The Art of Passive Income

Our guest today is Frank Rolfe, founder of MobileHomeUniversity.com . Frank has been an investor in the mobile home park business for 23 years and is ranked the 5th largest mobile home park owner in the country. You may remember Frank from The Best Passive Income Model Podcast where he appeared twice on and once on an old Coffee Talk episode, but this is his first appearance on The Art of Passive...

In this week’s Round Table discussion, Team Land Geek talks about building websites for your land business and whether they contribute to the success of your business or if they’re just a distraction. Joining Mark are: Scott Bossman Erik Peterson Tate Litchfield Scott Todd But first, Tate announces that in no way should Scott Todd be associated with Panera Bread ever again and Mark announces the l...

This week’s guest leaves both Mark & Scott scrambling for the sign-up button after he talks about his unique asset protection strategy—the Series LLC. Scott Smith, founder of Royal Legal Solutions , joins the guys to talk about this strategy that will not only protect your property to the greatest extent possible but also save you money in taxes and state fees. Scott was an aggressive litigator wh...

Knowing what they know now, the team dives deep into what they wish they would have done differently when they were first starting out in this business, if only they knew then. Joining Mark are: Scott Bossman Mike Zaino Erik Peterson Tate Litchfield Scott Todd It’s A Good Time To Be A Land Investor!  With an abundance of resources and knowledge available to land investors today, find out how the t...

In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, we talk with Kyle Stanley about how he became the Fearless Flipper! Kyle, who has had a lot of different careers in his 32 years… including sports anchor, found that he did not like taking orders for a living, so he started his own business. In 2016, when his dad became ill, he let his business go and moved back to his hometown and went full-time in...

Mistakes are an inevitable part of business and while they may not be fatal in the land investing business, they can cause some uncomfortable turbulence. In today’s best of   edition, we take a look back at a couple episodes where the team talks about some of the mistakes they have made in this business and gives advice that will help you avoid making the same. Scott Todd starts us off with a situ...

A Land Geek Student Success Story —In this week’s show, we are putting the student spotlight on Jim L. who we are going to keep anonymous because of his day job. Jim’s entrepreneurial spirit awakened in 2017 when he started his first business in Bitcoin, but knew it wasn’t sustainable so he set out to find something that was, one that would be a good fit for him. He started listening to the Side H...

Setting the record straight on a mischaracterization that leaves some people afraid to attend a Land Geek Bootcamp. In this Round Table discussion, join Mark and the team: Erik Peterson Mimi Schmidt Tate Litchfield Scott Todd ... as they clear up the misconception that Bootcamp is going to be one big pitch fest. In fact, just the opposite is true and the reviews alone should speak for themselves....

Our guest today has a deferment strategy when it comes to capital gains tax. He quips hundreds of business professionals with the Deferred Sales Trust tool to help his high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. Brett Swarts—CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions , is here to tell us how the Deferred Sales Trust works. His experience includes numerous deferred sales trusts, De...

Join us for a special edition of Round Table as the team grills Flight School student, Joey Chiarello! Joining Mark for this in depth Q & A session are: Erik Peterson Mike Zaino Tate Litchfield Scott Todd Joey stumbled across Mark & Scott on another podcast back in 2017 and was intrigued by the model, so he jumped straight into Flight School a month later. Fast forward three years, Joey is still w...

Our guest today, Dave Dubeau—marketer and real estate entrepreneur, has a 5-step solution to attract investors and raise capital so you can get the deal done! In 2010, Dave seller-financed rent-to-owns but hit a wall when he ran out of cash and credit with the perfect tenant/buyer ready to go. He found the adage, “ find a good deal and the money will find you ” was not true in the case for him. Af...

In today’s show, Team Land Geek is going to answer a question that gets asked often and that is, how much money do I need to get started in this business ? The entire gang joins Mark today to give you a wide range of answers. Scott Bossman Mike Zaino Mimi Schmidt Erik Peterson Tate Litchfield Scott Todd So, how much money do you need to get started and there’s a second part of the question, when s...

Are you a real estate investor who is coming up short on funds needed to close the deal on that great opportunity knocking at your door? Our guest today, Bruce Mack, is a professional real estate investor who has done over 102 million in transactions and has been a licensed financial advisor for over two decades. Bruce discovered that there is a big hole in the funding boat when he saw real estate...

Scaling your business is a vital part of the process to create passive income through the niche of raw land investing.  And in order to scale, you will need to create a bulletproof system that will allow you the freedom to work on the business, not in the business. So, how do you create a bulletproof system with your VA team? Joining Mark to answer that question are: Erik Peterson Scott Bossman Mi...

With maintenance costs eating up his rental profits, our guest started looking for new ways to generate enough side income to cover the monthly mortgage on his apartment buildings... and he found them! Al Williamson— LeadingLandlord.com , is a former civil engineer and the author of Building Wealth With Inner City Rentals: Success the Catalytic Landlord Way . And today, he joins us to talk about t...

We have a fun and interesting topic for you on this week’s Round Table discussion. The team is going to give an evaluation of each others superpowers that they think propelled them to success. Joining Mark for this fun exercise are: Scott Bossman Mimi Scmidt Erik Peterson Mike Zaino Scott Todd But first, the team shares their favorite Bootcamp moments... Scott Bossman —Meeting the people he’s been...

Today's guest is going to take one of the biggest pain points in your business, bookkeeping, and solve it. Ben Day, owner of LionShareBookkeeping.com , gives business owners back their time, money and sanity. He specializes in small businesses and real estate investors: from wholesalers, flippers, and rentals. Listen in as Ben talks about all the moving pieces of accounting and why, as a business...

In this first recorded episode of 2020, the gang's all back together and ready to discuss their newbie expectations when first starting out in the land business and what the reality really was. Joining Mark are: Tate Litchfield Mike Zaino Mimi Schmidt Erik Peterson Scott Bossman Scott Todd Everybody comes into this business with some sort of expectations, whether it’s with high hopes of getting ri...

Our guest today is Scott Krone—founder of Coda Management Group . Coda teams up with investors to purchase strategically located, undervalued warehouse space and convert it into climate controlled self-storage facilities. They are a top three operator. Scott began his career in multifamily 25 years ago and when the crash came in '08 he began buying into the commercial realm and started seeing that...

In this week’s Round Table, the team rings in the new year by taking a look back at a few of their favorite things in 2019. Joining Mark are: Scott Bossman Tate Litchfield Scott Todd Without giving away too much, listen in as the guys talk about their: Favorite land deals Favorite books Favorite shows Favorite habits Favorite purchases—$100 or less When it comes to favorite deals, find out who sai...

Today’s guest has a really intriguing niche, in fact, it leaves both Mark & Scott with that shiny object twinkle in their eyes. Brad Smotherman joins the guys to talk about his unique niche within the niche of house flipping. Brad is a professional house flipper but the way that he sells houses is very unique and as Mark says, very cool . What makes Brad’s strategy so unique from the typical house...

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca There is always some level of fear when it comes to scaling your land business—whether it’s spending the money, losing control, or putting your trust into the integrity of others, the fear of the unknown can be debilitating. So how do you get over those fears in order to grow? Join...

On today’s podcast we talk with The Mindful Landlord, Terrie Schauer , about how to run a rental property while keeping your peace of mind. Terrie is a real estate coach with a PhD in nothing to do with real estate. And today, she talks to us about how to reduce the headaches in rental properties by bringing zen like qualities to the landlord experience. Terrie has been managing rental properties...

In this week’s Christmas eve edition of The Land Geek Round Table, Team Geek is going to stuff your stockings full with a treasure trove of tech goodies that will assist in the growth of your land business! Listen in as the team goes over: Optimization Delegation Automation Joining Mark this week are: Erik Peterson Mimi Schmidt Tate Litchfield Scott Todd What comes first, automation or delegation?...

Just a year after starting their land investing journey, our guests have completed over 30 deals and have $2,500 a month in passive income coming in, working just 5-10 hours a week on the business... they were able to pay for Flight School with their first two deals. Land Geek students, Evan Bollier and Chloe Bawmann, join us on today’s show to talk about what their journey has been like so far an...