Truth about Land Acquisitions (LA 779)

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Truth about Land Acquisitions (LA 779)

Truth about Land Acquisitions (LA 779) 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:                            I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California. Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about the truth about land acquisitions all week. It's everybody just wants the truth. We are gonna tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly about, and there's not too much ugly, the truth in acquisitions. We're gonna talk about the stuff that nobody ever talks about unless they got 3,000 deals under their belt.

Truth about Land Acquisitions (LA 779)

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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:                            I’m Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about the truth about land acquisitions all week. It’s everybody just wants the truth. We are gonna tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly about, and there’s not too much ugly, the truth in acquisitions. We’re gonna talk about the stuff that nobody ever talks about unless they got 3,000 deals under their belt.

Jill DeWit:                            You know what’s funny? Of all the property types you could possibly, seriously, this is what’s interesting. If you’re worried about land, we really got to talk because of all the property types that you could be flipping on the planet, this is probably the easiest.

Steven Butala:                   I couldn’t agree more.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   Jill and I are not in the land business-

Jill DeWit:                            So, if you get hung up on this one …

Steven Butala:                   I’ll talk about it in a minute-

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   Because I started, I cut my teeth on the most complicated type of real estate-

Jill DeWit:                            Perfect example.

Steven Butala:                   Which is long term care buildings.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   So, you have to get-

Jill DeWit:                            If you can handle that, you can handle land.

Steven Butala:                   Before we get to the topic, though, lets’ take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It’s free.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay, wait. I have to say something really funny, though. Maybe if we have time at the end of the show, I’m writing a note here, I would like to play a game called if you can handle that, getting a PhD, you know what I mean?

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            Because that’s what so funny, some people are like, well, I’m a biochemical research analyst, and I’m trying to wrap my head around this whole land thing.

Steven Butala:                   I know, I see that-

Jill DeWit:                            You know what I mean?

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, I read all the time.

Jill DeWit:                            [crosstalk 00:01:42] I’m like, are you kidding me?

Steven Butala:                   I read that stuff all the time in land investors.

Jill DeWit:                            I’m like, this is-

Steven Butala:                   I’m like, what do you mean?

Jill DeWit:                            This is you goofing off on a video game compared to what you do in real life.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, it’s probably two work days.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Of your whole year.

Jill DeWit:                            Of your real job.

Steven Butala:                   And then you know how to do it.

Jill DeWit:                            I do cancer research, but I’m not sure about …

Steven Butala:                   How to price this trailer.

Jill DeWit:                            Talking to a seller.

Steven Butala:                   Right. I see that all the time. I had that same thought. We’ve never talked about that. That’s funny.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, yeah. So, we’ll play that. I’ll try to get to the end and remind you of that. We’ll do, if you can handle that, you can handle this. That’ll be good.

Steven Butala:                   All right.

Jill DeWit:                            All right. LeBron asks, “What’s the difference in buying land versus buying houses or other property types?” Just kind of answered it. If you can handle houses or other property types-

Steven Butala:                   Land.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh my gosh, you can handle land.

Steven Butala:                   Well, here, I’m gonna actually technically answer this.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   Here’s what complicates any type of real estate deal. Real estate agents, the number one complication factor is a real estate agent. Number two, lenders or-

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   Specifically lender wrap, like mortgage brokers, okay?

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:                   Not just the, the lenders themselves usually have please fill this out, fill this out, fill this out, and we’ll let you know in three days.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   Mortgage brokers are, you have to go through all kinds of … you have to feed their ego. Don’t get me started.

Now, and then regulations, inspections, maybe if there’s government regulation involved like I just mentioned, that’s what complicates deals. So, right at the beginning of this show, I said there’s a reason we sell land, and it’s all because I did all that stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Before we started buying and selling land. I kept going over in my head, saying, this is ridiculous.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   Why is this so complicated? We’re just buying property.

Jill DeWit:                            Shouldn’t be this hard.

Steven Butala:                   Why does it, three weeks, this is back then.

Jill DeWit:                            He wants to sell, I want to buy.

Steven Butala:                   Three weeks, three weeks to get a lender approval? On a $100,000 loan? Come on.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   So, I whittled away at all this stuff. The agents, the brokers, the inspectors, and now you’ve got just a piece of property sitting there. Nobody wants it anymore, they don’t care if the, the seller doesn’t care about the price, and you have me. With my checkbook in my hand, and as escrow agent that we have handpicked-

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   That’s on our side and understands the business and has some experience. That’s it.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   A buyer, a seller, a checkbook, and a title agent. That’s [inaudible 00:04:13].

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   So, that’s the difference. That’s a good question. I love-

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   One sentence, well, two sentence, one sentences questions like that.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   What’s the difference between this and this?

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. Man, if you, and I love it. One of the things I love is a lot of people that come to us, they’ve tried, they’ve flipped houses and they’ve done this and they’ve done that and they’re like, I know that there’s something for me in real estate investment, but I’m so sick of that, and I’m like, oh, you’re gonna love this. It’s funny because we talk weeks and months later, they’re like, oh my gosh, you’re right. This is so much easier.

My favorite is the one that the guy that I taught, it was a year or two ago and he said, “Jill, I saw you guys, but I thought about it,” but he’s like, “I didn’t want to do this thing because it wasn’t sexy.”

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            He said, “I wanted to go into flipping houses.”

Steven Butala:                   Right.

Jill DeWit:                            And he called me, and he’s like, “I am so done with that.”

Steven Butala:                   I’ve heard that.

Jill DeWit:                            It’s not worth it. He’s with us now. It’s so darn funny. I’m like, yup. I understand.

Steven Butala:                   A couple years ago Jill and I were in the grocery store together, and I’m gonna throw you under the bus here a little bit.

Jill DeWit:                            Uh oh.

Steven Butala:                   It’s not a bad thing. It’s a good thing.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   Our differences are good.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   Not bad.

Jill DeWit:                            I think so.

Steven Butala:                   We’re kind of just planning the week or the month or whatever, we’re buying groceries. She said, I said, “We should make this, this, and this, and we should do this kind of,” because both of us cook, and Jill said, “I really don’t like to make any recipe that’s got, I don’t know, more than four ingredients.”

Jill DeWit:                            More than four ingredients.

Steven Butala:                   Do you remember that?

Jill DeWit:                            I do.

Steven Butala:                   I stopped, and I’m like-

Jill DeWit:                            Not right now.

Steven Butala:                   I stopped and I’m like, wait a second. How the hell, it’s not worth it.

Jill DeWit:                            At this point in my life-

Steven Butala:                   Why would I sit down and make all this, it’s not gonna taste good, and you know what? She was absolutely right. That’s what we do now.

Jill DeWit:                            That’s true.

Steven Butala:                   Four ingredient meals and stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            Otherwise, we’re going out.

Steven Butala:                   It’s just as good.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   It’s a lot faster, it’s a lot easier, it’s probably way more healthy-

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   I know it’s way more healthy. So-

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   It’s the same thing with real estate deals. Do you want to-

Jill DeWit:                            I think that’s so good.

Steven Butala:                   Do a real estate deal where you make 100 grand at the end and there’s 22 steps, or do you want there to be four steps?

Jill DeWit:                            And you make 20 each time, and you do them in half the time.

Steven Butala:                   You only seek out the easy ones then.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   Now there’s less people involved, less ingredients, less reading, just less.

Jill DeWit:                            Yup.

Steven Butala:                   Most importantly, your risk when there’s less steps like this, is dramatically reduced. In some cases, I would argue eliminated.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   Because there’s just no way you can lose.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   What’s gonna happen to a piece of land? The asset itself, if it burns down?

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   In a lot of cases, it’s worth more. It’s worth more than when you started.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, great, it just cleared all the brush. I love it.

Steven Butala:                   But so those are the differences. Here’s the similarities. All real estate deals have this in common. Buy low, sell high. There’s no replacement for that.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   We live in a day and age, this day and age where there’s an abundance of data, which all but eliminates risk for you. The more data the better.

Jill DeWit:                            Yup.

Steven Butala:                   Today’s topic, the truth about land acquisitions. This is the meat of the show. Jill, I know you did a ton of, or, wrote a bunch of notes before this.

Jill DeWit:                            I did.

Steven Butala:                   Sometimes she writes none, and she just shows up and sits down and looks good.

Jill DeWit:                            Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   But you got a ton of stuff here.

Jill DeWit:                            I did.

Steven Butala:                   So, go ahead.

Jill DeWit:                            So, I have a lot I want to cover here. I want to talk about first, we’re gonna cover what’s really involved. I want to talk about some of the negatives, because this is the truth about land acquisitions. Then I want to talk about, wrap it up with how to really kill it, because over the years, we’ve been doing this for how many years? Three or, over three years.

Steven Butala:                   It’s just over, well, land academy’s over three.

Jill DeWit:                            Well, yeah, but not the whole business, since the ’90s.

Steven Butala:                   We’ve been buying and selling real estate for 25 years.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, so that’s going on 30 years for you, by the way. Not to throw you under the bus.

Steven Butala:                   I live under the bus.

Jill DeWit:                            I know. You like it there, it’s shady. So, all right, that’s a good one.

Steven Butala:                   You like me there. That’s what I think. Where’s dad? Oh, he’s under the bus.

Jill DeWit:                            Fixing something. No.

All right, so let’s talk about what’s really involved in land acquisitions. I want to talk about, too who are good candidates and who are not good candidates, because that’ll help us with what’s involved, like data. Take it, please.

Steven Butala:                   What’s the question? I was thinking about living under a bus.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, you’re just distracted.

Steven Butala:                   I was thinking, every man thinks about this stuff. Listen to this.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Distract Jill.

Steven Butala:                   Every man thinks about buying a piece of property for five grand and putting some version of a bus on it, putting up solar panels and a water tank-

Jill DeWit:                            Like an RV bus, not just a bus?

Steven Butala:                   Or maybe, or in a forest or something like that, because it’s simpler. Men want to simplify stuff, and living under a bus for a couple days doesn’t sound that bad to me.

Jill DeWit:                            How about living in a bus?

Steven Butala:                   That’s fine.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay, thank you.

Steven Butala:                   In the bus is good?

Jill DeWit:                            In the bus is good. I don’t know why you need to be under it, but okay.

Okay, so here’s the thing. What’s really involved? What do you need to know to make it? What can you not be afraid of, like Excel?

Steven Butala:                   So, the truth about land acquisitions, not sales, not emotion, any of that stuff, is that they’re really, really easy. We alluded to it earlier on. It takes a willing seller, and it’s your job to find that. You are the willing buyer. A little bit of money, and somebody who’s gonna close a deal. A lot of times you just close the deal if it’s small enough.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   So, land acquisitions are all about finding that seller, and the most efficient way to find sellers for a lot of years, I would travel around the country going to tax deed auctions, and that’s how I found the seller. This is kind of when the internet was just starting to really kick it. It was during that time when you, to get an internet connection, you put it through a phone line.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   DSL. Not cable like we have now. There was no such thing as WiFi, so there were much fewer people on that.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   It was efficient. Now the auctions are overrun, and that’s fine.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah.

Steven Butala:                   That’s how we discovered sending mail out.

Jill DeWit:                            That’s okay.

Steven Butala:                   The truth about land acquisitions, the real truth, the stuff that nobody talks about, they’re very, very easy to buy. There’s a lot of unwanted land out there from people that live out of state or whatever, and they’ll just almost give it away.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   It’s a little bit more complicated to sell it. Here’s a reason.

Jill DeWit:                            It’s good.

Steven Butala:                   The people who sell property, the price is the reason property sells period. So, the only reason that land doesn’t sell almost immediately when you buy it is number one you paid too much. Well, none of us do that anymore.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   Number two, the people that are most interested in buying the property don’t know it’s for sale.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   You’re not reaching the right people. That, and I’ll be it, the truth about land acquisitions. Tomorrow, by the way, is the truth about land sales.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   So, I’m gonna save the vast majority of-

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   The land sales for that tomorrow, but you have to go through, here’s some broad numbers. If you send out 300 to 500 direct mail offers, done properly, you’re gonna buy a piece of real estate. I mean, for great prices. That’s the truth.

You’re gonna get some people that are disgusted with your offer, and they’re gonna call you back and they’re gonna tell you about it. They’re gonna tell you about how awful you think their offer is. If you can’t handle that, I always say, put your thick skin suit on it, because it happens, Jill says, it happens in every business. If you own a laundromat, somebody’s gonna be upset about how-

Jill DeWit:                            It’s not that big of a deal-

Steven Butala:                   Clean their clothes get.

Jill DeWit:                            You know what’s so funny?

Steven Butala:                   I don’t think it’s a big deal either, but-

Jill DeWit:                            No.

Steven Butala:                   People just need to know about it.

Jill DeWit:                            Oh, well, it’s good, like I said, it’s every business. Do you think American Express walks around with every single person calling them, saying I love you? No.

Steven Butala:                   Why American Express?

Jill DeWit:                            Well, I’m just, dream it up. Dream up any company, I don’t care who it is, there’s unhappy customers, and there’s people doing charge backs and whatever there is. They’re always gonna have something like that. So, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. But I do think that some people can’t handle it, and that’s the same people that couldn’t handle, and that’s why they might be a librarian.

Steven Butala:                   Here’s a couple things that you’re gonna run in-

Jill DeWit:                            Or something, not to pick on librarians, but you know what I mean? They’re gonna pick a whole different career if they can’t handle dealing with customers-

Steven Butala:                   Librarians good.

Jill DeWit:                            Or anybody. Anybody that raises their voice. Thank God for you.

Steven Butala:                   You should live in our house for a while.

Jill DeWit:                            Can you imagine if we met and I said I’m a librarian? After you get past the outfit, you realize it’s really not what you want. I mean you, not everybody. For some people, that’s perfect. We know a couple, and we know a librarian, and they do really great, and we love them, so anyway, and she’s awesome. What’s funny is she’s not your normal librarian, but she is in the library.

But yeah, anyway.

Steven Butala:                   Here’s some things that you can expect when you start to buy land. Number one, you have to review each property for its specific level of access, especially rural vacant land. Can you get to it physically, and does it have legal access? So, you need to really look into that. Should it stop you from this career? No. But you get a lot of properties in where you get excited and there’s just, oh, there’s no access. I’m gonna choose not to buy this property. It doesn’t have any access.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Steven Butala:                   That said, there are members in our group, we’re not one of them, who specialize in no access land because they get it for nothing, and then they spend the money to make it either have access or they have a group of buyers that it just doesn’t bother them.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   Access is an issue.

Jill DeWit:                            This is good.

Steven Butala:                   Here’s anther, the real truth. There’s a lot of dead people who own real estate, who own land, and it’s not that they planned on dying, they just did. They didn’t have their stuff, their affairs all in order before that happened. So, we talked to, Jill and I and all of our members daily talk to children or heirs, let’s call them, of estates where they’re not experts in that by any stretch, and they are looking to us to help them solve this problem. It’s, oh, the property’s not in my name, in my … we just bought a house. Today we closed on it. The mother’s been dead for 10 years, and it was all a mess, and Jill undid it, and we bought a property for a very attractive amount of money, and solved a bunch of back tax problems and all kinds of stuff.

In fact, that’s what we’re both gonna do when we get out of here. So, these are the things, this is the real truth about buying land. If these things, like Jill said, if we have to whisper and tiptoe around it’s just out of your comfort level, this is not for you.

Jill DeWit:                            Well, here’s the thing. There are a lot of moving parts, but none of it’s crazy. The big picture thing about acquisitions is it all starts there. I know we’re gonna talk more about it tomorrow, and I love the saying that you have, which is good acquisition solves all sales problems, which is really, really true.

So, this is the point where you win, and at the land acquisition, that’s when we high five each other, by the way. It’s not when it’s-

Steven Butala:                   The day we buy it.

Jill DeWit:                            Checks out and they pay and we see the payment go through, and like, oh, we sold that. That’s not our high five moment.

Steven Butala:                   We know that’s gonna happen.

Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. Our high five moment is right now, it is the acquisition part, and I’ve heard, there’s times where we’re out or we’re somewhere, or we’d even be with friends, you’re like, listen to Jill, and you can hear me and I’m like, all right, can with agree on X, whatever price? And then I hang up the phone, and that’s when we’re like, I can’t believe we just did it-

Steven Butala:                   Out to dinner and stuff.

Jill DeWit:                            Now quickly, we got to get the deed out to her and get the notary now before anybody changes their minds. Not that they would, but you know what I mean? It’s all, you solved a problem, you’re solving problems, that’s another good thing about this. You’re meeting, you’re talking to people that often bought land for some purpose.

This is an interesting thing I want to bring up. Usually you buy vacant land not always as an investment. It seems like the people we talk to, a lot of them, they were gonna do something with it.

Steven Butala:                   Put a bus on it and live under there.

Jill DeWit:                            They were gonna retire there, they were gonna build a cabin there, they were gonna do something with it, so sometimes it’s a little bit kind of sad for them to part for these things, and often they’re reaching back out to us because they have a need to get rid of it. Maybe they are retiring and they don’t want this on their balance sheet anymore, the kids don’t want it, whatever.

So, you’re solving problems. There are a lot of moving parts. Sure, just like everything you’re gonna have people, like Steven said, that are gonna be not thrilled with your offer. Big deal. We always kind of giggle and say, okay, thank you.

Steven Butala:                   Here’s the good news.

Jill DeWit:                            And move on.

Steven Butala:                   So, those are the real truth points. If I can think of anything else, we’ll talk about it here in the after show, but here’s the good news. You can make an absolute fortune doing this.

Jill DeWit:                            True.

Steven Butala:                   Jill and I have made tens of millions of dollars saying lands, but let’s talk about the truth, though. Everybody says tens of millions of dollars in real estate and oh, that’s a nice new yacht you have, and all that. All you need to do is concentrate on that first deal if you haven’t done one, and then the second one. Then get to 10 deals, and decide if it’s for you.

Then decide on what your minimum dollar threshold per transaction is. Jill and I are working on a deal right now, we’re gonna buy the property for about $200,000. We’re gonna split it all up. It’s actually pre-zoned to be 14 pieces of property in a very urban area, and at the end of the whole thing, we’re gonna participate with the developer to build on it. We’ll net about $2 million. Now, that’s what you have to look forward to if you stick with it and do the $40,000 deals.

But can this easily replace your job the second year, let’s say, after you’ve got … easily. Easily. Follow me on this. You buy property for four grand and you sell it for eight. Now you have eight thousand bucks in the bank. Then you do it again, 16 times two, 32 times two, you’re gonna have a couple hundred thousand dollars in the bank very quickly as long as you don’t make bad acquisition decisions and you learn how to send out mailers properly. That’s the truth about buying land.

Jill DeWit:                            I have a good one. I have a good one. I have a good one.

Steven Butala:                   I’ve seen people fail, dismally fail, at this for this one reason. They got sidetracked, and usually it’s because you send a mailer out and a guy says, “Absolutely, I’ll sell you this property. Thanks. Let’s do that. But oh, hey, by the way, I have this property over here. Why don’t you make me an offer on it?” They make an offer, it’s out of, all the data, you just threw all that out of the window. Everything you learned, you never made an offer in Excel first.

So, that’s not good. I’ve seen people, they get sidetracked, but this is the one thing, the one single thing-

Jill DeWit:                            I’ll be over here.

Steven Butala:                   That mess up, that messes up people’s land career. It has nothing to do with real estate and everything to do with life, marriage, buying a new car, moving to a different state, kids-

Jill DeWit:                            Are you done now?

Steven Butala:                   That’s just, that’s what you gotta be careful of. Yeah, go ahead.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. All right.

Steven Butala:                   Wow. Are you done now?

Jill DeWit:                            That was long. That was long. I’m teasing you.

Steven Butala:                   I’m excited.

Jill DeWit:                            You’re all good.

Steven Butala:                   I’m excited about it. You’re not teasing me, you’re honest.

Jill DeWit:                            I love you love this. What’s this? No, you’re good. No, I’m teasing.

Steven Butala:                   Okay.

Jill DeWit:                            Not you, yeah.

Steven Butala:                   I don’t think so.

Jill DeWit:                            I am teasing. You’re all good.

Steven Butala:                   This is truth week.

Jill DeWit:                            I know it is.

Steven Butala:                   You can tell the truth.

Jill DeWit:                            Well, all right, that was a little long. Tell you the truth.

Okay. Can we each do one last one, please?

Steven Butala:                   I’m done.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Thank you. I have one last one. One of my number one truths I love about land acquisition is people don’t get it.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah. That’s true.

Jill DeWit:                            I love, it makes me so happy when I talk to people and they, well, maybe they … I don’t know. For whatever reason, they figure out we’re doing well in life, let’s just say that, and so there’s some, a common question is what the heck do you guys do, right?

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            Because they’re all in. Maybe I share. I might, depending on the person, I might say, well, as a matter of fact, we flip a lot of properties. Oh, like houses, or what do you do? I’m like, no, a lot of it’s just mostly rural, vacant land. They gloss over, and they think it’s dumb, or whatever it is, they don’t get it. They’re like, oh, there’s no value there. Kind of thing, and I’m like, yay.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah, there’s no value.

Jill DeWit:                            That’s awesome. Because you know what that is to me? One less person that I’m competing with. Not that it matters with anyway, there’s not really any competition, and that’s the truth. There’s not a lot of us.

Steven Butala:                   Yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            When you really think about it, yeah, we’re going to other things, house academy and other stuff, and even that I’m not worried about-

Steven Butala:                   No.

Jill DeWit:                            Because there’s so much out there, there’s still not a lot of us. When you add up all the properties and then the size of us-

Steven Butala:                   I haven’t thought about competition-

Jill DeWit:                            Nope.

Steven Butala:                   And I haven’t run into any competition-

Jill DeWit:                            Nope.

Steven Butala:                   In the last 20 years.

Jill DeWit:                            Yup.

Steven Butala:                   Not even a single instance.

Jill DeWit:                            I get excited when people don’t get this. I’m like, awesome. Because it’s not hard. If you, even if you do get it, you win. Thank you.

Steven Butala:                   Well, you’ve done it again. You spent another 20 minutes listening to the land academy show. Join us next time where we discuss the truth about land sales.

Jill DeWit:                            And we answer your questions, should you have one, post it on our free online community found off of landinvestors.com.

Steven Butala:                   You are not alone in your real estate ambition.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. We didn’t get to do our thing, which I thought was actually even better, our end, if you can handle that game. So, I thought, let’s do it tomorrow on Friday.

Steven Butala:                   Okay.

Jill DeWit:                            Because that would be more fun with the sales and everything-

Steven Butala:                   That sounds good.

Jill DeWit:                            So that’ll be good. Because like we said, we alluded today, the acquisitions solve a lot of sales things. So, we’re not gonna have as much to talk about on sales. But we will have some good stuff.

Steven Butala:                   Sales is, yeah, all you.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay.

Steven Butala:                   How do you sell a piece of land, Jill? Save it for tomorrow.

Jill DeWit:                            Share the fun by subscribing on iTunes or wherever you are listening, or maybe you’re watching us on YouTube, and please subscribe there, too.

Steven Butala:                   We are Steve and Jill. Information-

Jill DeWit:                            And inspiration-

Steven Butala:                   To buy undervalued property.

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Land Academy PRO is the brainchild of founders Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit. Designed at the request of Land Academy members who are ready for a higher level, we’re excited to continue to provide the tools and support needed by professional investors.

Each level comes with a preset amount of included data, Concierge Mail service, and postage. For example, the Green level includes 6,000 units of completed-for-you mail completely out the door at no extra cost to you.

All levels include a PatLive introduction and preset script (we will set up your phone answering for you), use of Land Academy’s personal Transaction Team to manage your deal flow, an AirTable (CRM) base setup managed by our (and your!) Transaction Coordinator, personal consulting, regular office hours, and includes your Land Academy subscription cost.

If you’re making this a business, Land Academy PRO takes the work off of your plate so you can focus on the things that matter – like running your business.

Green

$10,060

per Month

Silver

$14,590

per Month

Gold

$19,120

per Month

Platinum

$23,650

per Month

Black

$28,180

per Month

Concierge Data+ (with data) Included mailers each month (data + concierge + mailer + postage). Our team will do your data for it and get it out the door.
6,000 mailers 9,000 mailers 12,000 mailers 15,000 mailers 18,000 mailers
PatLive introduction at no cost We will help you establish your first script and get PatLive set up on your behalf to answer your phones.
$500 value $500 value $500 value $500 value $500 value
Transaction Coordinator Use of our personal Transaction Coordinator team to manage your deals. Trained and ready to go!
$7,500 value $7,500 value $7,500 value $7,500 value $7,500 value
AirTable Ready-for-you CRM managed by your personal Land Academy Pro Transaction Coordinator
$100 value $100 value $100 value $100 value $100 value
Personal Consulting 1 on 1 personal consulting with our Transaction Coordinator each week.
- - $1,000 value $1,000 value $1,000 value
Regular Office Hours Regular office hours with Jack and Jill + our staff. Private for LA Pro Members Only. (Think Career Path Office Hours)
$2,500 value $2,500 value $2,500 value $2,500 value $2,500 value
ParcelFact ParcelFact is included in your LA Pro membership with unlimited pulls.
$150 value $150 value $150 value $150 value $150 value
FREE Career Path Access
$23,000 value $23,000 value $23,000 value $23,000 value $23,000 value
Land Academy No more separate charges - Land Academy is included with LA Pro Membership. This includes all education, tools, support, and future releases.
$300 value $300 value $300 value $300 value $300 value
Subtotal: $8,550 value $8,550 value $9,550 value $12,050 value $12,050 value
Mail Value: $7,500 value $11,250 value $15,000 value $18,750 value $22,500 value
Total Value: $39,050 $42,800 $47,550 $53,800 $57,550
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Green

$10,060

per Month

Concierge Data+ (with data) Included mailers each month (data + concierge + mailer + postage). Our team will do your data for it and get it out the door.
6,000 mailers
PatLive introduction at no cost We will help you establish your first script and get PatLive set up on your behalf to answer your phones.
$500 value
Transaction Coordinator Use of our personal Transaction Coordinator team to manage your deals. Trained and ready to go!
$7,500 value
AirTable Ready-for-you CRM managed by your personal Land Academy Pro Transaction Coordinator
$100 value
Personal Consulting 1 on 1 personal consulting with our Transaction Coordinator each week.
-
Regular Office Hours Regular office hours with Jack and Jill + our staff. Private for LA Pro Members Only. (Think Career Path Office Hours)
$2,500 value
ParcelFact ParcelFact is included in your LA Pro membership with unlimited pulls.
$150 value
FREE Career Path Access
$23,000 value
Land Academy No more separate charges - Land Academy is included with LA Pro Membership. This includes all education, tools, support, and future releases.
$300 value
Subtotal: $8,550 value
Mail Value: $7,500 value
Total Value: $39,050
Apply Now

Silver

$14,590

per Month

Concierge Data+ (with data) Included mailers each month (data + concierge + mailer + postage). Our team will do your data for it and get it out the door.
9,000 mailers
PatLive introduction at no cost We will help you establish your first script and get PatLive set up on your behalf to answer your phones.
$500 value
Transaction Coordinator Use of our personal Transaction Coordinator team to manage your deals. Trained and ready to go!
$7,500 value
AirTable Ready-for-you CRM managed by your personal Land Academy Pro Transaction Coordinator
$100 value
Personal Consulting 1 on 1 personal consulting with our Transaction Coordinator each week.
-
Regular Office Hours Regular office hours with Jack and Jill + our staff. Private for LA Pro Members Only. (Think Career Path Office Hours)
$2,500 value
ParcelFact ParcelFact is included in your LA Pro membership with unlimited pulls.
$150 value
FREE Career Path Access
$23,000 value
Land Academy No more separate charges - Land Academy is included with LA Pro Membership. This includes all education, tools, support, and future releases.
$300 value
Subtotal: $8,550 value
Mail Value: $11,250 value
Total Value: $42,800
Apply Now

Gold

$19,120

per Month

Concierge Data+ (with data) Included mailers each month (data + concierge + mailer + postage). Our team will do your data for it and get it out the door.
12,000 mailers
PatLive introduction at no cost We will help you establish your first script and get PatLive set up on your behalf to answer your phones.
$500 value
Transaction Coordinator Use of our personal Transaction Coordinator team to manage your deals. Trained and ready to go!
$7,500 value
AirTable Ready-for-you CRM managed by your personal Land Academy Pro Transaction Coordinator
$100 value
Personal Consulting 1 on 1 personal consulting with our Transaction Coordinator each week.
$1,000 value
Regular Office Hours Regular office hours with Jack and Jill + our staff. Private for LA Pro Members Only. (Think Career Path Office Hours)
$2,500 value
ParcelFact ParcelFact is included in your LA Pro membership with unlimited pulls.
$150 value
FREE Career Path Access
$23,000 value
Land Academy No more separate charges - Land Academy is included with LA Pro Membership. This includes all education, tools, support, and future releases.
$300 value
Subtotal: $9,550 value
Mail Value: $15,000 value
Total Value: $47,550
Apply Now

Platinum

$23,650

per Month

Concierge Data+ (with data) Included mailers each month (data + concierge + mailer + postage). Our team will do your data for it and get it out the door.
15,000 mailers
PatLive introduction at no cost We will help you establish your first script and get PatLive set up on your behalf to answer your phones.
$500 value
Transaction Coordinator Use of our personal Transaction Coordinator team to manage your deals. Trained and ready to go!
$7,500 value
AirTable Ready-for-you CRM managed by your personal Land Academy Pro Transaction Coordinator
$100 value
Personal Consulting 1 on 1 personal consulting with our Transaction Coordinator each week.
$1,000 value
Regular Office Hours Regular office hours with Jack and Jill + our staff. Private for LA Pro Members Only. (Think Career Path Office Hours)
$2,500 value
ParcelFact ParcelFact is included in your LA Pro membership with unlimited pulls.
$150 value
FREE Career Path Access
$23,000 value
Land Academy No more separate charges - Land Academy is included with LA Pro Membership. This includes all education, tools, support, and future releases.
$300 value
Subtotal: $12,050 value
Mail Value: $18,750 value
Total Value: $53,800
Apply Now

Black

$28,180

per Month

Concierge Data+ (with data) Included mailers each month (data + concierge + mailer + postage). Our team will do your data for it and get it out the door.
18,000 mailers
PatLive introduction at no cost We will help you establish your first script and get PatLive set up on your behalf to answer your phones.
$500 value
Transaction Coordinator Use of our personal Transaction Coordinator team to manage your deals. Trained and ready to go!
$7,500 value
AirTable Ready-for-you CRM managed by your personal Land Academy Pro Transaction Coordinator
$100 value
Personal Consulting 1 on 1 personal consulting with our Transaction Coordinator each week.
$1,000 value
Regular Office Hours Regular office hours with Jack and Jill + our staff. Private for LA Pro Members Only. (Think Career Path Office Hours)
$2,500 value
ParcelFact ParcelFact is included in your LA Pro membership with unlimited pulls.
$150 value
FREE Career Path Access
$23,000 value
Land Academy No more separate charges - Land Academy is included with LA Pro Membership. This includes all education, tools, support, and future releases.
$300 value
Subtotal: $12,050 value
Mail Value: $22,500 value
Total Value: $57,550
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To cancel, all packages require a 30 day notice to move you back down to regular Land Academy membership.

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Scheduling a Career Path interview call is currently on hold and will resume closer to Fall 2024 as we approach Career Path 10.

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