Financial Freedom for Veterans Those Who Serve Active Duty Spouses Military Families
Our Story
Active Duty Passive Income (ADPI) was born from the idea that there absolutely has to be a better way to plan for one’s future while still in the military. Whether you plan on staying in for 3 years or 30 years, some day you will be a civilian again and will need to find a new source of income.
ADPI Founder Markian Sich discovered a strong passion for real estate investing by searching for the absolute best way to increase his income. After months of research, he jumped right into partnering with his family on both Multifamily Real Estate and Single-Family Real Estate deals.
Markian started building Active Duty Passive Income as a way to document his journey, educate other military and veterans, and foster a community of like-minded individuals with the common goal to better their lives and to achieve financial freedom. Soon after the website was live, other real estate investors joined the ADPI team and have made it into what it is today:
The best place for military members and veterans to learn about real estate investing and grow their passive income!

Our Mission
Providing Life-Changing Financial Education for Military
Our team strives to educate, mentor and empower active duty service members, veterans, spouses and military families to reach financial freedom by creating passive income through real estate investing. Our goal is for Active Duty Passive Income (ADPI) members to own as much of America as possible.
We create and lead the industry by example in a niche so vastly under-developed and needed.
We provide steadfast commitment to this mission that inspires teamwork, camaraderie and pride through determination, integrity, consistent growth and taking massive action.
Meet Our Team Leads
United States Marine Corps
Founder / CEO
CEO and Founder of Active Duty Passive Income, Markian Sich separated from the US Marine Corps in 2021 where he was trained as a CH-53E “Super Stallion” Pilot as well as Public Affairs Officer. Markian is a third-generation Ukrainian…
United States Army
Chief Operating Officer / Co-Owner
Victoria is a real estate investor, educator, and affordable housing advocate. After becoming a military spouse she spent almost a decade in serial entrepreneurship while moving cross country almost yearly with her active duty spouse…
United States Army
Co-Founder / Chief Product Officer
Eric Upchurch is an Army Special Operations veteran who grew up in Central Iowa before attending college in California. He has a passion for educating the military community on how to create long term wealth through real estate investing…
United States Army
Chief Financial Services Officer / Co-Owner
Spencer has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services space, starting off as a teller and working his way up to be a private banker for over a decade. Most recently, he was a consultant to financial institutions…
United States Navy
VP of Education / Co-Owner
Tim is a former Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy and served his country for 15 years. Recently relocated to Pensacola, Florida, he is fully pursuing his dream of owning and operating multi-family real estate…
United States Marine Corps
VP of Member Experience / Co-Owner
Jill has a knack for solving problems, which, when combined with the frequent relocations found in military life, results in a chronic case of serial entrepreneurship. Her professional experiences range from the legal industry to running international…
United States Air Force
Chief Marketing Officer
After serving 9 years on active duty in the Air Force I he realized he had other ambitions. He was great at what he did and loved the military but felt there was something else out there he should be doing. While on active duty his wife and he started a side hustle in wedding photography.
United States Air Force
Executive Multifamily Investing Coach / Co-Owner
Adam would say he’s “from” Midstate NY (upstate for all you folks from NYC). He’s also a military brat, has traveled the world, entered the Air Force right out of high school…
United States Navy
Co-Founder / Podcast Host
Mike first got involved in investing to build something for himself and his future family. He realized at 25 years old, he had nothing of value to carry forward after the first quarter of his life. He knew living paycheck to paycheck was not an option, and wanted to learn more…
United States Air Force
Chief Marketing Officer
After serving 9 years on active duty in the Air Force I he realized he had other ambitions. He was great at what he did and loved the military but felt there was something else out there he should be doing. While on active duty his wife and he started a side hustle in wedding photography.
United States Air Force
Executive Multifamily Investing Coach / Co-Owner
Adam was an Air Force brat travelling around the country before joining the Air Force and travelling the world. Adam currently co-leads Active Duty Passive Income’s Military Multifamily Academy and Mastermind where he utilizes his passion for property research and underwriting to help guide and coach new investors.
United States Air Force
Podcast Co-Host / Director of Single Family Education
Kevin began his real estate investing journey in late 2018 after using his Veteran Affairs (VA) Loan Entitlement to house hack a Quadplex in Savannah, Georgia. Through careful quality improvements, Kevin was able to renovate each unit and raising the…
United States Air Force
Community Manager
Kelly is a 14-year Air Force spouse, real estate agent, real estate investor, and virtual assistant. After starting out as an intern with ADPI in 2019 and later acting as ADPI’s blog coordinator in Jan 2020, Kelly is thrilled and honored to take on the role of ADPI’s…
United States Air Force
Agent Opportunity Director
Supporting military buyers and their families is my passion and conviction – every home purchase, when made with an investment mindset, becomes another step on the path toward financial freedom.