From $17.50/Hour to Buying 7-Figure Commercial Properties

Real Estate Rookie

BiggerPockets

How To, Education, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Think you need a high-paying job or a large savings account to break into real estate investing? You don’t! Today’s guest was delivering groceries for Instacart and mounting TVs for Geek Squad shortly before landing multiple seven-figure real estate deals, and in this episode, he’ll show YOU how to do the same—no matter your starting point! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Tired of working dead-end jobs and struggling to make ends meet, Jordan Scroggins knew he had to make some major life changes if he wanted to start and support a family. He discovered BiggerPockets, absorbed as much information as he could, and then finally got his foot in the door by landing a job in real estate. Since then, Jordan has been able to take down two seven-figure properties—not with a massive bank account, but through the power of creative financing. Despite his best efforts, Jordan’s journey has been anything but smooth. Stay tuned to hear about a property lien that caused him to pass on his first deal, what he learned from a $200,000 loss on a mixed-use building, and what all rookies should know before stepping into the world of commercial real estate! In This Episode We Cover How Jordan went from earning $17.50/hour to buying multiple properties Funding seven-figure deals through the power of creative financing Building your real estate portfolio fast with commercial properties What every rookie should know before forming a real estate partnership Jordan’s biggest lessons learned after losing money on TWO properties And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-608 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	What happens when a 29-year-old Instacart driver signs a million-dollar mixed-use deal with zero flips under his belt?
0:07.7	Today, we're unpacking how Jordan Scroggins went from mounting TVs for Geek Squad to owning seven units that could pull in 30K a month.
0:16.8	And stick around because Jordan's hard won lessons on bad contractors, blown budgets, and a 13% hard money loan might save you six figures.
0:30.9	This is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast. I'm Ashley Care. And I'm Tony J. Robinson. Let's give a big warm welcome to Jordan.
0:37.9	Jordan, thanks so much for joining us on the show today, brother. Yeah, thanks for having me, y'all. It's an absolute pleasure. I learned a lot from you all, so happy to share my story. So, Jordan, take us back to the Geek Squad of Van. What was missing from your life that actually pushed you towards real estate investing? I think that so right before the geek squad van,
0:55.6	I was living in Woodbridge, Virginia, so Northern Virginia. And my girlfriend, now wife,
1:01.7	went down to VCU. So it's a university in Richmond. So I came down, I came down here and I didn't
1:09.4	know what to do. I was a waiter in Woodbridge.
1:11.9	I was probably in the restaurants for still longer than real estate, about six years.
1:16.5	And driving around in the van, it was an experience.
1:21.6	It was like a $17, $18 an hour thing.
1:24.3	You know, my wife was in college, so it was easy. You know, I was about 23. No real pressure.
1:31.7	You're just stepping from the, you know, living at parents' house to that next level. So there
1:36.6	wasn't too much going on. And then I'm like, wait, this can't be like forever. We have to
1:41.8	figure something out. Like, I want to level up.
1:44.4	So I started doing some research because the van was hot, sweaty days.
1:49.3	Mounting TVs was actually on the back end.
1:51.7	And on the front end, I was actually installing washers, dryers, refrigerators, almost
1:56.5	got squashed a couple times.
1:57.9	So that was a lot of fun.
2:00.0	But yeah, just 1750 an hour to lift
2:02.5	refrigerators and mount TVs, it wasn't really the move anymore. I wanted to figure out something
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