Jill Friday – New Years Land Investors Resolutions (LA 1667)
Jill Friday – New Years Land Investors Resolutions (LA 1667)
Transcript:
Steven Jack Butala:
Steve and Jill here.
Jill K DeWit:
Hello.
Steven Jack Butala:
Welcome to The Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I’m Steven Jack Butala-
Jill K DeWit:
And I’m Jill DeWit broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun on New Year’s Eve. Yay!
Steven Jack Butala:
I can’t believe it.
Jill K DeWit:
Yay!
Steven Jack Butala:
We’ve been doing this show, this is show number 1,600-
Jill K DeWit:
And 67.
Steven Jack Butala:
Amazing.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today, Jill and I, well, it’s still Friday. She’s going to talk about New Year’s land investor’s resolutions.
Jill K DeWit:
1667. That sounds like a year. Like, “I wonder what happened in 1667?” You know? It’s kind of funny.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:
Yep. Cool. I have some good notes. I came up with a cute little… Don’t read my notes. All good. Get with a cute little saying that I’m going to share too about this.
Steven Jack Butala:
Before we get into it, let’s take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community, it’s free and don’t forget to subscribe on The Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.
Jill K DeWit:
Jessica wrote, “How do you find someone to put a for sale sign on the street for you? In my workflow, the photographer is long gone and he lives a long way from the property, anyway. Suggestions on how to find someone local, especially in a little town that doesn’t have a Craigslist nearby.”
Jill K DeWit:
That’s funny, that would be my first thought. There are some companies out there though, like WeGoLook, does that still exist?
Steven Jack Butala:
There’s a lot of people who had a lot of things to say about this. Yeah, WeGoLook said-
Jill K DeWit:
Okay, good.
Steven Jack Butala:
One other persons said they have, which I know you use all the time is, the Nextdoor app.
Jill K DeWit:
Oh, that’s true, Nextdoor. Oh, that’s a good one, you can put in the zip code and see who’s there. You need to have them take a picture. You know what it looks like now as you can ask them to take a picture of it and send it back to you with their sign on there.
Jill K DeWit:
I don’t know, I would even… You could call a church, offer somebody 50 bucks.
Steven Jack Butala:
20, I was going to say.
Jill K DeWit:
Whoever the janitor is at the church or something like that, who you can get on the phone and to say, “Hey, I know this sounds…”
Jill K DeWit:
I might even call Home Depot and say, “Hey, you know one of those signs on a stick, I’ll pay you 50 bucks if you go buy it for me and put it and send me a picture.”
Steven Jack Butala:
Any of that.
Jill K DeWit:
Be like, “All right-”
Steven Jack Butala:
At the student-
Jill K DeWit:
“That’s kind of weird, but okay.”
Steven Jack Butala:
And then again, The Drone, the best person to have them is pay a The Drone person who is going to do the drone shots.
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:
$20 more.
Jill K DeWit:
And then, you know here’s a nice thing is, was this Jessica, I think?
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:
This is the only time that you’ll forget this. You only have to do it this one time because from now on you’ll remember every time to have the photographer do it ahead of time. So that’s the positive thing here.
Steven Jack Butala:
But you got to put one on there at all costs.
Jill K DeWit:
It does help, especially if there’s a traffic area.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:
You know, it really does make a difference. Don’t put a price on there. Never put a price because A, it changes and B, you want them to call you. So just seems to be a for sale investor special and your phone number. That’s really all you need, when the little red sign on a stick doesn’t need to be a fancy broker billboard.
Steven Jack Butala:
The less fancy it is, the better.
Jill K DeWit:
It’s true.
Steven Jack Butala:
You want it to look like it’s for sale by owner and it’s a price-
Jill K DeWit:
A couple are good by the way too.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah. And it’s priced at fire sale price. That’s what you want.
Steven Jack Butala:
Today is Jill Friday, she’s going to talk about New Year’s Land Investors’ resolutions, this is the meat of the show.
Jill K DeWit:
So it’s New Year’s Eve and this is a time we’re all thinking about next year. We’re like, “Whew, we got through this year. Thank goodness.” Right? It’s like, “Oh I can just kind of breathe right now.”
Jill K DeWit:
And these last couple years, I’m not the first one to say this, have been hard. Right? And we’re all like, “I can’t wait for next year to be different. I can’t wait for next year to be better.”
Jill K DeWit:
So my first thought and point I want to make is, what do you want to get out of this next year? What do you want to get out of this next year?
Steven Jack Butala:
I’ll tell you what. I want to spend less time working on things that solely make money and more time on things that I just want to, that I know people need and aren’t necessarily as profitable.
Jill K DeWit:
Interesting.
Steven Jack Butala:
I’ve spent my entire life. I’m not afraid to say I’m 55, I’ve spent my entire life focusing on money and accumulating wealth and it’s kind of, “How much is enough?”
Jill K DeWit:
I understand, that’s good. So I’m going to ask you, listener, what do you want to get out of it? Do you want to pay off your house? Do you want to quit your job? Do you want just to start working on that nest egg so you can breathe. I still love the, a long time ago, the member that came up with, having their monthly expenses. I thought this was such a good way to gauge wealth, “I have three years of expenses in the bank. I have four years of expenses in the bank.” That’s kind of neat to say that and it doesn’t even need to be, it’s usually not that much. You’re just starting out. Maybe it’s six months in the bank, “I just know if it all goes sideways, I got six months to figure it out.”
Jill K DeWit:
Maybe that’s your goal. So whatever it is, you need to have that first. Yeah, I want you to have a goal first. It makes everything easier.
Steven Jack Butala:
Absolutely.
Jill K DeWit:
If you just say, “I want to be rich,” that’s dumb. It’s like, “Oh yeah, great. Everybody wants that.” But you need to have a real, a tangible goal or you don’t know what you’re working for and you can’t gauge it. So once you have that goal, I want you to take a step back and make it kind of reasonable, “I want to have my house paid off.” Okay, I get that.
Jill K DeWit:
What’s reasonable here? Is it two years? Is it five years? Is it 10 years? Maybe you’ve got a brand new 30 year mortgage and have it paid off in 10 years, is a good goal. I don’t think that’s nuts. So whatever it is, make it kind of reasonable and work it backwards.
Jill K DeWit:
And that could apply to anything. Right? We talk about business naturally, we gravitate towards that, but it could really be anything.
Jill K DeWit:
Do you want to add to this?
Steven Jack Butala:
I’ve never done anything in my life without a plan and usually it involves a budget and deadlines and calendar events and all kinds of stuff.
Jill K DeWit:
It comes naturally to you and it doesn’t to everybody.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah.
Jill K DeWit:
Until I met you, honestly, I didn’t have really tangible goals. You know what my goals were used to be? Because I was young and stupid anyway, but not young and stupid, but young.
Steven Jack Butala:
You were never young and stupid like that.
Jill K DeWit:
Okay. I was young once.
Steven Jack Butala:
I know. I know you were.
Jill K DeWit:
Give me that one.
Steven Jack Butala:
I was there for part of it.
Jill K DeWit:
Okay, thanks. Part of it. Thanks a lot. You’re not anymore. Thanks a lot. But no, no, my goals used to be, I had trips and things in mind. But for me, that was a big deal. I really wanted to be able to afford to take X trip and I did and that was cool.
Jill K DeWit:
So once you set these reasonable goals and you have a plan, what’s it going to take? How much harder am I going to have to work? What do I have to change? Then I want you to, I know it’s kind of going back to Monday, but you got to take action. That’s the next thing. You have to dive in. I don’t care if it’s on New Year’s day or the first day back to work, we can do it on that Monday. Whatever it is, you need to take some action and start moving in that direction and it won’t be perfect, but you just got to start doing it.
Jill K DeWit:
And then my third point is, I came up with a little saying. I have three three words… What?
Steven Jack Butala:
You have a little saying?
Jill K DeWit:
I did have a little saying. I have three F’s, forgive, forget and forge forward. Well, so it’s four F’s.
Steven Jack Butala:
Did you make that up on your own?
Jill K DeWit:
I did, just now.
Steven Jack Butala:
Oh Jill.
Jill K DeWit:
Isn’t that great?
Steven Jack Butala:
I love it.
Jill K DeWit:
Because we all fall down. Oh, come on, I don’t care who you are, what your goal is, you are going to fall down. There’s going to be someday you don’t feel good. Your wife talks you into something, you take a trip, you just you’re just in a blah. I don’t care if it’s a diet or money or a business, you just don’t sell what you needed to sell that month. So flipping what?
Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.
Jill K DeWit:
So you got to forgive yourself-
Steven Jack Butala:
You got to plan for that.
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:
You have to plan for failure in what you’re going to do.
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. So forgive yourself, don’t be so hard on yourself. Forget it. Don’t beat yourself up. I’m famous for that. That’s one of the things that I had to learn as an adult, to stop it, is beating myself up.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yeah, you’d used to do that a lot.
Jill K DeWit:
I used to do it a lot.
Steven Jack Butala:
You’re so much better about that.
Jill K DeWit:
Now I beat you up! It’s so much healthier for me.
Jill K DeWit:
No. No. But that was hard and then you just got to forge forward, “All right, I’m going to work double hard today and I’m going to… Whatever I tripped on, I’m going to watch for it and I’m going to try not to trip again.”
Steven Jack Butala:
You know what most people could do this year that will change their life forever? Is find a business partner.
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah.
Steven Jack Butala:
The day that Jill and I joined forces, it was forever changed. She is great at the stuff that I don’t want to do and vice versa. So it took out all the sales part of this, it just that it never came naturally to me, the other stuff did. And when I didn’t have to do that and Jill was 10 times better at it anyway. And then she started putting people below her to do it, what a life changer. It might be your whole goal for next year. I love this side of the business, I hate this side, I need a partner.
Jill K DeWit:
That’s a great goal.
Steven Jack Butala:
In Discord there’s a whole section for Partners Wanted, Partnerships Wanted.
Jill K DeWit:
It could even be… Another great goal is because I see a lot of people doing this, they’re afraid to expand a little bit. Hire that employee, make it part-time, make it 1099, so you can turn it on, turn it off as needed and people are clear about it, and be very upfront and honest about what your needs are and what you’re expecting.
Jill K DeWit:
But if you don’t take these steps, you’re not going to get there too. So you got to… That’s mine… Come circles all back to, but push yourself. You got to push yourself. I want you to have a really awesome 2022 and we’re going to be right here with you. We are not going anywhere.
Steven Jack Butala:
Yep.
Jill K DeWit:
I think you know that by now.
Steven Jack Butala:
Exactly.
Jill K DeWit:
You turn us off but we’ll keep coming back.
Jill K DeWit:
Happy you can join us today, five days a week you can find us here on The Land Academy show.
Steven Jack Butala:
Join us next week for another interesting episode, you are not alone in your real estate ambition.
Jill K DeWit:
This is it.
Steven Jack Butala:
This is it.
Jill K DeWit:
This is the end, end of 2021.
Jill K DeWit:
Do you know what’s happening tomorrow? I am so excited. Let me tell you why I’m excited. 2021, I did not get my New Year’s Day Rose Parade, everyone.
Steven Jack Butala:
Aw, Jill.
Jill K DeWit:
I know, I grew up in Orange County and we used to get to go to the parade. We had friends that lived in Pasadena, we would get up really the early in the morning, we’d still be asleep, we had the station wagon back then. So my brother and I in the back of the station wagon had had pillows and sleeping bags and it was really early in the morning that we’d be cruise… Because the parade starts at eight and so 6:00AM or earlier, we’re in the car driving from Garden Grove to Pasadena, to Ken and Maureen’s house. This is the coolest thing, and their daughter Mara, and we would spend all day New Year’s Day with them.
Jill K DeWit:
And what would happen in the morning is the dads would all take the kids to go see the Rose Parades. I’d be on my dad’s shoulders, we’d get to go see the Rose Parade. It was so much fun and then we’d go back and the moms by then would be A, tipsy because they’re drinking mimosas all morning, but they would’ve prepared a feast for us. So we would feast.
Jill K DeWit:
And then the dads would all go to the Rose Bowl to see the football game, which was often a Michigan game-
Steven Jack Butala:
Oh, they went to the game?
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, the dads would go to the game. This year there’s no Michigan team in there, sorry. But I’m sure-
Steven Jack Butala:
Did they announce some bowl games?
Jill K DeWit:
Oh yeah, yeah, Ohio… Shoot, I don’t [inaudible 00:12:20].
Steven Jack Butala:
Is it all the bowls?
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah, yeah. They’re all, it’s all spelled out.
Steven Jack Butala:
I didn’t know that.
Jill K DeWit:
Yeah. It’s okay, honey. You have me.
Jill K DeWit:
Anyway, the dads would all go to the football game and the kids would go ice skating or something like that, it was fun.
Jill K DeWit:
But anyway, so I still love the Rose Parades, so I get up and do my own version of this. So I get up, I make my own little feast for all of us. I’m drinking my own mimosas and I am watching the Rose Parade. So if you-
Steven Jack Butala:
Your mom taught you how to drink a mimosa, that’s for sure.
Jill K DeWit:
She taught me how to drink. That’s true. So there’s two things you learned this week. There’s number two that my mom did right, independent, drink. Just kidding.
Steven Jack Butala:
Those go together, actually.
Jill K DeWit:
They kind of do. So if you are watching the Rose Parade, I will be right there with you. And this one will… You’ll kind of stumble out at… I don’t know, 10 o’clock and say, “What did I miss?” And I’ll say, “Oh, you got to see these dogs skiing.” Right? On a float, there’s always something like that. It’s cool.
Jill K DeWit:
So I hope you have a great, great and safe and fun evening tonight and a awesome morning with your family and we’re excited for 2022 with you. And thank you for tuning in. We hope you find this all valuable and I really do appreciate your support. If you haven’t already, please check out our YouTube channel, hit the subscribe button.
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Jill K DeWit:
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