How to Be a Land Investor with a Day Job (LA 1034)

How to Be a Land Investor with a Day Job (LA 1034) Transcript: Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit:                            Hi. Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit:                            And Jill Dewitt, broadcasting from sunny Southern California. Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about how to be a land investor with a day job. Jill DeWit:                            A lot of people do it. Steven Butala:                   I know. I saw you scribbling and scribbling [crosstalk 00:00:18] notes before the show. Jill DeWit:                            I have a lot of notes. Steven Butala:                   I think this topic was a Jill written topic, and I think it came from an interview we did last week. Jill DeWit:                            Or, maybe it's because I had this job too. Steven Butala:                   You had a job once? Jill DeWit:                            I had it ... Well, yeah. But there was once upon a time I was doing this with a day job, and it was comical. Steven Butala:                   [crosstalk 00:00:36] remember that actually. Jill DeWit:                            I had two desks back to back. It's very true. I wish I had a picture of that, I probably do somewhere, where I had the desk in front of me where I was doing my primary work. And then the phone would ring and I whipped back around and I had a makeshift desk. Not even a real desk, but just kind of what I can throw together behind me with another computer, and I would answer the phone. Steven Butala:                   I remember that. Jill DeWit:                            And help the buyers of the sellers, or whatever it was, at our land business, until the day came that it didn't make sense for me to do that anymore. Steven Butala:                   I remember being shocked and amazed at the stuff that you were coming up with during that time. Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Steven Butala:                   There are some people, if you've been in this business for a while and you've had employees or worked with partners, there's some people that, you just don't have to explain stuff to. Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Steven Butala:                   And Jill is one of those people. Jill DeWit:                            You know what else, I was just naturally excited. And I see that now too with new people coming along. It's fun when they get into it and go, "This is actually cool," and they learn how to do it, and they're ... especially watching their bank balance, that that for me is very motivational. Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Speaking of fun, this question was posted by Joe Martin, who's one of our top performing members in the advanced group. Jill DeWit:                            And he's fun. Steven Butala:                   And this is all retro back to when he joined, and he just got done with his first mailer. Jill DeWit:                            Oh. Steven Butala:                   Let's take a question here before we get into the actual show. Jill DeWit:                            Cool. All right, so Joe Martin from our online community at landinvestors.com says, this is from February, 2018, this is good, "Hi all. I wanted to provide an update on my first mailer. I joined Land Academy as a silver member in mid-December, and my first mailer went out the first week of January." Jill DeWit:                            "Last week, I received a call from a seller and his message was clear, 'I accept your offer.' During due diligence, I found out that he owned four more properties in the same area. I called them back to discuss the other properties and he agreed to sell them all." Jill DeWit:                            "Now for the best part, I have purchased five parcels, three 39.