, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com community. It's online and it's free. We will keep doing it until people stop listening. I'm serious. Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. It says Steven Jack Butala asks Jill DeWitt. Is that right? Steven Butala:                   Yeah. I'm asking. Because I wrote a question. Jill DeWit:                            Oh. I didn't see it. Steven Butala:                   Steven Jack Butala asks Jill DeWitt the following. Jill DeWit:                            What common personality attributes you see in successful people and unsuccessful people? Well, this caught me by surprise. I'm like why is my name up there? What are you doing? Okay, so, what common personality traits do I see in successful people versus unsuccessful people? Steven Butala:                   Because it leads into the topic. The answer to this question is all really about this topic. In fact, let me just say, this is the meat of the show. Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Gosh. I mean, we've talked about it recently. There's an underlying drive. It's nature, obviously, more than nurture. It's your personality. You don't stop. You don't give up at things. You solve problems. You're not afraid of things. And I think that's what makes people successful. I'm really having to think about this for a second. Unsuccessful people, that's easy. They give up at the first sign of any kind of a hiccup in the road, bump in the road. They're like, "Oh, that's it. I'm out. Never going to work. Done." And usually it's something else going on. It's really not that. They were afraid of it. Or I think it's usually fear and that's why. Steven Butala:                   So I could not agree more and here's a glaring example of something that happened to me before we started recording today. I took a staff member under my wing recently, to help me do a bunch of land acquisitions. There are several places where I kind of go back to the well, so to speak, and it doesn't happen all the time, but they have a tremendous amount of back tax property that just... They don't advertise it. They only send it to like 10 of us that have purchased back tax properties directly from the county in...