There’s Way More Investment Money Available than Good Deals (LA 1903)

Transcript:Steven Jack Butala:Jack and Jill here.Jill K DeWit:Hi.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.Steven Jack Butala:Today Jill and I talk about how there's way more investment money available than good deals.Jill K DeWit:It's funny, at least in our world, and I don't know if it's us, if it's the people we hang out with, or what, because I'm hearing other people need to do these big funding money raises. Does this make sense?Steven Jack Butala:Keep going with this, because this is the root of... Just keep, I love where this thought train is going.Jill K DeWit:Okay. All I hear is people like, "What do you mean you have money? Everybody else is going to do these big corporate capital funding raise movements." And it's sparking all these new websites and new ways to do that and put accredited and non-accredited investors together to pool to get together a couple million dollars. We were on a call today. Well, we want to save it for the show? I'll just finish this little thing. We were on a call today with an attorney and he about fell apart when he said, "Well, do you guys have any trouble coming up with the money?" We're like, "Oh gosh no, the money's the easy part." And he looked at us kind of funny. So I'm like, "Is it really that hard?"Steven Jack Butala:Later in the week I'm going to talk about this in great detail on Jack Thursday, and what Jill's saying is correct. But just keep this in mind, and this is what we founded. I founded Land Academy and my whole entire land investing career was built on fee-less transactions. And I don't mean stock market fee-less where you save $0.13. I mean like, "Let's remove all the fees out of these deals." And when people raise capital, there's huge, huge profit to be made from just raising capital. It may never get placed and that's the issue.Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the land investors.com online community. It's free.Jill K DeWit:Joseph asked... I saw this in Discord, this is cool. I have my first potential $1 million acquisition. I'm working on getting under contract. Up until now, I haven't needed a due diligence phase and wording to cover me on my acquisitions because I haven't been that big. That being said, does anyone have an all-encompassing purchase agreement/contract they would be willing to share that covers the due diligence phase, earnest money release statement, inspection periods, special situations, special stipulations, et cetera, et cetera? Or any direction on where to pay for one that someone has used personally is appreciated.Steven Jack Butala:So there's a bunch of things going on in this question. First of all, congratulations for buying for a million. I hope you're selling for three. That's amazing. Are there any standard templated agreements for this kind of thing? No. In fact, in commercial real estate, which is where I cut my teeth on a million years ago, there are no template agreements. What we did was when a buyer of commercial real estate or potential buyer wanted to buy something, we went back and looked at purchase agreements from deals that we've done in the past as a office. This was before computers. And we pull the paper out of the file and kind of...Jill K DeWit:Copy the wording?Steven Jack Butala:Yeah, borrow from it, and what's appropriate, what's not, and use it that way. That would be the best. You do the right thing by putting this in discord and I hope somebody pipes in and provides some type of agreement. Otherwise, I would really recommend you get a good, well recommended real estate lawyer to put together an agreement. There's no way that a title agent's going to do it. Even a real good commercial title, there's lots of commercial specific title agents out there, so they might have a real good solid recommendation for you on getting a lawyer....