How to Make Land Cash Flow

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Many people have been taught that land is risky, expensive, doesn’t cash flow, and takes a long time to convert into profit. But there’s one phrase I hear over and over again that really irks me:

“Land doesn’t cash flow.”

While it’s technically true that land doesn’t cash flow like a rental house does, there are several clear and effective ways to make land generate monthly income—and not just from traditional income land like farmland, billboards, or cell towers.

Beyond Billboards and Parking Lots

Sure, you can make steady income by renting a piece of land in a city as a parking lot or storage space—or putting up a billboard or cell tower. Some investors buy rural land near highways and rent the surface space to businesses using trailers or old trucks as mobile billboards. Some of them make more monthly income than most people earn at their jobs.

But that’s not the type of land cash flow I focus on.

My Strategy: Seller Financing

What I’m talking about is how to make land cash flow through seller financingmy way.

Here’s what makes my strategy powerful:
You often get all your investment back the moment you sell the property—and every monthly payment after that is pure profit.

If you’re looking for high return on investment with less hassle, this might be exactly what you’re after.

Let’s Compare

Traditional Seller Financing Example:

  • Buy for $100,000
  • Sell for $120,000
  • Collect $20,000 down
  • $900/month for 15 years

That’s a solid return and a nice stream of cash flow. But it could take 7–8 years to recover your original $100K investment.

My Seller Financing Example:

  • Buy 2 properties worth $40,000 each for $6,000
  • Sell each with $6,000 down
  • Collect $450/month per property for 12 years
  • $900/month total in cash flow

What’s different?

  1. You recover all of your money up front
  2. Every monthly payment after that is 100% profit
  3. No tenants, no toilets, no late-night emergencies
  4. No mortgage originator license needed (land is outside Dodd-Frank rules)
  5. No need to take on a mortgage at all—many of my students have bought land for under $100 and sold it with seller financing for thousands

The ROI Speaks for Itself

So which return is better?
Clearly, the second one—not just because the cash flow is the same, but because there’s zero money left in the deal. That’s why I love these kinds of opportunities.

Want to build real monthly income from land—without the usual headaches of property ownership?

This is how.



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