Scott graduated from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas in 1989 where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialization in Real Estate and Urban Land Development. He worked for two years at Trammell Crow Residential in Atlanta, Georgia before returning to Nashville to work at Ghertner & Company in 1991. In 2002, Scott and his brother assumed ownership and management of Ghertner & Company.
Scott leads the Company and is guiding it into the future by ensuring that it maintains the family values that it has always had. Scott was the 1998 President of Greater Nashville Chapter 71 of the Institute of Real Estate Management. He served as the 2001 President of the Tennessee Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI). He also served on the Legislative Action Committee for CAI.