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#938 From Corporate Layoffs to Flipping ...

Kevin Bupp
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Land Investment experts, Mike and Ligia Deaton are a husband-and-wife team who transitioned from the corporate rat race to full-time land investors and educators. After being laid off on the same day from high-pressure corporate jobs, they turned what could have been a major set back into an entrepreneurial spring board, launching Flipping Dirt, a company focused on buying and selling raw, vacant land for profit. Their mission is to help others achieve time and financial freedom by building a simple, scalable land flipping business.

Connect with Mike & Ligia: https://flippingdirt.us/ 

Highlights:

5:00 – Mike & Ligia lost their corporate jobs on the same day

9:00 – Why land flipping stood out, low entry costs, outsized returns

13:00 – Buying below market value, reselling for cash or seller financing

20:00 – Direct mail, texting, AI

24:00 – Simple due diligence process

38:00 – Owner financing and managing defaults

46:00 – Lessons learned: start bigger, buy more early

 

Quote: “What could’ve been a punch in the gut, a double layoff became our springboard. We chose not to go back to the rat race, but to build freedom through land.”

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