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Today’s episode is an inspiring deep dive into a unique and often overlooked 
corner of real estate investing: land flipping. Our special guest is Jack Bosch, a German immigrant and founder of the Land Profit Generator system. Jack’s remarkable journey began when he arrived in the U.S. with only two suitcases and a dream. Fast forward to today, he’s completed over 5,000 land deals, built a flourishing real estate empire, and taught thousands of others how to break free from the rat race and achieve true financial freedom.
Jack’s expertise goes beyond just buying and selling land; he shares practical, step-by-step strategies on how ordinary people—even those with modest resources—can create massive cash flow and generational wealth. In this value-packed episode, Jack reveals the mindset shifts, actionable systems, and proven methods that helped him go from broke and burned out in corporate America to millionaire status in just 18 months.
Whether you’re a seasoned real estate investor, a side hustler, or someone looking for a way out of the conventional 9-to-5, this episode will introduce you to the untapped potential of land investing. Host Dave Wolcott and co-host Vicky ask all the right questions, leading Jack to share his wisdom on everything from seller financing to the power of the “immigrant advantage” mindset.
In This Episode
- Jack’s origin story: from immigrant to financially free entrepreneur
- Why land is an underrated and accessible asset class for building wealth
- How to flip land and generate cash flow without using your own capital
- The difference between one-time, temporary, and forever cash—and how to create lasting wealth
Our first deal made us $3,600. The second deal made us $9,500. Our third deal made us $10,000. The next deal made us $20,000. Within a matter of six months, we had paid off our debt. We had created $5,000 in monthly cash flow, temporary cash for the next seven to ten years, and we have put a year’s worth of living expenses on the sideline. So that’s an acceleration.
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How’s it going, everyone? And welcome back to another episode on Wealth Strategy Secrets of the Ultra Wealthy. I’m your host, Dave Wolcott, and today we’re diving into a unique, overlooked niche in real estate that has created massive cash flow and generational wealth for those who understand how to tap into it.
I’m talking about land flipping. And joining us is the master of this strategy, Jack Bosch. Jack is a German immigrant who came to the U.S. with just two suitcases and a vision. And today, he’s completed over 5,000 land deals, built a thriving real estate empire, and taught thousands how to escape the rat race through his powerful Land Profit System.
In this episode, Jack shares how he went from broke and burned out in corporate America to financially free in just 18 months… why land is one of the most underrated and underutilized asset classes in real estate… how to flip land without using your own capital and generate monthly passive income through seller financing… the difference between one-time, temporary, and forever cash, and why most people are playing the wrong game… and his immigrant advantage mindset and how to unlock financial freedom on your own terms.
If you’re looking for an alternative path to build wealth, create cash flow, and take control of your future, this episode is for you.
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Let’s jump in. Jack, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me. I’m excited to be here.
Yeah, really great to have you on the show and really unpack a strategy that I think is quite unique in the alternative and real estate space. People don’t talk about it too much. And I think there’s some good application as well for people who might be, let’s say, non-accredited investors or people looking for a side hustle or just, you know, alternative ways to drive that cash flow that we’re all looking for, right? To get out of the rat race.
So why don’t we begin, Jack, and let’s talk a little bit about your origin story. I know you come from some roots as an expat to the U.S., which always brings, I think, a real unique perspective—and frankly, it’s what, you know, what the U.S. is made of, right? Expats and everything.
So, tell us how you got here.
Yeah, so I came here many years ago—actually 1997. So that is almost 30 years ago. But now, to really finish my college degree. I was on the path of, like, get a good education, get into a good college. I went to a top university in Germany, got a degree in business administration, was ready to go into consulting or something really fancy in Germany.
And then I realized my English was not very good, so I thought, let me go. I mean, it was decent—I was good enough to enter university here and so on—but I didn’t feel as comfortable as I thought I needed to be in order to actually get a career done in corporate America.
So I had the opportunity, through the German university, to do an exchange program in the U.S. for one year and get an American MBA. Because I already had all the advanced classes, they gave me credit for a bunch of stuff. So I only had to take, like, two semesters—10 months of classes in the U.S.—and then I would have an American MBA.
And at the same time, obviously, spending 10 months in the U.S. and having classes in English, having to write papers, and speaking and presenting would improve my English a lot.
So I was like, great—it’s like three birds in one hand, or however you say that. Sometimes these sayings, the way to say them, I still don’t know. But the point is, I had three things in one: I get international experience, I get to improve my English, I get an American degree. And they gave me credit for what was missing in Germany, so I even finished my German degree without having to spend extra time at the university. So it was the perfect combination—great. I’m not losing time; it’s only plus, plus, plus.
I subleased my apartment, put a bunch of stuff in my parents’ basement, and came over to the U.S. Three weeks later, I came across this young lady who was an immigrant herself. And this young lady and I got to talking.
I asked her for a date. Things got more serious. We decided after the year was over—she graduated at the time too, with her undergrad, and I graduated with a master’s—and we decided at that point, you know what? This is too serious to just say goodbye and leave to our respective countries. Let’s try to stay here. We love it here. We love the U.S. Let’s see if we can get jobs.
We got lucky. We got jobs. And long story short, we’re now married—as of last week, 24 years—have a 17-year-old daughter. It worked. We are now American citizens. We came to stay here, etc. So that’s the story of the very beginning.
We then ended up getting jobs and very quickly realized the job world is not what I was made out for.
The job world is not… I’m naturally a contrarian. If you say do something, I say, why? If you do something, I ask, what’s the sense? If it doesn’t make sense, why would I do this, right? I’m naturally a little bit of a revolting person.
So I never had straight A’s. I was a straight C student—B and C student. And in the job world, when you just have to work… I worked my butt off. I was a really good teammate, but I didn’t like it. I didn’t like having to do what other people told me, not having my own freedom.
And little did I know that these are really entrepreneurial characteristics. I just didn’t know that I was that, because nobody in my family is an entrepreneur. Nobody in my extended family is an entrepreneur. I’ve got one distant uncle, but he was really quiet about it—he never talked about it.
So I had no idea that really my future was in entrepreneurship—until I was miserable in my job and I was promoted. I got promoted three times in three years. I started as a junior consultant at a software consulting firm. After three years, I was a senior consultant. But I hated it.
So what we did is—Michelle and I, my wife and I—we started looking around, and we found real estate. And through real estate, we found a niche that you mentioned, one that still to this day is overlooked by most people. And that is simply: land flipping, or land wholesaling, or land splitting, or land development, or land seller financing.
Basically, the subject matter of land. And we created a system out of that which has allowed us, since then, to do 5,000 deals. I was able to quit my job the moment I had my green card. Once my ability to stay in the country was no longer tied to a visa with a company—but I had a green card—now I could be free.
So immediately, we quit, and we went full-time. But the point is, over those first couple of years—those years when I still had the job, because I ended up staying for five and a half years—for two and a half of them, we were in trial and error mode, trying to create.
Trying to create a plan B that, over time, could become plan A and replace the job. And we accomplished that. And now we’re teaching this to people all around the world to do the same thing.
Yeah. Really awesome story. And it’s interesting because I really do think immigrants have such a unique perspective when they come to the U.S. A lot of U.S. citizens, you know, really sometimes get frustrated with politics or certain things going on in the country. But unless you’ve really traveled the world and seen how other countries are, I mean, you would be so grateful for the things that we have—especially as an entrepreneur.
Now, I love Germany. There is so much culture there—the food, the people, and things like that. But I could not imagine trying to be an entrepreneur in Germany, or frankly, in Europe—like, anywhere. The bureaucracy, I think, would really shut me down. Right?
It’s a nightmare. I mean, my brother is now an entrepreneur too—he has a small business—and man, he gets audited every two or three years. He has to have every receipt in paper. Like, every receipt. Literally, when you file your taxes, you submit a binder like this with every receipt taped into it and photocopies of it.
And when you want to do anything, there are hurdles, government regulations… and really, Europe is—they say, “The U.S. innovates, Europe regulates”—and I think that’s 100% true.
It’s almost impossible to innovate over there because there’s always some kind of environmental group, some kind of whatever group, that just fights you tooth and nail. It’s a nightmare.
So yes, with all the things that are happening in the U.S., and all the things people complain about, it is by far still the land of opportunity. It is by far the land where you can come in with nothing—like I did. My dad is a middle school teacher, my mom was a stay-at-home mom. I came here with two suitcases and enough money to pay for one semester of school. The second semester, I had to borrow money from my brother and take on some student debt I already had—and I built this.
And with the strategy that we now do, within 18 months we built that into a million dollars, and then within another couple of months, into eight figures.
And that is like the classic zero-to-millionaire kind of story. Now, I didn’t necessarily wash dishes or go from dishwasher to millionaire or whatever, but it’s that rags-to—kind of, I don’t know—riches in a way story that is only possible… I mean, it’s possible everywhere, but it’s regularly possible in the United States.
Yeah, for sure. So let’s unpack your land flipping strategy, Jack. How does it work?
Yeah, so we call it land profits, like my T shirt says here. And I still kept one of my European traditions. I drink what they call angry water, basically sparkling water here. So my daughter’s friends, they don’t like that stuff, but I love it. So anyway, so what we basically figured out is that there is 46 million pieces of land in the United States and at any given time, about 4 to 5% of those owners just don’t want their property anymore. Now they’re not usually distressed. They’re not usually. This is different from the house flipping world.
In the house flipping world, you go up to people who are about to have their mortgage foreclosed, or they’re about to declare bankruptcy. They’re in a situation where they need money tomorrow in order to move on and not be severely dinged in their credit, in their financials, and so on and so forth.
In the land world, it’s completely different. At any given time, there are about 2 million pieces of land where the owners simply say, “You know what? I’ve had this thing for 35 years—I don’t want it anymore.” Or they say, “You know what? I’m sick and tired of paying $2,000 a year in property taxes. It’s not killing me, but I cringe every time.” Or they’re tired of paying HOA fees. Or they’re tired of having to send the landscapers out three times a year to mow the grass because the weeds are that tall.
Or the owners have passed away, and now the heirs have these properties. And simply, these are quality properties all over the United States that—for one reason or another—the owners just don’t want anymore.
Perhaps they had plans to build on them. Perhaps they had plans to build a retirement home. I love, for example, rural lakefront properties. So, like, outside of bigger cities, there are often lakes, and on those lakes there are communities with lakefront lots or lots close to the lakefront. They’re usually owned by someone who’s had them for 35 years and had plans to build their retirement home there.
But what happens is—the kids are now grown up. The kids moved 500 miles or 1,000 miles in the other direction.
And what happens is, the parents don’t want to be far from their grandkids. The grandkids are born, and all of a sudden, the parents realize, “I don’t want to be sitting on the lake when my grandkids are over there.” So, they move closer to the grandkids—further away from the lot—and their life plans change.
So what happens is, these people are willing to let these properties go—often for almost nothing. Because in their mind, it’s a written-off cost. It’s a sunk cost. They just want to get rid of the burden of property ownership. They have no use for it. It just takes money out of their pocket, and they don’t need it. These lots are not on the market—they’re actually just out there. They’re owned, but we figured out how to find the people who are most likely to not want these properties, how to contact them, how to get in front of them, and how to get these deals under contract—on average, between 20 and 60 cents on the dollar.
And then we turn around and use multiple strategies to sell them.
The first, simple strategy is: if we get a $50,000 property under contract for $15,000, we simply mark it up to $30,000, sell it, and make a quick $15,000 profit. Boom. Done. You don’t even own it. You don’t even need to buy it. You can just put it under contract and assign it to the next guy.
Or, in states where that is not allowed, you put it under contract, perhaps use a money lender to give you the funds to buy it, have the buyer already lined up, and two days later you sell it—or use transactional funding to do it. So, you don’t even use your own money to do those.
That’s strategy number one.
Strategy number two is: we love selling them with seller financing. So, if you have that $50,000 property under contract for $15,000, one fast way to sell it is to just wholesale it—mark it up to $30,000 and sell it.
The second way is to mark it up to full market value and ask for a 25–30% down payment. So, if you get a 30% down payment on a $50,000 property, that’s $15,000. Now, if you have to give the seller $15,000 and the buyer gives you $15,000, you can do this as a pass-through transaction. You get the $15,000 from the buyer, send it to the seller—no money out of your own pocket.
And now, because the buyer still owes you $35,000, you’ve actually created the note. So you allow the buyer to say, “Yeah, I want to buy this for 50 grand. Can I give you $15,000 now and pay you the remaining $35,000 over the next 15 years in monthly payments of $400 a month?”
Real wealth is built when stop trading time for money.
Yeah.
And the answer is yes.
Let me just pause one second before I’m excited about that stuff.
I can go, I go pretty.
Yeah, no, it’s really good stuff. I want to take a pause for a sec and just drill into the buyer side—or the new buyer side, right?
So yeah, in your scenario, you’re stating that people just want to get rid of the property—which I could see. Maybe it was passed down. And you know, I’ve actually seen an example of that in our family as well—things passed down, people don’t want to keep paying property tax on it, they don’t live in the area… makes sense for them.
So then, if that property is less attractive to the seller, how are you able to find buyers for that property?
Okay, so one of the things is that the sellers are usually not professional real estate investors. They’re just some couple somewhere that owns the property, or an heir who’s busy. And they don’t know—maybe they’ve been on Zillow to look up what their neighbor’s house is worth or what their own house is worth—but that’s about it. They haven’t gone anywhere beyond that.
So, they don’t know about websites like Land.com, LandWatch.com. They don’t know that if you’re the owner of a property—or if you have control of it—you can actually put it on Zillow as a For Sale By Owner. They don’t know any of these things.
But we do.
And then the other thing is: how you put the property on the market matters a lot. Because this is what typically happens. At this point, what I usually get as a question is, “Well Jack…” or perhaps in your case also the implied question is, “Why don’t they just sell the property themselves?” That’s usually the question I get.
And some have tried that.
But here’s what they typically do: they go to their neighbor and say, “Hey, I heard your daughter—or your son—is a realtor. Would they mind listing this property for me?”
Now, that realtor is trained in how to sell houses. And how you sell houses is completely different from how you sell land.
So when this realtor works for one of the big brokerages—Berkshire Hathaway, or any of the others (I’m drawing a blank right now, but you know there are a whole bunch)—they’re trained to bring in a photographer, take sunset pictures. If the house is empty, stage it. If the house is cluttered, declutter it.
Like, put everything in its right place, do a broker’s open, do a weekly or weekend open house, put it on the MLS, describe it with “three bedrooms, two baths, in this school district,” and so on.
And then, eventually, if it’s priced well, somebody will come along and buy it.
Well, land listings don’t work like that. On the land listing side, you’re not describing, “This property has 17 trees—five of them are 10 feet tall and seven of them are 25 feet tall.” Nobody cares about that. What people care about is, to some degree, if it has utilities—because obviously they want to know, “Do I have to bring them in or are they already there?”
But most importantly, it depends on what they want to do with the property—or on the property, or from the property.
So, in other words, we typically focus on three kinds of properties. We don’t just buy anything.
We focus on: Number one: Infill lots.
Infill lots are lots in the city. Think: 35 houses, 2 empty lots. Those are obviously the easiest to sell because if we have one of those, I simply pull up a list of local builders, call five builders, and I have it sold. You don’t have to do much dream-building there.
And that’s really what I’m talking about in the listing generator—it’s dream-building that you do.
The second kind of property: In the path of growth. These are properties perhaps 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes outside of a larger development area—a larger metro area. And they’re interesting for two kinds of buyers.
Number one: people that just want to live further outside. A lot of people work from home now. Even though some companies are pulling their people back, it’s still estimated that 30% of Americans will continue to work from home.
Well, that’s 50 million Americans working from home.
And not everyone wants to live in a cookie-cutter neighborhood. Some people—like, whenever I do a webinar or something, and I might have 300–400 people on there—I ask the question:
“Who would love to have 2 to 5 acres, 20–30 minutes outside of town, where you can build your dream home? You’re still close to the city, so if you need something, it’s only a short drive, but otherwise you have peace, space for a garden, space for goats, dogs, a horse… whatever you want.”
And usually, out of the 300–400 people in a webinar, 150 to 200 people say, “Yeah, me—I want this. This is what I want. I don’t want to be coughing down my neighbor’s neck. I don’t want to have an HOA that sends me a nasty letter if I leave the garbage can out two hours too long,” and so on and so forth.
So that’s number one. Number two: Future retirees. A lot of people are retiring, and many don’t have enough saved. When they get Social Security, they’re faced with a choice: “Do I pay rent, or do I eat?”
Well, there’s a third choice. If you’re 10 years from retirement, go get a $30,000 or $50,000 lot from us. Put $10K down, pay it off over the next 10 years with $500 a month, and then put a mobile home on it—and you have a dignified retirement. Because now, you’ve got no cost for the land, no cost for the home, and your $1,600 Social Security check is enough.
But here’s the thing: if you’re working from home, do you want to live in the middle of nowhere? Or do you want to live close to things?
Same for a future retiree—do they want to be in the middle of nowhere? Or do they want to be close to a town, close to a church?
So what’s around the property is way more important than what’s on the property. When we list those properties, we don’t describe them by saying, “Here’s the shape, here’s the tree count,” etc.
By the way, the third type of property we focus on is larger acreage—what I call mini ranches: 20 acres, 40 acres, 80 acres. And it’s the same thing there. People want space, but they don’t want to be isolated.
So when you sell land, it is so much more important to describe where the land is in relation to the things that are important to the buyer.
How close is it to the next church—for the retiree? Retirees, typically—America is a very religious country—people want to be close to community.
Where’s the next restaurant? Where’s the next doctor’s office? Where’s the next gas station? Where’s the next lake? Where’s the next community? How far am I from the interstate?
So you can actually tell people, “This here is 20 minutes outside of town.” Yes, it has 12 trees—you can mention that too—but nobody really cares. They’re not buying it for the trees. They’re buying it because they want to fulfill their dream of a dignified retirement.
So as long as that property is big enough and it has some utilities—utilities are important—as long as it’s big enough and has easy access to the city, boom. Both the retirees and the work-from-home people are snatching this up.
Like tomorrow. This market went on fire after COVID. So the key is—and now I’m drawing the big circle around everything here—is that those sellers, when they’re selling the property… why are they not selling it themselves? And why can we find the buyers?
Because they asked the neighbor’s son or daughter to list it for them. And that realtor has not been trained on any of what I just said. What this realtor is going to do is treat it like the stepchild they don’t like. They’re going to go out there, take an aerial picture from Google, put a two-liner on there:
“This property is for sale. It looks like it’s buildable.” And they’re going to put it on the MLS with no information, no dream-building, no context—nothing whatsoever. As a result, many times, these listings sit on the market forever.
As a matter of fact, we have a niche strategy that we teach our students: They can go find these ugly listings that have been on the market for a year-plus, go connect with the realtor, offer a really low amount of money on those, then use our strategies to build a beautiful listing—to relist the property on a different platform right away—and sell it for $20,000 more in a matter of two weeks. Because there’s nothing wrong with the properties. The listings are just horrible.
And when something like that sits there for a while, at some point the listing expires. The owner is going to think, “Well, I guess my property’s not worth anything.” And now we contact them—coincidentally—and we’re like, “Yeah, we’re going to offer you 25 cents on the dollar.” They’re like, “Yeah, I thought it was worth more, but at this point I just want to get rid of it.” And they sell it to you.
The truth of the matter is—it’s a perfectly good $50,000 lot. They just had a bad realtor. And up until a couple of years ago, 95% of all realtors were not trained on land. It’s changing a little bit now, but it used to be that realtors were absolutely horrible to work with on land. On houses? Fantastic. But on land? They didn’t know.
And that is a benefit to us. Because there are a lot of disillusioned sellers, disillusioned owners. But when we put it together, we build a sequence of pictures, a sequence of descriptions—a sequence that really makes somebody, who is a future retiree or wants to live outside of town, have their mouth water. And they’re like, “Oh my God. This is exactly what I wanted.” Because we’re building a dream for them.
Okay, so interesting. So you’re not contacting, say, local brokers in a region that are specialized in land. You’re actually providing a training course to help people figure out how to sell it for maximum profit.
So both—I mean, obviously, we do this business and have been doing this business since 2002. We’ve done over 5,000 deals—my wife, our team, and I. But also, for the last 16 years, we’ve been teaching others how to do this. We’re providing training courses and coaching for people on how to do it themselves.
But the other answer to your question is: in today’s world, we do recommend that you reach out to brokers that are specialists in land. Because land is the new sexy thing in real estate. Land is the up-and-coming asset class right now.
Houses are struggling in some markets. Multifamily in some markets is struggling a bit. Office is obviously down since COVID. What’s on fire right now are two asset classes in real estate—even Airbnb is struggling a little. I own one. The bookings are down across the board for a lot of people.
So the two asset classes in real estate right now that are on fire: Warehouses — because everyone orders stuff online and gets it shipped. Land — this is the asset class everyone always forgets. And it’s now coming up like crazy.
Particularly since COVID, when people realized their ability to move freely in space could be taken away. And a lot of people’s response was: “Then I want my own piece of land, where I can move freely, get away from everyone if there’s a pandemic, have my peace, and wait it out there. Or just… nobody can tell me what to do on my own land.”
So the need for land—or the desire for land—and the demand for land has gone up a lot. With that said, since that happened, realtors have started picking up on this. And more and more realtors are now being trained on land. But it’s still probably the case that 90% of realtors don’t have the first clue about land—but 10% do.
So now, what you need to do—one of the things we train our students on—is how to find what we call the Michael Jordan of land realtors in that market. When you find that? Boom. Your property sells like hotcakes, and you do nothing for the sale. Which is really beautiful.
But yeah, using a realtor is definitely an exit strategy. You just have to be careful—because 90% of them still don’t know how to do anything with land.
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. I think that sell side is so important. Even if you can get a great deal, you’ve got to be able to exit that. And I’ve seen people stuck for a long time.
The only thing also that can be challenging with land is that it’s not cash flowing for you—until you do that seller-backed financing or set the actual exit. So yeah, just something to be aware of there.
Now tell me about your… do you do anything around, you know, land acquisition and entitlement for, say, builders or things like that? Is that part of your strategy also?
It is. Historically, we have been focusing more on the quick wholesale, the seller financing, and then to some degree, on minor subdivisions.
So, minor subdivisions are more like where you take a rural 40-acre parcel—and usually in rural areas, basically an hour away from town or so—the rules are much more simplified compared to in the city. If you want to subdivide something in the city, it’s meeting after meeting with the city and county, and neighborhood hearings, and things like that.
If you do it more in the recreational rural areas, it’s usually one pace—it’s a two-page form, a $400 fee, and you can split that thing into five pieces. And when you do that, you can sell those five pieces for up to four times what you would have sold the individual piece for.
Because you can split it such—usually we like to split it like: Let’s say a 40-acre parcel. I like to split it into one 20-acre, sell that one as a wholesale for more than we bought the entire 40 acres, and then take the other 20 acres and split that into four 5-acre parcels and sell each of those.
Now we have no money in the deal—we’ve gotten all our money back, a profit in our pocket—and take those four 5-acre pieces and sell them with seller financing and create cash flow from those properties.
And when you do it with seller financing, the benefit is that you get the higher price, you sell it at a higher price, and you get interest on top of it. So your profits can really be four times as much per lot than it would be with a wholesale deal.
That’s one way. But recently, we’ve also done—we are now in the middle of—some entitlement deals. I’m actually doing one with two partners in California. It’s 26 acres we got under contract for $1.7 million. We believe that once it’s fully entitled, it could be worth up to $8 million. And that’s a deal that we have in the works right now.
I have to say personally, I haven’t done many of those. But the nice part is that we now—and for many years—are the largest, the best, the most professional land coaching company in our industry.
We have 10 coaches that coach with us and for us. And someone in our group—one of them—is doing a 25-unit development right now. Another one is doing a rezoning right now. Another one is doing a triple-net land lease deal right now.
So the nice part is that when people come to us, they don’t just get taught one strategy. But if they come with a large deal, we always have somebody in our group that has done this already, that can help them through those kinds of deals.
Yeah, Jack, tell us about your book, Forever Cash Flow Strategy.
So Forever Cash is a different kind of book. It’s kind of my version of Rich Dad, Poor Dad in a way. It’s not a real estate book—it’s a book on how to create wealth.
Again, as I said, my dad is a middle school teacher, my mom a stay-at-home mom. My wife’s mother is a retired elementary school teacher—my dad’s retired too—and her dad passed away when she was nine months old. So she grew up with a single mom in Honduras, Central America—not a wealthy country.
So neither one of us grew up with wealth at all. We had to discover the wealth principles on our own through lots and lots of reading, discussions, and trial and error. Forever Cash is my—or our combined—wealth philosophy. And it can be summarized in the following way:
Not all cash is created equal, and a dollar is not a dollar is not a dollar. In other words, what I mean by that is that I talk about the concept of one-time cash, temporary cash, and forever cash.
One-time cash really simply means that if you do something one time, you get paid one time. That’s it. Like a land wholesale deal—if we buy a piece of land for $10,000 or put it under contract for $10,000 and sell it for $35,000—we make a $25,000 check. That’s it. We won’t get paid again on that deal.
If my 17-year-old goes around the neighborhood and says, “Can I mow your lawn?” (we live in Arizona, there are no lawns—but let’s say), and they say yes, and she mows somebody’s lawn and gets $20 for that—that’s a one-time deal. Because she got paid for the work she did, and that’s it.
That’s how 99%—or 95%—of Americans live their life. Because a job is a one-time cash deal. You might say, “Well, I get paid every week.” Well, yeah—because you work every week. Try to show up with an excuse for a week and you’ll be fired. The income stops very quickly.
So, it’s one-time cash. Now, one-time cash is okay, and there are different qualities of one-time cash. Like that $25,000 wholesale deal is a heck of a lot better quality than mowing a neighbor’s lawn.
Because mowing the neighbor’s lawn—if you mow 10 lawns at $20 per lawn—it might take you 10 hours, and you made $200. If I put 10 hours into a land deal, I can make $25,000. So that’s a much, much higher quality one-time cash. But it’s still one-time cash. And very few people can retire on one-time cash. The only way to retire on it is to build so much that you can never outspend it.
The second kind of cash we talk about is temporary cash. Temporary cash—the easiest example—is seller financing. So you do the work once: you get a deal under contract for $10,000, it’s worth $50,000, you sell it for $50,000 with a $10,000 down payment.
You have no money in the deal. They pay you the remaining $40,000 at $500 a month for the next 15 years. Great—I did the work once, and I get paid $500 every single month. I do nothing for it anymore; I just have mailbox checks coming in. That is great.
But—it will end. It will end 15 years from now. So after 15 years, I’ve got to go rebuild it. That’s okay too. But it’s just a better quality of income.
Because let’s say I do 20 deals at $500 a month. Now I’m getting $10,000 a month coming into the mailbox for the next 15 years. I could technically put my feet up for 15 years and do nothing—if that covers my expenses. And for most people, $100,000 or so a year does. Actually, it’s $120,000 a year—$10,000 a month. That covers a lot of people’s expenses.
So, you could put your feet up—and that’s it. But then you’d have to rebuild it. Still, it’s qualitatively much better than one-time cash. Because with one-time cash, the moment you stop, the income stops. Here, the moment you stop, the income keeps going—but only for a certain amount of time.
The final and ultimate is forever cash. Forever cash is basically never-ending cash flow. So, what is that? Well, it could be buying a dividend stock. Buying Coca-Cola stock, for example—it pays a dividend every quarter. Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns so much Coca-Cola stock that they’re getting almost a billion dollars a year in cash flow from that.
And for as long as Coca-Cola is intact—which will probably be forever, because everyone likes sugary drinks, and they now own so many more brands—there’s going to be cash flow coming in. Another way is buying an apartment complex or a rental house in the real estate world. So what we do is we use land as what we call—this is another concept from the book—we call land our cash machine.
So there’s nothing wrong with one-time cash, and there’s nothing wrong with temporary cash—but both are really just means to an end. They’re stepping stones toward what we call Forever Cash. What Michelle and I do is all three. We generate one-time cash through wholesale land deals. We create temporary cash through seller financing. But most importantly, we take the money left over—after covering our expenses—and we move it into Forever Cash assets, like apartment complexes and rental houses. As a result, we’ve built a portfolio of nearly 1,000 apartment units, along with a number of single-family rentals, and these assets generate tremendous, consistent cash flow year after year. As long as we reinvest a small amount into maintenance and upkeep to preserve the value of the properties, and assuming no major global disruptions, these income streams can last for decades, even generations.
For example, we own a 190-unit property in North Carolina that generates multiple six figures in annual income. I haven’t even physically visited that property in two years. We have a top-notch property management team handling everything. I receive weekly reports and spend about 20 minutes per week on a call with the managers—that’s my entire time investment. Yet the property keeps producing cash flow, month after month. That’s what we mean by Forever Cash.
The mistake most people make is they build up a pile of money and then slowly spend it down. But the problem with that is you never know how long you’re going to live. Some people pass away and leave money behind that they never got to enjoy. Others outlive their savings and find themselves in a very tough situation. That’s why our approach is different. We use one-time and temporary cash to build assets that generate permanent, reliable income. Once your Forever Cash assets generate the income you need to live your desired lifestyle, you’re truly financially free.
That’s why I always say: a dollar is not a dollar. If I earn a dollar from one-time cash and spend it, it’s gone forever. If I earn a dollar from temporary cash, like seller financing, I’ll get that income for a while—but eventually it will end. But if I earn that dollar from Forever Cash, I can literally throw that dollar away, and the next month, another one will come right back. And then another the month after that. And on and on. If I want to buy a new car, I use Forever Cash to buy it. If I crash that car and walk away, I can buy another one next year—because the cash flow keeps coming. If I want to go on vacation, I go—knowing that the money will keep flowing in whether I’m working or not. That’s the life we set out to build, and we did it by setting clear financial goals and pursuing them consistently—little by little, step by step, week by week, and day by day.
Yeah, I couldn’t agree with you more, Jack. I mean, that’s basically, you know, completely contrarian to Wall Street, right? Which is basically—it’s accumulation theory, is what it is, right? So you’re saving towards this retirement, this big nest egg at retirement, and then you’re trying to live off of that and hope you don’t outlive your money from there. So the cash flow strategy—and I think more and more people are, you know, becoming aware. I know all of our listeners out there are totally aware of this. That’s why we’re here: to learn new strategies of accelerating our cash and, you know, to be able to do that and really, you know, live life today, right? And have that cash flow coming in. But if you could give just one piece of, to the audience about how they could accelerate their wealth trajectory, what would it be?
Gratitude and cash flow – those are the foundations of a truly fulfilled life.
Increase your income. Because that’s the engine, like you need to have an engine. You can’t get—that’s the one part where I disagree to some degree with, like, Dave Ramsey. I think I actually come around. I do agree with a lot of what he says. They really believe below your means and do all those kind of things. But the one thing is, like, it’s a contractionary kind of… I don’t say, like, stop having a daily Starbucks. I don’t say stop having your things that you enjoy.
You got to enjoy life. But the most important thing is you can’t—if you have 100 bucks a month left over every single month, it’s going to take a long time to build this into something. So what you got to do is you got to grow that 100 a month to 1,000, then to $10,000. And you do that by expanding your ability to make money. And that’s what we have done.
When we had jobs at corporate America, we just bought a starter home, we just bought a car. Of course, you got to look good, you need a car. Because I was running with a 15-year-old Toyota Camry that was, like, falling apart. And I got myself a new car and things like that. And soon enough I realized the money I was making there wasn’t that much. I was on a $50,000-a-year salary—it was gone. The mortgage was paid, the insurance was paid, the electricity was paid, the air conditioning in Arizona was high—was paid. The car payments were paid and groceries were paid. And I had no money left. It’s like, how in the world am I going to advance financially if I have nothing left?
Once we started, on the side, the land business—our first deal made us $3,600. The second deal made us $9,500. Third deal made us $10,000. The next deal made us $20,000. Within a matter of six months, we had paid off our debt. We had created $5,000 in monthly cash flow—temporary cash for the next seven to ten years. And we had put a year’s worth of living expenses on the sideline, that moment—in that moment.
So that’s an acceleration. Within six months, we were able to generate something like—in order to do that—something like $150,000 in profits.
And then we were comfortable to quit our jobs because we had a year’s worth of living expenses on the sideline, and we had more in cash flow coming in than our expenses was going to. And then, at that point, we were like, now our job is holding us back. The green card arrived, we were able to quit. Then both Michelle and I went full time into this business and catapulted it up.
Not saying anyone should do that, but the big accelerator at the beginning was going from having 100 bucks left at the end of the month to having $150,000 in profits—was by expanding our ability to make money outside of our jobs. Because most people just try to make more money inside of their jobs. But getting a promotion and those kind of things usually just come with more hours, more responsibility, more stress.
Instead, consider staying where you are in your job and adding something on the outside that can catapult you financially up here. And then, if you love your job, you keep it. But if you don’t, now you got plan B that can become plan A.
Awesome. Really appreciate the time and wisdom today, Jack. If people would like to connect with you and learn more about your coaching programs or your book or anything, what is the best place?
Sure. The easiest way to go if you want to learn about the land flipping strategy is you can go to Land Profit Fun. Fun like F-U-N, like having fun—landprofitfun.com. And when you go there, you can download a 30-day blueprint, which is a very detailed document that shows you exactly what you need to do to set up your business and get your business going.
That’s one thing you can do. And yeah, other than that, I also have a podcast called The Jack Bosch Show. I kept it with that name because I talk about, sometimes, entrepreneurial things, but I do talk a fair amount of land. So you can go in there, and there’s actually a seven-part series too.
You can find me on the different podcast platforms and on YouTube. I’m under Jack Bosch too. Again, Bosch is B-O-S-C-H, and if you find me there, there’s a seven-part video there that you can watch that gives you also some good insights about the land.
Awesome. Really appreciate your time today. Thanks for coming in.
Thanks for having me.
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