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How my Student makes over 1000% ROI in Land Investing

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Bob says a $542 total cost turned into a sale on a five-year note for a little over $6,000.

1. The Land Geek Podcast Archive episode centers on Bob Anderson’s land-investing results and Mark Podolsky’s claim that Bob went from zero to almost $2,500 a month in four months. 2. Mark Podolsky hosts the episode as “the Land Geek,” and Bob Anderson joins from Phoenix, Arizona, as Mark’s “star student” and owner of crazylanddeals.com. 3. The episode asks how Bob produced rapid land sales, high margins, and note income with Craigslist, LandWatch, and Land and Farm. 4. Bob says his biggest early challenge was the list: figuring out what to do with it, how to scrub it, and what information was necessary. 5. Mark connects that struggle to recurring mastermind questions about list sourcing and list cleaning. 6. Bob says he moved from buying land to advertising after he learned the process and then started taking action. 7. He reports 14 property sales in four months of advertising and says buyers have been contacting him every day. 8. Bob describes one deal sold after a buyer emailed him out of the blue, signed paperwork, and sent the down payment after a one-minute call. 9. He says the same marketing routine is simple: post ads, renew them every couple of days, and include his website on every ad. 10. Bob explains that he built traffic and opt-ins through his site, with about 80 people on the list in the last few months. 11. One deal he breaks down used a $95 purchase price and $447 in taxes to reach a sale on a five-year note for just over $6,000. 12. He says that deal produced a 1,109% return and that he is averaging about 1,000% overall. 13. Bob also walks through his first deal, where he paid $57 for a little over one acre and owed $273 in taxes. 14. He says that property sold on a three-year note for more than $4,000 and produced a 1,260% return. 15. Bob adds that he charges a $75 note setup fee and collects the down payment immediately, which he says improves cash flow. 16. He says his highest return came from a $466 property with $1,148 in taxes that later sold for about $32,000 on a 10-year note. 17. Bob says the buyer came from mailing neighbors in an area with only about two dozen similar properties and mostly government land. 18. The episode’s tone is conversational and instructional, with Mark asking detailed follow-up questions about pricing, taxes, LLCs, VAs, and customer honesty. 19. People interested in low-cost land deals, seller financing, and quick-start passive income would likely want this episode. 20. People looking for advanced legal structures or a slow, theory-heavy discussion may skip it.

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A useful beginner success story that favors action, list building, and simple execution over polish.

The Land Geek Podcast frames Bob Anderson as an early raw-land success story, and Mark Podolsky keeps the focus on what actually moved the needle. The episode traces a path from low offers to traffic from land marketplaces, then to lead capture and sales from a simple list.

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You want a real beginner win story from land investing, not a polished theory session.

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