55: The LandGeek, 5000 Raw Land Flips Through Automation
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States. He has been actively investing in Real Estate and Raw Land since 2001 and has completed over 5,000 unique transactions. Mark’s company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company.
During the show, Mark will share how he creates passive income in raw land and discuss the systems and automation in real estate that contributes to his success. He will unfold key benefits of owning raw land, how to find quality property, and ways you can start maximizing your investments today.
Links:
Thelandgeek.com
Youtube
@TheLandGeek
Facebook
Linkedin
Where are we:
Phoenix, Arizona - Mark
Spain - Sam & Johnny FD
Book:
Call me Ted - Ted Turner
Time Stamps:
05:18 - Getting into land real estate
07:44 - Tax lien & tax deed investing
09:18 - Getting raw land to cash flow
11:35 - Automating through software
13:20 - How Mark got the name “The Land Geek”
13:44 - Benefits of owning raw land
16:35 - Finding good value property
19:25 - Looking for quality land
23:26 - Before making an offer
26:58 - Protection and liability
30:55 - Common mistakes made
33:28 - Getting a call from the FBI
35:30 - How to get started
37:40 - Mark’s personal investments
40:27 - Buying and selling land
44:10 - Passive property sales
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| 0:00.0 | Hey bosses. This week's sponsor is Fundrise, bringing you the future of real estate investing. |
| 0:04.9 | Get started for as little as $1,000 at Invest like a boss.com slash fundrise. Find out more during the break. |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome to the Invest like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Martz and I'm Johnny FD. We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss. |
| 0:19.4 | Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, |
| 0:22.8 | business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash. |
| 0:27.7 | Hey, guys, this is Johnny, and welcome to episode 55 of the Invest Like a Boss podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm here, Sam Marks. |
| 0:34.1 | Hey, Johnny. |
| 0:34.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:35.5 | Greetings from Spain. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah, this is really cool that we are... Marks. Hey, Johnny. Hey, everybody. Greetings from Spain. Yeah. |
| 0:42.6 | This is really cool that we are all the way out here in Spain. |
| 0:46.8 | I just got done hiking this weekend in world backcountry. |
| 0:52.2 | And this episode that we're going to have with Mark Podolsky with the Land Geek, |
| 0:55.1 | it's going to be perfect because when I was out there, |
| 1:03.6 | I was thinking, I can own some of this. This episode is exciting. This is my style episode. It's a little bit of mix of business. It's a mix of investing. It's entertaining. And Mark is a very |
| 1:10.6 | smart and inspirational guy. but just to get everyone |
| 1:14.0 | excited Mark has flipped successfully over 5,000 pieces of raw land which is just insane. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah so if you guys don't understand what raw land is, you've never really heard about it. |
| 1:24.6 | Basically imagine a plot of land could be 20, 30, 40 acres of land |
| 1:30.3 | that is miles and miles and miles away from the smallest towns. So not somewhere that you |
| 1:36.4 | would buy a land to build your house in California or something, but something kind of just |
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