From $10/Hour to $1M+ in Real Estate by Doing This w/InvestorGirlBritt

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Brittany Arnason bought her first rental property in a small town while making $10/hour as a waitress. She was doing everything herself—working a job by day, renovating houses at night, managing tenants in between, sleeping in her van for a few hours, and repeating. The “freedom” that real estate investing was supposed to give her wasn’t there until she stepped back and decided to scale a different way. Now, a decade later, she’s a multimillionaire with a completely passive portfolio, making more in one year than most people do in 10. Today, she shares how you can do the same—no matter how busy life feels. You might know Brittany as @investorgirlbritt on Instagram. She’s amassed an almost unparalleled following by first showing off her high-ROI DIY renovations and now, her completely passive real estate deals. In this show, she’s giving you the steps she took to leave the DIY life and enter into her best version of financial freedom. From how to delegate and focus on high-value tasks to building your team so you don’t have to do everything, plus the two investments she’s doubling down on this year that make 10x what her single-family rentals do. See Brittany live at BPCON this year and use code “STORAGEWORKSHOP” to get on the list for her exclusive session! In This Episode We Cover How to go from DIY landlord to passive real estate investor (and make more money) Two high-ROI investments Brittany is buying this year that won’t be around forever Why you must start outsourcing low-value tasks, and the first steps to start The partnership move that made Brittany wealthier than ever before Tech and tools Brittany uses to manage millions in real estate while traveling the world And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-621 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, we have a guest on who's made some incredible moves in her investing journey.
0:04.9	She started as a DIY hands-on landlord and then made the leap to a more passive approach.
0:10.7	Yeah, and not only that, she scaled from single-family rentals into self-storage, which is a huge
0:15.4	jump. And we're going to break down how she made that pivot, the system she put in place,
0:19.8	and the lessons she learned along
0:21.2	the way.
0:21.7	So if you're sitting there rehabbing and managing your own rentals, maybe juggling tenants,
0:26.3	toilets and turnovers, this is the episode that will show you what it's like to step
0:30.5	back, build smarter, and start thinking bigger.
0:55.7	Welcome to the Real Estate Rookie Podcast. I'm Ashley Care. And I'm Tony J. Robinson. So let's jump right in and hear from today's guest, Britt Arneson. Britt, thanks to join us today. Thank you so much for having me, you guys. Yes. We are so excited. And, you know, most people probably know a lot about your background from your large social media following and all of the Bigger Pockets episodes you've been on the past. But can you
1:01.2	start off by sharing a little bit about your early days as a DIY investor and maybe what kind of
1:07.1	drew you into real estate and what those first couple deals looked like. Yeah. So
1:12.4	real estate to me was building this path of freedom, right? I didn't want to have a boss. I wanted
1:20.6	to be able to work when I wanted to travel when I wanted to. And in the early days, my first
1:27.4	properties I was buying for under $50,000
1:30.2	in these small towns, but they make great cash flow. And the first one I ever bought was $25,000,
1:37.9	but it made $850 in rent. And I didn't have a lot of money. So I'd go out with my tool about learn how to do all the renovations myself, the demo,
1:49.4	the painting, the flooring, the what, you name it.
1:52.1	I was doing all of it.
1:53.6	And I was living in my band, working on these places, and just burying those properties
1:58.7	by rehab, rent, refinance, repeat, doing that over and over again.
2:03.7	And, Britt, you built, you know, like I actually mentioned earlier, a big following on Instagram
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