About Us:
Why Choose The Land Geek?
Mark Podolsky
Armed with only $3,000, gut-wrenching fear, and absolutely no real estate experience… Mark bought his first few parcels of raw land in 2001.
Today Mark is the author of Dirt Rich, the ultimate guide to helping you build a passive income. and owner of Frontier Properties, a very reputable and successful land investing company, and has been buying and selling land full time since 2001. By focusing on working smart, not hard, he has completed over 5,500 land deals with an average ROI of over 300% on cash flips, and over 1,000% on the deals he sells with financing terms.
Prior to his land investing success, Mark had a high-stress, soulless corporate job, and felt trapped in a state of solo-economic-dependency (i.e. his income stopped as soon as he stopped working).
Escaping solo-economic dependency changed Mark’s life in so many positive ways that he decided to teach, coach and mentor others to help them achieve their financial goals.
Even though Mark invests a lot of his time helping others, he stays actively involved in running his land investing business, and is dedicated to teaching the most current and relevant “real world” land investing methods to his students.
Scott Todd
Scott Todd AKA “The Professor” “The Brain” “The Land Geek Sherpa” is an inspiring example of what a person can do to change their life with land investing. Scott began land investing in 2015 and in 17 months and 3 days was able to replace his Fortune 300 Executive VP income.
Scott gives back to the Land Geek community in a multitude of ways. He is the co-host of the Art Of Passive Income podcast. He is the head Flight School instructor. Plus, Scott teaches accounting for land investors and is the founder of landmodo.com, postingdomination.com and investorninjas.com.
He is a pilot and owns his own plane and boat making him a Land Geek special ops land and sea expert. He can be found at a local Panera bread proudly building his land empire on his Microsoft Surface.
Scott is married with 2 kids and 120 dogs.
Erik Peterson
Erik “The Technician” Peterson began land investing in 2015. He was able to replace his income and become a full time land investor by the start of 2018. He is a systems and automation expert as well as the Land Geek graphic designer.
Erik gives back his expertise and knowledge to the Land Geek community as a coach, roundtable podcast panelist and runs office hours on Monday nights for our coaching and flight school clients.
Despite his easy going demeanor, his clients will tell you Erik is demanding and will push you beyond your limits to get results. When Erik is not land investing, you can find him on his Peloton, at his kids sports games, and enjoying all things BMW.
He is married with two boys and loves to haze Mark on roundtable podcasts and is firmly in the #TeamScott corner despite his love of Apple products which he and Mark share.
Mike Zaino
Mike Zaino AKA “The Zen Master” is a true American hero and success story. Working as a full time fighter in Haverill, MA Mike started training as a Land Geek in 2014. In his first year, he was able to pay off $40k in debt,and pay cash for his wedding. Today, Mike is one of the largest wholesalers of raw land in the Land Geek community and is an eBay selling expert.
As a result of his success, Mike wanted to give back and coach others. He can be seen weekly on the Round Table podcasts each Tuesday when he’s not saving lives. He is also a regular with Scott “Dude Buddy” Bossman and Matt “Fortune 500” Forbes on Nite Cap, a weekly show on Wednesday evenings answering land investing questions with a cocktail and a Zen quote.
Mike is one of the Land Geek advisors that help guide our clients into the program that best fits their needs. He is a martial arts expert and is not to be trifled with; don’t let his good nature fool you… He is married with 4 children and when he’s not saving lives or flipping land or perfecting his roundhouse kicks he can be found at the health spa with his wife Laura taking a steam, and working on the ultimate shave. Even though he looks like Ben Affleck and they’re both from Boston they’re not related so please don’t ask him at Bootcamp…
Tate Litchfield
Here is Tate Litchfield AKA “Big Poppa” has been a full time land investor since 2015 and has completed over 1200 land deals with over $5MM in enterprise value. Tate is an expert in all facets of the land investing process with a special emphasis on the sales process.
As a Land Geek coach, Tate is famous for combining tough love, empathy, encouragement and continual improvement that his clients appreciate and love. Known for his no nonsense approach to results oriented coaching Tate’s clients get to the next level in their businesses at a rapid pace.
An avid cyclist, cheese aficionado, fisherman and doting father and husband Tate is a true renaissance man. Utilizing his passive income to create more time for his growing family and giving back to the Land Geek Community is how Tate fills most of his days.
Tate also has a tortoise and a secret obsession with Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG. He also has a song created just for him– listen here Tates song..
You can learn more about Tate in his series LOTS (Looking Over Tates Shoulder) https://www.thelandgeek.com/lots
Teria Harris
Teria Harris is one of the newest members of the team. She and her husband started out rehabbing single family homes. After a few successful projects, they realized it was not for them. The amount of time, work and capital was more than they could handle. Their love of real estate led them to Mark’s Art of Passive Income podcast where they immediately knew this was the right opportunity for them!
She signed up for Flight School alongside her husband and shortly thereafter, joined coaching. Which turns out to have been one of best moves ever! They began land investing in 2019. Within a year, they were able to build a successful land business and replace his income.
She is excited to share everything she has learned from personal experience, while in Flight School and coaching with up and coming land investors. She is an avid believer in “If she can do it, with the right training and determination – ANYONE can do it!”
Jim Lala
Jim met Mark through the Side Hustle Nation podcast. After starting a bitcoin business while working full-time, he knew entrepreneurship was for him.
He focused his efforts on The LandGeek method in 2018 and has never looked back. He loves all aspects of the business – county research, due diligence, negotiating, sales and customer service.
He takes pride in his great Google reviews and enjoys taking care of his customers. He loves to grow his business as well as share his knowledge freely.
In his free time, Jim likes to go to the gym, read and cook for his family.
Jim lives in Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.
Landon Harris
Landon began his real estate investing career renting and flipping homes. In 2018, he heard a podcast featuring Mark and immediately became enamored with the LandGeek model. It made complete sense and he knew it was a business he could be successful at. That following week, he and his wife enrolled in Flight School and started a new journey of land investing. After 4 years of growing the land business, he retired from a 26 year career as a swim coach.
As a swim coach Landon helped hundreds of swimmers reach collegiate and Olympic levels. He was very passionate about his work as a coach. Now, after having success in his business, he is looking forward to bringing the same vigor and dedication to the world of land investing. He loves working with people and seeing them develop to their full potential. His goal is to teach others and help them navigate through the process of building their own successful land business.
Michaela Csorny
In 2018, Michaela was researching different types of real estate investing when she came across Mark’s Art of Passive Income podcast. After discovering land investing, she took massive action and started building her land business. At the time, Michaela was a senior in college with little to no real estate experience and didn’t have access to a large amount of money to invest.
She used various buying and selling strategies to help launch her business. She was then able to lean on The LandGeek’s trainings to help systematize and scale her business. Since 2018, Michaela has completed hundreds of land deals and continues to grow her business.
Michaela has a background in computer engineering and lives in New York City. When she’s not buying and selling land, she loves to try new restaurants and travel with friends and family. Michaela also enjoys running and has ran in the NYC marathon.
Roberto Chavez
Roberto has a legal background, he worked as an attorney at a big law firm for over 7 years. Roberto stumbled upon Mark through a real estate podcast. After hearing Mark and being introduced for the first time to the concept of land investing, Roberto fell in love with the business model. Roberto quickly jumped on the toolkit, flight school, and took 2 years of one-on-one coaching.
Roberto’s land business has allowed him to practice law on his own terms while he continues to grow his land buying and selling machine.
He sees and has experienced the value of The Land Geek program and is excited to be a part of the coaching team to help other people achieve financial freedom.
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Nick Roberts
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Our Journey So Far
2015
2015 Started The Best
Passive Income Model
Podcast interviewing experts like Grant Cardone.
2017
2017 Started the Art of Passive Income Model Podcast
2018
2018 Published Dirt Rich
2019
2019 Began writing The Dirt Rich sequel how to scale your land investing business. Stay tuned!
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