Should You Do Quick Land Flips or Cashflow?

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All right. Imagine having the freedom to live life on your terms with fast cash flips or steady passive income with owner financing that pays you while you sleep. Some investors chase quick wins to build instant wealth, while others play the long game for consistent monthly cash flow. But most people get stuck choosing paths based on flashy guru advice instead of their own financial goals. In this episode, you'll learn exactly when to flip for fast cash and when to hold investments for lasting wealth. No hype, just clear strategies to match your goals. Ready to invest smarter? Let's dive in. Welcome to Nightcap.

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I'm clapping for myself, which I rarely do.

Well done.

Thank you.

Thank you. On this episode of Nightcap and Artifacts of Income, should you do quick land flips or cash flow? And joining me, as always, is the Zen master. Breathe in the mailing, breathe out the marketing. Mike Zano. Mike, how are you?

Doing great. Thank you for asking. How are you?

Pulse is still normal. Respiration's fine. I can't complain. Joining us is John Burnett. Handsome Rob. Jb. Hey, Cheers, John. Good to see you.

Good to be seen.

And last but not least, dude buddy, the nightcap OG Scott. Bossman. Cheers.

Cheers, brother. Good to see you. Just a little warning to all the folks out there. We're a little giggly tonight, so watch out.

Little giggly.

All right.

Let's get to business, though. So, Mike, you've got. You've got some relationship with this. I have some relationship with this. I don't know about John Scott, but I know about you. So let's talk about who should do quick land flips and who should be investing for passive income in cash flow.

Well, ultimately, we all need that cash flow, but sometimes there are circumstances in the beginning that may push you in one direction. Myself, as you're pointing out, I needed to get rid of that 40 grand in debt, and I wanted to do as quick as possible, so I opted for quick flips. I did a lot of wholesale. You know, I'd buy, and the disposition was very simple. Other investors, I gave them a good deal. They wanted more, and I kept giving them more. So I was able to pay that debt off in a year. I kept doing those for, oh, almost a couple years after that, only because I was a. No one ever paid me Mark. That was like lawyer doctor money. If you look at my hourly rate, it was crazy. It was better than lawyer doctor money. So I was just caught. I was hooked. But I wasn't building that lasting, you know, recurring income, so I had to adjust it at some point, but I think it can serve a purpose. But I do, I tell people all the time. A healthy business I think is going to do a combination of building passive income. If you're mailing consistently, you're going to have so much deal flow that you might land arbitrage, some you might wholesale, some you might, you're going to sell a whole bunch of owner finances, you're going to have options because you're going to have so much deal flow that you're going to be able to do that. So I think a healthy land business can do, you know, a version of all of this. I just, I'll stop there. I don't want to go too deep into it. That's my initial thoughts.

No, no, I, I, I like it. I think it's, I think it's great. I mean I'd be curious with Handsome Rob thinks if he's just gonna be like, no, it's all about cash or cash flow.

Yeah, I mean I like, I like both a lot. So, but for me, part of it just comes down to what you're pursuing, right? What your end goals are. And for most of us it's time, freedom, right? Like it's great to have a bunch of money in the bank, but at the same time like ultimately like, like when I got into this it was just I want more time with my family, right. And having a bunch of money in the bank doesn't necessarily accomplish that. And so I like having recurring revenue. I like having passive income because that affords me the flexibility that I like. So I took a, took a trip last week and I'm not worried about paying the bills. Like I'm not worried about paying myself. Right. All of it, all of it just comes in and then I also like it is you can easily go bankrupt waiting on a million dollar payday in certain real estate spheres. Right. And so I think like I've, I've done some bigger deals. I've really, I've enjoyed them. It's been fun. But I like having the passive income that floats me where sometimes these deals take 7, 8, 9 months, right to pan out and you're, you're, you got a lot of money in them. And so it's, it's just nice to have, have my income floating across that, that so that's kind of been my, my, my experience.

I love it. I love it. It's so funny is, am I the only one? When John says it's great to have a bunch of money in the bank, I immediately think of Scrooge McDuck. Is it just me? Like, are you guys picturing that?

Ducktales. That was an amazing show.

Yeah. All right, dude, buddy, Nightcap. OG Quick land flips for cash or owner financing for cash flow. What do you think?

So there's something to be said for passive income, right? And 10 years ago, I was in the rat race, and I'm. I'm thinking to myself, okay, I need to get out of this rat race, so how am I going to do that, right? I need a side hustle. I need something. I need some passive income. Like I was a big reader of, you know, Robert Kiyosaki and, and you know, other. Other. Other podcast people out there who are talking about passive income and how can we do this, right? And to me, I think it is. It's both, right? But. But there's no better feeling than when you can wake up on the 1st of the month and you know what's coming in that month, right? And it's pretty cool because when you start this business, a few hundred dollars means a lot, and then you keep at it, and a few thousand dollars means a lot more. And then you keep at it and you replace your income and you replace your fixed expenses in life. And you know, you wake up on the. What I love is you wake up on the 1st of the month every month, and it's always a little bit better. Like I have a raise compared to last month, right, because of passive income and that money's coming in this month. I don't have to worry about it, right? So there's a great peace of mind for me with passive income. And that's why I love this land business. That's why I love the fact that you taught me how to do this, Mark. Buy an asset at a deep discount and then turn around and owner finance it over time. You control that asset over time, and you're going to create a performing asset here that can help you replace all these bills in your life, right? And, and it buys back initially your, your gas payments and your mortgage payments and your car payments and your bills in life. But then, but then it buys back your time because you can get to the point where, oh, you know what? Like I'm John Burnett. I'm bringing in this much per month. I can take the entire month off and I don't have to do any cash flips if I don't want to. The cash flips are nice. I'm not going to say they aren't. And you need to do you need to do some cash flips sometimes, because if you own or finance everything, you'd run out of money, Right. You need to infuse some cash back into your business.

I don't know.

I don't know.

You don't know?

I don't know. Because I'm going to disagree. And this, this is my argument on the, on the, on the quick land flip thing, Right. So here's the question, and I'll just ask Mike.

Right?

Mike, just between you and me, forget those other guys.

Just you.

Okay.

Would you say there are more people.

That.

Okay, finally we're alone.

Okay. Just us now.

Go ahead. Okay, here's a question. Do you think that there's more people that would want to pay cash for an asset? Let's say it's $10,000 and they should give you $10,000. Or do you think there's more people that would put, say, $1,000 down and.329amonth at 9% interest?

Yeah. All day long.

Bigger market.

Yeah, all day long. All day long. The people are going to be able to make payments as more people because this is so easy and we make it irresistible. Right?

Okay, so. Okay, exactly. So here's the math, right? If I want to. If I need cash instead of wholesaling it like you did.

Right?

So let's say my cost basis on that $10,000 piece of property is $3,000.

Yeah.

Now I sell it for $10,000.

Yeah.

And then I get my down payment of $1,000. Now my cost basis is $2,000. I can go and I can flip the note.

Yes.

To an investor. 50 cents on the dollar. I can sell for $5,000. That's my quick cash.

Yes. If you need it there.

If I need it. That way I can get a bigger buyer pool and I can get my cash.

Yes, yes. That is so true. And I've done that. It's a very strategic move. It's a lot quicker than waiting six, seven months for that cash deal to flip through the owner financing creates a vehicle for you to get cash quickly.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. I. I feel. I feel bad now that that Sky. Can we bring him back?

I. I don't have any power here.

I have no. We have no power.

Are you guys done? You guys done cuddling now? Can we come back?

Yeah.

That was awesome. Yeah. I feel like it was like we were, like, in the get Smart, like, glass enclosure and just only like, no one else could hear what we were saying.

The cone of silence.

The cone of silence.

Looks like Jerry is agreeing with you, Mark, here.

This.

Right. Am I the only one that can see the quote there? It says, everyone loves quick cash, but owner financing opens up to a much larger market. You're right. And what you just said, because you can convert that into cash anytime you want, right?

So why am I gonna. Why am I gonna wait so long? Or why am I going to limit my. My buyers? Because I say, oh, I, I need cash. The market doesn't care what you need.

No, no.

You have to market what it wants and then be flexible and sell the note and get your cash.

You know what? Some of the, you know, the biggest naysayers of owner financing is that it's too difficult to manage. Right. The problem is they don't have proper. They don't have proper workflows. They don't have the proper software. They haven't implemented the proper virtual assistant. So if you were to do it all yourself, it could be a bit complex. But I always tell everybody, Mark, the beautiful thing about the. Here's the good news and here's the bad news about land investing. It's boring. Now, the returns are great, but we do the same thing, Groundhog Day, over and over and over again. The boring nature allows it to be. Ah, Scott Bossman's word. Systematized. I finally can say it after 10 years. It allows it to be.

Can we give it up for Mike? Good job. Systematize.

Finally.

We finally got that down. Because it's boring. It can be put into it. They can be workflows. So these, these naysayers just don't know how we do what we do. And, well, that's okay. We'll just do more of what we do and they can do what they do. Yeah.

As Taylor Swift is going to say, the haters are going to hate, hate, hate, hate.

Right?

But the haters don't understand. They literally don't understand, like, oh, I know what I want to do. I want to get into the job. Here's another job for me. I'm going to flip and flip and flip. It's a hustle. It's a job. How is that easier than building a business with systems and processes and automation? I do it one time.

You don't look very stressed with 2,000 land notes. You don't look like a stressed guy to me right now. That I'm looking at.

I'm 93 years old. I have not aged. No stress. And John, 78 years old. Look at it.

I know.

I mean, that's crazy, right? That's what the Note, that's what the no business gives you.

It's.

It's stress free because you can, you know, work when you want, where you want, with whom you want. That passive income solves so many problems. It's all about freedom. That's the why. Why are you doing this? For freedom.

Yeah.

You know, I love it.

I'm just waiting.

Freedom.

Absolutely. I actually think we should do that for next episode. We should just paint our faces.

We all just come. Yeah. I like it. Isn't it?

You're laying down there. The guy's torturing you. Like, why do you do these land deals?

Freedom. Somebody. Somebody made a post in the land geek group today with a William Wallace gif.

Oh.

And it wasn't the freedom gift, it was the hold gift. You remember when he's saying hold, hold when they're going into battle.

Oh, yes, yes.

And because. Because he was talking. I think what he was getting at in the land geek group was there are a lot of moving parts of this business. There. There's kind of a dip here and there. And you need to hold the line, right? Like you need to have the grit to hold the line, to. To stay the course, to not give up, to have. Oh, I thought of this the other day. You've heard the term grunt work, right? It's land investing. It's grit work. This is the grit work.

Oh, that's. That's a mic drop right there, right?

Grit work.

This is great. Wow.

Really? For mic drop only 15 minutes in. This is not.

Yeah, I know. 15 minutes in and. And 15 people watching. Did you all hear that?

Yeah, we.

Literally 15 million people streaming night cap right now.

Yes.

One day.

One day.

But.

Oh, here, somewhere.

Here, let me read the post to you. Can I. So this is from. This is from Land Ranch. So I don't know who that is, but Land Ranch said just a quick note of encouragement to our land community. If you're in the dip or if you have mailers that haven't been coming in at all or as fast as you would like, or if you're just feeling like this may not be the business for you. Remember the words of the magnificent Scotsman with an Australian accent. Wow. So just hold the line. Right. Just stay the course.

Yeah.

And that will. That will then lead to. Which I put on the post like we've been talking about. Where'd it go? Freedom.

Freedom.

I put the freedom gift in there.

Yeah.

Did I ever tell you guys that story? I was at that. That mastermind group and I met another land guy. And he lived in Utah. He would do one deal a year. He would buy for a million dollars.

Oh, yeah.

And he'd flip for, like, 2 or 3 million. But, you know, it take him a long time. And then he read Dirt Rich. He's like, man, I like your model so much better. And in the investment banking world, we would call that a customer concentration issue. Because if you're. If that's the only way you're doing something and that goes away, you have no business. He literally has no business. And it's great. Like, yeah, I mean, he'd be more popular at parties than I would be.

Right.

Like, no one's gonna be like, no one's gonna be impressed with my. My quick flip. I'm getting another 299amonth coming in. Like, boring, as Mike would say, as opposed to like a, you know, I made $2 million today. But the risk reward ratio and the fact that he has no freedom. He has to keep doing it. He's paying taxes. He's got to do it again and again. It's stressful. He's younger than me, but he looks like, you know, way older because of the stress.

Yeah.

I talked to a guy one time. He was. He was trained in a. He went through some different training in. In land investing. And, you know, again, I think, you know what, there are a lot of great educators out there, and, you know, these educators teach people to flip. And I talked to him, and I said, you know, how many flips did you do last year? 50. He did 50 cash flips. And these are higher value cash flips. I'm like, so just curious to know, like, what prompted you to book the call today with. With Land Geek? He's like, scott, I'm exhausted. He said, scott, I'm exhausted. It's so transactional. Right? So what if you could get to the point where you have 5, 10, 20, 30, $40,000 a month passive income coming in, but do some cash deals on top of that. Wouldn't that be a little bit better and a little bit less stress for.

Just sold me.

You sold me. I. I remember Roberto. Do you guys remember the Roberto story where he, like, this woman wanted to pay $40,000 cash for his property, and he was, like, upset about it. He was like, no. Only taking turns. No, Roberto, no, no, no. He wants to do the cash. Like, don't say no.

Like, you still have to say no. Customer service.

He's like, no.

That brings up another point. Mark, don't you. I don't know about you guys. But I kind of, I, I love it and hate it when I wake up and I look at my email and there, and there's a geek paid notice that comes in that says so and so paid off their note. I'm like, God, really?

I know.

You paid off this note four years early.

I know.

It makes it too easy for them, Mark. Geek pay makes it too easy for them.

Yeah, I know, I know, but what are we supposed to do? I, I, there's no way around it. I mean, you know, it is, it, you know, it's mixed emotions.

Yeah.

Because there's a part of you that loves the cash. There's probably like, oh yeah, totally, you know, my passive income, which went, no.

We'Re not going to turn down the cash deals. Like I, I had a cash deal today. I bought it for a thousand and sold it for 3, 900.

Yeah, that pays for your lunch.

You're gonna turn that down?

Yeah, I mean, you know, that's, that's a, that's a Scott Bossman lunch.

How snobby are we? Like $2900, right? I only got $2900. Bossman Place.

It's not a huge cash flip, but I tripled my money on it.

Yeah.

I mean, come on, how come there's.

Gonna be a day where like, like, literally, like Bernet's just gonna be completely out of touch his passive income so much and he's just gonna be like, like the, like the common persons that have nothing in common with him. I, I feel badly for him in a way.

Yeah. It's all right.

Oh, look at this. Pre recorded or the host reading the chat at all. Did we miss something?

D. Ruiz, it's, it's pre recorded.

Are you, are you enjoying the show?

Yeah. Right. Are you enjoying the show and yeah, I mean live from anywhere.

It's Tuesday night, but we haven't taken questions yet. I think we usually take one the second half hour.

Yeah, we take it in the second half hour when Mark, he disappears and there's no filter in the second half of the show.

It's, yeah, it's when it gets a little rowdier.

Yeah. We really stopped pouring the bourbon.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I mean that's, even then like John's like, you know, this bourbon hasn't been.

Aged 80 years like I used to.

John's the Highlander. Yeah.

I've got, I've got the Athletic today.

So I think Athletic brewing is fantastic, by the way.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty. All right.

Mike, would you drink a non alcoholic beer?

Never I don't see the point.

I don't see the point. No. If you, if it's okay. It's a sunny, hot day. Okay.

Yeah.

You get the umami of a beer without any of the side effects of, you know, what you in Boston are going to have tonight.

No side effects.

I don't see the point.

Bad sleep.

Yeah. When you've got like maybe a little John kids under the age of nine, it's just nice to not be tired, so. Or more tired.

That's great.

Do I want to eat a fake cookie or a fake ice cream? No, I want the real thing.

You know, it's a good point. I, but I would, I actually would eat like.

Okay.

Like the Halo top ice cream. It's like fake ice cream, but it's pretty good.

Not bad.

There's no sugar, like, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

But I think you have a point though. Everything in moderation. Yeah.

You know, I just wouldn't drink that beer.

Look at this comment. Jeff Storley, by the way. Jeff Storley. Good to see you, brother. Thank you for your service.

Hey, Jeff. What up?

My favorite thing about the landing model is the systems you've taught me. Yeah. So should we. Okay, so let's talk about systems.

Yeah.

For a second.

Systematization system.

He did it again.

That was different. It was different. It's fine. Yeah.

So you know, there are a lot of moving parts in the business, but it is systems and it is software. It is automation. And once you've built that machine, you have that passive income machine bringing in constant recurring income. But you have that flexibility if you need cash. I mean, I was just talking. Who's.

I talked.

I was talking to Kirk this afternoon and he's got a daughter going to college.

Kirk Parent.

Yeah, Kirk. So I said to him, like, look, you can reverse engineer it. You can create enough notes where your borrowers are paying for the, the college per month, or you can sell your notes right now, a portion of them and just pay cash for the next four years. Whatever you want to do. Like there's so many different ways to do it. When you know, he's. I think he's like 50,000amonth passive. So he's got flexibility. That's. That's a big note portfolio.

Yeah.

Oh, Jeff. To me, it doesn't matter if it's is cash returns, as long as I'm. I'm not doing it all.

Yeah. Yeah.

So that, so basically the freedom piece to Jeff is the, the team is, is doing the work.

Right. Heard from so many people, Mark, over the years that what they learned at Land Geek with the systems and the delegation has carried them to higher success than their other business ventures as well.

No, for sure. I mean, that really is the Trojan horse of our, of our business is that, yeah, we're teaching how to buy and sell raw land, but we're really teaching how to be a CEO and create a business that's scalable and that can grow in predictable revenue, but also that you have freedom as well. Nobody wants a business that owns them. You want a business you own. And, and this is, I think, the best way to do it. Now, it's not like flipping on a switch. I mean, it takes, it takes some time. Like as, as Scott said, like, you, you know, you gotta do some grit work. I, I, you know, and the thing is, like, that's what makes it great too. That's what makes it so satisfying is, is the hard.

Yeah.

Because then you look back, you're like, okay, I did it.

Right.

If it were easy, you wouldn't even appreciate it, you know, Same reason I don't give my kids money. Too easy. Go, go earn it. Get that self esteem.

You don't give your kids money.

I don't give. Not this age, though.

That's awesome. That's, that is really awesome, actually.

I think in their 30s, I'll help them.

Right.

Like, like, you know, when you get that age where you're growing a family, it's like, oh, that really wouldn't help me. Right, right. They're doing the thing and it's like, oh, okay, this could help. Like, all right, I would do that, but not, not in their 20s.

I got it. Yeah, I hear you for sure.

I don't want to rob them of that feeling. We bought three properties in Arizona. Oh, Glenn Scott.

Sorry. No, that's all right. This is from druiz. We bought 37 properties in Arizona. Have a realtor asking me to sell two parcels for 4,500. Recent sales put those at 3,700 each. It's a win because I bought them. Right. But I've not done a note yet what to do. Well, I mean, you have options here, right? You bought 37 properties at a deep discount. I, I would probably take kind of a hybrid approach with it.

Yeah. What's the problem? I would tell her, yeah, you can have, you can have two of them for 5k each. Make 1300 in each one and then go sell the finance the rest of them.

Yeah.

Is it two for 4,500 or two for 4,500 a piece.

That's what I was looking at. I'm thinking he's saying two for 4,500 each because the way he puts it at. But it's good, good, good analysis, John. I'm not sure we don't have enough details.

Yeah.

John, can you upload a spreadsheet?

Working on one right now. That's great. Yeah.

Yeah, two for 4,500 total, so.

Oh, no, no, no. That realtor is going to pay more.

Yeah, well, it all depends on what you bought, what we bought them for, though, so. So you said we bought 30, some properties. We don't know what he bought them for. Right.

Oh, I thought he said 3, 700 each sales. Oh, yeah.

So he's getting above comp.

Yeah. So we don't know what he bought him for.

Yeah.

You want to disclose that? That might help us help you, you know, on.

For a thousand each, like you got, you got options, man. Right.

So it's 1200 for the two and then selling for 4500. But they're worth each 3700. So that would put it at 7200, would be the retail value.

For both of them.

But I don't know, like, I think that one thing to think about too is just in terms of like, like how much product you have in inventory.

Right.

Sometimes, like, I think of my properties as like effectively different products. Right. So here's the 5 acre flat lot that looks up at the mountain, right. Here's the 2 acre lot that's warmer, that's got, you know, some tree coverage on it. Here's the, you know, so there's different properties that serve different audiences. If you've got 37 of a single product, it's kind of like having 32 jugs of milk on the shelf, you know, you, you know, it might take you a little while to sell it, Right. And so if you've got a lot of inventory, maybe it's worth selling a couple, you know, but it's probably worth countering if you do so. But if you've got a wide variety of inventory and you can market a bunch of stuff simultaneously and you've got variety, then, you know, maybe not.

Is it just me? When John says product, do I think Naco.

On your product?

Like now he's calling land product. I got what's going on here, like.

A corner in Baltimore.

I got some products here. I got five.

Hey, Jeff, thanks for joining us.

Thanks, Jeff.

Cheers, Jeff. We'll miss you.

Love, Jeff.

That's kind of Interesting, though, that you use the term product, because I think initially on. When you start in the land business, it's much more like, okay, I have this piece of land, and, like, I need to get boots on the ground, and I need to, like, really know it and love it and, like, really understand it, right? But then as time goes on, you become less, like, attached to. To that stuff and more just the numbers, right? So we don't have to know, like, and love every property. We might have to know, like, and love every area. But these areas are big, right? And I don't know, I just think it's kind of interesting, right, that you refer to it now, John, as a product. Because. Because eight years ago, would you have preferred. Would you have referred to the land as a product?

No. No, I wouldn't have.

Yeah.

And it's interesting. Like, I do think of it a lot that way, right? Like, so if you think about it, like, you know, when you go, like, if. If. If I'm a store, like, I want the milk, I want the orange juice, I want, like, all of these different product types, right? And then when you pull one out, I want another one to shunk. Just come right back in and be available, right? And so you're just consistently marketing the similar thing, and you just got one available for your audience when they're ready.

So, yeah, I could just see John shopping like. Like.

Like a.

Like a land guy. Like, he goes to the store, he looks at the eggs. He's like, I'll offer you two bucks. Like, no.

Sort of.

The eggs are $10. Like, no, no, I know they're two bucks, but I'll offer you 250.

Yeah, you should see me at Costco with six kids. You. You've never seen sample people so terr.

Mark. Mark. Have you ever seen. Have you ever seen John Burnett at boot camp? He's. He's, like, doing this, like. Like all day long. The. The guy back in the day, he was on the phone. He was just on the phone constantly doing deals, doing deals, doing deals, doing deals at boot camp. That's how John Bernadette.

Yeah.

He's slinging products.

He's slinging product.

I know he's slinging products.

Now people sling it for me.

Now people swing it for him.

Yeah, he's become a land kingpin.

He is totally true. The land kingpin.

The land. What was that Mike said?

Land Narco.

Yeah, but.

Okay, Mike, like, how often do you become enamored with an area or a piece of land and you're like, Oh, I, I like this. Like, I kind of want to sell it. I kind of don't.

Never, never, never, never.

Jb, what about you?

How long do I get? How often do I get enamored with an area?

Yeah. Like, you and Val are doing pillow talk, and we're like, you know, Val, I don't want to sell this land.

I love it.

Yeah, it's funny, I was talking to somebody about this the other day, and.

I was, like, looking at six kids, what are they going to talk?

I know.

I. Well, exactly.

I mean, I was like, I've got six kids. Like, what am I going to do? Like, to drive down to Colorado and go camping on a piece of vacant land? I love the idea, but I don't know. I, I. We've had some properties where it's, like, as beautiful and it's a little bit tempting, but I don't know, I just sell them. So.

Yeah, dude, buddy, what about you? Do you, do you and Aaron be like, you know what? Let's put it in the trust. We're never selling it. It's in the path of growth.

I mean, I think, you know, Mike and I talk about this. As you do the, as you, as you do the business, you're going to come across these golden nuggets, right? And, like, there have been a few golden nuggets over the years where I'm like, oh, my God, that property looks absolutely amazing. Like, I want that property. But then a buyer comes along and you're like, okay, I'll sell it to you. I had one recently, like, three acres on the top of a bluff in Colorado overlooking a valley. And I'm thinking to myself, oh, my gosh, like, this would be like the most amazing tiny home property, and sat on it for 10 months, eventually sold it. I'm having a little bit of regrets now that we sold it, but I don't know, like, it's just, it's just one of those things. Like, I think this business, the, the fundamentals of the business are that we're going to teach how to buy and sell raw land. And there's really no emotion attached to that. It's just more numbers based on, we want you to replace your income. We want you to, you know, quit your job, that type of thing. Every once in a while, you're going to come into these golden nuggets that, that could be a good fit for you, or maybe not. And I don't know. It's up to you to, to do with those what you do. But, But I would say 99.9.5% of the time. There's no emotion for me with this land. It's just about moving it.

Right, Right. Like, what problem is it solving? Like, I look at the world like that. Like, if I want freedom and that's my core value, is it getting me to more freedom or less freedom?

Right.

If I make that choice or I do that.

Right.

And oftentimes, you know, a trophy property, it's making me less free. Now I gotta, you know, think about it and I gotta pay taxes on it.

I don't love the properties, Mark. It's just that I feel like there's just an ever never ending supply of them. You know, like we can continually get deals and, you know, like when Tate says there's no land emergencies, I mean, it's just because there's these deals don't get attached to them. You know, they come and they go and there's many more out there, you know, infinite. But, you know, this is so many deals. Yeah.

It'S so.

It's.

It's crazy how big this market is.

Yeah.

Am I the only one who's hearing a dog whimper?

That's my dog.

Is that your dog?

I stream yard apparently is not very good at filtering out background noises, so I apologize for that.

Almost like calling you out right now.

I'm about to. I'm about to filter Mark out of this, of this conversation because we're 40 minutes in and that's 10 minutes past.

Oh, Mark, he's about to cut you, Mark. I feel it, Mark.

I love you guys. It's time for Nightcap to go unfiltered.

Thank you, guys.

Okay, we love you. Bye. Okay, that's enough. And that's it.

Wow.

Yeah, that was. That was ten minutes overdue. No, just kidding. Love you, Mark.

He's like, what?

Yeah. So this is where we go unfiltered, right? Like Mark's. Mark's away. He stepped away. And now we. We talk land investing with a little bit more. Maybe it's more PG 13. Cheers. Mine.

Mine's still PG.

Yours is PG? Yes, John, yes. You're. You're PG. No, I'm just kidding.

So.

So does anybody have questions tonight about the land business? I actually have a topic to talk about that came up in the Facebook group, which I think we. I. I think would be good for us to talk about, so I can pull that up. But. But yeah. Any questions tonight about cash flips, owner financing? You know, I think what it comes down to really is we're doing A hot. It's. It's a hybrid approach. Right. We're not doing only owner financing. We might be doing 70 to 80% owner financing, but we're not doing only owner financing because you need cash to move the business forward. Jonathan, what are your thoughts on that?

Yes. Yeah, I agree. I think, you know, for me, lately it's been about a quarter of my sales have been cash. So, like, I had one close today. It was a 13 grand sale, you know, and it's great. You know, I'm happy with it.

But here I was talking about turning 1,000 into 3,900. Yeah, that's a decent day. And here you were like, what'd you buy it for, John? What'd you buy it for, John? Come on.

I. You know what I'm trying to remember? It's. It was one that I bought a long time ago, and I sold it with owner finance, and then it default, and I. I made all my money back and then some. And then your copies is a zero. Yeah, that's great.

So that's a good cash deal.

But it is, you know, and those are ones where, you know, I can. I have. I can be a little bit flexible if I want to and stuff. But yeah, I mean, I like cash deals. I like getting cash, but at the same time, you know, it is. It doesn't give you, like, it gives you temporary, like, satisfaction. Right. It's like, it's here for right now, but it doesn't actually provide you with any sense of security. Right. Unless you're utilizing that cash for something else. Right. So it's nice to have a big chunk of cash right now. But I like to have. I like to have the recurring revenue and just know that the income's coming in. But I also find, like, when you're dealing with, like, the bigger. The bigger cash deals, there's just a lot more complexity in the deals. Right. It's just, you know, you've got, you know, from. From sourcing the deals to due diligence to negotiations to ultimately selling the property. It just requires a lot more of you. And I find, like, if I. If I've done big, complex deals, there's a lot more of me required.

Right.

It's hard to delegate those effectively. So, yeah, now I just do them for fun.

You do it for fun. $13,000, we love that.

Not a bad hobby.

It's not a bad hobby. Mike Zano. All right, so this. This was a post in the Facebook group today, and I want to talk about this for a few minutes. Because I think. I think it's important. Okay, you ready?

Yeah. Let's hear it.

So this is from Greg. Greg is in our land geek flight school, which I really equate to land geek land investing college. Really? Like, I agree flight school is like land investing college. You go through it, it's got a, like a college feel to it. Go through for four months and by the end you graduate and you know 80% of what you need to know in the business and like 20%.

The.

The remaining 20% you're going to learn with time and repetition. Right. So. So here's Greg's post today. I'm new to this and it looks like I found my first wholesale property. I'm a little nervous about wiring the money. I did look up the LLC and it was established in 2024. 4. I also have an email with wiring instructions saying he will draft a warranty deed for review once he receives the funds. Okay. I hear it's common for us to pay upfront wholesalers. Are there any safeguards that I can imply to make me feel more comfortable? So there were a lot of comments on this post and the interesting thing was that some people said there's really no problem wiring in the funds. Right. As long as you do your due diligence and like, there's a relationship that you've built with the investor. But there were a lot of people on the, on the, on the chat who said you need to use a title company. Like, don't wire this guy funds. Right. Like so. So, Mike, let's talk wholesale a little bit. Let's just talk. If you're going to buy wholesale from another land investor, what does that process look like? Do you need to go through title? Do you need to go through escrow? What are your thoughts?

The way I have always done it, and I've sold a lot of properties wholesale. I'll have them secure it with maybe 500 bucks, and that's going to go towards the purchase price. Once they do that, I will create the deed for them to review. Once they review it and they approve it, I'll have it notarized. I show them that it's notarized and then I invoice them and then I record it and send them record a deed package. I don't think you need a title company. I think you just, you do need to, you know, know who you're dealing with. I mean, you're talking an llc, but I imagine you're talking to an individual who owns that llc. Right. So that's who you've been communicating with. But. So I, I don't necessarily like the way this guy's presenting it or the LLC is presenting it where? Pay us, then we'll show you it. No, I'd like to see deed already created. I'd like to see you've notarized it. I want to see some good faith effort on your end. Then I will wire the money to you.

Yeah, that's exactly right. Like if I'm doing a wholesale deal with somebody, right, I want to be transparent. I want to say to them, okay, here's the property. Here are the numbers. Like, here's what I'm selling it to you wholesale. Here's what is market value. Here's what you're buying for. That's, that's awesome. Like, you need to do your own due diligence though, on the property, right? Is this the right property for you? Is it in the right price point? And, but, but with, with some of the conversations over the phone and that type of thing, like in our community, you should be able to be confident that you're gonna buy a wholesale property from someone and they're not gonna screw you over, right? Yeah. So, so, you know, there's a few things here. Like, are you able to buy the property at 50 cents on the dollar? That's kind of a land geek etiquette thing. And then, you know, let's just talk, talk through it and pay me a couple hundred bucks down, right? I'll hold the property for you. I'll create the deed for you. I'll send it over to you for your review. If the deed looks good, then I'll go get it notarized, and then I'll show you proof that the deed is notarized. Then you wire me the funds, right? There's another thing that protects people here. You could do a purchase agreement, right? Simple purchase agreement.

Yeah.

But, but there are a lot of people on the, on the chain saying, go through title. Go through title. The only way you should do this is through title. And I'm just saying, like, Mike, you've been doing this 10 years. 11 years. I've been doing this 10 years. John, you've been in this nine years. Have you ever gone through title to do a wholesale deal?

No, Jonathan. Nope.

No. Yeah, My Jonathan. Forever now.

Forever.

Jonathan.

I think there's a lot of people in the group. They all have good intentions, but they're not all actively working our model and going through our methods. And they don't understand how we run our title. Searches how we make sure that we're safe on a purchase. So it's okay. They're trying to protect them, protect this person. But they don't know the way that we do what we do. And that's okay. You know the group is, is a free group. Anybody could be in there. It could be anybody who's. So there's definitely people in there. Lots of people who haven't gone through our training. He just left, John.

He just left. It's just us now. Now we can go really crazy. It's gonna.

Now we're really crazy. I won't call you any of the questions like that's what I'd like to know. People asking questions. I don't know where we can see that. Do we have any?

Let's see, we've got Ramona. No Ramon and Emily Jones said Parcel bought for 500 offers coming for 1400-1800. Really want to do my first finance. How do you determine what's a good term? Good term deal?

So they bought it for 500 and people are offering them cash. 14 to 18.

Yeah, sounds like.

Yeah. So I mean heck, I take the 18. Listen, this is the thing we're not. We love owner financing. We want to build passive income. But when you can take 503 exit, why wouldn't you just take the 3x? You know if you really want to do the land deal with owner financing then you could set up the other bank. You could set up any way you want. We typically set our deals up so we recoup our capital within the first year. I mean you could sell that for a hundred fifty dollars a month and recoup your capital in the first year. Oh, good question by the land geek. See I don't think he wanted to get removed because he's still actively engaging with off screen.

But no, I don't think we hurt his feelings. He's fine, he's fine.

We'll see from the next text comes through. But yeah, what is the market value? That is a good question.

Yeah, I, I think they bought it for 500 but people are offering them 14 to 1800. Who's offering you? Like is it other land investors or is it you know, people in the marketplace? So, so that's kind of a curious that that I would be curious about that for sure. Here we have a question one river afl high elm in Florida. I'm interested in connecting for Florida future deals. Can you add me? Oh yeah, I can do that. Can we add you to your list or share your email sure, we can do that. Sorry, I didn't read the question before. I read the question.

How does it.

You know what I mean.

Populate on the screen? Like, do you choose?

Well, I have control over here. I can choose them. Yeah, but it's actually only from YouTube, so I got a whole thing over here going on. Zano, we got like, I can pull up the comments from YouTube. I can pull up the comments from Facebook over here on my other screen, I have the Instagram comments going on. It's. It's a whole thing.

We're live on Instagram right now.

Live on Instagram.

What do we. What else are we live on?

Well, just Facebook, YouTube and Instagram right now. We're trying to get on. We're gonna get on Tick Tock eventually when we have. I think you have to have 5,000 followers on Tik Tok. Yeah. So we'll get on there soon because this is like a viral show. I mean, it's gonna go viral.

It is viral.

Oh, man. Okay, so let's see.

So that was a land investor, someone sending the offers.

Land investor, selling the offers. If you bought it for 500.

Yeah. Oh, that changes everything.

Yeah, don't do it.

That sounds like a killer deal.

It does.

Great job on the buy.

Yeah. I don't know. How'd you get them for 500? Did you get it through a mailer or what?

Details on your acquisition strategy there. Let's hear it.

And Ramon and Emily. Ramon and Emily Jones. I don't recognize their name. Do you guys recognize their name?

No.

Where did you learn to do this? Are you self taught? Are. Did you learn how to do this somewhere? That'd be kind of cool to. To know, but yeah. Let us know how you got these properties. Let us know what the market value is. So, Mike, real quick, 30 seconds or less. Oh, where would you. How do you determine the market value of your property?

Well, come on, it's. It can be difficult inside our model because we're not going to go and look for traditional sole comps on like Zillow and whatnot. You really have to research, comprehensive research of what's being sold right now, what the people are marketing them for. And even if you can't find the sole comps, you should be able to establish a reasonable value. Just looking at what people are selling them for, you might not be the sold values like you will traditional real estate. So there's other tricks and tips to do that. But in the short term, I mean, the shortest, easiest answer is you want to research what's currently out there on the market. If you sample a number of investors in the same area, you should get an indication of what the, you know, they're using for market value, and then you can easily figure out your offer.

Love it. Love it. Yeah.

Can't keep it all away right now, Scott.

Jeez.

What's that?

But all the way.

No, we can't give it all away.

Right?

Whatever. There's 15. There's 17 people watching right now for One River AFL. One River AFL. Yes. Well, definitely. I don't know. We'll. We'll read. Well, here's what I recommend, because we don't have any contact information for you. Read Mark's book, Dirt Rich, and read Mark's book Dirt Rich, too, because those are two really awesome resources on what this whole thing is. What is land investing? What do we do? How do we grow a business? Right. And what else. What else would you do, Mike, if you found us today?

If you found the Land Geek today?

Yep. If you found the Land Geek today, what would you do?

And I hadn't found it already. Well, I think you're asking me how would I learn more about it? Is that what you're saying?

What would you like? You found Mark today on a podcast and you heard about this book, Dirt Rich. You're going to order their books. What else would you do?

Oh, yeah, I was not listening to the podcast. I would listen to every nightcap that's ever existed.

Ever.

Remember, we were doing it for five years straight prior to a year and a half takeoff, and we're back into it. So there's a ton of content out there, some of it more entertaining than others, but no, listen to podcasts, read Mark's books, and then, you know, get on a call with one of us. We're the three people. We're the. We're the gateway to your future. Just talk to one of us and we'll. And we'll help you understand more about the process and what you can do and what's reasonable expectation for you based on your current situation and if your goal can be accomplished. I think that's critical. Like, when we all talk to people, the first thing we try to figure out, right, is what are you trying to accomplish? And can land investing do that for you? If it can, then great, let's do it. But we need to understand that first. So if I was brand new to Land Geek, I'd want to talk to somebody, let them know what I'm trying to accomplish, and see if that it can really accommodate that.

Awesome. Thank you, sir.

Yeah, I also like the phrase, we are the gateway to your future.

Yes.

That's a good one.

That was good. That was a good one. That was like. That was like biblical. A biblical statement or something. Yeah, but, yeah, a lot of people. So disturbing. Like, we talk to a lot of people who are interested in the business. Right. A lot of people don't know that. That Mark has been podcasting for over 10 years. Right?

Yeah.

So if you want to. If you want to learn about land investing, man, you could go. You can. You can go back in the archives and spend a lot of time there. Mark's. Mark's interviewed some big names, too, which is pretty cool.

Yes, he had interviewed a lot of people and some big names. I heard he had this bossman guy in one time.

Yeah, right? Oh, my gosh. John Burnett's the big guy. All right, let's see. Let's see what other comments we got here. Billy Swinton. I have the toolkit ready to go. Should I get Geek Pay and LG Pass now or just partner first? So that's an interesting question. What, John Johnathan, what are your. What are your thoughts on getting Geek Pay now and LG Pass now when you just started with the toolkit?

Yeah. So LGPass, I think, makes a lot of sense because you can start mailing, right? So as soon as you're ready to mail, you know, you want to have LG Pass and so that you can do that without printing and stuffing envelopes. Right. So with Geek Pay, it's going to be. You want to have that set up when you are selling property.

Right.

So there's a little bit more flexibility on when you sign up for Geek Pay and have that ready to roll. But LG Pass sooner would probably make sense.

I love it. I love that. All right, awesome. Mike, anything to add or you good on that?

I'm just gonna go with the old concur.

You're gonna concur.

My first concur of the night. I love it.

Oh, nice. Yes, we like that. Well, we're coming up on the hour, guys. Already. Like, it goes fast when Mark leaves. Then it goes fast. I'm just kidding. So we. We need to. We need to talk about a few things. If you guys go to the description in the comments on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram, you can enter a drawing. My favorite word. A drawing for Dirt Rich one and Dirt Rich two by Mark Podolski. Okay. So go there tonight or tomorrow when you're watching this or Sunday afternoon. When you're watching this and, and fill in the Google form to be eligible to win a copy of Dirt Rich. And then next week is huge. So spread the word. All right? It's huge. It's huge. It's huge. We gotta. We gotta spread the word on this one.

All right?

So Mike, spread the word. John, spread the word. Next week live on Nightcap, there's a huge giveaway. We're giving away two years free LG Pass and two years free geek pay to two different people.

Okay.

Out of two different people.

To do different people.

Wow.

Is my understanding. That's my understanding. So. So one person gets LG pass free for two years. That's a 2400 value. And one person gets Geek pay free for two years. That's A 2400 dollar value.

Right?

So everybody that has the toolkit, everybody that's in flight school, even everybody that's in coaching, come to next week's Nightcap. That's gonna be fun.

That's amazing. That's a great offering.

That's an amazing offer. I want to enter the offer.

I already did.

You entered it all right.

Twice. Yeah.

Let me see if we have a topic for next week. Hold on. See, do we have a topic? Oh, over. Oh, okay. So here's the topic for next week. Overcoming analysis, paralysis, how to take action and close. Which I love that topic.

That is a good topic.

That's gonna be a great topic. Okay, so. So everybody go to the Google form tonight. Enter for a chance to win signed copies of Dirt Rich. And next week we will see you for the big giveaway. It's a huge giveaway. Good. Huge.

I think we're good.

Are we good, Zano?

Yeah. We're gonna do a toast.

Let's do a toast.

I'd like to do. I saw something on Facebook today, Scott. I'd like to take a second and just remember Larry Merrill. I think it's been a year.

Oh yeah.

And he was an incredible individual. Incredible lamb. Investor. And I think that we should have raise our glasses to Larry.

I can. I concur. Larry was an amazing guy. We. We miss him. He. He left. You know, Mike, I had just a few calls with Larry. He's left such an impact on my.

On me.

And I'm sure you did as well. And yeah, he went. He. He left us way too soon. So cheers to Larry Merle and cheers to his. His wife and his brother has actually taken over his land business, which I think is really cool.

That's very good. Yeah.

So cheers to all you guys, and best wishes to you and thanks, everybody. Thanks. Land Geek Nation.

Land Geek Nation.

Lane Geek. Hive mind.

What's this thing about Tuesdays everywhere? What do you say?

What he says.

Johnny says it all the time. The Tuesday thing?

Yeah. Live. Live from everywhere. It's Tuesday night. I said it tonight.

I missed it. Did I miss it?

You missed it. You missed it.

All right.

All right, everybody. Okay. One. Wait, one river afl. Where's the Google form? If it's not, it should be on Instagram. If it's not on Instagram, go to YouTube.com theLand Geek and go to tonight's broadcast and click on more information. And you should find the Google form there. And if not, email Scott@thelandgeek.com or Mike@thelandgeek.com Or John@thelandgeek.com no H. No H. No H J O N@thelandgeek.com Yes. All right. Thank you, guys. Hope you have a good night. John Davis, thanks for tuning in at the end. Or maybe you've been here a while and. And we'll talk next week. Next week. Big week. Spread the word. 2 years LG pass. 2 years of GPK. Geek pay. Good night. All right.

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