He Risked His Life Savings on Real Estate… Here's What Happened | Ep. 1,178

Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing

Rod Khleif

Passive, Estate, Family, Business, Management, Income, Multifamily, Apartment, Education, Multi, Property, Commercial, Real, Investing, Investor

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Markian Sich is a Ukrainian American Naval Academy graduate and former Marine CH53E pilot who turned military leadership into entrepreneurship. He built ADPI, the nation's premier military real estate education community, and today he owns and operates multifamily properties across Indiana along with a 46 bed memory care facility in Georgia. His greatest pride is his family which includes his incredible wife, their three young boys, and his refugee mother in law and sister in law who live with them. Everything he works for, builds, and pursues is for them.

Here's some of the topics we covered:

From Marine Corps Pilot to Multifamily Powerhouse
Why the U.S. Real Estate Tax Code Is the Ultimate Wealth Weapon
The Apartment Deal That Helped Markian's Father Retire Early
The Wild Story Behind Markian's First Ever Rental Property
How Markian Bet His Parents Life Savings on a Once in a Lifetime Deal
The Explosive Opportunity Rising in Senior Living
The Game Changing Seminar That Led to Markian's Senior Living Acquisition
Master Lease Options Revealed in a Way You've Never Heard Before
The Growing Memory Care Crisis Sweeping Across the United States

To find out more about partnering or investing in a multifamily deal: Text Partner to 72345 or email [email protected]

For more about Rod and his real estate investing journey go to www.rodkhleif.com

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0:00.0	So let me ask you a question. What is it that you focus on the most? Do you focus on success or do you find yourself thinking about your fear of failure? You see, the power you bring into your life with a success-driven mindset is this week's own your power clip. Now let me brag for a minute. My warriors who are my mentorship coaching students now own over 270,000 multifamily units. In fact,
0:22.5	we know it's more than that. We can't even keep track anymore. They also own a lot of senior
0:26.5	housing and student housing and self-storage and mobile home parks and retail mixed use and
0:31.2	industrial flex space, you name it. Now, if you want to pay for speed and capitalize on the
0:36.9	incredible opportunities that are here with the distressed assets because of, you know, operators in trouble because of these interest rates, talk to my massive action team.
0:45.8	So to apply to my incredible warrior program, text the word crush to 7, 2, 3, 4, 5.
0:51.2	Again, that's crush to 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, and we will speak soon. All right, let's get to it.
0:58.4	Welcome. This is the Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing Podcast.
1:03.9	This is where you'll learn strategies to help you achieve lifetime financial freedom through
1:08.1	real estate investment. Your host, Rod Cleef, has owned over 2,000 homes and apartments.
1:14.7	And he brings experts in all aspects of real estate investment and management onto the show.
1:20.7	Now, here's your host, Rod Clef.
1:24.4	Welcome to another edition of Lifetime Cashflow Through Real Estate Investing.
1:27.7	I'm Rod Cleef and I'm thrilled you're here and I'm really going to enjoy this interview today.
1:32.0	I know I am because it's a friend of mine who has been in the business a long time.
1:38.0	Actually, I don't want to be braggadocious, but I think I may have played a small role in that. But his name is Markian Sitch, Sitch. Sitch. Sitch. I got it. Like the situation. Situation. Oh, got it funny. Oh, that's awesome. You know, he's a, he's a Marine Corps vet. He's from Ukraine. And he's also CEO of active duty passive income, which is the largest military real estate
2:02.0	education community really in the world. And I've spoken at your events. And I think I'm
2:09.8	trying to speak at the next one here. Eric's trying to get me lined up for that. But welcome
2:14.2	to the show, brother. Rod, it is. I mentioned this when I first walked in here
2:18.2	it's a little bit surreal I know a lot of people probably said that but truly
2:21.9	this is this podcast is what gave me my start wow it got me and actually I
2:28.5	remember I don't remember the number of the episode but I remember the exact line
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