The Jordan Group
BAILEY JORDAN Building on the Past, Growing the Future
top producer By Michelle Williamson
Bailey Jordan of The Jordan Group at Navy to Navy Homes is a native Floridian who grew up in many places. “I was born in Pensacola, but I’m a military brat,” she shares. Of her many childhood moves and the changes that come with being part of a military family, she says, “I loved it. Moves every few years, new schools, new friends, and new cities molded me into an adaptable adult.” Bailey recognizes, too, that her upbringing gave her “many incredible experiences many kids may never get to do.”
Some of her childhood experiences intersect with her career as a REALTOR®. “I am a third-generation real estate broker,” she says. “I spent summers with my grandparents in Pensacola, where my grandfather was a real estate broker. He would let me help out with small tasks around the office, installing signs, Bailey and Michael welcomed their first child, Indy James, in December 2021.
refilling flyer boxes….” Too, with every family move, her parents purchased investment homes to either renovate —“family flips,” her family called them — or rent out. Still, while Bailey enjoyed her experiences, she didn’t plan to become a REALTOR®. She graduated from Florida State University in 2013 with a bachelor’s in Psychology and Child Sciences and wanted to begin a master’s program in Marriage and Family Therapy right away. But her now husband, Michael, proposed, so she graduated in three years instead of four and came home to Jacksonville, her parents’ last duty station, to finalize wedding plans. “I think it’s really special now to think back on these experiences and see how they laid the foundational work on my current career,” she says. PAST IS PRESENT
On becoming a REALTOR®, she says, “I was hired at Navy to Navy Homes as an administrative assistant right after I graduated and while I was wedding planning and applying to graduate school.” Six or so months later, Bailey “felt a tug” to get her real estate license. “I became licensed in July 2014 and hit the ground running. Quickly, real estate became something I found myself being extremely passionate over, loving it, and succeeding in. Graduate 22 • May 2022
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