Do you have the right personality to be successful at land investing?

In their latest podcast episode, Jack and Jill discuss taking a break from land acquisitions during the holiday season and the 5 steps to completely succeeding in your land career.

Both topics relate to personality, determination and ultimately, how badly you want to succeed at buying and selling land.

The amount of time you dedicate to your land business is completely up to you, but whether you succeed is determined by the amount of work you put in.

We think one of the greatest things about the land investing business is the opportunity to plan ahead so that you can continue to effectively manage your business while also enjoying the holidays and spending time with friends and family.

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:I am Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:And I'm Jill DeWit. And this is the Land Academy Show.

Steven Jack Butala:Today we are talking about taking a break from land acquisitions during the holiday season. Spoiler alert, is it a good idea or not? Jill's got some strong feelings about it. And then a little later on in the show, we'll talk about the five steps to completely succeed in your land career.

Jill K DeWit:It's funny, as you were reading the topic for the first one, taking a break, it's almost like it sounds like we're promoting it. Yep, here's what we're doing as far as taking a break, and a lot of people do that. There's one person I like on social media. It's Marie Forleo. And she's very loud at letting the planet know her whole office and her whole staff takes a full two weeks off for Christmas. We have a very different world. We can't do that. I'm like, if we took two weeks off for Christmas, holy moly, what would I miss? I'm not kidding. Spoiler alert. We would miss a lot.

Steven Jack Butala:Each week on the show, we answer questions from our Land Academy Member Discord forum. We review land acquisitions from our weekly member webinars and we take a deep dive into two land-related topics by popular request. If you want to sneak peek at all this, please check out our Discord forum. Go to landacademy.com. It's free.

Jill K DeWit:What is our question here? Zane wrote, "Hey, all. What is the difference between the situs address and the actual mailing address? The addresses from my mailer are all the same, situs and mail, in most cases all in Ohio." That's funny. You want to explain it?

Steven Jack Butala:Yeah. So in the simplest terms, and I'm really glad you asked this because a lot of people were wondering the same thing. This falls under one of those things where Jill and I are... We know what it is, but that's just because we've had so many years of experience doing this, so I'm glad you asked this very clear and simple question. And here's the answer. Situs address is where the land is. The mail address is where the tax bill gets sent. So, everybody gets a tax bill, everybody. It's a pretty cool system when you think about it. It's set up for us all to make a bunch of money. Probably your home address or your business address is where you get a bill sent so that you can actually old-school-

Jill K DeWit:Pay the taxes.

Steven Jack Butala:... tear it off, write a check, send it back in. If you're 182, that's what you're going to do. That's how you pay your taxes. That's how-

Jill K DeWit:Property taxes.

Steven Jack Butala:... it would go on forever. The reason, quite simply, is that most land doesn't have a post office address. Nobody lives there, and no one has applied for it. I didn't know this until I started buying and selling land. You have to apply for a post office address. It's not automatic. And so, what you have is two very clear addresses in every single dataset, a situs address, which is usually blank, and then a mailing address, which is a full-blown post office address where you get mail sent to.The reason Zane's asking this, I think, is it poses this interesting question when you're doing a ...