How Much Time Does It Really Take to Flip Land?
One of the most common questions I get from those curious about land investing is, “How much time does it take to flip dirt?” It’s a fair question, especially in a world where most people’s schedules are already stretched to the max.
The honest answer is: it depends. But before you write off land flipping as another time-consuming hustle, let’s dive into why it’s one of the most flexible and efficient ways to earn impressive returns. Whether you’re thinking of running it as a side hustle, integrating it into your current business, or making it your primary income source, land flipping can be as low-touch as you’d like.
Framing the Time Commitment in Land Flipping
First, let’s break down the time requirements into two main phases:
- Startup Phase
- Steady State Phase
These two stages have very different demands, and understanding them will help you plan your time and energy effectively.
- The Startup Phase
The Startup Phase is where most of your initial time investment will go. Think of it as learning the ropes—grasping the language of land flipping, familiarizing yourself with the processes, and setting up the necessary systems and tools. This period is typically more time-intensive but pays dividends as you move forward.
- Getting Your Bearings: The startup period is all about building your foundational knowledge. Our program provides approximately five hours of on-demand content to get you up to speed on strategy, market selection, and setting up your offer campaigns.
- Practical Steps in Startup:
- Strategy Overview: 1 hour
- Selecting Your Market: 15 minutes
- Setting Up Offer Campaigns: 1 hour
- Managing Responses and Offers: 2 hours
- Marketing and Sales Setup: 2 hours
Total Time in Startup: Even if you spread these tasks over two or three weeks, you’re looking at a maximum of 12 hours. Not bad for launching a business that can generate substantial returns!
- The Steady State Phase
Once you’ve established your systems and routines, your time commitment becomes significantly lighter. This is the phase where you can decide how hands-on or hands-off you want to be. By the third or fourth week, you’ll likely find your groove, and the weekly time requirement drops considerably.
- Ongoing Offer and Acquisition Management: 1 hour per week
- Marketing and Sales Activities: Depending on your strategy and volume, this can vary. If you handle everything yourself, posting listings and managing sales channels like Zillow or Facebook Marketplace could take up to 2 hours per week.
- Administrative Tasks and Buffer Time: Let’s add 2 more hours for general admin and any unforeseen tasks.
Total Weekly Commitment: 5 hours per week on average. If you’re scaling up or want to put in extra effort to accelerate growth, you might double this to 10 hours per week. Even then, it’s manageable, especially when spread across a few evenings or part of your weekend.
The Flexibility of Land Flipping
All of that said, there are strategies and tactics that can be used to make this business no-touch to fully DIY. Each and every process step can either be automated or delegated, depending on your needs.
Our first step with new clients is a strategy session to build out exactly this personalized roadmap. We crystallize clients’ goals and then dig into resources like time, budget and skillsets to create a strategy that will achieve the goal with the available resources so they can find success in the quickest and most efficient way.
In Summary
So, how much time does it actually take to run a successful, cash-flowing land flipping business? As you might guess, the answer is – “it depends”.
It’s adaptable to your needs, lifestyle, and goals. Whether you’re looking for a minimum touch side hustle or want to grow it into a full-fledged income stream that can replace your W-2 job, the time investment is far more efficient than most traditional business models or even other investment opportunities.
Unlike many other ventures, land flipping doesn’t demand 40+ hours a week. Instead, it frees up time for what truly matters to you: hiking in the Colorado Rockies, having a leisurely lunch with your daughter at school, or taking a real vacation without the stress of checking emails or fielding work calls.
When you’re ready to redefine your schedule and engineer more freedom into your life, let’s chat. We’d love to help you explore your options and see how land flipping could be the perfect fit for your goals. Hit that “schedule a call” button on our website or click through the link at bottom. We’d be thrilled to make the connection and help you in any way we can.
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