This 3-Step System Automated His Real Estate Business to 4 Hours a Month | Mark Podolsky E69
The Hotel Investor Playbook
Validating a new business
Mark describes how he assessed the land business's margins and risk before quitting his corporate job.
Most investors think they're building a business, but they're actually building themselves a job. The truth? If you died tomorrow, your "business" would die with you.
A real estate investor who scaled from 80-hour weeks to just 4 hours per month reveals the exact automation framework that freed him—and how to apply it to any real estate asset, including hotels.
Mark Podolsky built a multi-million dollar land flipping operation, lost 50% of it in 2008, then rebuilt it into a passive income machine that runs without him. His approach isn't about working harder—it's about systematizing smarter.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- The 3-step system to automate ANY real estate process: Do it, Document it, Delegate it
- How to systemize direct-to-owner outreach for boutique hotels (instead of competing on broker listings)
- How to lock up deals with minimal capital and flip them to other investors (the arbitrage model)
- How to use inexpensive virtual assistants to handle repetitive acquisition tasks
- Why the biggest mistake new investors make isn't about the property—it's about their calendar
- The "brick your phone" strategy that helped Mark reclaim focus and family time
The real question isn't whether you can find deals. It's whether you can build a business that doesn't require you to do everything yourself. This episode shows you the framework to buy back your time while building real wealth.
About Mark Podolsky
Mark Podolsky, widely known as "The Land Geek," is a former investment banker turned land investor who has completed over 6,000 unique raw land transactions since 2001. As the author of Dirt Rich and host of The Art of Passive Income podcast, he teaches investors how to acquire distressed land for pennies on the dollar to generate passive income without the headaches of "tenants, toilets, and termites". Through his coaching platforms and automation software like GeekPay.io, Mark empowers entrepreneurs to build scalable, recession-resilient businesses that break the cycle of solo economic dependency.
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