MB497: Engineer Closes $9.7M Deal in 4 Months: How Jordan McNeely Closed His First Multifamily Syndication - With Jordan McNeely
Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing
Michael Blank
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael talks with Jordan McNeely, a former nuclear engineer who realized his rotating 12-hour shift job was draining his energy and keeping him from family life. That sparked his pursuit of passive income and a scalable path to financial freedom through multifamily real estate.
Jordan dove into education, joined a mentoring program to master underwriting and capital raising, and committed 15 hours a week to learning and networking. In just a few months, he partnered with an experienced team on a 96-unit deal in Charlotte and raised over $700,000 from friends and family — despite never having raised money before.
Key Takeaways:
- Skip single-family and scale faster — multifamily penciled out and aligned with his limited time.
- Time freedom was the motivator — rotating day/night shifts took a toll on family, health, and presence.
- Mindset shift on raising capital — he stopped “pitching” and started asking about investor goals.
- One investor conversation per day → $700K raised in 2 months.
- Retirement funds unlocked big capital using self-directed IRAs.
- Partnerships shortcut experience — he leveraged a team already active in Charlotte.
- He made time a priority — 15 hours/week dedicated to education, networking, and raising capital.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, dealmakers, welcome to the show where it's all about financial freedom with real estate. |
| 0:03.8 | Let's do this. |
| 0:08.9 | So he raised more than $700,000 for his first multifamily deal in just a few months, four months, actually, |
| 0:15.7 | starting with friends and family. |
| 0:17.4 | And today I'm talking with Jordan McNeely, an engineer who was stuck on rotating |
| 0:21.0 | 12-hour shifts at a nuclear power plant, and he wanted his time back for his family. And so, |
| 0:26.7 | fortunately, he skipped single family houses. We got to before I did that, jumped straight into |
| 0:30.6 | Falta family and joined our mentoring program to learn two things fast. Number one, underwriting and |
| 0:35.6 | number two, capital raising. So we get into why the numbers |
| 0:38.7 | finally penciled for him and how he got past the fear of asking for money. And then the simple |
| 0:43.8 | plan that he ran, run for investor conversation per day for two months and how self-directed IRAs |
| 0:49.5 | helped him unlock capital from old 401ks and IRAs. Let's talk about teaming up on a 96 unit in Charlotte, and a four-person role split that keeps |
| 0:59.1 | deals moving forward and the habits that made it possible. |
| 1:02.1 | He carved out literally 15 hours a week, and we talk about how he did that. |
| 1:07.1 | And so if you've been on the fence or short on time, Jordan's story is the playbook, right? Because he made the time, he made it a priority. He had a lot of stresses in his life, 12-hour shifts. He had a newborn as well. And then he got it done. And he did this first deal literally in four months. So let's get into his story with Jordan McNeely. Jordan, welcome to the show today. |
| 1:29.6 | Michael, great to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah, I mean, you've had great success in your multifamily journey within just short three, four months. |
| 1:36.5 | You raised over $700,000. |
| 1:37.7 | Never did that before. |
| 1:43.0 | And I want to get into that, but I do want to know, you know, rewind the clock a little bit. |
| 1:46.2 | Go back to maybe you had a rich dad, poor dad moment. Like go back to when was real estate first on your brain? Like, |
| 1:51.5 | when did you really start taking action towards real estate? And what did that action look |
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