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Creative Capital Podcast 380: How to Get Dirt Rich with Mark Podolsky

Creative Capital

Josh Ferrari

Investing, Business

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What if you could flip raw land for 300% to 1000% ROI—without dealing with tenants, toilets, or termites? 

In this episode, Mark Podolsky (The Land Geek) reveals how he built a highly profitable, automated land investing business—and why boring investments often make the most money.

But here’s where it gets even wilder…

  • Will AI clones handle our emails, underwrite deals, and maybe even replace us?

  • Are flying cars actually happening—or just another futuristic fantasy?

  • Why no one's lending you $5K for land deals (and how to get creative with financing)

  • The “set and forget” system that turns land into passive cash flow

And if you’re curious about land investing, Mark’s giving away his book Dirt Rich for free—just pay shipping! 

🎧 Listen now & rethink what’s possible in real estate!

 

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Creative Capital podcast.

0:08.2

You're dying to learn about how you can create wealth through real estate investing.

0:11.5

Then you come to the right place.

0:13.7

Join in every week as we go over the ends and outs of real estate investing

0:17.8

and learn how you too can become financially free.

0:22.4

Mark Podolsky. What's going on, man? Good to have you out on the show with this today.

0:26.8

Josh Ferrari. Thank you so much for having me. Exciting energy. Yeah, yeah. I'm really excited about this

0:34.4

and your podcast is amazing. So thanks for having me.

0:39.1

Looking forward to it.

0:43.7

Well, all those out there currently listening to the show that really have no idea who you are.

0:50.0

Just give us a brief background on yourself and tell us at the end of the day, what got you interested in real estate?

1:06.1

So if we rewind the tape 25 years, I was a miserable, micro-managed, 45-minute commute to working back investment banker, specializing in mergers and acquisitions with private equity groups.

1:08.2

And Josh, it got so bad for me.

1:16.0

I wouldn't get the Sunday blues anticipating Monday coming around. I'd get the Friday blues anticipating the weekend going by really fast and having to be back at work on Monday. So my firm hires this guy and he's telling me that as a side hustle,

1:21.8

he's buying up raw land, pennies on the dollar, tax deductions. He's flipping them online and is making a 300% return on his money.

1:30.6

And Josh, I'm looking at companies all day long and a great company.

1:33.6

Great.

1:34.5

It's 15% EBITDA margins or free cash flow.

1:37.5

Average companies 10%.

1:38.8

I'm looking at companies all day long less than 10%.

1:41.3

So of course, I don't believe him.

1:43.9

So I've gotten three grand

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