Five Good Rental Houses Will Feed Your Family for Generations (CFFL 0033)

Five Good Rental Houses Will Feed Your Family for Generations Jill DeWit:                            This is Jill DeWit for Land Academy and this is the Cash Flow From Land Show. Today I get to interview Steven ... I love it when I get to do this ... about his recently posted and now award winning ... award winning ... Jack Butala:                   Yeah. Jill DeWit:                            Okay ... blog ... Jack Butala:                   Can you believe that? Jill DeWit:                            I know. I can believe it. Your blog is called Five Good Rental Houses Will Feed Your Family For Generations and I am excited to hear more about this as I'm sure our listeners are. Jack Butala:                   I'm excited that you're the host ... Jill DeWit:                            Welcome, Steven. Jack Butala:                   ... of the show because when you're the [what 01:08]? Jill DeWit:                            I said, "Welcome, Steven." Jack Butala:                   Thanks. I'm so excited when you do the show. You're the most ... it's like half the work for us ... for me specifically ... Jill DeWit:                            I'm good with it too. I kind of like being in charge of this now and then. Jack Butala:                   Good. Jill DeWit:                            It's good. It's fun to change up. I've got to dive in. What's going on with this blog and why is it so successful? Jack Butala:                   I was talking to a colleague. He's a direct colleague in this business ... Seth Williams and every once in a while ... I have no control over it. You write blogs, and blogs, and blogs, and one just goes to the moon. It's incredibly popular for whatever reason. I wish I had more control over it because I would do it every time. This has just happened to be one of those blogs that everybody read and it went sort of ... not completely viral but sort or viral in the little niche that we're in all over the internet with land and real estate. Seth said the same thing. Probably once or twice a year he writes when he has no idea which one it's going to be but it just goes to the moon. This one is called Five Good Rental Houses Will Feed Your Family For Generations and maybe it's the title. Jill DeWit:                            I don't know. Well, it's interesting too because I remember hearing you and Seth talk about it one time and he said something about it might be two years down the road too ... that sometimes ... He wrote a book a long time ago then all of a sudden it gets all this attention. What's funny ... yours is two days or ... Is it even a week old? Jack Butala:                   Yeah. It's about 14 days old. Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Jack Butala:                   ...just for the listeners I put a link or I will put a link right directly in the text portion of wherever this podcast is syndicated. It get's syndicated in Stitcher and iTunes and I think a couple of other places. They'll all have a direct link if you want to read the blog while you're listening or afterward or whatever. Jill DeWit:                            Perfect ... That's awesome. Can you give me the gist of it? What is this blog really about? Jack Butala:                   This blog is very specifically about real estate investment so I started ... like every blog ... and I'm sure you go through this too, Jill. Actually, I'm not sure but I'd love to hear about it ... how you write blogs because I ... I don't think we've ever really talked about it but ... Jill DeWit:                            It's true. Jack Butala:                   You sit down with a concept and every time I sit down to write a blog I'm like ... The premise is why isn't everybody doing this? It's just really simple ... and I come at it from all different kinds of angles. For us it's land obviously. We buy and sell land. It's always made sense to me since the 90's but ow...