Jul 7, 2026 · 44 min · 14 segments
What happens after you achieve financial success? In this episode of the Measure Success Podcast, Carl sits down with Mark Podolsky, known as "The Land Geek," to discuss passive income, AI…
Mark PodolskyGuest
Carl J. CoxHost
In general, what is the return now? I mean, that was a crazy return you had when there was no competition back in the early 2000s.
What's happening now, right? Is it still good? Is this still working well? It's working better than ever.
number one so our costs go down we're operating more efficiently and we have more with better data so when i first started there was no such thing as zamplo or data tree where i could go and start getting all this data about what are good markets what are bad markets get a list from a county and mail that list i mean it was all very manually done i mean i was handwriting letters, my first batch of letters.
And I hired Janie in South Carolina, my first virtual assistant, to handwrite the letters for me.
90% of this business now is automated with inexpensive software on the front end, inexpensive virtual assistants, and then inexpensive software on the back end managing the notes.
What's going on today is that the fundamentals of the business for what I started in 2000 remain the same.
You go to a real estate investment association meeting, right? They're going to be landlords, wholesalers, multifamily, flippers.
In general, what is the return now? I mean, that was a crazy return you had when there was no competition back in the early 2000s.
What's happening now, right? Is it still good? Is this still working well? It's working better than ever.
number one so our costs go down we're operating more efficiently and we have more with better data so when i first started there was no such thing as zamplo or data tree where i could go and start getting all this data about what are good markets what are bad markets get a list from a county and mail that list i mean it was all very manually done i mean i was handwriting letters, my first batch of letters.
And I hired Janie in South Carolina, my first virtual assistant, to handwrite the letters for me.
90% of this business now is automated with inexpensive software on the front end, inexpensive virtual assistants, and then inexpensive software on the back end managing the notes.
What's going on today is that the fundamentals of the business for what I started in 2000 remain the same.
You go to a real estate investment association meeting, right? They're going to be landlords, wholesalers, multifamily, flippers.
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