Growing to $8,000 in monthly cash flow and 35 rental units—all while working a W2 job?! Just two years ago, today’s guest knew nothing about real estate investing. But he found a deal and brought it to someone with money, and this single move launched his investing journey. Want to do the same, starting from zero? Then you don’t want to miss this one!
Luke Tetreault was miserable at his W2 job. When he had finally reached his breaking point, he decided to take a swing at real estate—and at first, it wasn’t pretty. Without any investing knowledge or experience, Luke found his first property on Facebook Marketplace and didn’t even have the money to close it himself. So, he reached out to an old contact, who ended up funding the deal. Over time, he grew his network until he had contractors and private money lenders for all his deals!
He started with a single-family home, but his most recent deal? An 18-unit mobile home park he bought with creative financing. Stick around as Luke teaches you how to find off-market deals no one’s looking for, use your everyday hobbies to build out your investing team, and scale your portfolio starting with little to no cash!
Dave:
Hey everyone, Dave here. Happy holidays from all of us here at BiggerPockets. To wrap up 2025, we’re sharing a few of our favorite episodes from across the BiggerPockets Network this year. Today, it’s an investor story from Real Estate Rookie that was originally published back in April. So you can enjoy this episode. It’s Ashley Kare and Tony Robinson speaking with investor Luke Tetro, and I’ll be back with new episodes of the BiggerPockets Podcast starting January 2nd.
Ashley:
This is the Real Estate Rookie Podcast, and I’m Ashley Kehr.
Tony:
And I’m Tony J. Robinson, and let’s give a big, warm welcome to Luke. Luke, thank you for joining us today, brother. Thank you guys. I appreciate it.
Ashley:
So Luke, you work as a welder for your full-time job, but you’ve told us you don’t…