Our Story

My brother Thomas and I (Ben) started our land investing journey in January of 2023. We had been tossing around ideas for businesses we could run that did not require us to live in the same location. We stumbled on Mark Podolsky’s book, “Dirt Rich” and both of us read through that quickly. A few weeks later and we were fully immersed in Flight School and off to the races.

Within two weeks of sending our first mailers we had received an accepted offer. We had been full steam ahead, but at the same time could hardly believe it had worked so quickly and as easily as Flight School had promised. Over the next few weeks, we had purchased three properties in Putnam County, Florida and found ourselves out of capital.

Of those first properties, we quickly sold one on terms and the other two wholesale to get some capital back, but we quickly realized that continuing to lock up all of our capital in 2-3 properties at a time was going to make scaling difficult as well as slowing our efforts to build the predicable monthly revenue that holding notes allows.

We decided we needed to supplement our inventory by buying Land Arb. We quickly bought either different properties all around Florida using Land Arb and were able to quickly sell several and maintain positive cash flow, but others not so quickly. The toughest part was receiving cash offers for those properties that would have been decent prices except that our unpaid principal balance was nearly as high as the offer. It was at that point we began to get jaded with Land Arb. It was great for selling on terms but left us with no other exit strategies.

Needless to say, we did not buy any more land arbs after that.

A few months later we hit a big break. We found a seller trying to offload a portfolio of 30 lots that we knew we could sell and we scrambled to get outside funding secured to purchase all 30. Using an auction, we sold about half those lots and recouped our entire purchase price enabling us to pay off the loans we’d secured to purchase all 30. As we sold the second half of those lots, our earlier cash flow issues began to subside, and we were able to continue to scale.

Without that break, I am not sure where we’d be today but because of our experiences and because of that break we are looking to change the way lending within the investor community works by offering a similar product to Land Arb that allows the investor to have more control of their exit. Our hope is that the relationship can be mutually beneficial and that we can become a partner in your business for years to come.