About this episode

Mark Podolsky shares his journey of automating his real estate business to just 4 hours a month.

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 mac...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Russell

Guest: Mark Podolsky

Topics covered

• real estate
• automation
• passive income
• business scaling
• land flipping
• investing

Keywords

• real estate automation
• passive income
• business efficiency
• land flipping
• investing strategies

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