Filling in the Land Acquisition Education Gaps with Land Academy (LA 1346)

Filling in the Land Acquisition Education Gaps with Land Academy (LA 1346) Transcript: Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Good day. Steven Butala: Welcome to the LandAcademy 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 filling in the land acquisition education gaps with LandAcademy. This is all about understanding that you can buy and sell land. A lot of it's unwanted land for a pretty substantial profit with not a tremendous of cash outlay. But what are the tiny little nuances, or the things that tell us exactly how to do it? What's the trick? What are the key things that I missed in all this other education that I see out there? Great. I know you can make money. What's the real deal? Jill DeWit: You know what's funny? I didn't know this until it happened that so many people over the years, since LandAcademy, have said, "Oh, my gosh, you guys. I didn't know this. You filled in this piece. This was all of the questions that I had, that the little things, you covered them all." I think a lot of them... What's interesting, too? A lot of those people have said, "I did it with the podcast." They have said that they've learned a lot and filled in a lot of missing information free right here on the podcast. Steven Butala: And here's a great real-world example. There are other people that are pretty loud out on the internet about... First of all, all the people that are in this teaching land space, every single one, without exception, except Jack Bosch, were LandAcademy members at one point. So, they've taken our concept and made it into some funky little niche. In a lot of cases, they copied exactly what we're doing and put their own face on it. But there's several things that I think everybody's missing, and they are tiny little nuances. For example, the vast majority of people still don't send out offers. They send out letters of interest. Jill DeWit: Right. Steven Butala: Or they just send letters to people who are in a back tech situation. Jill DeWit: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Or I think they're not effectively pricing as well as they could. Steven Butala: Or they don't have the integrity that you should have as a acquisition or an investor and the compassion when you're talking to a seller and finding out why they're doing this, and what's going on. Jill DeWit: This is good stuff to talk about. Steven Butala: Before we get into it, though, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit: Chris wrote, "I'm new to the land business and looking for others to join an accountability group. Whether you just joined LandAcademy as I did a few days ago, or are otherwise somewhat new to the business, it's all good. I anticipate we'll be running into a lot of the same questions and hurdles around the same time as we do our research, get out our first mailers. Mine will go out next week, field our first phone calls, et cetera. More answers and knowledge than we could ever ask for are here in the forums, education, podcasts, weekly calls, et cetera." Right, it's a lot. "So, we are covered there, but what we can provide each other some accountability and encouragement as we rack up our first success stories. Not to mention learning from whatever unique talents/experience we each bring to the table, and that landed us in this business. I, myself," it says, "experienced software developer/business owner. Perhaps a biweekly networking call over Zoom, and a free Slack channel to stay in touch in the meantime? Anyone interested, please reply to this thread or send me a private message. Thanks." Steven Butala: This is all you. Jill DeWit: This is something that we are actually working on. I'm so happy. Steven Butala: Me, too. Jill DeWit: This started just in the last... I don't even think in the last year.